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Understand the signs of the trigonometric functions of any angle; use radian formulas for area, arc length, and velocity. This unit should take no more than 1 1/2 weeks to complete. *All assignments are in Basic Technical Mathematics With Calculus 7th edition by Allyn J. Washington, 2000. Method of Evaluation The unit test will be a pencil and paper exam given at your class site. The test will be administered by the instructor or by a proctor. Please see the course schedule for the exact time and date of the unit test. Learn the signs of the trigonometric functions in the different quadrants. Learn the trigonometric functions of any angle. - Read 8.2, pages 224-229. - Complete Work Exercises, page 229 #1,5,7,9,11,15,17,19-43 odd. - Quick Review sheet 1-2. Review converting between radians and degrees. - Read 8.3, pages 230-233. - Complete Work Exercises, page 234 #1,7,9,15,17,23,25,31,33,37,41-53 odd, 57. - Quick Review sheet 1-3. Learn and be able to use the radian formulas for arc length, area of a sector, angular velocity, and linear velocity. - Read 8.4, pages 235-237. - Complete Work Exercises, page 238-239 #1,3,5,9,11,18,19,23-25,28,29,33,35,39,45. - Quick Review sheet 1-4. Course Outline //
We’re often told that our children are our future. If that’s true, then our future could be rather bleak. As of the latest survey (2011), between one-fourth and one-fifth (23 percent) of our kids live in poverty, with all of the disadvantages that accompany that condition. These circumstances seldom produce desirable outcomes. This datum, as well as all other facts stated in today’s column, comes from the “2013 Kids Count Data Book: State Trends in Child Well-Being,” published by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The report also points out that nearly one-third of our children (32 percent) live in households where their parents lack secure employment, and 40 percent of all families live in households that have a high “cost burden.” The high cost burden of housing demands disposable income that might otherwise be used for food, clothing, or school supplies. Although there has been an overall improvement in educational statistics during the six years since the last national survey, 54 percent of our kids do not attend preschool. Researchers who gathered the information write, “Early relationships and experiences help shape the architecture and wiring of the brain, creating either a sturdy or fragile foundation for a young child’s cognitive, emotional and behavioral development.” While educational achievement has improved (but very slightly), home conditions have worsened. Today, 35 percent of the nation’s children live in single-parent families, 15 percent live in circumstances where the head of household lacks a high school diploma, and 12 percent live in high-poverty areas. The authors of the report state that “the experience of poverty and related risk factors — such as poor parenting, inadequate nutrition, frequent moves and changes in non-parental caregivers, insufficient cognitive stimulation and unsafe environments — can actually suppress brain development and have lasting effects.”...
Guided tours of the Margaret Mitchell House are offered daily and include visits to her Crescent Avenue apartment, which she affectionately nicknamed “The Dump,” and to exhibitions about her life and the movie version of her book. The historic space where Mitchell wrote Gone With the Wind provides an apt setting for learning about her motives for writing the novel and the lifestyle of the author and her husband, John Marsh, in 1920s Atlanta. The exhibition Margaret Mitchell: A Passion for Character presents the aspiring writer through her girlhood writings, Mitchell’s career as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal newspaper, how the popularity of the book affected her life, and the philanthropy that characterized her later years. The Making of a Film Legend: Gone With the Wind exhibition details the transformation of Gone With the Wind from a best-selling novel to a film classic. Guided house tours cannot be reserved online. Tours are reserved by our onsite admissions staff at the time of your arrival. Due to limited availability, we recommend you arrive early to ensure a space on the tour. If you have a group of 10 or more, please call 404.814.4062. Click here for ticket information. Monday - Saturday, 10:00 AM – 5:30 PM Tours begin every half hour starting at 10:30 AM 10:30 AM; 11:00 AM; 11:30 AM; 12:00 PM; 12:30 PM; 1:00 PM; 1:30 PM; 2:00 PM; 2:30 PM; 3:00 PM; 3:30 PM; 4:00 PM; 4:30 PM Sunday, Noon – 5:30 PM Tours begin every half hour starting at 12:30 PM 12:30 PM; 1:00 PM; 1:30 PM; 2:00 PM; 2:30 PM; 3:00 PM; 3:30 PM; 4:00 PM; 4:30 PM ALL tour times are subject to change without notice due to group bookings and/or staffing. The Margaret Mitchell House is closed on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Thursday, December 26, 2013, and New Year's Day.
By John Pelletier BURLINGTON, Vt. (MarketWatch)—Interest rates are like the seesaw you played on as a kid. Savers are on one side and borrowers are on the other side. In a normal economy, you want there to be a balance between these groups. The person taking a loan gets a fair deal and the person lending money through their savings makes a fair return. The Federal Reserve board greatly influences the price of credit—the interest rate paid on a home, an auto loan and bonds issued by the U.S. government, municipalities and corporations—and when it uses its power like it did last week to manipulate interest rates, there are winners and losers. Bernanke's concerns about U.S. dollar value At the Economic Club of Indiana Monday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke responds to a question about his concerns over the value of the U.S. Dollar in the wake of various quantitative easing efforts. Thanks to Fed actions, today the seesaw is overwhelmingly in favor of the debtor. Borrowers are being given an amazingly low cost to borrow money and the creditor is being asked to lose money, after adjusting for inflation, for the privilege of loaning money through savings vehicles. In September, the Fed announced that it would be purchasing $40 billion dollars a month of mortgage-backed securities—nearly a half a trillion dollars in one year. This is the third time that the central bank has announced a round of quantitative easing, known as QE, since the beginning of the Great Recession. QE is a fancy term for creating dollars and using them to purchase fixed-income securities like treasuries and mortgage backed securities. The goal of this monetary policy is to keep interest rates very low. The Fed has purchased about $2 trillion dollars in fixed income securities since the start of the Great Recession. According to the Wall Street Journal, the central bank now owns 11% of the U.S. Treasury debt and in 2011 purchased 61% of the total net new Treasury bonds issued. Some fear that at all of these extra dollars created to buy debt will cause high inflation. Not everyone agrees with the monetary policy being pursued. An August poll of economists showed 77% believed that the Fed should have avoided another round of QE. The central bank also announced that it would continue a “highly accommodative stance” of the federal funds rates that it started in December 2008 through, at least, mid-2015. This means that you will continue to earn less than 1% interest on your short-term savings in banks and in money market mutual funds until sometime after June 2015. Basically, the Fed has decided that savers will receive very little on their savings and low-risks investments for more than more than six and a half years. These low saving rates apply to nearly $10 trillion in savings-like products. So, congratulations to you if a bank has recently approved you for a loan on a car or a home, because you can access some of the lowest interest rates on debt ever recorded. But if you are a saver with a bank account, a certificate of deposit, a money market mutual fund, or a retired person on a fixed income that has most of your investments in low risk fixed income products—you are out of luck. And that bad luck extends to pension funds, insurance companies and other entities that are required to invest much of their assets in low-risk, fixed-income securities that pay miserly returns. Here’s how it works: You put $100 in a savings account in 2008 that paid 0.35% interest per year. Today, you have less than $102 in your bank account, but due to inflation, the same goods that cost $100 in 2008 now cost $107. You have lost 5% of your savings over four years to inflation. In a normal economy, your income from savings is greater than the rate of inflation. Borrowers get a much better deal. Banks use your $100 in savings to loan people money for the purchase of a house or a car. They add their costs to the rate of interest they pay savers when calculating what they should charge for a loan. The reduction in interest paid to the saver is given to the borrower in the form of lower interest payments. The Fed’s current monetary policy is to lure you into borrowing more; hoping that increased borrowing will result in economic growth. If you are looking for a loan, and are able to get one, you are in luck. But if you are a saver or a seeker of low risk investing due to you age or investment inclination—the Fed has decided that your luck will not change until after June 2015, at the earliest. John Pelletier is director of the Center for Financial Literacy at Champlain College and formerly chief operating officer of Natixis Global Associates and chief legal officer of Eaton Vance Corp. Follow John on Twitter @ChampFinLit .
E. Belfort Bax, Why I am an Anti Suffragist, Social Democrat, Vol.13, no.5, May 1909, pp.200-206. Transcribed by Ted Crawford. Marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for the Marxists’ Internet Archive. I am glad Mrs. Montefiore conquered her lofty feminist disdain and stooped to “troubling to read” and even to reply to my humble statement of the reasons why I am an anti-suffragist. That she has replied I am especially glad, since she has thereby confirmed for any unbiased reader the weight of those reasons. As against my contention with regard to the systematic privileging of women by the law and its administration she has nothing to adduce beyond a flaw in the Old Age Pensions Act (there are, it is admitted, many such), an anomaly in the confused law as regards marriage with an alien, and a harshness in the Poor Law, none of which things could be twisted by any possibility into a case of male sex privilege as such, save by a controversialist hard pressed for an argument. What I have maintained, and still maintain, is the deliberate tendency of modern legislation and of modern administration, backed by an influential public opinion to separate women as a privileged class from men. This incontrovertible statement, Mrs. Montefiore has not attempted to gainsay, but, on the contrary, her sense of fairness has got the better of her and compelled her, in her excellent remarks about prison flogging at the end of her article, to point my moral and adorn my tale. It is true she traverses my allegations as regards the treatment of the “suffragettes” in gaol. But on this point I am prepared to prove that at least, as to treatment now and for eighteen months past, she is wrong and I am right. Mrs. Montefiore’s imprisonment dates from the very beginning of the present agitation. If I remember rightly, she was among the very first to indulge in the demonstration of going to Holloway rather than pay a harmless and necessary fine for creating a disturbance before the House of Commons. The treatment of the suffragettes during the first week of these imprisonments was, I believe, that accorded to ordinary female offenders. But Mrs. Montefiore had scarcely been released before the treatment as second-class misdemeanants was decreed for all Suffragettes and has been maintained ever since. Not only so, but I was perfectly right in saying that the additional privileges indicated by me over and above this was given to the two Pankhursts during their last imprisonment and have, I understand, been continued in the more recent cases. Mrs. Despard, in a speech, has, in fact, acknowledged the favoured treatment accorded her and her colleagues. Will Mrs. Montefiore deny the above to be facts? Certainly no male Socialist ever had this exceptional treatment. My opponent pleads for women to be regarded as human beings pure and simple and not as a sex. Unfortunately, this is hardly possible. Apart from the indirect sex-characteristics which, interpenetrate their whole nature and activity, it would seem as though they cannot forget their sexual organs. Thus the “Suffragettes” deliberately adopt a policy of scrimmages and rough-and-tumbles and then whimper about impossible “indecent assaults” on the part of the wicked men-stewards whose function it is to resist their efforts at disorder, attempted rapes to the accompaniment of organ-obligato in the Albert Hall, etc.! Whether these wild fictions are the result of hysterical hallucination or are lies sans phrase I will not pretend to decide, but, anyway, they tend to show the extreme difficulty of even Suffragettes forgetting their sexual side in the narrow sense of the phrase. It would seem impossible for the unhallowed hand of man to touch their sacrosanct if riotous persons without setting their sexual imaginations at work. I should not have mentioned this but for Mrs. Montefiore’s challenge as to forgetting the sexual character of women and thinking of them merely as human beings. If Mrs. Montefiore seriously calls in question the privileged position of woman as against man in the present day, I am afraid it shows that she reads her newspaper with an eye blind to all she does not wish to find there. The law and its administration reflects an influential section of public opinion. This public opinion regards it as axiomatic that women are capable of everything men are capable of, that they ought to have full responsibility in all honourable and lucrative functions and callings. There is only one thing for which unlimited allowance ought to be made on the ground of their otherwise non-existent womanly inferiority, and that is their own criminal or tortious acts! In a word, they are not to be held responsible, in the sense that men are, for their own actions when these entail unpleasant consequences for themselves. On the contrary, the obloquy and, where possible, the penalty for the wrong-doing is to be shifted on to the nearest wretched man with whom they have consorted. I cannot quote unlimited cases, but, by way of illustration I will mention two that occur to me on the spur of the moment. Some three years ago a woman deliberately shot at and wounded a solicitor (a married man) with whom she had had relations. The act was so premeditated that it came out in evidence she had been practising shooting with the revolver for days before-hand. There was, moreover, no question of a child in the case, and not even one of financial embarrassment, as she was in receipt of a quarterly allowance under a trust. Hence the case presented itself as a cold-blooded one of attempted murder without a single circumstance of attenuation. The woman was sentenced to the very lenient penalty of seven years penal servitude. (Had a man attempted to murder in this way a jilting mistress he would have received, without doubt, twenty years at least, if not a life sentence.). Now, it seems incredible but it was a fact, that a campaign was immediately started throughout the whole of the press, largely by “advanced” women and male feminists in favour of this dastardly female criminal, who only fell short of being a murderess by accident! The second case is that of Daisy Lord last year. To read the gush on that occasion one might have thought that the murder of new-born children represented the highest ideal of motherhood. This Daisy Lord became for the nonce a kind of pinchbeck Madonna in the eyes of the feminist public. Such women as the above ought of course to have equal voting rights with men, but equal consequences for their actions – oh, dear no! The extent to which feminist sentiment can fling justice to the winds in these days, is shown by the savage demand, in cases of infant murder, for vicarious vengeance on one who, as regards the offence in question, is wholly innocent, to wit, on that vile and obnoxious person “the man.” This feminist attitude of public opinion has been sedulously cultivated, not only by means of journalism, but in literature and art for over a generation, the aim being to portray the “man” as an ignoble, mean creature, as a foil to the courage, the resource, the gentle virtues of the woman. It is done too in a very subtle way. Who has not seen the well-known picture representing the Thames Embankment at night, and an “unfortunate” possessing an angelic face being taken from the river, with a gentleman and lady in evening dress who have just got out of a cab in the foreground, the gentleman with ostentatious callousness – brute that he is – turning away and lighting a cigarette, and the lady – gentle creature – bending over the dripping form and throwing her hands up in sympathetic horror? It is by clap-trap of this sort that sentimental feminism is evoked and nourished. Only the other day I received a provincial Socialist paper (ILP) containing a feuilleton with the story of a woman who had killed her baby, and who died after a few weeks in prison – the moral being apparently the monstrous wickedness of imprisoning such women at all, rather than rewarding them with a comfortable pension for life. There are well-known writers in leading magazines who systematically take delight in painting their own sex in an abject light, by way of pandering to current feminist prejudices. The privileged position of women is illustrated in a small way by railway compartments for “ladies only,” by reserved seats in the British Museum reading room, etc. The New York elevated railway has, I read, begun to reserve whole carriages for women from which men are rigidly excluded, no matter how full the train may be otherwise. For, be it remembered, although men are forbidden access to female reserves, women in all these cases have the run of the whole available space. There are no male reserves. This game was tried on last year in the LCC tramcar-from Tooting. Fortunately, one fine morning some enterprising young men were found who had the pluck to be “unmanly” and “unchivalrous” enough to fling the female crowd in all its weakness and womanhood remorselessly aside and board the trams themselves The reserve tram, which proved to be illegal, was then dropped. Mrs. Montefiore denies that Feminists who are also Socialists desire anything other than absolute equality. If so, I would suggest to these worthy comrades that they occasionally made their protests heard against the existing favouritism of the law and ifs administration as regards women – not to speak of custom and conventional sentiment – rather than concoct bogus grievances on the other side. Mrs. Montefiore quotes with approval the saying of Mrs. Lida Parce that “woman” needs the ballot to “enable her to remove those special and artificial disabilities which have been placed upon her by male legislation.” Now, I must again insist that Mrs Montefiore should know as well as I do that at the present time in this country no such disabilities exist – any apparent grievance being invariably traceable as necessary corollary to the obligation of the husband to maintain his wife. Should any collateral consequence of this vassalage of the husband involve some slight inconvenience to the wife, the Feminists pounce upon it and begin to shriek for all they are worth! (The cases adduced by Mrs. Montefiore are themselves mainly connected with the husband’s compulsion to keep his wife.) If Mrs. Montefiore is right in asserting that our Socialist votaries of the Feminist cult only claim equality, I can only say that others (including some of those with whom Mrs. Montefiore herself has erstwhile consorted) have distinctly expressed the intention of themselves and their adherents to use the vote to legislate against men. Moreover this tendency has shown itself already, I believe, in some of the puritanical legislation of Australia. With the sex-bias as manifest as it is in the average Woman’s Righter, it could hardly be otherwise. Women form nowadays a powerful sex-trust. Men do not. On the contrary, they use their political power to confer privileges on the opposite sex, which they seem always to prefer before their own. One word in conclusion. Mrs. Montefiore rashly takes for granted that the men I referred to as somewhat unwillingly giving their assent to Female Suffrage and in secret preferring Manhood Suffrage are not Socialists. They are Socialists. If they were not Socialists there would obviously be no reason for reticence or secrecy as to their real inclinations or convictions. The Socialist Party has been rushed into an official acceptance of the Feminist dogma, but this does not necessarily mean that all Socialists accept it precisely with enthusiasm, although from want of courage, or perhaps from (what I should deem) a mistaken view of policy, they may choose in public to keep their own counsel. 1. I have just cast my eye down Lady McLaren’s Woman’s Charter given in to-day’s paper. One of the demands is, I see, that “no married woman should be bound to accept a foreign domicile.” This is delightful! A poor man cannot get work in this country and has to take a position abroad. At her sweet whim his wife may live apart from him as a single woman and compel him to keep her all the same! Here we have a splendid example of “woman’s right” to treat man as a slave! Last updated on 9.10.2005
By the time the US entered WW1, it had been over a century since England had attempted any serious takeover of the Colonies. During that century, America had fought a massive Civil War and the evils of slavery really started to overshadow any faint memories left over of British control. By WW2, there weren't even any Civil War survivors left alive (if they were, they would have been too young to really remember anything about the Civil War), and the atrocities of Great Britian were long forgotten and easily overshadowed by the threat of Nazism and then Communism. At that point, Britain could no longer exert any control whatsoever over the US and could only attempt to influence us by appealing to our sense of justice and morality. Kind of like an aging parent asking for help from a rebellious child. Also, I think you will find that Americans don't put nearly as much stock in symbolism as the British do. There might still be a Mace in Virginia, but I'm sure no one there sees he/she/it (?) as anything more than a tradition with no real power. What exactly is a "Mace" anyway? Because when I think of a mace, I think of this... ...and it's funny to think of some politician in Virginia waving this around every time he or she speaks.
It matters as much of what you eat as how much you eat. And a lot of people, especially at your age, have freaky high metabolisms so comparing yourself to what your friends do is not going to work. I'm still waiting for one of my friends eating and exercise habits to catch up with him and he turned 33 today. As others have said though check into body mass index and use it as a guide, much better than considering weight as it considered muscle tone / fat percentages etc. A lot of people today are actually "skinny fat" where the scale says they are healthy but BMIs are not. "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. Its not." Dr. Seuss "Use peaceful means where they are appropriate; but where they are not appropriate, do not hesitate to resort to more forceful - Thupten Gyatso (the Dalai Lama, 1932) "It is not the will to win that matters - everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters" Coach Paul 'Bear' Bryant. "The ink of scholars is more precious than the blood of martyrs" - Muhammed
In two hundred years of existence, the U.S. Patent Office has issued nearly five million patents, which together document the greatest industrial development in human experience. How did it all start? To whom and for what was the first U.S. patent issued? Samuel Hopkins, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [Pittsford, Vermont], received Patent No. 1 on July 31, 1790, for an improvement "in the making Pot ash and Pearl ash by a new Apparatus and Process." The patent was signed by President George Washington, Attorney General Edmund Randolph, and Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson. Only two other patents were granted that year, one for a new candle-making process and the other the flour-milling machinery of Oliver Evans. Only after 1955 were the original documents for Hopkins' patent located, together with a detailed disclosure and licensing prospectus he published in 1791. These have helped reveal that the patent was important not only because it was the first of its kind but also because it was vitally linked the nation's early economy. In fact, potash was America's first industrial chemical. Potash is an impure form of potassium carbonate, mixed with other potassium salts. Until the 1860s it was derived solely from the ashes of hardwood trees and certain other plants. (The name of the element potassium is derived from the word potash.) Pearl ash is a less impure form of potassium carbonate. Its name comes from its pearly color. Potash was a leading industrial alkali from antiquity until the close of the nineteenth century, when it was finally abandoned for most uses in favor of soda (sodium carbonate). It was essential for making soap and glass, dyeing fabrics, baking, and making saltpeter for gunpowder. Today its principal use is in fertilizers. By 1750 there was a steady international demand for potash soap, particularly in England, where "fulling sope" was much needed to wash wool before it was woven in the burgeoning mills. Having greatly depleted its own timber resources, the mother country sent experts and manuals on potash making to its American colonies and otherwise encouraged potash production with tariff incentives. Around 1760 England needed several thousand tons of potash a year. Most of it came from Russia. To try to save money, British-capitalized American potash works were begun at port cities such as Boston, New York, and Philadelphia and were equipped with elaborate leaching vats, large furnaces for evaporation, and other equipment. These plants were fed with ashes purchased from local residents and outlying farmers. But the supply of ashes was irregular, and its quality varied, often resulting in poor yields. The poor yields were mostly the result of a failure to recognize the large differences in potash content between soft woods and hardwoods, and even among the various hardwood species. Experience soon showed that elm, ash, sugar, maple, hickorv, beech, and basswood had the highest potash contents. In North America these species grew--and still grow--most abundantly in an area extending from New England north to Southern Canada and west to Minnesota. Little wonder, then, that attempts to establish potash works in Virginia and in Nova Scotia were bound to fail and that the plant at Philadelphia remained marginal at best. Pennsylvania was at the borderline for suitable wood. Eventually, though, even in high-yield areas settlers stopped selling ashes to British-owned works, for, as a Boston-based potash maker lamented in 1771, "Our [suppliers] have got into the way of making up their own ashes into salts in the kettles they get to make [maple] sugar in and they find they turn their labor as well as their ashes into money so there is no getting their ashes…." A new era had begun. From 1760 onwards colonists were moving in vast numbers into unsettled ,hardwood-rich northern New England and upstate New York. The typical homestead tract, or "pitch," consisted of one hundred to two hundred acres of nearly impenetrable virgin forest. One of the settler's first task was land clearing, and the fastest method was slash-and-burn clear-cutting. These pioneers soon realized that the heaps of wood ashes they were producing could be converted into "black gold" worth hard cash. This new stage of home potash production depended on a much-simplified process, which could be carried out by the individual settler on his own pitch. In brief, the ashes from huge open fire of hardwood logs were gathered and leached and the resulting solution was then simply boiled down and melted into a crude black potash. Besides the necessary ashes and leaching vat, the critical element of this backwoods technology was the use of a thick-walled potash kettle, or"kittle." Before Ethan Allen began his adventures in Vermont with the Green Mountain Boys, he and his brothers had an ironworks in Salisbury, Connecticut, that specialized in potash kettles, and many of them can still be found around New England. This process was widely promoted during the American Revolution t increase gunpowder supplies. Gunpowder required saltpeter (potassium nitrate), which was made from potash and nitrogen-rich dung, such as bat guano. By the post-Revolutionary period potash manufacture had become a standard part of New England farming, and it was a critical source of cash to pay taxes and buy necessities in the depression years that followed the war. Even a single tree could bring up to four dollars this way, via forty pounds of potash carried to market by backpack. But the forests were mostly cleared within a decade or two, and by 1790, at least in Vermont, farmers and house-holders were down to cooking and heat ing ashes, produced from the fifteen to thirty cords cut annually from their wood lots. Moreover, to assure this fire wood supply, one-fifth of the typical farm had to be kept wooded. People began to try to extract more salts from these ashes and even to obtain potash from previously discarded waste ash. The potash industry was in crisis. Enter Samuel Hopkins. Samuel Hopkins was born December 9, 1743, just north of Baltimore, the second child of Quaker parents. About the age of 16 he was apprenticed to Robert Parrish, a Philadelphia Quaker tradesman. In the spring of 1765 Hopkins married Hannah Wilson, a sister-in-law of Parrish. Over the next twenty five years in Philadelphia Samuel and Hannah raised six children. The Census of 1790 lists Hopkins' occupation as "Pott Ash Maker" while the city directories of this same period gives his trade as "pot-ash maker" or "pot-ash manufacturer".But becoming impoverished before the century was over, he and his wife took temporary refuge in Rahway, New Jersey, with their daughter Sarah and son-in-law, William Shotwell After returning to Philadelpia, Hopkins died in 1818, survived by his wife..[ in Nine Partners (now Amenia), New York, on May 12, 1765. In 1781 he moved to Pittsford, Vermont, and he lived there for the next thirty years, marrying a woman named Betsey and fathering seven children. In about 1810 he moved to Pittsford, New York. Betsey died there in 1813, and Samuel later married a local widow, Sarah Dunn. He died in 1840.] In addition to his first patent, Hopkins took out two later ones, both for a preparation of flour of mustard. And less than a year after the potash patent was granted, the Quebec Parlement passed an ordinance to "reward" him for his discovery. Legal experts now consider this Canada's first patent. Hopkins's key advance lay in burning the raw ashes in a furnace before they were dissolved in water. This second burning resulted in much greater carbonate formation, apparently because the free carbon in raw ashes (which partly accounts for the black color) was more completely oxidized and because of exposure to concentrated carbon dioxide gas from the fire. Hopkins also ncreased yields by mixing the insoluble residue from one batch with the raw ashes of the next, instead of simply discarding it. For a five-year license for a furnace using his process, Hopkins required a down payment of $50, or a half-ton of potash, and another $150, or a ton and a half of potash, over the next five years, payable to his agents in various cities. With the Northeast's farmland mostly cleared and this new technology available for processing, the industry moved from individual farms to village-based asheries. The farmer had become too busy with other tasks, and a local ashery could invest in the necessary licenses, equipment, and skills maximize the yield. The new potash works were mostly run by village storekeepers. There a farmer's wife might sell her clean ashes for as much as fifteen cents a bushel, payable partly in cash, partly in trade. Those farmers still making potash could sell their "black salts" to such a works to be refined into the purer commodity. And as more American fulling mills using local wool began to open in the Northeast, they relied on barrel after barrel of soft soap from many asheries. During the fourteen-year term of Hopkins's patent, potash sold at from two hundred to three hundred dollars a ton, and over this period more than ninety thousand tons, worth at least twenty million dollars, were exported from the United States. We do not know how many of the thousands of asheries took out licenses under Hopkins's U.S. and Canadian patents, but if even a scant few dozen met his terms, he realized a handsome profit. Moreover, if the actual yields were anywhere near his estimates, this arrangement was a bargain for the asheries as well. Until the 1860s, thanks in part to Hopkins, the United States remained the world's leading producer of potash. Then potash began to be mined from rich natural deposits (such as dry-lake alkali beds) in Stassfurt, Germany, and the U.S. industry came to an end. This German potash supplied nearly all American needs until the embargo of World War 1, when mining and salvage from ashes, kelp, and various industrial and food-processing wastes met the demand. In the 1920s and 1930s Germany again dominated the world potash market, but France, Russia, and Poland were important sources as well. American production from mineral deposits in New Mexico, California, and Utah was also increasing. During and after World War 2, these deposits allowed the United States to become self-sufficient in potash once again. The forest-based potash industry is now long gone, but it was essential in the early years of the nation, and Samuel Hopkins' patent permitted it to thrive. Potassium salts continue to be invaluable industrial and agricultural chemicals, and a stream of important patents concerning them has followed Samuel Hopkins's down to this day. Moreover, his exemplary disclosure, marketing plan, and license agreements, co authored by Shotwell as Hopkins' attorney-in-fact, set worthy precedents for all subsequent inventors. Henry M. Paynter is a professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is another resident inventor of Pittsford, Vermont. Sources: Original Paynter article from INVENTION & TECHNOLOGY, Fall 1990; Maxey's corrections from The PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE of HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY, Jan/Apr 1998 and from the JOURNAL of the PATENT & TRADEMARK OFFICE SOCIETY, March 1998.
The color of beer curiously mirrors that of human locks. Why that should be, I have no idea, but I was struck by this fact after I received one of the strangest news releases to ever cross my desk. (More about that in a minute.) From the lightest towhead to the most raven-haired beauty, the entire color spectrum of beer is visible atop people's heads. Just like your noggin, there's no naturally occurring green, blue or purple. Beer's color comes primarily from the grain that's used to brew it. Barley is the most common brewing grain, although wheat, rye and a few others also are used. Once the barley is harvested, it's soaked in water until it begins to sprout, and its growth eventually is halted with heat. Grain is kilned to various degrees, with lighter temperatures producing lightly colored malt. Sometimes the grain is roasted to create very dark, almost black malts. The combination of malts creates a range of aromas, flavors and color. In the 19th century, Joseph Lovibond was the first to develop a method of determining specific beer colors. A brew's color was assigned a number, determined by holding a color plate up to the beer and finding the best match. The system became known as the Lovibond scale; despite its somewhat subjective methodology, it worked pretty well and still is used today. A more scientific and objective method was later developed. The SRM, or Standard Reference Method, uses a spectrophotometer to measure the intensity of light, rather than the hue or tint, then assigns a number from 1 to 40. The range starts with straw (the lightest at 2-3 SRM), followed by yellow, gold, amber, copper, brown and black, the darkest at more than 40 SRM. Each beer style has a distinctive SRM range that brewers aim for when making their beer. That's why you can be reasonably sure your stout will be black (SRM 40) and your pilsner golden (SRM 6-8),, though there is wiggle room in the midrange. The hair analogy works surprisingly well, with blondes (including blonde ales, lagers, helles, pilsners, kolsch, witbier and wheat beer), redheads (red ales, amber ales, Flanders red ales, marzen, pale ales, IPAs and the majority of craft beers), brunettes (brown ales, brown porters, dark lagers, dubbels and oud bruins) and black (which includes porters, stouts and imperial stouts). I've even seen gray beer, which tasted fine, but the brewery decided to add some roasted malt to make the color more palatable. Fear the beard One brewery is taking the idea of beer and hair color one step farther. Rogue Ales, headquartered in Newport, Ore., is making a very unusual use of that connection. Longtime brewmaster John Maier has sported a long beard most of his life; in fact, he hasn't shaved it since 1978. For curiosity's sake, and partly as a joke -- at least initially -- Rogue staffers snipped a few of Maier's beard strands and sent them to White Labs, a yeast bank and laboratory in San Diego, for testing. To everybody's surprise, the lab discovered a viable new yeast strain in Maier's beard that was entirely different from Rogue's house yeast. "We were shocked and thrilled with this remarkable discovery," White Lab president Chris White says. While it's not uncommon to find wild yeast -- they often go into fields and vineyards looking for it -- it is unusual to find such a clean, usable strain. There are many types of yeast, and not all of them can be used to brew beer successfully; after testing, the lab found this was. Talk about your locavore angle. Of course, Maier has been around beer, hops and malt his whole life, so his beard is, in essence, a product of his environment. Rogue currently grows some of its own hops as well as its own barley, so president Brett Joyce says the company was excited to discover it could grow its own proprietary yeast, too. The company is brewing test batches now to see which beer style works best with the new yeast, and it plans to have the new beard beer for sale in early 2013. One of Rogue's older beers is a barley wine known as Old Crustacean, so the new beer will be called -- with a wink and a nod -- New Crustacean. Having lost my mother to breast cancer, I've always been very supportive of the annual Breastfest put on by Marin Brewing Co. It used to be held at the brewery, but the festival outgrew the space and moved to the more spacious Fort Mason Center in San Francisco. The event will be 3-7 p.m. July 14, and it marks the 12th time brewers have joined together to support the Charlotte Maxwell Complementary Clinic. Tickets are $45 in advance, $55 at the door. For details, go to http://thebreastfest.org.
Screw finding 30 ideas, I'll write ONE idea in 30 different ways. Sounds whacky... but there's a reason. Ideas & voice are separate writing skills. If you stop wrestling original ideas, you can learn to write better, faster... Blasphemy! Isn't "originality" the point? Isn't a cover band a pale imitation? No. For God's sake, the Beatles started out as a cover band playing strip clubs in Germany. There is value in imitation. A little known paradox on creativity is that "covers" are the best way to discover your inner voice. How can writers "practice" outside of essays? "Practice"... it's a foreign word for writers, but athletes have binders full of drills. Think of how soccer players isolate one thing at a time. Dribbling. Passing. Shooting. Defense. Cardio. Sprinting. Corner kicks. But writers? Get on the field, you'll figure it out! Essays are like "scrimmages." Full-on simulations. Is this how we get better? Is this how we undo bad habits? For the next 30 days, I'll be doing impressions of writers to practice voice. Think of voice as the fingerprint of a writer. It's singular. It's identity. It's personality on the page. You can read a 50-word passage and instantly know, "Hunter S. Thompson was here," regardless of the subject. But where does voice come from? Our soul? Our belly button? The genie? - What if there was a science to voice? - What if there were observable patterns in word choice, rhythm, and tone? - What if you had to sing from 1,000 voices to discover your own?
What are Cannabinoids? THC, CBD, CBG… It seems that every day a new acronym hits the market, but what do they mean? And how are they different? WHAT EXACTLY IS A CANNABINOID? These acronyms are cannabinoids. They’re a group of compounds that was first discovered in cannabis plants in the early 1940s, beginning with THC, CBD, and CBN¹. So far, over 113 distinct cannabinoids have been isolated, with more surely to be found. Since their initial discovery, researchers have identified cannabinoids in other flowering plants, liverworts, and some fungi, as well as in mammalian bodies². Those found in plants are distinguished as “phytocannabinoids” and those produced endogenously in the body, “endocannabinoids.” In plants, it’s thought that cannabinoids, as well as terpenes (the compounds that give cannabis its scent) act as an insect deterrent and UV protectant². HOW DO CANNABINOIDS WORK? Cannabinoids primarily interact with receptors in the Endocannabinoid System (ECS), however they’ve also been found to interact with other receptors and ion channels throughout the body. The ECS is thought to be the system that maintains homeostasis, or balance, throughout the body. It’s responsible for a variety of biological functions ranging from memory and mood to metabolic processes². In the late 1980s, researchers at Saint Louis University first found the receptors in our body where cannabinoids interact³. Named after the compounds that led to their discovery, Cannabinoid Receptors 1 & 2 (CB₁, CB₂) provide the backbone of the Endocannabinoid System. CB₁ receptors are found predominantly, but not exclusively, in the central and peripheral nervous systems. CB₂ receptors occur mainly on immune cells, but have also been detected in the central nervous system¹. WHAT ARE THE POTENTIAL BENEFITS OF CANNABINOIDS? While benefits vary depending on which cannabinoid (or combination of cannabinoids) you take, the most common reported uses in medicine are³: - Pain relief - Appetite stimulant - Bone stimulant - Muscle relaxant With 113 different cannabinoids, it can be hard to keep them straight. Below is a list of the current key players: CANNABIGEROL The Mother of Cannabinoids. Nicknamed the “Mother of All Cannabinoids,” cannabigerol (CBG) is the precursor to CBD, CBC and THC. Multiple studies have shown the potential for CBG as a neuroprotective, suggesting use in treatments for neurodegenerative diseases like Huntington’s⁴, MS⁵, and Parkinson’s⁶. CBG is reported to potentially have modulatory effects on THC, counteracting adverse effects like anxiety and decreasing the feeling of being high. While you won’t necessarily feel CBG, users do report feeling more clear-minded and alert. CANNABIDIOL The Jack Of All Trades. CBD is a non-psychoactive cannabinoid that is becoming a more common treatment method for a variety of health issues. CBD interacts with receptors outside of the ECS, giving it its almost super-like powers. While the exact mechanisms aren’t fully understood yet, CBD has shown great potential as an anti-anxiety⁷, anti-depressant⁸, and pain reliever⁹. It also modulates the potential adverse effects of THC, reducing anxiety and the feeling of being high¹⁰𑁋a literal buzz-kill. To treat seizures caused by two different rare forms of epilepsy, Lennox-Gastaut and Dravet syndrome, doctors have started to prescribe Epidiolex𑁋a cannabis-derived CBD isolate. The FDA approved the drug for market in 2018 after concluding it’s safe and effective for its intended use¹¹. CANNABINOL The Fine Wine. This non-psychoactive cannabinoid is produced as THC ages, making it most prevalent in older cannabis plants. Research on the cannabinoid is still limited, however existing studies suggest potential use as an antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and bone growth stimulator. When combined with THC, it can increase sedative effects⁴. DELTA-9-TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL The One That Gets You High. Most commonly referred to as just THC, Delta-9 THC is the most-studied compound in cannabis plants and is most popular for its ability to get you high. Delta-9 has shown great potential as an anti-nausea medication as well as a pain reliever, anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic, and muscle relaxant⁴. The FDA has currently approved two synthetic THC drugs used to treat nausea in cancer patients and anorexia in AIDS patients¹¹. DELTA-8-TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL The Chill One. Quickly gaining popularity, Delta-8 is a mellowed-out, less potent form of THC. Often likened to an Indica, users report feeling sleepy and relaxed upon consumption. Common uses for Delta-8 include sleep aid and anti-inflammatory. DELTA-10-TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL The Go-Getter. Similar to Delta-8 and Delta-9, Delta-10 THC interacts with CB1 receptors in the brain to produce euphoric effects. Not much research has been on the specific effects and benefits, though we should expect more in the coming years. However, anecdotal reports suggest that Delta-10 produces energy and mood boosts similar to that of a Sativa strain of Delta-9¹². THE ENTOURAGE EFFECT Along with cannabinoids, cannabis contains hundreds of other compounds, including terpenes and flavonoids, which are responsible for scent and flavor respectively. All of the individual compounds interact with the body, and each other, in a variety of ways leading to a greater positive effect. This series of synergistic interactions is the basis of the Entourage Effect¹³. Now you may be thinking, cool, but why does it matter and how does the entourage effect affect me? For patients who turn to THC for its medicinal benefits, they may not necessarily want the added high, especially when taken in high doses. In those cases, the introduction of CBD into the system can help reduce the intoxicating effects. This same idea can be used to treat feelings of anxiety sometimes brought on by overconsumption of THC¹⁰. It’s becoming more common to find ratioed products with a balance of CBD:THC that provide benefits of both cannabinoids while allowing users to choose the level of high they’d like to experience. If CBD and THC are such a powerful combination, what does that mean for the other cannabinoids and compounds? While more research is needed to fully understand how the different compounds work together𑁋as well as individually𑁋many users report better experiences with full spectrum products that include all of the cannabinoids, terpenes, and flavonoids that grow naturally in the plant¹⁰. In the future, perhaps you’ll be able to pick and choose the cannabinoids and terpenes you ingest, creating a fully curated experience with benefits tuned to your specific needs. Cannabis and all of its compounds𑁋cannabinoids, terpenes, flavonoids and more𑁋are an exciting realm with endless possibilities. As research develops and more products make it to market, understanding the different cannabinoids and their benefits will help you make an informed decision when it comes to finding the product that works best for you. - Pertwee, Roger G. “Cannabinoid pharmacology: the first 66 years.” British journal of pharmacology vol. 147 Suppl 1,Suppl 1 (2006): S163-71. doi:10.1038/sj.bjp.0706406 - Phytocannabinoids: Origins and Biosynthesis: Trends in Plant Science - Taming THC: potential cannabis synergy and phytocannabinoid-terpenoid entourage effects - Neuroprotective Properties of Cannabigerol in Huntington's Disease: Studies in R6/2 Mice and 3-Nitropropionate-lesioned Mice - A Cannabigerol Derivative Suppresses Immune Responses and Protects Mice from Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis - Benefits of VCE-003.2, a cannabigerol quinone derivative, against inflammation-driven neuronal deterioration in experimental Parkinson's disease: possible involvement of different binding sites at the PPARγ receptor - Cannabidiol as a Potential Treatment for Anxiety Disorders - Cannabidiol induces rapid-acting antidepressant-like effects and enhances cortical 5-HT/glutamate neurotransmission: role of 5-HT1A receptors - Cannabidiol modulates serotonergic transmission and reverses both allodynia and anxiety-like behavior in a model of neuropathic pain - A tale of two cannabinoids: The therapeutic rationale for combining tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabidiol - FDA and Cannabis: Research and Drug Approval Process \| FDA - What is Delta-10-THC and Why do I Need to Know About it? - The “Entourage Effect”: Terpenes Coupled with Cannabinoids for the Treatment of Mood Disorders and Anxiety Disorders
Combat! is an American television drama series that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The exclamation point in Combat! was depicted on-screen as a stylised bayonet. The show covered the grim lives of a squad of American soldiers fighting the Germans in France during World War II. Saunders’ squad encounters a hungry French orphan gobbling rotted food in a bombed-out village. As Private First Class (PFC) Caje doles K-rations to the boy Bijou (which means Little Jewel), the orphan swipes Caje’s wallet, and claiming he found it, asks for a reward of chocolate from the Cajun soldier. While the squad races to bomb an oil depot, the cynical Kirby suspects the Little Jewel is following along to trade the infantry’s attack plan to the Germans. Is Bijou a clever child trying to simply survive or one serving whichever side it benefits him most? You can find a full index of Combat! Series 02 here. You can find a full index and overview of Combat! here. Production & Filming Details - Release Date: 12 November 1963. - Rating: Unknown. - Running Time: 60 minutes. - Country: US. - Language: English.
Native Americans had no domesticated animals when Europeans arrived in the late 15th century. When Europeans brought cattle and sheep to the New World, they brought the Mediterranean grasses that fed their herds with them, often unintentionally. These non-native grasses spread quickly. By the time Europeans arrived in California in the late 18th century, several European plants had spread from Mexico where Mediterranean grasses already dominated. In the mid-19th century, an influx of gold miners increased demand for beef. Grazing of the native bunch grasses created an opportunity for the non-native annual grasses to occupy the disturbed ground.(1) California’s native bunch grasses are not adapted to heavy grazing by herds of domesticated animals. The grassland of California is now about 98% non-native.(2) Restoring California’s Grasslands Because so much of California was grassland when Europeans arrived, the restoration of grassland is a high priority for native plant advocates. This is the story of one attempt to restore native grassland in the Sacramento Valley. The project was funded by UC Davis and Caltrans, the State of California’s transportation department. - February 2003: 2-acres drill-seeded with native grasses - June 2003: First-year planting declared a failure. Site was sprayed in May. - October 2003: Site is burned and re-seeded. - January 2004: Exotic grasses have been managed - Bare soil and seedlings of broadleaf weeds remain - May 2004:` About 1,000 plants of native grass remain - August 2004: Yellow star thistle is mowed - Nov 2005: A total of only four native grass plants appear to have survived - Spring 2006: Plot is plowed and replanted by drill-seeding - Sept 2006: 4% native grass underneath non-native weed canopy - August 2008: Yellow star thistle and wild oats are invading from the edges. - Native grasses expected to persist from 2 to 10 years depending on rainfall - Autumn 2009: Fifth planting attempt produced only about 30% coverage - August 2011: Natives and non-natives about 50/50 - January 2012: 27% natives and 72% non-natives Failure at what cost? After many years of replanting, reseeding, mowing, burning, plowing, and spraying, the 2-acre site is still dominated by non-native species and those natives which survived are not expected to persist for more than 10 years as they are overtaken by the non-natives. Using state-of-the-art-techniques and the expertise of one of the most prestigious agricultural research institutions in the world, this project must be considered a failure. The price of this failed effort was $225,000 per acre. [Edited to Add: We discovered two new sources of information (3) on this topic after publishing this article. These sources inform us that the cost estimate in our original source is based on a research grant which probably included costs associated with the research, such as data gathering and analysis. Therefore, the price of this effort overestimates the cost of the restoration itself. Although the new sources of information provide cost estimates of grassland restoration, we don’t consider those estimates substantially more accurate because they report only the direct cost of the project and predict a shorter time frame for the restoration than the actual project which took 5 years.] They did the best they knew how to do. They were only trying to restore 2-acres. They spent nearly $500,000. And what do they have to show for it? A few native plants that will disappear in 10 years or less. [Edited to Add: The new sources of information also reach different conclusions with respect to the success of these restorations. Although the specific test plot described in our original source is not included in the study, many similar projects are considered successful by the new source of information. This seems to be a question of “glass-half-empty” vs “glass-half-full.” The reported results are similar in both publications, i.e., non-natives persist in all test plots and natives are not expected to persist beyond 10 years. However, the positive evaluation is based on a claim that the maintenance of non-native grasses is more costly than these restoration efforts. We find that hard to believe. For example, we don’t see any reason to spray herbicides on non-natives being maintained in a highway verge which is the standard treatment for the restoration of natives. We know that the cost of each application of herbicides on much smaller plots of land in the natural areas in San Francisco was $9,000 per application in 2010. We therefore doubt that it costs more to maintain non-native grassland than it does to restore native grasses in their place.] San Franciscans who have been watching the so-called “natural areas” in San Francisco for 15 years should not be surprised or disappointed by these weed-infested plots behind fences. Why should the Natural Areas Program be more successful than the scientists at UC Davis? Given that NAP is working on tiny plots of urban land–which add up to 1,100 acres–that are completely surrounded by exotic plants, shouldn’t we expect even less success than what UC Davis could accomplish in the Sacramento Valley surrounded by acres of open space? Lower your expectations, San Francisco. Or refuse to waste your tax dollars on plowing the sea. (1) Crosby, Alfred, Ecological Imperialism, Cambridge University Press, 2009, page 152-154 (2) Schoenherr, Allan, A Natural History of California, UC Press, 1992 Update May 30, 2021: I received this email today from the cited author and photographer who is quoted in this post. My original article included the source of the photos as well as a link to his website. MilllionTrees - January 2012: 27% natives and 72% non-natives - (4) Dremann, Craig –website www.ecoseeds.com/road.test.html
Expired or unwanted prescription and over-the-counter medications from households should never be disposed of by flushing them down the toilet or a drain. Although this method of disposal prevents accidental ingestion, it can cause contamination to the aquatic environment because wastewater treatment systems are not designed to remove many of these medications. There is 24-hour access to a free kiosk at the Concord Police Station to safely dispose of their medical syringes, sharps and lancets. This is a safe and easy way for residents to clean out their medicine cabinets and bring all expired or unwanted medications and sharps, for proper disposal, with the added benefit of keeping these materials out of the waste stream. What to Bring Sharps (hypodermic needles, syringes, and more) must be in rigid, tight-sealing, capped container. Expired or unwanted medications and drugs (in original container) Community members who utilize the kiosk are asked to follow several safety regulations: All sharps MUST be disposed of in a sharps container or puncture-resistant container like a one gallon bleach bottle or a one-pound sealed, taped coffee can. DO NOT put loose needles in the kiosk. DO NOT use a glass container or a bag of any type. DO NOT leave a container outside of the kiosk. Always ask for assistance if kiosk is full. Note: It’s permissible to use a marker to cross off your name on the prescription containers, but medication information must be legible.
What does tapping mean in Jiu Jitsu? BJJ instructor, Ritchie Yip, explains that “tapping” or “tapping out” is simply a way to keep everyone safe when they are practicing BJJ. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is an art that is about choking and arm breaking. Yes, BJJ is a great way to stay in shape and is a fantastic vehicle for self betterment. When should you tap in BJJ? If you have been hurt in the past by a particular submission it is ok to tap early. If you feel something pop, grind or feel “weird” then you should tap. Remember we are trying to practice BJJ as a lifelong sport. How do you tap out? The submission – then also referred to as a “tap out” or “tapping out” – is often performed by visibly tapping the floor or the opponent with the hand or in some cases with the foot, or by saying the word ‘tap’ to signal the opponent and/or the referee of the submission. What is the meaning of tapped out? 1: out of money: broke. 2: spent, exhausted tapped out after months on the road. What happens if you don’t tap-out UFC? Refusing to tap while being in an armbar, for example, can lead to broken bones and/or torn ligaments. Most fighters don’t want this to be the end of their fight even if they are on the winning end. Is tap-out a word? 1. To remove something from a container by tapping it against one’s hand or some other surface. What is Tapouts? intransitive verb.: to run out of money by betting.
Smartphones used to be a luxury in the early aughts, but nowadays, they’re necessary for work and school. They’re a fundamental part of communicating, carrying out various tasks, and living life more conveniently. While smartphones don’t come cheap, they certainly offer much value to our lives, streamlining different tasks and making them almost effortless to do. However, when harm comes to our smartphones, it can cost a considerable amount to repair, which is why durable smartphone cases are a must-have. Your phone is one of your most important investments, so it makes sense to tuck it in a sturdy case with top-quality shock absorption to protect your phone against falls and other kinds of damage. Here are four signs your phone case is overdue for a replacement: 1. You Change Phones Frequently New smartphones come out every year, always being an improved iteration of their previous models. If you love upgrading your phone each chance you get, that means you’ll need to get a brand new case to protect your phone. Cases can shield your phone from the shock of impact, cushioning it enough to prevent internal and external damage. It’s also important to get screen protectors, which will prevent glass screens from shattering. 2. Your Smartphone is Made of Glass As technology grows more advanced, the more smartphones resemble pieces of art. Although they’re fragile, a far cry from the virtually indestructible Nokia from a few decades ago, they are undoubtedly sleek and stunning. Today’s smartphones usually have edge-to-edge glass screens, bodies, and numerous camera lenses. These features are also what has made smartphones more expensive than ever, which is why you’ll want to invest in a high-quality phone case to protect your investment. 3. You Always Need to Hold Your Phone Smartphones tend to have smooth, polished bodies, which means they’re usually slippery to hold by themselves. Getting a new case will help you keep your phone firmly in your grasp. Rubberised and TPU cases are great for preventing your phone from slipping away and hitting the floor, but these eventually get dirty and full of grime from use. To ensure you can hold onto your phone without any problem, be sure to replace your phone case from time to time, as your precious device may end up sliding away from your grip. 4. You Take Your Smartphone Everywhere These days, it’s pretty much impossible to leave home without your phone. It’s useful for navigating, playing music during your commutes, and supplying you with the details you need to get your chores done. However, anything can happen when you’re out and about, and you’ll want to make sure your phone stays safe and sound. Keeping it in a well-made case will protect it from accidents, and there are even some cases where you can store cards and money, allowing you to carry even less. Smartphone cases are sleek, nifty items that can shield your expensive phone from a wide range of accidents and damages. In fact, if you inspect your current case closely, it’s likely full of dings and scratches—marks that would have been on your phone if it hadn’t been wrapped in a case! By swapping your phone case now and then, you’ll provide full protection to your phone, helping it last longer. Whether you’re on the market for iPhone 13 cases or Galaxy S21 phone cases, we’ve got you covered at MobileXS. We are one of Australia’s leading mobile accessory retail groups, offering Apple, Samsung, Oppo, Google accessories and phone repair kits. Check out our collection today!
Lolland Falster Airport, Denmark EKMB is a small regional airport in the southern part of Denmark, uptill now a “Sleeping Beauty” with not much traffic. But that is about to change because the Great Femern Belt Tunnel project is about to start for real in 2021, one of Europes biggest engineering projects, and EKMB is the only airport in the region, closely placed near the building site. Hence some improvements has been made on the airport over the last years. Hope you will enjoy flying to EKMB. The airport is created with MSFS SDK, and stock objects. Just unzip and drop the EKMB folder in your FS Community folder ModsHost claims no ownership or authorship of this mod - files, images & description. All credit goes to the author of this work. Are we missing something? Download link incorrect? Let us know! Submit a YouTube video. Paste your link and hit Submit.
Background: Many obese patients have comorbidities that worsen their prognoses, particularly if hypercholesterolemia is present. In these patients, dietary restrictions are not sufficient to reduce hypercholesterolemia and lose body weight. Objective: This 1-year, single-center, randomized, open-label study assessed the effects of diet and exercise plus treatment with orlistat, simvastatin, and orlistat + simvastatin on lipid profile, body composition, and blood pressure in obese patients with hypercholesterolemia. Methods: Obese, normotensive patients with hypercholesterolemia aged >45 years were eligible. Patients were prescribed a restricted-calorie diet and were randomized to receive orlistat 120 mg TID (group O), simvastatin 20 mg/d (group S), or orlistat 120 mg TID plus simvastatin 20 mg/d (group OS) for 1 year. Serum total cholesterol (TC), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), and triglyceride (TG) levels; body mass index (BMI); waist-circumference reduction (WCR); body weight loss (BWL); and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) and systolic blood pressure (SBP) were measured at baseline and after 6 months and 1 year of treatment. Results: We enrolled 87 patients (45 women, 42 men; mean age, 55 years). Four patients dropped out due to nontransient adverse events. After 1 year of treatment, significant improvements were found in all measured parameters in all treatment groups versus baseline values, except for HDL-C in group O. Significant between-group differences at 1 year included the following: TC, LDL-C, and TG levels and BMI, WCR, and BWL were significantly decreased in group OS versus groups O and S; DBP was significantly decreased in group OS versus group O; SBP and DBP were significantly decreased in group OS versus group S. HDL-C was significantly increased in group OS but not in groups O and S. Five patients in group O and 1 patient in group OS experienced transient gastrointestinal adverse events. Conclusions: In this study population, all 3 treatments produced significant improvements in most measured parameters from baseline. The combination treatment showed significantly greater reductions in serum TC and LDL-C levels, BMI, WCR, and BWL than with either orlistat or simvastatin alone. Small but significant differences in blood pressure were found with combination treatment. - Blood pressure ASJC Scopus subject areas
This is a classic Italian bulldogge/mastiff, descended from the old Roman Molossers, closely associated with the southern Puglia region and related to the Neapolitan, as well as the Sicilian breeds, with which it has traditionally been classified together under the Cane da Presa name. It also has ties with the Alano Espanol and other European working breeds of the Alaunt type. Contrary to popular belief, this is not a re-creation of the Sicilian Branchiero, nor there ever was a "Cane di Macellaio" breed. While not quite the same breed as the original Cane Guzzo of Sicily, today's Cane Corso (pronounced Kah-Neh Kor-Soh) is a revived continuation of the old Cane Corso, period. The still-alive Branchiero Siciliano, along with a few more Sicilian breeds is related to the Cane Corso, and they all at one time or another went under the name of Cane di Macellaio, referring to their butchershop guarding job, not a specific breed. It should also be clarified that this is NOT a Corsican breed, as some ill-informed breeders and fanciers seem to think. Perpetuating this myth only creates even more confusion, which is the last thing this magnificent Molosser needs. Unlike some of its Sicilian cousins, the Cane Corso was originally a hunting dog, a very fast large game tracker. It was only later that it became a cattle drover and a personal guardian. And eventually it found its way into the arenas as a baiter of bears, bulls and giant cats of Africa and Asia. It didn't take long before it became a popular fighting dog, which is what it unfortunately stayed mostly remembered as in the West, even though it's neither bred for it nor is that its original role. The present-day Cane Corso exists in decent numbers, but because of reckless breeding and crosses with some bull-breeds, it is getting difficult to find a true representative of the breed. Although the initial efforts were focused on preserving the original farm dogs from Puglia and surrounding areas, a fair amount of English Bullmastiff and German Boxer blood was introduced in the early years of the revival programme to help expand the Cane Corso gene pool, but the use of these breeds unfortunately resulted in the appearance of certain physical traits which weren't associated with the Cane Corso Italiano in the past, creating some controversy concerning the proper breed type. Because not all stock came from the same places and not every person involved in the revival programme shared the same vision, the breed was led in different directions. While Vito Indiveri and Paolo Breber are credited as the leading forces in the salvation of the breed, the influence of other, lesser known participants shouldn't be ignored, even if they've been less than honest about their breeding practices, which oftentimes relied on the employment of somewhat questionable outcrosses. The dogs found in the rural areas were one thing, but examples found closer to the cities and oftentimes from fighting bloodlines were something altogether different. Regardless of the romantic interpretations of the Cane Corso history, it should be clear to everyone that the modern incarnation of the breed was established on the foundation stock that numbered both the old and isolated strains of true farm workers, as well as the examples whose origin is neither ancient nor pure. Sadly, a great number of modern Italian examples can be seen with uncharacteristic head shapes and overly short muzzles, thanks to the widely accepted, yet strongly denied, excessive use of Boxer blood in Corso breedings in recent years. However, there is a number of Corso fanciers in Italy who are breeding for a specific type, which they believe to be pure and historically correct, commonly referred to as the Cane Corso Ortognato. The unrelated breed known as the American Corso Dog is a modern creation, developed in the United States by crossing the Neapolitan Mastiff with the Rottweiler and various Bandogges. Even though this American breed is oftentimes presented as the Cane Corso, it has no real ties with the Italian breed. Most American and Canadian fanciers of the Cane Corso Mastiff regularly import dogs from Italy and are committed to the preservation and promotion of the true type and purity of the breed, but some western lines have been enriched with the blood of other working dogs, namely the Presa Canario, American Pit Bull Terrier, Neapolitan Mastiff, Bullmastiff, Rottweiler, Boxer and the aforementioned American Corso Dog, resulting in a great variety within the breed in the United States, bluring the lines between the American-bred Cane Corso Italiano and the American Corso Dog breeds even more. The Canadian Cane Corso is currently known as the Corso Pugliese, but unlike the American Corso Dog, this isn't a designer breed at all, but a specific Puglia type of the Cane Corso Mastiff, with the Ortognato stock directly descended from Italy. The Corso Pugliese name is in place to easier distinguish Canadian dogs from the official Cane Corso Italiano, but also from the American Corso Dog. It should also be noted that not every light mastiff that resembles a Corso really is a true Cane Corso Italiano as recognized internationally, because this is not the only Italian breed of this type. Even in Italy, there is a number of unpure strains to be encountered, but there are also a few indigenous separate breeds which share the early ancestry of the Cane Corso. The above-mentioned Cane da Presa population of Italy also consists of other breeds, such as the Dogo Sardo, Cane da Branco, Bucciriscu Calabrese, Sicilian Vucciriscu and others, including certain strains of old Maltese Mastiffs believed to had survived in southern Sicily through assimilation into the indigenous Cane Guzzo population. So, even if a dog is imported from Italy, it doesn't necessarily mean that it is a real Cane Corso Italiano, or at least not the recognized variety. Matings between the other types and the modern Cane Corso were common ever since the 1970's, almost exclusively at the expense of those other breeds, most of which are on their way to extinction. A number of fanciers don't differentiate between these breeds, claiming that they are simply regional varieties of the Cane Corso, which is certainly not completely true. However, some enthusiasts believe that using indigenous varieties of the Cane da Presa Italiano population as outcrosses for the Cane Corso genepool is much better than relying on Boxer or Bullmastiff blood. Apart from the varieties already listed, there is also a moderately popular working breed known as the Mezzocorso, which was developed by crossing the Cane Corso with the Abruzzese Mastiff and although it is a very different dog which can't really be confused with the Cane Corso Italiano in any way, this fact doesn't prevent some people to falsely report the Cane della Murgia as its subtype. If bred properly, the Italian Cane Corso Mastiff is of sound temperament, easily trained and a breed which makes an excellent family dog. Very affectionate towards children, it will gladly give up its life to protect them. This breed is completely devoted to only one master and very loving of its human family, but is naturally aloof with strangers. Although not as dominant as the American variant, the Cane Corso Italiano is still fairly dog-aggressive and at times overly protective, so it needs experienced and responsible handling. This is a very athletic and fast dog, possessing great agility and stamina, requiring a reasonable amount of exercise and more importantly, it needs a job. The body is muscular, with a straight back and long sturdy legs. This powerful Molosser has a deep and wide chest, with a strong neck and an elegant broad head and muzzle. The tail is docked and the ears are usually cropped, but unaltered specimens can be found as well. While some modern dogs have very short and smooth Bandog-like coats, the traditional coat type for the breed is short, flat, but also hard and quite thick, as well as densely undercoated, coming in a variety of solid colours, with black, silver, blue and brindle being the most appreciated and currently favoured over the traditional fawn, chestnut, red and brown shades. White markings can still be encountered today, mostly on the chest and feet, but aren't preferred, even though dogs with white markings on the head and body existed in the past, not to mention that piebald and even uniform white examples were also quite common before the standardization of the breed. Although black-n-tan dogs do exist, as they have for a long time, they're not accepted by the Standard, as they're seen as a sign of recent Rottweiler influence, thanks to the American Corso controversy. With present-day Corsi being overall larger than their ancestors, the average height proposed for the breed should be around 26 inches, but there are even taller dogs to be found today. Photo Gallery on the Original Molosserdogs.com
Do you know the official Nancy Pelosi net worth? Most people have heard of the name Nancy Pelosi, even if they don’t know the first thing about American politics. Granted, her name comes up in the news on a fairly routine basis so it’s not hard to have some type of generic idea who she is. If you’re not quite sure, she’s a lifelong politician that has served in numerous different roles throughout the House. As a matter of fact, she’s been in politics for several decades now. As of January of 2019, it is reported she has a net worth of approximately $120 million. This was something that shocked a lot of individuals, especially considering that there is a lot of frustration between the American people and career politicians, especially when it comes to the amount of money they make versus the income of an average American citizen. That being said, it’s important to note that most of her financial status doesn’t have anything to do with her role in politics. In reality, she and her husband made a great deal of that money before she ever even got involved in such things. There’s no doubt that $120 million is nothing to sneeze at. That’s more money than most people will ever see in a lifetime. The question is, how did she do it? The first thing you need to know is that she didn’t do it alone. As previously mentioned, this is money that she and her husband have made over the years. If only one of them were responsible for making this much money, who knows what might have eventually happened. Nevertheless, Nancy Pelosi does have a considerable net worth, so you might be wondering how Nancy achieved it. Net Worth $120 Million Name Nancy Pelosi Born Baltimore, Maryland Birth Date March 26, 1940 Source of Wealth Real Estate, Politics Country United States Early Life Of Nancy Pelosi Pelosi is of Italian-American descent. Her father, Thomas D’Alesandro Jr., was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Maryland, and a Mayor of Baltimore. Pelosi’s brother, Thomas D’Alesandro III., also a Democrat, was mayor of Baltimore from 1967 to 1971. He declined to run for a second term. She graduated from Trinity College in Washington DC, with a B.A. in political science. She married American businessman Paul Pelosi in 1963. Real Estate Ventures & Nancy Pelosi’s Fortune In a nutshell, it all comes down to real estate. As it turns out, she and her husband have been heavily involved in real estate for several years. She actually owns a number of different properties, including several commercial properties that are used as apartment buildings or as office space for corporations. In addition, she has several other properties that can be used as vacation homes or in certain circumstances, homes that are rented out to other tenants. Make no mistake about it, she doesn’t rent what you might consider a typical, modest home out to everyday citizens. The properties that she is involved with are extremely high-end and they bring a premium price. That’s precisely how she has accumulated so much money over the years. It’s also worth noting that the $120 million isn’t just counted in cash alone. As a matter of fact, all of the property that she owns is counted as assets in her net worth, so it’s not fully understood just exactly how big her bank account itself is. What is understood is that if she were to need money at a fairly rapid pace, she has a lot of assets at her disposal that she could choose to liquidate. However, money doesn’t seem to be a problem for her so many people speculate that her bank account is fairly large. If you really wanted to break it all down, you could track all of the property she owns and then determine the worth of each one. However, most people are willing to take Nancy Pelosi’s net worth of $120 million at face value and leave it at that. Her Husband’s Portfolio & Net Worth According to CNW, thanks to Paul, the Pelosis own large stakes in companies like Facebook, Apple, Comcast, Shutterfly and the Walt Disney Co. Paul Pelosi also owns a few office buildings in San Francisco and commercial properties around California. In 2009 Paul spent $10 million to buy the Oakland Invaders United Football League team. The team, which was soon relocated and renamed the Sacramento Mountain Lions, was eventually shut down. They have five children and eight grandchildren. When in San Francisco, the Pelosis reside in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco. Today in Politics Even today, she’s still one of the most polarizing political figures in America. She’s been extremely outspoken against individuals with whom she disagrees and as such, she’s had more than her fair share of shade thrown her way. Obviously, she is not a person that is easily intimidated, nor does she change her mind simply because someone else disagrees with her. It’s likely that those same qualities have also served her well in the real estate industry over the years. There is no doubt that she’s done something right or she wouldn’t have so many properties listed under her name to begin with. For those individuals that have the ability to stay in the game and the mental toughness to deal with whatever happens, real estate can indeed be a lucrative endeavor. That’s something that she has already proven time and again. Who knows how much more money she will make in the future? In 2019, she regained the Speaker of the United States of Representatives position, making her not only the first but the only women to have ever held that position. She’s as active as ever, sparring with current President Donald Trump. We can only conclude that Nancy Pelosi’s net worth will continue to rise. Will there ever be a tell all book? Who knows. Nancy Pelosi Quotes We Love - Maybe it will take a woman to clean up the House. - You go through the gate. If the gate’s closed you go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we’ll pole-vault. If that doesn’t work, we’ll parachute in. But we are going to get health care reform passed for the American people. - Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory…of how we are taking responsibility. - By making college more affordable for all and more accessible for minority students, the first new higher education authorizing legislation in a decade will help strengthen our nation and America’s middle class, and spur a new age of innovation and ingenuity in our country.
Dialektika Islam dan Ilmu Pengetahuan Studi Waḥdat al-‘Ulūm Menurut al-Ghazali Abstract: The dichotomy of sciences caused both the positive and negative effects for development of civilizations; such as poverty, economic colonialism and dehumanization. Therefore, the unity of sciences is an interesting and important to be discussed for developing a new and prosperous civilization. This paper discussed the unity of sciences according to Imam al-Ghazali (d. 1111) and its urgency to the issue of human life. For al-Ghazali, science must be unified in the aspects of ontology, epistemology, and axiology. These three aspects of knowledge united in one entity; such as three angles in a triangle. From the pespective of ontology, knowledge comes from God and cannot be separated from God, so all sciences are commendable. Epistemologically, the nature of science is the light coming from the illumination light of God. Science can be obtained by optimizing the function of reason and through revelation or inspiration. The validity of science is depended on how and sources used to obtain it. Knowledge is not for knowledge, but knowledge for human prosperity. To realize the concept of the unity of sciences it is needed a hard work, patience and many-stage processes; namely equal treatment on scientific and religious knowledge, dialogue, integration and interconnection between science and the end is the unity of sciences.
MISSION STATEMENT: The Cadet program is designed to provide insight into the field of pre-hospital emergency medicine. Cadets become part of a new generation of emergency medical technicians and will support the future of emergency medicine in our community. The Morgan County Ambulance Service Cadet Program was established by the Morgan County Ambulance Service in an attempt to demonstrate the dedication, collaboration and team work it takes to provide professional emergency medical response. The Cadet Program provides a great opportunity for those interested in moving towards a life-long career. Cadet Program Pledge - We will provide the basic foundation from which interested people can obtain support in seeking a career opportunity as an emergency medical technician. - We will make every attempt to provide a positive, non-threatening and educational environment for our Cadets. - We will provide youth services to the local communities. - We'll provide a sense of awareness about health matters as well as illness/injury prevention that Cadets can take with them into the community. - We will give Cadets an opportunity to witness first hand, patient interaction and treatment modalities, educationally demonstrating pre-hospital management of the sick and injured. - We will give Cadets an active, yet limited role in patient management providing them an opportunity for self-evaluation. - We will assist in providing certification, training and continued education for active members of the Cadet Program. Applying to the Cadet Program Interested in joining the Cadet Program? The process is simple and easy. Please submit your completed Cadet Application Form and cover letter to 1000 E Railroad, Fort Morgan, CO 80701 via mail or in person. Cadet Program - Frequently Asked Questions: Anyone ages 14 and older can join our program. If you're under age 18, you'll need your parents' consent. You do not have to be a resident of Morgan County to take advantage of this program and educational opportunity. Cadets must do a minimum of two, eight hour shifts per month and attend 80% of the monthly meetings held the first Tuesday evening of each month. Cadets are issued a uniform just like the ambulance employees. Cadets are required to provide black shoes to complete the uniform. As emergency responders we respond to all types of emergencies which vary in severity. Being in a small community, we often respond to friends and/or family members as well. As a Cadet or third rider, we would never intentionally put you in a situation you were uncomfortable with, however, Cadets could unpredictably find themselves in the midst of a stressful situation at any given moment. Cadets are riding primarily as an observer. As Cadets become more and more familiar and comfortable, we encourage them to participate in non-invasive procedures. A Cadet's shift varies depending upon day of the week and/or if school is in session. During the school year, Cadets must do a minimum of 2, 4 hour shifts a month. During the summer months, a minimum of 2, 8 hour shifts per month. We take great pride in making sure our Cadets understand that school comes first and thus, this program should not interfere with your schooling. Cadets are encouraged to work on homework and/or any other school assignments while they're on shift if need be. The Cadet Program is a great opportunity for you to familiarize yourself with the basics of medicine. Depending upon your motivation, you could enter nursing school far ahead of someone without this experience. The Cadet Program is a great way to get started and could provide a great foundation in the medical field. You can take an EMT class at anytime, however, most states and the National Registry of EMT's won't allow you to certify until you've reached 18 years of age. It's not recommended you take and/or finish the class before your 18th birthday. Yes, there are several advantages. First of all... if you've been a Cadet in good standing with MCAS for at least one year and you've completed the state EMT course, you'll be eligible for hire at age 18. Someone who hasn't been in the program is not eligible for hire until age 20. We respond to a variety of calls every day both trauma and medical with no two days being alike. Some have better outcomes than others. We average six calls per day including local hospital to metro hospital transports. Liability and insurance will not typically allow Cadets to drive. An EMT course is 175 hours of training with an accredited school followed by clinical training. Paying for an EMT course out of your own pocket will initially cost you approximately $1,100 but there are many grants available to assist you with costs. If you're a Cadet in good standing, after one year of service Morgan County Ambulance will reimburse you with cost of your successful EMT training. Ambulances respond to a variety of situations that put us at risk of blood and airborne diseases. Morgan County Ambulance provides protective equipment such as gloves, face masks, etc. to all employees. In addition, aggressive treatment and immediate steps are taken should an employee be exposed. Over the past 20 years, Morgan County Ambulance personnel have not contracted any life threatening diseases as a result of responding to calls. The Cadet Program is designed to get people involved and excited about EMS. Our focus will be on training you so that you become more and more comfortable as a responder. We will provide you with all the tools and opportunities you need should you make this a career choice. We'll train you in CPR and assist you in advancing through First Responder, EMT etc. as long as you're an active and dedicated participant of the program.
Modeled after our Legislative Science Notes, Community Science Notes summarize the research and policy context surrounding locally important issues, including public comment periods and ballot initiatives. The process and products related to the research, publication, and distribution of Community Science Notes supports several objectives of the Missouri Local Science Engagement Network (LSEN), including: Community Science Notes should always contain objective and nonpartisan research information. Writers should not make policy recommendations or include information that supports or opposes any policy alternative. All Community Science Note writers should adhere to the Missouri LSEN Code of Conduct. Urban heat islands are regions that experience higher temperatures than surrounding areas, primarily due to the concentration of buildings, roads and other structures that absorb and re-emit heat. As climate change leads to higher temperatures, urban heat values are likely to increase. Landfill is considered an effective method of waste management, primarily due to its low cost and limited technical requirements. However, landfill use may have unintended environmental and socioeconomic consequences if managed improperly The “Net Metering and Easy Connection Act” (Section 386.890, RSMo) allows customers who own renewable energy generators (e.g., solar panels) to sell electricity that they generate to utility companies. In order to help you better understand the science behind medical marijuana, we’ve summarized some of the most common findings by scientists related to this topic. Medicaid is a joint federal and state program established in 1965 to provide health insurance to low-income families, seniors, and individuals with disabilities. Under Medicaid expansion, adults (age 19-65) with a household income less than 138% of the federal poverty level would be eligible to receive Medicaid coverage. In Missouri, 11.5% of households are considered food insecure because they have limited or uncertain access to affordable and nutritious food to maintain an active, healthy lifestyle. Urban agriculture can provide a source of healthy produce, increase healthy food knowledge, and promote community engagement within food insecure communities. Published December 2021 Crayfish are freshwater crustaceans that look like small lobsters and like to feed on animals and plant material. Eight crayfish species are only found in Missouri, with some being currently considered endangered. Childhood depression, anxiety and behavioral/conduct problems have been prevalent since before the COVID-19 pandemic. However, children’s mental health challenges have increased over the last year and a half due to difficulty coping with the changes and uncertainty surrounding COVID-19. Black vultures are expanding their geographic range northward in Missouri. While vultures provide an important service in consuming waste material, black vultures can be a nuisance by occasionally attacking livestock and damaging property. Air pollution from motor vehicle emissions (i.e., exhaust) can lead to negative public health and environmental impacts that disproportionately impact children, seniors, urban residents and people with existing lung and heart problems. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sets standards for allowable levels of certain air pollutants (e.g., carbon monoxide, ozone) through the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS).
The idea of being trapped in a car with a dog playing in the snow is almost never a good idea. Fortunately, we live in an era when the idea of driving with a large dog in the backseat is almost completely impossible to do. However, if you want to have fun in a snowy environment, the best way to do it is to get a car and drive. Unfortunately, the problem with snowplowing isn’t that it’s dangerous, but that the dogs are stuck in the front seat. This is not the best idea because the dogs would get injured if they got hurt. But the snowplow driver has a few options that you can consider. First, you can always buy a snowplower that has the power to lift a snow shovel, or a sled that has a shovel that can lift a heavy snowpack, and it has to be a snow plow. There are also a lot of other options that will help you avoid getting injured. For example, if a dog has a head injury, you may be able to drive the dog in a sled. If a dog can’t do that, you could try riding on a car seat. For more information on snowplows and sleds, check out this guide on snow removal from our friend Jad hotel.
Although scientific studies vary, there seems to be agreement that learning and speaking multiple languages is good for your gray matter. It may even delay the onset of dementia. It will certainly improve your je ne sais quoi. Here are a few of the language learning resources available to you from Multnomah County Library: - Mango Connect: This online app is easy to use and full of quick exercises for learning over 50 different languages. You move through lessons at your own pace, and you can spend a lot of time on it or just a little bit each day. - Language Exchanges: The library offers in-person language exchange programs in Chinese, French, Spanish, and Vietnamese. These events are intended for both English speakers and English learners. Half of the event is spent practicing in the non-English language, and the other half is spent practicing English. All levels are welcome! These programs are informal, fun, and a great way to meet people in your community. - Books: The library has lots of books (and audiobooks) for learning languages! The best way to find these is by asking a librarian - they will guide you to the books and resources that are perfect for you. For even more language learning ideas, take a look at the library’s Language learning topic page. If someone you know is working on learning or improving their English, be sure to also check out the library’s Learn English webpage. You’re never too old to learn something new! : For more information about the science of languages and the brain, read “Delaying Onset of Dementia: Are Two Languages Enough?” (2014) in the online journal Behavioural Neurology.
FIELD NOTES FROM HALF DOME “Not just a great valley, but a shrine to human foresight, the strength of granite, the power of glaciers, the persistence of life, and the tranquility of the High Sierra.” – National Park Service Yosemite National Park is iconic as it is inspirational. With Lady Luck on our side, we were granted 8 permits in the lottery to climb Half Dome, Yosemite’s most familiar rock formation of granite, on Memorial Day. We planned a 3 night backpacking trip: one day for the approach to our base camp, one day for Cloud’s Rest, and Half Dome on the last day. Our trip was full of opposites: shade and sunshine, summits and descents, rain and heat. Our first two days and nights were spent hiking in our rain shells and staying dry in our tents. Luckily for us, the weather turned for the better as we were able to summit Cloud’s Rest the next day.We set up camp, built a campfire in the backcountry, and were able to dry off as the sun set on us – a revitalizing way to prepare us for the main objective of the trip: to climb Half Dome! THE BIG HIKE We started up Half Dome early in the morning to beat the heat and the crowds – we pretty much had the cables all to ourselves! At sub-dome, we fueled up on Munk Packs and made our way to the cables. When we finally reached the top, we soaked up the magnificent 360 degree views of Yosemite. After ascending 10k feet and hiking over 27 miles, over the course of the weekend, it was time to head back down to the Valley and enjoy some well-deserved pizza. – Bernice Ngo of @bernini_n Up Next: REFLECTIONS FROM IDLE THEORY BUS
For African fashion fans, a little known key is using African cow horn jewelry to match African dressing. It’s incredible just how much use can be produced from a cow horn. The handcrafts could be as numerous as one can create but the primary applications are in jewelry, tableware, office desk items, and toilet accessories. In tableware, they are largely employed as serving forks and spoons, salt and pepper shakers, sugar bowls, sauce boats, legumes and Flower vases amongst others. Along with the cow, the horn is the most authentic vessel for drinking alcoholic African drinks. For your office, you receive ashtrays, letter openers, pencil holders and a lot more. For your toilet, you find combs, soap dishes, shoe horns, and toilet eyeglasses. Let’s look into African fashion It’s in jewelry the artisan mainly conveys himself. As a result of intensive procedure entailed, the crafts guys work on orders if for retail or for the amount. Fundamentally without giving their secrets out, the procedure is as follows. For the most from a cow horn, the Turitu craftsmen begin with a careful choice of big horns imported from the famed Ankole cows of the neighboring nation Uganda. The horn is then sawed into pieces depending on what goods have arranged. The horn is boiled in oil to soften it molded to the desired item. After trimming and cutting fit, it’s sanded, varnished and stained then retrieved to dry. It’s a slow and delicate process that needs many years of instruction and expertise. Jewelry is the best choice for girls For Jewellery, the crafts guys usually create earrings, bangles, bracelets, finger rings, hair clips, straps, bracelets, and chokers. They also unite the horn with brass based on their client’s requests. The attractiveness of the horn jewelry is it is lasting, unique, appealing, isn’t fragile and can be custom made. African store providing varieties of Tshirts, hoodies, dashiki for men & women! And you can order up to one desire but they must provide advance orders on account of this delicate and lengthy procedure entailed. And because the horn could be molded into almost anything, the crafts guys also welcome new layouts. But for simple things like rings which don’t demand much handwork, a massive quantity can be generated in a brief moment. The art guys have been quietly, exporting this jewelry along with other cow horn things such as combs for the previous 30 years to a lot of countries such as the United States of America and Europe. The production is carried out by guys while retail selling is carried out by girls in the regional cultural markets. This small but highly skilled business has made many opportunities particularly for the youth who’d otherwise be engaged in a vice. For some reason, little is known of the Kenyan cabin sector even in Kenya itself. But, with more assistance from African fashion designers, authorities and other stakeholders, the sector may be a significant foreign exchange earner. Read Our last post about best traveling shoes
In George A. Romero’s classic movie of 1968, Night of the Living Dead, speculation was raised that the birth of the zombie hordes was possibly triggered by the actions of a U.S. spacecraft. While visiting the planet Venus, the craft, it was surmised, became bathed in radiation. Then, on its return to Earth, the craft let loose that same radiation upon an unsuspecting populace. The outcome was nothing less than the rise of the staggering, flesh-eating dead. Is it truly feasible that such a thing could actually occur in the real world? It’s highly unlikely – in the extreme, to say the absolute very least – that exposure to radiation could provoke any kind of violent, cannibalistic, zombie-like behavior. The possibility that a returning spacecraft might unwittingly unleash hazardous extraterrestrial materials on our planet, however, is not at all an impossibility. In fact, dealing with just such a potentially catastrophic event has already been planned for. In a fictional format, at least, such a scenario was famously presented in the 1969 book The Andromeda Strain (which was written by Michael Crichton of Jurassic Park and Congo fame), and in the subsequent 1971 movie spin-off of the same name. Although zombies do not appear in either the novel or the film, pretty much everything else does. An American space-probe – as it returns to planet Earth and crashes in the wilds of Arizona – unleashes a lethal virus of extraterrestrial origins. Matters soon escalate in ominous, doomsday-like fashion: The U.S. Government struggles to find an antidote. The virus threatens to wipe out the entire Human Race. And…well, you get the apocalyptic picture. While The Andromeda Strain is just a highly entertaining story of disturbing and thought-provoking proportions, it does, rather incredibly, have its real life counterparts. According to Article IX of The Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, Including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, that was collectively signed at Washington, London, and Moscow on January 27, 1967, and that was entered into force on October 10 of that year: “In the exploration and use of outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, States Parties to the Treaty shall be guided by the principle of co-operation and mutual assistance and shall conduct all their activities in outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, with due regard to the corresponding interests of all other States Parties to the Treaty.” The document continues: “States Parties to the Treaty shall pursue studies of outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, and conduct exploration of them so as to avoid their harmful contamination and also adverse changes in the environment of the Earth resulting from the introduction of extraterrestrial matter [Note from Nick: italics mine, for emphasis] and, where necessary, shall adopt appropriate measures for this purpose.” It becomes very clear from studying the available data of that particular era that there was indeed official concern about a deadly – albeit admittedly theoretical – alien virus running wild on the Earth and provoking a worldwide pandemic – one which just might escalate, to the point where it could possibly wipe out each and every one of us. But what if that same pandemic didn’t just kill us, but provoked something along the lines of a real-life zombie apocalypse? No, we are not talking about a Night of the Living Dead-style scenario involving radiation and the recently deceased, but something far more akin to the scenario that played out in the movies 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later. In combined fashion, the films tell of how the UK becomes overwhelmed by what is known as the “Rage Virus.” The infected are not the dead returned from the grave, however. Rather, and as a result of infection from a virus that spreads incredibly quickly, an untold number of British people are transformed into deranged, psychotic killers. Although, thankfully, the “Rage Virus” is merely fictional, we should consider the following… In the mid-1980s, the first signs of a terrifying condition began to surface in the heart of the British countryside. It was a condition that targeted cattle and made them behave in distinctly zombie-like fashion, before finally killing the animals in deeply distressing fashion. Its official name is Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy. Unofficially, but far more infamously, it is known as Mad Cow Disease. BSE is caused by a prion – a protein-based agent that attacks and affects the normal function of cells. Worse still, just like the fictional zombie virus of so many movies, prion-inducing BSE is utterly unstoppable and incurable. By 1987, the British Government recognized that it had not just a problem on its hands, but a major problem, too. Not only that: the government acted in wholly unforgivable fashion by secretly putting the beef industry, the economy, and profits way ahead of public safety. In the same way that, in typically fictional format, infected people feed upon the uninfected survivors of the zombie apocalypse, very much the same can be said about the origins of BSE: it was spread by cows eating cows. To the horror of the British public – who had previously, and utterly outrageously, been kept in the dark – it was finally revealed by the government that, for years, the discarded remains of millions of cattle that had been put to death in British slaughterhouses had been ground to a pulp and used to create cattle-feed. It was, for the animal kingdom at least, Soylent Green come to hideous reality. And that’s when the problems started. It quickly became very easy to spot a zombie-cow: they shuffled rather than walked; their personalities began to change; they exhibited behavior that varied from confusion to outright rage; and they quickly became unmanageable under normal circumstances. As the crisis grew, an even more terrifying development surfaced: the infection jumped to the human population, in the form of what is termed Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease, or CJD, which can also provoke sudden outbursts of rage. The utterly panicked British government took the only option it felt was available. With close to an estimated 200,000 cattle infected, officialdom decided to play things safe by systematically wiping out no less than 4.4 million cows, all across the nation. While such actions were seen as horrific, they were also perceived as necessary to ensure that chaos and death did not spread even further. For some, however, it was all too little and too late. Although the cannibalizing process was brought to a halt by the government in the late-1980s, around 200 British people have since died from what is termed variant CJD (or vCJD), the result of eating BSE-contaminated meat. On top of that, the significant increase in Alzheimer’s disease in the UK in recent years has given rise to the highly disturbing theory that many of those presumed to have Alzheimer’s have been misdiagnosed. They may be suffering from vCJD. Well, wouldn’t an autopsy show evidence of vCJD? Yes, it would, if the brain of the deceased individual was examined carefully. Indeed, studying the brains of the dead, or testing the blood, are the only sure ways to fully confirm vCJD. But here’s the thing: most people suspected of having Alzheimer’s are not tested for vCJD. If a person has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, then their death is usually attributed to complications arising from the disease, rather than anything stranger or suspicious. In other words, in most patients where an Alzheimer’s diagnosis has already been put forward, there is no autopsy. I know this, as my own mother died of Alzheimer’s. Since she had been diagnosed with the disease, an autopsy was not perceived as being necessary after her death to check for something else that might have led to similar symptoms. Thus, with a lack of large-scale autopsying of presumed Alzheimer’s victims, we have no real way of knowing, exactly, how many may have been misdiagnosed. Here we see the disastrous damage that a condition of wholly terrestrial origins can provoke across an entire nation – and, more importantly, how that same condition can significantly affect the minds of both people and animals. Perhaps something of extraterrestrial origins could do far worse. Preparing for the sudden surfacing of an alien-originated pandemic may not mean that government officials are also secretly anticipating that a 28 Days Later-like apocalypse will be far behind. On the other hand, there’s nothing to suggest they haven’t secretly pondered on just such a possibility…
Crieve Hall is not a neighborhood with a lot of outdoor art. It’s an almost entirely residential neighborhood made up ranch houses from the 1950s and 1960s that sit on substantial lots. Its best-known attraction is probably Traveller’s Rest, a home first built in 1799 by John Overton, a judge and an advisor to Andrew Jackson. But the neighborhood now has some significant art, by artist Sarah Liz Tate, a Nashville illustrator. Tate has been on this blog before, as the artist responsible for the “It’s Going to Be O.K” mural on Charlotte, part of the Off The Wall Nashville project. This mural, which graces the entrance to the Hogan Road tunnel, was sponsored by the Crieve Hall Women’s League as part of a beautification program. They also employed Drew’s Lawn and Landscaping to improve the grounds around the tunnel entrance. If you look at the Crieve Hall Women’s League Instagram page, you’ll see a shot of what the site looked like before. On Tate’s Instagram page, you can see shots of her creating the mural. The train, by the way, seems to be semi-permanent. In Tate’s photos and those of the CHWL, there’s a train sitting there above the tunnel. At the other end of that tunnel, to the left, there’s a gate with a lot of very unfriendly signs blocking the path to a certain statue of a certain Confederate general that is visible from I-65. I suppose it needs to be on this blog someday if I can talk the owner into letting me take pictures. Located at the west end of the 600 block of Hogan Road, near the corner with Regent Drive. This isn’t an area with easy street parking. I’d recommend driving a little north on Regent and parking on Crieve Road. There is a small road next to the left (south) flank of the mural, which is a CSX access road. If you park here (briefly) there’s a turnaround spot about 100 feet beyond so you don’t have to back out in front of the nearly blind tunnel.
ECO – Have your say: comment on the recovery strategy for the Algonquin wolf The Algonquin wolf, also known as the eastern wolf, is an iconic Ontario species and an ecologically important predator. Algonquin wolves have a direct influence on their prey, including beaver, deer and moose. Their presence in the ecosystem also has many indirect effects on plants, animals and ecological processes. This wolf used to be found across eastern North America. Now, there are only a few small pockets of them remaining, mostly in central Ontario and southern Quebec. There may be as few as 250 mature Algonquin wolves left. In June 2016, the Algonquin wolf was designated as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. This means that the species is likely to become endangered if steps are not taken to address the threats it faces. Although it is generally illegal to kill or harm a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry allows hunting and trapping of this threatened species to continue throughout much of its range. Currently, Algonquin wolves are only protected from hunting and trapping in and around a few isolated provincial parks. The Algonquin wolf stands little chance of recovery unless it is better protected. In our 2017 Environmental Protection Report, Good Choices, Bad Choices, the ECO recommended that the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry prohibit hunting and trapping of wolves and coyotes where Algonquin wolves are known to live. The Endangered Species Act requires the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry to ensure that a recovery strategy is developed for threatened species like the Algonquin wolf. Recovery strategies provide recommendations on protection and recovery objectives and how to achieve them, as well as recommendations for regulating the species’ habitat. Once a recovery strategy is finalized, the Ontario government has nine months to publish a response that explains which of the recommended actions it will take and how it will prioritize those actions. The draft recovery strategy for the Algonquin wolf is now available on the Environmental Registry. It is open for public input until February 14, 2018 to ensure that the best available scientific information, including traditional ecological knowledge, is considered in developing the strategy. To access the draft recovery strategy and find out how to submit your comments, check out notice #013-1813 on the Environmental Registry.
While there are now more and more converts to veganism and vegetarianism, one of the main concerns of an herbivore is having sufficient protein intake. Protein is the body’s building nutrient, which means it reconstructs the body tissue. It protects the body from aging and regeneration, and having ample protein helps your body repair itself from wear and tear. The body converts protein into amino acids, which then act to produce new cells, enzymes, hormones, and antibodies. Some vegans and vegetarians turn to supplements for their daily dose of protein, but here is something you may not know: There are many sources of protein — and they’re not all from meat and seafood alone. You can also get your much-needed daily protein intake from plants. So, despite the naysayers who say that becoming vegan and vegetarian will make you age faster and more prone to fatigue due to lack of protein, you CAN get plant based protein! With this, you can still be completely healthy without sacrificing your vegetarian/vegan principles. Below are the top 5 plants you can include in your diet to maximize your plant based protein intake: 1. Leafy greens Load up on leafy green veggies as these contain a relatively high pH, which means that they are less acidic and more alkaline. A diet that is highly acidic will make your body literally stressed and can lead to myriad health problems, such as obesity, indigestion, ulcers, and other serious diseases. By having lots of leafy greens in your diet, you not only get sufficient protein, but you’re also keeping your system protected from toxins and free radical damage as well. These are superfoods and effectively slow down signs of aging. Leafy greens that you can include in your diet are kale, spinach, lettuce, arugula, beet greens, baby red chard, radicchio, pea greens, etc. You can opt to have a huge green salad every day, or you can go green with a smoothie for your daily dose of plant based protein. For more info, also read: 10 Easy Ways To Alkalize Your Body And Improve Overall Health Chia seeds are very popular with people who like to run. This is because chia has the ability to provide the essential proteins needed in one’s body and has a very filling effect which lessens your hunger drive. Spirulina is becoming more popular in the health and wellness world. Nowadays, you have spirulina in almost any health product and its popularity is evident in that most people automatically view these products as a must-have just because it has spirulina in it. Whether you take it raw or in its processed form as a tablet or a pill, there is no denying that spirulina is a healthy source of protein! There are very few foods out there that can be tagged as a “superfood” and quinoa is one of them. This high-protein grain also has a very low gluten count. This is perhaps the most controversial of all the food included in this list. Hempseed is closely related to cannabis and is therefore immediately viewed as a drug. Nothing could be further from the truth. Hempseed on its own is not addictive and it has more beneficial effects than negative side effects. What’s more, hempseed is high in protein and can be prepared in a variety of ways. Don’t forget to download my FREE recipe book, Amy’s Home Kitchen” for healthy, clean and delicious recipes. Or connect with me on Facebook or Google+ for more healthy tips, tricks, and recipes And if you are serious about living a healthy lifestyle and/or losing weight the healthy way, click here “Thrive: The Vegan Nutrition Guide to Optimal Performance in Sports and Life” by Brendan Brazier
Wolfram defines density as “the ratio of the amount of matter (mass) to volume.” If you ask me, that’s straight to the point — but perhaps a little boring. You may have heard of this Archimedes fellow. That’s him to the right (that’s not Santa Claus). He drew a bath, got in the water, and it overflowed all over the floor. “Eureka!” and all that. Backing up a bit, the king (not Elvis) wanted him to come up with a way to determine if a gold statue was pure. There was reason to suspect that the artisan had maybe cut this particular object de arte with baby powder or laxative or bug power or strychnine or somesuch and was pocketing the excess of gold saved by introducing this impurity. They knew enough at the time to check gold purity by using this density thing. You melt down your gold into a cube, measure the cube, then weigh it. If it was pure, then the weight-to-volume math should work out perfectly. If the gold was cut with something, it would either be heaver or lighter than it’s supposed to be because the overall weight would be a combination of gold and something else. Density! Obviously, the option of melting down the King’s fancy artisanal statuette was off the table. Archimedes realized you could figure out the volume by dropping it in water, then seeing how much water it displaced. If the water goes up by 20 cubic centimeters, then that’s the volume of the thing you dropped in there. It’s a little more long-winded, but does a good job of explaining what density is with an example. Unless you’re talking about mountains of material, I believe that the ratio most commonly used is grams per cubic centimeter (or if you’re a masochist, you’re using something awkward like pounds per cubic inch). That means that if you have a cube of any given solid 1cm on a side (or one milliliter of a liquid) at sea level, at room temperature, yada yada yada, it’s always going to weigh so many grams. If you design something of a given size out of a given element or alloy for which you know the density, you should be able to easily calculate its weight. Say you design a stainless steel sword blade that’s roughly 30mm x 10mm x 80mm and given a density of, say, 7.9 g/cm3 for this particular alloy of steel and it should end up being (roughly, since this maybe accounts for the parallelepiped prism, but not the stabby pointy tip) 189g. Add in weight for the hilt and guard, check the weight distribution, and you’ll know its center of gravity before you’ve even made the thing — that is, will it be a good sword or will it be awkward and unwieldy? Stand back, I’m doing science! ✻ ✼ ✻ So I think about this stuff as I’m waiting for the bus or hauling my messenger bag around town. I (intentionally) have a rather small messenger bag, so it can only hold a specific and finite volume of notebooks, papers, pens, and gadgets. It also has a weight (or mass, if you want to go all technical on me), but I think less about that because its small size means (given something of average density — not depleted uranium or anything) a small weight. I think more about the cost of the stuff in there. Maybe I drop it and everything breaks. Maybe it slips and falls into the Willamette as I cross the Hawthorne Bridge. Maybe someone steals it. Just how many dollars are in that limited space? What is the most expensive thing by volume? That led me to think about price-density. How many dollars per cubic centimeter do things have? Let’s investigate. Spoiler alert: I used calipers to calculate volume. I didn’t (intentionally) drop any gadgets in water. The iPhone is not technically in my bag, but in my pocket. It is also full of apps that I paid good money for — they add price, but no volume or weight. I am going to skip the apps in this calculation. iTunes lets you redownload them and I’d rather not depress myself by coming up with the summation of all the money I’ve spent on apps since the original iPhone because it is not integral to this argument. According to my calipers, the iPhone is 9.38mm x 58.55mm x 85.52mm. That’s about 47.0cm3. The cost is debatable. Subsidized? Unsubsidized? Total cost of ownership (i.e. 2 years of cellphone bills)? It’s not an iPhone 4S, but if I were to replace it, we’d be looking at the 32G $299 price tag, and I vaguely remember that being the price back when I got it. So contract aside, that’s $6.36 / cm3. I don’t always carry my iPad around, but that’s no reason to leave it off the calculations. Let’s say I have a new iPad 2, 32G, and WiFi-only. We are assuming this because I really do not want to have to dig out the specs and price sheet of the old one. Apple lists the size as 0.34″ x 7.31″ x 9.50″, or 8.64mm x 185.67mm x 241.3mm and prices it at $599.00. That gives us $1.55 / cm3. It’s no iPhone, but it’s also not too shabby. I use my Kindle almost every day. You can see it pictured here in its fancy signature Marco Arment patent-pending bubble-envelope case. (I actually have the book-light case, but leave it at the bedside because it takes up too much space in my bag.) According to my calculations, the Kindle is 8.86mm x 122.95mm x about 191mm (that last measurement I had to do with a ruler — it was too big for the caliper jaws). That’s about 208.1cm3, a little over four times the volume of the iPhone. Amazon lists this for $139 (I got mine before the “special offers” subsidy). That’s $0.67 / cm3. Like the Kindle, I don’t always carry around the MacBook Air, but that’s no reason to leave it out of the list. I’m still rockin’ the previous generation MacBook Air so it is a little larger and a little heavier than the latest-greatest one. This laptop has a curved, irregular shape that’s not as easy to calculate as a rectangle. Understandably, Apple decided to leave “volume” off of its technical specifications (be it cubic centimeters or decibels). They show the dimensions, when closed, as .16-.76″ x 12.8″ x 8.94″. I am going to skip trying to define the curve of the case as a function and using calculus to extrapolate the volume. I’ll just take a straight-up average of .46″ x 12.8″ x 8.94″, or 11.7mm x 325.1mm x 227.1mm, resulting in 863.81cm3. If we go with the current equivalent list price of $1200, then we’re talking $1.39 / cm3. That feels a lot lower than I would expect, but then laptops — even thin ones — are several times larger than smartphones, but not quite that many times larger in price. The dark horse in this race is my office-issued bus pass. It’s an annual unlimited all-zone pass, which is not only pretty spiffy, but has gotten me to the point of letting moss grow on my steering wheel. I’m sure the company gets some kind of bulk or otherwise incentivized discount from Trimet, but I have no way of knowing what that might be, so have to go with what Trimet lists. We’re looking at $1012, though that’s not a photo-ID, but a fresh monthly pass mailed to your doorstep every month. The bus pass is credit card sized: 0.75mm x 53.95mm x 85.52mm. That’s 3.5cm3. That’s tiny. That also gives us a price density of a whopping $289.14 / cm3. Don’t lose that bus pass! ✻ ✼ ✻ When I designed this sword in my head, I pictured a 10mm x 30mm rectangle italicized into a parallelogram, extruded to 80cm. There are two problems with this. First, extruding to 80mm instead of 80cm makes it more of a dagger or letter-opener and less of a sword, unless you’re a hobbit. Second, a parallelogram of that ratio would make for a wonky blade with facets of two different lengths. It really should have been a square italicized into a squished-diamond rhombus. Mea culpa.
Remember… In Spring 2020, during the first lockdown in Europe, people rushed to buy pasta and toilet papers in the supermarkets. They were afraid of a shortage of these products, feeling concerned in this climate of panic and emergency amplified by media. We are all influenced by the opinions expressed by others when making decisions. This natural tendency results from the anchoring effect, which corresponds to the fact that we rely too heavily on the first piece of information when making decisions, no matter how irrelevant. In behavioral finance, this sometimes-irrational behavior is called the herding effect. If affects our daily decisions of purchases, choice of restaurant, professional career… and our financial decisions as well, as shown by the last financial crises. The fact that other investors sell or buy assets pushes us to do the same thing, without thinking about the profitability of such decisions. This tendency to follow opinions, judgments of preferences of others has been studied from different angles in cognitive sciences for several decades. A famous experiment enabling to measure this bias was conducted in the 1950 by psychologist Solomon Asch. Participants had to identify the stick among the three on the right (A,B,C) measuring the same size as the presentation stick on the left. Looking at the picture, it seems obvious that stick A is the one that corresponds to the stick on the left. However, if all the other participants (in fact, experimenters pretending to be participants) choose stick B, the majority of real participants will also choose stick B. The experiment was recorded, and we invite you to watch below: Why are we so biased by the behavior, no matter how irrational, of others? The theory of some neuroscientists, though still controversial, indicates that some of our neurons, aptly named mirror-neurons, make us mimic the behavior of others. These neurons are also present in many mammals and birds that live in groups. For example, if one pigeon takes flight in the street, dozens of pigeons will do the same. Repeat the same gesture in front of a monkey, such as raising your hand, and the monkey will imitate you by doing the same gesture. Gregarious human beings would have kept the same capability to mimic their peers automatically, even when their behaviors do not seem to make sense. “Studies of Independence and Conformity: a minority of one against a unanimous majority”, Solomon Asch, 1956 Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, 2011
You’ve decided to get vaccinated to enjoy your summer holidays. You go to the lab where two vaccines are offered, both have been tested on 4 million people. Vaccine 1: to date, 15 people have died after receiving this vaccine Vaccine 2: the mortality rate is estimated at 0.00375% Which vaccine do you choose? Cognitive science studies show that most individuals will choose vaccine 2 in this type of situation. Its mortality rate presented with a percentage seems indeed insignificant at first glance. Vaccine 2 however is actually 10 times more fatal than vaccine 1 (15/4 000 000=0.000375%). Vaccine 1 corresponds in fact to the figures currently available concerning the AstraZeneca vaccine in France, and which has been rejected by a large majority of the population. How can we explain this inconsistency? The cognitive bias at play here is called the denominator neglect, or ratio bias. It refers to our tendency to underestimate low-probability events when they are presented as percentages (mortality rate of 0.000375%) compared to absolute values (15 deaths out of 4 000 000 vaccines). According to Daniel Kahneman, one of the most influential figures in behavioral economics, it is difficult for our brain to understand percentages and ratios. It tends more specifically to perceive small percentages poorly, making little difference between 0.0375% and 0.000375% for instance. On the contrary, our brain will be sensitive to absolute values, which are more tangible and easier to figure out, such as the total number of deaths. We immediately project ourselves with empathy in the situation of these 15 grieving families following the use of AstraZeneca by their loved one. However, our lazy brain will ignore the 4 000 000 people on whom the vaccine has been tested, which will bias our perception of the true mortality risk. In brief, the presentation of the same situation, either as a percentage or as an absolute value, can strongly influence our decisions. To go further: Thinking fast and slow, Daniel Kahneman
The Entrapment and Imprisonment of Todd Bertrang At age forty, after single-handedly creating the “muscle car” trend in America, John Delorean was put in charge of Pontiac, making him the youngest division head in GM history. After four years of record profits he was promoted again to head of Chevrolet, which in two years he transformed from a financially troubled company to one with sales equal to every other GM brand combined. Then in 1973, at age 48 and the peak of his career, John Delorean quit to do charity work. Many were predicting that one day he would be President of the United States. A few years after leaving, John Delorean started showing the car that would later become the DMC-12, the exotic gullwing-door stainless steel-skinned car which most people know best from the Back To The Future movies. The car was originally called the DSV — the Delorean Safety Vehicle — and was designed not as a sportscar, but as a safe daily driver which tried to address many of the problems John saw with modern car production. At the same time, Delorean co-authored a book called On a Clear Day You Can See General Motors, in which he accused GM of stagnation and caring more about profits than the customers or the cars. John and the Delorean DMC-12 As the DMC-12 approached production, Delorean attempted to block the publication of his own book, fearing that the big car companies with their massive government lobbying power would do everything they could to sink his new venture at its most vulnerable point. Even with a huge grant from the Irish government, and a wonderful car (having owned a Delorean, I say that with some conviction) that was Europe’s only profitable car for the years it was made, the company was plagued with problems — said to source from many questionable payoffs to British government officials by GM — and it wasn’t long before it was in serious monetary difficulty. Undercover FBI agents approached Delorean, offering to solve his financial woes. They proposed that cocaine be loaded into the door panels of his cars as they were shipped overseas, using them to transport the drug. John Delorean was arrested for conspiracy to traffic narcotics, and as he fought the charges, the DMC company went bankrupt, and the government — which received millions of dollars in “donations” from GM — moved in illegally and seized all of the tooling from the company, and, contrary to UK automobile law, dumped the tooling in the ocean insuring that not only could the company not be resurrected after the trial, but replacement parts couldn’t even be made. The only reason that John Delorean avoided a long term prison sentence is that Hustler publisher Larry Flynt was able to obtain tapes showing not only that the drug trafficking idea was invented and proposed by the US government, but that both the cocaine and the money were provided FBI, and most importantly, that John Delorean told the undercover agents that he wasn’t interested and begged to be let go — the tapes show the agents actually threatening to kill John Delorean’s daughter if he didn’t proceed with the drug deal. It should also be noted that Larry Flynt was briefly imprisoned for contempt of court for revealing this information. John Delorean with his daughter Christina, who US government agents threatened to kill if John didn’t proceed with their proposed cocaine deal. Delorean’s lawyer was later quoted in Time magazine saying, “This was a fictitious crime. Without the government, there would be no crime.” John Delorean recently died destitute, having failed to bring his dream car back to market. That brings us to piercer and cutter Todd Bertrang, a regular BME contributor that was first profiled in PFIQ magazine. In addition to his successful business dealing in and restoring classic Indian Motorcycles, he is best known for his advocation of heavy gauge piercing, alternative herbal aftercare, and his interest in female genital cutting — labial removal, hood splitting and removal, and even clitoral tip removal. At age forty, he was almost single-handedly responsible for the popularity of female genital modification, which, largely due to his promotion of it, had moved out of the fetish scene and become a lucrative business for cosmetic surgeons. While many outsiders disapproved of Todd’s methods and highly sexual lifestyle, the vast majority of Todd’s clients — all consensual of course — spoke extremely highly of him and were very happy with the work he’d done on them. Todd’s interest in body modification was almost exclusively sexual — as is the case for the vast majority of people who came into body modification before it became a fashion trend. It turned him on, plain and simple, and he never hid that fact or felt ashamed of it. An irrepressible flirt (that’s putting it kindly — others would say “dirtbag sleaze that kept hitting on my fifteen year-old kid sister and didn’t stop when she told him to get lost’ — well, welcome to the world of the Internet), Todd made more enemies than he knew in BME’s chat rooms and other online forums, mostly among sexually repressed individuals who felt body modification was best paired with a chic haircut and no needles — let alone scalpels — below the belt. Todd Bertrang not long before his arrest. A group of chatters who were offended by Todd’s comments and online advances conspired to get rid of Todd for good, and synchronized fraudulent reports to authorities in his area, the FBI, and other government agencies. “Todd Bertrang did a circumcision on a ten year old,” they told agents, claiming that he’d boasted about it online and showed them pictures. Even though even a cursory investigation of Todd would make it clear that the idea of cutting a ten year old would be reprehensible to him, as these fabrications continued to pour in, eventually the FBI had no choice but to start an investigation under California’s anti-FGM (female genital mutilation) laws, designed to stop immigrants from non-consensually mutilating their pre-pubescent daughters’ genitals for religious and cultural reasons. Posing as an Egyptian couple with (non-existent) eight and twelve year old daughters, FBI agents approached Todd seeking his services as a cutter. They told him they didn’t want to have to travel back to the Middle East and offered him $8,000 to do the procedure. Todd wasn’t interested, and told them so, although he was willing to talk to them about the pros and cons of the procedure. He told his friends about this couple and expressed his dismay that they would do this to children. The FBI agents kept calling back, and even visited, pushing Todd to do the procedure. Eventually they told Todd that “one hand washes the other”, and let him know that they were interested in moving their assets from Egypt to the United States. If he’d be willing to help them out with their problem with their daughters, they’d be willing to invest $20 million in his motorcycle business. “I’ll think about it,” he told them. Ask yourselves: how far would you compromise your ethics for $20 million? That’s an amount of money so high that you’d be able to fulfill all your dreams and live in luxury for the rest of your life. At how many million dollars does your cracking point lie? And then, before letting him decide whether or not he’d actually make such an ethical compromise, in late 2002 the FBI raided his house, and Todd Bertrang and his girlfriend Robyn have been in prison ever since. No real evidence was ever presented against them, and no trial was ever held. Virtually no one stood up to defend Todd, and even those who supported of him cowered cautiously, fearing that they would be next. Robyn was threatened with the loss of her daughter, and eventually the two of them, being told they would be spending the rest of their lives in prison should they plead not guilty, chose to make a false confession on a variety of charges in exchange for reduced time. Todd received five years, and Robyn two. I’d like to take give you an overview of what they were actually “convicted” of. Is this really all it takes to violate obscenity laws? Conspiracy to Violate FGM Laws Felon in Possession of a Firearm In conclusion, as John Delorean’s lawyer said about him, about Todd Bertrang I repeat: “This was a fictitious crime. Without the government, there would be no crime.” Todd Bertrang was falsely accused, falsely prosecuted, and now sits falsely imprisoned due to being sexually different than the average person, and uncontrollably vocal about it. Five years of his life are gone, his family has been ripped apart, his business has been destroyed and his assets stolen, and dangerous precedents have been set. Those of you who conspired to make this happen should be ashamed of yourselves, and the government shows once again its incompetence and inherent prejudicial nature by again jailing the victim rather than the real criminals. As I write this, parts of the United States are considering criminalizing even nostril piercings — how far will this go? Cutters, and all people who are different from the mainstream — gays, fetishists, atheists, piercers, unionists, and the rest — I warn you: keep an anonymous and low profile, or get out of America before the same happens to you. I received the following letter from a close friend of Todd’s that has been helping him keep his affairs in order while he’s behind bars. I’d like to share it here if anyone would like to help out or even just send Todd a note letting him know he has support. I’ll post again on this subject when the address is updated, but as of now the San Bernadino one is still good. You can send letters and cards to that address, as well as any financial support you can offer if you’d like, but nothing else can be sent there. Books and magazines can be sent, but they have to come straight from the source (ie. you can have Amazon send them there, but you can’t mail a book there).
How insects detect color The exquisite capability of insects to detect color and to distinguish for instance flowers is crucial for the function of many ecosystems. However, scientists still do not know how the complex task of color vision is accomplished by the tiny brain of insects. A team around Dr. Christopher Schnaitmann and Prof. Dr. Dierk Reiff at the Institute of Biology I in the Faculty of Biology at the University of Freiburg has now presented new insights in the scientific journal Current Biology. So-called color opponent processing is fundamental for color vision in vertebrates including humans. It enables specialized nerve cells to be excited by light of certain wavelengths and inhibited by light of other wavelengths. Such color opponent neurons warrant an important advantage: the detection of spectral contrast in a visual scene that does not include any differences in brightness. Behavioral experiments and rather rare electrophysiological recordings, mostly in the brain of bees, suggested since a while that similar mechanisms are active in the brain of insects. In fact, in an earlier study, the Freiburg researchers had shown that first color opponent computations take already place in the synaptic terminals of the photoreceptor cells themselves. The Freiburg team, most of all the first author of the study Manuel Pagni, has now succeeded in gaining detailed insights into the identity and function of downstream nerve cells and neuronal circuits. They used fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) as model organism and employed the optical recording technique of functional 2-photon laser scanning microscopy combined with genetic methods to pursue their research. The researchers found that certain neurons, namely those of type Dm8, are excited by light in the blue to green wavelength range and inhibited by light in the ultraviolet range. Contrary to previous assumptions, these neurons receive opposing signals from in total all five major classes of photoreceptors in the eye of Drosophila. Apart from species- and insect-specific adaptations, these data show that fundamental principles of neuronal information processing underlying the detection of color are shared by flies and higher vertebrates. When the team more closely examined the neurons and circuits involved, they revealed further surprising results. A class of photoreceptors that is sensitive in predominantly the blue and green wavelength range transmits its information via an unknown signaling mechanism that remains to be explored. Furthermore, the scientists found that neuronal elements previously attributed exclusively to the motion vision system transmit signals from photoreceptors with very broad spectral sensitivity to Dm8 neurons. This unexpected finding, Pagni explains, shows that neural circuits of color and motion vision intersect and interact much more than previously thought. “Subsequent research could provide new and unexpected insights into the function of insect brains.” Contact for scientific information: Dr. Christopher Schnaitmann und Prof. Dr. Dierk Reiff Institute of Biology I Faculty of Biology University of Freiburg Pagni, M., Haikala, V., Oberhauser, V., Meyer, P., Reiff, D.F., Schnaitmann, C. (2021): Interaction of ‚chromatic‘ and ‚achromatic‘ circuits in Drosophila color opponent processing. In: Current Biology.
(Australian Associated Press) Confidence among most Australian farmers remains high nearing the end of 2016, and the agricultural sector is optimistic about 2017. Agribusiness banking specialist Rabobank’s latest quarterly rural confidence survey shows that farmer confidence has remained at historically high levels for the past quarter, following good seasonal conditions and solid commodity prices. “Much of the country is experiencing a good season, following the second wettest winter on record, and a wet start to spring,” Rabobank national manager of Country Banking Australia,Todd Charteris said on Monday. Mr Charteris said market fundamentals for beef, sheep, cotton and sugar had been positive, and the dairy sector had been showing signs of improvement. The outlook was mixed among grain producers whose expectations of a big crop had been pulled back by frost damage in Western Australia and too much rain in parts of eastern Australia. But the rain had considerably boosted confidence in the cotton sector, with 62 per cent of producers expecting conditions to improve during 2017. Mr Charteris said the rain had spurred more dryland planting and had boosted water availability for irrigators, which had facilitated the largest planting in five years. Domestic cotton prices were also favourable. The Rabobank survey showed that there had been a big turnaround in the confidence of dairy farmers although it was still slightly negative. Good seasonal conditions and a recovery in prices for dairy commodities had boosted sentiment. Dairy farmers were still concerned by the outlook for prices, but less so than in the previous quarter. They expect the 2017/18 season to mark a return to on-farm profitability. But their expectation of improved financial results lags behind those of other sectors. Rabobank said the net confidence indicator had remained unchanged following the previous quarter’s significant upswing to strong levels. The latest survey shows that 36 per cent of farmers continue to expect agricultural economic conditions to improve, compared to 15 per cent expecting them to worsen. Forty-six per cent expect the next 12 months to be similar to the last. Long-term confidence across the agricultural sector remains strong, with 92 per cent of farmers intending to increase or maintain farm investment levels over the coming 12 months – up from 90 per cent in the previous quarter.
(Australian Associated Press) People power played a big part in delivering the world’s largest solar thermal power plant to South Australia’s mid-north, Premier Jay Weatherill says. The $650 million plant will be built near Port Augusta with lobbying and support from the local community helping to get the project across the line. “This is an example of people power in action,” the premier told reporters after visiting the proposed site on Tuesday. “The efforts that this community have made have delivered this project. It gave the company the heart to continue to campaign and to put their resources into this project. “It gave the social license for this company to operate in this part of the world.” The plant will be made up of 12,000 billboard-size mirrors which direct the sun’s rays onto a central receiver at the top of a 220-metre high tower. That process heats molten salt to 565 degrees Celsius with the heat used to generate steam, drive a turbine and produce 150 megawatts of electricity, even when the sun doesn’t shine. The bulk of that electricity will be purchased by the SA government to power the state’s schools, hospitals and other facilities under a 20-year deal. The plant will be built by US-based company SolarReserve, which already operates a similar facility in the United States, and should be operational by 2020. Chief executive Kevin Smith also paid tribute to the local community and said while financing was still to be finalised, the company would not let them down. “We’re now in the last 10 metres of the race and we’re going to deliver,” he said. Mr Weatherill said the solar thermal plant would help lower power prices and provide for more secure energy supplies. But he said it also offered hope to other communities doing it tough across Australia, struggling as Port Augusta had, with the transition from old to new industries. “It was resilient, it was strong, it faced facts about coal not being the future and it was advocating a future which was renewable,” the premier said. Port Augusta Mayor Sam Johnson said SolarReserve should be commended for its vision. “We know the project will provide significant economic benefits to our city and the region and is great news for local business, accommodation providers and local employment,” he said.
Honored as this year’s Florie Gale Arons Poet, alumna Jennifer Grotz got the chance to revisit her roots at Tulane University in September 2016. Grotz is a 1993 graduate of Newcomb College. “I feel like I became a poet here,” said Grotz. “The world needs poetry; there’s never been a society or culture or language without it.” — Jennifer Grotz, 2016 Florie Gale Arons Poet A professor of English at the University of Rochester, Grotz has written three books of poetry and has been published in The New Yorker, Poetry and The New Republic. The celebrated poet is also known for her French and Polish translation work. “I translated a book of contemporary psalms by Patrice de La Tour du Pin from French, and I also recently published a novel that I translated from French by Tunisian-born writer Hubert Haddad,” said Grotz. “I always find inspiration from reading in French and Polish traditions, but my new book of poetry was largely influenced by spending time at this former Franciscan monastery in the Alps,” she said. Grotz’s work flourished at the annual writer’s retreat hosted by the former abbey located in the Alpes-Maritimes region of France. She spent a month there every summer over a six year period. “I was deeply inspired there, and the landscape became a kind of vocabulary for my poetry,” said Grotz. At an event organized by Newcomb College Institute, Grotz read selections from Window Left Open, the collection influenced by her summer sojourns, within the Woldenberg Art Center’s Freeman Auditorium. Grotz described the event as a full circle experience, as she reminisced about attending many poetry readings as a Tulane student. During her visit, Grotz also attended a community writing workshop and discussed poetry with professor of English Peter Cooley and his students. When asked if she had words of wisdom for budding poets currently studying at Tulane, Grotz said, “The tried and true advice is read everything you can and not to give up because poetry seems old fashioned. The world needs poetry; there’s never been a society or culture or language without it.”
Manitoba announced that the return to school after the holiday break has been delayed until January 10, 2021. According to the province this additional time is needed to give public health officials more time to assess the risk of the Omicron variant and decide what changes might be needed on the return to school. “As we begin the holiday break across Manitoba schools, the Manitoba government would like to thank students, teachers, school staff, school leaders, school divisions, parents and caregivers for ensuring schools have been safe and open for in-class learning since September,” said Education Minister Cliff Cullen. “But right now, things are changing rapidly and public health has recommended a slight delay to the return to school. This will give them more time to better assess the risk and look at options for the new year.” Originally most students were scheduled to return to the classroom on January 6, 2022 “We have recommended this delay to a return to school in addition to the restrictions under the public health orders and I want to remind Manitobans of the importance of keeping gathering sizes small to allow a safer return to school in the new year,” said Dr. Brent Roussin, Manitoba’s chief provincial public health officer. © News4.ca 2021
NFFC signed on with nearly 140 organizations to a letter in support of the efforts of the Agriculture Committees to reform and update Farm Bill Programs and to work towards policies that will cultivate an equitable and sustainable food system. NFFC and organizations, business’, and allies signed a letter to Members of Congress calling for a better solution to the crisis facing dairy farmers. Read the letter here. Dairy Farmers urge all supporters to submit this petition to Agriculture Secretary Vilsack calling for Dairy Hearings. Print and fax or mail this petition. Coalition Letter to Congress supporting GIPSA regulations. Based on testimonies and information gathered during the 2010 competition workshops, 85 organizations confirm the urgent need for USDA-GIPSA to exercise its preexisting authority under the Packers and Stockyards Act to address a disastrous loss of competition. We urge all Members of the House Agriculture Committee and the Congress as a whole to protect a just, transparent, and robustly competitive marketplace for livestock and poultry producers and the rural communities they support. The USDA-GIPSA rulemaking process is critical to the achievement of that goal. Dairy Crisis – Paul Rozwadowski for NFFC – House Agriculture Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy and Poultry Todd Leake for Dakota Resource Council and the Western Organization of Resource Councils – U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Domestic PolicySubcommittee Hearing – “Is the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Accounting for the Costs to Farmers From Contamination Caused by Genetically Engineered (GE) Plants?” (03.13.08) Farm to School – Emily Jackson of the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project (NC) – Senate Agriculture Committee Hearing -Economic Challenges and Opportunities Facing American Agriculture Producers Today(04.24.07) House Agriculture Committee, Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management (04.26.07)
by Anura Guruge Search (using sidebar search) ‘Armistice‘ for lots of other related posts. For THOSE that do NOT understand the UNDERLYING significance of why 11/11, every year, is SPECIAL. World War officially came to an end at 11 am Paris (France) time on Monday, November 11, 1918, i.e., 11/11/1918. “The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month”. That was when the ARMISTICE was signed.
CS Energy, LLC, an Edison-based integrated energy firm that designs and builds optimized projects in the solar, storage and emerging energy industries, has successfully completed the largest solar project in New Jersey. The project owner, Ben Moreell Solar Farm, LLC and Department of the Navy (DON) executed a lease for approximately 170 acres of underutilized land for the purpose of constructing a 28.5 MW ground-mount project located at Naval Weapons Station Earle (NWS Earle) in Tinton Falls. CS Energy designed, procured and installed the power plant, creating a custom worksite that allowed for a streamlined construction process while still maintaining the base’s high security standards. CS Energy’s team of local workers safely installed an impressive 4,000 solar panels each day at the height of construction. Currently, the second phase of the project is underway. As in-kind consideration, CS Energy will install a separate behind the meter solar system that will connect directly to the NWS Earle utility grid, providing DON with renewable energy to support operations. As part of the Navy’s energy resiliency initiative, the Ben Moreell Solar Farm on NWS Earle was established. Owned by Vitol Green Holdings LLC, a subsidiary of global energy and commodities company Vitol Holdings B.V., the solar project will be tied directly to the local utility grid. In case of emergency, and with further investment, the clean power plant can be modified to power the base, which has a combined workforce of more than 1,500 civilian, military and contractor personnel. “With close to 1 GW of solar capacity installed worldwide, CS Energy is a proven partner for delivering solar power projects that maximize use of the terrain while offering high levels of output,” said R. Andrew de Pass, Head of Renewables for Vitol Inc. “Their attention to safety, efficiency and customer service enabled us to deliver the NWS Earle project in record time.” CS Energy’s efficiency stems in part from its deep experience with designing and building solar and storage projects on U.S. military bases. The NWS Earle plant is one of the firm’s largest; in total, CS Energy has installed more than 80 MW of solar energy projects on U.S. bases across the globe. “Having access to reliable, sustainable and renewable sources of energy, like solar power, helps our Navy improve our energy security, operational capability, strategic flexibility and resource availabilities,” said Capt. Pierre A. Fuller, Commanding Officer, NWS Earle. “We are equally pleased this is the largest solar project in the state, to date, and it contributes to New Jersey’s Energy Master Plan.” The Ben Morrell project contributes to New Jersey’s 2020 Energy Master Plan, which aims to garner 100 percent of its energy from renewable, carbon-neutral sources by 2050. The Energy Master Plan is the first of a series of monumental steps to ensure that the state generates and manages its energy supply in a way that is consistent with economic, climate, and societal demands. “I’m proud of our team for once again safely complying with heightened military regulations and delivering a turnkey solar project,” said Matthew Skidmore, CEO of CS Energy. “We are honored to help the US Navy, Vitol, and our home state of New Jersey increase their use of solar power.” To access more business news, visit NJB News Now.Related Articles:
During our time in Ecuador, we’ve gone out of our way a couple of times to see a very special kind of tree called the Polylepis. A member of the rose family, the Polylepis were once common in the Andes over 8800 feet. However, over the centuries most have disappeared due to logging and farming. When we heard the El Angel Ecological Reserve had an old growth grove, it was a natural to visit on the way from Tulcan to Quito. But wait, more topiary! On the way to the reserve, we were surprised to see topiaries in a number of town squares. As it turns out, the creator of the topiaries at the Tulcan Cemetery, Jose Franco, was born in the El Angel area. He helped the local towns develop their own topiary gardens. It was great to see the towns are continuing to care for these impressive displays. A Millenial forest of thousand year old trees After a bit of a challenging drive due to a lack of roadsigns, we arrived at the Polylepis Lodge. Since 2000, the owner of the lodge has preserved a 30-acre grove of Polylepis growing at about 11,700 feet in altitude along a river valley on the north of the property. Given the slow growth of this type of Polylepis, the largest of the trees in the grove are more than a thousand years old, hence the name “millennial forest.” Given the harsh conditions in which Polylepis grow, most of the trees we’ve seen are gnarly and twisted. In some cases, we’ve seen trees growing nearly sideways due to the constant winds in the mountains. This grove was a pleasant surprise because the trees were able to get a little bit of height, which adds to their fairy tale nature. Although I do have to say, they are more of The Hobbit or The Wizard of Oz reach-down-and-grab-you kind of fairy tale trees versus the happy-go-lucky kind. Friars in the mountains? One thing we’d never seen before with Polylepis is an odd plant called a frailejón. Frailejones look like a big, upright tube with bunny ears on top. Evidentially, the early Spanish explorers thought they looked like Franciscan friars wearing hats (the word fraile is Spanish for friar). I don’t really see it, but the name stuck. To me, they look like the main characters of the 1960’s book and movie Day of the Triffids. There are 142 identified species of frailejónes. They are only found at over 6000 feet in the high paramos of Venezuela, Colombia, and the very north of Ecuador. They are unusual enough that the El Angel Ecological Reserve was created specifically to protect the thousands of plants in this area. They play a key role in preventing erosion, transferring rainwater to the ground water system, and provide support to more than 125 animal species. The softest thing in the paramo The neatest thing about them is their “ears.” I’ve never encountered anything on a plant that feels quite so much like felt or fleece. As you can see below, they are covered in long strands of vegetable hair that seemed to just soak up the heat of the sun. Makes perfect sense why the native peoples in the paramos used these leaves as bedding and insulation for clothing. I can see for miles and miles…. This area also has some awesome scenery. We drove literally to the edge of the world to get these photos. What you’re looking at is the view from 13,000 feet above sea level towards the Pacific Coast of Ecuador. If the clouds weren’t there, you could even see the ocean since the horizon from this altitude is more than 130 miles away and the ocean is only 110 miles or so away. Unfortunately for us, and everyone else who’d love to see that view, it’s almost always cloudy. This is due to the hot coastal air hitting the cold air coming down from the Andes. El Angel Ecological Reserve Information For Your Trip The El Angel Reserve lies near the Colombian border of Northern Ecuador. It is difficult to get to without private transportation. We recommend hiring a driver or renting a car. It is possible to make this a day trip from either Tulcan or Ibarra. Although our pictures show a sunny day, weather in this location is generally foggy, cloudy, misty, and very cold. Please bring cold weather gear and hot drinks or high energy snacks. - Direction by Car, use WAZE and look for El Angel Ecological Reserve or the Polylepis Lodge. Please double check the lodge directions as at least one version only takes you as far as the town of El Angel.
On December 6, 1535, one year after the founding of the colonial city then called San Francisco de Quito, three Franciscan Friars arrived to establish a foothold in the new city. Almost 500 years later, the modern day San Francisco Church and Monastery is home to an impressive collection of Spanish Colonial Art from the Quito School. The ancient buildings, the art collection, and the grounds themselves offer hours of enjoyment for tourists who enjoy history, art, and architecture. The first church In Quito Friars Jodoco Rique, Pedro Gocial and Alonso de Baena laid the cornerstone of the first Franciscan church in all of Ecuador on January 25, 1536. The simple adobe and reed structure, similar to the oldest church in Ecuador, was originally named the Conversion of San Pedro, in honor of that day’s religious feast. Consecrated in 1605, the monastery was considered finished by the construction of its facade in 1618. Over the next decades, several other projects took place, including the legendary construction of the atrium, to result in the complex that we see today. Unfortunately, major earthquakes in 1755 and 1868 extensively damaged the church. In fact, at one time or another, the majority of the church has been rebuilt with the exception of the choir. Visiting San Francisco Church Visiting the San Francisco Church is as easy as walking through the front doors, which we have rarely seen closed. There is no entrance fee. Tourists are welcome to walk the aisleways, sit in the pews, and enjoy the daunting ambiance. You’ll notice as you read thru this article that we don’t have our normal number of photos. This is because photography in the church is very restricted. When we overcome this, we’ll update the article. So, for now, we only have photos of the nave, main altar, and choir. Touring the monastery and the collection of religious art means entering through the museum entrance for a small fee. The artistic and historical details below are all thanks to a Franciscan Friar, Benjamin Sanz, whose 1947 article in “The Americas” magazine provided source material for this article. The San Francisco Church is huge! In addition to the main nave or central room, there are two more on either side with chapels and altars of their own. Literally, every surface is gilded, painted or carved, creating an environment of impressive splendor. Larger than life-sized portraits of Franciscan saints and martyrs run along both sides of the nave. Perhaps the most impressive feature, the ceiling, is not original. A massive earthquake in 1755 brought down most of the original Moorish-style structure. During its reconstruction, the design of the ceiling was changed to today’s Baroque style. The San Jose altar in the nave not only has an impressive selection of Baroque art, it also protects the tomb of Don Fransisco Inga, the son of the last Incan Emperor, Atahualpa. We have walked by this tomb dozens of times and never noticed this commemoration. The two chapels on either side of the main altar, the Chapel of the Sacrament and the Chapel de Villacis, contain significant examples of paintings and sculpture from both European and Ecuadorian artists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. There are so many objects of art in the nave and side chapels that we never tire of visiting the church. Each visit was a different experience as we noticed new items or new perspectives on art. The Main Altar The main altar is an impressive history of South American art in and of itself. The paintings, carvings, and statues that fill this end of the church illustrate the development of both native and European artisans since the sixteen century. Starting from the outer walls, the paintings are of Franciscan martyrs and saints. These date from the original construction of the church as do the carved columns and figures which surround the paintings and altar. The majority of these artists are anonymous, as was common for the Quito School. The works in the center of the altar are another story. The top retablo is The Baptism of Christ by Diego de Robles of Toledo, Spain. The work dates from the late 1600s and is one of the first works of this artist on the continent. He also was one of the first Europeans to establish a workshop in Quito. Immediately below the retablo is a statue of the Virgin of the Apocalypse. Completed in 1734 by the best-known sculptor of the Quito school, Bernardo de Legarda, it is the inspiration for the iconic statue of the Virgin on top of the Panecillo and countless reproductions throughout the Ecuadorian and Colombian Andes. Finally, directly behind the altar is another iconic Quiteño sculpture, the “Jesus del Gran Poder.” Since 1966, this seventeenth-century sculpture attributed to a Franciscan Friar and student of the Quito School named simply Carlos, has been the focus of Quito’s Good Friday parade, drawing tens of thousands to witness its movement thru the city on the shoulders of the faithful. The choir can be accessed for a small fee through the neighboring monastery and museum. It is the only part of the church where photographs are permitted. The first thing that struck me about this space was the ceiling. A complex Moorish style in dark wood and gold leaf, it is nothing like the one over the remainder of the church. Intricately linked, all of these pieces are held together solely by gravity. There is not a single nail in the entire structure. The ceiling in the remainder of the church is a result of the damage caused by the 1755 earthquake. This Baroque structure is constructed of plaster and gilt. Interesting, the entire project was completed by indigenous craftsmen trained at the Franciscan College of San Andres in Quito (founded in 1551), which was another of Friar Jodoco’s contributions to the city and the home of the famous Quito School of art. The seats and decorations of the choir are carved from cedar, each a noteworthy work of art. The figure above each seat represents a Franciscan Saint or Martyr. If you look closely, the martyrs show the manner of their death. Each element is beautifully carved and painted in colors that maintain their brilliance to this day. In the center of the room, a huge music stand holds court. It once held the large, hand-painted books of music used by the friars. Examples of these books can be seen in the neighboring museum. The rest of the room is richly decorated with carved angels, geometric figures, and religious symbols. Only part of the picture The San Fransisco church is the arguably the best known part of Friar Jodoco’s work in Quito. However, it is only one part of his contribution to the history of Quito. He also founded the largest Friary in South America and the Continent’s first school for indigenous craftsmen. Both continue to have a major impact on the culture of Ecuador. We’ll take a look at them in my next post!
You’d almost think I have some sort of plan for this blog (only ‘almost’). Yesterday I wrote bloggerel about grace, based on Jesus saying to a rich young man, “You lack one thing…” I wrote that I would come back to the passage itself and today that’s my intention. You can find the passage in Luke 18:18-30. In the context of Luke’s gospel this passage comes as part of a series of encounters Jesus had with different people where he confronted contemporary concepts of ‘greatness’ and how God views us differently to the way that humans look at each other. It seems to me that the rich young man who approached Jesus wanted him to validate his ticket into heaven. He reckoned he was good enough to get into God’s good books and, to the outside observer, he would have been a prime candidate. He was a good man (notice that he called Jesus ‘good’ and perhaps wanted him to reciprocate). He was rich, which was (and is?) seen as a sign of God’s blessing on him. But what he lacked was the ability to put God first in his life. He was religiously righteous, but it was a skin deep religiosity that was not bearing fruit in his life. He knew about God but he did not know God. He was living for himself – keeping the law – but failed to sense God’s heart. Why did Jesus tell him to give all his money to the poor? It was not just to see if he would let go of his money and the hold it had on him – if that was the case Jesus could have told him to give the money to anyone. It was to see if he shared God’s love and compassion for the poor and needy and if he was willing to do something about it. The narrative moves on from this point to a consideration of how to get a camel through the eye of a needle. Creative ideas have been offered in response to this including that it referred to a small gate into Jerusalem through which camels would only fit if they had been unloaded first (no archaeological or historical evidence of this) or perhaps a contemporary suggestion of using a liquidiser (apologies to the squeamish) but they did not exist in Jesus’ day. It is quite likely that he was using a contemporary idiom or joke about things that were difficult to make the point that it is incredibly difficult for those who are wealthy to enter the Kingdom of God. Why? Because we are tempted to rely on our own resources much more readily than we are to rely on God. Because we can easily get distracted from God by ‘stuff’. Because we can become self-absorbed and fail to see things how God sees them (ignoring the poor, for example). You will have noticed that I said ‘we’ in the last paragraph. Judging wealth purely on average income I am including in the ‘we’ anyone whose monthly wage is greater than £1000. That is the average wage of the world based on averaging all of the average wages. However only a quarter of the world’s population earn this amount. The average monthly wage of the poorest in the world is about £21. So you are part of the ‘we’ if you earn more than that a month. How’s it looking for your camel? How’s your relationship with God? How’s your relationship with your wealth? Be blessed, be a blessing.
Music : Ludwig Minkus – Choreography : Ruldof Nureyev after Marius Petipa In 1961, Nureyev introduces the Parisian public to the Kingdom of the Shades As is the case for most of Marius Petipa’s ballets, La Bayadère remained unknown in the West because the 1950 s’ «Iron Curtain» put a halt to all cultural exchanges. The revelation came about in 1961, when the Kirov Ballet was on tour in Paris and London.. It was at the Palais Garnier that Act III of La Bayadèr The Kingdom of the Shades unfolded its hypnotic procession of 32 bayadères in white tutus and veils – turned into ghosts (Shades) – as they slowly descend – one by one in a series of arabesques penchées – a slope that symbolises their appearance from the netherworld. «The procession deploys its sinuous line across the stage before ending in four parallel rows, an impressive effect achieved with very little means. This scene marked the beginning of the symphonic ballet», wrote Vera Krassovskaya, a Russian Dance Historian. All his life, Marius Petipa worked towards producing this symphonic ballet , the perfect harmony between music and dance which is almost abstract, graphic (focussing on the groups’ lines and movements, geometrically occupying the stage space), as witnessed by the « Enchanted Garden » in The Corsair (1868), the Dryads scene in Don Quixote (1869), Aurora’s vision in Act II of Sleeping Beauty (1890), the snowflakes’ waltz at the end of Act I in The Nutcracker (1892) with Lev Ivanov, Acts II and IV of Swan Lake (1895) – again with Lev Ivanov – and the dream waltz in Act I of Raymonda (1898). George Balanchine followed in Petipa’s footsteps, translating music into movement. A certain number of contemporary chorographers also acknowledge the Kingdom of the Shades as the genesis for their minimalist quest. (Lucinda Childs’ ballet Dance (1979) – obsessionally identical and yet constantly changing – set to Philip Glass’ repetitive music is the perfect example of this). J.L. « The Kingdom of the Shades » from La Bayadère: Nureyev’s first choreography, after Petipa. It was at the request of Frederick Ashton – the new Director of the Royal Ballet in London (he succeeded Dame Ninette de Valois in 1963) – that Rudolf Nureyev worked on his first choreography, re-working Act III of La Bayadère. Such as Nureyev had learned and danced it with the Kirov, the choreography of the Kingdom of the Shades was inherited from Marius Petipa and the ensembles and ballerinas’ variations were faithfully reproduced. However, solos danced by the male character (Solor) were introduced by the virtuoso dance Vakhtang Tchaboukani in 1941. Nureyev also integrated Tchaboukani’s version, adding – as was his custom – his own personal touches. – in the Adagio where Nikiya comes on stage with a long veil held by Solor, Nureyev also had Solor dancing to mirror Nikiya ; – before the three Shades, he added a solo for Solor: the variation (with the fouetté-attitude en l’air turns) that Tchaboukiani had choreographed for Act II in Gamzatti and Solor’s betrothal – Nureyev switched the 3rd and 2nd Shades’ solos (placing the fast « avancés / relevés » variation in second position) ; – and in the coda, Solor launches into a manege of double assemblé turns. « These slight alterations contribute to producing more dancing and they add brio to the male role, but Nureyev deserves high praise for the care he took in passing on the exact style to each dancer », wrote John Percival in the Times and Clive Barnes added in « Dance & Dancers », « Only two years after his « leap ino the West », Nureyev is already stimulating the Royal Ballet, he is helping all the dancers progress and he inspires our prima ballerina assoluta – Margot Fonteyn – who has a complete mastery of her technique that she had not yet revealed ; he has encouraged a new spirit of competition among the soloists. With this Act III of La Bayadère, Nureyev offers us a little-known ballet that is well worth discovering, a major classic to cherish and – just as important – he has taught us how to dance it. » Rudolf Nureyev joined the Kirov Ballet in 1958 after spending only two years at the Vaganova School and he was given the role of Solor in the Kingdom of the Shades in 1959. He partnered Olga Moisseieva and it was with this same ballerina that he appeared on the stage of the Palais Garnier in the same role, on May 19th 1961, during the Kirov Ballet’s Tour. That evening, the company’s artistic director, Konstantin Sergueev, asked Nureyev to add a solo before the three Shades, leaving him to choose a variation. And Nureyev danced… the Corsair variation. At subsequent performances, he danced Tchaboukiani’s variation. The different versions of La Bayadère – The Shadow Scene Versions by Rudolf Nureyev: 1963 – “The Shadows Scene” Royal Ballet in London First night was the 27th November 1963 at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. Costumes by Philip Prowse with Margot Fonteyn (Nikiya), Rudolf Nureyev (Solor) and Merle Park, Lynn Seymour, Monica Mason (the three Shadows). 1974 – “Scène des Ombres” Paris Opera Ballet First night was the 3rd October 1974 at the Palais Garnier Costumes by Martin Kamer With Noëlla Pontois (Nikiya), Rudolf Nureyev (Solor) and Claire Motte, Wilfride Piollet, Ghilaisne Thesmar (the three Shadows). This production was performed again in April 1975 with Noëlla Pontois, alternating with Florence Clerc, and Dominique Khalfourni in the role of Nikiya, and Jean-Pierre Franchetti, alternating with Patrick Dupond, and Patrice Bart in the role of Solor. NB: Gelsey Kirkland and Mikhaïl Baryschnikov were guest artists for the performances on the 22nd and 24th April.
Kitchen Wizards project (Food Commodities) The Kitchen Wizards is an exciting eight-week program held twice a week in the fall for children at the Wolfville Farmers' Market. It aims to enthuse and empower young people, especially those 6-12 years old, to enjoy local fruits and vegetables. Children who have signed up for the no-cost program will receive a passport and are encouraged to come to the market as often as they can to taste and learn about a new fruit or vegetable. After tasting the samples prepared by students from the School of Nutrition and Dietetics at Acadia University, they will get a stamp on their passport. They are then given a $3.00 token that they can use to 'purchase' any fresh fruit or vegetable of their choice from the market! The tasting samples are made from the featured fruit or veggie of the day and prepared by students who are enrolled in the 'Food Commodities 1' course. The hope is that tasting a food commodity in a simple and delicious recipe will inspire the children to use the token to purchase the food they have tasted and try the recipe at home. The young people and all interested market-goers will also be encouraged to take home a copy of the featured recipe. Try Our Recipes!
The Belene Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in northern Bulgaria was originally proposed in the mid-1980s. The project was cancelled in the 1992, after significant environmentalist campaigning, when it became clear that the seismic risk in the region was unacceptable. Indeed, 120 people had died in an earthquake only 14km from the project site in 1977. There was also concern that the project would not be economically viable. Sofia, the capital city of Bulgaria, had only one landfill, which was 500 meters from the Suhodol neighborhood. The residents of Suhodol claimed that the landfill polluted the area and was a danger to the health of their children. In 2001, the mayor of Sofia promised to close the landfill by the end of 2004.
Obitia, LLC is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an Affiliate Advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. Obitia is supported by its users. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more. Funeral stationery is an important part of the funeral or memorial service and covers a wide range of items, including the announcement of death, invitations, service program, guest book, thank you cards and more options. You can make the stationery as simple or as formal as you would like, and there are many beautiful design options from which to choose. Whether you prefer to order through a funeral home, design them yourself, or customize existing designs online, this quick guide aims to give you a helpful introduction to the different types of funeral stationery you may want to have, as well as give you some useful resources of where to look to help get you started. What is Funeral Stationery? When you think of funeral stationery, the program (or order of service) is likely what comes to mind as there is almost always some kind of program or booklet handed out at a service to inform guests about the service and allow them to follow along. These programs are often kept as mementos of the person who has passed away. Additional items that might accompany the service are: - Memorial/Register Books – More than just a funeral guestbook, a memorial book can commemorate your loved one’s life by prompting guests to write down memories, stories, and messages they wish to share. - Thank you/Acknowledgement Cards – Used to express a family’s gratitude for those who have attended the service or sent sympathy gifts. - Sympathy Cards – These cards are used by those who are not immediate family to express their sympathies and condolences to the family of the deceased. To learn more about what to write in a sympathy card read “What to Say in a Sympathy Card“. - Memorial/Prayer Cards – A card that bears a poem or scripture along with the deceased’s name, their picture and any related information you wish to include. - Bookmarks – These are tangible and practical items to help you remember your loved one. - Memorial or Funeral Announcements – Cards sent announcing the passing of your loved one and displaying relevant service information for guests. - Memorial Posters – A larger visual placed on a standing easel to be displayed at a service. It usually includes a photo, or a collage, as well as the name, birth date and day of the passing of your loved one. - Seed Paper – Stationery with seeds implanted in the paper, so that you can send a note of sympathy or thanks and the recipient can plant the note and watch beautiful flowers grow. - Evites – Evites are a way of sending customized emails. Evites are a convenient way of getting the word out quickly, especially if friends and family live in different parts of the country or world. Evite design options are endless, and fully customizable. This list is meant to help you get started. There is no limit in terms of what you can create and include to perfectly commemorate your loved one. Where Do I Begin? If you will be working with a funeral home, they will likely have several stationery packages from which to choose from, and they will help you design, create and then print the stationery in-house. If you choose not to work with a funeral home (which could save you a lot of money) and would like to create your own, you may want to browse some online options. You can create beautiful announcements, invitations, bookmarks, and sympathy cards online which can be ordered and shipped to you or sent electronically for free, saving you time and money.
How do you use black tea for acne? As per the experts, black tea has skin-cleaning and antioxidant properties that flush out toxins that cause blemishes. Take cold black tea in a bowl and with a help of cotton ball, dab it on your face. Use it regularly for four weeks to have better results. Does black tea make you break out? If you’re already cutting out or reducing sugar and dairy, what’s the point in drinking coffee or caffeinated tea? Even if you like it black, the caffeine content is another acne trigger because it can throw your hormones off balance and cause the body stress. Is tea bad for acne? The bottom line. Green tea is a healthful, natural substance that may help reduce acne breakouts. Research has shown both oral and topical use of green tea to be effective in treating acne. You can try green tea for acne on its own or in addition to other products. Does tea make acne worse? Key ingredients of a cup of coffee or tea include milk and sugar, two of the top four dietary acne triggers making skin more prone to breakouts (1). What can I drink to clear acne? 5 drinks you can sip on to help treat acne - Spearmint tea. … - Green tea and lemon. … - Neem and honey. … - Amla and ginger shots. … - Lemongrass and turmeric tea. … - These 5 common skincare mistakes are making your acne worse. Why does black tea give me acne? Caffeine overconsumption and the high-fluoride content in tea are really what you want to look out for, especially if you have a thyroid issue. Teas with added sugars or oils can also be a problem for acne-prone skin. … Some people might find that fluoride or caffeine in tea causes acne. Does milk cause acne? No evidence yogurt or cheese can increase acne breakouts While cow’s milk may increase the risk of developing acne, no studies have found that products made from milk, such as yogurt or cheese, lead to more breakouts. Does boiled egg cause acne? Can eggs cause acne? Eggs are replete with nourishing components for the skin, and unless you are specifically allergic to any of the micro-nutrients, there are no way eggs can be the reason behind your blemished and spotty skin. If anything, eggs are proven antidotes to acne, and certainly not the cause of it.
Should I drink milk if I have acne? Researchers suggest that those hormones may throw your hormones off balance when you consume milk products. This could trigger acne. Another theory is that the growth hormones already in milk naturally aggravate acne no matter what. Is milk good for acne prone skin? Milk may temporarily lessen the appearance of acne, though there’s only anecdotal evidence to suggest this. But consuming dairy milk has been strongly linked to high rates of topical acne. Applying milk to your acne may clog your pores or irritate your acne-prone areas in the long run. Which milk is good for acne? According to a 2015 study from the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, for instance, the “consumption of low-fat and skim milk, but not full-fat milk, was positively associated with acne.” An article published in the journal in 2013 also concluded that dairy shows a weak but possible association with acne, … Why milk is bad for skin? Dairy and Acne Milk contains components related to the hormone testosterone that may stimulate oil glands in the skin, setting the stage for acne. Does milk increase acne? No evidence yogurt or cheese can increase acne breakouts While cow’s milk may increase the risk of developing acne, no studies have found that products made from milk, such as yogurt or cheese, lead to more breakouts. Can cold milk cause acne? Some evidence shows that milk causes acne while other studies suggest people who drink more milk tend to have worse acne. Those are associations, though, and not proof. Among more than 47,000 women in the U.S., those who drank at least two glasses of skim milk a day as teenagers were 44% more likely to have had acne. Can I use raw milk on my face everyday? Can I apply raw milk on my face every day? Raw milk is rich in B-vitamins, alpha hydroxy acids, calcium, and other potent antioxidants which makes it more beneficial when used every day. It nourishes skin cells from within and keeps your skin moisturised all day. Is dairy or sugar worse for acne? A new study links a diet high in dairy or sugar to higher rates of acne. Researchers also found that pollution and other environmental factors might take a toll on your skin. Experts say cutting down on dairy and sugar in favor of a high-fiber diet with omega-3 fatty acids can help lead to a blemish-free face. What milk will not cause acne? Almond, cashew or any other nut-based milk is a much safer alternative to cow’s milk. For starters, they’re not loaded with sebum-producing hormones.
Measuring digital success can help executives track value creation and prioritize where to focus next. Paradoxically, some companies find that high digital performance can steal their digital health over time. The Challenges in Measuring Digital Success Most companies are pursuing a digital agenda today, expecting, e.g., to boost revenue, lower costs, improve customer loyalty and strengthen market positions. Executives have a strong interest in following the progress of the digital agenda, in order to launch highly focused investments and perform corrective actions. Tracking digital success poses several challenges: - How do we measure how we are performing digitally now and over time? - How do we measure that we are proactively doing what is needed to stay "digitally healthy" in the future? - How do we maximise business value creation by focusing on the right digital initiatives? The Difference Between Digital Performance & Digital Health Performance and health are two different things. An athlete can have a high performance one day, while ignoring his/her long term health, maybe even pushing his/her abilities at the expense of serious injuries. Likewise being healthy does not guarantee a high athletic performance. These concepts are also valid for organisations that create value by becoming more digital. Digital Performance is the company's current ability to use digital to deliver tangible results. Performance indicators track the outcome of using digital solutions in all aspects of the business. Digital Health is the company's underlying capabilities to support future digital success. Health indicators measure to which degree the intrinsics are in place to enable high digital performance in the future. Together they make up Digital Success: Digital Success = Digital Performance + Digital Health. Illustration A. The definition of Digital Success. Source: Oleto Associates Example 1 - High digital health not reflected in digital performance One pension company spent the last 3 years ramping up their internal digital capabilities. They cleaned up their data and application architecture, automated policy management processes and developed a business strategy aiming to beat competitors using new digital solutions. However, to this day their digital performance is low. Customers still interact with the company using dated webpages and there is little use of customer data in pension needs discussions. Furthermore, the company has kept both its manual and automated policy management processes, limiting the impact of the efforts. Example 2 - Digital performance on unhealthy foundation A telecom company wanted to increase consumer retention and launch new B2C product bundles. They were successful in rapidly modernising their online self services, adding the possibility to, e.g., order mobile subscriptions and manage broadband subscriptions. They did this with a costly workaround moving relevant data into a temporary place and hiring a digital marketing agency to rapidly build a portal. However, years of neglecting digital health issues, such as low quality of applications and data architecture, technology obsoleteness and losing key IT talent, made new product bundles impossible to launch within one year. Today, the company continues to make architectural workarounds that deteriorate the underlying digital health. Example 3 - High digital performance and health A retailer realised that it needed to improve its online sales as sales in stores were declining. The company decided to renew its entire systems foundation and migrate to the cloud at the same time. This created the opportunity to design a healthy setup from day one and reap the performance benefits quickly (increased sales), as customers were changing their channel preferences. Today the company is very focused on retaining its high digital health and established a governance body to ensure data and systems are high quality, in use and do not overlap. How to Measure Digital Success Digital success can be tracked by measuring Digital Performance and Digital Health using the indicators in Illustration B. This model has been developed by Oleto Associates through a series of digital transformations engagements. Illustration B: Oleto Associates' digital success model. Is supported by detailed metrics, available upon request. Several industry variants exist. We recommend the following approach: - Perform an initial success/maturity assessment performed by the top team members (typically 1 hour per CXO). This should cover both Digital Performance and Digital Health. Several industry variants exist. - Decide on which areas to perform a detailed assessment for with supporting data. - Identify gaps and evaluate cost, benefits and risks to close them. - Prioritise focus areas. - Assess again (at least every 3 months) Digital has become a broad term for executing many kinds of technology backed business initiatives in companies. By using a structured assessment approach it is easier for executives to track the progress and therefore also the value creation, ultimately leading to more digital success. About the authors: This article was written by a team of consultants from Oleto Associates, a strategy consulting firm based in Denmark. For more information please visit www.oleto.com
2018 SE Doctoral Dissertation Showcase – Honorary Recognition There is an ongoing duel between military sensor development and developments in signature management. The last decade, with warfare characterized by joint expeditionary operations and asymmetry, has favored sensors. However, on account of the worsening security situation in Europe, there is now also an increasing interest in efforts to increase survivability of own military platforms. Spectral design is one of several promising technologies with extensive research potentially suitable for Low Observable platforms. It involves creating desired spectral optical responses from surfaces, in this case reducing contrast to background, by choosing suitable materials and structures. The challenge to a military decisionmaker, faced with inherent uncertainties concerning the future and with limited resources, is how to choose among alternative capabilities, technologies or equipment. Correspondingly, on account of the system character of the signature attribute, researchers in technologies for signature management has difficulties communicating relevant basis for these decisions. The scope of this thesis is therefore to find and analyze patterns in decision situations involving technology or technical systems for military use, and the purpose is to propose conceptual and methodological contributions to support future decisionmaking. The technology focus is on spectral design and the application in focus is signature management of Low Observable military platforms. The research objective is addressed from a military system and capability centric perspective using methods from several disciplines in the military sciences domain. The result is synthesized from four separate studies: 1) on spectral design using systematic review of literature, 2) on military utility using a concept formation method, 3) on modeling for how to operationalize a link between spectral design and measures of military utility using methods of military operations research, and, 4) on cases of systems engineering of military Low Observable platform designs. In summary, the result of the work presented in this thesis is a compilation of related work in military sciences, systems engineering and material optics into a framework to support effective decisionmaking in relevant contexts. The major contribution to theory is a proposed concept called Military Utility, capturing how to communicate the utility of technical systems, or technology, in a military context. It is a compound measure of Military Effectiveness, Military Suitability and Affordability. Other contributions can be expected to support decision-making in practice; – the so-called Ladder-model is a template for how to quantitatively operationalize the military effectiveness dimension of Military Utility regarding the use of spectral design; – an applied Ladder-model is demonstrated, useful for analyzing the military utility of spectral designs in Low Observable attack aircraft; – a probabilistic framework for survivability assessments is adopted into a methodology for doing the analysis, and lastly; – a generic workflow is identified, from relevant development programs, including decision-situations that can benefit from the adopted methodology. Kent Andersson is an active officer in the Swedish Armed Forces and a lecturer and researcher at the Swedish Defence University. He is currently managing the development of a new master´s program in Defence and Security Systems Development starting in the autumn of 2019. He received his master’s degree in engineering physics from Uppsala University, Sweden, in 1990 and a Licentiate degree in solid state physics in 1993. His research was on the spectral design of solar control coatings on window panes for energy saving purposes. After receiving his degree Kent started his employment in the Swedish Armed Forces and came to develop broad knowledge in the development of command and control systems, as a systems engineer and project manager. In 2018 he received his PhD in military sciences from the National Defence University of Finland. In his PhD research, supervised by Jouko Vankka (FNDU), Gunnar Hult (SEDU), Hans Liwång (SEDU), and Hans Kariis (Swedish Defence Research Agency), he investigated the military utility of spectral design in signature management applications using a systems approach. Kent E Andersson, LtCol/PhD, Swedish Defence University, Department of Military Studies, Science of Command and Control and Military Technology Division Correspondence Address: Box 278 05, 115 93 Stockholm, Sweden Phone: +46 8 5534 2836
What do you do when your love is illegal? There are still many places in the world where queer people have no government protection against harassment and physical harm. Most recently, Brunei has instituted a law that makes homosexuality punishable by death. The government of Chechnya has been hunting down its LGBTQ citizens. The Putin government in Russia passed an anti-gay propaganda law that prompted a spike in hate crimes in that country. The Order of Nature is a gay love story that takes place in The Gambia, Africa. Its two protagonists, an American volunteer and a Gambian hotel bartender, meet by chance and pursue a relationship, facing mounting challenges and tragedies due to The Gambia’s culture of homophobia. The author, Josh Scheinert, spent a year teaching law at the University of The Gambia, which inspired the story. In his words: I came to appreciate the real challenges LGBTQ people face in countries where laws criminalize who they are. During my time in The Gambia, I was in the closet. And even though my experience was wonderful, I knew that if there was ever a problem, I could easily return home, where home meant comfort and safety. For too many people, that luxury does not exist. I wrote The Order of Nature to provide readers a window into what it means to live a life that’s illegal. The Order of Nature is available at Giovanni’s Room in Philadelphia, “The Oldest & Very Best LGBTQ & Feminist Bookstore in the Country.” Buy the book online here. For our British readers, you can find the book at Gay’s the Word in London. IN PERSON: Scheinert will be speaking on May 4 at the Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD) in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. The OMG Book Club highlights new, must-read literature available at independent queer bookstores around the world.
WASHINGTON, Aug 27 () – The U.S. intelligence community does not believe it can resolve a debate over whether a Chinese laboratory incident was the source of COVID-19 without more information, U.S. officials said in a declassified summary on Friday. U.S. officials said only China can help solve questions about the true origins of the virus that has now killed 4.6 million people worldwide. “China’s cooperation most likely would be needed to reach a conclusive assessment of the origins of COVID-19,” they said. President Joe Biden, who received a classified report this week summarizing the investigation he ordered, said Washington and its allies will continue to press China for answers. “Critical information about the origins of this pandemic exists in the People’s Republic of China, yet from the beginning, government officials in China have worked to prevent international investigators and members of the global public health community from accessing it,” Biden said in a statement after the summary was released. The summary, released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, is set to worsen discord between Beijing and Washington at a time when ties are at their lowest point in decades. In the United States, activists worried the investigation could also encourage violence against Asian Americans. China’s embassy in Washington issued a statement saying the report “wrongly” claimed that China continued to hinder the investigation and added that “a report fabricated by the U.S. intelligence community is not scientifically credible.” “The origin-tracing is a matter of science; it should and can only be left to scientists, not intelligence experts,” it said. The embassy charged that the report was aimed at “scapegoating China,” an approach that would “disturb and sabotage international cooperation on origin-tracing and on fighting the pandemic.” The statement also charged that Washington “has been shying away from tracing the origin in the United States and closing the door on any such possibility.” China has ridiculed a theory that coronavirus escaped from a lab in Wuhan, the Chinese city where COVID-19 infections emerged in late 2019, setting off the pandemic, and has pushed fringe theories including that it slipped out of a lab at the U.S. Army’s Fort Detrick base in Maryland in 2019. The embassy statement suggested the United States should invite World Health Organization experts to Fort Detrick to investigate. U.S. Senator Mark Warner, a Democrat who chairs the Senate intelligence committee, said the report “underscores the need for China to stop stonewalling international investigations into a global pandemic that has cost so many lives and livelihoods around the world.” He also urged Americans to denounce “hateful rhetoric and discrimination” against Asian Americans. The U.S. report revealed new details about the extent of the disagreement within the Biden administration over the lab-leak theory. Several organizations within the sprawling U.S. intelligence community thought the novel coronavirus emerged from “natural exposure to an animal infected with it or a close progenitor virus,” according to the summary. But they had only “low confidence” in that conclusion, it said. Other groups were not able to come to any firm opinion at all on the origins. One intelligence community segment, however, developed “moderate confidence” the first human infection with COVID-19 was likely due to a “laboratory-associated incident, probably involving experimentation, animal handling, or sampling by the Wuhan Institute of Virology.” A WHO-led team that spent four weeks in and around Wuhan in January and February dismissed that theory. But their March report, which was written jointly with Chinese scientists, has been faulted for using insufficient evidence in doing so. The new U.S. report concluded that analysts would not be able to provide “a more definitive explanation” without new information from China, such as clinical samples and epidemiological data about the earliest cases. Initially, U.S. spy agencies strongly favored the explanation that the virus originated in nature. But people familiar with intelligence reporting have said there has been little corroboration over recent months the virus had spread widely and naturally among wild animals. “While this review has concluded, our efforts to understand the origins of this pandemic will not rest,” Biden said. “We will do everything we can to trace the roots of this outbreak that has caused so much pain and death around the world, so that we can take every necessary precaution to prevent it from happening again.” The WHO’s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has said the group has not ruled out any hypothesis. The Geneva-based organization is set to impanel a new committee to develop next steps on studying the virus SARS-CoV-2. But epidemiological experts said the window was closing for any useful data to be collected, particularly from people infected by the disease in 2019, when the virus likely first emerged. Editing by Daniel Wallis, Matthew Lewis, Chris Reese and Michael Perry
One Region is the most comprehensive coalition of business, government, academic, nonprofit, and community leaders in our region’s history. These partners have launched One Region Roadmap: Opportunities for All, led by One Region stakeholders BCDCOG, Charleston Metro Chamber, and Charleston Regional Development Alliance. One Region is chaired by Dr. Kendra Stewart, Director of the Joseph P. Riley, Jr. Center for Livable Communities at the College of Charleston. This partnership is built on the shared desire of the public and private sectors to make our region stronger and more resilient when facing major disruptions such as the global pandemic, and addressing long-standing challenges related to inequality. One Region Roadmap will identify barriers to expanding our regional economy and providing residents with opportunities for economic mobility. It will have an intentional focus on inclusivity and will serve as a blueprint for continuing the economic momentum our region has built over the last 10 years, while eliminating disparities and creating opportunities for all residents to thrive. This Roadmap will be built upon the lessons learned from COVID-19 and will look forward by anticipating potential threats to our economic prosperity. One Region Roadmap will build upon the values and priorities established through two One Region initiatives:
According to a published study by Pew Research Center, a wide range of Americans have experienced and experienced offensive behavior on the Internet. While this harassment can take many forms, some minority groups are more likely to experience harassment that has a racial connotation. The racial implication is particularly true of black Americans, a quarter of whom say they have been targeted on the Internet because of their race or ethnicity, compared to 10 percent of Hispanics and 3 percent of whites. Several survey respondents shared their personal experience in combating racism online. One white respondent said, “Race issues seem to have a big market on Facebook, and this reveals ugliness and a problem that I don’t think should be on social networks”. The black respondent remembered seeing “a conversation about unarmed black people being killed by the police [that] has turned into a full-scale verbal assault with racial insults against people who are opposed to police killings”. Blacks and Hispanisc Blacks and Hispanisc are particularly inclined to view online harassment as a pressing problem. For example, blacks (74 percent) and Hispanics (72 percent) are more likely than whites (57 percent) to view online harassment as a “serious problem. Blacks are also more likely to say that it is more important for people to feel safe and wanted online than to be able to express their opinions freely (68% vs 31%). White people are more evenly divided on this issue (51% vs 48%), as are Hispanics (52% vs 46%). Overall, nearly six to ten black Internet users (59%) claim to have been harassed in any form over the Internet, compared to 41% white and 48% Hispanics. In terms of the specific behavior they experienced, a significant proportion of black Internet users reported being called by offensive names (38%) or being deliberately abused on the Internet (34%). Black internet users are also slightly more likely than white internet users to witness harassment of other internet users (82% as opposed to 71%). And 54% of black Internet users seen particularly severe forms of harassment of others on the Internet (such as physical threats, harassment, sexual harassment or stalking over a long period). Observations of harassment can leave a strong impression, especially among blacks and Hispanics. For example, 43 percent of black Internet users and 44 percent of Hispanics who witnessed harassment on the Internet felt worried that something similar might happen to them, compared to 33 percent of white Internet users.
How do I get in shape? How do I get in shape? Diet is certainly not synonymous with diet. Diets do not work in the long run! Even if someone manages to lose a few pounds, the pounds either come back after a few weeks or the diet itself was so restrictive that the person gave up in the middle of the process. The regime, on the other hand, is a period in which a person takes purposeful actions to achieve a certain result, most often with the help of his mentor in the field of nutrition. They aim to turn some of the habits acquired during their observance into long-term changes that will positively affect a person's life. We often compare following one to riding a bike with auxiliary wheels. Instead of teaching us how not to fall off the bike, he teaches us how to eat. The most important thing in any mode is its stability. That is why the individual approach is so important. Everyone has different eating habits - some eat 2 times a day, others 6 times. Some people can't do without jam, other people can't do without fizzy drinks. Some people eat late at night, others have trouble sleeping and recovering. All these factors (and many others) are extremely important for the preparation of a good program. Any diet that is designed without taking into account the individual's personality is unsustainable in the long run. Having clarified that the first important criterion is sustainability , which is the result of a person's individual preferences , goals and habits, the next most important criterion is his diversity . Diversity is the spice of life! Good programs provide everything the body needs, but remove the monotony of eating. For example, have you heard of the egg diet? Fried eggs, boiled eggs, scrambled eggs, scrambled eggs, egg salad, egg toast and grapefruit juice. As much as you love eggs, it will be very difficult for you to eat only eggs for more than a few days. If we have to be honest with you, it will also be extremely unhealthy for your body. This brings us to the next criterion - moderation . Even if you eat those things that can have a negative effect on your health and weight, you do not take large amounts of them. It is perfectly normal, from time to time, to treat yourself to a good job with a few pieces of dark chocolate. It is perfectly normal to eat your grandmother's favorite moussaka for dinner, regardless of "how much oil she has poured" into it. What you do most of the time is much more important than what you do sometimes! This is where the next two criteria for a good diet come from - calorie control and balance . You need to make sure that you are getting the right amount of calories for your body to function normally and efficiently, getting the right amount of the right things and limiting foods that can have a negative effect on your health and weight. Calorie control is the most important factor if you want to achieve your goal. For example, just because you eat "healthy" does not mean that you will lose weight. If this is your goal, then the mandatory condition will be to be in a calorie deficit - ie. to eat fewer calories than you expend during the day. As a result, there will be a reduction in fat and / or muscle mass. The last criterion is its quality . To achieve your goal without harming yourself in the long run, you need to get the basic substances by monitoring the quality of the products you consume. Let's summarize - diet is not synonymous with diet. It is limited in time and has a specific goal , but it is a prerequisite for learning and developing long-term habits . For this to happen, the mode must be customized - there is no universal one! In addition, it must be diverse , moderate in its strictness, balanced , high quality and be subject to the laws of thermodynamics - ie. take into account your goal and adjust your calorie intake to your goals. How do I approach compiling a diet? We want to be honest with you, so we'll tell you about both approaches you can choose when you decide you want to achieve a specific goal with your body. Approach №1: Do it yourself Most likely, this is the approach you've used so far - you've done everything yourself and tried to limit yourself, count calories, measure products, read articles on the Internet, etc. to achieve your goal. Of course, you may have had success along the way so far. And you may have fallen victim to terrible advice that has taken you back with progress. And yes, you can probably continue with this approach - spending the next year (or more), trying to handle everything yourself. But if that worked, wouldn't you have already achieved your goals? 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Abstract: Implementing open access is a tough job. Legitimate authority, sufficient resources and the right timing are crucial. Pioneers, role models and flagship institutions all have faced considerable challenges in meeting their own aims and achieving a recognized success. Professionals charged with implementing policy typically need several years to accomplish significant progress. Many institutions adopting open access policies probably need to do more, much more, if the commitment to open access is to be meaningful. A first generation of open access policy development and implementation is coming to a close. It is thus possible to begin evaluation. Evaluating implementation establishes evidence, enables reflection, and may foster the emergence of a second generation of open access policies. This study is based on a small number of cases, examining the implementation of open access around the world. Some of the pioneer institutions with open access mandates have been included, as well as some newer cases. The emergence of the new stakeholders in publishing is examined, such as digital repositories, research funders and research organisations. Because this is a groundbreaking study, no claim is made that the results are representative. The emphasis is on variety and on defining a methodological standard. Each case is reconstructed individually on the basis of public documents and background information, and supported by interviews with professionals responsible for open access implementation. Implementation is typically based on targeting researchers as authors. Indeed, the author is pivotal to any open access solution. This is the ‘tertium comparationis’ that facilitates an examination of the similarities and differences across instances in an effort to build a broader policy research agenda. In a final section, open access is placed in the wider context of the evolution of digital scholarship. This clarifies how published research results are destined to become a key component of digital research infrastructures that provide inputs and outputs for research, teaching and learning in real time. The ten cases examined in detail are: – Refining green open access policy: Queensland University of Technology (September 2003) – Refining policy to foster deposit: University of Zurich (July 2005) – National platform, open collection, decentralized policy: the HAL platform (June-October 2006) – Maximising a funder’s impact: The Wellcome Trust (October 2006) – Implementing open access as a digital infrastructure: UK PMC (January 2007) – Learning from global research infrastructure: SCOAP3 (April 2007) – Linking public access to open data: Howard Hughes Medical Institute (January 2008) – Open access to all publications, internationally: Austrian Science Fund (FWF, March 2008) – One policy, sixty publication strategies: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (July 2008) – Open Access complements the Research Information System: The University of Pretoria (May 2009) “1. ‘Selling’ knowledge is a zero sum game…. 2. Sharing knowledge transforms our relationships…. 3. Sharing knowledge creates power….” This Halloween season we take a look back at some of the spookiest images and creepiest findings that we published in PLOS ONE in 2016. Creepy, weird, skin-crawling, or just plain gross – we hope you With the exponential growth of the Open Access movement over the past decade, it is undeniable that major steps are underway toward broadening both the reach and availability of scientific research. But not every development has been a step in the right direction, and for some, Open Access has become synonymous with negative connotations. The most notable unfortunate byproduct of the boom in numbers and access to scientific journals has been the dramatic rise in predatory publishing. Predatory Publishers can be defined as any publisher that operates on an exploitative business model, which can involve, among other things, charging fees to authors and other contributors without providing adequate peer review, misrepresenting personnel affiliated with the company, misrepresenting the company’s location, contacts , addresses, not providing archiving, plagiarism-checking, and not providing professional grade editorial and publishing services on manuscripts. The combination of the Open Access journal model along with an increased pressure for academics to prove their work by publishing more and being cited has created a prosperous environment for unethical practices looking to take advantage. By falsifying journal information, faking editorial board members, and hiding behind a general lack of transparency, predatory publishers have been able to prey upon the desperation of academics looking to act fast and get their names out there. With so many new journals flooding the field, it can be very difficult to tell the quality publishers from the fake. In some instances, it is the authors themselves who are taking advantage of the system for their own benefit. With such a glut of new material, plagiarism of others’ easily accessible work has skyrocketed, and self-plagiarism, where an author uses one of the author’s own previously published articles as a template for “new” work with only minor changes is increasing. As part of a mounting backlash against such practices, a growing movement on social media platforms works to highlight and inform the public on the actions and methods of predatory publishers. The twitter hash-tag #predatorypublishing has been effective in spreading the message through current events and academic articles relating to deceitful open access trends. Facebook is also becoming an instrumental battleground in addressing predatory publishing culture, with a dedicated watchdog group with more than 500 members that works to spread awareness of the problem and practices to academics from countries and backgrounds that might otherwise not know of such dangers. The open platform of social media and blogs is helping academics to identify and root out the culprits. One of the most prominent leaders of this effort is Jeffrey Beall, a librarian and professor at the University of Colorado, Denver. His vigilant commentary on the scientific publishing field help many to stay abreast of the changes and developments at work, but perhaps his most important contribution has been in creating and maintaining a list of known predatory publishers for all to reference. Beall has established 52 criteria for determining if a publisher qualifies as predatory. These conditions range from distributing spam emails to falsifying details of journals’ editorial personnel. The open access movement in academic publishing is in a state of flux. The boom in growth, awareness, and access is founded in the needed press for all researchers to have a voice and platform through which to be heard and to learn. In time, a push for standards will establish an ethical and balanced playing field, and as more of these predatory publishers are identified every year, the honest and high-quality open access journals and publishers will become even more vital. “Sanford Thatcher has written a valuable, if anecdotal, analysis of some papers residing on Harvard’s DASH repository (Copyediting’s Role in an Open-Access World, Against the Grain, volume 23, number 2, April 2011, pages 30-34), in an effort to get at the differences between author manuscripts and the corresponding published versions that have benefited from copyediting. “What may we conclude from this analysis?” he asks. “By and large, the copyediting did not result in any major improvements of the manuscripts as they appear at the DASH site.” He finds that “the vast majority of changes made were for the sake of enforcing a house formatting style and cleaning up a variety of inconsistencies and infelicities, none of which reached into the substance of the writing or affected the meaning other than by adding a bit more clarity here and there” and expects therefore that the DASH versions are “good enough” for many scholarly and educational uses….” “Designed to take full advantage of the online medium, HMX integrates foundational principles and clinical applications. Share in the Harvard Medical School experience. Learn with the material that Harvard Medical School offers to our incoming students over the summer as an opportunity to prepare for a demanding curriculum and to our current students as part of the flipped classroom model….” “ReproZip allows you to pack your experiment along with all necessary data files, libraries, environment variables and options. Anybody can then reproduce the experiment on a different machine, without tracking down and installing the dependencies, or even having to run the same operating system! …” “However, all working groups agreed that reproducibility should be more than just hygiene around the data: It should come as part of the “operating system” of science. It should be a given. Creating such an environment might be difficult to achieve in the short term, because it will require a cultural shift of how we do science. Open Science is perceived as an integral part to this idea, but this will require some of the leading market forces to enforce these best practices. However, several movements are already being pursued: ACM Journals are now awarding badges for papers whose findings are reproducible, and more and more conferences are beginning to hand out prizes for the most reproducible paper. If more journals and conferences would require to always publish data and code, this could go a long way. In addition, there’s great technology being developed to aid with these goals. For instance, ImpactStory is an online platform that tracks your impact in the open science community by awarding badges for reproducibility, openness, and social media impact. ReproZip is a framework that lets you easily store all your data, methods, and environment (including software dependencies and whatnot) in a Docker container, so you can easily store, share, and load entire experiments, no matter where you are….” “The web is awash with uncredited images. The tech startup Mediachain Labs is hoping to get photographers the credit they’re due. They’ve done this by ingesting a trove of images with Creative Commons licenses from over 30 image sharing platforms such as Flickr, along with the attribution found on those platforms. It then used neural network-powered content identification technology to de-duplicate over 400 million images, leaving it with a base of 125 million photos.” “Result of the survey on the use of the Bioline International obtained in October 29, 2016 at 19:06h.” “In celebration of Open Access week, Bioline International can report that, in the single month of October 2016, more than 1,350,000 full text downloads of articles were made from bioscience journals published in 16 developing countries. Usage statistics are reported on the fly from the web site, see http://www.bioline.org.br/, right hand side of home page. This highhttp://www.bioline.org.br/ usage demonstrates the importance of research from these regions to the progress of international science. A recently launched online survey of users has recorded some 250 responses to date from 59 countries – see http://bioline.org.br/survey for the results so far. We are hoping to establish which particular aspects of Bioline make the site so well-used – is it because it is Open Access, or is it because the information is difficult to find elsewhere, or . . .? …” “2,207 users from around the world have implemented repositories with the popular DSpace, out-of-the box, open source, repository software in order to openly share and preserve digital scholarly information from more than 122 countries.” “OpenAIR was a very early open access repository at a university, putting RGU at the leading edge of what we know now as Green Open Access publishing.” “The contents of DASH, Harvard’s open-access repository, are now indexed in Yewno and Iris, two new academic search engines connecting related works through common concepts, and using visual interfaces to support semantic exploration rather than keyword searching.”
The Knight Foundation recently hosted a News Challenge in order to find up-and-coming innovative ideas pertaining to media. Among the winners, which were awarded .37 million in grants, was one particularly interesting platform called Behavio. The startup is an open source platform that turns phones into smart sensors of the real world behavior of consumers. Although the Knight Foundation honored Behavio for the advancements it can make in journalism, the platform can actually be utilized in many other areas as well. As Nadav Aharony, the company’s co-founder and who is also a product manager on Google’s Android team, explained to us, the platform can actually “look at how communities live their lives.” In other words, it can detect how friendships are formed and how people make decisions. The journalism implications are significant as well since the platform will be able to enhance the meaning of pictures. In addition, it opens the door for many others to contribute to a story. Aharony told us that the platform began as an open source project at the MIT Media Lab Funf and then developed into Behavio. While the platform is still relatively new, he believes it has the ability to be used in many different industries, including healthcare. He expects that we will see apps and services that use the framework in the relatively near future. Ponoko — the hub of a global personal manufacturing eco-system that brings together creators, digital fabricators, materials suppliers and buyers to make almost anything Don Christie introduces the finalists in […] Google Tech Talks February, 25 2008 ABSTRACT We all love to hate large software systems. They are hard to build, hard to evolve, and don’t work very well. Why is […] This is an interesting chat by David Cuartielles about open source and the virtues of open source hardware in particular. Mr. Cuartielles David is a microchip engineer from Spain, an […] The Google team answers questions about Blink. Here are the timecodes for the list of questions from the Chrome Site. 1:12 What will be the relationship between the WebKit and […]
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Looking at the flowers that fell into the water, I was reminded of Japanese cherry blossoms floating on a stream. Catmon River overflowed its banks during the rainy season. You could actually see the waters slowly creeping up and spreading on the street, luring the children to frolic in them. The waters were clean then, and leptospirosis was unheard of. During stormy days the river flooded the fishponds to overflowing, and the fish would escape, swimming in the waters in the street and backyards. The barrio folk, using nets, spears, bamboo traps (salakab) and even pails and basins, would chase them and catch them. Our house had a basement and when the lot was flooded, the waters—and the fish—would enter it. When the flood ebbed the fish would be left behind in the basement. We could hear them splashing there. We fed them leftover rice and fish as well as lablab taken from the fishpond which the bangus ate. On lean days somebody would go down to the basement and catch a few fish to go with rice for our meals. The trapped fish lasted a long time. There was a hardy species of fish called liwalo or martiniko that could, using its fins and spines, climb the banks of the ponds and into the ankle-deep water in our yard. Maybe they thought the water flowing down the banks were a stream, so that they swam and crawled “upstream” like salmon. We would sit by the window and watch them climb up the bank of the pond and then splash in the shallow water in the yard. When there were enough of them there, we would go down and catch them with a salakab or our bare hands. We would not eat them all at once but would put them in a big stoneware jar (tapayan). When we needed fish to eat, we would catch a few in the jar. There were many fruit trees in our barrio, mostly mango, santol, guava, and, of course, tamarind. During the rainy season we would visit friends who had fruiting trees and ask permission to pick a few fruits. We threw stones at clusters of mangoes or santol, but we climbed the trees for the guavas and tamarind. During the rainy season Catmon River would be full and, from the bridge, we would watch the swiftly-flowing waters carrying leaves, small tree branches and other flotsam. And we would take off our clothes and dive into the river. We would climb the big trees growing along the banks and jump from the branches into the river. Somebody had tied a rope to an overhanging branch and we would swing out on this rope yelling like Tarzan, and then let go at the end of the arc to fall into the waters. We would chase one another like monkeys through the branches of the mangrove trees which grew very close together. It was nice to swim and play in the swollen river with rain falling down on us. We had so much fun frolicking in the river that we would forget the time—until we heard the voices of our elders calling us to lunch. But we were not hungry and we would be having so much fun that we would not heed the calls—until somebody would come to the riverbank and shout at us to come home. At home, after a late lunch, I would lie on the floor near a window and listen to the rain. I would cup my ears with my hands and play with the sound of the rain by moving my hands up and down my ears. It was even better listening to the rain in the dark of night. Above its patter, one could hear the clatter of horses’ hooves crossing the wooden bridge. And from a distance, one could hear the train’s whistle as it chugged northward. One could tell when the train was crossing a steel bridge: The hum of the train’s steel wheels on the railroad tracks turned into a roar when it was crossing that bridge. Alas, all of that is gone now. Catmon River is now so polluted that all the fishponds that get their water from it are now dead. No fish could survive in the polluted waters, not even the hardy tilapia. The mangrove trees have been cut down and the riverbanks are now lined, not with trees, but with squatter shanties. The bucolic and beautiful countryside of my boyhood is gone now. All I can do is reminisce whenever I am reminded of it by the constant rain. Click here for more weather related news. Subscribe to INQUIRER PLUS to get access to The Philippine Daily Inquirer & other 70+ titles, share up to 5 gadgets, listen to the news, download as early as 4am & share articles on social media. Call 896 6000.
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Moderna Inc.’s vaccine candidate against Covid-19 protected against the virus in a trial that inoculated 16 monkeys, an encouraging step on the path to a defense for humans against the pandemic. The risk of nasty side effects in the Moderna and Oxford trials should be made clear now, before it ends up as fodder for the skeptics. A coronavirus vaccine developed by the University of Oxford appears safe and triggers an immune response. Trials involving 1,077 people showed the injection led to them making antibodies and T-cells that can fight coronavirus. The findings are hugely promising, but it is still too soon to know if this is enough to offer protection and larger trials are under way. This is the first time that investigational COVID-19 vaccines have been reported to have a T-cell response Teachers in Florida are suing the state to block an emergency order requiring schools to open next month with in-person instruction. They say, with the surge of coronavirus cases, the order violates a provision in Florida's constitution requiring the state to ensure schools are operated safely. The United States has secured almost a third of the first one billion doses planned for AstraZeneca’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine by pledging up to $1.2 billion, as world powers scramble for medicines to get their economies back to work. The vaccine, previously known as ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 and now as AZD1222, was developed by the University of Oxford and licensed to AstraZeneca. Immunity to the new coronavirus is uncertain and so the use of vaccines is unclear. The United States will pump up to $1.2 billion into developing AstraZeneca’s potential COVID-19 vaccine and said on Thursday it would order 300 million doses, as the White House seeks solutions to the coronavirus pandemic. The commitment provides for a possible U.S.-based clinical trial this summer involving 30,000 volunteers and adds fuel to the British drugmaker’s efforts to develop a vaccine for the disease, one of around 100 which are under way worldwide. Controversial trials in which volunteers are intentionally infected with Covid-19 could accelerate vaccine development, according to the World Health Organization, which has released new guidance on how the approach could be ethically justified despite the potential dangers for participants. The first U.S. patients have been dosed in a clinical trial testing whether four experimental messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine candidates can prevent infection with the virus that causes 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The trials are being conducted at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the drugmaker said Tuesday. Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory published a study on Thursday that indicates the now-prevalent strain of coronavirus is a more contagious version of the pathogen first reported in Wuhan, China.
Booster shot improves immune response of chemotherapy patients; post-Covid depression helped by widely used drugsjessie tan The following is a summary of some recent studies on Covid-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that have yet to be certified by peer review. Chemo patients’ response to vaccine improves with booster A new study helps quantify the improved protection against Covid-19 achieved with a third booster dose of the vaccine from Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE in cancer patients who are undergoing chemotherapy. “Chemotherapy can weaken the ability of cancer patients to fight off infections and to respond appropriately to vaccines,” said Deepta Bhattacharya of the University of Arizona College of Medicine, co-author of the study reported in Nature Medicine. Her team studied 53 patients receiving chemotherapy for solid-tumour cancers who received two shots of the vaccine. Almost all of the subjects had an immune response after vaccination. But “the magnitude of these responses was worse than in people without cancer in almost every metric that we measured,” Bhattacharya said. “In all likelihood, this leaves cancer patients more susceptible to infection and Covid-19 than healthy vaccinated people.” The researchers were able to bring back 20 of the study participants for a third vaccine dose, to see if immune responses would improve. “The levels of antibodies improved in about 80 per cent of the cancer patients,” Bhattacharya said. “Our data on cancer patients support the CDC’s broad guidelines that people who are immunocompromised should receive a third dose of the Pfizer vaccine.” Post-Covid depression responds well to treatment Lingering depression in Covid-19 survivors may be highly treatable, a small Italian study suggests. Doctors treated 58 patients who had developed post-Covid depression with a widely used class of antidepressant drugs known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs. These include sertraline, sold by Pfizer under the brand name Zoloft, GlaxoSmithKline’s Paxil (paroxetine), Eli Lilly and Co’s Prozac (fluoxetine) and Celexa (citalopram) from AbbVie’s Allergan unit. Usually, about 66 per cent of patients see improvement with SSRIs, but among those with post-Covid-19 depression, 91 per cent responded to treatment within four weeks, researchers reported this week at the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology meeting in Lisbon. They speculate that depression after Covid-19 is related to inflammation caused by the coronavirus, and note that SSRIs have some anti-inflammatory and antiviral properties. Dr Livia De Picker of the University of Antwerp in Belgium, who was not involved in the study, said in a statement that the findings are particularly important for survivors with the syndrome of persistent symptoms known as “long Covid”, which often includes depression. A separate study presented at the meeting found that while SSRIs eased depression in Covid-19 survivors, the drugs had less of an effect on their anxiety levels. Viral loads similar in vaccinated, unvaccinated patients Vaccinated individuals should continue to wear masks in public because they can still carry – and possibly shed – as many viruses as unvaccinated people and not realise it, data from a new study confirms. Researchers studied viral levels at diagnosis in 869 patients, including 632 who were asymptomatic. Most of the infections were caused by the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus. They found no statistically significant differences in average viral loads between vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals, or between those with or without symptoms, or among different age groups, genders, or vaccine types, according to a report posted on medRxiv on Tuesday (Oct 6) ahead of peer review. “Our study does not provide information on infectiousness,” said Richard Michelmore of the University of California, Davis, noting that virus transmission is influenced by several factors, not just vaccination status and viral load. “It is not OK to assume that because you are vaccinated that you cannot become infected and cannot infect someone else, even if asymptomatic,” he said. Covid-19 vaccines do decrease the odds of infection and reduce infection severity. However, people vaccinated against Covid-19 should still wear masks in public because they might infect others if they themselves become infected, researchers advised.
Seventy-three-year-old retired politician Adi Finau Tabakaucoro has spent a lifetime advocating for the interests of indigenous Fijian women and girls. She is the current President of the largest women’s civil society organisation in Fiji; Soqosoqo Vakamarama i Viti, which works in the country’s 14 provinces on village, district and provincial matters as well as national development policies, programming, laws, regulations and services. A wide range of issues are covered under SSV and these are linked to the needs of rural women, regulations in villages, registrations in the native land register Vola ni Kawa Bula and matters of gender equality, human rights, constitutional reforms, governance, development assistance, economic empowerment, transition democracy, LGBTIQ, humanitarian response and climate change. As a former appointed member of the interim government from 1987 to 1992, Adi Finau Tabakaucoro advocated successfully for the inclusion of the words “sex” and “religion” in the Bill of Rights of Fiji’s newly drafted 1990 constitution. The new constitution became effective from July 1990, following the decision by coup-maker, former Brigadier Sitiveni Rabuka to revoke the 1970 Constitution. This was the first time that the Bill of Rights section in Fiji’s constitution mentioned that there would be no discrimination based on sexual orientation and religion. In the 1980s, Adi Finau was appointed a member of the National Economic Council (NEC) that organised multi-stake holder consultations and set the agenda towards the development of the national development priorities. The outcomes became the basis upon which the national development strategies and accompanying budget were formulated. She served in this capacity, as a result of her role as the President of the Fiji Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) and as General Secretary of the SSV. She was President of the Fiji YWCA from 1980 to 1988 and the NCWF in 1984-1985. In 1995, Adi Finau Tabakaucoro headed the Fiji and multi-country protest against French nuclear testing in Mururoa on the Kaunitoni vessel. The contingent of protestors in the vessel comprised of parliamentarians from Australia, Cook Islands, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Spain, United States of America and Wales. Adi Finau is one of the three Co-Conveners of the Fiji Women’s Forum and works alongside the Fiji Women’s Rights Movement (FWRM) and the National Council of Women, Fiji (NCWF). The 70 Inspiring Pacific Women campaign has been produced by the Pacific Community (SPC) in partnership with Australian Aid and Pacific Women. The campaign marks the 70th anniversary of SPC, and leads up to the 13th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women and 6th Meeting of Ministers for Women in Suva (Fiji) from 2nd to 5th October 2017.
The most significant are the exact same principles use across Canada A recently available ruling in B.C. that funds common-law partners exactly the same fundamental legal rights as maried people after couple of years of cohabitation has shed a light as to how common-law partners were treated in other provinces. Web cam live chat Recently on CBC reside on line, variety Lauren O Neil consult experts regarding the patchwork of marriage-like designations for common-law couples across Canada. Participate in about topic at 7 p.m. ET Thursday, March 21. Common-law interactions generally refer to lovers that live together in an arrangement comparable to marriage, but without an authentic service or appropriate documentation. However, the idea of living common law are an elaborate one, and its particular definition varies greatly across Canada. Here’s a peek at a number of the most significant misconceptions about common-law partnerships. 1. Common-law unions are the same across the country. Legally, common-law connections are categorized as provincial legislation, so what comprises this type of a partnership and just how truly seen legally varies significantly from province to state. The B.C. ruling on March 18 essentially addresses common-law couples just like married people — under a fresh definition of partner, common-law couples in B.C. with lived collectively for two years have a similar rights and responsibilities as married couples. That is deemed a common-law connection whenever the partners provides existed together for a few decades or higher or features children and live with each other. In Newfoundland, after 2 years of living together in a conjugal connection, one or two can be viewed as common law. In Nova Scotia, a few must reside together for 2 decades before getting entitled to any potential spousal support; they might not be permitted to claim property, such as children home or automobile. To allow single lovers to have legal rights, capable sign up as being in a domestic collaboration underneath the Nova Scotia Valuable research operate. For one or two getting common-law standing up in Ontario and Manitoba, they have to end up being living with each other in a conjugal commitment for a few many years or even more, or twelve months with a young child. In Manitoba, the happy couple could sign up their own common-law connection from the Beneficial research Registry. Ontario fairness Harvey Brownstone mentioned there’s no enrollment inside the residence state. Actually, while he highlights, in Ontario, common-law is much more of a vernacular label. There is absolutely no these types of thing as ‘common legislation’ in Ontario legislation — that label doesn’t exists, the guy mentioned. Quebec could be the just state that does not accept common-law relationships. The Supreme Court of Canada governed in January 2013 that provinces had the to decide if common-law people should get similar liberties as maried people, and features allowed Quebec to keep excluding common-law-style affairs from getting respected no matter how lengthy two people have actually stayed together. There are not any appropriate advantages in terms of the guidelines, mentioned Robert Teitelbaum, a Quebec attorney devoted to family rules. Advantages like revealing into the Quebec retirement plan become possible, or some deals for insurance policies reasons about beneficiaries… but that’s separate of actual provincial legislation. 2. in the eventuality of a separation, possessions include divvied right up. Residing collectively in a connection like matrimony will make your common law generally in most provinces, however it does little regarding the division of house obtained while in the connection unless a cohabitation contract or other kind of legal agreement was developed between your partners. In Ontario, There’s no such thing as matrimonial residential property on these relationships, mentioned fairness Brownstone. We use the rules https://datingranking.net/sugar-daddies-usa/ny/albany/ of constructed confidence to guard people’s homes legal rights, so if you’ve already been living common-law while’ve been leading to a property that some other party owns – both as you taken care of restorations or as you are usually the one sustaining they – you are able to a claim for property. Brownstone included this particular is not by any means using the exact same form of axioms as actually married. Instead, he stated, It’s in line with the rules of resulting confidence. We use rely on legislation to guard common-law land liberties. For this reason the recent B.C. ruling is different, because now, lovers who have been living collectively for 2 many years are entitled to a 50/50 separate of shared credit and assets — excluding any pre-relationship residential property or inheritances. Quebec’s insufficient popularity of common-law lovers means the there’s decreased frustration when it comes to the unit of property – exactly what anyone is the owner of, they keep. If someone else contributes towards somebody else’s home, like someone else, they could claim – but it has nothing related to the truth they stayed with each other as two, Teitelbaum mentioned. In essence this may be happening with roommates approximately people about civil law. 3. if you do not happened to be hitched, you aren’t eligible for spousal service in the event of a break-up. it is extremely unlikely that a common-law few that decides to separated will manage spousal support, but it’s feasible, dependant on other factors. Like in marriage, spousal help is not automated, but is considering only if one party is seen as eligible to it. Relating to fairness Brownstone, spousal help for Ontario common-law couples can be done if there have been financial effects on break-up. If one people into the commitment recognized your partner on a regular basis – or, for instance, anyone had to give up their particular profession so that you can maintain children — chances are they might be entitled to spousal support.
Free Shipping and Product Returns Edlira Shehu; Dominik Papies; Scott Neslin (2020), Free Shipping Promotions and Product Returns, Journal of Marketing Research, https://doi.org/10.1177/0022243720921812. 86 Pages Posted: 4 Nov 2016 Last revised: 15 May 2020 Date Written: November 3, 2016 Free shipping promotions have become popular among online retailers. However, little is known about their influence on consumers’ purchases, return behavior, and ultimately, firm profit. The authors propose that free shipping promotions encourage customers to make riskier purchases, leading to more product returns. They estimate the impact of these promotions on purchase incidence, high-risk and low-risk spend, and return share. The results show that free shipping promotions increase expenditure for high-risk products, increasing their share of the consumer’s market basket, and hence increasing the overall return rate. This is validated in a field experiment. A field test and an online lab experiment analyze the mechanism linking free shipping and returns. They suggest that the free shipping effect occurs via consumers’ perceptions that free shipping serves as a risk premium compensating them for potential returns, and through positive affect generated by the promotion. A simulation shows that for the focal firm, free shipping promotions increase net sales volume, but higher product returns and lost shipping revenue render these promotions unprofitable. Keywords: free shipping, product returns, ecommerce, promotions Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
At a time when the lamps are once again going out, not only in Europe but across the world, I’ve been heartened by Dear Zealots, one of the last essays written by Amos Oz (1939-2018). Because of his work as an Israeli novelist and peace activist, reviews have tended to see this little book through the prism of the Arab-Israeli conflict, but the reach of Oz’s vision is universal. Dear Zealots is about fanaticism of all kinds, whether the origin is religious, racial, ideological or even social. Oz is concerned with the mind that sees redemption in a single cause, reducing the complex reality of individual experience to binary codes of right and wrong. His fanatic is a perverted idealist, dedicated to converting others to their salvationist belief – and eliminating them if they prove to unwilling to change .In their dream, redemption requires a world cleansed of difference. That path leads always to violence, since difference is intrinsic in human beings, and so the fanatic’s dream becomes the other’s nightmare. “One of the distinct hallmarks of the fanatic is his fervent desire to change you so that you will be like him. To convince you that you must immediately convert, abandon your world and move into his. The fanatic does not want there to be any differences between people. He wants us all to be ‘as one’. He desires a world with no curtains drawn, no blinds shuttered, no doors locked, no shadow of a private life, for we must all be one body and one soul. We must all march together in threes, on the path ascending to redemption.”Dear Zealots, Amos Oz, 2017 This way of thinking is applied not just to religious or nationalist ideologies, but to every belief that defines and divides people: the relationship between the sexes, attitudes to animals, global warming, sexuality, Brexit – the list is long indeed. Oz argues that force cannot end fanaticism, although he accepts that violence may be a necessary response to aggression. “One can almost never vanquish an idea, twisted as it may be, simply by using a big stick. There must be a response; there must be an opposing idea, a more attractive belief, a more persuasive promise.”Dear Zealots, Amos Oz, 2017 Our recent past is, among other things, defined by the inability of progressive politics to find ‘a more persuasive promise’ after the failure of socialism in the countries that adopted it during the 20th century. Neoliberalism has failed too, and been rejected by large majorities who understand it to have made their lives worse in the ways that matter most. But the alternatives now offered them— ‘whether from a thirst for power or a thirst for capital’ in Oz’s words—reduce the world to black and white, and fuel the fanaticism that defines others as the only obstacle to a promised and deserved paradise on earth. And so the public space has become filled with levels of outrage, hate and aggression that I have never before witnessed. What is the answer? For Amos Oz the novelist, it can be found in the imaginative empathy that art—at its best—strives for: “We must try to imagine the inner world, both intellectual and emotional, of the other. To use our imagination even in times of strife. To use it also primarily in moments when we feel a surge of fury, insult, loathing, righteousness and the certainty that we have been wronged and that justice is entirely on our side. Perhaps also to ask, once in a while: What if I were her? or him? or them? To step, for a moment, into the Other’s shoes and under his skin, not in order to cross the river will be ‘reborn’, but simply to understand, to sense, what is there. What is beyond the river? What do they have in their head? How did they feel over there? And what do we look like from there? […]. Perhaps, indeed, in curiosity lies the prospect of openness and tolerance.”Dear Zealots, Amos Oz, 2017 As well as being curious and imaginative, Oz wants us to laugh, especially at ourselves. Fanaticism, he says, cannot survive humour. In what might seem a throwaway remark, he points out the deeper truth: that the possibility of change is only ever in ourselves. The essay’s title is a trap. Dear Zealots would seem to be a letter addressed to other people, those across the river we are encouraged to fear and hate, those who must change. But we can only change ourselves—and accepting that is the best inoculation against fanaticism. Resistance to evil is a duty and a burden, and it starts with ourselves. It’s also where we can do the most good and the least damage. Contending with fanaticism does not mean destroying all fanatics, but instead cautiously handling the little fanatic who hides, more or less, inside each of our souls. It means ridiculing, just a little, our own convictions as well, being curious, and trying to take a peek, from time to time, not only through our neighbour’s window but also, more importantly, at the reality viewed from that window, which will necessarily be different from the one seen through our own.Dear Zealots, Amos Oz, 2017
“I have yet to see a patient who preferred Marinol to smoked marijuana. Similarly, the commercial success of Sativex will largely depend on how vigorously the marijuana laws are enforced. It is not unreasonable to believe that drug companies have an interest in sustaining the prohibition against the herb.” by Lester Grinspoon M.D. The Food and Drug Administration is contradicting itself. It recently reiterated its position that cannabis has no medical utility, but it also approved advanced clinical trials for a marijuana-derived drug called Sativex, a liquid preparation of two of the most therapeutically useful compounds of cannabis. This is the same agency that in 1985 approved Marinol, another oral cannabis-derived medicine. Both Sativex and Marinol represent the “pharmaceuticalization” of marijuana. They are attempts to make available its quite obvious medicinal properties — to treat pain, appetite loss and many other ailments — while at the same time prohibiting it for any other use. Clinicians know that the herb — because it can be smoked or inhaled via a vaporizer — is a much more useful and reliable medicine than oral preparations. So it might be wise to consider exactly what Sativex can and can’t do before it’s marketed here. A few years ago, the British firm GW Pharmaceuticals convinced Britain’s Home Office that it should be allowed to develop Sativex because the drug could provide all of the medical benefits of cannabis without burdening patients with its “dangerous” effects — those of smoking and getting high. But there is very little evidence that smoking marijuana as a means of taking it represents a significant health risk. Although cannabis has been smoked widely in Western countries for more than four decades, there have been no reported cases of lung cancer or emphysema attributed to marijuana. I suspect that a day’s breathing in any city with poor air quality poses more of a threat than inhaling a day’s dose — which for many ailments is just a portion of a joint — of marijuana. Further, those who are concerned about the toxic effects of smoking can now use a vaporizer, which frees the cannabinoid molecules from the plant material without burning it and producing smoke. As for getting high, I am not convinced that the therapeutic benefits of cannabis can always be separated from its psychoactive effects. For example, many patients with multiple sclerosis who use marijuana speak of “feeling better” as well as of the relief from muscle spasms and other symptoms. If cannabis contributes to this mood elevation, should patients be deprived of it? The statement that Sativex, “when taken properly,” won’t cause intoxication hinges on the phrase “when taken properly.” “Properly” here merely means taking a dose — by holding a few drops of liquid under the tongue — that is under the level required for the psychoactive effect. As with Marinol, people who want to use Sativex to get high will certainly be able to do so. One of the most important characteristics of cannabis is how fast it acts when it is inhaled, which allows patients to easily determine the right dose for symptom relief. Sativex’s sublingual absorption is more efficient than orally administered Marinol (which requires 1 1/2 to two hours to take effect), but it’s still not nearly as fast as smoking or inhaling the herb. That means “self-titration,” or self-dosage, is difficult if not impossible. Further, many patients cannot hold Sativex, which has an unpleasant taste, under the tongue long enough for it to be absorbed. As a consequence, varying amounts trickle down the esophagus. It then behaves like orally administered cannabis, with the consequent delay in the therapeutic effect. Cannabis will one day be seen as a wonder drug, as was penicillin in the 1940s. Like penicillin, herbal marijuana is remarkably nontoxic, has a wide range of therapeutic applications and would be quite inexpensive if it were legal. Even now, good-quality illicit or homegrown marijuana, which is, at the very least, no less useful a medicine than Sativex, is less expensive than Sativex or Marinol. The “pharmaceuticalization” of marijuana has promise. No doubt the industry could produce unique analogs of the naturally occurring cannabinoids that would be useful in ways smoked cannabis is not. But for now, medicines such as Sativex provide only one advantage over the herb: They’re legal. I have yet to see a patient who preferred Marinol to smoked marijuana. Similarly, the commercial success of Sativex will largely depend on how vigorously the marijuana laws are enforced. It is not unreasonable to believe that drug companies have an interest in sustaining the prohibition against the herb. Geoffrey Guy, who founded GW Pharmaceuticals, claims his aim was to keep people who find marijuana useful out of court. There is, of course, a way to do this that would be much less expensive — both economically and in terms of human suffering. LESTER GRINSPOON is an emeritus professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the author of “Marijuana, the Forbidden Medicine” (Yale University Press, 1997). Los Angeles Times May 5, 2006 (source) The DEA Position On Marijuana The campaign to legitimize what is called “medical” marijuana is based on two propositions: that science views marijuana as medicine, and that DEA targets sick and dying people using the drug. Neither proposition is true. Smoked marijuana has not withstood the rigors of science – it is not medicine and it is not safe. DEA targets criminals engaged in cultivation and trafficking, not the sick and dying. No state has legalized the trafficking of marijuana, including the twelve states that have decriminalized certain marijuana use. SMOKED MARIJUANA IS NOT MEDICINE There is no consensus of medical evidence that smoking marijuana helps patients. Congress enacted laws against marijuana in 1970 based in part on its conclusion that marijuana has no scientifically proven medical value. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is the federal agency responsible for approving drugs as safe and effective medicine based on valid scientific data. FDA has not approved smoked marijuana for any condition or disease. The FDA noted that “there is currently sound evidence that smoked marijuana is harmful,” and “that no sound scientific studies supported medical use of marijuana for treatment in the United States, and no animal or human data supported the safety or efficacy of marijuana for general medical use.”
MYLAR 101: What does "Mil" Mean? January 23 2017 As some of you may have noticed, Mylar and Dura-Lar are measured by thickness. The thickness of Mylar and Dura-Lar are measured in "mil" ... But, what's a mil? A Mil is equal to 1/1,000th of an inch, and is written either as "1 mil" or 0.001" MEASURING MYLARMylar comes in two thicknesses. There is 2 mil Mylar or 0.002" Mylar, a specialty thickness to be used with thick paper or photographs. This 2 mil Mylar is slightly thinner than the standard Mylar ringing in at 2/1,000ths of an inch thick. The standard thickness is 3mil Mylar or 0.003" Mylar. This is the standard thickness, and is best paired with standard 20lb printer paper. Three mil Mylar is what comes in all of our button making kits, and is the industry standard thickness. It is 3/1,000ths of an inch in thickness. Dura-Lar Film, a Mylar alternative that can go through a laser printer, is also measure in mil. The Silver/Gold double sided Mattalised Dura-Lar Film is the thinnest Dura-Lar product with a thickness of 2 mil (0.002"). The Glossy Dura-Lar Film is slightly thicker than regular Mylar, at 4 mil (0.004") thick, and the thickest is Matte Dura-Lar at 5 mil (0.005"). So now when you're shopping around for Mylar or other specialty finishes and see the word Mil kicking about, you know exactly what it means! Knowledge is Power!
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You think you’re enjoying the best picture quality with your television and next-generation console, but more than likely they’re not doing. Here’s the solution. Although our television has increasingly connected devices and many other computers, the truth is that its primary function, at least for the approach of manufacturers is adding modes and functions to make our satisfactory when watching television or movies experience. The big problem with this is that, although few users are aware of them, ruins image quality and experience when play with our console or using the TV as your computer monitor. Here are several tips and solutions. The first problem to be solved is the condescension of many users and the image quality of their TVs. Chances are that your TV is not so bad, but the factory settings of the panel is a disaster. The main complaint of users to connect a PC or console HDMI to your new TV is processed is its poor image and color richness. And it is that a film does not have the same richness of color that CGI or processing of the images must be the same. If we really want to use a console or a PC with our TV we have to achieve is that act as a computer monitor - tag or rename the HDMI input on your television, by which you connect your console to “PC”. - Enable the “Game” mode. - Deletes all options and forwarded to your TV. Special attention to sharpening. - Set the contrast, brightness, color temperature and white. - Find out if your TV supports RGB full or limited range and set up your console. 1. HDMI to label the “PC” The first step is easier and more dramatically change the quality of the experience. Depending on the model of your TV (there are many and I can not create a tutorial for each of them) is to rename the HDMI port where you have connected your console or PC with the “PC” label. I think in all of television I’ve ever had there this way, search options and change the man “HDMI 4”, for example, to “PC” in the options. With this simple step, the TV will know to computer generated images coming to an input disables all image processing designed and made for movies. Not the same connect a blu-ray to a console and so it is important that you tell your TV what you have connected. The image is of a NeoGAF as my TV did not apply such drastic effects on the image. Almost all Samsung TVs, to take the example of the most popular manufacturer, have a lot of processing that ruins the experience for consoles and PC. The change is huge and the TV and is much closer to a monitor, the text is clearly defined and the colors back to life receivable as developers they were conceived. Label the HDMI PC mode is necessary even if you have the game mode, still, many TVs support HDMI put in “PC” mode and activate the game mode. This does, in most TVs, the input lag is minimized and any additional processing that ms delay by rendering the image on your screen is removed. Play with a minimum input lag is crucial. It is in any game, but you play single player titles, since that time between your movement and changing the picture on the TV becomes very annoying for many players. Once you try it, will seem incredible to have been playing like you did before. Depending on your TV model, the change will be more or less noticeable, but do not lose anything to set it well. 3. Everything ‘Off’ The game mode and labeling of PC input and should have disabled all the “extra” processed, but you have to make sure all the effects processing TV is in “Off” or disabled. Farewell to “Dynamic Contrast”, “True Motion”, “Sky Color” (WTF?) And other filters or processed. Just added input-lag and ruin the picture quality that our console or PC offer Important:. Eliminate ‘sharpening’ or ‘Edge enhancement’. I do not know why this option analog video to digital panels moved, but it is an aberration. 0 deactivated or put option. Note that in some TVs off the filter may be to ’50’ or ’10’ and to introduce an artificial decrease in image blur. Explores the menus or search the Internet. 4. Contrast, brightness, color No devices for calibrating is very difficult to do this, and there are internet settings that serve only to that specific model. What I recommend is that you start with the audience on the TV or open one in the web browser console. Usually the contrast will be around 70-80, and brightness and color to 50. We also recommend that you set a color temperature somewhat warmer than the default option, because it will get closer to the standard 6500K and your experience will be more enjoyable with the passing hours. 5. Full range RGB and black I do not know how many hours I lost in forums and specialized websites reading on this topic. But there have been many. So, for that you have to not go ye therefore also a brief summary to connect a PC, an Xbox or PS4 One to your TV I will give. I have a PS4 now, so I’ll guide based on this console (the rest is the same, you just have to dig into the menus or ask Internet). The TV can accept RGB limited or full RGB mode. In the full RGB each color is one byte of information (0-255), the total black 0 and white 255. In the limited RGB (16-235), the black 16 and 235 pure white . That is, it is usual that the television has fewer varieties of color if limited only accepts RGB input. In all monitors used in PC RGB Full range. The PS4 has among its options the color range of the HDMI output. The use range ‘Full’ on a TV that only accepts limited, we see that all the details are lost in the shadows because it treat information from 0 to 16 as if it were all the same black. Summary: - If you use the console connected to a PC monitor, always use the RGB Full mode. - If you use a TV it’s likely that only supports RGB limited, so I put it that way in your console or see all super dark. And most important: if you use RGB Limited have to set blacks in “low”, if you use the RGB Full put it in “High After doing so, enter this If you have doubts Comment on and I will do my best to resolve them. May 31, 2015
What is fine art paper and how is it different from standard photo paper? Is it just a marketing term? When should it be used? Fine art paper is usually made using 100% cotton rag content, is most often acid-free and therefore is suitable for archival purposes since it addresses the problem of preserving documents for long periods (see "How Long Will Your Photo Prints Last?" at PhotoShelter Blog for example). It qualifies as matte paper, thought it certainly has a texture, a look and tactile experience that is simply lacking in photo papers, which are constructed on a plastic base. It can be an acquired taste, I would recommend you buy a sample kit or a small amount of paper before, just to try. When should it be used? It's an option you may want to consider if you are selling your prints, for example. Galleries and museums generally favor prints on archival paper too. Luminous Lanscape had a review back in 2007 of high-quality Baryta-based fine art paper ("These papers are akin to the papers used for various non-photographic fine art processes"). It mentions the Hahnemuhle Fine Art Baryta 325, Harman Gloss FB AI, and Ilford Galerie Gold Fibre Silk. You certainly can't go wrong with anything coming from a very old, respectable company like Hahnemuhle. Less expensive, I would also recommend Red River's Aurora Fine Art paper, I actually made two prints on both the Natural and White variations of that paper yesterday, and they look pretty good (I would recommend White). I'm planning on buying some Ilford Galerie Gold Fibre Silk, I'll update this answer accordingly. A few more things to keep in mind if you end up using high quality Fine Art Paper: - make sure you download the ICC profile from the paper vendor to optimize your print. Here are Red River's, and Ilford's. Said profile is a fine-tuned combo associating your printer to their paper. There is often a PDF in that bundle that will tell you which settings to use for your printer, specifically for that paper. - many semi-pro printers (I've an Epson R2880) require you to use a different black ink for matte vs. glossy/satin paper, don't forget to swap cartridges if needed. - If you are using matte or fine art papers with pigment inks, an interleaving sheet is highly recommended for print storage or transport. Black pigment inks rub off and scuff easily on matte and cotton papers. - if you print on archival paper, make sure your mats and backs are also archivals, i.e. 100% cotton. I would recommend Matcutter.com for example, here is a high quality archival cotton, buffered, 4 Ply, mat, though you can customize to your needs. - if you are going to store prints in plastic bags or sleeves, look for plastic material that is made from biaxially oriented polypropylene. Avoid using any materials that contain polyethylene or plasticizers which can cause rapid yellowing of your paper.
In physics a wave is a disturbance or oscillation that travels through space accompanied by a transfer of energy, and may be propagated with little or no net motion of the medium involved. In this section we will consider mechanical waves, in which the particles in a material are oscillating. Examples are the waves in the sea, the wave in the crowd at a stadium, and sound. Later on we will encounter electromagnetic waves in which electric and magnetic fields are oscillating, and which can travel through vacuum. Examples are light and radio signals. In quantum mechanics, we will also encounter what are sometimes referred to as matter waves, where fundamental objects that we usually think of as particles, such as electrons and protons, can also be considered as waves. Finally, recently gravitational waves were discovered, which are vibrations of space time itself. By observing a particle, we know in which direction it moves at any given time. However, as I just stated,the particles in a mechanical wave have no, or almost no, net motion as the wave passes. The wave does have a well-defined direction though: the direction in which energy is transferred. Some waves spread out uniformly, such as a sound wave emanating from a point source. Others are restricted in their motion by the properties of the material they travel in, such as a wave in a string, or by boundary conditions, such as the end of that string. For waves that move (predominantly) in one direction, we can distinguish two fundamental types, illustrated in Figure 9.1.1. The first type is the case that the particles oscillate in the same direction as the wave is moving (Figure 9.1.1a), which we call a longitudinal wave; sound is an example. The second case is that the particles oscillate in a direction perpendicular to the wave motion, which we call a transverse wave (Figure 9.1.1b), of which the waves in a pond are an example. - 9.1: Sinusoidal Waves - Probably the simplest kind of wave is a transverse sinusoidal wave in a one-dimensional string. In such a wave each point of the string undergoes a harmonic oscillation. - 9.2: The Wave Equation - As with all phenomena in classical mechanics, the motion of the particles in a wave, for instance the masses on springs in Figure 9.1.1, are governed by Newton’s laws of motion and the various force laws. In this section we will use these laws to derive an equation of motion for the wave itself, which applies quite generally to wave phenomena. - 9.3: Solution of the One-Dimensional Wave Equation - The one-dimensional wave Equation 9.2.6 has a surprisingly generic solution, due to the fact that it contains second derivatives in both space and time. - 9.4: Wave Superposition - The wave equation is linear in the function we are re interested in, the displacement u(x,t). This simple mathematical statement has important consequences, because it means that if we know any set of solutions, we can create more solutions by making linear combinations of them. - 9.5: Amplitude Modulation - The general solution to the wave equation allows for many more interesting wave shapes. An important, and often encountered one is where the wave itself is used as the medium, by changing the amplitude over time. - 9.6: Sound Waves - So far, we mostly considered transversal waves, which include waves in strings and waves on the surface of a pond, and are easily visualized. Longitudinal waves, on the other hand, are somewhat harder to draw, but easily heard - as sound is the prime example of a longitudinal wave. - 9.7: The Doppler Effect - The Doppler effect is a physical phenomenon that most people have experienced many times: when a moving source of sound (say an ambulance, or more exactly its siren) is approaching you, its pitch sounds noticeably higher then after it passed you by and is moving away. The effect is due to the fact that the observed wavelength (and therefore frequency / pitch) of sound corresponds to the distance between two points of equal phase (i.e., two sequential wavefronts). Thumbnail: Surfer at Mavericks, one of the world's premier big wave surfing locations. (Surfer: Andrew Davis). (CC SA-BY 2.0; Shalom Jacobovitz).
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We are now being drenched by a torrent of media adulation for Hillary Clinton, extolling her as the first female candidate for the presidency in American history. Many of the news items focus exclusively on Hillary’s gender priority, and ordinary folk I have spoken to about the issue are convinced that she has no female predecessor, believing she is the first woman in American history to figure on the presidential stage. Writing in the New York Times, Nicholas Kristof gushes in one of the most fatuous articles I have ever read even by NYT standards (though Leonard Shlain’s lunatic argument that the invention of fire and literacy have led to the diminishment of “female values [and] female power” is a worthy competitor), that “whatever one thinks of Clinton, her nomination is a milestone, and a lesson of history is that when women advance, humanity advances.” Of course, there is no verifiable evidence for so vast an abstraction and, as Janet Bloomfield (among others) has clearly shown in a methodical analysis of the hypothesis, some reason for skepticism. But the real issue that should concern us is that gender is a red herring, having nothing to do with character, vision or political capacity and thus completely irrelevant in the context of fitness for the office of president. No matter. Muliebrity has become a pre-eminent factor in the current electoral sweepstakes and may go some way to installing Hillary in the White House. Moreover, the media emphasis on the Hillary Monologues, apart from the fact that it is both trivial and beside the presidential point, is also to some extent misleading. True, much of the hoopla surrounding Clinton is that she is the first woman representing a major political party; nonetheless, she is by no means the first female to head a national ticket, that honor going to Victoria C. Woodhull in 1872 as a candidate for the Equal Rights Party. Woodhull, the founder of the first female-led (and successful) brokerage firm on Wall Street and co-founder of a newspaper, was a smart and determined woman with an engaging if utopian platform—in some ways not that different from today’s Democratic objectives. “Woman’s strength and woman’s will,” she wrote in her political manifesto, would open “a new career of greatness in the race of nations.” She also supported free love, welfare for the poor, the nationalization of the railways, an eight-hour workday and the abolition of the death penalty. Woodhull’s pursuit of high office was cut short by a prison sentence for libel after publishing an article critical of well-known preacher Henry Ward Beecher. (Some hope history will repeat itself.) “It was a meteoric and, some would argue, reckless assent that ended in disaster,” writes Mary Gabriel in her Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria C. Woodhull, Uncensored. There have been several other women nominated by splinter parties with no chance of being elected, but who strutted their stuff for a time—Belva Lockwood, Charlene Mitchell, Linda Jennings, Margaret Wright, Ellen McCormack, Sonia Johnson, Lenora Fulani, Cynthia McKinney and Jill Stein. How serious or plausible their aspirations were is another question, but they certainly entertained presidential ambitions. (Some might argue that the U.S. already has a female president—in de facto mode, to be sure—namely, Valerie Jarrett, who appears to control Obama’s decision-making process.) Nor should we forget Geraldine Ferraro, the first female vice-presidential candidate representing a major political party, chosen by Walter Mondale in 1984, as well as John McCain’s running mate, the much-abused Sarah Palin, whose gender counted for nothing with her progressivist detractors. The fact is that even 150 years ago women were critically engaged in the political process; Hillary’s presumed uniqueness as a woman is in no way amazing or unprecedented. The most that can be said in this regard is that she is the culmination of a long line of female precursors, but she is by no means a singularity and plainly does not merit the mantle of unparagoned novelty which the media have bestowed on her. The general impression the pro-Hillary army of pundits, anchors and political partisans have planted in the minds of an uninformed public, that Hillary’s gender renders her exceptional, is a canard of the first magnitude. Hillary is obviously exceptional in other ways, namely, she is probably among the most corrupt, disingenuous, venomous, bad tempered, generally disgraceful and dramatically incompetent presidential hopefuls ever to have sullied an electoral campaign—and there have been many. (Admittedly, the suavely androgynous Obama can give her a run for her money, though I suspect she might nose him out in a photo finish.) Despite what a sectarian press is trying to drum into us, Hillary’s gender is patently not precedent setting. There have been many far more accomplished and, indeed, morally superior women in the higher regions of American politics before her. Whatever her prestige ranking may be—and, as we’ve seen, it is to a considerable degree moot—the bottom line is that Hillary’s sex is, or should be, a non-starter in the debate about her intellectual ability or policy-making aptitude. It is much ado about nothing. For gender is neither an achievement nor a qualification.
The pandemic and subsequent UK lockdowns have had a transformative impact on UK employees, with more than a third (36 per cent) aged 18-34 moving house so as to secure a better quality of life, according to new findings from Close Brothers. The corresponding figure for those aged 55+ is just 9 per cent, while the UK average is one-in-five (21 per cent). It is notable that employees in London are most eager to make the change, with 38 per cent moving to get that better quality of life. It is a significantly greater proportion than the next most likely regions, the East Midlands and the East of England (both 23 per cent). The region in which employees are least likely to have made the shift is the North East (9 per cent). The new report, ‘Expecting the unexpected: a spotlight on preparing for a crisis’, highlights the extent to which the past 12 months have changed the financial plans of employees across the UK. The findings also show that 39 per cent of workers plan to move to remote working full time as a result of the pandemic with 30 per cent doing so part time. Around one-in-five have decided that they want to reduce the amount of time they spend working (18 per cent), while 14 per cent either have already retrained, or are planning to retrain, for a new career. Outside of work the report also uncovers significant behavioural change. Three fifths of UK employees are exercising more (61 per cent), meanwhile 58 per cent intend to go out more when possible, and the same number are making a concerted effort to connect more with friends and family. Over half (55 per cent) want to engage in a healthier diet and focus more on activities to improve wellbeing and mental health. The last 18 months have had an almost incalculable impact on people’s mental and physical health, but it has had a notably tangible impact on employee behaviour when it comes to their finances too. With many employees having to take difficult financial decisions, the research identifies that around three quarters (73 per cent) of UK female workers either plan to or have already started keeping a closer eye on their day-to-day spending as a result of the pandemic. This is the case for more than half (52 per cent) of their male counterparts. COVID-19 has also spurred employees to think more about planning for the unexpected. Almost two thirds (61 per cent) are saving into an emergency fund. Furthermore, one in five (20 per cent) have been prompted to write their will. \|Top changes made to improve financial wellness\| \|Keeping a closer eye on day to day spending\|\|63 per cent\|\|52 per cent\|\|73 per cent\| \|Saving more into an emergency savings fund\|\|61 per cent\|\|57 per cent\|\|65 per cent\| \|Writing a will/ updating an existing will\|\|20 per cent\|\|19 per cent\|\|21 per cent\| \|Saving more into my personal pension\|\|19 per cent\|\|24 per cent\|\|15 per cent\| \|Increasing my contribution to my workplace pension\|\|16 per cent\|\|19 per cent\|\|13 per cent\| Jeanette Makings, head of financial education at Close Brothers said: “For years, we’ve been keeping a close eye on the financial wellbeing of UK employees and in the last few years, there are some signs of trending in the right direction. But the impact of the pandemic and the experience through multiple lockdowns have been a catalyst for some significant lifestyle changes and in employees taking steps to improve their mental, physical, and financial health. “At this moment in time employees are more focused than ever about the importance of better managing their finances. It is therefore the perfect time for employers to push harder on their financial wellbeing strategies and better support their employees’ financial health. More employees need it and more employees are ready, willing and able to listen. For those organisations doing more to improve their financial wellbeing strategies now, the rewards won’t just be felt by their employees but there will also be tangible benefits to business performance, so it’s a double win.” This post has originally been featured in Property Wire.
This film is part of Free Abu and the Poisoned Well Hitler as a snake and Mussolini as a toad feature in this British propaganda cartoon made for distribution in the Middle East Ever seen a snake with a moustache? The Middle East was as much an ideological as a physical battleground in the Second World War. In the midst of the conflict Halas & Batchelor were commissioned by the British Government to make four cartoons featuring a young boy Abu and his mule. They were intended to demonstrate in simple visual terms that Britain was a stout friend and the Axis powers a pernicious evil. The snake and the toad are easy to recognise for their real life counterparts of Hitler and Mussolini, but what on the surface is a simple childlike narrative obviously glosses over a complex reality. The poison is one of ideas that brainwashes Abu and others to fight against the British Tommy tank, although it also transforms them to gaunt skeletons for visual impact. Interestingly the films vary in how they handle the hero’s salvation. Here Abu is cured and inspired by the vision of a horseback Arab warrior. This character also appears in Abu’s Dungeon, which features no British intervention. In the other two films it is the British characters only who turn the tide. This government film is a public record, preserved and presented by the BFI National Archive on behalf of The National Archives, home to more than 1,000 years of British history.
How a path traveled by one becomes the path traveled by a few, and to later emerge as a recognized trail, is the heart of the matter in On Trails by Robert Moor. As a thru-hiker of the Appalachian Trail, Moor writes a strong and compelling hybrid, mixing memoir and reporting to get us to think more clearly of the paths and trails we travel. Moor’s book opens with an in-depth personal account of how trails became central to his life. After various life struggles, he decided to walk the 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail. The preface is a compelling, and well-written explanation of this. Moor’s first-person account is intimate early on, full of wonder and intelligence, reminiscent of the quality and scope of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild. We grow to really like Moor in the opening pages, and are happy to walk the trail with him. Moor writes and thinks like a thru-hiker, and explains how even when he moved beyond the trail, when the thousands of miles of the AT were behind him, he still thought the way he did when he was hiking. After the sizable preface, Moor breaks his book into chapters, and each read like a long, self-sustained magazine feature about a subtopic connected to his theme. Moor looks into the history and science of trails. He travels and traverses various paths with an array of character, looking at everything from how animals come to form trails, to some of the oldest trails on planet earth. The reporting here is all well written, but some of the topics are more compelling than others. Moor is not a scientist, and his study of the trail is based solely on observation, and what he learns through his reporting. Because of this, the narrative lacks some of the stellar, scientific insight we come to expect from this type of writing, as Moor doesn’t quite know what genre his text belongs in. On Trails is not concerned with the spiritual or transcendent nature of paths and trails, but rather the holistic way that paths arise in life. The book is best when mixing the personal with historical, otherwise, it feels like a wandering narrative without a fixed destination, and without much to back it up. A decent book, and a nice wander with some good reporting that grows repetitive. A read best suited for the avid hiker who wants something to do when not on the trail. [signoff predefined=”Social Media Reminder” icon=”twitter”][/signoff]
The cities of Lima and Cusco are filled with stunning architectural sites to discover. Traveling between these Peruvian cities on a bus is one of the best ways to see the country. If you already have your bucket list ready with things to do in Cusco, all you need now is to find the perfect Lima to Cusco bus ride. In this guide, I will take you through all the information you need about traveling by bus from Lima to Cusco. If you prefer a train ride or a flight, I have some tips for you about those transport options too. Traveling to Peru for the first time? Discover here all the unmissable things to do and see. How far is Cusco from Lima? Lima is the capital city of Peru and sits on the country’s south coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The city of Cusco lies inland to the east of Lima, and it’s the gateway to incredible Machu Picchu. These two cities are 573 km apart on a map. However, they are separated by the formidable Andes Mountains. You should take the winding road to the south to travel between the two cities. This puts the road distance from Lima to Cusco at about 1,100 km. This journey takes around 22 hours by bus, but it is much safer than traveling over the mountains. Many buses also include scenic stops along the way. How to get from Lima to Cusco? There is more than one way of getting from Lima to Cusco. You can travel between the two cities by airplane, bus, or train. All of these transport options have their advantages and disadvantages. The best way to travel from Lima to Cusco simply depends on your available time and budget. A bus ride is the most common way to travel from Lima to Cusco. Although the journey takes almost a full day, it is comfortable, affordable, and safe. If you want to fly from Lima to Cusco, your trip will only take about 1 hour and 30 minutes, definitely the quickest route, but it will cost you more than double the price of a bus ticket. A train ride is another viable transport option. However, there is no direct train from Lima to Cusco, so you must combine a bus and train trip. Discover what to do and where to stay in Cusco here! Why travel from Lima to Cusco by bus? Among all these transportation options, I still believe that Lima to Cusco bus service is the best way to travel. Not only do you get to experience the countryside up close, but there are also practical benefits to bus travel. This option provides the best value for money. Established bus companies provide you with a comfortable ride during long trips for an affordable price. Bus travel is also the main form of long-distance transport in Peru, making it easy to find a company that suits your budget and needs. Keep in mind that traveling by bus is very common in Peru and South America. When you choose a reputable bus company, bus rides are also a very safe mode of transport. The buses from high-end companies are well-serviced, drivers rotate regularly, and passengers are picked up from designated safe areas. Taking a bus from Lima to Cusco: what to expect If this is your first time taking a bus in Peru, there may be some things you’re uncertain about. Here’s my guide on what you can expect from your bus ride from Lima to Cusco. > Types of buses in Peru There are many public buses that drive from Lima to Cusco. The lower-end companies mainly focus on locals and don’t offer services in English. However, there are good public bus companies that are accessible to tourists and offer more comforts. Cruz del Sur, Oltursa, and Civa are some of the most reliable higher-end public transportation companies in Peru. All of them offer at least one daily departure. > Amenities on the Lima – Cusco buses The quality of the bus really is a matter of getting what you pay for, so stick to the mid and high-end companies for this long bus trip. A 22-hour ride can be tiring for your body, so rather spend that little extra to ensure you travel in comfort. These buses include reclining seats, toilets, television, and air-conditioning. The companies advertising as a ‘Reclining Seats Bus’ usually includes a blanket and a meal on the trip. > Bus Routes and terminals If you choose a reputable company, your bus ride should follow the longer but safer route around the south of Peru. Most public buses make as few stops as possible and complete the drive between 21 and 23 hours. A downside of taking the public buses is that there is no central Lima bus station. Instead, each company operates from its own bus terminal that might be far from the city center. You need to plan transport to the terminal and make sure you arrive at the correct place and time. When buying your bus ticket (more on that below), make sure to check all the information about the pick-up and drop-off points. If you still have doubt or can’t find the location on Google Maps, ask at your hotel or hostel reception, and I’m sure they will give you the right direction or even organize a transfer. How to buy bus tickets in Peru? Public buses travel from Lima to Cusco daily. Depending on the company, you can usually find rides in the morning and afternoon. The bus ticket prices range from PEN 100 to PEN 350 (around $25 to $80). The most convenient way to buy your tickets is through a reputable website. We recommend using Bookaway. Instead of going to each bus company’s websites or even local offices, you can compare prices, departure times, and amenities across bus companies on this one website. We like the Bookaway platform because you can compare the transportation options, read users’ reviews, book your ticket, and pay for it easily and in only one place. This means that you only need to show up in time on the day of your travel and enjoy the ride. When buying your Lima Cusco bus ticket (click here), you will see all the information about bus schedules, luggage, meals, and amenities that are included on the bus journey, travel time, and location of departure and arrival. After buying your ticket, it can take up to 24 hours to get the confirmation. This happens because many operators don’t work with immediate booking. So If you want to ensure you get a ticket for a specific date, it is a good idea to book well in advance. You can search for the best bus ride for your Lima to Cusco trip by clicking on the banner below. If you have any doubt about how Bookaway works and how you can pay for your tickets, check out the FAQ page. Other transportation from Lima to Cusco If you prefer a faster trip, you can take a direct flight from Lima to Cusco. Multiple airlines offer daily flights between these cities, usually in the early morning. The average flight time is about 1 hour and 30 minutes. You will be flying from Lima Airport – Jorge Chavez International Airport to Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport in Cusco. Traveling from Lima to Cusco by train is another popular option, but it takes longer than a bus ride and is more expensive as well. However, it can be a lovely journey if you’re looking for a scenic ride through the Andes. It’s an excellent opportunity to see some of Peru’s famous attractions from your window. Just be aware that there is no direct route from Lima and Cusco by train. You can travel from Lima to Puno by bus, and the journey will take 21 to 22 hours. Then you can take a scenic luxurious PeruRail train to Cusco. The train ride to Cusco takes 11 hours, and it goes through the Peruvian Andes, passing by Lake Titicaca while you can enjoy the services and amenities on the train. For sure, this is a longer and more expensive option to travel from Lima to Cusco, but it is more of a Lifetime experience than a mode of transportation. 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With great pleasure, we share with you the recordings, presentation slides and our recaps from APIdays, API The Docs Track in Paris 2019 December. A big Thank you to all the speakers! Founder & CEO at APIMatic.io How many developers are using your developer portal? If the answer is an awkward silence, maybe it is because the developer needs to write code before they can create their first ‘Hello World’ using the API. Today, developers are the connection between APIs and the outside world where APIs are independent mediums between platform- and language-specific devices. You need to treat APIs as a product, and if you do so, care for the user (developer) experience. Make the developer achieve her/his goal in the least number of steps and amount of time. How can you help them access and use your APIs more easily? Don’t make them code (anything extra). Let them focus on what they are building. Developer Advocate at Rubrik Inc. Backup is traditionally not an innovative space because of legacy tooling or custom tools/modules. The goal of building the SDKs: Simplify the API interaction: Interactive use: Supporting multiple languages, simplified and more human-readable data output. Extensibility: Ease of updating, Build tooling on SDK, Extend SDK based on the requirements of the tools with the help of a feedback loop. Additional goals: SDKs are Open source, Unit tests, Documentation. UX Lead at Ad Hoc LLC If an API design considers the needs of developers (DX) and focuses on engineering aspects and technical needs only, it has zero connection to end users. 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You have to take measures to decide what you should focus on: A documentation pattern that takes into consideration the constant changes/improvements in code and business logic needs to be reflected internally for every closed sprint. If your documentation is unable to catch-up with the changes, you’ll achieve an unsynchronized knowledge-base. You have to communicate with someone you don't know. If you cannot pass information to users, your documentation is not communicating. Do your developers write the documentation? Do you have a dedicated team for that? How do you handle your documentation? What should you improve? Share your useful practices with the community.
Individual differences \| Methods \| Statistics \| Clinical \| Educational \| Industrial \| Professional items \| World psychology \| The Uniform Rights of the Terminally Ill Act (1985, revised 1989), has been recommended as a Uniform Act in the United States, and subsequently been passed by many US states. The law allows a person to declare a living will specifying that, if the situation arises, he or she does not wish to be kept alive through life support if terminally ill or in a coma. The patient may also obtain a health care power of attorney. This power of attorney appoints an agent to make medical decision for the patinet in case the patient becomes incompetent1. Many people make use of this act because they do not wish to endure any pain or suffering if weakened by a fatal disease. They want to "die with dignity," so that family members will not have to go through emotional pain of watching their loved one sleep through many years of life with no response to any stimuli. This form of death is known as passive euthanasia, where death is not inflicted with drugs, but is allowed by cutting off life support. Psychological issues around the application of the act Saunders, Legal and ethical issues in health care Occupations (Aiken) Pg 651
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This practise is surprisingly difficult, but the benefits are worth the effort. Q. Do you reach a point in each, or some, projects where it takes on it’s own life? A: Definitely. Because I so enjoy the process not the end result, I can relax and let my work flow. A: I tend to have a lot of them because stitching and creating is a constant source of enjoyment for me. I begin new projects all the time as I am not concerned about what they will be. I actually love my UFOs as they are often a starting point for new projects. Q. Is your workroom your haven? A: I have a big work area, and am not fastidious about storage – I prefer to be stitching rather than rolling threads onto bobbins. My threads, silk ribbons and wool are stored in glass jars or plastic tubs according to the type of thread. But I do not mind working in a mess! Q. What is the piece (of your work) that you would never part with? A: That is a an interesting question. Because the reward for me is in the doing not the end result, I am not sentimental about the finished project. Q. What can we look forward to seeing in “The Gentle Arts” exhibit at this year’s Q&C Spectacular? What type/style of embroidery will you be displaying? At the event, on display, the piece you’re most proud of? A: The work that I will be on display will be what my latest book (Foolproof Flower Embroidery) is based on, all things flower Embroidery . A freeform style of embroidery, using all manner of threads, stitches and techniques to design and create beautiful embroidered flowers.
The ongoing border conflict between India and Pakistan has brought to fore the massive misinformation problems festering in both countries’ media. Yesterday (Feb. 27), hours after the south Asian rivals’ air forces each shot down at least one of the other’s jets, the Indian TV channel Times Now ran a segment that showed how certain Pakistani channels had been using a 2016 photo of a crashed Indian jet, trying to pass it off as an image from the day’s conflict. But just a day earlier, hours after India carried out an airstrike against a militant camp in Balakot, Pakistan, the same channel had itself shared fake news. Fact-checking site AltNews reported that, along with several other Indian outlets, Times Now had posted a video clip of a Pakistani jet from 2017, presenting it as footage of the day’s strike. Pakistani media outlets also posted the same video with a different narrative—saying it showed that the country’s air force had managed to “retaliate” against India. Times Now is no stranger to fake news: it has been called out for spreading misinformation many times, including eight times in an AltNews compilation post from last year. Indian media also shared other pieces of fake news on Feb. 26, including a year-old video of soldiers dancing, which a Telugu TV channel passed off as a post-Balakot celebration. A Hindi media outlet even shared a grainy clip from a video game, claiming it was “exclusive” footage of the strike. In many cases, pieces of misinformation seem to have been circulated widely on social media before being picked up by news outlets. While the bulk of the Indian media’s misinformation seemed to have been shared on the day of the Balakot strike, most of the Pakistani media’s was carried the next day (Feb. 27), after the jets were shot down and an Indian wing commander was taken hostage. For example, besides sharing the old Jodhpur footage (which Times Now and others pointed out), Pakistani media outlets did the same with an old image of a jet crash in Odisha, as well as an old photo of an injured aerobatics air force pilot, who they claimed had been taken hostage. This fake-news arms race is taking place in an atmosphere where government authorities have failed to be forthcoming with details of the actual military operations. Some journalists have criticised the Indian media, in particular, for not asking enough questions on the government’s (largely unsubstantiated) narrative on Balakot. Meanwhile, ground reporting by international media outlets such as the BBC (Urdu), Reuters, and Al Jazeera seems to have cast a major doubt on the scale of casualties India is claiming occurred. “Unfortunately mainstream media organisations both in India and Pakistan have failed to play their roles responsibly. They have been playing to galleries, giving information from dubious social media accounts and also actively using ultra-nationalistic rhetorics,” Ashok Swain, a professor of peace and conflict research at Sweden’s Uppsala University, told Quartz. “On Tuesday, it was Indian media which went for over-the-top reporting of the highly doubtful success of Indian Air Force attacks on Pakistan’s terror training camp, and on Wednesday, it was the Pakistan media’s turn to pay it back over the reporting of arrest of the Indian pilot.” But there may yet be an upside to the polarisation in media coverage. “Paradoxically, the over-zealous Indian media and cowed Pakistani media may help prevent escalation of conflict,” Sadanand Dhume, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, told Quartz. “Indian TV is happy to run giddy stories about ‘hundreds’ of terrorists killed. Pakistani journalists won’t question their army’s claim that nothing much was hit. Everyone gets to save face, and in south Asia face matters—a lot.” Read Quartz’s coverage of the 2019 Indian general election here.
Too Close to Home March 14, 2016 On February 20th, 2016, West Michigan was again changed forever. In the small, quaint town of Kalamazoo, Michigan a gunman went on what appears to be a random shooting rampage which resulted in 6 deaths and two critical injuries (Hall, 2016). As this university town begins to put back together the pieces, those of us living just a few short miles away, in what is considered by Forbes Magazine to be the best city to raise a family (VanRiper, 2012), remain stunned. This is far too close to home. By now we have grown ever too accustomed to the devastation associated with the increasing amount of violence in our world. Mass shootings, natural disasters and other disruptive events have become woven, almost seamlessly, into the tapestry of our culture. As healthcare professionals, we are all familiar with the grief and loss work that comes along with trauma. We have likely spent much of our professional lives working alongside those affected by these events. Despite our familiarity, when the news of an event hits us, we still feel shock followed perhaps by sadness and empathy; but we may also feel safe knowing this devastation is neither in our neighborhood nor in our community. But what about when it is? We are reminded daily that the world is a big place, and that for the most part, our everyday movements are but a blip on the radar. But when a mass shooting takes place in a neighboring city, the seemingly giant world around us becomes instantly smaller. Kalamazoo, Michigan is not only the home of my favorite beer, but also home to the university where I received my master’s degree as well as home to one of my dearest friends. When we watch the news and view the videos associated with a critical incident, our senses are often taken aback by the scenery. However these visuals may move us, the response is likely to be far more surreal when our senses pick up places we have lived, streets we have driven down, businesses we have frequented, and people we know. This identification drives home internally just how close we; ourselves may have been to the danger and just how easily this could have happened to us. When a critical incident takes place so close to home, we tend to ask why more and we tend to feel more unsafe. Why did this happen here? Why so close to home? If a dangerous event like this can take place in Kalamazoo, then what would keep it from taking place here, in my community? Although any event such as this will likely cause us to ask why or to question our own safety, the stakes appear to be much higher when the event is close to home. As mental health professionals, a long distance critical event may catch our attention and appeal to our empathic side, but it may not prompt us to think about how we can help those so far away. For most of us, this is due to either inability or saturation. When a crisis hits close to home, we may not only be asked to assist with community recovery, but we may also feel drawn to providing support. Even though caring for others in the aftermath of a traumatic event is our forte, when the event hits home, like it did in Kalamazoo, this is likely to be a far different experience. Hall, R. (2016). Trail of terror: How a gunman’s rampage changed Kalamazoo. Retrieved from http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2016/02/as_questions_remain_healing_be.html VanRiper, T. (2012, April 4). The best cities for raising a family [Contributor]. Forbes. Retrieved from www.forbes.com/sites/tomvanriper/2012/04/04/the-best-cities-for-raising-a-family/#74634005cc5
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The following discussion is an excerpt from “Black and Red: Socialism and Black Liberation,” a panel sponsored by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Find part one, “Repression and Black Radical History,” here. Jeanne Theoharis: As many of you know, one of the questions that my own work centers on are the myths and fables around the Black freedom struggle and white supremacy, the stories we tell and the stories we need. So I wanted to ask each of you to debunk one myth, either about some aspect of the Black freedom struggle, or about how white supremacy functions and what work do you think that myth, that fable is doing in the present. Barbara Smith: White supremacy has become an obsession with me like it wasn’t before [laughs]. About white supremacy, the major myth for me is that it is primarily based on how people feel about each other and how they treat each other. And that’s why I wrote an article last year, “The Problem is White Supremacy,” because white supremacy is a system of power. Of course it is based in racial capitalism. White supremacy is an ideology that serves to perpetuate racial capitalism, and it is a system of power. It is not just a matter of people’s negative attitudes and behaviors and feelings. I get so tired of seeing the people who get to be in mainstream media and share their ideas. I get so tired of them talking about “well we really need to learn to forgive each other, Americans don’t know how to forgive each other anymore.” I’m thinking, on what planet are you dwelling? [laughs] I mean, forgiveness? I remember when Emmett Till was lynched. That’s how long my personal memory goes back, of these atrocities and what life under US Jim Crow is like. And it’s not about forgiving people. It’s about are we going to topple this system that makes the whole thing go? And the whole thing is racial capitalism. White supremacy plays an incredibly incisive role in that. Of course, the establishment does not want to look at white supremacy as a system of power. And they also reduce white supremacy to white supremacist hate groups. I’ve got news for you. These people who are jumping out here and doing mass killings, racially motivated mass killings, the Kyle Rittenhouses of the world—the guy who went from Illinois to Wisconsin after Jacob Blake was shot seven times by the police and paralyzed, and felt the need to kill two people who were protesting against racism—these people are growing up somewhere and the place they’re growing up is the United States of America. So you can close down every single hate group in the United States, and you’ll still have the Kyles and the Dylann [Roof]s, you’ll still have those people sprouting up because it’s in the soil. And then, on the Civil Rights Movement, I think that there’s a lot to be gained from looking at what SNCC was doing, particularly in relationship to the Movement for Black Lives and Black Lives Matter. I always recommend Howard Zinn’s book, SNCC: The New Abolitionists. In fact, I buy multiple copies of it and I send it to people [laughs]. There are so many myths. You wrote as far as I’m concerned the Bible about the myths in relation to the Civil Rights Movement, Jeanne, which is your book A More Beautiful and Terrible History. But people think that the Civil Rights Movement wasn’t about much now because they just do the broad strokes. I mean, they think it’s about water fountains and seats on buses back or front—they have no clue. They have no idea what that struggle was like and what it was about. Now, the police and the criminal injustice system is the nexus of where we see the greatest threat, which is really quite accurate. Those are our lynch mobs now, except that they’re in uniform and their actions are supported by the state. But one of the things about the civil rights era and even before the civil rights era—maybe we should start with 1619 going on up until the civil rights era—is that in those days and in those centuries, virtually every white person one encountered was a potential threat to your life and wellbeing. What the Civil Rights Movement brought to us was desegregation—not integration, but desegregation—so that some white people are able to be basically cool and calm around people who are not white. So it’s not the same level of threat. But when you go back to those backwoods and through those urban streets in the North in that pre-civil rights era, what you find is that virtually every white person you encounter was a source of potential bodily harm and threat. It was no joke. It was no joke. And you only find that out by reading the history. Charisse Burden-Stelly: So I’m thinking about two things, one about anti-communism as a Cold War phenomenon or a post-World War II phenomenon. Part of what I do in my work is I’m looking at the post-Bolshevik Revolution moment, and not only with the Palmer Raids, but also the formation of a bunch of committees that led to the House Committee on Un-American activities, and the ways that even then there was a confluence of what I call anti-foreignness, anti-Blackness, and anticommunism. For example, one of the questions that the Fish Committee, which is an early 1930s committee, asks to determine whether or not people were communists was “what do you believe about racial equality or do you believe in racial equality?” and “have you ever had a Negro in your home?” There’s this anxiety about the radicalization of Black people through communism and socialism. One of the myths about Black liberation and socialism is that Black communists or socialists or Marxists are derivative, and are sort of dupes of Moscow or are simply parroting some party line. When you get into the papers, you see the deep debates that are happening and the ways in which Black communists are actually contributing to developments in the party line, and the way that they even disagree amongst themselves. For example, there’s this deep debate between Harry Haywood and Otto Huiswoud about the Black Belt Nation Thesis. Later on, there’s a struggle between Doxey Wilkerson and Harry Haywood—Harry Haywood would struggle with everybody!—about how to actually codify or define race. This was in the context of the Jefferson School of Social Sciences and Doxey Wilkerson actually ended up walking back his position on race. All of that to say, I really think that Black and so-called Third World or Global South Marxists, are really important in order to understand where it is that we’re going to go. Especially perhaps after the Sino-Soviet split, but certainly by the 1960s and 1970s the locus of enunciation of socialism moved to the Global South. Through formations like Third Worldism and Tricontinentalism, through struggles in Vietnam and in Cuba, Angola, Guinea Bissau. People like Amilcar Cabral, Kwame Nkrumah and Maurice Bishop, Thomas Sankara, these are people who are really engaging with Marxism, but also articulating it to their own historical, structural, and material conditions and applying it to Black people. So Marxism is not merely Eurocentric. It’s not that racialized people are just parroting some foreign line. It’s not that Marxism is foreign-inspired, so to speak, but that Black people are actually taking what’s useful and also centralizing the Negro question or centralizing the colonial question and the issues that are germane to freedom and liberation in their own localities. So it would behoove us to read Walter Rodney, it would behoove us to read Claudia Jones and Louise Thompson Patterson, Esther Cooper Jackson, and Thelma Dale, Maude White Katz, I could go on and on. Because they’re not simply recapitulating classical Marxism-Leninism, for example. They’re actually contributing to the development of that thought, making it relevant to the twentieth century and making it relevant to other types of struggles that are developing. Robin D. G Kelley: Just to follow up on what Barbara was saying—it’s amazing how liberals and self-proclaimed Marxists could see the kind of radical identity politics coming out of the Combahee River Collective as “race reductionism,” or “gender reductionism,” when, in fact, what they proposed was a liberatory vision for the whole. One of the big problems that we have now in terms of myths is the way in which antiracism, even antiracism that attends to class exploitation, is still too often dismissed as race reductionism. The entire race vs. class reductionism is a false debate. To insist that capitalism has always operated within a system and ideology that assigns differential value to human life and labor does not mean that race governs or explains all forms of exploitation and oppression. This false dichotomy plays itself out in the myth that the Civil Rights Movement had no real economic justice agenda and reflected the interests of a Black elite, and the radical class critique of, say, the 1930s was suppressed by the Cold War. This is simply not true. To take one example, SNCC and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party embraced an economic justice agenda. The 1963 freedom vote campaign in Mississippi promoted a platform that included: - the right of labor to organize - the right of labor to engage in collective bargaining (this is 1963) - a $1.25 minimum wage - support for farm cooperatives in place of sharecropping and dispossession - the provision low interest loans for small farmers - a progressive land tax on tracts of land over 500 acres. SNCC also organized the Mississippi Freedom Labor Union (MFLU) which we don’t talk about. We continually return to the moment when Fannie Lou Hamer and the MFDP delegation took a stand against Lyndon Johnson and the Democratic Party in 1964, but they came back home to build a labor-based, rural-based movement for economic justice. The MFLU occupied the Greenville Air Force base in 1966, fighting again for relief. Tent city was known as strike city. The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the MFLU arguably have much in common with the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit, for example, and similar kinds of movements. In short, the struggle for economic justice never disappeared, but we have to be able to recognize that and bring that into our histories, otherwise, we’re going to think we have to keep reinventing the wheel. The Schomburg Center is a world-renowned institution dedicated to preserving and interpreting the global Black experience, and is celebrating its ninety-fifth year. 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Almost every day comparisons of contemporary politics to Nazi Germany are cropping up in the news. But are these comparisons historically grounded, or are they an abuse of Godwin’s law? Here are some answers to some questions that have cropped up recently. 1) What is Nazism? What is fascism? Would Australia’s right-wing populists fit into either of these categories? Nazism and fascism were aligned far-right political movements that came to power in Germany (Nazism) and Italy (fascism) after the first world war. There were also fascist parties elsewhere, including in Britain and in Nazi-allied states like Croatia and Romania. Their policies were grounded in radical nationalism (which often drew on racist ideas), economic corporatism (that is, a particularly authoritarian form of capitalism), anti-democratic, authoritarian and violent politics, anti-unionism and anti-communism. These parties were an outgrowth of the specific political and economic conditions of the post-war period, but they have attracted some on the radical right globally, who either consider themselves or are considered by others to be neo-Nazi or neo-fascist. In Australia, there are few avowed neo-Nazis or neo-fascist parties, and those that exist are not popular. Populist parties in Australia that are seeking to gain votes by appealing to anti-immigration and racist sentiments are generally outgrowths of the long-standing tradition of such politics in the political history of post-1788 Australia. Unlike the Nazis and the fascists, who ruthlessly destroyed democratic institutions upon coming to power, the most prominent anti-immigration parties in Australia don’t claim to want to abolish democracy. Instead they want to use the liberal democratic system to entrench what might be called “white” or “settler” privilege, at the expense of migrants and Indigenous people. Their model is generally the White Australia Policy, not Nazi Germany. 2) Why do people talk about Nazism or fascism with such fear and horror? The primary legacy of Nazism was the second world war, which led to the deaths of more than 50 million people. Nazis killed almost 6 million European Jews and (directly and indirectly) around 20 million Russians, all in pursuit of an illusory territory secure from racial or political threats. It has been usefully referred to as thanatopolitics – a politics of death founded on the false promise of securing life. 3) Senator Fraser Anning used the phrase ‘final solution‘ and it upset people. Why? The phrase is a direct reference to the Nazi term Endlösung der Judenfrage (The final solution of the Jewish question), which in the end meant genocide. It is clear that this goes well beyond “dog whistling”. It is instead the kind of language that (until now) only the most rabid and marginal of Nazis would deliberately choose to use. The term recalls the desire of the state to kill its citizens and the citizens of states around it to secure its own racial fantasy. Anning argues that his usage was unintentional. This is difficult to believe, given the context of the speech. What is especially chilling about it is that evokes not only the genocidal policies of the Nazi regime, but also its earlier “final solutions” (grounded in the global eugenics movement for ‘racial hygiene’) which included halting Jewish migration, then taking away the civic rights of Jews, then expelling Jews, and then finally murdering them. To use this kind of historically and racially charged language to talk about migrants was a new low, even in Australian politics, where tolerance of racially charged political statements is extraordinarily high. 4) Some Australian press commentators have said that Nazism was left-wing. Is this right? No. Nazis and fascists were decidedly right-wing and fervently anti-communist. There was a small and short-lived group of Nazis clustered around the Strasser brothers who were interested in a racial strain of anti-capitalist politics. They might loosely be termed “socialist”, but they were completely purged from the Nazi party very early on. On coming to power, the first targets of the Nazis were communists and socialists. The formal name of the Nazi party, the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers Party), was a failed attempt to attract workers to the party and away from the left. It failed, and the main voters for the Nazis remained the lower middle classes – the economically vulnerable who most feared the spectre of socialism. 5) Some activists have likened Australia’s offshore detention centres to concentration camps **Is that a fair description? It pays to be careful here. Firstly, not all concentration camps were in Nazi Germany. Concentration camps were used by the British in South Africa, by the Spanish in Cuba and by the US in the Philippines. Secondly, when talking about Nazi Germany, a distinction should be drawn between concentration camps (which were places of detention without trial used by the state to sequester undesired non-criminal elements from other citizens) and extermination camps, which were places of execution. It was in the extermination camps (among other, less organised sites) that the Nazis perpetrated the Holocaust. No two historical examples of concentration camps are exactly alike, but Australia’s offshore mandatory detention centres fit most elements of the description. Those in them are detained without trial. Their purpose is political rather than penological. These are not places of rehabilitation or even punishment. They are indefinite holding centres for those classed as politically problematic. <!– Below is The Conversation’s page counter tag. Please DO NOT REMOVE. –> However, to say Australia is running a detention network with many of the attributes of earlier concentration camps does not mean that Australia is a dictatorship, or that the policy is intrinsically “fascist”. Liberal democracies have their own forms of inhumanity and nations such as Britain and the US have also made use of such camps in the past.

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