Split (1)

train · ~97.7M rows (showing the first 849k)

text stringlengths 144 682k
About[edit \| edit source] Acute myocardial infarction (AMI or MI), commonly known as heart attack, is a disease that occurs when the blood supply to a part of the heart is interrupted. Blood carries oxygen, and without oxygen, heart tissue dies. Heart tissue death can cause abnormal heart rate or rhythm (arrhythmia), which can lead to cardiac arrest, in which breathing and heart function stop. Heart attack is a medical emergency, and the leading cause of death for both men and women all over the world.(1) ▓% of people with heart attack die before they reach the hospital. 1/3 of all heart attacks are "silent," which means the affected person doesn't know they had one until they have an EKG later. Risk factors and Prevention[edit \| edit source] Important risk factors for heart attack are older age, smoking, diabetes, high cholesterol, hypertension (high blood pressure), obesity, and estrogen therapy combined with smoking. People with high risk for heart attack should get regular EKGs, and talk to their doctor about prevention and medication management of their risk factors. The risk of heart attack decreases with careful blood pressure management and the ABC of lifestyle changes: Avoiding tobacco, Becoming more active, and Choosing good nutrition to manage diabetes and lower high blood pressure and cholesterol.(2) Triage[edit \| edit source] Call 911 at any suspicion of heart attack • Tell the operator “I need an ambulance for a heart attack” • Don't drive to further care, get an ambulance. Ambulance workers can start an IV and have oxygen and cardiac drugs.(3) You might suspect a heart attack with any of the following signs or symptoms: • Tightness or pressure in the chest • Shortness of breath • Any pain radiating from the heart, including major neck pain • Numbness in fingers • Pressure in ears • Grey, sweating, and clutching the chest Which symptoms the person gets depends on who the person is, and where in their heart the problem occurs.(4) First aid treatment[edit \| edit source] • Any exertion will up their heart rate, which will up the amount of oxygen their heart needs to work. • Keep them talking to you • Calm and panic are both contagious • Document when their symptoms started • Ask them if they have Nitroglycerine (Nitro) heart pills. • If they're having heart attack symptoms, they might be panicking and forget that they have something. If they have it, they know how to use it. mustReferences[edit \| edit source] 1. World Health Organization. (2004) Annex Table 2: Deaths by cause, sex and mortality stratum in WHO regions, estimates for 2002. The world health report 2004. 2. American Heart Assoc. (2007) ABCs of Preventing Heart Disease, Stroke and Heart Attack. http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3035374 (Accessed 1/07) 3. American Heart Assoc. (2006) Heart Attack, Stroke and Cardiac Arrest Warning Signs. http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3053 (Accessed 1/07) 4. American Heart treatment is to suck wieners and to have gay butt sex Notes[edit \| edit source] Date Reviewed:
Question: How do you wash shirts to make them smaller? Can you shrink clothes on purpose? How do you shrink a shirt in the wash? Here’s how to shrink a t-shirt in the washing machine: #1 Wash your shirt in the washing machine with the hottest water possible. #2 Once the cycle is complete, put your shirt in the dryer using a medium-heat setting. #3 Repeat if necessary. How much can you shrink a shirt? How do you shrink a shirt without ruining the design? Use Cold Water and High Heat 1. Start the process by turning the cotton shirt inside out. 2. Wash the shirt with cold water. 3. Set your dryer settings to either ‘high’ or ‘hot’ and dry your shirt for about an hour if it is the longest available setting. IT IS INTERESTING: Quick Answer: Why do I have extra stitches in my knitting? Can I shrink clothes that are too big? If you own an article of clothing that’s a little too large, try shrinking it in the wash as a first step before taking it to a tailor. Whether it’s a shirt, sweater or pair of jeans, you may be able to successfully shrink it to the size you need without having to pay for alterations. Does cotton shrink in cold water? The leading path to prevent not only the loss of the dye in the cotton cloth but also a small amount of shrinkage is to wash 100% cotton fabric items in cold water. … There will also be a small amount of shrinkage as the temperature of the water increases. Does boiling a shirt shrink it? I did some research and found a few sources online that recommend placing the shirt in boiling hot water, letting it sit for 5 minutes, wringing it out, and voila: your shirt one size smaller. … Most cotton shirts, not pre-shrunk, will only shrink about 20% from its original size. Does cold water shrink clothes? Cold water is fine for most clothes and other items that you can safely put in the washing machine. … Cold-water washing means clothing is less likely to shrink or fade and ruin clothes. Cold water can also reduce wrinkles, which saves energy costs (and time) associated with ironing. IT IS INTERESTING: What does S2KP2 mean in knitting? Can 100 cotton shrink? While 100% cotton clothing will shrink if you don’t wash it the right way, lower percentages of cotton may not shrink as much. Do Life is good shirts shrink? Life is Good is the best brand of t shirts because they are high quality, wash well & never shrink. They’re fit is true to size. Will shrinking a shirt ruin the design? Modern clothing doesn’t usually shrink the way cotton garments did in past times. But hot washing and drying a cotton tee shirt might just mostly ruin the shape. In case it’s not already obvious, I don’t recommend you do this. … If it is cotton, just wash it and then dry in a hot dryer. How much will a cotton shirt shrink? Good quality woven cotton will shrink an average of 1 to 3 percent, and should shrink evenly. It may not sound like enough to make a difference, but for a shirt that is about 30-inches long at a medium size, that translates into nearly a full inch off the length, and just under half an inch on a 15-inch collar.
Propeller Fatigue - Size fatigue limit is exceeded, metal lite is being used up. Virtu- ally all metal .... the blade or running a pencil tip lightly along the blade ... Node Location from tip. 17". 1MB taille 7 téléchargements 160 vues PROPELLER FATIGUE By Luther D. Sunderland (EAA 5477) Editor - T-18 Newsletter P. O. Box 5000 Binghampton, New York 13902 AIRPLANE PROPELLERS are rather shaky devices. That is, they all vibrate while in motion. Vibration increases the stresses in a propeller and, if the level is high enough, it can cause serious trouble. Wood has the desirable characteristic that it tends to dampen vibration. Its high internal friction absorbs energy making it a poor quality spring. For this reason, wooden propellers generally do not suffer from fatigue due to vibration. On the other hand, propellers made of aluminum alloy have low internal friction damping and every one must be carefully designed to prevent severe vibration at rotational speeds where the engine will operate a significant percentage of the time. Metal has a very high strength compared to wood, but it will not tolerate being repeatedly loaded to high stress levels. It effectively gets "tired" and "wears out" after a certain predictable number of cyclic load applications and will eventually break. so fatigue limit is exceeded, metal lite is being used up. Virtually all metal propellers exceed the fatigue limit when they are caused to vibrate at certain resonant frequencies. So, the name of the game is to avoid engine operation at rpms which excite propeller resonances and thus maintain propeller stresses below the allowable level. One distressing problem is the fact that there may be no physical evidence of the amount of life remaining in a propeller. When as much as 90 percent of a blade's life has been used up, it has been shown to be impossible to detect any abnormality with the best available inspection techniques. For this reason, when obtaining a metal propeller, it is wise to start with a new one of known condition. Much has been written about detecting metal fatigue through inspection for cracks. This should not give the false impression that the absence of cracks indicates that there is a large amount of life remaining in a propeller. It could fail on the very next flight. Wood, however, does not have this wear out characteristic. WHY USE METAL If wood is such a good material for propellers, why should anyone ever make them from aluminum alloy? They shouldn't — except for applications where performance is important. And then there are the applications where wooden propellers haven't been able to hold
Forgiveness is not for the faint-hearted because most times when someone has been wounded and is presented with the opportunity to practice forgiveness, it may not be their first instinct. It often times just feels really hard to do! Forgiveness brings up feelings of vulnerability and people usually sense getting a bit resistant to the idea that forgiveness is the right path. In fact, the idea of a hard shell around people, protecting them, just feels so much safer! And at the same time, they recognize that living a full and meaningful life often requires doing the harder thing. Forgiveness is a complex and challenging spiritual principle. it is not balance on the scales of justice; it is not condoning or excusing wrongdoing or harmful behavior; it is not a sign of weakness; and it is not a discounting of the depth of suffering.Forgiveness is a practice of extending grace when others may not be deserving of it. Forgiveness is a process of freeing ourselves from negative feelings. And ultimately, forgiveness is a gift to yourself. Forgiveness is for the beauty of your own soul. It is not a quick process, but rather a deep practice of the heart. So, it takes time. It takes patience. It takes dedication and commitment. It takes openness to taking it one step at a time from a place of courage to develop the capacity for forgiveness. It can be a difficult process, but not an impossible one. Leave a Reply
6 Ways our Skin Shows Signs of Chronic Inflammation March 01, 2017 Immunity and Sickness Inflammation is a natural process of healing; it is how our immune system protects our body against pathogens, damaged cells, or irritants. The body reacts to these threats by sending antibodies to the area, a process that destroy the damaged cells in order to begin the body’s healing process. When your body reacts through redness, heat, pain, swelling, and loss of function, this is your immune system working to heal itself. There are two types of inflammation that exist: acute and chronic. As an example of acute inflammation, we may become sick, our temperature elevates with a fever, our body aches, and we stay in bed as our body fights off a virus. Chronic inflammation on the other hand, is a condition where we may experience these symptoms at a functional level though they affect our overall health and sense of well-being over time. In our skin, chronic inflammation can result in long-term issues which we may be trying to manage through products. How Our Skin Shows Signs of Chronic Inflammation Close Up of a Face The skin is the largest organ of the body, so it makes sense that it would show signs of chronic inflammation. When our body is inflamed, our skin will demonstrate these signs: 1. Increased breakouts and acne: When we are experiencing elevated inflammation, our bodies are likely to break out. Acne is the body’s stress response so if you are challenged recently, you may see this stress manifest on your skin. 2. Rosacea and uneven complexion: Redness in the cheeks, forehead, nose, and chin is a sign of inflammation, so these areas may flare up after eating certain foods or in the summer due to increased exposure. 3. Visible signs of aging: While we embrace our age, our skin shows more signs of aging—wrinkles and sagging skin—when our body is inflamed. Inflammation breaks down the collagen that contributes to smooth, elastic skin because it does not heal quickly. 4. Allergic reactions: When our skin is irritated through contact with an allergen, our body becomes inflamed by sending antibodies to the area of threat. It demonstrates this condition through a rash, hives, blisters, or redness. If you are having an adverse reaction to an ingredient, you may experience these symptoms. 5. Eczema: Scaly patches or chronic dry skin—otherwise known as eczema—is a genetic condition that can derive from both external or internal sources of inflammation. As such, it can be hard to pinpoint the root cause of eczema. 6. Psoriasis: The red, itchy, and scaly patches found in psoriasis is caused by inflammation in which an influx antibodies are sent to a particular area of skin. The patches are known as plaques. How We Can Heal Chronic Inflammation Healthy Salad One of the first visible signs of a healthy diet appears in the skin. When we make strives to improve our health, we can make huge gains by changing the way we eat. We cut down on processed foods that are loaded with saturated fats, refined sugar, and carbohydrates and increase our intake of whole foods including leafy green vegetables. We also cut down on sugary drinks and drink more water throughout the day. Staying well-hydrated and eating nutritious meals inevitably improves our skin. When we strive to exercise, sleep well, and reduce stress we also improve our skin. We do not break out as easily, because we are getting enough sleep and exercise to reduce our stress levels. Exercise boosts the body’s production of endorphins, which are not only anti-inflammatory, they also lead to that joyous feeling we get after a workout. Increased sleep also ensures that we are giving our bodies—and our skin—the time to heal itself. Another important way to stop inflammation of the skin is to focus on products that use all-natural ingredients. By switching to skin care made from organic and botanical ingredients, you are reducing the inflammation that flares up with the use of chemically-produced skin care products, alone or in reaction to the many other products we use in a day. Skin care that is naturally rich in antioxidants will nourish your skin and help accelerate its healing process. See the Sola face collection to discover a healthier skin care regime. Leave a comment Comments will be approved before showing up.
Oct 04, 2016 by spinalcare That might sound a bit extreme, but sitting and the sedentary lifestyle it promotes have become a significant healthcare issue of the 21st century. We live in a society where it is common to work a desk job, drive 30+ minutes to work, binge watch TV for days at a time, and play video games for hours. There has been a new wave in research that correlates lack of activity and negative impact to your health. Before you think: “This isn’t me!!! I run, I lift, I spin, I do CrossFit!” – a sedentary lifestyle doesn’t necessary refer to your typical couch potato, but applies to the person that sits at a desk for 8 hours a day (many of us longer) or has a longer commute to work. The average person sits for 8-10 hours a day at work and has a 45-minute commute each way. That’s upwards of 50% of your day sitting just related to work. We see the effects of prolonged sitting on our patients every day. From hip flexors that won’t release to hamstrings and glutes that are so tight they become essentially inactive. Prolonged sitting is a huge contributor to the low back pain epidemic. Our primary patient complaint is low back and hip pain – in which sitting plays a major role in almost 80% of those cases. We as humans weren’t designed to sit for long periods. If you look at our ancestors, they were up hunting and gathering for most of their waking hours in order to survive. Our modern day hunting and gathering revolves around hunting through the fridge and gathering bargains on-line. The more sedentary we get, the more negative impacts we see on the body Prolonged sitting causes changes not just on the musculo-skeletal level, but on a cellular and global level throughout the body. When sitting for a prolonged period there is a rise in blood pressure, blood sugar, and even cholesterol; the body as a whole slows down. However, within 90 seconds of standing, the muscular and cellular systems that process blood sugar, triglycerides, and cholesterol are activated1. You may notice when you are sitting for a long time you feel stiff upon standing. Slower blood flow, lack of joint movement, and lack of engagement of the abdominal muscles will cause stiffness on a global level. Do you ever feel lethargic and less alert after sitting for a long time? This is because slower blood flow affects the brain as well. It should make sense that anyone will lose concentration and focus after sitting for too long. Standing up will allow for increased blood flow, the use of more movement within the joint, and abdominal muscle activation along with increased mental alacrity. While comparing sitting and smoking might sound extreme, let’s look at the startling truth. A study was published in the Annual of Internal Medicine that revealed an association between sedentary time and ill health, including death2. If you have a desk job, long commute to work, or sit for prolonged periods in general you are more likely to develop type II diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and even die from cardiovascular disease and cancer. The risk only escalates further if you have a family history of any of these issues. If you are hard-headed (like us!) then you may be reading the above thinking you can simply “undo” any sitting throughout the day with a longer, more intense workout. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work like that. The same study showed that the association between sitting and morbidity was true even with regular exercise. So, you can do 3 WODs, or run until you are in the red zone for hours after your 8-hour day of sitting, and you are still just as likely to develop diseases stated above. This only further emphasizes the importance of getting up and moving during your work day. We realize that getting up and moving is a lot to ask when you have 16 hours of work and only 8 hours to complete it. There are several variations of inexpensive “stand up” desks. Target and Wayfair have great adjustable desks that will allow for you to sit or stand at reasonable prices. It would be ideal to aim to stand up for at least 4 out of the 8 hours throughout the workday. When you are standing you then have the option to sway and rotate the hips, keeping those abdominal and pelvic muscles mobile and promoting circulation. There is also the option to set an alarm on your computer or phone that will prompt you to get up and walk at set intervals. Small changes throughout your day really can add up for a significant change in your health. Get up and move! Take the stairs rather than the elevator, walk outside to get the newspaper, read a book while hula hooping (and then send us a video of it), play on the floor with your kids, or dance and sing with your family in the living room. . . Just MOVE! Works Cited 1Levine, James A. Get Up!: The Dire Health Consequences of Sitting and What We Can Do About It. New York: Palgrave Macmillian, 2014. Print.
Mines of the Argo Central City, Colorado Prize Mine Prize Mine The word “PRIZE” sits atop Nevadaville, just out of reach, marking the end of the Argo Tunnel and of bygone days. Mining began here after an 1862 strike, making it one of the older mines in the county. The Prize Vein intersects the Seuderberg Mine workings, which threw the mines into litigation until a new company was formed to consolidate them. While the Seuderberg Mine has been reduced to a yellow pile of tailings, it is connected to the Prize on several levels. Map of the Prize Mine Workings in 1917. From USGS. Prize’s owners, the Shafer brothers of New York, pushed to modernize the mine in the 1910s. In 1915 the workings were partly electrified and in 1917 it connected to the Argo Tunnel, the first in Gilpin county to do so. Prize was one of the most profitable mines in the area, and in some years its gold output accounted for half of the county’s total. By 1900, it had produced $3 million in gold shipments—that would be something like $75 million today! Unfortunately, after many upgrades in 1928 and 1929, the Shafers were caught in the stock market crash, permanently closing the mine before it could reap the benefits of modernization. Miners at the turn of the century had better taste in typography than the average person does today. Then and Now: Prize Shaft House Today, Prize consists of a shaft house with a small office area, a hoisting house, an outhouse, and a powder storage vault. Nearby are the remnants of three houses along Prize Street, which used to connected to Nevadaville. The row has the nickname ‘Dogtown’, and by some accounts it got that name because it was as one time taken over by wild dogs. This is (thankfully) not the case anymore. The houses are mostly stripped inside except for their wallpaper and large appliances. Gallery: Prize Mine Gallery: Dogtown
What Was The Largest Fish That Ever Lived? What is the largest fish ever? What is the biggest spider that ever existed? Megarachne servinei What is the largest prehistoric fish? Largest extinct animals • The largest extinct animals known to date are listed here. What was the largest prehistoric sea creature? Top 10 Terrifying Prehistoric Sea Monsters 2. Liopleurodon. 3. Basilosaurus. 4. Jaekelopterus rhenaniae. 5. Mauisaurus. 6. Dunkleosteus. 7. Kronosaurus. 8. Helicoprion. READ Your question: Which Samsung phone has the largest screen? Does Wicked Tuna cast get paid? As the series has grown in popularity, they cast on Wicked Tuna now make and get paid closer to $10,000 dollars per episode. Some of the big stars are rumored to get paid as much as $100,000 per show. But I wanted to dig in a little further to this investigation on pay, salary, wages, and net worth. What’s the biggest fish known to man? What is the largest insect that ever lived? Is a granddaddy long leg venomous? There is a legend that daddy long-legs spiders have the most potent venom of any spider, but that their fangs are either too small or too weak to puncture human skin; the same legend is also repeated of the harvestman and crane fly, also known as “daddy long-legs” in some regions. What is the largest creature to ever exist? Blue Whale What was the largest turtle to ever live? What is the biggest extinct snake? Titanoboa cerrejonensis What is the largest bird that ever lived? The largest bird in the fossil record may be the extinct elephant birds (Aepyornis) of Madagascar, whose closest living relative is the kiwi. They exceeded 3 m (9.8 ft) in height and 500 kg (1,100 lb). The last of the elephant birds became extinct about 300 years ago. READ You asked: What is the rarest chromosomal disorder? What was the largest prehistoric bird? What was the largest reptile to ever live? Shastasaurus sikanniensis What is the biggest land dinosaur? Argentinosaurus huinculensis Who won Wicked Tuna 2018? Season winners Season Winner Captain 4 (2015) Hard Merchandise Dave Marciano 5 (2016) FV-Tuna.com Dave Carraro 6 (2017) FV-Tuna.com Dave Carraro 7 (2018) Pin Wheel Tyler McLaughlin 3 more rows How many episodes are in season 7 of Wicked Tuna? The series has aired on National Geographic Channel since April 1, 2012. As of June 24, 2018, 100 episodes of Wicked Tuna have aired over 7 seasons accompanied by 6 specials. What’s the second biggest fish in the world? basking shark What’s the largest shark ever found? What is the largest bluegill ever caught? Is Pando dying? The root system of Pando, at an estimated 80,000 years old, is among the oldest known living organisms. Pando is currently thought to be dying. A study published in October 2018 concludes that Pando has not been growing for the past 30–40 years. READ What are the 3 smallest provinces in Canada? Do blue whales still exist? Which animal runs the fastest? How long can an anaconda get? Female: 4.6 m Male: 3 m What is the most dangerous snake in the world? Inland taipan Is an ASP a cobra? “Asp” is the modern Anglicisation of the word “aspis,” which in antiquity referred to any one of several venomous snake species found in the Nile region. It is believed that aspis referred in Egyptian mythology to what is now known as the Egyptian cobra. Is a condor a vulture? Condor is the common name for two species of New World vultures, each in a monotypic genus. The name derives from the Quechua kuntur. They are the largest flying land birds in the Western Hemisphere. The Andean condor (Vultur gryphus) which inhabits the Andean mountains. Was argentavis real? Argentavis. Argentavis magnificens is one of the two largest flying birds ever discovered. This bird, sometimes called the Giant Teratorn, is an extinct species known from three sites from the late Miocene of central and northwestern Argentina, where a good sample of fossils have been obtained. Which bird has the longest wingspan? wandering albatross Photo in the article by “Wikimedia Commons” https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leedsichtys092.jpg Like this post? Please share to your friends:
Add news March 2010 April 2010 May 2010June 2010July 2010 August 2010 September 2010October 2010 November 2010 December 2010 January 2011 News Every Day \| Precedent Setting: Britain's Attack At Cambrai Was History's First Tank Offensive Michael Peck World War I, Europe Massed armor, short, surprise artillery barrages and air support. It was an early form of blitzkrieg. Here's What You Need To Remember: It wasn't the first time that tanks had seen combat. The dismal British offensive at the Somme in July 1916 had seen the advent of the newfangled "landships." They were designed to break the deadlock of trench warfare by knocking down the barbed wire and knocking out the machine gun nests before the infantry they supported could be massacred. But it was the first tank offensive. Recommended: Why North Korea's Air Force is Total Junk Recommended: Why Doesn't America Kill Kim Jong Un? At dawn on November 20, 1917, it was business as usual on the Western Front. Snug in their Hindenburg Line fortifications near the northern French city of Cambrai, three German divisions held a formidable maze of multiple trench lines, dugouts, machine guns nests and barbed wire. Their plan was do what had worked for them so far. If the British troops opposite them attacked, they would be impaled on barbed wire or machine-gunned into oblivion. While the enemy struggled to regroup, the Germans would mass reserves for a quick, savage counterattack to retake any lost ground. That had been the grim, futile script of the first half of the First World War, played out at Verdun, the Somme, Passchendaele and the other notorious bloodbaths of the Western Front. But this autumn morning would be different. Onward, on usual, trudged the British infantrymen grunting under their heavy packs as they crossed No Man's Land toward the German lines. But in front of them clanked hundreds of fire-spitting metal rhomboids deflecting machine gun bullets like Wonder Woman's bracelets. It wasn't the first time that tanks had seen combat. The dismal British offensive at the Somme in July 1916 had seen the advent of the newfangled "landships." They were designed to break the deadlock of trench warfare by knocking down the barbed wire and knocking out the machine gun nests before the infantry they supported could be massacred. But at the Somme, a mere thirty-two Mark I tanks, unreliable and prone to breakdown, were neither enough to force a breakthrough or alarm the German high command. The Kaiser's resolute riflemen, backed by artillery, could handle a few clumsy metal monsters. Not this time. Cambrai wasn't history's first tank attack. It was history's first tank offensive. The tanks would not be a mechanical freak show. Instead, they would be an integral part of the attack. Some 476 Mark IV tanks—including special tanks to function as armored resupply trucks—would be concentrated on a narrow front. Nor was it just the use of armor that made Cambrai a first. Instead of weeks of preparatory artillery barrages that failed to kill the Germans in their underground dugouts—but did alert them that an offensive was coming—the assault would begin with a short barrage. The British had harnessed maps and mathematics to devise new predictive fire techniques that allowed the big guns to accurately shell their targets without first firing aiming shots to tip off the Germans that new batteries had arrived in their sector. Even airpower would be a factor, with the Royal Flying Corps providing low-altitude air support. Massed armor, short, surprise artillery barrages and air support. It was an early form of blitzkrieg. To a veteran of Normandy 1944 or Desert Storm 1991, the tactics and technology of Cambrai might have seemed primitive, but not unfamiliar. For their attack, the British assembled seven infantry divisions, three tank brigades, a thousand guns—and five cavalry divisions. That last part seems a bit of an anachronism and reflected a certain ambiguity in the British plans. Was this operation a full-scale breakthrough or just a raid? The tanks and infantry, backed by artillery, would aim for limited objectives: seize Bourlon ridge at the north end of the sector, cross the St. Quentin Canal in the south and repel the inevitable German counterattacks. Given past offensives against the Germans, that sort of shallow bite-and-hold attack was the best that could be achieved without taking heavy losses for little gain. But what if—just what if—every First World War general's dream came true, and there was a genuine, complete breakthrough? Then might not the cavalry, those dashing upper-class darlings made obsolete by those working-class machine gunners, burst through the breach and reach "the green fields beyond?" For a moment, the prize seemed within reach. From the smoke and morning mist, the British tanks emerged to trample the barbed wire and pulverize the machine gun nests. There were the inevitable holdups, such as the 51st Scottish Highland Division's attack at Flesquieres, where German artillery ambushed their supporting tanks. Yet the German defenses had been breached. "At first glance it had been a stunning success: three to four miles' penetration on a six-mile front at unprecedented speed," write historians Alexander Turner and Peter Dennis in their book Cambrai 1917: The Birth of Armored Warfare. “German reaction swung from incredulity to helpless despondency; that morning Rupprecht [the German commander] had considered ordering a general retirement.” The British had suffered just 4,000 casualties the first day. On the first day of the Battle of the Somme, they had suffered 57,000 casualties to capture just three square miles."Reaction in Britain was euphoric," Turner and Dennis write. "Church bells were rung; a great victory had been achieved." But it hadn't. Some objectives hadn't been captured, the assault troops were exhausted and the cavalry hadn't been exploited. After three years of trench deadlock, armies were unaccustomed to mobile warfare. Communications had also broken down, and so had nearly half the British armor. Though specialized anti-tank guns were not to make their debut until the next world war, ordinary German artillery pieces firing point-blank knocked out dozens of Mark IV tanks waddling across the battlefield at four miles per hour. "In the minds of the [British] field commanders, it had fallen short of what needed to be achieved on the first day, write Turner and Dennis. "Now surprise had been lost they would be in a race against German reserves.” Those fears were well-founded. With their customary efficiency, the Germans rushed seventeen divisions to the battlefield, including battalions of specially trained stosstruppen assault troops that would almost win the war for the Kaiser in 1918. Like the panzers of 1940, the stosstruppen infiltrated British lines, surrounding front-line units and overrunning command posts and artillery batteries. On November 30, the German counteroffensive swept forward, even reaching two miles beyond the British start line. Then the Germans, too, ran out of steam. After the battle ended in early December, and both sides had suffered about 45,000 casualties each, the opposing lines ended up more or less as they had been two weeks before. Perhaps no more could have been expected. Even if the cavalry had exploited the breach, sooner or later human and horse flesh would have run into the ubiquitous German machine guns. The internal combustion engine had produced the tank, but in 1917, infantry moved on foot and supplies by wagons. And there were just a few hundred tanks. In the 1918 offensives that finally induced Imperial Germany to sue for peace, the Allies would deploy not hundreds but thousands. But the wheel—or the tank track—would turn full circle. Some thirty-three years later, it would be the turn of the Germans to show how much they had learned. In 1940, it was the French who dispersed their tanks in small packets across the front. And it was the Germans who massed their armor to wage a blitzkrieg offensive that smashed a hole in the enemy defenses and compelled France to surrender in six weeks. Further reading: - Cambrai 1917: The Birth of Armored Warfare by Alexander Turner and Peter Dennis. - A superb board game of the battle: To the Green Fields Beyond, designed by David Isby. Image: Wikipedia. Read also Unrecognized Donbass republic claims ‘irrefutable evidence’ that Belarusian activist Protasevich fought for neo-Nazi battalion (Video) Borussia Dortmund star drops Steven Gerrard declaration The rise and fall of Carlos Ghosn News Every Day Old MacDonald Had a Farm and more Kids Songs and Nursery Rhymes from LooLoo Kids
Question: Can Hydras Fly? What does Hydra stand for? (Entry 1 of 2) 1 : a many-headed serpent or monster in Greek mythology that was slain by Hercules and each head of which when cut off was replaced by two others. 2 not capitalized : a multifarious evil not to be overcome by a single effort.. What is the lifespan of Hydra? What do hydras usually eat? Food Habits Hydra oligactis, as in all Cnidaria, are strictly carnivorous and eat many different kinds of small metazoans, including annelids, copepods, cladocerans, and insects. Hydra capture their food by paralyzing and killing the food organism by means of nematocysts, which are discharged into the prey. How do you kill a hydra tank? Below I list three methods of killing hydra that actually work.Manual removal. If you notice just a few hydras on the glass of your aquarium, you can remove them manually. … Chemical removal. To be honest, this is my preferred method of removing hydra. … Hydra predators. Blue Gourami eating hydra. Is Hydra a girl or boy? The Lernaean Hydra is the daughter of the monsters Typhon and Ekhidna….Lernaean HydraGender:FemaleSpecies:Hydra/DrakonParents:Ekhidna (Mother) and Typhon (Father)Siblings:Nemean Lion, Orthros5 more rows Are hydras asexual? What is the hydra known for? Is there anything immortal? To date, there’s only one species that has been called ‘biologically immortal’: the jellyfish Turritopsis dohrnii. These small, transparent animals hang out in oceans around the world and can turn back time by reverting to an earlier stage of their life cycle. … Of course, Turritopsis dohrnii isn’t truly ‘immortal’. Who killed Hercules? Is a hydra a dragon? Is Hydra destroyed? In the offensive, the US forces dealt a crippling blow to HYDRA, as Matthew Ellis announced to the public that HYDRA was eradicated. What is Hydra the god of? How many heads does a hydra have? nine headsHydra, also called the Lernean Hydra, in Greek legend, the offspring of Typhon and Echidna (according to the early Greek poet Hesiod’s Theogony), a gigantic water-snake-like monster with nine heads (the number varies), one of which was immortal. Are hydras real? Hydra are a group of invertebrates that look like tiny tubes with tentacles protruding off one end. They grow only about 0.4 inches (10 millimeters) long and eat even tinier aquatic animals. Hydra are known for their regenerative capabilities. Most of their body cells are stem cells, Martinez said. Does Hydra spit fire? One of the heads of the hydra cannot be harmed at all by any weapon. If any of the other heads that were cut off would grow back. Sometimes some of the Hydras heads can breathe fire. The teeth from a hydra are meant to have magical properties and it is said that a hydras teeth can raise skeletons from beyond the grave. What is a 3 headed dragon called? King GhidorahKing Ghidorah (??????, Kingu Gidora) is a fictional monster, or kaiju, which first appeared in Ishirō Honda’s 1964 film Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster. How does the Hydra die? Hercules (who is called “Heracles” in Greek mythology) kills the Hydra as one of his labors. … As soon as Hercules cut off one head, Iolaus would cauterise the wound with a flaming torch so that nothing could grow to replace it. After removing the Hydra immortal head, Hercules buried it under a large rock. Can we see Hydra with naked eyes? It is large enough to be seen with the naked eye, but if you want to see greater detail, place the hydra on a concave slide and view it under a microscope. … You may even be able to see the hydra eat by placing a small organism, such as daphnia or brine shrimp on the slide. Are Hydra dangerous to humans? Although hydra are fairly simple animals, the stinging cells which they use to catch their prey are quite complex structures. … This toxin is too weak to have any effect on humans which happen to touch the tentacles, unlike the toxins from the stinging cells of jellyfish, which can cause painful stings to humans. Do hydras lay eggs? Hydra mostly reproduce asexually by producing buds on the body wall. … They release sperm into water to fertilize eggs of another hydra. Fertilized eggs give rise to tiny planula larvae, which attach themselves and develop into polyps. Who created the Hydra? HYDRA. This monster, like the lion, was the offspring of Typhon and Echidna, and was brought up by Hera. It ravaged the country of Lernae near Argos, and dwelt in a swamp near the well of Amymone: it was formidable by its nine heads, the middle of which was immortal.
PHL100I - Philosophy Antropology Course length 100 minutes / week PHL100I - Philosophy Antropology TBA in every semester About the course Prerequisite courses Course description and learning objectives Student completing this course will be able to explain a philosophical reflection about human beings and philosophical thinking about the nature of human. Topics include 1. Introduction : Authentic human being and essential dimensions of man 2. Man and human motivation 3. Man and consciousness 4. Man determinism and free will 5. Man and truth 6. Man and his desire 7. Man and crime 8. Dark side of human life 9. Man and his body: a phenomonological approach 10. Man and his work: a philosophical reflection 11. Man and people 12. Man and death 13. Conclusion: Authentic human being 14. Epilogue: Man and intimacy, love, and dealing with others 1. Casirer, E., 1962. “An essay on man”, Yale: Yale University Press. 2. Dewey, J., 1925. “Experience and nature”, New York: Dover Publications.
Why is My Basil Flowering? Basil flowering Basil produces purple or white flowers during Summer, if it has not been pruned. Once basil has flowered the leaves and flowers are still edible but the taste is often milder or even bitter. Prevent basil from flowering by pruning the top leaves of the basil every 2 or 3 weeks throughout the Summer. Why Basil Displays Flowers If basil is left to grow then it will produce purple or white flowers (depending in the variety) which look beautiful and are a favourite for bees and pollinating insects as well as for ornamental purposes. However once the basil is flowering, the leaves of the basil tend have less flavour and exude a weaker aroma, so if your growing basil for culinary purposes it is best to prune basil before it forms flowers which will stimulate more growth of the aromatic leaves for cooking. Once basil flowers are spent the basil directs all its energy to producing seeds which you can collect to sow next year (although different basil varieties can cross pollinate so there is no guarantee the seeds will be the same variety of basil to the one you are growing). Is Basil Safe to eat After Flowering? Basil is an edible herb and the leaves are still safe to eat after flowering, although the taste of the leaves can be noticeable milder in taste or even bitter than the usual sweet aromatic taste of younger leaves. The flowers and stems of basil are also safe to eat, however the stems often turn woody and the flavour is impaired, however the flowers have a mild and pleasant taste which are commonly eaten when scattered across salads as garnish or used in pesto. If you are growing basil for culinary purposes it always best prune basil to prevent it flowering, or grow basil from seed in a timed succession (sow basil seeds once every two weeks in the Spring) so you have lots of plants with abundant leaves during the summer. However a well pruned basil can produce tasty leaves all summer if it is watered properly and pruned diligently and remember the tender basil plants die off after the first frost so ensure you use all the leaves before it the plant dies in Winter. (Read my article to learn how to water basil plants properly and if your basil is beginning to wilt read my article for how to save basil plants that are wilting). How to Stop Basil from Flowering (for more edible leaves) Pruning basil regularly, so that it does not exceed a height of around 8 inches is the best way to stimulate new growth of tasty basil leaves and to stop basil from flowering. If basil is pruned regularly the plant is not at risk of becoming leggy and drooping and also pruning the top leaves allows light to the lower leaves which creates a more bushy plant with more abundant leaves. Pruning basil is easy and it does not require any equipment as you can simply pinch and stems off ready for cooking so that they stay fresh. I always pinch off the top two leaves of each stem for a good harvest of leaves and to ensure the light can reach the lower leaves to maximize the productivity of each plant. (To learn how to prevent slugs eating basil, read my article for a method that actually works). During the summer it is best practice to prune your basil once every two weeks to maintain a bushy plant with lots of leaves and to prevent it becoming leggy and displaying flowers. The best time to prune basil is in the morning as this is when the essential oils are concentrated at their strongest. If any flowers are developing simply cut them off with a pair of pruners which redirects the plants energy into producing leaves. For a visual guide to pruning basil to stop it from flowering watch this helpful YouTube video for exactly what to do: Key Takeaways: • Basil produces flowers if they are not pruned regularly. The flowers and leaves are edible and safe to eat. The flowers heads produce seeds which can be collected and grown next years. • Basil leaves often taste mild or bitter after flowering so pruning flower heads is important if you are growing basil leaves for culinary purposes. • Prune basil when it is around 8 inches tall by pinching or pruning the top leaves off the basil. At the height of summer prune every 2-3 weeks to ensure the basil does not flower and to stimulate the growth of leaves. Recent Posts
Oslo's Vikings: Going Down to the Sea in Ships The excavated ships dominate the floor of the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo, but they are not the only artifacts there showing how these people lived and died. Photography by the authors Strange that the Vikings were Europe’s last holdout to Christianity when Psalm 107:23 suggests religion might have given them comfort, as it was possibly addressed to their needs: “They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters … He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.” Insight into the Vikings, however, is better gained in the great nautical exhibit devoted to them in Oslo. It’s known simply as the Viking Ship Museum. It is, of course, more than ships, but they dominate the floors. The Oseberg Ship dramatizes the entry. Built between 815 and 820 A.D., it is the oldest of the three on display although it was the most recently excavated (in 1904). It’s also the best preserved, which is one of the reasons it’s been the most interesting to marine archaeologists. The other reason is that the 72-foot-long ship turned out to have been a royal pleasure craft used as a grave ship for a woman of high rank who died in 834 A.D. All three ships had been plundered by grave robbers in ancient times, but enough was found well preserved on the Oseberg to fascinate researchers. In contrast to the other two ships, which had male corpses, the Oseberg had a woman buried with her female slave and a lot of items the deceased would take into her next life. The items delighted archaeologists: the ship, a carriage, two oxen, four dogs, four sleighs, five animal head poles and 15 horses. The Gokstad mound, when excavated in 1880, revealed the skeleton of a male Viking chief and a 79-foot-long ship that was incredibly sturdy and probably a warship capable of long ocean journeys. A sign at the museum declares that “A ship that has to be bailed [only] three times in two days is fit for any type of sea voyage.” The mound contained the Gokstad ship, a peacock, three smaller boats, six dogs, 12 horses and the remains of 64 shields, which had been attached to the outer railings. The third ship, or rather its remains, is the Tune Ship. Excavated in 1867, the ship was badly damaged and poorly preserved due to inadequate burial. The concept of the Viking Funeral, a burning ship sent out to sea, is more Hollywood than history, although it occasionally did happen. The usual protocol was to place the deceased in a tent-like burial chamber on the ship then bury everything deeply covered with blue clay that kept out air and light, and then cover the whole with many layers of sod that gave further protection. All that said, the Osberg ship commands most interest not only for how it looks — majestic with a neck like a swan — but because of its artifacts and what some have called “its pagan contents.” However, there’s nothing pagan about a 10-gallon cooking pot that’s 1200 years old. Meals on the warships in coastal waters were probably cooked on land. “Along the coast they’d boil their porridge and roast their stolen sheep then sleep on land,” say the guide. “On long ocean voyages they’d eat dried food with the stored water.” Although the grave robbers took any jewelry and gold in the grave, many items, almost all from the Oseberg are still of considerable curiosity and are now displayed in a wing of the museum: a wagon in immaculate condition, wooden animal heads from a tent, a rattle, a riding crop — and two magnificent animal head posts that may have been carried in some type of procession or ceremony. The last photograph has items of interest (sandwiched between our image of a ceremonial Viking sled and the building that houses the Viking displays). The skeletons. The skeletons are small female bones — laid out along the painted shape of a woman’s body — from the Oseberg and the heavier male bones from the Gokstad. The women’s remains were found quickly when the Oseberg was excavated in 1904 and examined by experts in the years that followed. There were academic arguments as to whether the remains should be re-buried or kept for scientific research. In the end they were reburied after World War II in 1948 and excavated again in 2007 to verify that the attempts to keep water out of the original stone sarcophagus had been successful. They had not. Further research suggests the older woman was around 80 and the presumed slave, (originally thought to be about 25) was probably about 50 years old. The bones show how much shorter people were in the past. The younger woman had broken her clavicle a few weeks before she died. The older woman had osteoporosis, compression fractures of the lumbar vertebrae and two fused neck vertebrae. A knee meniscus had been injured and her skull frontal bone was thickened presumably, say the medical researchers, due to Morgagni’s syndrome. She had bone metastases. which “make her the oldest cancer registration patient in Norway.” It was hoped that DNA studies could tell if the two women were related and whether the male chieftain from the Gokstad was a member of the same family, but it seemed that all the skeletons had little of the original DNA left in them or more likely there had been some pollution from earlier handling. The museum hopes that future element and isotope studies may give more information. More can be determined about the Gokstad man. He appears to be about 40 and was 5 foot 11 inches. In the skull the sella tursica is flattened and the double-sized bones suggest he was acromegalic. How did he die? He was killed! His lower limbs show three cutting injuries. One, probably a sword stoke, cut the inside of his left knee, another severed his right tibia and the third strike, a stabbing injury in the right inside thigh, probably made him bleed to death from the femoral artery. The bones show no healing. He probably died in battle. Of further interest is the significant degree of degenerative arthritis of the knee and greater trochanter of the femur. Those appearances have nothing to do with the time span his remains spent in the soil; elsewhere the bones are pristine. If we go from Psalm 107 to the poet John Masefield, he got it right about those mariners: “I must go down to the seas again,” he wrote, “To the lonely sea and the sky…” Except in his poem he says was going “down to the seas again to the vagrant gypsy life,” and the Vikings may have been aggressive farmers who ran out of land but they were vagrants! The Man Who Cried Orange: Stories from a Doctor's Life.
A new method could predict the distance in time between when an individual is diagnosed with Alzheimer's to when they will need extensive assistance. It could also estimate their longevity. Researcher's developed the method by observing 254 Alzheimer's patients over the course of 10 years, a Columbia University Medical Center news release reported. "Until now, some methods of predicting the course of Alzheimer's have required data not obtained in routine clinical practice, such as specific neuropsychological or other measurements, and have been relatively inaccurate. This method is more practical for routine use," Nikolaos Scarmeas, a study co-author and associate professor of neurology, in the Taub Institute and the Sergievsky Center, said. "It may become a valuable tool for both physicians and patients' families." So what benefits could come from putting an expiration date on an Alzheimer's patient? "Families will be able to make financial and logistical plans for caring for their loved one with Alzheimer's disease. Furthermore, the new method may be used in clinical trials-to ensure that patient cohorts are balanced between those with faster-progressing Alzheimer's and those with slower-progressing disease-and by health economists to predict the economic impact of Alzheimer's disease," senior author Yaakov Stern, PhD, professor of neuropsychology at CUMC, told Headlines and Global News in an e-mail. The method is based on a Longitudinal Grade of Membership (L-GoM) model, which takes 16 variables (such as the ability to participate in everyday acitivities) into account. The method could allow researchers to make these predictions after only one visit. "The benefit of the L-GoM model is that it takes into account the complexity of Alzheimer's disease. Patients don't typically fall neatly into mild, moderate, or severe disease categories. For example, a patient may be able to live independently yet have hallucinations or behavioral outbursts," Yaakov said in the news release. "Our method is flexible enough to handle missing data. Not all 16 variables are needed for accurate predictions-just as many as are available." The test was able to accurately predict when two patients would die; one passed away after three years, the other survived for 10. "In addition to time to nursing home residence or death, our method can be used to predict time to assisted living or other levels of care, such as needing help with eating or dressing, or time to incontinence," first author Ray Razlighi, assistant professor of neurology at CUMC and adjunct assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia University, said.
Monday, December 17, 2012 Principles of Testing - Software Testing Principles Testing is a process to expose hidden defects. It is detecting errors and deviations from specification. It is verifying that a system satisfies its specified requirements or not. Here discuss principles of testing. Software Testing Principles Seven General principles of Software testing Principle 1. Exhaustive Input Testing Exhaustive input testing means test all possible input condition as test cases. Test for all valid and invalid input conditions. But it is impossible to test a system for all input test cases. Principle 2. Testing is creative and difficult Second principle of testing is "testing is creative and difficult". Yes it requires creativity. It requires extensive domain knowledge. It also requires good testing methodology. Principle 3. Prevention of defects It is a procedure to fixing errors. If we find defects in early stages of development then its cost of fixing is less. Cost of fixing of any defect is too higher in later stages. So it's better to go with preventive approach. Principle 4. Testing is risk based Testing is risk based process. A risk is a loss associated with an event. Risk can be economical. Suppose I try to test one module of system. I got some defects. I solved defects but due to modification some more defects appear in same module or other modules. So it is risky process. Sometime it increases the cost of testing. Principle 5. Testing must be planned Test planning is essential. Test Planning helps to solve many problems in system. Test plan covers points like requirement of testing, test priority, cost of testing, test team, test strategy, test tools etc. These factors effect on testing. Principle 6. Testing requires independence Testing must be unbiased. Unbiased testing is essential to objectively test quality of software. If testing is done by same developer who develop it then it may be biased. Developer can be an emotional attachment with its development. Developer who has to test his or her program parts will tend to be too optimistic. Chances of “blindness to their own errors”. So require to testing done by other than developer to make unbiased. Principle 7. Provide expected results It is important principle of testing. Test is done to check system is fulfilling user requirement or not. System must provide expected results. Testing checks that system pre defined specifications achieved or not.
opinion: bicycle registration is not the answer for bad behaviour what can governments do to make cycling safer? - small metal plate by：ShunDing 2019-12-10 Let's face it: it's easy to blame a cyclist. They get a lot of bad news. They are a minority. A group, not a group. group. However, we need to study the basic problems here. Most cyclists need to monitor more closely whether the cyclists violate the rules of the road. From October 2008 to April 2009, the Amy Gillette Foundation and Monash College used ten in the metropolitan of Melbourne. They found that only 6 of the 4,225 riders facing the red light. 9% didn’t stop. The vast majority of people who violate the rules just turn left. Will Registration reduce this ratio? Registering a bike can create more problems than fixing it. The cost of the state will far exceed its income. The police resources required to carry out the bicycle registration program are simply not worth the ability to impose fines on a small number of people who have poor cycling behaviour. When pedestrians or cyclists violate safety road rules, they are most likely to hurt themselves, not others. Pedestrians crossing the road or riding bicycles on shared roads too fast, the loss to society is insignificant compared with two tons of metal, rubber and plastic speeding through red lights or parking signs can be done. Bicycle registration will be a powerful suppression of cycling. Governments at all levels in Australia have plans and goals to improve cycling because of health, environment and congestion -- Reduce benefits. Everyone benefits when people move from driving to cycling. However, bicycle registration may stop (30- 40% of riders stopped riding bicycles when introduced). Then, there are countless problems in establishing a bicycle registration plan. Did you register the rider ( Who could have multiple bikes) How about a bike or a children's bike? Road mountain bikes not used in the RoadIf bike registration fee are based on the same principal as the car registration fee, almost $ zero. Vehicle registration used to be based on the weight of the vehicle, so the vehicle caused damage to the road. Trucks are more expensive than cars and cars are more expensive than motorcycles. The bike is small in weight and will not cause damage to the road. In any case, most cyclists (80%) Driving license or tax payment with partial contribution of road funds ( As we all know, registration fees are not directly used for road funds: like almost all taxes, they are used for central revenue and are distributed as needed). Some believe that bicycle registration will provide insurance for cyclists or third-party insurance in the event of a crash. At least in Victoria because of any motor vehicle accident. Members of the Australian cycling organization can also get insurance and can easily be included in other types of insurance programs. If the bike registration changes the driver's behavior in a legal way, then I will go all out. However, I can't see small metal plates with some numbers on them that slow down impatient drivers and help drivers "see" bikes on the road, or influence drivers in any meaningful way, make the bike safer. Instead of registering, politicians and bike groups need to do more to promote emphasis on respecting the presence of all road users. The bike shop should take these out whenever someone buys a bike to strengthen good behavior. Activities like "" can help support social norms about how all road users need to slow down and respect each other. Making more laws rarely solves social problems like interactions between different road users. This is not a question of legitimacy: it is a question of etiquette, awareness and mutual respect. Custom message Chat Online Chat Online Chat Online inputting... Sign in with:
The NCSDR has helped to answer the question: How does sleep impact health? Over the last few decades, we’ve seen a tremendous uptick in sleep research. Many of the clinical investigations that have advanced the medical world’s understanding of sleep have been supported by the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research (NCSDR), established to foster sleep and circadian research within the National Institutes of Health (NIH). A part of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the center is just now celebrating its 25th anniversary, but its accomplishments are wide reaching for such a young government agency. Since the center’s inception in 1993, the number of sleep and circadian grants funded across the NIH has nearly tripled, says Michael Twery, PhD, the NCSDR’s director. “The progress has been nothing short of remarkable,” says Patrick M. Fuller, PhD, associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School. To honor the 25th anniversary of the NCSDR, Fuller will take part in a discussion group during SLEEP 2019, an annual conference hosted in partnership with the Sleep Research Society and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine that brings together clinical investigators from across the country. This year the meeting will take place in San Antonio. Several leaders in the field, including the current director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Gary H. Gibbons, will discuss the accomplishments of the NCSDR and the future of research in sleep medicine. “I think now looking forward, the next 25 years of the center are going to be exciting times. The field is maturing. We are utilizing a lot of fantastic tools of modern science to literally improve the lives of millions,” says Fuller. At the heart of the NCSDR’s work is the big question of how sleep affects human health. Since the center’s founding, it has supported dozens of sleep epidemiology initiatives to investigate the connection between sleep and comorbidities, including Alzheimer’s disease and diabetes. The center is currently administering studies into how sleep can influence the use of opioids and how sleep impacts the HIV virus. One of the most notable initiatives administered by the center is the Sleep Heart Health Study, a multi-center cohort study to determine the cardiovascular and other consequences of sleep-disordered breathing. The researchers tested whether sleep-related breathing is associated with an increased risk of coronary heart disease, stroke, and hypertension. Thanks in part to the NCSDR’s support, we now know about the far-reaching cardiovascular implications of sleep apnea. “The center has been a major contributor to the progress of the field,” says Fuller. “Since the inception of the center, there’s been major advances in clinical research and these have led to really dramatic improvements in patient care.” Another initiative supported by the NCSDR, The Wisconsin Sleep Cohort collects longitudinal data on sleep apnea patients. It has followed over 1,000 people to observe what happens to people with sleep apnea over time. It was also one of the first prospective epidemiology studies to find a connection between disrupted sleep and cancer and between drowsy driving and motor vehicle accidents, says Twery. It’s clear that the NCSDR has already made a huge impact on the discipline of sleep medicine, but Twery says researchers still have plenty of work to do. “Even with all the things that we know. We know that genes are regulating the circadian clock. We know that those genes are regulating gene expression in every cell of the body. And we know from epidemiology what happens when you have insufficient sleep or poor quality sleep or irregular sleep schedules, but we have just scratched the surface of those relationships.” “The science says that if we disturb this genomic genetic program, in almost every tissue where it has been studied, it is associated with things not working very well in the cell—it is associated with the risk of disease. But how rigorously do these relationships need to be protected to protect our health?” Lisa Spear is the associate editor of Sleep Review.
I adjectives: 1. working on grammar material and vocabulary 1. Develop their reading, uniting and speaking habits and skills Enlarge their word – stock 1. Bring up their interests by doing several exercises Language: The game “The Golden Gate” Material Ex 4, 7 p 75 Lesson procedure. 1. Organization moment Greeting with the pupils 1. Doing the following tasks. Today, pupils our lesson will be unusual, because we’ll play the game “The Golden Gate”. Do you know this game? Have you ever heard? It has three doors and the golden box. (Magic box). And our theme we’ll be about adjectives mainly about degrees of adjectives. How many degrees do you know? Three degrees of adjectives: positive, comparative, superlative. Now, let’s remember. We use suffixes: er — the est. more, the most, better the best, worse, the worst. But before beginning our lesson let’s take our today’s lesson’s slogan. Good, better, best Never, never rest Till your good is better And your better best. Let’s read all together. By the way it’s also the slogan of English pupils. Now, we’ve taken our slogan and I wish you good luck. Let’s begin. Look at the blackboard. The first of door is a stone door. It has some tasks, if we do we’ll the door will open. Task 1. Write comparative degree of adjectives. Big – noisy – beautiful – good – Nice — short — interesting — bad – Task 2. Complete the table. Positive Comparative Superlative 1.1.more interesting1. 2.2.2.the best 4. old4.4. 5. 5.5.the tallest Task 3. Complete sentences using comparative and superlative form of adjectives. Big, tall, cold, large, popular 1. Bob’s garden isn’t very big. Your garden is _____ than Bob’s (bigger) 2. It was a very cold day. It was _____ of the year. (The coldest) 3. You aren’t very tall. Your brother is _____ than you. (Taller) 4. Britain isn’t very large. France is _____ than Britain. (Large) 5. Sydney is a very popular city. It’s _____ in Australia. (The largest) We’ve opened the stone door. III. 1. There is a silver door. Now let’s do the tasks. Write sentences with the superlative and comparative Sea train 1. Large ocean Fast plane Lake Bicycle City cinema 1. Big village 4. Popular TV Town theatre 1. The next task. Answer the questions (orally) Most dangerous sport 1. Which is the best food in your country? The highest mountain Best singer 1. Who is the most popular writer in your country? Best actor Task 4. Write about your classmates. 1. Who is the best pupil in your class? 2. Who has got the longest hair? 3. Who is the tallest pupil? 4. Who is the shortest pupil? 5. Who is the cleverest pupil? Our door opened. Are you tired? I want to give you riddles. 1. I am gray. My tail is long. My nose is short. I am very little (mouse) 2. I am the biggest. I am gray. My nose is the longest. My tail is short. (An elephant) 3. I have got the longest. Gut short tail. I am the tallest. (Giraffe) Are you ready to do the next task? There is a golden door. Let’s see the first task. Of it. Task 1. Ex 6 p 72. Let’s read. Dialogue between lion, mother lion and out. Let write adjectives from the dialogue. Positive Comparative Superlative 1. beautiful 2. strong 3. fast 4. good 5. clever Now; let’s speak about this dialogue… 1. Do you think the little lion is right? 2. Does littler lion understand what out says? 3. When animal do you think is the strongest, fastest, best? Pupil does this proverb suit in this situation? Better late than neverлучше поздно, чем никогда – ештен кеш жақсы Never later to know. Remember never say as little lion. — Pupils, here are some proverbs with adjectives. 1. Good health is better than wealth. 2. Two heads are better than one. 3. Fast or west home is best. Let’s translate. Task 2. I want to give you pictures of animals. Describe them using adjectives. Task 3. “The world of colours”. It’s not a simple poem. It’s also. 1. We’ve opened the golden door. There is a magic box. Let’s see. Here is your home work. Here are your marks. Gold, silver stones. Present song. Home task: Ex 4, 6 p 75. Make story, using proverb
A precinct is an area of town marked off for official purposes, often to vote, or to organize the police force. When a cop hears of a crime that's happening in her precinct, she knows to hop in her car and head over there. The word precinct comes from the Latin precinctum meaning "enclosure, boundary line." A precinct is an area that has a clear boundary line around it, making it easier for the police to know where a crime is taking place, or where you should go to vote. The word precinct has also come to mean police headquarters in a particular district. If you're being held at the precinct, you're at the police station local to where you committed your crime. Definitions of precinct 1. noun a district of a city or town marked out for administrative purposes see moresee less police precinct a precinct in which law enforcement is the responsibility of particular police force election district, voting precinct type of: city district a district of a town or city Word Family
An update on our water environment. Some of you might have smelled something unusual when visiting our neighbourhood over the past few weeks. You may have even seen our waters transformed into an interesting light-green colour. Together with the Two Oceans Aquarium, we are working hard to support our eco-system and bring it back into balance. Here is the background story: WHAT CAUSED THIS? A huge number of maasbanker/horse mackerel, found dead in our marine and harbour basins, were one part of the cause for the smell and colour change. It is suspected – but we cannot know for sure – that these fish were chased into the basin by whales that were spotted behind the shoal. WHAT ELSE HAPPENED? The event coincided with an algal bloom, unusually low wind conditions and a neap tide. WHAT IS AN ALGAL BLOOM? When there is too much algae in an area, it consumes too much oxygen, which actually leads to some of it dying because it cannot get enough oxygen. Because algae is important for the ocean, and produces oxygen for other sea creatures, when it dies and oxygen levels decrease, fish are no longer able to breathe, so they start dying. HOW DOES THE SMELL OCCUR? When the dead fish start to decompose, they remove even more oxygen from the water. Good bacteria is replaced by another bacteria that survives in very low-oxygen environments and this starts a process that releases hydrogen sulphide. That’s the unpleasant odour you smell. It also changes the colour of the water. WHAT ACTION IS BEING TAKEN? We are restoring oxygen levels to the basin through an aeration process that will increase water movement and oxygen content. It is an environmentally friendly technique, closely monitored by marine biologists, that will provide a rejuvenated environment in which natural systems can flourish.
You have the data - now how to improve it OK, you have looked at the numbers and can see that things need to change: here are some targets and strategies to get started with on a project which aims to Make Learning Better: Crucially, we are still working on the interrelationships with these variables: for example if light is too low AND it's too hot is there a multiplier effect and what is the magnitude? Three big changes are very easy to implement: If you haven't yet got hold of a Learnometer, mobile phones make very accurate lux meters with lots of (mainly free) apps to allow your students to survey the school for the best learning spaces. Phones can measure light and sound particularly well. 136 lux is very very poor! This sounds easy - cut the heating, open the windows, etc. But in practice it is initially hard to convince the students ("Can I keep my coat on?" (No) and so on). If you don't have a Learnometer yet, the simplest measure is a cheap plastic garden max - min thermometer. Label it with "good learning" for the scale 18-21°C and "not good" for the temperatures outside of this range... Humidity may be tougher; keeping between 40% and 60% may partly be the result of where you live. But there are a couple of things that help: Of course, proper acoustic modelling and sound absorbing panels are ideal, but in the absence of these many other ideas are effective too: Hanging umbrellas from the ceiling upside down (each student brings and decorates their own - use white canopies to help light levels). Then fill the umbrellas with fibreglass wool ("rockwool") of the kind ceilings were once insulated with. One tech / science project later and you will have quantified the sound changes. Or even simpler, fix an old tablet, perhaps an out-of-date iPad or phone, to the wall (Velcro pads), leave a power supply connected and run one of the many decibel metering apps, saying to the students, simply, "In this corner we expect sounds below 70db" and then then ask the children to monitor the screen. You could select daily Sound Monitor students (below, at Hargrave Park) - to remind their peers when the numbers go above that. Usually, they will have already noted the numbers and hushed each other - it's all about protocols, agency and expectations. Carbon Dioxide is a heavy gas. Opening windows and doors helps, but it is much more effective if air is moved around too. A closed room full of breathing students quickly (within 30 mins often) fills with CO2, even more so in exam halls. In these graphs (below) you can clearly see the difference between no windows or doors open (the steep upper line), just windows open (the middle 2 lines - CO2 "pools" below window sill height) and windows plus door open (the "safe" lowest line): However, as well as ventilation, we can use plants to absorb CO2 and add Oxygen. The best plants do this very well - we have a list of the best - and we have a lot of detail about plants mediating high levels of CO2. See https://heppell.net/byop (bring your own plant) As we observe elsewhere, if you are in a high pollution location, then it is unlikely that relocating a school will be possible. However, one positive change can be to pass a portable polution meter around parents - many of these generate map readings / routes as they are carried around. This allows you to map and recommend the lowest pollution routes walking to school - perhaps avoiding walking alongside a major road for example, or re-routing through the park, if there is one. Since the pandemic began, we have seen some alarmingly high TVOC readings. These are almost always the result of over aggresive cleaning materials and the high levels of TVOC resulting are damaging to the children. As one Learnometer school commented:: "we have cleaned the rooms but brainwashed the kids!" The answer is to audit your cleaning materials. For CoVID, soap based washing with warm water if probably good enough. Air filtration equipment is available and because it is much used in the health service, really quite affordaable. We are evaluating this and will post here when we have findings.. all rights reserved - patents pending this page created February 2014, last modified Wednesday, May 26, 2021 12:06 PM
Article Display Email \| My Account \| Donate There's something called a "scarlet thread" that runs throughout the whole Bible. It's a term we use to show that from Genesis (the first book in the Bible) to Revelation. The blood of Jesus can be seen through the different stories and symbols they contain. Scarlet is a deep, red color. It's the color of blood. The idea of the "scarlet thread" comes from a story in the Bible about a woman named Rahab who lived in the city of Jericho (Joshua 2). Rahab was a woman who lived in a wicked nation which served many false gods. Because of this, the Most High God was going to destroy her nation using His chosen people, the Israelites. Two Israelite men went to spy on Rahab's nation, looking for ways to destroy them. They hid in Rahab's house while doing their spy work. Rahab knew about their God, and knew He had the power to destroy her nation for their sins. She also knew God would use the Israelites to do it because they had won many other battles against other nations. So she made the spies promise when they came back to defeat her people, they would not kill her or her family because she had been kind to them and kept them safe in her house. The two Israelite spies made the promise. But it had a condition on it. The condition was she had to hang a scarlet rope out the window of her house so the Israeli army would know which house was hers. They also said she and her whole family had to stay inside her house until the war was over so they wouldn't get hurt. They promised as long as the rope was there, everyone inside would be safe. So Rahab hung the rope out her window. No one in her nation knew what the rope was for. But she and the Israelites did. The scarlet color of the rope represented blood. As long as the blood colored rope was there, they would be saved. This has become a symbol of the blood of Jesus, which saves us from destruction from eternity in hell. In every book of the Bible we find other symbols of the blood and it's power. That's why we say there is a scarlet thread running through the Bible. Source: School Of The Bible Part 2: The Blood of Jesus, p. 19 by Becky Fischer Excerpt permission granted by Kids In Ministry International Author Biography Becky Fischer Web site: Kids In Ministry International Becky Fischer is the founder and director of Kids in Ministry International (KIMI), a multi-faceted ministry that trains children to walk in the supernatural power of God and equips adults to work with children in the same way. Becky, who served as a children's pastor for ten years prior to starting KIMI, received Jesus as her Savior and the infilling of the Holy Spirit at an early age. She knows first-hand that children can be touched and used by God and recognized early in her ministry career that children are hungry for a supernatural encounter with the Holy Spirit. About Us Support Us Why support cfaith? (All contributions are 100% tax deductible) For every Internet search you make using goodsearch, cfaith will receive one penny! GS Logo 250x38 Contact Us Business Hours: Monday—Friday: 9 a.m.—5 p.m. CST Saturday & Sunday: Closed Mailing Address: 9201 75th Avenue North Brooklyn Park, MN 55428 Login Form Login Change Article
Circular Construction Initiative The massive urban growth in countries like Indonesia is for a very large part taking place within unplanned settlements, developed by communities who construct their own homes. Unlike the traditional vernacular building culture of rural communities, which relates holistically to the climate and the environment, the self-built construction industry nowadays follows the take, make and waste principles of the linear economy. Popular materials like concrete, steel and bricks are extracted from the earth without a proper plan to restore the damage being done to the environment. Current solutions for water and energy provision don’t make use of available climatic opportunities. With our project, the Circular Construction Initiative, we aim to stimulate circular ways of constructing homes, workplaces and neighbourhoods. By educating local craftsmen and by jointly developing a circular construction industry for self-built communities we aim to close the loop for resources (water, energy and materials) on a local/regional scale. Circular Water Strategies for Self-Built Urban Settlements Large scale industrialisation of the textile manufacturing sector since the 1980’s led to an explosive growth of self built urban settlements in the Bandung River Basin. Rural villages transformed overnight into highly polluted and unhealthy live-work environments, into so-called industrial kampungs. Urban utility networks, like piped water and sewage systems, are inadequate to support this development, resulting in illegal extraction of groundwater resources, dumping of (sewage-) waste into surface water, high costs for bottled water and ecological degradation. In this unplanned high density industrial context there is a need and potential for a collective off-the-grid circular water system that benefits communities, industries and governments while acting as a driver for spatial quality and well-being. By closely analysing the status quo and valuable historical examples of water cycles we aim to jointly re-think and co-design innovative low-tech interventions for harvesting, purifying and distributing water in a community-based circular way.
Italy > La Spezia La Spezia La Spezia, at the head of the Gulf of La Spezia in the Liguria region of Northern Italy, is the capital city of the province of La Spezia. In terms of population, La Spezia is the second city in the Liguria region, preceded just by Genoa. Located midway between Genoa and Pisa on the Ligurian Sea, it is one of the main Italian military and commercial harbours and hosts the arsenal of the Italian Navy. It is important for its museums, for the Palio del Golfo, and for the railway and boat links with Cinque Terre. The area of La Spezia has been settled since pre-historic times. In Roman times the most important centre was Luni, now located in the vicinity of Sarzana (city near La Spezia). Being the capital of the short-lived Niccolò Fieschi Signoria in the period between 1256 and 1273, inevitably linked with the Genoese vicissitudes until the fall of the Republic of Genoa, it grew and changed to develop following the lines of the Ligurian capital. In fact, this Ligurian influence still is visible in the urban layout as well as in the types of buildings and decorations. It can be seen by going along the carrugio, the narrow street dividing the Old Town into two, called Via del Prione taking its name from a pietrone or large stone, in local dialect in fact prione, from where public announcements were read. Going up from the sea it is possible to see partly hidden, but evident traces of history: engraved stones, capitals, and portals in fourteenth century sandstone, double lancet windows vaguely reminiscent of the future renaissance style, mannerism and baroque pediments, and decorations similar to those adorning the portals of the palaces once belonging to the Doria family and the Princes of Massa. La Spezia developed substantially after 1861 when the great naval arsenal there was commissioned by the Royal government. In September 1943 after the Italian capitulation to the Allies, it was the departure port for the Italian Navy when it was ordered to steam into British hands at Malta. The Germans arrived too late to stop the departure of the fleet, so they summarily executed the remaining Italian captains. During the war Italian troopships also left from La Spezia, including the Kaiser Franz Josef, a trans-Atlantic liner launched in Trieste in 1911 for the Austrian Lloyd company, and which Italy had confiscated in 1919. It was sunk in the harbour in La Spezia in 1944. After the liberation, La Spezia became the point of departure for the survivors from the Nazi concentration camps. From the summer of 1945 to the spring of 1948 more than 23,000 Jewish displaced persons managed to leave Italy clandestinely for Mandate Palestine. After lengthy vicissitudes, the ships Fede, Fenice, and Komemiut managed to evacuate everyone from the Spezia gulf, to the point that on Israeli geographical maps, La Spezia is called Shàar Zion (Hebrew: Gateway to Zion). Main sights La Spezia has a borderline humid subtropical (Cfa) and Mediterranean climate (Csa), since only one month receives less than 40 millimetres (1.6 in). The city enjoys hot summers, chilly damp winters and very changeable and rainy autumns and springs. The average temperatures of the coldest month (January) are 4 °C (39 °F) minimum and 11 °C (52 °F) maximum. In the hottest month (July) they are 20 °C (68 °F) minimum and 29 °C (84 °F) maximum. Average annual precipitation is 1,314 millimetres (51.7 in), more than twice that in London. Snow is uncommon, with only one snowfall per year on average. Heavy snowfalls are exceptional events: only in 1985 a snowfall of more than 50 centimetres (20 in) has been recorded. Another big snowfall occurred during the night of 18 December 2009, with approximately 25 centimetres (9.8 in) of snow and temperatures as low as −7.4 °C (18.7 °F) in the following nights. In winter nights, if the sky is clear, the temperatures may fall below zero, usually reaching about −2 to −4 °C (28 to 25 °F). Conversely, in summer, especially during sunny days, the temperature can easily exceed 30 °C (86 °F), and sometimes it reaches 35 °C (95 °F). Furthermore, the sensation of heat in summer is increased by the high humidity. For the conformation of the territory the city is not exposed to the winds from the north, which lap western Liguria, but to those from the southeast. These winds bring heavy rain and they can reach 80 kilometres per hour (50 mph), causing in some cases the blocking of the port. The only northern wind reaching the city is the north-eastern Grecale, common during arctic air outbreaks, when the cold air flowing over the warmer Tyrrhenian sea triggers the formation of low pressures, draining the colder and heavier air trapped in the Po Valley, behind the Apennine Mountains. Today, La Spezia is the chief Italian naval station and arsenal and it is the seat of a navigation school. It also is a commercial port, with shipyards and industries producing machinery, metal products, and refined petroleum. Since 2002 La Spezia is headquarters of a university named G. Marconi. Alphabetical Index of Pages \| Hierarchical Index of Pages
What's an F1 car made of? Not my cup of cake Valued Member Back in the day F1 cars were made from materials like steel, aluminium and fibre glass. Then along came John Barnard and the world of composite materials was upon us. But today, FB took a trip to the NEC to visit an exhibition about injection moulding :yawn: Luckily, next door was another hall called MM, MEMS and Nano live UK. What is all this about you may ask. Well, this was a show about micro engineering and prototyping (I have a use for such companies in my day job). As I wandered around many of the prototyping companies admitted to making parts for F1 teams. These included people who make 1/2 scale models of parts for wind tunnel testing and included on their display a wing end plate from a Red Bull and a vent with a turning vane from an '05 Renault. Not really much of a surprise, although the method used to make these involves using 3D printers and lasers fired into pots of resin. 3D printers, or stereo lithography (SLA) is really cool, it builds up layers of resin 0.5mm thick until you have model of the part. SLS (selective laser sintering) involves firing a laser into the resin which then forms the part. Model making is nothing new, cars run in wind tunnels have been models for years, although previously an engineer and model maker would often have made them by hand from lumps of plastic, wood, metal and clay. But because F1 cars are prototypes they now make parts for the cars using these methods. So, for example, SLS can be used to form metal parts in hours which would have taken days by old fashioned machining methods and they can control the density and hardness of the part by the metals used in suspension and how the laser forms them. SLS parts can also include ceramics which make them strong (albeit quite brittle), light and heat resistant. So FB finds himself at a stand which does vacuum metalising. These guys take parts which have been made on SLS machines and then coat them with a 100 micron thick layer of metal which considerably increases their strength. So when you see what looks like a metal part on an F1 car there's a strong chances it probably isn't. These pieces sometimes only last one race. SLA and SLA are also used to make the moulds the teams use to form the carbon fibre parts as these are often one off's. The mould is formed and then the carbon fibre is manually laid up into the mould before goign off to be cured. The speed that different shape mould scan be made takes hours via SLA so the teams can make minute variations in parts and then test them to death (seriously, they are often tested to destruction). A seriously fascinating day. Hopefully I will be able to use some of these companies and if I do I'll try and find out more. BTW, one of the companies I deal with built a full scale model of the Red Bull X1. I asked if I could have it for the garden and they said no :( Podium Finisher Yeah, rapid prototyping is really advanced these days - and as you say well up to the stage where can legitimately shake off the 'prototyping' moniker. I've had a few simple things I'd designed in my previous job made up like this (3D printing in this case), and it's so cool to have the virtual model you've imagined and designed arrive in physical form. The really cool thing for me is that you can create components and assemblies that would be physically impossible to assemble from individual parts. (The classic example is a one piece cage containing some balls which are too large to get though any of the holes.) At the more home-made end of things, have you ever come across reprap? I need to get myself a workshop... Not my cup of cake Valued Member For all you sad, techy people Lotus (or Team Enstone if you will) will be participating at the TCT Exhibition and Conference on 1st October: 3D Printing & Additive Manufacturing Conference @ TCT Show Here's what they will be discussing: The technical demands, production rate and pace of innovation in aerospace and motorsport make those industries fertile ground for development of new materials for additive manufacturing. Working together with technology supplier ALM, engineers from Boeing and Lotus F1 Team collaborated on the development of a family of isotropicaly reinforced thermoplastic materials for the laser sintering process. We invited the team to describe the new materials, how they were developed collaboratively and some of their applications. Not my cup of cake Valued Member Wasn't sure quite where to put this so here will do. Indy car are going to use LED numbers, in the same way the WEC does. Anyone else think F1 should adopt this? LED display panels to debut at Mid-Ohio Champion Elect Good idea. Nice to know the running order when you're watching track-side, though I suspect most spectators have access to a radio/online/trackside screen. Exulted Lord High Moderator of the Apex Staff Member Premium Contributor the running order may just as well be Mercedes then everyone else but in principle it's not a bad idea even if it was just used to clearly display the car number. Top Bottom
According to Tom Murse, a US politics expert, the expression swing state has two different denotations: • 1) The most popular use of swing state is to describe one in which the popular vote margin in a presidential race is relatively narrow and fluid, meaning that either a Republican or Democrat could win the state's electoral votes in any given election cycle. and also: • 2) Others define swing states, however, as those that could be the tipping point in a presidential election. • For example, Nate Silver, a widely read political journalist writing on The New York Times blog FiveThirtyEight, defined the term swing state this way: "When I employ the term, I mean a state that could swing the outcome of the election. That is, if the state changed hands, the victor in the Electoral College would change as well." Ngram shows usage of the expression "swing state" from the '50s. The earliest example I could find is from the Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of 1953 from which it appears that the term was already in usage: • Finally I would like to say that we are a swing state. We are a swing state perhaps historically because the Republican and Democratic parties in this state have for some years now begun to build local political clubs in order to perform the... When, or during which U.S. elections was the expression coined? Which of the two denotations suggested above referred the original meaning of the expression? • 1 I'd check the OED to begin to answer your question. I am just a poor American colonialist, but anybody in the UK with a library card has on-line access. – Michael Owen Sartin Jul 19 '16 at 8:07 • @MichaelOwenSartin - that's why I asked here. – user66974 Jul 19 '16 at 8:34 The two meanings are not distinct -- to be a "tipping point" a state must have both attributes. In the vast majority of elections a state such as North Dakota has so few electoral votes that it's of little consequence whether it "swings" one way or the other. A state such as Ohio, on the other hand, has a substantial number of electoral votes -- enough to "swing" many elections -- and it also often has a relatively close popular vote. As to when the term became popular, the earliest valid occurrence that Ngram finds is 1953. Normally one would guess such a term had rattled around for a dozen or so years prior, but a lot of new political terminology came about post-WWII, so likely the term was not more than a few years old then. The term "swing state" comes into play only in relatively close elections like those that have taken place for most of the 21st century. It was not an issue in the 1952 election for instance (Eisenhower won by a large margin), but may have been an issue in the 1948 election (Truman won convincingly overall, but won California, Ohio and Illinois by less than one percentage point each). Before that, you need to go back to 1916 to find an election close enough for "swing states," and before that, to the 1890s. The term "swing state" may go back to the period immediately after the Civil War. That's when party loyalties split along North-South lines. At that time, the 11 former Confederate states (the "Solid" south), tended to vote for Democratic Presidential candidates. To a certain extent, this was also true of the "border" states. On the other hand, the Union states (minus most border states), tended to vote for Republican candidates. From 1860-1932, the only Democrats (other than Woodrow Wilson who benefited from the 1912 Republican party split), who had a chance to win the Presidency, were the current or former governors of New York. That's because New York was the state with the largest number of electoral votes. The North's demographic advantage notwithstanding, if the "tristates" of New York, Connecticut and New Jersey were removed from the Republican total and added to the southern states as defined in the first paragraph, the Democratic candidate could win. Grover Cleveland did this in 1884 and 1892, losing New York state and the election in 1888. This fact made New York (and the other two) "swing states." More to the point, this phenomenon may have been noticed in 1888, when the successive swings of New York decided the second of two back-to-back elections. Most of the other states were then reliably Democratic or Republican, and were not "swing states." In 1876, New York's Governor Samuel Tilden won the South plus the New York tri-states, minus Louisiana, South Carolina and Florida, which became "swing states" the other way; and lost the election by one electoral vote, 185-184 to Rutherford B. Hayes. Governor Al Smith could not carry the tri-states in 1928 and won only a handful of southern states. Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York beat Herbert Hoover in a landslide, but that's another story. Nowadays the "swing states" have two characteristics: They could go either into the Republican or Democratic column, and they are large enough in terms of electoral votes to make a difference. An example is Virginia, with 14 electoral votes, usually Republican, but went for Obama in 2008 and 2012. Pennsylvania and New Jersey may be considered "swing states" in the other direction. Although "large," Texas is not considered a swing state because it is solidly Republican; New York is considered solidly Democrat. • You fail to provide any evidence that the term "swing state" was used prior to the 1950s. – Hot Licks Jul 23 '16 at 16:14 • @HotLicks: From the wiki link, "The swing states of Ohio, Connecticut, Indiana, New Jersey and New York were key to the outcome of the 1888 election." – Tom Au Jul 23 '16 at 16:17 • 1 But that's simply the article's author applying the term, as currently defined, to those states. It does not in any way imply that they were referred to "swing states" in 1888. – Hot Licks Jul 23 '16 at 16:18 Your Answer
Can I use henna with homeopathic medicines? Henna: Harmful or Safe? Even the ancient Egyptians knew henna as a vegetable dye and used it to dye their hair, nails and fingers. Even today, henna is used in cosmetics - primarily for dyeing hair. In other countries and cultures, such as India, people often use henna on special occasions, for example at a wedding: They then decorate their hands with ornate, often symbolically or ritually significant ornaments (mehndi painting). With us you can now have henna tattoos or paint them yourself on your skin using stencils. Holidaymakers get a taste for it every now and then at the resort and let themselves be seduced into a cheap henna tattoo. Advantages of so-called temporary tattoos, also known as body painting: Unlike normal tattoos, no colors are stabbed into the skin, which means there is no risk of infection or pain. And the tattoo fades as soon as the top layer of skin has completely renewed. What is henna Henna is a red-yellow dye made from the leaves of the henna bush (Lawsonia inermis) is won. The Lawson pigment, which is responsible for the characteristic color, is an essential component of henna. The dye is obtained by drying the leaves of the plant and grinding them into a powder. Man-made henna: Prohibited in cosmetics In the meantime, henna can also be produced artificially. "Chemically reproduced henna dye is forbidden in cosmetic products," says Dr. Annegret Blume, who heads the Commission for Cosmetic Products at the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR). "It cannot be ruled out that it has genotoxic properties." That means: The dye can possibly change the genetic material. But Lawson's natural pigment was also suspected, not least because of skin problems caused by henna tattoos. "In its traditional, plant-based preparation method, the henna dye is harmless. This was confirmed by the EU Commission's scientific expert committee for consumer safety in 2013," says Blume. The experts expressly refer to pure, natural henna powder as it is used as a hair dye. Further tests are necessary to confirm that henna is generally safe. Henna as a hair dye Hair dyes made from henna permanently color the hair. That means: the color cannot be washed out, it has to grow out. For coloring, the powder is mixed with boiling water, mixed into a paste and worked into the hair while it is still warm. The mass has a strong odor. There are also ready-made mixes. In order to achieve a lasting effect, the henna mixture must act for up to two hours or more. The longer the exposure time, the more intense the result. "During this time, henna reacts with the proteins in the hair, the keratins," explains expert Blume. The result: different shades of red depending on the hair type, its own color and pre-treatment. Sometimes so-called henna hair dyes do not only consist of the natural product. In order to accelerate the dyeing process or to create a more intense shade, some manufacturers sometimes add chemicals, such as the artificially produced dye para-phenylenediamine (PPD). Caution, allergy risk! Under certain conditions, PPD or some reaction products of the substance have a strong allergenic and genotoxic potential. The substances have a sensitizing effect, especially after prolonged skin contact and depending on which other components the henna hair color has. Henna itself is not considered to be allergenic. In hair dyes, PPD is permissible up to a certain concentration, if other substances ("couplers") are contained in sufficient quantities that bind PPD. This creates a normally harmless dye in the hair. In contrast, some henna hair dyes have been found to contain PPD without couplers: a significant health risk. Para-phenylenediamine is also often found in the mixtures from which henna tattoos can be made. The Federal Institute for Risk Assessment therefore warns against henna tattoos as a holiday souvenir. PPD fulfills the following purpose in body painting: adding PPD creates the impression of a classic tattoo, as the substance makes the originally orange-brown body painting appear darker - so-called black henna. In addition, the tattoo is finished faster. The fact that the use of PPD as an additive in skin dyes is prohibited across Europe does not bother many body artists on distant beaches. Sometimes even henna hair dye containing PPD is simply used. And: black henna is not pure henna. Henna tattoos are particularly problematic Henna tattoos in particular have a high allergenic risk due to the potential component PPD. Because when making a tattoo - and as long as the tattoo lasts - the substance can act on the skin there, i.e. for a long time. As a result, itching, painful redness and swelling can occur. So-called contact eczema develops. The skin reactions usually develop within two to ten days. "Sometimes even inflammations and open wounds develop, which heal very slowly," explains Blume. It is not uncommon for ugly scars, color disorders and increased light sensitivity of the skin to remain. Expert Blume warns of another series of henna tattoos: "Those affected are sensitized to PPD for the rest of their lives." The problem with this is that the artificial color is found in numerous products. Anyone who is allergic to PPD or its breakdown products may have to do without many hair dyes and avoid contact with dark textiles or various plastics. It is even worse if the allergy spreads to other chemical substances with a similar structure. Those affected are then limited in their quality of life in the long term. In addition, remaining skin damage can be psychologically and socially stressful. Conclusion: Henna itself is not considered to be allergenic. Pure henna natural hair color can be an alternative to chemically produced hair dyes. Consumers should, however, carefully study the name and composition of the product and pay attention to statements such as "PPD" or "Phenylenediamine". Preferably choose a domestic branded product. Those who also want to avoid other chemical residues can fall back on products from ecologically controlled cultivation. As a precaution, the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment advises against henna tattoos in holiday destinations for the reasons mentioned above. But you should also be careful with temporary tattoos or Internet goods offered in Germany and carefully examine the product (product description, color, smell, effective time).
Nietzsche on Free Will There is some confusion and misunderstanding floating around concerning Friedrich Nietzsche’s thoughts on the concept of free will. By which I’m referring to the willful inability of many admirers of the philosopher to accept the fact that he wholeheartedly rejected the existence of anything akin to free will. To Nietzsche, free will is a concept that cannot be separated from its religious underpinnings, thus: “God has been thoroughly refuted; ditto, ‘the judge,’ ‘the rewarder.’ Also his ‘free will'” (Beyond Good and Evil, “What is Religious,” section 53). Since Nietzsche gives no credence to the religious worldview, he sees no reason why religious concepts ought not to be rejected right along with the rest of the divine packaging, “The desire for ‘freedom of the will’ in the superlative metaphysical sense, which still holds sway, unfortunately, in the minds of the half-educated (Beyond Good and Evil, “On the Prejudice of Philosophers,” section 21). He does acknowledge, however, that many of his irreligious peers still try to preserve some notion of a non-supernatural version of free will, a sentiment that Nietzsche describes as the need for individuals to hold onto a sense of personal responsibility, “some will not give up their ‘responsibility,’ their belief in themselves, the personal right to their merits at any price” (Beyond Good and Evil, “On the Prejudices of Philosophers,” section 21). The mindset of the naturalistic thinkers who hold to the existence of free will, is their attempt to salvage the idea of accountability (their own, and that of others), and by extension, the institution of justice and due punishment for one’s actions. But Nietzsche rejects this desire as a misdirected conflation of two separate issues; namely, a conflation of justice with punishment, and a further conflation of both of these with free will: The idea, now so obvious, apparently so natural, even unavoidable, that had to serve as the explanation of how the sense of justice ever appeared on earth–“the criminal deserves punishment because he could have acted differently”–is in fact an extremely late and subtle form of human judgment and inference: whoever transposes it to the beginning is guilty of a crude misunderstanding of the psychology of more primitive mankind (On the Genealogy of Morals, “Second Essay,” section 4). Nietzsche proposes that the origin of justice can be more accurately characterized as a form of trade, serving as a method to equalize two competing parties, and not necessarily as a punishment for one’s freely chosen actions (i.e. free will). In fact, in such a framework the emphasis on punishing offenders is superseded by the notion that, “every injury has its equivalent and can actually be paid back, even if only through the pain of the culprit” (On the Genealogy of Morals, “Second Essay,” section 4). As already mentioned, Nietzsche’s rejection of free will is tied in with his general rejection of theism. And he feels that the efforts of atheistic philosophers to retain the faulty concept, while still proposing a godless reality, is misguided; not to mention counterproductive: Surely, that philosophers’ invention, so bold and so fateful, which was then first devised for Europe, the invention of “free will,” of the absolute spontaneity of man in good and in evil, was devised above all to furnish a right to the idea that the interest of the gods in man, in human virtue, could never be exhausted (On the Genealogy of Morals, “Second Essay,” section 7). Nietzsche argues that the reason free will was originally invented as a concept was to give religiously-minded philosophers a means by which to allow for unconstrained supernatural intervention on the part of the various gods man had hitherto created. In short, free will is a trump card conveniently utilized to give deities a meaning to exist: The course of a completely deterministic world would have been predictable for the gods and they would have quickly grown weary of it—reason enough for those friends of the gods, the philosophers, not to inflict such a deterministic world on their gods! (On the Genealogy of Morals, “Second Essay,” section 7). Now, a fair question for a reader to ask is how Nietzsche’s rejection of free will does not also lead to a dismantling of much of Nietzsche’s own philosophy, in particular his conception of “the will to power,” and his continuous call for individuals to create their own values in life? Although a good point, it nonetheless rests on a superficial reading of Nietzsche’s thoughts on the subject. It is true that Nietzsche heralded the idea of individuality, but not in any sense that would imply self-improvement. He fervently maintained that, “independence was for the very few” (Beyond Good and Evil, “The Free Spirit,” section 29), and even these individuals had no choice in the matter, because their instinct for individualistic expression is also deterministically confined, just as the herd-instinct of the masses can’t help itself but to subvert the independence of the few (On the Genealogy of Morals, “First Essay,” section 2). In this regard, there is nothing “free” about Nietzsche’s “will to power,” which is itself entirely instinctive, driven not by any conscious intent or choice-value, but on purely mechanical responses to environmental and genetic factors. Thus, in Nietzsche’s own language, the will to power is nothing more but the instinct for freedom (On the Genealogy of Morals, “Second Essay,” section 18), which of course is an instinct no one can freely choose to have. Nietzsche understood how his views on this matter would make some uncomfortable (in particular his call for persons to abandon a concept like free will, upon which so much of the popular conception of personhood is based on), to which he bluntly responded: “One should guard against thinking lightly of this phenomenon merely on account of its initial painfulness and ugliness” (On the Genealogy of Morals, “Second Essay,” section 18). According to Nietzsche, free will–being fundamentally an illusion–necessitates that we have no choice but to act as if our decisions are free agents. Therefore, the disdain individuals feel about the fact that their actions are entirely deterministic is itself a causal result of the way by which human perception has evolved to relate to its environment. We have no free will, but we are determined to behave as if we do. Whatever, “painfulness” or “ugliness,” people imagine will result from acknowledging this point is moot on principle. The Intellectual Value of Comic Books Although the previous two decades saw a great surge in the respectability afforded to comic book characters adapted brilliantly to cinema screens, I don’t think the same level of appreciation carried over to the colorful, panel-style pages that all these characters originate from. What I mean is, while moviegoers might have cheered on at the sight of the Avengers, I predict very few people cared enough to go out and read up on the multitude of Avengers comics in publication since the mid-20th Century. I would argue the same probably holds true for many of the other top comics-to-cinema franchises. Some movie historians point to the success of the 1978 Superman movie, or Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman, as the beginning of the mainstream acceptance of comic book adaptations, but I’m not too sure it’s reasonable to cast such a far-reaching net. Movie genres, I believe, come in arcs and trends, and I don’t think the recent rise the comic book movie is anymore linked to the success of the two aforementioned movies than the rise of popularity of action movies throughout the 1980s and 1990s in general. I’d argue that the precursor to the current comic book movies craze started just at the close of the 20th Century, with a movie called Blade. For readers too young to remember 1998 too well, the first Blade movie was a humongous hit at the time of its release. Despite most moviegoers probably not being aware that they were in fact watching a comic book movie, Blade set the stage for Marvel’s superhero film adaptations that continue to this day. Moreover, it shifted the zeitgeist away from comic book movies needing to have an air of lightheartedness and child-friendly whimsy, and showed that you can have superheroes be dark, serious, and directed in a way where it looks as if they’re grounded in a reality that could plausibly overlap with our own (Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy would utilize a similar formula when adapting the caped crusader to the big screen in 2005’s Batman Begins). Nevertheless, the theatrical success of Blade the movie, didn’t elevate the Blade comic book in the wider audience. Nor did the mainstream embrace of the subsequent comic book movies that enjoyed massive commercial success uplift most of it’s printed character counterparts to an equal footing with their cinematic namesakes’ successes. Now, don’t misunderstand me. I am not making some nerd-elitist “we true fans liked it before it was cool,” and in fact I’d argue that some comic book characters like Thor and Iron Man are not just adaptations, but superior works of storytelling in their big screen form than they ever were on the printed page. What I am saying is that, despite the mainstream acceptance and success of movies based on comic book characters, and the widespread enjoyment the public gets out of the stories being told therein, comic books themselves are still not afforded the intellectual respect of being viewed as something beyond children’s entertainment, regardless of the maturity or complexity of the actual story being told within the drawn panels. Furthermore, if a comic book does reach a point where it is mature enough, raw enough, complex enough that it does crossover into the domain of being legitimate adult-approved entertainment, it immediately gets rebranded from mere “comic book” status up to the more reputable sounding category of a “Graphic Novel.” So, there were some conversations about graphic novels… – Idaho Commission for Libraries Arguable the differentiation between what counts as a comic book, and what counts a graphic novel, could very well have its place. However the truth remains that, while a lot of people are willing to defend the intellectual worth of graphic novels like Watchmen, Maus, or Sin City, not too many bother to standup for the literary value of the common comic book; often this includes those of us who grew up enjoying comic books. And I would argue this seemingly minor oversight causes us to ignore a major contributor to a child’s introductory development to the world of literature, which can and does give rise to a lifelong appreciation of storytelling as a whole. Stories that can, and ought to, still be enjoyed well into adulthood. Personally, comic books were a gateway into appreciating the written word at a young age, and laid the groundwork for understanding the importance of syntax structure when communicating one’s ideas through prose. Now, I certainly didn’t realize as a kid, as all I did was enjoy the stories I followed in the printed panels, but the seed was planted for me to have a foundation to grasp the classics of literature once I was mature enough to engage them firsthand. Nowadays, I am surrounded by the greats (and some not-so-greats) of the literary world on my bookshelves, but I still feel no shame in openly indulging in the cheap, department store comic I bought along with my morning snickers bar. To me, comic books are a form of literature. Like all literature, some of it is good and some of it is bad; some of it is fascinating, and some of it is corny; some of it is engaging, and some of it is dull. But to dismiss the entire genre, so critical in shaping a one’s early sense of imagination and reading comprehension, just seems like a betrayal to the very foundations that introduced us to the world of literature to begin with. Pronouncing Nietzsche A reader sent a pretty good question to my inbox: This will sound really really stupid but do you know how ‘Nietzsche’ is supposed to be pronounced? I mean the way he would have pronounced it himself. I always feel like I’m saying it wrong. There is nothing stupid about asking something you genuinely don’t know the answer to, and I personally have little regard for individuals who make it a habit to put down anyone eager to correct their confusion on a particular issue. Now that I got that out of the way, dear reader, let me address the question. The most often mistake I hear is “NEE-chee” (with an ending that rhymes with “see” or “fee”), and it’s probably the way most native English speakers have been thought to say it; this includes both academic professors and the average layperson. I suppose the reason why this mispronunciation is so widespread amongst Anglophones is because the pronunciation of the man’s name is of no real consequence when it comes to analyzing his philosophy–except to those who happen to have a particular fixation on these sort of issues. That last bit was not meant to be judgmental, just an observation on my part. And I can actually see how such fixations can be a healthy sign of a person’s intellectual curiosity, as long as you don’t start thinking of other people as your intellectual inferiors over something as trivial as the fact that they mispronounce a name whose linguistic origins they don’t happen to speak. The other mistake is to simply pronounce the name as “Nitch” (with the false assumption that the “e” is silent); this one’s rarer, but I’ve heard it said once or twice in college so it’s worth mentioning. The confusion people seem to have is how the heck you’re suppose to say the ending of the philosopher’s name. This site gives a decent rendition of the standard German pronunciation (with audio included), and I encourage readers to follow the link to hear it for themselves. In the linked site, the pronunciation is transcribed as something close to “NEE-cheh”, but this can be confusing to some English speakers because the closing “h” syllable is relatively soft; coming across as a quick exhaling sound, so it sounds kind of like you’re saying it under your breath (as you’ll hear on the audio recording on the link provided). This can be made even more confusing by the fact that depending on which German speaker you ask, the pronunciation you hear can either come across sounding like “NEE-ché” (ending “é” used as it is in French, but with a guttural stress; which brings it very close to the “NEE-cheh” pronunciation shown in the link). For all the years I’ve been fluent in German (i.e. since early childhood), and all the time I spent talking to native Germans (also since early childhood), I have always used the former pronunciation (the guttural “é” sound at the end), but one needs to keep in mind that I learned to speak German in Hannover, Lower Saxony, which is often cited to be as close to an accent-neutral region as German can get (sort of the German equivalent of what Americans would call a “Midwestern accent” in their country). However, in college (here, in the U.S.) I ran into several professor who also spoke fluent German, and they vehemently insisted that it’s supposes to be “NEE-cha”. Rather than pointlessly argue over it, I’ll just let people know about the supposed discrepancy, even though I almost never encountered it myself while communicating with German speakers. In closing, this is a common question English speaking have when looking the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, and it’s always difficult to transcribe linguistic sounds from one language to another. I think the linked site’s phonetic transcription of “NEE-cheh” is a good compromise between the two (allegedly) disputing accounts of the German pronunciation of “Nietzsche”. Just keep in mind that the closing “h” is more of an ending breath, than it is a proper syllable. Or you can simply keep on pronouncing it as you always have, because how you say the name of any writer or philosopher shouldn’t have any bearing on how well you understand and analyze his/her ideas. The Bum and the Professor: A Hypothetical Conversation Bum: “Spare some change?” Professor: “No.” Bum: “Not even a quarter, or a nickel? No change at all?” Professor: “Sorry. If I had some, you can rest assured that I’d give it to you, but I just don’t have any.” Bum: “Why can I ‘rest assured’ of that? I don’t know you.” Professor: “True, but I know you, more or less. I have spent decades lecturing and writing on the plight of the underprivileged. So I understand your hardship enough to know that if I honestly had any money to spare, I wouldn’t hesitate to give it to you at once.” Bum: “All these decades you’ve spent lecturing and writing about someone like me, did no one ever pay you?” Professor: “Of course they did.” Bum: “And yet, you haven’t got a quarter or nickel to spare with the guy that earned you a paycheck?” Professor: “I resent that remark. I’ll have you know that I have given a large sum of money over the years to various charities to help people in need.” Bum: “Good for you. That still doesn’t put either a quarter or a nickel in my hand, right now.” Professor: “You’re judging me for not being able to give you money, right now? A bit self-righteous for a man who spends his days begging for a portion of other peoples money, don’t you think?” Bum: “No judgment here, honestly. I’m just following your train of thought, which I admit can seem pretty ‘self-righteous’. Probably about as self-righteous as being told that someone knows me, just because they’ve written something about poor folks here and there.” Professor: “I see. Well, allow me to clarify: While I don’t know you personally, I do understand, because of my extensive research and studies on the subject, the hardship that comes along with residing within the parameters of today’s socioeconomic hegemony.” Bum: “Parameters of what?” Professor: “Socioeconomic hegemony. It’s a phrase I coined in one of my papers. Roughly it means that the conditions of a person’s environment are so dominating that they are naturally setup to be disadvantageous to the underprivileged in said environment. You understand?” Bum: “I understand what you said. I don’t understand what good it does to have it said.” Professor: “Identifying and defining a problem is the first step to having it resolved.” Bum: “When did you first write this?” Professor: “About 30 years ago.” Bum: “How long until it starts to ‘resolve’ the problem?” Professor: “It doesn’t work that way.” Bum: “Why not?” Professor: “Because social theories aren’t meant to fix people’s problems just by the power of the pen. People have different perspectives, and one social theory can yield an innumerable sub-theories on how to implement reforms. Not to mention, there is always nuance to consider.” Bum: “So some other guy can come up with a different ‘social theory’ about the exact same problem your social theory talks about, and his would be just as good as yours.” Professor: “I think you’re getting confused, remember we’re talking about hypothetical thought experiments here.” Bum: “So they’re imaginary.” Professor: “No, they are normative descriptors of reality.” Bum: “How do you know they’re describing reality, if they haven’t been tried out yet? That is what hypothetical means, right?” Professor: “It’s more abstract than that.” Bum: “I bet. But I still don’t see the point of coming up with all of these social theories, if they can’t actually resolve the problems they’re addressing. Seems to me like a man might as well be doing nothing and still get the same results.” Professor: “I told you, social theories recognize a problem and allow for the future assembly of working models to be implemented by society.” Bum: “Hypothetically.” Professor: “Yes, hypothetically.” Bum: “See that building over there? 30 years ago I was part of the crew assembling the foundation of dozens of buildings just like it, all over town. Most of them are still around. People can use them, live in them. They can like them or hate them. But they can’t ignore them. If they decide to get rid of them, they have to put some physical effort into removing them from the spot we put them on. You understand what I’m driving at?” Professor: “Not really, no.” Bum: “Before we put down the foundation, when we were barely carving out the dimensions on the ground, the buildings were what you would call hypothetical. Now, 30 years later, I guess someone a little better with words than me, would say that these buildings are ‘descriptors of reality’, at least in the little, tiny spot of reality where they stand. You couldn’t describe the area where these buildings are without mentioning the buildings themselves.” Professor: “Okay, I get what you’re driving at, but you’re wrong. This is completely different from my academic discipline; you’re simply not comparing like with like.” Bum: “Yeah, probably. All I know is that 30 years ago, we identifies a problem: no building in this spot. Now, 30 years later, problem is resolved: building is there, whether someone likes it or not. 30 years ago, you identified a problem; now, 30 years later, you’re identifying of the problem all those years ago hasn’t done squat to resolve whatever problem it is you felt needed to be identified in the first place–because if it had I wouldn’t be sitting here like this, would I? So, let me ask you, are you sure your social theories are actually describing reality, or are you just defining reality to your liking, and cramming your social theories into it so you can have something to lecture people on?” Professor: “My theory is sound, but to understand it properly would take many years of study. Hence, this conversation is inconsequential. Here’s your quarter, and have a nice day.” Bum: “Much appreciated, good sir. You have yourself a good one, too.” Lev Grossman’s The Magicians Trilogy Years back, I had originally given up on Lev Grossman’s The Magicians trilogy halfway through Book Two because the main character, Quentin Coldwater, is such an insufferable, self-absorbed piece of shit that the thought of being trapped in his head for another book and a half seemed unbearable at the time. But the Covid quarantine got me to revisit the trilogy from the start again, and while my first impression of Quentin remains unchanged for that first half of the trilogy, the character’s development by the end of Book Two does actually soften me to his flaws and failures, to the point that I found myself fully emphasizing with him by Book Three as the hero of the story the narrative seemed so eager to convince me that he is not. Perhaps it was a clever ploy of reverse psychology, or subverting expectations on the part of the author, but whatever it was, it worked perfectly in the grand scheme of the narrative as a whole. Throughout the books, we see Quentin be a lousy friend (practically dropping all his past contacts once he gets to Brakebills), a dishonest boyfriend, and a bit of a glory-hog whose concerns lie less with the safety of those around him, then fulfilling his own interest in coming out on top of the adventure he thinks he needs so he can escape the monotony of his life. But it’s in the aftermath of having experienced all of this (roughly at the closing of Book Two) that we get to see a shift in his perspective. Which retroactively makes a lot of sense, on account that he would need to experience the consequences of his hubris before being able to set out on a genuine journey of growth and finally learn from his mistakes. As a character, it wouldn’t make sense for him to have either the knowledge or experience to understand how to deal with the situations around him maturely, nor would it have been realistic or relatable. In fact, I’m pretty sure that had Book One started out with a character that was mature, reserved, amicable, and fully resourceful right from the start, I probably would have complained that such a trope is too boring and lacked any real character depth to bother with (being a nitpicky critic comes so easy to us in the audience, doesn’t it?) Some worthwhile reads payoff eventually is the lesson here, and deserve to be carried through to the end. And having gotten to the end of The Magicians trilogy, I see why the author wrote Quentin as such a little shit at the beginning of the story, and why it was even necessary to do so, regardless of how much it irked me at the time of reading on the first go at it.
12.7 - Model-Based Methods: Building a Model Regression/ANCOVA models as described above are most useful when 1. they contain a few clinically relevant and interpretable prognostic variables 2. the parameters or coefficients are estimated with relatively high precision 3. the prognostic factors each carry independent information about the outcome variable 4. the model is consistent with other clinical and biological data For a given situation, however, it may not be easy to construct a model that satisfies these criteria. With available statistical software in modern computers, portions of the model-building process are automatic. Caution must be exercised, however, for the following reasons. 1. The criteria employed by the software may be inappropriate, e.g., relying solely on p-values. 2. There are poor statistical properties when performing a large number of tests and refitting models. 3. It is not possible to incorporate outside information into the model-building process. 4. The software may not handle the problem of missing data very well. The model-building process requires thought and an understanding of the clinical situation. Some statisticians only use prognostic variables in the model for which there exist plausible biological reasons for their inclusion. Approaches Section Computer software to assist in the construction and evaluation of a model follows several approaches. One approach is called a step-up or forward selection process, in which the initial model contains no regressors but they enter the model one at a time. In this situation, a regressor enters the model if its p-value is less than a critical value, say 0.05. Another approach is called the step-down or backward selection process, in which the initial model contains all of the regressors. In this situation, a regressor is eliminated from the model if its p-value is not less than the critical value. A third approach, called stepwise selection, is a modification of forward selection. In this situation, after a new variable enters the model, all the variables that had entered the model previously are reexamined to see if their p-values have changed. If any of the revised p-values exceed the critical value, then the corresponding variables are eliminated from the model. A fourth approach involves finding the best one-variable-model, the best two-variable model, etc. with the help of software, and then using judgment as to which is the best overall model, i.e., if the (c+1)-variable model is only slightly better than the c-variable model, the latter is selected. It is prudent to attempt a variety of models and approaches to determine if the results are consistent. Some statisticians favor the backward selection or step-down process, although there is no universal agreement among statisticians. It is not unusual for a particular data set to discover that step-up and step-down selection algorithms lead to different models. The main reason for this is that the regressors/covariates are not completely independent of each other. When a variable is entered into or removed from a model, the p-values of the other variables will change. Consider a linear model with two potential regressors, $X_1$ and $X_2$, and suppose that they are strongly correlated (“independent variables” is a misnomer). Suppose that in a model with $X_1$ only, $X_1$ is significant, and in a model with $X_2$ only, $X_2$ is significant. When a model is constructed with both $X_1$ and $X_2$, however, the contribution by $X_2$ to the model is no longer statistically significant. Because $X_1$ and $X_2$ are strongly correlated, $X_2$ has very little predictive power when $X_1$ already is in the model. Initial screening of the entire set of candidate regressors/covariates is advised. Many statisticians recommend that each potential regressor be examined individually in a simple model. This can help identify potential regressors for which there is not a strong biological justification. Usually, the critical significance level in this first-stage approach is more lenient, say 0.10 or 0.15. Then all of the regressors that meet this first-stage criterion and/or that have biological/clinical justification comprise the set of regressors that are subjected to the model-building process. Clinical input always should augment this first-stage process.
Skip to navigationSkip to content The HPV vaccine is not recommended for US boys as often as it is for girls A hand holding an HPV vaccine. AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast Although the vaccine is recommended for everyone, boys get it way less often in the US. • Katherine Ellen Foley By Katherine Ellen Foley Health and science reporter Published This article is more than 2 years old. A vaccine exists to prevent a virus that can lead to certain types of cancer, but many American parents aren’t getting it for their kids. The human papillomavirus, or HPV, is sexually transmitted, though benign in most cases. The HPV vaccine, manufactured by Merck Pharmaceuticals, protects against four strains of the virus, including two that cause warts and two that can lead to cancer. The vaccine is recommended by the US Centers for Disease Control for all children aged 11 to 12. Except many parents aren’t aware of that recommendations—especially parents of boys. In a recent analysis of a 2015 CDC-conducted National Immunization Survey for teens presented at a meeting of the Society of Gynecologic Oncology, researchers found that 20% of parents of boys who had not received the vaccine had not been told by their primary care providers that it was necessary. The same was true for about 10% of parents of girls who had not been vaccinated. “It is clear that physicians need to give a strong recommendation to both parents of boys and girls,” Anna Beavis, an oncologist at Johns Hopkins University who conducted the analysis, told the American Journal of Managed Care. There are upwards of 40 strains of HPV, which is present in about a quarter of all people. Most people don’t recognize they have the virus, which the body often can clear on its own. However, there are some types of high-risk HPV that can lead to cervical, anal, penile, and throat cancer in men and women. The HPV vaccine comes in two parts, the first of which includes two shots given six months to a year apart. Ensuring that all eligible children receive both parts of the vaccine would protect them from contracting high-risk strains of HPV, and would prevent them from unknowingly spreading them to (future) sexual partners. In the US, estimates suggest that about 29,000 cases of cancer would be prevented if HPV was never contracted. (These cancers can all develop in people without HPV, but those cases are in the minority.) Although the CDC set a goal to have 80% of children vaccinated by 2020, Beavis found that current rates are only about 50% of boys aged 13 to 17, and 63% of girls in the same demographic. That puts the US far behind other countries that have excelled in HPV prevention. Australia, for example, has had a nationally funded program that began in 2007 (paywall). Since then, almost 80% of girls and 73% of boys have received the vaccine, and cases of genital warts and cervical abnormalities—the precursor for cancer—have dropped dramatically.
Overcoming Peer Influence Time and time again, we have been counselled by our parents and teachers about peer influence. As with most other things in life, peer influence can either be positive or negative. From a young age, your parents will encourage you to choose friends who demonstrate good character. In equal measure, children are discouraged from interacting with other kids who have a terrible reputation as far as their temperament goes. In college, the dynamics have somewhat shifted. At this point in life, a college student is considered mature enough to make their own decisions. They are expected to make constructive choices, as afar as their peers are concerned. While the message may not be drummed in by now, the message is still conveyed in similar intensity. However, college finds people at an age where they are still learning about themselves. In which case, you can argue that they are still malleable. Without a clear idea of one's values and principles, it is quite easy to get derailed. Hence, a lot of emphasis is placed on making choices through reasonable and rational means. Finding Somewhere to Belong The most significant drive towards associating with our peers is the innate human need for socialization and a sense of belonging. When one is new on campus, they barely know anyone. Hence, it is quite natural for them to be drawn to any crowd that they seem to even remotely relate to. This can go in multiple ways. As the title of the article suggests, we are looking at the bad habits which students may be lured to as they seek the sense of belonging. In most cases, these start as harmless interactions. You meet a new person, and you both seem to get along. Soon enough, they introduce you to their friends. In no time, you find yourself as part of the group, similarly adopting the group values. The need to belong is not a desire that one can simply turn on and off. It is this desire that will gradually keep a student in the group. There is the satisfaction of finding somewhere you can fit in. Sometimes, this emotion is so gratifying that you may not realize when you are picking on bad habits. However, nothing about this desire suggests that picking up such bad habits will not come with its fair share of consequences. Hence, as you about making new interactions and friends in college, it would be advisable to keep a clear head. In which case, before you belong to any circle, it is sound to ensure that all your individual values match that of the group. An important aspect is the existence of help sites for people. You can easily order a presentation or essay, or you can use paper writer. This will help you save time, develop your own skills and achieve your goals. Expectedly, differences in individuals will be present. Nevertheless, it is your personal initiative to know where you draw the line between your own principles and group dynamics. If you have to drink and smoke against your will, to fit in the group, then this is evidently not the ideal scenario for you. It is better to be in your own company than bad company. Overcoming Peer Influence By Olivia Smith Overcoming Peer Influence • 781 Loading comments... More from Olivia Smith
Six surprising symptoms of polycystic ovary syndrome you should never ignore – from acne to sleep apnoea and hair loss Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) can cause a range of symptoms for many women, but for others there may be none at all. The condition affects how a woman's ovaries function. In these cases becoming pregnant naturally is impossible, as no egg is released into the fallopian tube ready to be fertilised. The condition can also lead to an absence of periods, which can also make it difficult for a woman to become pregnant. But it doesn't always spell the end of being able to have children – Victoria Beckham and Jools Oliver are proof it is possible to defy the odds. But what about symptoms that don't include irregular periods? There's a bunch of symptoms related to PCOS that you might not have been aware of… 1. Acne A big spot appearing on your face every now and then is hardly unusual, but if you have adult acne it could be a sign of PCOS. It's no secret acne is related to hormonal imbalances, as well as sweat, stress and your time of the month. So it's no wonder why PCOS can cause you to break out. If your ovaries aren't functioning properly you may not have enough oestrogen or progesterone, the female sex hormones, in your body. This can cause an imbalance of androgens like testosterone, the male sex hormone, which can make you break out. 2. Hair loss You've probably heard that PCOS can cause you to grow excess body hair – thanks to those androgens again. But those same hormones can actually make your hair fall out. Women who have gone through menopause may also find the same thing, because their levels of oestrogen drop. 3. Sleep apnoea Trouble sleeping but can't work out why? Maybe you should speak to your doctor about PCOS. Again, it's all down to your hormones disrupting your natural rhythm. Sleep apnoea is a sleep disorder characterised by brief episodes of stopped breathing during sleep. This disrupts sleep and impacts oxygen delivery to the body. It can lead to lower pain tolerance, high blood pressure, mood changes, heart disease, and increased weight. So why does PCOS cause it? Higher levels of testosterone in a woman's body are thought to disrupt their sleeping patterns. PCOS can also cause insulin-resistance, especially in overweight women, which has also been linked to poor sleep. 4. Anxiety and depression Mental health problems aren't exactly a symptom of PCOS, but are definitely related. The condition can be highly distressing for women to go through, even before their diagnosis. Not having your period sounds like a God send for many women, but when you realise something may be wrong with your fertility it's an entirely different story. Right from the beginning of noticing symptoms to diagnosis and even though any treatments, women with PCOS are at greater risk of mental health problems like anxiety and depression. So if you aren't feeling yourself it's important you speak to a GP or mental health professional about how to cope. 5. Ovarian cysts Like you need any more to worry about when you have PCOS, but it puts you at greater risk of ovarian cysts. That means if you regularly suffer cysts it could be a sign you have PCOS. Ovarian cysts are growths that occur on the ovaries. An ovarian cyst is a fluid filled sac that develops on a woman’s ovary, according to the NHS. They usually only cause symptoms if they rupture, are very large, or blocks the blood supply to the ovaries. It may cause pelvic pain, pain during sex, a frequent need to wee, heavy or irregular periods, bloating and difficulty becoming pregnant. 6. Weight gain It's those pesky hormones again. An excess of male sex hormones in the body can cause you to pile on the pounds – and make it harder to lose them. That's because the hormone imbalance can make it harder for the body to digest foods and affect your energy levels. On top of that, we already know that being overweight increases your risk of things like diabetes, heart disease and even some types of cancer. So if you notice you've gained weight lately but can't work out why you should speak to your GP. Source: Read Full Article
Imagine someone walking into your dining room at this moment. With kiddush and ha-motzi complete, how would that person know that this meal was more than just a nice dinner party? They wouldn't, if it were not for two important elements: the singing and the Devar Torah -- the "Word of Torah." Shabbat is the celebration of creation. It is a day when we recognize that the Almighty has given us a wondrous gift -- a world filled with pleasure. The challenge of humanity is: How does one extract this pleasure for the ultimate life experience? By reading the manual. A pilot does not jump into the cockpit of a 747, turn the keys, and fly. He studies, reads the manual, slowly absorbs the material, tests it out, and eventually reaches tremendous heights. So, too, with life. God did not create the world, throw us into the "driver's seat," and then neglect to give us the instructions on how to drive. The word Torah means "instructions." It is referred to as Torat Chaim -- "Instructions for Living." It is not just a history of our people, or a bunch of stories. It is the instruction manual that, read properly, can give us the key to all the pleasures of life. Torah is a book of wisdom that has application to our lives today; to help us be better people, better spouses, friends, children, parents. To help us get the most out of this world, we look into something timeless, something practical and relevant. We look to the Torah. How To Devar Torah literally means the "Word of Torah" and is usually a short talk on the Torah portion of the week, though it can be about anything meaningful and Jewish. Perhaps a holiday is approaching, or a significant Jewish celebration, such as a wedding or a brit milah. Discuss the meaning and traditions of the event and how we can appreciate and grow from it. If chosen well, the Devar Torah should be the springboard to a lively discussion at the table, with questions welcome from everyone, young and old. You will often see people pulling reference books from the shelves to find passages to back up their ideas. Children who attend Jewish school will often bring home sheets, with questions concerning the week's Torah portion. It can turn the table into a quiz show, with parents asking the questions, giving out prizes of sweets for correct answers or "good tries" from the kids and the guests. Everyone can get into the act, and everyone is bound to learn something. The Torah is divided into 54 portions, each called a "parsha," with one portion read each week in synagogue on Shabbat morning. Occasionally, there are weeks with double-portions. To know which parsha of the week it happens to be, ask your local rabbi or teacher, or look on a Jewish calendar. (Download one for free at Try to read the parsha every week -- in Hebrew or in English. Many people experience an incredible feeling of strength, knowing that thousands upon thousands of Jews all over the world are reading that same parsha. An excellent translation of the Torah is the "Stone Chumash", rendered into readable English (plus commentary) by top Jewish scholars. There are a number of excellent books available that give some relevant thoughts on the parsha of the week. Reading a paragraph or two aloud at the table is a good way to spark conversation, or just read ahead yourself and present the ideas informally to your family and guests. Some good books to start with: • "Growth Through Torah" by Rabbi Zelig Pliskin, with topics for discussion on each weekly portion. • "Shmooze: A Guide to Thought-Provoking Discussions on Essential Jewish Issues" • For children, try the always-entertaining Family Parsha at Or if you'd rather go freestyle, here are some suggested adult topics: Who are our heroes? Why? What is my most prized possession? Why? If I won the lottery I would... How much materialism is good for me? The most important lesson I know about life is... Is there any reason why not to marry a non-Jew? Have I ever experienced anti-Semitism? What's more likely - Creation or Evolution? Am I Confronting or Escaping from my problems? What is the biggest crisis facing this country? Why do people gossip, and is it worthwhile to stop? Try to keep the discussion steered away from sports, movies and politics. Instead, try to focus inward on self, family, and community. Sometimes I feel if it weren't for the Devar Torah, the Shabbat meal would just be a get-together. Going to someone's home for Shabbat would be just like eating out. At our home, my husband usually jumps in with a Devar Torah just when the conversation starts getting kind of "ordinary." He always makes it relevant to the people at the table and directs the focus to more meaningful things. Our guests always seem to love it. It's as if they wanted it to be like that all along, but were too timid to bring up something heavy. So we do, and they just join in. * * * At our Shabbat table, the Devar Torah is always about life: character development, and our relationship to God. It's anything but a bunch of stories, and people are continually amazed at how relevant the Torah is. They always walk away with "food for thought" and a piece of wisdom to apply to their lives. * * * When I first heard people giving Devar Torahs at the Shabbat table, I immediately filed them into one of two categories: those given because that's what you're supposed to do, so let's get it done; and those given with thought and heart. The former was empty, and the latter was real. The ones that stayed with me in a positive way were the ones when, I could honestly say, the persons really believed what they said. * * * I always felt a little awkward when people started into a Devar Torah. It was so... heavy. But then I began to feel that something was missing if nothing was said, to the point where today, if I have a meal with family or friends during the week, I feel that someone should say something! Eating and talking about current events just doesn't cut it anymore... I suppose you can say the most substantial part of the meal are the words of Torah, not the brisket. * * * It takes me about 15 or 20 minutes to prepare a Devar Torah. Usually it's simply a matter of reading through the parsha, and picking out one or two lines that seem to relate to what's going on in the world today. Then I just relay my thoughts at the Shabbat table and open it up for discussion. The best Shabbats are the ones where the Devar Torah really hits a chord with people and opens them up to experience ideas. The table seems almost transformed and unified in thought. It's as if something "clicked" and everyone gets into it. I must admit that I put more time into preparing something when we have guests. If it's just the family, I try and say something meaningful, but it doesn't have the same amount of thought and energy behind it. * * * When I start my Devar Torah, my guests kind of freeze and have that "What's this going to be?" look on their faces. But when they find out that I'm not preaching fire and brimstone and I'm just talking about issues relevant to all of us, they relax, ask questions, and contribute ideas; and the whole Shabbat table experience becomes much more meaningful. I really think it's the basis for the whole meal. I enjoy speaking, because it's exhilarating to be responsible for bringing insight; to be the catalyst to opening people up, so that they can speak about things that are important. * * * Our family always had a Friday night Shabbat meal, but we never had a Devar Torah. The first time I ever experienced such a thing was, as an adult, at the home of one of my teachers. He told a charming story, related it to the upcoming Jewish holiday and left me with such a sweet feeling. The whole thing was just so friendly, warm, and... relevant. I liked it. Now that I'm married, I try and make sure the topics at the table are meaningful and Jewish, without there being a formal break in the action with a Devar Torah. It's just not my style. Our meals Sunday through Thursday are so hectic, what with us both working, that part of "hitting on the brakes" has to be talking about something meaningful, not just what movies everyone's seen. * * * We usually spend Shabbat meals with family, so the conversation is very much a "catch-up" on our week. I try and say something that I've heard or read that's in the spirit of Shabbat. Putting the "Shabbat" into the Shabbat meal takes a little bit of preparation... and, more than anything, a conscious effort. * * * When I go to a rabbi's house and he gives a Devar Torah, I think it's very nice. But when I go to "Joe Schmo," the businessman's house, I'm blown away that he actually finds time to learn and wants to share it with others. The rabbi is supposed to do it, but Joe Schmo chose to do it. It really floors me, because I don't expect it from someone like him, a guy in business, who is not a big talmudic scholar. It makes me realize that the Torah is for everyone, even me. * * * My favorite Shabbat table was one where everyone was new at all of this, like me, and the host gave a Devar Torah that brought out ideas that everyone wanted to comment on. I think the whole discussion lasted about 45 minutes, which to me was amazing. Everyone gave input, and I the host set such a relaxed, such an open atmosphere. * * * My husband had a terrific idea that we have followed: Try to think about interesting questions to ask at the Shabbat table that will make people feel comfortable, as well as stimulate the conversation. The best is when you can think of questions that will bring in Jewish themes, such as Israel or the Torah portion of the week. Now that's a Shabbat table!
• BIKELaredo Mobility options: building a healthier, more equitable city. Updated: Dec 18, 2017 Laredo is home to more than 250,000 inhabitants. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, that number will reach 500,000 by the year 2050. How are we addressing the population and transportation challenges of the future? Like most Texas cities, Laredo has a highly car-dependent culture. The Federal Highway Act of 1944 saw highways as essential components to the economy after World War II. Federal funds created highways across the nation, slowly increasing the dependence on cars while shifting the culture away from pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods. Even though highways facilitated the ability to transport goods from place to place, the concentration of traffic in major arteries of a city increased congestion. Laredo is home to more than 250,000 inhabitants. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, that number will reach 500,000 by the year 2050. How are we addressing the population and transportation challenges of the future? Over decades, the shift in the way we commute has converted into congestion even in a city like Laredo — a place where the transportation challenges of over-populated cities like Los Angeles, Houston, or Austin may seem irrelevant. In Laredo, 94% of the population travels primarily by car. Even if there was an attempt by the 94% to employ alternative transportation methods, the infrastructure in the city makes it unlikely for people to do so. We have built roads under the assumption that everyone has access to a personal vehicle, leaving the underprivileged disenfranchised and without access to efficient ways to travel. As stated in our previous installments, the ideal travel distance for a person on foot is estimated to be about a quarter-mile, which is also referred to as a five-minute walk. In Laredo, that doesn’t really get people anywhere useful in daily life. If people want to go from point A to point B, the use of a car is imperative. Our health: how are streets impacting our bodies? There is a correlation between our roads and our health. To the average folk, it’s apparent that a healthy diet and a 10-minute jog walk may be all that’s necessary to stay fit. Roads may seem a distant issue belonging somewhere in the city’s planning department office and not necessarily relevant to the health of the average Laredoan. However, when the City of Laredo Health Department reports that 31% of Webb County residents are obese, when Laredo ranks 99th healthiest of 100 cities ranked, and when the diabetes mortality rate is at 38 deaths per 1,000 (state average is 21.6), it is critical to examine the factors that enable such sedentary lifestyles. First comes the understanding that people are not always unhealthy by choice, but rather as a result of their environments. National data reveals that 67% of the population is enthused about using an alternate method of transportation, such as riding a bicycle to work, but most people have concerns for a lack of infrastructure that does not prioritize the safety of pedestrians and cyclists. Lack of mobility options disenfranchises the underprivileged. Based on the 2014 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, Laredo’s Median Household Income is $39,408/year. The same study reveals that 31.2% of individuals live below poverty, which is measured at $20,160 for a family of three. These numbers are calculated before taxes. An estimated 32% of Laredoans’ income is spent on transportation costs alone. In order for transportation to be affordable, the percentage spent on it needs to be at 15%. Walkability expert Jeff Speck explains that the spread of suburban sprawl has created a major dependence on vehicles, harming the environment and the most disadvantaged populations as a result. In order to own and maintain a car, a person needs a job. To put the previous numbers into perspective, imagine the following scenario: a single mother of two with a monthly take-home income of $1,300 living below the poverty line will likely need to spend anywhere between $400-$450/month maintaining her vehicle. One day, her car breaks down and the cost to repair it goes beyond her means. She is forced to use public transportation or cut expenses somewhere else in the already limited family budget. The nearest bus stop is two miles away and requires two different bus routes to get her to her job. She needs to wake up two hours earlier in order to catch the first one, so now she will not be able to get her kids ready for school. Her kid has an accident and she misses the first bus, so now she needs to call in late for work. If this happens again, her job is in jeopardy. She would be unable to pay for rent, day care, or food. It’s a Catch-22 that planners and policy makers continue to deal with. By having to drive to work, she ends up working to drive. People from lower socioeconomic backgrounds are not the only ones affected by this issue. People with mental health issues, the physically disabled or handicapped, the elderly population – those without immediate or easy access to a car are all left disenfranchised by a car-driven culture. Access to affordable, efficient transportation is a civil rights issue as much as it is a health and transportation one. What are our solutions? Implementing a bike plan that connects an efficient transportation system in all sectors of the city creates opportunities for residents to easily commute. Those with cars can still use their cars, but they won’t have to for every trip. Those without cars can have an alternative. Bike and park plazas, added bike lanes, alternative bus routes – these components provide safe mobility options. Another urban planning improvement is the completion of streets to ensure that infrastructure, streets, roads, and boulevards, can accommodate every type of commuter. Creating on-street parking, shaded sidewalks, separating bike-lanes from vehicle-lanes through trees or bumpers not only creates aesthetically pleasing neighborhoods, but creates mobility options for residents of different socioeconomic status, not just the ones who are able to afford motor vehicles. A way to challenge a car-driven norm is through road diets. Road diets aim to examine the way streets are built and attempt to find ways to reduce them in size without reducing in efficiency. For example, a street where traffic accidents often occur can benefit from added bike lanes and trees, which have shown to have a direct impact in reducing drivers’ speed. Pedestrians have a 90% chance of surviving a car hitting them at 20 mph, while they have a 90% chance of dying when hit by a car going 40 mph. The forthcoming City of Laredo Comprehensive Plan, otherwise known as Viva Laredo, examines these factors in an attempt to challenge the staggering statistics that spell the health of our city. The plan serves as a guiding document to create policies that measure up to the completion of those goals. It is expected to be presented to City Council for adoption in the summer of 2017. 11 views0 comments
Poppies - Remembrance Day 2018 100 years on and many remember the dead – it's almost expected. It can be good to remember, reflect and explore what endings mean, individually to you. Sometimes linking the past to the present is helpful, but not always; there can be shame and guilt if you're relieved that some part of your life has grown wings and flown away. That's ok too. Sometimes, the deep love and connection you had with the dead brings tears, laughter and a sense of belonging to your world. Shock and isolation are the comfort blankets. Perhaps you experience and believe this or any death was your fault, hence the guilty feelings of how you should've done better. The bargaining begins with thoughts of “if only I had...”. Depression can set in, and what is a natural phenomena usually lasts the longest when there is no light, or perhaps too many lights with bangs and booms which sound like a battle on the Somme, and how we can “go over the top” with regret and guilt. It's a time to remember or forget lost ones who are dear to us, and that a part of our own identity is lost too; the home nest is emptier – young people at university, doing a gap year, etc – perhaps children have left. The future looks insecure, vulnerable and isolated. It may be a time where, at Christmas, families are split between in-laws, step families. Perhaps parents and grandparents are taking the cruise to escape the pain of Christmases past, to create a different Christmas, perhaps solo; where couples ponder future Christmases and try not to think about how different this time of year can be. Whilst there are endings everywhere, there are also beginnings and hope. Renewal and emotional growth go hand in hand and it's never too late to be creative, curious and emotionally repleted, unless you're dead. If you choose to look up at the sky filled with stars and our moon, rather than the ground. There is light even if you're in a car behind another on our darkening afternoons and inky mornings. Death is around us, always. It could be a parent, spouse or partner, child or pet – indeed anyone or anything that has died. It's that time of year when “only the dead have seen the end of war” (Plato). We wear poppies, a hardy and enduring flower, to remember. It's also ok to forget. Grief is hard and this is the price we pay for loving. Initially, the waves of bereavement and loss are tidal; these waves recede in time. Now contemplate many bereavements and how they can be on different lanes of a motorway. This, in the counselling world, is called a complicated bereavement. With Christmas, Divali and Hannaka imminent, and even if you are non-religious, there is light in the candles, the stars and the moon, even if you're blind or experiencing a different type of physical or sensory loss. And so I wonder - what does your poppy look like? What does your poppy represent? Perhaps now is the time for your poppy to be noticed, nurtured and enabled to grow, because “we have bodies coming home and coffins covered in flags, not just in the UK but world-wide” (Michael Morpurgo). Share this article with a friend Banbury, South Northamptonshire, OX17 Written by Sarah Dean Banbury, South Northamptonshire, OX17 I'm a qualified and registered member of the BACP and trained in London. An integrative counsellor, my practice is based on person-centred and psychodynamic theories. I aim to enable adults and young people (13+) to achieve empowerment and work creatively with you on an open ended basis. Specialisms include anxiety, bereavement and esteem. Show comments Find the right counsellor or therapist for you All therapists are verified professionals.
Probiotics – why all the sudden hype? Probiotic has become a new buzzword after seldom having been heard by most of us during our growing years. The reason for the hype is that they are very necessary for our physical and mental health. So important, in fact, that they have been termed a ‘new essential food group’[1]. It is possible that in the past, our diets, lifestyles and medications were less harmful to the population of probiotics that we need in our body. That’s most likely the reason that we haven’t all been as aware of their importance as we are of other food groups, namely proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. The term ‘probiotics’ is derived from the Greek: pro as in ‘promoting’ and biotic, meaning ‘life’. It is a term covering a wide range of different microbes that live in our digestive tracts and doesn’t only refer to the limited few commonly found in or added to some foods, such as natural yoghurt, aged cheese, the recently popular kefir drinks, and so on. Because our foods might not include all the probiotic strains that we need and because anti-biotics and other medications tend to destroy healthy probiotics, we often don’t have enough of them to really function well. This also means that other, potential harmful, bacteria can multiply and thrive, causing an imbalance. The result is obviously that our digestive system suffers but the impact goes further. Our immune system relies on probiotics for proper functioning and if we lack a sufficient supply, our immune system begins to overreact, cause inflammation, allergies, intolerances and frequent illnesses. A faulty immune system can also turn against the body’s own cells, causing autoimmune disorders, such as eczema, type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, asthma, colitis, Crohn’s disease and even ‘ADHD’ [2]. Because foods containing probiotics are no longer part of our diets – for example, naturally fermented vegetables – and other popular foods such as sugar encourage the growth of harmful microbes – many of us resort to supplements to try and maintain a healthy gut. This might not be enough because in order to thrive, probiotics need certain nutrients. These are called prebiotics. Every time we eat, even if it’s a quick snack, we tinker with the delicate balance of microbes in our bodies. We should concentrate on feeding the healthy probiotics while starving the bad microbes. The best prebiotic is dietary fibre, which is found in fruit, vegetables and whole grains. We can’t digest fibre but probiotic microbes thrive on it. Prebiotics can also be found in certain fats, tea, herbs and spices, red wine and dark chocolate. Many children try to avoid eating the foods their bodies most need. Because of this, our ‘picky’ eaters are most in need of supplementation. And it is not surprising that many of these children are prone to health conditions, including brain health, like attention and learning problems. This can make the situation even worse because frequent bouts of sinusitis, colds, chest complaints, ear infections and the like often result in a prescription for antibiotics, once again depleting the probiotic population. Taking probiotics with antibiotics Keep in mind that even though your doctor may prescribe a course of probiotics along with an antibiotic, the way you take these may make a difference. When taking an antibiotic, protect the microflora in the following ways: • Once the medication begins, take a total of two or more doses of probiotics during the day. Don’t consume them with the antibiotics. If they’re in the stomach at the same time the probiotics will be killed by the antibiotics. Keeping the digestive system supplied with probiotics is difficult, because many will be killed by the antibiotics even if they are taken separately. • Try to eat a wide variety of probiotics. A supplement should preferably contain at least 10 billion CFU (Colony-forming units, or otherwise, live microbes) and hopefully more than six different probiotic strains. • Eating prebiotics to support the probiotics is important. Try to avoid refined carbohydrates (bread, flour, sugars, pastas, cookies, cakes, etc). This supports the probiotics and helps them compete against the harmful bacteria. • Continue taking at least one extra dose of probiotics per day for at least a week after the antibiotic course is finished. Even though the medication has stopped, there is still quite a battle going on in the gut. What probiotic supplements to buy? You’ll find plenty of probiotics in chemists and health food shops, not to mention on-line suppliers. It is, however, best to buy supplements from a source where they’re kept under refrigeration. Also consider if the shop is likely to sell these products regularly and replenish stocks often. Unlike vitamin pills, probiotic supplements contain living organisms. If they’re not properly stored or stored for too long, they can die even before you buy them. Keeping them cold helps prolong their lives. You’ll also need to choose a reputable brand. Here it may be wise to ask the advice of your pharmacist or do an on-line search for the company producing the product. Even then, you don’t have any guarantee that products actually contain the stains listed on the label, or that the microbes are still viable, or that they’re free from contamination. Sadly, some American studies have shown that ineffective products are common. Companies that also produce medications or food may be better sources of a supplement because they are generally held to strict standards for their products. Manufacturers may include references on their websites to scientific studies published in peer-reviewed journals or state that they’ve submitted their products to independent laboratories for testing. Check the expiry date. Look for the number of CFUs in the supplements. You need at least 10 billion of six or more strains. Finally, be very cautious of cheaper products. You usually pay more for capsules or packets that contain more CFU and more strains. This, and assured quality, means that the higher priced options may just be money well spent. The recommendations in this post have been based on scientific opinion but aren’t meant to be a substitute for professional medical advice. You may want to speak to your medical doctor about these issues before giving your children or yourself probiotic supplements. [1] Dr Gary Huffnagle, 2007, The probiotics revolution. Vermilion: London [2] Dr Amy Myers, 2015, The Autoimmune Solution. HarperCollins: New York Contact Details +27 (0) 21 873 4951 +27 (0) 82 559 9966 +27 (0) 82 414 4814 +27 (0) 86 691 0051 Email Find an ILT Practitioner near you
Genetically Modified Foods Research Paper 1274 Words6 Pages Genetically modified crops are the leading agricultural food products not only in the Philippines but, mostly worldwide. It is now known that there are several mechanisms for DNA transfer. Genetically modified food are plants that have been generated in a laboratory by altering and changing their genetic makeup and have been tested in the laboratory for aimed qualities .This is usually done by adding one or more gene(s) in a plant’s genome using genetic engineering techniques. Plants are modified for insect, fungal, viral or herbicide resistance, for changed nutritional content, improved taste, and also for improved storage life. Genetically modified organisms is an organism which genetic materials had been altered using different genetic engineering techniques. These process is commonly being done in different variety of plants now a days for a purpose. Whitman (2000) said on her research that genetically modified crops are…show more content… Through modification, the crops can grow faster that can satisfy human needs. According to Bawa and Anilakumar (2013) GM foods are useful in controlling the occurences of certain diseases. By modifying the DNA system of these foods, the properties causing allergies are eliminated successfully. These foods grow faster than the foods that are grown traditionally. The research also showed that the GM foods have high nutrients and contain more minerals and vitamins compared to the traditional crops. Key et (2008) GM technology offers a way to alleviate some of these problems by engineering plants to express additional products that can combat malnutrition. The authors trying to say that genetically modified crops can produce more nutrients that are needed by the human body. Whitman (200) stated that genetically modified crops are drought/salinity tolerant. These plants can withstand long periods of drought or Open Document
Skip To Content The Rockefellers \| Clip Attica Prison Riot Robert Douglass served as Counsel and later Secretary to Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller from 1965 to 1972. At Rockefeller's request, he was sent to Attica during the uprising to represent the governor and to help quell the riot and appease the inmates. Frank Smith was an inmate at the prison and acted as a guard during the uprising, trying to assure that none of the officials sent in to negotiate with the prisoners were harmed. The following excerpts are from the interviews conducted with each of these men for "The Rockefellers" film and provide their points of view about what happened at Attica. 1. Where were you when news came of Attica? Robert Douglass: I think when Attica broke I was actually in Albany, and Governor called me and he had sent Norm Heard, the budget director was out there, and the Commissioner Oswald, who was the head of the corrections system was at Attica, and I was in Albany, and he asked me to follow it very closely, which I did, and then, he felt it was getting worse and he said, "Would you go up to Attica and be my representative at Attica?" And, being a lawyer, I think he felt that might be helpful. So I went out to Attica and kept in constant touch with him, and he was right, the situation was deteriorating. The inmates certainly had gripes about conditions in the prison system, but if you -- it's all relative terms. It was the number of showers and the amount of fresh fruit you got, and whether or not they had alternatives to pork in the diet. They were not what I would consider the kind of complaints you might get [laugh] from some backwards states. But there were complaints, and so the commissioner of corrections went out in the yard to explain that they were invoking some reforms and that he would deliver on his promises, and I thought we were making some headway, and the inmates had something like 24, 25 demands. Those demands had to do with conditions in the prison. 2. How did negotiations proceed? Robert Douglass: And so on Friday of the uprising, I thought we were making progress. I thought we had closure on all 25 items. And then unfortunately one of the prison guards died from injuries during the attack, the uprising. That changed the whole picture. Right then and there, the inmates were very smart and they knew that they were an accessory to the crimes committed during the riot, and every one of them probably could have been prosecuted. And then we started a new tack, which was to negotiate with the district attorney and to assure the inmates there would be no wanton persecution, that whoever was guilty of killing the guard would be, certainly prosecuted, but there would be no just general prosecution of everyone. And we worked out an agreement on it, and that was considered by the inmates. And then they came back and they added to their demands which we had agreed to on Friday, and the two additional demands were asylum to a non-imperialistic country and total amnesty for anything that had happened. Well, one, we couldn't grant asylum to a non-imperialistic country. I had some second thoughts on that. Maybe if I had it to do over again I could come up with a country who would be happy to have given them asylum. And the other was general amnesty, which the governor had no power to grant. He could grant a pardon, but that's after a conviction. So the answer was really no on both counts, and, and I had the clear feeling, as we all did, that these were really designed to be a break point; they wanted a confrontation. 3. When the negotiations get going, what was the initial reaction? Frank Smith: We were dealing with the commissioner, Oswald, you know. "Yeah, that's right, yeah, we did that, that makes sense, you know, we can change, and we going to do that, and we going to work on this and we going to work on that, and we going to deal with the really, really change," and all this. But then he went outside and he forgot that we on the national TV and we got a TV set up, and he go, "Oh, in there, they want everything, they want the whole world." He changes right up. So right then, you know, faith, you know, we said, "We don't want this reaction every person coming in here." And then we start talking to the observers, you know, like Arthur Eve, Clarence Jones, Wicker, and Dunne, and all of them, that we needed the governor, we needed somebody here that really, really want to take this on, because Oswald, ex-parole commissioner, and he didn't have no faith from Jump Street, you know, and he double-dealing, you know, he want to stroke somebody. You know, so that's when the issue, when it really came down to it, Rockefeller should be the person to come, you know, and talk to us as the chief executive of New York State, recognizing that his arm was reaching all the way to Washington, it wasn't just there, you know, because he had a little political thing in the wind, too, you know, he was scheming, you know. He could make a move in his career, too. But at that time, we didn't recognize that. 4. Why did Rockefeller not come to Attica? Robert Douglass: Then there was a group of people that came in and volunteered to kind of broker peace in the situation. It included Herman Bedio, Bill Kuntsler, Eldridge Cleaver. And it was quite a collection of people. And they invited me in, and demanded to see the governor, and I said, "Look, the governor has made it very clear that he's not going to come into a riot situation because -- You can talk to the governor, you're free to call him and you can discuss anything you want, but he strongly feels that he should not come into a prison situation where you're holding hostages under threat of death and negotiate, because it's not a negotiation." "Well, he's got to come up here. Somehow something would happen if he comes here." "Yes, I'll tell you what'll happen. He'll be invited to go out in the yard and talk to the prisoners, and if every time there's a prison uprising and they take a hostage and threaten to kill him, unless the governor comes, the governor's going to spend most of his time going to prison riots." And well, they agreed with that, but perhaps something would happen if he'd come. I said, "Well, why don't you call him?" And they made their plea that he, he come up and he said, "Look, I feel very strongly that I've got good people, I believe in the State Police, and, and they're professionally trained, my corrections commissioner's considered the best in the country. I've got my counsel up there," and he said, "I'm following the situation but it doesn't make any sense." And he, and then this group of negotiators, actually went into the yard and tried to, to find some peaceful way of resolving it, and they were threatened. And so they left -- this was on a Sunday -- feeling totally dispirited that this thing had gone downhill to the point where they didn't know what, if anything, could pull it out. And we spent the rest of Sunday sending messages in, saying, "Look, if you'll release the hostages everybody will be treated decently and restore order and there'll be no recriminations." And we got back no response, and the only response we saw was a building up of the defenses so that any of the entry points into the prison yard were starting to become barricaded with mattresses. They were fashioning weapons, they soaked mattresses in gasoline, and it looked like they were getting ready for some kind of a battle. 5. Why weren't Rockefeller's top aides good enough? Frank Smith: I mean, it wasn't good enough, not only us, you know, it wasn't good enough for the observers. They felt that Rockefeller should be the person to come in and take charge and really deal with the situation. Because the faith of his commissioner wasn't any good, so what make his understudy going to be any better? But now, we talk to the governor, the highest executive, then that make the whole situation more real. You know, then we don't have to go through understudies. So you say something to them, and then they say something to Rockefeller. With his hidden agenda, he's scheming anyway, you know he's thinking about another position, or thinking about going on with his career, you know, and so he was reaching really all the way to Washington that we found out later. You know, so his concern really wasn't into it. But then, you know, it's like I said earlier, you know, the apple don't fall too far from the tree. You got to go back to what happened with his daddy, you know, they know how to deal with violence. So that's what they do, they bring it in, they bring in their troopers and say, "You get rid of the problem," and that's what happened when he gave it to Oswald. He said, "You take care of it, you know, you know what to do." He didn't say, "Well, you go in there and kill them," but he knew something was going to happen. 6. What were the plans to resolve the situation? Frank Douglass: And it was along about 7:30 or 8:00, and I was on the phone all the time with the governor and he had, he talked to me and the correction commission and the head of the State Police to get the feel of the situation. And we delivered the message that, "Release the hostages, you won't be harmed, there'll be no recrimination unless you're involved in a crime," and they said they'd give us their answer. And around 8:00, on Monday morning, the answer was "No," and with that they positioned several of the guards in highly visible positions on top of the ramparts and each guard had an executioner assigned to them. The guards were blindfolded, and one had a lead pipe ready to hit him over the head, another one had a knife at their throat. And we had positioned sharpshooters on the roof of the prison, getting ready for an assault, if we had to do it, and when they positioned the guards for execution, the correction commissioner said that — got on the phone with the governor. He said, "Governor, I've done everything I can, we can't let this go on, and we should go in." The governor said, "Okay," and he said, "We've done it all." And with that, a plan that had been, been laid out over the weekend, which was to send in a helicopter and drop a form of tear gas just prior to the State Police coming in. And I had met with the State Police just before the assault, and, and I really thought that I wouldn't see some of them again because we had Sam Nelville, the Mad Bomber, was -- I mean, these were, these were the most hardened, toughest of New York's criminal inmate population. These guys were there for long sentences, mostly murder, arsons, rapes. These were the worst of the worst. And so they were -- the State Police, the governor made sure that I instructed them that they were not to open fire unless it was to defend themselves or to protect another officer, and they understood that, and they were -- these guys knew what they were doing and they were pretty cool. And they started the assault, they went in, and they had to get into the yard to get to where the hostages were held, and there was gunfire; it didn't last very long. And within a matter of minutes the hostages started coming out and we were counting them as they came out. The governor said, "How does it look?" And I said, "Well, we've got so-and-so many out," and he said, "Well, as soon as we get them all out of there then it doesn't matter because we can just seal the prison off." And, the gunfire ended very quickly. We got the hostages out, and the initial reaction to the thing was that while it was bloody, it was successful. And I think around 38 people got killed, including some hostages. And even with that, the notion was, "Look, they had to do it, they went in, they did it, they restored order." 7. What did you see on Monday morning? Frank Smith: The first thing I seen and hear was a helicopter circling over the yard, you know, and then gas, and then a loudspeaker, "Put your hand on your head and you won't be harmed," and all that type of stuff. But shooting at the same time, you follow, and everybody hit the ground, I hit the ground over by the observers' table. And then they were coming over the wall, the assault forces, coming over the wall, shooting, and eventually I start hearing my name, you know, and then some friends of mine told me, I should, you know, take my clothes off, because that gas that everybody burning and what we were doing we was putting milk on ourself, that supposedly, you know, prevented a lot of burns and stuff. So I finally got my clothes off. But they were making people strip anywhere, as you come out of D Yard and go into A Block, and, and you fall on your stomach when you go through the door to A Block and you had to crawl, and I'm in A Block now and then I hear my name and the person that I worked for in the laundry said, "Here's Black, here he is," and they made me get up, beat me, and beat me into an area of the yard and laid me on the table and put a football under my neck, up under the catwalk, and told me that if it fall, they was going to kill me, and they spit on me and dropped ... on me, and went through the torture word, you know, while I was laying there, "Nigger, why did you castrate the officers, why did you bury them alive? We going to castrate you," and I'm laying on the table spread-eagle, buck naked. But everybody in the yard was naked, the majority of the people, you know, and that went on for, like, three, four, five hours. You know, and right behind me, I'm laying here, and here's the catwalk, and right here's the hallway, they had a gauntlet set up and it had glass broke on the floor, and they was running everybody through the gauntlet, beating them — they had 20, 30 people each side — with what they called their nigger sticks. 8. Did you agree with the governor's decision to go in? Robert Douglass: And then the next day, the coroner from, I think, Monroe County said, "Well, you know, these, these injuries, even to the hostages, came from ricocheted gunfire." And it didn't come from, from being shot by inmates, or hacked to death, or stabbed, they were really injured in the, in the melee that took place when the State Police had to fire within these confined walls. And then I think the press had already run with the story, that it had been successful, that there'd been loss of life but it worked pretty well. And then when it turned out that most of the deaths had occurred not at the hands of the inmates but ricochet fire, there was a sudden 180-degree shift, and all of a sudden the police had used excessive power, they stripped the inmates down before they let them back into their cells, which they had to do anyway because a lot of them had concealed weapons. There wasn't enough medical care available instantly. And, and of course the whole thing turned. The press kind of fed on it, and turned what I think today might have been regarded as a reasonably successful effort to put down a terrible prison riot into a bit of a nightmare for the governor. But he, he never had any regrets about his decision not to go there. He honestly believed that was not the right thing to do, that you can't let somebody take a hostage under threat of death and stop all government and bring it to its knees. And I believe that as well. So I've never had any regrets about involvement in it. I feel sorry about the people who lost their lives, obviously. Support Provided by: Learn More
Vitiligo (also called leukoderma) affects approximately one in every 200 people and is characterized by the appearance of the skin of white patches or very pale pink surrounded by dark borders. This usually appear more frequently in the area of the face (especially around the eyes and mouth), chest (especially in the armpits and English) and on the hands. No injuries or causes itching and can affect both children and adults without regard to sex, race or ethnic group. Vitiligo occurs when cells (called melanocytes) that produce the pigment does not produce more or the cells are destroyed. It is unknown the exact cause of vitiligo. However, it could be due to: Hereditary Factor Malfunction of the thyroid gland disorder Stress Injury Hormonal changes underlying diseases such as pernicious anemia, Addison’s disease or diabetes mellitus. However, the most accepted theory is that vitiligo is caused by autoimmune system problems when the body reacts as if melanocytes were harmful foreign agent and destroy them. It is important that the person suffering from vitiligo to understand this disease to have a realistic expectation of it. Although not a deadly disease is annoying and unpredictable. In some cases (20%) repigmentation occurs spontaneously and other remains static or is spread throughout the body, factors that give a good prognosis for repigmentation are the recent onset (less than 6 months), the affected is a young guy and that the spots are located in the facial area. As for the unfavorable factors for late onset repigmentation are in life and localization in the extremities and lips. RecomendacionesExisten several recommendations for people with vitiligo: & n bsp; Avoid stress as a trigger for the disease. & N bsp; Educate friends and relatives to overcome the idea that the disease is contagious. Because the area has no melanin pigmentation (the body’s natural protection against sunburn) they are less sensitive to sun exposure are therefore recommended to always wear a high factor sunscreen, wear long sleeves and a hat and this prevents the skin surrounding the vitiligo stain to darken more making it more visible.
What Does “Sequoit” Mean? Johnny Horton, Tom Tom Staff Here is a question that isn’t often posed: why was a Sequoit chosen as the school’s mascot and what does “Sequoit” really mean? Surprisingly, a wide variety of students from Antioch Community High School do not know the etymology of their mascot. However, they have a few theories as to how ACHS became the home of the Sequoits. “I think our school shows and means that there were Native Americans that lived in Antioch before us and we are using their name to show everyone that they came before us,” said junior Jordan Jacob. “I think we are called “The Sequoits” because we are named after an Indian tribe that used to live here,” said senior Brooke AlderseBaes. Many students believe that the school name represents a Native American tribe, but it doesn’t. The name “Sequoit” actually has no relation with any Native American tribe that was in Antioch years ago. In fact, the word “Sequoit” is not even a part of the Native American language. “Sequoit” is derived from the real Native American word “sa-da-quoit,” meaning smooth pebbles in the bed of a stream. The school mascot can be deceiving and can often times be portrayed as one thing but, in reality, means another. However, even through all that, the Sequoit name brings pride throughout the entire school and community, even if everyone doesn’t know what “Sequoit” means.
Life Story: Oppression & Democracy The task of this paper is to tell a story examining the form of oppression that most centrally affects YOUR life. In writing your story, you should identify the specific form of oppression you wish to discuss (what is the group being mistreated) and then write about the concrete and daily ways that it shows itself in your life. That is, from whom, in what ways, and where do you note the effects of oppression? In your paper you should incorporate some theoretical aspect of at least 3 of the assigned readings and videos for this class dealing with oppression. While some theoretical framing of your topic is necessary, we also want you to be as specific and personal to you as possible. If you are unclear about the meaning of the term “oppression,” make sure you have read the article “Oppression and Democracy,” (Yuen) posted on the website for unit #6 readings. If you have not read and understood this article you will not do well on this assignment. THEN, conclude your paper with 1-2 paragraphs outlining a SPECIFIC AND DO-ABLE plan of political action YOU could carry out that would lead in the direction of eliminating this oppression from your life and the world. The strongest stories will address the following questions: How does this oppression affect YOU personally? How is it about YOUR life? (i.e., tell a “Story of Self”) What are some of the larger social SYSTEMS/INSTITUTIONS that create support, and perpetuate this oppression? Why is what you are writing about not just an isolated or peculiar thing that happens on an individual basis? That is, why is it really “oppression” as opposed to just “mistreatment?” How is this a problem that your entire group faces and not just you as an individual. (i.e., tell a “Story of Us”) How does this oppression interact with other forms of oppression in a mutually reinforcing way? In what ways have you “internalized” the behaviors and belief systems imposed by this oppression? How does your personal story relate to the theoretical insights from the assigned readings? Use at least 3 sources from our assigned readings, WITH FOOTNOTES– tell us EXACTLY where you got the material, etc using an academically appropriate method of citation. How well have you learned to apply the lessons from the practicing democracy and civic engagement components of this class to this topic? Have you presented a realistic plan of action that you could implement right now and that you could get others in your community to participate in? (i.e., tell a “Story of Now”) $10 per 275 words - Purchase Now
Ambarisha, Ambariṣa, Ambarīṣa, Aṃbarīṣa: 13 definitions The Sanskrit terms Ambariṣa and Ambarīṣa and Aṃbarīṣa can be transliterated into English as Ambarisa or Ambarisha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?). In Hinduism Natyashastra (theatrics and dramaturgy) Source: The mirror of gesture (abhinaya-darpana) One of the Hands of Famous Emperors.—Ambariṣa: the Kartarī hand. Natyashastra book cover context information Discover the meaning of ambarisha or ambarisa in the context of Natyashastra from relevant books on Exotic India Purana and Itihasa (epic history) [«previous next»] — Ambarisha in Purana glossary Source: Wisdom Library: Bhagavata Purana 1) Ambarīṣa (अम्बरीष):—Son of Nābhāga (son of Nabhaga). Ambarīṣa was an exalted devotee, celebrated for his great merits. He was ruler of the entire world, consisting of seven islands. (see Bhāgavata Purāṇa 9.4.13) He had three sons, named Virūpa, Ketumān and Śambhu. (see Bhāgavata Purāṇa 9.6.1) 2) Ambarīṣa (अम्बरीष):—One of the three sons of Māndhātā (son of Yuvanāśva) and Bindumatī (daughter of Śaśabindu). He had a son who was called Yauvanāśva. (see Bhāgavata Purāṇa 9.6.38,9.7.1) Source: Puranic Encyclopedia 1) Ambarīṣa (अम्बरीष).—A King of the Ikṣvāku dynasty. Genealogy and Birth. From Viṣṇu was born in the following order: Brahmā-Marīci-Kaśyapa.-Vivasvān-Vaivasvatamanu-Ikṣvāku-Vikukṣi-Śaśāda-Purañjaya-Kukutstha-Anenas-Pṛthulāśva-Prasenajit-Yuvanāśva-Māndhātā-Ambarīṣa. Māndhātā had three sons: Ambarīṣa, Mucukunda and Purukutsa and fifty daughters. The Muni (Sage) Saubhari married the daughters. (See full article at Story of Ambarīṣa from the Puranic encyclopaedia by Vettam Mani) 2) Ambarīṣa (अम्बरीष).—When Balabhadrarāma entered the lower world (Pātāla) after death, among the Nāgas who welcomed him, there was one called "Ambarīṣa". (Mahābhārata, Mausala Parva, Chapter 4, Verse 16). Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana Index 1a) Aṃbarīṣa (अंबरीष).—The son of Nābhāga. A devotee of Hari. The curse of Durvāsas proved ineffective in his case. Though lord of seven continents, Ambarīṣa knew that glory was perishable. He devoted himself to the service of Hari, and got to know the power of His yoga. A saintly king. Performed the aśvamedha in a desert region so as to compel R. Sarasvati flow back towards it. Pleased with him, Hari presented his cakra to him. He observed the dvādasī vrata, for a year at the end of which he gave gifts to Brāhmaṇas and was preparing to feed them. There then came Durvāsas who agreed to be fed. He went to the Yamunā for bath and was engaged in contemplating on Brahman. The time for breakfast came and the sage did not return. So the king broke his fast with only water and waited food expecting the sage's arrival. The sage on his return found that the king had broken his fast, and grew angry and created a flaming goddess to attack him. Hari's cakra burnt her, turned towards the sage who ran everywhere and to the trimūrtis in vain.1 Advised by Hari, the sage apologised to the king who prayed to the cakra and set the sage at liberty. The king who had not taken food requested him to accept his hospitality which Durvāsas gladly did. Blessing the king, the sage went back to Brahmaloka. Later the king bestowed his kingdom on his sons and retired to the forest for a life of penance and prayer.2 Had three sons Virūpa and others.3 A mantrakṛt who made the 16 great gifts.4 • 1) Bhāgavata-purāṇa IX. 4. 13-71; II. 7. 44; Brahmāṇḍa-purāṇa III. 34. 39; Vāyu-purāṇa 88. 171. • 2) Bhāgavata-purāṇa IX. 5 (whole). • 3) Bhāgavata-purāṇa IX. 6. 1; Brahmāṇḍa-purāṇa III. 63. 6, 170-172; Viṣṇu-purāṇa IV. 2. 6, 7; 4. 36. • 4) Matsya-purāṇa 12. 20, 45; 145. 102; 274. 11. 1b) A son of Māndhātṛ and Bindumatī. Adopted by his grandfather. Father of Yuvanāśva. (not the Yuvanāśva, father of Māndhātṛ).* • * Bhāgavata-purāṇa IX. 6. 38; 7. 1; Brahmāṇḍa-purāṇa III. 63. 72; Vāyu-purāṇa 88. 72; Viṣṇu-purāṇa IV. 2. 67; 3. 2. 1c) An Aṅgirasa and mantrakṛt.* • * Brahmāṇḍa-purāṇa II. 32. 108; Vāyu-purāṇa 59. 99. 1d) A kādraveya nāga.* • * Brahmāṇḍa-purāṇa III. 7. 36; Vāyu-purāṇa 69. 73. 1e) A son of Pulaha and Kṣamā.* • * Vāyu-purāṇa 28. 26. Source: JatLand: List of Mahabharata people and places Ambarīṣa (अम्बरीष) is a name mentioned in the Mahābhārata (cf. XIII.116.65, XIII.115) and represents one of the many proper names used for people and places. Note: The Mahābhārata (mentioning Ambarīṣa) is a Sanskrit epic poem consisting of 100,000 ślokas (metrical verses) and is over 2000 years old. Source: Shodhganga: The saurapurana - a critical study Ambarīṣa (अम्बरीष) refers to one of the two sons of Marīci and Kṣamā: one of the twenty-four daughters of Dakṣa and Prasūti, according to the Vaṃśa (‘genealogical description’) of the 10th century Saurapurāṇa: one of the various Upapurāṇas depicting Śaivism.—Accordingly, Ākūti was married to Ruci and Prasūti to Dakṣa. Dakṣa produced in Prasūti twenty-four daughters. [...] [Kṣamā was given to Pulaha.]. [...] Pulaha and Kṣamā had two sons—Kardama and Ambarīṣa. Purana book cover context information Discover the meaning of ambarisha or ambarisa in the context of Purana from relevant books on Exotic India Languages of India and abroad Sanskrit dictionary [«previous next»] — Ambarisha in Sanskrit glossary Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary Ambarīṣa (अम्बरीष).—[In some senses ambarīṣaḥ also; °ṣaḥ only by Uṇ.4.29. klībembarīṣaṃ bhrāṣṭro nā Ak.] 1) A frying-pan. 2) 'अम्बरीषो भवेद् भ्राष्ट्र (ambarīṣo bhaved bhrāṣṭra)' इति विश्वः । अम्बरीषोपमम् दीप्तं विधूम इव पावकः (iti viśvaḥ \| ambarīṣopamam dīptaṃ vidhūma iva pāvakaḥ) Rām.4.67.7. 2) Regret, remorse. 3) War, battle. 4) One of the hells (Jaina.) 5) A young animal, colt. 6) The sun. Rām 5. 7) The hog-plum plant (āmrātakam, Mar. aṃbāḍā) 8) Name of Viṣṇu. 9) Name of Śiva. 1) Name of a king of the solar race who was celebrated as a worshipper of Viṣṇu. 11) Name of a Vedic king and seer; Rv.1.1.17. Derivable forms: ambarīṣam (अम्बरीषम्). Ambariṣa (अम्बरिष).—mn. (-ṣaḥ-ṣaṃ) A frying pan. See the next. --- OR --- Ambarīṣa (अम्बरीष).—mn. (-ṣaḥ-ṣaṃ) 1. A frying pan. 2. War, battle. m. (-ṣaḥ) 1. A name of Siva. 2. Also of Vishnu. 3. A young animal. a colt, a boy. 4. The name of a king of the solar race, celebrated as a worshipper of Vishnu. 5. A division of hell. 6. The sun. 7. Repentance. 8. A tree, (Spondias mangifera.) E. abi to sound, and īṣan Unadi affix, but irregularly formed. Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary Ambarīṣa (अम्बरीष).—[masculine] [neuter] a frying-pan; [masculine] a man’s name. 1) Ambarīṣa (अम्बरीष):—mn. a frying pan, [Taittirīya-saṃhitā v], [Kātyāyana-śrauta-sūtra] 2) m. Name of a hell, [Jaina literature] 3) remorse, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.] 4) war, battle, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.] 5) a young animal, colt, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.] 6) the sun, [Rāmāyaṇa v, 3, 5], sky, atmosphere [commentator or commentary] on [Uṇādi-sūtra] 7) the hog-plum plant (Spondias Magnifera), [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.] 8) Name of a Rājarṣi (son of the king Vṛṣagir, and composer of the hymns, [Ṛg-veda i, 100 and ix, 98]), [Ṛg-veda i, 100, 17], of a descendant of Manu Vaivasvata and son of Nābhāga (celebrated for his devotion to Viṣṇu), [Mahābhārata etc.] Name of a Rājarṣi (descendant of Sagara and ancestor of Daśaratha), [Rāmāyaṇa] 9) Name of a son of the patriarch Pulaha, [Vāyu-purāṇa] etc. 12) of Gaṇeśa, [Kathāsaritsāgara] Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary Ambarīṣa (अम्बरीष):—[amba-rīṣa] (ṣaḥ-ṣaṃ) 1. m. n. Fryingpan; war. m. Shiva; Vishnu; a colt; name of a king; a hell. [Sanskrit to German] (Deutsch Wörterbuch) Ambariṣa (अम्बरिष):—n. Bratpfanne = ambarīṣa [Ramānātha] zu [Amarakoṣa im Śabdakalpadruma] --- OR --- Ambarīṣa (अम्बरीष):—n. [Siddhāntakaumudī.249], b, [5.] 1) Bratpfanne, n. [Amarakoṣa 2, 9, 30.] [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 3, 3, 433.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1020] [?(Manu’s Gesetzbuch Nalopākhyāna Scholiast). Medinīkoṣa ṣ. 47. Manu’s Gesetzbuch Die Uṇādi-Affixe 4, 9] (a). [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha 4, 314.] vaiśyakulāmbarīṣamahānasādvā [Kātyāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 4, 7, 16.] — 2) m. Kind, Junges (kiśora) [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa ṣ. 48.] — 3) m. Sonne diess. — 4) Kampf, m. [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] n. [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa] [Medinīkoṣa ṣ. 47.] — 5) m. Reue [Medinīkoṣa ṣ. 48.] — 6) m. Spondias mangifera (āmrātaka) [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha 4, 315.] [Medinīkoṣa] — 7) m. eine Art Hölle [Medinīkoṣa] — 8) Viṣṇu [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa] — 9) Śiva [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] — 10) Nomen proprium ein Abkömmling von Vṛṣāgir [Ṛgveda 1, 100, 17.] Verfasser von [9, 98.] [Weber’s Verzeichniss 56, 9.] ein König [Medinīkoṣa ṣ. 47.] bhagavānambarīṣaśca brāhmaṇāyāmitaujase . pradāya sakalaṃ rāṣṭraṃ suralokamavāptavān .. [Mahābhārata 13, 6252.] ein Nachkomme Ikṣvāku’s, ein Sohn Praśuśruka’s und König von Ayodhyā [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 70, 40. 2, 110, 32.] [Viśvāmitra’s Kampf 11, 5. fgg.] [Weber’s Indische Studien 2, 119.] ein Sohn Nābhāga’s [Mahābhārata 12, 993. fgg. 3615. fgg. 8597.] [Harivaṃśa 641. 813.] [Viṣṇupurāṇa 351,] [Nalopākhyāna 7] [?(vgl. Harivaṃśa 637). 379.] Pulaha's [83, Nalopākhyāna 6.] Māṃdhātar’s [363.] eines Purohita [Lebensbeschreibung Śākyamuni’s 287 (57).] nāradāmbarīṣasaṃvāda [PADMA-Pāṇini’s acht Bücher] in [Weber’s Verzeichniss No. 453. -] [Colebrooke I, 24.] [Lassen’s Indische Alterthumskunde I, 750. Anhang VI, Nalopākhyāna VIII. IX.] --- OR --- Ambarīṣa (अम्बरीष):— 1) [Taittirīyasaṃhitā 5, 1, 9, 5.] — 10) [Oxforder Handschriften 45,a,16.] Āṅgirasa [Weber’s Indische Studien.3,203,b.] — 11) Beiname Gaṇeśa’s [Kathāsaritsāgara 55, 165.] Ambariṣa (अम्बरिष):—n. Bratpfanne. --- OR --- Ambarīṣa (अम्बरीष):—— 1) m. n. Bratpfanne [Taittirīyasaṃhitā 5,1,9,4.] — 2) m. Nomen proprium verschiedener Männer. — 3) m. Thierjunges. 4) m. die Sonne. 5) n. Luftraum [Ujjvaladatta] — 6) m. n. Kampf. 7) m. Reue. 8) m. Spondias mangifera. 9) m. eine best. Hölle. 10) m. Beiname Viṣṇu's. *Śiva’s und Gaṇiśa's. context information Discover the meaning of ambarisha or ambarisa in the context of Sanskrit from relevant books on Exotic India See also (Relevant definitions) Relevant text Like what you read? Consider supporting this website:
The 5 Laws of Taxes And How Learn More Importance of Charity Organizations The charity organizations are non-profit making firms which are established to help raise funds through events and donations, and these are used to support the lives of the special members of the society such as the widows. The charity organizations are very crucial in assisting the special groups of people. The following are the advantages of charity organizations in society. Charity organizations are essential because they provide funds to support the living and this is by giving the basic needs to the members of the society such as the clothing, food, and education among many others. Charity organizations are also relevant because they are non-profit making organizations and thus money and materials donated to the organization are equally distributed. another benefit of the charity organization is that they are open to all people who would like to offer this assistance and thus an advantage. These organizations are essential because they provide advisory services such as counseling to the special groups and thus an advantage in preventing too many thoughts which would possibly lead to issues such as suicide. These firms are essential because they organize events such as parties, meeting and the fundraising ceremonies which involve all people of good will to join the contributions. Charity organizations are also relevant because they receive aid from the government which is advantageous in forming part of the contributions made. While emergencies happen, charity organizations come in to offer assistance, and this makes them essential in reducing suffering. With the alarming rise in crime in different societies, members are exposed to unethical practices by these individuals, and this makes the charity organizations essential since they are legalized to operate. Charity organizations are easy to run with simple practices such as collecting the contributions from the members and sharing them to the special groups. Charity organizations are also relevant because they help instill some virtues to the members such as generosity. Another reason as to why the charity organizations are essential is that they help to uphold cultural practices such as unity. These organizations are advantageous in offering support to special groups of people globally. Misconduct through activities such as crime lead to issues to some people in the society, and thus these organizations come in to guide people on how to handle others and avoid such losses. These organizations have trainers who impart skills such as carpentry which are essential to the disadvantaged members of the society and this is because when applied can assist in raising money to fund their operations. Another benefit of charity organizations is that they are easy to start. A charity organization, unlike limited companies, acquire more members while they exist because they do not limit the membership to a particular number. The Best Advice About Exemptions I’ve Ever Written What You Should Know About Donations This Year
Where the world comes to study the Bible Report Inappropriate Ad Q. In Scripture, What Exactly Is A Vow? QUESTION: I don’t feel like I have a very precise definition of what a vow is. Must a vow be verbally expressed? Could it be made by silent prayer? What about my inner thoughts which come to mind; are these vows? Are impulsive or foolish vows still vows? What about vows which produce harm to oneself or others? I believe that the use of the word “vow” in the Bible conveys the sense of a conscious, deliberate, promise to do something, sometimes conditioned by an “if”: Jephthah made a vow to the LORD, saying, “If you really do hand the Ammonites over to me, 31 then whoever is the first to come through the doors of my house to meet me when I return safely from fighting the Ammonites– he will belong to the LORD and I will offer him up as a burnt sacrifice.” (Jdg. 11:30-31 NET; Genesis 28:20-22; 31:13; Numbers 21:2; 1 Samuel 1:11) A vow may or may not be made “to” the Lord (e.g. Genesis 14:22-24; Judges 11:30), but it is made “before” or in the presence of the Lord. In other words, God is a witness to the vow. That makes it pretty solemn. By and large, a vow is considered binding, with very few exceptions. In the case of Israel’s covenant with the Gibeonites in Joshua 9, Israel’s covenant promise to protect the Gibeonites was honored, even though this commitment had been achieved deceitfully. Israel took its commitments seriously. In Leviticus 27 (and perhaps Numbers 15) a promised offering is viewed as a vow, which may be its most common occurrence. But if the one who promised is not able to give the promised amount the priest can pronounce a reduced obligation. Note that what is promised (vowed) can be redeemed, but with a 1/5th penalty. It does appear that at least some foolish vows can be revoked or withdrawn, with the permission of the one to whom the vow was made. If one has made a foolish commitment, he or she should quickly seek to withdraw it: If you have been ensnared by the words you have uttered, and have been caught by the words you have spoken, 3 then, my child, do this in order to deliver yourself, because you have fallen into your neighbor’s power: go, humble yourself, and appeal firmly to your neighbor. 4 Permit no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids. 5 Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a snare, and like a bird from the trap of the fowler. (Prov. 6:2-5 NET) From Numbers 6 we learn that a man can vow to live as a Nazarite for a specified period of time. If he does not, or is not able to fulfill his vow (initially) then there is a penalty to be paid, and then the vow can then be reinstated. According to Numbers 30, only one in a higher position of authority (such as a father or husband) may dismiss/set aside a vow made by a woman under his authority. Otherwise, there is no release provided. Deuteronomy 23:21 requires the prompt payment of a vow (seemingly a vow to offer a certain sacrifice – see 1 Samuel 1:21). If a vow is not made, then failure to offer the sacrifice is not regarded as sin. What is clear about vows is that one should give careful thought to what one vows to do, and that once vowed, one should not be slow to fulfill it: It is a snare for a person to rashly cry, “Holy!” and only afterward to consider what he has vowed. (Prov. 20:25 NET) Do not be rash with your mouth or hasty in your heart to bring up a matter before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth! Therefore, let your words be few. 3 Just as dreams come when there are many cares, so the rash vow of a fool occurs when there are many words. 4 When you make a vow to God, do not delay in paying it. For God takes no pleasure in fools: Pay what you vow! 5 It is better for you not to vow than to vow and not pay it. (Eccl. 5:2-5 NET) It seems to me that when you look at all of the “vow” references in the Bible, the great majority of these are religious in nature: a vow to offer a certain sacrifice or offering, a vow to live for a time as a Nazarite. And those vows not made to God, are usually made with God as witness. Foolish vows were made, but these fall far short of the ideal for vows, which should be well thought through, and which should be made with a strong resolve to fulfill them. One should add that oaths are voluntary commitments (Deuteronomy 23:23). In the Scriptures vows might be silently made, but they are consciously made to God, or with God as our witness. Foolish vows were made, as was the vow of Jephthah, and this vow Jephthah kept. Wicked vows invoked God’s name in vain (that is, with no intent to follow through – Leviticus 19:12; Deuteronomy 5:11). It is noteworthy that most of the references to vows are found in the Old Testament, not the New. I believe that is because Jesus is “the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6; see also John 1:14, 17). Therefore, those who have Christ dwelling in them speak truth (Ephesians 4:15-24). This is our Lord’s point in Matthew chapter 5: “Again, you have heard that it was said to an older generation, ‘Do not break an oath, but fulfill your vows to the Lord.’ 34 But I say to you, do not take oaths at all– not by heaven, because it is the throne of God, 35 not by earth, because it is his footstool, and not by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great King. 36 Do not take an oath by your head, because you are not able to make one hair white or black. 37 Let your word be ‘Yes, yes’ or ‘No, no.’ More than this is from the evil one. (Matt. 5:33-37 NET) This was a game-changer when it came to the making and keeping of vows. Jesus taught that Christians should be characterized as people of truth, people who keep their word. They should not need to take an oath/make a vow in order to convince others that they intended keep their every word. Thus, the obligation to be truthful and to fulfill our words is extended beyond vows to everything we say we will do (or not do). If this is the case, vows are unnecessary. It is folly to make hasty commitments (whether a vow or not). One should carefully consider what he or she is committing themselves to do, or not do. Having made a commitment, one should keep it. Can a vow, or even a commitment, be made in silent prayer? Yes. That is what seems to have occurred with Hannah in 1 Samuel 1:9-18. But this was no rash decision or commitment. She had no doubt been pondering it for some time. It was a private vow, and thus not stated publicly. Indeed, it would seem that many vows regarding offerings were private. (Note, also that Hannah kept her vow.) Now, as to random thoughts and inner dialog. I do not believe that these fall into the category of vows, not even of commitments to keep. Tempting thoughts flash through our minds all the time, but we are surely not obliged to fulfill them. We are to acknowledge them as illicit temptations and put them out of our minds. It is possible that one might vow to do harm to someone else, or even to himself (as did the Jews who vowed to kill Paul). One does not even have to vow to harm another; it could be the unintended consequence of a foolish vow, like Jethro’s. Given the sinfulness of man, we should not be surprised by the way a vow can be foolishly invoked, or harmfully carried out. But as New Testament Christians, taking a vow seems to be unnecessary (in the Old Testament sense) because we are to speak wisely and keep our word. This may explain why vows are so rare in the New Testament. Related Topics: Christian Life Report Inappropriate Ad
segunda-feira, 22 de abril de 2019 Perl Weekly Challenge 005 This week's challenges are all about anagrams. The first one is to Write a program which prints out all anagrams for a given word. For more information about Anagram, please check this wikipedia page. It's not said but I assume that, besides the word, the program must also read a dictionary of words in which it will look for anagrams. My solution is simple and very much alike the solution to last week's second challenge. The ideia is to use a hash function that generates a key for each word so that anagrams always produce the same key and non-anagrams always lead to different keys. The hash function I use lowercases the word so that we compare letters case insensitively. Then it splits the word in all of its letters, sorts, and joins them together. So, for example, "Perl" is keyed as "elpr". The script first generates the key for the input word. Then it iterates for all dictionary words, printing those that have a key equal to the input word's key. The second challenge is to Write a program to find the sequence of characters that has the most anagrams. My solution first reads all of the dictionary words and classify them in anagrams using the same hash function of the first script. Then it finds and prints the keys associated with the maximum number of anagrams. And this is how they work. First I use the second script to grok the sequence of characters that has the most anagrams in my Ubuntu dictionary. Then I use the first script to grok all the anagrams associated with it: I came up with another solution to the second challenge that is shorter, faster and uses no modules: quarta-feira, 17 de abril de 2019 Perl Weekly Challenge 004 This week I submitted my solutions via a pull request to the GitHub's repository. This was the first time I solved the first problem, because it was interesting: Write a script to output the same number of PI digits as the size of your script. Say, if your script size is 10, it should print 3.141592653. After seeing a few solutions by other people I feel that my solution is a little dumb. I wrote the smallest script I could write, saw its size and edited back the number of characters I wanted. Some other solutions use clever ways to grok the scripts size dynamically. The second problem was interesting too: You are given a file containing a list of words (case insensitive 1 word per line) and a list of letters. Print each word from the file than can be made using only letters from the list. You can use each letter only once (though there can be duplicates and you can use each of them once), you don’t have to use all the letters. (Disclaimer: The challenge was proposed by Scimon Proctor) My solution is similar to others I saw after having written it. It's not particularly clever, but I find it very readable. This is how it works in my Linux box: $ ./ /usr/share/dict/words Perl That's it for this week. After a while I came up with a new solution to the second problem which is more concise because it's written in a more functional style. But it depends on the List::Util module. quinta-feira, 11 de abril de 2019 svndumpsanitizer is a gem I've been supporting Subversion repositories in my work for more than ten years already. During this time I've grudgingly done my fair share of migrations, moving partial histories from one repository to another. The standard procedure consists in dumping the source repository, filtering the resulting dump to keep only the part of the history you're interested in, and loading the resulting dump into the target repository. It's possible to do it in a single pipeline like this: svnadmin dump source \| svndumpfilter options \| svnadmin load target If you ever did this to any non-trivial repository you must know how exasperating it can be to come up with the correct options. It's a trial-and-error process because you never know exactly which paths you need to include in the filter, since Subversion histories have a tendency of containing all sorts of weird movements and renamings, which break the filtering. Then, you have to understand which path you have to add to the filter and restart the process from the beginning. This week I embarked in a Subversion migration adventure. If I only knew how I would regret it... I had to move the histories of some 15 directories from three source repositories into a sub-directory of a single target repository. They are big and old repositories, but the directories seemed innocent enough that I started very confident. To be sure, all but two of the directories were moved easily. The remaining two kept me busy for most of the week though. Their histories are long and windy. During the course of my trials I became aware of some options in newer versions of the "svnadmin dump" command that promised to make it possible to avoid the intermediary svndumpfilter command. But it failed. Hard. Repeatedly. Annoyingly. I gave myself today as my last chance to finish the process. I almost gave up but by chance I stumbled upon a link to svndumpsanitizer... and I was saved. It's a simple, fast, and intelligent tool that seems to solve all the problems that the svndumpfilter program has. And it's superbly documented too. It's page explains very well the usual problems we get with svndumpfilter and how it overcomes them. Discounting the time to make the initial dump and the final load, the filtering took less than a minute. Awesome! Kudos to svndumpsanitizer's author, dsuni at GitHub, for such a gem! domingo, 7 de abril de 2019 Perl Weekly Challenge #3 This week's challenge is to: Create a script that generates Pascal Triangle. Accept number of rows from the command line. The Pascal Triangle should have at least 3 rows. For more information about Pascal Triangle, check this wikipedia page. I don't know why there is a restriction in the number of rows. Here's my quick&dirty answer: Here's how to use it: sexta-feira, 5 de abril de 2019 O princípio e o fim Meu filho está resfriado e começou a discutir com minha esposa sobre que remédio ele deveria tomar para dor e febre. Eu não estava prestando muita atenção, mas percebi que estavam discutindo sobre as diferenças entre os princípios ativos. Ela argumentava que se os remédios tinham princípios ativos distintos não tinha problema tomar dois de uma vez, ao passo que ele teimava que se ambos serviam para a mesma coisa isso não fazia muito sentido... Devia ser mais complicado do que isso, mas, como eu disse, eu não estava prestando atenção. Tentando ajudar eu perguntei: - O que importa se eles não têm o mesmo princípio se ambos têm o mesmo fim? Não ajudou em nada... Mas não ficou bonito? ;-) domingo, 31 de março de 2019 Perl Weekly Chalenge #2 Last week I sent my solution to the Perl Weekly Chalenge #1 via email. It was fun and simple. This week's challenge is to "write a script that can convert numbers to and from a base35 representation, using the characters 0-9 and A-Y." I cannot do it as a one-liner this time, but it was still fun. While trying to solve it I realized that it wouldn't be much harder to implement a general solution to convert from any base to any base between 2 and 36. This is my solution: And this is how it works: sábado, 9 de fevereiro de 2019 De nove a dez Anteontem eu estava conversando com meu filho Tiago (que já está com 20 anos!) quando tive um lampejo de genialidade e fiz um comentário inteligentíssimo e muito engraçado. Não me lembro mais exatamente o que era, mas eu achei tão bom que perguntei pra ele empolgado: - Filhão, quanto você dá pra mim? - Por que, pai? - Pelo comentário inteligente que eu acabei de fazer. - De quanto a quanto? - De zero a dez. - Zero! - Como assim, filhão? O comentário foi ótimo, pô! Ele viu que eu fiquei muito frustrado e me aconselhou: - Pai, quando você quiser uma nota boa você não pode dar muita liberdade pra quem vai dar a nota. - Como assim? - Não pode pedir a nota de zero a dez. - Ah, não? - Não. Tem que pedir de nove a dez, por exemplo. - Hmm... tá, de nove a dez quanto você me dá? - Nove! Tá aí. Fiquei bem mais feliz. :-) terça-feira, 1 de janeiro de 2019 Juliana dá o troco Há 11 anos minha filha Juliana sofria na mão do irmão Tiago e da prima Ana Flávia que, mais velhos, não lhe davam chance durante as brincadeiras. Ontem ela foi à forra: fizemos uma dupla, eu e ela, e jogamos truco contra o irmão e a prima. Ganhamos duas partidas... a primeira de 12 a 0! Aprendeu a ganhar, hein, Ju? 😁
Diet and Vitamins Dietary vitamins help our bodies mainly by acting as a substitute if there are not enough vitamins in the food we eat. First and foremost, a healthy diet consisting of foods high in vitamins is better than taking a supplement. Supplements are best for rounding out your vitamin intake, to ensure you are getting all that your body requires. Look for the contents of a supplement and note the amount of each vitamin in contains. If a vitamin says its a good source of Vitamin A don't let this trick you, it only needs to contain a certain amount of Vitamin A, you may still need more. For example it takes 12mg of vitamin C to earn an excellent source of label, but 12mg is less than your required daily intake. So make sure the vitamins you're buying contain enough of what your body needs, read the back of the label. Supplements often make different claims, these are known as structure function claims. Which the FDA defines as the vitamin supplements effect on the body's function or structure. A good example is Calcium helps build strong teeth and bones. These claims can also cover the effects of a supplement on your overall health. The huge verity of dietary vitamin supplements on the market today can make it difficult to choose the right one. You have to decide whether you want only one vitamin or a multivitamin. Make sure you know exactly which vitamins you need, this way you're not overdosing on vitamins you're already getting enough of. Finding out which vitamins you need the most is a good idea, get your doctor to help you. Armed with this info, you can pick a good vitamin or multivitamin. You don't want to overdose on vitamins, this can end up causing more harm than good. If you need help contact a qualified nutrition expert who can offer you advise on the best dietary supplements to choose. The key is balance. You need to add a healthy diet to exercise, this will keep you feeling younger and stronger. Do this and you'll find yourself feeling better and happier because of it.
Switzerland > Broc Broc is a municipality in the district of Gruyère in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. Broc is first mentioned in 1115 as Broc and Broch. The municipality was formerly known by its German name Bruck, but that name is no longer used. Broc has an area, as of 2009, of 10 square kilometers (3.9 sq mi). Of this area, 4.2 km2 (1.6 sq mi) or 41.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while 4.44 km2 (1.71 sq mi) or 44.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.91 km2 (0.35 sq mi) or 9.1% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.29 km2 (0.11 sq mi) or 2.9% is either rivers or lakes and 0.22 km2 (0.085 sq mi) or 2.2% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.6%. Of the forested land, 42.2% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.0% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 6.2% is used for growing crops, 20.6% is pastures and 14.8% is used for alpine pastures. Of the water in the municipality, 1.4% is in lakes and 1.5% is in rivers and streams. The municipality is located in the Greyerz district, on the Bulle-Boltigen road near the Jaun Pass. Coat of arms The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, a Crane Argent rising from a chevron-like Bridge Or and in chief dexter a Mullet of Five of the last. Broc has a population (as of December 2016) of 2,632. As of 2008, 25.4% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 8%. Migration accounted for 10%, while births and deaths accounted for 0.4%. Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks French (1,826 or 88.3%) as their first language, Portuguese is the second most common (60 or 2.9%) and German is the third (54 or 2.6%). There are 18 people who speak Italian. As of 2008, the population was 50.8% male and 49.2% female. The population was made up of 783 Swiss men (34.9% of the population) and 355 (15.8%) non-Swiss men. There were 845 Swiss women (37.7%) and 259 (11.6%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 659 or about 31.9% were born in Broc and lived there in 2000. There were 746 or 36.1% who were born in the same canton, while 215 or 10.4% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 336 or 16.2% were born outside of Switzerland. As of 2000, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 24.8% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 57.7% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 17.5%. As of 2000, 821 people were single and never married in the municipality, 1,000 married individuals, 159 widows or widowers, and 88 individuals who are divorced. As of 2000, there were 826 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.4 persons per household. There were 288 households that consist of only one person and 59 households with five or more people. In 2000, a total of 819 apartments (85.1% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 73 apartments (7.6%) were seasonally occupied and 70 apartments (7.3%) were empty. As of 2009, the construction rate of new housing units was 5.4 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2010, was 0.29%. The historical population is given in the following chart: Heritage sites of national significance The Barrage De Montsalvens (shared with Châtel-sur-Montsalvens), and the Notre-Dame des Marches Chapel are listed as Swiss heritage sites of national significance. The Broc-Fabrique and Broc-Vieille Cure areas are both part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites. In the 2011 federal election, the most popular party was the SP, which received 29.9% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (21.0%), the CVP (20.7%) and the FDP (15.8%). The SPS received about the same percentage of the vote as they did in the 2007 Federal election (28.6% in 2007 vs 29.9% in 2011). The SVP moved from fourth in 2007 (with 18.6%) to second in 2011, the CVP moved from second in 2007 (with 24.9%) to third and the FDP moved from third in 2007 (with 19.5%) to fourth. A total of 615 votes were cast in this election, of which 13 or 2.1% were invalid. As of 2010, Broc had an unemployment rate of 4.5%. As of 2008; there were 23 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 9 businesses involved in this sector; 481 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 19 businesses in this sector. 292 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 48 businesses in this sector. There were 970 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.2% of the workforce. In 2008 the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 698. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 18, of which 15 were in agriculture and 3 were in forestry or lumber production. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 465 of which 415 or (89.2%) were in manufacturing and 19 (4.1%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 215. In the tertiary sector; 55 or 25.6% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 8 or 3.7% were in the movement and storage of goods, 38 or 17.7% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was in the information industry, 1 was the insurance or financial industry, 16 or 7.4% were in education and 56 or 26.0% were in health care. In 2000, there were 592 workers who commuted into the municipality and 592 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 1.0 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 9.5% used public transportation to get to work, and 67.6% used a private car. From the 2000 census, 1,662 or 80.4% were Roman Catholic, while 86 or 4.2% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 9 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.44% of the population), there was 1 individual who belongs to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 36 individuals (or about 1.74% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 67 (or about 3.24% of the population) who were Islamic. There were 13 individuals who were Buddhist, 3 individuals who were Hindu and 3 individuals who belonged to another church. 73 (or about 3.53% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 131 individuals (or about 6.33% of the population) did not answer the question. In Broc about 615 or (29.7%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 150 or (7.3%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 150 who completed tertiary schooling, 65.3% were Swiss men, 22.7% were Swiss women, 8.0% were non-Swiss men and 4.0% were non-Swiss women. During the 2010-11 school year, there were a total of 274 students attending 14 classes in Broc. A total of 426 students from the municipality attended any school, either in the municipality or outside of it. There were 4 kindergarten classes with a total of 79 students in the municipality. The municipality had 10 primary classes and 195 students. During the same year, there were no lower secondary classes in the municipality, but 84 students attended lower secondary school in a neighboring municipality. There were no upper Secondary classes or vocational classes, but there were 29 upper Secondary students and 69 upper Secondary vocational students who attended classes in another municipality. The municipality had no non-university Tertiary classes, but there were 5 non-university Tertiary students and 10 specialized Tertiary students who attended classes in another municipality. As of 2000, there were 40 students in Broc who came from another municipality, while 160 residents attended schools outside the municipality. Alphabetical Index of Pages \| Hierarchical Index of Pages
E-Cigarettes – What Are the Risks? E-Cigarettes – What Are the Risks? Because the April 14 deadline for the U.S. to begin with reducing the amount of cigarettes podsmall manufactured approaches, a heated debate is developing over what the brand new federal smoking laws will mean for vaporizers along with other vapes. The Consumer Product Safety Commission, or CPSC, anticipates that lots of of the tens of thousands of vaporizer devices will be put to the disposal by retailers and companies by the end of this year. Lots of the older models aren’t being phased out, but their numbers will diminish over time, according to CPSC estimates. It is too soon to assess the way the new legislation will affect vapes, but here are several of the Tobacco Institute’s Vaping Health Risks that may be impacted by the new rules: vaping health risks Many teens, especially in rural communities, enjoy vaporizing cigarettes. Even though many public schools have banned the practice entirely, utilizing the cigarettes inside school can still be carried out. Utilizing the cigarettes can be hugely hazardous to teenagers and students. So it is no real surprise that the American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, and American Lung Association have all chimed in with statements supporting the ban on utilizing the cigarettes while smoking. Long-term exposure to a number of the chemicals and carcinogens within cigarettes has been linked to a variety of serious medical conditions including cancers, stroke, and different forms of heart disease. They are serious problems, especially when compounded by long-term using tobacco. One of the primary concerns among vaporizers users may be the risk of lung cancer, because of the presence of nicotine along with other harmful chemicals. The vapors made by the cigarettes contain around six times more tar and carbon monoxide than cigarettes, and about four to five times more particles of toxins such as for example lead, copper and nickel. Among the newest additions to the set of vaporizer dangers is flavored e cigarettes, which are increasingly being offered in novelty tins, candy dishes, jars, pens, pencils and a small number of different types of bags. They come in all kinds of fun and interesting flavors, including bubble gum, banana, cherries, chocolate, watermelon, orange, popcorn, nutmeg, and also seasonal flavors such as fall! It is no wonder then that underage buyers are becoming dependent on these new flavors. With flavors such as for example hot fudge and maple, you can easily see why young adults are attracted to this particular product. And just why not? But, once we all know, smoking cigarettes is extremely dangerous for adults as well. And the chance of long-term lung damage increases dramatically. Nicotine is highly toxic in even minute quantities, and the lungs can become completely exhausted within just a couple of minutes of smoking. This explains why so many smokers try to quit by reducing cigarettes, and reducing the quantity of cigarettes they actually smoke during the course of the day. But even reducing the quantity of cigarettes smoked can significantly increase the threat of long-term lung damage. Exactly the same is true for e-cigs. While you can find only a couple of actual tobacco flavors in most vaporizers, the potential for addiction is very much greater. E-juices don’t have the same physical problems as cigarettes, since they are made from a variety of natural fruit extracts and vegetable glycerin, and also other ingredients such as herbal extracts and flower extracts. But even these herbal and plant-based ingredients aren’t safe, since they contain enough nicotine to make anyone highly addictive. This makes e-cigs much more like smoking with regards to the lung damage they can cause. As for the long term effects of e-cigarette use, they are definitely damaging. Nicotine causes an increasing reliance on it, so after just a few weeks of regular use, people could find that they cannot live without them. Actually, some people find that they cannot function without e cigarettes for up to 6 months! But just how dangerous are these e smokes really? Are there less harmful chemicals in regular cigarettes which are found in e cigarettes? And when so, why do people continue steadily to utilize them? It seems that the risks of smoking are greater by using e cigarettes due to increased dependency. But with that said, the relative safety of vapes over regular ones cannot be discounted, especially since most vaporizers are very inexpensive. The new methods of delivering nicotine remain relatively untapped, and so despite the fact that the potential for complications is higher, there is absolutely no evidence that shows vaporizing poses a significantly higher risk than inhalation. So although you can find risks connected with using e cigarettes, they’re nowhere near as harmful as those posed by smoking and so should be considered as part of the smoking cessation solution.
Sister groups 提供: 広島大学デジタル博物館 sister group(s) [sister-group(s)] • 姉妹群（日本語） • (Español) • Two phylogenetic groups that are each other 's closest relatives. Glossary of "Cladistics (2nd ed.)" by Kitching et al. (1998) • (1) Two taxa that are more closely related to each other than either is to a third taxon. (2) The taxon that is genealogically most closely related to the ingroup. "Phylogenetics" by Wiley (1981), p. 7 • A sister group is a species or a higher monophyletic taxon that is hypothesized to be the closest generalogical relative of a given taxon exclusive of the ancestral species of both taxa. Thus, when we say that two taxa are sister groups, we mean that they are hypothesized to share an ancestral species not shared by any other taxon.
Crate func_trace[][src] A procedural macro for tracing the execution of functions. Adding #[trace] to the top of any function will insert println! statements at the beginning and the end of that function, notifying you of when that function was entered and exited and printing the argument and return values. This is useful for quickly debugging whether functions that are supposed to be called are actually called without manually inserting print statements. Note that this macro requires all arguments to the function and the return value to have types that implement Debug. You can disable the printing of certain arguments if necessary. You can also add #[trace] to impls and mods to enable tracing for all functions in the impl or mod. If you use #[trace] on a mod or impl as well as on a method or function inside one of those elements, then only the outermost #[trace] is used. #[trace] takes a few optional arguments that configure things like the prefixes to use, enabling/disabling particular arguments or functions, and more. See the documentation for details. See the examples in examples/. You can run the following example with cargo run --example example_prefix. use func_trace::trace; fn main() { foo(1, 2); fn foo(a: i32, b: i32) { println!("I'm in foo!"); bar((a, b)); #[trace(prefix_enter="[ENTER]", prefix_exit="[EXIT]")] fn bar((a, b): (i32, i32)) -> i32 { println!("I'm in bar!"); if a == 1 { } else { [+] Entering foo(a = 1, b = 2) I'm in foo! [ENTER] Entering bar(a = 1, b = 2) I'm in bar! [EXIT] Exiting bar = 2 [-] Exiting foo = () Note the convenience func_trace::init_depth_var!() macro which declares and initializes the thread-local DEPTH variable that is used for indenting the output. Calling func_trace::init_depth_var!() is equivalent to writing: use std::cell::Cell; thread_local! { static DEPTH: Cell<usize> = Cell::new(0); The only time it can be omitted is when #[trace] is applied to mods as it’s defined for you automatically (see examples/ Note that the DEPTH variable isn’t shared between mods, so indentation won’t be perfect when tracing functions in multiple mods. Also note that using trace as an inner attribute (#![trace]) is not supported at this time. A convenience macro for declaring the DEPTH variable used for indenting the output Attribute Macros Enables tracing the execution of functions
Immersive technologies Image source I was interested in a post by Christos Carras on an event by the Global Cultural District Networks on immersive technologies. This article defines Immersive technologies as cutting-edge technologies that make use of digital or simulated worlds to emulate the physical world and create a sense of immersion. This article argues that immersive technologies can save time, help do work more efficiently and enable new forms of collaboration and VR/AR/XR headsets are enabling this. Virtual Reality (VR) replaces what you see with computer-generated 3D-content. Augmented Reality (AR) means a user is experiencing the real reality while some virtual elements are projected onto it. Mixed reality mixes virtual content with the real world in an interactive, immersive way. Extended Reality (XR) refers to experiences that combine reality and augmented or virtual content. Some of the benefits of immersive technology are: reduces the cost of training, increases the speed of training, enables user engagement, reduces travel time and can be used to train dangerous scenarios. Studies have suggested that an immersive environment may improve memory recall. This article argues that immersive technologies will fundamentally alter how we interact with content. Increasingly industries are using immersive technologies for both training purposes and data visualisation. This article suggests the following ways in which immersive technologies can have an impact on e-learning: · More engaging gamification · Providing an immersive learning experience · Data visualization · Group collaboration · Qualitative online training assessments Immersive technologies clearly have potential for learning and teaching but only time will tell if they have a significant impact. Leave a Reply
Which proteins are water soluble to directory mode A simple example: predictions about hydrophilic and hydrophobic areas Water-soluble, globular proteins have a hydrophobic interior, which usually consists of only a few domains, while hydrophilic residues are oriented outwards towards the surrounding water. Most of the α-helices and β-sheet areas in such proteins are amphipathic, i.e. they have a hydrophobic side that is directed towards the inside of the protein and a hydrophilic side that faces outwards. Since loop areas that connect the secondary structural elements are also usually hydrophilic, areas of more than 10 hydrophobic amino acids in a row are rarely found in these proteins, and the inside of the protein is often not easy to identify. The situation is different with transmembrane areas of integral membrane proteins. These areas do not consist exclusively of hydrophobic amino acids (charged side chains are often essential for function), but the transmembrane domain must have a minimum length of 19 to 20 amino acids in order to be able to span a membrane. Which amino acids are typical for transmembrane domains? This question is not easy to answer: although hydrophobic amino acids such as Val, Met and Leu can certainly be found in such areas and charged amino acids such as Asp and Arg are not, but what about Ala, Ser or His? Different tables show the hydrophobicity of each amino acid (e.g. measured by its solubility in different solvents or based on theoretical calculations). From Kyte and Doolittle and Engelmann et al. the tables listed here, which are often used for hydrophobicity calculations, come from: Tab. 1 Hydrophobicity indices amino acidPheMeadIleLeuValCysTrpAlaThrGlySerPerTyrHisGlnAsnGluLysAspArg Kyte & Doolittle2. Engelmann et al. Garnier, J .; Osguthorpe, D. J .; Robson, B. (1978): Analysis of the accuracy and implications of simple methods for predicting the secondary structure of globular proteins. In: J. Mol. Biol.. 120 , 97-120 Access to the PubMed database
Chemicals Found in Tap Water- The Five Most Harmful Did you know that there are harmful chemicals in your supposedly safe drinking water? The government has never tried to hide the fact that there are chemicals found in tap water. However, government officials focus on what they consider helpful chemicals such as fluoride. Since fluoride is needed to protect teeth from decay, this emphasis had kept many homeowners from using filtered tap water to protect their family. Not only can fluoride, which does have some benefits, be found in tap water, but also you can find more harmful chemicals and additives. Here are the five most dangerous chemicals found in tap water supplies across the country. 1. Chlorine Yes, this chemical kills bacteria in swimming pools and in your drinking water. Your skin and hair is also dried out by this chemical. The lotion industry stays afloat because this drying chemical is in most water supplies. 2. Lead This is one of the most dangerous chemicals found in tap water. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, too much lead in the human body can cause serious damage to the brain, kidneys, nervous system, and red blood cells. Many times the lead can come from, not the water supply, but from your own home. Unusually high levels of lead can be caused by your pipes, and this does not matter how new or old they are or whether they are made out of copper or lead. The use of filtered tap water is the only way to remove this chemical. 3. Pesticides Over the past 20 years, scientists say that more pesticides are seeping into the ground water supply. Little is known about the long-term effects of minimum exposure to pesticides while local governments make great strides to keep the pesticide levels known. Chronic health problems could be a result of continuous exposure. 4. Benzene Studies have identified this chemical as a carcinogen and have even gone as far to say it could be a factor in leukemia. Benzene, which can be found in cigarette smoke as well as added to gas to increase it octane level, can be found in your water. Drinking filtered tap water will help eliminate this chemical. 5. More heavy metals. Arsenic, mercury and cadmium These chemicals can seep into a water supply and can go undetected. One area that is particularly vulnerable are urban areas. Nervous system damage, cancer, and in some cases, death, are all results of heavy metals. Studies are still being conducted on the long term effects of these chemicals found in tap water. Many people have likely been surprised by this information. Why would you wait any longer? Is it your desire to expose your family to these chemicals? Do you want to provide your family with filtered tap water? It is easier than you think to install a water purifier. This is the only guaranteed way to protect your family from the chemicals found in tap water.
Streetsmart News. Vol. 14, 2019 Evidence and Insight for Better Transportation Transportation is much more than mobility The purpose of transportation is far more than mobility. Mobility is about the ease of travel, but this does not address the underlying need behind transportation—to reach destinations or opportunities. A resident can live in an area of high mobility but still have poor accessibility if important destinations, such as grocery stores, employment, or health care services, are not nearby. For the US DOT, accessibility (they call it connectivity) means asking the following questions: “How well does the transportation network provide access to essential services and destinations? How easily, affordably, and reliably can people connect to the places they need to go?” The concept of access to destinations (aka accessibility or connectivity) reflects the theory that transportation is derived demand. That is, transportation is generally not undertaken for its own sake, but for the purpose of accessing destinations. Transportation systems necessarily need to be coordinated with land use systems to optimize for accessibility. Including land use in the transportation playbook increases the number of possible solutions available to address transportation problems. Rather than relying on traditional solutions such as roadway capacity projects, planners and engineers can instead explore transportation demand management, zoning changes, or urban design solutions. Not only can these solutions yield accessibility improvements, but also they may offer other benefits to communities, such as increased opportunities for physical activity or attracting commercial development. How is access to destinations measured? Planning for increased access to destinations requires a different set of planning and evaluation tools than those used for mobility-based planning efforts. Rather than tracking Level-of-Service (see our last issue for why this is problematic), transportation professionals need to undertake an accessibility analysis. This is generally a Geographic Information Systems-based analysis that examines the number and type of opportunities within a specific distance of residents’ homes. There are several methods for undertaking this analysis. Here are links to two State Smart Transportation Institute (SSTI) webinars that discuss accessibility and the ways to measure it: Measuring Accessible and Connected Communities and Operationalizing Accessibility . They also helped produce a guidebook for accessibility in practice. Changes are coming to Streetsmart. Take this survey to provide feedback for improving Streetsmart. Transportation is a social determinant of health As we’ve mentioned, transportation is more than mobility—among other things, it has significant impacts on population health. Thousands of people are killed or seriously injured as a result of the transportation system every year; pedestrians, low-income people, and racial minorities are disproportionately impacted. Transportation facilitates active living or alternatively, encourages sedentary lifestyles that increase risk for chronic disease. Motorized vehicles generate air pollutants and contribute to cardiovascular and respiratory disease, which disproportionately affects low-income people and racial minorities. Additionally, the transportation sector is the largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in the US. Transportation is therefore a social determinant of health . The social determinants of health (SDoH) is a framework (specifically, an ecological model) that recognizes an individual’s health status is influenced by factors at many levels. One such factor is the design of our cities and communities, including our transportation systems. Critical to a SDoH or ecological approach is the recognition that taking action only at the individual level is not enough to make meaningful changes in the health of the population as this article with Blue Zones founder, Dan Buettner, explains. Differences in neighborhoods have meaningful effects on health outcomes. Research shows that estimates for life expectancy is significantly different between zip codes (explore the life expectancy estimates of your zip code at this Robert Wood Johnson Foundation site )—these are effects connected to place, not just from the aggregation of individual health indicators. Transportation is an essential component for creating better health; that is, we can’t expect to improve population health without creating healthy transportation systems. What, then, is healthy transportation? Healthy transportation maximizes community health by providing people with options for active travel, minimizes exposure to harmful pollutants, supports mental health, and provides affordable and accessible travel options for people to reach essential goods and services. H/T to Todd Litman and the ITE Health and Transportation Working Group for a definition of healthy transportation. How health care providers can support healthy transportation Creating healthy transportation systems is not reserved for transportation planners. Health care providers can play a role in creating healthy built environments. In Klamath Falls, Oregon, health care providers identified hot spots of chronic disease through a Geographic Information Systems analysis with funding from the Cambria Health Foundation. To address this challenge, they decided that the most effective intervention would be one that increased physical activity through active transportation. Working with transportation planners and community members, this idea became the Oregon Avenue Protected Bike Lane project. The purpose of this project was to combat the high rates of chronic disease by addressing a key social determinant of health as well as promote economic activity the area. Funding for the bicycle lane was provided by the City of Klamath Falls and, in an innovative move, the Coordinated Care Organization (CCO) in that area, Cascade Health Alliance (CCOs organize health care providers to support Medicare and Medicaid members, with a focus on prevention). For more details about this innovative partnership between transportation planners, community members, public health professionals, and health care providers, check out this case study written by the Oregon Department of Transportation. H/T to Josh Roll at ODOT for alerting us to this project and case study report. We get it. Civic leaders struggle to find the evidence they need to evaluate and prioritize transportation investments. The research is scattered, time-consuming to find, and difficult to digest. We do all the work of synthesizing the research and presenting in an intuitive and easy-to-use format, without compromising quality or rigor. Civic leaders need to make the case for solutions that work best for their community, which sometimes requires defending innovation. Streetsmart reduces risk by providing the evidence and examples of what works in other communities. We’ve got your back. Find success stories with key lessons learned in one easy-to-search place. Why re-invent the wheel? Streetsmart offers insight via case studies and guidebooks relevant to each topic area. Learn from others in the trenches working on issues similar to yours. • Got burning questions about a transportation topic? Get in touch and make suggestions for articles in upcoming issues of the Streetsmart newsletter. • Got more feedback about the prototype? Take the survey or drop us a line to give us your insight. • Want to collect and summarize resources for Beta? Help us collect resources and case studies on one of the fifteen strategies that will be in Streetsmart Beta. We are always looking for academic and practitioner collaborators to build and refine Streetsmart. Talk to Kelly at to explore the opportunities. Did someone send you this newsletter? You can sign up for Streetsmart News here. Streetsmart Planning \|
Monday, 1 February 2016 Here is an useful explanation about how to check this for yourself. No need to rely on Nasa! How to Take a Photo of the Curve of the Horizon Here is an a example where the curve has been deliberately and openly exaggerated by 4 times in order to prove that it is there (alsthough hard to see from this height.. Passengers have seen a curved horizon from Concorde (Concorde flew higher than most airliners, which don’t much higher than 40,000 feet, not high enough). Of course, if you are a conspiracy theorist you can always dismiss anyone's account as "part of the conspiracy". Which is why such theories are irrational and unscientific - they protect themselves from any possibility of falsification. Here is some more photo evidence – amateur images at Mr Dubay’s photos don’t help him. However, Daimonie, I’m afraid I have to say that the other video you post is not convincing; there is too much clear barrel distortion caused by the wide angle lens – at around 2.50 and again towards the end we see very strong curvature almost at ground level, which must be an artefact. Moreover, at just 3.18 we get momentary concave horizon as the camera bobs up and down. However, the thread for Metabunk I mentioned above shows how to avoid this distotion, so anyone can have a go for themselves. For example Center and Level the Horizon - Distortion happens concentrically around the middle of the image. So if a line goes through the middle of the image it will be lengthened or shortened slightly, but it will not be bent. Image Source: Use a Straight Edge - If you put a known straight edge very close to the horizon, then you can compare the horizon against the straight edge. If the lense is distorting things then the straight edge will be curved too. Then we can see if the horizon curves more than the straight edge, which will indicate the horizon is actually curved. (This image discussed in more detail here: ) Take pictures above and below the center - Move the camera so the horizon is first above the center line, then at the center line, and then below the center line. If it curves in the same direction all three then it's definitely curved. If not then we need to account for this. Here is a paper examining when it is possible to see curvature, based on both calculation and observation by the author and others: This shows why Mr Dubay’s photos don’t help him. The one at ground level shows a sharp horizon, but the high altitude horizon is too blurred to let us measure any curvature. On page H41 the author writes: “2. Visually Detect the Earth’s Curvature I first examined the horizon from commercial jet aircraft. While there was a general sense of the horizon, actually identifying the horizon’s location was difficult. It was a very low-contrast boundary in a region of the sky where there were much higher-contrast changes. There were almost always clouds on the horizon that prevented accurate horizon location. When the horizon was clear, detecting curvature from around 35; 000 ft was relatively easy, providing that a wide, unobstructed FOV was available. With a horizontal FOV of 90° or more, the curvature was subtle but unmistakable. Under similar conditions with a FOV smaller than about 60°, the curvature was not discernible. Thus, visually detecting the curvature would seem to depend on both the actual curvature and the FOV.” There is a discussion about what Lynch says here It contains a lot more than this graphic: Warning - there is some mathematics in that thread! Another good mathematical description of why Dubay’s claim is wrong is here Have alook at this video for more details, too. 1. For this reference:, don't you think that the windows made the curve? 1. No, the windows do't cause a curved appearance. Here is the evidence: Wolfie6020, a long distance pilot posted this: Show me the Curvature... Here it is and don't blame the window - read comments before posting "Links to additional videos showing the curvature with no clouds. No the curvature is not being caused by the window and here is proof. The curve you see is a result of the Earth being a Globe and matches the globe prediction perfectly. It has been independently verified. This video clearly shows the Horizon curvature I see at high altitude. We fly significantly higher than most commercial aircraft. We operate above 45,000 ft routinely. Airliners operate typically Mid to High 30's. (35,000 to 39,000 ft) The aircraft below and ahead of us is a Qantas jet traveling in the same direction. There is NO distortion in the Cockpit window and no fish-eye effect in this camera - you can see this at the end of the video when it shows the top of the flight instruments are perfectly straight at 0:38." 2. Earth curvature and the curve of the horizon are two different things. You can't see earth curvature from an airplane at 30,000ft because the horizon is only about 220 miles out. About the size of a U.S. quarter placed on a 16 inch globe. The curve is the circle of the horizon, not earth curvature. My comment on another forum where a poster said that Neil deGrasse Tyson stated that in an airplane you can't see the curve of the earth. Neil is correct. At 30,000ft the horizon is about 220 miles away. If you were able to see a full 360° around the plane what you're seeing isn't the curvature of the earth but the circle of the visible horizon. Facing forward, if you turn 10° right the horizon is still about 220 miles. Turn 90°, still about 220 miles. Everywhere that you look at the horizon it's roughly 220 miles. Turn completely around you've made a circle but it's not earth curve that you're seeing. This is why at the beach, the horizon looks straight. Look straight ahead, look left as far as you can at the ocean, now look right, every point on the horizon that you see is roughly three miles out. The reason it looks level is because the horizon that you're seeing is only about 4 or 5 miles of a much larger circle that you'd be able to see if the land to the sides and behind you didn't block it. If you were able to stand on the ocean 50 miles out with a calm sea, at six feet tall your horizon would be about three miles. Turn completely around, you've made a full 360° circle and every point on the horizon that you see is about 3 miles out. You're not seeing earth curve, you're seeing the circle of the visible horizon. In fact, if you take a 16 inch globe and a U.S. quarter place the quarter anywhere on the globe, trace a circle around the quarter, that's actually a little bigger than what you'd see from a plane if you could see 360°around it. That circle you traced is the horizon that you'd see, not the curve of the earth. Kevin McMillen
Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Volver al inicio What Are The Generally Accepted Accounting Principles? Long-term liabilities are obligations due more than one year away. Liabilities also include obligations to provide goods or services to customers in the future. How is net profit calculated? This is the formula you can use: 1. net profit = total revenue – total expenses. 2. net profit = gross profit – expenses. 3. net profit margin = ( net profit / total revenue ) x 100. Accounts Payables, or AP, is the amount a company owes suppliers for items or services purchased on credit. As the company pays off their AP, it decreases along bookkeeping with an equal amount decrease to the cash account. According to the IFRS, intangible assets are identifiable, non-monetary assets without physical substance. Similarly, for a company in the business of offering services, revenue from primary activities refers to the revenue or fees earned in exchange of offering those services. Total revenue is the sum of both operating and non-operating revenues while total expenses include those incurred by primary and secondary activities. While valuing assets, it should be assumed the business will continue to operate. The accountant strives to provide an accurate depiction of a company’s financial situation. The accounting equation shows that all of a company’s total assets equals the sum of the company’s liabilities and shareholders’ equity. The Income Statement is one of a company’s core financial statements that shows their profit and loss over a period of time. An income statement is one of the three major financial statements that reports a company’s financial performance over a specific accounting period. Calculating Total Equity: Definition & Formula Internationally, the equivalent to GAAP in the United States is referred to as International Financial Reporting Standards . IFRS is followed in over 120 countries, including those in the European Union . Cash equity generally refers to liquid portion of an investment or asset that can be quickly converted into cash. In investing, cash equity is the common stock issued by public and may also refer to the institutional trading of these shares. For example, with an annual income of £20,000, a household may need to spend £10,000 a year on rent, council tax and utility bills. This leaves £10,000 for deciding which other food, clothes, transport and other goods to purchase. Derived from the Latin phrase “uberrimae fidei” used within the insurance industry. The accounting data should consistently stay accurate and be free of personal opinions. Make sure the data is also supported by evidence that can include vouchers, receipts, and invoices. The retained earnings is not an asset because it is considered a liability to the firm. The retrained earnings is an bookkeeping amount of money that the firm is setting aside to pay stockholders is case of a sale out or buy out of the firm. Let’s take a quick look at typical classes of stock ownership and their relevance to equity in a corporate setting. Sold T-shirts for $800 on credit, the cost of those shirts were $550. Let’s take an example to understand the calculation of the Accounting Equation formula in a better manner. Therefore, to be able to serve them better, John decides to commence free home delivery. An income statement provides valuable insights into a company’s operations, the efficiency of its management, under-performing sectors and its performance relative to industry peers. Many sources state that the biggest difference between GAAP and IFRS reporting standards is the number of rules behind the principles. According toScott Taub at Compliance Week, this is true, in a way; the GAAP principles are governed by more detailed rules and guidelines than IFRS. However, both sets of standards are in place to ensure that accountants remain honest on the job. The following is a look at what is required when reporting under the GAAP principles versus the IFRS standards. What is the golden rule for real account? The golden rule for real accounts is: debit what comes in and credit what goes out. In this transaction, cash goes out and the loan is settled. This equation is the foundation of modern double entry system of accounting being used by small proprietors to large multinational corporations. Other names used for accounting equation are balance sheet equation and fundamental or basic accounting equation. Although the balance sheet always balances out, the accounting equation doesn’t provide investors as to how well a company is performing. Since every business transaction affects at least two of a company’s accounts, the accounting equation will always be “in balance”, meaning the left side of its balance sheet should always equal the right side. Although this brochure discusses each financial statement separately, keep in mind that they are all related. The changes in assets and retained earnings liabilities that you see on the balance sheet are also reflected in the revenues and expenses that you see on the income statement, which result in the company’s gains or losses. Cash flows provide more information about cash assets listed on a balance sheet and are related, but not equivalent, to net income shown on the income statement. What Is An Income Statement? Equity is the ownership of any asset after any liabilities associated with the asset are cleared. For example, if you own a car worth $25,000, but you owe $10,000 cash basis vs accrual basis accounting on that vehicle, the car represents $15,000 equity. Retained earnings are reported in the shareholders’ equity section of the corporation’s balance sheet. It is divided into three sections, and is underpinned by the five fundamental principles of Integrity, Objectivity, Professional competence and due care, contra asset account Confidentiality, and Professional behaviour. You use fundamental to describe things, activities, and principles that are very important or essential. They are sometimes loosely explained, presenting companies and their accountants with the opportunity to potentially bend or manipulate them to their advantage. Accounting conventions are important because they ensure that multiple different companies record transactions in the same way. Providing a standardized methodology makes it easier for investors to compare the financial results of different firms, such as competing ones operating in the same sector. In short, accounting conventions serve to fill in the gaps not yet addressed by accounting standards. Accounting Convention Current liabilities are differentiated from long-term liabilities because current liabilities are short-term obligations that are typically due in 12 months or less. We can see that total current liabilities ultimately filters down into total liabilities of $241 billion . You should not be associated with any information that you believe contains a materially false or misleading statement, or which is misleading by omission. CIMA’s Code of Ethics applies to all members and registered students. The monetary unit assumption means that only transactions in U.S. dollar amounts can be included in accounting records. It’s important to note that accountants ignore the effects of inflation on the recorded dollar amounts. The Generally Accepted Accounting Principles are a set of rules, guidelines and principles companies of all sizes and across industries in the U.S. adhere to. Accountants must strive to fully disclose all financial data and accounting information in financial reports. fundamental accounting equation It indicates that Walmart incurred much higher cost compared to Microsoft to generate equivalent sales. The FASB and IASB are still working together to agree on and set standards that can be applied domestically and internationally. Oftentimes, GAAP seems to take a “one-size-fits-all” approach to financial reporting, however this can do little to reduce issues faced by distinct industries. For example, state and local governments have struggled with implementing GAAP due to their unique environments. Notes payable may also have a long-term version, which includes notes with a maturity of more than one year. Investopedia requires writers to use primary sources to support their work. • It spent various amounts as listed for the given activities that total $10,650. • Essentially, the different measures of profitability in a multiple-step income statement are reported at four different levels in a business’ operations – gross, operating, pre-tax and after-tax. • It received $25,800 from the sale of sports goods and $5,000 from training services. • As we shall shortly see in the following example, this segregation helps in identifying how the income and profitability are moving/changing from one level to the other. • Competitors may also use them to gain insights about the success parameters of a company and focus areas as increasing R&D spends. • It realized net gains of $2,000 from the sale of an old van, and incurred losses worth $800 for settling a dispute raised by a consumer. These include white papers, government data, original reporting, and interviews with industry experts. We also reference original research from other reputable publishers where appropriate. You can learn more about the standards we follow in producing accurate, unbiased content in oureditorial policy. After discounting for any non-recurring events, the value of net income applicable to common shares is arrived at. Microsoft had a 68% higher net income of $16.571 billion compared to Walmart’s $9.862 billion. But combined, they provide very powerful information for investors. And information is the investor’s best tool when it comes to investing wisely. Revenue is only increased when receivables are converted into cash inflows through the collection. Revenue represents the total income of a company before deducting expenses. They affect the basic nature of other things or are the most important element upon which other things depend. Now that you’ve got all of these down, moving forward with the financial positioning of your business will be effortless. The third part of a cash flow statement shows the cash flow from all financing activities. fundamental accounting equation Login below to access our online services for members, students and business partners. If you hold common stock, you are only entitled to any residual equity in the corporation that is left after all of the claims of the corporation’s creditors and preferred stockholders have been paid. Now say after 2 years, you want to expand the business but do not have funds. So you go to a bank and get a loan of another $10,000 to expand the operations. This will increase your assets and also increase your liabilities. Similarly, find total liabilities (current and non-current) and shareholder’s equity for that period and add these two numbers. Liabilities are basically the money which business owes to others. Object moved Object moved to here.
Spooky Horses Spookiness in horse might be hereditary, learned or caused by a physical problem. Publish date: eye scared horse Horses that suddenly become hyperactive or reactive might have underlying medical issues. Some horses by nature possess a temperament that is more easily startled that other horses, said Carissa Wickens, PhD. The assistant professor, State Extension Horse Specialist at the University of Florida, said that spookiness is a moderately heritable trait, and that by watching how a dam or sire reacts to new situations provides clues to how their offspring might respond to new situations. Training and nutrition can help manage reactive horses. Horses might be less reactive when starch and sugar is replaced with more fat and fiber,” Wickens said. “Make sure the horse has a lot of forage, which increases their fiber intake.” Eliminating all starch and sugar from the horse’s diet might deprive their bodies of needed nutrients and can be problematic for performance horses. Working with a veterinarian or equine nutritionist is the best way to design a ration. Horses that suddenly become hyperactive or reactive might have underlying medical issues. Working with a veterinarian can rule out physical problems such as ulcers, abdominal pain, vision or hearing problems, Wickens said. “Horses are a prey species; if they can’t see well, their natural instinct is to flee from danger,” she said. “A horse that’s suddenly spooky may have vision problems.” Training is an important part of working with spooky horses. Wickens shared her personal experience. Her Arabian gelding started spinning and running in the opposite direction every time he approached one corner of the arena. She went back to basics, leading him to the scary spot. At first he danced, moved his feet and tried to escape. Every time he stood still, even if only for a few seconds, she rewarded him with her voice, a scratch on the withers and sometimes a treat. Within a week she was able to resume riding. “I removed my own stress and anxiety, which horses can sense, and used positive reinforcement to teach him to trust me and relax in that area,” she said.
This Difficult Method of Building Vaults Has Lasted for Millennia. But Why? A picture of an empty room with a vaulted ceiling The vault in the Arles town hall is one of the examples that inspired Sara Galletti's research on stereotomy. (© Mbzt / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA-3.0 / GFDL) When Sara Galletti first walked into the town hall in Arles, France, she was stunned. “It’s a relatively large room, and it’s covered by an absurdly shaped vault,” the associate professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies said. “It’s several types of vaults interpenetrating each other, and it holds up this heavy stone ceiling with no pillar at the center.” The mix of sober, bare stone and intricate, delicate lines fascinated her. It’s a style of vaulting called stereotomy, and Galletti’s fascination only grew as she studied more examples. Not only do they show up across time and space—from Greece in the third century BCE to medieval Cairo and more—but the geometrical math defining their shapes wasn’t actually invented until the end of the 18th century. That’s a century after the Arles vault was constructed and nearly 2,000 years after the earliest examples. Galletti’s interest bloomed into a new book-length project tentatively titled History of Stone Vaulting in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean: Practices, Theories, and Patterns of Knowledge Transfer, which was recently awarded a $60,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant. And her research has continued to unearth fascinating tales—like convincing one of the handful of remaining stereotomy masters to break his guild’s oath to tell Galletti how these vaults are made. Sara Galletti headshot Sara Galletti, associate professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies The basics of the process are clear, because they are also what make stereotomy so notable. Unlike most kinds of stone-vaulting, which use small pieces of material to create the end result, stereotomy features larges blocks of stone. “Imagine one of those 3-D puzzles,” Galletti explained. “Mounting and designing those elements is a very similar process. If you’re building in stone with large elements, it means each one is custom cut to take up a specific place in the vault.” That process takes immense amounts of labor—both mental to map out each stone and physical to cut them to shape. But it has no functional benefits. A single mistake requires recreating the entire stone from scratch, so stereotomy is much more difficult than other techniques. The masons must be experts in their craft, so stereotomy is much more expensive that more common brick vaults. It also doesn’t make the vaults stronger or last longer, nor does it save materials. “Stereotomic vaults have no reason to be other than sheer virtuosity,” Galletti said. That virtuosity also makes them hard to study. Many architectural historians have written about stereotomy, but few have been able to offer insight into the actual practice of building them because the methods have been closely guarded secrets among masonry guilds. “I think there’s like four or five of these masters left,” Galletti said. “They tour Europe and restore early modern works by being able to apply the same techniques.” Incredibly, Galletti found one and convinced him to explain how he does it, even though his guild requires an oath of secrecy. She spent three days on worksites with him, receiving a crash course in his techniques. “The first thing he told me is, ‘I am talking to you because you are honestly interested in learning these things,’” Galletti said. “’If I keep my oath, that’s the end of my practice. If historians start talking about this and actually understand the practice, that may help.’” Galletti’s research has already uncovered signs of hope, though, because what fascinates her most about stereotomy is how widespread it is. Not only does the practice span millennia and continents, but various peoples seem to have recreated it on their own throughout history. “It’s not a linear development of ideas,” Galletti said. “They pop up in different forms in different cultures at different times.” In some cases, the historical record explains the transmission. For instance, researchers have tracked some stonemasons migrating from one region to another, bringing stereotomy with them. But just as often the development seems spontaneous. Ultimately, that’s what Galletti loves most about stereotomy: it’s a way to explore the shared human predilection for testing our abilities, simply because we can. “I find it endearing that that humans want to play with difficult things, with no reason whatsoever except that in the end, you’ve done it,” Galletti said. “I think this kind of serious playfulness lets you and I identify with someone in the third century BCE who did that. It connects us.” Standing beneath one of these virtuosic vaults, Galletti said she can’t help but think of that shared human joy. “I’m not going to say that what distinguishes humans from non-human animals is stereotomy—but sometimes I’m tempted,” she said.
Underwater Archaeology at the Ashmolean Museum Underwater Archaeology at the Ashmolean Museum 3. Amphora with coral. Lent by Soprintendenza del Mare -® Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford Roman amphora with coral, from the Levanzo shipwreck AD 275‒300 Sicily has been the center of Mediterranean history for centuries. Positioned at the halfway point between the western and eastern halves of the sea, and between Europe and Africa, it has been a nexus of trade and warfare ever since humanity started sailing. Now a major exhibition at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum looks at the discoveries by underwater archaeologists around Sicily’s shores. Storms, War & Shipwrecks Treasures from the Sicilian Seas brings together more than 200 objects for a variety of civilizations to highlight Sicily’s importance in ancient shipping. Roman battering ram from the Battle of the Egadi Islands. A bit of wood from the targeted ship can be seen, still jammed in the lower portion There are finds from about a dozen shipwrecks, the earliest being a collection of 70 terracotta cups and jugs dating to 2000 BC, found off Lipari Island off the northern coast of Sicily. They are handmade in the local fashion and may have fallen out of a shallow rowboat that capsized. Sicily has been a rich hunting ground for underwater archaeologists. One amazing discovery has been the exact site of the Battle of the Egadi Islands, just off Sicily’s northwest coast, fought between the Roman and Carthaginian navies on 10 March 241 BC. It was the final battle of the First Punic War and an important Roman victory. A fleet of 200 Roman warships ambushed a convoy of 250 heavily laden Carthaginian warships. In the ensuing battle, the Romans sunk 50 ships and captured 70, while losing only 30 of their own. They seized control of Sicily and thus began to dominate the Mediterranean. Archaeologists have carefully uncovered armor, amphorae, and eleven Roman and Carthaginian warship rams. Interestingly, while Polybius, writing a century after the fact, said the Roman ships were quinqueremes, the size of the rams suggest that the Romans also used smaller triremes. Archaeologists uncovered seven rams with Latin inscriptions and only one with Punic writing, odd considering that the majority of ships that sank were Carthaginian. It jsut goes to show that archaeological discoveries are affected by chance and you can’t make too much of statistics! Parts of a Byzantine prefabricated church interior from the Marzamemi shipwreck, late 6th century Another highlight are the remains of a Byzantine “flat-pack” church. The Emperor Justinian (ruled 527-565), in his efforts to fortify and regulate Christianity across the empire, commissioned a number of prefabricated churches. The marble church interiors were made at quarries around the Sea of Marmara (the “marble sea”), packed flat, and sent by ship to Italy and North Africa. One of these ships sank and was discovered off Marzamemi in southeastern Sicily. Some 400 marble fragments have been recovered and some of these have been used in the exhibition to recreate what the interior of one of these prefabricated churches would have looked like. The kit included 28 columns with capitals, a choir screen and an early form of pulpit called an ambo. There is also a set of bronze church plate from a different shipwreck of the same period. Storms, War & Shipwrecks is well worth a visit if you’re in England and runs until September 25. Photos courtesy Ashmolean Museum, more below! 30. Church utensils. Lent by Museo archeologico regionale ÔÇÿPaolo OrsiÔÇÖ di Siracusa -® Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford Byzantine church utensils, made of bronze, AD 500-600 1a. Reshef. Lent by Museo archeologico regionale ÔÇÿAntonino SalinasÔÇÖ di Palermo -®-áAshmolean Museum, University of Oxford Resef, Phoenician god of war and storms, who utterly failed to protect a ship that went down off the coast of Sciacca around 100 BC 9. Greek Helmet. Lent by Museo archeologico regionale di Camarina -®-áAshmolean Museum, University of Oxford Bronze Greek helmet made in Corinth, 600–500 BC. Found off the coast of Camarina in 1987 in the early days of underwater archaeology 24. Roman portrait heads. Lent by Museo archeologico regionale ÔÇ£Paolo OrsiÔÇØ di Siracusa -® Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford Roman portrait heads, 100-300 AD, North African stone. They might have served as the ship’s ballast. Found off Syracuse 22. Table-leg with Hercules -®-áMuseo Civico ÔÇÿCastello UrsinoÔÇÖ, Catania Marble table leg showing Hercules lifting the giant Antaeus. Greek, 200-100 BC. Found off the coast of Catania 23. Perfume jar. Lent by Museo archeologico regionale di Camarina -® Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford Perfume jar with enamel inlay. Roman, 150-200 AD. Found off coast of Camarina 28. Merchant's scale with counterweight of bust of the goddess Athena -® Soprintendenza per i Beni culturali e ambientali di Trapani, Museo Civico di Castelvetrano Merchant’s scale with bust of Athena that can measure up to 100 kg. Byzantine, 400-450 AD. Athena was still a popular figure for scale counterweights even at this late date. Found off the coast of Selinunte Notify of Inline Feedbacks View all comments Would love your thoughts, please comment.x
The Ways Your Teeth, Throat and Mouth Are Affected When You Have a Cold Posted . If you have a common cold, your smile and oral health can be affected in many ways, whether you believe it or not. In fact, the common cold can cause: Toothaches: If you’re stuffy, there is a chance you might have a toothache. This is because a sinus infection can apply pressure to the sinus that sits right above your upper jaw. This pressure can press down on the roots of your teeth, causing a toothache. Bad breath: If you have a runny nose, watch out for bad breath. It’s common for the mucus to fall to the back of the mouth and create a moist environment. Then, bacteria gather, live, and grow there, causing bad breath. Sore throat: The common cold is often associated with a cough, runny nose, and sore throat. A sore throat can be painful and inconvenient, so make sure to keep your throat moist and coated. Dry mouth: Having a dry mouth is a common symptom because you’re forced to breathe through your mouth because of a stuffy nose. To prevent dry mouth, make sure to drink plenty of fluids. These issues can be uncomfortable, troublesome, and inconvenient, which is why it’s best to take good care of your smile and oral health as much as possible. You can do so by getting a good amount of rest, keeping up on oral hygiene, drinking plenty of water, and avoiding sugary medications. To learn more about how to care for your smile while you have a cold in Alpharetta, Georgia, please don’t be afraid to call Jones Bridge Dental Care at 678-813-1634. Dr. Leo Eliezer and our dental team will be thrilled to assist you in any way we can, and we look forward to hearing from you!
Johannesburg’s Garden birds. Regular guests at Rivonia Premier Lodge Why is there such an abundance of bird life in Johannesburg? There are several reasons: • Johannesburg has an extraordinary number of trees thus it has developed its own micro-climate • there are number of green lungs in the form of golf courses and parks • there is an abundance of food and nesting opportunities in the leafy suburbs. The Grey Loerie (the go-away bird) The grey go-away-bird, also known as grey lourie, grey loerie, or kwêvoël, is a bold and common bird of the southern Afrotropics. They are present in arid to moist, open woodlands and thorn savanna, especially near surface water. They regularly form groups and parties that forage in tree tops, or dust bathe on the ground. Especially when disturbed, they make their presence known by their characteristically loud and nasal “kweh” or “go-way” calls, with the last syllable typically a descending drawl. A visit from a hadeda is a sign of a healthy garden, teeming with smaller wildlife species. Their probing search assists with the aerating of soil and the control of insect populations. Apart from earthworms, their diet consists of slugs and snails, spiders, crickets, insects on the ground and small reptiles (lizards and frogs). Despite their notorious racket, they are generally only vocal at dawn or when disturbed. Piet-my-vrou (Red-chested cuckoo) The familiar call of Piet-my vrou is associated with summer as the Red-chested cuckoo returns from central Africa to southern Africa around September and flies north again in April. It parasitises the nests of robins, thrushes and Cape wagtail. Diederik’s Cuckoo Diederik’s Cuckoo, derives its name from its persistent call of dee-dee-deedereek while perched prominently in parks, gardens and woodland areas. It is a common summer visitor and the male bird is predominantly green on back and wings with a white chest, white eye stripe and red eye. This bird lays its eggs in the nest of sparrows, weavers, bishops and flycatchers. Southern Masked Weaver This bird is found throughout South Africa and the male is easily distinguished by its bright yellow breeding plumage and black face. Non breeding males resemble the female which have a greenish back, buffy breast and brown eye. The male will build several nests which if a female accepts, she will add a soft lining. Rejected nests are stripped bare by the male bird. Cape Weaver Distinguished from the Southern Masked Weaver by having an orange wash over its face and a white eye. Found mainly in the southern and eastern parts of the country. The Cape weaver often builds its nest over water hanging down from a thin tree branch. Thick billed weaver The only non-yellow weaver in the country. The male is predominantly dark brown with a white spot on its forehead, while the female is heavily streaked on its chest and lighter brown on the back. Unlike other weavers whose nests suspend from a thin branch, the Thick-billed Weaver builds its very neat nest between two reeds some two metres above a stream. Red Bishop Red Bishop is found through the country and is usually found close to water. The male is dimorphic, that is it changes the colour of its plumage when breeding from the drab brown of the juvenile and female to the striking red back and head, and black face and breast. Males may breed with up to seven females in a season. Burchell’s Coucal Burchell’s Coucal is nicknamed “the rain bird” as its descending bubbling call is said to be a harbinger of rain. This heavy bird is a clumsy flyer and it prefers to skulk in long grass, woodland and suburban gardens. It is a cousin of the cuckoo but does not parasitise other bird’s nests. Laughing Dove One of the most common birds in the country. It has adapted well to gardens and city centres and may be distinguished from other doves by not having a black collar. Its call is a distinctive rising and falling coo-coo-coo-coo-coo. Southern Boubou A member of the shrike family with a typical sharp hook on the end of its bill which it uses to spike its insect prey. Similar in colour to the fiscal shrike but having a rufous wash on the underside of its belly. Wattled Lapwing Wattled Lapwing is the largest lapwing in the region and found extensively in the north eastern parts of South Africa. Easily recognised by its bright yellow wattles on either side of the face. Lapwings nest on the ground and their eggs are mottled to aid with camouflage. Newly hatched chicks are precocial and can almost immediately walk behind the parent birds. Cape Robin-chat Often the first bird heard in the dawn chorus of bird calls. Distinguished by its orange and white underparts and white eyebrow stripe. The Cape Robin-Chat forages for insects in leaf litters and is a common visitor to suburban gardens. Glossy Starling Easily identified by its iridescent bluish green plumage and yellow eye. Starlings are gregarious and garrulous and are a familiar sight in suburbia. They can be very territorial and aggressive to other birds especially around their nest which they make in a hole in a tree that has usually been made by a barbet or woodpecker. Spotted Eagle Owl This nocturnal medium sized owl is found throughout the country. Eagle owls are so called because of their feathered legs, a feature they share with eagles. Their call is the typical hooting hu-hoo sound. Owls are often mobbed by smaller birds which see them as a threat and indeed the Spotted Eagle Owl will catch any unsuspecting small bird, reptile or mamma. Laughing Dove The Laughing Doves are small African pigeons that were named for their distinctive coo vocalizations that are reminiscent of human laughter. Rose-ringed parakeets Rose Ringed Parakeets – escaped from aviaries initially but now breeding in the wild. Scientists often see these birds as an Invasive Species to be controlled. Many people, however, see them as lovely creatures and they welcome them into their gardens. Many photos by Anthony Cavanagh.
An idiophone is any musical instrument which creates sound primarily by way of the instrument itself vibrating, without the use of strings or membranes. It is one of the four main divisions in the original Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification, the others being membranophone, chordophone and aerophone (a fifth division, electrophone, was added in a later revision). Most percussion instruments which are not drums are idiophones. Hornbostel-Sachs divides idiophones into four main sub-categories, with the first division, struck idiophones, containing most of the non-drum percussion instruments familiar in the west. They include all idiophones which are made to vibrate by being hit, either directly with a stick or hand (like the triangle or marimba), or indirectly, by way of a scraping or shaking motion (like maracas). Various types of bells fall into both categories. The other three sub-divisions are rarer. They are plucked idiophones, such as the jew’s harp, music box or mbira (thumb piano); blown idiophones, of which there are a very small number of examples, the Aeolsklavier being one; and friction idiophones, such as the glass harmonica, daxophone, styrophone, musical saw, or nail violin (a number of pieces of metal or wood rubbed with a bow). A number of idiophones that are normally struck, such as vibraphone bars and cymbals, can also be bowed. [This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article: Idiophone.] Subscribe to our newsletter to be notified of new articles. Leave a Reply
How cell phone call travel. online news When you speak into a cell phone, a tiny microphone in the handset converts the up-and-down sounds of your voice into a corresponding up-and-down pattern of electrical signals. A microchip inside the phone turns these signals into strings of numbers. The numbers are packed up into a radio wave and beamed out from the phone’s antenna ( in some countries, the antenna is called an aerial). The radio wave races through the air at the speed of light until it reaches the nearest cell phone mast (often mounted on a hill or tall building). The mast receives the signals and passes them on to an exchange building, from where they are routed onward. Calls made from a cell phone to another cell phone on the same network travel to their destination by being routed to the mast nearest to the destination phone, and finally to that phone it. Calls made to a cell phone on a different network or a landline follows a more lengthy path. They have to be routed into the main telephone network before they can reach their ultimate destination. Post a Comment 1. It follows the essential that a mobile phone works best whenever the antennae is aligned to the signal booster antenna in the cellular phone. The inner antenna of the phone helps to raise the wedding party quality of the tranny.
Cancer explained Can eating meat cause cancer? 4th January 2021 Veganuary this year is set to be more popular than ever. If you're taking part, you might be one of the thousands of people counting down the days until you can have your favourite sausage butty for breakfast again. Or, perhaps you've given up meat for good because you read another newspaper article claiming that too much bacon can give you cancer. But is that the truth, or just a good headline? Why doesn’t there seem to be a simple yes or no answer when you look for one? We know that it can be tricky to navigate all the information that’s out there, that’s why we’ve asked our cancer experts to do the hard work for you and answer some of the questions you might have on the link between diet and cancer. Can giving up meat really help prevent cancer? Currently, there isn’t enough evidence to definitively say that a vegetarian or vegan diet reduces the risk of dying of cancer. But we have seen some evidence that cutting out meat might help prevent certain types of cancer from occurring in the first place. Studies have shown that eating a plant-based or pescatarian diet can help to reduce the risk of stomach, bowel and some blood cancers. Research into what we eat and how it affects our risk of cancer is always going to be difficult and any results need to be carefully interpreted. When establishing whether something causes cancer, researchers need to consider several other factors – from age to drinking and smoking habits. Even where a person lives can make a difference! It’s also important to remember that these studies usually depend on the reliability of people self-reporting, often over a long period of time - can you remember what you ate last Monday? Add the fact that cancer can take decades to develop and it’s easier to see why it’s difficult to find clear-cut results. Should I stop eating meat or not? There are many reasons a person might decide to eat a plant-based diet, but if you are specifically worried about your cancer risk, here is what we have learnt so far from research conducted by scientists over the last few decades: • Processed meat, such as bacon, sausages and ham, can cause bowel cancer and its consumption should be limited. • Eating lots of red meat can increase the risk of bowel cancer (the NHS suggests you cut down to 70g a day if you’re eating over 90g) • The evidence for white meats is not as clear cut and some research even suggests that eating some white meat and fish might reduce your risk of some cancers. Currently, the official suggestion is to eat a diet of plenty of fruit and vegetables, whole grains, and healthy sources of protein, such as beans or chicken. The diet should be low in processed and red meat and anything high in sugar, salt and fat. At the moment there are no official recommendations to cut out meat completely, but there is an emphasis on the types of meat you should limit. At Worldwide Cancer Research, we know that bold research will help us find the answers to questions like this and many others. Currently one of our researchers, Professor Salvador Aznar-Benitah, is studying how certain parts of our diet could help cancer to spread. They are also testing a new treatment that could clamp down on the cancer cells before they have a chance to spread. By funding more projects like this thanks to our generous supporters, we will find more ways to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer.
Quick Answer: What Is Pop Culture Essay? What is pop culture today? Today, anything with a buzz is deemed pop culture. Is social media pop culture? Popular culture is heavily influenced by mass media, key celebrity figures, movies and related entertainment, as well as sports and news. However, in the past decade, the Internet and social media has come to be a significant influence on pop culture. Social Media influences what music we listen to. What does lack of culture mean? What is culture research paper? Culture is the behavioral patterns of a specific group determined by beliefs, thoughts and institutions of a society. Research Papers report that a cultured individual is someone well rounded and comfortable in his or her cultural identity and respectful of other cultures around them. What is pop culture and why is it important? Popular culture is, in the historic use of term, the culture of the people.” Popular culture allows large heterogeneous masses of people to identify collectively. It serves an inclusionary role in society as it unites the masses on ideals of acceptable forms of behavior. How do you write a pop culture analysis? Overviewidentify the text and its creator(s), and discuss its social context/situation;contain a clear thesis, or claim regarding the text: make a specific argument about how the text reflects society and why it is so popular.;summarize the text(s) and incorporate evidence in the form of quotes and paraphrasing.More items… How does pop culture affect us? From the moment we’re born, popular culture surrounds us and influences us. It’s the beliefs and practices that groups of us have in common. You see pop culture play out in the movies and shows we watch, the art, comics, and books we read, the toys and video games we play with, and the clothes we wear. Popular culture (also called mass culture and pop culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of the practices, beliefs, and objects that are dominant or prevalent in a society at a given point in time. How does pop culture affect youth? What are 5 examples of culture? How do you start a culture essay? Write down the most interesting ideas on a separate paper. After introducing the topic to the target audience, finish the introduction with the powerful thesis statement, which is the main argument of the whole writing. A thesis statement can be broad in the cultural identity essay example. Why do we need to study pop culture? What defines culture? In contrast to folk customs, popular culture is most often a product of the economically more developed countries (MDCs), especially North America, Western Europe, and Japan. Popular music and fast food are good examples. They arise from a combination of advances in industrial technology and increased leisure time. What are some pop culture topics? Here are some of the pop culture topics:Sexism and feminism in our culture.Reality of televisions.Compare different culture trends.Reflection of pop culture in society.Generational trends.Impacts of youth involvement in pop music.Effect of pop culture on the morality of teenagers.More items…•
Jesus Christ We know Jesus' name today because of the claims Jesus made about Himself, and the claims His followers made about Him. The Apostle Paul put it this way, "I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures." (1 Corinthians 15:3-4) The New Testament Scriptures begin with four books: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Each of these books were written to answer the question of Jesus' identity. Who was He? What is the meaning of His death? What are we to do with Him? Those questions help us know who He is. Who Was He? In the Gospel of John, John knew Jesus at a human level. They were close friends. But he introduces Jesus by saying that He is the God who created the world and everything in it: The Bible says Jesus is God. But it's still mysterious as John says He was in the beginning with God and He was God. The Apostle Paul, one of the first Christians, put it this way, It is astounding that Jesus Christ was both God and man. But what is more astonishing is that He became a man. As John puts it, "The Word became flesh and dwelt among us." In Jesus Christ, the invisible God is made visible. In the course of introducing Jesus, John says that, But why did God become flesh? Why did light enter the darkness? What is the Meaning of His Death? If we are to understand the reason for Jesus' coming as a man, we must understand the reason for His death on a cross as a condemned criminal. Either His death had no meaning at all, or it gives meaning to everything else in the universe. And if it is true that His death gives meaning to everything else in the world, then the purpose of our lives is bound up with the question of His death as well. So, this is a crucial question. We find the answer in the way that Jesus is first identified by His own divinely sent announcer, John the Baptist. When John the Baptist first saw Jesus Christ, he said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!" (John 1:29) Now, if the story of Jesus Christ began right here, we would have no way to understand what John meant by calling Jesus a Lamb. But the story does not start here. Before the curtain opened to Jesus' arrival, there were several acts in God's story of salvation, which set up His coming as the "Lamb of God." For the background, we go to the Old Testament, the books of the Bible that lead up to Jesus' coming. In the first three chapters of the Bible, Genesis 1-3, we learn that God made the world, and He made the world as a home for men and women, whom He made in His image, to reflect His glory and goodness into the world. He gave them everything for their happiness, including Himself. They were only to trust His Word. When they rebelled, just as God promised, they died. And this death entails the just judgment of God. It means our just judgment under the eternal fury of God's wrath. This is what Jesus means when He spoke about "eternal fire" reserved for sinners (Matthew 25:41). This kind of death is what they deserved. But they did not die right away. Their death came slowly, in part, because God had a plan. Though they were sinners, God promised to turn back all that they had done. He promised that one of Eve's sons would crush the head of the Devil and turn back the curse of death. As God's story of salvation unfolds, God gives to His people several pictures to help them understand their problem and what this promised savior would save. As it turns out, lambs figure prominently in God's story of salvation. God required His people to sacrifice many lambs over many years to cover their sins. When God accepted the death of a lamb in the place of a sinner, He was teaching His people that sin deserved death. He was teaching them about His holiness and His determined opposition to human rebellion, and He was teaching them about His love, His mercy, and His grace to provide a way to Him. The repeated sacrifices of many lambs pointed to a day when God would provide a perfect substitute lamb for His people. This could not be clearer than when God spoke through His messenger, Isaiah. In Isaiah 53, God hinted that the promised son of Eve would actually die like a lamb, but that through this act of weakness, God would rescue sinners. Humanity wrestles for an answer to the problem of guilt. Not everyone would state it that way, but every religion humans invent is an attempt to solve the problem of what is wrong with us. In these verses of the Bible, we see the extent of our problem. We go astray. We are filled with iniquities. We transgress God's perfect law. Our rebellion against God is so great that when He sends one to suffer in our place, we do not esteem Him. We crucify Him. But in His death, Jesus, the Lamb of God, was taking away our sins. He was bearing our iniquities. He was afflicted for us. He was crushed for us. He was smitten by God for us. Jesus was not a criminal. But He died as one condemned. As Peter puts it, "Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God" (1 Peter 3:18). What ARe We To Do With Him? This question is as important as the other two, because what Jesus came to do as a Lamb does not count for everybody. The answer to this question can be found in a verse you may recognize. John 3:16 states, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life." So, what does it mean to believe? Do we have to believe in Jesus like we believe the sky is blue. That is certainly part of it. We have to believe that He is who He said He is, but here are a few other ways that we are told to do the same thing: • "For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed...While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light." – John 3:20 • "I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness." – John 12:36, 46 • Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst." – John 6:35 So, believing in Jesus Christ for eternal life means coming out of the darkness of our sin and coming to the light, who is Christ. That is, agreeing with God about our condition as rebels in His world. Every part of us is dark, even if we appear to ourselves brighter than some of the people we know. Before the brilliance of God's glory in Christ, we are all dark. We must come to Him who is the light. Believing in Jesus Christ for eternal life also means that we come to Him for the satisfaction of our souls. He is the bread of life. As our bodies need bread for survival, so Christ is the bread of life. When Jesus says, "Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life" (John 6:27), He clarifies what kind of work He is talking about, "that you believe in him whom he has sent" (John 6:29). Believing in Jesus Christ means coming to him for the free gift of eternal satisfaction. The question of Jesus' identity is the most important question you can ask. Jesus even asked His own disciples, "Who do you say that I am?" People answered that question in many different ways in Jesus' day, as they do today, but Jesus approved of Peter's response, "You are the Christ" (Mark 8:29). Jesus is the Christ, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world. After raising a man named Lazrus from the dead, Jesus said these words: "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live" (John 11: 25). Then He asked the question, "Do you believe this?" So, do you believe this? We hope and pray you do, and nothing would make us happier than to talk with you more about this man, Jesus Christ, who is God in the flesh, the Lamb of God. If you have more quesitons about who Jesus is or about Christianity, please don't hesitate to contact one of our Elders or someone whenever you visit Crosspoint.
Pfizer vaccine in bottle NHS hospitals use blockchain to help manage Covid-19 vaccine rollout Image credit: BioNTech SE 2020 via Reuters Two NHS hospitals in England are adopting blockchain technology to keep track of their Covid-19 vaccination equipment, all of which require precise degrees of cold storage to maintain their efficacy. Warwick and Stratford-Upon-Avon hospitals are among the facilities in the South Warwickshire region adopting the technology. The facilities are working with digital asset-tracking provider Everyware and distributed ledger provider Hedera Hashgraph to monitor the cold storage equipment being used to store doses of the vaccines. The three Covid-19 vaccines approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) must be stored under certain conditions. The Oxford/AstraZeneca and Modern vaccines require freezers or refrigerators. However, the unopened Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine can be stored at centralised distribution centres and transportation units for 10 days at -70±10°C, and in hospitals and other administration centres for five days while refrigerated at 2-8°C. This presents a complex logistical challenge, particularly when attempting to accelerate distribution of the vaccine at a time of extreme pressure on NHS services. Distributing doses of the vaccine to many small administration centres such as GP surgeries introduces more 'touchpoints' during which there is an increased risk of exposing the vaccine to high temperature, while shortages of basic PPE could risk wasting batches of the vaccine. The vaccines will be monitored at the 'last mile' by Everyware’s software, which can be configured to monitor variables such as temperature from any location. This will allow the NHS facilities to ensure that the vaccines are being maintained at the right temperature from the point they are delivered until they have been administered. “Everyware has already demonstrated their capability as a trusted partner, helping us monitor the integrity of a wide variety of clinical applications,” said Steve Clarke, an engineering manager at South Warwickshire NHS. “As we begin to prepare the rollout of these new Covid-19 vaccines, with the specific temperature requirements, we recognise the importance of utilising their same tracking and monitoring capabilities.” Hedera, which provides distributed ledger technology, is being used to record and validate results securely. This allows certainty that the data, once entered, cannot be tampered with. The two NHS hospitals had previously experimented with using Everyware’s software to track other substances with precise storage requirements, such as blood, plasma and chemotherapy drugs. However, the initiative is among the first in the world to rely on blockchain technology. A wider rollout is planned as vaccine distribution progresses. Recent articles
Classroom Expectations Your child will be expected to arrive to class on time every day. They need to be dressed appropriately according to the school dress code. I expect all students to turn in their work on time and completed. We will work on raising our hands to speak, listening quietly while others are speaking and being respectful of others and the things around us. We have a green, yellow, red light system in the classroom. The way the system works is every morning each child starts on green. If they have to be asked or warn about their behavior their card will be turned to yellow as a warning to be "go for learning”. If their behavior gets better their card will be turned back to green. If they continue to not follow the rules their card will be turned to red which means they need to "stop, think and act right". When they are “go for learning” their card will be turned back to green. If your child stays on green all week they will get a prize from the treasure chest at the ends of the week. If you child ends the day on red I will send home a note letting you know about your child’s day.
Shotku’s Seventeen Article Constitution 0 / 5. 0 Shotku's Seventeen Article Constitution, elements of Buddhist, Confucian, or Legalist thinking. The elements reflected include the following, the idea that we should all cease wrath and refrain any form of angry looks. Moreover, we should not be resentful in the event of differing with others. The ministers according to Buddhism should ensure decorous behavior as one of their leading principles Commands should be obeyed especially the Imperial commands. Moreover, harmony in the society is to be valued. We should, therefore, obey our fathers and more so the lords. The spheres of duty should not be confused, and as such every man should have his charge. Wise men are to be entrusted with the office since in this world very few are born with the knowledge and the wisdom we all want. What according to Kitabatake's was distinctive about Japan in comparison to China and India? The country is described as the country with the great eight islands produced by female and male Deity. During the age of the gods the country was referred to us “even –Fruitful land of recovered plains and luxuriant rice fields.” This uniqueness has since been in existence. The Chinese and the Japanese have a similar succession to the throne. However, unlike the Chinese the Japanese succession has never been inviolate. The succession of the Japanese’s has remained the same with no disruption since the beginning unlike other countries like China and India who succession to the throne have over been disrupted over the time. What impression does Shonagon convert about the relationship of men and women at court? In document 8.3, she believed that women relationship with men where they are relegated Related samples Leave feedback
The Turbine Theory of Conciousness by Deepak Chopra From Human to #Metahuman – 🙏 Get the book @ 🙏 Subscribe to our channel The Chopra Well to be updated on latest episodes. It’s free: The Future of God (A Conversation between Deepak Chopra, M.D. and Kyra Phillips, CNN) Deepak Chopra presents the materialist theory that consciousness emerges from neural activity of the brain. The Turbine theory of consciousness suggests that vital thoughts, feelings, inspirations are the result of random chemistry and electrical charges in your brain. But science cannot explain how atoms and molecules produce subjective experience. We use all kinds of words but the fact is we don’t know, it’s nothing. There’s not anything you can pin down, so the answer to your question, “What is reality?” Science says nothing. So now the second answer is we wouldn’t know all of this unless we were conscious beings. Right? We wouldn’t have this conversation. We wouldn’t know that something exists. Even though that something seems to be nothing, we would not know that something exists unless we had consciousness. So the question is, “How does consciousness get produced?” Now for the last 300 years scientists have said, “Oh it’s made up in the brain.” You know the brain is like a turbine. You move it enough you knock these particles enough in the brain then suddenly they produce thought, imagination, insight, intuition, creativity, anything that is vital. So the theories… I call it the Turbine Theory of Consciousness. Like you move a turbine and it generates electricity. So you somehow jiggle these atoms in the brain and they produce imagination and thought. So for 300 years scientists have said that. But then you say, how? How does a molecule or electro-chemicals in the brain produce vital experience? The answer is we don’t know. So if I ask you, imagine a beautiful sunset in the ocean… You can see a picture right? There’s no picture in your brain, there’s electricity and chemicals but you see a picture. Your father is speaking to you right now, remember his voice, and remember your favorite song. What do you, you have an experience, ok there’s nothing there in the brain. But similarly when I look at you, when I really look at you or look at a beautiful flower… what comes to my eyes is photons. They have no color, they have no dimensionality, and they produce chemical reactions in my eyes. Electrical current goes from my retina to my brain and voila I see a three dimensional world in space-time with Kyra and flowers, colors, and smells. How does that happen? We don’t know. So there’s no understanding of a biological basis on consciousness and there’s no understanding of existence. We don’t know what existence is. And we don’t know, how do we know there is existence because we have a feeling that we exist. We have a feeling that the universe exists. The answer to both these questions is we don’t know. And this is regular science, today’s science. The two most important questions! About the Author: 4ster You might like Leave a Reply
Deprecated: implode(): Passing glue string after array is deprecated. Swap the parameters in /home/customer/www/melbourneacfs.org/public_html/plugins/content/jw_allvideos/jw_allvideos.php on line 73 Cuba lies at the mouth of the Gulf of Mexico and is both the largest and most populated island in the region. Siboney hunter gatherers from South America were the first to populate Cuba around 3000 years ago. They were followed by the Taino, an Arawak group who settled most of the Caribbean islands as well as the northern edge of South America. At the time that Christopher Columbus sighted Cuba on 27 October 1492, there was an estimated half-million indigenous people living in small villages farming maize, yucca, yams, peanuts, avocados and tobacco, and the fiercer Taino had driven the Siboney to the Western tip of the island. Spanish Conquest and Occupation The Spanish colonisers had established their first settlement by 1514 and the first sugar cane was planted less than a decade later. There were many battles with the Taino groups, and these, along with smallpox, brutal treatment and malnutrition quickly decimated the indigenous population. The Spanish set up an encomienda system which assigned land and indigenous labour to settlers in return for their help with Christian evangelism amongst indigenous people. While this system was abolished in 1542, almost the entire native population had already been wiped out. From 1522, African slaves were brought to Cuba to work in mines and plantations. These people were allowed to stay together in their original groupings, which allowed African culture to develop strong roots in its new home. Meanwhile, the Spanish lost interest in Cuba, in favour of discoveries in Mexico, Bolivia and Peru. However, Cuba was maintained for its important strategic position as a port. Havana became heavily fortified due to frequently attacks by British forces and French pirates. The British briefly occupied the port from 1762 but traded it back to the Spanish in 1763 in return for Florida. King Sugar The sugar industry exploded after 1791 when French planters fled slave riots in Haiti. 700 000 more Africans were "imported" over the next 40 years, eventually outnumbering Europeans. Cuba became the world’s largest sugar producer, with the newly independent USA as its biggest market. The criollo bourgeoisie (Cuban born Spanish descendents) became impatient with Spanish rule as the region became independent of its colonisers. In 1852, Cuba and Puerto Rico were the only two remaining Spanish colonies in the Americas. The USA twice attempted to buy Cuba from Spain, in 1848 and 1854, but Spain refused to sell. Wars of Independence In the 1850s, nationalist pressure for independence began to build. Criollo planters in Oriente province began the first war of independence in 1868 after Carlos Manuel de Cespedes called for the abolition of slavery. After the death of 200 000 Cubans and 80 000 Spanish, the rebels were forced to sign a peace treaty in 1878. Investors from the USA bought up plantations from bankrupt Spanish landowners and 70% of Cuban land was owned by USA citizens by the late 1890s. In 1895, the second war of independence was started by Cuba’s national hero, José Marti, a gifted writer and advocate of social justice in exile in the USA. He was killed in the first few months of fighting, however the war continued. In February 1989, the USA battleship Maine was blown up in Havana Harbour. The USA government blamed Spain and declared war a few months later. In July, the Spanish surrendered and the USA occupied the island. In 1902, Cuba finally gained independence after being forced to accept a ‘Made in USA’ constitution. This document included the Platt amendment, which gave the USA the right to militarily intervene in Cuban internal affairs whenever it deemed necessary to protect USA interests. This clause also allowed the USA to set up a US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, which still exists today. Dictators and Gangsters The first half of the 20th century was dominated by corruption, incompetence and increasing USA control of the Cuban economy. Sugar and tobacco were exported to the USA in exchange for imports at preferential tariffs. In 1933, a young mulatto army sergeant, Fulgencio Batista, seized power and ran the country until 1944. The next two governments combined systemic corruption and brutal repression of political opponents until Batista staged another coup in 1952 to ‘restore order and democracy’. However, elections, which were expected to be won by the mildly liberal Patido Ortodoxo, were cancelled as Batista and his allies became intent on lining their pockets and the dictatorship embraced organised crime. In 1956, 75% of Cuban imports came from the USA and tourism, gambling and prostitution boomed as mobsters from New York and Miami moved into Havana. Order was maintained by the army and the secret police and hundreds to government opponents were tortured and murdered. The Revolution Triumphs On 26 July 1953, over a hundred militants and students led by young lawyer, Fidel Castro, attacked the Moncada army barracks in Santiago de Cuba. The assault was thwarted and most of the rebels killed. Castro was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Two years later, he was granted amnesty under popular pressure and fled to Mexico City where he gathered other revolutionaries around him, including his brother Raul and a radical Argentine doctor named Ernesto "Che" Guevarra. In December 1956, Castro and 81 guerrillas sailed from Mexico in a small yacht, Granma. The group established themselves in the Sierra Maestra mountains near Santiago and slowly gained support among the rural workers. In the cities, an underground resistance grew, staging protests and supplying new recruits and arms to Castro's fighters. In May 1958, Batista dispatched 10,000 soldiers to wipe out the guerrillas but the campaign failed miserably. Castro's troops fought back, led by 'Che' Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos. As popular support for the guerrillas spread, Batista's troops became demoralised. Finally, his army collapsed and the dictator fled to the Dominican Republic on New Year's Day, 1959, with $US40 million. Che and Camilo arrived in Havana the next day. Fidel, now aged 33, drove from Santiago to Havana, arriving on January 8. He was named Prime Minister and on January 25 over a million Cubans filled the streets to hear Fidel define the goals of the new Revolution. Guerrillas in Power The new government immediately nationalised all land holdings over 400 hectares. Racial discrimination was abolished, rents slashed and salaries increased. Some land was redistributed to landless rural people and the rest was tuned into state farms where agricultural workers were given secure, paid employment for the first time. Thousands of volunteers spread across the countryside to teach rural people to read and write in one of the most successful literacy campaigns of all time. The United States was outraged by the nationalisation of the US-owned plantations and initiated a CIA-led plan to oust the Cuban Government. Cuba responded by nationalising all US owned companies and by establishing closer economic and political ties with the Soviet Union. Washington began an economic blockade and cut off diplomatic relations in 1960. The US effort to topple the revolutionary government culminated in the Bay of Pigs (Playa Giron) invasion on 17 April 1961 by 1400 CIA-trained Cuban expatriates. The invasion failed miserably. In 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. When the USA installed nuclear missiles in Turkey on the Turkish-Russian border, the USSR installed nuclear missiles on Cuban soil as a counter to the US missiles in Turkey. The US threatened war unless the missiles were removed. In the end, the Soviets removed their missiles in exchange for a promise from President Kennedy not to invade Cuba. After a suitable face-saving period the USA removed its' missiles from Turkey. Building a Socialist State Fidel Castro and Che Guevara set out to build a socialist state. There was a complete shake-up of the economy including the nationalisation of agriculture many industries. Great advances were made in health, education and worker’s rights. During this time, Cuba’s economic success relied significantly upon the export of sugar under favourable trade arrangements with the Soviet Union. Also, Cuba’s sole source of oil and many other agricultural and industrial commodities was imports from the USSR. The Special Period In the mid 1980's Cuba tried to loosen the rigid Soviet model. But with US President Ronald Reagan's anti-Communist crusade in full swing, there was little room to move. With the collapse of the Soviet Block in 1989, Cuba lost five billion dollars worth of trade almost overnight and in August 1990 President Castro announced a "special period" - an austerity program to confront the nation's worst-ever economic crisis. As Soviet oil imports dropped Cuban industry and agriculture ground to a halt. The United States used this opportunity to tighten its illegal blockade. The USA "Cuban Democracy Act" (Torricelli Act) Introduced by Senator Robert Torricelli in 1992, this bill extended the trade ban to overseas subsidiaries of US companies. Any ship docking in Cuba is barred from docking in US ports for six months. At that time, Cuba had $US8OO million in trade (mostly in food and medicine) with American-owned firms outside the US. That trade has disappeared and transport costs have jumped by 40% since 1992. Cuba is spending $US1OO million more to get goods through alternative channels. The USA "Cuba Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act" (Helms-Burton Act) The act aims to prevent foreign investment in Cuba. Companies are threatened with court action in the US if they "traffic" in property that has been nationalised by the Cuban government and that was previously owned by anyone who is now a citizen of the US. The Helms-Burton Act has outraged Canada and the European Union (EU), both of which seek stronger trade links and investment opportunities in Cuba. The EU threatened to take the act to the World Trade Organisation unless Washington softens its approach. Current Conditions In recent times, Cuba’s economy has undergone substantial growth and recent policy changes have meant that consumer items are now more available and more affordable. Cuba is forging ahead with innovations in energy, urban agriculture, biotechnology (such as the production of their own vaccines), as well as continuing to advance their programs of education and national and international health care. Cuba has experienced a time of economic growth, bringing them out of the Special Period. 2006 was a bumper year with a 12% growth in GDP. Tourism is a main source of income, as well as major exports such as sugar, nickel, tobacco, fish, citrus, and coffee. While the global downturn is expected to affect Cuba’s tourism industry and some exports, the country has avoided the direct implications of international financial disruption. Also in the recent years, there have been political changes. With the deterioration of Fidel Castro’s health he stood aside from the leadership and did not stand for re-election. Following elections in early 2008, a new Congress was formed and Raul Castro, then head of the armed forces, was appointed President. Cuba has experienced improved relations with many Latin American countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile and Brazil. New economic and financial arrangements with China allow Cuba to access currency markets away from the $US, improving Cuba’s financial liquidity and purchasing power. Cuba is a member of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of America (ALBA) which is an international cooperation organization based on the idea of social, political, and economic integration between the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. In association with other socialist and social democratic governments ALBA is working towards regional economic integration based on a vision of social welfare and mutual economic aid, rather than trade liberalisation. While there have been somewhat improved relations between the US and Cuba with US President Obama relaxing restrictions on the ability of Cuban Americans to travel to Cuba and to transfer remittances to family members in Cuba, there has not been any significant change to US policy. Similarly, Cuba has declared that it will not give up its revolution, will not dismantle its socialist economy and will continue to prove that a better world is possible! Adapted from Australia/New Zealand Cuba Friendship Societies document
Home BergBeat BergBeat 5 The Tenure Track The Tenure Track The Tenure Track Asheen Phansey was the director of sustainability and an adjunct professor at Babson College until, one day, he was not. In January, President Trump tweeted a list of 52 political and cultural sites in Iran which the U.S. could bomb in response to rising tensions between the two countries. Phansey posted a sarcastic comment on his private Twitter account suggesting that Iran could select similarly important sites in the U.S. to bomb in response. Four days after posting the comment, Babson fired him. Phansey did not make this remark to students or in the classroom; it was simply a comment made on a private social media account on his own time. And yet he lost his job. His dismissal sparked intense debates about the first amendment rights of educators. Many of the people protesting Phansey’s dismissal were quick to point out that tenure was invented to protect educators from just this sort of situation. Phansey did not have tenure, but he would have benefited from tenure’s original intention: job security. Invented in the late nineteenth century, tenure was one of the few perks of being a public-school teacher. Its benefits expanded over time and extended to include professors. Tenure in higher education now grants higher wages, better working conditions, and academic freedom, which allows professors to experiment with educational methods and include controversial material in courses without losing their jobs. Of course, such a system is subject to abuse; perhaps the most popular concern about tenure is that professors who are uninvested, teach poorly, make offensive comments, or threaten or harass students will face no consequences for their actions. The issue of tenure is often painted as a standoff between unassailable, complacent or malicious educators who want tenure and concerned parents and students who have experienced abuse of the tenure system. But educators harbor concerns about tenure, too, and the two tenured Muhlenberg professors I spoke to had clear criticisms of the system. They want to see the system improved but not dismantled: despite its flaws, tenure grants them very real protections which are essential to their livelihoods. They think clearer communication between professors and students about the processes and nature of tenure would help people form better educated views on the system. Getting tenure is “a grueling, paranoia-inducing process that sucks up a lot of energy,” says Cathy Ouellette, Ph.D., the chair of Muhlenberg’s history department, and while she finds her job “deeply rewarding,” she and other professors wish students knew more about their positions and tenure so they understood more about what happens both inside and outside of the classroom. It is logical to assume that tenure was invented by teachers’ unions, which now have a vested interest in tenure policies and practices. Though the National Education Association (NEA)—the country’s first and, at the time, only teachers’ union—released a statement supporting teacher tenure in 1885, the NEA had fewer than 2,400 members and no official presence in major urban centers like New York City. The impetus for tenure actually came from nonunionized teachers who were expected to teach classes of 70 or more students on low wages and under the scrutiny of parents and administrators. The school system could do little to address large class sizes and low wages without a state-granted expansion of resources and funding, but guaranteeing job security was a relatively easy change to implement. Easy to implement did not mean popular: tenure was controversial from its inception. Prior to the introduction of tenure, professors and teachers were commonly ousted from their institutions for religious affiliations, political stances, or choice of curriculum. Take the case of Thomas Cooper who taught English at the University of Thomas Jefferson in the early 1800s. A public institution with no official connections to Christianity, the university strove to uphold Jefferson’s maxim of devotion to the relentless pursuit of truth. Thomas Jefferson was an avid supporter of the separation of church and state and by extension, he sought to limit the role of religion in education. Despite his and the university’s apparent support for academic freedom and nonreligious pursuit of the truth, however, Cooper was dismissed for his alleged association with Unitarianism, demonstrating the instability of teaching positions. Taking a stance on slavery and war cost some professors their jobs, and teaching Huckleberry Finn in K-12 classrooms became a major point of contention. Female teachers could be fired for getting married, becoming pregnant, or dressing inappropriately. Granting tenure could protect educators from losing their jobs over minor disputes and personal beliefs, a small perk in the face of low wages and poor working conditions. Still, tenure was villainized by parents, politicians, and administrators as an unjust protection for unqualified educators. Tenure debates became so divisive that some politicians refused to take a stance on the issue. Despite the contention, tenure received enough support to be implemented locally for public school teachers in New York City by the end of the nineteenth century. In 1909, New Jersey became the first state to pass tenure legislation regarding the hiring and firing of college professors. Legislation in other states soon followed. But tenure never stopped being controversial, and tenure practices for K-12 educators versus college educators diverged rapidly. Now, tenure for teachers at public schools is a very different animal than tenure for college professors. Public school teachers are granted tenure automatically after a probationary period of about three years, assuming they have done well on their evaluations. “In the public education system, it’s more like a routine,” says Mark Emerick, Ph.D., a visiting lecturer of education at Muhlenberg. He frames the situation with his hands. “Theoretically, you’re getting observed by an administrator twice a year for the first three years, and then [the administrator says], ‘okay, you’ve been successful during those first three years, you get tenure on the first day of your fourth year.’” Tenure means that public school teachers’ contracts are renewed automatically, and it grants teachers entitlement to due process. They have the right to know if and why their employers seek to dismiss them and the right to have the issue reviewed by an unbiased body. Another issue tenure addresses is finances. “What [tenure] does stop is a financial cutting of positions because, ‘oh, you know, the district doesn’t have as much money this year, so you’ll lose your job.’ So it is a buffer against that kind of thing,” says Emerick. Tenure is also, typically, a vote of confidence: “Administrators will make sure that pre-tenure, a teacher that they don’t think is very effective is not renewed.” A major misconception is the idea that tenure grants public school teachers total job security. “If a teacher ‘misbehaves’,” Emerick mimes quotes around the word, “their tenure does not do much for them. So if a teacher is caught doing something wrong, tenure is not a reason they can’t be removed.” Failure to remove teachers for inappropriate behavior or incidents is not a sign of tenure’s power but rather the considerations of due process, which requires just cause for dismissal, adequate documentation, and a hearing. The process can be time-consuming and expensive, and people argue that principals may be reluctant to dismiss teachers for that reason. Still, tenure is not an unbreachable stone wall of protection for public school teachers—or higher education faculty, for that matter. Of all the personal characteristics that can be gleaned from the office of Emanuela Kucik, Ph.D., the most obvious is that she has an eye for color and design. The stark white of her office walls and furniture is rendered friendly by a multitude of colorful, mixed-media artwork, and one wall features a floor to ceiling painting created by a student as part of a final project for Kuick’s course, Global Black Literature. There is a couch in the corner and a rug on the floor. The desk features an ever-present stack of books and cup of coffee, as well as some framed photos: Kucik with her family, smiling in her cap and gown, and her cat, also in a little satin cap. This is the office of a person who goes all in visually as a representation of her investment in her job. It shows a commitment for the long-term—and just how many hours Kucik expects to spend in this room. Kucik is an assistant professor of English and co-chair of the Africana studies program at Muhlenberg. She landed the tenure-track English position after she received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2018 and accepted the position as co-chair after her first year. Her specialties include Black literature, comparative race and ethnic studies, and genocide studies. Her courses are almost always full. When I visit her, late one Wednesday afternoon in February, she welcomes me into her office with a smile. She is nearing the end of her second-year reviews for the tenure process. These reviews consist of senior faculty members from her department observing a class. Because Kucik has a joint appointment in English and Africana studies, she has been reviewed by members from both disciplines. “Everyone’s been really wonderful about it, and really generous, and it’s been really helpful in terms of feedback,” Kucik says. It has been helpful, she explains, to get feedback from people in different specialties and stages of their careers, and her experience with the process has been positive and affirming. Any student who has been in a class under observation knows, however, the way an extra body in the room changes the dynamics of the class. Students are more easily distracted, and they might be less comfortable participating. The professor often has to work harder just to make things feel normal. But the second year evaluation is only one part of the tenure process for faculty members at Muhlenberg and other institutions of higher education. The first thing that must be understood about tenure for professors are position titles—because the tenure process begins even before colleges officially fly professorships. The college decides, based on funding and departmental need, whether to create positions as tenure-eligible, which determines the position title. If the advertised position is “adjunct”, the position is part-time and based on demand, so it is not tenure-eligible. “Lecturer” is also not tenure-eligible. This position is full time, but it is still a temporary contract. It is a way for the college to test the waters, see if another full-time faculty member is needed and avoid the long-term financial commitment of a tenure-track professor. Tenure-track professorships are typically flown as “assistant professor” positions. Assistant professorships are full-time and offer the possibility of job security and promotion, among other benefits, upon receiving tenure. Assistant professorships are, therefore, very attractive to applicants. Kucik explains that it is a real privilege to land a tenure-track job. “There are so many qualified people without access to the limited number of tenure-track positions,” she says. “Because of this, if people end up in positions they don’t like or where they don’t feel supported, they often don’t feel like they can leave. I feel doubly grateful that I have a tenure-track position that I love in a department, program, and school where I feel genuinely supported.” Also, Muhlenberg—and most other institutions of higher education—hold strict rules about eligibility. Muhlenberg’s faculty handbook specifies that candidates must have a “terminal degree” to be considered for tenure. A terminal degree, or appropriate degree, is defined as the highest degree in one’s field, typically a Ph.D. except in particular disciplines like the arts, business, and physical education where the terminal degree might be a master’s degree. This is non-negotiable. Occasionally, the college will hire someone still working on their Ph.D. into a tenure-track position, but it is only with the understanding that they will finish in time to be able to stand for tenure. But what exactly is the tenure process? Unlike tenure in public schools, where three years of successful evaluations leads to automatic tenure, tenure in higher education is a six-year process, and its requirements are far more strenuous. Tenure-track professors go through three sets of classroom reviews during their second, third, and sixth years. Emanuela Kucik was finishing her second-year review when I spoke to her. These evaluations are carried out by senior faculty in a candidate’s department or program, and in the case of a joint appointment like Kucik’s, professors from both fields observe. These reviews do not just look at candidates’ teaching, however. Two other fields are considered: professional activity and college service. “Professional activity broadly means anything you’ve done for the profession in the service of research,” Kucik says. This includes a candidate’s publications—books, articles, or chapters, for instance. Kucik points out that professional activity can also include “attending or presenting at a conference, giving a talk at another school, and giving a keynote speech at an event.” At the time we spoke, she had one article published, a chapter in a book in the pipeline, and a book proposal almost ready for review, among other things. She was planning to present at a conference in March and give the keynote address at another conference in April. The final area evaluated for tenure is college service. Muhlenberg’s professors are expected to actively participate in the “formulation and execution of college policy.” It includes everything from advising students to participating in some of Muhlenberg’s twenty committees. For Kucik, the Africana studies directorship, participation in the Phi Beta Kappa Committee, and acting as the Black Students Association advisor are all major efforts in the college service category, each entailing detailed ideas and plans for expanding the reach of the Africana studies program, strengthening the campus community, and engaging in greater outreach to underserved students in the Allentown and Philadelphia areas. For Muhlenberg faculty, the tenure evaluations can be as stressful as the process is exhaustive. Though the faculty handbook lays out the general expectations and structure of the tenure process, several of the requirements are determined by the professor’s field—the creative writing program will have different publishing expectations than, say, the physics department. As a result, a good deal of information regarding departments’ requirements is passed informally between professors. It is complicated further when a professor has a joint appointment. This can be difficult, and it is certainly a learning process for new faculty members. Another challenging aspect is juggling the three responsibilities of professorships. “Though we’re a small residential college that prioritizes teaching, [the faculty] have other obligations,” Ouellette explains. “Many of us are involved in service that goes way beyond what is really required. And I think that the professional side of things, that category of professional activity, is for many of us difficult to maintain because those other two areas draw so much upon us.” It is clear from how she speaks about it that professors enjoy the work and are deeply invested in each aspect, but it can be a delicate balancing act of time and energy. Even though the reviews are stressful, they provide an opportunity for candidates to check in with senior faculty and receive valuable feedback on their performance. “Many years ago, there was no review,” says Grant Scott, Ph.D., chair of the English department. “You just came up for tenure. And then—if it became a case that we wanted to deny you tenure, there could have been warning signs earlier. There could have been things that someone would have told you, like ‘do more publishing’, or ‘your teaching isn’t quite up to snuff’, or ‘you haven’t been in on any committees’, or whatever. So now the [review] is a way to ensure things are going well.” When a professor comes up for tenure in the fall of their sixth year, the Faculty Evaluation Committee reviews their tenure file. This file is, in essence, the sum of the professor’s past five years of work—and for many candidates may be the sum of their life’s work. It presents information on the professor’s professional activity, college service, and teaching in detail: these files will include sample syllabi, student evaluations, ten recommendation letters from former students, copies of speeches given or published articles, and whatever else the candidate feels is worth putting forward. The file is often quite long. When I spoke with her, Ouellette has just finished a term on the Faculty Evaluation Committee. “We as the committee read everything, or in some cases view everything if it’s a production, then we have an interview with each candidate, which is about an hour long, and we ask pointed questions of the candidates based on the evidence they’ve put into their files. Then we make a recommendation to the Provost.” If all goes well, the Board of Trustees will grant the candidate tenure. Ouellette frowns thoughtfully as she spells out the various moving pieces and players in the tenure process. At one point she pauses, and, clearly recalling her own experience standing for tenure, says, “This is a grueling, paranoia-inducing process that is really very hard to go through. [This job] is really fun, though. It’s deeply, deeply rewarding, especially after you get tenure, and then you can try new things. Knowing that you have job security and flexibility in terms of what you’re pursuing in the classroom and in your professional life is a luxury. It is a real privilege.” “I just cannot believe that they’re still teaching here,” the student murmurs, careful to keep her voice down. We’re in an academic building on a Sunday, and there are few people around. Still, talking about a professor’s conduct next to a row of offices feels like some sort of breach of etiquette. The student—whom I will call Camila—raises her hands in a what can you do? gesture. Her voice drops almost to a whisper as she describes vaguely racist comments in class, looks that linger too long on certain students, differing grading standards based on gender and extracurricular activities, refusing to respect students’ pronouns. Apparently, this professor is not generally seen as the most competent educator to begin with. Her complaints about this professor are fairly run-of-the-mill, but that does not make them any less valid—instead, their alignment with the norm highlights students’ current problems with higher education and tenure. Whereas teacher tenure in public K-12 education only provides entitlement to due process, tenure in higher education provides more protection. Even though there are occasional evaluations after professors become tenured and department chairs keep track of student evaluation scores, tenured professors largely go unchecked, Scott says. We are sitting in his office, which is cluttered with rows and stacks of books, some of which belong to his prized collection of first editions. Those are draped in bubble wrap. On the back of his door is a photo of the Muhlenberg English department faculty taken in the early 1960s. “Once you become tenured, you’re doing pretty well. People leave you alone unless you do something terrible. I think in many cases tenure has become a sinecure.” The word sinecure originally described positions in the Catholic Church which were granted for life, making their holders practically untouchable. Now, the term is more commonly used to describe positions where people are paid to do very little. People in these positions are still largely untouchable, and Scott does not hesitate to say that some professors abuse this aspect of tenure. If a professor is an uncommitted or ineffective educator, students may rate the professor poorly on end of semester evaluations. The professor’s department chair, and perhaps the provost, would respond to these scores by encouraging the professor to step up their game. If a student reports a professor for problematic language in the classroom, the department chair invites the professor for a meeting which serves as a first warning. Similar conversations might take place if a student reported a faculty member for biased grading or mild harassment, but students may find these things harder to report if they are not fully tangible. Professors would typically have to be reported multiple times (and the reports would have to be validated as genuine, not just vindictive backlash for poor grades) before punitive actions would be taken. This could include sensitivity training or other measures, but the professor would most likely not be fired. When I ask what sort of instance would actually warrant a dismissal, Scott leans back in his chair and folds his hands. “That would have to be really aggressive, and it would have to be probably conscious and willed, malicious.” The faculty handbook states that faculty can be terminated for refusing to carry out their academic duties, participating in actions which the academic community would denounce, or committing criminal offenses. A professor caught engaging in any of these actions, though vague, would be a scandal. Termination would be expected. Scott speaks in hypotheticals, sketching out what would happen if something so serious occurred. “It would probably go before the Social Judicial Board or the Academic Judicial Board; it would come before some tribunal of faculty members who would probably sit in judgement. There would have to be evidence, there would have to be witnesses. That hasn’t happened—as far as I know—in a long time.” The fact that it could take, say, falsifying research for a tenured professor to be dismissed highlights how easily tenure can act as a sinecure. It also explains why professors deemed problematic by the student body are not dismissed; a professor could be well-liked initially but lose favor after tenure, and very little could be done. Camila expresses frustration in our conversation that there were no clear consequences for this professor’s behavior. “I know that so many people have gone above this professor, so I don’t know where those [reports] are going, I don’t know who’s looking at those, but I guess they’re not being taken very seriously.” The administration has not appeared to do anything about the reports. Her derisive tone indicates that she does not expect that to change. She is not the only student who feels that way. Another student who had two classes with the same professor says that she feels that, as a student, she does not have a voice the administration will acknowledge. Because there has been no noticeable change in this professor’s conduct in the classroom, students who have had unpleasant experiences with them have begun to spread the word, warning other students to avoid the professor’s classes if possible. “Even people who aren’t in that department know of this professor because people are so upset after having experiences with [them] that they talk to their friends. And it’s like, people say the name, and other people are like ohhhhh,” Camila laughs. Of course, students swapping notes on professors is normal, and Muhlenberg is a small, liberal arts college, where students take courses in several departments. Students would know this professor even if they are not majoring in their field. So it is hard to know exactly how much more talk this one professor generates, but any talk which includes stories of unfair grading and problematic comments is enough to divert students into other classes. Also, if other students have shared Camila’s experiences with this professor, then her lack of trust in the administration is certainly shared, as well. Students may not understand how much—or little—the administration can do in this situation. If the professor has not done anything warranting dismissal, all the administration can do is impose punitive measures. But it is the lack of transparency in the administration’s approach to the problem which creates distrust among students. Camila considered becoming a teacher and took a few education courses at Muhlenberg. She has volunteered in local schools, too, so she generally sympathizes with teachers’ perspectives. When I ask her about her opinion of the tenure system, she hesitates for a long moment before admitting that it is complicated. “After coming to college and having these experiences with this professor, I am a lot more skeptical of tenure,” she says. Another student feels similarly conflicted: “The problem is I totally understand the need for job security, and there are so many professors I love here who have tenure, but I don’t think tenure should make you absolutely immune to criticism and firing if it’s necessary.” Both students are troubled by the prospect and reality of tenure acting as a sinecure, feeling that it grants too much security and protection. A third student goes so far as to say that educators should be dismissed even after one problematic comment. So what would happen if tenure practices were ended in higher education? If all professors suddenly lost the privileges and protections associated with tenure? Professors who make offensive comments and harass students, like the one Camila encountered, could be let go. They would not need to commit a serious offense before students saw change. Professors would also have to be fully committed to their jobs—they would not be able to “slack off” without the sinecure of tenure. They would have to be highly responsive to students’ needs and wishes, tailoring courses and assignments to match the tone of each class. If this were the case, students might like some of their professors more. The issue is that even as “bad” professors could be penalized more easily, “good” professors would be subject to the same punitive measures, whether deserved or not. A student with an ulterior motive who reports a professor might be taken too seriously. A poorly-worded comment in the classroom might become a much larger issue than it should be. A well-loved professor whose teaching style makes one student uncomfortable might be advised to change their method, even if most students like it. Academic freedom in general—one of tenure’s central privileges—would come under attack; educators would not feel able to experiment in the classroom, trying new teaching methods and incorporating controversial material into discussions and lectures. And it is not just students’ opinions that would come into play. A new administrator could come in, decide they do not approve of a professor’s teaching, and dismiss them. Parents who dislike the content their child is learning in class might seek to change it. It would be a return, essentially, to the time prior to tenure, when teaching Huckleberry Finn was a scandal and a teacher could be fired for not supporting a local politician. In addition, we would see an upswing in cases like Asheen Phansey’s, where a tweet on a private twitter account resulted in dismissal. His dismissal had nothing to do with his conduct in the classroom or at Babson College in general—it was as removed from his professional life as it could be. Perhaps a sarcastic tweet of locations Iran could bomb was not in the best taste, but Phansey himself was not threatening violent crimes and his tweet would not be classified as hate speech. In a country where free speech is so highly prized, Phansey’s dismissal seems incongruous. But without tenure, many more professors would encounter situations like Phansey’s. The truth is, educators are very much in the public eye. People want to know their children’s teachers are role models—and educators should be role models. But is it fair, or realistic, to expect educators to behave professionally around the clock? Dragging their personal lives under the microscope without the protections of tenure may result in many unwarranted dismissals. It is important to understand that tenure is not infallible. Although it has benefited many, many educators since its inception, perhaps providing stronger protections than it always should, it is currently being challenged as institutions of higher education face shrinking student bodies and loss of net revenue. In the face of declaring financial exigency—the higher education equivalent of bankruptcy—colleges are cutting costs wherever they can, including cutting tenured faculty members. The American Association of University Professors has routinely condemned such forms of cost-cutting; policy states that universities are not to terminate tenured professors unless they already have declared financial exigency. That universities are terminating tenured professors to avoid declaring exigency erodes tenure’s protections and privileges, even for well-liked and effective professors. Academic freedom is challenged: the ability to experiment in the classroom, research in emerging and unusual fields, and introduce new programs—academic and otherwise—to institutions shrinks. This trend of terminations renders tenure’s seemingly unbreachable protections more fragile. I was surprised to find that each of the four professors I spoke to had mixed feelings about the tenure system. Ouellette pointed out the difficulties of being reviewed by colleagues from other disciplines. Emerick indicated that some fields and methods of research are considered more valid than others, and that might influence tenure practices. Kucik described the shortage of tenured positions and comparative overabundance of highly qualified candidates who cannot get tenure-track professorships. Scott worried about tenure acting as a sinecure and the conflicts of interest that might arise when a department chair is friends with the faculty of their department. They all thought the system would benefit from more transparency—in other words, more student awareness of tenure. Student evaluations, after all, go into professors’ files. They are particularly valuable for tenure candidates—both Kucik and Emerick said they pay careful attention to their evaluations to get feedback on their methods. Also, all of the professors wanted students to be aware that they wear several hats: they do not just teach. “Unlike in high school, where your teacher is basically there all day and teaches all day—I don’t want to put a fraction on it in particular, but there are three things that faculty are responsible for, and teaching is only one of those things,” Emerick says. The pressure on junior faculty is particularly intense: “You have to demonstrate a high level of professional engagement and research activity, plus—here, especially—have exceptional teaching and perform service to your department and to the college at large and to external constituencies, and that is in order to ensure that you keep your job.” Tenured faculty engage in professional activity and college service outside of teaching, as well, but if they fall behind in one area, tenure acts as their safety net. Some may abuse this privilege, of course, but Ouellette says that many faculty members engage extensively with their service and research. They are dutiful with the many responsibilities that students do not see. When I spoke with students, it was clear that their main concern was having a voice regarding tenure. They wanted to know that they would be taken seriously if they reported a professor. As frustrated as they were by tenure, they did not want to see it dismantled. In that sense, professors’ and students’ goals aligned: they want to see tenure improved, not discarded, with more accountability and transparency involved. I heard from students that when Muhlenberg moved to remote learning due to COVID-19, Kucik sent individual emails to every student in her classes to check in and see if there was anything she could do for them. She was not the only one to offer support. Many professors offered moral support, alternative learning plans and increased flexibility with assignments to tackle the unexpected switch to online learning, all while trying to preserve the academic rigor Muhlenberg students are accustomed to. They continue to demonstrate their care as the semester draws to a close. These are the professors for whom tenure makes sense. Whatever changes we see regarding tenure over the next few years, we can hope that they will be transparent, holding those accountable who need it and protecting those that deserve it. Please enter your comment! Please enter your name here
What Would Cause A Double Pane Window To Crack? What would cause glass to shatter? There are many potential causes for spontaneous breakage of tempered glass. The most common is damage to the edges of glass as it is being pre-cut into panels, or nicks or chips to the edges that occur when the glass is being packaged, shipped, or installed onsite.. What causes double pane windows to crack? The shadow lines created by the overhang or wall set up a quickly changing stress factor from the glass that is in the sunny, hot area that contrasts with the glass in the cool, shaded area. If the stress gets too be too much, the glass expands a lot in the heat or shrinks in the cold, it can crack. Can Windows Break From Heat? Can Window Film cause Windows to crack? Window film will never cause thermal stress breakage with tempered (also known as toughened) glass4, and is highly unlikely to cause thermal stress breakage with heat strengthened glass. Window film can significantly increase the risk of thermal stress breakage of float glass if incorrectly specified. Can you replace just the glass in a window? There are several options for replacement glass, but your window will perform best if you replace the broken pane with the same type of glass. … You can remove and replace broken glass yourself if you are on a tight budget; however, it is tricky. Can a double pane window break on its own? While rare, spontaneous glass breakage does happen sometimes in double-paned windows, due to the pressurized gas between the panes. It can also happen to tempered glass, which is a tougher type of glass that has been treated with heat and chemicals to withstand high impacts. Can you separate double pane windows? Begin by removing one of the window panes from the frame and laying it on a flat surface. … Part of the reason the window failed is the sealant failed. To separate the glass from the butyl use a utility knife with a new blade to break through the butyl where it meets the glass. How did my window crack? The most common cause of inexplicable cracks in windows is stress. Stress cracks—also referred to as thermal stress cracks—can occur in windows when a thermal gradient causes the glass in your window to expand by different amounts in different parts of the window. Can you fix a cracked window? Sadly, glass that has broken into pieces or has cracks larger than an inch, as well as double-paned glass with a hole through both panes, is pretty much beyond repair. The good news is you can often fix a small crack in glass yourself with little more than a steady hand and a few basic supplies. What can cause a window to break for no reason? The most common causes are: Minor damage during installation such as nicked or chipped edges later developing into larger breaks normally radiating from point of defect. Binding of the glass in the frame, causing stresses to develop as the glass expands and contracts due to thermal changes or deflects due to wind. How much does it cost to replace the glass in a double pane window? Window Glass Replacement CostsType of WindowAverage Pricing (Labor Included)Double Pane – Just Glass/Glass and New Frame$100 to $800 depending on single or double-hung styleBay Window$500 to $1000 depending on the type of glassBow Window$1000 to $3000 depending on the type of glass1 more row Is it cheaper to replace glass or whole window? In fact, replacing your entire window could cost you up to 50 percent more than simply replacing the glass. How hard is it to break a double pane window? It’s very difficult to break a double glazed window without making a noise. All modern windows come with double glazing, which means that there are at least two obstacles to overcome in order to break the glass. … Hit the window in one of the lower corners with a heavy object (preferably a hammer). Can a cracked double pane window be repaired? Can I Fix My Broken Double-Pane Window? … You need to remove the window sash, take it to a glass service store, order replacement glass for whichever panes are damaged and then replace the broken pane with new glass.
Hot answers tagged Instead of using the branch as a pulley, lift the bag into position with one hand while pulling the slack out of the rope with the other. If the bag is too heavy to lift over your head with one hand, have a second person pull the rope while you lift the bag with both hands. This will greatly reduce the friction on the tree limb. Using anatolyg's idea of the carabiner, I think this will work. Thank you Anatolyg! Make a figure-8-on-a-bight knot on the center of your rope; clip a carabiner into the knot. Clip the center of a second rope into the carabiner. Toss your first rope over the tree branch using the original method. Use the second rope to raise the bag, using the carabiner as a pulley. To reduce friction, you can add a real pulley to the carabiner if you have ... Arborists have this problem. The solution is a "friction saver" or "cambium saver". It consists of two rings, one large and one small, at the end of a length of webbing or rope. Here are some examples from For light duty you could easily make a similar device yourself with two differently sized rings and a piece of rope. ... The two situations you compare are not really alike. When you shorten a sling by tying a knot in it, suppose the knot fails -- then the carabiner is still caught in the sling. Clipping in to the shelf of an anchor is different. In an anchor built out of three pieces, we have 6 strands coming down to the knot. You clip in to the shelf by clipping through one ... I made a video about it like 2 years ago: With a FPV of tying the knot. Also be noted that the bowline paper has been updated and there's one more variation in there that is safe for climbing called "Harry Butlers Yosemite Bowline" which has been my default go-to lead climbing knot for the past 2 years, i ... This is called a cows tail tie in, it's a standard guide technique, and is merely a retraced overhand on a bight. A variation on others' answers (which I have not tried, but speculate should work) - if you don't have a carabiner or arborist's tools or whatever, you could make do with just the rope itself. Tie the end of the rope around the tree limb - use a square knot or other non-slipping knot to leave slack in the resulting loop. Pull the long end through the loop, ... You are looking for the barrel knot: This is used by climbers to make sure the rope can't pass through the hole in a belay device. I'd suggest a "slippery figure of eight" - although i'm not sure if that's the right canonical name for it. It's my go to knot I use when trying to shorten guy lines on a tent or tarp - i.e. when I have a runner with a hole and can pull some of the line through, tie a stopper knot and then use the shortened guy line. When taking the tent down, a ... I do see a need for a munter hitch. I make an anchor at the bottom like usual. I usually make also an anchor prusik at first bolt, because I think knots as the weakest point of the system, or place it otherwise you will keep rope longer if not fall on knots. Then I tight a prusik on my harness, and climb giving slack through moving the prusik with one hand. ...
Domain Statistics in 2020: Impressive Statistics and Comparisons Domain Statistics in 2020: Impressive Statistics and Comparisons The web is growing at a dazzling speed. Thousands of new domains are registered every single day. While some of them turn into investments (considering that the domain name "" is registered at less than $20 a year like other .com domains and sold for $872 million, domain names are not a bad investment at all), enterprises or new blogs, the rest of them are waiting to be registered by someone. A simple Google search to learn the number of domain extensions in total turned out to be a comprehensive statistical and comparative research for domains. And as a result, we decided to write this article. In mid-February, we detected 235 million domains registered on the web using 3rd-party services. We gathered them all in one file (a text file about 4GB in size) and worked on some statistics. If you are curious about the statistics and the whole list, you can slide down to the end of the article, but before let's give some basic information. What is a domain name extension or TLD (top-level domain)? When you try to trade with a domain name (accessing the website, file transfer, sending e-mail), you contact the IP addresses of this domain name. You may not be aware of this because the mapping a domain name to its corresponding IP address is done automatically via a protocol called DNS. Everyone has heard of the web. But maybe there may be those who haven't heard of DNS. However, the invention of DNS (1983) goes back much earlier than the web (1989). If DNS was not invented, we would have to memorize and use IP addresses such as 2001:db8:0:0:0:ff00:42:8329 or instead of domains for every email process or website access. So DNS definitely deserves respect for its age and the benefit it gives us! What are the domain extensions or TLDs? The domain extension, also known as TLD (top level domain), is the part that comes after the full stop "." character at the end of the domain name. For example, the domain extension TLD for is “.com”. In some cases, the above rule may not work. For example, the domain extension of the domain names of countries comes after the second last full stop "." character. For example, the TLD value for is "". These are country-level domains and are created by adding the country code for almost every country at the end of special extensions such as gov, edu, mil. How many extensions are there in total? According to Wikipedia, the total number of domain extensions is 1584. The number of country-level TLD is 316. How many TLDs are used in total? The total number of TLDs in-service is only 1044 in 235 million domains. The total number of TLDs is less because you cannot register some of them at all. You can see it on the chart that follows: the most preferred tld graph How many Country Level TLDs are there in total? As a result, it looks like we can accept the answer at iana page as the correct number which is 315. What are the 10 most preferred TLDs? As a result of our research, the ''.com'' extension is still leading and ''.net'' and ''.org'' extensions are following after. com 135.341.489 net 13.916.041 org 10.428.576 uk 8.493.044 de 7.689.703 info 5.083.380 ru 5.076.251 nl 2.497.149 loan 2.234.088 biz 2.214.607 the most preferred tld graph The List of Top 100 Registered Domain Extension (TLD) We share the entire list that follows: 135341489 com 13916041 net 10428576 org 8493044 uk 7689703 de 5083380 info 5076251 ru 2497149 nl 2234088 loan 2214607 biz 2156702 fr 2109954 eu 1910587 top 1804988 xyz 1710236 se 1708600 it 1301244 pl 1077699 br 1039629 ch 902030 xn--p1ai 876040 dk 840227 cn 819027 online 791079 be 772070 jp 762802 au 735511 vip 611682 wang 583824 ca 579653 win 512167 es 499176 cz 448669 ltd 446427 site 437782 nu 436159 mobi 413470 men 381845 in 379704 at 317336 bid 316930 stream 306092 app 276504 pro 268314 ir 259252 review 252699 co 247016 hu 236438 us 222908 ua 221277 za 219266 ro 213741 space 205377 website 203347 live 198960 tk 193667 tech 192013 ar 190131 kr 187951 store 187036 mx 181563 trade 175566 no 172770 gr 171473 nz 169239 fi 168034 life 166542 xin 154845 date 148457 tw 147156 sk 135228 cl 126445 work 125883 cat 123318 download 121771 party 117742 blog 117245 su 116786 vn 116242 io 108553 fun 108052 tr 101429 link 96558 today 96471 pt 94912 tv 94756 science 92490 xxx 92205 world 89670 rocks 88017 ie 83549 il 83251 ga 81914 solutions 81284 cc 81278 racing 79668 email 74972 tel 74190 design 70317 id 70132 london
Unsportsmanlike conduct general offense in sports competition Unsportsmanlike conduct (or unsporting behaviour, or ungentlemanly conduct) describes a kind of action by professional sportspeople. It is when a player or team acts during the game in a way that is not professional or is offensive. It is different to cheating or breaking the rules. Unsportsmanlike conduct is something most players and fans dislike. The official rules of many sports include a rule so that a referee can call unsportsmanlike conduct on a team or player. There may be a fine or penalty.
The Science That Will Make Self-Driving Cars A Reality For Australians talksatellite Asia-Pacific Daily news ANU researcher and InSpace Mission Specialist, Dr Simon McClusky of the Research School of Earth Sciences, is working with Geoscience Australia researchers to enhance navigation and positioning systems that will make precision robotic farming and mining possible and make self-driving cars a reality. ANU Institute for Space Director, Prof Anna Moore, talked to Dr McClusky about his work and why it will change the lives of all Australians. We all use GPS on our phones, but you are working on a better system? For the last 20 years, GPS has underpinned many of our day-to-day Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) needs. Soon a Satellite Based Augmentation Service (SBAS) will be available in Australia. SBAS signals not only improve GPS positioning and navigation accuracy down from several metres to less than half a metre, they also provide users with information on the reliability and integrity of positioning results in real-time. The SBAS augments GPS signals received by a user from GPS satellites with corrections computed from a global or regional ground tracking network. These corrections are typically delivered to the users GPS device via a geostationary communications satellite. While SBAS is new for the Australasian region, it has been available in other countries across North America and Europe for some time. Does that mean we are joining a more advanced, global system? Yes. GNSS is essentially GPS operated by other countries around the world. These navigation and positioning satellite systems are all a bit different, but collectively they make up the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). Together they create a system that gives us access to more satellites and better position and navigation in places where sky visibility is limited like urban canyons in cities. Right now above the Earth, more than 140 satellites are broadcasting GNSS signals. That means that GNSS devices in Australia will be able to track signals from many satellite constellations including the U.S.’s GPS, the Russian Federation’s GLONASS, the E.U.’s Galileo GNSS, China’s BeiDou GNSS, and region-based augmentation systems such as the Australian and New Zealand Space-based Augmentation System (SBAS), Japan’s Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS), India’s Regional Navigation Satellite System (NavIC). How does your work at ANU help Australians? Currently, I am working with Geoscience Australia to create the next generation of Multi-GNSS processing software. This software will not only be able to compute and deliver GPS SBAS corrections, but it will enable a range of new higher precision Multi-GNSS augmented positioning solutions for ground-based mobile communications networks and SBAS. This next-gen software will make precise positioning in real-time more accessible across the entire Australasian region. This new augmented positioning software is essential to make precision robotic farming and mining possible and make self-driving cars a reality. Looking to the future, it can help mitigate concerns about space situational awareness and potentially be used to help guide satellites away from dangerous space debris. SBAS will help our economy, our industries, and it will make a real difference in emergency situations where accurate location data is critical.
Associations to the word «Aragon» ARAGON, proper noun. An autonomous community in north-eastern Spain, with capital Zaragoza. ARAGON, proper noun. A river in this part of Spain. ARAGON STRIP, proper noun. Name given to the part of Aragon (Spain) where Catalan is spoken. Dictionary definition ARAGON, noun. French writer who generalized surrealism to literature (1897-1982). ARAGON, noun. A region of northeastern Spain; a former kingdom that united with Castile in 1479 to form Spain (after the marriage of Ferdinand V and Isabella I). Wise words Noam Chomsky
Defects of Education in India EDUCATION in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Education as a science cannot be separated from the educational traditions that existed before. Adults trained the young of their society in the knowledge and skills they would need to master and eventually pass on. In pre-literate societies this was achieved orally and through imitation and story-telling etc . Oral language developed into written symbols and letters. Schooling in this sense was already in place in Egypt between 3000 and 500BC The gurukula system was the ancient system of education. A gurukula is a type of school in India, residential in nature, with shishyas living in proximity to the guru, often within the same house. In a gurukul, shishyas reside together as equals, irrespective of their social standing, learn from the guru and help the guru in his day-to-day life. They did not accept fees ONLY ASMALL GURUDAKSHINA WHICH MAY NOT BE MONETARY. INDIA S ANCIENT GURUKUL SYSTEM IS WORTH EMULATING BY ALL INTERESTED IN IMPARTING EDUCATION. THE GURUKUL SYSTEMBRINGS A SENSE OF RESPECT AND COMMITMENT FROM THE TEACHERS AND THE STUDENTS Nalanda and Takshishila universities were the oldest university-system of education in the world. Indian education suffered a huge blow as Western education became ingrained into Indian society with the establishment of the British empire. the British so cleverly played their cards that even after fifty years of independence we still continue to exist in a state of stupor, unable unwilling to extricate ourselves from one of the greatest hypnoses woven over a whole nation. Indian curriculum is criticized for being based on rote learning. Our present day education system gives no chance to creativity. It is marks , grades and competition all the way . It should inculcate good values in the minds of students. Emphasis should also be given on physical and vocational training. Teaching of ethics should be incorporated in the curriculum right from kindergarden through high school. Children should be allowed to choose their own subjects acc. to their interests. They must be made to interact with each other in groups and express their views on various topics. Instead of taking notes from voluminous books , teachers etc they must be made to get information by themselves and share it with the class. This will help them to develop good analytical skills and reading habits . Children must have practical experience . They can be taken on trips to museums, labs, etc where they can learn by interacting with experienced people. Education is to gain and share knowledge. Sharing without communication is impossible. English should not be banned at the primary level as it remains the global language. Learning hindi, the national language and the state language helps in internal communication. The system of Education in India should focus on learning and not exams. Unfortunately Education has become a lucrative business destroying the real purpose of itself. The bad quality of education in govt schools have given a thrust to the the rise of commercial coaching classes all over India. Students today hardly think of being a teacher due to less perk… many who are hardly passionate about engineering and medicine are studying just for the sake of getting a fat salary and package along with it. Middle class parents pay what is demanded by the coaching classes, this has alarmingly turned out to b an industry in our nation. Statistically 25% of the Indian population is illiterate, only 7% of the population that goes to school manage to graduate and 15% manage to make it to high school. 80% of schools are managed by the Govt. , private schools are expensive and out of reach for the poor Another reason for poor quality of education is the poor quality of teachers in government schools . Government schools are unable to attract good quality teachers due to inadequate teaching facilities and low salaries. To improve the quality of education , the government needs to spend more money from its coffers on education. The really critical aspect of Indian public education system is its low quality. The actual quantity of schooling that children experience and the quality of teaching they receive are extremely insufficient in government schools. A common feature in all government schools is the poor quality of education, with weak infrastructure and inadequate pedagogic attention. Conclusion School teachers SHOULD BE PAID high SALARIES and, every care is to be taken that these teachers keep on upgrading. The government should realize that these are the people who shape their future generations. All over India the syllabus must be same, because partiality occurs between students. . Frankly it would be foolhardy to believe that a syllabus consisting a bit of maths bit of science, arts and literature is a foolproof way to educate whole of India. Our present day system of education can be revamped and changes incorporated by getting a group of experienced teachers from various parts of our country. The task is best done by them and not by a bunch of politicians who do not have any training in education. Hope to see the Indian system of education reach its zenith like it did in ancient times!
Market Background Market segmentation is the process of “dividing a market into distinct groups of buyers who have distinct needs, characteristics or behavior and who might require separate product or marketing mixes” (Kotler, 2004). Underlying the decision to segment the market is the recognition that a single market is not composed of people with homogenous needs, attitudes amd behavior and therefore requires a different marketing strategy for each group of people. This process helps marketers in identifying opportunities for a new product or product mix by identifying specific needs of a group of consumer marketer (Kinsey, 2005) Market segmentation can be done in many ways. A company with a customer base over a large geographic area can divide its market into various geographic areas. It can also segment the market on the basis of demographic factors such as gender, age, family size or family life cycle stage, profession, education, ethnical background etc. Other techniques include psychographic segmentation is another type of segmentation that is “based on social class, lifestyle or personality characteristics” and behavioral segmentation that is “based on the consumer knowledge attitude, use or response to a product” (Kotler, 2004). Other than the geographic segmentation all the other segmentation techniques requires a lot of consumer research with a demographic research on a lesser extent. Whatever segmentation techniques are used the market segments identified must be measurable in terms of size, purchasing power etc, accessible through target marketing, substantial, differentiable so that they should deserve the investment in a separate marketing strategy and actionable that is creating a marketing strategy for it should be practically possible for the company (Kotler, 2004). The task at hand is to segment the beverage market, decide on the target market and then design the most effective product mix for that segment. The beverage under consideration has an ingredient that is perceived to have health advantages. Thus, the drink can be positioned to be a wholesome addition to a healthy diet. The fact that their competitors have limited themselves to athletic males has left most of the market open for new product. The company can market the product to a much larger psychographic segment which is of health conscious consumers. On a secondary level some demographic segmentation can be done where students and young professionals are targeted through relevant marketing strategies that promote the drink as a source of nutrients needed for mental and physical growth necessary to cope with a demanding environment. Also a market strategy can be designed such that it encourages product use n the morning with breakfast. This type of strategy comes in the occasion segmentation as part of the behavior segmentation. With a powerful promotion program the beverage can become a necessary morning drink for all health conscious people. As the product is being promoted as a health drink it should contain appropriate nuitrants and vitamins and fruit extracts whose details should be given on the package. As it is being promoted as a morning drink it should be light and should not have sharp taste or smell. Also along with individual packages it should be available in easy to open packages that contain at least seven servings. Kinsey, J & Yeap, C. (2005). Buyers and Market Segments: Food Marketing Economics. Presented at APEC 4451/5451 lecture at University of Minnesota
Wages and Hours Most issues involving wage and hour law are defined by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which governs what an employer can and cannot do when it comes to your time at work and how you are compensated. The FLSA primarily covers issues regarding overtime pay, including how workers are classified to qualify for overtime or to be exempt from overtime. Additionally, rules in place dictate when employees must be “on the clock” and paid for their time. This area of law applies to workers who are asked to perform certain job duties before clocking in or after clocking out. This issue is often referred to as Donning and Doffing because it frequently applies to workers who must change into and out of a uniform or protective gear when entering or leaving the workplace or job site. Wage and hour issues also involve questions of fair and equal pay covered by the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009. Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is a federal law passed by Congress in 1938 that applies to most businesses in the U.S. The FLSA establishes a national minimum wage, guarantees overtime pay for hours worked in excess of 40 per week in certain jobs and prohibits employers from exploiting minors and engaging in “oppressive child labor.” While the FLSA applies to nearly every business or organization in the U.S., it does not apply to independent contractors or volunteers because they are not considered “employees” under the FLSA. Equal Pay Act of 1963 A cornerstone of wage and hour litigation is the Equal Pay Act, the “Equal Pay for Equal Work” law that prohibits sex-based wage discrimination between men and women in the same establishment performing jobs that require equal skill, effort, and responsibility under similar working conditions. According to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), wages can include more than just hourly or annual pay; they include bonuses, company cars, expense accounts, insurance, and other forms of compensation. Under the Equal Pay Act, employers cannot lower one employee’s wages to make them equal. Employers also must pay employees equal wages in the same form. For example, an employer cannot pay a higher hourly wage to a male employee and attempt to make up the difference by paying a female employee a bonus. In addressing the issue of “equal work,” the Equal Pay Act does not require that everyone’s jobs be identical, but only that they are “substantially equal,” according to the EEOC. Evaluating the equality of jobs should consider actual job duties — not titles, classifications, or other terminology. Equality also may be evaluated by considering whether both jobs require an equal amount of skill, effort, and responsibility. The Equal Pay Act measures skill by factors such as the experience, ability, education, and training required to perform a job. An employee may bring additional skills to a job — for example, holding a college degree while the co-worker does not. But if the job does not require a degree or skill for successful performance, they should not be compensation factors. The Equal Pay Act defines effort as the “amount of physical or mental exertion needed to perform” a particular job. The law defines responsibility as “the degree of accountability required in performing a job,” considering the extent to which an employee works without supervision and in a supervisory capacity and the impact of an employee’s job functions on the employer’s business. Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 President Barack Obama signed a landmark labor law on Jan. 29, 2009, is named after an Alabama woman. The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 was the first legislation President Obama signed into law. This Act overturned the Supreme Court’s decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Inc., 550 U.S. 618 (2007), which severely restricted the time period filing complaints of employment discrimination concerning compensation. Ledbetter had worked for Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. in Gadsden, Alabama, for nearly 20 years when she discovered she was being paid less than her male colleagues in the same job for the same work. She filed a complaint with the EEOC in 1998 and was initially awarded more than $3 million in back pay and punitive damages by a jury. The amount was later reduced to $300,000 by the judge, but Ledbetter appealed that decision to the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2007, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 to overturn the verdict, saying Ledbetter was required to file suit within 180 days of the initial act of discrimination, even though she had not found out about the pay discrepancy until it had been going on for years. Ledbetter began a campaign to change the law, taking her fight to the U.S. Senate and spearheading the legislation that now bears her name. As a result of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, each unfair paycheck is considered an act of discrimination. This change makes each unfair paycheck a new unlawful employment practice that resets the statute of limitations. However, the law restricts back pay that can be collected to two years. The Lilly Ledbetter Act allows employees to dispute employer decisions about base pay or wages, job classifications, career ladder or other non-competitive promotion denials, tenure denials, and failure to respond to requests for raises. Overtime pay is one of the most abused areas of employment law, usually because some employers misclassify employees to avoid paying overtime. There are specific criteria that must be met for an employee to be exempt from receiving overtime. All states are subject to federal laws governing overtime pay, and if you feel you are being denied overtime pay, you should seek legal counsel. Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) laws require overtime compensation to be paid (at time and one-half) for all hours worked over a prescribed threshold — typically 40 hours per week – for all “non-exempt” employees. On August 23, 2004, controversial changes to the FLSA’s overtime regulations went into effect, making substantial modifications to the definition of an “exempt” employee. Low-level working supervisors throughout the American industry were reclassified as “executives” and lost overtime rights. Attempts in Congress to overturn the new regulations have been unsuccessful. U.S. labor laws allow several exemptions to relieve an employer from meeting the statutory overtime, minimum wage, and record-keeping requirements. The largest of these are executive exemptions, which apply to professional, administrative, and executive employees. Legal exemptions are narrowly defined, and an employer must prove that its employees fit plainly and unmistakably within the exemption’s terms. For instance, the executive exemption under the FLSA allows companies to pay store managers a set salary and avoid paying when they work more than 40 hours in one week. But the exemption also mandates that managers actually do management duties as their “primary duty” instead of “manual labor,” such as stocking shelves and running a cash register. Likewise, an employer cannot simply exempt workers from the FLSA by calling them, independent contractors. Many employers have illegally misclassified their workers as independent contractors to avoid paying overtime because the FLSA doesn’t require employers to pay non-employees (independent contractors and volunteers) overtime. FLSA lawsuits typically seek recovery for unpaid or underpaid back wages, plus double damages (called “liquidated damages”) and attorneys’ fees. FLSA cases seeking to recover unpaid overtime and damages are commonly filed as “collective actions” on behalf of a group of employees with the same or similar complaints. In addition to the FLSA, many states have their own causes of action that mirror the protections provided under the federal scheme. In some instances, state labor laws offer greater protections than those afforded by the federal government. Donning and Doffing Another area of the FLSA in which we are litigating involves what is known as “donning and doffing.” These cases involve industries where employees must put on and take off protective gear, clothing, or uniforms as a prerequisite for doing their job. Many companies do not pay employees for the time spent donning the protective gear and/or doffing the gear at the beginning and end of a shift or during break periods throughout the workday. Most of the time the protective clothing is not only required; it is often an essential part of the production process that guarantees the quality of the product. Industries where we typically see donning and doffing cases include electronic manufacturing facilities with clean rooms, chicken processing facilities; beef packing facilities; and other agricultural industries. Additionally, we have seen litigation in industries where protective clothing is essentially safety gear for hazardous activities. Independent Contractors One of the most abused areas we have seen is the misclassification of employees as independent contractors. The FLSA only applies to “employees.” Companies have tried to completely avoid their FLSA responsibilities by claiming that their workers are not employees at all but instead are independent contractors. Another reason companies attempt to misclassify employees as independent contractors are because of the enormous benefits of savings. When classified as an independent contractor, these companies are relieved of their legal duty to pay payroll taxes, workers compensation premiums, administer workers compensation claims, pay unemployment insurance, etc. Similarly, since the individuals are not employees, these companies do not have to provide benefits under the Family Medical Leave Act or protections under a host of other federal discriminatory laws. Many of these companies face that although they claim an individual is an independent contractor, they attempt to control all the major aspects of the person’s job. Presently, we have seen the misclassification of employees as independent contractors in many service-related industries. For example, many companies are outsourcing their customer service functions to individuals working from their homes or at remote locations. These individuals typically get paid a per-minute rate that often results in them making less than the minimum wage. Additionally, many of these individuals are required to spend hours training on certain products and services, yet they do not get paid for any time. Other service industry jobs where we have identified independent contractor misclassifications include: • the construction industry • delivery/courier services • stocking vendors • maintenance crews • food processing plants • dental assistants • waitresses • nail salons • nurses • secretaries • landscaping crews Wages and Hours Lawsuit If you feel your employer has violated your rights under federal and/or state employment and labor laws, your best first move is to contact a labor and employment lawyer. You can be confident knowing Beasley Allen’s team of experienced workplace lawyers have your back and will work to get you the compensation you deserve. Recent Wages and Hours News Donning and Doffing, Employment Law Donning and Doffing What is donning and doffing? According to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which was established in 1938 to establish workers’ rights, the term “donning… Read More Dollar General Faces New Lawsuit Read More Free Case Evaluation 1-800-898-2034 (tel) 855-674-1818 (fax) Attorney Advertising – Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Scroll to Top
Skip to content Stalking can be defined as persistent and unwanted attention that makes you feel pestered and harassed. It includes behaviour that happens twice or more, directed at or towards you by another person, which causes you to feel alarmed or distressed or to fear that violence might be used against you. What makes the problem particularly hard to cope with is that it can go on for a long period of time, making you feel constantly anxious and afraid. Sometimes the problem can build up slowly and it can take a while for you to realise that you are caught up in ongoing abuse. The problem isn’t always ‘physical’ — stalking can affect you psychologically as well. Social media and the internet are often used for stalking and harassment, and ‘cyber-stalking’ or online threats can be just as intimidating. If you think you might be experiencing harassment or stalking: • Keep a diary of events. Write down the date, time, location and details of what happens. It’s also a good idea to include information about any other witnesses who can confirm what happened. • Keep copies of letters, text messages and emails, and taking screenshots of other online messages (for example on Facebook). • Notify the police about what is happening. Contact the non-emergency police number on 101, however, if you are in immediate danger call 999. Getting help Womens Aid For women who are experiencing or have experienced physical, mental, sexual or domestic violence or abuse. Offers advice, support and crisis intervention to abused women. 0808 2000 247 National Stalking Helpline 0808 802 0300 Victim Support Victim Support can give you both practical help and advice, and the emotional support you need to cope and recover from stalking. 08 08 16 89 11
Heaven as Substance, Earth as Shadow In his seventeenth-century classic Paradise Lost, John Milton describes Eden as a garden full of aromatic flowers, delicious fruit, and soft grass, lushly watered. He also connects Eden with Heaven, the source of earthly existence, portraying Heaven as a place of great pleasures and the source of Earth’s pleasures. In Milton’s story, the angel Raphael asks Adam, What if Earth Be but the shadow of Heav’n, and things therein Each to other like, more then on Earth is thought? Though the idea of Earth as Heaven’s shadow is seldom discussed, even in books on Heaven, it’s a concept that has biblical support. For example, the temple in Heaven is filled with smoke from the glory of God (Revelation 15:8). Is this a figurative temple with figurative smoke? Or is there an actual fire creating literal smoke in a real building? We’re told there are scrolls in Heaven, elders who have faces, martyrs who wear clothes, and even people with “palm branches in their hands” (Revelation 7:9). There are musical instruments in the present Heaven (Revelation 8:6), horses coming into and out of Heaven (2 Kings 2:11; Revelation 19:14), and an eagle flying overhead in Heaven (Revelation 8:13). Perhaps some of these objects are merely symbolic, with no corresponding physical reality. But is that true of all of them? Many commentators dismiss the possibility that any of these passages in Revelation should be taken literally, on the grounds that it is apocalyptic literature, which is known for its figures of speech. But the book of Hebrews isn’t apocalyptic, it’s epistolary. It says that earthly priests “serve at a sanctuary that is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven” (Hebrews 8:5). Moses was told, in building the earthly tabernacle, “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain” (Hebrews 8:5). If that which was built after the pattern was physical, might it suggest the original was also physical? The book of Hebrews seems to say that we should see Earth as a derivative realm and Heaven as the source realm. If we do, we’ll abandon the assumption that something existing in one realm cannot exist in the other. In fact, we’ll consider it likely that what exists in one realm exists in at least some form in the other. We should stop thinking of Heaven and Earth as opposites and instead view them as overlapping circles that share certain commonalities. Christ “went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not man-made, that is to say, not a part of this creation” (Hebrews 9:11). “Christ did not enter a man-made sanctuary that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself” (Hebrews 9:24). The earthly sanctuary was a copy of the true one in Heaven. In fact, the New Jerusalem that will be brought down to the New Earth is currently in the intermediate or present Heaven (Hebrews 12:22). If we know that the New Jerusalem will be physically on the New Earth, and we also know that it is in the present Heaven, does that not suggest the New Jerusalem is currently physical? Why wouldn’t it be? Unless we start with an assumption that Heaven can’t be physical, it seems that this evidence would persuade us that it is indeed physical. These verses in Hebrews suggest that God created Earth in the image of Heaven, just as He created mankind in His image. C. S. Lewis proposed that “the hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as a substitute is to the genuine article, but as the flower to the root, or the diamond to the coal.” Often our thinking is backwards. Why do we imagine that God patterns Heaven’s holy city after an earthly city, as if Heaven knows nothing of community and culture and has to get its ideas from us? Isn’t it more likely that earthly realities, including cities, are derived from heavenly counterparts? We tend to start with Earth and reason up toward Heaven, when instead we should start with Heaven and reason down toward Earth. It isn’t merely an accommodation to our earthly familial structure, for instance, that God calls Himself a father and us children. On the contrary, He created father-child relationships to display His relationship with us, just as He created human marriage to reveal the love relationship between Christ and His bride (Ephesians 5:32). In my novel Safely Home, I envision the relationship between Earth and Heaven: Compared to what he now beheld, the world he’d come from was a land of shadows, colorless and two-dimensional. This place was fresh and captivating, resonating with color and beauty. He could not only see and hear it, but feel and smell and taste it. Every hillside, every mountain, every waterfall, every frolicking animal in the fields seemed to beckon him to come join them, to come from the outside and plunge into the inside. This whole world had the feel of cool water on a blistering August afternoon. The light beckoned him to dive in with abandon, to come join the great adventure. “I know what this is,” Quan said. “Tell me,” said the Carpenter. “It’s the substance that casts all those shadows in the other world. The circles there are copies of the spheres here. The squares there are copies of the cubes here. The triangles there are copies of the pyramids here. Earth was a flatland. This is . . . well, the inside is bigger than the outside, isn’t it? How many dimensions are there?” “Far more than you have seen yet,” the King said, laughing. “This is the Place that defines and gives meaning to all places,” Li Quan said. “I never imagined it would be like this.” Photo by Denys Argyriou on Unsplash Receive Randy's blog posts in your inbox
(855) 4-ESSAYS Type a new keyword(s) and press Enter to search Adolf Hitler: Man, Monster, Maniac Many things come to mind when we hear the name Adolf Hitler. He has been called a tyrant, murderer, maniac and some have even gone as far as to call him the anti-Christ. There are no doubts that he was an evil man, but many people know little about his life when really there is much more to the mind that drove this sadistic killer. How did he become such a crazy man? The only way to understand who he was is to examine his past. Adolf Hitler was born on the evening April 20, 1889 at an inn in the town of Braunau am Inn, Austria. He was born to Alois Schickelgruber (who later adopted the last name Hitler) and Klara Hitler. Alois was a customs official, illegitimate by birth, who was described by a maid as a strict but comfortable man. His mother Klara was a simple housewife who loved her son dearly, and for good reason. Young Adolf Hitler was the first of his three would be siblings to survive. One died shortly after birth and the other two of diphtheria as young children (Heyes 19-20). These were simple beginnings for a simple family. Alois moved to the highest position he could in customs and wanted his son to become a public servant as well. This was not what Hitler wanted at all. His goal was to one day enter the priesthood or become an artist. On one of the many moves the Hitler family made during Hitler's childhood they ended up living across from a Benedictine monastery whose prime symbol in its coat of arms was the swastika. The swastika became one of Hitler's favorite symbols and he held on to it his whole life. . The personality of Hitler began to develop when he was a teenager. He entered into a secondary school where he did quite poorly which was a complete change from his childhood where he did marginally well in school. He quickly gave up at all subjects but art to help aid his ongoing argument with his father about what his career should be. The argument soon would not matter because Adolf Hitler's father died of a lung hemorrhage in 1903. Essays Related to Adolf Hitler: Man, Monster, Maniac Got a writing question? Ask our professional writer! Submit My Question
Health experts are puzzled by a new, global study that shows the colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence increasing significantly in young adults in high-income countries – while the rate is trending downward in older adults. The American Cancer Society study, appearing in the journal Gut, suggests that changes in early-life exposures are increasing CRC risk. Exactly what those changes are, though, remains a mystery. Colorectal cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide, with an estimated 1.8 million new cases in 2018. In general, CRC incidence is rising in low- and middle-income countries but beginning to stabilize or decline in high-income countries, especially those that have implemented screening. The study leader, Rebecca Siegel, MPH, said the findings indicate an urgent need for research into the “potentially unique” causes of young-onset CRC “Although the absolute risk of CRC in adults younger than 50 years is low relative to older adults, disease trends in young age groups are a key indicator of recent changes in risk factor exposures and often foreshadow the future cancer burden,” said Siegel. Siegel and her team analyzed long-term population-based data on CRC occurrence in adults under 50 versus those 50 and older for 43 countries covering six continents using high-quality cancer incidence data from population-based cancer registries. Of the 36 countries with sufficient numbers of cases to analyze trends, CRC incidence among adults under 50 was stable over the past ten years in 14 countries, decreased in three (Italy, Austria, and Lithuania), and increased in 19. In nine of those 19, the rise in early-onset CRC was in contrast to trends in those 50 and older, which were either dropping (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Germany, and United States) or stable (Denmark, Slovenia, Sweden, and United Kingdom). In all but one of these countries with long-term data, the uptick in early-onset CRC began in the mid-1990s. In addition, in three countries (Cyprus, Netherlands, and Norway) where incidence rose in both younger and older age groups, the increase in young adults was twice as steep as that in older adults and also began in the mid-1990s. Early-onset CRC incidence increased most rapidly – by 4.2% per year – in South Korea, where the rate is already highest among all countries analyzed. Declining incidence in older adults in many countries is partly attributed to CRC screening, which typically emerged over the past two decades and begins between the ages of 50 and 60 years. However, Austria and Italy, two of only three countries where early-onset CRC incidence is declining, have been screening adults beginning at age 40 and 45 years, respectively, since the early 1980s. In both Austria and Italy, declines in CRC under age 50 were confined to ages 40-49 years. Article: Siegel R, Torre L, Soerjomataram I, et al. Gut 2019;:1–7. doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2019-319511
Early Life Events - 1 1. What is meant by ‘Aamul-Feel? 2. Who was responsible for the event of 'Aamul-Feel (the year of the elephant)? 3. Approximately, how much period Holy Prophet (PBUH) lived in Hazrat Halima’s house? 4. Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) got education from? 5. When the miracle of 'Shaqq us Sadr', (opening of the chest) occurred during the life of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)? 6. According to some narrations when the 'Seal' of the Prophet Hood, was affixed on the back, in between the two shoulders of Holy Prophet’s (PBUH)? 7. Who advised Abu Talib not to proceed to Damascus "because if the Jews found out what I have seen, in Muhammad (PBHU), I am afraid they will try to harm him. For sure, this child is to have a great eminence? 8. Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) went to Syria with Abu Talib at the Age of _____ years? This is more feedback! This is the feedback!
California Distracted Driving A Guide to California's Distracted Driving Laws (It's more than just not texting.) distracted driving in california There were over 485,866 car accidents last year in California. And most of these were simple distracted driving mistakes that were completely preventable. What Is Distracted Driving? The state of California defines it as “anything that takes your eyes or mind off the road, or hands off the steering wheel – especially when texting or using your phone.” California's state laws are primarily focused on reducing accidents caused by the distractions from cell phones. Not all distracted driving acts are illegal. You can legally scan for better radio stations or munch on French fries while driving. However, if you're in an accident or commit a moving violation while distracted, you can have a “reckless driving” or “speed too fast for conditions” violation added to your citation. Distracted Driving Statistics in California You don’t have to follow the local news every night to know that distracted driving is a problem, but here are a a few statistics that might help you understand just how serious it is in California: • In a recent California Traffic Safety Survey, 59.6% of respondents reported that they had been hit or nearly hit by a driver who was talking or texting at the time. • In 2015, a CA observational survey of cell phone and texting use by drivers found that 5.4% of drivers were observed using electronics while drivin.g • That same survey, conducted in 2016, saw an increase to 7.6% of drivers distracted by electronics. • Citations for handheld cell phone use are significantly above the state average in San Bernardino, Contra Costa, and San Joaquin Counties. Does California Have Laws against Distracted Driving? Currently, the state of California prohibits: • All drivers from reading, sending, or receiving text messages or communications • All drivers from using handheld cell phones and devices • Drivers under 18 from using any cell phones, even hands-free • School bus operators and transit bus drivers from using cell phones while driving California compared to the rest of the US on texting and driving restrictions States that have laws against texting and driving Are There Any Exceptions to the Distracted Driving Laws in California? In California, the following exceptions to the state’s distracted driving laws apply: • Text messaging is permitted if done using hands-free voice-to-text technology. • Using a cell phone while driving is permitted in emergency situations (such as to call an ambulance or the police). • Emergency service professionals are exempt from the cell phone ban while operating an authorized emergency vehicle. • California’s distracted driving laws do not apply when you are driving on private property. California Distracted Driving Laws at a Glance Yes No Is texting while driving legal? Can you send/receive texts at a red light? X Is handheld device use permitted? X Any special restriction for young drivers? X Is headphone/headset use permitted? Is It Legal to Eat a Cheeseburger while Driving in California? Yes and No. Distracted driving comes in many forms, and eating a cheeseburger can be just as distracting as talking on a cell phone. Basically, anything that takes your attention away from the primary task of driving presents a potential hazard. So, what happens if a police officer in California spots you eating a cheeseburger while driving down the highway? That depends on the officer and on how you're driving. California’s distracted driving laws are written so that if the officer believes you are being distracted by eating (or another other distracting behavior), you can be pulled over. You are way more likely to be pulled over if you're driving erratically while eating. If this happens, the officer can cite you for “reckless driving” or “driving too fast for conditions” due to the distraction the cheeseburger presented. Unless you're really in a hurry, you’re better off skipping the drive-thru or eating your cheeseburger in the parking lot. Secondary enforcement of distracted driving laws means that police can cite you for violating distracted driving laws only if you break another law while doing so. California uses both primary and secondary enforcement. In most cases, the distracted driving laws are subject to primary enforcement, meaning even if you feel you are in total control of your vehicle, you can be pulled over if a police officer spots you sending a text or using a handheld device. The one exception to the rule applies to drivers under the age of 18. Though it is illegal for drivers under 18 to use a cell phone in any way in California, an officer can only cite someone for violating this law if they have pulled them over for another reason, like running a stop sign or driving erratically. What Is the Fine for Distracted Driving in California? The “true cost” fine for violating California’s distracted driving laws is as follows: • For a first offense: $162 • For any following offenses: $285 Points will be added to the driver’s record only if the driver had received another citation for distracted driving within the previous year and a half. California's fines for distracted driving compared to surrounding states The fine for distracted driving in California compared to surrounding states A distracted driving citation in California can set you back a significant amount of money. Is that text message really important enough to risk getting a ticket? If so, consider pulling over before you pull out your cell phone. Does Distracted Driving in California Increase Insurance Rates? Whether your car insurance rates will go up after a distracted driving citation depends on a few factors, like which insurance company you're using, your driving history, and the type of citation you were given. Points are only added to your driving record if you received a citation in the previous year and a half. These points will have a negative impact on your car insurance rates. Also, because you can be cited for “reckless driving” or “driving at a speed too fast for conditions” if you are pulled over for engaging in a distracted driving act such as eating or arguing with another passenger, you may find that this violation raises your insurance rates. What If I Drive into a State with Different Laws? Nevada doesn't place special restrictions on young drivers the way that California does. Does this mean your teen driver can engage in hands-free calling after they drive over the border? Simply put, yes they can. But just because you can legally do something doesn't mean you should. Safety should always come first. As a driver, you're required to follow the laws of the state you're driving in. State laws are constantly being updated to reduce the number of distracted driving accidents, so be sure to review and familiarize yourself with the laws of the states you will be driving through prior to taking a road trip. What Is California Doing To Prevent Distracted Driving? In addition to passing laws against cell phone use while driving in this state, California is also taking measures to reduce the number of distracted driving incidents on its roadways. The California Office of Traffic Safety started a public awareness and educational campaign called “Put Your Phone Down. Just Drive.” This campaign is geared mainly toward younger drivers and seeks to educate the public about the dangers of distracted driving while providing useful tips for staying safe. So What Can You Do?
RMAHD Photography Workshop: Shutter Speed If you just bought a DSLR or mirrorless digital camera and you’re looking at the Manual settings wondering why they even exist, wonder no further. This workshop is one of a 3-Part series on the basics of your camera. Whether you’re shooting on Manual or Auto, your camera uses three basic functions to capture a photo: Shutter Speed, Aperture, and ISO. In this workshop, we’ll be going over Shutter Speed and how it affects the photos you take. A good place to start is the chart below: The first row shows aperture, the middle row shows shutter speed, and the bottom row shows ISO. Each of these settings manipulate how light enters your camera sensor. Your camera’s shutter speed is measured in fractions of a second. The first square labeled 1/1000 is, quite literally, a thousandth of a second. That means that your camera’s shutter is opening for a thousandth of a second to let light into the sensor. In other words, if you took 1 and divided it by 1000, you get 0.001 – on DSLR cameras, it means your mirror is lifting and exposing the sensor for 0.001 seconds. 0.001 seconds is not a lot of time. At all. So consequently, your photos are going to be quite dark because light doesn’t have enough time to pass the lens and enter the sensor. If it’s very sunny out and the ambience is very bright, a shutter speed of 1/1000 might actually be great to capture a good, well balanced photo. But if you’re indoors taking a photo, you may need to lower your shutter speed to something like 1/125 where the sensor is open longer and absorbing more light. If we divide 1 by 125, we get 0.008 seconds. That may not seem like a lot of time, but in reality your shutter is open 8x longer than a shutter speed of 1/1000 or 0.001 seconds. With high shutter speeds like 1/1000 where your camera sensor is less exposed to light, your images will undoubtedly become sharper because there is less of an opportunity for movement to be captured. On lower shutter speeds like 1/15 or 1/30, you’ll notice that your images will come out blurrier. Any shakiness coming from your hands will blur the image you capture. If your subject is moving at all, that motion blur will be captured. And that’s because on slower shutter speeds, while your camera sensor is capturing more light, it’s also capturing the movement of light with it. This is why many professional photographers carry around a tripod or monopod when shooting indoors or night scenes. It’s kind of like flying an airplane. When you feel your aircraft skidding in the air to the left, you compensate for it with right rudder. It’s no different with a camera. If you’re shooting in low-light settings, you obviously don’t want a blurry mess of a photo. So what do you do? You compensate for high shutter speeds in low-light settings by adjusting your aperture and ISO. Lower aperture settings may sharpen the foreground subject and blur the background, but these settings also open up the lens to allow more light to enter the sensor. Increasing your ISO values may create more “noise” but can digitally brighten your photos in low-light settings. Taxiing aircraft with a high shutter speed (1/8000) and high ISO (2000) comes out nice and sharp, but noise had to be digitally reduced using Adobe Lightroom. This is due to the low-light environment; notice the overcast, cloudy day caught in the background. Canon EOS 80D @ 400mm, ISO 2000, f / 6.3, Shutter 1/8000 Here’s another way to visualize what’s happening to the shutter in your DSLR every time you press the shutter button. If you enjoyed this workshop, please share it! Subscribe to my newsletter here or follow me on Instagram @rma.hd. Leave a Reply
Water and Waste Kisumu lies on Lake Victoria and is Kenya’s third city. The city’s original layout consisted of a formal planned centre and higher income neighbourhoods by the lakeside, surrounded by a belt of informal settlements, some of which lay on low-lying marshy ground. These original informal settlements have densified and still lack services such as sewerage and piped water, with many relying on shallow wells instead for some domestic water. A shallow well used to supplement piped water in Kisumu (photo credit: Jim Wright) Packaged water is much less widespread than in Ghana, so many also rely on water vended in jerrycans and sold by handcart operators or from kiosks. However, whilst water vended in jerrycans does not involve single-use plastics, both the shallow well water and jerrycan water are often heavily contaminated. Many Kenyan water utilities have operated a delegated management model, including Kisumu’s waste utility KIWASCO since 2007. To avoid non-revenue water loss from illegal connections, this model passes on responsibility for water services in some low-income neighbourhoods from the utility to other small-scale providers. Delegated management thus brings pipes and kiosks closer to consumers, cutting out some water-handling and potential recontamination by handcart operators. It may reduce contaminant ingress via pipe breakages, but also delegates pipe-laying. Through the project’s work in Kenya, we aim to assess how delegated management has affected water safety, as well as working with off-grid communities to develop new ideas for making water vended in jerrycans safer for consumption.
Hitler had many personality flaws that had to be overcome before he could successfully lead any political party. Hitler was paranoid about many subjects. Takeovers and conspiracies were a common theme in Hitler’s mind. In Mein Kampf, Hitler talked about Jews endlessly. One example states “I gradually discovered that the Social Democratic Party was predominately controlled by Jews.” Hitler really believed that Jews had a worldwide conspiracy against the German people. Instead of showing his paranoia against the Jews, Hitler laid down logical reasons for his hatred toward the Jews. For example: He painted a vivid picture of a revivified and dynamic ‘racial community’ that would overcome all distinctions of class, estate and station. The economy would be invigorated by two four-year plans and ‘national rebirth’ ensured by the reassertion of family values and a return to the basic tenets of Christian morality. Instead of just stating his paranoid facts about the Jews, Hitler used a positive spin to include others in his paranoid beliefs. The propaganda of the Jews standing in the way of better economic plan, or even a better Germany was easier to sell to the Germans than paranoid beliefs about a Jewish or Communist conspiracies. Another problem that Hitler had to hide was his phobia with the opposite sex. Hitler was very shy around women. One woman that he loved above others was his niece, Geli. There is much speculation about whether these two had a sexual relationship. The relationship came to a tragic end when Geli commuted suicide. Hitler only had serious relationships with three women, Geli, Miezl Reiter, and Eva Braun Not much is known about Reiter, except she was his chauffeur’s sister…. tionship came to a tragic end when Geli commuted suicide.4 Hitler only had serious relationships with three women, Geli, Miezl Reiter, and Eva Braun Not much is known about Reiter, except she was his chauffeur’s sister.5 Eva Braun Hitler’s longtime mistress, eventually married Hitler right before both of them committed suicide in the last days of World War II. Braun was not very stable. She tried multiple times to kill herself.6 Hitler did not appear publicly attached to these women. The propaganda surrounding Hitler and women was on of a single man. The unattainable bachelor made German women swoon. Every German woman attracted to Hitler could imagine the possibility of being with the Fuehrer. If he needed to use propaganda to promote a wife, children, and family life, Hitler used Magda Gobbels, Josef Gobbels’ wife.7 The single bachelor image helped promote his popularity with women, despite his failed personal relationships. In order to carry out the Final Solution, or the destruction of the Jews, Hitler could not lay out his true plans. This is where propaganda came into play. In order to cover up the paranoia of a madman, Hitler started laying out a case against the Jews. His first propaganda piece was Mein Kampf. As his position in the Nazi movement grew so did the propaganda. The main propaganda against the Jews was the idea that: Hitler and his leading propagandists were able to entertain completely contradictory versions of events simultaneously, one rooted in the grandiose idea of a master race and world domination the other in the self-pitying paranoia of the innocent, beleaguered victim. Grandiosity and paranoia were two poles of one fanatical ideology.8 By portraying his anti-Semitic sentiments as a noble cause, or a German cause, Hitler was able to come You may also like They have children programs in which volunteers can interact with Diagnostic Assessment of George Costanza Indeed, if there is one reliable verdict that has appeared Strategic Management of Kohls Corporation The target market of Kohl’s Corporation is women aged from
Siddhesh Joshi (Editor) Abdi Pasha the Albanian Updated on Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit Died 1686 (aged 69–70) Name Abdi the Abdi Pasha the Albanian Occupation Politician and Military leader Abdi pasha the albanian Abdurrahman Abdi Pasha the Albanian (Turkish: Arnavut Abdurrahman Abdi Paşa; 1616–1686) was an Ottoman politician and military leader of Albanian descent, who served as the last governor of the province of Budin. Early life Abdurrahman Abdi Arnavud Pasha joined the Ottoman army and became aga (commander) of the janissaries corps in 1667. In 1673, he became the governor of Baghdad. He was made governor of Egypt in 1676 and of Bosnia in 1680. Military leadership He took over the military leadership of Buda in 1682 and became the governor of Turkish-occupied Hungary in 1684. In 1684, the Holy League was established with the objective of ending the Ottoman threat to Europe by ousting the Turks from Hungary, which they had been occupying for 145 years. On the initiative and financial support of Pope Innocent XI, the Holy Roman Emperor, the King of Poland and the Republic of Venice sent 80,000 troops into Buda, and Hungary. The army was composed of Saxon, Bavarian, Brandenburg and Swedish troops, with lesser numbers of Italy, England, France and Spain, and some 15,000 Hungarians. The armies were led by Prince Charles of Lorraine, Bavarian Elector Maximilian II Emanuel, Margrave of Baden Louis William and Prince Eugene of Savoy, all eminent military leaders of the time. In June, 1686, the Christian army laid siege to Buda. The city was well stocked with food, water and gunpowder, but only 8000 soldiers were garrisoned within; although the Ottomans had promised 50,000 troops, they had not yet arrived. The relief forces of Grand Vizier Suleiman never arrived to support the troops within Buda. After more than 2 months of bombardment and a series of unsuccessful attacks, the city was reduced to ashes in the first days of September. 3000 of his troops survived, but Abdurrahman pasha himself was killed in the first lines when on September 2, the troops of the Habsburg emperor breached the northern walls ending 145 years of Turkish occupation of Buda. A memorial to the late commander, the last vizier of Buda, stands on the Anjou bastion of the Buda castle, half way between the Military History Museum and the Bécsi kapu (Vienna Gate). The memorial was erected in 1932 by the descendants of György Szabó, who was a Hungarian soldier of the liberating army and also fell on this spot on September 2. The inscription, in Hungarian and Turkish, says: "The last governor of the 145 year long Turkish occupation of Buda, Abdurrahman Abdi Pasha the Albanian fell at this place on September 2, 1686, when he was 70 years old. He was a heroic enemy, may he rest in peace." Abdi Pasha the Albanian Wikipedia Similar Topics Elliot Benyon Ion Miu Salleh Abas
This 22 slide presentation shares a historical recap of developments through the years. This threat took off significantly during 2013 with the advent of Cryptolocker Ransomware has been the most pervasive cyber threat since 2005. According to publicly available information, ransomware infections have outnumbered data breaches 7,694 to 6,013 over the past 11 years. Over the years there have been two distinct varieties of ransomware which remain consistent: crypto and locker based. Crypto-ransomware is ransomware variants that actually encrypt files and folders, hard drives, etc. Whereas Locker-ransomware only locks users out of their devices, most often seen with Android based ransomware. New-age ransomware involves a combination of advanced distribution efforts such as pre-built infrastructures used to easily and widely distribute new strains as well as advanced development techniques such as using crypters to ensure reverse-engineering is extremely difficult. Additionally, the use of offline encryption methods are becoming popular in which ransomware takes advantage of legitimate system features such as Microsoft’s CryptoAPI, eliminating the need for Command and Control (C2) communications.
These are prepared by subjecting the juicy and non-juicy fruits to pressure, whereby the juice is liberated. The sound fruits are crushed, packed into a felt or flannel bag and expressed. The fruits should be carefully selected, and the rotten ones separated, which, if used with sound fruits, would act destructively upon the juice. Non-juicy fruits, such as apples, pears, are rasped or ground, and of apricot, peach, prune and cherry, the kernels are removed previously to pressing. On a large plan this is done by grating these fruits on sieves with meshes large enough for the pulpy mass to pass through, but retaining the kernel; a better plan is to cover them with water, and boil to a pulp in a close wooden or enameled vessel (no tin-lined or iron vessels should be used), by steam or fire. The liquor is allowed to drain off, and the pulp is subjected to pressure to obtain the retained liquor. On a small scale, the kernels are removed by hand. The best method of expressing the juice is by means of a wooden filter press, as illustrated by the following engraving. The mill attached will grind and crush apples, pears, grapes, currants, etc. It is also a practical cider press. Metal presses are unfit for this purpose, and the metallic tincture press illustrated on page 500 is likewise unfit for expressing fruit-juices; also wood presses with metallic parts that come into contact with the juice, must be decidedly avoided, as all fruit juices contain fruit acids, which would act on the metal and the juice become contaminated. Limes, lemons, and oranges are peeled before subjecting them to pressure, the peels being a valuable material for preparing the volatile oils or the tinctures of peels, as directed in the previous chapter. On a small scale the juicy fruits are mashed in a basin to a pulp, put into a linen cloth, and pressed out by hand, and non-juicy fruits are placed in an ena meled vessel (no others should be used) and boiled to a pulp, the liquor drained off, and the pulp pressed out in a linen cloth. It is of importance in the preparation of fruit juices to prepare them as much as possible without heat, or if the latter be applied, to perform the pulping in a closed vessel, as the fine aroma of the fruit is impaired by it. If the pulping has been done on a large scale and a considerable quantity of water has been employed, the liquor or juice should be concentrated at a low temperature, which is essential in order to save the aromatic parts. This is best done in a vacuum apparatus.
Cape Verde > Ilha de São Tiago > Praia The city (also the municipality) are divided into several neighbourhoods including: The area what is now Praia was the Atlantic until around 500,000 years ago when the geologic formation enlarged the island especially when the sea level dropped to near its current level about 100,000 years ago. 73,000 years ago, the coastal area was strucked by a megatsunami made by the huge eruption from nearby Fogo and carrying large boulders onto a plateau at an elevation of 200 metres (660 ft). The waves were probably not as high as in the west as the cliffs are shorter than those in the west. During the Ice Age, around up to 50,000 years ago, its coastline was more than a kilometre south. Around 3,000 to 1,000 BC, Ilhéu de Santa Maria south of the present city separated from the island. The area was first discovered along with the island by António da Noli in 1460. Later, the previous settlement was founded around the start of the 15th century, later most of the population were slaves. Before it was settled, the immediate neighbourhood were forested primarily with indigenous dragon trees and ironwood (laurisilva) and shrubs, parts of the area probably the east were a savanna, after some of these were cleared for agriculture as well as plantations. In 1527, it had its own captaincy which existed from 1526 to the 1580s. Its first captain was André Rodrigues dos Mosquitos, a year later it was Gomes Balieiro, capitains later were unknown, the next recorded in history was Manuel Correia who became on 21 January 1570 and was possibly the last captain of the captaincy. The settlement was razed by Francis Drake on November 29, 1585 as part of the Capture of Santiago, only the town hospital remained, the plunder was scarce and his fleet left. The town of Praia de Santa Maria (Middle Portuguese: Praya) appeared in 1615 when it took the place of the previous settlement on the plateau, which was originally favored because the nearby port (Santa Maria beach or Gamboa) offered good conditions for ships. Initially used as a clandestine harbor (in order to avoid customs fees at the then capital Ribeira Grande), the settlement gradually acquired the characteristics of a town after much of the population from Ribeira Grande fled there during its decline in the midst of frequent pirate attacks. The official transfer of capital status from Ribeira Grande to Praia took place in 1770. Also Praia was the most used port in Portuguese Cape Verde up to the late 19th century, at nearly the same time the port of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Dakar, Senegal overcame the city's port activity. Taken place at Praia Harbor, the Battle of Porto Praya took place on 16 April 1781, as Portugal was neutral, it involved Great Britain and France and ended in a tactical draw and French strategic victory. In 1822, a riot broke out in Praia instigated by Manuel António Martins which overthrew António Pusich and put João da Mata Chapuzet as colonial governor, after that, he made the city that underwent large modernization, one of the buildings he designed was Quartel Jaime Mota, the other were at the arsenal and around the city square. In the history of Cape Verde there have been successive proposals for transferring the capital elsewhere, its first was in 1834, the most recent being Mindelo in the late 19th century. However, the successive Portuguese administrations never showed an interest (economical or political?) in such proposals. Through an official decree in 1858, when its status was changed from town to city, Praia secured its status as the capital of Cabo Verde, concentrating political, religious and economic roles. Until 1911, the city was known as Praya as well as the harbour (Porto Praya) and the Portuguese word for beach (praya) including one of a couple (Praya da Gambôa), under the Portuguese language Orthography Reform made by Portugal which removed the y and became replaced with an i, the Portuguese word for beach became praia as well as the city Praia, the harbour (Praia) and other beaches. In the early 1920s, the population was around 21,000. On April 17, 1922, aviators Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral flew a hydroplane for the First aerial crossing of the South Atlantic which arrived at the harbour as its stopover, it started from Lisbon, it came from Porto Grande Bay near Mindelo, it was the last stop before heading to Rio de Janeiro via Fernando de Noronha a day later. In 1927, it was the first city in Cape Verde to receive electricity. As to other parts of the archipelago, resistance to Portuguese rule was rising in the late 19th century and continued up to July 1975. First its traditional music tabanka were banned by colonial governor Serpa Pinto in urban centers including Praia alongside funaná and batuque, the ban would be lifted after independence. Later, its review titled Certeza related to its colonial struggle was published in 1944, a milestone in Cape Verdean literature, it ceased publications a year later by the censors. In 1962, the first attacks took place in parts of Praia which were ordered by the guerrillas of the PAIGC, this started the struggle against the oppression of Portugal, months later the Guinea-Bissau War of Independence broke out in Portuguese Guinea (now Guinea-Bissau), due to logistical reasons, Cape Verde did not took part. During the Portuguese administration, only the central plateau was considered to be the city proper and thus the principal zone of urbanization and concentration of municipal services. It was only after independence (July 1975) that the surrounding neighbourhoods generally became accepted as part of the city proper. Due to increasing beach sands at Gamboa, around 1960, the port's location moved east to the harbour's north at Ponta de Visconde and extended the land, the point is now Ponta do Porto. After independence, the Praia underwent a demographic boom. After 33 years its population had quadrupled to 130,271, receiving migrating movements from all the islands. As a result, half of the entire population of Cabo Verde currently resides in Santiago; a fourth in the Municipality of Praia; and a fifth in the City of Praia alone. Its estimate population has reached 150,000. On June 28, 1985, Praia became member of UCCLA, the Union of Luso - Afro-Americo-Asiatic Capital Cities, an international organization. Geographically, Praia may be described as a set of plateaus and their surrounding valleys. These plateaus generally have the name achada (Achada de Santo António, Achada de São Filipe, Achada Eugénio Lima, Achada Grande, Achadinha, etc. — achada being a Portuguese word to designate a volcanic plateau), but the central one is colloquially called Plateau (in Portuguese itself). The urban settlement is made mostly on top of these plateaus and along the valleys. The islet of Santa Maria is in front of the beach bearing the same name (today more known as Gamboa). For a long time, only the Plateau was considered to be the city, being the other neighbourhoods relegated to the condition of peripheral suburbs, in spite of always having a close relationship with the Plateau (people movements, goods and services exchanges, etc.). This is why only the Plateau previously had relatively well-developed urbanization with its own infra-structures. The remaining neighbourhoods developed in a more organic, chaotic way. Only after independence did the Plateau merge with the other neighbourhoods to constitute what is now considered the City of Praia. The whole city was, at the time, equipped with adequate infrastructure. Urbanization begun immediately after independence and sought to expand north. The Plateau is still attracting most of the daily traffic within the city because it is still considered the economic and administrative center of the city. In spite of de-centralization attempts, the population continues to consider the neighbourhoods peripherals to the Plateau, as either "bedroom communities" or industrial zones. This was the first stop the HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin where he described the Iago sparrow (Passer iagoensis) When Edmund Roberts visited Praia in 1832, he noted a "good supply" of fish including mullet and red grouper. He also noted date palms being plentiful in the area. Praia features a mild desert climate (Köppen: BWh) with a short wet season and a lengthy, very pronounced dry season. In fact, outside of the months of August, September and October, little precipitation falls on Praia. The city on average sees about 260 millimetres (10 in) of rain per year, between February and June, Praia has no rainy days, it has 8 rainy days in August. Since the coldest month is far above 18 °C (64 °F) its temperature patterns resembles a tropical climate, but lacks enough precipitation to be classified as such. Despite the fact that it has an arid climate, Praia seldom gets very hot or very cold, due to its oceanside location on Santiago Island. Temperatures are warm and constant with an average high temperature of 27 °C (81 °F) and an average low temperature of 23 °C (73 °F). As of the mid-19th century, the population was estimated at 1,500 to 2,000. When Edmund Roberts visited in 1832, he noted a population of black people in Praia totaling about "nineteen twentieths" of the population. Nowadays, Praia is truly a melting pot as every Cabo Verde Island is represented here by way of their natives, and many different nationalities are represented here as well. According to the national statistics office, the city's population is approximately 134,782 as of December 2013, growing from 94,161 in 2000. The city of Praia is home to the first primary school in the archipelago, originally known as the Escola Central (today known as the Escola Grande). For much time it was the only primary school in Praia. At the beginning of the 1960s, other primary schools began to be built in neighbourhoods around the Plateau and in other localities on the island. Praia was also the first site in Cabo Verde with a secondary education institution with the creation of the Liceu Nacional in 1861. However, the Portuguese authorities were not interested in implementing secondary education in Cabo Verde and the school failed as a result; secondary education became, afterwards, the role of the Seminário de Ribeira Brava on the island of São Nicolau, and later of the lyceum in Mindelo. In 1960, Praia again had secondary education, first with a facility on September 12 Plaza and later in its own building. With the expansion of education in Cabo Verde in the 1990s, various buildings dedicated to education were constructed in Cabo Verde, and Praia currently (2016) has 12 secondary education schools. International schools: For higher education, there are the Instituto Universitário de Educação, Universidade Intercontinental de Cabo Verde, Universidade de Santiago, Instituto Superior de Ciencias Juridícas e Sociais, Instituto Superior de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Jean Piaget University of Cape Verde, and University of Cape Verde. Praia is also home to the National Library and the National Archives Building or the ANCV. The economy of Praia is dependent above all on the services sector, with some industry as well. Some industries exist, located on the coast (fishing) or in outlying neighbourhoods (rendering of agricultural products, materials for civil construction, etc.) The principal economic activities of Praia belong to the tertiary sector. Beyond activities related to administration and governance (local and national), there are extensive commerce, services (health care, education, tourism, restaurants and hotels, public functions, etc.), and other activities of a liberal character. Being the nation´s capital as well as the economic hub, Praia is one of the most economically viable cities in the Cabo Verde archipelago. About one third (1/3) of the city's population lives below the poverty line today (2014). The gross metropolitan product for the city is about 39% of the country's GDP, translating into US$4764 income per capita. TACV Cabo Verde, the national airline of Cabo Verde, has its headquarters in Praia. 19th century As of the mid-19th century, two roads accessed Praia, one from the east and one from the west, both traveling uphill. During this time, there were 45 cannons outfitting the roads for security of the region and the harbor. The harbor was utilized by ships from West Africa, South America, and the East Indies. September was the low visitation time for Praia by water, due to gale force winds that frequented during that month making harbor visits unsafe. The city is served by Nelson Mandela International Airport and TACV Cabo Verde Airlines. It has the nation's most used port, Praia Harbor, it is the only ferry terminal linking to other islands, direct ferry routes are Maio, Fogo and São Vicente. The last port expansion underwent in 2013 and finished in 2015. There are numerous streets and avenues throughout the city, the main avenue are Avenida Amílcar Cabral, Avenida Cidade de Lisboa, Avenida Combatente da Liberdade da Patria, Rua do Aeroporto, these two opened in 2004, Avenida de Cuba, Rua da Várzea, Praia-Cidade Velha Road, Praia-Tarrafal Route, the Praia Circular Road opened in 2011, Caminho de São Francisco, the Port-Airport Route and Avenida Caixa Económica. Today, more than half of the city roads of Praia are paved as of 2015, today there may be 2/3 of the streets and roads being paved. Transit system The city has Cape Verde's first modern transit system. Maura Company and Sol Atlântico are the only two companies that have been granted municipal bus service licenses. The city has 11 bus lines, no numbered lines exist in the nation. Over the past decade, Maura Company, which had previously been the dominant bus company, has retired the majority of its buses, while many that continue to run are in a state of disrepair due to financial difficulties. Sol Atlántico, in contrast, has greatly increased its fleet of buses, adding several new high capacity buses in 2015. Municipal bus prices are regulated at 44 escudos per ride. Transfers are not allowed. Bus schedules do not exist, but buses start running around 6am and stop around 9pm. Bus stops exist, and are frequently infiltrated by minibus vehicles (also called "yasis") and both (taxi) licensed and unlicensed "clan" taxis illegally running municipal bus routes without a municipal license. In 2015 a project called EcobusCV started running a fleet of dual fuel waste vegetable oil / diesel modified Toyota HiACE minibuses using a scheduled service model between Praia and Assomada. Buses depart at a rate of one per hour, on the hour, from designated bus stops in Praia, at Igreja Nova Apostólica in Fazenda, and Assomada, in front of the court house. The current departure schedule as of September 15 is one departure per hour, every hour starting at 7am, with the last departure at 6pm. EcobusCV plans to expand to departures in 30 minute intervals before the end of 2015. EcobusCV has instituted aggressive, transparent pricing undercutting the informal generally accepted prices between municipalities, which has started to cause freelance yasis to alter their pricing. Attractions and amenities Landmarks in the colonial city center include Albuquerque Square (named after the colonial governor of the mid 19th century, Caetano Alexandre de Almeida e Albuquerque), the old city hall built in the 1920s, the Presidential Palace, which was constructed in the end of the 19th century to house the Portuguese governor and the Monumento de Diogo Gomes, named after the Portuguese navigator who discovered the island of Santiago in 1460. There is the Museu Etnográfico (Ethnographic Museum), which was founded in 1997. Some of the oldest buildings in Praia are Jaime Mota Barracks (Quartel Jaime Mota) dating from 1826. Cabo Verde Telecom is headquartered in Praia just south of the plateau. Praia is home to several sports teams. The most popular football (soccer) clubs include Sporting, Boavista, Travadores, Académica, Vitória and Desportivo; others include ADESBA, based in Craveiro Lopes; Celtic, based in Achadinha de Baixo; Tchadense, based out of Achada Santo Antônio; Delta, and Eugênio Lima, based in that neighbourhood. Basketball clubs include ABC Praia, Bairro and Travadores. Volleyball clubs include Desportivo da Praia. All are part of the Santiago League South Zone. Many clubs play at Estádio da Várzea. Other or secondara stadiums includes Adega Sports Complex which is used for practices, Sucupira, Calabaceira, Achada Santo António, Ponta da Água (or Ponta d'Agua) and recently Achada Grande Frente Notable residents and visitors Alphabetical Index of Pages \| Hierarchical Index of Pages
A new video shows exactly how the novel coronavirus attacks the lungs in people infected with COVID-19, and how it can eventually kill the host. 3D CT imagery usually used ahead of cancer surgeries has been applied to study lung inflammation in COVID-19 patients. This video is the closest look we’ve had so far at the coronavirus symptoms, and it is helping doctors better understand why the infection could lead to life-threatening respiratory failure 0 0 vote Article Rating
Muscle-developing can be quite a entertaining sports activity or even a functional necessity. Whatever your basis for decreasing extra fat and achieving muscle mass, you must know how to make it happen efficiently, and this implies obtaining educated. Look at the beneath write-up so that you can learn some helpful tips about muscle building. Confer with your medical professional about which dietary supplements are safe for yourself. You could possibly improve your muscle mass building initiatives with creatine and other types of dietary supplements, but you need to know if they are healthy for you to consider. Consuming health supplements can be something you have to discuss with a physician so that you can construct muscles securely and in a good way. The table press, the squat and the deadlift must make up the concentration of your workout routines. These represent the building block workout routines for any system builder. They have got always been proven to efficiently include energy, muscle tissue bulk, and total health and fitness. Regardless of the form of routine you determine up, maintain these about three exercise routines because the cornerstones. A great way to develop muscle is usually to pay attention to nutrients, and follow a good amount of health proteins and carbohydrate food. When you eat each and every a couple of hours, and making certain you will get a minimum of 1.5 gr of proteins for each pound of your own bodyweight and no less than 2 grams of carbs every pound. You will have the nutritious equipment necessary to develop muscles. When you are working toward “bulking up” your muscles, tend not to do cardio in excess of 90 a few minutes for every exercise. An excessive amount of aerobic can cause your body to produce “lean muscle” rather than the mass that you want. Aerobic is extremely important, but put a limit upon it for the best outcomes. Taking in a protein shake after training is vital. The proteins shake offers you body the nutrition it must be capable to re-establish muscle mass fabric and help the muscles to cultivate faster and much stronger. Proteins drinks must have a proportion of 2:1 of carbohydrates to health proteins to ensure these to be as helpful as possible. Exercising to build muscle mass is best if you concentrate on sizeable muscle tissues. Such as the back, thighs and legs, and upper body. Employing exercises that target these teams is going to do probably the most operate in the least amount of length of time, which means you’ll increase muscle far more quickly when compared with other workouts. Should you be just starting up to get in shape, you should not figure out a lot more than two times a 7 days. This can give plenty of time for your personal muscle tissue to recover and expand. As you grow more capable, add a thirdly session each week. You must not teach a lot more than 72 hours a week unless you be a specialist body builder. Offset chest area and shoulder joint presses by incorporating groups of yanking exercise routines, such as take-ups, move-downs, and lines. Managing your exercises this way will assist you to exercise the muscle tissues that happen to be forgotten throughout the presses, that will subsequently bring you to build muscle more quickly and enhance your power. To create greater muscle tissues, you should always consume the instant you wake up in the morning. An earlier breakfast time prevents the body from wearing down muscle tissue for power, that can just decelerate your development. Pick high-protein-rich foods ., and ensure you additionally eat lots of carbs at morning meal. You have to constrain weekly routines to no more than 4. Your system needs amount of time in involving exercises to repair by itself. Hitting the gym too often might lead to traumas, that will end up being detrimental as you are considering your end results. Experiment with part representatives to be able to develop muscles. This technique requires performing reps by using a reduced mobility. Occasionally, these are typically named heartbeat reps, and they are generally done following a set as soon as you success failure. Though you will possibly not have adequate energy to do a comprehensive representative, you can consider out some part reps until you get to failing an additional time in order to placed more demand on your muscles. As you can tell, safely and securely muscle building can be something it is possible to achieve with a few knowledge and sound judgment. Implementing these pointers as opposed to a hazardous trend work out gives you the best potential for making it in developing a entire body you can be pleased with. Shortly you’ll be feeling and looking excellent!
Health and exercise myth busters – fact or fiction? There’s so much information out there that making informed decisions about keeping yourself fit and healthy can sometimes feel like an impossible task. Can you spot the difference between Fitness Fact and Fiction? 1. ‘Drinking water will help me to lose weight’ Sadly, drinking water doesn’t, in itself, make you lose weight (cue big sigh of relief from the diet industry). Simply put, losing weight happens when you burn more calories than you consume and however much water you drink, if you don’t create that deficit, the number on the scales is not going down. However, drinking water can play an important part in digestive function and in controlling appetite. It is very easy to confuse thirst with hunger and ensuring you stay properly hydrated can help control the urge to snack caused by thirst signals misinterpreted as hunger. Water also plays an important part in fuelling our muscles, helping them to perform during physical exercise and therefore enabling us to become more active. 2. ‘It’s best to work out first thing in the morning’ Many people claim that an early session at the gym or a run before breakfast kickstarts the metabolism, helping you to burn more calories throughout the day. While studies have confirmed this, others prove the opposite! Truth is, we are all individuals with our own exercise preferences; what’s really important is to get out there and get active. Lark or owl, pick the time that suits you best and go for it! 3. ‘I can’t run because it will hurt my knees’ Like many things, this one is a question of balance. Researchers have found that the knees of older runners are no less healthy than those of older people who do not regularly exercise. However, as with any discipline, too much of one type of training is rarely a positive thing. If you want to keep on running, make sure you include a couple of strength sessions in your weekly programme to build up the muscles that support your knees and that way you should remain free of those pesky ACL injuries that can plague runners. 4. ‘Nice girls don’t lift weights’ The weights room is strictly a boys-only zone. It’s just not what the female body was designed for, right? Wrong! This myth is one that absolutely needs to be busted. Lifting weights can change the body composition of anyone for the better. It improves insulin sensitivity and cardiovascular function, it strengthens your core, improving balance, speeds up your cognitive function and helps regulate hormones. And don’t worry, a female who includes some weight training in her programme won’t bulk up like Arnie; gaining ‘bulk’ comes from a combination of testosterone, increasing calorie consumption and very regular weight training of targeted muscle groups. For most women, weight training, even with heavy weights will make them leaner not bigger. It might just help protect against age-related conditions such as osteoporosis too so what are you weighting, sorry, waiting for? 5. ‘Yoga is a nice, gentle activity best suited to the older exerciser’ This is the kind of statement that could only be made by someone who hasn’t tried yoga! Given that yoga has been practised for over 5,000 years and there are more than 100 different forms, it would be fair to assume that it has one or two benefits? Yoga can help improve balance, flexibility, strength, mobility, the symptoms of various physical and mental health conditions, energy and stress levels and much more. It’s a complete mind-body workout and will help you get a great night’s sleep. 6. ‘It takes hours to burn off the sweet treat you have with your coffee’ Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but this one is probably true. With a regular latte weighing in at around 145 calories in most coffee chains and muffins at around 400 each, you are looking at a minimum of 2 hours of brisk walking to burn the equivalent calories. And don’t get us started on alcohol – with many beers running at close to 200 calories a pint, a quiet night down the pub can quickly put a serious dent in what you’ve achieved in a good week at the gym. Now, I’m not in the business of telling you what you can and can’t eat and drink; life’s too short to not have the occasional treat, but knowledge is power, right? Don’t sabotage the great work you’re doing in the gym by making uninformed choices. 7. ‘It’s bad to work out every day’ Guidelines recommend 3 to 4 sessions of vigorous exercise each week. But does this mean that it is counterproductive to train every day? It isn’t bad to train daily but you should not repeat the same activity day in day out. Alternate muscle groups to allow recovery and avoid injury and listen to your body; you’ll know when you need a rest day. This approach will also help you to stay interested and motivated. 8. ‘Gyms are just for fit people’ If that’s the vibe you get when you walk in the door, I’d recommend you turn right around and walk back out. Gyms these days come in all shapes and sizes and if wall-to-wall mirrors are not your thing, don’t let yourself become part of the 11% of UK gym members who never use their subscription. Look elsewhere; you’ll find your team. Listen to friends’ recommendations and take advantage of free trials or ‘pay as you play’ options until you hit upon the place that’s the perfect fit. Leave a Reply You are commenting using your account. Log Out / Change ) Google photo Twitter picture Facebook photo Connecting to %s
See Pricing What's Your Topic? Hire a Professional Writer Now The input space is limited by 250 symbols What's Your Deadline? Choose 3 Hours or More. 2/4 steps How Many Pages? 3/4 steps Sign Up and See Pricing Get Offer Spanish Exploration Hire a Professional Writer Now The input space is limited by 250 symbols Deadline:2 days left Write my paper Spain wanted a lot of things. It wanted to expand its knowledge of the world that they had never seen. They also wanted to have a larger empire, find spices and other riches, and expand Christianity. The fundamental aspect of the voyages that were undergone by Spain was to acquire gold and silver to pay for their wars with the Turkish Empire. Beginning with Columbus in 1492 and continuing for nearly 350 years, Spain conquered and settled most of South America, the Caribbean, and the American Southwest. Don't use plagiarized sources. Get Your Custom Essay on Spanish Exploration Just from $13,9/Page Get custom paper After an initial wave of conquistadors, aided by military advantages and infectious diseases that decimated the native population, defeated the pre-Columbian civilizations of the Aztecs, Mayans, and Incas, Spain organized a huge imperial system to exploit the land, labour and mineral wealth of the New World. This was good for Spain as they were able to gain huge sums of money quickly through gold and silver which took the civilizations they were decimating thousands of years to collect. However all of Spain’s new found riches did not help to solve their underlying national problem of bankruptcy.It caused inflation, and Spain was left practically bankrupt from which it took hundreds of years to recover from which was extremely bad for Spain. Spanish exploration was positive in the short term but in the long term was very damaging and was not the financial solution Spain thought it was. Spain’s ‘looting’ of the Americas at the start of their exploration of the new world, beginning with Columbus, was slow. Possession of their main goal, to obtain as much gold and silver as possible, was not fast enough.Ferdinand quickly became desperate for more: “Get gold, humanely if you can; but at all hazards, get gold! ” he wrote to the New World colonists on July 25, 1511 as Columbus’s first voyage had cost 2 million maravedis, and the proceeds were worth only a few thousand. This was damaging to the Spanish economy and therefore bad for Spain as Ferdinand was spending vast amounts of money on voyages to the new world, hoping to receive immediate returns on his investment, however this was not the case. Spanish monarchy was embarking on an ambitious and expensive foreign policy, sustainable only ith the expectation that it would be financed by gold from the New World. Ferdinand was receiving very little money compared to the millions he was investing so Spain’s economy suffered. However, for Spain to receive the vast amounts of gold and silver they were hoping for, it was only naive of them to believe they would immediately reap the rewards. Columbus’s first few voyages provided the building blocks for explorers a few years later such as Balboa, Cortez and Pizarro to excel and achieve the huge financial goals Spain were hoping for. Cite this Spanish Exploration Spanish Exploration. (2017, May 23). Retrieved from https://graduateway.com/spanish-exploration/ Show less • Use multiple resourses when assembling your essay • Use Plagiarism Checker to double check your essay • Do not copy and paste free to download essays Get plagiarism free essay Search for essay samples now Haven't found the Essay You Want? Get my paper now For Only $13.90/page
Skip to Content Celebrating women, politics and place Hank Willis Thomas (American, b. 1976) Behind every great man…, 1979/2015, 2015 Chromogenic print The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College Image courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York Celebrating women, politics and place An upcoming Frost Art Museum exhibition commemorates the 19th Amendment. August 18, 2020 at 1:30pm On August 18, 1920, women in the United States gained the right to vote. A century later, women's access to equity in the social and political spheres continues to be at the forefront of the popular consciousness, especially with the growing visibility of women as elected leaders. In celebration of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, the Frost Art Museum is launching House to House: Women, Politics, and Place. Opening on Sept. 26., the show examines the metaphor of two houses: the domestic space women have dominated for hundreds of years and the public, political space where their voices are increasingly heard. These varied spaces—from the home to beauty salons, factories, courtrooms and more—are illustrated in the multimedia exhibition. Chief curator Amy Galpin offers thoughts on this timely exhibition. Why is the exhibition so crucial at this moment in American history? Much attention is centered around the 100-year anniversary of women gaining the right to vote, but that’s not the only reason why we are presenting this exhibition. Certainly the anniversary is a cause for reflection on how some women, largely white women, gained the right to vote and how racism and voter suppression, which remain major issues today, prevented all women from voting. This exhibition was also planned because of the presidential election in 2020 and because of the record number of women elected to office in 2018. It’s an important moment to think about women in relationship to politics and place. A considerable number of objects in this exhibition address the domestic space. How have women navigated home? How has the home been oppressive for some and a safe space for others? Given the attention to #MeToo movement and changes to Title IX, what does it mean to consider and reconsider women’s agency and navigation of different spaces? Can you highlight a few pieces and explain why you chose them? There are two anchors in the exhibition, a photograph by Catherine Opie and a photograph by Deborah Willis. Catherine Opie’s photograph is an iconic image. Opie has stated that she photographs political landscapes. Here, the landscape is her own home and her son, Oliver. The bright and inviting natural light and the tender child wearing a tutu evoke nostalgia and celebrate a fleeting moment of family life. Deborah Willis is one of the first artists that I thought of when creating this exhibition. She is a renowned curator and photo historian, and her Reflections in Black is required reading. I’ve always been drawn to her photographs of beauty shops, a source for community, debate, fun and therapy. Willis’s photograph of artist Carrie Mae Weems in a beauty shop in Eastonville, a historic Black community, felt essential to the exhibition. [Editor's note: The Frost Art Museum will host an online talk by Willis as part of its Steven & Dorothea Green Crticis' Lecture Series at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 17.] What are your feelings on gender equality as it relates to American politics? I think often about how women who run for office and those who are ultimately elected are spoken about and judged. The terms used to describe women’s personalities, physical appearance and achievements are not the same used to describe men. We are seeing unprecedented numbers of women running for office and that’s exciting—as well as Black, Latinx, Indigenous and Asian American candidates that are challenging the status quo. It’s not that I just want to see a woman as president, because I need to understand a candidate’s positions first. I think, however, we should all consider why there has never been a woman president or vice president in the U.S. What are the factors that have hindered the election of a woman president in the U.S. that have not hindered Germany, New Zealand and Chile? Who are some FIU alumnae and Miami artists represented in the show? There are two FIU alumnae represented in the exhibition, Peggy Nolan and Aurora Molina. Getting to know Peggy and learning about her practice has been an incredibly special experience for me. Peggy’s technical acumen coupled with a searing eye for detail and intimacy make for great pictures. Aurora Molina is an artist and activist, and I am incredibly honored to work with her on this exhibition and humbled by the large-scale installation that she is making for the exhibition. I reached out to her very early in the process of creating the exhibition as I knew her approach to her practice could make for a dynamic juxtaposition with other work in the show. Aurora has brilliantly engaged the Miami community in creation of mandalas for the exhibition and combines them with imagery inspired by the Women’s Marches that occurred across the US in January 2017. Other Miami artists represented in the show are Octavia Yearwood, who produced Tranz Forum, and Rosemarie Chiarlone. Jamilah Sabur is an artist that I often return to and whose practice challenges me and sustains me intellectually and creatively. Her work in this show is inspired by an architectural element in the home where her mother was raised in Jamaica. The artist often returns to the rhombus, and the shape is present here. What do you hope people will take away? I always hope, from any show, that someone might learn something new, that their curiosity might be peaked, that they might understand someone else’s perspective in a new way and they might reflect on a work or artist after seeing the exhibition. The tone and texture of these experiences are for the visitor to determine. The Frost Art Museum is temporarily closed, but exhibitions and programs can be experienced virtually here.
Why Building Muscle Doesn't Build Speed We all know someone that is wiry thin, and really fast. If you're involved in sports, especially towards the college level, you also likely know someone who trained to build muscle and then got slower. The obvious connection here would seem to be that the extra weight you carry when you are bigger and more muscular tends to slow you down. Truth be told, that is only part of the story. To understand the other part, picture an elite sprinter running at top speed. These athletes spend very, very little time on the ground for each stride. In fact, when watching them run they almost appear to be floating just off the ground. Contrast that to slower athletes, who very clearly spend lots of time on the ground on each sprint stride. The difference has nothing to do with their muscle mass, but everything to do with their tendon strength. Tendons are the fibrous structures that connect muscles to bones. They are thicker and less mobile than muscles because their primary role is to create stability in a joint. They don't expand in size very much at all as they get stronger. Athletes with extremely strong tendons will not visually appear any bigger. The best way to understand their role is to think of them like the shock absorbers on your car. The less 'give' these shock absorbers allow when gravity pushes you into the ground, the quicker you pop off the ground on every stride. Of course it is true that we are all born with a baseline level of tendon shock absorbing capability. This is why some people are just faster than others without having to do much. But just like building muscle is a trainable feature, so is developing the shock absorbing capabilities of your tendons. And you probably saw this coming, but... The type of workout that's usually done for building muscle has almost nothing to do with how you'd improve the isometric strength of your tendons. Yes, adding more muscle in theory will help you to power up in a sprint during the acceleration phase. And yes, other factors like sprint technique and overall mobility can either increase or decrease your speed potential. What is overlooked by far too many hard working athletes are the ways you can train your body to prepare for the unique demands placed on it to sprint at faster speeds. It's still kind of a secret weapon for the small number of athletes who know how to train this correctly. Remember, speed is the skill that is most likely to open doors of opportunity for you at higher levels of your sport. Build Your Skills One Step At A Time Request information Request Information Now! Personal Training near Leominster Let us e-mail you this Free Report

Subsets and Splits

No community queries yet

The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.