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The Adaptive Military Transition Theory: Supporting Military Students in Academic Environments On August 1, 2009, a radically different and more financially generous GI Bill, the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008, took effect, with potential implication for institutions of higher education (Radford, 2009). In conjunction with expanded education benefits and the current drawdown of military forces from Iraq and Afghanistan, institutions of higher education are ill-prepared to support the transition of a student population with comprehensive psychological, physiological, and social needs. A transition, broadly, is any event, or non-event, that results in changed relationships, routines, assumptions, and roles (Schlossberg, Waters, & Goodman, 1995). Using Schlossberg's Adult Transition Theory (Schlossberg, 1981, 1984) as the initial lens, this study sought to describe the transitional experience and emergent transitional stages of military students enrolled at a community college in the Northeast. ^ Utilizing a grounded theory approach, this two-phase mixed method design employed a sequential explanatory strategy employing a profile questionnaire and individual semi-structured interviews (N=11). Based on profile data, participants were purposefully selected for interviews representing the stages of Schlossberg's Adult Transition Theory. In the absence of dedicated research on military student development, an additional purpose of this study was to apply a grounded theory approach to support theory development. The goal of grounded theory is to generate a theory around a core category, which represents a pattern of behavior relevant for persons involved in the study (Beck, 2011, Strauss & Corbin, 1998). The research questions that guided the study were: (1) How do military students describe their transition experience from the military to higher education? (2) What is the transitional process that military students exhibit when acclimating to an academic environment? ^ This research identified themes including participants' appreciation for the military, environmental acclimation, perceptions of academic environment, and their articulation of their futures. These themes identified and supported individual transition stages as they experienced environmental and cultural change. The findings of this study, the Adaptive Military Transition Theory, and its representative model, may provide staff, faculty, and administration with strategies that account for the myriad challenges that this population face as they transition from military to academic culture.^ Education, Leadership\|Military Studies Aynsley M Diamond, "The Adaptive Military Transition Theory: Supporting Military Students in Academic Environments" (January 1, 2012). Dissertation & Theses Collection.
One of the biggest challenges in any organization using SharePoint is managing the document lifecycle. SharePoint... By submitting your personal information, you agree that TechTarget and its partners may contact you regarding relevant content, products and special offers. document libraries tend to accumulate vast amounts of data, and organizations need a way to keep that data organized -- and then either purge or archive the data when it reaches the end of its useful life. In SharePoint, a workflow is a series of semi-automated tasks geared toward performing a process in a consistent manner. The first thing to come to terms with is the idea that SharePoint document management is a process -- not a feature. There is no check box you can select to enable document lifecycle management. Instead, document lifecycle management in SharePoint is about coming up with a plan and then using the various mechanisms in SharePoint to put that plan into action. Reflect on goals and requirements By far the most important part of the process is to define your goals and requirements for document lifecycle management. Unless you have a clear idea of what you need to achieve, it will be impossible to configure SharePoint in a way that meets your document management needs. Some questions that you should be asking yourself at this stage include: - What document types need to be managed? - What retention policies should apply to the various document types? - How (or will) document versions be retained? - Does the retention policy need to address document content (such as retaining some Word documents, but not others)? - What auditing mechanisms should be put into place? Organize your SharePoint data Once you have a clear understanding of SharePoint document management and of your ultimate goals for handling the document lifecycle, the next step is a strategy for implementing your plan. SharePoint has numerous document management features, but these features need a bit of help. Your goal at this stage should be to structure your SharePoint data in a way that allows you to create the policies and workflows needed to carry out your document lifecycle plan. Every organization is going to handle document lifecycle management differently, but here are a few steps to consider at the next stage of the process. - Start applying meaningful tags to documents. Policies and workflows can be based on document tags. - Configure SharePoint to require users to populate specific metadata fields when checking in a document. This ensures that any newly created (or modified) documents will be properly categorized. - Configure libraries to only allow specific content types. Doing so helps make sure that libraries remain focused. For example, you might configure a library containing expense reports so that it can only store Microsoft Word documents. - Create labeling policies that generate meaningful, searchable labels for your documents. Use document sets where appropriate. Document sets group documents that share a common purpose, such as a collection of compliance documents that are to be given to an auditor. Documents within a document set share the same metadata, workflows and even the same archival process. Plan workflows and policies The last stage is to create workflows and policies to handle the actual lifecycle management process. In SharePoint, a workflow is a series of semi-automated tasks geared toward performing a process in a consistent manner. SharePoint workflows are most commonly used as a mechanism for acquiring and tracking approvals for a document, but they can also be used to facilitate the document retention of disposal process. For example, a workflow might be used to send expired documents to someone who makes a decision as to which documents will be deleted and which will be retained. There are a number of different policy types available in SharePoint, but when it comes to document lifecycle management, the most useful policy type is the retention policy. Retention policies allow you to define an action that occurs at the end of each retention stage. Such actions can include things like starting a workflow, permanently deleting an item, moving an item to an alternate location or even deleting previous versions of the item. SharePoint document management is rarely easy to implement. With careful planning, however, it can be configured to meet your long-term document retention and disposal requirements.
In honor of the Bay Area-wide Shanghai Celebration, bestselling author Anchee Min will be appearing at San Francisco Public Libraries in April to discuss her new book, Pearl of China, based on the life of Pearl S. Buck. Min will be appearing at the Main Library, 100 Larkin St., on Tuesday, April 6 at 6:30 p.m. in the Koret Auditorium. She will also be appearing at the Chinatown Branch Library, 1135 Powell St., on Saturday, April 10 at 2:30 p.m. Books will be for sale at both events by Book Bay. Pearl of China begins in the small southern town of Chin-kiang, in the last days of the 19th Century, when two young girls bump heads and become thick as thieves. Willow is the only child of a destitute family, Pearl the headstrong daughter of zealous Christian missionaries. She will ultimately become the internationally renowned author Pearl S. Buck, but for now she is just a girl embarrassed by her blond hair and enchanted by her new Chinese friend. The two embark on a friendship that will sustain both of them through one of the most tumultuous periods in Chinese history. Anchee Min was born in Shanghai and lived in China for 27 years. In 1971, while still a middle school student, she was ordered to denounce Pearl Buck as an American imperialist. Here is Anchee Min’s recollection: “I followed the order and never doubted whether or not Madam Mao was being truthful. I was brainwashed at that time, although I did remember having difficulty composing the criticisms. I wished that I had been given a chance to read The Good Earth. We were told that the book was so “toxic” that it was dangerous to even translate it. I was told to copy lines from the newspapers: ‘Pearl Buck insulted Chinese peasants therefore China.’ ‘She hates us therefore is our enemy.’ I was proud to be able to defend my country and people. Pearl Buck’s name didn’t cross my path again until I immigrated to America. It was 1996 and I was giving a reading at a Chicago bookstore for my memoir, Red Azalea. Afterward, a lady came to me and asked if I knew Pearl Buck. Before I could reply, she said—very emotionally and to my surprise—that Pearl Buck had taught her to love the Chinese people. She placed a paperback in my hands and said that it was a gift. It was The Good Earth. I finished reading The Good Earth on the airplane from Chicago to Los Angeles. I broke down and sobbed. I couldn’t stop myself because I remembered how I had denounced the author. I remembered how Madam Mao had convinced the entire nation to hate Pearl Buck. How wrong we were! I had never encountered any author, including the most respected Chinese authors, who wrote about our peasants with such admiration, affection, and humanity. It was at that very moment that Pearl of China was conceived. All programs at the Library are free. For more information, please call (415) 557-4277. For more information on the Shanghai Celebration, presented throughout 2010 and its associated exhibitions, films, performances, lectures, and other events, please visit www.shanghaicelebration.com. The cornerstone of the Celebration is the Asian Art Museum's presentation of Shanghai, a major exhibition examining the visual culture of one of China's most cosmopolitan cities, scheduled for February 12–September 5, 2010.
SIGN UP FOR OUR Bay Area directors explore post-9/11 FBI entrapment in ‘Better This World’ During the 2008 Republican National Convention in Minneapolis, two young protesters from Midland, Texas, Brad Crowder and David McKay, were arrested on charges of plotting to carry out terrorist attacks using firebombs and got multiple-year jail sentences. But the charismatic grassroots activist who inspired and, arguably, coaxed them to the brink of their alleged crime, Brandon Darby, suffered no legal fallout. On the contrary, his role in the pair’s downfall unveiled a shocking new incarnation of America’s post-9/11 security apparatus, one that is brought vividly to life in “Better This World,” winner for best documentary feature at this month’s San Francisco International Film Festival. The film is scheduled to air nationally on PBS’s independent film series “POV” on Sept. 6. Bay Area-based co-directors Kelly Duane de la Vega and Katie Galloway spoke with SF Public Press about what drove them to make the film, what they learned in the process — and why the rest of us should care. About the Author Levitin is a former assistant news editor at SF Public Press. He is currently managing editor of The Occupied Wall Street Journal. Previously he was a freelance correspondent based in Berlin writing for Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, the Daily Telegraph and others.
1-40th Field Artillery Battalion 434th Field Artillery Brigade The 1st Battalion, 40th Field Artillery was originally organized at Camp Custer, Mich. on July 5, 1918. World War I ended before the unit could deploy, and the 40th field artillery was demobilized in February 1919. Reactivated on June 4, 1941 at Camp Roberts, Calif.; the unit was redirected as A Battery, 974th Field Artillery. Following training in the U.S., the battalion deployed to Europe and landed on Omaha Beach on July 4, 1944. The unit spent the next 281 days in continuous combat and fired more than 60,000 rounds on enemy positions. During this time, the unit supported breakout operations in Normandy, the pursuit of enemy forces across France, the containment of the Belgian Bulge and the final drive into central Europe. After returning to the states, the battery was inactivated in January 1946, at Camp Patrick Henry, Va. Reassigned as the First Howitzer Battery, 40th Field Artillery, the unit was reactivated in February 1966 at Fort Sill, Okla. After it was trained, the unit was reorganized and designated 1st Battalion, 40th Field Artillery on Aug. 15, 1966. Red legs of the “All For One” battalion further secured a place in history during the Vietnam War when it was the first U.S. Field Artillery unit to fire into North Vietnam while supporting special operations forces at Con Thien. After it returned to the U.S. in November 1969, the battalion was inactivated at Fort Lewis, Wash. More recently, the 1st Battalion, 40th Field Artillery was activated as part of the field artillery training center in a ceremony on the Fort Sill Polo Field on Apr. 19, 1996. Today, the “All For One” battalion’s mission is to conduct Initial Entry Training, and continues its tradition of service to the nation by providing the Army with well-trained soldiers in support of the global war on terror.
He just sort of appeared there. I never saw any motion; any coming or going. I must admit, he shook me a little. He was sitting in the pouting chair. That's what we called the battered settle by the door where we'd sit and smoke and think a bit about what we were doing. Collect your thoughts. "When in doubt, sweep the floor," my boss would say. I didn't understand that fully, then. I thought I was his inferior, and it was all I was good for. But I'd see him doing it, so that couldn't be it. Even one as dumb as me understood after a while. He was up against it, somehow. Joint wouldn't pull tight. Glue pot gone cold unexpectedly. A dull blade splintering an edge. Something. He'd sweep like an automaton, and I'd see him turning it over in his mind. Then I understood. The boss was worms and forgotten. The pouting chair was my place to sort it out. The sun would sneak in the door, open a crack; the sheriff of a breeze would evict my smoke after a while; and I watched the motes of dust drifting through the beam like krill in the sea. The grain ran out. The board had a shake. The wane would rob two inches off the sound edge. Something. It would always come to you --what to do-- in the chair. God, that little round face there in the chair. He couldn't be more than ten. Strike that. The little heathens in the street always looked years younger than they were. They might be a race of giants sent by our Creator to rule over us all, but who would know? They'd never eaten two meals in the same day. He sat there all day and said nothing. He didn't even sniffle. It was as if we had a bargain, unsaid; he didn't move and I pretended not to notice him. I'd pull off a prodigious curl with jack plane, and wonder if he saw it. Can he pay attention at all? I couldn't look at him, it would ruin it. He sat there for four hours, and never moved or spoke. When I got there the next day, he was sitting there again. That boy. That boy is the one. [Note: I wrote this seven years ago, and didn't publish it for some very good reason, I'll just bet]
We think you have liked this presentation. If you wish to download it, please recommend it to your friends in any social system. Share buttons are a little bit lower. Thank you! Presentation is loading. Please wait. Published byKaylee Daly Modified over 2 years ago Enfoque: jueves, el 24 de enero, 2008 (dos mil ocho) 1. Submit signed Tener Quiz 2. Do not submit -ar homework 3. Desks in Test Mode La Agenda Retake Tener Quiz -ar Verbs p -ar Verbs Homework Peer Check p Samurai #16 ¿En la escuela? #17 (Hablar/Escribir) Subject Pronouns -English SingularPlural 1 st person IWe 2 nd person YouYou-all 3 rd person He She They Subject Pronouns - Spanish SingularPlural 1 st person yonosotros 2 nd person tú usted vosotros ustedes 3 rd person él ella ellos ellas -ar Verb Endings (p. 106) SingularPlural 1 st person - o - amos 2 nd person - as - a - áis - an 3 rd person - a - an La Tarea Handout: Gramática B Present Tense of – ar verbs Enfoque: martes, el 22 de enero, 2008 (dos mil ocho) Fill in the blanks on the Subject Pronouns /Conjugation Chart. Pronouns y pronombres st Person Singular 4. 1 st Person Plural 2. 2 nd Person Singular 5. 2 nd Person Plural 3. 3 rd person Singular 6. 3 rd Person. -ar verbs. In order to read and write in Spanish, we need to be able to make sentences. Sentences in Spanish are made up of the same elements as in English: Enfoque: martes, el 29 de enero, 2008 (dos mil ocho) 1. Read Los murales en México p. 109 #18 2. Write answers to questions in Compara con tu mundo in. Para empezar Hoy es jueves el ocho de noviembre Write the sentences below in Spanish. We are funny. She is pretty. They (all females) are thin. He is strong. Regular –er verbs (in the present tense) Notes about conjugating verbs are on the “-ar verbs” PowerPoint. R. TURNAGE SPANISH TUTORIALS The Present Tense Conjugating –AR Verbs R. Turnage Spanish 2008. Saying the date Formula = Es el (number) de (month) Exception = The first of the month is Es el primero de (month) Example = May 5 th Es el cinco de mayo. Enfoque: jueves, el 7 de febrero Arrange Desks in Test Mode. A pronoun takes the place of the noun. A subject pronoun takes the place of the subject. We will be learning the subject pronouns in Spanish. Present Tense of Regular –AR Verbs. An infinitive tells the meaning of a verb without naming any subject or tense. There are three kinds of infinitives, Present Tense of –AR Verbs The present tense of regular –ar verbs is formed by dropping infinitive ending –ar and adding the personal endings –o, -as, Objetivo de aprendizaje: Scholars will be able to demonstrate comprehension of verb conjugation concepts by conjugating Spanish common regular –IR verbs. Conjugating –AR Verbs Sra. Medeles Herget Middle School. La tarea: 1.color and label pronoun charts 2.practice sheet. Hoy es jueves Es el 27 de septiembre del 2012 ¿Cuáles son los pronombre sujetivos PARA HACER AHORA: PRUEBA (quiz) Spanish I -ar verb notes. Verbs in Spanish In Spanish, there are four types of verbs. -ar verbs -er verbs -ir verbs Irregular verbs Today we are going. What are verbs? Verbs are actions!!!! IF YOU CANT DO IT, ITS NOT A VERB!!! Subject pronouns / I am yo lyrics. I am “yo” song #1 I am “yo” And you are “tú” If we’re not on a first name basis, saying “tú” is rude He is “él”, and. Conjugating Regular Verbs We conjugate! We do conjugate! We are conjugating! Yo! To conjugate an –ar verb when the subject is YO, you use the ending –o. Slice off the –ar at the end and plug in –o! 1)Caminar 2)Camin / ar 3)Camino. Pirates of the CONJUGATION! ¡Las Respuestas! presente de el presente de VERBO VERBOS -AR presente de el presente de VERBO VERBOS -AR. 1.3 Present tense of ser Subject (Personal) Pronouns Los Pronombres Personales. Verbs By: Señorita McMahon. What are verbs? A verb is a word used to show that an action is taking place or to indicate the existence of a state or condition, Los pronombres sujetos Subject pronouns refer to the subject of the sentence, or the person/thing doing the action of the verb. Ellos(as)They Ustedes. Objetivo TSWBAT use the correct pronoun in Spanish in place of Subject nouns and tell which “person” is being expressed The BIG picture: knowing the correct. Objetivo de aprendizaje: Scholars will be able to demonstrate comprehension of verb conjugation concepts by conjugating Spanish common regular –AR verbs. 1 1. In English and Spanish, the infinitive is the base form of the verb. 2. In English, the infinitive is preceded by the word to: to study, to be. The. Gramática 1 4 de septiembre. In English, all sentences have a subject(sujeto) and a verb(verbo). This is true for sentences in Spanish, too. Subject: Enfoque: martes, el 1 de abril, 2008 (dos mil ocho) Complete Cultural Quiz (Do NOT use your book!) When finished… study postcard on back of homework. © 2016 SlidePlayer.com Inc. All rights reserved.
Presentation on theme: "Controversial Global Issues Resourcing the Food Crisis Alan Parkinson Secondary Curriculum Development Leader Geographical Association John McLaverty Education."— Presentation transcript: Controversial Global Issues Resourcing the Food Crisis Alan Parkinson Secondary Curriculum Development Leader Geographical Association John McLaverty Education Practice Project Manager Oxfam GB - Menu - Amuse Bouche: Why is food a controversial topic ? Starter: Example activity from unit Main Course: Oxfam support Dessert: Some teaching strategies Cheese-board: Making it Living Geography Liquers and coffees: What next ? Introductions John McLaverty Youth and Schools Campaigner, London & SE Oxfam GB Alan Parkinson Secondary Curriculum Development Leader Geographical Association Developing empathy for the geographies of others what has it got to do with me ? IPSOS MORI A national survey, conducted by Ipsos MORI and published April 2009 by the Geographical Association, found that 93% of year olds believe it is important to learn about issues affecting peoples lives in different parts of the world, yet nearly two-thirds of young people think that not enough time is spent learning about the wider world in school. Over 90% of young people believe that it is important to learn about people, societies and cultures in other parts of the world, how and why changes to the world may occur in the future, and where resources such as food, energy and water come from. What is a controversial issue ? Why teach this controversial issue instead of the other controversial issues that we could teach ? Elements of the global dimension Explore and make sense of the big issues in the world Think critically and creatively about topical and controversial issues Deconstruct issues and events, and study them from a range of perspectives Develop self-awareness and a positive attitude to difference Argue a case on behalf of themselves and others Reflect on the consequences of their own actions now and in the future Link learning to taking responsible action Main Course John McLaverty OXFAM resources on the issue of FOOD SECURITY and related areas Oxfam works with others to overcome poverty and suffering FAO food price index – April – 90 June 2008 – 214 March 2009 – 141 (prices of 6 main food commodity groups) The worlds 2.7 billion poor people (<$2/day) spend up to 80% of their incomes on food April 2009 – UK food prices rose by 18% during the previous year So long as the subject dwells on lateral moraines and the distribution of sheep in the South Island of New Zealand, one can understand why eyes might stray from the school room through the windows to the world outside Michael Palin on Geography November Image of Michael Palin removed for copyright reasons Education for Global Citizenship is…. asking questions and developing critical thinking skills equipping young people with knowledge, skills and values to participate as active citizens acknowledging the complexity of global issues revealing the global as part of everyday local life understanding how we relate to the environment and to each other as human beings Oxfam Education for Global Citizenship A Guide for Schools 2006 p3 Taking food (and other stuff) for granted We just live in a society that consumes and consumes and consumes. Children think why cant I just go and get this thing and take it off the shelf and buy it Melissa Davies – Oxfam Sisters on the Planet 2008 Theres no such thing as a free lunch Whats controversial about food? Controversial issues Deal with questions of value or belief – human rights, property rights Have a political, social, economic and personal impact – on the lives of others, on ourselves, equitable, inequitable Arouse strong feelings – food security Encourage political and personal actions – equitable, inequitable Adapted from Oxfam Teaching Controversial Issues 2006 p2 Whats controversial about food? John Berger writer, artist, political progressive, has written that – in these days – it is space rather than time that hides consequences from us. In other words, how difficult it is in our daily lives to remember the wider relations through which the green beans arrive on our plate Doreen Massey – GA Conference 2002 A Why-Why-Why Chain Lush paddy fields as far as the eye can see. So why cant this farmer afford to feed his family? Alex Renton. The Observer. Sunday 20 July 2008 An exciting place to be – for learners and educators Food security isnt a subject to be covered, its a process of change. The teacher doesnt know the answer Learning leads to real action, and real action leads to learning see Climate Change – the Educational Implications Tide Global Learning 2009 For more from Oxfam… Dessert... TEACHING STRATEGIES Living Geography: embraces young peoples geography and experiences is current and future oriented is local but set in wider (global) contexts raises questions of change, sustainability and development
Presentation on theme: "Brian Foster - Cosener's Forum May 06 1 The ILC - Status & Plans Why/what is the ILC? The GDE The baseline design and R&D efforts The path to the RDR Detectors."— Presentation transcript: Brian Foster - Cosener's Forum May 06 1 The ILC - Status & Plans Why/what is the ILC? The GDE The baseline design and R&D efforts The path to the RDR Detectors The EGDE & summary Brian Foster - Cosener's Forum May 06 2 Why/what is ILC? Brian Foster - Cosener's Forum May 06 3 Because radiated synchrotron-radiation power goes like m -5, circular e + e - colliders bigger than LEP (the previous CERN machine) are uneconomical. We didnt know how to build complementary machines (like Tevatron (p-antip) and LEP) when LHC was proposed. Now we do – the ILC. Why/what is ILC? The ILC is a linear collider – thus there is no synchrotron radiation produced in bending e + e - in a circular orbit. The challenges stem from this – in circular machines, the beams pass through each other many times/ second, giving many chances for interaction – luminosity. In ILC, they pass through each other once and then are dumped. The only way to restore the luminosity is to crush the beams to a tiny volume so that one pass gives all the particles the same chance to interact that many passes gives less dense bunches. Brian Foster - Cosener's Forum May 06 4 Status of the ILC TESLA was the catalyst that in the last four years has moved the ILC forwards very rapidly. There will only be one machine like this in the world – so it is essential that world-wide agreement be obtained. This has been in place for ~3 years. ECFA report:..the realisation, in as timely a fashion as possible, of a world-wide collaboration to construct a high-luminosity e + e - linear collider with an energy range up to at least 400 GeV as the next accelerator project in particle physics; decisions concerning the chosen technology and the construction site for such a machine should be made soon HEPAP report: We recommend that the highest priority of the U.S. program be a high-energy, high-luminosity, electron-positron linear collider, wherever it is built in the world…. We recommend that the United States prepare to bid to host the linear collider, in a facility that is international from the inception. ACFA: ACFA urges the Japanese Government to arrange a preparatory budget for KEK to pursue an engineering design of the collider, to study site and civil engineering, as well as to investigate the process for the globalization. Brian Foster - Cosener's Forum May 06 5 Status of the ILC In January 2004 the Science Ministers of the OECD met in Paris and, following the detailed work of a GSF Consultative Group on particle physics that produced a road Map, agreed a statement on the Linear Collider: Ministers acknowledged the importance of ensuring access to large-scale research infrastructure and the importance of the long-term vitality of high-energy physics. They noted the worldwide consensus of the scientific community, which has chosen an electron-positron linear collider as the next accelerator-based facility to complement and expand on the discoveries that are likely to emerge from the Large Hadron Collider currently being built at CERN. They agreed that the planning and implementation of such a large, multi-year project should be carried out on a global basis, and should involve consultations among not just scientists, but also representatives of science funding agencies from interested countries. Accordingly, Ministers endorsed the statement prepared by the OECD Global Science Forum Consultative Group on High-Energy Physics (see Appendix). Brian Foster - Cosener's Forum May 06 6 Status of the ILC In August 2004, group of Wise Men, chaired by B. Barish, chose the cold, superconducting, RF technology over the competing warm X-band RF. Despite the fact that both US and Asian research had been in warm technology, both regions accepted the decision and united behind cold technology; now, transition is complete. ICFA moved ahead quickly to appoint a Global Design Effort (GDE) to transform the technology decision into a full Technical Design Report, capable of being presented to world governments for a decision to construct. B. Barish appointed as GDE director, with three regional directors: BF (Europe), F. Takasaki (Asia), G. Dugan (Americas) M. Nozaki Brian Foster - Cosener's Forum May 06 7 Status of the ILC At end of April, EPP2010 panel produced its report. This gave a ringing endorsement for the ILC strategy and strong support for the US bidding to host the machine. P. Burrows was a member of the EPP2010 committee and can give more details at he end of my talk. Brian Foster - Cosener's Forum May 06 8 GDE –The Mission of the GDE Produce a design for the ILC in 3 stages - BCD, RDR and TDR, that includes a detailed design concept, performance assessments, reliable international costing, an industrialization plan, siting analysis, as well as detector concepts and scope. Coordinate worldwide prioritized proposal driven R & D efforts (to demonstrate and improve the performance, reduce the costs, attain the required reliability, etc.) Brian Foster - Cosener's Forum May 06 9 GDE – Staffing Chris Adolphsen, SLAC Jean-Luc Baldy, CERN Philip Bambade, LAL, Orsay Barry Barish, Caltech Wilhelm Bialowons, DESY Grahame Blair, Royal Holloway Jim Brau, University of Oregon Karsten Buesser, DESY Elizabeth Clements, Fermilab Michael Danilov, ITEP Jean-Pierre Delahaye, CERN, Gerald Dugan, Cornell University Atsushi Enomoto, KEK Brian Foster, Oxford University Warren Funk, JLAB Jie Gao, IHEP Terry Garvey, LAL-IN2P3 Hitoshi Hayano, KEK Tom Himel, SLAC Bob Kephart, Fermilab Eun San Kim, Pohang Acc Lab Hyoung Suk Kim, Kyungpook Natl Univ Shane Koscielniak, TRIUMF Vic Kuchler, Fermilab Lutz Lilje, DESY Tom Markiewicz, SLAC David Miller, Univ College of London Shekhar Mishra, Fermilab Youhei Morita, KEK Olivier Napoly, CEA-Saclay Hasan Padamsee, Cornell University Carlo Pagani, DESY Nan Phinney, SLAC Dieter Proch, DESY Pantaleo Raimondi, INFN Tor Raubenheimer, SLAC Francois Richard, LAL-IN2P3 Perrine Royole-Degieux, GDE/LAL Kenji Saito, KEK Daniel Schulte, CERN Tetsuo Shidara, KEK Sasha Skrinsky, Budker Institute Fumihiko Takasaki, KEK Laurent Jean Tavian, CERN Nobu Toge, KEK Nick Walker, DESY Andy Wolski, LBL Hitoshi Yamamoto, Tohoku Univ Kaoru Yokoya, KEK 49 members New Members Peter Garbincius (FNAL) Marc Ross (SLAC) Bill Willis (Columbia) Andre Seryi (SLAC) John Sheppard (SLAC) Ewan Patterson (SLAC) Maseo Kuriki (KEK) Kiyoshi Kubo (KEK) Nobuhiro Terunuma (KEK) Norihito Ohuchi (KEK) Susanna Guiducci (INFN) Deepa Angal-Kalinin (CCLRC) G. Shirkov (JINR, Dubna) Totals Americas23 Europe24 Asia16 Brian Foster - Cosener's Forum May ILC Parameters E cm adjustable from 200 – 500 GeV Luminosity Ldt = 500 fb -1 in 4 years Ability to scan between 200 and 500 GeV Energy stability and precision below 0.1% Electron polarization of at least 80% The machine must be upgradeable to 1 TeV Brian Foster - Cosener's Forum May BCD overview The ILC Baseline Design was completed in December 2005: Process overseen by ILC Executive - B. Barish, G. Dugan, BF, F. Takasaki, T. Raubenheimer, N. Walker, K.Yokoya. E. Elsen will give details. Brian Foster - Cosener's Forum May Test facilities TTF exists at DESY, SMTF (FNAL), STF (KEK): Stimulate SC industry in the regions - collaborate on SC technology Brian Foster - Cosener's Forum May Test facilities KEK has been a great success. Time for further improvement: Brian Foster - Cosener's Forum May Test facilities Extend ATF to give FF prototype - squeeze down to 35 nm and stabilise to 2 nm. Brian Foster - Cosener's Forum May ILC Communications Launch of New ILC Snowmass One Stop Shopping –electronic data management system (EDMS), news, calendar of events, education and communication Brian Foster - Cosener's Forum May 06 16 Brian Foster - Cosener's Forum May Next steps for GDE BCD is complete. In the next phase, RDR will take forward the BCD, refine the design and in particular gather industrialisation data in order to form the basis for reliable cost estimate with the RDR. There are 3 new boards: Change Control Board; Global R&D Board; Design & Cost Board. Brian Foster - Cosener's Forum May Next steps ICFA FALC Resource Board ILCSC GDE Directorate GDE Executive Committee Global R&D Program RDR Design Matrix GDE Change Control Board GDE Design Cost Board GDE R & D Board MAC Brian Foster - Cosener's Forum May Change control The board has overseen the consolidation of the baseline design and the production of a Word document containing all information. Dealing with requests for changes to baseline as further work and R&D is completed. Careful methodology developed - categorise the importance of the change, assign number of board members to review it depending on importance. During process, all GDE members can comment on proposed change. Dealing with ~ 1 request/week. Brian Foster - Cosener's Forum May Other boards Design & cost board produced a (very) detailed programme of work to lead us towards the most important RDR deliverable - a believable, robust and affordable costing; a preliminary, non-public version will be available by the summer Vancouver meeting. R&D board has to try to impose a structure and discipline on inherently chaotic system - R&D - eliminating wasteful duplication while preserving & enhancing necessary duplication. Brian Foster - Cosener's Forum May Next steps for GDE The RDR will be produced using a matrix structure of area systems and technical systems to account for the project structure. Brian Foster - Cosener's Forum May Next steps for GDE The WBS Brian Foster - Cosener's Forum May Next steps The meetings are going well and detailed progress is being made. The day-to-day work of constructing the RDR will be supervised by an RDR board chaired by N. Walker (DESY) which will meet every week by telephone and report to the ILC Executive Committee. Brian Foster - Cosener's Forum May MAC report Generally they were very positive and impressed by the scale of the progress that has been made. They had concerns about the current accelerating gradient spec. and how R&D could be done to achieve it, about communications with the experimenters and also about the coordination of world-wide R&D. The first meeting of the Machine Advisory Committee, which reports to ILCSC, took place last month in Fermilab. Brian Foster - Cosener's Forum May Detectors - SiD Brian Foster - Cosener's Forum May Detectors - LDC Brian Foster - Cosener's Forum May Detectors - GLD Brian Foster - Cosener's Forum May Detectors - 4th concept Pixel Vertex (PX) 5-micron pixels TPC (like GLD or LDC) with silicon strips on outer radius Crystal dual-readout ECAL Triple-readout fiber HCAL: scintillation/Cerenkov/neutron (new) Muon dual-solenoid geometry (new), with ATLAS drift tubes. Design philosophy: Brian Foster - Cosener's Forum May European GDE European GDE meets about every 6 months. Discusses obviously regional issues: - how to get more resources from inside Europe, in particular the EU; - regional outreach - Europe has particular difficulties & challenges here. The European GDE does NOT discuss the technical issues of the BCD or take up European positions on them - these are matters for the full GDE. Brian Foster - Cosener's Forum May European GDE Two meetings in CERN to explore in particular the similarity between LHC and ILC cryogenics and to utilise CERN expertise, particularly in civil engineering. Very encouraged by the great interest on the ground in CERN in the project, the very constructive and positive meetings we have had and the growing involvement of CERN staff in the ILC. Brian Foster - Cosener's Forum May European GDE European Outreach group re-established at Orsay meeting in January. B. Warmbein joined the team recently as PA to EGDE director, based at DESY. Meeting held in DESY just before Easter. EGDE directors advisory group also meets regularly. Discussed plans for FP7 initiative for European cryogenic RF development centre based probably at one of big labs. LoI for such a facility was input to CERN Council Strategy group. Brian Foster - Cosener's Forum May European GDE There is an EGDE meeting in DESY next week to discuss the shape of the FP7 proposal. It will hear about European cryogenic RF development centre, about possible continuation of some current FP6 activities, the use of HERA as a prototype damping ring, etc. Brian Foster - Cosener's Forum May European GDE EGDE directors advisory group also meets regularly to advise on strategy, particularly for R&D. It is clear that world-wide coordination of R&D is going to be an important issue in the future and we need to think about how this can be achieved; Europe has particular features that make this a challenge. GDE Plan & Schedule Global Design EffortProject Baseline configuration Reference Design ILC R&D Program Technical Design Bids to Host; Site Selection; International Mgmt LHC Physics; CLIC Brian Foster - Cosener's Forum May Next steps Jan JulyDec Freeze Configuration Organize for RDR Bangalore Review Design/Cost Methodology Review Initial Design / Cost Review Final Design / Cost RDR Document Design and CostingPreliminary RDR Released Frascati Vancouver Valencia Brian Foster - Cosener's Forum May Summary The ILC is making excellent progress and the GDE is well established. Producing the RDR & the cost estimate by the end of the year is going to be very tough - we need all the help & expertise that we can get. This is a very exciting and challenging enterprise that is vital for the future of world particle physics.
Conflict in the workplace is bad for business and affects the profitability of the company as well as the productivity of its employees. Workplace conflict is often not violent or obvious, but may be more subtle and take the form of spreading rumors, verbally abusing people, taking sides in issues and isolating someone from general activities. The Workplace Bullying Institute’s "2007 WBI Workplace Bullying Survey" reports that 37 percent of U.S. employees have been bullied at their jobs. Identify the causes of the workplace conflict. The majority of inappropriate workplace behavior is attributed to “increasing diversity, assertiveness and insufficient competencies in dealing with conflicting interests and needs,” according to a study conducted by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. Once you know what the cause of the problem is, you will be able to find a solution. Implement a policy of zero-tolerance for disruptive behaviors in the workplace, including the use of profane language, failure to follow organizational policies, and incidences of bullying or harassment. Notify all your staff of the policy, and the consequences for not adhering to it. Bring the conflicted parties together and introduce them to the process of transformative mediation, which is a method of helping all parties to understand and accept that they have different viewpoints, even if they do not necessarily agree with each other. This differs from problem-solving mediation, which actively tries to resolve the issue. Focus on areas of common interest and minor issues to which you can find a simple solution and avoid situations where serious disagreement is likely. Direct the parties in analytical problem solving. Developed by Herbert Kelman and John Burton, this approach is based on the theory that the majority of conflicts are caused by an inability to fulfill a basic human need, such as identity, security or recognition. In the analytical problem solving process, the parties try to identify their mutually exclusive interests or needs that are lacking, which helps them to understand the reason for their conflict and resolve the problem through collaboration. Provide all parties to the conflict with an empowerment tool to deal with the conflict. This approach, called constructive confrontation, takes the view that, although conflict is inevitable, it does not need to be destructive. Work with the parties to identify the difference between the core conflict and “overlay problems,” which may mask the real issue and make it difficult to deal with, and to put these aside in order to deal with the real problem. Emphasize the process, rather than the outcome. The conflict resolution theory of collaborative learning aims to improve mutual understanding instead of trying to actually resolve the conflict. The approach focuses on helping the parties communicate with each other through effective listening and dialogue and to make decisions accordingly. - Private discussion venue - Professional facilitator - Hold your discussions in private, out of hearing of other employees. - Do your best to minimize disruption on the job, which may affect your company's productivity. - Be prepared to call in a professional arbiter, if you find you are not able to deal adequately with the situation. - “CBIA News”; How to Defuse Conflict in the Workplace; Chris Amorosino; February 2000 - Workplace Bullying Institute: Results of the 2007 WBI U.S. Workplace Bullying Survey - Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research; Conflict Around Work and Organizations; Prof. J.M. Barendrecht et al.; - Washington State Department of Labor and Industries; Workplace Bullying and Disruptive Behavior; April 2011 - University of Colorado Conflict Resolution Consortium; Transformative Approaches to Conflict; Guy and Heidi Burgess; 1997 - NA/PhotoObjects.net/Getty Images
Developing business strategy on a global basis has become more important as worldwide communications grow. Events in one part of a company's overseas operations can reverberate throughout the entire organization. Also, regional conflicts can erupt into disputes that threaten to undermine business operations in the area. Every strategic manager should keep several global concerns in mind as plans are made and executed. Any firm doing business in a foreign country must constantly monitor the stability of the government in that area. Conflict, rebellion and even revolution can cause the government to seize a company's assets and nationalize resources as part of an effort to maintain power. Hostile forces in a country may even come to see your business as part of the problem because you have a relationship with the official government. A strategic manager must monitor local government stability in each country where the business has operations. Unification Across Country Borders The unification of Europe has forced many businesses to expand their global concerns to include neighboring countries. Other areas of the world may be subject to a kind of unification as well, with countries with similar interests conducting business in cooperation with each other. The Arab world shows this tendency frequently as of 2011. A global strategic manager must keep abreast of alliances that could help or hinder business operations. The New Environmental Ethic Taking care of the environment has become an interest of many countries. Doing business in those countries may require a firm to demonstrate environmental awareness and care. Governmental regulations and restrictions may be more stern than in the United States, and knowing this can help strategic managers navigate the ins and outs of doing business in an environmentally friendly nation. The Information Revolution The world is connected electronically, and information flows fast from one part of the world to another. A company must guard its reputation in each country where it has operations, because disputes and conflicts can become global quickly. In addition, marketing that targets nations with prominent ethnic groups will be reported around the world, so a strategic manager must ensure the company's local advertising messages are consistent with its overall positive values. - Jupiterimages/Goodshoot/Getty Images
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Owned and operated by Orbital Sciences Corp., the Cygnus spacecraft is set for launch at 6:45 p.m. EDT (2245 GMT) from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island, Va. The unpiloted cargo carrier will take off on top of Orbital’s expendable two-stage Antares rocket. Named SS Deke Slayton in honor of the Mercury astronaut, Cygnus is due to arrive at the space station Nov. 2 after an automated laser-guided final approach. Its docking with the space station will punctuate a busy week of comings-and-goings at the outpost. A commercial Dragon cargo spacecraft operated by SpaceX departed the space station Saturday and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, returning more than 1.6 tons of research specimens and hardware items to Earth for analysis and refurbishment. 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Unmanned supply ships from Orbital and SpaceX, along with the international ATV and HTV spacecraft from Europe and Japan, collectively replace much of the cargo capacity lost with the retirement of the space shuttle. “Without the shuttle, we need all these vehicles coming and going in order to support the research on-board and to keep the crew healthy and well-sustained,” said Frank Culbertson, Orbital’s executive vice president of advanced programs and a former NASA astronaut. “It is a logistics problem as well as an operational problem for the program to solve, but that’s part of what we do in the space program as we continue to increase capabilities.” Monday’s launch is the third operational resupply flight to the space station managed by Orbital Sciences. Known as Orb-3, the mission will be the ninth commercial cargo delivery by Orbital and SpaceX, including demonstration flights. “As they have demonstrated, they are very capable of bringing all the cargo needs that the station has,” said Gerald Esquivel, NASA’s Cygnus integration manager. “The HTV and the ATV vehicles provide some other unique capabilities, but getting the day in and day out needs met with our commercial providers has been key, and we see that continuing on with our future contracts, as well as eventually when we go with crew transport.” “It’s gratifying to see it all going so well,” said Culbertson, who lived on the space station for four months in 2001. “I think it’s a testament to both the program as well as the suppliers than we can interweave all these capabilities, coordinate between the various entities and international partners, and still keep it flowing fairly smoothly and keep the research going,” Culbertson said. “I think you’ll see even more complicated scenarios in the future as we go forward and try to move beyond low Earth orbit.” Once the Cygnus mission gets to the station Nov. 2, astronauts will open hatches leading to the spacecraft’s pressurized cargo module — built by Thales Alenia Space in Italy — and unpack its contents. The cargo load features more than two dozen small CubeSats for deployment outside the space station, a Japanese experiment to gauge the performance of materials in space for future use on solar sails, and investigate the impact of space travel on the human immune system. Astronauts will mount a camera system from the Southwest Research Institute on an Earth-facing window in the space station’s Destiny laboratory to look at meteors streaking through the atmosphere below. The experiment will mark the first detailed space-based observations of meteors from space. “This analysis will include characterizing the size, the density and the chemical composition of the meteors,” Alleyne said. “Investigating these compositions of the meteors adds to our understanding of how planets are developed. Continuous measurements of the meteors’ interaction with Earth’s atmopshere also can spot previously unseen meteor [showers].” A contribution from the Italian Space Agency, or ASI, will study the blood flow between the brain and heart in microgravity. A special neck collar worn crew space station crew members will collect the data. “Understanding this blood flow makes it possible for researchers to develop countermeasures to treat headaches and other neurological symptoms that have been reported by crew members living on the space station,” Alleyne said. The experiment, dubbed Drain Brain, could also help doctors on the ground develop screening tests for cognitive disorders like Alzheimer’s disease, according to Alleyne. Eighteen student teams from California, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, D.C., and British Columbia also have payloads launching Monday. Ranging from fourth-graders to college juniors, the students worked on experiments involving the growth of bacteria and crystals, the development of mosquitos in microgravity, the response of shrimp to space, and the effectiveness of composting in orbit. The students also provided payloads with soybean seeds and chia plants to measure how their behavior changes in space. The student payloads are managed by the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program, a non-profit which partners with private sector financial backers, including the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space and Subaru of America Inc. Items aboard the Cygnus spacecraft’s Orb-3 mission needed for upkeep of the space station include a high-pressure nitrogen tank designed to help revitalize the air inside the complex, keeping the atmosphere similar to Earth’s. The nitrogen — stored at 6,000 psi inside a high-pressure gas tank — will be transferred to reservoirs outside the space station’s Quest airlock. A jetpack that could be used to rescue an astronaut who got detached from the space station during a spacewalk is also inside the Cygnus spaceship, along with a data recorder to be packed inside a European Space Agency Automated Transfer Vehicle when it burns up in Earth’s atmosphere early next year. Provided by the Aerospace Corp., the data recorder will measure the conditions the ATV encounters as it falls back to Earth, then transmit its findings back to engineers via satellite before hitting the ocean. NASA and ESA officials are devising a special re-entry plan for the end of the ATV mission to gather data and prepare for the destruction of the space station itself when it concludes its operational lifetime some time in the 2020s. Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.
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An extremely maneuverable three-winged craft, it could brake to a complete stop mid-flight as well as enable a stealth mode. Vana's astromech droid, Mod-3, maintained and repaired the ship while on-board. It was armed with two laser cannons, a nano missile launcher, and a unique ion encumbrance system. This system launched small ion-enabled "tags", projectiles which attached to enemy vessels and caused an ionization effect which disabled their deflector shields. These tags could also be used as homing beacons for the nano missiles. Vana Sage was known to have used this ship as early as 32 BBY when she, along with the pirate Nym, and Naboo pilot Rhys Dallows destroyed a droid factory on Eos and attacked a Trade Federation convoy over Naboo, as well as defending a Naboo Resistance base on the planet's surface with Nym. She continued to use this fighter years later and was last seen searching for news of her friend Reti. - "Single Cell"—Star Wars Tales 7 (Appears in flashback(s)) - Star Wars: Starfighter (First appearance) - Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter - Star Wars Starfighter: Starfighter Aces"—Star Wars Gamer 2 " - Starfighter: Prima's Official Strategy Guide - Star Wars Gamer 5 - The New Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels - The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia Notes and referencesEdit - ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 Star Wars Starfighter: Starfighter Aces"—Star Wars Gamer 2 " - ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Starfighter: Prima's Official Strategy Guide - ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Star Wars: Starfighter - ↑ The New Essential Chronology establishes on page 40 that the Invasion of Naboo happens in 32 BBY. - ↑ Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter
Higher agricultural export prices in October November 14, 2003 Export prices increased 0.3 percent in October, following a 0.4-percent rise in September. The advance was again led by higher agricultural prices, which were up 2.5 percent in October after rising 5.6 percent in the previous month. Higher prices for soybeans, meat, and cotton all contributed to the October increase. The price index for nonagricultural exports rose 0.1 percent in October after declining the same amount in September. The price indexes for nonagricultural industrial supplies and materials, for automotive vehicles, parts, and engines, and for consumer goods each increased in October. The price index for capital goods was the only major nonagricultural commodity price index to decrease in October. The index for overall import prices rose 0.1 percent last month after declining 0.4 percent in September. These data come from the BLS International Price Program program. Import and export price data are subject to revision. To learn more, see "U.S. Import and Export Price Indexes, October 2003" (PDF) (TXT), news release USDL 03-719. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Higher agricultural export prices in October on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2003/nov/wk2/art04.htm (visited October 22, 2016). Recent editions of Spotlight on Statistics Workplace injuries and illnesses and employer costs for workers’ compensation Workplace injury and illness data and the costs to employers for workers’ compensation in natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations. A look at the future of the U.S. labor force to 2060 Projected long-term trends in the growth, size, and composition of the labor force. Union membership in the United States Historical trends in union membership among employed wage and salary workers; union membership by a variety of demographic characteristics. A look at healthcare spending, employment, pay, benefits, and prices Spending on healthcare, current and projected employment in the industry, employer-provided healthcare benefits, healthcare prices, and pay for workers in healthcare occupations. Self-employment in the United States Trends in self-employment by various demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, including both the unincorporated and the incorporated self-employed, as well as data on paid employees who work for the self-employed.
Submitter: Clive Feather (UK) Submission Date: 1999-06-27 Reference Document: ISO/IEC WG14 N892 Date: 2001-09-18 02:48:44 Subject: Handling of imaginary types The handling of imaginary types in the Standard is somewhat inconsistent. For example, they are not mentioned at all in 6.2.5 (other than a footnote), but are treated as first-class types in 6.7.2. Annex G makes certain assumptions about such types but these assumptions are not supported by the Standard. There are two reasonable approaches that could be followed. The first is to remove all mention of imaginary types from the main text of the Standard and put them all in Annex G. The second is to make the basic properties of imaginary types part of the main language (while still making them optional), leaving Annex G to handle the details of ISO 60559 imaginary types. After some thought, the author of this DR feels that imaginary types are experimental enough that the first approach is better and has worded the Suggested Technical Corrigendum on that basis. The keyword _Imaginary is mentioned in 6.4.1, 6.7.2, and 7.3.1. These references - and any related text - are all to be removed and replacement wording added to Annex G. A new subclause G.4.4 is added. This specifies the practical implications of giving imaginary types the same representation and alignment as real floating types. Suggested Technical Corrigendum Delete "_Imaginary" from the list of keywords in 6.4.1. If this is felt to be too radical, instead add the following text to paragraph 2: The keyword _Imaginary is not used in the C language, but is reserved for specifying imaginary types such as described in Annex G. Delete "_Imaginary" from 6.7.2p1 and the three imaginary cases from 6.7.2p2. Change 6.7.2p3 to read: The type specifier _Complex shall not be used if the implementation does not provide complex types. Delete "imaginary" from 7.3.1p5. Replace 7.3.1p4 with: The macro I expands to _Complex_I. Add a new paragraph before G.2p1: There is a new keyword _Imaginary used to specify imaginary types. It is used as a type-specifier within declaration-specifiers in the same way as _Complex is (thus "_Imaginary float" is a valid type name). Add a new subclause G.4.4 G.4.4 Interchangeable values Though imaginary types are not compatible with the corresponding real type, values of one may be used where the other is expected in the following cases. In each case the value is converted to the value of the other type that has the same representation (that is, by multiplying by the imaginary unit when converting to an imaginary type, and by dividing by the imaginary unit when converting to a real type). [] If a prototype is in scope, conversion is as if by assignment and the value will be converted to zero. - one type is the type of the parameter, and the other type the type of the argument, when a function is called without a prototype in scope; [] - one type is the type of an argument corresponding to a trailing ellipsis in a function call and the other is specified as the type argument of an invocation of the va_arg macro; - one type is the type of an argument to a function such as fprintf or the type pointed to by an argument to a function such as fscanf, and the other is the type implied by the corresponding conversion specifier. Replace G.6p1 with: The macrosimaginaryand_Imaginary_Iare defined, respectively, as _Imaginary and a constant expression of type const float _Imaginary with the value of the imaginary unit. The macro I is defined to be _Imaginary_I (not _Complex_I as stated in 7.3). Notwithstanding the provisions of 7.1.3, a program may undefine and then perhaps redefine the macro imaginary. If WG14 wishes to take the alternative approach of moving _Imaginary types more firmly into the body of the Standard, then the following areas would be affected. In 6.4.1 append to paragraph 2: The keyword _Imaginary is reserved for specifying imaginary types.footnote footnoteOne possible specification for imaginary types is Annex G. [#3] The type specifier _Complex shall not be used if the implementation does not provide complex types.101Change footnote 101 to read: 101Freestanding implementations are not required to provide complex types. In 7.3.1 replace paragraphs 3 to 5 with: [#3] The macroIexpands to _Complex_I.162 [#4] Notwithstanding the provisions of subclause 7.1.3, a program may undefine and perhaps then redefine the macros complex and I. Add a new paragraph to the start of G.2: [#0] There is a new keyword _Imaginary, which is used to specify imaginary types. It is used as a type-specifier within declaration-specifiers in the same way as _Complex is (thus "_Imaginary float" is a valid type name). Replace G.6 paragraph 1 with: [#1] The macroimaginaryand_Imaginary_Iare defined, respectively, as _Imaginary and a constant expression of type const float _Imaginary with the value of the imaginary unit. The macroIis defined to be _Imaginary_I (not _Complex_I as stated in 7.3). Notwithstanding the provisions of 7.1.3, a program may undefine and then perhaps redefine the macro imaginary. Previous Defect Report < - > Next Defect Report
up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6. Study Helps: Fundamentals of Christian Education, 64–70; Testimonies, vol. 5, 36–45. for Christ’s sake do not blunder in your most important work, that of molding the characters of your children for time and for eternity.” Testimonies, vol. 5, 39. PATTERN FOR CHILDHOOD is the childhood of Jesus our example? Luke 2:40. “As Jesus worked in childhood and youth, mind and body were developed. He did not use His physical powers recklessly, but in such a way as to keep them in health, that He might do the best work in every line. He was not willing to be defective, even in the handling of tools. He was perfect as a workman, as He was perfect in character. By His own example He taught that it is our duty to be industrious, that our work should be performed with exactness and thoroughness, and that such labor is honorable. The exercise that teaches the hands to be useful and trains the young to bear their share of life’s burdens gives physical strength, and develops every faculty. All should find something to do that will be beneficial to themselves and helpful to others. God appointed work as a blessing, and only the diligent worker finds the true glory and joy of life. The approval of God rests with loving assurance upon children and youth who cheerfully take their part in the duties of the household, sharing the burdens of father and mother. Such children will go out from the home to be useful members of society.” The Desire of Ages, 72. YOUNG AT RISK does Scripture illustrate the predicament of many busy parents today? Song of Solomon 1:6; Proverbs 29:15. “Those who feel that they have an imperative call to labor for the improvement of society, while their own children grow up undisciplined, should inquire if they have not mistaken their duty. Their own household is the first missionary field in which parents are required to labor. Those who leave the home garden to grow up to thorns and briers, while they manifest great interest in the cultivation of their neighbor’s plot of ground, are disregarding the word of “Fathers and mothers should carefully and prayerfully study the characters of their children. They should seek to repress and restrain those traits that are too prominent, and to encourage others which may be deficient, thus securing harmonious development. This is no light matter. The father may not consider it a great sin to neglect the training of his children; but thus does God regard it. Christian parents need a thorough conversion upon this subject. Guilt is accumulating upon them, and the consequences of their actions reach down from their own children to children’s children. The ill-balanced mind, the hasty temper, the fretfulness, envy, or jealousy, bear witness to parental neglect.” Fundamentals of Christian Education, 66, 67. b. In what peril could many of our youth find themselves—and why? Proverbs 15:19; 18:9; 21:25; 26:13–16. “Parents have neglected to train their sons and daughters to the faithful performance of domestic duties. Children are permitted to spend their hours in play, while father and mother toil on unceasingly. Few young persons feel that it is their duty to bear a part of the family burden. They are not taught that the indulgence of appetite, or the pursuit of ease or pleasure, is not the great aim of life.” Fundamentals of Christian Education, 65. is the first duty of parents? Proverbs 22:6. “Let the foundation of a strong constitution be laid in early life. Parents should be the only teachers of their children, until they are eight or ten years of age. … The fields and hills—nature’s audience chamber—should be the schoolroom for little children. Her treasures should be their textbook.” Fundamentals of Christian “The school in the home should be a place where children are taught that the eye of God is upon them, observing all that they do. If this thought were deeply impressed upon the mind, the work of governing children would be made much easier. In the home-school our boys and girls are being prepared to attend a church-school when they reach a proper age to associate more intimately with other children.” Manuscript Releases, vol. 8, 5. should parents teach their children in regard to appetite? Proverbs 23:1–3. Why is it so important to begin this instruction as early as possible? “Parents who have taught their children to eat unhealthful, stimulating food all their lives—until the taste is perverted, and they crave clay, slate pencils, burned coffee, tea grounds, cinnamon, cloves, and spices—cannot claim that the appetite demands what the system requires. The appetite has been falsely educated, until it is depraved. The fine organs of the stomach have been stimulated and burned, until they have lost their delicate sensitiveness. Simple, healthful food seems to them insipid. The abused stomach will not perform the work given it, unless urged to it by the most stimulating substances. If these children had been trained from their infancy to take only healthful food, prepared in the most simple manner, preserving its natural properties as much as possible, and avoiding flesh meats, grease, and all spices, the taste and appetite would be unimpaired. In its natural state, it might indicate, in a great degree, the food best adapted to the wants of the system.” Child Guidance, 381, 382. should we consider about many of the philosophies in the secular schools of today? Proverbs 6:28. “Can we … expect the youth to develop Christian character while their education is molded by the teaching of those who set at defiance the principles of the law of God?” The Ministry of Healing, 443. “In planning for the education of their children outside the home, parents should realize that it is no longer safe to send them to the public school, and should endeavor to send them to schools where they will obtain an education based on a Scriptural foundation.” Child Guidance, 304. b. Besides guarding their scholastic influences, of what else must we be watchful for our young? I Corinthians “With what care parents should guard their children from careless, loose, demoralizing habits! Fathers and mothers, do you realize the importance of the responsibility resting on you? Do you allow your children to associate with other children without being present to know what kind of education they are receiving? Do not allow them to be alone with other children. Give them your special care. Every evening know where they are and what they are doing.” Child Guidance, 114. one problem plaguing many youth. Proverbs 7:6–27. “The young are bewitched with the mania for courtship and marriage. Lovesick sentimentalism prevails. Great vigilance and tact are needed to guard the youth from these wrong influences. Many parents are blind to the tendencies of their children. Some parents have stated to me, with great satisfaction, that their sons or daughters had no desire for the attentions of the opposite sex, when in fact these children were at the same time secretly giving or receiving such attentions, and the parents were so much absorbed in worldliness and gossip that they knew nothing about the matter.” Testimonies, vol. 5, 60. should we keep in mind when our youth need to be corrected? Proverbs 3:11, 12; 12:25; 15:23, 24. “Children are what their parents make them by their instruction, discipline, and example.” Testimonies, vol. 5, 37. “Parents must see that their own hearts and lives are controlled by the divine precepts, if they would bring up their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. They are not authorized to fret and scold and ridicule. They should never taunt their children with perverse traits of character, which they themselves have transmitted to them. This mode of discipline will never cure the evil. Parents, bring the precepts of God’s word to admonish and reprove your wayward children. Show them a ‘thus saith the Lord’ for your requirements. A reproof which comes as the word of God is far more effective than one falling in harsh, angry tones from the lips of parents.” Fundamentals of Christian Education, 67, 68. environment is most conducive to the happiness and industry of our families? Song of Solomon 6:11, 12; Isaiah 65:21. “Parents can secure small homes in the country, with land for cultivation where they can have orchards and where they can raise vegetables and small fruits to take the place of flesh-meat, which is so corrupting to the lifeblood coursing through the veins. On such places the children will not be surrounded with the corrupting influences of city life. God will help His people to find such homes outside of the cities.” Medical Review and Thought Questions 1 Where did Jesus go to school, and what did He learn? 2 Why do many parents need to change 3 In what areas should we be living up to greater light? 4 What challenges may be overwhelming our youth today? 5 How can we improve our relationship with our youth?
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Welcome to Lighting 101. You may not realize it yet, but you have just stepped through a door that may change your photography forever. Over the past 10 years, over four million people from nearly every country in the world have begun their lighting education right here. If they can do it, you can do it. Photography is literally writing with light. As you read through Lighting 101 you'll learn how to tale control of your electronic flash. If you can imagine it, you'll be able to create it. You'll learn how to take the flash that you probably already have attached to the top of your camera and use it off-camera to make beautiful, more three-dimensional photos. Once you learn the basics of controlling light, you'll quickly see that most lighting is intuitive, easy and fun. It's Not Expensive Lighting 101 and 102 are completely free. The upcoming Lighting 103 course, starting in early 2017, will also be free. (If you want to be notified when Lighting 103 lessons go live, make sure to sign up for email updates.) Why free? Because when I was a young photojournalist, my colleagues graciously taught me for free. And this allows you to save your money for the small amount of gear you'll need to get your flash off-camera. And basic lighting gear is also refreshingly inexpensive. You can build a well-chosen and solid lighting kit for under $150 that will turn your camera and flash combo into a wireless mobile studio. And then you'll be on your way to creating light like in the photos on this page. If money is tight, you can even make light modifiers yourself for next to nothing. For example, take a close look at the photo on the top of this page. It was lit with a homemade light box. Strobist reader Sam Simon, who not very long ago was just as new at this as you are now, used a flash, a shoe box and some paper to create the light for that portrait. How cool is that? It's the location and the quality of the light that is most important, not how much you spent. By getting your flash off-camera, your images become more three-dimensional, more textural and more professional looking. All of the photos on this page were made by Strobist readers working with small flashes. Not so long ago, those people were exactly where you are now. (Photo by Strobist reader Ken Brown) The difference between their photos and yours is that they now how to use their flash off camera. They know how to remotely synchronize it with their shutter, position it, modify the quality of the light and tweak the balance of exposure between their flashes and available light. Which is exactly what we'll be learning in Lighting 101. That may sound difficult, but I promise you it isn't. Okay, Let's Get Started (Photo by Strobist reader Benny Smith) You are probably a little anxious about learning how to light. Don't be. Learning this stuff is easy and fun. Good lighting is not about math. It is more like cooking. It's like when you taste the soup and it needs more salt—so you add some salt. You'll see what I mean when we learn to balance a flash with the existing, (or "ambient") light. But before we get to that, let's look at the basic gear you'll need. First we'll make sure your existing flash is appropriate. (Don't worry, it almost certainly is.) Then, we'll walk you through the inexpensive kit you'll need to turn it into a mobile mini studio. Don't worry if you don't know anything about this stuff yet. We are assuming exactly that and will help you make good choices. NEXT: Is Your Flash Appropriate for Off-Camera Lighting? New to Strobist? Start here \| Or jump right to Lighting 101 Connect w/Strobist readers via: Words \| Photos Got a question? Hit me on Twitter: @Strobist Save Money: Browse MPEX Weekly Strobist Deals
The anti-terrorist fence Israel is building will also limit livelihoods, so says a San Francisco Chronicle article. It’s strange that the article didn’t also note that the fence will increase livelihoods overall. The first and most significant way it will increase livelihoods is by saving the lives of a large number of Israelis. Each Israeli on average creates more wealth than over twenty Palestinians (Israeli per person GDP = over $20,000, Palestinian per person GDP is under $1,000 and falling steadily since the Palestinians started the Intifada). Once the anti-terrorist fence is in place, Israel can substantially reduce military expenditures while increasing investment in new businesses and business expansion. Second, the fence will revitalize tourism, and that will substantially increase the Israeli economy. Israel already has some of the most compelling tourist attractions in the world, and the vastly improved security provided by the fence will pay back huge dividends on its costs. Looking at the fence rationally and logically, the only question about it is why Israel took so long to decide to build it. Conversely, the Palestinians will lose many, perhaps most, of their good paying jobs in Israel at the same time their businesses are collapsing in the West Bank and Gaza. The Palestinian economy, which formerly received over $400 per person per year in foreign aid, will have that income cut to almost nothing because Hamas will not renounce the destruction of Israel. However, if current trends continue, the loss of Palestinian incomes, admittedly an extreme loss in terms of their income before the Intifada, will be more than offset by the increase to Israeli incomes, and the incalculable value of the sharp reduction in violent Israeli and Palestinian deaths. The last point is probably cold comfort to the Palestinians, whose religion and teachings glorify seeking violent deaths, but over time even they may learn to renounce the futility and waste of “martyrdom.” Therefore, the Israeli anti-terrorism fence, instead of limiting livelihoods, will actually result in a substantial overall increase in livelihoods when measured for the region as a whole.
When you sign up for student loans, many lenders will encourage you to have your parents co-sign the loan. For some, it is the only way to get the loan. For others, it is a way to secure lower interest rates on the loan. To sweeten the deal, many student loan lenders will also tell you about co-signer release programs that they have. The pitch essentially boils down to the following, “if you pay your loans on time for a year (or two) you become eligible to have you cosigner released from the loan.” For years, this site has been skeptical about these co-signer relief programs. For starters, most lenders are vague about the precise requirements to secure a release, but most do require a credit check… but the details are normally few and far between. Most concerning though is the lack of incentives for lenders to grant a release. Suppose mom and son are on the same loan. Son graduates and gets a decent job and makes his payments for the next two years. If they apply for a co-signer release, what incentive does the lender have to release mom? With a co-signer, if son falls behind on his loans or loses his job, they can still collect from mom. Without the co-signer, they may be out of luck. As a result, it is pretty apparent that lenders have every reason to advertise a co-signer release program, but every reason to deny people who apply for said release program. A recent report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau confirms our skepticism. The CFPB reports that most lenders and servicers fail to alert borrowers who may be eligible to have their cosigners released. As a result, a huge majority of borrowers never even apply for a c0-signer release. For the borrowers who are savvy enough to investigate the program and apply for a co-signer release, over 90% of co-signer release applications are denied. Any Excuse to Deny In addition to the obvious credit score and income reasons for denial, lenders have gotten pretty creative in finding reasons to deny a co-signer release application. For many lenders, a forbearance means an automatic co-signer release denial for the life of the loan. The CFPB notes that this aspect hit recession era grads especially hard. When the got out of school and were unable to find a job, lenders were happy to provide forbearances for the grads. Now that many of these grads have been in jobs for a while, they are applying for co-signer releases. Instead of getting the release, they are being told that because they once needed a forebearance, they will never be able to release their co-signer. Perhaps even more shady is the co-signer release for prepayments. Borrowers who paid far more than what was do on their loans are also being denied. This is especially common for people who paid several months worth of payments and then never made payments when they got bills reading $0.00 due. The CFPB did note that such a practice may be a violation of Federal Law, so borrowers may have options in that circumstance. Many other borrowers also report being denied a co-signer release for no reason in particular. If the lender doesn’t give a specific reason for the denial, the borrower has no way to improve their application for a future attempt, nor are the able to complain if it was the result of an unethical or illegal practice. What should I do if my co-signer release is denied? When it comes to evaluating the co-signer release application, lenders have all the power. However, that does not mean that borrowers are unable to find a better situation. Last year, we extensively detailed options for borrowers who were denied co-signer releases. In short, your best bets are to file a complaint with the CFPB, publicly shame your lender into doing the right thing, or use your good credit to take your business elsewhere by refinancing or consolidating your loans with a new company.
Online Writing Courses for Credit Many schools offer free online courses and materials through OpenCourseWare (OCW) projects. While formal admission isn't necessary to access lectures and other materials, these courses don't usually award college credit. Students looking for the same ease of access and the opportunity to apply their study time towards a degree or certificate program might want to consider courses that can lead to credit through Study.com. - Conventions in Writing: Usage - Instructors discuss tips for developing clear sentence structures, good diction and a strong writing style. - Parts of an Essay - This chapter covers prewriting strategies and methods for organizing an essay. 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Course activities and formats include assignments, exams, lecture notes and video presentations. - Writing and Reading the Essay focuses on the essay as a popular literary genre. The syllabus indicates two essay anthologies as course texts, which can be purchased online. Course activities include a reader's journal and a series of personal writing assignments. - Writing and Reading Short Stories offers students the opportunity to study character development, plotting and point of view. Featured authors include, among others, Flannery O'Connor, Alice Walker, William Faulkner and John Updike. New Jersey Institute of Technology The New Jersey Institute of Technology is a scientific and technological university that offers OCW courses and materials. - Technical Writing is geared toward the advanced writer. In this course, which consists of about 40 video-taped lectures, students apply theory to analyze and solve complex communication problems. Course topics include audience awareness, document design, ethics, gender equity and rhetorical theory. The Open University is the largest educational establishment in the United Kingdom, as well as the country's only distance-learning school. The university's free online classes may not provide access to the same resources used by formally enrolled students, but course formats might include Web- and print-based content as well as the ability to interact with other students through a comments feature. - Start Writing Fiction is a 12-hour, introductory course that can provide students with the inspiration and tools they need to put their words on paper. The course emphasis is on developing character and settings within a variety of fiction genres. - Writing What You Know is designed to help students improve their descriptive writing skills. This 8-hour, introductory class encourages students to view their everyday lives from a new perspective, demonstrating how an author's personal life can serve as a source of inspiration. Through Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL), students and teachers around the world can enjoy 24-hour access to a variety of Web-based resources, including handouts, podcasts and PowerPoint presentations. These include topics in grammar and mechanics, professional and technical writing, English as a Second Language (ESL), research and writing style. - Professional and Technical Writing provides a list of varied Web-based resources that can show students and professionals how to research and write business letters, memos and other office-related documents. Topics include audience analysis, parallel structures and writing tone. Additional technical writing resources include information on how to write scientific abstracts and white papers. - The Writing Process includes a list of mostly text-based resources and exercises that cover everything from overcoming writer's block to proofreading strategies. Additional topics include pre-writing, thesis statements, outlining and audience analysis, which can be applied to a wide variety of writing tasks. University of College Falmouth The University College Falmouth is a specialized art institution based in the United Kingdom. The non-credit classes offered through the school's 'openSpace' project allow students to work at their own level and pace but don't provide all the materials from the original course. Although registration isn't required to access assignments, lectures and other materials, registered students may be able to participate in online chats and peer reviews. - Introduction to Novel Writing was designed to provide graduate-level students with the structural skills to organize and develop extended pieces of creative writing. In addition to writing assignments and suggested readings, open course materials include YouTube videos by Joyce Carol Oates, Salmon Rushdie and Amy Tan. - Writing for Children introduces students to the genres and styles integral to the market and helps them find the right age group for their story. Open course materials include assignments, background reading, examples of children's books and an online lecture. University of Iowa The Writing University is a Web-based resource for the school's literary and writing community, providing direct access to a number of free audio presentations. Recent podcasts have included presentations on the sentence, creative nonfiction and experiential writing. - Flash Fiction introduces students to the concept of the super-short story and its emergence as a mainstream literary trend. Listeners can learn how brief experiences or even a life story can be condensed to a paragraph or a couple of written lines. - How to Find the Short Story Within Your Novel helps listeners identify the dissimilarities between these two literary forms. Students learn how to extract a quality excerpt from a longer piece of prose and how first-time authors can prepare their work for publication. University of Massachusetts at Boston - Critical Reading and Writing is designed to help students achieve college-level reading and writing skills through a critical exploration of U.S. foreign policy. Students have access to the course syllabus, an assignment list and website. Through the course site, students can open and download text documents and PowerPoint presentations on topics like critical analysis strategies, brainstorming and building concepts, as well documents and links to online resources on foreign policy issues. University of Michigan This university participates as a member of the OpenCourseWare Consortium by providing free access to educational materials and course content through its Open.Michigan website. - Principles of Research and Problem Solving is a powerpoint presentation breaking down scientific writing skills as within research proposals. Utah State University (USU) Utah State offers OCW materials in several academic departments. Students may be able to apply the knowledge gained from use of these open materials to pass exams to earn credit. USU may give credit to students who pass subject tests offered by individual departments, the International Baccalaureate Organization or CLEP exams, among other options. - Intermediate Writing: Research Writing in a Persuasive Mode provides access to 16 weekly lessons, with links to readings and related writing assignments. Students learn how to engage in various components of the writing process while developing critical reading and thinking skills. Topics include writing about controversial topics, argumentation styles, source documentation and how to use multimedia resources. - Introduction to Writing: Academic Prose is an online complement to a graduate-level course. The course materials are presented in a similar 16-week format, with links to several online readings and assignment descriptions. The syllabus begins with assignments related to debate and dialogue, cultural myths and visual literacy. Additional writing activities include a family narrative, a school board project and a media analysis. Online courses can be found at Stanford through the school's OpenEdX platform. - Adventures in Writing is an innovative approach to teaching writing skills. Developed by a group of lecturers, the course teaches written communication skills through a series of learning modules drawn and formatted in the style of graphic novels.
Interpreting Geekbench 2 Scores Geekbench 2 scores are calibrated using the 2003 entry-level Power Mac G5 as a baseline with a score of 1,000 points. Higher scores are better, with double the score indicating double the performance. Geekbench 2 uses a number of different tests, or workloads, to measure performance. The workloads are divided into four different sections: Integer performance: Integer workloads measure the integer instruction performance of your computer by performing processor-intensive tasks that make heavy use of integer instructions. All software makes heavy use of integer instructions, meaning a high integer scores indicates good overall performance. Floating point performance: Floating point workloads measure floating point performance by performing a variety of processor-intensive tasks that make heavy use of floating-point operations. While almost all software makes use of floating point instructions, floating point performance is especially important in video games, digital content creation, and high-performance computing applications. Memory performance: Memory workloads measure the performance of the memory hardware (which includes the motherboard and the chipset along with the memory itself). Memory workloads also measure the performance of the memory management functions provided by the operating system. Stream performance: Stream workloads measure memory bandwidth. Geekbench 2 uses tests based on the STREAM benchmarks developed John D. McCalpin. Software working with large amounts of data (e.g., digital content creation) relies on good memory bandwidth performance to keep the processor busy. Each workload's performance is compared against a baseline to determine a score. These scores are averaged together to determine an overall, or Geekbench, score for the system. Geekbench uses the 2003 entry-level Power Mac G5 as the baseline with a score of 1,000 points. Higher scores are better, with double the score indicating double the performance. Geekbench provides three different kinds of scores: Workload Scores Each time a workload is executed Geekbench calculates a score based on the computer's performance compared to the baseline performance. There can be multiple workload scores for the same workload as Geekbench can execute each workload multiple times with different settings. For example, the "Dot Product" workload is executed four times (single-threaded scalar code, multi-threaded scalar code, single-threaded vector code, and multi-threaded vector code) producing four "Dot Product" scores. Section Scores A section score is the average of all the workload scores for workloads that are part of the section. These scores are useful for determining the performance of the computer in a particular area. See the section descriptions above for a summary on what each section measures. Geekbench Score The Geekbench score is the weighted average of the four section scores. The Geekbench score provides a way to quickly compare performance across different computers and different platforms without getting bogged down in details When comparing scores, remember that higher scores are better, and double the score indicates double the performance. For example, if a MacBook Pro has a score of 3,000 points, then the MacBook Pro is three times faster than the Power Mac G5. If a Dell Precision workstation has a score of 6,000 points, then the Dell is twice as fast as the MacBook Pro, and six times as fast as the Power Mac G5.
What would Bryson say is the most important attribute of a modern effective public sector leader? Why? A modern effective public sector leader should be willing to act as process sponsors to endorse and legitimate the effort. In this context they are required as important decision makers and managers to give the effort a good try. Bryson (2004) indicated that a public sector leader should be committed to making the processes to work. They should be able to develop a fairly clear understanding and agreement among key decision making about what strategic planning intends to achieve in the long run. In his studies Bryson (2004) also says that “a public sector leader should be part of the advisory body and at the same time oversee the processes in their areas of office” (p. 38). These leaders should be capable of engaging in serious strategic dialogue and take part in the public sector strategic plan drafting. Public sector leaders should be able to capitalize on important opportunities. Bryson (2004) also noted that “such leaders should be able to develop strategies that will in turn create public value and that they are politically acceptable, technically workable, administratively feasible and ethically responsible” (p. 39). Public sector leaders should have the ability to think, act and learn strategically. Bryson (2004) indicated that such leaders should be able to resolve the most important issues they face. It is also important that public sector leaders be able to realize in practice an organization’s mission, goals, and strategies and the meeting of its mandates. Bryson (2004) says that this implies that these leaders should develop a useful strategic management system, include linking budgeting, performance measurement, and allowing desirable changes in ends and means to emerge over time. The leaders in public sector should use strategic planning as a deliberative educational and learning tool to help them figure out what is really important and what should be done about it (Bryson, 2004). Moore makes it clear that “a great deal rides on how well public managers perform as political managers.” Would Bryson agree? Would Hamel and Prahalad agree that private sector leaders need to learn more about leading in what seems to be an increasing political environment for private corporations? Why? Give an example Bryson will agree that a great deal rides on how well public managers perform as political managers. Bryson (2004) indicated that managers in particular are frequently and justifiably tired of buzzword and feel they are the victims of some sort of perverse management hazing or status degradation ritual. Many management techniques have failed because they ignore, try to circumvent, or even try to counter the political nature of life in private and public sector organizations. Bryson (2004) also says that managers do not understand that such a quest is almost guaranteed to be quixotic. He further says that politics is the method that we humans use to answer the analytically irresolvable questions of what should be done for collective purposes, how and why. Bryson (2004) learned that public sector managers embody a political intelligence and rationality, and any technique that is likely to work well in such sector must accept and build on the nature of political rationality. Hamel and Prahalad would agree that private sector leaders need to learn more about leading in what seems to be an increasing political environment for private corporations. Hameland & Prahalad (1994) says that this is because organizational transformation challenge faced by so many companies today is, in many cases the direct result of their failure to reinvent their industries and regenerate their core strategies. The increasing political environment in private organizations requires that skills, systems, and behaviours for a radically transformed information technology. Private sectors need to learn because it is not enough for a company to get smaller and better and faster than, as important as these tasks may be; hence they must be capable of fundamentally preconceiving itself, of regenerating its core strategies and of reinventing its industry to match the increasing political environment (Hameland & Prahalad, 1994). Private sector leaders need to learn more about leading in what seems to be an increasing political environment for private corporations because the capacity to invent new industries and reinvent old ones is a prerequisite for getting to the future first and a precondition for staying out in front (Hameland & Prahalad, 1994). For example, Hameland & Prahalad (1994) says that, it was its point of view about the potential direction of the industry that encouraged Apple Computer to establish a division responsible for personal interactive electronics (Hameland & Prahalad, 1994). Another example is that British Airways understanding the future of the airline business provided the impetus for a series of equity investments and joint ventures with airlines in the USA and Asia all aimed at making British Airways truly global (Hameland & Prahalad, 1994). State governments (and many organizations for that matter) experience significant leadership changes on a frequent basis. How would strategic planning help keep an organization “on track” with such volatile changes in leadership? Strategic planning helps keep an organization on track because the plans are easily conceptualized as a single program or policy. Moore (1995) says that strategic plans have a capital value rooted in their ability to adapt and meet new tasks and challenges. In addition Bryson (2011) says that strategic planning keeps an organization on track because there is an available set of concepts, procedures, tools, and practical guidance designed to help leaders, managers and planners think act and learn strategically. In volatile leadership changes, Bryson (2011) says that strategic planning is not a substitute for leadership broadly conceived. This is on the basis that there is simply no substitute for leadership when it comes to engaging in strategic planning effectively. In volatile leadership changes, Bryson (2011) also advises that at least some key decision makers and process champions must be committed to the process. Also it is important to have a planning team besides skilled facilitators to oversee the entire strategic planning process (Bryson, 2011). Moreover, volatile changes in leadership should not affect strategic planning when it is focused on a function because almost all of the key decision makers will be outsiders. In this context, strategic planning attends to the design and use of the settings within which constructive deliberation is most likely to occur. Volatile changes in leadership should not affect strategic planning because it involves the effort to realize in practice an organization’s mission, goals, and strategies, the meeting of its mandate, continued organizational learning and the ongoing creation of public value (Bryson, 2011). How did this class change your perception of the role of, and the need for, strategic planning? This class helped me to realize that there are different ways to approach strategic planning practice in a public sector organization. I gained the perception that we need strategic planning in organizations for them to deal with their changed situations. This implies that strategic planning is intended to enhance an organization’s ability to think, act, and learn strategically. As we all know that no company can escape the need to re-skill its people, reshape its product portfolio, redesign its processes, and redirect its resources the class helped me to realize the role of strategic planning in all these processes (Hameland & Prahalad, 1994). Strategic planning is the key to organizational transformation. The class helped me to note that strategic planning agenda is set by more prescient competitors and that it drives from one’s own point of view about the future. I have also articulated that the role of and the need for strategic planning is to develop a continuing commitment to the mission and vision of the organization both internally and in the authorizing environment (Bryson, 2011). From the studies and research conducted in this class it can be realized that strategic planning is applicable to public and non-profit organizations, collaborations of various sorts and communities. Looking from the bigger picture perspective of this class, the important activities in strategic planning are strategic thinking, acting and learning. Finally, through the class I also learned that strategic planning is an intelligent practice that is here to stay because of its capacity and its capability to incorporate both substantive and political rationality.
Carnegie Library As Seen from the Northeast Main entrance, North facade, East facade, Portico, Automobiles, Archbold Gymnasium, Saltine Warrior, Statues Library and Information Science Main entrance showing the north and east facades of the Carnegie Library. Archbold Gymnasium is to the west. Sign on speaker's platform points to side entrances. Statue on front lawn is the Saltine Warrior, donated by the Class of 1951 in memory of Martin C. Crandell, 1929-1978. Date of Creation Syracuse University Archives, "Carnegie Library As Seen from the Northeast" (2012). Carnegie Library Images 1907-2007. Paper 36. Syracuse University Archives Material in this collection may be protected by copyright. Permission to use any image must be obtained in advance by writing to Syracuse University Archives, 222 Waverly Ave., Suite 600, Syracuse NY 13244-2010 or faxing the request to 315-443-4053. Use fees may apply.
The ryukin is a hardy and attractive variety of goldfish with a pointed head and has a pronounced hump on the back behind the head. It may be long-finned or short-finned with either a triple or quadruple tail. The ryukin has been so named because it was said to have arrived in Japan through the Ryukyu Islands which lies between Taiwan and Japan. Early Japanese literature refers to the ryukin as the onaga (longtail) or the nagasaki goldfish. In English texts, they are also referred to as the Japanese ribbontail, the fringetail, the fantail or the veiltail. Out of all the types of goldfish, Ryukins are one of the most beautiful. Enjoy taiche's delightful selection of goldfish ryukin t-shirts, art, photography, drawing, design, writing, illustration and gifts
Thursday 31 May 1917 It was Thursday, under the sign of Gemini. The US president was Woodrow Wilson (Democratic). A Romance of the Redwoods, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, was one of the most viewed movies released in 1917 But much more happened that day: find out below.. Which were the most popular movies released in the last months ? Which were the most popular TV series released this week ? Find out your future Get a FREE Numerology report based on the digits of 31 May 1917! Which were the important events of 31 May 1917 ? - World No Tobacco Day. - Syaday (Discordianism) (5th day of the season of Confusion, honors Apostle Sri Syadasti). - Saint Gislemerio - Saint Mechtilde of Diessen - Saint Petronella. - the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary - The Godiva procession. - IT Day. - Jean Rouch: French filmmaker and anthropologist, considered to be one of the founders of cinéma-vérité in France, which shared the aesthetics of the direct cinema spearheaded by Richard Leacock, D.A. - Massimo Serato: Italian actor who fathered a son, Luca Magnani, with actress Anna Magnani. - 1st jazz record released (Dark Town Strutters Ball) Subscribe to our Newsletter Which were the top hits in that special week of May 1917 ? Top #4 songs in the USA - For Me and My Gal - Van & Schenck - John McCormack - The Star-Spangled Banner - America - Louis Gravieure - I'se Gwine Back to Dixie - Alma Gluck Make this date unforgettable CD and DVD Birthday Cards What news were making the headlines those days in May 1917? Which were the most popular books released in the last weeks ?
This intriguing hardware/software combo from Japan’s Fairy Devices lets you turn a tablet PC into a veritable “window to the stars”. As you hold your PC up and move it around, the highly-sensitive motion-sensor USB module sends position data to the StellarWindow’s planetarium software, adjusting the viewport to match the angle of your screen. The motion sensor module detects both acceleration and earth magnetism on X, Y and Z axes. The stunning star maps include a combination of photographic and CGI images, including are over 2.6 million stars and other celestial bodies cataloged and overlayed onto the display. The software also includes a voice guidance capability that helps you position the sensor in the right direction. This video clip really shows off the StellarWindow in action… If you don’t happen to have a tablet PC lying around, you can also attach the sensor to a pair of binoculars and view the feedback on a connected Windows PC (a Mac OS X version is coming soon). While casual stargazers can do something similar on iPhones with Craic Design’s Pocket Universe, that doesn’t really compare to the high resolution imagery and sheer volume of data you’ll find in this software. If you’re seriously into astronomy, there’s no comparison. Then again, StellarWindow costs 100-times more than Pocket Universe.
Did you spot Nikole Herriot’s adorable cloud cookies last week? Yes? I did too, and it got me thinking – just what if I could make cloud shaped cookies just like hers…? And so I did, except mine aren’t nearly as pretty, they are rather rugged around the edges, but hey, it was a first attempt – and actually easier than I would have thought. And of course now I’ve learnt the do’s and don’ts of making home made cookie cutters, I can pass this wisdom on so you won’t make the same mistakes… You will need: Copper ribbon [this is used as a draft excluder so you can buy it from most DIY shops] Secateurs /tin snips A pair of pliers Pencil and paper Step one: Design You need to draw out your design onto paper. I started off very ambitious, thinking I could make a frog shaped cookie. I now know I was deluded – the copper is quite hard to shape, and small details are going to be lost – so try to think of shapes that are bulky without too many long, thin protrusions. Step two: Measuring Use the string to trace the outline of your drawing so you can work out how long the copper needs to be. Then add on a couple of inches – each bend will take up a fair bit of the metal, and you need to leave an overlap to glue down at the end. Cut the length of copper you need using the secateurs/snips. Step three: Shaping Ok, so this is the hardest part – bending the copper into the right shape. As a general rule, if you have right angles then you can use the edge of a table, and otherwise use the pliers. For rounded parts, if you have a cylindrical object you can use to bend the wire around, that can work too. If you have the kit, a good idea is to cut the shape out of wood and then you can bend the copper around that – but unless you have a jigsaw that’s going to be hard. Or if you have a shape lying around that you like, that would work too – like a heart shaped lip balm tin or a child’s toy. Step four: Fastening Once you have shaped your cookie cutter, you need to fasten the ends together. I used superglue for this and found it worked well. Overlap the ends, glue together, and clamp them in place while the glue dries. And there you have it. Once you’ve mastered basic shapes, it should be easier to move on to more complicated ones. I’m going to persevere with that frog – I’ll let you know how I get on, but in the meantime here’s some I made earlier: Author: Rohini Wahi Rohini is a London based freelance journalist and trend forecaster for the design industries. She has worked for Elle Decoration, Living Etc, Houzz and Design Sponge amongst others. She loves a period drama and keeps a tidy home. Launched in 2007 The Beat That My Heart Skipped focuses on home inspirations, design trends, lifestyle and food – coupled with an insight into Rohini’s work and home life – from key picks at trade shows to styled weekend soirees. To contact Rohini for queries, work for hire or just to say hi drop her a line at email@example.com
Daylight savings time is supposed to save energy, and is likely the creation of some lame-brained Liberals–I will get back to you on that. It turns out that daylight savings time costs an estimated $433,982,548 for the U.S. economy. The Lost-Hour Economic Index breaks down the economic loss state by state across the top 360 metropolitan areas, blaming a number of factors, including fatigue. According to the index, Morgantown, W.Va., suffered the greatest loss per capita, with each person losing about $3.38 during the time switch. Least affected? Provo-Orem, Utah, where each person only lost about 97 cents. En masse, the New York/Northern New Jersey/Long Island area was most affected, losing an estimated $29,682,674, which essentially points out that Liberalism is costly even when the do LESS than nothing.
PTC urges veto for tree cutting bill At its April 21 meeting, the Peachtree City Council voted unanimously to ask Gov. Nathan Deal to veto a bill that would give billboard owners free rein to cut down and trim trees on state-owned right of way. House Bill 179 was passed by both sides of the legislature this year. Peachtree City Rep. Matt Ramsey voted against it, while Tyrone Sen. Ronnie Chance voted in favor. The bill allows for an area as long as 350 feet from the edge of pavement to be cleared of trees on state-owned right of way, and 250 feet along the right of way fence or boundary. Trees in those areas can also be trimmed, according to the bill. The bill requires that any removed tree or vegetation be valued, and the billboard owner must either add landscaping equal to that value or if the landscaping value is lower, a payment to make up the difference. Dead or diseased trees will not be calculated toward this valuation, according to the bill. Furthermore, the bill requires that after July 1, “no beautification project in this state shall include the planting of trees in the right of way within 500 feet of an outdoor advertising sign such that the visibility of a permitted outdoor advertising sign is obscured or could be later obscured by the growth of such vegetation. Proponents say that growing trees are starting to block some billboards, which advertise local businesses. Opponents of the bill have argued that the state is “giving away” its assets in the form of trees to the billboard companies. As for the support of the Peachtree City Council to veto the bill, Councilwoman Kim Learnard noted that a similar resolution was passed by Sandy Springs, and she thought Peachtree City could also jump on board. The motion was adopted unanimously. Similar to the affect tree growth has had on the billboard industry, it also is affecting one of Peachtree City’s most cherished annual events: the 4th of July fireworks. One prime viewing spot over the years has been the parking lot at McIntosh High School, but recently the growth of trees between there and Lake Peachtree have obscured quite a bit of the show. But to date, no legislation in the city has been suggested to clear trees to improve views of the fireworks display.
The Emirates Friendship Hospital Ship provides vital medical assistance to more than two million people living in communities isolated by the annual monsoon flooding in the most deprived region of Bangladesh. The Emirates Airline Foundation financed the twin-hulled vessel, granting in excess of $750,000 to Friendship, the registered NGO which runs the ship. In addition, the foundation funds the salaries of a full-time team of doctors, nurses and support staff, plus annual operating expenses, estimated to total $150,000. Emirates has also signed a management contract with Friendship for the boat which covers a 250-kilometre stretch along the River Bhramaputra, one of the most medically neglected and inaccessible areas of Bangladesh, helping people living on more than 400 small islands. The well-appointed mobile hospital can house 30 to 40 patients in an emergency and is equipped with chambers for doctors, primary health care facilities, two operating theatres, two eight-bed wards, paediatric and gynaecology units, a dental room, a pathological laboratory, an X-ray room and an ophthalmic room. A dispensary onboard distributes free medicine and the registration room can accommodate up to 24 staff and eight visiting doctors. Tim Clark, President Emirates Airline, said: “The communities in northern Bangladesh are in dire need of basic medical facilities to deal with the unforgiving conditions in which they live. Emirates is pleased to be able to reach out to the people of Bangladesh with this project. “This is the Emirates Airline Foundation’s flagship project in Bangladesh and we hope to be able to do a lot more in the years to come with the kind support of our customers who donate generously onboard. “We also have a bank of donated Skywards Miles which we use to sponsor tickets for doctors who visit this project and other humanitarian causes around the world.” He added: “We take our corporate social responsibility very seriously, and we find reaching out through the Foundation is a very rewarding way of showing we care.” This is the second such ship that is coming into operation in the northern chars of Bangladesh, where 40 per cent of the population is estimated to be under 15 years of age. The other project, the Lifebuoy Friendship Hospital Ship which launched in 2002, also receives volunteer doctors from all over the world sponsored by the Emirates Airline Foundation. These doctors donate their free time and holidays to work on the ship in addition to providing health education to the masses. Runa Khan, Executive Director of Friendship, said: “This new ship will help us in our task of reaching out to the poorest of the poor in this region with the best of health facilities. “Friendship is thankful to Emirates for taking this project under its wing. We cannot do enough for these people who are struggling to stay alive in the worst conditions possible and need all the help we can get. We expect to treat up to 60,000 patients a year on the Emirates Friendship Hospital Ship – 85 per cent of the beneficiaries are women and children. “Their suffering is unbearable for them and unacceptable for us. We are providing them with general medical care, mother and child care and surgical interventions, in addition to teaching them the basics of hygiene, nutrition and disease prevention.”
By Jesse Byrnes - 08/29/14 01:42 PM EDT The White House is pushing back on a report that the military operation to rescue captured American journalist James Foley was delayed by President Obama's "hesitation." U.S. forces conducted the rescue operation "as soon as the president" and his national security team "were confident it could be carried out successfully," according to a tweet sent Friday from the National Security Council's account. Foley, who went missing in Syria in 2012, was executed by fighters with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, who posted a video of his decapitation online earlier this month. U.S. officials confirmed the video's authenticity. One day after the video was released, the administration disclosed that it had made an unsuccessful attempt over the summer to rescue Foley and other hostages held by ISIS in Syria. "The President authorized action at this time because it was the national security team’s assessment that these hostages were in danger with each passing day in [ISIS] custody," Obama Homeland Security adviser Lisa Monaco said in a statement. “The U.S. Government had what we believed was sufficient intelligence, and when the opportunity presented itself, the President authorized the Department of Defense to move aggressively to recover our citizens,” she added. “Unfortunately, that mission was ultimately not successful because the hostages were not present.” Defense Secretary Chuck HagelChuck HagelCreating a future for vets in DC Republicans back Clinton, but will she put them in Pentagon? There's still time for another third-party option MORE called the operation "flawless," adding simply "the hostages were not there." The Sunday Times reported earlier this week that Pentagon sources said Obama took too long to authorize the rescue because he was concerned about U.S. troops getting killed or captured. On Friday, Obama's National Security Council called the allegations Obama hesitated "not true."
Now that Memorial Day has come and gone, the taste of summer is finally here. You know what that means, right? It's time to throw a few light beers in the cooler and roast up some cicadas. Yes, cicadas. You know, those noise producing, scary-looking larger versions of pesky flies that flock through the air the second summer's humidity hits? Mhm, guess what -- they're edible! And seemingly everywhere! Throwing lunch together has never been so easy! OK, so it sounds a little disgusting, right? Well trust me -- you may be singing a different tune once I get through with you. According to the Missouri Department of Conservation, you can cook up these creepy crawlers and put them on just about anything. A few notes: It's best to get them where the bug itself is the most tender -- female cicadas have more meat than their male counterparts. Oh, and if the thought of the small legs tickling you as they go down your throat skeeves you out (I don't know why!) then feel free to trim them off. The abdomen is where the goods really are, anyway. Not convinced? Well, let's look at the benefits of chomping down a few cicadas, shall we? - Say goodbye to grocery store trips. I mean, what's easier than walking outside and harvesting fresh ingredients? Nothing. - Raise your hand if you love protein! Cicadas are an excellent source of energy-boosting protein, complete with a crunch. Rid your summer salads of carby croutons and top them with cicadas instead. You hear that? It's weight loss knocking at our doors! - Possibly the most obvious benefit: You are getting rid of one of summer's biggest annoyances. Seriously, the glass scratching chirp of these beauties crawlers is enough to drive you bonkers after just one evening on the deck sipping a martini. OK, so I'll be honest: I'm not going to RUSH outside to harvest myself some cicadas this weekend. But it is cool to find out that a safe component to a balanced diet is right outside your back doorstep! Besides, everything's worth trying once, right? Would you ever try eating cicadas? Image via Stephen Barnett/ Flickr
Wendy Davis started Tuesday as just one of 10 members of the Democratic minority in the Texas state Senate. Hardly anybody outside the state knew anything about her. By the time midnight struck, however, Davis was known across the country — reviled by the right, and hailed as a heroine by abortion rights supporters for the one-woman filibuster she used to help derail what would have been one of the toughest collections of abortion restrictions in the nation. Davis took the floor at 11:18 a.m., after tweeting the day before: "The leadership may not want to listen to TX women, but they will have to listen to me. I intend to filibuster this bill." And that's just what she did, talking for roughly 11 hours straight before being shut down for deviating from the state's filibuster rules — but not before delaying a vote so long that the bill's supporters couldn't get it officially approved before the legislative session ended at midnight. The feat thrust Davis into the spotlight, but it was not the first time she has fought what appeared to be overwhelming odds. Here are five elements in her personal history that might have helped prepare her for this showdown: 1. She overcame hardships to become the first in her family to go to college Davis, 50, has come a long way in the last three decades. She was raised by a single mother. At 19, she was a divorced mom, working two jobs, living in a trailer park, and raising her daughter on her own. Davis got into a two-year paralegal program, became the first in her family to go to college (graduating from Texas Christian University), then went on to graduate with honors from Harvard law school. Later she clerked for a federal judge and ran a title company before entering politics. She won a seat on the Fort Worth city council in 1999 and unseated a GOP incumbent to get into the state Senate in 2008. "She's a total fighter," Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund and daughter of the late former Texas governor Ann Richards, tells USA Today. "And the thing about Senator Davis, she says she's going to do something, she gets it done." 2. This wasn't her first filibuster In 2011, Davis blocked a conservative plan that would have cut education spending by nearly $4 billion. She did it by ranting against the proposal for an hour, pushing it beyond a midnight deadline and forcing the legislature to hold a special session. The move earned her some highly placed enemies. Gov. Rick Perry suggested she was being a "show horse." Bill Hammond, the president of the Texas Association of Business, predicted voters would send her packing once they realized "the folly in her efforts." It didn't turn out that way. Davis was re-elected the next year, although she did get booted from the Education Committee. 3. Davis has already made some people very happy Davis was hailed as a "feminist superhero" by activists in her state long before this week, says Joan Walsh at Salon. In 2012, she protested plans to cut Medicaid funding to agencies with links to abortion providers. During her filibuster speech, Brandy Zadrozny notes at The Daily Beast, Davis said that Planned Parenthood was once her only source of health care — her "medical home." In 2011, Zadrozny says, Davis authored a bill requiring law-enforcement agencies to account for a backlog of untested rape kits. She followed up by urging members of Congress to follow her example at the federal level, to "do the right thing for thousands of victims of these horrific crimes, who are still waiting for justice to be served and for their attackers to be put behind bars." 4. Davis has already made some people very, very mad Davis may be a heroine to some, but she is not universally liked. Last year, during her re-election campaign, someone threw a Molotov cocktail at her office. She was not there when the firebomb hit, and nobody was hurt. She was inundated with messages of support and concern. She responded by saying she wouldn't be intimidated. "I will continue to stand very strong for the things that I've been working on and believe in and I know our community believes in," she said. "Public education, job creation, and women's health care." 5. Her filibuster was harder than it looked Texans take their filibusters seriously. If you want to tie up the state Senate with a non-stop talk-fest, you can't have any help, you can't take any breaks, and you can't deviate from the topic at hand. "There's a three strikes, you're out precedent in the Senate that allows senators two warnings about staying germane to the bill topic," Texas Tribune reporter Becca Aaronson says. Davis got her first strike for mentioning Planned Parenthood's budget, which was deemed irrelevant to the bill. She got her second strike when a colleague helped her adjust a back brace. Her third strike came when she mentioned a 2011 sonogram law that Texas passed, which Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, who was presiding over the session, said was not germane to the debate. And the filibuster was over.
If you have Snow Leopard-related questions about accounts or file sharing, the Take Control series now has the answers in the form of "Take Control of Users & Accounts in Snow Leopard," by Kirk McElhearn, and "Take Control of Sharing Files in Snow Leopard," by Glenn Fleishman. "Take Control of Users & Accounts in Snow Leopard" -- Read this ebook to learn how to manage all the accounts on your Mac like a pro, even if you are the only person who regularly logs in. You'll learn how to create the right types of accounts for the different people who use your Mac, why you likely need at least two accounts, and what you can do with the many options in the parental controls. Kirk shows you how to set up a troubleshooting account to solve problems, use Fast User Switching, share files between users, manage login and startup items, and more. Kirk even reveals tricks for sharing music and photos among multiple users on your Mac using iTunes and iPhoto. For those who want still more parental control options than those offered in Snow Leopard, the last page of the ebook includes a coupon worth 25 percent off Intego's ContentBarrier X5. 102 pages, $10. "Take Control of Sharing Files in Snow Leopard" -- Read along with Glenn as he takes you on a tour of all the nitty-gritty details you need to know to configure file sharing to be fast, effective, and secure. You'll learn how to select and configure the right hardware and software for your needs and budget, consider the pros and cons of different file sharing options, find set-up steps for each of the core Mac OS X file-sharing services - AFP, SMB, and FTP (with tips to help you avoid problems and security risks), get the details on setting up accounts, and learn how to log in to Mac file servers from a variety of major operating systems. The ebook specifically discusses the new Snow Leopard Wake on Demand feature and the quirky Snow Leopard firewall, as well as how to share files from iPhoto '09 and iTunes 9. 109 pages, $10.
Some healthy reasons to sip this stout on St. Patrick's Day Ireland, four-leaf clovers, and the color green probably come to mind when you think of St. Patrick’s Day. Oh, and beer. Lots and lots of beer. And since Guinness is perhaps the most popular Irish beer brand in the world, chances are your local watering hole will be offering specials on it come March 17. Want to impress your friends? Buy them a round, and then set them straight on these common myths about the black brew. Myth: It’s black In fact, Guinness, a stout bear, is neither black nor dark brown. If you look closely and in the right light you can see that it’s really a very dark red that is the result of things that happen to the grains during processing. Myth: Guinness is high in alcohol Guinness isn’t boozier than most other beers. In fact, it contains less alcohol by volume than a typical draught. An average beer contains 5% ABV, while Guinness clocks in at just 4.2%. So this St. Paddy’s Day, Guinness is a smart choice if you’re feeling festive but you want to take it easy (the holiday does fall on Monday, after all). Health.com: 7 Ways to Keep Alcohol from Ruining Your Diet Myth: Guinness is high in calories Guinness, a stout-style brew, is known for its creamy texture, dark color, and rich, caramel-tinged flavor. That means it must be high in calories, right? Not so fast. A 12-ounce serving of Guinness sets you back 125 calories—just 15 more than the same serving of Bud Light. Alcohol is beer’s main calorie source, and since Guinness is just 4.2% ABV, it’s relatively low in calories. The dark color and sweetness come from small amounts of roasted barley used in the brewing process. And that thick, creamy texture? Most beers are carbonated with carbon dioxide, but Guinness uses a mix of CO2 and nitrogen. Nitrogen bubbles are smaller than CO2 bubbles, which produces a smoother “mouthfeel,” as beer nerds call it. Health.com: The 18 Best Snacks for Weight Loss Myth: “Guinness is Good for You” This one’s more of a half-myth. “Guinness is Good for You” was born as a catchy marketing slogan in the late 1920s, and wasn’t based on any scientific proof that drinking beer actually had any health benefits. Today, some experts actually do believe that moderate alcohol consumption (including beer, wine, and spirits) could be good for you. Dozens of studies have shown an association between moderate drinking—that’s one drink a day for women, two for men—and a reduction in the risk of heart attack or dying of cardiovascular disease. And other research suggests that light drinkers gain less weight in middle age than those who abstain. At the same time, however, other studies have shown a correlation between moderate alcohol consumption and increased risk of breast cancer. And of course, excessive drinking causes a slew of other health problems including liver damage, several types of cancer, and decreased brain function. Bottom line: Go ahead and have a Guinness or two. But if you want to improve your health, you’d probably be better off eating something green, like kale or spinach, rather than downing a few too many pints.
To live a healthy life, it is important one is water and it is an extraordinarily principal phase. In fact, no different substance is as predominant as water. So if you are always consuming water, you might be already doing anything good for your well being. But now, you might have heard that alkaline water is the quality water you could get from nontoxic drinking. Alkaline water is less acidic than faucet water. It’s even higher for well being and health. The first thing it is important to know about the alkaline water. Alkaline water is nothing but it is the water with lots of alkalizing compounds like calcium, silica, potassium, magnesium and bicarbonate. Some people said that by in taking the water with extra alkaline water can result in higher well being and health. Alkaline water comes with a pH level of 9 to 9. 9. Faucet water contains many dissolved chemicals and elements that have an impact on the pH phases. Pure water has a pH degree close to 7. Alkaline water has a pH above 7. So the suggestion is to create a more alkaline balance in your physique. So people must consume water with high level of pH. Benefits of drinking the alkaline water: As alkaline water is pure and involves no chemicals and contaminants, the advantages are many. Following are the possible wellbeing benefits of drinking alkaline water. By drinking the alkaline water, it will be more helpful for the intestine. Some proponents of alkalized water say that it could keep the intestine in a well manner. Ionized water possess a bad oxidation and discount expertise which means it would present further disinfectant properties, thereby serving to guard you from hazardous microorganisms. For treating the alzheimer’s, glycation and diabetes the ionized water will result in reduced glycation phases and diminished liver harm. Alkaline water helps in boosting the athlete’s performance and it is very sure that severe undertaking spurs muscle groups to produce more hydrogen ions that it is easy to successfully put off. Hence acidity increases and fatigue sets in. So ingesting alkaline water enhances the physique’s buffering capacity and thereby improves the performance. Alkaline water blends with the gastric acid and neutralizes it. This in flip influences your digestion and can open the likelihood of malabsorption. Persons who drank alkaline water have reported with immoderate gasoline as a facet effect.
"A rich Internet application combines the benefits of using the Web as a low-cost deployment model with a rich user experience that's at least as good as today's desktop applications. And, since RIAs don't require that the entire page be refreshed to update their data, the response time is much faster and the network load much lower. Think of a globally available client/server application." Evolution of RIAs The sheer number of JS toolkits can be confusing to the uninitiated. In addition to technical considerations, issues such as licenses, modularity, and support should be considered. We discuss the most common toolkits: Prototype/Scriptaculous, Dojo, YUI, Ext-JS and jQuery. - Prototype: Prototype is the oldest framework, and thanks to its close association with Ruby on Rails, it is a widely adopted rapid application development (RAD) framework for the web. Developed by Sam Stephenson in 2004, it's probably the best-developed class-based system. Scriptaculous is a separate library, built on Prototype, that provides effects and animation. Scriptaculous has gained a reputation for being bloated, and that caused Digg to abandon both Scriptaculous and Prototype in favor of jQuery. - Dojo: Dojo, unlike the rest of the toolkits mentioned, provides a rich text editor, something for which there is a great demand. It has also completed a great number of partnerships, most notably with Zend. Zend is a leading framework for PHP development, supported by IBM and SUN, and they plan to integrate Dojo in their next version. In addition to the usual collection of widgets, Dojo provides extensions to do box and line charts. Competing with Commercial Alternatives
UT’s Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy has released a white paper examining the difficult choices that utilities and public policy makers face as they weigh alternatives to coal-fired power plants. The paper—entitled “Base-load Electricity from Natural Gas and Nuclear Power: The Role of Federal and State Policy”—is based on a symposium held at the Baker Center in September 2012. Sponsored by the Baker Center, Tennessee Valley Authority, America’s National Gas Alliance, and Spectra Energy Corporation, the symposium featured eighteen nationally and regionally known speakers and attracted participants from the electric utility industry, regulatory agencies, research institutions, and other nongovernmental organizations. The symposium was organized by Baker Center fellow Mary English and a team of academic, business, and government professionals. English, who is retired from UT’s Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment, has a doctorate in sociology from UT, a master’s degree in regional planning from the University of Massachusetts, and a bachelor’s degree from Brown University. As highlighted in the white paper authored by English, natural gas and nuclear power—the two dominant alternatives to coal—have dramatically different pros and cons. These pros and cons are shaped by environmental, health, safety, and security factors as well as technological and economic factors. Many of these factors are, in turn, shaped by current and prospective federal and state policies. A copy of the paper is available on the Baker Center website. C O N T A C T : Nissa Dahlin-Brown (865-974-8681, firstname.lastname@example.org)
The cronut burger is officially a public-health menace. The laboratory test results are in, and Toronto Public Health is now saying that the cronut burger, a croissant/doughnut/hamburger hybrid sold by Epic Burgers and Waffles at the CNE, appears to have been the cause of about 150 reported cases of food-borne illness, up from 100 reported cases on Wednesday. At a press conference this afternoon, Dr. David McKeown, Toronto’s top public-health official, said that samples of the cronut burger had tested positive for a type of bacteria called Staphylococcus aureus. The bacteria, he explained, multiplies in food that hasn’t been handled properly and produces a toxin that can cause severe gastrointestinal upset. If that weren’t enough evidence, McKeown said that interviews with about 100 people who fell ill after eating at the CNE also indicated that the cronut burger was the problem. “The only common food exposure that they had was the cronut burger served by Epic Burger,” he said. Prior to today, the cronut burger had been strongly suspected of being the source of the illness, but the City’s tests hadn’t yet confirmed that this was the case. Epic Burgers and Waffles closed on Tuesday, and remained closed voluntarily pending the results of the City’s health investigation. McKeown suggested that the closure is now mandatory. “Until the investigation determines the precise cause and source of the outbreak, we will not allow Epic Burgers to reopen,” he said. Toronto Public Health hasn’t yet determined what part of the cronut burger was playing host to Staphylococcus aureus, or what actions on the part of Epic Burgers and Waffles employees might have led to the bacteria finding its way into the food. At a press conference on Wednesday, CNE General Manager David Bednar said that the operator of Epic Burgers and Waffles also runs other food stalls at the Ex, none of which are suspected of spreading food poisoning.
Responding to the alarming deterioration of baseball in the largest of the Antilles, the Cuban hierarchy that governs the sport of balls and strikes shouted for help from Japanese consultants. This news has raised indignation among fanatics of the sport. No one doubts the quality of Japanese baseball. They won the championship in both versions of the World Baseball Classic, an event of the highest quality, where the best players on the planet compete. And in the Big Leagues, baseball players with slanted eyes play with great skill. The local debate centers on the manner of interpretation of baseball in the land of the rising sun. The Japanese philosophy of play, its strategy, and training are completely distinct from those of the nations of the American continent. According to sources within the Cuban Federation, the directors are most interested in Japanese style of pitching coaching and preparation. Although, the possibility was left open for instruction in areas of hitting and field play, as well. After Fidel Castro abolished professional baseball in 1962, many players of paid clubs left for the United States. Those that stayed on the Green Alligator, like Gilberto Torres, Fermín Guerra or Conrado Marrero, began to coach new amateur players. This assessment gave fruit. In the span of a few years, the amateur player elevated his quality of play, and towards the end of the 70s and through the 80s, possessed a level of play comparable to a AAA player in the United States. But the old stars have died, or are home-bound, like Conrado Marrero, who will turn 100 on August 11, 2011. A significant number of valuable coaches, formed in the sporting institutes after 1959, have fled Cuba or are sharing their coaching knowledge in other countries. Some experts see the Japanese assistance as an affront. It is as if the Spanish soccer league, La Liga, for the brutal difference in skill existing between Barcelona and the rest of the clubs, were to ask the assistance of The Netherlands to increase the competitiveness of the league. All baseball lovers recognize that Cuban development methods and training are old-fashioned. The ideas of the managers are from the middle of the twentieth century. Lack of information, bibliographic works, and internet access, and inability to follow the Big Leagues, the best league in the world, on TV, has created a lethal ignorance among pitching and other coaches, who, on occasion fail to recognize the latest techniques and statistics of baseball, in the United States and other elsewhere. In light of this crisis that has rocked the national sport, with more than 350 baseball players deserting in the last 15 years, directors of baseball have approached the Japanese, who, in my opinion, have little to offer, in terms of history or methods. I do not see a Cuban pitcher adopting the draconian methods of training to which Japanese pitchers are subjected. In Japan, a pitcher throws 120 pitches daily, with no regular downtime between sessions. Japanese pitchers have a limited shelf life, eight or ten years maximum. Those who arrive and perform well in the United States, in the span of five years, fall into mediocrity. This rigorous work forms part of the Japanese philosophy, and the Asian philosophy in general. It has given them results, but on this continent there are different ideas about the game. Cuba needs to adapt to the new techniques of baseball. We must look to the United States. The embargo impedes open assessment of the Cuban game. If the Castros would change their absurd politics and lift the clauses that prohibit Cubans from competing in the big tent, the story could be different. This lack of vision has transformed the national pastime of baseball into a low-quality spectacle. Before 1959, Cuba was the country that sent the most players to the Big Leagues. That title is now held by the Dominican Republic, with nearly 400 players. The culture of the island has always been one of sugar and of unbridled passion for baseball. Fidel Castro buried the industry of the sweet grain, and baseball is heading down the same path. Photo: New York Times. Japan defeated Cuba in the first World Baseball Classic, played in cities of Japan, the United States, and Puerto Rico in March of 2006. Translated by: Gregorio February 15 2011
1. The Christ (for there is only one for the whole world) was justified in God's sight by works, because He perfectly obeyed the law. It seems odd that Jonathan Prejean would think otherwise. See this post (link) and the comments following including those from "Crimson Catholic" (i.e. Mr. Prejean). 2. No one else can be justified in God's sight by works, for all have sinned (yes, that includes the Christokos) and come short of the glory of God, for there is only one God-man, Christ Jesus. 3. Because of (2), the only way to be justified is by the substition of the clean white garment of (1) for one's filthy rags. That is to say, the only way to be justified in God's sight is by faith in Christ. 4. True and saving faith evidences itself, however, in works. Thus, we may be justified in our own and our brethren's sight by works, though in God's sight only by Christ's righteousness.
Where Ohio Needs to Go from TWU International on Vimeo. Inside the atrium of the Ohio state capitol in Columbus on June 1, workers, transit riders, community advocates and civil rights leaders gathered for a townhall style discussion about how transportation policy can foster equity, justice and economic opportunity in Ohio and across the country. Reliable and affordable transportation is critical for connecting people to work, school and basic services and is an issue of equity and civil rights said speakers and audience members at the event, Where Ohio Needs to Go: A Statewide Conversation on Transportation Equity & Federal Policy. TWU International leaders along with civil rights activists, elected leaders and policy experts gave presentations while Ohioans gave testimony about the importance of public transportation in their lives and the need for equitable federal and state policy. Andrew Jordan, President of TWU Local 208 in Columbus, OH, introduced a video message from TWU International President James C. Little who connected the struggle in Ohio with the rest of the country and voiced TWU’s commitment to fighting against transit cuts and the wider threats to worker and civil rights. “Transportation is about more than getting from place to place. It is about opportunity. It is about being connected to jobs, schools, housing, healthcare and the community,” said Little. “But the sad truth is that for too many people public transportation options are unaffordable, unreliable or non-existent. There is an important opportunity ahead for us to address these issues of transportation equity as Congress considers the next Surface Transportation bill.” TWU Director of Legislative and Political Affairs Portia Reddick White provided a national level perspective in her presentation on equity and jobs. She argued that investments in public transportation make sense for the economy and the public and that politicians need to support transit safety, operations assistance and funding. “We have to let them know that transportation should not and will not be on the table for cuts,” said White. Lexer Quamie from the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights led a panel discussion on equity, civil rights and accountability and Jason Reece of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity led the discussion on equity and access. April Cruse, a bus operator and ATU Local 627 member, testified that she sees firsthand how important public transit is to communities and that further service cuts will leave riders stranded and even cost people their jobs. “How will people get home from the late night shift? How will our seniors get to the pharmacy or the grocery store?” said Cruse. “Cuts in public transportation are not the answer for fixing the budget.” Several witnesses testified to the importance of public transit for people with disabilities for whom transit is a vital lifeline and the only affordable connection to the community and to employment. Donna Prease, a grassroots advocate with Linking Employment, Abilities & Potential (LEAP), said that people with disabilities are empowered by public transportation and are able to be connected when transit options are affordable and accessible. The event was organized by TWU and a coalition of 14 other groups representing labor, disabled people, environmentalists, civil rights and communities, which included All Aboard Ohio, Amalgamated Transit Union, The Amos Project, The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Ohio BlueGreen Alliance, The Ohio Commission on African-American Males, Ohio Environmental Council, Ohio Higher Education Rail Network Institute, Ohio Olmstead Taskforce, Ohio Statewide Independent Living Council, PolicyLink, Policy Matters Ohio, and ProgressOhio.
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Optical measurement of the gas number density in a Fabry-Perot cavity 2013 (English)In: Measurement science and technology, ISSN 0957-0233, E-ISSN 1361-6501, Vol. 24, no 10, 105207- p.Article in journal (Refereed) Published An optical method for measuring the gas density by monitoring the refractive index inside a high-finesse Fabry-Perot cavity is presented. The frequency of a narrow linewidth Er:fiber laser, locked to a mode of the cavity, is measured with the help of an optical frequency comb while the gas density inside the cavity changes. A resolution of 1.4 x 10(-6) mol m(-3) is achieved in 3 s for nitrogen, which allows measurement of a relative gas density change of 3.4 x 10(-8) at atmospheric pressure. Place, publisher, year, edition, pages Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP), 2013. Vol. 24, no 10, 105207- p. laser refractometry, gas density measurement, metrology, optical frequency comb, Fabry-Perot cavity IdentifiersURN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-82812DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/24/10/105207ISI: 000324621900031OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-82812DiVA: diva2:663448 FunderSwedish Research Council, 621-2011-5123, 621-2012-3650
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — Tourist John Gleason crept through the grass, four small children close behind, inching toward a bull elk with antlers like small trees at the edge of a meadow in Yellowstone National Park. “They’re going to give me a heart attack,” said Gleason’s mother-in-law, Barbara Henry, as the group came within about a dozen yards of the massive animal. The elk’s ears then pricked up, and it eyed the children and Washington state man before leaping up a hillside. Other tourists — likewise ignoring rules to keep 25 yards from wildlife — picked up the pursuit, snapping pictures as they pressed forward and forced the animal into headlong retreat. Record visitor numbers at the nation’s first national park have transformed its annual summer rush into a sometimes dangerous frenzy, with selfie-taking tourists routinely breaking park rules and getting too close to Yellowstone’s storied elk herds, grizzly bears, wolves and bison. Law enforcement records obtained by The Associated Press suggest such problems are on the rise at the park, offering a stark illustration of the pressures facing some of America’s most treasured lands as the National Park Service marks its 100th anniversary. From Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains to the Grand Canyon of Arizona, major parks are grappling with illegal camping, vandalism, theft of resources, wildlife harassment and other visitor misbehavior, according to the records obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. In July alone, law enforcement rangers handled more than 11,000 incidents at the 10 most visited national parks. In Yellowstone, rangers are recording more wildlife violations, more people treading on sensitive thermal areas and more camping in off-limit areas. The rule-breaking puts visitors in harm’s way and can damage resources and displace wildlife, officials said. Often the incidents go unaddressed, such as when Gleason and the children approached the bull elk with no park personnel around. Gleason said he was “maybe” too close but felt comfortable in the situation as an experienced hunter who’s spent lots of time outdoors. These transgressions add to rangers’ growing workload that includes traffic violations, searches for missing hikers and pets running off-leash in parks intended to be refuges of untrammeled nature “It’s more like going to a carnival . If you look at the cumulative impacts, the trends are not good,” said Susan Clark, a Yale University professor of wildlife ecology who has been conducting research in the Yellowstone area for 48 years. “The basic question is, ‘What is the appropriate relationship with humans and nature?’ We as a society have not been clear about what that ought to be, and so it’s really, really messy and nasty.” Recent events at Yellowstone grabbed national headlines: — A Canadian tourist who put a bison calf in his SUV hoping to save it, ending with wildlife workers euthanizing the animal when they could not reunite it with its herd. — Three visitors from Asia cited on separate occasions for illegally collecting water from the park’s thermal features. — A Washington state man killed after leaving a designated boardwalk and falling into a near-boiling hot spring. The flouting of park rules stems from disbelief among visitors that they will get hurt, said Yellowstone Superintendent Dan Wenk. “I can’t tell you how many times I have to talk to people and say, ‘Step back. There’s a dangerous animal,’ and they look at me like I have three heads,” he said. Inconsistent record keeping, including a recent switch to a new criminal offenses reporting system, makes it difficult to identify trends that apply uniformly across the major parks. But the records reviewed by the AP reveal the scope of visitor misbehavior is huge. In Yellowstone, administrators and outside observers including Clark say the park’s problems have become more acute. That threatens its mission to manage its lands and wildlife “unimpaired” for future generations. Beyond incidents that lead to citations are many more that result in warnings. More than 52,000 warnings were issued in 2015, up almost 20 percent from the year before. Washington state resident Lisa Morrow’s son was among the children Gleason led toward the elk. Despite safety advisories — and numerous examples of visitors getting gored by bison, mauled by bears and chased by elk — Morrow declared herself unafraid of the park’s wildlife. She said she was eager to see a grizzly up close. “I want to see one right there,” Morrow said, pointing to a spot just feet away. “I’d throw it a cookie.” The top 10 parks by visitation collectively hosted almost 44 million people last year, according to National Park Service figures. That’s a 26 percent increase from a decade earlier, or more than 9.1 million new visitors combined at Great Smoky Mountains, Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, Yosemite and the other national parks on the list. Yellowstone boasts the most large, dangerous carnivores among those parks, but each has its risks. In Rocky Mountain National Park, it’s elk that become more aggressive during mating season. In Yosemite, it’s towering waterfalls where visitors insist on swimming near the edge. In the Grand Canyon, it’s squirrels habituated to humans and sometimes quick to bite an outstretched hand. Wenk said the rise in popularity of social media complicates keeping visitors safe. “You take a picture of yourself standing 10 feet in front of a bison, and all of a sudden a few hundred people see it, and it’s reposted — at the same time we’re telling everybody wildlife is dangerous,” Wenk said. “They get incongruous messages and then it happens. They get too close, and the bison charges.” Follow Matthew Brown on Twitter at https://twitter.com/matthewbrownap
Caroline McCarthy for News.com Thursday likely marked the largest proliferation of e-mail virus attacks in more than a year, according to security company Postini. Postini said that two variations of the Storm Worm virus, which originally spread across the Internet in January, have quickly driven global virus levels 60 times higher than their daily average. E-mail users should be on alert for messages with "love"-related subject lines and an executable attachment that would contain a Trojan virus, as well as messages with "Worm Alert!" subject lines that contained a .zip file full of malicious code. TECH_SPACE: Spam ahoy! Postini, which is based in San Carlos, Calif., says it processes more than 2 billion messages per day in order to compile its reports. According to warning notices from Postini as well as VeriSign, which also has been following the threat, clicking on the executable file in one of the new Storm Worm e-mails installs a rootkit with anti-security measures that mask the malicious software's presence from virus scans and shut down security programs that may be running. The virus then taps into a private peer-to-peer network where it can download new updates and upload personal information from the compromised computer. Additionally, the virus scans the machine's hard drive to locate e-mail addresses to which it can replicate itself. Ultimately, computers infected with this virus become unknowing "zombies" in a botnet that are used to send out spam and further the attacks. "It is highly likely that this latest attack will result in many more downloads, pump-and-dump attacks, and more as seen with former Storm Worm attacks to date," Ken Dunham, director of VeriSign's Rapid Response Team, said in a statement Thursday. The recent Storm Worm proliferation, coupled with a similar attack earlier this week that involved e-mails with "missile attacks" in the subject line, have made this the most active week for e-mail virus attacks in at least a year, according to Postini. Copyright ©1995-2007 CNET Networks, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Used by permission. Conversation guidelines: USA TODAY welcomes your thoughts, stories and information related to this article. Please stay on topic and be respectful of others. Keep the conversation appropriate for interested readers across the map.
Global water-balance modelling with WASMOD-M: parameter estimation and regionalisation 2007 (English)In: Journal of Hydrology, ISSN 0022-1694, E-ISSN 1879-2707, Vol. 340, no 1-2, 105-118 p.Article in journal (Refereed) Published Limitations in water quantity and quality are among the greatest social and economic problems facing mankind. However, difficulties in estimating the global long-term average runoff have led to differences of as much as 30% when integrated to the whole earth. Model estimates of runoff are especially uncertain for the 50% of the global land surface lacking consistent runoff data. In this study, we present the WASMOD-M global water-balance model, constructed to provide robust runoff estimates both for gauged and ungauged basins. WASMOD-M is a conceptual water-budgeting model with two state-variables and five tunable parameters. A simple parameter-value estimation procedure allowed “acceptable” parameter values to be identified both for the majority of gauged basins, and for most ungauged basins. Acceptable global simulations could be accomplished with continentally constant parameter values but at the cost of compensating errors on a basin scale. A “standard”, spatially-distributed parameter-value set was derived for a ”best” global simulation. Of the simulated 59132 0.5° × 0.5° cells, 45% got “good” parameter values as a by-product of regionalisation, 41% from regionalisation, whereas 14% were given a default value set. This global set allowed simulation of the 1915–2000 world water balance. The simulation was in the same range as previously published model results and compilations of runoff measurements. Long-term average within-year runoff variations agreed well with previously published results for most of the studied runoff stations although WASMOD-M was only calibrated against long-term average runoff. Improvement of WASMOD-M and other global water-balance models should be simplified by a common definition of basin boundaries and areas, as well as runoff. Further, modelling progress will depend on improved global datasets of precipitation and runoff regulation. Place, publisher, year, edition, pages 2007. Vol. 340, no 1-2, 105-118 p. Global model, Water balance, Runoff, Regionalisation, Distributed Earth and Related Environmental Sciences IdentifiersURN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-96556DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2007.04.002ISI: 000247704100009OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-96556DiVA: diva2:171170
Diabetes in pregnancy: Uterine blood flow and embryonic development in the rat 1995 (English)In: Pediatric Research, ISSN 0031-3998, E-ISSN 1530-0447, Vol. 38, no 4, 598-606 p.Article in journal (Refereed) Published The uterine blood flow to individual implantation sites was evaluated in early normal and diabetic rat pregnancy, and related to maternal metabolic state, length of gestation, and embryonic outcome. The aim was to search for a possible coupling between the flow rate and embryonic development. We studied pregnant rats of a malformation-prone Sprague-Dawley strain on gestational d 9, 10, 11, and 12, a time period which roughly corresponds to postconception wk 3-6 in human gestation. The blood flow in the uterus was estimated with the aid of a microsphere technique, and the embryos were evaluated with respect to morphology and uterine position. We found increased blood flow in the uterine and decidual tissue of the pregnant diabetic animals compared with normal pregnant rats on all days studied. The blood perfusion peaked on gestational d 10, both in normal and diabetic pregnancy. The implantations tended to be fewer, whereas the resorption and malformation rates were higher, in the left horn than in the right horn. The blood flow in the uterine and decidual tissues was increased in the left horn in diabetic d 10 tissue, as well as d 12 tissues, thereby suggesting that compromised embryonic development is associated with increased rather than decreased supply of nutrients to the implantation site. These findings are in concert with previous in vitro results suggesting that enhanced oxidative stress due to increased substrate availability is an important factor in diabetic teratogenesis. Place, publisher, year, edition, pages 1995. Vol. 38, no 4, 598-606 p. Medical and Health Sciences IdentifiersURN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-52962ISI: A1995RV97100021PubMedID: 8559616OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-52962DiVA: diva2:80872
Raising capital is hard enough as it is. Don't make it even harder by committing any of these common business plan mistakes. 1. Financial projections are too optimistic - Entrepreneurs always say they are "conservative" but you just aren't 2. Business plan is too long - Stay well under 30 pages. 3. Executive summary is too long - 2 pages or less 4. All paragraph format - Use bullet points, graphs, tables etc. Should not look like a novel. 5. Using a generic template - Investors want to see YOUR business plan. Using a template might make it look like some sort of canned business plan 6. Using a consultant to write the entire plan - Consultants can certainly help, but you need to write your own business plan. Who knows your business better than you? 7. Top-down financial projections - Don't start from the top saying if we can get just 1% of the market... Start from the bottom and show exactly how you plan to capture 1% of the market. 8. No focus on cash flow - As a startup cash flow is probably the most important single factor for the survival of your small business. Focus on it closely 9. Exponential growth projections - Most businesses do not grow exponentially like Silicon Valley darlings like Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare. Be realistic. 10. Poor pricing - Price your product or service based on extensive research. Too low and you are not profitable, too high and you can't make a single sale. 11. A "new" business model - Investors want innovation in just about every area except your business model. Rely on proven business models when possible 12. Claiming that you have no competition - Every one has competition! No matter what! Identify your competition and your strategy to win. 13. Asking for readers to sign a Non Disclosure Agreement - If your business is feeble enough that you need to ask for an NDA then you don't have much of a business. 14. No sustainable competitive advantage - If a competitor can beat you at your own game tomorrow then you don't have much of a long term advantage 15. Faulty arithmetic - Make sure your projected balance sheet actually balances! 16. Bad spelling or grammar - If you did not pay attention in English class then have someone who did read your business plan first. 17. Overly-technical writing - If you are an engineer or technical professional then have your spouse read your plan. If they can't understand it neither will investors. 18. Failing to request a next step - Does your business plan just end? Make sure to ask for a meeting or a phone call, or even an investment. 19. Failure to Include contact information - An investor loves your idea and wants to invest, but you forgot to include a way for them to contact you. 20. Over reliance on financial projections - If financial projections came true even 50% of the time every investor would be a billionaire. Don't take your financial projections too seriously they won't be right anyway. 21. Poor research - You claim that no one has ever done this before and yet a simple Google Search reveals 3 attempts and failures of this very idea. 22. Claiming your startup to be a "no risk" venture - Startups are always risky no matter what! 23. No partner - It is hard to run a company by yourself and even harder to secure investment without a partner 24. Lack of experience and no plan to mitigate - You don't always need experience to start a successful business, but if you don't have the experience then make sure to surround yourself with experts. 25. No market for product or service - Just because you have a "cool" product or service doesn't mean that anyone will be willing to pay for it. 26. Inability to scale the business - If the business plan says the biggest your business would ever be able to grow to is $1 million in revenue then say goodbye to potential investors. Investors want a Grand Slam. 27. Out of date - If you wrote your business plan in 2007 and it is 2010 and you are still passing around the same document you will undoubtedly turn off investors. Update your plan. 28. Forgot expenses - Oops did you remember to include pesky items like insurance, lawyer fees and taxes in your financial projections? 29. Inconsistencies - Make sure that your numbers and your statements are the same throughout the plan. 30. Lack of color or pictures - Even investors like to read picture books. Spice it up a bit with some color and pictures. Remember that your executive summary is the most important element of your business plan as you look to raise capital. (Image source: assistantsindia.com)
Virginia Tech equine medical center offers new gait-analysis system LEESBURG, VA. — A new high-speed digital video system that will allow for detailed gait analysis, lameness diagnosis and hoof balancing in horses is expected to go into operation this month at Virginia Tech's Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center. Unlike most video cameras, which could only capture horses in motion at 30 frames per second, the new technology can film at 60 frames per second in high definition, permitting the center's specialists to clearly view foot landing, breakover and arc of the foot, and limb flight. Using an equine treadmill that offers graded exercise in a controlled environment, a horse's gait can be captured at both varying and consistent speeds. The footage can then be frozen in still frames or played in slow motion, allowing for precision viewing of movements.Treadmill and imaging devices are in use at other university equine hospitals, but this is believed to be the first one that provides high-resolution digital imaging and the ability to freeze frames for viewing. The $300,000 system underwent testing at the center since last October. Horses from the nearby Loudoun Therapeutic Riding Foundation in Leesburg, Va., a nonprofit organization that provides horseback riding and related activities for therapeutic purposes for children and adults with disabilities, participated in the testing. "We are thrilled by the possibilities offered by this new technology," says Dr. Nat White, Jean Ellen Shehan Professor and director of the equine medical center. "The benefits of slowing or freezing high-quality digital images of a horse at full gallop are endless." According to Dr. Curry Keoughan, DVM, Dipl.ACVS, clinical assistant professor in equine lameness and surgery, using video technology rather than analog film also may result in enhanced performance through more accurate therapeutic shoeing. "Previous gait-analysis systems were based on computer images that were sometimes misleading," Keoughan says. "This system will enable us to optimize hoof balance and comfort, leading to heightened performance and success." Keoughan notes the new technology will be of particular benefit for athletic horses. "To improve productivity by even half a percent in a race horse is very significant," he says.
written by Dave Burr Behavior: As with most Damsels, the Azure Damsel grows from a docile juvenile into an aggressive adult. As a result, Damsels should not be kept with small docile tank-mates, rather with other aggressive community fishes. Numerous juveniles may be kept together; however adults will often fight unless they are a pair. If you plan to keep several types of Damsels, it is recommended that you add them at the same time to avoid territorial disputes. Make sure to provide caves or hiding places for them. The Azure Damsel is not a threat to corals, clams, or invertebrates and will add sparks of color to any reef aquarium. Feeding: Offer the Azure Damsel mysis shrimp and frozen herbivore preparations 4-5 times per week. Their diet consists mostly of meaty foods, however they will accept some algae based foods as well. Soaking all fish food with vitamins will help keep your fish healthier and make them less susceptible to disease. We recommend soaking food in garlic as well when adding new fish and whenever your notice ich or other disease in the aquarium. Garlic will help repel external parasites and will boost the fishes immunity. Feeding Tips: Remember to feed slowly. Leftover food will cause nitrates and phosphates to rise. If you see food falling to the sand bed and into the rocks, you should feed slower and give the fish a chance to eat before adding a little more. Using a turkey baster allows you to target food to different fish. For example you can feed the aggressive fish on one side of the tank and then squirt a little bit on the other side for the less aggressive fish. This way all the fish get a chance to eat enough. Maximum Length: 4" Care Level: Easy Reef Compatibility: Excellent Minimum Aquarium Size: 20 gal. Range: Indo Pacific Water Conditions: 75-80° F; sg 1.024-1.026 (1.025 is ideal); pH 8.1-8.4 Ca 420-440 ppm, Alk 8-9.5 dKH, Mg 1260-1350, Nitrates <10ppm, Phosphates, < .10ppm Water Chemistry: Maintaining Ammonia at 0 ppm, Nitrites at 0 ppm, and Nitrates below 10ppm will help to keep your Azure Damsel happy and healthy. We recommend doing a water change soon after Nitrates rise above 10 ppm. Maintaining proper calcium (420-440 ppm), alkalinity (8-9.5 dkh - run it 7-8 if you are carbon dosing) , and magnesium levels (1260-1350 ppm) will help to keep pH stable in the 8.1-8.4 range. We recommend a specific gravity of 1.024-1.026 with 1.025 being ideal for fish. Temperature should remain stable as well and should stay within a 2 degree range.
Conditional Use Review-Fairfield Fairfield is located in the uplands of Franklin County. The Town had a population of 1,800 in 2000, and has among the highest concentration commercial dairy farms in the state. The local government, which has long been well represented by local farmers, has placed a high value on the protection of viable agricultural land as a means of maintaining the local economic base. They have sought innovative ways to do this in the face of growing development pressure. TOOLS YOU CAN USE Many communities designate agricultural districts, often encompassing large expanses of rural land in which farming, forestry and rural residential development are dominant uses. Too often, though, the uses and development standards for those districts allow new housing without any local review or consideration of likely impacts on productive farmland. When the Fairfield Planning Commission set out to draft a new land use plan and zoning districts, they decided to designate land located outside of the villages and special conservation areas as the Agriculture District. Encompassing the bulk of the 43,335 acre town, the Agriculture District includes as part of its purpose statement in the zoning bylaw that “(d)evelopment methods to preserve the rural character and protect the agricultural resources of these areas will be enforced.” While single family homes are allowed within the district, they require a conditional use approval of the local review board. When granting approval, in addition to statutory conditional use criteria, the board must also consider the following criterion: “Residential development should be sited on land least suited for production of crops and maintenance of agriculture, with due consideration to drainage, soil conditions, flooding, topography, etc.” Despite the protection for farmland encompassed in the siting and farmland protection standards, the Planning Commission and Selectboard realized that the conversion of farmland to development would continue. To address this, the Town has allocated local tax dollars to purchase development rights on farmland. Working with the Vermont Land Trust and Vermont Housing and Conservation Board, over 5,000 acres have been conserved. Because the rate of development could exceed the rate with which funding could be secured to conserve farmland, Town voters also adopted a phasing program to control the number of homes built in any year. This phasing schedule is tied to an analysis of the region’s housing needs and the local capital budgeting process associated with land conservation. - Agricultural land is a finite resource, and protecting these resources for future generations is clearly in the public interest. - If the purpose of a zoning district is promoting agricultural land uses, standards are needed to protect those uses from inconsistent forms of development, including housing. - Regulations to protect agricultural lands are best used in conjunction with non-regulatory tools, such as land conservation. Note: Fairfield’s zoning, while effectively using the conditional use provision to minimize impacts of residential development on productive farmland, is not structured in a manner that serves as a good model for many communities. Therefore, no link to the regulations is provided.
Showing BMW engine numbers, BMW frame numbers and the frame plate VIN means what? The legal description of a vehicle is often defined as the Identification Number or VIN. When you hear someone say VIN number, that is redundant, repetitive, tautologous and pleonastic :-) In other words, if you say "VIN number" you sound stupid. In the prewar days most models didn't have matching numbers on the frame and engine. After the war they matched up, until about 1980 and they again In California, 30 years ago, a model was whatever year the dealer said it was. Commonly a dealer had an "old" one and lied on the title to make it appear to be what he had told the customer. I have seen this happen with a 3 year error. One customer actually bought a 1974 R90/6 in 78 as a 77. Boy, was he mad when he found out. We have seen the California DMV transfer ownership and mess it up by 20 years. I have seen several BMWs that didn't even exist. That is, the VIN wasn't in any number system. I have seen BMW mis-stamp the VIN with an extra digit or miss one. I have even seen them overstamp it and it looked "stolen." I owned a model that didn't "exist." The Germans weren't allowed, by the post WWII occupation forces, to produce anything larger than 250cc,. They needed money, collected bits from the war rubble to make and sell them "under the table." Joe Groeger owns it now, a post war 750 from 1950. It is a sport version of the military 750 cc engine. I would trust the stamped frame number before a title. In California one can change engines all day long without changing the title. Not so with the frame, as the title must be modified. If your title is correct, consider it an accident. I am not implying that any government agency could make mistakes:-) If a new engine was ordered out of the parts book as a spare part, it came with no serial number stamped into the case. Different countries had different procedures for documenting a replacement engine, so it was left Samples of a BMW motorcycle VIN This is an example of the engine number of a /2. It is located on the right side of the engine and just above the cylinder. This photo shows the cylinder removed. See the BMW logo stamp on each side of the 6 digit number? I believe you should find that stamp on any factory engine from 1950 to 1970. If an owner had installed an engine as a spare part, it would come with that same place completely blank. Since 56 BMW has used only that font for the /2. If you see a different font, no logo or anything suspicious, I suggest that you be very careful. If you plan to show a bike I suggest having the numbers match and be correct. A judge will notice errors. This is an example of the engine number of a /5. See the factory logo only on the end of the 7 digit number? The /6 also has the logo at the end of the serial numbers. The VIN is in the lower right 1/3 of the photo, a close up is Here it is close up. See the logo at the end of the 7 digit string? It is the same on the /6 and maybe later too. This is the VIN on a R51/3 engine. The engine is basically the same as the /2, but the VIN is on the left side, not the right side. See both BMW logos stamped in? Photo courtesy of Darryl Richman, thanks. This is the VIN on the frame of the same R51/3. It is on the left side of the bike and on the casting that holds the rear plunger spring. The thick paint is covering up the two BMW logos. This is the location of the post war bikes until the very last of the /3 production, when the frame number was moved up to the side of the steering head. This is the removable aluminum VIN plate (BMW frame plate) that is attached to the steering head. It came on every BMW until the /5, which has a paper/plastic one. This one of from the sport model, the R68. The photo was "lifted" from the German R68 site, thanks. The number on the plate has no legal standing. Authorities need to see the stamped in VIN with the BMW logo on A superb example of a plate. Photo provided by Duncan For an explanation of 1980 and later, go to snowbum's site. For a list of VIN's by model go to Click here for information on the BMW logo, Do you want to know the date that your BMW was built? Send the VIN to Andreas.Harz@partner.bmw.de and politely ask for information. He is a very nice man.
The California Seafloor Mapping Program (CSMP) is a cooperative program to create a comprehensive coastal/marine geologic and habitat base map series for all of California's State waters. The California Ocean Protection Council (COPC) authorized funds to establish the CSMP in 2007 (COPC, 2007) and assembled a team of experts from state and federal agencies, academia, and private industry to develop the best approach to mapping and classifying coastal and marine geologic habitats, while at the same time updating all nautical charts. Initiated in 2008, the CSMP has collected bathymetry (underwater topography) and backscatter data (providing insight into the geologic makeup of the seafloor) that are being turned into habitat and geologic base maps for all of California's State Waters (mean high water line out to three nautical miles). Although the CSMP was originally developed to support the design and monitoring of marine reserves through the Marine Life Protection Act [California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), 2007], accurate statewide mapping of the seafloor has also contributed significantly to these efforts: Data collected during this project reveal the seafloor offshore of the California coast in unprecedented detail (for example, see the movie below) and provide an ecosystem context for the effective management of this precious marine resource. Click on the above icon to view a virtual fly-through over the seafloor of Central California near San Francisco as if the water was drained from the ocean. The movie flies over the seafloor from Bolinas to Pescadero in central California. CSMP is a collaboration between State and Federal agencies, the academic community, and the private sector. Partners include:
UAlbany Connecting With Communities The University at Albany has embarked on a program to strengthen its connections with the community. UAlbany President Dr. Robert Jones "public engagement" initiative builds on a similar program that advanced the concept at the University of Minnesota, where Jones served most recently as Senior Vice President and spent a total of 33 years in academic and administrative leadership positions. The Albany version of the program is called "community engagement" and partners UAlbany with the University of Minnesota to implement a "10-point plan" that includes establishing a system wide office for public engagement and advancing research studies within outlying communities. Jones has already been touring selected counties offering UAlbany's partnership. Jones' arrival at UAlbany capped a six-year search for a successor to the late Kermit Hall, and he comes at a time of flux for the school. On campus, several programs have been cut in recent years even as the nanotechnology campus booms nearby. Off-campus, the city and school have been working hard at putting the infamous 2011 “kegs and eggs” riot behind them. For his part, Jones has already seeded relationships with students. Jones is keen on rolling out strategies to enhance college-bound students’ access to the university and tuition affordability. Jones vows that despite any budgetary restraints, the effort will move forward. Jones' ultimate plan: go beyond community engagement and become more issue-driven in areas like social welfare and public policy.
One of this week’s best reads is Jason Zingerle’s wide-ranging interview with Rep. Barney Frank for New York magazine. Given the interviewee, it’s not surprising the piece is always interesting, often funny, and occasionally startling in its, well, “frankness.” Since Frank has been in Congress for more than three decades and has experienced just about every built-in institutional barrier to change, you’d think an open-ended question about structural reforms would send hin into blue-skying or at least list-making. But no: Are there structural reforms that you think need to take place? To get rid of the filibuster in the Senate. Is that the only one? That’s the only one. I’m among those who really get upset when people sort of internalize the recent routine use of the filibuster by Republicans to create a de facto 60-vote requirement for doing business in the Senate, as though it came down from Mount Sinai on stone tablets. It didn’t. It’s a revolutionary development in the empowerment of congressional minorities, of special utility to those who wish to obstruct progress. And it has a huge ripple effect on what happens in the House (as Frank indicates), the White House, and the country. We should never get used to it until it’s modified or gone.
Originally posted at: http://feeds.slashgear.com/~r/slashgear/~3/0Xy4-MZdK88/ “The technology could be used for newborn infants to monitor their vital signs without hooking up various machines to the baby. The team released the open source code for non-commercial purposes” When you take a look at someone that’s sitting still, you may actually think they’re sitting still, but they’re actually still moving slightly thanks to their pulse. The pulse is strong enough to move our body even when we try to sit perfectly still. Scientists at MIT have come up with a process Eulerian Video Magnification, and it essentially amplifies movement in humans and objects. The amplification process exaggerates the tiny movements made by humans and different objects in order to see a completely new world of movements. The process shows you blood pumping in and out of a human’s face to show that the person’s heart is beating, and it even shows a sleeping baby breathing even though we wouldn’t be able to see it well with the naked eye. The process is done by taking each frame of a video and analyzing every pixel of every frame. It then monitors the pixel’s changes from frame-to-frame to capture slight movement. The pixel reveals very subtle color changes, and with the magnification and amplification process, the computer program can exaggerate those colors just a bit to amplify the subtle movement. The MIT team is hoping this process will be a useful diagnostic tool in the medical field for pulse monitoring and seeing where blood flows in the body to look for asymmetries. The technology could also be used for newborn infants to monitor their vital signs without hooking up various machines that could annoy the baby. For now, the team has released the open source code for non-commercial purposes and they’re hoping that the technology takes off soon. is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear. Add a Comment
Historic Centre of Bukhara Up to 75 images are shown here. Click on each for more details or on Image Gallery for more images. Six official UN languages: \|\|The 2,000 year old Bukhara sits on the Silk Route. It is Central Asia’s most complete example of a medieval city; it still holds an urban fabric that has remained practically undamaged. Monuments of exceptional interest comprise the renowned Ismail Samani tomb, a masterwork of 10th-century Muslim architecture, and a vast amount of 17th-century madrasas. --WHMNet paraphrase from the description at WHC Site, where additional information is available. For 360 degree imaging of this site, click here. \|\|Bukhara (formerly Bokhara) (Uzbek: Buxoro, Бухоро; Tajik: Бухоро; Persian: بُخارا, Boxârâ; Russian: Бухара), from the Soghdian βuxārak ("lucky place"), is the fifth-largest city in Uzbekistan, and capital of the Bukhara Province (viloyat). It has a population of 237,900 (1999 census estimate). Bukhara (along with Samarkand) is one of the two major centres of Uzbekistan's Tajik minority. The city was also known as Bokhara in 19th century English and Buhe/Puhe（捕喝） in Tang Chinese. Bukhara was also home to the Bukharian Jews, whose ancestors settled in the city during Roman times. --Wikipedia. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. For 360 degree imaging of this site, click here. \|\|1. UNESCO World Heritage Center, Site Page.
making red wines Machine harvested Merlot (left) and hand-picked Pinot Noir (right) One of the key issues in red wine making is getting the flavour and colour out of the skins. It’s called extraction, and how you do it is a vitally important factor in the quality of your wines. Here’s a brief illustrated explanation of this important subject. The pulp of almost all wine grapes is colourless (the exception here being the rare teinturier grapes, such as Alicante Bouschet and Sousão, which have coloured insides). The skins, however, are richly pigmented, containing a range of compounds such as anthocyanins and tannins that are important contributors to the colour and structure of red wines. There are many different ways of making red wine, but a common theme to all is the goal of extracting these colour and flavour components from the skins without extracting too much: a common analogy used here is making a brew, where the goal is to take out just enough flavour from the tea leaves, but not letting it stew too long. This extraction occurs via a process of maceration, which really is a bit like brewing a cup of tea. Pinot Noir grapes entering and leaving a crusher-destemmer Most red wine making begins with the crushing and destemming of the grapes, which results in a liquid mass, on which floats a raft of skins and pips. One variant on this theme is to include the stems in the fermentation, which can add a lovely spicy, structural element—it’s most commonly used with some Burgundies. But if this is done, the stems need to be ‘ripe’, or else they will make the wine taste green and bitter. Another variant is to leave the bunches uncrushed, and let fermentation begin from inside the grapes: this is called carbonic maceration. But most of the time red wine fermentation will begin with this semi-liquid mass of seeds, skins, pulp and juice Left alone, the skins would form a solid cap on the top of the juice. Bacteria would begin to ferment at the cap–air interface, and the result would be a volatile acidity problem—the wine would reek of vinegar, and be spoiled. Winemakers avoid this by keeping the cap moist, either by plunging it regularly, or keeping it submerged by a mechanical device, or by pumping juice over it. Plunging, also known as pigeage, is the most traditional method, and can be done by machine, or by a special pole, or even by feet. This is typically done with shallow open-top fermenters. Pumping over is potentially more disruptive, because of the forces involved, but is more appropriate for bigger, closed fermentation vessels such as stainless steel tanks. Plunging or pumping over achieve the dual goal of both keeping the cap wet (preventing it going volatile) and extracting colour and tannin. \|\|Three types of fermenter. On the left we have a lagar (this is a swanky one with a heat exchanger), ideal for shallow fermentation with good contact between the juice and skins. Traditionally, these are foot-trodden, and this one hails from Portugal's Douro. Below we have a row of open-top fermenters, which are quite small and ideal for processing high-quality red wines (again, this is from a winery in Portugal, this time the Alentejo). Then below left there is a rotary fermenter of the type popular in Australia. A slightly controversial technique is to use rotary fermenters, which have agitators in them that mix up the cap and juice when the whole tank is rotated mechanically. These have been accused of producing wines that have a slight bitterness to them; advocates suggest that this is because not enough oxygen has been provided to the fermenting juice and the bitterness is a problem of Extraction of the good stuff from the skins of red grapes can occur before fermentation, during it, or after it. If the must and skins are kept cool enough, fermentation will be delayed, and maceration will occur in an aqueous medium. Once fermentation begins, alcohol levels gradually rise, and this alcohol aids extraction. After fermentation has stopped, the maceration that occurs is carried out in an alcoholic medium, and may be more severe, taking lots of stuff out of the skins, than that which occurs before fermentation. A key winemaking decision is when to separate wine and skins after fermentation has finished. Red grapes removed from fermenters, ready for pressing This is the point where pressing occurs. After the wine has been run off from the skins, the winemaker is left with a pulp that is a mix of juice, skins and pips. This gets put into a press, which squeezes out the remaining juice from the skins. How this is done – the force that is used and the type of press – determines the quality of the wine that is thus extracted, known as the pressings. These may be finished off separately from the rest of the wine, or blended back into it. Press too hard and you end up extracting bitter compounds from the skins and seeds that can have an adverse effect on quality. A traditional basket press of the type favoured for red wines a further issue here, which is that of colour. It's a bit complicated, but it is important. The main colour pigments in the skins of red wines are called anthocyanins: they are responsible for the very vivid colour of just-fermented red wines. However, they aren't very stable. To form stable pigments a variety of chemical reactions need to occur resulting in the formation of pigmented polymers. This series of reactions is only just being worked out, but the story emerging is that the presence of oxygen and the use of oak could be important here. Back to top
WISE (Women in IT/ICT Sharing Experiences) is a recognized student organization at Florida State University. The organization is focused on students in the Information Technology (IT) and the Information, Communication, and Technology (ICT) programs, however, we welcome students from all majors. We have four primary goals: - Provide professional events for members (guest speaker series, mentorship events, career days, internship opportunities, company tours) - Provide opportunities for leadership for students (executive board, leadership roles, outreach to schools) - Facilitate links between FSU and the local business/technology community for our female students - Provide venues for social collaboration for students (Bowling, Picnics, Pizza Nights) WISE (Women in IT/ICT Sharing Experiences) was started by STARS Alliance in early 2009 in partnership with students from IT Practicum at Florida State University in the College of Communication and Information (cci.fsu.edu). Our organization is made up of women from FSU (mostly in IT and ICT but not limited to them) who are devoted to banding together and staying strong as we prepare to enter the workforce in a mostly male-dominated career field. WISE allows women to develop friendships, work with peers and other students at FSU, allowing them to have a group of friends who can help them in their classes, leading to better retention in the major. WISE events revolve around professional programs, social events, and developing mentors in the community. Meeting business leaders who offer their advice to students is important to our student’s success. In the past, business leaders have sat down one on one to critique our resumes and conduct mock interviews. This gives WISE members a head start when they plan to look for a career. Advisor: Prof. Ebe Randeree
Question 1 Answer a) Market structure refers to the environment in which firms operate and how the market forces interact with each other. b) Monopoly has many buyers and one seller. Unique goods are sold by the monopoly where there are limited or no substitutes. There are a number of barriers to entry making it difficult for other firms to enter the industry; the monopoly firm is the only one in the industry. The firm has a great deal of control over price and usually raises it very high to maximise profit.
Kentucky lawmakers not able to come together on Congressional redistricting issue Kentucky’s congressional delegation will have to wait a little longer to find out who exactly they’ll represent this year. Legislative leaders are trying to work out a compromise on new congressional redistricting maps, having already passed maps of their own districts and their own versions of the congressional map. The congressional map is currently in a conference committee, but the chambers adjourned today with no compromise in hand. The committee will meet again on Monday. "I don’t know if anyone wants to work the weekend. I’ll certainly be available if that’s necessary," says House Speaker Greg Stumbo. "But at this time we’re fairly far apart on the two proposals." At least one Congressman, Hal Rogers of Somerset, has voiced his disapproval of the process, Stumbo says. He adds that Senate Republicans need to back down from their position before a compromise can be reached. “Unless the Senate comes forward with a new proposal that is not their old proposal with some minor modifications then no, there won’t be [agreement],” Stumbo said. Stumbo says the House already proposed a totally different map for discussion than the one they passed last week. But Republican Sen. Robert Stivers says the House isn’t being reasonable in negotiations over the Congressional map. Stivers adds that his chamber is ready to continue talks. If the General Assembly can't pass House Bill 2, the congressional map, by Monday, they may have to push back the filing deadline for those offices.
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (WOOD) — The state’s newest cybersecurity resource was unveiled during a Tuesday morning ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Michigan Air National Guard base in Battle Creek. The new 110th Airlift Wing Michigan Cyber Range Hub at the W.K. Kellogg Airport will have cybersecurity training available to the public and will also provide classes to Michigan Air National Guard. The recent security breaches at major retailers like Target, Neiman Marcus and Michael’s show just how important cybersecurity is. Target says it estimates it lost $5.3 million in its quarterly earnings, which it attributes to the breach. “The statistic is that 85% of this nation’s critical infrastructure is protected by civilians,” Joe Adams of Merit Education, which runs the cyber range, said. Adams said Merit has been teaching cyber security methods for years, but the opening of the Battle Creek Cyber Range will allow West Michigan businesses to have a local base of operations to take classes or use the services online. “Companies can come and take advantage of us,” Adams said. “The Guard, the state government — just about anybody.” Three service lines will be created through the Cyber Range. The first is classes: 14 certifications like disaster recovery, security expertise and incident management will be available via in-person or online courses. The Cyber Range will also provide secure virtual infrastructure for other institutions to teach their classes. Ferris State University, Grand Valley State University and Grand Rapids Community College are already using the curriculum for its students. Third, the Cyber Range will have exercises for students to practice the skills they’ve learned using real-life examples, raising the level of understanding out in the real world. “The difference is the attacker is going to have the advantage of being able to focus and pinpoint an attack, which is why we want to train across the industry so that more people can be aware,” Adams said. Adams said cybersecurity training could also be helpful on a resume — it may set you apart from other candidates because it is essential moving forward. The Cyber Range started in 2012 as Gov. Rick Snyder pushed to improve cybersecurity to protect families, businesses and government. “Let’s not be on the defensive,” Snyder said at Tuesday’s ribbon-cutting. “Let’s have the defense in place when it’s needed.” The 110th Communications Flight in Battle Creek is one of five cyber mission flights across the nation.
Options are limited for the Gibson Theatre in Batesville. The historic downtown theater may be forced to close unless they receive financial assistance in order to purchase needed upgrades to continue showing new movies. Hollywood has been transitioning toward releasing movies in a digital format. Some industry leaders cite the release of ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ as the final movie ever released that would be available in the old 35mm format, which is the current technology at the Gibson. It is cheaper for movie companies to release the movie digitally, although it comes at a substantial cost for cinemas to upgrade. It has led theaters across the nation to either buy the new equipment or shut their doors. Gibson Theatre Owner Kim Powell is hoping to spare Batesville’s well-known downtown theater from closing. “This is something we’ve been working on for six months. We brought it to the attention of the public several months ago through fundraisers and live shows,” Powell explained. “We have been trying to come up with the money to go digital.” The conversion to the digital format could cost upwards of $53,000, Powell indicated. The theater is currently pursuing grant opportunities through the Hillenbrand Foundation and other organizations. Long before movies appeared in color, or the dawning of multiple-screen movie theaters, the Gibson has been a local hotspot to watch the famed actors and actresses of Hollywood since the era of silent film. The one-screen theater was constructed in 1921 by Dr. Charles Gibson. The first film was displayed in 1941 and has since provided local entertainment for generations. Powell said the historic building offers much more than cinema. “I feel that the Gibson is so good for the community. We support organizations like the Rural Alliance for the Arts, Choices Program and we do a ton for the schools.” Powell said that if they successfully transition to the new digital projection format, the former movie equipment will be donated to the Batesville Historical Society. On Tuesday, Powell released an online fundraising video. The website is the world’s largest funding platform for creative projects. The goal is to raise $15,000 toward obtaining the new digital equipment. Powell was hesitant submitting a video, saying, “This is now crunch time. I was hoping to not go to the public because I know that [nowadays] it is a struggle, it’s week to week. We have applied for the grants and now it is down to crunch time.” He said he wants to continue seeing people come to watch movies at the Gibson Theatre and support the downtown business. According to Powell, if the new digital projection format cannot be funded, the theater will no longer be equipped to display newly released movies after June 1. “If we do not get the digital format at the Gibson Theatre, somewhere down the road we will have to close the doors,” Powell stated.
Winnie-the-Pooh, the fictional teddy bear loved by children worldwide, is celebrating his 90th anniversary with a new feathery friend. The character Penguin makes its first appearance in the book series’ anniversary sequel, Winnie the Pooh: The Best Bear in All the World. The new sequel released by Egmont Publishing — which jointly owns the rights to Winnie-the-Pooh with Disney — will include four new tales each set against a season throughout the year. Pooh Bear’s new friend is introduced to a new generation in Winter: In which Penguin arrives in the Forest, written by British author Brian Sibley. He drew inspiration for the character from an old photograph of the book’s original creator, A.A. Milne, and his son playing with a penguin toy. “While pondering what other toys Christopher Robin might have owned but which were never written about, I remembered seeing a photograph of father and son playing on the nursery floor with Winnie-the-Pooh and — a penguin!” Sibley said in a statement. “The thought of Pooh encountering a penguin seemed no more outlandish than his meeting a kangaroo and a tiger.” The beloved bear has been making friends since 1926, when the first story was published. The sequel’s illustrator, Mark Burgess, told CNN that the hardest part in designing Penguin was making sure the character resembled the stuffed toy from the old photograph. “I had to try to combine a ‘toy’ look while also making the character look alive. It’s quite a difficult balancing act.” He added: “I love the landscape of (the character’s) adventures. I’ve always loved the natural world and I particularly relished depicting the Hundred Acre Wood (the imaginary forest where Pooh Bear lives) through the different seasons for this new book.” According to the illustrator, the success of Milne’s original books continue to be popular today because the characters are so relatable. “The stories and characters appear quite simple but there is a surprising amount of depth to the characters — they are fully rounded. I think a large part of the attraction is we recognize the characters as like ourselves or our friends — we all know someone who is grumpy like Eeyore or bouncy like Tigger,” said Burgess. Meanwhile British award-winning author Jeanne Willis, who wrote the new tale about spring in Pooh Bear’s world, said A.A. Milne’s series deserves to be celebrated because of its ageless appeal. “It is not just children who read about Pooh Bear, a lot of adult’s read the books for nostalgia. I have a friend that’s just five years older than Winnie-the-Pooh that still loves reading about him,” Willis told CNN. “The innocence in the book is charming, and the characters show that it is okay to make mistakes and learn from them. It was because of Winnie-the-Pooh that I started writing. I thought that if a bear can write poetry, so can I.”
Non-Profit Foundation Created to Boost Funding for Kentucky Education FRANKFORT, Ky. - With school districts across Kentucky dealing with tight budget limitations, leaders from the education and business communities say many bright ideas don’t get a chance to be implemented. A new foundation called The Fund for Transforming Education in Kentucky aims to change that. “We all know that business must use research and development to develop better products and services. Education is no different. We cannot catch up with the rest of the world by doing what we’ve always done,” says Paducah businessman Billy Harper, who chair's The Fund’s board of directors. Lt. Governor Jerry Abramson is also on the board. He says The Fund’s first project will work on connecting teachers who have unique classroom ideas with other colleagues. “We want to create a situation where innovation, ideas that are occurring all throughout the state, we can have them shared, we can ultimately replicate the successful ones.” Nearly $3 million in grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation helped launch The Fund for Transforming Education. The organization plans to seek additional grants and establish a “venture capital” pool for teachers and schools. “In effect, The Fund will pick up from where advocacy leaves off, providing extra resources to innovative schools, innovative teachers, and innovative school districts,” says Cindy Heine of the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence, which will have a seat on The Fund’s board. Organizers say The Fund for Transforming Education in Kentucky is only the second program of its kind in the country, modeled after the Colorado Legacy Foundation.
Facing a steep climb to rebuild its economy, Sri Lanka — where more than 30,000 people were killed by the devastating Dec. 26 tsunami — plans to petition the U.S. government for apparel trade breaks. The physical and economic disruption came at a critical moment for the Indian Ocean island nation’s economy, which was already at risk of losing its position in the garment industry as a result of the Jan. 1 lifting of quotas by the 148 nations of the World Trade Organization. Apparel exports account for more than 60 percent of Sri Lanka’s exports and lost business would take a heavy toll on the country in a year when the nation needs to rebuild. This story first appeared in the January 11, 2005 issue of WWD. Subscribe Today. “It’s time for people to help Sri Lanka,” said Gomi Senadhira, Sri Lanka’s ambassador to the World Trade Organization, in an interview in Geneva. He said the Sri Lankan government plans to ask the U.S. and European Union to drop their duties on his country’s exports of textiles, apparel and footwear. U.S. tariffs average about 17 percent on apparel and EU duties average about 11 percent. Although the tsunami destroyed much along the island’s coast, apparel factories, which are clustered inland, largely with 25 miles of the capital city of Colombo, experienced little damage. However, while their factories were largely unscathed, manufacturers noted that the roads and railroads they rely on for supplies and to ship goods have been battered. That, combined with the threat of growing Chinese competition, could take a heavy toll on the nation of 19.9 million people. Last year, experts projected that Sri Lanka could lose as many as 250,000 of its roughly 330,000 apparel jobs to large competitors like China and India. “There is no doubt that Sri Lanka’s general economy will need serious support in the medium- to long-term,” said Kumar Mirchandani, managing director of Favourite Group, a manufacturer on the island that employs 2,000 workers. “The apparel industry is Sri Lanka’s biggest employer and supports over 1 million people directly and indirectly,” Mirchandani said in an e-mail message. “We cannot afford to lose any market share at all, given the overall needs of the general economy at this tragic time. Any loss of jobs will be devastating and greatly hamper rehabilitation for both the people and infrastructure of Sri Lanka.” Sri Lanka, a country the size of West Virginia, was one of 11 South Asian nations hit by the waves that killed more than 150,000 people. Although Indonesia suffered more fatalities — at last count more than 100,000 had died there — they largely came on the island of Sumatra, not Java, where that nation’s apparel industry is concentrated. Senadhira said Sri Lanka wants Washington and Brussels to lift duties on apparel made in Sri Lanka of foreign fabric. That’s a critical piece of the equation, since Sri Lanka’s textile industry is minimal and the nation’s garment makers rely on fabrics imported from off the island. The U.S. already offers these terms to the poorest African nations, while the EU provides it to poor countries through its “everything but arms” trade regime. Asked about Sri Lanka’s plans, a U.S. trade official said, “We have received no such request. All reconstruction and humanitarian assistance efforts are being handled by the State Department.” The U.S. has earmarked $350 million for tsunami relief and deployed thousands of military personnel and assets, including helicopters, to assist in the massive global humanitarian response. According to preliminary estimates, the tsunami destroyed more than 100,000 homes on the island, displaced nearly one million people and caused billions of dollars of damage in core infrastructure. “The population of the entire country is struggling to come to terms with the magnitude of the loss and the trauma that it has caused,” United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan said last week during his appeal for $977 million to help provide relief until the end of June to the tsunami-hit nations. For the year ended in October, Sri Lankan makers shipped $1.51 billion worth of apparel and fabric to the U.S., making it the 21st-ranked supplier. The island nation was also among the loudest voices in protesting last year that it was not ready for the lifting of the quota system. Mirchandani said the apparel industry would become even more important to Sri Lanka’s economy given the depressive effect the disaster is expected to have on tourism and fishing. He said the apparel sector was one of the few industrial sectors not destroyed by the tsunami. “It needs enhanced market access to the U.S., which is its major market, in order to ensure a continuous flow of export earnings to cushion the impact of the present crisis,” he said. The waves hit on Boxing Day and most workers were off for the holiday. It took about a week for many factories to return to full strength while their workers tended to their families and traveled back. Local sources and importers said few factories had lost many employees to the waves, though there were unconfirmed reports that at least one plant on the south side of the island lost as many as 350 staffers. Still, even if manufacturers lost few employees, most Sri Lankans lost family members. Carole Hochman, chairman and design director of Carole Hochman Designs Inc., said of a plant from which her company buys, “We lost two people, but 50 people at the factory lost many immediate relatives, husbands, brothers…It’s been absolutely devastating.” She said her company is focusing on offering “financial support” to get business back on track at a plant in Sri Lanka. “It is still difficult to assess in terms of what this does to the economy of the country for the year,” said Martin Trust, president of Brandot International, a Salem, N.H.-based company with investments in Sri Lankan factories that employ 11,000 workers. “The impact of factories not being damaged is good news. The fact that so many people have been hurt or killed is obviously going to have impact on society as a whole.” The port of Colombo reopened the day after the tsunami struck, and executives said that both air and seaport operations had returned to normal. However, many roads and railways throughout the country have been damaged, which is interfering with some shipping. Rick Darling, president of Li & Fung USA, said his company’s operations in the region had experienced only minimal disruptions. “From a business standpoint, Sri Lanka factories are operating pretty close to normal,” he said. “These countries are taking a stance that where they can possibly continue as normal, it’s in the best interest of the whole economic recovery process to keep running.” The bigger question going forward is whether Sri Lankan manufacturers will continue to remain competitive with manufacturers in other countries, particularly China and India. U.S. importers acknowledged that the local industry faces major hurdles, but said it should be able to compete. “We still believe that countries like Sri Lanka and Indonesia will be able to compete against China for a lot of reasons,” said Peter McGrath, president of purchasing at J.C. Penney Co. “No one wants to put all their business in China.” Jeanne Atkinson, a consultant who has worked on apparel-related projects in Sri Lanka with the U.S. Agency for International Development, said she hoped that U.S. importers would realize the role their orders could play in the rebuilding of the devastated country. “The economy really flips back to our support and the big users,” Atkinson said. “The U.S. has the major export dollars now. That’s where the support has to come. It’s going to be devastating unless U.S. companies just hang in there.” — With contributions from Karyn Monget
The lemon is an alkaline forming fruit as it increases calcium carbonate in the body when digested. Calcium carbonate is an alkaline that helps neutralize acids in your body. Acidic body has been linked to various diseases and lemon is one of the super foods to reduce Fresh lemon juice helps you to heal problems associated with indigestion and also constipation. Put in a couple of drops of lemon juice to the food and it is going to help with digestion. The fruit is a blood purifier as well as a cleansing agent. Freshly squeezed lemon juice may cure an individual who is having cold, influenza or fever. It may help to get rid of fever by Lemon juice can be used in dental care as well. If freshly squeezed lemon juice is put on the spots of toothache, it may help in eliminating the problems. The massages of fresh lemon juice on gum area can cease gum bleeding. It provides relief from bad odor and other issues linked to gums. Moreover, lemon may also be applied in normal cleaning of the teeth. Lemon juice when put on the scalp is able to deal with problems such as dandruff, hair loss along with some other problems associated with hair and scalp. Fresh lemon juice when applied on your hair, provides an organic shine to your hair. As an organic antiseptic treatment, lemon can play a part to treat problems associated with skin. It helps relieve you from bee sting. Lemon juice can even be used on your skin for acne breakouts and eczema conditions. It functions like an anti-ageing treatment and may eliminate blackheads and wrinkles. Consuming of fresh lemon water with honey makes your skin glows. Lemon juice when used on the zones of burns will diminish the problems. As lemon is known as a cooling agent, it cuts down on the burning discomfort on your skin. Because lemon features styptics and antiseptic properties, you may put lemon juice on a piece of small cotton and insert in the nose to cease nose bleeding. The fruit is also diuretic and may relieve symptoms of arthritis and rheumatism. It can help to remove bacteria and toxins from the body. If you drink lemon juice together with warm water and honey, it may reduce your body weight too. In other words, it is good for Lemon juice helps in treating respiratory conditions as well as breathing difficulties and revives people with asthma. The fruit, being abundant with vitamin C, helps handling respiratory problems. The diseases such as malaria and cholera can be cured by having lemon water, because it functions like a blood cleanser. The fruit is a strong fragrant and antiseptic compound and is beneficial in foot relaxation. Put a little lemon juice in lukewarm water and dip your foot into the water in order to relax your foot. Lemon juice may break down lumps around the skin. It may be used at the areas in which the skin is hardened up. Consuming of fresh lemon juice along with water can certainly help the patient to Lemon is a wonderful fruit that helps in combating conditions associated with throat infections because it possesses an Consuming lemon juice is useful for individuals battling with heart disease because it has potassium. It regulates hypertension, dizziness, nausea and also offers relaxation to both your mind and your body. It cuts down on emotional stress and depression.
Nationwide Children's Hospital Will Use New Helicopter To Transport Patients Officials at Nationwide Children's Hospital unveiled the Monarch 1 on Monday. It's the newest transport unit for the medical center. "The first of its kind for the hospital and a helicopter equipped for the kind of patients we take care of," said Dr. Edward Shepherd, Director of Transport. The helicopter is dedicated to neonatal and pediatric transports which include little patients like Jordan Ellis. At 24 weeks, Jordan weighed only one pound and five ounces and had to be transported by ground to the hospital. "She was going to be in a vehicle, and she had all of these tubes, so it was intimidating," said Tonya Ellis. Whether by ground or by air, Jordan's mom praises Nationwide Children's commitment to every detail when it comes to caring for such precious cargo. "I think that's great that they're capable of transporting someone under that kind of condition," said Ellis. The new helicopter can fly farther and faster, and it's bigger inside, to fit specialized equipment which gives patients better care while they are in the air. The helicopter will give peace to parents that they will land safely and their children will recover, like Jordan, who is almost three pounds now. The helicopter and the transport unit will be stationed at Don Scott Airport, and officials said it will be ready to fly at a moment's notice. The chopper will be ready to take patients next month. Watch 10TV and refresh 10TV.com for the latest news.
192.168.0.1 – A Private and Default IP Explained The IP address 192.168.0.1 is another private IP address widely used by router manufacturers as a default IP for their routers. Of course, the popularity of this IP is also attributable to the manufacturers, Netgear and D-Link, who are certainly the two most popular brands. Since we have mentioned that the IP 192.168.0.1 is both a private and a default IP address in the next few lines we are going to give some more details about it. 192.168.0.1 as a Private IP Address Why this IP is called “private”? Simply, there are a few IP ranges named “private” and 192.168.0.1 is in one of these ranges. 192.168.0.1 belongs to the range of private IPs from 192.168.0.0 up to 192.168.255.255. All these IPs can’t be accessed from the Internet (Network Address Translation (NAT) is required for Internet communication). The private IPs can be used in a network, and it is good to know that only one device can have this IP 192.168.0.1. If two devices happen to have the same IP a, so-called, “IP conflict” can occur, which can cause one of the units, or both, to become unusable inside that particular network. However, this IP can be freely used in two different networks and even more. 192.168.0.1 as a Default IP Address So what exactly is a default IP? Well, we can simply say that it is an IP address used by router manufacturers, which help the end user gain access to the router configuration and edit all the settings that have to be set up, such as network security, etc. At the same time, this is the first place you go if you experience any networking problems. All manufacturers use one default username and password for their routers, so it is recommended to change the password once you set up your network. Once you login to the configuration settings area you can greatly improve the security of your network. For example, you can change your default password, turn on or off WPA/WEP security, change your SSID or completely hide it. It is important to change these settings and apply the changes if you want to stay away from potential hacker attacks. How can I access my router configuration settings? If you already know that your default IP is 192.168.0.1, simply type this IP in the address bar of your browser. It is not necessary to type www or http:// in front of it. However, make sure not to type 192.168.o.1 because IP addresses are made of numbers, not numbers and letters. You will be asked to enter your username and password (see the table below for default usernames and passwords) *NOTE: If these usernames and passwords don’t work you can check your user manual. This doesn’t work – What now? Unfortunately, there are some cases when the default username and password won’t work. This can happen due to many reasons: - Someone has changed it - You have changed it and forgotten it - You have purchased a second-hand router and know nothing about it - You are typing 192.168.o.1 which is not a valid IP address. Luckily, you can still access your configuration settings. Resetting your router to its factory settings is the most common options because in this way the default usernames and passwords you have seen in the table above will definitely work. Before we continue we have to inform you that if you decide to reset your router all the previous settings will be deleted, so continue with care. To reset the router, you can consult your user manual and follow the steps. A paper clip or a pen will be very helpful here. Once you complete this operation, your router will be set to the default factory settings. This means that the default username and password will work. Just once more we have to remind you not to use 192.168.o.1. You would be surprised how much trouble a simple typing mistake can make.
The Sun Palace ( Kakh -e- Khorshid ) Due to Iranian Mythology, inside the fortress was the gate between "Iran-zamin" and "Touran-zamin". There exists irrigation installation and many historical sites and effects: Water tanks of Khesht Village Remains of the residence of Nader Shah in Khesht Village Remains of Naderian Military Camps in East of Kalat and Gero Village Fencing across the mountains Military installations in gates, such as towers, trenches, cornices In addition, there are 2 principal effects in Kalat, which are in better condition than the others called "Sun Palace" (kakh Khorshid) and "Blue Dome Mosque" (Masjed Gonbad Kaboud). The building, recently wrongly named "Sun Palace", is a brick tomb with stone covering (25 m height), built in 1740 AD, around the time of killing of Nader Shah. Its facade work was left unfinished. The site consists of the grave, cellar and a cylindrical groove tower upon the tomb. Main area of the grave is founded on an octagonal platform of 34 m diameter and a terrace is constructed on each side. External facade is decorated with stones and images of vases, flowers, leaves and fruits in 3D form and have been painted in non-native style; probably, it is the work of Indian artists. These paintings are left unfinished, because of the unclear state of affairs after the death of Nader. Internal area is decorated with attractive paintings on plaster and a cornice on the dome, in gold, with a verse of Quran and its date, 1740. The Islamic Republic of Iran has been occupied since 4000BCE, making Iran home to the world's oldest continuous civilization.It is located in central Eurasia on two ancient trade routes. One runs North-South and connects the Caspian Sea to the Persian Gulf, the other one goes East-West between China, India, Europe and Africa.There's a city called Isfahan at the intersection of these two routes, which at one time was the wealthiest city in the world. Isfahan was twice the capital of the Persian Empire, during the Median and then Safavid Dynasties.Interesting artifacts from pre-Islamic Persia include the cylinder of Cyrus the Great, which is the world's first written declaration of human rights. The hanging gardens of Babylon (one of the seven wonders of the ancient world) and the Code of Hammurabi (a set of rules which outlast the King) are also on the list.The Persian Empire was so magnificent that returning Crusaders carried tales of its splendor and helped spark the Renaissance in Europe! Influence of the Zoroastrian teachings of equality also inspired Greek philosophers such as Aristotle and Socrates.The Persian Empire was conquered by Muslim Arabs around 650CE during the Sassanid Dynasty. Initially the Zoroastrian, Christian and Jewish faiths were tolerated but by 1000CE most Persians had accepted Islam.In the sixteenth century Shi'a Islam was declared in Isfahan to be the national religion of Persia and the second golden age began. From 1500 to 1720 the Safavid Dynasty built the greatest Iranian empire since before the Islamic conquest of Persia.Because of its strategic location and oil resources, World War I found Persia in the middle of conflicts between the Ottoman Empire, Russia and the British Empire-via-India. Persia became Iran as of 1935 and was ruled by the Shah, a Persian term for "monarch."In the Islamic Revolution of 1979 Iran re-established a theocratic government under the Ayatollah Khomeini.Today the capital of Iran is the city of Tehran, and Iran is known as the world's center of Shi'a Islam.Text by Steve Smith.
Deploying a Local Database to a Remote Web HostBy Scott Mitchell Microsoft Visual Web Developer and SQL Server 2005 Express Edition make it easy to design, develop, and test ASP.NET web applications locally. In my books, tutorials, and classes, the explanations, examples, and assignments often use these tools to develop web applications locally. After creating a usable, interesting web application, readers and students invariably ask, "How do I get this website on the Internet?" Web applications designed for personal use, as a hobby, or for small- to medium-sized businesses are typically hosted by a web host provider. A web host provider is a company that has a plethora of computers that are accessible from the Internet. For a monthly fee, you can upload your web application to a web hosting company's servers to make your site available. Deploying a web application from your local development machine to the web host company's servers requires uploading the files and information needed to serve your site. Many of these files can simply be uploaded to the web hosting company's servers using FTP or FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSE). What is more challenging is uploading a Microsoft SQL Server database from the local development machine to the remote web host. This challenge stems in part from the fact that most web hosting companies disallow use of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition and instead require that you use a database on their database server (which might be SQL Server 2000 or 2005). Therefore, to deploy your site you will need to somehow duplicate your database's schema and data on the web hosting company's database server. In short, duplicating a database's schema and data often means obtaining the T-SQL scripts to create the schema and add the data and executing that script on the remote database server. Fortunately, this process is greatly simplified by Microsoft's SQL Server Database Publishing Wizard. This wizard allows you to create the script needed to publish a database directly from within Visual Studio. Read on to learn more! Downloading and Installing the SQL Server Database Publishing Wizard Microsoft's SQL Server Database Publishing Wizard provides a step-by-step wizard for deploying a local database to a remote environment. The wizard can generate the T-SQL script to create just the schema, or the schema and table data. In this article we will look at a real-world application and examine how to push up the functionality to a remote database server using the Database Publishing Wizard. The code and database that we will deploy in this article is available for download at the end of this article. To follow along, however, you will need to first download the Microsoft SQL Server Database Publishing Wizard. This article's directions and screenshots refer to version 1.1 of the Database Publishing Wizard. \|A Separate Download for Now, But Part of Visual Studio Later...\| \|While the Database Publishing Wizard must be downloaded from Microsoft for the time being, it will eventually become part of Visual Studio and therefore will be installed when installing Visual Studio. At the time of this writing (May 9th, 2007), the word is that this tool we be part of Visual Studio code name "Orcas," which is slated to be officially released in late 2007 or early 2008.\| Examining the Sample Application In my book Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET 2.0 in 24 Hours, I walk readers through creating a picture album website. This website uses ASP.NET 2.0's Membership system's SqlMembershipProivderto manage user information. As such, the database contains the tables, views, and stored procedures needed by the SqlMembershipProvider. In addition to these database objects, there are also three additional tables used by the application: Categories- each user can create an arbitrary number of categories and optionally associate a picture with a category. Pictures- this table contains a record for each uploaded picture. It stores what user uploaded the picture, what category (if any) the picture belongs to, when the picture was uploaded, and its title and description. Comments- authenticated users can add their comments to any picture. These comments are stored in this table, and include information on who made the comment, the picture the comment is about, the date and time the comment was made, and the comment's subject and body. \|Getting Started with a Web Hosting Company\| If you have not yet decided upon what web hosting company to use, you will need to do so before you can deploy your site. There are a many web hosting companies, ranging from small one-man shops to publicly-traded ones. The prices can differ greatly, from as low as $5 per month to several hundred dollars per month, depending on features and service. When deciding upon a web hosting company make sure that they support ASP.NET applications. If you are creating data-driven applications, also ensure that the plan you sign up for includes a Microsoft SQL Server database. Some web hosting companies I have used in the past include: WebHost4Life, ServerIntellect, and ORCSWeb. There are also sites like HostIndex that let you search a database of web hosting companies and filter results by criteria like price, whether they support ASP.NET applications, and so on. Deploying the Website to a Remote Web Host Deploying the web application from your local machine to a web hosting company's servers involves three steps: - Copying the ASP.NET-related files to the web hosting company's servers. - Duplicating the database's schema and data. - Configuring the website as needed. This includes updating the Web.configon the live server so that it references the web hosting company's database server (rather than the database information used in local development). It might also include other assorted configuration steps to properly setup to indicate that this is an ASP.NET 2.0 application. Consult your web hosting company for further information and help. App_Datafolder. The application available for download at the end of this article includes a single database file in ASPNETDB.MDF, which contains the schema for the Picturestables. This database also contains a bit of data: there are three users registered on the site and a total of five uploaded pictures. Let's use the Database Publishing Wizard to duplicate this database schema and data on a remote server. In the Server Explorer, right-click on the database name and choose the "Publish to provider..." menu option. This launches the Database Publishing Wizard. The first step asks us to select which database to publish and whether we want to script all objects in the selected database. Select the appropriate database, leave the "Script all objects in the selected database" checkbox checked, and click Next. (If you uncheck the checkbox the subsequent screens will ask you what types of database objects you want to publish - database roles, schema, stored procedures, tables, and/or views - and then which specific roles, schemas, stored procedures, tables, and/or views to publish.) With our current selections, the Database Publishing Wizard will generate the T-SQL script necessary to create the database roles, schemas, tables, stored procedures, and views. The wizard can save this script to a file. The script can then be executed against your web hosting company's database server either through SQL Server Management Studio or a web page (more on this later). As the screenshot below shows, in addition to saving the script as a file, you can also have it applied directly to the remote web host. In order for this second option to be used, your web hosting company must provide a web service that is specifically designed for the Database Publishing Wizard. Consult your web hosting company to see if this is an option and, if so, the information needed to connect to this web service. If you are following along, choose the first option and save the T-SQL script on your computer's file system and click Next. The next screen allows you to specify publishing options, such as whether the script should include whether the remote database is SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 2005, and whether you want to publish just the schema or the schema and the data. Go ahead and leave the default options specified and click Finish to complete the wizard. After clicking Finish, the wizard will display a status screen, indicating its progress as it scripts the database. Assuming everything works as expected, once the wizard completes you will have a T-SQL script file that contains the T-SQL statements for dropping the objects (if they exist), creating the tables, views, and stored procedures, and adding the data (if this option was selected). All that remains now is to execute this SQL script on the remote database! Executing the T-SQL Script Created by the Wizard on the Remote Database In order to propagate the local database to the remote database server we need to execute the T-SQL script on the remote database server. This can be accomplished in a number of ways. If you can connect to the database through SQL Server Management Studio, then you can do so and execute the script from there. If you have installed Microsoft SQL Server 2005 on your development machine then you likely already have SQL Server Management Studio on your machine. If you have just the Express Edition of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 installed, you can download and use the free SQL Server Management Studio Express Edition. Another option is to FTP your script to your remote website and then create and run an ASP.NET page that opens the script file and executes the T-SQL commands against your database at the web hosting company. Microsoft has created such an ASP.NET web page. See Upload T-SQL and execute at your hosting provider using an ASP.NET page for the code and instructions. Additionally, see the resources in the Further Readings section at the end of this article for more advice and examples. Updating Your Remote Website's Connection String Information After uploading your website to your web hosting company's servers and duplicating the database, don't forget to update your web application's connection string information so that it uses the remote database server rather than your local one. For example, the demo code available at the end of this article uses a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition database in the App_Datafolder for local development. Consequently, the Web.configfile, which holds the connection string information, has the following entry: Note that the connection string references the SQLEXPRESS data source and indicates the database file via the AttachDbFilename setting. Once you've duplicated the database on the remote server, you'll need to update the remote website's Web.config file to reference the remote database server. This might result in changing <connectionStrings> section to something like: The exact settings for Pwd would depend on your database account information. Consult your web hosting company for details specific to your website and for example connection string syntax. \|IMPORTANT: The Database Publishing Wizard Script Recreates the Existing Database Objects\| Keep in mind that if the "Drop existing objects in script" option is set to True (the default) then the script generated by the Database Publishing Wizard will drop the tables, stored procedures, and views before recreating them. Consequently, any data in the tables on the remote database server will be lost, as the tables will be dropped and then recreated. The Database Publishing Wizard is a great tool for moving a local database to a remote database server for the first time or whenever you are willing to obliterate the existing data and "start from scratch" on the remote server. For more complicated scenarios - like when you've added new columns to a table on the local database server and you want to update the schema on the remote database server to include these new columns - your best bet is to turn to third-party tools such as red-gate's SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare, which compare and synchronize changes between two databases' schema and data, respectively. Microsoft's Database Publishing Wizard simplifies the process of duplicating a local database's schema and/or data to a remote database. It integrates within the Visual Studio IDE, adding a "Publish to provider..." menu item to the context menu in the Server Explorer window. The wizard makes it easy to specify what objects to create and options such as whether to include DROPcommands and whether to script just the schema, data, or both. The result of the wizard is a script file with the T-SQL commands needed to duplicate the local database. This script can then be executed on a remote server, either through SQL Server Management Studio or by uploading the script file and then visiting an ASP.NET page that executes the script file against the remote database.
Lenders, Emil William, b. 1864? d. 1934 Active in Philadelphia, Pa. Collection size: ca. 500 items (on partial microfilm reel) Collection Summary: A catalog of the Lenders's collection of American Indian objects; copies of sketchbooks of Indian artifacts and cattle brands; 8 letters from J.G. Braecklein, 1924, and other correspondence; material regarding Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show; writings and notes; and miscellany. Biographical/Historical Note: Painter, cowboy; Philadelphia, Pa. and Oklahoma City, Okla. Microfilmed 1984 along with other selected art related papers from the Gilcrease Institute. How to Use this Collection - Microfilm reel 3278 (frames 7-732) available at Archives of American Art offices, the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and through interlibrary loan. - The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy. - For more information on using the Archives’ resources, see the FAQ or Ask Us.
Just like the rest of the family physician population, direct primary care (DPC) piqued the interest of students who attended the National Congress of Student Members here on Aug.7-9, and they responded by adopting resolutions on the topic. The congress was held during the 2014 AAFP National Conference of Family Medicine Residents and Medical Students. Sarah Franklin, of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine in Little Rock, discusses a resolution she co-authored that asks the Rural Health Member Interest Group to include student and resident representatives. Congress participants also adopted resolutions that focused on helping students become part of the solution in medically underserved rural areas, as well as measures that addressed student loan forgiveness, among other topics. Direct Primary Care The first of two substitute resolutions on DPC that students adopted calls for the AAFP to provide educational activities and seminars on this model of care during the 2015 National Conference. It also asked the AAFP to explore the creation of an online database of family physicians who practice DPC and would be willing to serve as mentors to family medicine residents and students. Brian Blank, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, was a co-author of both original resolutions and testified in a reference committee hearing that he was excited about the AAFP's recent support of the DPC movement. He acknowledged that the Academy had already organized a number of regional conferences intended to train physicians who are interested in converting their existing practices to the DPC model. But Blank said he and his fellow co-authors sought specifically to call for DPC education and resources to extend to the student and resident level. - AAFP medical student members met recently in Kansas City, Mo., to consider resolutions intended to help guide AAFP policy decisions. - The National Congress of Student Members adopted resolutions on topics that included direct primary care, serving rural areas and student loan forgiveness. - The students also called for the AAFP to consider updating educational resources on buprenorphine/naloxone training for family medicine residents and creating a health policy and legislative advocacy opportunity for medical students. "We are asking that the AAFP consider expanding those options for folks who are interested, especially when they are in residency and medical school," said Blank. "Because it is not something lots of students have exposure to. What's exciting is that the students and residents who do have exposure to it really come away feeling like they are in control of their future in primary care." The second measure asked the AAFP to create a DPC startup toolkit for family physicians interested in establishing a DPC practice from the ground up. The toolkit would include information gleaned from current AAFP regional DPC workshops that could be tailored to this group. "There is a very big difference between being in a current practice where you may have signed contracts with insurance companies and that sort of thing" and starting a DPC practice from the ground up, said Blank, noting that a toolkit currently being developed by the AAFP speaks more to resolving issues associated with moving from an existing practice to the DPC model. "This is asking, 'If you are starting from scratch and are just leaving residency, how do you approach adopting the DPC model?'" Underserved Rural Areas Students also sought to determine what they and residents could do to increase interest in practicing in underserved rural areas around the United States. One resolution students adopted requested that the AAFP appoint one student and one resident representative to the Working Group on Rural Health. Resolution co-author Sarah Franklin, of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine in Little Rock, said finding physicians to serve rural areas logically starts with reaching out to students and residents. "We all know of the present and serious physician shortages in the United States and the great need we have for physicians in underserved areas, which are often rural areas," she testified. "(Students and residents) are the future of medicine in these underserved areas." Students also adopted a substitute resolution that asked the AAFP to encourage rural medicine education and networking through the Rural Health Member Interest Group's resources and collaborative efforts. Liberty Foye, of the East Tennessee State University James H. Quillen College of Medicine in Johnson City, spoke to the value of rural health care education. Foye, who is in the rural primary care track at her school, said that although there are excellent programs on rural health care at universities around the United States, these programs alone are not going to solve the shortage of rural physicians. Alexander Pappas, of the Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine in Charleston, speaks about a resolution he co-authored that asks the Academy to oppose any effort to cap student loan forgiveness under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. "If the AAFP were able to reinforce the rural health care education of these programs (with additional resources), that would expose more medical students to rural education and get them interested, curious and out in rural communities," Foye said. Student Loan Forgiveness Arguably, student loan debt is always top-of-mind for medical students. Small wonder, then, that the students took exception to a provision in the administration's proposed 2015 budget that seeks to cap the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program at $57,500 per person. In response, students adopted a combined resolution that calls for the AAFP to oppose any effort to cap student loan forgiveness under the PSLF Program. The measure also asks the AAFP to advocate that PSLF eligibility be expanded to include all federal educational loans held by family medicine physicians. Alexander Pappas, of Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine in Charleston, co-authored one of the original resolutions and testified that family physicians should show solidarity with other public service students and professionals in universally opposing a cap on the PSLF Program. "We believe, specifically, as young doctors who have longer training and a higher debt burden, that there should be a specific exemption for medical practitioners," said Pappas. "This should help attract people to primary care and the types of service work that are meaningful to our specialty." A co-author of the second resolution, Blair Cushing, of the University of North Texas Health Science Center College of Osteopathic Medicine in Fort Worth, said that although the AAFP has existing policy regarding medical student debt and its repayment, the authors thought there were certain areas that hadn't been addressed. "In particular, medical students often have many additional sources of debt, including additional loans they are taking out to cover the costs of either their education or (related items)," Cushing said. Students also adopted measures that call on the AAFP to - revise its Recommended Curriculum Guidelines for Family Medicine Residents on Substance Use Disorders(12 page PDF) to include buprenorphine/naloxone training; - consider revising the Recommended Curriculum Guidelines for Family Medicine Residents on Nutrition(9 page PDF) to include the potential benefit of culinary nutrition education; - create a health policy and legislative advocacy opportunity for medical students looking to design, develop and execute national advocacy projects; - advocate for universal access to the hepatitis C virus drug sofosbuvir (Sovaldi) regardless of ability to pay; and - recognize recently retired AAFP Vice President for Education Perry Pugno, M.D., for his many years of service to the Academy, its members and family medicine by exploring the recognition of one student and one resident with an award in his honor to be presented during the National Conference to individuals who exemplify dedication to leadership in family medicine. Related AAFP News Coverage 2014 National Conference Students, Residents Elect New Leaders to Represent Them Storify: National Conference: Day One(storify.com)
Neuroscience: Assisting recovery from trauma Dr Bruce Perry is a leading expert in childhood trauma. His groundbreaking research revealed that exposure to trauma has a discernable effect on a child's developing brain. He now heads up The Child Trauma Academy, a not-for-profit organisation based in Houston, USA and has developed a model that is designed to assist professionals to support people in their recovery from early traumas. - Dr Bruce Perry - Senior Fellow, Child Trauma Academy, Houston USA - Jane Shields - Natasha Mitchell
Presbyterians take action on Israel The Presbyterian church in the United States is striking an economic blow for peace in the Middle East. In the process however, it's caused the outbreak of hostilities at home. Late last year the church's General Assembly voted to stop investing in corporations that profit from Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories. But this was immediately picked up in the media as a decision to apply economic sanctions against Israel. Last week, the church held a three-day conference designed to clear the matter up and to spell out exactly what divestment involves. But Presbyterian clergy are still under fire from many within the church who feel that Christians should be giving Israel their full support, and from Jewish groups, who say that now is the wrong time for this kind of action. Rabbi Joseph Ehrenkranz is Executive Director of the Centre for Christian-Jewish understanding at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut. Joseph Ehrenkranz: I think it is a wrong movement, and this is done as a punishment of Israel. And I think it's a tremendous mistake, and will sit wrong with the entire world Jewish population. David Rutledge: The church has pointed out, though, that it's not just taking action against companies that contribute to the infrastructure of occupation; they're also divesting from companies that have connections to organisations responsible for violence against Israel. So they would say that they are addressing both sides of the issue. Joseph Ehrenkranz: I didn't see that in the Presbyterians, and I read a lot of the responses from the Presbyterian church. That is true in the Episcopal church, but I don't believe that's true in the Presbyterian church at all. David Rutledge: So what's happening in Connecticut, where you are? As you say, the Presbyterian church is divided on this; are you working with dissenting members of the church? Joseph Ehrenkranz: I am working with one of the ministers in the largest Presbyterian church in the area, somebody with whom I have been friendly with over the years, and we are going to do at least one joint program, but we may do two joint programs in which we invite the community to come in and to listen to arguments. The main thing is that I have assured him - because I believe it's true - that he's not an anti-Semite, and I will not raise the question of an anti-Semitic statement or an anti-Semitic movement, but rather I disagree with what the church has done, because it is harmful to peace. David Rutledge: The Moderator of last year's Assembly that I spoke to recently said that this discussion between the church and Jewish groups is generally friendly, and that the whole thing has brought the church closer together with Jewish communities. He sees it as a positive engagement so far. Do you agree that there are good things to be taken from this? Joseph Ehrenkranz: Yes, I agree with that, but it's taken a step further. Right after that, a group of hierarchy in the Presbyterian church went to Lebanon to meet with Hezbollah, and congratulated them on what they're doing, and telling them that it's far more difficult to deal with the Jewish community than it is with Arab community, and of course they have been dismissed from their hierarchy in the Presbyterian church. But there you see the beginning of the budding of strong anti-Semitism. David Rutledge: Rabbi Joseph Ehrenkranz, of the Centre for Christian-Jewish Understanding at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut. David Rutledge: When the Presbyterian church's General Assembly met at the end of last year to vote on the divestment action, the Moderator of that Assembly was Rick Ufford-Chase. I asked him how much economic clout the church actually possesses. Rick Ufford-Chase: Well it's not clear to me yet, and nor do I think it's clear to any of us exactly how much power we have. Our total holdings of the church, if I don't miss my guess, are about $7-million, so there's a fairly significant stock portfolio out there. David Rutledge: There seems to be a division between clergy and the laity on the issue of divestment. The majority of clergy seem to be in favour, while the majority of lay Presbyterians are opposed. Why do you think that is? Rick Ufford-Chase: Well I think it's by and large a function of how carefully and clearly we're articulating exactly what it is we're doing. My own belief is that as an assembly we made a very good decision. Now the problem became immediately after the General Assembly, when frankly, I think we did a poor job with interpreting what we had done. The initial interpretation of what we had done was that it was calling for an economic boycott of the State of Israel, or sanctions against the State of Israel, and that's not at all what we did. We were very clear that we were looking very specifically at only those companies that are doing business in some way in supporting the occupation or benefiting from it. So my own sense is that we lost control to a certain extent, of how this information was disseminated and interpreted out in the church, and now we're having to do the hard work in making sure we get good information into Presbyterian hands. Having said that, it's a harder task than it sounds like to try and figure out how we're going to communicate that effectively across the church. It's been my experience, as I travel on behalf of the denomination, that this comes up almost everywhere I go and that when I explain exactly what we did and how we did it, and why we did it and what it's implications would be, that many, many Presbyterians actually who may even come in feeling somewhat suspicious about our actions, come away feeling as if it was a good decision or at least one that they can agree with. David Rutledge: Well yes, I suppose there's disagreement and then there's theological opposition, because we know that there's a significant proportion of the evangelical community in the US who believe that Israel is the Biblically ordained home of the Jews, and the United States is called to give the State of Israel all the help it can get to extend its territories as much as possible. Is that a belief that you find among Presbyterians as well, to a significant extent? Rick Ufford-Chase: It is my experience that the answer to that is No. Most Presbyterians are not kind of ideologically locked in to a supposition that somehow the State of Israel has a right to that region of the world in its entirety. David Rutledge: Are you concerned about ways in which this strategy might affect relationships with other denominations, with Evangelicals, for example? Rick Ufford-Chase: No, again I think it's interesting. How do we - let me start actually if it's OK with you, by talking about relationships with our Jewish brothers and sisters. David Rutledge: Sure. Rick Ufford-Chase: I mean starting there, we have hard and important work to reach out to our Jewish brothers and sisters here in the United States, and to say to them, We do want to listen to your story and hear your narrative and we want to lift it up, we are not trying to ignore the absolutely valid concerns you have about the right of the State of Israel to exist with security. In fact I'm told by some of my Jewish colleagues that I work with locally in Arizona where I live, that they know of at least 50 different cities across the United States now where there are serious dialogues going on between Presbyterians and Jews, and that didn't exist a year ago. So in some ways, ironically I suppose, this has actually deepened our relationship with them, and I'm very pleased with that. Then there's a question about what this means for our relationships perhaps with the Christian community in the Middle East, because they've been asking desperately for someone to pay attention to the impact of the occupation for many years, and they have felt very supported and encouraged by our actions. And then finally there's a question of how we respond to other denominations and other religious bodies here in the United States, and the ones that you're starting with, those evangelical bodies, are probably not going to be happy with our actions, and we're going to disagree about it although I don't know of any dialogue that's been going on between those denominations or those bodies and ours. David Rutledge: Well of course there have been significant changes in the Israel-Palestine situation since the Assembly decided to take economic action. How is the church changing its strategy to suit the changes in the situation in the Middle East? Rick Ufford-Chase: Well I think the short answer to that is, we're not, because the instructions that we've given our Mission Responsibility Through Investment Committee to check to look into our holdings, are instructions that are going to take a considerable amount of time to unfold, so for instance, the first step is to identify which companies we're even concerned about, then to enter into dialogue and conversation with those companies, and a last step I would imagine several years down the road, could conceivably be a move to divest ourselves of the stock in that company. So we're talking about a very slow process for ourselves, that unfold from a lot of dialogue and a lot of conversation, and obviously that dialogue will be informed by how things are changing in the Middle East. David Rutledge: Let's talk briefly about some of the criticism that's been coming from quarters such as the American-Jewish Committee who say that coming at a time like this when real overtures for peace seem to be being made, then divestment only signals to Israelis that they're on their own, that the international community can't be trusted. Rick Ufford-Chase: I hope that that's not the message they're taking away. We've been in very consistent dialogue with those folks since all of this kind of broke loose the end of the summer last summer, and we have said over and over again that we would like to be in partnership working with our brothers and sisters, our Jewish brothers and sisters both in the United States and in the State of Israel to be a positive part of the process. But we are not willing, I need to be clear, that we have been making statements consistently as general assemblies, and for many years those assemblies have said consistently that we believe that the occupation is an impediment to peace, and that it must come to an end. And we have also said consistently that we believe that the extremist use of terrorism or violence on the part of Palestinians, is absolutely unacceptable and is also an impediment on the road to peace. And so the task from our perspective is to make sure that we're living what we say we believe, and to look for ways in which we can remain constructively engaged, especially with our Jewish partners. David Rutledge: Rick Ufford-Chase, of the US Presbyterian Church. And just a correction there, Rick mentioned that the church's holdings were $7-million; the figure is actually $7-billion invested in companies that may be targeted in the Prebyterian church's divestment project. Also just for the record, we contacted Bob Thomas, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Australia, who said that the Presbyterian cChurch here 'does not use its investment portfolio as a blunt instrument for the making of statements on matters of theology or ethics'. - Rick Ufford-Chase - Moderator of the 216th General Assembly, Presbyterian Church USA - Rabbi Joseph Ehrenkranz - Executive Director, the Center for Christian-Jewish Understanding, Sacred Heart University, Connecticut - Israel and Jewish relations - Information from the Presbyterian Church of the USA - Israel divestment campaigns - Information from the American Jewish Committee - David Rutledge
The application notes include recommended starting dilutions; optimal dilutions/concentrations should be determined by the end user. Purity70 - 90% by HPLC. - First try to dissolve a small amount of peptide in either water or buffer. The more charged residues on a peptide, the more soluble it is in aqueous solutions. - If the peptide doesn’t dissolve try an organic solvent e.g. DMSO, then dilute using water or buffer. - Consider that any solvent used must be compatible with your assay. If a peptide does not dissolve and you need to recover it, lyophilise to remove the solvent. - Gentle warming and sonication can effectively aid peptide solubilisation. If the solution is cloudy or has gelled the peptide may be in suspension rather than solubilised. - Peptides containing cysteine are easily oxidised, so should be prepared in solution just prior to use. Concentration information loading... Preparation and Storage Stability and Storage Shipped at 4°C. Upon delivery aliquot and store at -20°C or -80°C. Avoid repeated freeze / thaw cycles. Information available upon request. Acidic mammalian chitinase Acidic mammalian chitinase [Precursor] Lung specific protein TSA1902 Lung-specific protein TSA1902 FunctionDegrades chitin and chitotriose. May participate in the defense against nematodes, fungi and other pathogens. Plays a role in T-helper cell type 2 (Th2) immune response. Contributes to the response to IL-13 and inflammation in response to IL-13. Stimulates chemokine production by pulmonary epithelial cells. Protects lung epithelial cells against apoptosis and promotes phosphorylation of AKT1. Its function in the inflammatory response and in protecting cells against apoptosis is inhibited by allosamidin, suggesting that the function of this protein depends on carbohydrate binding. Tissue specificityDetected in lung epithelial cells from asthma patients (at protein level). Highly expressed in stomach. Detected at lower levels in lung. Sequence similaritiesBelongs to the glycosyl hydrolase 18 family. Chitinase class II subfamily. Contains 1 chitin-binding type-2 domain. Cellular localizationCytoplasm and Secreted. Secretion depends on EGFR activity.
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It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker. Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool. Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker. The subjective notion of “true colors” or “true self” is a dogma, and admittedly, is difficult to rid oneself of. “I know how you truly feel”. “Not until you sit and talk with him, learn his mind, will you truly know him”. "We learn who someone truly is when we hear their story". This dogma is so deep-seeded that it is counter-intuitive to think otherwise. We are told that in order to understand someone, to know them, we must listen to their story, their thoughts. But this is knowing a fiction, a story in the literal sense, while the reality presents itself in every moment. If a good friend were to confide in us that she has violent or racist thoughts, contrary to the always polite and respecting behavior that we’ve come to expect from her, the subjective man believes he has somehow witnessed her “true colors”, as if this whole time she was deceiving him, and her body and her actions were a mere fiction or play before his very eyes. However, nothing could be more absurd, and we can see that the exact opposite is the fact of the matter. The subjective man has assumed his friend is some violent and racist being, despite no violence or racism finding their way through the motor cortex; or in other words, no violence or racism at all. We are not the content of our thoughts and words and emotions, as the subjective man supposes. When someone demands "tell me how you truly feel", they want to hear a story. They want to be comforted, and they should be told what they want to hear, lest they end up destroying the reality to save their fictions. Beware when a subjective man attempts to put you in their universe, in their “subjective experience”, for it isn’t their universe, and you are in nothing of the sort. In an attempt to remain solipsists, they would prefer you to be an object of their experience, an object of their perception, or an object of their consciousness, like a mere character in a movie, instead of an object on your own accord. This cloud of perception is, for them, a subtle way of remaining within their surreptitious solipsism, where reality is reduced to a movie screen, where only one being matters more than all others, the center of their universe: the subject, a point from which a fictional boundary of feelings, perception and experience is believed to emanate, engulfing whatever it notices and ensnaring them in it. But the moment this assertion is made is the exact moment this assertion isn’t true. This is a claim of one person, and one person only, the subject, who believes other objects are simply the motley effects of its own subjectivity, instead of themselves causes of these effects. However, beyond the periphery of the subject’s confused and strained identification with its most favored portions, anything and everything else in the universe besides the subject himself sees it as quite the opposite. No one is in the subject's experience at all. No object is contained within any boundary of perception or experience. Everything except the subject is outside of it, and upon looking at the subjecty, it is simply another object – finite, bounded, but itself ensnared in its own experience. I just think some people really don't get others, so go to extreme with their views. Even when they're otherwise a reasonable person, they can seem rather blind when describing people they simply differ from in a big way.
posted on Jul, 28 2012 @ 07:24 PM It's Wakō, not Wako. Notice the small line on top of the "o". It means it's a "double o", could be also typed as "Wakoo" (unorthodox romaji) or "Wakou" (the hiragana style). This is a typical mistake that people with no knowledge of the japanese language often make. The simply discard any markings on top of letters, and type them as they see them. "Tofu" is not really "tofu" either - it's "Tōfu" or "Toofu"/"Toufu". So don't be surprised when you hear the japanese people pronounce these words completely differently than you'd expect. And if you are going to learn japanese, you better learn to make a difference between "o" and "ō", because it can change the meaning of a word drastically. For example Tōshi and Toshi are words you don't want to mix up. Toshi means a year (or age), but Tōshi means an investment or clairvoyance. But it's like those infernal 'american typos' ('their' instead of 'there', 'hear' instead of 'here', 'your' instead of 'you're' and vice versa and so on and on..) - we will never get rid of these mistakes, as long as people refuse to research before typing, don't care about anything except their own ego, remain animalistically low in intelligence, and take pride in sloppiness. I mean, civilized human beings - actual HUMAN beings (instead of two-legged half-animals) would never make this kind of mistakes. They would respect the language, the reader, and the people using the language too much for that. As a sidenote, I tink there used to be a point in even american history, where people could actually write and spell their own language correctly, and they even got the grammar right! Read the letters that the young soldiers sent home from the battlefields during the civil war etc.. compare them to whatever the modern soldiers send home to notice that we are certainly way past that point in time. Some day, I hope this planet's so-called "humanity" to also reach this level.. instead of decadence and constant flood of degradation and mistakes and errors that come with it, they would actually aim and reach for improvement, try to better theirselves, and their goal would be perfection instead of a completely skilless, useless moronic mess. I mean, the least they could do is at least apply themselves and TRY. But it seems they don't want to even do that.. it's like they are happier being ignorant, clueless mistake machines. I am not holding my breath, but one can dream, can't one?
It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker. Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool. Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker. So we are not beings of light then..just meaning less dark, cold physical bodies that eventually just die, well one could ask WHY the feck would such a existence manifest out of something as hugely magnificent..beyond human comprehension called the universe and possibly others... not to forget inner and extra dimensions that some scientific fields say could very well be a reality... just does not add up..science does not know everything there is to know at present and those claiming it does are the ones to avoid and are in a real danger of going to be proven wrong eventually as new realities start manifesting into the scientific arena.. Those that keep on using the same old scientific rhetoric that we are all just nothing more than atoms ect are really in the premature sleep walking dream that never wakes up..in essence they at present cannot differentiate between the dream and the dreamer.. We are so much more... the occult manifests this reality...edit on 15/07/2010 by K-PAX-PROT because: (no reason given)edit on 15/07/2010 by K-PAX-PROT because: (no reason given) “What do you think science is? There's nothing magical about science. It is simply a systematic way for carefully and thoroughly observing nature and using consistent logic to evaluate results. Which part of that exactly do you disagree with? Do you disagree with being thorough? Using careful observation? Being systematic? Or using consistent logic?” ― Steven Novella
All Lecture & Workshop MP3s (excludes pre-conference) Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013 - Efficient Eco-Farming Through a Systems Approach by Wally Gerst - Appreciating the Farm as an Ecosystem by Jerry Brunetti - Diversified Organic Production and the Modern, Large CSA by Mike & Terra Brownback - Large-Scale, Rapid Building of Soil with Cover Crops by Gabe Brown - Managing Water on Your Farm — the “American Keyline” Method by Mark Shepard - Improving Results for Farms & Ranches with Holistic Management by Ann Adams - Keynote:Growing a Good Food Movement: A Story of Hog Farming, Human Health & Alternatives by Russ Kremer Friday, Dec. 13, 2013 - A Story of Transformation: Moving from Conventional to Organic and Beyond by Mike Brownback - Biological Farmers Manage Minerals, Microbes & Carbon by Dean Craine - Biodynamic Pasture Management, and Beyond! by Peter Bacchus - Back to the Basics —A Unified Look at Holistic Animal Health by Richard "Doc" Holliday, D.V.M. - Managing Nutrition to Control Plant Disease by Don Huber, Ph.D. - Serengeti-Style Grazing for Maximum Production by Sabino Cortez - Mob Grazing = Explosion of Soil Life by Greg Judy - Biological Row Crop Farming — For a Better Bottom Line by Ken Musselman - Inoculating the Soil: Multiplying the Benefits of Compost by Mark Sturges - The Geology of Life by John Slack - Biological Farming Principles in Practice by Ben Adolph - Organic Success Story: Large-Scale Organic Edible Bean Farming by Jim Sattelberg - Beyond Chickens: Alternative Fowl for Diversified Farms by Kelly Klober - Local, Direct-Marketed & Organic Foods: The Guerilla Marketing Advantage by Mark Kastel - Old Thinking and Scientific “Truths”: New Farming Needs New Thinking Harnessing Local Knowledge by Maarten Stapper, Ag. Eng., Ph.D., FAIAST - Capturing Top Results for the Environment, Your Crops & Your Bottom Line with Biological Farming by Gary Zimmer - Crop Testing to Support In-Season Intervention by Noel Garcia, CCA - Keynote:Eating on the Wild Side by Jo Robinson Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013 - Soil Organic Matter Management for Farms of All Scale, All Crops by Larry Zibilske, Ph.D. - Failed Promises, Flawed Science — the Interaction of GMOs & Glyphosate on Soil, Plant, Animal, Human Health by Don Huber, Ph.D. - Becoming Central to Your Community by Dawnnell Holmes - Opportunities in Small-Scale Pig Farming by Kelly Klober - Managing Your “Undercover Agents” — Biological Control by Natural Enemies in Greenhouse and High Tunnels by Jan Dietrick & Ron Whitehurst - Life In (and On) the Soil by Jim Nardi, Ph.D. - Responding to Crop Needs Through Foliar Feeding by Wendell Owens - Effective Forest Grazing: Understanding Silvapasturing by Mark Shepard - The Conundrum of Lyme Disease by Jerry Brunetti - Closing Keynote:A Victim of Our Own Success: Protecting the Good Food Movement & Selling the Story of Our Farms by Mark Kastel
On June 28 a federal appeals court overturned the bulk of a lower court ruling that labeled Microsoft as a monopoly and sought a breakup as a remedy. The appeals court made the right decision and Americans seem to agree. According to a December 1999 Portrait of America poll, only 12 percent of Americans wanted to see Microsoft broken up. When the poll is constrained to include only computer users, support for Microsoft increases. In other words, it was not the public that inspired the push to break up Microsoft. In fact, Microsoft has made prices lower for consumers. Judge Jackson, the original judge who ordered the Microsoft breakup, accused Microsoft of charging too much for its product. The ability to overcharge customers is a trait of a real and dangerous monopoly. However, Judge Jackson quickly realized that Windows was actually much cheaper than it could have been. He changed his tune by suggesting that "Microsoft could be stimulating the growth of the market for Intel-compatible PC operating systems by keeping the price of Windows low today." Keep in mind that the PC manufacturers whose market Microsoft is helping to grow are considered some of Microsoft’s biggest victims. The consumers have benefited in other ways too. They have received reliable computers that are more user-friendly and less expensive. Judge Jackson was also concerned that Microsoft’s participation in a web browser war would hurt consumers.. However, even Jackson had to admit that Microsoft’s involvement "increased general familiarity with the Internet and reduced the cost to the public of gaining access to it." Microsoft’s entrepreneurial spirit has been a boon to computer users and the economy. So many people are using the Internet that Congress can’t even respond to all the emails it gets. A study from George Washington University released in March of 2001 reported that since email gained popularity Congress has been getting more correspondence from constituents than ever before – more than they can keep up with. Just because Microsoft has borne good fruit does not prove it is not a monopoly. The facts prove Microsoft’s case. Monopolies have several characteristics that Microsoft does not exhibit. Microsoft has not charged obscene prices. Innovation has not tapered off because of Microsoft; it has increased. Having a common operating system among computer users has allowed for the proliferation of applications, the Internet, and general computer knowledge among the public. Author Alan Reynolds claimed, "A monopoly means consumers have no choices, not that most consumers prefer one product over others." To assume, as Judge Jackson did, that there are no choices in either operating systems or web browsers demonstrates startling ignorance. Anybody who has ever received an AOL disk in the mail or has seen the stacks of them waiting to be taken home for free at stores such as Wal-Mart and Blockbuster realizes that alternative ways to use the Internet exist. Competition exists for operating systems as well. Free-market competition has been good for consumers, Microsoft, and its competitors. In fact, Microsoft’s relatively low pricing has even improved the nature of its competition. The primary competitor of Windows for Intel-based PC’s is Linux. Linux is basically a free operating system with only a small cost if consumers purchase a CD in stores. Its share of the server market, the larger has grown to the point that many believe it will soon (or already has) eclipsed Microsoft’s share of the market. Consumers will receive increasingly better products as the competition continues. Just as competition and the free market are good for consumers and the economy, governmental regulation is toxic. An Institute for Policy Innovation study projected that the Microsoft antitrust lawsuit would have a cumulative effect for the time period of 2000 - 2010 of costing America roughly 45,000 jobs, more than $50 billion in lost government revenues, and $147 billion of our gross domestic product. Support for Microsoft as a force of good in our economy was demonstrated moments after the appeals court rejected the breakup by a massive rally on Wall Street. Reversing the case was the right decision, but does not explain why the district court felt motivated to take action against Microsoft in the first place. While Judge Jackson did write a very long and very flawed Finding of Facts, it does not really explain Microsoft’s crime. Microsoft’s crime is not cheating its competition or using a monopolistic business practice. Microsoft’s crime is being too successful in the eyes of people who see capitalism and profit as evil. Jackson and others assume that Microsoft’s "immense profits" prove some sort of foul play. In reality, profit usually proves who is best. Microsoft has made a lot of money because it sells a product that people want. At the same time, the free Internet Explorer browser has helped to lower the cost of using the Internet for every user. Microsoft is good for our country and good for computing; therefore, it makes a profit while doing it. Profit is not inherently immoral. Neither is competing. Without the self-interest generated by profit, the march of human progress would grind to a halt. That does not mean Microsoft is without blame. Its practices have not always been ethical. But Microsoft must make the choice to be ethical on its own or risk provoking more government intervention. The Bible calls us to support justice for all rather than favoring one side. We are not supposed to cheat for the underdog or placate the rich. Microsoft, just like anybody else, deserves justice. Justice, in this case, was served by the court of appeals ruling.
THE COPIER ROOM-REVISED The current "final frontier" for rapid prototyping (RP) is the everyday, clean, relatively quiet office. So-called "3D printing," versus rapid prototyping, says John Kawola, vice president of sales and marketing for Z Corp. (Burlington, MA; www.zcorp.com), has gained market share over the last two or three years. "The whole idea with a 3D printer is, ‘Hey, I can make this [prototype] in two hours and it costs ten bucks, so let's bring it to the meeting.'" In fact, with Z Corp. monochrome 3D printing systems going for $25,000 and full-color systems for $50,000, Kawola asks: Why would anyone not make a part every day during the design process? Other barriers to 3D printing have also dropped. Take speed, for instance. Z Corp.'s latest high-definition color 3D printing system, the Spectrum Z510, prints two layers per minute-figure 2" per hour. (Layers are user selectable from 0.0035 to 0.008 in.) Next, the Z510 doesn't need a dedicated person to run the machine. Plus, it runs off the 110 VAC from a wall outlet and it fits in the corner of an office or copier room. The Spectrum Z510 system can produce parts within a 10 x 14 x 8-in. work envelope. The model resolution is 600 dpi by 540 dpi. The machine itself measures 42 x 31 x 50 in. and weighs 450 lb. The price of materials-the powder, binder, and ink that's used to print onto the powder-is also no longer a barrier. "Then there's the amortization of the print head. We use off-the-shelf Hewlett-Packard print heads," explains Kawola. All together, finished parts cost about $2.00/in.3. That's a solid cubic inch. Parts are typically hollow or honeycombed inside, so less powder is used and the price per part drops. (Powder not used to make a part, i.e., not made solid, can be reused.) The printer works just like a conventional home or office color printer. It prints in cyan, magenta, yellow, and clear or white. Those four colors combine to theoretically create 16 million colors. In addition to coloring prototypes to match their end use, people use color for labeling, adding arrows and circles to highlight features, printing engineering text or revision blocks, and tagging prototypes with date information. Another office entry is the Eden260 from Stratasys (Eden Prairie, MN; www.stratasys.com), a photopolymer-jetting system manufactured by Israel-based Objet Geometries. This RP system, explains Fred Fisher, product manager for Stratasys' Eden Distribution Line, is a "glorified hot-glue gun": Solid material is heated up, extruded in a semi-viscous state, and when it cools, it hardens into a solid part. The system builds layers by jetting out tiny droplets of resin on top of the previous layers of resin, like an inkjet printer jets out tiny droplets of ink onto a piece of paper. Resolution is 16 microns (0.0006 in.). PolyJet modeling materials are fully cured with UV light during the modeling process. Post-processing consists of removing the supports used to make the model, which is done at a standard water-jet station. Costing $99,000, the Eden260 can produce parts up to 10.2 x 9.8 x 8.1 in. The unit itself measures 34 x 30 x 47 in., weighs 620 lb., and plugs into any wall outlet. 3D Systems Corporation (Valencia, CA; www.3dsystems.com) also has an office unit. Made by Israel-based Solidimension Ltd., the InVision LD 3-D Printer builds parts one slice at a time using 3D Systems' VisiJet LD100 engineered plastic. This material comes off a roll like fax paper in an old fax machine. The result is a dry part (with supports that break off as desired). The LD 3-D printer is targeted for communication and concept modeling applications, yet its low price-$22,900-makes it also ideal for industrial design departments. These 3D printers, points out Elizabeth Goode, 3D Systems' director of corporate development, "provide complementary solutions for a growing number of 3D CAD users who want to create multiple design iterations cost effectively within the convenience of their offices." BACK ON THE SHOP FLOOR At the other end of the scale in terms of size, 3D Systems introduced a new line of automated selective laser sintering (SLS) manufacturing systems: the Sinterstation Pro 230, which can accommodate build volumes up to 22 x 22 x 30 in., and the Sinterstation Pro 140, which can accommodate build volumes up to 22 x 22 x 18 in. Both systems are for high-capacity, heavy-duty, automated rapid manufacturing. Says Goode, "We want customers to be able to put these machines out on the shop floor next to their CNC machines as an alternative manufacturing platform to traditional injection molding, casting, and machining methods-without the need to invest in expensive tooling, time consuming set-ups, and labor-intensive secondary operations." Sinterstation Pro features a reusable material cartridge, a removable part-build chamber, a finished-part retrieval station, and an automated materials recycling module. The part bed, where the part is built, can be exchanged with a new bed to start the next build, thereby minimizing downtime. Unused powder is recycled by mixing it with new material, thereby saving material costs. And the material recycling unit connects directly to the Sinterstation Pro, thereby reducing the time and hassle in filling the machine with new powder. New closed-loop thermal controls help ensure consistent parts manufacturing from build-to-build and system-to-system. WHAT'S RP WITHOUT RP MATERIALS? 3D Systems has a new photopolymer-based plastic for its InVision SR 3-D printer: VisiJet SR 200 Plastic. This material is about two to three times stiffer and stronger than 3D Systems' other VisiJet material, M100. Parts made of SR 200 better mimic the general performance characteristics of high-volume thermoplastics, such as polypropylene and ABS. While VisiJet M100 comes in five colors (black, blue, gray, red, and natural), SR 200 comes in only one color: "natural" (translucent white). 3D Systems' DuraForm AF plastic ("AF" stands for "aluminum-filled.") is a powdered aluminum-like engineered composite for all 3D Systems' SLS systems. The cured plastic looks like cast aluminum, yet it has the surface finish and fine-feature definition of nylon, and the stiffness of an engineered composite. It is targeted for applications such as automotive models, jigs and fixtures, casting patterns and functional prototypes, such as cases and metal enclosures. Excess DuraForm AF removed during the SLS process can be recycled. Then there's DuraForm Flex plastic, a tear-resistant, flexible plastic for 3D Systems' SLS machines that's used to produce rubber-like functional prototypes and end-use parts. These parts can substitute urethane, silicone, and rubber parts. DuraForm Flex can handle harsh environmental conditions, such as heat and chemicals (it doesn't dissolve in hydrocarbons, ketones, ethers, or alcohols). The material comes in red, yellow, blue, white, and black. PC-ABS from Stratasys is a blend of polycarbonate and ABS plastic for the company's fused deposition modeling (FDM) systems. Although PC-ABS blends are widely used to manufacture many of today's plastic products, including automotive parts, it has not been available for RP. Company officials say the blend has excellent thermal properties, it is significantly stronger than ABS, and its feature detail is similar to that of Stratasys ABS modeling material. PC-ABS support material washes away with water, and it is available for the Stratasys FDM Titan, FDM Vantage S, and FDM Vantage SE systems. Stratasys also offers VeroBlue, an acrylic photopolymer modeling resin manufactured by Objet Geometries for the Eden333 PolyJet system. It is said to be about 10% to 15% better than the company's traditional SLA resins, with improvements in tensile, flexural, compression, elasticity modulus, and notched Izod impact strength. Stratasys also now has a material with rubber-like properties. Called Tango, this material is for Stratasys' PolyJet line. Two Tango materials are available: TangoBlack has a durometer (softness) of 61-A (Shore Hardness scale) and TangoGray has a durometer of 75-A. As with all of Stratasys' PolyJet line, these RP materials are in sealed cartridges that can be swapped in and out with ease and negligible waste. These rubber-like materials-Stratasys' Tango and 3D Systems' DuraForm Flex-are ideal for a variety of rubber-type automotive applications, such as gaskets, seals, exterior door trim, bumper trim, interior door detail, electric mirror adjusters, and such under-the-hood applications as hoses, belts, and other watertight parts.
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There is a legitimate case for debating whether banks should be charged a fee for the government guarantee on deposits of up to $250,000, according to Mr Clyne is the first bank boss to weigh into the debate on imposing a fee on the $623 billion in deposits covered by government insurance, after Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens said on Friday he was “not averse" to the idea. “You can argue it is legitimate to set some sort of fee," Mr Clyne said. Mr Clyne said any debate on whether banks should be charged a fee for the deposit guarantee should be discussed in a broader context of the role of banks in the financial system. He said it was sometimes omitted from public debate that the banks had paid between $4 billion and $5 billion for the government guarantee on their wholesale funding during the global financial crisis. Yellow Brick Road chairman Mark Bouris has said the big four banks should pay a higher fee for the deposit guarantee, to help smaller banks compete more for savings. It is understood the federal government has no plans to change the current arrangements, which provide a free guarantee. In the unlikely event of a bank failure, any payments made under the scheme are to be recovered through the liquidation of the failed institution. If there is still a shortfall, a levy will be applied to the industry. Mr Stevens said in February that he thought the value of the deposit insurance was “several basis points", potentially worth hundreds of millions in annual premiums. Assuming an annual levy of 0.05 of a percentage point on the industry’s eligible deposits, that represents $311 million in potential charges on the banks or revenue to the government. The Australian Financial Review
Iraqi forces have entered the center of Ramadi, a key city held by ISIL. A spokesman of the Iraqi counter-terrorism services said “The city will be completely cleaned in the next 72 hours,” and added that Iraqi forces were advancing “without much resistance except from snipers and suicide bombers.” The fall of Ramadi was seen as a major defeat since ISIL fighters began operating in areas in the country’s north and west, that included city of Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest in 2014. The city will be completely cleaned in the next 72 hours Since then, government forces have trying to recapture the city with support from an international coalition led by the US. Last week, military officials felt that there was not more than 300 fighters in Ramadi, about 120km from the capital Baghdad. Ramadi was captured by ISIL in May. The army says it now controls more than half of the city, including a key military command centre.
UPDATE: Well, that was quick. Shortly after this article was posted, Columbia Journalism School withdrew their invitation, saying that after further review, "Age of Autism does take a clear position on the link between vaccines and the incidence of Autism, also engaging in advocacy on that position. Therefore we must disqualify the site from our study." The same person said, when inviting us in August: "I'm also a huge fan of The Age of Autism, how you've built and sustained an enriching and focused platform. It's a huge pleasure to invite you to join a community at Columbia University's Tow Center for Digital Journalism. ... What you're doing is part of a wave in the journalism world that the Tow Center wants to bring together and highlight as a trend." We warned them to expect to hear from critics but were told, "Thank you Dan for the head's up but we are happy to have you!" Que sera, sera. Age of Autism is honored to announce we have been chosen as part of Columbia Journalism School's inaugural Single Subject News Network. An initiative of Columbia's Tow Center for Digital Journalism, the network "connects news websites that focus on one subject on an in-depth level, filling the gaps in mainstream media and innovating models for journalism." On the weekend of November 9, the Tow Center "will host a series of panels amongst students, industry, and an elite class of 20 single subject news publishers selected by the program." I'll be on a panel discussing how to create community around a niche topic. We really are in elite company with these other 19 online journalism sites, and as the network rolls out the names, and talks more about the increasing role that online, in-depth, independent journalism is playing in the evolving media universe, we'll keep you posted. This is a strong acknowledgement of the work all of us in the AOA community have done going on six years next month -- Kim and Mark, our tireless Contributing Editors, our valued commenters and faithful readers, sponsors and advertisers. Meanwhile please do me a personal favor -- go to Facebook and Like the Single Subject News Network. This week I was watching Morning Joe when they had a segment on a new Frontline episode and book on the NFL's concussion crisis, called League of Denial. It's fascinating and instructive to watch an issue reach critical mass and break through the media barriers that keep big institutions from being held to account. The NFL is having its moment of karma right now, with the widespread recognition that it has failed to tackle the problem and in fact done a massive end-run around it for a long time, even as the damage piled up like players falling on a goal-line fumble. I grabbed my composition book and took some notes of comments from the two authors: "a trajectory of denial over a period of two decades" ... A pattern of "attacking the scientists" whose honest research raised warning flags ... A legal settlement admitting no culpability ... But change is coming from the bottom up: "suburban mothers aren't letting their kids play as much as they used to," and that will affect the NFL down the road ... Change is "around kids' mothers making these decisions ... If ten percent of mothers decide it's too dangerous, that's the end of football as we know it." This all seems more than vaguely familiar, doesn't it, dear readers of Age of Autism? I was riveted by the "two decade trajectory of denial" -- a marvelous phrase. It was in the mid 1990s that a pronounced spike in autism was first observed -- by the CDC, in fact. That's when the trajectory of denial took off -- Brick Township and the bogus "no increase" epidemiology, the Verstraeten and Scandinavian follies, the vaccine court hocus pocus, the Wakefield inquisition and the Offit Offensive. Here we are almost two decades later. Do the math. The Moment of Karma approacheth. It's also been a couple of decades since the catastrophic effects of the anti-malaria drug Lariam, approved in 1989, were first observed -- and denied, with suicides, homicides and psychosis among troops, travelers and Peace Corps volunteers being chalked up to travel stress, PTSD and personal problems, the sensitive souls of Peace Corps volunteers. Now the denial is slowly unraveling, and the Special Operations command's decision last month to ban the drug entirely is the beginning of the endgame. Perhaps Special Ops got tired of being lied to as they watched their elite troops succumb not to combat injuries but to a "preventive" drug. Still, at higher levels of the military and the public health bureaucracy, the impulse for self-preservation continues to manifest in delay and denial and a refusal to look at the horrendous implications. Former Army major Dr. Remington Nevin has called Lariam the potential "Agent Orange of our Generation," meaning tens of thousands of troops may be suffering lasting disability, for which they are getting no acknowledgement, compensation, or medical and mental health support. So it's galling to see the beribboned and medal-bedecked brass continue to play dumb as they try to explain the high rate of suicide among troops and vets. Just this week USA Today ran a four-column headline that the Army is exploring "ways to predict, prevent suicides," enlisting big data to try to figure out who's most at risk and intervene. Good idea. But there's no suggestion that data includes any pharmaceuticals. If you give hundreds of thousands of soldiers a drug the FDA warns can cause psychiatric problems and suicides "long after" someone stops taking it, shouldn't that be part of your inquiry? And of course it's not just Lariam. Soldiers, like American kids, have become pin cushions for excessive medical interventions in a captive population, from the dubious anthrax vaccine to the wake-up pills, the calm-down pills and the what have you pills and vaccines, administered both in the heat of battle and to send veterans on their way back to the Brave New World, where even more psychoactive RXs await if they still can't get with the program. I've taken to calling this phenomenon the United States Pillitary. But the military says it is on the case, supporting our troops. According to USA Today, "suicide is a perennial stain on the military that now grows worse each year, a trajectory [there's that word again!] baffling to military leaders and devastating to the shattered families left behind. 'It just drives me crazy that we can't figure (it) out,' Army Undersecretary Thomas Hawley says." Dan Olmsted is Editor of Age of Autism.
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(AINA) -- The mother of Christina Khader Ebada, a 3 year-old Assyrian girl who was abducted from her family by ISIS as they were leaving Baghdede (AINA 2014-08-25), was interviewed by Ishtar TV, an Assyrian network based in Arbel. The interview was conducted after Christina's family reached Ankawa, just north of Arbel, where 70,000 Assyrians refugees have come in flight from ISIS. According to a relative of the family, Christina's mother is physically handicapped and her father is blind. Here is the text of the interview. The video may be seen here (in Assyrian), with Christina's mother speaking at 00:43 seconds. In the video Christina's mother says: My son Yas came with his friend, I don't name his name, this friend, a friend of my son, said go and bring my father and mother and get all of the these families that are left in Baghdede and go to Arbel, to get them out. A man came and knocked on our door and said come Baddu [her husband], Barkho [a friend] has come for us so that we can leave. We sat in the car, a coaster [bus], and they took us to the primary care center. They put us there, and after, after we sat for half an hour, and we said why did you bring us here? They said the they will take steps to examine us. They brought a doctor to treat whatever we may have. And then after one half hour, they told all the women to get up and move ahead of everyone. We carried our bags, which had clothes and ID cards. They said if you have gold get it out; they took the gold, not from me but from some other people, gold and money and the IDs of all of them, and threw away their clothes, and they said we will bring them to you later and said go to that big bus. We went and sat in the big bus, and then one man came aboard, I was carrying my child in my arms, I sat in the bus and he came and took her from me, snatched her from me, and left the bus. I followed him inside [the building], and my little girl was crying inside the center. An old man, one of those ISIS people, who was apparently their leader then carried her. He said [she is speaking in Arabic now] "is this your daughter?" I said yes. He said "she is crying for you." I told him give her back to me, poor girl, what is she guilty of? She is breast feeding from me. For the sake of Allah, for the sake of Muhammad, what do you worship? Give me this little one, she is breast feeding from me. She will die if she does not see me. I am her mother. He said "shut up. if you speak another word I will let them slaughter you. I will call them now to slaughter you." He drew his machine gun and said "go quickly to the car. If you come close to this little girl you will be slaughtered, we shall slaughter you. Come now, go!" [now speaking in Assyrian] We got on the bus and left. I appeal in the name of humanity and the United Nations. This thing that is taking place here in Iraq, to kidnap this little girl who is innocent, and these crimes they are committing, stealing money, they did not leave us anything, what is this? We appeal to human rights groups to help us, to look at us. This is not a humane situation. We can't live like this all our lives. We have not attacked them. What have we done to them? I want you to return my daughter to me. The following is another interview of Christina's mother, conducted on August 29 by Helen Donnelly, an Assyrian film maker doing a documentary on Assyrian refugees. The video is subtitled and shows Christina's mother, father and older brother. Since entering Iraq and capturing Mosul on June 10, ISIS has driven all Assyrians from that city. There are no Assyrians/Christians remaining in Mosul. ISIS has also destroyed or occupied all 45 Christian institutions in Mosul (AINA 2014-07-29). It has targeted all non-Sunni Muslim groups -- Shabaks, Yazidis and Turkmen. On August 7 ISIS moved north of Mosul into the Nineveh Plain, a predominantly Assyrian area, causing fear and panic and forcing 200,000 Assyrian to flee from dozens of Assyrian villages and towns, as well as from Baghdede (Qaraqosh), Bartella and Karamles.
In 1927, the town of Nablus (biblical Shechem) was convulsed by an earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter Scale. Nearly 300 people were killed, 1,000 injured, and many of Shechem's historical buildings were destroyed. The flow of the Jordan River stopped for 21 hours due to landslides, and the quake caused damage in Jerusalem, Jericho and Amman. In Israel, a zone of intense seismic activity is located along the Dead Sea Transform fault, rupturing the boundary between the Arabian and the Sinai plates. The geologic stress is evident by the radically folded strata exposed in the hills around Jericho. This zone includes numerous volcanoes and hot springs.
Syrian Christians Flee War and Instability Amid the Syrian civil war, Christians are fleeing in greater numbers from the region, with many heading to neighboring Lebanon then Europe. “We don’t want to lose the Christianity in the Arab region,” reporter Nasir Habish told Vatican Radio, the Catholic News Agency (CNA) reported. “This is the land of Jesus. I can’t imagine the land of Jesus without Christians.” According to Sister Agnes-Mariam de la Croix, mother superior of the Greek Catholic Monastery of St James the Mutilated in Syria, the uprising has been “hijacked” by Islamist mercenaries. She estimates that over 300,000 Christian Syrians have become refugees, CNA reported. Syrian Christians fear a repeat of Iraq, where Islamists fighting U.S.-backed coalition forces began targeting Iraqi Christians for intimidation, killings and kidnappings that drove hundreds of thousands of Christians out of the country. But despite the threats of Islamism and government forces, some Christians are holding on. At the St. Elie Rest Home, in the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo, Christians are looking out for one another. “We welcome everyone who has been abandoned or is in need,” says Sister Marie, 75, the Mother Superior, told the Lebanese Daily Star. The Christian-run home for the elderly was founded in 1863 and has transformed into a tiny refuge for those escaping the violence. “Every day we pray for peace,” and when the bombs fall, “we take refuge in the chapel, the safest place in the building,” the Sister said.
But a senior politician in the country's ruling party said she expects early elections this year. About 2,000 demonstrators gathered outside Reykjavik's parliament building late on Wednesday, with some throwing rocks, paving stones, fireworks, shoes and toilet paper, Stefan Eiriksson, the city's police chief, said. He said police used pepper spray and then tear gas to try to disperse protesters. "We had to take action to split up the people and try to avoid further damage and injuries to the police,'' he said. "This was our last resort.'' Witnesses said some demonstrators tried to stop others from throwing rocks at police. On Wednesday, protesters pelted eggs at the car of the prime minister, surrounding the vehicle and banging it with cans. The limousine was able to drive away after riot police arrived. The financial crisis has caused the country's currency to plummet, leading to demonstrations by people who are angry at the coalition government's handling of the situation. Thorgerdur Gunnarsdottir, deputy leader of the centre-right Independence party, told parliament she expected elections this year. Iceland does not officially have to hold a national election until 2011. Haarde's office did not comment on Gunnarsdottir's remarks. The government could fall if the Social Democratic Alliance, partner to Haarde's Independence party, were to withdraw its support. At a meeting on Wednesday, the party's Reykjavik chapter called on it to sever its alliance with the ruling party and trigger elections by May. But Haarde, speaking as demonstrators chanted outside the parliament building, said he still had the support of his Social Democrat coalition partner.
Maintaining your electric heating Maintenance or, should we say, the near absence of maintenance is one of the major benefits of electric heating installations. Roughly speaking, you just need to perform a thorough cleaning of your appliances, once or twice a year, preferably before winter. Vacuuming and dust-removal, with a dry or slightly damp cloth, is more than enough. It is not much, but it is needed. Otherwise, the accumulation of dust alters the smooth functioning of your appliances and leads to higher energy consumption. While you are at it, take a look at the electrical connection. In particular, make sure the wall socket is still securely attached. If not, secure it with a screwdriver. If your appliance is electronically controlled, the precision of its regulation system is unalterable over time. No further manipulation is needed, except in case of changing lifestyle. Then, simply select another programming mode based on your new habits. Here you are, nothing more and nothing less is required, what's more, this is free of charge!
Way back when I was in high school I worked at a nursery. A customer came in looking for Camellia sinensis, a beautiful plant that grows well in shade and produces a pretty little flower. I knew it well. But when he told me that he intended to harvest the leaves of the plant to make his own tea, I scoffed. (Inwardly, but I scoffed.) Tea? Pfft. I’d never heard of such a thing. Things have a funny way of coming full circle, don’t they? Turns out I had no idea how to grow tea. This post may contain affiliate links; I'll earn a small commission if you choose to make a purchase. I recently had the opportunity to tour Mauna Kea Tea which is located not far from where I live. Kimberly and Taka Ino own the farm and kindly invited me to visit. When I told them that Leona from My Healthy Green Family was visiting the island, they expanded the invitation and I had the opportunity to meet Leona and her husband Ryan. (We managed to talk goats and blueberries a bit, in between tea!) So here’s the deal. Producing tea is not as easy as one might think. Harvesting the premium tea is tedious — only the top two leaves and a new bud from each branch is used. These are very light green and soft. (More mature leaves are used for their bolder sweet roast green tea.) Once harvested, these leaves are rolled. By hand. Instead of the leafy flakes you might be used to, these are curly little swirls. In the field, I asked Taka about the plants. They are all Camellia sinensis, he tells me, but there are different varieties—much like there are different varieties of apple trees—each one with its own strengths. Some are better for green tea, others better for oolong or black tea. That’s right: Green tea, oolong tea, and black tea all come from the Camellia sinensis plant. The thing that makes these teas different is not so much in the leaf, but in the processing. Green tea is processed as quickly as possible to retain the nutrients and antioxidants. Oolong tea is allowed to oxidize for 18-24 hours or so. Black tea oxidizes for longer (though Mauna Kea Tea does not produce a black tea). Following our tour, we had a chance to sample three different teas, all organic: Premium green tea, premium oolong tea, and sweet roast green tea. The sweet roast green tea was the most robust and would be the best choice for someone who is primarily a coffee drinker, I think. Our hands-down favorite though was the premium oolong.

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