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The geospatial intelligence imagery analyst is responsible for analyzing overhead and aerial imagery developed by photographic and electronic means. They provide Army personnel with critical information about enemy forces, potential battle areas and combat operations support.
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Those who want to serve must first take the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, a series of tests that helps you better understand your strengths and identify which Army jobs are best for you.
Job training for a geospatial intelligence imagery analyst requires 10 weeks of Basic Combat Training and 22 weeks of Advanced Individual Training with on-the-job instruction. Part of this time is spent in the classroom and in the field.
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COVINGTON — The renovation and expansion of Newton County’s Animal Control Shelter are getting a big boost from a local supporter through an anonymous donation of $100,000.
Newton County commissioners were expected to approve a resolution accepting the donation at their meeting Tuesday night.
County Manager Lloyd Kerr said the donor came forward after it became clear that renovation and expansion of the shelter were underfunded in the 2017 Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax. The SPLOST referendum set aside $1.2 million for the Animal Control facility; the BOC on Oct. 1 approved a transfer of $350,000 to the project from the capital improvement fund to augment the project funding.
Even with that transfer, Kerr said, the project was financially constrained.
“Truly, we really could have doubled or even tripled (the SPLOST funding) if we were looking 20 years down the road,” he said. “Even with that (transfer), it was still underfunded.”
Kerr said the anonymous donor was concerned about the underfunding of the project. “They wanted to make sure there is an optimum situation to allow for the adoption of animals,” he said. “One of the reasons we’ve had such a hard time there for a long time with our euthanasia rate was we could only keep animals for a short period of time before we had to make space for other animals. So they wanted to see what they could do to help alleviate that.”
The donation will go a long way toward improving the animal shelter, he said.
“This is a significant step in the right direction,” he said.
Kerr said the funding has been earmarked to provide additional kennel space, which will free up funding for other aspects of the project.
Plans for the animal shelter call for completely renovating the existing building on Lower River Road, upgrading the electrical system and adding air conditioning. A new building will be constructed on the site that will be connected to the existing facility. The new building will be designed so that the facility can be expanded in the future by the addition of modules.
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By Amaryllis Perotti.
The recent measures taken by governments worldwide to counter the pandemic bring up questions regarding the future generation’s place in our society: have the lives of young people been sacrificed and forgotten? These are the questions that have risen in France, whose government has faced backlash over the social impacts of COVID-19 restrictions.
Mental health problems are said to be one of the leading causes of the overall disease burden worldwide. Approximately one in every six people in the United Kingdom has experienced mental health issues in the past week. Inarguably, mental illnesses are very prevalent in our modern-day society.
But almost no other kind of illness has been met with such a high level of discrimination and stigmatization.
This article will explore the treatment and perception of mental illnesses in the past and present and how this has a significant bearing on how we interact and represent people suffering from a mental illness today.
What defines beauty standards? This article takes a stand despite the controversial nature of the topic. I will explore the motif behind our need as a society to have beauty standards and why they represent such a problematic issue for girls and women. I will also discuss how beauty ideals influence their measure of self-appreciation and self-worth. Despite the great reaction of women against these standards through body positivity movements, there is a need for a gradual process of self-acceptance while moving away from societal standards.
Picking and choosing what a child should be allowed to read can be complicated. Should children be free to read anything they want, or should parents and educators be more selective about what books their kids can get their hands on? This issue is particularly divisive if it involves children’s horror fiction, which is populated by scary, violent, and unsettling tales. This article discusses the different sides to this argument and it will also suggest a way of approaching scary books that can be both pedagogical and enjoyable for a young audience.
By 2050, there will be more plastic than fish in the sea. The so-called Zero Waste movement wants to combat these ever-increasing piles of litter by producing as little individual waste as possible. But should we really blame the consumer for the plastic pollution crisis? This article explores whether the Zero Waste movement effectively makes our world a better, waste-free place, or whether their aim does not go far enough yet.
Mauragh Scott explores the controversial issue of museum loot. Specifically, the article critiques the British Museum, in London, for its continuation of colonial interpretations around the artefacts it has on display. Countries and representatives of cultures to whom artefacts belong argue that it is the museums’ responsibility to repatriate artefacts back to the cultures that they were stolen from and move forward together to teach a decolonised history of the past.
Netflix released Bridgerton on Christmas Day and it was an instant success because of its vivacious portrayal of Regency-era England. Before its release, it was hailed as a feminist and inclusive show; however, it only takes a quick Google search to realise that not all reviewers agree. Many people praise Bridgerton for its progressive portrayal of women, while others consider the show an utter failure or, at best, a missed chance. This article will take into consideration some of the themes and power dynamics that the show portrays and whether they should be considered feminist or not.
Football is the most popular sport in the world. Billions play, watch, and devote parts of their life to the sport. This article explores how FIFA has allowed itself to benefit from human rights abuses, tainting the sport as a whole. It hopes to spark some sort of self-reflection in the everyday fan or at least reveal the extent of the problem. Football might represent the height of sporting entertainment, but it comes with a global human cost.
Mauragh Scott explores whether the world is really running out of water and what this issue could mean both near and far. With the UN calling this a ‘silent emergency’ worldwide, the realities of running out of water are catching up with many areas around the world already, and it paints a poor picture of what we will all face in our future. She also looks at the case of South Africa’s ‘Day Zero’ as an example of how we might take the first step in combating this issue. | <urn:uuid:97604001-5afc-4d74-b377-e4971a267c7d> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 4,517 |
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Providing students with the flexibility to take courses strictly by e-mail, the University for Writers has developed a Web site, www.universityforwriters.com, to help students of all ages become better writers. The courses feature one-on-one communication through e-mail with teachers who engage and challenge students to gain a better understanding of their strengths and weaknesses, while solidifying their knowledge of various aspects of writing, including grammar and story structure.
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A/N: Protectors of the Plot Continuum was founded by Jay and Acacia. Excerpts in italics taken from Riftangel by Torchedgirl.
As soon as the agents entered the fic they were thrown off their feet.
"Time rift already?" Emma shouted.
"No, it appears there is a Rift-quake."
The whole Hub was shaking and the Torchwood Team were holding on to railings, door frames and each other for dear life. Gwen was injured when part of the roof came down. Then the quake stopped.
The agents scrambled to their feet and took inventory of the damages.
Gwen was bleeding profusely from a wound in her side. Owen picked her up and rushed her down to the Autopsy Pit to see to her injuries. Ianto had a large gash on his shin, but wasn't complaining.
"Why do people think that characters that keep to themselves mostly don't even ask for help when they need medical attention?" Tasmin asked. "They're loners, not morbidly stupid."
Jack helped Ianto down to the Autopsy Pit where Owen tended to his wound after he had taken care of Gwen. In the mean time Tosh returned to her computer to assess the damages. She reported that she had found the cause of the Rift activity. Some sort of angelic creature. Jack decided that he, Owen and Tosh would check it out. He instructed Ianto to make Gwen some coffee and sit with her.
While Jack and the others drove to the scene of the angelic creature, the agents took a portal.
A small area had been cordoned off by the police. Team Torchwood just sauntered past the barrier. Owen hurried forward to the creature when he noticed it was injured. His doctor instincts took over.
The agents had taken position among the crowd on the other side of the police tape.
"Just think, Torchwood has to retcon all these people," Emma whispered.
"Torchwood has become decidedly slack about retcon," Tasmin replied. "They're a public secret themselves."
When Owen was almost next to the creature it unfolded one of its wings. Owen staggered back and fell. The creature got up.
In his opinion she was a perfectly normal woman, 19 years old with injuries from a fall. The only thing 'wrong' with her was the fact that she had white wings.
"Perfectly normal women don't have wings."
The woman fainted. Jack and Owen picked her up and carried her over to the SUV.
The agents were transplanted to the Archives. Which is a nice way of saying that the scene shift propelled them to the Hub and threw them against some wall to wall filing cabinets.
"I hate absent scene breaks," Emma growled as she scrambled to her feet.
"The FLF must have switched to automatic again." Tasmin opened her bag to search for the offending piece of equipment.
"I hate FLFs with wobbly switches too."
Before Tasmin could set the FLF to manual both agents were thrown into the Autopsy Pit.
"I really hate these things." Emma propped her self up on an elbow. She didn't see the point in getting up completely. "Why were we down in the Archives in the first place?"
"Apparently we needed to be told that Ianto likes to be in the Archives." Tasmin had gotten to her feet and studied the Words. She turned to give her partner a disapproving look.
Behind her, in the Autopsy Pit, Owen began a full diagnosis of the creature. Jack checked on Gwen. Then the creature was placed in a cell.
"That was a rather quick full analysis," Emma noted.
"How much time does it really take to diagnose a Sue?"
Owen ran some blood tests and was shocked at the results he found. Jack came to look at his computer over his shoulder.
Tasmin ran up the stairs to look over Owen's other shoulder.
It showed an image of a 3D human. Then a load of graphs popped up on the page. Jack looked at them and shrugged his shoulders.
"Look at this. Right this is an average human," explained Owen. "And this is our new lodger…notice a similarity?"
"…Yeah…but, that means that…she's human!" Jack asked, realising what Owen was showing him.
"Uh, no. Humanoid perhaps. Wouldn't go as far as calling her human."
Owen then pulled up some of the Sue's DNA - showing it in a 3D-model of the double helix - and showed that some of the sequences were different from human DNA.
"Exactly what I said: not human, humanoid."
"Did he get a supercomputer because he's been such a good boy?" Emma asked.
Tasmin was so engrossed with the picture that her partner's question startled her. "Torchwood has excellent funding."
Jack decided to call everyone together in the Boardroom, except for Ianto as he figured him to be busy.
"Ignoring Ianto as a valued member of the team." Emma made a note. "Even if this alternate reality, there is no reason to dismiss a character like that."
"It seems he and Jack have issues."
"They have issues all right."
The agents sat down in the Boardroom with the others and Owen started his slide show.
"If you look at the DNA, she has the same DNA as us…only there's some parts that have been added."
"Humans have 96 percent of their DNA in common with chimpanzees," Tasmin said. "You would have sounded less silly if you had deducted she was human from her blood group. That's probably also quicker to determine than a full DNA analysis."
Owen explained that he thought the added DNA came from an animal.
Here are the genes that depict what limbs an average human will grow, it has been replaced with an eagle gene.
"That's a rather simplistic representation of the number of genes that are actually involved in growing limbs. Besides, it doesn't explain why she has two legs, two arms and two wings," Tasmin pointed out. "She'd require both eagle wing genes and human limb genes for that. Plus, even though the human genome has been mapped, this does not mean that scientists also know what the function is of individual genes, like which genes are needed to grow limbs. The eagle genome has not been mapped and identified yet. Owen can't even know these things without Torchwood having access to a DNA database from the future."
Jack pointed out that this was years ahead of their time.
"That's what I said."
Then Owen showed his most shocking discovery: the Sue had a tattoo of the Torchwood logo on her left ankle.
"We did this to her, that's our logo!" Cried Gwen
Jack started barking orders. To Owen to check Torchwood's history of experiments, to Tosh to find the winged woman in their records, to Gwen to find Ianto.
The agents followed Gwen and Jack, who went down to the Archives together. Jack said they should give the Sue a name because she was human.
"The man named the Weevil," Tasmin grumbled. "I doubt its humanity was a consideration there."
Ianto limped into the corridor. He looked absent mindedly when Jack called out to him. Jack told him he needed to identify and name the Sue. Ianto asked him why he didn't use the computers.
He was curious to why Jack hadn't used the Hub computers; the team never asked him about anything from the archives.
Emma and Tasmin both rolled their eyes. "I guess dismissing Ianto's character is running rampant in this fic. Even he is doing it," Emma said.
Ianto went with Gwen and Jack to the cells to take a look at the Sue.
The agents joined them, but tried to stay out of the line of vision of the Sue.
The Sue was rolled up into a ball on the floor. Ianto recognised her immediately.
He took in a deep breath at her stark beauty.
"Stark beauty?" Emma asked. "Is that the same as stark nonsense?"
"Probably," Tasmin replied. "Though, here I think is meant that the Sue was butt naked."
"Ianto called the Sue Lily and she woke up. She got up and walked to the glass wall. She asked to be let out.
"She's perceptive," Tasmin said. "She was unconscious when she went into that cell."
"She probably woke up before. This fic is very fuzzy about how long it took Owen to run his tests."
"I'm sure they took less time then they should have."
Gwen came closer to the glass, which startled the Sue. Gwen assured her she wouldn't hurt her. The Sue now approached her, her head cocked with curiosity, but when Jack stepped up to the glass the Sue dove away and cowered at the far end of the cell. Jack realised this was because he had aimed his gun at her when they first met.
"I assure you that I won't shoot you…see." Jack pulled out his gun and tossed it across the cell area.
Tasmin caught the Webley Revolver with her foot and picked it up.
"Great, we've got an imposter!Jack here," Emma said. "Shall I start looking for the real one?"
"One moment." Tasmin pulled the Canon Analysis Device from her bag and pointed it at Jack. "He's canon," she read out. "Just not very much in character."
Jack opened the cell door and Ianto walked in to help the Sue up.
"Exactly what part of 'Torchwood Experiment' spells 'not likely to be dangerous'?" Emma asked. "Okay, presumably Sleeper hasn't happened yet in this reality, but that doesn't mean none of them had enough imagination to contemplate the possibility of a weapon in disguise."
"Perhaps they trust Ianto's judgement that she's no danger."
"That would be the first time in this fic they trust Ianto. And what poor timing they have."
Tasmin nodded. "Even if they had had trust in him before, they still should have asked him first how he knew the Sue and what he knows about her."
Ianto led the Sue out of her cell and to the Boardroom.
When Jack walked past the agents Tasmin returned his gun to him. "Try to be more careful where you throw this next time. It's nearly an antique."
Jack smirked. "Do you have any idea how much it pained me to part with this weapon?" He stuffed the Webley back in his holster. "I guess I'll be seeing you two again later?"
"We'll try not to be too long," Emma replied.
Ianto sat the Sue down in the Boardroom and then he went to fix some beverages. When he returned Jack started the meeting.
The agents positioned themselves at Gwen's workstation and tapped into the CCTV from the Boardroom. Now that the Sue was conscious they couldn't get any closer.
"Have you fixed the audio link yet?" Emma asked. "I haven't heard Owen make any snarky comments about her nudity."
"Audio's fine. He hasn't made any snarky comments. Neither has anyone else said anything about her nudity."
"Not even to mention that she'd need clothes?"
"Careless." Emma made a note on the charge sheet.
Jack introduced his team and then he asked the Sue to introduce herself.
"My…my name is experiment eight zero two, codename…Lily. I was created in a Laboratory in London in the year 1940. The scientists…were part of Torchwood. They spliced my DNA using a piece of alien technology that fell through a Rift near Glasgow soon after Torchwood was created. I was created to finish the war, as the Royal family was in danger."
"This guinea pig knows a lot about herself."
"Perhaps she read the lab journals."
The Sue continued her story: on the day of her first training exercise she fell through the Rift. Jack then told her that the war was over and that she was at Torchwood Cardiff.
I expect that you were briefed on what Torchwood does?
"Why would Torchwood brief their guinea pigs on what Torchwood does?"
Tasmin shrugged. "Probably to save Jack from having to repeat the opening credits' voice over. For her, it makes no sense. They created her as a weapon. All she'd need to know was how to be weaponry and destroy the enemy. I doubt that would require much knowledge about what Torchwood actually does."
The Sue further explained that she learned to fly at the age of seventeen.
"1940 plus seventeen makes 1957. War was long over by then," Emma said.
"Unless she's counting in bird years," Tasmin said. "Or her genetic manipulation did not take place in embryonic state, but when she was seventeen and a nearly fully grown human."
Whatever the Sue meant, she claimed that along with her an aircraft - a German bomber, she thought - was pulled into the Rift. On cue, Jack's wrist communicator announced an aircraft had just landed.
"Let's go meet that plot device," Tasmin said. She closed the CCTV feed on the workstation and pulled the remote activator from her duffel bag.
Jack, Gwen, Owen and Tosh piled into the SUV. Ianto and the Sue followed in Ianto's car.
"How does she do that with her wings? How does she fold them to be comfortable?"
"Charge, not taking own anatomy into consideration before getting into a car. Another charge, still being naked."
Tosh had given the Sue a hand-held computer to scroll through Torchwood's database for an image of the craft she had seen.
"Prrrgh, eeee," Emma squeaked. "A fatal error has occurred. Please reboot fandom."
Torchwood arrived at the scene of the crashed airship, which the Sue had identified as Mahorven. Ianto and the Sue were told to stay in the car, but Jack left an extra gun with them. The rest of the team took position around the nose of the crashed alien ship. A single figure emerged and Jack addressed it in an alien tongue. The alien claimed to be unarmed. Jack didn't believe it and the alien attacked. Jack shot it dead. More of the aliens came out of the ship. The Sue jumped from the car and shot them.
"Overachiever," Emma muttered. "There's at least four other people around with guns and weapons training and she's the only one that makes any kills."
The alien carcasses self-combusted and turned to dust.
That's what I like about the Mahorvens, they turn to dust when they die, no clean up for us.
"I think you've overlooked the big IFO, Jack," Emma said. "That hasn't gone anywhere."
"IFO?" Tasmin asked against her better judgement.
"Identified Flying Object."
"Should have known."
Ianto was still aware of the alien space craft. Unfortunately so. When he walked towards it he was hit by a dart that suddenly shot out of the side of the hull. Ianto collapsed.
The team hurried back to the Hub.
The agents stayed behind and looked at the Mahorven ship.
"Why didn't any of them stay behind to cordon off the area to prevent innocent bystanders from getting hurt?" Emma asked. "For an organisation that is supposed to prepare society for the future they show damn little consideration for public safety."
"Charge," Tasmin replied. "Though cordoning off is more UNIT's thing."
"Then they should have called UNIT in."
Tasmin nodded. "Let's go to the Hub. See if they can save Ianto."
At the Hub Gwen was sitting with Ianto, Jack was pacing and acting out his frustration, Tosh and Owen were working on finding an antidote.
It was strange seeing Owen work for once.
"If you'd bothered to watch Series One you'd have found Owen works just as hard, sometimes harder, than any of the others." Emma glared at the Words.
"Just write down the charge of Owen bashing. You'll feel better." Tasmin took up position by the Boardroom's glass window to look into the Hub and at the same time keep an eye on the Words.
Emma pulled up one of the Boardroom chairs and sat down before she started scribbling charges in her notepad.
Ianto was hooked up to an array of machines that checked his vital signs, and others that kept his vitals going. Jack had predicted that there were only three hours to find an antidote or the poison from the dart would be lethal.
Tosh announced to have found the antidote. Owen snatched the print-out from her hand and started throwing together substances into an anti-lethal cocktail.
"I understand he's a little stressed, but I doubt Tosh's recipe says: haphazardly throw together these ingredients."
Tasmin nodded. "More like a microgram of this, two microlitres of that. Add 'Owen bad at chemistry' to his 'bad at biology'."
"I have the more general 'bad science' as a charge."
"That'll work. Not as precise, but it'll work."
Owen injected Ianto with the mix, then stepped back and waited for results.
"What are the chances that Ianto comes out of this without brain damage?"
"Considering that his heart actually stopped for a moment..." Tasmin looked pensive." And considering this is fanfic, which rarely deals with serious consequences seriously... I doubt he will have brain damage."
The antidote caught on. Jack hugged Tosh and Gwen in relief. Owen started switching off Ianto's life-support machinery. Soon after Ianto woke up.
"And there was much rejoicing," Emma said.
"Yay," Tasmin added dryly.
The poison that was in the dart would have killed you in three hours, you were out for 2 hours and 59 minutes. Another minute and…
"Poison that works on a clock? It's not exactly a time-bomb."
"It depends in part on how fast the biological system that was poisoned works, how quickly a poison will be lethal. I, definitely, wouldn't set my watch to it."
"What would you set your watch to?"
"The atomic clock," Tasmin replied.
Ianto was moved to the sofa and told to stay off his feet and drink as much coffee as he liked.
"I don't think coffee is a good antidote to poisoning," Tasmin said. "It's sort of poison itself."
"Don't let the Ianto fangirls hear you say that."
Ianto himself opted for water and Owen hurried to fetch it for him.
Ianto suddenly realised that he wasn't wearing his suit. Instead he had a large, white, baggy T-shirt. He recognised it as Jack's. Also he was supporting a pair of light blue jeans that seemed to fit nicely. He shuddered at the fact that they were Owen's.
"How come we hadn't noticed that?" Emma asked.
"Because it wasn't mentioned before," Tasmin replied. "And because we assumed there wasn't time to play dress up with Ianto with the clock ticking to find an antidote."
Now that Ianto was saved Tosh used a satellite-guided laser to blow up the Mahorven ship.
"Laser can't do that," Tasmin said. "Not unless you fill the ship with explosives and use laser to detonate it."
Everyone went about their business. The Sue, who didn't have any business at Torchwood, curled up on the sofa next to Ianto and fell asleep. Ianto feel asleep too, but Jack decided he ought to answer some questions about the Sue and woke him up. Ianto said he would explain. Jack called everyone - except the Sue - to the Boardroom.
Emma moved her chair back to the conference table. She looked at each of the team members with anticipation.
They, in turn, all looked at Ianto.
Ianto started to talk. He had learned about the Sue in the Archives about a week earlier. He told about a secret part of Torchwood - the agents barely contained their chuckles - which had a way to track the Sue. It would come for her and continue to train her as a weapon.
"It would be too much to expect that this secret part of Torchwood used to share its offices with Torchwood One."
If I'm right in thinking they already know she's here.
Predictably, the alarm bells started ringing.
"I wonder who that is," Tasmin mused.
"Probably a stray cat that set off the hypersensitive motion detectors."
The team quickly set to work on finding out where the intruders were. Jack assured the Sue they would not let her be taken away. Owen activated lock down. Ianto found three intruders four levels down. Two of them were armed. Then he turned around to give the Sue cuddles.
Without anyone paying attention the intruders managed to reach the main Hub area and opened fire on the team.
"This glass is bullet-proof, right?" Emma pushed her fingers against the glass to test it.
"Don't see the point to it. Unless they expect a lot of indoor shoot outs," Tasmin replied.
The team ducked for cover.
Owen had pulled Gwen sharply to the floor and covered her body with his chest.
Gwen had shrunk considerably to accommodate the fic.
The Sue gave herself and Ianto cover with her wings. She shouted, "Stop!" and everyone held their fire. The Sue addressed one of the intruders as doctor Woodrow. He appeared to be her creator. He claimed to have found, and lost, a cure for ageing.
"Ageing is not a disease. It's an effect of time moving on. He found something to halt the process of deterioration commonly associated with ageing and prevent the diseases and discomforts that come from that."
"You're debating semantics again," Emma said.
While the Sue and Woodrow bantered no one paid attention to his two henchmen. One of them snuck around to Ianto and put a gun against his head. Now Woodrow had the upper hand. The Sue gave herself up. Jack also put his gun to the ground.
The Sue was put in handcuffs. Jack played his last card: the Hub was in lock down and wouldn't open for another three hours. Woodrow just smiled and pulled a device from his pocket. With a simple press of the button he overwrote Torchwood's security protocol.
Jack was suitably stunned.
The three intruders led the Sue away.
Then the team heard noise coming from outside and rushed to the street to see what it was.
"They heard an outside noise in the Hub? Did Woodrow open up the invisible lift as well?"
"Don't think so. I think we should check out what's going on." Tasmin opened a portal.
The agents stepped through the portal on to Roald Dahl Plass. The place was deserted except for the bodies of the three intruders. The Sue was sitting on the roof of a nearby building. Team Torchwood entered said building and ran up the stairs to talk to the Sue.
"Ianto and Gwen exerting themselves within twenty-four hours of coming back from the brink of death, slash, sustaining a severe injury." Emma scribbled down the charge.
The Sue said she had to go away, more would come after her and she needed to hide. Ianto said she could hide at the Hub.
I was cooped up in that place for 19 years, that's all I remember.
"I thought she said she was seventeen?" Emma said.
Tasmin threw her a look.
"Can we charge her with having a bird-brain memory?"
"She never said bad memory came with the genetic engineering."
A large tank rolled up the Plass.
Tasmin rolled her eyes. "The Words say 'large tank'. Fic doesn't know what to do, so just picks the largest tank it could find in British military history. Which is the FV214 Conqueror. Currently only found at museums on military history."
Despite being out of service this tank had no problem turning its gun barrel to point it in the direction of the Sue. The tank fired a blank.
Jack looked over the edge of the building and ran his hands through his hair when he saw the UNIT logo on the side of the tank. The team ran back down the stairs and out into the Plass. In the mean time the tank driver had climbed out of the tank and the Sue had swooped down and stolen his helmet. She flew out over the bay with it. The soldier loaded a large gun and aimed it at the Sue.
Jack ran to the soldier and shifted the gun slightly as the barrel exploded.
The agents ducked for cover from flying bits of Jack and UNIT soldier. Strangely enough, the two of them were all right. Rather, it had been the Sue who was hit by the shrapnel. She dropped down from the sky into the water. Everyone ran to the waterside.
Ianto slipped off his jacket as he ran and jumped into the water like an Olympic swimmer.
"He should have taken off the rest of his clothes as well," Tasmin said as the agents searched the water for a sign of the Sue. "The seconds he loses undressing are easily won back by being much quicker in the water."
Ianto pulled the Sue out of the water. Owen began CPR as soon as she was on dry land. Tosh and Gwen cried. The CPR worked as it got the Sue back to breathing. She was taken back to the Hub where Owen could take care of her gun shot wound. Jack also took the soldier back to the Hub.
The agents took up positions back in the Boardroom. Emma reviewed the charge list. "I think we have about enough charges to charge this Sue."
"Yeah, we should make it quick. I don't think she's going to survive for much longer." Tasmin nodded at the Words.
The bullet had done extensive damage. Owen had tried to sort it out as best as he could, but it was no use. The Sue died when Ianto was having a post-op chat with her.
"Damn." Tasmin hit the glass with her fist. "We have to take the Sue out of this fic, or her memory will live on."
"We'll just have to go back a few-" Emma was cut off by an unexpected time rift. ""I thought you'd fixed that thing," she said. She was propped up against the wall of the interrogation room in a rather awkward position (her right shoulder touched the floor and her legs were above her). She tried to tumble to a sitting position.
"Must have slipped back into automatic," Tasmin mumbled. She had impacted with the wall slightly more comfortably.
In the middle of the room the tank driver sat, tied to a chair. Jack was busy torturing him. The rest of the team was watching.
"See," Tasmin said, "unless we take out the Sue, she will have a lasting influence. She's making all of the team think torture is an acceptable form of interrogation."
"The soldier did say 'make me'."
"That's another thing. Soldiers are instructed to, upon capture, answer all questions with their name, rank and serial number."
After being electrocuted by Jack the soldier managed his name, rank and mission statement. Then Ianto pulled the soldier's hair and asked him where the secret Torchwood's secret base was.
The agents were too annoyed to chuckle.
The soldier replied he carried this information in his pocket. Ianto took the disk, Tosh decrypted the info on her laptop and then Team Torchwood pulled out.
Jack stopped Ianto on the stairs and gave him his gun.
"You should get the honour." He then looked at the soldier. "That woman was innocent…I hope you burn in hell."
"Wow!" Both agents jumped in front of the soldier.
"This soldier was following orders!" Tasmin shouted. "What you are proposing is murder."
"And in no way honourable."
"She... she was innocent," Ianto stammered. He had a glassy look in his eyes.
"She was a potentially dangerous weapon. He did what he was assigned to do, protect the country against a dangerous weapon."
Jack shook his head and took his Webley back from Ianto. "I had expected to see you back a little bit earlier, ladies. You have any idea what could have happened?"
"I did tell you to be more careful about your gun."
"Yes, but telling Jack to keep it in his pants isn't really going to work," Emma said. She smirked. Tasmin just rolled her eyes.
"C'mon, Ianto. Let's go upstairs." Jack put his arm around Ianto and gently guided him up the stairs and out of the room.
"Thank you," the soldier said. "You've saved my life."
"Sadly, no." Tasmin said. She dug through her duffel bag to find one of her own guns.
"Or we could recruit him for the PPC."
Tasmin looked at her partner. "I think a memo went out from Upstairs: no more recruiting of badfic characters unless you are going to feed them yourself. Besides, he's a bit character. He doesn't even have a personality to speak of." Before the soldier could protest that assessment Tasmin had shot him between the eyes. "Now, let's see if we can resurrect that Sue for long enough that we can kill her."
Rather than actually trying to resurrect the Sue - there wasn't a resurrection glove on hand anyway - the agents went back into the fic just after the operation. She was in, what the fic called, the medical bay hooked up to a number of machines. Tasmin turned the nob on one of them which caused the machine to emit a high pitched sound. The Sue flew up from the bed.
"So good to see you are a wake."
"Who are you?"
"We're Protectors from the Plot Continuum. We're here to charge you with crimes against fanfiction and Torchwood fiction in general."
"Dear Lily, or experiment eight zero two." Emma smiled and unfolded her notepad. "We charge you with bad spelling, and bad punctuation. We charge you with bad science, particularly with the oversimplification of genetics and DNA. We charge you with Owen being a bad scientist, added to his bad grasp of biology - he thinks a woman with wings is perfectly normal - he makes a mess of chemistry when he tosses ingredients together for an antidote without measuring them. We charge you with bad characterisation of Owen, plus bashing his character. We charge you with bashing Ianto's character, by making the team - including Ianto himself - not regard Ianto as a valuable member of the team.
"We charge you with Ianto regarding your stark beauty, which we took to mean naked beauty, but never mentioning that you may need clothes. We charge you with no one ever making any comments about the fact that you are butt naked."
As if this was the first time she realised it the Sue pulled together her legs and tried to cover herself with her arms.
"We're not interested, Toots." Emma glanced her charge sheet and continued, "We charge you with the team going out of their way to make you feel comfortable and not being worried in the least that you might be dangerous. You may pull the 'I'm helpless' act, but that shouldn't have fooled Jack. He would not have thrown his gun across the floor so you would not be afraid of him. He would have found out first what kind of experiment you are and how dangerous you are, before letting you out of that cell. Jack would not let you come with them on an outing before he had figured out you were harmless and or useful. Tosh would not have given you a handy hand-held device before this was known. They really are more careful than this.
"Also, they would consider public safety a bit more. They would not have waited three hours before protecting the general public from the danger of the Mahorven ship. It's part of their job to take care of dangers like that before the public has a run in with them. We charge you with outfitting that ship with poisonous darts and dumb aliens that go on the attack unarmed. We charge you with having set poison interact with a biological system and yet working on a clock. Biological systems don't work that predictably.
"We charge you with strangers breaking in to Torchwood and the team not really being bothered so that the strangers can enter the main Hub without anyone noticing. We charge you with said strangers sneaking up on Ianto while everyone is in the same room. We charge you with killing several aliens and three intruders and Jack still calling you innocent. We charge you with Jack giving his gun to Ianto so that he can commit murder."
"I don't know anything about that."
"It's yet to happen," Tasmin said. "Or won't happen if we can help it. Think of us as the cops acting on information from precogs from Minority Report."
"Can I go on? We charge you with being able to sit in a car with those wings of yours. In short, we charge you with being a Mary Sue. Any last words before we kill you?"
"But you can't kill me. I didn't do anything wrong."
"Were you not paying attention while I just read out that charge sheet? Do I have to read out the whole thing again?"
Before the Sue could reply to that Tasmin had shot her. "I don't care about her; I don't want to hear that whole thing again."
A/N: I know how TV shows and films oversimplify what is already known about genetics and how genes and DNA work. This often causes people with more knowledge of biology than the average person to rant at their TVs. Owen could have shown in a lot of different ways that Lily was possibly human (her blood group, her skeletal build) before he had to revert to "look, humans don't have these genes".Though I don't know all that much about DNA myself, I know it is complexer than that, and I'd like that factoid to be acknowledge in fic. Besides, how the angel was made isn't so important to the fic as is the fact that she was made. Owen could have argued it must have been genetic engineering because Lily didn't have any operating scars. That would have made sense and it would have avoided Owen talking about things he can't know yet. | <urn:uuid:4ac9a424-aa59-421e-a68f-c64d5afec71d> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 31,344 |
Analysts are anticipating home prices to tick up, but decelerated to a lesser pace, according to CoreLogic’s latest Home Price Index (HPI®) report.
CoreLogic data found that May prices rose 1.1 percent month-over-month and 7.1 percent year-over-year. According to a forecast in the report, prices will have risen 0.3 percent in June, and increase 5.1 percent through May 2019.
Additionally, 40 percent of the 100 largest markets are overvalued, a condition CoreLogic defines as when “home prices are at least 10 percent higher than the long-term, sustainable” trend; 34 percent are at value, and 26 percent are undervalued (“at least 10 percent below the long-term, sustainable” trend).
According to Dr. Frank Nothaft, chief economist for CoreLogic, the dynamic is not in favor of first-time homebuyers, and, more homeowners are staying put, intensifying the inventory shortage.
“The lean supply of homes for sale is leading to higher sales prices and fewer days on market, and the supply shortage is more acute for entry-level homes,” says Dr. Nothaft. “During the first quarter, we found that about 50 percent of all existing homeowners had a mortgage rate of 3.75 percent or less. May’s mortgage rates averaged a seven-year high of 4.6 percent, with an increasing number of homeowners keeping the low-rate loans they currently have, rather than sell and buy another home that would carry a higher interest rate.”
In an illustration of the imbalance in the market, 15 percent of homeowners and 41 percent of renters are aiming to buy a home in the next year, but only 11 percent of homeowners are planning to sell, according to a separate study by CoreLogic and RTi Research.
“The CoreLogic consumer research demonstrates that, despite high home prices, renters want to get out of their rental property and purchase a home,” says Frank Martell, CEO/president of CoreLogic. “Even in the most expensive markets, we found four times as many renters looking to buy than homeowners willing to sell. Until more supply becomes available, we will continue to see soaring prices in cities such as Denver, San Francisco and Seattle.”
For more information, please visit www.corelogic.com.
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Password Security Best Practices in 2020
Concerned about protecting your financial transactions and private data stored online? A strong password policy is your front line of defense against security threats, scammers and hackers. Implementing the best password security practices is as important at work as it is at home.
You need to understand the severity that easy-to-guess passwords bring. Also no, you cannot have the same password for twenty different accounts, only because it is easy to remember. Let’s get straight to the point and go through some of the best policies that will help you create reliable, secure passwords online.
10 Best Password Security Practices for Users
What to DO
1. Character Length: There is no ideal character length for passwords. The more characters you have, the more difficult it is to crack. However, use at least 8 characters to meet the bare minimum security practice.
2. Character Type: Use a combination of ASCII characters — uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and symbols. It will narrow down the overall chances of your password being compromised. Example: XkeDZaJ3%yIOd3
3. Password Dictionaries: The password should not be listed in the popular password dictionaries. There are online tools where you can check against known password lists. Try those.
4. Password Manager: Are your passwords too long and complex to remember? Use a password manager. That should suffice.
5. Password Generators: There are random password generators available online that offer better password security.
What NOT to do
1. Dictionary Words: Do not use words right out of the dictionary. If your passwords are meaningful, they are probably already hacked.
2. Password Change Requirements: Contrary to the popular belief, the latest NIST research discourages frequent password changes and calls it counterproductive to good security practices.
3. Pet Names: No doubt, you love your cat and it is adorable to dedicate your password after it. But, don’t! Hackers can guess it easily. The same goes for people, places, and events.
4. Password Reuse: If you are forced to change your password, do not change it from “Utopian.Knight1” to “Utopian.Knight2”. Do over, create a new one.
5. Adjacent Keyboard Strings: qwerty7894 is not a secure password. Do not use keyword patterns in any form.
10 Best Password Security Practices for System Administrators
1. Enforce password history policy with a minimum of 10 previous passwords remembered. This will prevent a user from re-using the previous passwords.
2. The minimum password age should be kept between 3 and 7 days.
3. Force users to generate a new password every 90 days.
4. Generally, the minimum password length is at least 8 characters long. But if you are looking for greater security, exceed the minimum length to 14 characters.
5. It should meet the expected complexity guidelines:
No username or parts of the full name should be allowed.
It should have at least 3 character types — lowercase, uppercase, numbers, and symbols.
6. Use strong passphrases for the domain admin account. Keep the length to a minimum of 15 characters.
7. For local administrators, reset password frequency should be 180 days and for a service account, it can be at least once a year.
8. Add a two-factor or multi-factor authentication system as part of your password security protocol.
9. Configure a password audit policy where users can track the changed passwords. It will ensure user accountability in case of a security breach.
10. Send notification prior to password expiry so users would know when to change their passwords.
Some Common Examples of BAD Passwords
Some Common Examples of GOOD Passwords (do not use these)
It can be a joke, an interest or a quote from your favorite movie. You can use it to make a secure password. For instance, take the quote “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn” from Gone With the Wind.
You can build a password around this by adding a few numbers: Frankly9my8dear7I6dont5give4a3damn2!
G0 @h3@d, M@k3 My Day!, *M@y tH3 F0rc3 b3 W1th y0U*, and TH3r3’5 n0 pL@c3 l1K3 h0m3_ are similar examples.
They are almost impossible to crack and much easier to understand.
5 Common Password-Cracking Techniques Used by Hackers
1. Dictionary attacks
These are attacks on passwords that resemble words from the dictionary. They can also be the derivatives of commonly used words where letters are replaced with numeric or alphanumeric characters.
2. Brute force attack
These are attacks on passwords that have no meaning, that is, do not resemble any dictionary word. Examples include all the probable combinations from aaa1 to zzz10. The hacker will keep trying as many passwords and paraphrases as possible hoping to get lucky in the guessing game.
3. Cracking security questions
As one of the commonly used techniques of two-factor authentication as a lot of people prefer using security questions – because they are easy to remember. But then, they are also easy for hackers to crack the answers as they are mostly available on social media profiles. All they need to do is a little bit of digging.
4. Social engineering attack
Here hackers play with users’ psychology and trick them into disclosing their passwords. A common example of a social engineering attack is phishing where hackers come up with irresistible offers and manipulate users to respond to malicious links and steal their credentials.
A lot of passwords in corporate businesses are made up of words around the business itself. Savvy hackers study corporate literature and build a list of custom words to launch a brute force attack against those passwords.
Password Security Best Practices: 3 Key Takeaway for Leaders
- Stay current on the recommendations for creating secure passwords.
- Cut any opportunity for password failures.
- Use public databases for account breaches.
Stolen and weak passwords are the most common reasons for data breaches. Experts cannot emphasize enough on the importance of using strong passwords. The sure shot formula to password security is — know what to have; understand how and why it is at risk; and take action to prevent it from happening. Bam! You have the strongest password ever.
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Happy Spring! My fourth collection of poems, Severance, is in the world. It is available directly from Salmon Poetry for now, and soon will be available on Amazon and other outlets. I’m thrilled that this book, some 9-10 years in the making, is now reaching audience. I have begun to set up readings, and just recently—on May 14, 2019—read for Poetry Santa Cruz who invited me out to Santa Cruz, CA for a reading and interview. Huge thanks to Dennis Morton of Poetry Santa Cruz, for the invitation, and to my dear friend Rosie King, a Saginaw native, who hosted my stay at her beautiful poetry-filled house a short walk from the ocean. I was so moved by the reception of my work in Santa Cruz, and it was wonderful meeting so many great poets there, especially David Sullivan, who has been an online poet friend for the last several years–and who I met in person for the first time.
If you’d like to listen to my podcasted interview on KSQD Santa Cruz, click here. Dennis Morton chatted with me for an hour about Our Sudden Museum and Severance. Unfortunately, a technical glitch wiped out the first half of the show when I discussed Our Sudden Museum; however, Rosie King agreed to be interviewed live on air to discuss that book and read poems from it, which is now the second part of the show, on the podcast.
On Monday, May 20, I read from Severance in the Brain Candy Series, hosted by Dan Wickett, in the super cool basement scene of Green Brain Comics in Dearborn. This was a particular thrill–especially as I saw some great Detroit friends–but mainly because my wife, Denise Whitebread Fanning, gave a terrific talk about her recent artwork, as well, which blew us all away. Missed it? Fret not. It was live-streamed, and you can watch the whole thing by clicking through to the Facebook Livestream, here. Scott Fab sang some beautiful songs in between, and Joe Grimm rounded out the evening by sharing some cool stories from his recent book about Faygo.
In June, I’ll return to Detroit to read at the Musings series, at which I’ve been a guest reader for some 10 years now. And in July, I’ll be reading in Pittsburgh, PA. Stay tuned for more upcoming readings, as they are scheduled.
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Art is a media for expressing things; the various themes and genres of art has made art as a flexible media for delivering messages and expressing things. Urban art is a term to mention work of art that related and created by an artist based on the passion upon a city. This art is in some ways closely related to the streets and other public places. The work of this art is usually created as a visual art to express certain feeling about the social condition where the work of art is displayed. On the other hand, some people tend to describe if this art as a product of vandalism on the private property and public space.
The expression using visual art in public place are very closely related to the graffiti culture, but the Street art is having larger coverage and broader combinations of art, social expression and also culture. Some artists are using traditional media or images in order to emphasize the messages delivered on the presented art. The modern art on the urban streets are commonly found as graffiti, stencil, sticker and also installation art. Every product of the art displayed on public space is intended to have closer connection and more intimate communication between the artist and the public as the audience. | <urn:uuid:3c82ca5b-303f-4d64-9b40-c658aab412ac> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 1,238 |
The other side of fear
This is my path right now. Hazy at the edges, an unsure future beyond the few feet in front of me, and no concrete idea where it will lead or end.
But from what I can see, it’s beautiful because I am pursuing my dreams and this fills my soul with such peace.
I left behind a full-time job – money, insurance, stability – to pursue a dream I have had for years, writing. Stepping away from the familiar into the complete unknown has been challenging – researching to determine what I need to do and when and pushing my creativity to what I thought were its limits and moving beyond. Proud of myself for what I have done yet scared to death that all of this hard work and these sacrifices will be for nothing, other than to say, “Well, I tried.”
But that’s what we have to do, right?
We have to try.
We have to dig down deep, where our fears lie in the recesses of our heart and tug at them until they break free, confronting them head on. I have a framed quote on my desk which reads:
“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” – Jack Canfield
To push beyond the fear and go further than I thought possible, to write a novel and see its publication. That is my other side of fear.
I finished writing a chapter yesterday and then typed, “Chapter 26,” thinking I was moving on. But I stopped. Because my gut, my heart, and my mind, all told me this was the last chapter. And for a second, I was filled with an overwhelming sadness. That this process, this story, was coming to an end and that sadness was then replaced with joy. To have accomplished what I set out to, sheer pride. And so I stopped writing, for yesterday anyway.
Today I wrote another 1,000 words and could’ve kept going but I stopped myself again. It’s like I’m eating the most delicious meal or having the grandest evening and I don’t want it to be over, for a number of reasons.
Because it means these characters will no longer be an active part of my life and I’ve come to adore them. They make me giggle with their words and bring tears to my eyes in other moments.
But more than that, because it means its time to let this story see the light, to let others see the landscape of my soul.
And that means letting go.
And listening to both the critics and my heart, to improve the story, to let it grow to its fullest potential, to put it all out there, leaving nothing on the table and then giving the story wings and believing it will soar.
Everything I want is on the other side of fear.
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John Sutter established Sacramento, California in 1839. He crafted a sawmill in close proximity to the American river in 1847. The California Gold Hurry (1848-1855) commenced on January 24, 1848, when gold was found unintentionally by James Wilson Marshall who was among the staff of Sutter operating at his Mill, as he came throughout some gold flakes in the river.
At first, John Sutter tried to keep this discovery a top secret, but as the phrase acquired out, the Gold Rush attracted tens of thousands of miners from Latin America, Europe, Australia, and Asia, all of whom were hunting for an opportunity of putting it wealthy.
Like lots of other nations, Chinese immigrants had been lured to The us, and following that, they held coming to settle there, escaping a life of oppression, and poverty in china. They worked really hard in a variety of work, and played a vital part in the improvement of the west coastline of the United States.
These immigrants then settled alongside the banking institutions, and its tributaries of the American River, as a neighborhood brought together by a widespread language, and qualifications. A statistical evaluation displays that by 1880, pretty much 22 percent of the mining population of California constituted of these Chinese miners.
There were a variety of Nevada towns, which had been then flourished by the Chinese neighborhood, and it went both methods, as these folks of the oriental origin settled down with their methods, and customs. Just like all the other immigrants, Chinese also established up businesses in central spots of these cities. By 1880, the Chinese quarter of Nevada city was more than settled, and all kinds of conventional goodies, oriental spices, applications, and garments from their hometown were out there in common stores.
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They experienced a position to give postal provider for mail, messages, and finding nearby occupation prospects.
Temples flourished for their spiritual fulfillment, and so did the gambling, and feeding on-spots. Other businesses included gold purchasers, opium properties, herbalists, Laundromats, and garden clean vegetable homes and so on. The Chinese quarter was also the position where by the neighborhood collected for the Chinese New Yr celebrations. Even though gold brought a excellent social standing area for only a picked few, every 1 finished up with much more than with what they had began.
Irrespective of the good contributions to the economic system of the frontier west by supplying inexpensive, and trustworthy labour, they had been quite much discriminated towards. When the railroad was completed, Chinese were being blamed for the financial despair and the regulation of the Chinese exclusion act of 1882 banned them from coming into the United States, and these who could, experienced to have a relative residing in states previously, and could only enter by way of Angel Island.
This island is now a historical site bearing witness to the terrible reminiscences of individuals who designed it to the major land, the partitions are protected with scripts, and poems penned by the passing Chinese, which can be continue to seen. This act was re-appealed by President Roosevelt in 1943, and was cancelled. Right now, a lot of Chinese reside in, and continue to migrate to The us, and delight in the exact same legal rights, as any American citizen. | <urn:uuid:965827de-ebfe-44c5-ae5c-d5df3aabdbf4> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 3,488 |
The effects of transplant depth on lodging and yield were evaluated in five experiments in Florida and Massachusetts. `Cherry Bomb', `Jupiter', and `Mitla' pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) transplants were set at three depths so that the soil surface was even with the top of the rootball, the cotyledon leaf, or the first true leaf. Seedlings set to the depth of cotyledon leaves or to the first true leaf lodged less than did those set to the top of the rootball. No yield differences were recorded among treatments in Massachusetts; however, total weight of red fruit was greater in treatments that lodged less in 1 of the 2 years, suggesting that lodging delayed maturity. Soil temperature in Massachusetts declined at the level of the rootball as planting depth increased.
Francis X. Mangan, Charles S. Vavrina, and John C. Howell
Berl M. Thomas
The containerized transplant commercial industry started in the United States in the 1960's. Since then, several different types of growing containers have been developed for the vegetable, tobacco, ornamental and forestry seedling industries. Two basic irrigation methods have developed including overhead and sub-irrigation systems. The irrigation system used depends on the crop needs, value, availability of water, and the need to reduce pesticide use and risk of disease. Sub-irrigation systems have reduced the spread of seed-borne and naturally occurring diseases. Overhead irrigation systems were predominantly used during the early years, but at present, both systems are used and selected for their respective advantages. Future developments in the transplant industry include reduction of production risks and to improve cost per production unit by reducing both nursery and farm labor requirements.
Steven C. Adams
Seed vigor has a very subtle effect on the productivity of greenhouses producing vegetable transplants, celery, cauliflower, lettuce, etc. and on todays highly mechanized automatic or semi-automatic transplanting operations. As greenhouse production technology moves from traditional bare root to plug/tray growing systems and as automatic and semi-automatic transplanting operations increase in number, the impact of poor seed vigor is realized.
Measures to mitigate the impact of poor seed vigor in the nursery are: Seed density grading; increased growing cycle in the nursery, hand culling or replanting. Measures to mitigate the impact of poor seed vigor in automatic transplanting operations: increase the number of people following the planter to replace poor vigor plants; use hand fed transplanters.
Joyce G. Latimer
Since chemical growth retardants are no longer labelled for use on vegetable transplants, mechanical conditioning provides an alternative method of controlling excessive stem elongation under greenhouse conditions. Mechanical conditioning includes brushing or shaking treatments that physically impact or displace the plant and generally reduce plant growth, increase stem and petiole strength, and improve overall plant quality. The resulting transplants have less breakage during postharvest handling, may be more stress tolerant, and are faster to establish in the field. However, only minor effects on crop yield have been identified. Brushing reduced broccoli transplant size, but improved shoot dry weight gain during field establishment but had no effect on head yield. Brushing is a labor intensive practice for large-scale operations. Current attempts to mechanize brushing require that the plants are uniform in height and treatment tolerant. Additional research in non-contact treatments like shaking or vibration of benches is necessary. The effects of the treatments on stress tolerance and predisposition to disease need to be clarified.
Darren E. Robinson, Kristen McNaughton, and Nader Soltani
cultivated twice with a field S-tine cultivator and rolling basket harrows in the spring before transplanting. The experimental design was a randomized complete block split-plot design with four replications. The main plot treatments were s
Charles W. Marr and Mark Jirak
Tomatoes (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. cv. Jet Star) seedlings grown in small cells (plugs) in trays holding 200, 406, or 648 plants per flat (28 × 55 cm) were larger after 6 weeks as cell size increased, but all were acceptable. Other seedlings, transplanted at weekly intervals from plug trays to plastic cell packs (48 cells per 28 × 55-cm flat), were of similar size during weeks 1-3; seedlings from 648-plug trays were smaller than the others by week 5-6. Seedlings from 200-plug trays planted at weekly intervals into containers where plant-plant competition was absent were larger through 6 weeks than those from 406- and 648-plug trays. Early marketable and total yields were similar for plants held in 406-plug trays 1 to 4 weeks before their transfer to 48-cell flats, but yield decreased for those held 5 to 7 weeks.
Joyce G. Latimer
`Jupiter' or `Marengo' pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) seedlings maintained under 0%, 30%, 50%, or 80% shade in a greenhouse were brushed 80 strokes twice daily beginning at the cotyledonary, first true leaf, or second true leaf stage. Averaged across shade environments, brushing reduced `Jupiter' and `Marengo' stem length 25% to 36% and 6% to 28%, respectively. However, the percentage of plants exhibiting mechanical damage by brushing ranged from 86% to 93% and 48% to 90% for `Jupiter' and `Marengo', respectively. Transplant quality tended to decrease as brushing was delayed. When brushing of `Marengo' was reduced to 40 strokes twice daily in 1992, plant growth reduction decreased, but the percent damage was about the same. The damage severity, however, was reduced as indicated by higher plant-quality ratings. Pepper plant damage was excessive for the small amount of growth regulation provided by brushing.
Timothy K. Broschat and Monica L. Elliott
The use of commercial microbial inoculants, especially arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi, has been widely promoted for woody plants, including palms (Arecacaeae), transplanted into the landscape. AM fungi may promote plant health and development and
using paper mulch on a larger scale may want to lay mulch and drip irrigation tape with a conventional plastic layer and plant using a water wheel transplanter. Miles et al. (2006) used traditional mulch laying equipment, though hand transplanted, to
Jean Masson, Nicolas Tremblay, and André Gosselin
This experiment was initiated to determine the effects of supplementary lighting of 100 μmol·s-1·m-2 (PAR) in combination with four N rates (100, 200, 300, and 400 mg N/liter) on growth of celery (Apium graveolens L.), lettuce (Luctuca sativa L.), broccoli (Brassica oleracea italica L.), and tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) transplants in multicellular trays. Supplementary lighting, as compared with natural light alone, increased shoot dry weight of celery, lettuce, broccoli, and tomato transplants by 22%, 40%, 19%, and 24%, and root dry weight by 97%, 42%, 38%, and 21%, respectively. It also increased the percentage of shoot dry matter of broccoli and tomato, leaf area of lettuce and broccoli, and root: shoot dry weight ratio (RSDWR) of celery and broccoli. Compared with 100 mg N/liter, a N rate of 400 mg·liter-1 increased the shoot dry weight of celery, lettuce, broccoli, and tomato transplants by 37%, 38%, 61%, and 38%, respectively. High N fertilization accelerated shoot growth at the expense of root growth, except for tomato where a 16% increase of root dry weight was observed. High N also reduced percentage of shoot dry matter. Supplementary lighting appears to be a promising technique when used in combination with high N rates to improve the production of high quality transplants, particularly those sown early. | <urn:uuid:e2ef4285-906f-4f20-b821-5a3a230868c0> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 7,781 |
Professor Qwbli's Spring Break Camps offer unique opportunities for students to develop their cognitive abilities, as well as motor functions and important life skills such as patience, cooperation, concentration, teamwork, perseverance and leadership in a setting that is just plain fun!
Your child will have a blast exploring games & activities from around the world on:
Our Mind-Bending Monday was designed to foster creativity & innovation, to provide a platform for campers to collectively solve problems and encourage them to think differently, unconventionally and from different perspectives.
Through screen-free games, activities, brain teasers, riddles and conundrums, campers will experience a day filled with brain-boosting, laughter-inducing fun that they will never forget! Professor Qwbli’s believes students who learn to think “innovatively” are tomorrow’s great thinkers, leaders and problem solvers and their futures’ are limitless!
Team Building Tuesdays
Our founder’s favorite day of the week, Team-Building Tuesday is a unique opportunity for campers to learn important life skills by working with their peers to achieve a common goal.
Always with FUN as the first ingredient, Team Building Tuesday activities will help campers not only learn how to communicate effectively, to improve communications with others, to build trust of others, to think flexibly, to interact appropriately and solve problems, but also open them up to new friendships and help them feel more connected.
Through positive interactions & experiences during team-building activities and practicing being an effective team member and team leader, campers develop confidence in their own abilities and boosts their self-esteem. As with Mind-Bending Monday, Team Building Tuesday will help develop tomorrow’s great thinkers, leaders and problem solvers.
We wanted to name this day Silly Science Wednesday, but since our Silly Science program is a bunch of wacky experiments and wacky goes better with Wednesday… Wacky Wednesdays it is!
Wacky Wednesday centers around the basic human motivator of understanding WHY. Why did that happen? How does this work? Curiosity about the world around us, about what makes it and us tick is at the foundation of invention & creativity.
Wacky Wednesday will help campers not only satisfy some of their natural yearning to understand WHY, but also create a passion for science.
We have a bunch of silly, wacky, super cool experiments that will inspire your camper and leave them thirsting for more.
Think Big Thursdays
We have taken some of our most popular games and blown them up! You may have seen Giant Jenga or even Giant Connect Four, but just wait until you hear your campers' stories about our LIFE-SIZE Word on the Street, Giant Word Winder and how they created a Giant version of their favorite game for future campers to enjoy!
On Monday, campers learn to think creatively and “innovatively”. On Tuesday, they learn how to work as a team toward a common goal. On Wednesday, they learn how to use systems and procedures to explore ideas and answer questions. On Think Big Thursday they put all that together to create a masterpiece to “gift” to future campers!
FUNtastic Friday featuring Knockin’ Noggins Jr.
We finish off the week with a bang and our exciting new “game show”, Knockin’ Noggins Jr.! Knockin’ Noggins is a unique combination of board games, trivia, brain teasers, riddles and conundrums.
We have taken the most popular rounds, brain-teasers and breakout games from our 7 years of Knockin’ Noggins events and crunched them into an unforgettable brain-rattling game-show style event. Knockin’ Noggins Jr. is the perfect high-energy ending to an amazing week!
Lunch is included and features meals from Blue Heron Cafe! Your campers will enjoy a taco bar, on Taco Tuesday of course, a hot dog bar, a Friday Pizza Bar and more!
Bottled water is also included. Parents are responsible for afternoon snack. Campers are more than welcome to bring their own lunch! Professor Qwbli's is a peanut free zone, so please pack accordingly.
Please have students dress in layers. Weather permitting, we be taking the kids outside!
An extra outfit is encouraged. Camp t-shirt is also included!
- FULL DAY: $225* (9:00 - 4:00)
- HALF DAY: $115* (9:00 - 12:00)
- AFTER-CARE: $40* (4:00 - 6:00)
- FULL DAY: $50**
- HALF DAY: $25**
- AFTER-CARE: $8**
*25% OFF for additional children
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What is Osteopathy?
Osteopathy is a long established and well respected area of complementary medicine. Practitioners believe that proper functioning of the body’s structure is central to good health.
There are many techniques from gentle stretching to more manipulative procedures. Each procedure is chosen to maximise the benefit of the client.
It is a way of detecting and treating structural damage and mobility restrictions in the body. This includes assessing and treating faults in joints, muscles, ligaments, tendons and nerves anywhere in the body – not just the back.
Here are a few conditions we treat:
- Back pain
- Sports injuries
- Disc problems
- Neck ache
- Jaw problems
- Frozen or “stiff” shoulder
- Tennis elbow
- Hip, thigh, knee and foot problems
- Aches and pains in pregnancy
Osteopathy or Physiotherapy?
This is a common question but one that is relatively easy to answer. Both professions treat all kinds of muscular and joint pains including spinal problems but it is the approach that can vary.
Physiotherapists are very dynamic and have a host of tools to treat many problems. They also have a deep understanding of rehabilitation following an injury or complaint.
Osteopaths similarly treat areas using manual therapy. They are generally more specialised at manipulation, especially of the neck. They will also use gentle but sustained pressures to stretch tissues and relieve pain.
Both approaches are among the most effective in treating back and neck pain, sports injuries as well as degenerative problems. By having both under one roof we can cross refer where needed to achieve a collaborative approach to your well-being and recovery.
What does a consultation involve?
An initial assessment will last for 45 minutes and subsequent treatment sessions will take 30 minutes. You may have to remove outer layers of clothing so that the problem area can be assessed accurately .
Assessment consists of a full verbal history to gain an understanding of your condition, any relevant past medical history and a physical examination.
Initial Assessment – 45 mins – £42.00
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The 2021 SIC Okeanos Air Glide FST package comes with:
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The SIC Okeanos Air Glide 14'0 x 30 FST takes all the dimensions from its composite twin and follows its aesthetic styling. A variety of paddlers, from small to large, can experience the joys of this board while still being able to load up their gear on the fore and aft deck. Shallow water poses no issue for this incredible board thanks to the fin setup; running with one single centre fin, with two added side fins, or just the side fins. The FST construction makes this board very stiff and durable so it can handle a larger payload and take the beating of a real touring board.
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As for returns; we will happily refund an item purchased from The SUP Company if returned to us within 30 days; excluding The SUP Company gift vouchers and customised products, except when faulty. Returned goods must be unused and supplied in their original packaging, unless the goods are faulty.
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Question: Do I have to go to a retreat to be mindful and stay away from all connectivity?
Answer: There are many people who go to retreats and do their best to stay away from all the connectivity of the modern world. For some this is great but others might not see the benefits that clearly.
In 2014 I was at a writing retreat in Greece for 14 days. This place had no Wi-Fi and your mobile phone only had signal for a few hours per day. It was a lovely Greek island, but the lack of connectivity made me frustrated. For me it’s important to decide when I want to connect or disconnect, I don’t want anyone else doing that for me.
In the next few years we are going to develop even more data, better phones and more videos and written messages. Social media is here to stay and there is too much information around us, especially online. This means that the challenge of finding a healthy balance of connectivity is only going to get bigger.
In the future there will be much more for us to choose from. Industrialisation has meant that more people have choices. This is reflected online and we have lots of choices as to what information to consume.
More choices mean that we have to say yes to certain things and no to others. We need to take control of our social media presence and get more time for ourselves and what we think is important. Being mindful of your choices can be a great benefit.
I’ve spent hours checking my social media accounts and reading online articles. I love digital tools and I believe they are a gift. But I also have to manage my energy and time to make the most of both of them. If I’m tired, checking my social media accounts makes me feel dizzy.
You have to learn that it’s you and not your devices that control what you do with your time. A friend of mine is always on her mobile when we hang out and it’s very annoying for me and others as well, I guess. Do you want to be the friend who is always looking down at your phone? Or do you want to be the one who is a bit more curious about the people you are with? We all have a choice in how we communicate; we can be a good communicator or a lousy one.
Being better at time management and what you do on social media is not about stopping being online at all. No, it’s you taking control of your information consumption and your online relationships. Be mindful about what you do with your time online.
Tracking your activities online can be a good start. I’ve tried RescueTime for a while to see what I’m up to online. You get sent a report every week.
I also tried an app on my phone that tracked how many times I opened my phone every day and how much time I spent on it. I read in an article that some people open their phones 220 times per day. A bit much, I thought. My score was between 37 to 67 times in one day.
You can also track how long you use your smartphone for with the Moment app. This kind of tool can be great to use for a while and gives an indication of what you spend time doing online.
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HELLOOOOOOOOO MY BABY HAPPY BIRTHDAY SON!!! YOU ARE INCREDIBLE AND I LOVE YOU A GAZILLION TIMES OVER. YOU ARE A SPECIAL, AMAZING AND GREAT MAN OF GOD IN THE MAKING. ALVIN YOU ARE ALWAYS SO COOL, CALM, INCHARGE, POWERFUL, ANOINTED, FULL OF WISDOM AND GLORY. A BLESSED SON OF THE MAN OF GOD PASTOR CHRIS. A HOLY AND GREAT NATION SEPARATED UNTO THE CAUSE OF THE LORD. WHEN YOU APPEAR IT'S GRACE UPON GRACE, JOY UNSPEAKABLY, WISDOM INDESCRIBABLE. YOUR YEAR IS GARNISHED WITH STRONG FAITH, VICTORY, ABUNDANCE, GLORY, FAVOUR, BLESSINGS, WEALTH, RICHES, HEALTH AND LOVE. I LOVE YOU BABY HIP HIP HIP HURRAY 😘😘😘😘😘📢🎈💃💃💃💃🕺🕺🕺🕺🤗😘😘😘💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋🎈💋🎈💋🎈💋🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌🙌🙌
An amazing Spirit filled service yesterday,moments of worship,the Word and ministration in a high level of grace making supernatural things happening among the people of God. Indeed it was a glorious Mother’s Day @ Cendg Montreal #CENDG #CEQUEBECVIRTUALZONE#CECANADAREG.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY PASTOR JOSEPH. I CELEBRATE YOUR WONDERFUL, PRICELESS AND PASSIONATE PERSONALITY. YOUR HUMOR IS PEERLESS. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO IN MINISTRY AND YOUR LOVE FOR THE MAN OF GOD AND REV. KEN. ENJOYYYYYYYY AHEADSHIP & SUPREMACY IN THE YEAR OF LIGHTS I LOVE YOU DEARLY AND GOD BLESS YOU. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙌🙌💃💃🎈
Tnk u Lord for another graceful Year filled with mighty record breaking achievements!Tnk u Pastor Sir for your words that molded me to the person that i am today!I am grateful to God for my family;most supportive husband&children.Tnk u Lord for my many blessings- I love you Lord!
Celebrating an institution of impact, influence, and dominance. What a great pleasure, and joy celebrating God's man, a good man, a soulwinner, the light to the nations of the world, a lover of God, and people. Happy birthday to a general in God's army. I love you dearly Pst sir
Happy birthday to our highly esteemed Pastor Joseph ever exuding joy which touches everyone.our heartfelt gratitude to all you do in continually expanding our Lord's kingdom with exemplary leadership we love you dearly#cemontreal
Happy birthday Pastor sir, There is no human words enough to tell of your impact in my life and many others all around the world. You so influence me with your passion for vision of our MOG pastor Chris, to the extent I am sleeping I am hearing your voice of faith. I love u Sir.
A Happy Birthday to my Deaconess Magalie Etiane Isesele.A Visionary,Dangerous giver,soul winner,lover of brethren,a mother to all.You are special to us. Many more fulfilling years for you Ma. I love you dearly. #CEMontrealNdg. #Canada~VzQuebec
Happy birthday to bro Richard Asiamah. You are a blessing to Evwry Tre a Forest cell, the children's church,Partnership department and CENdg as a whole. We celebrate you today. #CEMontrealndg. #Canada~VzQuebec | <urn:uuid:725d5c76-cf75-443c-8ff0-c9797cce9c1e> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,759 |
Schemas are good because you kind of know what to expect with a schema. They’re also what you probably meet 99% of the time. Schemalessness is great because it allows you to slough off the problematic schema-being-too-rigid thing. Of course, it’s difficult to use schemaless stuff because you don’t know what to expect.
And at this point you create a schema. Maybe you didn’t intend to create a schema, but unknowingly or not, you created one. Now you have a schema and the good times can begin; you can get back to solving the big issues of programming, like roundtripping to HTML forms and whatnot. We especially like predictable when we think about getting our data into HTML.
But then you encounter the problem that caused you to choose a schemaless data model, which you cunningly solve by making the schema larger. Larger schema, more bandwidth; cover more edge cases. Great. I wrote about FrameFrame a while ago.
Right, so the schemaless thing is good. So, we go with that. Then we create a layer on top that allows us to interact with the data model — schemaless as it is — using HTML forms in an abstract way. Thus, the data model is not directly implemented in the interface. Schemaless. Except every record is derived from the same schema because the input is always the same.
I’m not sure how to create an input framework for schemaless data models that don’t coerce their own schema. I think such workflows can be created, but they’re probably rather tedious to use for brains so used to schema-driven interfaces. So maybe we shouldn’t. I concluded this very thing at SWIB11, just before they started knocking on the tables.
And I keep managing to forget it. Until I don’t. | <urn:uuid:47f6c209-0f5c-4752-8521-f822beaebc26> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,686 |
I buried a box
Sunday, May 23, 2010
This thing of a healthy lifestyle reaches farther than just losing the additional person that I've been packing around all these years.
There is also the mental baggage that I've been packing around. The years of growing up and being painfully shy in school. The mistakes that I thought that only *I* experienced. The first "love" that wasn't love at all, but lust and ended badly and affected me for many years. All my "stupid" mistakes that I've made over the years. The rejections from different people for different things.
I decided to do something about it. I thought "OK Ed, you have finally made the decision to improve yourself and it's time to take it to another level."
So I "bought" a mental box and started extracting all this baggage that I've been packing around. I went thought the closet - through the attic - and dug in the basement. I stuffed all this junk into that box and headed out into the woods.
While there, I "dug" a hole. A deep one, not a shallow one. I threw that box in and covered it up, enjoying each shovel of "dirt" that put it where it needed to be. When I was done I scattered branches over it and walked away.
My history, my experience, my past help form the ME that I am today. There is only one of me in this world and will never be another one just like me ever again. I am losing my weight, and now I feel lighter because I dumped the mental baggage as well. I don't know where it's buried and I don't care anymore. I'm NOT going to go back and dig it up again. If I head towards a shovel, I'll grab a dog leash instead and go for a walk.
We need to remember just how special each and every one of us is. Don't be controlled by things in the past. You can't change them no matter what they may be. Life has so much to offer and it's good to look forward to all those things that you are experiencing now and in the future.
Like I have said before - this road isn't easy or simple. That's fine by me because I don't want to get boring! I WANT a challenge! I enjoy my "home base" but I'm up for change as well. I know that it's not going to be easy, however I have the strength and conviction within myself and we ALL have that power.
Bury the past and all those negative thoughts. Go out in this life and make it happen. You can do this! | <urn:uuid:eaa50620-3342-4a62-9d91-97349c84dc01> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,314 |
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According to present practice the raw materials are mixed in a wash mill with so much water that the resulting slurry contains 40 to 50% of water.
The slurry, in drying on the floor of the flue, forms a fairly tough cake which cracks spontaneously in the process of drying into rough blocks suitable for loading into the kiln.
Fresh slurry is run on to the drying floors, and the kiln is started.
A layer of dried slurry is loaded on this, then a layer of coke, then a layer of slurry, and so on until the kiln is filled with coke and slurry evenly distributed.
Besides the chamber kilns which have been described, there are the old-fashioned bottle kilns, which are similar, to the chamber kilns, but are bottle-shaped and open at the top; they do not dry the slurry for their next charge. | <urn:uuid:745a8e9e-d288-45e0-9c00-06e3a8b52743> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 790 |
German-American Timothy Tillman finally got his first taste of Bundesliga action on Sunday.
The 20-year-old made his league debut on Sunday in Nuremberg’s 2-1 road defeat at Hoffenheim. Tillman came on the 58th minute and played the remainder of the match for the visitors.
He would complete nine of his ten passes, and win all four of his defensive duels. However, he couldn’t help Nuremberg snap a 16-match winless run in all competitions.
Tillman represented Germany up to the U-19 level but was reportedly set to switch his allegiance to the U.S. last year. U.S. U-20 Men’s National Team head coach Tab Ramos was in contact with Tillman who did not appear in a U.S. U-20 training camp last March.
Since then, he’s appeared for the German U-19 side while also fighting for first-team minutes at Nuremberg. Tillman joined Bayern Munich’s youth system from Greuther Furth in 2015, and would make 31 appearances and score six goals for Bayern II. He joined Nuremberg on-loan from Bayern.
It is still undecided on whether Tillman will make a one-time switch to the U.S. ahead of the FIFA U-20 World Cup. | <urn:uuid:9d9fce56-4b8e-4956-a03a-d5c19d667cf2> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,102 |
Along with the temples and palaces, there is a magnificent stone spout named Layekuhiti in Bhaktapur durbar plaza. Layekuhit literally translates to the palace’s stone conduit.
It is stated that the conduit was created to facilitate water for the prayers of adjacent temples, notably Taleju Bhawani, the supreme god of the Malla dynasty. (Taleju temple is located in the palace’s inner courtyard, where non-Hindus are not permitted.)
Aside from its religious significance, the conduit is best recognized for its stunning stone sculptures and carvings. The mouths of conduits are engraved with crocodile and frog-like creatures. Above the water conduit, there is also a tantric image of five-faced bhairava and shakti.
King Bhupatindra Malla is claimed to have repaired this water conduit. Due to a lack of funding, its erection remained a mystery. As a basis, it is assumed that this hiti was already in place while the Yaksheswor temple was being built.
The tap, on the other hand, no longer strained the water. However, it was formerly a popular supply of drinking water for both visitors and pedestrians too.
Yes, it lies within the Bhaktapur Durbar Square.
Layaku Hiti literally means the tap of the palace. So, it makes sense to call it Layaku Hiti since it is located in the Durbar premises.
It is said that it was built to facilitate the water to worship the nearby temples including the Taleju which resides in the inner court of the palace.
Indeed, the stone image of five faced bhairava and shakti above the water conduit is one of the most impressive stone sculptures of the town. With that, the mouth of the conduit depicts the various creatures mythologically related to water resources.
The conduit is located between Chyasalin Mandap and the Pashupatinath temple of Bhaktapur.
Unfortunately no, it no longer stains the water.
Yes, there are restaurants and cafes on-site, convenient for all kinds of visitors. However, if you want to observe it clearly, then you must go to the conduit by yourself.
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Bhaktapur Durbar Square, Bhaktapur Municipality, Bhaktapur District, Nepal. | <urn:uuid:69c2b0dc-fb4b-4d1c-9683-251cc542d84c> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,140 |
These spectacular designs showcase many in style Disney scenes! Additionally, you possibly can see Visual Art in Performance, a 4-day providing spanning from Thursday-Monday. This on-stage present will display captivating paintings of favorite Disney characters which are created in just minutes created by a guest visible artist! Renderings of latest lighted signage and public art designed to give Downtown a Times Square vibe were revealed this week. The Grammy-nominated artist is said to have personally curated the as but undisclosed lineup. Scott himself will headline “as he prepares for the forthcoming release of his extremely anticipated new album, Utopia,” said a statement at the time. “It is my honor to select Emanuelee ‘Outspoken’ Bean as the fifth Houston Poet Laureate, who I am assured will encourage Houstonians, from Northside to Sunnyside, in the form of spoken word,” said Mayor Sylvester Turner in an announcement.
For art, Miami is the exclusive American host of Art Basel with more than 250 of the world’s main galleries collaborating, drawing over 70,000 visitors each year. Save musicians, entertainers, audio system, and companies, they usually’ll seem right here. Want to share your creativity in a enjoyable, relaxed ambiance? The Coffeehouse is an open-mic format where poets, short fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers and songwriters share their creativity. Performances and exhibits showcasing the abilities and hard work of SCC college students, and others in the community, set the stage for a rich and diversified cultural calendar. You do not need to be a scholar to be part of the faculty. We’re as linked to our neighborhood as we’re committed to our students.
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Getting an injury from a car accident can be serious. So, what do you do next? Here are the next steps to take when you’ve been injured in an accident.
An injury from a car accident can permanently alter your life. If you’re lucky enough to survive a car accident, you may very well be left with chronic pain or lifelong disabilities.
So don’t take personal injuries lightly. The law entitles you to compensation if you weren’t at fault. Read on to learn the step you should take after an accident.
What to Do After an Accident
If you want to handle yourself correctly after an accident, you need to understand the landscape. Personal injury cases are considered tort law, which means the law sees these cases as civil matters.
Remember that if someone careened into you with their car on purpose, that’s more than a car accident; that’s serious, willful aggression, aka a crime! A personal injury case must be an accident, and to win a settlement, you must prove the accident was not your fault, first and foremost.
You may already be familiar with some of the more common types of personal injury cases, like car accidents. Other types of accidents that qualify as personal injury include:
- Dog Bites
- Medical Malpractice
- Injuries From Defective Products
- Car Wrecks Involving Bicycles
- Public Transportation Accidents
The list can go on and on. Statistically speaking, over half of all personal injury cases are auto accidents. As surprising as it sounds, many people don’t realize that they may have a valid case in the event of a car accident. But what steps should you take immediately following an accident?
Whether you were in a car accident or you slipped and fell at work because they mopped without posting a sign, make sure to have all of your bases covered. These are the most critical measures you need to remember after a car accident.
Seek Medical Help
Immediately following a car accident, make sure you seek out medical care. Even if you don’t feel injured, you still may have suffered internal damage or broken bones.
After an accident, our bodies become charged with fight or flight nervous system chemicals—powerful hormones like epinephrine kick in to keep us vigilant in the presence of a massive threat. No matter how calm you think you are in daily life, you can rest assured that, after a car accident, your body is ready to roll!
The bottom line? The chemicals that rile us up to be hyper-vigilant also keep us from feeling pain. This is why it’s so important that you go to the emergency room, no matter how you feel.
Otherwise, you may wake up a few days later and realize you’ve been walking around with some bad injuries–like cracked ribs, for example– and didn’t even know it!
You should seek out medical care for your own well-being, first and foremost. But there is another vital reason to get medical attention after an accident:
You need a record of your injuries.
You see, one of the things you must prove for a successful personal injury case is that you incurred damages, both to your stuff (like your car, bicycle, etc.) and also to your physical body.
Aside from the obvious hospital bills, medical damages can include services like physical therapy or chiropractic care, as well as pharmaceuticals.
If you stall when it comes to initial medical attention, not only are you delaying your own care, but you’re also putting friction into your damage claim.
For example, if you wait a week to see a doctor after your car wreck, your whiplash has had ample time to get worse! Later on, when you realize you’ve been hurt badly, your medical care can and up more extensive (and expensive) than it would have had you gone in much earlier.
One question you never want to hear an insurance adjuster or lawyer ask is:
Why did you wait so long to go to the doctor?
An inquiry of this type can severely hamper your argument that the accident directly resulted in your injuries. You don’t want your settlement reduced because a lawyer successfully argued that your delaying made your injuries worse.
Keep Detailed Records
Because a personal injury case is a tort case, you carry the burden of proving two key points if you want a successful settlement.
You need to prove fault (namely, that it was not yours), and you need to prove damages. The best way to prove both fault and damages is to keep accurate and thorough records.
The following items are an absolute must-have after an accident:
- Police Report
- Photos of The Scene
- Photos of Injuries
- Photos of Property Damage
- Medical Records
- Professional Damage Assessments
- Receipts For Repairs
- Proof of Auto Value
- Proof of Income
- Records of Missed Work
- Cell Phone Records of a Distracted Driver
Most likely, your personal accident case will end in a settlement with the offending party’s insurance company. However, you may need to go to trial.
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, less than 5% of car accident cases go to trial. However, if this happens, be prepared to collect even more records going further back into your personal history.
In the unlikely event that you go to trial, you’ll need to show employment history, your full medical history for 10-15 years (including every medical visit you’ve ever had), a list of every accident, traffic citation, and medical visit you’ve ever had, etc.
In any case, the burden is on you to prove both fault and damages. While most of the records can establish a quantitative list of damages, the notion of who’s at fault can be dicey.
Whether you’re dealing with a lawyer or an adjustor, one argument they will try to make is that you were partially at fault. Here, a police record (including any eyewitness testimonies) can help bolster your case.
Any notion of you sharing fault in the accident can chip away at your case and, ultimately, the amount of settlement money you see. Even in cases where you were clearly not at fault, you can still bear some of the blame because you were at the scene.
The notion of comparative negligence is when both the plaintiff and defendant share fault. If you want to eliminate the idea that you were even the slightest bit at fault, you need evidence. A thorough and accurate police report is the best way to prove that none of the negligence that caused the accident came from your actions.
Get a Lawyer
The third critical action you need to take after a car accident is to contact a lawyer. And when it comes to lawyering up, the sooner, the better!
Waiting a long time before you seek out a personal injury attorney will only prolong the settlement process, which will already take several months to years by its very nature.
You must also consider the fact that if you wait too long, your ship might sail! There is a limit to how long you have before you file a claim.
The statute of limitations for personal injury claims varies by state, but you only have a finite amount of time to take action. Some states, like Louisiana, only allow one year to file your claim.
Other states like Maine, Minnesota, and North Dakota allow up to six years as a statute of limitations. For most states, the limit is around 2-3 years.
A personal injury lawyer will represent you against the insurance company during the claims process. After a personal injury case, you’ll want to refrain from direct contact with the other party, as well as any of their representatives.
An attorney will also represent you if your accident case goes to trial. In any case, a personal injury claim is not something you want to attempt to DIY!
One of the best things about hiring an accident attorney is that most of them work on contingency, especially when it comes to everyday personal injury claims like auto accidents.
Contingency means that an attorney takes no money upfront. Instead, they’ll claim a percentage of the settlement. Often, a lawyer’s fee at the end of the day is around one-third of the settlement, though contingency fees vary.
How Long Does It Take?
Truth be told, most personal injury cases take years. A common auto accident case can take anywhere from one to two years to either settle or go to trial. If your case takes less than a year, consider yourself one of the lucky few!
Between the time it takes for your lawyer and the other party’s insurance company to communicate to the length of time it takes to gather records, the months quickly fly by.
Don’t Hesitate to Act
The sooner you take action after an accident, the better. An injury from a car accident can worsen over time, and you don’t want to neglect your own health or your case for receiving damages.
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WORCESTER -- Groton-Dunstable boys soccer coach Sean Wisbey said there was no pressure on his team as the Crusaders attempted to repeat as Massachusetts Division 2 champs.
Maybe that's because he put all the pressure on senior forward Nate Pomeroy.
"This was Nate's time to shine," Wisbey said. "I said to him when we started this season: 'We don't have the seniors who scored big goals for us last year. This is going to be your moment if we get back to that championship game.'
"He is the leader of our team, and he comes up with two big goals tonight."
Pomeroy scored in each half Saturday evening as Groton-Dunstable beat Medway 2-0 in the championship game at Worcester State University.
"Realistically, we came into this with no stress tonight," Wisbey said. "We had gone through this journey last year where we were the nervous team. We weren't nervous this year, and we got the result we wanted."
The title was the fourth for the Crusaders (18-2-4), who were also state champs in 1999 and 2001 before dethroning two-time defending champion Concord-Carlisle last fall.
Medway (19-4-1) kept the Crusaders on their side of the pitch for most of the first 10 minutes. The Mustangs had a corner kick in the 15th minute that sailed into no-man's land.
In the 22nd minute Pomeroy slipped behind the defense on a throw-in from Ben Lutz at mid-pitch and sped down the left side with the ball.
"That's him," Wisbey said. "He's so strong and fast, and he was able to sneak it in there by not giving up on the play."
"It seemed like I had no angle," Pomeroy said. "It was a half-shot, half-cross. I just put it across to see what would happen, and it deflected off the goalie's leg and went in."
The Mustangs' best scoring opportunity of the night came three minutes later after a throw-in that put Justin Kaplan one-on-one with goalkeeper Connor Maguire, who smothered the shot with his body to keep the Crusaders' 1-0 lead intact.
"The ball got through and (Kaplan) got the chance," Wisbey said. "But there was Connor stepping up and making the big save."
Medway seemed to have the better scoring opportunities in the first half, including a straight-on free kick from 30 yards out by Kaplan that he hooked to the left in the 38th minute.
The Crusaders doubled their lead in the 22nd minute of the second half. Mike Keating took a free kick from 49 yards out that Pomeroy headed into the net for his second goal of the night and 28th of the season.
"It was a beautiful ball from Mike. He put it literally where I could have asked for it. All I had to do was turn my head and put it in," Pomeroy said.
"We haven't scored on many (free kicks) this season, so it was great we were able to finish on that one."
A two-goal lead was more than sufficient for the Crusaders, who shut down the Mustangs the rest of the way.
"I can't say enough about Doug Rosa and Alex Murphy in the middle of the field," Wisbey said. "Doug played injured in the second half and some of the first half, but we were able to close off the middle against them."
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Love root vegetables, or looking to try something new? Grab a parsnip; they are deliciously sweet and satisfying on a cold winter day!
Love root vegetables, or looking to try something new? Grab a parsnip; they are deliciously sweet and satisfying on a cold winter day! Before the potato was introduced in Europe in 1536 the lesser-known parsnip was commonly cultivated. This root vegetable resembles a larger and more tapered yellow carrot and the taste can be considered somewhere between a carrot and a potato. Parsnips contain natural sugars, hence their sweetness, and are a lot less starchy than potatoes.
Originating from the Mediterranean, parsnips have been eaten since ancient times and were introduced to the rest of Europe through the conquests of the Roman Empire. At first they were typically the same size as carrots but the vegetables grew larger as they were cultivated further and further north.
Lower in calories than both potatoes and carrots, and an excellent source of fiber (3 grams in 1/2 a cup) parsnips are particularly rich in potassium, vitamin C, folic acid, pantothenic acid (B5), copper, and manganese. They are also a good source of niacin, thiamine, magnesium, riboflavin and vitamins B6 and E.
The high level of soluble fiber contained in parsnips makes them a great inclusion in a cholesterol lowering, heart healthy diet, and the folic acid content is of great benefit to expectant mothers and is also thought to help combat heart disease, dementia and osteoporosis.
Interestingly, parsnips are also thought to improve bronchial function, so may be of particular help to asthma sufferers.
The rich vitamin and mineral content of this humble root are also thought to give it diuretic and antioxidant properties and in natural medicine parsnips have been used to treat kidney disease and for reducing obesity and cellulite. Parsnips have also been recommended to those suffering from anemia.
When choosing parsnips at the market go for crisp and firm, evenly colored tubers and store them in a plastic bag in the vegetable drawer of the refrigerator for 4 to 5 days. Make sure to wash with a vegetable wash before use, as waxes are often used to prevent drying.
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“I have been scouting for the past 20 years. It is something that you should sustain and never give up. It is already in my bones and in my children’s ones as well,” said Youssra Shehoud, the mother of an eight-year-old girl scout, Habiba, in Alexandria.
Shehoud says that she has learned everything she knows through scouting. She learned how to be independent, how to make lifelong friends, and how to be a strong, helpful, and loyal human being. For these reasons, she encouraged her young daughter to follow the same path.
“Through scouting, Habiba can become herself with no stress or burden from coaches or teachers demanding more and more. It is the only time that no one judges her. She can dance, she can run, she can learn new skills every day. She can be herself as everybody accepts her,” Shehoud said.
“The most important part is that no one is competing. No one is raising the bar. Everybody is just helping and supporting each other.”
Shehoud was celebrating the 19th birthday of the Alexandria Sporting Club (ASC) Scouting Committee in a large celebration with more than 800 scouts from different age groups.
The celebration was held at the ASC Aziz Fahmi Stadium last week, with many activities and shows presented by young leaders to add meaning and enhance the experience. The scouts wore their traditional attire, performed dances, and shared Egyptian folklore performances.
Scouting is an educational movement for young people that is inclusive of all regardless of religion, ethnicity, colour, or age. There are now more than 500 million young people in the world who have taken part in scouting since its establishment a century ago by Robert Baden-Powell in the UK.
The movement began in 1907 as an experimental camp for boys aged 11 to 18 with 20 boys in the UK and was a great success. A year later, Baden-Powell published “Scouting for Boys,” an immediate hit that has since sold over 100 million copies.
The ASC Scouts and Girl Scouts was founded in 2003 by young leaders aiming at a better future for young people by helping them to be good citizens. “It is a voluntary organisation that fosters faith and belonging to our country. We raise the children and the young people in the values of scouts to fulfil our oath and our promise to them,” said Sherif Sobh, president of the (ASC) Scouts, in an interview with Al-Ahram Weekly.
He voiced the oath of the movement proudly: “On my honour I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law: to help other people at all times and to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.”
A scout should hold the values of the movement in his own hands. He or she should be clean, polite, brave, trustworthy, loyal, friendly, courteous, and helpful.
“We are trying to raise generations to be good citizens who feel that they belong to our country, who feel spiritually sound, and who can benefit his or her society, the community and the country,” Sobh said.
Some people may believe that scouting is only about having fun, but this is not only the case. “Yes, we do have lots of fun, but we also learn many skills, many virtues, and life-long values that we adhere to. We give young scouts the benefit of education in different fields such as culture, science, general knowledge and religion. And at every stage, they fulfil a test to be up to the next level,” Sobh added.
The ASC Scouts have 861 boys and girls on board, and every year more join. It is an association affiliated to the Egyptian Federation of Scouts and Girl Guides (EFSGG), which was established in 1914. The EFSGG has four central associations: Boy Scouts, Sea Scouts, Air Scouts and Girl Guides. Each of these has a corresponding regional association in all the governorates that facilitates cooperation among them.
VALUES: “What I love the most about scouting is that it is neither a political nor a religious movement. It is one world and one promise,” Sobh said, describing the ASC Scouts building of global networks through Egypt’s hosting the World Scout Camp in 2024.
There are now 57 million scouts in over 200 countries and territories worldwide, which is more than the population of some countries. Through its unique combination of education, adventure, and fun, scouting continues to be an inspiration for young people to become active citizens engaged in creating a better world.
Gasser Heggi,13, and Youssef Mahmoud,14, became scouts three years ago. They said that their experience had changed their personalities and that they are looking forward to more years to explore, learn, and venture into new worlds.
“We are independent. We feel we were just kids when we joined with all the behaviour associated with kids. Now we have grown up,” said Heggi. “We are now better human beings than before. We are more cheerful, politer, and more helpful. I am aware now that I should help my parents more with household tasks. I should take care of my studies so that I am not a burden to anybody,” he added.
“I am proud that my shirt has different badges on it such as the Egyptian flag, the Egyptian Federation of Scouts, and the Alexandria Sporting Club flags. This means I have duty and responsibilities towards the shirt I am wearing and the values I am holding,” Mahmoud said.
“One of the best experiences we have had is camping as we went to Abu Talat, where we learned and applied our skills. We camped in tents, helped each other, cooked for ourselves, and had many activities. We learned how to cooperate together and how to think collaboratively. No one can sit alone doing nothing. When I make food, even snacks, I do it for the whole group,” Heggi added.
Most scout troops are associated with clubs, schools, churches and mosques, but they all share their oath and promise. Egyptian scouts play an important role in community service, where they learn about the importance of planting trees and building energy. They are involved in projects of desert reclamation, work camps, blood drives, medical care, and other projects.
Hoda Mahmoud, is one of the girls who have joined the girl scouts. Only eight years old, she is excited to spend more time in scouting as she has found new friends and a new community she can heartily blend in with.
“I used to watch the scouts every time I passed by and wondered whether I would be able to join them,” Mahmoud said. When she joined, she went camping, learned swimming, and can now set up a tent all by herself.
Since then, Hoda has engaged in many activities such as preparing Ramadan bags for the poor, doing charity work, and making good use of skills in carpentry, sewing, drawing and painting.
“Just three months ago, I would not dare prepare my clothes by myself without asking my mother to help me, but today I can wash and iron them and bring them with me without my mother having to help me at all,” she concluded.
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Customers Says Quality of Gray Cabinets is Excellent
Customer testimonial regarding CliqStudios painted gray Shaker cabinets and customer service
The project went very well. The quality of the cabinets is excellent. Since I did the finish work myself I was very pleased at how easily Sherman Williams was able to match the paint. There is no way to differentiate the finish work from the cabinets. I was a little disappointed that you did not include “clips” for the glass but as you can see I found some that were ok. I confess to not figuring out what to do with the angle molding.
Shaker style cabinets can be dressed up or down to complement any style of architecture. Here, painted gray cabinets complement the industrial rustic theme established with beadboard backsplash, traditional nickel-plated cup pulls and an industrial chandelier. A symmetrical bank of glass-door cabinets creates a beautiful focal point, important in an open kitchen plan. Some unique features we like: the pillar support for the open peninsula breakfast bar and stacked crown molding throughout, a finishing touch that completes the older home look.
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Mission Platinum, a member of LCO’s Global Sky Partners program, set itself high aims: to host the world’s largest astronomy lesson. It was timed to coincide with HM Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee celebrations in 2022. The program had two key components: using robotic telescopes in classrooms in India and an astronomy talk for the students.
Initially 25 schools were selected to use the LCO network from their classrooms and over 1,000 students participated in making astronomical observations. The students and their teachers took more than 4,000 images using the LCO 0.4-meter telescopes over a period of 3 days. The students generated images of the most impressive astronomical objects.
In August 2022, these original schools and 100 more from the Bulandshahr district of India took part in an astronomy talk presented by Prof Carole Mundell (University of Bath, UK). Prof Mundell showcased some of the best examples of the images taken by the schools earlier in the year.
Mission Platinum was a great success in achieving its goal by hosting over 7,000 students (including virtual participation by Zoom) in the astronomy lesson. Each student was awarded with a certificate of achievement for being involved in this citizen science project.
In the village of Mukundgarh, an extra-special presentation was made by the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath. Student Bhoomika (aged 10) and her grandfather Hansroop (75) both were awarded for their involvement in Mission Platinum. Bhoomika for her contributions to citizen science and Hansroop for his contributions to amateur astronomy.
All the images taken by the students can be viewed on the Mission Platinum gallery.
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Radford University Appoints Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Assessment
Radford University has appointed Ebenezer Kolajo to the position of assistant vice provost for academic assessment. He will begin work on Jan. 7, 2013.
"I'm extremely pleased to welcome Dr. Kolajo to the Office of the Provost," RU Provost Sam Minner said. "He brings with him a depth of experience, knowledge and understanding that will well serve our office and all of Radford University. Dr. Kolajo will lead our efforts to effectively and efficiently assess our academic programs. He will join Ms. Bethany Bodo on our academic assessment team."
Kolajo has more than 20 years of experience in higher education as an administrator and educator. Before joining Radford, he had served since 2008 as director of institutional research and planning at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton.
At West Georgia, Kolajo worked with university administrators toward maintaining a data-driven environment for planning and decision making while also providing support for institutional assessment to ensure effective performance and public accountability.
Kolajo served previously as director of institutional research at Cecil College in North East, Md. He also served as rector of Madzivhandila College of Agriculture in South Africa, where he assisted in revamping academic curricula and in developing a strategic plan for the institution.
Kolajo's additional experience in South Africa included teaching economics, research methods and statistics courses at the University of Maiduguri in Nigeria, the University of Zimbabwe and Limpopo University (formerly University of the North).
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Many people are aware of the global tragedies that the COVID-19 pandemic is causing in the world. While the seriousness of the situation should not be ignored, Kennesaw State students can find solace in the positives that come from decreased human activity on Earth amid this pandemic.
Cars and trucks are the main sources of nitrogen dioxide in the atmosphere, according to the Hill. Satellite images from NASA show a decrease in nitrogen dioxide emissions in American metropolitan areas. Decreases in pollution can be seen specifically in the Atlanta area, according to satellite images in a ProPakistani article. These decreases in the Atlanta area have the potential to directly improve air quality for Kennesaw State students.
As a result of travel bans, a stalling global economy and falls in the stock market, global emissions have decreased drastically, according to the British Broadcasting Corporation. With fewer people commuting to and from work, greenhouse gas emissions from transportation have starkly decreased.
Sustainability science researcher Kimberly Nicholas theorizes that this may signify a change in work commuting in the future, which has the potential to keep greenhouse gas emissions lower, according to the BBC.
Continuing to decrease gas emissions is essential in securing a safe and stable future for generations to come. The reduction of greenhouse gas emissions holds many benefits, including curbing the effects of climate change, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
In Georgia, these effects are likely to manifest as floods, droughts, crop failures and poor air quality, according to the EPA. With decreased carbon emissions as a result of changes from COVID-19, Georgia residents — including KSU students — are likely to benefit personally in the long term.
Pollution has also decreased globally. Air pollution in China has been up to 30 percent lower than it typically is, according to The Guardian. Other major countries such as Italy and South Korea have also seen major falls in air pollution, as human activity has decreased remarkably. Improving air quality in metropolitan areas is beneficial, as it is likely to improve the quality of life for residents of these areas.
There has been footage circulating onlind about clearer canals in Venice, Italy. Less boat movement in the water leaves the sediment undisturbed, but water quality in the canals has not actually improved according to CNN. Contrastly, air quality has continued to improve in Italy due to the restricted movements of its citizens amid COVID-19.
The notoriously smog-filled city of Los Angeles has also seen its longest stretch of “good” air quality since 1995, according to New York Daily News. UCLA Professor and researcher Dr. Yifang Zhu feels that the changes spurred by COVID-19 can translate to progress in the future, which can provide students hope during these difficult times.
“From the society level, I think we need to think really hard about how to bring about a more sustainable world, where technologies and policies come together to bring us cleaner energy,” Zhu said in an interview with CNN. “So that the air that we’re breathing will stay as clean as what we’re breathing today.”
The global health crisis caused by COVID-19 is a serious problem. Scientists around the world are banding together to find ways to stop this virus as they learn more about it every day. The impact of COVID-19 will undoubtedly have a large impact on the global community. Hopefully, students have the chance to look to the environmental impacts of the pandemic as a chance for a more sustainable future.
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NORTHAMPTON (second day of four): Sussex, with eight second-innings wickets in hand, are 38 runs ahead of Northamptonshire
In his Essex days, with the first of his three counties, Steve Peters went under the splendid nickname of “geezer”. Given the demeanour of some of his colleagues in that dressing room, it said much about Peters’s manner, both as a batsman and as a youth.
Now 31, however, in his fifth season at Wantage Road after four years at Worcester, Peters, largely unremarked, has quietly become one of the most dependable county batsman in the country. Ninth out for 136, the opener carried his tally to 608 in this campaign and was precisely three short of his 10,000th first-class | <urn:uuid:46cfcf51-be80-44ba-a5fe-bc816ed7ad76> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 696 |
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By Sarah Stanley-Ayre
By CP Staff
By Zach McCormick
By Jack Spencer
By Sarah Stanley-Ayre
By Rob van Alstyne
By Zach McCormick
WHEN WE LAST left "thee immortal faerie goddess" Rachael Olson, she was still the unluckiest would-be rock star in town. After 11 years with her glitter-mod pop band the Blue Up?, she had given us three wonderful (and sadly out-of-print) albums--the last of which, Spool Forka Dish, was criminally mishandled by a bumbling Columbia Records. The Blue Up? deflated, she reinvented herself as an electronic-huh? diva named Ana (say "Anna") Voog and signed to Radioactive. She made an Ana Voog album. And waited for it to come out. And waited...
And got on the Web. Nowadays, Ana Voog is one of the most famous women in cyberspace. At her new Web site, AnaCam (www.anacam.com), a live camera in her apartment sends two-minute photo updates depicting the uncensored Life of Ana--24-7. Ana sleeps. Ana eats cereal. Ana takes a bath. Ana vamps. Ana writes haikus. Ana spray-paints herself silver and traipses about her trinket-strewn loft with number 7's on the wall. And she rarely leaves. So it goes that local music's most reclusive eccentric has utterly de-privatized the most private aspects of her life. Meet Ana Voog: media paradox.
Three months after going online, AnaCam now registers half a million to 750,000 hits per day. Since each two-minute update counts as a "hit," if every visitor stays for an hour, that translates into 25,000 daily viewers. A dozen strangers around the world have created Ana Voog tribute sites, replete with gorgeous computer art made from borrowed Ana images. One home page calls AnaCam "the first Webcam that belongs to the great lineage of modern performance art." Konrad magazine--the German analog of Wired--christened Ana its "Number One Most Interesting Thing." MTV Finland is ringing. And as I type this, my Netscape window shows her in the bathtub doing a photo shoot for the Euro fashion mag Maxx.
Anyone who followed her Blue Up? days knows this whole scheme is quintessential Rachael. She's always been a visual performer--her body and persona are as much an expression of her eccentricity and desire for stardom as her ambitious music. And while most other girl-themed Webcams out there are little more than pay-per-view peep shows, AnaCam mandates a challenging policy on sexuality that obliterates the borders we expect to find between porn, art, and everyday life.
"This cam is not about sex, stripping, or some sort of flesh show. This is just my life and I'll do what I want to," she writes in her site's "About Ana" section. "Don't send me any e-mails requesting any sex stuff like 'show me your tits,' because I'll just delete it and hate you...If you want to talk to me, write brilliant and interesting things and I will like you." And yet Ana, a one-time stripper, is frequently seen naked, and, now and again, having sex--facts that have left some of her art-minded fans accusing her of porn-inflected hypocrisy. "Sex is part of my life," she counters over the phone. "I'm sorry if I take showers in the nude--most people do! If I'm sitting around the house nude, is that porn?" Sex doesn't totally explain the AnaCam phenom, because, to be plainly honest, if that's all you come for, you'll get bored waiting. Consequently, the Cam continues to reach a growing audience of women and men from outside a scopophilic subculture.
Her perspective becomes clearer as you immerse yourself in all the banal and fascinating minutia of Ana's homebound life. "About Ana" lists data like her height (5 feet 2 inches), weight (90 pounds), neck circumference (12 inches), and "things I collect" (mannequins, keys, owls, glass grapes, egg beaters, etc.). Better yet is her "Ana Logs" and "Anagrams," a collection of oddly literary, lysergic essays like "Why I'd Make a Great Housewife," which defends her recent decision to have her formerly flat chest surgically "enhanced" to size 32-D. "I already knew what life was like the other way," she writes. "But I gotta tell you, it is a pretty f**kt thing. And surreal. And funny too."
But here's the clincher: Not only is AnaCam one of the few 24-hour, free girlcams out there, it's the only such cam operated by someone with a major record deal. When Radioactive finally issues her album, the Bobby Z-produced anavoog.com, Ms. Voog/Olson will have a ready-made fan base for the first time--albeit a modest one. Twenty-five thousand is a lot of voyeurs, but it won't necessarily translate into huge sales. And AnaCam, which gobbles up six phone lines and 100 gigabytes a month, is deep in the red and can barely support the cost of its popularity.
But for now, at this unique point in the history of mass media, Ana Voog has attained mass appeal through circumventing and spoofing the star-making process itself: You get all the tiny details first, and the product later. Ana Voog can be huge. Here's proof. | <urn:uuid:8fda7321-0351-467f-b684-a5cdcc694d05> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 4,938 |
For those of you who've been paying attention to the puzzle genre lately, you may have been hearing the name "Capy" popping up lately, and for good reason. Nathan Vella, co-founder and president of Capybara Games and his team have crafted some strong titles worthy of attention, and they've got more in the pipe sure to make a splash.
I recently had the opportunity to ask Nathan a few questions about their current smash Critter Crunch, the studio and more. Here's what he had to say.
Hi Nathan, thanks very much for taking the time. To start off, what should people know about Capybara Games (and how did you pick the name?)
Capy started out of the Toronto IGDA, and spent years toiling in the realm of cell phone gaming. Although in hindsight it wasn't the best platform, we were just so excited to be making games that it didn't matter to us. Once that excitement wore off, we decided it was time to make games for gamers, and managed to almost simultaneously convince SCEA to let us bring Critter Crunch to PlayStation Network and Ubisoft to let us develop Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes. It's been more than 5 years, at least 7 of our 9 lives, and some crazy stress-related health-issues… but it's also been the best thing ever.
As for the name "Capybara Games", the short version of the story is that, with a big group of founders, agreeing on a name was impossible. So we decided to vote, and via the democratic process we chose to name our studio after the world's largest rodent. Thankfully it was a better name than some of the other (god-awful) suggestions.
How big is your team, and what are their backgrounds?
Capy is over 20 people now… and every time I say/write "over 20 people" it sounds quite huge. We've got fairly large art & programming teams, an audio director, a couple producers, a small but insane design team, a writer and so on.
We have people with crazily different backgrounds, from biological engineering, to television, to sweeping floors in a warehouse. I think the one thing that brought us all together was the desire to actually make games, rather than to just be a cog in the wheel of someone else's game.
There are a lot of me-too puzzle games available today, but Critter Crunch stood out as being a new twist on expected formulas. How did you come up with the concept and mechanics?
Our creative director Kris Piotrowski pitched us the idea for Critter Crunch one day—I believe he was hooked on Meteos at the time (though, technically, when are we all not hooked on Meteos?). We had a pitch meeting, and he broke down the core concept for Critter Crunch basically as it appears in the game now. Once we started working on it we ironed out a lot of details—chaining, combos and the like—but Kris' core concept was sound from the get-go.
Two of the most important factors in Kris' core concept were: you control an actual character (with personality), and the puzzle mechanic is entirely based on feeding/eating. From there, it was just baby-steps to Biggs, Krunchatoa and barfing into your son's mouth.
Were there aspects of the game that didn't make it to the final version? Anything left on the cutting-room floor?
We had a bunch of critter concepts that didn't make it. We actually had a fully implemented Zombie critter that only ate poisoned critters… but it kinda just sucked. No matter what we did with it, the game was less fun with the Zombie. So we nixed it and were better for it. There were a few other really different critters as well, but we always wanted to make sure the game was tight, and even as it stands now there are a lot of different critters in the game.
Since Capy started out on the iPhone, were there any particular challenges or difficulties bringing Critter Crunch to the PS3? Additionally, any plans to bring Critter Crunch to other platforms?
When SCEA got behind Critter Crunch, we took the iPhone version and scrapped all of it. Sure, we kept all the gameplay, the scoring system, the feel… but we knew we had to make every element of the game as tight as possible for the PlayStation Network crowd. We redid how critters pop so you could add critters to chains mid-pop (something that was impossible on iPhone). We also had to make all the logic work online, which necessitated a lot of rejiggering. All in all, Critter Crunch on PSN is Critter Crunch as we always wanted to make it.
Taking Critter Crunch to other platforms is something we're definitely interested in, and looking into. We actually love Critter Crunch, and had a freaking blast making it, so bringing it to other platforms is not out of the question. However, right now we are busting our asses on new projects including Heartbeat for Wiiware and our collaboration with pixel-genius Superbrothers and music-genius Jim Guthrie called Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP for iPhone/iPod Touch, as well as something else we can't talk about. With all that going on, you can understand that we've got our hands full. Technically, we have our hands overflowing. We'll be revisiting Critter Crunch once things die down just a little.
Now that you've had time to get more feedback on Critter Crunch, is there anything about it that you'd change or do differently?
I definitely think we made the game a little too hard near the end (something you pointed out in your review, as did others). While many people enjoyed it getting super-tough, others didn't enjoy it so much. We've addressed this in the patch that should be out anytime now. In the end, we love our games hard, but we're not afraid to correct it if we go a little too far : )
I also think that, with more time, we could have found some way to incorporate pooping into the game. We had limited time and chose to go with barfing, but I guess we can save that in case we ever get the chance to do a sequel.
Can you tellus a little more about the projects you mentioned in the pipe?
As I mentioned earlier, we're working on a bunch of stuff that we're insanely excited about.
Heartbeat is a wiiware game being developed by a small team at Capy, and although there hasn't been anything much in the way of news about it, that will all change soon enough. It is definitely far from anything we've done in 2009, and has a distinct music focus.
In terms of Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, it is Capy's return to iPhone after a long hiatus, and I can't think of a better way to do it than with Superbrothers and Jim Guthrie. S&S is definitely unlike anything on iPhone right now, and we're working to make it a feast for the eyes, ears and fingers.
On top of that, we have some rad stuff that if I talked about, I would be killed. So, all in all, we're so swamped with amazing projects that most of us skip lunch, dinner and sleeping.
Infinite thanks to Nathan Vella and the rest of Capybara. These folks are certainly a studio to keep an eye on, and for those who'd like more information, visit their website. Also, make sure to check out both Critter Crunch (PSN/iPhone) and Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes (DS) – Both are excellent titles that have earned my personal seal of approval, and they're well worth the price of purchase. | <urn:uuid:5be1d8af-f780-413d-9412-c0d25709fdc5> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 7,125 |
May 9 (UPI) — Richard Simmons is taking the company behind The National Enquirer and Radar Online to court over a series of stories that claim the fitness guru is undergoing a sex-change.
“This case is about a particularly egregious and hurtful campaign of defamations and privacy invasions, falsely asserting that Mr. Simmons is transitioning from a male to a female, including ‘shocking sex surgery,’ breast implants, hormone treatments and consultations on medical castration,” the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court against American Media Inc. on Monday states.
Simmons’ lawsuit also calls the stories “offensive” as the 68-year-old “fully supports individual autonomy and the essential human dignity of every person to make his or her own personal choices regarding sexual identity.”
“The National Enquirer and Radar Online have cheaply and crassly commercialized and sensationalized an issue that ought to be treated with respect and sensitivity,” it continues.
In a statement to NBC News, American Media Inc. stated that they will defend themselves “vigorously” noting, “We stand by our reporting about him, all of which was based on solid sourcing and material evidence.”
In response, Simmons’ manager Michael Catalano added, “People have a right to privacy, and just because someone is a public figure doesn’t mean their right to privacy is gone.”
The lawsuit also labels Simmons’ former associate Mauro Oliveira has having pitched the ideas for the stories to The National Enquirer while he blackmailed his former employer. “While pitching around these ideas, Mr. Oliveira was simultaneously blackmailing Mr. Simmons, sending him emails and threatening to destroy his reputation with damaging press coverage unless Mr. Simmons paid Mr. Oliveira to stop,” the complaint says.
According to Simmons, Oliveira had previously sold several stories to the publication about the reason behind his absence from the public eye since February 2014.
Simmons in April shared with his fans on Facebook an update on his health and well-being assuring fans that he was healthy despite his recent medical issues and his absence from the public eye. That same month, he was hospitalized for three days to treat “severe indigestion” before returning home. | <urn:uuid:04a27e34-27bb-42ce-897a-27b0a4b0d9fe> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,255 |
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Apple claims that they can no longer unlock iPhones, even if the police show up with a warrant. Of course they still have access to everything in iCloud, but it’s a start.
EDITED TO ADD (9/19): Android is doing the same thing.
EDITED TO ADD (9/23): Good analysis of iOS 8 and iCloud security.
California passed a kill-switch law, meaning that all cell phones sold in California must have the capability to be remotely turned off. It was sold as an antitheft measure. If the phone company could remotely render a cell phone inoperative, there would be less incentive to steal one.
I worry more about the side effects: once the feature is in place, it can be used by all sorts of people for all sorts of reasons.
The law raises concerns about how the switch might be used or abused, because it also provides law enforcement with the authority to use the feature to kill phones. And any feature accessible to consumers and law enforcement could be accessible to hackers, who might use it to randomly kill phones for kicks or revenge, or to perpetrators of crimes who might — depending on how the kill switch is implemented — be able to use it to prevent someone from calling for help.
“It’s great for the consumer, but it invites a lot of mischief,” says Hanni Fakhoury, staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which opposes the law. “You can imagine a domestic violence situation or a stalking context where someone kills [a victim’s] phone and prevents them from calling the police or reporting abuse. It will not be a surprise when you see it being used this way.”
I wrote about this in 2008, more generally:
The possibilities are endless, and very dangerous. Making this work involves building a nearly flawless hierarchical system of authority. That’s a difficult security problem even in its simplest form. Distributing that system among a variety of different devices — computers, phones, PDAs, cameras, recorders — with different firmware and manufacturers, is even more difficult. Not to mention delegating different levels of authority to various agencies, enterprises, industries and individuals, and then enforcing the necessary safeguards.
Once we go down this path — giving one device authority over other devices — the security problems start piling up. Who has the authority to limit functionality of my devices, and how do they get that authority? What prevents them from abusing that power? Do I get the ability to override their limitations? In what circumstances, and how? Can they override my override?
The law only affects California, but phone manufacturers won’t sell two different phones. So this means that all cell phones will eventually have this capability. And, of course, the procedural controls and limitations written into the California law don’t apply elsewhere
EDITED TO ADD (9/12): Users can opt out, at least for now: “The bill would authorize an authorized user to affirmatively elect to
disable or opt-out of the technological solution at any time.”
How the bill can be used to disrupt protests.
Edward Snowden has set up a dead man’s switch. He’s distributed encrypted copies of his document trove to various people, and has set up some sort of automatic system to distribute the key, should something happen to him.
Dead man’s switches have a long history, both for safety (the machinery automatically stops if the operator’s hand goes slack) and security reasons. WikiLeaks did the same thing with the State Department cables.
“It’s not just a matter of, if he dies, things get released, it’s more nuanced than that,” he said. “It’s really just a way to protect himself against extremely rogue behavior on the part of the United States, by which I mean violent actions toward him, designed to end his life, and it’s just a way to ensure that nobody feels incentivized to do that.”
I’m not sure he’s thought this through, though. I would be more worried that someone would kill me in order to get the documents released than I would be that someone would kill me to prevent the documents from being released. Any real-world situation involves multiple adversaries, and it’s important to keep all of them in mind when designing a security system.
Here we can see how the rise of the surveillance state permeates everything about computer security. On the face of it, this is a good idea. Assuming it works — that 1) it’s not possible for thieves to resurrect phones in order to resell them, and 2) that it’s not possible to turn this system into a denial-of-service attack tool — it would deter crime. The general category of security is “benefit denial,” like ink tags attached to garments in retail stores and car radios that no longer function if removed. But given what we now know, do we trust that the government wouldn’t abuse this system and kill phones for other reasons? Do we trust that media companies won’t kill phones it decided were sharing copyrighted materials? Do we trust that phone companies won’t kill phones from delinquent customers? What might have been a straightforward security system becomes a dangerous tool of control, when you don’t trust those in power.
Earlier this month, the Supreme Court ruled that evidence gathered as a result of errors in a police database is admissible in court. Their narrow decision is wrong, and will only ensure that police databases remain error-filled in the future.
The specifics of the case are simple. A computer database said there was a felony arrest warrant pending for Bennie Herring when there actually wasn’t. When the police came to arrest him, they searched his home and found illegal drugs and a gun. The Supreme Court was asked to rule whether the police had the right to arrest him for possessing those items, even though there was no legal basis for the search and arrest in the first place.
What’s at issue here is the exclusionary rule, which basically says that unconstitutionally or illegally collected evidence is inadmissible in court. It might seem like a technicality, but excluding what is called “the fruit of the poisonous tree” is a security system designed to protect us all from police abuse.
We have a number of rules limiting what the police can do: rules governing arrest, search, interrogation, detention, prosecution, and so on. And one of the ways we ensure that the police follow these rules is by forbidding the police to receive any benefit from breaking them. In fact, we design the system so that the police actually harm their own interests by breaking them, because all evidence that stems from breaking the rules is inadmissible.
And that’s what the exclusionary rule does. If the police search your home without a warrant and find drugs, they can’t arrest you for possession. Since the police have better things to do than waste their time, they have an incentive to get a warrant.
The Herring case is more complicated, because the police thought they did have a warrant. The error was not a police error, but a database error. And, in fact, Judge Roberts wrote for the majority: “The exclusionary rule serves to deter deliberate, reckless, or grossly negligent conduct, or in some circumstances recurring or systemic negligence. The error in this case does not rise to that level.”
Unfortunately, Roberts is wrong. Government databases are filled with errors. People often can’t see data about themselves, and have no way to correct the errors if they do learn of any. And more and more databases are trying to exempt themselves from the Privacy Act of 1974, and specifically the provisions that require data accuracy. The legal argument for excluding this evidence was best made by an amicus curiae brief filed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, but in short, the court should exclude the evidence because it’s the only way to ensure police database accuracy.
We are protected from becoming a police state by limits on police power and authority. This is not a trade-off we make lightly: we deliberately hamper law enforcement’s ability to do its job because we recognize that these limits make us safer. Without the exclusionary rule, your only remedy against an illegal search is to bring legal action against the police—and that can be very difficult. We, the people, would rather have you go free than motivate the police to ignore the rules that limit their power.
By not applying the exclusionary rule in the Herring case, the Supreme Court missed an important opportunity to motivate the police to purge errors from their databases. Constitutional lawyers have written many articles about this ruling, but the most interesting idea comes from George Washington University professor Daniel J. Solove, who proposes this compromise: “If a particular database has reasonable protections and deterrents against errors, then the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule should not apply. If not, then the exclusionary rule should apply. Such a rule would create an incentive for law enforcement officials to maintain accurate databases, to avoid all errors, and would ensure that there would be a penalty or consequence for errors.”
Increasingly, we are being judged by the trail of data we leave behind us. Increasingly, data accuracy is vital to our personal safety and security. And if errors made by police databases aren’t held to the same legal standard as errors made by policemen, then more and more innocent Americans will find themselves the victims of incorrect data.
This essay originally appeared on the Wall Street Journal website.
EDITED TO ADD (2/1): More on the assault on the exclusionary rule.
Does it pay to scream if your cell phone is stolen? Synchronica, a mobile device management company, thinks so. If you use the company’s Mobile Manager service and your handset is stolen, the company, once contacted, will remotely lockdown your phone, erase all its data and trigger it to emit a blood-curdling scream to scare the bejesus out of the thief.
The general category of this sort of security countermeasure is “benefit denial.” It’s like those dye tags on expensive clothing; if you shoplift the clothing and try to remove the tag, dye spills all over the clothes and makes them unwearable. The effectiveness of this kind of thing relies on the thief knowing that the security measure is there, or is reasonably likely to be there. It’s an effective shoplifting deterrent; my guess is that it will be less effective against cell phone thieves.
Remotely erasing data on stolen cell phones is a good idea regardless, though. And since cell phones are far more often lost than stolen, how about the phone calmly announcing that it is lost and it would like to be returned to its owner?
O2 is a UK cell phone network. The company gives you the option of setting up a PIN on your phone. The idea is that if someone steals your phone, they can’t make calls. If they type the PIN incorrectly three times, the phone is blocked. To deal with the problems of phone owners mistyping their PIN — or forgetting it — they can contact O2 and get a Personal Unlock Code (PUK). Presumably, the operator goes through some authentication steps to ensure that the person calling is actually the legitimate owner of the phone.
So far, so good.
But O2 has decided to automate the PUK process. Now anyone on the Internet can visit this website, type in a valid mobile telephone number, and get a valid PUK to reset the PIN — without any authentication whatsoever.
EDITED TO ADD (7/4): A representitive from O2 sent me the following:
“Yes, it does seem there is a security risk by O2 supplying such a service, but in fact we believe this risk is very small. The risk is when a customer’s phone is lost or stolen. There are two scenarios in that event:
“Scenario 1 – The phone is powered off. A PIN number would be required at next power on. Although the PUK code will indeed allow you to reset the PIN, you need to know the telephone number of the SIM in order to get it – there is no way to determine the telephone number from the SIM or handset itself. Should the telephone number be known the risk is then same as scenario 2.
“Scenario 2 – The phone remains powered on: Here, the thief can use the phone in any case without having to acquire PUK.
“In both scenarios we have taken the view that the principle security measure is for the customer to report the loss/theft as quickly as possible, so that we can remotely disable both the SIM and also the handset (so that it cannot be used with any other SIM).”
Does Microsoft have the ability to disable Windows remotely? Maybe:
Two weeks ago, I wrote about my serious objections to Microsoft’s latest salvo in the war against unauthorized copies of Windows. Two Windows Genuine Advantage components are being pushed onto users’ machines with insufficient notification and inadequate quality control, and the result is a big mess. (For details, see Microsoft presses the Stupid button.)
Guess what? WGA might be on the verge of getting even messier. In fact, one report claims WGA is about to become a Windows “kill switch” and when I asked Microsoft for an on-the-record response, they refused to deny it.
And this, supposedly from someone at Microsoft Support:
He told me that “in the fall, having the latest WGA will become mandatory and if its not installed, Windows will give a 30 day warning and when the 30 days is up and WGA isn’t installed, Windows will stop working, so you might as well install WGA now.”
The stupidity of this idea is amazing. Not just the inevitability of false positives, but the potential for a hacker to co-opt the controls. I hope this rumor ends up not being true.
Although if they actually do it, the backlash could do more for non-Windows OSs than anything those OSs could do for themselves.
Last July I blogged about the risks of storing ever-larger amounts of data in ever-smaller devices.
Last week I wrote my tenth Wired.com column on the topic:
The point is that it’s now amazingly easy to lose an enormous amount of information. Twenty years ago, someone could break into my office and copy every customer file, every piece of correspondence, everything about my professional life. Today, all he has to do is steal my computer. Or my portable backup drive. Or my small stack of DVD backups. Furthermore, he could sneak into my office and copy all this data, and I’d never know it.
This problem isn’t going away anytime soon.
There are two solutions that make sense. The first is to protect the data. Hard-disk encryption programs like PGP Disk allow you to encrypt individual files, folders or entire disk partitions. Several manufacturers market USB thumb drives with built-in encryption. Some PDA manufacturers are starting to add password protection — not as good as encryption, but at least it’s something — to their devices, and there are some aftermarket PDA encryption programs.
The second solution is to remotely delete the data if the device is lost. This is still a new idea, but I believe it will gain traction in the corporate market. If you give an employee a BlackBerry for business use, you want to be able to wipe the device’s memory if he loses it. And since the device is online all the time, it’s a pretty easy feature to add.
But until these two solutions become ubiquitous, the best option is to pay attention and erase data. Delete old e-mails from your BlackBerry, SMSs from your cell phone and old data from your address books — regularly. Find that call log and purge it once in a while. Don’t store everything on your laptop, only the files you might actually need.
EDITED TO ADD (2/2): A Dutch army officer lost a memory stick with details of an Afgan mission.
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I am so sorry, due to some family reasons I will not be able to send any packages from October 14th – 19th. And from October 20th to 22nd I will be at Black forest Tribalfestival.
All (payed) orders will be sent Monday 23rd. I am very sorry for that delay!
By the way: Free shipping in Germany for orders from 100 € !
and for EU countries (incl. Switzerland and Norway) from 250 € !
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Non EU countries:
don´t have to pay our German VAT. VAT (=19%) will be taken off
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What do you think about Internet marketing? Do you research ways to improve your business promotion, then implement them? There are a ton of great tools out there to help you learn more about internet marketing, like books, videos, magazine articles, web posts and more. How do you create your own plan then? These tips will help guide you to your starting point.
One helpful form to include in your website is GSA SER SEO a feedback form. This form will give you a lot of information that you can use to make your website even better. If they decided not to purchase because of a problem with your website, you can improve it.
Try offering a $1 sales promotion for new customers to snag new clients. This can increase talk about your site, and it might encourage new traffic. It also helps to build brand recognition. People will want to put more of your products in their cart if they find the site to their liking. Increasing the traffic to your website will lead to an increase in sales.
If you really want to develop a niche of satisfied customers, you should try offering prizes and rewards to people who are loyal to you. When customers get something extra for making a purchase or for visiting your website, they will be encouraged to be loyal to your product. Treating your customers right generates that most priceless kind of marketing: word of mouth recommendations.
You will get more business if you offer a number of payment options. You could accept credit card, PayPal, bank drafts, etc.
To improve and strengthen your reputation, you should affiliate with reputable companies and allow them to advertise on your site. When visitors see well-known, trusted names side-by-side with yours, they associate your company with the those trusted names. By doing this, you will increase the number of visitors to your site and make it a primary web destination for them.
In order to know your business needs, you need to know your competitors. Familiarity with the products of your competitor and good marketing skills equal success for you and will leave your competitor watching gape-jawed as you successfully and profitably win the day. To be successful in Internet marketing, this is essential.
Create emails that specify a distinct action that you want your readers to take. The action may be to visit a particular place online or to make a certain purchase. This also gives you valuable insight on your email campaign’s effectiveness since you can track each of these actions.
Give your customers a price break for buying multiple items. You’ll still be making money any any wholesale products but you’ll also see an increase in the number of products you move.
Internet marketing campaigns should encourage growth of this strategy. By creating a consistent circle of customers that use your business and purchase the products you have to offer, you create more of these marketing opportunities.
You’ve started creating your marketing plan, are you now ready to try new ideas? Do any of the above tips have any potential for your business goals and needs? This means you need to start improving your overall marketing plan strategically. If you feel confident enough in these concepts, get started today!
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It is completely unfair for the Illinois Department of Employment Security to prevent an unemployment beneficiary from receiving further education using the threat of withholding unemployment benefits. A recent unemployed person is forced to choose between receiving a further education and receiving their unemployment benefits.
This act of pure extortion by the Illinois Department of Employment Security lets the former employer off the hook for their unemployment contributions, even if the recently unemployed person from their company uses his or her own money to pay for their further education. What business is it of the Department of Employment Security how the unemployment benefits are spent anyway?
Getting an education in the United States is hard enough without this unfair policy in place. In fact, preventing the recently unemployed from spending their unemployment benefits on additional education essentially undermines the very purpose for which unemployment benefits were originally provided -- that is, for the recently unemployed to locate another job!
Sign this petition and include your comments so that it can be presented to the Illinois Department of Employment Security and even could be placed on an election ballot. With your assistance, we can get this unfair policy reversed. Petition URL: www.ipetitions.com/petition/illinois-department-of-employment-security/ | <urn:uuid:3da26840-6c33-41a2-929d-5e68f5747a56> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,394 |
Now that the initial excitement of summer is waning, the “I’m bored” is kicking in. If you’ve run out of ideas to keep the whining at bay, we’ve come up with 101 things to do to fill your lazy summer days.
1. Set up a tent in the backyard and have a close-to-home camping trip.
2. Catch fireflies, watch them glow and set them free.
3. Dig for worms.
4. Join a fun sports camp or program at your local park district.ChicagoParkDistrict.com.
5. Explore the Maggie Daley Park where you’ll find endless hours of fun from rock climbing to sliding down the winding slides in the Play Garden.
6. Visit one of the many attracttions at Cantigny Park. Each day is filled with new adventures and discoveries from World War I tanks to nature trails. 1S151 Winfield Road, Wheaton.
7. Find some rocks around your backyard and paint fun animals or shapes on them.
8. Play a few rounds of frisbee with your family or dog (if you have one).
9. Plant a flower bed or vegetable garden.
10. Take a family board game outside to the deck.
11. Watch a sunset.
12. Make a homemade birdfeeder for the birds around your neighborhood.
13. Get a telescope and look for stars and planets.
14. Go to a local pond or riverwalk and feed the ducks.
15. Lie down in your backyard and cloud watch. Try to find images or specific shapes within the clouds.
Explore Chicago’s great outdoors
- Head to North Avenue Beach downtown or Centennial Beach in the western suburbs and build a sandcastle.
- Have a splash in Highland Park’s newly rennovated Rosewood Beach. You can also visit one of the three protected coves, rent a paddleboard or even climb up the shaded beach playground.
- Backyard beach day. Bring out a cooler, beach toys, a plastic pool and make your own version of Lake Michigan.
- Round up a bucket and doggie shampoo and have a doggie wash day.
- Visit the Bean at Millennium Park and splash in Crown Fountain.
- Make a wet and wild obstacle course with sprinklers and a slip ‘n’ slide.
- Play liquid limbo! Grab the hose and use the water as a stick.
- Open a family car wash. Help wash cars or even bikes and scooters.
- Inflate your wading pool, fill up some water balloons and throw a pool party.
- Don’t have a sprinkler? That’s OK! Make your own by cutting holes into a soda bottle and placing the hose through the top.
- Play a round of Marco Polo in the pool.
Chicago’s hot – find some water to cool off
- For a special treat, head to Black Dog Gelato on Damen Avenue in Chicago’s Ukrainian Village. Your kids will like the basic fruit flavors, while you get to indulge one of their unique flavors such as the Goat Cheese Cashew Caramel or Maple Cayenne Bacon.
- Make homemade pizza and watch a movie.
- Take a worldwide trip without leaving Chicago. Visit Chinatown or Little Italy. Try eating something new.
- It’s backwards day! Start with dinner and have breakfast at night. Wear your clothes backwards.
- Build a campfire and make s’mores together as a family!
- Pick berries and other seasonal fruit at an orchard near you.
- Get an Italian ice at Mario’s Italian Lemonade stand in University Village, 1066 W. Taylor St., Chicago. Try a fun flavor like pinneapple or cantaloupe.
- Go to your local grocery store or farm and cook dinner together as a family with some fresh, seasonal produce.
- For some entertainment with your meal, visit the All Aboard Diner in Downers Grove where each meal is delivered by a toy train.
Find some yummy ‘summery’ treats in Chicago
- Build a robot out of things you find in your recycling bin.
- Buy a disposable camera and a photo album. Make a scrapbook of the photos the kids took.
- Attend one of the many art festivals happening this month including the Old Town Art Fair and the Wells Street Art Fair. They both run from June 11-12.
- Now that you’re inspired, create your own art masterpieces at home.
- Use boxes to make houses for stuffed animals. Get really creative and make your own wallpaper and furniture.
- Make your own playdough.
- Make a paper chain counting down to when school starts (this might be mom’s favorite).
- Check out the Weekend Animal Arts and Seasonal Stories Program at the Mitchell Museum. This Evanston museum has an impressive collection of American Indian artifacts, most touchable. Saturday mornings and Sunday afternoons include a take-home craft project and a lesson about tribes and the animals within them.
- Build a clubhouse and have a secret meeting.
- Make bottle cap bugs. Use googly eyes and glitter to really make them glow.
- Set down some paper on the driveway and try your hand at finger painting.
- Create sand art. The only materials needed are paper, sand and glue.
- Make a windchime with string, plastic bottles and aluminum cans.
Let Chicago inspire and supply your little artists
- Put on a skit. Dig through your Halloween costumes for inspiration for characters.
- Wait until it gets dark and tell ghost stories.
- Join a dance class for fun and try out a new style, such as jazz, tap, ballet and even breakdance at the ABC Dance Academy downtown. Private and group lessons are offered for kids and adults.
- Have a Dr. Seuss Day. Read the books and make green eggs.
- Learn to whistle. Have a contest to see who’s loudest.
- Grab your friends and jam out together to some of your favorite summer songs.
- Play the drums. Make some from things in your cabinets.
- Have Christmas in July. Turn the air conditioning down low, get small gifts to wrap from the dollar store, and have cocoa and cookies.
- Talk with fun accents for an entire day.
- Try a new hairstyle and model it down the hallway runway!
- Have a puppet show! Create your characters using brown paper bags and construction paper. Or visit one in a chicagoland area near you!
Let your kids use Chicago as their stage
- Take a walk in your neighborhood. Meet new faces or see how many animals you can find!
- Have a neighborhood swap for toys and games.
- Invite some of the kids in the neighborhood to play a few rounds of Red Rover, duck-duck-goose or other fun group activities.
- Round up the neighborhood pets and have a pet show.
- Set up a lemonade stand and let the kids earn some money.
- Declutter the house and particpate in a neighborhood yard sale.
- Play a basketball game with neighbors at the local park.
- Bake a plate of cookies and take them to a new family in the neighborhood.
- Grab your chalk and decorate the sidewalks.
- Camp out in your backyard and have your kids invite their neighborhood friends. Build a fire and roast hotdogs and marshmallows before snuggling up in the sleeping bags.
Hey neighbor, whatcha doing later on?
- Make and fly paper airplanes.
- Rent a quadcycle and pedal as a family along the Chicago lakefront. Find them at several locations through Bike and Roll Chicago.
- Play hopscotch.
- Get a piñata to fill and hit.
- Play leapfrog.
- Solve a mystery game. Create clues around the house for the kids to follow.
- Play while doing good. Have your kids come up with a goal – 100 jumping jacks or cartwheels, for instance – and collect pledges to give to a worthy cause.
- Play dress up and make believe. Let your imaginations go wild.
- Play a round of hide-and-seek around the house. See who finds the best hiding spot!
- Have a pillow fight with old pillows around the house.
- Stormy weather? Spend the day playing active Wii games inside.
- Have a hoola hoop competition.
- Go bowling. You can even register your kids at kidsbowlfree.com to get up to two free games during the summer at select locations.
- Grab a deck of cards and play a few rounds of Go Fish.
Indoor and outdoor summer games for your kids
- Visit the Art Institute of Chicago on a Thursday evening from 5-8 p.m. when it’s free for everyone from the state of Illinois. Kids 14 and under are always free.
- Get some air. Head to Cricket Hill at 660 W. Montrose Drive, Chicago, with your favorite kites and watch them soar against the stunning skyline.
- Take a hike, bike, picnic, boat and don’t miss the huge antlered elk at Ned Brown Preserve, know as Busse Woods, in Elk Grove Village.
- Visit a Chicago Food Festival. From wings to ribs to hot dogs, there is sure something for your whole family to enjot this summer.
- Experience teh encounter of nearly 1,000 exotic butterflies with a visit to the Notebaert Nature Museum’s Judy Istock Butterfly Haven. The museum is free for Illinois residents on Thursdays.
- Hit the movies. At Classic Cinemas, every Wednesday until Aug. 10 features a G or PG rated movie. Get there early for games and activities. Doors open at 9 a.m., movie begins at 10 a.m. Admission is .
- Visit the animals at the Brookfield Zoo and feed the parakeets, walk with the Wallaby’s or even chill with the red panda in the Hamill Family Wild Encounters exhibit.
- Experience a mission to the moon, discover how our galaxy was formed, or even learn what it means to be a planet at the Adler Planetarium this summer. Select days are free to Illinois residents with a valid ID.
Best Chicago spots to visit over the summer
- Talk to the kids about summer safety.
- Download Lincoln Park zoo’s free, interactive iPad book, “Chimps Should be Chimps” at chimpsshouldbechimps.com to learn more about these entertaining animals.
- Have a read-a-thon with your kids to see who can read the most books this summer.
- Tackle science. Visit the Museum of Science and Industry’s website for simple experiments you can do at home.
- Go grocery shopping and have your child try to add up the cost before getting to the register.
- Purchase a butterfly kit and watch nature grow.
- If your planning on going on a trip or vacation, include your children to help plan it out. It’s not only fun, but it teaches them the importance of planning and time management.
- Buy a book for identifying birds or wildlife in your area. See what you can find in your own backyard or around the neighborhood!
- Write a story or play together and act it out afterwards.
- If your children enjoy videogames, play an educational one with brain teasers or higher-level thinking to keep their minds active.
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It is important to follow instructions after you have oral surgery to ensure proper healing and to avoid complications. As a rule of thumb, you should always wait two hours after surgery before eating to let the anesthesia wear off. Trying to eat before this could result in soft tissue damage because you are unable to feel all of your mouth. The instructions found below are guidelines. After your surgery the doctor or dental assistant will give you full instructions on how to properly recover from surgery.
Root Canal Therapy
You can expect soreness after a root canal procedure for a few days. You should avoid chewing on the side of your mouth where the procedure was performed so you do not irritate the area and to ensure that the temporary restorative material is not disturbed. You may also need to take an antibiotic to treat any remaining infection in the surrounding bone. If you notice an increasing amount of pain or tenderness, a reaction to the medication, or the loss of the temporary restoration (filling) call your dentist immediately.
Crowns and Bridges
Before you receive your permanent crown/bridge you will first receive a temporary restoration. This is not as sturdy as the permanent restoration, so you should be careful when cleaning and eating. You should brush the area gently and should not pull up on the tooth when flossing because it could become dislodged. The same goes for eating. You should avoid sticky or chewy foods while you have the temporary.
There may be some sensitivity after the temporary or permanent crown is placed. This is normal and will subside after the soft tissue heals. A warm salt water rinse will help, and you can also take Advil or Tylenol if the pain does not go away.
When the permanent crown or bridge is placed it may feel a little awkward for a few days. Your mouth needs to adjust to the new tooth, and it should feel normal in less than a week. If your bite feels abnormal in any way, you should let your dentist know. Caring for your bridge or crown is just like caring for your own teeth. You should brush and floss regularly.
White Fillings (Bonding)
After the anesthesia wears off your teeth may be sensitive, especially to cold and chewing. In most cases, your treated teeth will feel less sensitive over several weeks. If this is not your experience, please inform Dr. Landisch . Continue your normal hygiene plan to ensure that your fillings last for a long time.
Scaling and Root Planing
After this procedure your gums will probably be slightly sore and irritated for a few days. You should rinse your mouth with warm salt water (1 tsp salt/8 oz water) 2-3 times a day. This will relieve the pain and cleanse the area. Brushing and flossing may be continued right after the procedure, but you should brush the area gently. If you experience any swelling or stiffness in the area you can place a cold compress on the area and take an over the counter analgesic. Avoid any hard or chewy foods for 2-3 days after the procedure to ensure the area heals correctly. If you continue to experience pain or swelling after a few days contact your dentist.
Before you receive your permanent veneer you will first receive a temporary restoration. This is not as sturdy as the permanent veneer, so you should be careful when cleaning and eating. You should brush the area gently and should not pull up on the tooth when flossing because it could become dislodged. The same goes for eating. You should avoid sticky or chewy foods with your temporary veneers or crowns.
There may be some sensitivity and irritation after the temporary or permanent veneer is placed. This is normal and will subside after the soft tissue heals. A warm salt water rinse will help, and you can also take Advil or Tylenol if the pain does not go away.
When the veneer is placed it may feel a little awkward for a few days. Your mouth needs to adjust to the new tooth, and it should feel like one of your natural teeth quickly. If your bite feels abnormal in any way, you should let your dentist know. When brushing and flossing you should pay close attention to the area between the veneer and the tooth at the gum line.
After your appointment you may need to be driven home by a friend or family member. You can expect the extraction site to bleed for a little while after the surgery. Gauze will be applied at the extraction site, and you will need to change it when it becomes soaked. If bleeding continues for more than 24 hours you should call your dentist. Rest when you return home, but do not lie flat. This could prolong the bleeding. Prop your head up on a pillow when lying down. Your dentist will prescribe you pain medication, so if you become sore take as directed. You can also use an ice pack for the pain.
You will be limited to soft foods for a few days after your surgery. Some recommended foods are: (depending on the type of sedation)
- Mashed Potatoes
- Ice Cream
- Thin Soups
- ...and other food you can eat without chewing.
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Most of the time, for people like that, a *blast* isn't any more affective than a *heads-up*. Either way, you usually get the same result.
I say do what you gotta do. Home chick was obviously willing to use your feathers to pad her own nest ... fair exchange is no robbery!
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Here’s our 7 point checklist to work out whether your course is in desperate need of makeover.
The content of your course is vital, if it’s filled with facts and statistics they need to be up to date. You wouldn’t do a presentation using information from the last decade so why would you have your learner do a course with outdated information? Making sure everything is current within the course means that the learner is not only getting the most relevant information but also that course will be worthwhile, for them and for your business. Remember, often the learner is on the front line of the business representing your company, so you want them to have the knowledge and confidence to be the best they can be.
Is your course is being completed but doesn’t seem to be making an impact? This is a clear sign that your eLearning just isn’t engaging. The whole point of eLearning is to provide an easy learning environment for the learner, provide information and also the tools to do their job confidently. It may be a course that is required for compliance or it might be a course that will benefit the learner and the business but if you aren’t seeing results it’s time to ask why.
Have you had a re-branding, with new logos and images?. Does your course reflect these changes? If your course hasn’t been updated for some time, there is a good chance that it doesn’t match the current business identity. Being consistent is important because that helps the learner to focus on the content without wondering whether this is the right course.
Are learners starting your course but not finishing it? This could be for numerous reasons: technology issues, no management support, the course is too time consuming, or difficult. Understanding the needs of the learner and also your business is key to creating a successful course.
Incorporating real world connections into a course helps learners understand that what they are learning is useful beyond the course. By connecting the learner to realistic scenarios, you are giving them the ability to recreate or mirror their work environment, which enables them to apply their new skills quicker. If your current course focuses purely on information then it might be time to see how you can incorporate real life scenarios. It doesn’t have to something complicated, it can be as simple as creating a story based on a real-world case study. Remember that an eLearning course is a risk free environment; learners can practice without impacting their co-workers or customers. Real-world scenarios also help keep the learner engaged, making it more likely they will complete the course.
Have you gotten feedback that a course is hard to use, takes too long, doesn’t work correctly or is boring? You need to take this feedback seriously because if your learners are finding a course hard to manage they won’t take in all the information they need to learn, or worse still, they won’t complete it. So if the feedback you’re getting isn't great, it’s time for a change.
How do your learners expect to access your content? There is no point having an all singing all dancing course only available on a desk top PC if 80% of your learners want to access it on their mobile device. If your course was built 6 years ago and hasn’t been updated since, there is a strong chance that accessibility will not be as good as it could be. Thinking about the learners needs and also value for money, going forward you want your course to be robust and able to deal with any minor technological changes that come in the next few years.
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It used to be taken for granted that, by and large, many people who did not give much thought to the matter would almost instinctively agree with Peter’s words that Jesus of Nazareth ‘went about doing good’ (Acts 10:38). They might not think that this means much more than what we find in the next chapter where we read that Barnabas was ‘a good man’ (Acts 11:24). Even the pagans on the island of Malta could show ‘unusual kindness’ to Paul and his crew (Acts 28:2). They were, in a sense, good, for evil people can do good things (Matt.7:11). So perhaps our vague friend would be prepared to say that the Maltese pagans did a good deed, while Barnabas could be described as a good man, but probably Jesus was better than the Maltese pagans and also Barnabas.
This might seem fairly straightforward but it is not. To be good, one’s words and actions must go together. The more we know people, the more we realise that we are all mixed. All of us do some good things, but somehow there is an undercurrent of selfishness, bad temper, lust, greed, indifference to others, and vanity in us all. There seems to be more than one understanding of ‘good’. Jesus told the rich young synagogue ruler: ‘No one is good except God alone’ (Mark 10:18). Is that what Luke, the author of Acts, when he described Barnabas as ‘good’? Certainly not! When the crowd at Lystra got rather excited at an apostolic healing, they declared Paul and Barnabas to be gods (Acts 14:11) and could barely be restrained from sacrificing to them (Acts 14:18). So Barnabas, and Paul for that matter, were a long way from regarding themselves as good in the sense that God is good. In fact, Paul could say that nothing good dwelt in him (Rom.7:18) and that at one time Barnabas was swept along by hypocrisy (Gal.2:13). The generosity and encouraging nature of Barnabas (e.g. Acts 4:36-37) meant that he was a spiritual and amiable fellow-worker, but not bereft of blind spots.
What, then, about Jesus of Nazareth? He certainly seems consistent, in that His actions and deeds go together. His words are often treated by unbelievers even as wondrous words – even if misunderstood. Many a non-Christian has read parts of the Sermon on the Mount, and declared in the words of the officers sent to arrest Jesus: ‘No one ever spoke like this man!’ (John 7:46) A problem arises in that Jesus does not utter the kind of ‘inspiring thoughts for daily living’ that we might expect. Without the slightest attempt to puff Himself up, He speaks authoritatively on the characteristics of a disciple, adding that He Himself would be the Judge who determined the eternal destiny of those who came before Him (Matt.7:21-23, 24-27). By calling John the Baptist the messenger to come, He necessarily implies that He Himself is the Lord (Matt.11:1-19). He offers rest to weary souls who come to Him (Matt.11:28-30). While He is David’s son, He is also David’s Lord (Matt.22:41-46). Throughout His ministry, He provides insights into daily life, but they are invariably connected to understanding who He is. Jesus is the good shepherd (John 10:11), the resurrection and the life (John 11:25) and the way, the truth and the life (John 14:6).
A similar problem arises with Jesus’ deeds. It is not just that He did what is good, but that He only did what is good (e.g. John 8:46; 1 Peter 2:22). Furthermore, He did what is good in a supernatural way – He healed the sick; He caused the lame to walk; He gave sight to the blind and gave hearing to the deaf; and He raised the dead (e.g. Matt.11:4-5). So overwhelmingly good and obvious were His deeds that even the pagans in Tyre, Sidon and Sodom would have responded to Him had they see Him (Matt.11:20-24). Because the miracles were done out in the open, and hence were undeniable (e.g. John 11:47-53; Acts 4:16), those who would not believe in their divine origin were forced by their own logic to say that Jesus was doing the work of the devil (Matt.12:22-32). He is regarded not as the best of men, but the worst; there is no mid-point.
The Swiss Protestant scholar Alexandre Vinet (1797-1847) once said that one could construct the most exalted ethic from every man’s standards for his neighbour and the most degraded ethic from every man’s own conduct. We human beings are a mass of inconsistencies. Not so with Jesus. He is good, but not in the Barnabas sense. He is good in the sense that God is good. In fact, it only makes sense to say that Jesus is good if He is God.
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Passover Reversible Saucer kippah or yarmulke -- choose each side matzoh frogs plagues
Passover Reversible Saucer kippah or yarmulke -- choose each side matzoh frogs plagues Seder ritual items.
Liven up your Passover Seder with these adorable saucer size (small) reversible kippahs or yamakas !!
This is my saucer kippah which has very clear motifs as there are no seams on the top of the kippah, reversible, and yes it also flies!
So you get two kippahs for the price of one.
Dimensions: round reversible 100% cotton kippah about 5.5" in diameter and about 1" deep, shaped like a shallow saucer dish.
birthday, Bar or Bat mitzvah, teacher's appreciation gift, Hebrew school, graduation, Shabbat, Passover, Purim or any Simcha.
Saucer kippah fitting most including most toddlers
You will receive a similar kippah to the pictures as I make several at a time and these are my stock photos. Your kippah will be centered on the main motifs of the fabric.
You can select a plain color for the reverse side.
You may request another fabric if it is not listed (as long as I have the fabric ---see the regular kippahs for my selections
You may need to use clips (not included)
brand new, first quality in 100 % cotton
from smoke- and pet-free environment
Please see our traditional Passover kippahs here for the fabrics.
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- API performance.fultoncountyga.gov | Last Updated 2019-05-01T18:03:26.000Z
The number of days jail detainees have spent in jail at the time of their release categorized by ranges (0 to 1, 2 to 7, etc.). Includes values for felony and misdemeanor detainees separately and combined.
- API data.nasa.gov | Last Updated 2018-07-19T12:56:52.000Z
Recovery of water from brine is critically important for future manned space exploration. Resupply of water is prohibitively costly for such extended missions. Water reclamation processes typically recover 90-95% of the water present in wastewater formed by combining urine, hygiene water, and humidity condensate with the remaining concentrated in brine. This concentrated brine contains a significant amount of water, potentially a very valuable resource. The proposed prototype development will recover virtually all of the remaining water using an ultrasonic brine dewatering system (UBDS). In the UBDS process, extremely small nebulized droplets of the brine are created ultrasonically at the brine-air interface. Small droplets enable quicker drying due to their high relative surface area. This is particularly important when drying brines that contain thermally labile materials, which require relatively low temperature drying. The UBDS prototype has no nozzles to become plugged, requires little power, is simple and small, requires minimal astronaut attention and is compatible with continuous, closed cycle operation that can be made gravity independent. The innovative Phase 2 prototype will fulfill the unmet need to significantly improve water loop closure during extended manned missions. The Phase 2 project will provide an automated UBDS prototype that will be delivered to NASA for further testing.
Pipeline Accident/Incident Reports - Hazardous Liquid Accident Data - January 2002 to December 2009 (ZIP)datahub.transportation.gov | Last Updated 2018-12-19T00:12:16.000Z
Operator Submission - Incident/Accident report data submitted to PHMSA by pipeline operators. Pipeline operators are required to submit incident reports within 30 days of a pipeline accident or incident. The key information that is collected contains; in-depth location information, facility and operating information, and cause of the accident and incident. Specific information includes the time and location of the incident, number of any injuries and/or fatalities, commodity spilled/gas released, causes of failure and evacuation procedures. Data sets are by following system types: 1) GD-Incident : Incident Report for Gas Distribution System, 2) GTGG-Incident: Incident Report for Natural and Other Gas Transmission and Gathering Systems, 3) HL-Incident: Accident Report for Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Systems, and 4) LNG-Incident: Incident Report for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Facilities.
- API datahub.transportation.gov | Last Updated 2018-12-19T00:13:40.000Z
R&D Database provides Vehicle Crash Test data, Biomechanics Test Data, and Component Test Data to support NHTSA's motor vehicle and traffic safety goals.
- API data.nasa.gov | Last Updated 2018-07-19T07:45:39.000Z
CoolCAD Electronics has developed a patent-pending technology to design and fabricate Silicon Carbide (SiC) MOSFET opto-electronic integrated circuits (ICs). We both fully design and fabricate these SiC Opto-Electronic ICs in the U.S. using our own design methodologies, SiC process recipes and in-house fabrication facility. We will design, fabricate and test SiC Extreme, Vacuum and Deep Ultraviolet photodetectors. We will prototype PN Junction and Schottky barrier linear photodiodes, as well as low dark count avalanche photodiodes. We will design and fabricate a two-dimensional 256 by 256 passive UV SiC focal plane array. Array elements will be fabricated in-house, out of both PN junction and Schottky barrier detectors, using CoolCAD's process and facilities. We will design and fabricate opto-electronic integrated circuits, where we will integrate various types of detectors with a MOS operational amplifier into a single IC to actively convert the photo current to usable voltage levels. We will also design and fabricate an integrated photodetector and 3-Transistor pixel for active readout. Multiple active pixel readout 3-T circuits will be an array to form a SiC active pixel MOS Deep UV imager. Our in-house fabrication process will also be upgraded. We will automate optical alignment to improve our microfabrication resolution and reduce minimum feature size. We will perform gate oxide anneals to improve carrier mobility. Improving mobility and reducing the minimum feature size will increase MOSFET performance and increase speed of opto-integrated circuits. Furthermore, SiC allows for optoelectronic operation at high temperatures. We will test our circuits up to 500C and utilize special metal contact stacks to enhance high temperature reliability. Finally, we will make our in-house process available to NASA and provide a process development kit for use of our fabrication facility to prototype new application specific SiC integrated circuits.
- API datahub.transportation.gov | Last Updated 2018-12-19T00:13:47.000Z
The Pasadena data environment covers the diverse roadway network in and around the City of Pasadena, California. The data was collected in 2011 during the months of September and October. The data environment includes a variety of data sets including network data (highway network file), demand data (trip tables), network performance data (link volumes, turn volumes, speeds and capacity), work zone data, weather data, Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) camera data, and Changeable Message Sign (CMS) data. Data from simulations are included where there are no sensors, and to provide forecasts.
- API impact.stlouisco.com | Last Updated 2016-01-30T12:20:17.000Z
This dataset includes annual counts and rates for incidents of substantiated abuse experienced in St. Louis County by youth ages 0-17 years as reported to the Missouri Department of Social Services, Children’s Division. Substantiated incidents abuse are those where there is a finding that a preponderance of evidence exists to conclude abuse/neglect has occurred or is occurring as a result of the observation of visible signs, physical and/or credible verbal evidence provided to the Children’s Service Worker by the child, perpetrator or witnesses in accordance with the definitions of abuse/neglect. Categories of abuse include physical, neglect, emotional, educational neglect and sexual abuse.
- API data.nasa.gov | Last Updated 2019-04-22T02:52:42.000Z
These data are the Goddard Satellite-based Surface Turbulent Fluxes Version-2c (GSSTF2c) Dataset recently produced through a MEaSUREs funded project led by Dr. Chung-Lin Shie (UMBC/GEST, NASA/GSFC), converted to HDF-EOS5 format. The stewardship of this HDF-EOS5 dataset is part of the MEaSUREs project. GSSTF version 2b (Shie et al. 2010, Shie et al. 2009) generally agreed better with available ship measurements obtained from several field experiments in 1999 than GSSTF2 (Chou et al. 2003) did in all three flux components, i.e., latent heat flux [LHF], sensible heat flux [SHF], and wind stress [WST] (Shie 2010a,b). GSSTF2b was also found favorable, particularly for LHF and SHF, in an intercomparison study that accessed eleven products of ocean surface turbulent fluxes, in which GSSTF2 and GSSTF2b were also included (Brunke et al. 2011). However, a temporal trend appeared in the globally averaged LHF of GSSTF2b, particularly post year 2000. Shie (2010a,b) attributed the LHF trend to the trends originally found in the globally averaged SSM/I Tb's, i.e., Tb(19v), Tb(19h), Tb(22v) and Tb(37v), which were used to retrieve the GSSTF2b bottom-layer (the lowest atmospheric 500 meter layer) precipitable water [WB], then the surface specific humidity [Qa], and subsequently LHF. The SSM/I Tb's trends were recently found mainly due to the variations/trends of Earth incidence angle (EIA) in the SSM/I satellites (Hilburn and Shie 2011a,b). They have further developed an algorithm properly resolving the EIA problem and successfully reproducing the corrected Tb's by genuinely removing the "artifactitious" trends. An upgraded production of GSSTF2c (Shie et al. 2011) using the corrected Tb's has been completed very recently. GSSTF2c shows a significant improvement in the resultant WB, and subsequently the retrieved LHF - the temporal trends of WB and LHF are greatly reduced after the proper adjustments/treatments in the SSM/I Tb's (Shie and Hilburn 2011). In closing, we believe that the insightful "Rice Cooker Theory" by Shie (2010a,b), i.e., "To produce a good and trustworthy 'output product' (delicious 'cooked rice') depends not only on a well-functioned 'model/algorithm' ('rice cooker'), but also on a genuine and reliable 'input data' ('raw rice') with good quality" should help us better comprehend the impact of the improved Tb on the subsequently retrieved LHF of GSSTF2c. This is the Daily (24-hour) product; data are projected to equidistant Grid that covers the globe at 1x1 degree cell size, resulting in data arrays of 360x180 size. A finer resolution, 0.25 deg, of this product has been released as Version 3. The GSSTF, Version 2c, daily fluxes have first been produced for each individual available SSM/I satellite tapes (e.g., F08, F10, F11, F13, F14 and F15). Then, the Combined daily fluxes are produced by averaging (equally weighted) over available flux data/files from various satellites. These Combined daily flux data are considered as the "final" GSSTF, Version 2c, and are stored in this HDF-EOS5 collection. There are only one set of GSSTF, Version 2c, Combined data, "Set1" The "individual" daily flux data files, produced for each individual satellite, are also available in HDF-EOS5, although from different collections: GSSTF_Fxx_2c, where Fxx are the individual satellites (F08, F10, etc..) The input data sets used for this recent GSSTF production include the upgraded and improved datasets such as the Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I) Version-6 (V6) product of brightness temperature [Tb], total precipitable water [W], and wind speed [U] produced by the Wentz of Remote Sensing Systems (RSS), as well as the NCEP/DOE Reanalysis-2 (R2) product of sea skin temperature [SKT], 2-meter air temperature [Tair], and sea level pressure [SLP]. Relevant to this MEaSUREs project, these are converted to HDF-EOS5, and are stored in the GSSTF_NCEP_2c collection. Please use these
- API data.nasa.gov | Last Updated 2018-09-07T17:42:54.000Z
We propose to develop a passive and active source neutron and gamma-ray spectrometer to characterize the abundance of near-surface hydrogen and rock-forming elements on a variety of spacecraft missions to planetary bodies (Moon, Mars, NEOs, comets). The instrument (initially at TRL-2) will use a new type of scintillator, Cs2YLiCl6:Ce (CLYC). CLYC is self-annealing at room temperature and provides both high efficiency detection of neutrons and excellent energy resolution for gamma-rays. The proposed work will investigate the use of a CLYC scintillator with a cosmic-ray background source as well as with an active pulsed neutron generator (PNG) source of neutrons for geochemical analysis. Our goal is to progress the overall instrument package (detector and PNG) to TRL-4. The ability of CLYC to detect both neutrons and gamma-rays (with a photomultiplier tube) has been demonstrated via a previously awarded NASA SBIR to RMD, thus we assert CLYC at TRL-3. The use of CLYC with a PNG is at TRL-2, and our proposal will develop timing-based electronics for the coupled system and perform testing in a laboratory environment, resulting in an overall instrument at TRL-4. Description of Methodology to be used: Task 1: Monte-Carlo modeling to determine optimal detector size based on minimum planetary radius and mission parameters as well as a science trade study of D-D vs. D-T pulsed neutron source with variable pulse rates and length. Task 2: Development of methods for maintaining high-performance characteristics of a CLYC detector in the space environment. Task 3: Development of integrated detector and electronics modules capable of operating in both passive and active source modes. Task 4: Testing of the integrated detector and electronics system with an isotopic and pulsed neutron source. Description of Relevance to PICASSO: This work supports the goals of PICASSO as it increases the TRL of a platform-independent (orbital or surface) instrument that is well suited for several medium-class planetary missions in NASA's Decadal Survey. For example, several science mission objectives specifically referred to by NASA are geochemical characterization during a comet sample return mission, a Trojan Tour and Rendezvous mission, and a rover-based Lunar South Pole-Aitken Basin sample return mission. The geochemical data provided by this instrument would directly address NASA's goals and objectives to 'characterize the chemical composition of comets', and to 'determine water resources in lunar polar regions and near-Earth asteroids'.
- API data.nasa.gov | Last Updated 2018-09-07T17:39:50.000Z
<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in">Busek proposes to develop a low-cost, lightweight Hall Effect Thruster (HET) Power Processing Unit (PPU) at targeted 1kW/kg power density with more than 97% efficiency. The proposed PPU solution adopts advanced GaN power MOSFETs and PCB based planar magnetics technology to enable high switching frequency operation. Reduced headcount of magnetics, semiconductors and associated driver integrated circuits will allow for significant size reduction of all passive components to support ultra-high power density designs. This innovation will further miniaturize HET PPUs from today’s state-of-art by an anticipated 30% in volume and mass, with cost reductions exceeding 50% versus SOA solutions.</p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in">The unique advantages of the proposed system can be summarized in three parts. First, the system utilizes a novel single-core multi-port circuit topology which integrates all the PPU subsystems through a single stage power conversion using a single multi-winding transformer. This significantly reduces system volume, weight, and cost. Second, the power flow control for each subsystem is fully independent regardless of power stage sharing. Each subsystem has its own phase shift control to regulate the desired output voltage and current. Third, the proposed PPU circuit topology is essentially a soft-switching DC-DC converter which can ensure zero-voltage-switching operation for all the switching devices. The proposal adopts the advanced GaN power MOSFETs and PCB based planar magnetics technology to enable high switching frequency operation, which supports a 30% size reduction of magnetics and other passive components in the high-efficiency and high-power density design.</p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in">In Phase II Busek will characterize the breadboard PPU with sub-kilowatt Hall thrusters and develop a proto-flight brass-board level unit using GaN devices. At the conclusion of Phase II, Busek will deliver a PPU to NASA for additional characterization testing.</p> | <urn:uuid:3b984706-b658-4095-bff7-1a3d4d86c1b8> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 15,298 |
Hello and welcome to this week's link party! I have been looking forward to this week for a while because we are expected to get unseasonably warm temperatures-it's about time! I hope you are having a great week so far.
Here are the features from last week's party:
DIY Sunburst Mirror from Blooming Homestead
DIY Pallet Baby Gate from I Think We Could Be Friends
Frozen Lemon Whip and Blueberry Sauce from Dieters Downfall
Navy Powder Room from 24 Cottonwood Lane
Gold Dipped Terrarium from Simply Designing
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We have now entered into the month of November and the change is obvious here in Door County. The streets have quieted down and the air is crisp and cool. The mornings are even welcoming us with a dense covering of frost that makes everything sparkle.
This is the perfect time of year to take a long drive to the northern part of the peninsula. The colors may have faded, and the leaves may have fallen but the views are still spectacular. In fact, with the leaves now gone from the trees the landscape appears more open and the view is extended.
This is also a great time to get some holiday shopping done in a nice relaxing atmosphere. The air may be crisp but it is still pleasant to stroll along the sidewalks and check out all your favorite shops. Just a short walk from High Point Inn are The Shops of Green Gables along with The Blue Dolphin House and The Rusty Rabbit. Even more shops are just a short drive into Fish Creek or Sister Bay. | <urn:uuid:f9c02d7e-5e58-40a8-89c7-47c28cb3baf8> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 946 |
It's not unreadable, but I might have come back happier if the author had not complicated an already very complex problem & had solved the problem without using magic wands. In a way, it's like author's "The Survivors" - a group is marooned on a world with no apparant means of returning to civilization - but I found it far less engaging.
Story summary.Five fortune hunters are marooned on Aurora - a hitherto unknown earth type world full of diamonds - diamond boulders, diamond encrusted rocks, diamond saturated dust, ... They'll soon find how anti-life too much diamond can be.
Their spaceship is rendered useless by explosion triggered by diamond dust, & the world they're on is due for apocalypse some 7 months down the line - to be caught in a nova as an alien sun hits this carbon rich world & then the nova absorbs the local sun.
After some preliminaries, we are presented with two choices: either they find a local source of uranium, or they must invent antigravity! Of course, our heroes are made to choose the later. And they will not only invent the antigravity in given time, but take their fortune home - their antigravity machine is powerful enough to take whole of the world they're on home!
Fact sheet.First published: Astounding, December 1953.
Download full text from Baen CD.
Listed among the stories from John Campbell's Astounding/Analog.
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Does anyone know why my Wi-Fi SD card does not get read by my HP IPAQ 2210 pda?
Hey, id be happy to help :), the reason why your SD wifi card is not getting read by your pocket pc is because. The wifi card you have is probably have was made for a regular computer and is not compatible with your pocket pc. Id recommend for you to find a SD wifi card that is compatible with your pocket pc. And return the one you have now, thanks and I hope this helps!
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- Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 54.95
This book considers some recent and spectacular failures in policy-making and asks what is meant by policy 'disaster', the different forms that they can take and why they have occured. These issues are explored in nine contrasting cases drawn from both the European Union and its member states. These include: the devastating crisis in the Belgium political... more...
- Taylor and Francis 2015; US$ 54.95
The main area of sustained populist growth in recent decades has been Western Europe, where populist parties have not only endured longer than expected, but have increasingly begun to enter government. Focusing on three high-profile cases in Italy and Switzerland ? the Popolo della Libertà (PDL), Lega Nord (LN) and Schweizerische Volkspartei (SVP)... more...
- Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 54.95
Understanding the formation of governments has always been central to political science. Traditionally this topic has been considered from a rational choice theory perspective and the empirical testing of these theories; however neither approach alone is able to explain a large proportion of actual coalition formations. This comparative volume brings... more...
- Campus Verlag 2007; US$ 40.14
Die Geschichte des Begriffs »Politik« reicht bis in die Antike zurück. Seitdem hat sich seine Bedeutung vielfach gewandelt und ausdifferenziert. Was »Politik« bedeutete und was als »politisch« bezeichnet wurde, veränderte sich je nach der historischen Situation des Wortgebrauchs. An den Beispielen Deutschland, Frankreich, England und Russland untersuchen... more...
- Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 305.00
A Political and Economic Dictionary of Western Europe is an invaluable guide for those seeking clarification of terms, or a quick reference source. The range of entries is broad and encompasses the recent history and economy of each country of the region as well as political parties, geographical features, prominent individuals, international organizations... more...
- I.B.Tauris 2014; US$ 14.95
Tracing the career of former Colonial Officer and European Administrator Keith Arrowsmith, this politically-charged memoir explores life in colonial India, Malaya, Singapore, Nigeria and Uganda. Examining the culture and society of Uganda before and after independence in 1962, and the beginnings of the European Union, in both Brussels and 1970s England,... more...
- Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 190.00
This work examines political communications in British general elections. Like its predecessors it has a dual purpose: first, to make available the reflections of those who participated in it; and, second, to provide analysis of the media, the parties and public opinion polls in the campaign. more...
- Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 53.95
The dialogue conducted via the press, television, advertising and the opinion polls beween politicians and the people in the 1997 campaign and its run-up is analyzed here. Special attention is paid to the innovations and changes that marked the 1997 campaign. more...
- Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 68.00
In an in-depth comparative analysis, Stefano Bartolini studies the history of socialism and working-class politics in Western Europe. more...
- Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 77.95
Democratic Institutions and Practices is the second study carried out under the Democratic Audit of the UK. This volume explores the formal institutions and processes of the liberal democratic state: including the executive, elections, parliament and the civil service. more... | <urn:uuid:d316ea1e-50f8-4f73-98e1-d9131046bc9a> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 4,296 |
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Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, Raul De Anda came to Houston in 1967. Having a degree in Business Administration, he worked in several large companies. His interest in social work led him to get a formal degree in Social Work. Raul De Anda was... | <urn:uuid:481f5dff-c224-486e-8403-6e8b26448832> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 877 |
Stoke head to the City Ground tomorrow night for their first competitive game against Nottingham Forest since New Year's Day 2005.
They slipped to a 1-0 defeat in the Championship, but the real drama arrived in the final six minutes or so.
They were already chasing the game by the time Clint Hill was dismissed in the 84th minute before Clive Clarke, letting his mouth run away with him just for a change, managed to get himself red carded AFTER the final whistle.
Best to refer to the match report the next day to find out exactly what the dynamic duo were up to...
“Hill was booked for a foul and then immediately shown a straight red because he had foolishly feigned a head butt during the argy bargy following his original offence.
“A harsh interpretation of the laws, perhaps, because the `head butt’ was no more than pointless posturing during a minor scuffle deserving little more than a tut-tut from an over officious referee (the recently retired Mike Jones).
“Clive Clarke was then shown red as he traipsed towards the tunnel at the end of the game after confronting the referee and presumably comparing his officiating to something you might tread on in the park.
“Whatever exasperation the rest of us might feel at two such needless dismissals is surely nothing compared to the self recrimination of two players now suspended from next weekend’s trip to Arsenal.”
As it happens, Clarke made the FA Cup tie at Highbury.
Only he could talk himself into and out of a suspension.
The Stoke City team that day at Forest, incidentally, which saw their scoring record extend to just five goals in 12 games, was: Simonsen, Buxton, Hill, Thomas, Duberry, Henry, Russell, Clarke, Asaba (Noel-Williams,73), Akinbiyi, Greenacre (Eustace,78). Sub not used: de Goey. Hall, Neal. | <urn:uuid:0a45d00e-4e22-4df7-9732-eabfb8f1fe49> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,777 |
Facebook has hired Campbell Brown as a new liaison to media companies, not as someone to fix the problem of fake news being shared on the network. If you read her comments on the hiring you’ll see she’s going to be focused on making the case for Facebook to those media companies, not on finding ways to stop or suppress the spread of demonstrably false information.
Unless you believe that building those relationships is actually key to dealing with how and what news is shared, which it is, though maybe not in the way many people might expect.
When people talk about how fake news needs to be stopped it’s usually in regards to how it can be cut off at the source. How can we defund those sites that are publishing fictional news by stopping their ad revenue? How can we cut them off from getting such widespread linkage on Facebook? But it’s important to note that those approaches have no upside for Facebook and that everything the company does is focused on there being an upside for Facebook.
Instead what Brown’s role seems to be, at least from my perspective, will be about making sure that real media companies see the value in sharing their content on Facebook not through links, which anyone can do but through natively-posted Instant Articles and Live videos.
That will be the key to Facebook’s efforts to fight fake news. The company will make the case that with so much misinformation being shared through links, adding to that will get lost in the clutter. It will say that link posts are weighted equally in the News Feed, so why risk people seeing something from AmericaNews411 instead of your important and accurate story on The Washington Post? If you want to guarantee your real news will stand out, the best way to do so, it will say, is by publishing natively to the platform. That gets preferential treatment in the algorithm and people will automatically see it’s real, accurate news because not everyone gets this kind of access.
Facebook wants to own the internet and the entire user experience on web and on mobile. As long as links are used it can’t do that because they take people out of Facebook. So it’s easy to see that it will use this hubbub around “fake news” not to do any meaningful soul-searching over the role it plays in the media ecosystem but as a way to line its own pockets by saying only its products can provide the kind of verification and trust a large number of online readers are looking for. That’s dangerous for the long-term health of the media, the web and an informed electorate in many, albeit different, ways just as much as those spreading the fake news all this is meant to address. | <urn:uuid:227bc08a-e22a-4566-a00d-243f958cbc10> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,645 |
I just returned from my second visit to Swallow’s Nest, the foster home for special-needs orphans that I wrote about last week.
I met more children, including an adorable 6-month-old boy who was born with a condition that blocks the passage of food from the stomach to the small intestine. Known as pyloric stenosis, the disorder causes vomiting and dehydration. The infant had surgery to correct the problem and is doing very well.
We nicknamed another boy Mohawk Man because of his unusual haircut. The sides and back of his head are shaved, while the front features a patch of dark hair combed straight down like an early Beatles’ mop top. He was playing with another toddler we call Spider-Man for his uncanny climbing ability. Mohawk Man will be going to an American family that already has adopted a little girl from Swallow’s Nest.
Heather, a 39-year-old Floridian who’s been living in China for six years, is the acting director of Swallow’s Nest. She has a hectic schedule. In addition to her full-time job at Swallow’s Nest, she teaches English twice a week at a university that is an hour away by bus. “My teaching days are my easy days,’’ she said with a smile.
I met Heather at a nearby hospital where most of the children get treatment when they’re sick. Heather has practically been living there for the past week because children who stay at the hospital must be accompanied by a relative or caretaker at all times. The hospital has nurses but their duties are limited, so the relative or caretaker must feed, wash and clothe the child, along with other responsibilities such as telling the nurse when an IV needs changing or when it’s time for the child to take medicine.
They must also sleep in the child’s hospital room. If there’s no extra bed, they sleep in a chair. The hospital is overcrowded, so you see some children lying in portable beds in the hallway, with their parents or grandparents at their side.
Across the street from the hospital are two adjacent grocery stores with feuding owners. It’s gotten so bad that they’ve built a wall of boxes on the outdoor steps to keep them apart.
“They’re always screaming at each other,’’ Heather said.
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The end of the world as we know it
News-doc video series for Teyit.org
Investigation, presentation: Doğu Eroğlu
Aired on: Teyit.org, YouTube
In 2019, I teamed up with Teyit.org, Turkey’s leading fact-checking organization, for compiling a news-doc explainer series on the climate change.
The themes addressed during the 5-part video documentary includes,
- Basics of climate change,
- Turkey’s climate change perception, and the course of diplomacy since the Rio Summit,
- Sectoral approaches to Turkey’s energy, infrastructure and construction, agriculture and food, transportation, and so forth,
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Remember that book I started a few days ago, Prayer for the Dead? It turned out to be a classic crime drama that I couldn’t put down.
I wasn’t all that impressed with the first chapters, but as I read on, I started to see its charm. And then it got creepier…and then there I was, yelling at the book, “No! What the hell?” and “Don’t go in there!”
My son came in the room right as I started the last twenty pages, and I was forced to tell him that whatever he had to say at this time would have to wait. I held the book aloft, my thumb in the crack just pages from the end, and pleadingly looked at him. “Just a few more minutes? I can’t stop now.”
He shook his head at me, “Nothing changes around here. Well, except my room.” He laughed and walked into the kitchen to make more coffee. It’s a running joke right now that I took over his room the moment he left for University. In my defense, I warned him what I was planning, and he was all for it when he left.
But that, my dears, is another post. What I’m here to talk about is the draft…no, wait…the book I just finished!
I’d say, “I love it when a plan comes together,” but there was no plan. I’d never heard of the book or the author. I only picked up because the cover and title were appealing. Yes, I judged a book by its cover! And I was not disappointed.
The shy and quiet serial killer with a reason behind his madness, the retired special agent with a checkered past, the bumbling local cops and police chief. All the strings coming together at the end. Perfect.
If you like crime drama tv shows, you’ll love this book. Classic characters and a great story. Go find it at Thriftbooks.com! | <urn:uuid:ee1c1119-b3bb-4c86-9ef4-12ea2ade137f> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,649 |
ON THIS PAGE: You will read about the scientific research being done now to learn more about craniopharyngioma and how to treat it. To see other pages, use the menu.
For craniopharyngioma, due to the general success of surgery and radiation therapy, research focuses on treatments for recurrent tumors or tumors that are unable to be completely removed with surgery. There is also ongoing research to understand what allows craniopharyngioma to grow. Always talk with your child’s doctor about the diagnostic and treatment options best for your child.
Different methods of giving drugs. Interferon given by weekly injection under the skin, called pegylated interferon, and chemotherapy or interferon (Roferon-A, Intron A, Alferon) injected directly into the tumor cyst if it is large, are being looked at to treat some patients with craniopharyngioma. Interferon is a type of biologic therapy, also called immunotherapy. Biologic therapy is designed to target areas on the tumor cells or the tumor blood vessels to try to stop the tumor from growing. Interferon is also part of the body’s natural immune system.
Improved methods of giving radiation therapy. For patients with a tumor that cannot be completely removed during surgery, doctors are studying new techniques for giving radiation therapy. The use of 3-dimensional radiation techniques allows high doses of radiation therapy to be delivered to the tumor with lower doses to healthy brain tissue nearby. These methods may help reduce damage to healthy tissues.
Proton therapy. Proton therapy is a type of external-beam radiation therapy that uses protons rather than x-rays. At high energy, protons can destroy tumor cells. Doctors are studying proton therapy for patients with tumors that cannot be completely removed during surgery. Proton therapy allows for high doses of radiation to be delivered to the tumor while reducing radiation doses to the healthy brain tissue. Proton radiation is believed to be equally effective as existing radiation therapy methods but may have fewer side effects.
Palliative care. Clinical trials are underway to find better ways of reducing symptoms and side effects of current craniopharyngioma treatments to improve patients’ comfort and quality of life
Looking for More About the Latest Research?
If you would like additional information about the latest areas of research regarding craniopharyngioma, explore these related items that take you outside of this guide:
To find clinical trials specific to your diagnosis, talk with your child’s doctor or search online clinical trial databases now.
Visit the website of the Conquer Cancer Foundation to find out how to help support research for every tumor type. Please note this link takes you to a separate ASCO website.
The next section in this guide is Coping with Treatment. It offers some guidance in how to cope with the physical, emotional, and social changes that a CNS tumor and its treatment can bring. Or, use the menu to choose another section to continue reading this guide. | <urn:uuid:c981d2c4-ee43-4939-a539-d14268ab1e66> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 3,032 |
BHLDN is celebrating essential workers during these tough times by giving away 100 dresses.
Fantasy: The Largest Beaded Wedding Gown In the World
When Minneapolis based designer Gail Be (you may recognize her work from Lady Gaga's most recent music video) began her career in the bridal industry crafting jewelry for runway shows, she dreamed of making her pieces the focal point, rather than the accessory. Eventually she realized she would need to create the dresses being featured instead of the jewelry that accented them. This was only the beginning of an arduous 20 year long series of events that culminated in the creation of Fantasy, the largest beaded wedding gown in the world.
Garnering inspiration from a length of beaded lace, Be commenced crafting the dress in 2004. She decided the dress needed to be a bridal gown as she had discovered through many years of traveling that weddings are a common denominator for women all around the world. With many interruptions and side projects along the way, Fantasy is only now nearing completion. And that 6 in. bit of lace that led the way? It holds a prominent place on the front hem of the skirt.
Down to the Details:
Fantasy is 100% hand-crafted, and made entirely out of beads and wire. As Gail says: "Fabric is a dirty word around my studio." Composed of both vintage and modern beads, there is a little something old, and a little something new. Well a lot actually, as the dress is composed of nearly one million beads!
The intricate designs in the beading have developed gradually as the dress is made, without the help of patterns or sketches. This means that Fantasy truly is a work of art, with beautiful symbolism of little girls all around the world dreaming of their wedding day. The photos can hardly convey the gradeur of this stunning piece. When the glimmering crystal beads catch the light, it looks like a fresh layer of first-fallen glittery snow. And our favorite detail? Two small blue crystals hidden within the beadwork -- a bridal must.
Dress By Numbers:
Beads- 1 million
Weight- 400 pounds
Train Length- 20.5 feet
Train Width- 19 feet
Number of beaders- 23
Time To Complete- Over 20,000 hours
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One day most politically aware Americans and Europeans will greet a book like Max Blumenthal’s Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel with a yawn. Israel will be universally seen as a serial violator of international law and the only discussion will be about how to make it respect that law.
That day may be closer than it appears: one of many indications is US Secretary of State John Kerry’s hyper-intensive drive for a peace deal, which he has warned may be one of Israel’s last chances to stave off “increasing isolation.”
But we are not there yet, and this is why Goliath is such an important book. Whereas others have pierced the myth of Israel as a besieged beacon of democracy, Blumenthal punches a hole through it. He does so by juxtaposing harrowing accounts of Israel’s brutal dispossession of the Palestinians in 1948—known as the Nakba (catastrophe) when over 700,000 Palestinians were expelled or fled their homes and never allowed to return—with the no less harrowing accounts of Israel’s ongoing dispossession of Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line. The result is a portrait of a society hurtling headfirst toward ultra-nationalism, relinquishing any claims to democracy it may have had as it seeks to pummel a subject population into submission.
Two main themes dominate the book: the impact of the extreme right-wing nationalists’ consolidation of power since the collapse of the peace process in 2000; and the way in which today’s Israel is the logical evolution of the Zionist enterprise from its inception in the late nineteenth century.
From the start, Blumenthal sets the stage to illustrate his first main theme—the right’s victories in the Knesset, among other key state institutions—by vividly describing how Israel’s horrific 2008–09 Operation Cast Lead against Gaza was tied into Israel’s February 2009 national elections. The first pages also kick off Blumenthal’s fast-paced journalistic style, which makes one relive the terror and mindless destruction of the assault on Gaza.
For many in the United States, and perhaps particularly for American Jews, Gaza was a wake-up call similar to the one in Europe during the 1982 invasion of Lebanon and siege of Beirut orchestrated by the late Ariel Sharon. Appalled at the savagery of that attack, many Europeans said, “But this is not the Israel we know” and began to mobilize against its human rights violations. (For Palestinians, of course, this was the Israel they had always known.) | <urn:uuid:395e9f4a-5a8e-4552-b708-d12e263cb836> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,477 |
Activity 3: Letter of enquiry and letters prov >Suitable for KS2 school use
These are formal letters and messages need to be precise and detailed, protecting all the required information. Two types of letters could be undertaken a notification requesting info; and an answer providing this.
Out in the Milky Approach, there is an alien interested in learning Earth. He writes a letter requesting information about liquids and smells. These tend not to exist in the planet and he sees it hard to comprehend what they are.
Create a letter explaining what liquids and smells are. Just how do they work? What illustrations could be included? What can be confusing information? This would link into the KS2 science program and could act as a revision exercise presenting an opportunity for a discussion about smells and fluids.
The following day time, give the children a thanks letter in the alien!
You may link plan another class in the institution. One category could create letters of enquiry. These kinds of would be brought to the second course for answering.
Whenever that you use information that is not what is considered common know-how, you should acknowledge your source. For instance , when you paraphrase or offer, you need to illustrate to your reader that you got the knowledge from elsewhere. This educational practice allows your reader to follow up that source to get additional information. You have to create precisely what is called a citation in order to admit someone else’s tips. You use parentheses () in the text, and inside the parentheses you put the author’s term and the webpage number (there are several different ways of doing this kind of. You should look at your course guideline carefully to ascertain which structure you should be using). Two common formats, MLA and APA, stand for the ultra-modern Language Connection, and the American Psychological Relationship. Check out further information on how to document resources.
Is a work applicable to your study? The first place to consider answers is the table of contents. An e book can have a superb title but can be filled with tangential concepts or have an approach that simply might not add to your research. The next location to check out is definitely the index. The index is a wonderful resource for research workers. You can use this to quickly jump to particular paragraphs if your subject is very well defined. More often, you’ll scan the index to get a feel for the authority and scope in the text. Often you can learn most of what a book can tell you by browsing the preface and the intro and scanning the stand of items and index.
Primary assets contain first hand information, and therefore you happen to be reading the author’s own account on the specific topic or event that s/he participated in. Examples of main resources incorporate scholarly analysis articles, literature, and diaries. Primary options such as exploration articles often do not make clear terminology and theoretical concepts in detail. Hence, readers of primary educational research must have foundational understanding of the subject place. Use principal resources to acquire a first-hand consideration to an actual event and identify initial research done in a field. For most of your documents, use of major resources would have been a requirement.
Samples of aprimary sourcehappen to be:
- Unique documents such as diaries, speeches and toasts, manuscripts, letters, interviews, data, eyewitness accounts, autobiographies
- Empirical educational works including research articles, clinical studies, case research, dissertations
- Creative performs such as poetry, music, online video, photography
How to getprimaryanalysisin NCU Library:
- From the Library’s homepage, get started your search in Roadrunner Search or select a subject-specific repository from the A-Z Databases.
- Use the Scholarly/Peer-Reviewed Journal limiter to filter your search to journal content articles.
- After getting a set of google search, remember to try to find articles where author features conducted first research. A primary research document will include a literature assessment, methodology, populace or collection sample, test or way of measuring, discussion of conclusions and usually future research guidelines.
Model: Master’s degree dissertation in International Creation and Supervision(click to expand/contract)
In a master’s degree thesis in International Development and Management (Faculty of Social Sciences), the focus was on drinking water management in Jordan.
The principal sources with this study contained a set of selection interviews and group discussions conducted on web page in Michael jordan, and the secondary material consisted of studies on central issues such as drinking water demand and water managing, for instance, and on aspects of creation and male or female.
- Ellefsen, A. & Kolic, L. (2010).Allow it rain: An instance study of community-based drinking water management and rainwater enjoying in Bayoudah, Jordan. (Master thesis). Lund University or college, Lund. [Access through LUP]
After studying the text, you can definitely find some bias. That does not imply you should eliminate it. Possibly the author thank you an anti-homosexual religious corporation for money his exploration on homosexual marriages. You could be tempted to toss the book aside because you feel that a prejudiced work will not provide the ˜facts. ‘ But you may be losing out on some good proof. No secondary work is going to give you the ˜facts. ‘ Extra sources provide interpretations of primary data. Every model is inspired by the author’s context. Understand where the creator is coming from and use the evidence appropriately. For example , the book about same-sex marriages funded by the Southern Baptist Convention may possibly provide a obvious presentation with the conservative side of the concern. Paired with a book that provides a liberal presentation, the traditional book might provide useful information about the different positions inside the discussion.
Gathering Information to get Essays which will Require Study: Background
Gathering sources is much more complex than it used to be. For starters, there are even more resources available. Secondly, information can be obtained in a number of places. Your primary areas for finding sources will be:
- The library
- Other pc sources (CDRoms, etc . )
- The internet/world wide web
This section provides an summary of important concepts and techniques in gathering details for exploration essays. You should read this section before going to more specific information about types of sources, paperwork, etc . and before while using the sample exercises.
Activity six: Letters of complaint
The moment might a letter of complaint always be sent? It would be when somebody has done a problem. Sometimes persons write albhabets to organisations or the newspaper publishers to make a complaint about cover or poor service.
Consider what Mr. Bear must have been pondering at the end with the story of Goldilocks plus the Three Carries. A mischievous girl experienced broken in to his house, eaten his porridge; broken a couch and then visited sleep on his child’s bed. Then the lady had try to escape without even stating sorry if the bears came back.
Write a letter of complaint from Mr. Bear towards the parents of Goldilocks. What would this individual say? He would need to get his complaint around very strongly. There would be a listing of Goldilocks’ misdeeds. He would ask for an apology. Would he ask for repayment for the broken chair? Would this individual ask for action to be taken against Goldilocks? Go over the various possibilities with the kids. What may well he inquire? Would it certainly be a formal or perhaps informal letter?
Revising a final Draft
- Check general organization: logical circulation of advantages, coherence and depth of discussion in body system, effectiveness of conclusion.
- Passage level concerns: topic sentences, sequence of ideas within sentences, use of information to support generalizations, summary paragraphs where necessary, use of transitions within and between sentences.
- Sentence level concerns:syntax, word alternatives, punctuation, spelling.
- Documentation: consistent usage of one system, citation of all material not considered well known, appropriate use of endnotes or perhaps footnotes, accuracy and reliability of list of works reported.
The Internet delivers access to a lot of information. The TECHNOLOGY OF ESC Library gives access to numerous useful databases on a wide variety of topics. The Internet provides access to many across the internet catalogs to help you review the types of books available in the discipline (and carried by that particular library).
The world wide web also gives access to a few full-text digital journals (which means that you can examine and produce the article right from the screen). Government details (e. g., policy claims, laws, treaties etc . ) are also widely available in full-text format.
The net can link you program individuals who might have expertise for the topic you are researching. You can find they by joining electronic conversation groups (newsgroups) or maillists. These discussion boards are usually grouped by matter (e. g., a maillist on ECOLOGY). By publishing a question to the group or perhaps maillist, you are able to obtain beneficial information by knowledgeable persons willing to reveal their knowledge.
The one serious problem with the Internet is that you sometimes need to sift… and sift… and sift through that to find what you want. You also have to be important of the things you find, as anyone can easily post as well as change anything at all that’s out there in cyberspace, and you simply won’t automatically know if someone answering your question is really an experienced in the field. But since you persevere, and even if you just play around with it, the Internet can offer a lot of gems info in a speedy, easy way.
Primary & Secondary Sources
Primary sources are first, first-hand files such as innovative works, research, diaries and letters, or perhaps interviews you conduct.
Extra sources will be comments regarding primary options such as studies of creative work or original study, or famous interpretations of diaries and letters.
You should use a combination of main and secondary sources to answer your research issue, depending on the query and the kind of sources it requires.
If you’re publishing a conventional paper on the causes of a certain individuality disorder, you may read an account written by a person get back personality disorder, a case research by a professional, and a textbook that summarizes several case studies. The first hand account as well as the psychiatrist’s case study are principal sources, written by people who have directly experienced or observed the case themselves. The textbook can be described as secondary origin, one stage removed from the first experience or observation.
For example , if you asked what the marine symbolized in Hemingway’s account The Old guy and the Marine, you’d probably need to check with the story as a primary resource and critics’ interpretations of the story as being a secondary origin.
Taking notes, paraphrasing, and citing
Taking notes is an important part of undertaking research. Make certain when you have notes that you just write down the source that they are coming from! One way of keeping track is to make yourself a master list-a number set of all of the options that you have. Then, as you are writing down notes, you can just jot down the number of that source. A fantastic place to create notes straight down is about note credit cards. This way you can take the take note cards and organize all of them later based on the way you would like to organize your paper.
When taking notes, end up being sure to note down the web page number of the knowledge. You will need this kind of later on when you are writing the paper.
- So what do I consider notes on?Good query. You should take notes on ideas and concepts that you think are essential to include in your paper. You also can include assisting examples that you think will be helpful to label. You should NOT write the words down exactly as they look on the site, unless you happen to be putting these people in quotes. Otherwise, you may accidentally compose them into the paper like that, and that would be plagiarism. Be sure to take note of the page number you happen to be working from in case you want to refer to it. Click this link to learn more about Taking Notes.
- Using rates, or Imagine if I want the actual words?In the event you come across a verse in your browsing and it appears to you that the author’s terminology is more accurate, more coming in contact with, or more useful than you created, then you should write that sentence down exactly as you observe it, with quotation represents around the sentence(s). You must be very careful to record the page number that this info is via, because you need to include that in your paper. Quotes must not be used very often-if your paper can be nothing more than a series of quotes put together (and yes, most of us have written these! ) then you definitely need to go back and include really your individual information. Click this link to see an illustration and to work more with using quotations.
- What about summarizing and paraphrasing?Summarizing and paraphrasing resemble quoting because you will be recording the author’s suggestions. However , if you are summarize or paraphrase, you record ideas as opposed to exact language; chinese is yours. Once more, be sure to jot down the webpage number-you will need it later on. Any time you summarize or paraphrase, you MUST accept the source of your information. It is not only a professional requirement, it is a way of avoiding plagiarism. To find out an example, learning much more specific information, and use exercises, check out Summaries and Paraphrases.
Journals & Publications
Magazines happen to be written for the general public, so they contain articles which experts claim not present a subject detailed.
Journals happen to be written by and then for professionals in various fields and can provide you with in-depth, specific information.
Your instructors will are expecting you to use some journals; actually the more advanced your programs are, the greater you should be employing journal content in your exploration (as opposed to magazine articles).
How do you locate articles to resolve your research issue? It’s inefficient to go through volumes of prints of magazines and journals, even if you can think of ideal ones. Many magazine and journal articles are referenced in either an index or an summary.
Writing the final outcome
- If the argument or level of your paper is complicated, you may need to sum it up the disagreement for your audience.
- If perhaps prior to the conclusion you could have not yet discussed the significance of the findings or perhaps if you are going forward inductively, use the end of the paper to add your factors up, to describe their significance.
- Maneuver from reveal to a general level of thought that results the topic towards the context provided by the intro.
- Maybe suggest what about this matter needs even more research.
Other computer resources (CDROM, specialized directories etc)
Various libraries today, especially if they can be larger libraries, have data available on CDROM or through what are known as specialized databases. Be sure to inform a guide librarian what you are working on, and ask her advice in whether or not there is certainly information on CDROM or perhaps through a particular database.
CDROM’s often happen to be put out simply by groups such as History Societies (there is definitely an entire wear the City War, to get example). Authorities documents are available on CDROM and often present updated information (census data, for example). The research librarian will be able to tell you which Compact disks might be the most helpful and may help you signal them out and use them.
There are many particular databases. Some examples are JOSHUA, the educational database, and Sterling silver Platter, which offers texts of recent articles in particular themes (yep, the complete article can be bought right through the computer, which is frequently less time-consuming than searching through the piles for it) The American Psychological Connection has the games of content articles on certain subjects (psychology, sociology, etc). Sociofile is another example. Inquire your research librarian to view exactly what can be bought. One good thing about specialized directories is that you know the source and orientation of the article. You additionally know that the origin is a valid and trustworthy one. You will want the research librarian’s support getting into specific databases-most libraries require which the databases possess passwords. Alert: Bring the own newspaper if you plan on accomplishing this type of analysis! Many your local library allow you to produce from the directories, but you must supply your own daily news.
An analysis in the audience can tell you a lot about how precisely much power a book or perhaps article may claim. The majority of what you discovered in your evaluation of the text will inform your judgment of the designed audience. You will find out more by looking at exactly how the publication is created and what type of format it is written in. Is the operate full of technical terms or charts? Then the audience may be academics. Is the terminology very simple with lots of pictures? Then the audience may be a youthful crowd, or perhaps the book might be intended for lumination reading. For anyone who is reading a newspaper or perhaps magazine, go through the advertisements. Who the author hope will certainly read the resource? An advertisement for Tuning automobiles or perhaps Johnny Walker Red scotch in Newsweek may suggest a wealthy, educated (and possibly male) audience. A great advertisement in People intended for Tommy Hilfiger or Pepsi may indicate a different audience.
The strengthen of a publication is the way the author symbolizes himself or herself through language. Strong and impassioned language may well indicate to you that the publisher is too emotionally connected to the function to provide a target analysis. Many academic experts try to appear impartial within their writing by always composing in the third person remaining away from crammed adjectives.Below are a few questions ask about the author’s strengthen:
- Does the author’s language seem to be impartial to you personally? Are crazy claims made? Is a lot of emotional language used?
- Does the writer remain aimed at the argument? Does she or he jump coming from point to level without concluding any thoughts?
- Will the author seem to be objective? Will the information is very much propaganda to you personally? Is a particular agenda put forth through the choice of data or maybe the manipulation of evidence? Remember, finding a prejudice does not necessarily indicate you should eliminate the book. Take this in step and use it appropriately.
Following the trek
It may happen that you develop a topic and go to the library to find resources. You take a seat with five books that you gleaned via a keyword search on the library’s on the net catalog. Putting all five books throughout the critical evaluation steps layed out above, and later one matches all your conditions. What do you do now? Go back to the library list? Browse the racks near where you found the first five? Those methods may work, although a quicker way should be to follow the trail of sources in the one particular book you’ve opted to use. Look at the footnotes and bibliography. Note titles which the author depends on or calls pillars in the discipline. In that case look up all those book or perhaps articles inside the library directory and begin the critical evaluation process once again. This time, however , you know what one particular author thinks about the publication, so it already has attained a level of authority or importance. Pursuing the trail in one book or article in front of large audiences can lead to an understanding of the entire structure from the literature on a particular topic. | <urn:uuid:da82c9cd-4b73-4e6b-97ca-6afa38f79ffd> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 20,372 |
- 8 scarlet runner bean seeds
- 4 plant pots at least eight inches across
- Potting soil
- Plant sprayer
- Grow light
- Masking tape
- Fill each pot with soil.
- Take your first pot and plant two seeds half an under the soil and roughly two inches apart.
- Place a strip of masking tape on this pot and write "Lots of Space A" on it.
- Repeat this process in your second pot. This time write "Lots of Space B" on the masking tape label. Your remaining two pots will test what happens when seeds have only a little space between them.
- Plant two seeds in each of these pots, but make sure they are barely half an inch apart.
- Apply masking tape labels to these pots that read "Crowded A" and "Crowded B." Set all four pots on a shelf under the grow light.
- Fill your plant sprayer with water and give the seeds their first misting. Now that you have set up your experiment, think about what you know of plants and of being crowded. If you were a seed, do you think you would like to be very close to a neighboring seed or very far away?
- Consider again the "problem" of this experiment: does seed space matter? What do you think? Write down your guess, or hypothesis, in your notebook.
- Time to wait. To conduct the best experiment, you should observe your growing seeds for at least four weeks. Remember to routinely spray each pot with water and to make sure the grow light is on for a good portion of every day. Write down your observations every day.
- When the first sprout pokes above the soil, make sure you note the day and the pot (Lots of Space versus Crowded).
- Continue making notes for the entire four weeks. If some of the sprouts start to really grow, take out your ruler and measure their lengths. Just make sure you never forget to write anything you observe in your notebook!
- At the end of the four weeks, take a look at all your notes. Did the space between the seeds make a difference?
Your crowded plants should have grown slower than your plants that had plenty of space.
To understand why crowded plants grow so poorly, let's compare crowded plants to a crowded person. How would you feel if you had to live in a small room with 100 other people. Imagine you're pressed into the far corner, trying to avoid elbows and shuffling feet. Any air or light that filters through the room's window has to be shared between you and your 100 other roommates. Would you like to live in such a crowded space? Probably not. Humans need space to thrive, and so do plants.
Your crowded plants did not like having to share air, light and water with each other. That's why they grew so slowly. With plants, more space equals more air, light and water -- and the more of that plants have, the more plants can grow.
Now that you're practically a crowded science expert, you can take on even bigger projects! Do you think there could be an exact distance that plants should be placed apart from each other? At some point, do you think distance even matters any more? Don't stop guessing and testing -- plant scientists don't stop researching their ideas, and neither should you. | <urn:uuid:4387ae63-430e-4cc4-97d2-e56e0e2038e6> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 3,088 |
How is your wrong side? It looks like it could be interesting looking, even if different. Can you consider removing the facing and using a binding on that edge, or even just a hem with a mitered corner?
If that wouldn't be acceptable, at least have you tried to understitch the back of the collar, so the facing lies properly under there? Did you just tack the facing to the shoulder seam at its end, or did you stitch in the ditch the whole length on the shoulder seam part that overlaps it? I find that often does more to tame a wayward facing. If the back facing flips out, you might consider stiching the collar and facing together along the back neck virtual seam, it wouldn't show under the collar (you can baste it first to see whether it helps and be sure it doesn't show)
I'm afraid most commercial patterns have inadequately wide facings, they just try to save you fabric no matter what. Ironically, it was Sandra Betzina who taught me that, and pointed out that good RTW has back facings at least 6" deep. I'm now systematically adding to get that, and haven't had a back facing flip out in decades. I also find that adding at least an inch or two to front facings does the same trick for the front.
Poor Sandra, remember the time when she had to recall thousands of patterns because she realized that someone at Vogue had re-drawn her good crotch curve on some pants, to replace it with the lousy one that makes us buy her patterns instead?? Wish they'd leave her stuff alone..
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Some district initiatives ask students to bring their own mobile devices to class.
Mobile devices are now found in the hands of most children, and school leaders are using that to their advantage by incorporating devices that students already own into classroom lessons and projects.
Concerns remain about students who are unable to purchase or borrow a device for use in the classroom, but districts might find creative ways—such as asking local businesses or community organizations for help—to provide devices in such instances, advocates of the trend say.
With access issues in mind, allowing students to bring their own devices from home can offer educational benefits, as well as some surprisingly positive results when it comes to creative thinking and classroom behavior.
While there has not been a large amount of research on mobile learning devices in the classroom, research on one-to-one computing is a type of presage to some of the current research on mobile technology, said Richard Hezel of Hezel Associates, during an International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) webinar that focused on mobile learning.
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The Hangover, you see, is a raunchy, R-rated boy comedy that ends at a wedding. So was I Love You, Man. And Wedding Crashers. And The 40-Year-Old Virgin. And American Wedding (the third movie in the venerable American Pie franchise.)No, how you get 27 Dresses, Made of Honor, and Bride Wars is a bunch of lazy, misogynist execs who run the lazy, misogynist film studios in the lazy, misogynist town called Hollywood that's the epicenter of our lazy, misogynist mainstream pop culture in which substituting eleventy million lazy, misogynist variations on the princess-finds-her-prince tale for real stories about women is considered the best possibly strategy to try to attract that consternating Woman demographic which—inexplicably!—doesn't spend as much at the movies as their (straight, white) male counterpart, whose lives have been told on film in every infinitesimal aspect from the Earth to the Moon and back again.
That should be surprising, considering that weddings are, in moviethink, the exclusive province of women. That's how you get 27 Dresses, Made Of Honor and Bride Wars.
But I digress. We were talking about The Hangover.
Hirsh's piece essentially boils down to his contention that "raunchy, R-rated boy comedies" can't be all bad if they end in a wedding!
[T]here's something to the fact that all the debauchery, all of the bad behavior, all of the boys-will-be-boys-ness ultimately leads to simple connubial bliss in the end.And once again, here's where a little dose of feminism might be useful for the blokes: Consenting to one's "domestication"—obligingly, reluctantly—is a terrible idea. It's a commitment to a concept, rather than a person, from which only a slow erosion of one's personhood and ambition will result, a betrayal of self. And it's no gift to your partner, or your kid, either.
…As much as their experiences in the movie change [the dudez of The Hangover], it turns them into better husbands and fathers. It's the same message that can be gleaned from the conclusions of so many other raunchy, R-rated boy comedies. They might as well be saying, "See? Give us enough time and we'll still do the right thing! What are you so worried about, ladies?" As it turns out, The Hangover isn't about men gone wild, it's about their domestication.
We are meant to grow up before we promise ourselves to anyone else, instead of expecting marriage, or parenthood, to magically turn us into adults who want those things, after the fact. We are not meant to ask our partners and kids to patiently wait for us (or, worse yet, help us) to grow into the person we promised them we already were—someone ready, someone who wanted them.
That is not an argument against marriage, nor parenting. It is an argument against axiomatically regarding marriage and/or parenting as the best choice(s) for everyone. It isn't "doing the right thing" to agree to become a husband, or a father, if you don't want it, deeply and unequivocally.
This is also not a treatise that leaves no room for making mistakes, for the follies of youth and the unintentional pain we all have the capacity to inflict on others, for unavoidable broken hearts. Sometimes what starts out right, goes wrong.
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And there is a vast chasm of difference.
No one benefits, no one, from talking about entering marriage, or taking on parenthood, as getting domesticated and doing the right thing. Marriage and parenthood entail obligations, but we are not obliged to embark on either journey in the first place.
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Notification: Promotion of Mr. Mukarram Dad as Senior Joint Secretary (BS-21) in Ministry of Defence
TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE NEXT ISSUE OF
GAZETTE OF PAKISTAN (PART-II)
Government of Pakistan
Ministry of Defence
Rawalpindi, the 28th Feb, 2017
N O T I F I C A T I O N
No._________________ / 2017. In pursuance of Establishment Division’s Notification bearing No. 10/595/2017-E-I, dated 25th February, 2017, on promotion,
Mr. Mukarram Dad has relinquished the charge of the post of Joint Secretary (BS-20) and assumed the charge of the post of Senior Joint Secretary (BS-21) in Ministry of Defence, on 25th February, 2017.
Printing Corporation of Pakistan,
Mr. Abdul Latif, Deputy Secretary,
Establishment Division, Islamabad
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7. S.O. D-27 (Admin-II)
8. S.O. (P & D) - For updating the website of MoD.
9. Security Officer, MoD
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60 chapter 3: Mental health
Ask these questions before deciding on a treatment for mental illness:
• What is the purpose of each step in the treatment?
• What is expected to happen?
• If the person is not a danger to herself or
others, can she get mental health care
while living at home or living together
with others in her community?
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• Will the family be involved in the
• Is the person providing treatment
respected in the community?
• Do any of the treatments cause side
effects, physical harm or shame?
The most important part of any treatment is the
support and care of family and friends.
If someone must be treated in a hospital, always ask for a tour of the facility
before leaving her there. Make sure the hospital is clean, that patients are safe
and can have visitors, and that they will get regular treatment with trained mental
health workers. Patients should be free to move about, unless they are a danger to
themselves or others. Also, make sure you find out what must be done to release the
person from the hospital later.
Mental health facilities can have the same barriers as other buildings and services
that make it difficult for people with disabilities to move around and communicate.
See pages 36 to 40 for ideas about improving access to all health services.
Working toward mental health
To build a better life, women with disabilities need health, education, and the
ability to move around independently and earn a living. But the difficulty in
achieving these goals can create challenges to your mental health. You usually do
not need treatment from a trained mental health worker to overcome most feelings
of depression, anxiety, or low self-esteem. There are ways you can help yourself and
ways you can begin to feel better with the support of another person or a group.
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Comprendia was founded in June of 2008, which means we are beginning our 7th year. For this occasion, I’ve decided to reflect about the future of life science digital marketing and I present five predictions which are open to discussion.
First, I’ll give a bit of a background. In late May/early June 2008, I was finishing up with the Comprendia logo and forming the LLC, getting the PO box, trademark, and all the trappings of a new business. I wasn’t sure how to set up the website—I’d used WordPress personally and was familiar with it for blogging, but would the platform be suitable for a corporate website? Believe it or not, few companies were using WordPress at that time, but I found a few examples and went for it. I caught a very lucky break as the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) convention was in San Diego that June, and they were accepting bloggers. I signed up, blogged, and have covered several conventions since then. Currently Comprendia is working to provide local coverage of the BIO 2014 convention through the San Diego Biotechnology Network (SDBN). In addition, we liaise with biotech companies, their customers, and science communicators in many ways and base these five predictions for our 7th year on these very fruitful interactions:
- Words will change, but concepts will remain. In the summer of 2008, we had freshly minted brochures and wanted to test them out. We compiled a list of San Diego biotech companies and did our first mass ‘snail’ mailing to them. It turns out that this was our last mass mailing, snail or electronic, as we got zero responses. A hard lesson was learned, and to be honest, we should have known better: broadcasting a message works very poorly. A few months later, we founded the San Diego Biotechnology Network (SDBN) and no longer need to broadcast our materials as we provide engaging content and events and are well known in the region. This “non-broadcast” approach to marketing has been described using many monikers such as social media, content marketing, and brand journalism, to name a few. One of the current hot phrases is “digital marketing,” and for SEO we were sure to capitalize on that with the title of this post! While the words used to describe modern marketing strategies and tactics may change, the same concept remains: to reach today’s researchers, life science companies must engage with them.
- Social media will (slowly) evolve from a tactic to a strategy. Alas, although we view creation of engaging content and the building of opt in communication networks as being essential strategies for today’s life science companies, many still view social media as a tactic. This means that they want to “plug it in” to their existing tactics, without realizing their marketing strategies must be transformed to achieve success. The telltale signs are when we hear companies say they “need to be on Facebook and Twitter” as these are tactics and don’t represent strategic thinking. Even though we don’t see a social media revolution taking place, as it has for other industries, we do see an evolution, as incremental changes take place. Very fitting for life science, isn’t it?
- Web 2.0 will be the new black. We separate social media into 1st party (e.g., blogs and forums) and 3rd party (e.g., Facebook and Twitter) sectors, and are seeing some alarming trends in the latter. On this blog we were the first to point out that corporations are paying to acquire and advertise to a large number of purported fake Facebook users. Others have vociferously complained about Facebook advertising, and we have found it increasingly difficult to run page promotions. Examples include rejections of advertisements for reasons we consider capricious and the inability to simply and affordably reach the people who have “liked” our page. Similarly, LinkedIn has made some changes to their groups which we fear portends their eventual dissolution. In short, 3rd party social media applications are struggling to find a business model, and life science companies that depend on them may suffer as a consequence. While these applications still offer benefits now and in the short term, we urge life science companies to diversify and to ensure that resources be used to develop Web 2.0 applications and sound, engaging content on their websites.
- Life science trade organizations will continue to evolve. We interface with traditional life science trade organizations such as the Biotechnology Industry Organization as well as modern, non-membership entities such as ScienceOnline. With the SDBN, which is non-member based, we sought to connect more life science researchers and professionals by leveraging online tools and engaging events. We make information about local companies, news, and jobs freely available on the website. Because there is no membership fee, however, we don’t have the resources to provide the same sorts of benefits as the established organizations do. ScienceOnline formed mostly on blogs and Twitter and has struggled greatly over the past year with sweeping changes in leadership, and some would say it may be due to a lack of financial resources. Which model is better, one in which members are required to pay, with more benefits for members, or one which is more open with membership and information, relying on other funding to provide support? As with most things, the answer probably lies somewhere in between—trade organizations need to find a business model which allows members to join at a free or reduced rate and/or find a way to add more value to the membership. We’re impressed with the BIO 2014 partnering program and the networking opportunities the convention provides, in some ways they’ve created a “Biotech LinkedIn.” Our predicted dissatisfaction with general networking applications such as Facebook and LinkedIn will create a need for more targeted communities such as BIO’s. How can your life science company adapt to these changes? Work more closely with trade organizations such as AACR, ACS, AAAS and ASBMB and tell them what is working for you and what changes need to be made to meet your goals. For example, if a staid conference exhibit hall doesn’t benefit you any longer, give that feedback to the organizers and brainstorm on what will work. I would be positively giddy if every life science conference offered the partnering and networking opportunities that BIO does.
- Those who embrace the ‘brave new world’ will prosper. The world has changed greatly in the past 6 years, and there’s no turning back. In looking at myself over the past 6 years, as a consumer, I’ve changed my lifetime habit of TV watching to relying solely on my iPad and the internet for entertainment and news. Advertisers are scrambling to find ways to reach me, I’m sure. In this ‘wild west web,’ in the struggle for reaching and influencing consumers, the lines between news, opinion, and advertising can be blurred, resulting in a lot of misinformation being propagated. In science, the consequences are dire, as anti-vaccine advocates and climate change deniers can sometimes have as much influence as real scientists, and suspicion about corporations is high. Concomitantly, public and financial support for scientific research has waned. Life science companies have a great opportunity to be the cheerleaders for biotechnology research. For example, companies can provide summaries of their customers’ breaking research, filling the ‘news void’ for the public while engaging with researchers. If you’ve been reading this blog, you know this concept is our ‘raison d’etre’ and what we aim to facilitate. Whether you work with us, or just use the resources here to get started, we implore you embrace this ‘brave new world’ soon so that we can all prosper. While digital marketing and social media are facile and adaptable, they take time to gain momentum, as we pointed out back in ’09.
In closing, we’d like to thank our clients and colleagues, we’ve been ‘lucky’ to find you, and you have helped us to prosper over these past six years. Like other businesses, we’re continually adapting and we’ll be bringing out some new services and resources based on these predictions. Stay tuned and if you’ll be attending BIO 2014 or any other conference in San Diego this year, schedule a meeting with us, and check out our event during the convention.
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Google Glass To Add Music Search & Listen Features After Dropping It In XE11
Google Glass Will Expand Its Features Into Music from the New York Times reports that today, Google will be bringing back this feature in a big way. The NY Times wrote:
On Tuesday, Google will unveil a set of features for Glass to search for songs, scan through saved playlists and listen to music in high fidelity. This can all be done while a user is wearing the lensless frames, which respond to vocal commands and have a small computer and transparent projection screen above the right eye.
Google Glass posted a teaser on Google+ of what is to come. Google said:
In the next few weeks, we’ll roll out a new voice command (“Okay Glass, listen to”) so you can access your tracks from +Google Play Music, including the millions of songs on All Access. We’re also introducing stereo earbuds designed specifically for Glass. They’re lightweight and uniquely engineered to deliver crisp, full-range audio while still letting you hear your surroundings. You can also rock out in style by customizing your buds with five interchangeable color caps.
To all our Glass Explorers, sit tight. You’ll be able to dive into music on Glass soon. Look for an email in the next few weeks with more details.
What this appears to mean is that Google will be adding another function to the Glass home screen for Music or Songs triggered by “Okay Glass, listen to” or via the “Listen to” menu. Within that function, Google will let you search for songs by listening, browse through your Google Play playlists and even listen to music with the new earbuds as part of the updated version of Glass.
Here is a video that Google Glass posted to get Glass Explorers excited:
I suspect this will be pushed out to Glass Explorers as XE12 and typically new software updates are released the first week of the month, which works with Google saying “next few weeks.”
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What is Halitosis? Its Types, Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment?
Commonly known as Bad Breath, Halitosis, is something that everyone at some point in time experiences. It can be most commonly experienced when you wake up in the morning. Halitosis could be Subjective and Objective both. In this era of the Covid-19 Pandemic, almost everybody is aware of how their breath smells due to the constant wearing of a mask. Halitosis could be mild to severe to disturbing at times. Halitosis definitely keeps people away due to its unpleasant nature and could cause embarrassment at times. Another medical term for Bad breath is Fetor Oris.
How does Halitosis develop?
When you eat food or drink beverages, some portion of it remains stuck in your mouth in between your teeth or on your tongue or some secretive place where it can stay longer. Now once these things are stuck, bacteria develop in your mouth due to the decay of the food particles stuck in your mouth. These bacteria are in variety and definitely not good for your mouth. They contribute to the development of Bad breath. That is the reason brushing your teeth is recommended 30 minutes after the meal. According to an article by Ken Yaegaki and Jeffrey M. Coil published on the Canadian Dental Association website, almost 50% of the population shows prevalence for Halitosis.
What are the types of Halitosis?
Halitosis is basically divided into three types: Genuine, Pseudo and Halitophobia. Let’s take a look at each one briefly.
The person genuinely suffers from Halitosis due to various reasons and it requires attention. Genuine Halitosis can be further classified into Physiologic and Pathologic.
In this type, the bad breath develops due to the decay of food or other particles on the surface of teeth, tongue, or any area inside the mouth. It is the most common cause of Halitosis and almost 90% of the cases fall under this type.
In this type, the Halitosis is due to certain underlying pathologic conditions or diseases. These conditions can range from mild to severe from Gum diseases to Oral cancers.
As the name suggests Pseudo means False. In this type of Halitosis, the person does not actually suffer from Halitosis but thinks that they have it. The person constantly believes that they have a bad breath. Even upon confirmation, they refuse to believe. The patients suffering from Pseudo Halitosis require counseling as their treatment part.
In this type, the patient once suffered Genuine Halitosis and got it under control but lives in a constant fear of developing bad breath again. These patients also require regular check-ups and counseling as their treatment.
How can you tell if you or your friend is suffering from Halitosis?
Well, I think your friend would definitely tell you that your mouth stinks rather than a stranger who would just maintain a safe distance in order to not hurt your feelings or make you feel embarrassed. You can self-smell your breath and identify too. However, the best way to find out is by visiting your Dentist. There are various methods by which your Dentist can diagnose your Halitosis. Those methods are:
This method is based on the sensory perception of your examiner. Your dentist would insert a small tube into your mouth, and you would be asked to blow air in it. The level of Bad odor is then recorded, and the diagnosis is done. Some patients get conscious while blowing the air, hence an area with a separation of patient and the examiner is created. To be sure, this examination should be done on 2-3 different occasions. This is the most convenient and widely used method for diagnosis.
The score card for Organoleptic measurement is as below:
|Score||Type of Odor||Description|
|0||No Bad Odor||The bad breath cannot be detected|
|1||Questionable Bad Odor||Some sort of odor is present but cannot be labeled as a bad odor|
|2||Slight Bad Odor||Bad Odor can be detected but very less|
|3||Moderate Bad Odor||Definite Bad odor and noticeable|
|4||Strong Bad Odor||Bad odor is present significantly but can be tolerated|
|5||Severe Bad Odor||Severe Bad Odor present which cannot be tolerated, and the person requires to cover their nose or step away.|
Gas Chromatography and Sulphide monitoring
This method is the most accurate when it comes to detecting bad odor. This method requires an equipment installation and a skilled operator. The equipment consists of a flame photometric detector which helps to detect Volatile Sulphur compounds in the mouth. These Volatile Sulphur compounds are the main reason for Bad Breath. However, these machines come with a limitation. First off, the installation is hectic and not all clinics can accommodate one of these. Secondly, they have different sensitivity to different gases like low for methyl mercaptan and high for Hydrogen sulphide.
Hence the best method of diagnosis would be Organoleptic Measurement.
How can you prevent Halitosis?
Well, we have a very detailed and well-structured article on Habits to prevent Halitosis. Go check it out at 13 Habits to Prevent Halitosis (Bad Breath) – Tricky Care
How can you treat Halitosis?
It is absolutely necessary to get rid of that bad smell. Different types of Halitosis require different treatment approaches. For the Physiologic type, a simple good oral hygiene practice that includes brushing twice a day or whenever necessary, flossing your teeth, cleaning your tongue thoroughly, and using a good oral rinse should keep the Bad Breath at bay. For the Pathologic type, proper diagnosis and treatment of the underlying disease should be done and a good oral hygiene should be maintained. The Pseudo Halitosis requires more of psychological support and counseling rather than physical. The patient requires assurance and support. Similar situation with Halitophobia. The patient should be counselled as well as instructed to keep their oral hygiene in check to avoid Halitosis.
The takeaway here is everyone suffers from Bad Breath and it is normal. We can prevent and treat Halitosis. There should not be any shame or feeling of embarrassment for that. You should take preventive measures and take care of your oral hygiene. | <urn:uuid:8c0bc250-928e-44a2-866c-be4b339b6507> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 6,147 |
Many of us had been waiting years for Thompson Square to make their debut in the UK. I am not entirely sure Keifer and Shawna were even aware of their audience here and going by the amount of tears Shawna shed throughout their set, I am going to see that they didn’t.
The multi-award winning group are one of the best duo’s to ever grace the country music genre and although independent artists now, this dynamic duo are as strong as ever. Their most recent album Masterpiece is exactly that and whilst the title isn’t an ego trip and in fact a tribute to their son Cooper, the album strongly deserves that title.
Thompson Square played the Interstate Stage at The Long Road and were put on way too early at 11.50 on the Sunday. Probably having more awards than the rest of the acts playing combined (as discussed by myself and James at Lyric Magazine) we were shocked they weren’t given main stage and at a much more prime time. Lesson learned I am sure. At first, upon arrival the tent was empty apart from about ten people, this also raised our concerns with timings. However, as soon as Thompson Square arrived, the tent filled up rather quickly. Even Keifer said he was worried for a bit. Hey, I made front row so I was pleased.
The duo came on stage with just Keifer’s guitar and both their vocals. Starting with the song That’s So Me and You, you could genuinely feel the love the crowd had for them – these weren’t just fans but passionate fans and fans who had been waiting a long time for this moment.
Introducing themselves Shawna explains how they are husband and wife to which Keifer replies jokingly “and brother and sister” the crowd laughed and Shawna apologised for Keifer and for whatever was going to come out of his mouth all show. He kept the comedy going throughout the set, I wish I could remember it all but they made the show feel very intimate, special and as if we were all invited to their living room to hang out.
So many favourite songs were played such as Everything I shouldn’t Be Thinking About, Glass and an incredibly breathtaking, emotive and moving version of If I Didn’t Have You which was stunning in acoustic form. Shauna cried, we cried, it was a beautiful moment. The best songs live are the ones that bring out emotions as it is so real and so raw.
Despite requests, Shawna was too emotional to perform Breakers from the album Masterpiece and we all understood. She hasn’t managed to get through it many times and if you listen to the song (which I recommend) then you will see why.
From the new album they played title track Masterpiece written for their son and informed us that their son Cooper was in the audience but asleep. We all turned to see him asleep in a relatives/friends arms, very sweet. They also played Up In Smoke from Masterpiece which was epic live and very atmospheric and a stand out moment for me for sure. Other Masterpiece tracks included I Know This Guy. I Know This Guy was sensational live and very reminiscent to their early stuff. This song shows the strong bond they have and you find yourself hoping you will either have or do have as beautiful relationship as they do. Shawna and Keifer’s vocals were certainly meant for each other and this song produced another tear jerking moment.
Ending with Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not which was met by a massive sing a long from the very eager and adoring crowd, I can say they were one of the best acts across the entire weekend.
Thompson Square are the real deal, they are what country music is all about. With them you get authenticity, emotion, comedy, beauty and a dang good time.
Thompson Square, it may have taken you years to play here but now that you have and now that you have seen how many fans you have here, please make us a regular stop as we won’t ever tire from you and you will soon discover that this will be somewhat of a second home to you. Get Cooper to Hamley’s Toy Store too as we discussed.
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She meant the alien-looking blackberry canes towering over one of my Marionberry rows. The monstrous canes don’t sprawl over the ground like the Marions but stand erect, as tall as fifteen feet. Each cane is as thick as a sapling, and thornless. The leaves aren’t blotched with rust like those of the Marions but solid green, the picture of health.
The fruit is different, too. Whereas Marionberries are long, slender, and soft, these other blackberries are big, round, firm, and glossy. They lack the sour, bitter, winy notes of Marionberry; their taste is frank Himalaya, with a little less acid. They ripen with the wild Himalaya, too, starting at the end of the Marions’ season.
It’s the resemblance to the Himalaya that scares my daughter. We love this most common wild blackberry, but it’s so invasive that we rip out every start except along the irrigation ditch and at the far edges of the wheat field. The new blackberry plants in the row with the Marions aren’t spreading, though, at least not yet. They stay in two tidy clumps, lightly attached to wires just to be sure the plants won’t topple over in the wind (they’re technically considered “semi-erect”).
These plants are the Triple Crown blackberry, a variety jointly developed by USDA breeders in Oregon and Maryland. Released for sale in 1996, the variety is starting to get popular both in and beyond the Pacific Northwest and the mid-Atlantic states. Triple Crown is named for its three “crowning attributes”: flavor, productivity, and vigor. But the variety has two other wonderful attributes, and they’re the ones that will keep me from ripping out the plants: disease-resistance and thornlessness. With western Oregon’s long, cool wet season, disease-resistance is all-important. And I never miss the pain of tiny blackberry thorns in my fingers.
Still, my daughter has a complaint unmentioned in the berry trial reports: “The seeds are too big. They stick in my teeth.” So I decide to make the Triple Crowns into one of her favorite jams, seedless blackberry.
Triple Crown Blackberry Jam
Makes about 3 pints
Although you could use a different blackberry variety in this recipe, I’ve written it especially for Triple Crowns. These berries are relatively low in acid, so I use a little more lemon juice than usual. And because the berries are so large and firm, I cook them before putting them through the food mill.
3 pounds Triple Crown blackberries
3 2/3 cups sugar
3 tablespoons lemon juice
In a broad, heavy-bottomed, nonreactive pot, simmer the berries, covered, until they are tender and most of their juice is rendered, about 10 minutes. Then put the berries through the fine screen of a food mill.
In the pot, combine the berry purée with the sugar and lemon juice. Heat the mixture over medium heat, stirring, until the sugar is dissolved. Turn the heat to medium-high, and boil the jam until a drop mounds in a chilled bowl. (The spoon test will work with this jam, too; when the jam is ready, two drops will run together off the side of a spoon.)
Remove the pot from the heat. Ladle the jam into sterilized jars, and process them in a boiling-water bath for 5 minutes.
Once my daughter has tasted this luscious, dark jam, I hope, she’ll never again complain about my monster blackberry plants. In the next year or two, I may be ripping out Marions to make room for more Triple Crowns. | <urn:uuid:750883f9-4e9e-46c9-ab88-7991c526508f> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 3,367 |
Stories have a powerful influence on children’s understanding of cultural and gender roles. Parents need to understand that stories develop their children’s literacy. Stories convey values, beliefs, attitudes, and social norms that shape children's perceptions and reality.
The already existing challenges faced by the informal workers are now unambiguously exposed by the pandemic and further aggravated by sudden demands for COVID- 19 testing, quarantine measures, sanitizing equipment, medical visitations, healthy and immune boosting diet etc.
Although clinical depression can be cured by psychiatrists, I personally believe depression cannot be cured by another person or chemical substances. It can be minimized to an extent but complete cure is certainly not possible as it involves someone's thought patterns.
The on-going political imbroglio has been created by the lack of trust and mutual doubt and suspicion amongst the four major players. As none of the four holds a simple majority, they have to join hands with the other to form the next coalition government.
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By: Jivesh Jha
Though we have the most comprehensive constitution, we lack comprehensive legislation to deal with the bizarre loan deeds. Money lending has emerged as a profitable business in Terai. There is no law on record that obliges the moneylenders to justify their source of income.
HONG KONG – The OECD is projecting an uneven K-shaped economic recovery from the pandemic in 2021. Richer countries with more extensive vaccine rollouts that can afford to reopen and reflate their economies will do so. Poorer economies will struggle to stay healthy and avoid debt crises. But the mantra that “no one is safe until everyone is” highlights the need to spread health, wealth, and self-respect to all. An increasingly prosperous China can and should play a central role in this effort. | <urn:uuid:118c64fa-bc32-4b52-956b-0211c35a2da9> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 1,890 |
A Few of the Books Published by Benjamin Gomez
1792: The Christian Economy
1794: Pilgrim’s Progress
Letter to the Jews Inviting Them to an Amicable Discussion of the Evidences of Christianity by Joseph Priestly.
Letter to Dr. Priestly, In Answer to Those He Addressed — by David Levi. (a gift of the Galberd Family)
Edward Ward’s Female Policy or the Arts of a Designing Woman
1795: Captain Cook’s Third and Last Voyage.
Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
Benj. Keach’s The Travels of True Godliness from the beginning of the World to this present Day
1796: Cook’s A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean
1797: The Visions of John Bunyan John Ely’s The Child’s Instructor W. James’ The Letters of Charlotte
1798: Robert Gibson’s A Treatise of Practical Surveying
And Many More...
Don't Forget The Cousins
The Earliest Children's Book by an American Jew
SELECTIONS OF A FATHER FOR THE USE OF HIS CHILDREN. In prose and Verse. New York: Southwick and Pelsue, 1820. 408pp. Original calf, spine re-laid, hinges reinforced.
First Edition of the earliest children's book by an American Jew.
Isaac Gomez (1783- 1831) was prominent in Jewish communal affairs. This volume was intended to entertain and educate young children and contains selections on astronomy, geology, literature, zoology, anatomy, and moral guidance.
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POTTSVILLE -- Schuylkill County has new top cop in a historic election.
The race for district attorney was decided by only a couple dozen votes.
Republican Christine Holman won her bid by only 67 votes.
She beat out incumbent Democrat Karen Byrnes-Noon.
For supporters of Schuylkill County District Attorney-elect Christine Holman, 67 votes meant an upset victory and the night of their lives.
“I am going to be the best district attorney this county has ever had,” Holman said.
For the current D.A., Karen Byrnes-Noon, those 67 votes meant heartbreak. the appointee led most of the night but when the final tally was announced, she quickly decided she did not want a recount and gave an emotional concession to her supporters.
"As mostly everyone in this room knows, I am a cancer survivor. I am proud of the campaign that I ran. It was classy, it was honest, and I did not mudsling. I wish Attorney Holman the best, thank you,” Byrnes-Noon said.
Both women are groundbreakers. Byrnes-Noon, who was appointed to the office, is the county’s first female D.A. Holman is the first woman elected to the job. After a competitive and sometimes bruising campaign, the Frackville attorney found the wheel of fortune turned her way. | <urn:uuid:7a669fa4-a412-4737-83ff-34636615b889> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,224 |
Have any of you've seen Disney vs Non-Disney Villains on YouTube? A YouTube user called manwhoo edited clips from different movies together and made it appear as the characters were fighting. Here is an example: Disney Vs Non-Disney Villains: Round Seven - YouTube It was great but sadly the only Transformer in it was Megatron/Galvatron in a "homemade" battle made by yours truly. Disney vs Non-Disney/ Gantu vs Megatron - YouTube I find this disappointing and I am thinking of starting a spin-off of just Transformers. I have a bunch of ideas for fights but here is the problem. I have a computer with a low memory. I cannot store all the neccasary clips. I mostly have Beast Wars and Animated on my computer. I would need other peole to store the clips and make some of the fights. I would also like some help with the story which includes Unicron and his dimensional travel abilities. Also scale doesn't matter. Mostly. Here are a few fights I have planned: G1 Megatron vs Movie Megatron G1 hears that there someone has arrived and poses a threat to his leadership. He travels to Mission City to confront this new Megatron but Movie will not go down easy. Beast Wars inferno vs Lugnut Inferno is observing his new location when he is attacked by Lugnut who confuses him for Blackarachnia. Inferno proclaims he works for Megatron. Suprised at this Lugnut ceases his attack but when he figures out that Inferno worships a different Megatron the two fight to see which megatron is greater. Movie Bumblebee vs G1 Cliffjumper Cliffjumper spots Bumblebee and confuses him as a Decepticon war machine. When he attacks Bumblebee gos on the defenscive. Again I need a team to do this because my computer does not have the needed space and I am pretty busy. I can make a lot of fights but not all of them. | <urn:uuid:c6143b57-918a-47f6-b982-f85890a10f6a> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,799 |
KNOXVILLE — After not having enough healthy defensive backs at times to comfortably play nickel and dime packages last season, the University of Tennessee football coaches made bolstering the secondary a priority in this recruiting class.
The Volunteers added two more to the group this week.
Geraldo Orta, a three-star prospect out of Lowndes High School in Valdosta, Ga., posted that he committed to the Vols on his Facebook page Saturday morning. Orta, who made his official visit to Tennessee last weekend, had committed to Clemson during the summer before reopening his recruitment.
The 6-foot, 180-pound safety also had offers from South Carolina, Mississippi State and North Carolina.
Izauea Lanier had committed to UT on Monday night. The 6-1, 190-pound four-star prospect originally committed to Auburn out of Gordo (Ala.) High School in 2009 before ending up at East Mississippi Community College.
He committed again to Auburn last February before reopening his recruitment. Lanier also had offers from Ole Miss and Florida.
The Vols already had four defensive backs committed in this class, which will help add depth to a secondary that returns both cornerbacks and both safeties who started in the Music City Bowl.
Justin Coleman (Brunswick, Ga.) was one of six recruits to enroll at UT for the spring semester. Brian Randolph (Marietta, Ga.), Pat Martin (Greenville, S.C.) and Tino Thomas (Memphis) are the other committed defensive backs who are expected to make their pledges official on national signing day on Feb. 2.
Patrick Brown has been the University of Tennessee beat writer since January 2011. A native of Memphis, Brown graduated from UT in May of 2010 with a bachelor’s degree in Journalism/Electronic Media and worked at the Knoxville News Sentinel for two years on the sports editorial staff and as a freelance contributor. If it’s the NBA, the NFL or SEC football and basketball, he’s probably reading about it or watching it on TV. Contact him ... | <urn:uuid:e9044972-3316-4bd4-b351-ebf9dc0d0ba7> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,977 |
Don Estes is the inventor of a combine add-on called The Disrupter that helps stop soybean crop stems from roping in rotary combines. Now Estes has designed a kit for John Deere STS series combines to reduce grain or “rotor” loss in corn.
Estes says he learned about rotor loss in John Deere STS series combines by reading farmer posts on Web forums last fall. “Farmers reported they were finding corn on the ground, especially in high-yielding or high-moisture areas of their fields,” he says.
“Any crop loss that is experienced in a rotary combine happens because whole corn shucks carry out kernels,” Estes continues. “The Disrupter serves as an internal cutting device that will disrupt the flow of the crop and help keep more grain from being carried out of your combine.”
The John Deere Disrupter kit consists of 12 metal lugs that are installed in the separation section of the combine’s rotor on a 90° angle with the crop’s rearward movement. The lugs pulverize the shucks as the shucks pass through the separator, leaving grain in the machine instead of on the ground.
Estes displayed prototypes of The Disrupter kit for John Deere STS series combines at the 2010 National Farm Machinery Show and has sold a few dozen kits since then. Tony Ferkin, a customer from New Zealand, says The Disrupter cut grain losses by 50% in tough, high-yielding areas of his fields and virtually eliminated them in normal conditions.“Even if these disrupters [decrease] losses a small amount, they are well worth the investment in my view,” Ferkin says.
Price of the John Deere STS Disrupter kit is $388. Estes continues to supply Case IH dealers with kits for the Axial-Flow combines. The company also rebuilds and hardfaces cylinder bars, rotor bars, concaves and other wear parts on combines.
For more information, contact Don Estes at CM Welding, 4496 N. Co. Rd. 0 E-W, Frankfort, IN 46041, 765/891-1722, or cmweldinginc.com. You can also e-mail Estes at [email protected] or [email protected] | <urn:uuid:18ebdc07-ccc4-4216-bffb-25ddd38937cb> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,988 |
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17, 2014 – Canada has appealed parts of a ruling by a World Trade Organization panel in October concerning U.S. country-of-origin meat labeling, or COOL, a ruling many following the process thought was in favor of America’s Neighbor to the North.
Canada is challenging the notion that its lawyers failed to make a prima facie case – accepted as correct until proven necessary – that the amended COOL Rules, which require meat labels to state where an animal was born, raised and slaughtered, are “more restrictive than necessary.”
Christine Constantin with the Embassy of Canada said action Canada is taking is officially a cross appeal to U.S. action at the end of November, when the office of the U.S. Trade Representative appealed the October WTO ruling. That decision said U.S. efforts to bring COOL into compliance with international trade laws only increased COOL’s “detrimental impact on the competitive opportunities of imported livestock in the U.S. market.”
The appeal also takes issue with the notion that Canada “has not sufficiently and adequately” identified third and fourth alternative labeling measures. “In reaching this finding,” the appeal reads, “the Panel erred by imposing on Canada an obligation to describe the alternative measures with an excessively high level of precision.” Essentially, Canada disagrees with the WTO finding that alternative proposals to COOL either didn’t inform consumers or couldn’t be implemented by the U.S. government.
Finally, Canada asks the appellate panel to find that the original panel “failed to make an objective assessment of the issue, including an objective assessment of the facts.” The appeal notes that “Canada does not take issue with the Panel’s overall conclusion and most of its analysis.”
Chandler Goule, senior vice president of programs with the National Farmers Union, a group in favor of mandatory COOL, said Canada’s cross appeal is a sign that the rule is heading in the right direction.
“This just further goes to show that we continue to narrow the issues with COOL,” Goule said. “Canada is running out of things to say.”
Canada’s Minister of International Trade, Ed Fast, and Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, Gerry Ritz, jointly expressed disappointment when the U.S. appealed the WTO ruling in November. In a joint statement, the two said the U.S. was “yet again preventing both of our countries from enjoying the benefits of freer and more open trade and is hurting farmers, ranchers and workers in the United States and Canada.”
The cross appeal now goes with the original U.S. appeal to the WTO. An actual date for further action on the U.S. appeal and Canada’s cross appeal is not publicly known, but many expect the workload of the WTO will make the appeal timeline last longer than the traditional 60 to 90 days.
If the appeals panel upholds the ruling that the COOL rules violate global trade agreements and have caused harm to Canada and Mexico’s livestock industries, the U.S. could face punitive sanctions from both countries.
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For a truly dazzling smile, veneers are one of the best treatments that modern dentistry has to offer. The porcelain shells cover the front of your teeth, hiding any and all imperfections. They are usually placed for cosmetic purposes, but they have some restorative uses, too. What’s the process like? Can veneers be removed?
The Dental Veneer Process
Before placing any veneers, Dr. Curtis will examine your teeth. Most people with good oral health are eligible, but if your teeth are severely misaligned, you may want to address that first. Once you’re ready for veneers, we’ll shave a tiny amount of enamel from your teeth. This way, your veneers won’t look bulky. The customized shells are then bonded to your teeth and you have a new smile!
Can Veneers Be Removed From Your Teeth?
Because we remove some of your enamel, veneers are permanent. They are not meant to be removed. If you take good care of your teeth and make regular appointments with the dentist, your veneers should last for decades! They can still crack, however, and the tooth beneath a veneer can experience problems like decay. Any teeth that don’t have veneers can still stain, as well, which can make your smile’s color uneven. In these situations, veneers can be removed to address the problem, but you will need to replace them.
Dental Veneers at Curtis Family Dentistry in Mooresville, North Carolina
Dental veneers are a permanent treatment, so we only remove them if there’s a significant problem. They’re then replaced with new ones. If you choose to get dental veneers, it’s important to know that it’s not a reversible process because we have to remove tooth enamel. Thanks to their durability, veneers last for decades and don’t require special care! If you’re interested in a total smile transformation or have any questions about this treatment, please contact us for a consultation. | <urn:uuid:befe25bd-5fb1-40bd-a0ed-26ba33f08167> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,871 |
From: Al Evans (Al.Evans@cherokee.k12.ga.us)
Date: Fri Feb 21 2003 - 15:37:49 EST
From: Maria Lester [mailto:email@example.com]
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Subject: RE: [Channel-talkchemistry] RE: Georgia report
Do you have any websites or any tips on how to find these labs?
Here are my favorite websites for demonstrations. I'm a
bit of a "pyro" so I have done most of these if they burn or explode. | <urn:uuid:142ae3cd-4f72-4f33-9648-7be4ba03c335> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 413 |
Could it be? Did Winter finally get the memo to make way for Spring?
I saw buds pop up last week only to be covered by snow.
But now the majority of ice blobs have melted, and these sprouts just might have a chance!
There are still remnants of ice. This was February 22.
And on April Fool’s Day, ice blobs are still taunting us.
Fascinating physics for sure.
Here’s hoping that spring is here to stay, and we can enjoy the blossoming of new life.
I am reminded of a childhood song whenever I see Croci
This is the only YouTube version I could find.
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Never mind that the minimum wage would be $22.62 per hour today if it had grown at the same rate as the earnings of the one percent. Never mind that most minimum wage earners are adults. Never mind that most Americans favor raising the minimum wage. That wasn't going to stop Rep. Jason Chaffetz from defending the Republicans' skewed priorities in the House of Representatives to host Stephanie Cutter on this Wednesday's Crossfire, or pretending that raising it would keep companies from hiring teenagers.
CUTTER: I'm hearing (ph) what you passed, not how many. Exactly the substance. Where are your priorities? What at are the priorities bills?
CHAFFETZ: No doubt. When the president goes and starts talking about minimum wage, and hear you all these sad stories, you got to look at what the president is actually doing, because he's exacerbating the problem. He's not making the problem better.
CUTTER: Calling for an increase in the minimum is exacerbating the problem?
CHAFFETZ: Well, yes, I do. I do really think about. I look at the youth. I look at when I grew up. I got a job when I was 14 years old. My dad said I had to get out there and get a job.
I worked as a gardener in Arizona, and then I worked at -- and then I realized I was a white collar person, so I decided to get a job at the general cinema corporation, wearing my short sleeve, white short, my bowtie and my powder blue coat. And I realized I wasn't even making minimum wage because I work at a movie theater.
Guess what? I was exempt from the minimum wage, but you know, I was a kid. I didn't care. I learned how to work. I learned the value of a dollar. And every time the president decides that he wants to just raise the minimum wage, you're going to take this whole group of youth and prevent them from getting an opportunity, because employers are going to look at that and say if it's going to cost more for labor, I'm going to hire less people. And that's the cruel reality.
CUTTER: Can I do just one follow up? That's never proven to be true. An increase in minimum wage actually increases employment because you're investing in your workforce. And many, many CEOs, most people on minimum wage work for large businesses, not small businesses. Many of those CEOs agree with it, going all the way back to Henry Ford.
CHAFFETTZ: And if they want to retain good quality employees, they're going to make sure they've got a good competitive market.
Now, in North Dakota, where the energy sector is cutting loose and doing great things, they don't have a minimum wage issue there. We've got to make sure we are investing in education and getting training.
CUTTER: I absolutely agree with you. We should talk about that, too.
Our frequent contributor, Richard Eskow discussed earlier this year exactly what we were seeing from Chaffetz here:
Corporate interests and their elected representatives have created a world of illusion in order to resist paying a decent wage to working Americans. They’d have us believe that minimum-wage workers are teens from ’50s TV sitcoms working down at the local malt shoppe. It’s a retro-fantasy where corporate stinginess creates minority jobs, working parents can’t possibly be impoverished, and nobody gets hurt except kids who drive dad’s convertible and top up their allowances with a minimum-wage job slinging burgers.
But then, you probably need to resort to fantasy arguments when you’re arguing against a minimum-wage increase supported by nearly three-quarters of the voting public. That’s also why it’s important to demand that Congress allow an up-or-down vote on the Fair Minimum Wage Act, which would raise it to $10.10 and then index it to inflation.
Here’s the truth: Most minimum-wage workers are adults, the majority of them are women, and many are parents who are trying to raise their children on poverty wages. [...]
The Fantasy This may not be a “Leave It to Beaver” world, but there are plenty of real-life Eddie Haskells. Remember Eddie, the unctuous and untrustworthy high-school self-promoter? Think Mitt Romney – who supported raising the minimum wage, at least in principle, until he began a presidential campaign that was funded by his fellow millionaires and dependent on today’s radical right. Then he reversed himself quicker than a fella could say “You look lovely today, Mrs. Cleaver!”
Romney argued that the minimum wage should be tied, not to productivity or executive gains, but to world indicators. That would create a global wage race to the bottom, one that hurts everyone except the wealthiest corporate leaders worldwide. That’s the point, of course. (“You look lovely today, Frau Merkel!”)
Last month Republicans in Congress rejected a proposal that would have raised the minimum wage to $10.10. They’ve also indicated they would reject the president’s more modest proposal for a $9.00 minimum.
True to form, they keep trotting out that tired old “malt shoppe” argument. Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, for example, said she opposed a higher minimum wage because “you’re going to exclude a lot of younger workers.”
Remember, more than eight out of ten workers affected by a minimum wage hike are adults.
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Philippines RPCV Nathaniel Jackson opposes Seattle's tax on coffee
Philippines RPCV Nathaniel Jackson opposes Seattle's tax on coffee
Seattle brews tempest in a coffee cup
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON -- Nathaniel Jackson's liberal bona fides are impeccable: He marched in civil rights demonstrations in the segregated South; as a Peace Corps volunteer he taught school in the Philippines. Jackson, 60, and his wife run Cafe Allegro, after 28 years, an institution in the University District.
Chris Maykut, 29, has similar credentials. Reared in Seattle and a product of public schools, he is the owner of Chaco Canyon Cafe and Juice Bar, where all his products are 100 percent organic. Coffee is fair trade and shade-grown; thrift store furniture and mugs enjoy a second life.
But this week, the two University-District proprietors were at odds over an issue that has the Seattle coffee community in, well, something of a froth: On Tuesday, a measure that will add a 10-cent tax to all espresso drinks sold within the city limits will be put before voters. (Drip coffee is exempt.) If passed, the measure would boost funding for low-income children's programs and early education.
Nathaniel Jackson taught school in the Philippines.
In Seattle, where coffee beans seem grouped with grains at the foundation of the food pyramid, people think the idea is either completely mad or perfectly logical.
This perhaps is to be expected in the Emerald City of Contradictions. It is the left-leaning home of entrepreneurial billionaires, and throughout the 20th century its ingenuity produced everything from Frango mints to Boeing jets, its talents from Jimi Hendrix to Kurt Cobain. Its laid-back, hard-working populace is fueled seemingly by caffeine.
The tax proposal, called Initiative 77, is sponsored by the Economic Opportunity Institute, a nonprofit agency that develops public policy for low-income families. It collected enough signatures last year to place the initiative on the ballot.
Proponents, who include educators, medical professionals, religious leaders and organized labor, say the measure would generate $6.5 milliona year. Opponents, including hoteliers, restaurateurs, and coffee industry officials from Starbucks to street cart owners, have formed a group called JOLT -- Joined in Opposition to the Latte Tax. They put the figure between $1.5 and $3.5 million a year.
Across the country, voters are deciding whether to raise taxes for services in the wake of a recession. Arkansas voters this week rejected a $1.2 billion tax proposal that would help flagging revenues. Last November, Multnomah County voters narrowly passed a property tax levy that raises $10 million a year to finance childhood programs such as Head Start.
On a recent cloudy day, Jackson walked, unannounced, into Chaco Canyon to discuss the situation. Maykut's pro-tax voice is in the minority in the coffee industry, making him something of a lightning rod.
Maykut, talking to a reporter, was surprised to see Jackson, whom he had only met two days before. He invited him to the cafe's back room, and the men talked over glasses of fresh fruit juice.
Jackson thinks the tax will create an extra layer of accounting and fears that the 10-cent cost, which most shops are likely to pass on to customers, will drive business away. But it is the principle of the tax that bothers him the most.
"I couldn't care more about children," Jackson said. "But they are the responsibility of society, not just coffee drinkers. I was a teacher. I helped found the Waldorf School here. But this is unfair, and just plain wrong.
"Supporters of the tax think espresso drinkers and coffee business folks are wealthy," Jackson said. "But let me tell you, we're in the worst crunch since the Reagan days. And I serve everybody. I've got guys in three-piece suits and I've got homeless folks."
Maykut was equally impassioned. "We're at a point where we have to do something," he said. "We need to lessen the gap between achieving in school and not. When kids entering kindergarten start out behind, some never catch up. For a lot of kids, this tax can make the difference."
He continued: "When I was growing up here, schools were among the best in the country. Seattle was a national model. Now our schools are at the bottom. I'm not saying this is the best way to go about it, but something has to be done. For a dime, we can."
He said the added bureaucracy many fear the tax would create is not problematic. "I can create a program with my 10-year-old used cash register," he said. "It's just not a big deal."
Many Seattleites are raising the question, "What's the connection between espresso and education?"
Laura Paskin , spokeswoman for the Economic Opportunity Institute, said there was a logical link. "The sales tax on a shirt might go for many things the government is responsible for, like roads and libraries. Those things have nothing to do with the item, either."
John Blackwell, co-owner of Espresso Specialists, a purveyor of espresso machines throughout the nation, said he found Initiative 77 "worrisome."
"Where do you draw the line, even in a liberal town like this one?" he said. "Not every tax is a good thing, but it's bad public policy to tax espresso to pay for child care. Espresso is an easy target. Why not tax all luxury drinks -- soda, tea and milkshakes?"
In the once-working class district of Wallingford, Paul Millage sat in Zoka Coffee with his laptop and a cup of Americano. A high school teacher who is taking off a year (he will teach at a new charter school in Oregon next year), Millage has plenty to say about educational achievement.
"We can dole out $400 tax credits so people can stimulate the economy by shopping at Wal-Mart," Millage said. "People can plop down $40 for a baseball game, yet ignore the needs of education."
A tax on coffee, he said, "just seems so random."
Indeed, last year the Economic Opportunity Institute decided to submit the initiative after examining what would be both legal -- and not a necessity -- to tax. Few items were eligible, and among them espresso seemed to best satisfy those criteria. Those who consume one drink each workday would pay an extra $26 year.
Sarah Allen, editor of Fresh Cup, a coffee trade magazine based in Portland, said the typical markup on espresso drinks is between 30 percent and 40 percent. In addition, she said, industry research shows that the majority of espresso drink consumers fared well on the socioeconomic ladder. "It's hard to generalize, but they are usually middle- to upper-middle class," she said.
Paskin said espresso drinkers wishing to avoid the tax, could. "Espresso is not mandatory. You can make your latte at home. You can drink tea or hot chocolate. You can drink drip."
Jackson, of Cafe Allegro, grimaced. "What kind of attitude is that, to the people of Seattle?" he said. "Just let them drink drip?"
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