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(INDIANAPOLIS) - Eli Lilly has announced an agreement to purchase Novartis Animal Health for approximately $5.4 billion.
The all-cash transaction that will strengthen and diversify Lilly's own animal health business, Elanco.
When the company completes the acquisition, Elanco will be the second-largest animal health company in the US and globally, and improve its position in Europe and the rest of the world.
With a presence in approximately 40 countries and 2013 revenue of approximately $1.1 billion, Novartis Animal Health is focused on developing better ways to prevent and treat diseases in pets, farm animals and farmed fish.
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A Japanese shop that provides menstrual goods for women has asked its female staff members to wear badges informing clients if they are on their period or not.
The measure has been introduced at the Michi Kake store in the Daimaru shopping centre located in the city of Osaka in the southern Japanese prefecture of the same name.
According to local media, menstruation is still considered a taboo subject in Japan and in recent years companies have introduced novelty products such as Sailor Moon feminine pads.
Female staff members at the newly-opened store, which sells products dedicated to women’s sexual and menstrual needs, have been asked to wear badges stating whether they are on their period.
Wearing the badge is left up to individual staff members, but if they choose to take part, they pin a ‘period badge’ next to their normal name tag.
The badge features a ‘period cartoon character’ called Seiri-chan and is split into four categories.
The Blue period means the worker is menstruating, the Glitter Period is worn after the period, the Turbulence Period is for when staff members feel irritable and the Gloomy Period is for the moments leading up to menstruation.
The shop also displays its products in line with the four categories.
As well as period products, the shop also offers underwear, medicine, herbal tea, makeup and sex toys, according to reports.
Store manager Takahiro Imazu told local media: “In Japan, there is a tendency for women’s sexuality and periods to be taboo subjects.
“Not every customer will react positively, but the fem-tech industry is booming and the values of young people are changing with it.”
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Certiorari in Latin means “to be more fully informed,'' the process of submitting certiorari is also known as “granting certiorari”. The Supreme Court compels the lower court to put down their records of data and proceedings on papers. However, the lower courts and other individuals often stay confused about a lot of things. If the basic factors about
writ for certiorari aren’t clear, how can anyone submit an acceptable writ? Here are five important things to remember:
1. The writ is a decision by the Supreme Court for hearing the appeal.
2. The process of “Granting certiorari” means that the Supreme Court had agreed to hear the case.
3. To put down the numbers for you, the Supreme Court only grants 1.1% of the thousands of the petition of certiorari.
4. The granting of the petition requires an affirmative consent by four justices of the Supreme Court.
5. The only way to appeal certiorari is by submitting a petition for a writ for certiorari to the Supreme Court.
Four reasons for granting petitions for certiorari by the Supreme Court
Just like everything has a core reason, the submission and acceptance of the writ also come with some very productive reason. The Supreme Court accepts or rejects the petition based on some set rules. These rulings are important in a lot of ways, take a look at four dynamic visions the Supreme Court has behind granting the petition to the lower court.
● Cases that can resolve clear law conflict
● Unique or very important cases
● Some exceptionally interesting cases
● Cases where the Supreme Court is disregarded by a lower court
These key points will answer a lot of questions that you might have about the writ for certiorari. Now comes the preparation part, and if you aren’t familiar with the formatting, binding, or typesetting, then get in touch with the Supreme Court Papers. They have a structural plan for providing accurate supplies for the writ. Hiring an experienced supplier decreases the chances of rejection. You can visit http://supremecourtpaper.com or call them up directly at 1(855)776-3800 to talk to them directly. | <urn:uuid:ef265621-6950-4806-b902-69477f7a1945> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 2,089 |
List of Natural & Alternative Health Resources For Dogs & Cats
There is a lot of information on pet health and nutrition on the internet, but not all of it can be trusted. We have done the research and these are some of the very best alternative, natural pet health resources out there.
Dr. Karen Becker
Dr. Becker’s veterinary practice revolves around her belief that the foundation of good health and longevity is species appropriate nutrition. She attributes much of her clinic’s success to the fact that nutrition is addressed with every patient, at every exam.
Dr. Chris Bessent
Chris Bessent, D.V.M., founder of Herbsmith, practices holistic veterinary medicine, utilizing Chinese herbs, acupuncture, food therapy and chiropractic on all animals. After more than a decade of using Chinese herbal combinations in her practice, Dr. Bessent channeled her wealth of knowledge and experience into Herbsmith, Inc.
Dr. Richard Pitcairn
Animal Natural Health Center was founded by Richard Pitcairn, DVM, in 1986 as a clinical and teaching center in Eugene, Oregon for the understanding and use of homeopathic medicine in the treatment of disease. The use of excellent nutrition using home-prepared & raw foods was also emphasized. In 2002 Dr. Pitcairn retired from practice, and eventually moved to Sedona, Arizona where his wife, Susan, could explore her career in art. In Sedona, the ANHC Education Programs, dedicated to teaching and writing, was established.
See his guest posts for The Pet Beastro here.
Dr. Don Hamilton
Don Hamilton, DVM, is an expert veterinary homeopath who teaches other vets, and he discusses this issue in his wonderful book, Homeopathic Care for Cats and Dogs: Small Doses for Small Animals.
Dr. Lucretia Greear
“Being able to work in an environment where the emphasis is on the patient rather than the bottom line is a breath of fresh air,” says Dr. Greear. “We are able to focus on the animal as a whole and provide alternative treatment options should conventional therapies fail to be an option. We also find that a combination of conventional and alternative therapies often works best for chronic illnesses and cancer patients. We love being able to help animals that have been unable to find relief through other standard treatments.”
Dr. Melissa Shelton
Dr. Melissa Shelton is an internationally recognized holistic veterinarian, and owner of Crow River Animal Hospital & Dental Clinic, who specializes in using medical grade essential oils for complete and natural care of all animals. By using essential oils along with nutrition, whole food supplements, Reiki, animal communication, Alpha-Stimulation, and more – Dr. Shelton has helped many animals for which traditional medicine has no answer.
Dr. Elizabeth M. Hodgkins
Because improper diet is the cause of type II diabetes mellitus in the cat, diet must be the foundation of the management of this disease. Although the veterinary profession has been conditioned to believe that high-fiber dry diets are capable of assisting in the management of feline diabetes, the reality is that this disease has historically been extremely difficult to deal with because of this mistaken belief.
Dr. Bob Goldstein
Dr. Bob Goldstein, a veterinarian with over thirty-five years of clinical experience in Holistic and Integrative Veterinary Medicine and Susan Goldstein, a specialist in alternative therapies, emotional healing and nutrition for animals, founded Healing Center For Animals in 1995.
Dr. W. Jean Dodds
Dr. Jean Dodds received the D.V.M. degree with honors in 1964 from the Ontario Veterinary College, University of Toronto. In 1965, she accepted a position as a Research Scientist with the New York State Health Department. She began comparative studies of animals with inherited and acquired bleeding diseases. Eventually, her position culminated as Chief, Laboratory of Hematology, Wadsworth Center. In 1980, she also became Executive Director, New York State Council on Human Blood and Transfusion Services.
Dogs Naturally magazine
Whole Dog Journal
Crystal Healing For Animals
Bach Flower Remedies for Dogs
Hands-On Healing For Pets
Dr. Pitcairn’s Complete Guide to Natural Health For Dogs & Cats
Homeopathic Care For Cats & Dogs
Herbs For Pets: The Natural Way to Enhance Your Pet’s Life
Four Paws, Five Directions: A Guide to Chinese Medicine for Cats & Dogs
Vetrinarians Guide to Natural Remedies for Cats
Your Cat: Simple New Secrets To A Longer, Stronger Life
Nature’s Sunshine – Herbs & Supplements
Young Living Essential Oils – Therapeutic Grade Essential Oils
Be Young Essential Oils – Therapeutic Grade Essential Oils
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You can always count on the National Rifle Association to raise the level of discourse… to sheer nuttery! For example, at a July 23 “No on 594″ event in Silverdale, WA, NRA spokesman Brian Judy is caught on audio comparing universal gun background checks to Nazi Germany*, before ridiculing Jews like I-594 backer Nick Hanauer for being anti-gun.
“These people,” an exasperated Judy exclaims about anti-gun Jews. Really:
“About 2 weeks ago, Nick Hanauer, the billionaire, contributor to 594, wrote an article in Politico.com. Go home and search Politico.com and Nick Hanauer. He wrote this article, its called “The Pitchforks are Coming . . . for Us Plutocrats.“ So it was an article, it was a letter to all his fellow rich people. And he was saying that the middle class was shrinking, us haves are a smaller and smaller group of people, and soon enough the have-nots, they’re not going to take it anymore and they’re going to come after us plutocrats with pitchforks. And I’m convinced, I saw the article and there’s the answer to my question.
Why does a small group of billionaires want to register handguns? ‘Cause I know where they want to go. I’ve watched these people for 30 years, they want to ban ‘em, but they have to register them first so they know where to get them. And these billionaire plutocrats want to get rid of handguns so when things do go loose that the people only have pitchforks to come after them. [Unintelligible] and they have the guns. And then at the end of this article, I mean it’s staggering to me, because at the end of the article Hanauer talks about his family, and they’re from Germany. They had a pillow manufacturer in Germany. And in one of the last paragraphs he talks about his family being run out of Germany by the Nazis. It’s like [slapping noise; laughter]. How stupid can they – you know? Now he’s funding, he’s put half a million dollars, toward this policy, the same policy that led to his family getting run out or Germany by the Nazis. You know, it’s staggering to me, it’s just, you can’t make this stuff up. That these people, its like any Jewish people I meet who are anti-gun, I think, “are you serious? Do you not remember what happened?” And why did that happen? Because they registered guns and then they took them. And now you’re supporting gun con – you come to this country and you support gun control? Why did you have to flee to this country in the first place? Hello! Is anybody home here? It’s just – I don’t know.
Yeah, yeah, maybe they don’t know. So, but it’s really sad the level of understanding some people have of history and, like they say, if you don’t understand history, you’re doomed to repeat it. And here’s this billionaire, this arrogant, elitist, progressive billionaire who’s, you know, running around Seattle getting all his fellow billionaires to pony up to push this thing.”
First, it’s interesting to note that the biggest laugh Judy gets is when he talks about Hanauer’s family being “run out of Germany by the Nazis.” Ha-ha! Because that’s always funny.
I’ll be here all week; try the veal!
Second, to dismiss Judy’s comments as merely clumsy or insensitive, you’d have to ignore the contortions he went through to weave Hanauer’s Jewishness into the narrative. So who is backing I-594? Wealthy Jews, Judy warns the room! Now that’s an anti-semitic dog whistle if I’ve heard one.
Talk about repeating history.
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Emergency Contraception: Plan B
Publication Date: November 2006
Publisher(s): Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
On August 24, 2006, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the approval of an application to switch Plan B, an emergency contraceptive, from a prescription-only drug to an over-the-counter (OTC) drug for women 18 years of age and older. Plan B will only be sold in pharmacies or healthcare clinics. It will continue to be dispensed as a prescription drug for women 17 years old and younger. Plan B is a brand of post-coital contraceptive that is administered within a few hours or days of unprotected intercourse. Emergency contraception prevents pregnancy; it does not disrupt an established pregnancy.
Approval of the switch to OTC status for Plan B has been controversial. Some Members of Congress urged the FDA to deny OTC status for Plan B. Individuals who are critical of the decision to switch to OTC believe that Bush Administration policy and FDA actions were based on political and ideological considerations rather than on sound science. Conservative religious and pro-life groups believe Plan B may increase unsafe sexual activity and should be used only under the supervision of a healthcare professional and, therefore, should not be available OTC. Their major concern with Plan B, however, is that it might prevent the implantation of an embryo in the uterus, which to pro-life groups constitutes abortion. However, the medical community does not consider prevention of implantation to be an abortion, and FDA does not classify Plan B as an abortion drug.
FDA approved the first hormonal emergency contraceptive, Preven, in 1998 as a prescription-only drug; Plan B was approved as a prescription drug in 1999. Emergency contraceptives are currently available without a prescription in more than 40 countries. The application to switch Plan B to over-the-counter status was submitted to FDA in April 2003. Women's health advocates claim that OTC status will improve access to the drug, thereby reducing the number of unintended pregnancies and reducing the number of abortions.
The Office of Violence Against Women within the Department of Justice (DOJ) has developed guidelines for the treatment of sexual assault victims. The guidelines, released in September 2004, have been criticized by numerous organizations because they do not mention offering emergency contraception to female rape victims. In January 2005, a letter signed by 97 Members of Congress was sent to the Director of the Office on Violence Against Women expressing concern over the failure to mention emergency contraception and urging that the guidelines be changed to include such information.
The bills directly related to Plan B that were introduced in the 109th Congress have two purposes: to ensure that Plan B is made available to sexual assault victims (H.R. 1214, H.R. 3171, S. 20, S. 844, H.R. 1709, H.R. 2928, S. 1264, and H.R. 2635) and to encourage education and provide information about Plan B (S. 20, S. 844, H.R. 1709, and H.R. 3326). Another bill, H.R. 6235, would require the HHS Secretary to convene a scientific workshop to review and evaluate current scientific data on the use of emergency contraception by women under the age of 18. This report will be updated as events warrant. | <urn:uuid:0ab96a54-3814-4a79-98ae-3607c40fcd1e> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 3,327 |
First Same-sex Divorce in New Orleans Comes Before First Marriage
The first same-sex divorce in Louisiana was granted about two hours before the first legally sanctioned same-sex wedding took place.
Two New Orleans women, Anna Wellman and Stephanie Baus, who married in Massachusetts in 2008, made bittersweet history by filing for divorce in Orleans Parish Civil District Court on Friday (June 26) -- something they couldn't have done before the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last week because Louisiana law did not recognize same-sex weddings performed out of state.
The divorce was made official Monday in a proceeding that lasted just minutes and concluded before 11 a.m., without the fanfare and media attention of the wedding ceremony that would take place shortly before 1 p.m. in another courtroom, Judge Paulette Irons said Tuesday.
"I treated them just like I would a man and a woman," Irons said. "My responsibility is to uphold not just the laws of the state of Louisiana, but the laws of the United States and the Constitution. After the Supreme Court ruled, that's the end of the road for me."
Michael Robinson and Earl Benjamin, likely the first same-sex couple to marry in Louisiana, signed their marriage certificate in front of Judge Paula Brown at 12:50 p.m.
Wellman and Baus had been living separately for five years, had divided their assets and never encountered difficulty dealing with custody of their now college-aged child, attorney Mitch Hoffman said. Married in 2008, the couple had been together more than a decade prior, he said.
While the couple was able to get a Massachusetts marriage license after spending just a few days in the state, they would have had to establish residency in Massachusetts in order to legally divorce, a process that can take up to a year, Hoffman said.
"They are both professionals, and they obviously weren't able to do that, so they had to wait," Hoffman said.
Wellman and Baus weren't aware of Robinson and Benjamin's ceremony was going to take place Monday, Hoffman said, and they never discussed whether to hold off on filing the divorce petition until after the state's first wedding.
"We were there earlier than the people who got married, I guess. It wasn't a race," he said. "They want to move forward and move on. That's all."
Hoffman said the the couple's parting had been amicable, but Friday's Supreme Court decision could lead to a flurry of litigation, as same-sex couples who have been married in other states seek divorces in Louisiana.
Like heterosexual couples, same-sex spouses can have complex and contentious partings, but those splits have been managed without state laws that prescribe how marital property and child custody is to be handled, Hoffman said.
"This Supreme Court decision is going to open up a lot of potential litigation," Hoffman said. "We don't even know what is going to happen. When does their community property regime begin? Does it begin on Friday? Does it begin when they got married? We've got a lot of legal issues that have to be settled."
leaving people pounding their refresh button circa 2010.
Re: First Same-sex Divorce in New Orleans Comes Before First Marriage
This isn't news. New Orleans has been making good on its promise of "Come Married, Leave Divorced" for over 200 years now.
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Programming Resource Center
Coronavirus update: All TAs are now online - your course instructor should explain to you how to connect with the TAs in your course. TA office hours are being held online now. There are no TAs present in the ENB 216 PRC at this time.
What is the Programming Resource Center?
The CSE Programming Resource Center (PRC) is comprised of two cubicles in the back corner of ENB 216 (Software and Systems Lab). Teaching Assistants from Programming Concepts (COP 2510), IT Programming Fundamentals (COP 2512), IT Object Oriented Programming (COP 2513), Program Design (COP 3514), Advanced Program Design (COP 3515), Object Oriented Design (COP 3331), and Data Structures (COP 4530), IT Data Structures (COP 4538) staff the PRC to provide programming assistance to all CSE students in these courses. The TAs staffing the PRC may also be able to help students with programming assignments in other classes. Please note that the TA for your class is always the best resource for help.
Who can utilize the PRC resources?
If you are a student in a department undergraduate class, you are welcome to come to the PRC for help with programming questions. Please note that the TA for your class is always the best resource for help.
Does this replace the help I can get from the Teaching Assistant for my class?
This does not replace the help you get from the TA for your class but may instead supplement this help. Please note that the PRC staff will very likely not be familiar with the specific assignments from your class in the same way as your class TA will be.
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How UK Universities Are Using Patient Data in Research: New #DataSavesLives Animation Launched
17th April 2018
The animation takes viewers on a journey to understand how patient data is created and shared and the important role it plays in research to improve the health of patients and populations. Examples are highlighted with relevant case studies and the measures that universities must take to ensure patient data is protected and accessed is explained.
The animation forms part of the #DataSavesLives campaign that has been supported by Connected Health Cities and The Farr Institute since it was launched by The University of Manchester in 2015. The Cancer Innovation Challenge added its support on its launch in March 2017.
Stephen Melia, Communications Lead at Connected Health Cities (CHC) said: “Over the last four years we’ve been engaging with patients and members of the public in a variety of ways to highlight the positive re-use of patient data in research. We’ve found that often people have the same questions and sometimes a lack of understanding about how their data is used and shared to improve health.
“Teaming up with our colleagues at The Farr Institute, we wanted to create a short video that answered these questions and reassured people that UK universities take seriously their responsibilities regarding the safe and secure use of patient data. Ultimately it’s about transparency and being open about the work we deliver”
“We developed the animation with patients and members of the public from across the UK. It’s really important to both organisations that we listen to what the public have to say on the subject of health data sharing and this approach is embedded into our research.”
Cherry Martin, Communications Manager at The Farr Institute said: “The #DataSavesLives campaign is a plain-English way of talking about health data science research and the positive impacts it has on patients and society. It helps us build public trust around using patient data in research and allows us to highlight the work being done that really is helping to save lives. Social media is a powerful tool. The #DataSavesLives campaign has created a direct channel of communication between health data professionals and the public and is now used by organisations across the world, united in supporting the re-use of data for research.“
“It’s a way for the research community to say “this is why we do what we do”, and hopefully helps non-expert audiences and the public to understand why using data in research is important for all of us.”
“We hope this short film will be a useful tool for health and research communities to stimulate discussions around the importance of patient data over the coming months and we invite all corners of the research community, NHS, charities, industry, and indeed the public, to support our message by sharing the video - data really does save lives.”
The animation can be viewed at www.datasaveslives.info.
For more information or to request a media pack, please contact stephen.melia [at] manchester.ac.uk (Stephen Melia)
or cherry.martin [at] ed.ac.uk (Cherry Martin)
Information about Connected Health Cities and The Farr Institute
Connected Health Cities
Connected Health Cities (CHCs) safely and securely combines population data and technology to address chronic disease burdens and reduce early mortality across the North. Uniting experts from academia, NHS and industry CHC is improving services for patients and building public partnerships founded on trust and transparency.
Funded by the Department of Health and commissioned by the Northern Health Science Alliance (NHSA), The University of Manchester coordinates four CHC regions located in the North East and North Cumbria, the North West Coast, Greater Manchester and Yorkshire.
www.connectedhealthcities.org @CHCNorth #DataSavesLives
The Farr Institute
The Farr Institute is a UK-wide research collaboration involving 21 academic institutions and health partners in England, Scotland and Wales. Publically funded by a consortium of ten organisations led by the Medical Research Council, the Institute is committed to delivering high-quality, cutting-edge research using ‘big data’ to advance the health and care of patients and the public.
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Both Kofi Anan and Kim Il Un went to boarding schools for the privileged in Switzerland.
The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has a race-based funding policy: schools get more funds if their white student population is below 30%.
A perverse consequence of LAUSD’s race-based preferential funding policy is that if a school has a white student population of over 30%, then the school gets penalized with budget cuts.
How is this not racially discriminatory against whites?
John Gregory reports for ABC7, March 26, 2017, that the racial formula was a condition imposed by court decisions dealing with desegregation in the 1970s.
But outrage has grown at the highly-regarded Walter Reed Middle School in North Hollywood, as the school faces layoffs and increased class sizes due to a law limiting funds for schools with a higher white student body.
In a letter to Walter Reed’s parents, LAUSD noted the school had been above the 30% white percentage for the past couple years.
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The united nation in its magnanimity has set aside every first Monday in October of every year as world habitats day to reflect on the state of our towns, cities and the basic right of all coming with adequate shelter.
The ever unrelated issues of solid waste collection and disposal that often lead to serious health challenges from uncontrolled dump sites to waste burning that encapsulates both water and air pollution.
It also put our focus on power and the responsibility to shape the future, which bring it to this year’s Theme:''Municipal solid waste management’’ with having its main global observance taking place in Kenya as same activity is also taking place in Nigeria specifically in Lagos state at Adeyemi Bero hall with a capacity field with large participants.
The event had in its schedule, exhibitions of waste management tools and free medical test for participants.
Delivering welcome address, the Lagos state commissioner for physical planning and urban development, Mr Rotimi Ogunleye said solid waste management remains a serious environmental issue that needs to be taken seriously especially as urbanization and industrialization have taken a new dimension which in turn, affect both Fiona and fauna.
He said the international observance is indeed a key ingredient that is centred on common parlance which is referred to as trash, garbage that consists of everyday items that are discarded by the public consisting of food waste, industrial waste agricultural and medical waste radioactive and sewage sludge.
‘’As these waste are generated, they are meant to avert epidemics in the communities hence their management remains key’’
‘’It is also worthy of note that it involved financial implication and as nations develop technologically, it is very important that it adopt waste to energy, disposal recycling or composting in response to their environmental challenges’’
Explaining Lagos state efforts so far, Tpl Rotimi ogunleye said the state government had disbursed a good percentage of funds on domestic waste.
‘’Lagos state has a population of over 20million, and it is estimated that the average individual in a megacity as Lagos generates an average of 0.115kg of waste daily’’.
He said what that explains is that the state requires huge funds to be earmarked for domestic waste management to provide the necessary facilities for operators engaged in the collection of disposal of domestic waste.
Eugene Itua, an environmental expert and a Discussants at the event believe there is a need for a circular economy where everybody is involved either direct or indirect.
He said one key area government must tackle is ensuring individual taking responsibility.
Government must take enlightenments very seriously, in other that we as people are able to minimize our levels of refuse generation and for it to be sustained; the government must take the lead in ensuring the many inhabitants are in the know about all.
He said government creates incentives for private participation for wider coverage.
Itua said laws that created private participation must be expanded adding that the present law is not sufficient enough to give the needed level playing ground for sustainable private participation ’’
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The 2019 Global Education Monitoring Report, Migration, displacement and education, shows that a shortage of trained teachers and funding is hampering efforts to integrate migrant students.
The key takeaways
- Half of the world's forcibly displaced people are under the age of 18.
- Often they have limited access to the education systems of the countries where they are seeking asylum.
- Low- and middle-income countries host 89 percent of refugees but often lack the funds to support their education.
- Shortfalls in teaching staff also pose huge obstacles — even Germany would need 42,000 new teachers to properly educate the refugee children it has taken in.
- The report said low-income countries Chad, Ethiopia and Uganda were "champions" when it came to integrating refugees into schools.
- It also praised Canada and Ireland as "global leaders" in implementing inclusive education policies.
- The report urges donors to triple funding for refugee education.
'Education is the key'"Everyone loses when the education of migrants and refugees is ignored," UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay said in a statement. "Education is the key to inclusion and cohesion. Increased classroom diversity, while challenging for teachers, can also enhance respect for diversity and be an opportunity to learn from others."
Manos Antoninis, director of the education report, warned countries not to get complacent and "think the job is done once immigrants are in school. They are being excluded in so many other ways."
Read more: Refugee children making a new life in Germany
Too often, these students "end up in slower school tracks or in under-resourced establishments in troubled neighborhoods," he said.
German Development Minister Gerd Müller told the Funke newspaper group that Germany would increase its funding for the education of young people in emergency situations such as war from €16 million ($18.3 million) to €31 million.
Around 75 million children in crisis situations have no opportunity to go to school, the minister said, and "we have to act decisively now, otherwise they will grow up without prospects."
Europe must do more:The report highlighted the fact that a lack of integration and language teaching means first-generation migrant children are twice as likely to drop out of school than local pupils in the EU. Read more: Despite wealth Germany struggles with illiteracy
nm/rt (AFP, AP)
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012
ACHA Women Add Home Game Sunday
The first-year ACHA Division 2 women's ice hockey club announced Monday that it has added a first-ever home game this coming Sunday morning, December 9th, at 9:50 a.m. against No. 11 Slippery Rock (3-7-0, 3-3-0 ACHA WD2).
It will not be played at the Ice Pavilion, but at Galactic Ice at 750 Park Avenue in Altoona. For those unfamiliar, the rink is easily accessible from I-99, Exit 32 (about 40 miles south of State College) and located next to Blair County Ballpark, home of minor league baseball's Altoona Curve.
Penn State, recently ranked fifth in ACHA WD2, has been idle since stomping Maryland 5-0 on November 3rd behind Devon Fisk's hat trick to raise its record to 3-1-1. Fisk has six goals this season to lead the team and rank 10th in WD2 in goals per game. Other key contributors include several names familiar to fans of last season's final Lady Icers team, including captain Carly Szyszko, club president Mary Kate Tonetti, defender Allie Rothman, and a goaltending tandem of Katie Vaughan and Sarah Eisenhut with a combined goals against average of 0.99. A strong group of freshmen, including Nina Elia, Tara Soukup and Mandy Mortach, have stepped to the fore as well.
The game Sunday sets up as quite an important tilt, thanks to WD2's east-west system that sees the top four teams from each region invited to the national championship tournament regardless of their placement nationally. So while Slippery Rock is ranked 11th overall, the Pride is fifth among eastern teams, just one spot behind PSU's slot within the east. A win Sunday, then, would seem to go a long way towards solidifying Penn State's chances of playing into March.
The key to making that victory happen will be slowing down SRU forward Christy Pastucha. Pastucha who, like Vaughan (and several members of the NCAA women's team) is a Pittsburgh Penguins Elite product, has a ridiculous 21 goals and 24 points this season and will try to crack a defense that has only been scored on five times. It should be an intriguing matchup, and I encourage anyone able to get out and give this team some well-earned support for their long-awaited Central PA debut.
Here's the team's revised remaining regular season schedule (home games in bold):
December 9 vs. No. 11 Slippery Rock (at Altoona, PA), 9:50 a.m.
January 13 at Navy, 1:55 p.m.
January 26 at No. 2 West Chester, 5:15 p.m.
January 27 at No. 2 West Chester, 12:45 p.m.
February 9 at Buffalo (ACHA D1), 6:00 p.m.
February 10 at Buffalo (ACHA D1), 12:00 p.m.
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Home of “The Original” — a muffuletta-inspired creation with three meats, three melted cheeses, lettuce, tomato, olives, and a signature dressing, served on warm, freshly made sourdough bread — Schlotzsky’s Sandwich Shop opened in Austin, Texas, in 1971.
Now known as Schlotzsky’s Bakery Cafe, the company moved its corporate headquarters to Atlanta a year ago, and has more than 350 locations worldwide.
But the biggest news right now is the debut of Schlotzsky’s Austin Eatery, which opened on Dec. 15 at Sugarloaf Marketplace in Duluth, a fast-casual-friendly mixed-use development that’s also home to Freddy’s, Chipotle and Panda Express locations.
Pitched as “the first prototype to test the brand evolution,” the Eatery is both a rewind to the lively Austin vibe of the original shop on South Congress Avenue, and a fast forward to a new menu aimed at capturing the tastes of millennials who favor food trucks and craft beer.
To that end, the new design is an eclectic mix of reclaimed wood, brick, found objects, Austin-influenced graphics and state-of-the-art electronic displays. The space features an open kitchen and exhibition bakery, with mismatched furniture and varied seating options, including a spacious covered patio.
The new menu adds the likes of sliders, street tacos, and “tins” filled with mac and cheese, tater tots or tortilla chips and a hefty blend of meaty, cheesy and veggie toppings. And for the first time, wine and beer are on the Schlotzsky’s menu, including local offerings from Jekyll, Monday Night and Red Hare.
What’s more, the fast-casual service style has been turned up a notch, with GPS pager technology and servers roaming the floor to guide guests in customizing orders with a range of add-ons and condiments.
Last week, the two people most responsible for the latest evolution of the Schlotzsky’s concept, president Kelly Roddy and executive chef Maira Isabel Morales, were in Duluth to talk about the new design and food.
“Every element of this restaurant, the look, the feel, is inspired by that South Congress, Austin, spirit,” Roddy said. “The brand started there some 45 years ago, so it’s evolved with that influence, particularly the bold flavors.
“And, of course, Austin was one of the first places where the food truck parks evolved. So we took bits and pieces of that, both in the decor and the menu. You could see a food truck with tacos next to a food truck with brisket mac and cheese, or there might be sandwiches or sliders.”
Morales, who is also the director of research and development for Schlotzsky’s, noted that the one thing that would always remain on the menu unchanged is The Original.
“If you have something that’s perfect and amazing, you’re not going to mess with it,” Morales said. “But on the new menu, we have a number of items made with brisket. We also brought in carnitas, which I think are beautiful. And we put a lot of different flavors together that you might not think go together, but they become magic together.
“In that way, we have a mix of different countries, too. A taco called the Exchange Student has chicken, Mexican-style chorizo, Korean gochujang sauce, mozzarella cheese, avocado and pickled onions. So we’re going worldwide, almost like the found objects of food.”
Morales said another big idea behind the offerings is that many items can be mixed and matched and shared among a group of diners.
“The menu is big, the flavors are bold and exciting and we wanted to have some things you will never find anywhere else,” she said. “You come with your friends and family. You have a beer or a glass of wine, you share tacos, sliders, tins, and it’s a community feeling.”
2260 Peachtree Industrial Blvd., Duluth. 678-226-5223, schlotzskys.com/austineatery.
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The new book, released later this year, tells the official story of the record-breaking production.
Pottermore Publishing has revealed its eBook cover for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: The Journey, which is the official behind-the-scenes book of the production and its journey to the stage.
Let’s have a look.
The book is chock-full of beautiful colour photography as well never-before-seen sketches and candid backstage images.
The book explores Harry Potter and the Cursed Child from the earliest phases of development with producers Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender, to the crafting of the eighth story with J.K. Rowling, director John Tiffany and playwright Jack Thorne, and the bringing together of the extraordinary team of artists and actors who took this new part of Harry Potter’s story to the stage. You’ll be told about the development of the movement and magic that has been so celebrated, the all-important WHAM (Wigs, Hair and Makeup) department, and the stunning set design in theatres across the world.
The eBook is released globally on 31 October and is available for pre-order now. It is being published in print by Scholastic in the US and Little Brown in the UK.
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Who or what that is monitored is being watched.
Photographer: D. Gordon E. Robertson; licensed under GNU Free Documentation License
And a thing that is attenuated is being reduced, becoming less in size, quality or amount.
For cases in which there is no immediate risk to public health or the environment, or in cases where removal (cleanup, remediation) of the contaminants is not practical for reasons of costs or lack of proper technologies—such cases may resort to leaving the contamination in place to “rot” under watchful eyes.
We call this Monitored Natural Attenuation or MNA for short.
In opting for MNA, one should look carefully into the planned time span and project the cost of monitoring along the way. MNA may stretch into decades with potential impediments on transactions with the land.
With careful consideration of all options and wise planning, MNA can be employed to enable transactions with and redevelopment of contaminated land.
Go to the EPA’s Citizen’s Guide to Monitored Natural Attenuation http://www.clu-in.org/download/Citizens/a_citizens_guide_to_monitored_natural_attenuation.pdf for the rest. It is simple and fun to read. | <urn:uuid:45a9316b-8a26-4f40-96ea-3a070eb9f00c> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 1,155 |
Discarded electronic equipment is one of the world’s fastest-growing sources of waste, as consumers frequently replace “old” models that become more obsolete each year. However instead of letting e-waste sit them on the scrap pile or head to the landfill, Kodjo Afate Gnikou decided to utilize spare parts in order to create a cheap, DIY 3D printer.
– WoeLab-Lomé during the Archicamp 2012, thanks to a kit brought from France. Very spontaneously, Afate identified the problem posed by the availability of a kit in the realization of this project and initiated the process of manufacturing an empowering machine easy to reproduce, 100% based on recycling and other materials available anywhere. W.AFATE, the name of the printer, is a composition of “W” WoeLab, and “Afate” the name of the inventor.. The W.AFATE printer is inspired by the Prusa Mendel which is one of the models had been put together at the
Please have a look at the Euronews-report on the young inventor and his ambitions:
Kodjo Afate Gnikou has imagination, talent and ambition. Using rails and belts from old scanners, the case of a discarded desktop computer and even bits of a diskette drive, he has created what is believed to be the first 3D printer made from e-waste. It has taken him several months to put together his experimental device. Lifting designs off a computer, the 3D printer produces physical objects. In the video he shows the printing of a small round container.
Being supposed to provide solutions adapted to African conditions and realities, it’s an initiative, part of the HighLowTech ethic provided by the WoeLab, meant to equip the various social strata with proximity technology and they also provide the ability to create their own machines with a very detailed and simplified documentation.
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April 22, 2004
Friday Harbor research diver saves companion who lost consciousness in water
Two research divers with the UW’s Friday Harbor Laboratories are safe and well this week after an underwater incident Thursday, April 15, where one lost consciousness and was brought to the surface and given emergency medical assistance by the other.
The divers, who always go underwater in pairs for safety, were at a depth of about 65 feet at the Friday Harbor labs when one started having trouble breathing, passed out and was brought to the surface by the other, according to Richard Strathmann, biology faculty member and resident associate director of the lab.
The diver who lost consciousness was brought to the surface and resuscitated by in-water rescue breathing techniques, and was then taken for evaluation to Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle, which has a decompression chamber, and later released.
Strathmann said the incident is being investigated by the lab and other UW authorities.
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Today almost all VPN implementations allow the usage of X.509 certificate for the authentication of the peers. These are the same certificates as used for the implementation of the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) in the HTTP protocol.
This chapter will briefly cover the creation of these certificates.
The easiest way to create X.509 certificates on Linux is the openssl command and the auxiliary tools. When the OpenSSL package has been installed usually an auxillary command CA and/or CA.pl, has been installed, too. We will use this command to create the certificates.
First check where the command has been installed. It is usually not in your path! On Red Hat Linux distributions it is installed in /usr/share/ssl/misc/CA.
Now create your certificate authority first.
$ mkdir certs $ cd certs $ /usr/share/ssl/misc/CA -newca CA certificate filename (or enter to create) <enter> Making CA certificate ... Using configuration from /usr/share/ssl/openssl.cnf Generating a 1024 bit RSA private key ................++++++ ..............++++++ writing new private key to './demoCA/private/./cakey.pem' Enter PEM pass phrase: capassword Verifying password - Enter PEM pass phrase: capassword ----- You are about to be asked to enter information that will be incorporated into your certificate request. What you are about to enter is what is called a Distinguished Name or a DN. There are quite a few fields but you can leave some blank For some fields there will be a default value, If you enter '.', the field will be left blank. ----- Country Name (2 letter code) [DE]: State or Province Name (full name) [NRW]: Locality Name (eg, city) [Steinfurt]: Organization Name (eg, company) [Spenneberg.com]: Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) : Common Name (eg, your name or your server's hostname) :RootCA 2003 Email Address :firstname.lastname@example.org
Please enter the appropiate values when asked for Country Name, etc. If you would like to have the correct values proposed (like above in my case) edit your openssl.cnf file. On Red Hat Linux systems you may usually find it at /usr/share/ssl/openssl.cnf.
The created certificate authority is only valid for one year. Often you want a longer lifetime for the certificate of your CA. Since the certificates you are signing later on usually have a shorter lifetime it is not practical to edit the openssl.cnf file. Rather change the lifetime manually:
$ cd demoCA/ $ openssl x509 -in cacert.pem -days 3650 -out cacert.pem -signkey ./private/cakey.pem Getting Private key Enter PEM pass phrase: capassword $ cd ..
The certificate authority is now ready to go. Let's create a certificate signing request:
$ /usr/share/ssl/misc/CA -newreq Using configuration from /usr/share/ssl/openssl.cnf Generating a 1024 bit RSA private key ...............................++++++ ...................................++++++ writing new private key to 'newreq.pem' Enter PEM pass phrase: certpassword Verifying password - Enter PEM pass phrase: certpassword ----- You are about to be asked to enter information that will be incorporated into your certificate request. What you are about to enter is what is called a Distinguished Name or a DN. There are quite a few fields but you can leave some blank For some fields there will be a default value, If you enter '.', the field will be left blank. ----- Country Name (2 letter code) [DE]: State or Province Name (full name) [NRW]: Locality Name (eg, city) [Steinfurt]: Organization Name (eg, company) [Spenneberg.com]: Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) : Common Name (eg, your name or your server's hostname) :VPN-Gateway Email Address :email@example.com Please enter the following 'extra' attributes to be sent with your certificate request A challenge password : An optional company name : Request (and private key) is in newreq.pem
The file newreq.pem contains the certificate signing request and the encrypted private key. This file can later be used as a private key for FreeS/WAN or Racoon. Once the request is created, we can sign it using the certificate authority.
$ /usr/share/ssl/misc/CA -sign Using configuration from /usr/share/ssl/openssl.cnf Enter PEM pass phrase: capassword Check that the request matches the signature Signature ok The Subjects Distinguished Name is as follows countryName :PRINTABLE:'DE' stateOrProvinceName :PRINTABLE:'NRW' localityName :PRINTABLE:'Steinfurt' organizationName :PRINTABLE:'Spenneberg.com' commonName :PRINTABLE:'VPN-Gateway' emailAddress :IA5STRING:'firstname.lastname@example.org' Certificate is to be certified until Apr 29 06:08:56 2004 GMT (365 days) Sign the certificate? [y/n]:y 1 out of 1 certificate requests certified, commit? [y/n]y Write out database with 1 new entries Data Base Updated
Depending on the version of the command CA the certificate might be print to stdout. This will be similar to the following certificate:
Certificate: Data: Version: 3 (0x2) Serial Number: 1 (0x1) Signature Algorithm: md5WithRSAEncryption Issuer: C=DE, ST=NRW, L=Steinfurt, O=Spenneberg.com, CN=RootCA 2003/Emailemail@example.com Validity Not Before: Apr 30 06:08:56 2003 GMT Not After : Apr 29 06:08:56 2004 GMT Subject: C=DE, ST=NRW, L=Steinfurt, O=Spenneberg.com, CN=VPN-Gateway/Emailfirstname.lastname@example.org Subject Public Key Info: Public Key Algorithm: rsaEncryption RSA Public Key: (1024 bit) Modulus (1024 bit): 00:c5:3b:9c:36:3a:19:6c:a9:f2:ba:e9:d2:ed:84: 33:36:48:07:b2:a3:2d:59:92:b0:86:4c:81:2c:ea: 5c:ed:f3:ba:eb:17:4e:b3:3a:cc:b7:5b:5d:ca:b3: 04:ed:fb:59:3c:c5:25:3e:f3:ff:b0:22:10:fb:de: 72:0a:ee:42:4b:9a:d3:27:d3:b6:fb:e9:88:10:c8: 47:b7:26:4f:71:40:e4:75:c4:c0:ee:6b:87:b8:6f: c9:5e:66:cf:bb:e7:ad:72:68:b8:6d:fd:8f:4c:1f: 3a:a2:0d:43:25:06:b9:92:e7:20:6c:86:15:a0:eb: 7f:f7:0b:9a:99:5d:14:88:9b Exponent: 65537 (0x10001) X509v3 extensions: X509v3 Basic Constraints: CA:FALSE Netscape Comment: OpenSSL Generated Certificate X509v3 Subject Key Identifier: CB:5C:19:9B:E6:8A:8A:FE:0E:C4:FD:5E:DF:F7:BF:3D:A8: 18:7C:08 X509v3 Authority Key Identifier: keyid:01:BB:C6:33:BE:F5:9A:5E:B0:0C:5D:BD:41:E9:78: 6C:54:AD:66:8E DirName:/C=DE/ST=NRW/L=Steinfurt/O=Spenneberg.com/ CN=RootCA 2003/Emailemail@example.com serial:00 Signature Algorithm: md5WithRSAEncryption 6f:89:2b:95:af:f1:8d:4d:b7:df:e8:6d:f7:92:fb:48:8c:c4: 1a:43:68:65:97:01:87:a6:84:b5:a1:38:bd:62:74:70:db:9e: 78:19:d9:0c:af:18:ad:13:77:56:7d:3f:19:61:da:ba:74:30: 8e:c5:50:0e:e3:eb:ff:95:cd:8d:d6:7e:c3:0e:ab:5b:34:94: bc:16:0f:ef:dc:de:40:bb:7d:ba:a2:b8:5d:f9:74:e7:28:58: 75:a0:66:d2:8d:85:ba:38:82:08:10:33:ef:be:29:c9:31:9d: 63:a9:f7:e0:99:ea:a7:ed:b6:b5:33:1b:1c:4a:a4:05:40:6e: 40:7b -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- MIIDjDCCAvWgAwIBAgIBATANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQQFADCBgjELMAkGA1UEBhMCREUx DDAKBgNVBAgTA05SVzESMBAGA1UEBxMJU3RlaW5mdXJ0MRcwFQYDVQQKEw5TcGVu bmViZXJnLmNvbTEUMBIGA1UEAxMLUm9vdENBIDIwMDMxIjAgBgkqhkiG9w0BCQEW E3JhbGZAc3Blbm5lYmVyZy5uZXQwHhcNMDMwNDMwMDYwODU2WhcNMDQwNDI5MDYw ODU2WjCBgjELMAkGA1UEBhMCREUxDDAKBgNVBAgTA05SVzESMBAGA1UEBxMJU3Rl aW5mdXJ0MRcwFQYDVQQKEw5TcGVubmViZXJnLmNvbTEUMBIGA1UEAxMLVlBOLUdh dGV3YXkxIjAgBgkqhkiG9w0BCQEWE3JhbGZAc3Blbm5lYmVyZy5uZXQwgZ8wDQYJ KoZIhvcNAQEBBQADgY0AMIGJAoGBAMU7nDY6GWyp8rrp0u2EMzZIB7KjLVmSsIZM gSzqXO3zuusXTrM6zLdbXcqzBO37WTzFJT7z/7AiEPvecgruQkua0yfTtvvpiBDI R7cmT3FA5HXEwO5rh7hvyV5mz7vnrXJouG39j0wfOqINQyUGuZLnIGyGFaDrf/cL mpldFIibAgMBAAGjggEOMIIBCjAJBgNVHRMEAjAAMCwGCWCGSAGG+EIBDQQfFh1P cGVuU1NMIEdlbmVyYXRlZCBDZXJ0aWZpY2F0ZTAdBgNVHQ4EFgQUy1wZm+aKiv4O xP1e3/e/PagYfAgwga8GA1UdIwSBpzCBpIAUAbvGM771ml6wDF29Qel4bFStZo6h gYikgYUwgYIxCzAJBgNVBAYTAkRFMQwwCgYDVQQIEwNOUlcxEjAQBgNVBAcTCVN0 ZWluZnVydDEXMBUGA1UEChMOU3Blbm5lYmVyZy5jb20xFDASBgNVBAMTC1Jvb3RD QSAyMDAzMSIwIAYJKoZIhvcNAQkBFhNyYWxmQHNwZW5uZWJlcmcubmV0ggEAMA0G CSqGSIb3DQEBBAUAA4GBAG+JK5Wv8Y1Nt9/obfeS+0iMxBpDaGWXAYemhLWhOL1i dHDbnngZ2QyvGK0Td1Z9Pxlh2rp0MI7FUA7j6/+VzY3WfsMOq1s0lLwWD+/c3kC7 fbqiuF35dOcoWHWgZtKNhbo4gggQM+++KckxnWOp9+CZ6qfttrUzGxxKpAVAbkB7 -----END CERTIFICATE----- Signed certificate is in newcert.pem
It is now advisable to rename the files newreq.pem and newcert.pem to something more meaningful.
$ mv newcert.pem vpngateway_cert.pem $ mv newreq.pem vpngateway_key.pem
Now have fun creating certificates for every peer in the VPN.
In case a private key gets stolen or compromised, you have to revoke it because based on its lifetime it is still valid. The revoked keys are stored in the certificate revocation list (CRL). First, create an (empty) list:
$ openssl ca -gencrl -out crl.pem Using configuration from /usr/share/ssl/openssl.cnf Enter PEM pass phrase: capassword
You need to create the file demoCA/crlnumber manually if you get an error: No such file. Modern OpenSSL versions require this.
$ echo 01 > demoCA/crlnumber
To revoke a certificate you need to have the certificate file. This is also stored in demoCA/newcerts/. The name of the certificate can be read in demoCA/index.txt. Then use the following command.
$ openssl ca -revoke compromised_cert.pem Using configuration from /usr/share/ssl/openssl.cnf Enter PEM pass phrase: capassword Revoking Certificate 01. Data Base Updated
Once the certificate has been revoked, the certificate revocation list has to be recreated using the above command.
When generating certificates for Windows clients you have to make sure that the lifetime of the certificate lies within the lifetime of the CA. If the lifetime of the certificate exceeds the lifetime of the CA, the windows client will not accept the certificate!
The easiest way to transfer certificates to a windows box is by using the PKCS#12 exchange format. Openssl can reformat the certificates to this format:
$ openssl pkcs12 -export -inkey key.pem -in cert.pem -certfile cacert.pem -out export.p12 -name "Windows Cert"
You are asked to specify an export password. On the windows box you can then import this file using the export password.
A tool which might help in generating the PKCS#12-File is Wincert. You find the URL to the tool in the links section. | <urn:uuid:c0a8beba-644f-43aa-9147-f8e2e0b99263> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 9,907 |
AWhen requested what retains them up at night time, most IT safety leaders will discuss information breaches, malware and ransomware. The previous few years have proven the damaging potential of ransomware assaults reminiscent of WannaCry and Ryuk or ransomware-as-a-service from hacker teams reminiscent of DarkSide on firms, hospitals, monetary establishments and significant infrastructure. At the similar time, there have been dramatic information leaks which have resulted in social safety numbers, banking info, and medical info being collected and offered on the “darkish net,” together with by firms reminiscent of Goal (2013), US Workplace of Personnel Administration (2015), Anthem (2015), and Equifax (2017). ) and Marriott (2018).
Most of all information in the world, from governments to vitality grids to monetary establishments, is presently encrypted utilizing RSA (named after the first letters of the surnames of execs Ronald Linn Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Max Adleman), ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) and others related cryptosystems developed many years in the past. This information is usually transmitted over public web infrastructure, making it susceptible to hackers. However the day is quick approaching when quantum computer systems will be capable to crack RSA/ECC encryption. | <urn:uuid:123bd1f1-f67a-48c1-92c2-f283d3c02d3f> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 1,312 |
Denver Family Lawyer
Family law covers all types of familial relationships, as well as virtually all types of intra-family conflicts. While having family problems is not a unique situation, these cases are often the most complicated legal matters that the average person deals with during their lifetime.
Your family deserves to have a skilled and experienced attorney assisting them throughout the family law process. If you are dealing with an issue concerning divorce, separation, or the care of your children, contact a Denver family lawyer today. En Español.
Handling Marriage and Separation
Some of the most common cases that a family lawyer in Denver handles are divorces. In Colorado, parties to a divorce are not required to prove that the other person was at fault for the demise of the marriage.
Instead, divorce attorneys could help parties substantiate their claims for property division, child custody, spousal maintenance, and more. The laws governing the dissolution of marriage can be found in Colorado Revised Statutes §14-10-106, et seq.
For most parents, the main concern in a family law case is the care and welfare of their children. In Colorado, the state has replaced references to child custody with “allocation of parental responsibility.”
The court in a family law case may decide which person is the primary residential parent and which person has parenting time or visitation. The judge could also determine which parents can make decisions on their child’s behalf.
Establishing Parental Rights
Another area of family law revolves around adoption and the termination of parental rights. A Denver family lawyer could petition the court to terminate a parent’s rights so that another person could adopt their child.
A dedicated lawyer could also facilitate the adoption process and minimize interruptions or delays. Finally, parents could use legal counsel to stop an adoption and ensure that they retain their rights and responsibilities over their child.
Financial Support in Denver
Family lawyers can be invaluable in helping parties receive financial payments from their former partner. Colorado’s spousal support laws are generous and allow most parties who earn a combined total of less than $75,000 per year to petition the court for maintenance payments.
In addition to spousal support, family attorneys are also useful to help parents sort through the complex regulations that govern child support payments. Some of the calculations that may go into the award of child support include the financial resources of each parent, the child’s physical and emotional needs, and the standard of living the children would have enjoyed had their parents remained together.
Division of Property During Divorce
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Description This piece of armor is an element of the hoplite's panoply, which also included a breastplate, greaves, shield, spear, and sword. The nose-guard and cheekpieces of the undecorated, crestless Corinthian helmet left only the eyes and mouth of its wearer exposed. The small holes around the edge of the helmet anchored a leather lining that would have been sewn inside the helmet. This was the most common form of helmet among hoplites. This helmet may have been "killed," or rendered unusable, by bending the cheekpieces outward. This type of distortion is common among helmets dedicated in sanctuaries.
- Heroes: Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville; San Diego Museum Of Art, San Diego; Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA), New York. 2009-2011.
Provenance Mr. E. Segredakis, New York, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, January 15, 1946, by purchase.
Credit Museum purchase with funds provided by the S. & A.P. Fund, 1946
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Think about your own life at work as well as outside and consider how strongly you try to avoid failures. Avoiding failures is a normal reaction to people and failure is almost invariably considered a negative or even a scary thing.
This attitude, however, is not constructive in business, as it is an obstacle to creativeness and continuous renewal of experimental culture. Experimental culture aims to develop innovative solutions and activities by actively doing and experimenting with different things and testing the methods that are proven to work elsewhere and for very different types of things. Experimental culture allows uncertainty, and risks and failures occur only if there is nothing to learn about experiments and mistakes. In Finland, the current state of experimental culture is considered to be below average. The issue is so important that it can even be found in the government’s top projects . It was also extensively discussed by experts and industry professionals during Laatukeskus Excellence Findland’s Quality seminar in May 2017, where we attended.
Real experimental culture cannot be born unless failure is allowed
“Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.”– Soichiro Honda, Founder of Honda
Failures or mistakes are important for innovation, as they often lead to new insights or alternative ways of doing things. Innovations that started out from mistakes are, for example, a source for many medical findings such as penicillin and pacemakers .
However, permitting failures does not mean allowing carelessness, indifference or negligence. The consequences of health and safety mistakes can be very serious and should in no way be encouraged. The experiential culture is more about understanding that sometimes well-thought-out plans or reasonable ideas and experiments do not work as expected and something can be learned from them. Strong experimental culture encourages people to open up and try experiments that out of the ordinary or sound funny at first.
While failure can be a source of innovation, research has shown that many organizations fail to accept failures easily or even try to eliminate them altogether. In these companies rewarding is done by achieving milestones, even though new experimentation and venturing may give better results. It is worth doing a lot of small scale experiments and then applying the things that are known to work. Companies should find a better balance in how much they value the results and learning outcomes for the future. If management does not learn to allow failures, it kills innovativeness.
For many companies, trying out experimental culture means cultural change. Workers should be encouraged to try things even if there’s a risk of failure. The result may be something new and innovative or at least knowledge of something that does not work. And in the long run, confidence and responsibility may follow, making the people more effective at their work.
How can a supervisor support experimental culture?
In cultural change, the focus is often on the management, and its role is very important in increasing the experimental culture. One can easily imagine that experimental culture can’t be realized if the management or the nearest supervisor starts pointing their finger at each failure. By what means can people in leadership and management roles be able to support experimental culture?
HRB on käsitellyt kokeilukulttuuria ja ideaalista johtajaa useissa artikkelissa. He osaavat sanoillaan ja teoillaan auttaa ihmisiä pääsemään epäonnistumisten pelosta ja samalla kykenevät luomaan kulttuuria, jossa älykkäällä riskinotolla voidaan luoda innovaatioita ja arjen toiminnassa jokainen on toimintatapojen kehittäjä. Listaamme tähän artikkeleissa mainittuja epäonnistumisia sietävän johtajan piirteitä:
HRB has discussed experimental culture and its ideal leader in several articles. With their words and actions ideal leaders can help people to overcome fears of failure. At the same time they are able to create a culture in which intelligent risk-taking can create innovations and in everyday life everyone is a developer of working methods. Below we list the characteristics of a leader who can tolerate failures mentioned in this article:
- They recognize when failure is the result of sensible behavior and when it’s the case of indifference or intentional negligence. Experiments and mistakes are approached as results that can be explored, which can be learned from and which can be used to build something new.
- They are trying to break social or bureaucratic obstacles inside the business, so they can better deal with their employees and increase co-operation between people working in different organizational units
- For them leading is more cooperation than control and requires the ability to listen. They are constantly interacting with the people they lead and are familiar with their work. They are thus able to raise questions that really support and help people in their work. Mutual trust creates the courage to try new things.
- Instead of praise or criticism, they take an analytical and non-condemnive approach when looking at projects. When positive feedback is provided, feedback is not just a “doing good!” comment on the general level, but feedback must show understanding of the work.
- They encourage their employees to collaborate and share ideas and are able to create this enabling atmosphere.
- After a failure, there are no “What Happened?” questions and no “Who did this?” The goal is to learn something and they will encourage others to do so.
- They encourage people to try new things and even ti tell them when the experiments don’t go well. They understand that hiding mistakes and failures takes away from others the opportunity to learn and it is a source of realistic risks.
As a conclusion it can be said that if true experimental culture is to be sought, a good place to start is in the attitudes of management and superiors and their work with the other employees. Also, we all can think about our own approach to tasks. Do we dare to experiment enough? Do we try boldly? Do we want to develop our work? Now is the time to start.
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The market has the ability to completely change the energy sector, according to recent research from Arcane.
According to Arcane research, the adaptability of running Bitcoin (BTC) mining operations may be essential for resolving the practical issues that hinder the energy sector.
When it comes to Bitcoin’s widespread acceptance, one of the main issues authorities bring up is its energy consumption.
While advancements in chipset production have assisted in lowering operational costs associated with Bitcoin mining, a report by Arcane indicates the market’s potential to revolutionize the energy sector.
Bitcoin mining supports the expansion of wind and solar systems, which frequently provide unpredictable and uncontrollable energy, because of its low cost of reaction.
According to an obscure study, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas has only up to now permitted bitcoin miners to take part in the most sophisticated demand response systems.
Bitcoin mining can assist in resolving problems with gas flaring, the process of burning natural gas involved with oil extraction, in addition to being adaptable to grid demands.
Arcane emphasizes that miners can set up operations next to oil wells by taking advantage of the agnosticism, modularity, and portability of Bitcoin rigs. Reasoning that “Per $1,000 investment, a bitcoin mining system reduces emissions of 6.32 tons of CO2 equivalents per year, compared to 1.3 for wind and 0.98 for solar.”
By using the heat produced as a byproduct of bitcoin mining to heat up buildings, businesses, and other uses for the next winter, this technology can aid the energy sector even more.
It is significant to highlight that around 40% of the world’s CO2 emissions are caused by heating.
Reusing heat from bitcoin mining has a number of benefits, including lower operating costs and less expensive heating.
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Based upon the New Line Cinema film written and directed by John Waters, Book by Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan, Music by Marc Shaiman, Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman
Hairspray delighted audiences by sweeping them away to 1960s Baltimore, where the 50s are out—and change is in the air. Loveable, plus-size heroine Tracy Turnblad has a passion for dancing, and wins a spot on the local TV dance program, The Corny Collins Show. Overnight she finds herself transformed from outsider to teen celebrity. Can a larger-than-life adolescent manage to vanquish the program’s reigning princess, integrate the television show, and find true love (singing and dancing all the while, of course!) without mussing her hair?
The musical’s original Broadway production opened on August 15, 2002.
In 2003 it won eight Tony Awards, including one for Best Musical, out of thirteen nominations. It ran for over 2,500 performances and closed on January 4, 2009. Hairspray has also had national tours, a London West End production, and numerous foreign productions and was adapted as a 2007 musical film. The London production was nominated for a record-setting eleven Laurence Olivier Awards, winning for Best New Musical and in three other categories. (Source: Wikipedia.)
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The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, used her new year’s address to deliver her most outspoken attack to date on Germany’s growing anti-Islamic protest movement.
She accused its leaders of “prejudice, coldness and hatred”, charging that they hijacked and abused political slogans that helped to topple the Berlin Wall 25 years ago.
The recently formed so-called “Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident” – or Pegida – have been holding regular demonstrations since October. One such protest at the end of December drew more than 17,000 people, while another is currently planned in the eastern city of Dresden for Monday.
“I say to all those who go to such demonstrations: do not follow those who have called the rallies because all too often they have prejudice, coldness, even hatred in their hearts,” Ms Merkel said in a televised new year’s appeal.
Her speech was broadcast nationwide this evening. The sudden popularity of Pegida has shocked Germany’s main parties and provoked heated political debate as the country struggles to cope with a record 2014 influx of more than 200,000 asylum seekers. The influx is set to continue well into the new year.
Last month, new hostel accommodation destined for use by asylum seekers was left damaged in a suspected arson attack near Nuremberg. Swastikas and anti-immigration graffiti were daubed on the walls.
Ms Merkel, who grew up in East Germany, took issue with the fact that many of the predominantly right-wing protesters who have attended Pegida demonstrations chant the slogan “Wir sind das Volk” (“We are the people”), coined by East German anti-Communist demonstrators in 1989 in the run-up to the fall of the Berlin Wall. She accused Pegida of hijacking the slogan for its own xenophobic ends. She told viewers: “What they really mean is: you are not one of us, because of your skin colour or your religion.
“Worldwide there are more refugees than we have seen since the Second World War. Many literally escaped death. It goes without saying that we help them and take in people who seek refuge with us.”
Pegida started out in mid- October with a demonstration in Dresden attended by about 200 supporters. In early December it attracted 15,000 supporters. On 22 December a record 17,500 attended the movement’s weekly Monday protest in the city.
There have since been rival demonstrations in Bonn, Düsseldorf, Kassel and several other towns and cities.
Its supporters fear that Germany is being overrun by Muslim immigrants who are destroying traditional Teutonic values. They want strict immigration controls, enforced “integration” for foreigners and “criminal asylum seekers” to be sent packing.
“We want to reclaim our own country,” read one banner at a recent Dresden protest. “Beware Ali Baba and his 400 drug dealers,” read another.
Pegida’s followers range from known neo-Nazis and football hooligans to middle- and lower-middle-class Germans. “The main parties won’t listen to us,” an unnamed middle-class Dresden woman in her sixties told The Independent at a recent Pegida protest. “If we complain about immigration the politically correct media writes us off as Nazis,” she added. The movement’s self-styled leader is Lutz Bachmann, 41, who once sold sausages at Dresden’s famous Christmas market. He has previously been convicted of a number of offences. He now runs an advertising agency.
Mr Bachmann argues that the German media “twists everything”. So far, he has refused to be interviewed or take part in any public debate about his movement’s aims. Nearly 100,000 people have “liked” the Facebook page created by Pegida. However, an anti-Pegida online petition started after the protest on 22 December attracted more than 265,000 signatures by today.
Prior to Ms Merkel’s outspoken attack, several German politicians had argued that it was necessary to listen to Pegida’s concerns. On Monday, her former interior minister, the Bavarian conservative politician Hans-Peter Friedrich, accused Ms Merkel of ignoring conservative issues. He claimed the tactic had left a political vacuum on the right which was being filled by Pegida and Germany’s new populist Eurosceptic Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
The AfD openly sympathises with Pegida. The party won up to 12 per cent of the vote in state elections in east Germany in September on an anti-immigration platform.
Alexander Gauland, a leading AfD politician, attacked Ms Merkel for her criticism of the movement. “She is judging people who she does not even know, from on high,” he said. Mr Gauland has described Pegida as his party’s natural allies.
The Dresden sociologist Wolfgang Donsbach claims that many Pegida supporters feel that 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, they have emerged as losers of German reunification.
In a regional survey Mr Donsbach held in the Dresden area, one in five people interviewed was said to have expressed racist views. One in four was said to have claimed they felt “like a foreigner in their own country” despite Dresden having one of the lowest immigrant populations in Germany.
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Most of today's electric vehicles (EVs) are powered by lithium-ion (Li-Ion) batteries—the same kind of batteries used in cell phones and laptop computers. Currently, most Li-Ion batteries used in EVs provide a driving range limited to 100 miles on a single charge and account for more than half of the total cost of the vehicle. To compete in the market with gasoline-based vehicles, EVs must cost less and drive farther. An EV that is cost-competitive with gasoline would require a battery with twice the energy storage of today's state-of-the-art Li-Ion battery at 30% of the cost.
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Hello. Hacking is my favorite thing in the world. Unfortunately, the only real penetration I have done was from cracking wireless. I read the book on nmap (amazing read, by the way). Sadly, I can scan a network and get loads of useful information, but I don't know where to go from there. What are some good resources for exploits? And no, I do not want to be a script kiddie. I want to study these exploits in the hopes of making my own. (I know python, bash, and am learning c and c++.) As soon as I can scrape together 550 bucks I will take that offsec course.
Also, the only way I can remotely associate with a network is through wireless cracking. How does one go about associating with remote wired APs?
I would recommend reading Metasploit Unleashed (Google it) and reading the code that makes up the plugins. That will give you lots of stuff to start googling.
I don't understand what you mean by a remote wired AP. Aren't all remote AP's wired?
A good way to answer your question would be, how did you learn what you have learned so far.
There is a ton of info here on the forums so start reading in the how-to and tutorial section.
In addition welcome to the forums.
There is even a video section that has, well videos that should contain tons of good info for you.
There's some good info here: Buffer Overflows – backtrack
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Also might want to check out the Offsec class: http://www.offensive-security.com/pe...e-training.php
Thanks for the quick replies. Mikec, I mean can one associate with a remote router when all you have is the IP address and open ports. I sort of considered wireless APs to be "remote," too, but maybe that word doesn't fit.
Archangel, I've read books (and manpages) on linux, python, nmap, Hacking: the art of exploitation (didn't make perfect sense because I need to learn c). I've read a lot of forums, too. RE is my go-to hacking forum. Discovering BT and the BT community was huge (thankyou stumbleupon). I have been watching some videos, as well, although I get impatient because I could learn the same thing twice as fast if it were written. In a month I'll be taking a C class as well as a network protocol class.
I've been messing with arpspoof, wireshark, ettercap, sslstrip, metasploit, nmap, aircrack-ng, kismet. Trying to decide which tools to check out next.
Then you are on the right track it looks like.
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“Peter Bevelin is one of the wisest people on the planet.”— Nassim Taleb
I’m a big fan of Sherlock Holmes, and Peter is not the first person to explore the wisdom that can be drawn. Maria Konnikova’s book, Mastermind: How To Think Like Sherlock Holmes, takes a deep look at Sherlock Holmes’s methodology to develop the habits of mind that will allow us to mindfully engage the world.
Peter’s book is shorter than Maria’s and encourages you to draw your own conclusions. He’s distilled Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous detective Sherlock Holmes into principles and quotes.
This book will appeal to both Sherlock fans as well as those who want to think better. It contains useful and timeless methods and questions applicable to a variety of important issues in life and business. We could all benefit from A few lessons from Sherlock Holmes.
Let’s look at some of the lessons Bevelin brings to our attention.
“What distinguishes Holmes from most mortals,” Bevelin writes, “is that he knows where to look and what questions to ask. He pays attention to the important things, and he knows where to find them.”
Many ideas over a wide range of disciplines help us gain perspective (queue mental models).
Breadth of view, my dear Mr. Mac, is one of the essentials of our profession. The interplay of ideas and the oblique uses of knowledge are often of extraordinary interest.(Holmes; The Valley of Fear)
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I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.
Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones. (Holmes; A Study in Scarlet)
So says the statistician.
You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. (Holmes; The Sign of the Fear)
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One of the best things about Peter is how he adds outsiders to the mix. He inserts this quote from Montaigne:
Judgment can do without knowledge but not knowledge without judgment. (Montaigne)
Never jump to conclusions.
I have not all my facts yet, but I do not think there are any insuperable difficulties. Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories. (Holmes; Wisteria Lodge)
Don’t theorize before data.
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. (Holmes; A Scandal in Bohemia)
Make sure the facts are facts.
I realize that if you ask people to account for “facts”, they usually spend more time finding reasons for them than finding out whether they are true. … They skip over the facts but carefully deduce inferences. They normally begin thus: “How does this come about?” But does it do so? That is what they ought to be asking. (Montaigne)
See the Forest
The principal difficulty in your case … lay in the fact of there being too much evidence. What was vital was overlaid and hidden by what was irrelevant. Of all the facts which were presented to us we had to pick just those which we deemed to be essential, and then piece them together in their order, so as to reconstruct this very remarkable chain of events. (Holmes; The Naval Treaty)
Small things may be important.
The smallest point may be the most essential. (Holmes; A Study in Scarlet)
We see but don’t Observe
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These are some of the courses offered in this program. It is not a complete list and courses are subject to change in advance of the academic year.
COMM 1227 - Communications I
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COSM 1226 - Cosmetology Sciences
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COSM 2009 - Hair Colouring/Lightening II
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COSM 2066 - Cosmetology Skills Lab II
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COSM 3019 - Advanced Hair Colouring
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COSM 3058 - Artistry of Hair Styling/Cutting III
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Dennis Tito wants to send a married couple to Mars.
Today the multimillionaire and first private astronaut released the details of his proposal, dubbed Inspiration Mars, to fly a pair of astronauts to Mars and back in the year 2018. They will come within about 100 miles of the surface of the red planet.
Here, then, is an FAQ to provide an overview of the plan.
When are they going?
January 5, 2018. The entire mission will take 501 days.
Because Mars and Earth will be aligned such that, in terms of distance and gravity, a single spacecraft can make a 501-day journey around Mars and back by modifying hardware that already exists or is in advanced stages of development. The sun will also be reaching a minimum, reducing radiation exposure. Such an alignment does not come again until 2031.
The video below shows more details of the alignment that would allow a fast and efficient trip to Mars and back.
Who is going?
Two people, preferably a married couple because a company official said they would likely be most compatible. It’s not clear whether the astronauts will be required to have prior experience in human spaceflight as the qualifications for the astronauts have yet to be determined.
How long will the spacecraft be near Mars?
The closest approach to Mars will be measured in hours, not days. So yes, two astronauts will be spending nearly two years in a small spacecraft for a few hours of gazing upon Mars up close, with human eyes, for the first time. The closest passage will also occur during the Martian night.
What will they fly upon?
The hardware has yet to be selected. However the organization plans to modify spacecraft and rockets that already exist, or are in advanced stages of design. Completely new hardware cannot be built in time for a 2018 launch, and would be prohibitively expensive in any case.
Who is paying and how much will it cost?
Tito hasn’t released a cost estimate. He is personally financing the first two years of the project during which the rocket and spacecraft will be selected, and deals negotiated with private companies and possibly the government. After that the organization hopes to raise funds from philanthropic organizations.
Because humans have never been beyond the moon, and sending humans on a long-duration spaceflight would significantly move the bar of human spaceflight forward. It’s also about inspiring people about space, and to demonstrate that America can do difficult things.
What does NASA think?
An official with Inspiration Mars told me the organization already has a Space Act Agreement with NASA’s Ames Research Center to better understand the kind of thermal protection needed to protect the spacecraft when it re-enters Earth’s atmosphere at a speed of nearly 32,000 mph.
After today’s announcement NASA released a statement attributed to a spokesman, David Steitz:
“This type of private sector effort is further evidence of the timeliness and wisdom of the Obama Administration’s overall space policy and the enthusiasm to tap the innovative spirit of the private sector and share the interest people have in Mars exploration. It’s a testament to the audacity of America’s commercial aerospace industry and the adventurous spirit of America’s citizen-explorers. NASA will continue discussions with Inspiration Mars to see how the agency might collaborate on mutually-beneficial activities that could complement NASA’s human spaceflight, space technology and Mars exploration plans.”
Is Inspiration Mars trying to replace NASA?
No. “This is one-shot deal,” a company official told me. “We’re building this on low-Earth orbit proven systems that can be modified for this specific mission. This is not a threat to the program of record for NASA and we need a long-term deep space exploration capability. That’s not what we’re doing. What we hope we’re doing is accelerating that process and hopefully creating some public enthusiasm and momentum for getting back to exploration.”
What do you think, Eric?
I think it’s cool. It’s an interesting concept, and it seems like there are a lot of really innovative ideas to jump-start human exploration of space now coming from the private sector. There’s this, there’s Golden Spike and there’s Mars One, and that’s not a comprehensive list. They’re all leveraging private money in different ways — from philanthropy to reality television — and I have no idea if they will work. I do, however, salute them for thinking boldly about exploring space. Given the challenges of these endeavors, I think we’ll be fortunate if one of these plans succeeds but I wish them all well. It certainly makes my job more interesting. | <urn:uuid:c22e63db-5ef6-4f6f-ac06-c9d5990ac830> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 4,641 |
What You Require When Assessing the Best Chiropractic
In the body, you need the musculoskeletal system to protect the internal organs and for support. The musculoskeletal system of the body involves the bones, joints, and muscles, and they require to all be in the best condition. You have a lot of conditions that can affect the musculoskeletal system, such as injuries and pains. For this reason, you should find the best aid. You should visit a chiropractic clinic. You should evaluate the best chiropractic clinic in this area. You should follow different factors to identify the best chiropractic clinic. Some of these are given in the segment that follows.
For you to have the best chiropractic clinic, you need to be sure of the various services that they offer. You need the clinic where you will get the best help in the area of chiropractic medicine. When choosing the best chiropractic clinic, you should ensure that you go for the one that has services such as auto accidents, headaches, sports injuries, knee paints, back pains, and other services.
For you to get the best chiropractic clinic, you need to look at the qualification. You should get the chiropractic clinic that will have professionals to handle the various problems that the patients have. You required to find the chiropractic clinic that has professionals in medicine who have specialized in chiropractic medicine. You also need to check the certification so that you will be sure.
It is necessary to look for the chiropractic clinic that can handle emergencies. It thus needs you to check the operating hours of the clinic. You will have those that are open only from 9 am to 5 pm. You require to identify the clinic that has 24/7b services. You can trust the chiropractic clinics that offer 24-hour services in times of emergencies. It is essential to get the contacts so that you can ask for the emergency services when you need it.
Once you have had the chiropractic services, you should pay for that. It is advisable to look at the amount charged for the chiropractic services. Differences in the costs that you need to pay will exist. The amount that you need to pay for the chiropractic services should be affordable. You need to check the services and the condition treated as they affect the overall cost. Some of the chiropractic clinics will accept medical insurance to settle the bills. You should have quality treatment services from the chiropractic clinic.
It is advisable to get the best chiropractic clinic when you require to deal with bone and muscle pains. | <urn:uuid:10061ff1-773f-48d9-840f-70567c569212> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,557 |
Lately it’s music from Canada that’s been interesting me; and most recently, taking their place alongside such disparate luminaries as Aaron Funk, Aidan Baker, Elsiane and Paul Dolden (about whom, in due course, much, much more), have been Dragonette, whose second album Fixin To Thrill came out earlier this month. Dragonette have been steadily forging their reputation over the last four years, beginning with one of the best debuts ever, the elusive but immaculate Dragonette EP, after which a clutch of singles and first album Galore have emerged, each revealing a group remarkably assertive and undeniably talented. To describe their music as ‘synthpop’ is to do them a disservice; eighties allusions come thick and fast, but their songs are firmly rooted in the noughties, and to this end they stand out as a truly contemporary act, rather more successful and engaging than, say, New Young Pony Club. Furthermore, there’s also a distinct rock sheen to their music, which in the best way prevents it from being too ‘clean’ a synth sound, akin more to the gutsy rocktronica of The Faint. Out in the limelight is Martina Sorbara, a singer whose voice is capable of a surprising range of characterisations and tone colours.
Fixin To Thrill is their most energetic release to date, a dozen songs each packing a unique punch and marking out Dragonette as having reached a new kind of maturity. It opens with the title track, a gritty cymbal-crasher with razor-sharp bass sawtooths worthy of Trent Reznor. This is a distinct curtain-raiser, fulsome but introductory, substantial but serving as an overture to what lies beyond. It’s followed by the delicately country-influenced “Gone Too Far”, a heavy foot-stomper that could set any barn dance alight; something of a departure for the band, although hearing them in ‘knees up’ mode like this is pretty exciting. But now come the first really impressive songs on the album, as well as the first to place the synths in centre stage, beginning with “Liar”. At a driving tempo that seems somehow to be neither up- nor downtempo, it marries mellow verses (with a great little bassline gently pounding in the left ear) to a strong, monotone chorus, embellished with some lovely bridge passages. Their melodies are excellent, carried off with real aplomb by Sorbara’s ever-so-slightly nasal soprano, which sounds especially emotive during the middle 8. All that’s gone before finds itself combined in “Stupid Grin”, another stomper that brings fresh surprises; the middle 8 causes the song to deconstruct into a refrain chanted by a choir of what sound like schoolchildren; it’s an almost incongruous moment, but works perfectly. “Easy” quietens down the mood again, with a vivid opening line, “You love me like a bull in a china shop…”. Harmonically simple, this is an exercise in fine melodic writing, the structure of the song pulled around to allow the song to, well, sing. In the central moment of repose, Sorbara reveals a delicious fragile and breathy side to her voice, emerging from her highest register.
We’re plunged back into the world of electrorock with “Pick Up The Phone”, which must be a sure contender for a single release (although, worryingly, that would no doubt bring a raft of insufferable remixes, something with which Dragonette have been afflicted before). Sorbara now manages to make herself sound like Goldfrapp in the verses, soft and whimsical, but lets rip at the choruses, replete with off-stage “oh-oh”s — this chorus is the epitome of what i said before about the band’s ability to meld retro trappings into a thoroughly new pop sound. But even this excellent track is surpassed by “We Rule The World”, without doubt the best song on the album. This is Dragonette at their most polished; the verses inhabit a narrow space, surly and clipped, with nothing but beats and dancing electronics beneath, whereas the anthemic chorus opens out into impossibly wide vistas, its chords pulling the listener inexorably upward, borne aloft on a melody that leaps around with glee, keen to soar up to ever higher altitudes. This is real paradise pop, impossibly brilliant, imaginative in its conception and flawless in its execution; best song of the year. After such an astonishing track, the following songs inevitably sound a touch lacklustre in its wake. “Big Sunglasses” is gently amusing but lacks strong melodic ideas, while “Okay Dolore” sounds strikingly like Peaches, Sorbara’s voice even resembling Peaches’ staccato delivery (in the rare moments when Peaches actually sings).
But then, the album takes another turn for the brilliant, ending with three more outstanding tracks. “Come On Be Good” evokes other retro stylings, with hints of Grease in its verses and even a trace or two of Abba in the bridge passages; it’s another song at a moderate tempo (they seem at their best in this area), but once again they make it move along with impressive pace. And now, a real surprise: “You’re A Disaster” pares away the electronica, the exquisite melody initially supported by nothing other than a rather perfunctory guitar. Sorbara’s vocals here are simply gorgeous, sounding remarkably like compatriot Elsieanne Caplette (and also a little like Portishead’s Beth Gibbons), and this isn’t the end of the similarities; as it broadens out into the underlying waltz rhythm, this is a song that could well have been executed by Elsiane, all of which is a big compliment. Unique and wonderful, this still wouldn’t be the best track to conclude the album, and sensibly Dragonette finish with “Don’t Be Funny”, another song with a big anthemic chorus that contrasts very excitingly with its softer meandering verses. But for all its weight, it is still emphatically a coda, never seeking to launch itself with the intensity of earlier songs, and it brings to an end one of the most best albums of 2009.
Clearly, Dragonette have brought a multitude of other artists to mind throughout this album, but i don’t want to give the impression there’s anything remotely like pastiche going on here. Dragonette are utterly individual, and i can’t recommend Fixin To Thrill highly enough – it’s definitely among the best albums of this year. | <urn:uuid:e7b36849-b5d3-4013-8882-f9c45ee1c837> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 6,196 |
If you were to listen to the people involved in the coal industry, and to some extent President Donald Trump, they would tell you that coal is the fuel of life. It is cheap in production costs, efficient in energy creation, and still plentiful compared other fossil fuels like oil. Unfortunately, coal is also the dirtiest and most harmful fuel for power generation known to mankind. No matter how much the industry likes to throw the term clean coal around, king coal remains to be the dirty ruler of the energy industry.
Coal: The Dying Fuel Superpower
Coal has been a vital part of human evolution. The industrial revolution, for example, would not have happened weren’t it for the cheap black gold found underground. It fueled our lives, it pushed innovations, and it killed countless people by its mere existence and application to solve our growing hunger for electrical power. So much so, that we focussed the generation of power solely on fossil fuels, with coal at its head.
The popularity of coal has shifted, though, from more advanced countries to developing nations. Coal giants like the US, though still involved, are slowly turning away from coal as renewable energies get more affordable and better implemented into the power grid. The boom of cheap fracking techniques to produce natural gas has also done its fair share to ensure the coal industry is slowly (emphasizing slowly) coming to an end. The US currently still uses coal to satisfy about 30% of its power demand, but that number is fading for years now. And we should be glad it does. Coal is possibly the fuel that has the most impact on our environment from mining, to burning, to side effects.
Burning Coal: The Obvious Pollutants
Thinking about the environmental and health impacts of coal, most people jump straight to the burning of coal and the pollutants it sets free into the air. There are several nasty substances that are created by burning those black lumps, and all of them have severe effects on both the environment and our health. Those emitted into the atmosphere most prominently feature:
- Sulfur Dioxide: Causing acid rain and damaging to human airways
- Mercury: In 2014, US coal plants emitted more than 40% of the US Mercury Emissions with fatal effects on human health, even in small dosages
- Nitrogen Oxides: Again, acid rain and can cause respiratory issues
- Particulates and several other nasty surprises like Lead, Arsenic, Carbon Monoxide
While there are several techniques, some required by law depending on the country, to filter parts of these harmful substances out, that doesn’t mean coal is ever really a clean product. That is not to say it we haven’t made coal safer, we have, but it still is dangerous and harmful.
One has to remember that filtering doesn’t mean it vanishes. The plant or company has to either reuse/recycle the substances elsewhere if safely possible or store it in places like landfills.
The Myth of Clean Coal
President Donald Trump himself loved the expression of clean coal during the presidential race. Unfortunately, there is no such thing. Clean coal is a practice to reduce the environmental footprint of the coal industry, but it still leaves a lot to be desired. Coal is a plain dirty product, there is no clean coal, no matter how many precautions we take, it will remain a dirty endeavor.
One of the efforts the industry made is literally washing coal to remove undesirable parts like sulphur. However, you are then left with sulphur in the water. There are also techniques to remove Carbon Monoxide from the air, which are then pumped underground so they can’t get into the atmosphere and many more.
Again, the issue here isn’t the effort, but it just creates different problems elsewhere. Dangerous substances can be stored for a short time, mostly without any issues, but what does happen with those substances 10-20 years from now. There already have been issues with coal ash which has gotten access to waterways in the US, and those are not isolated examples.
Add to that the problem that all these ways to basically fish harmful substances out of the coal process are costly and require additional energy, making them redundant, less impactful or plain expensive. They usually aren’t used by companies unless they are legally obliged to implement them, causing them to have no significant impact on issues like climate change after all. Is clean coal a myth? Maybe not. But at the very least, clean coal is a massively misleading term.
King Coal: Impact of Mining Practices
Coal has more impacts on the environment than just being burned. It has to be produced by mining endeavors – either above ground, underground or by removing mountaintops. Underground mines may have arguably the least impact on the environment while posing more of a danger to the people involved.
Coal mining underground is severely dangerous and risky, killing several coal miners in the last decades due to collapse, methane explosions, and unsafe mining practices. But fret not, the environment gets its fair share with not uncommon mine drainage leakages (which are incredibly acidic, often harming waterways) and leaking methane, making up 10% of US Methane emissions.
Coal mining above ground is visibly more impactful on the environment. Mountaintop removal, as used in Appalachia, sees significant parts of mountains removed with the help of explosives, causing major changes in landscape for flora and fauna. Debris created by this practice is often dumped into valleys and can obstruct or destroy natural waterways and pollute them.
The same goes for surface mining, which basically means digging a wide open hole, again destroying or displacing flora and fauna. Unlike mountaintop removal, those surface sites are usually obliged to fulfill a reclamation process once the mining is done, reclaiming destroyed land. However, that practice comes with its own set of issues and impacts as well.
Coal Cleanup: A Grim Future for the Environment
Coal companies are obliged to clean up their mess, for lack of a better expression. This means that when they are granted a lease for a land to mine on, they have to pay a bond as insurance that they will reclaim the land. Basically filling up the hole and making sure nature can go its way. Unfortunately, in the US, there are several issues with this practice, that will get amplified with the slow death of the industry going forward.
Some states have allowed coal companies to self-bond in the past, meaning they were granted a lease without having to pay a bond because they were financially viable. No one expected the coal industry to plummet the way it did, so in some areas, companies could just get leases and rip the ground open as they pleased.
The results are manifold. It has caused several mining sites to be left abandoned due to bankruptcies. This means dug holes just lay open like the day the last miners left. It also means that discharged coal and dirt piles are left untouched near those mining sites. When it rains, pollutants are washed out of them and reach local waterways. Occasionally washed away dirt also clogs drainage pipes causing the local communities additional costs. Let’s not forget that those dirt piles still have coal in them, which makes them flammable. There have been several fires caused by these piles in the past.
Coal Can’t Not Have an Impact
Let’s assume reclaiming the land is successful – it still creates several additional problems. Not only can it take several decades to centuries for nature to reclaim a patch of land, it often never will because the ground and topsoil of the area are affected by the coal mining. Coal is hydrophobic by nature, making it a tough ground composition for many plants to start growing because it isn’t absorbing water. These are the issues we already see today and will be seeing for a long time as the coal industry is on its way out in the US.
The usage of coal was always a holy staple of the US economy, but it isn’t anymore, so much is clear. In fact, it has overstayed its welcome and poses health and environmental risks to us and our planet that are far too great to outweigh the costs it demands.
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In the Advanced Settings page, you can configure advanced Connector settings. To open the Advanced Settings page, click Admin Tools > Advanced Settings in the Lionbridge Connector rail.
The advanced Connector settings are organized into the following sections:
|Section||Description||For Detailed Configuration Instructions, See...|
|Translation Status||You can create a page property to store custom translation-status values that are attached to individual pages, for example MT (for machine translation) or HT (for human translation). After you associate a custom value with a translation provider (LSP), you can view this value for translated pages in the page list of the Globalization Tool.||Creating a Page Property to Store Custom Translation-Status Values|
|Prevent Translation of Pages||You can prevent the Connector from sending pages with certain properties for translation.||Preventing the Translation of Pages|
|Prevent URL Conversions||If either or both of the Language Conversion (URL Reference) and Language Conversion (Content Link) options are configured in the Translation Settings section of the Configuration page, as described in Translation Settings, you can prevent the Connector from converting links to specific files or file types.||Preventing Specific URL and Content-Link Conversions|
|Skip Translation with Local TM||You can configure which components, or property names of components, will be ignored by the local TM (translation memory) when users send content for translation with the Use Local TM option. This setting prevents the Connector from using any previous translations of the specified components that are stored in the local TM.||Skipping Translations in the Local TM|
|Page Metadata Configuration||
Notes: You can copy metadata to multiple pages from the Copy Metadata tab of the Globalization Tool. You can send metadata for translation from the Bulk Translation wizard, the Translation Queue, and the Translation tab of the Globalization Tool.
|Configuring which Page Metadata is Available for Copying and Translation|
|DAM Metadata Configuration||
You specify which digital asset (DAM)A metadata is available for updating, including multiple language copies of those assets
Note: You can update DAM metadata for multiple assets from the DAM Metadata Update tab of the Globalization Tool.
|Configuring which Digital Asset Metadata is Available for Updating|
|Configuration for Catching Published Pages to Queue||
You configure the source and target languages and translation settings for the following options that add published pages to the Translation Queue:
You specify both these features by selecting the corresponding check boxes in the Translation Settings section of the Configuration page. For more information about these features, see Translation Settings.
|Configuring Translation Settings for Catching Pages to the Translation Queue|
|Report Fields Configuration||You specify which fields are available to generate the Field Report, which you generate from the Reporting tab of the Globalization Tool.||Configuring which Fields Are Available for the Field Report|
|Workflow Selections||You specify which workflows are available to run on multiple pages, including language copies of these pages, in the Run Workflows tab of the Globalization Tool.||Configuring which Workflows Are Available to Run|
|Action Permissions||You configure which user group has permission to perform specific actions in the Globalization Tool.||Configuring Who Can Use the Globalization Tool|
You can perform the following actions on this page:
- To save your changes to each section, click the corresponding Save Configuration button.
Note: The settings from each section are saved in a single file.
- To export your configuration settings as an XML file, at the top of the page, click Export. The Connector downloads the advancedSettings.xml file.
- To import a previously exported configuration file:
- At the top of the page, click Import.
- Click Choose File.
- In the browser dialog box that opens, navigate to the XML file to import, select it, and click Open, or similar, to close the browser dialog box.
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- Click Upload to upload the file.
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The FDA 483 Response – Re-establishing Credibility
Once observations are given, particularly critical or major points, the firm has a limited amount of time to respond. 15 days!!! Work to put a time frame around the response in place and adhere to it diligently. This is the firms chance to re-establish credibility with the FDA.
The last thing an auditor or auditor body wants to do is “chase down” a firm for corrective actions or to conduct extensive follow-up – The FDA will NOT do it. Any issues with your FDA 483 response such as lack of clarity or detail will only result in a request for further information, followed by more details, followed by another review, etc. This loss of time in obtaining a conclusion to the audit can result in your firm’s credibility going down the drain fast.
Steps For A FDA 483 Response
An approach for formulating a response on each observation is recommended as follows:
- Evaluate the current state of compliance in light of the audit observation. If possible, indicate what is compliant.
- Identify the root cause of the issue as appropriate. Understand how the firm will resolve the issue systemically.
- Review prior commitments. Are any issues a repeat observation or a repeat observation for the same type system issue? This is critical to know and understand. If you have made a commitment in the past regarding an observation but the corrective actions were not implemented or did not resolve the issue, the inspecting body will evaluate the current observations in a more critical light. Repeat observations also greatly increase the likelihood of further regulatory actions.
- Identify the root cause. This is a fundamental principle in the FDA’s view of systemic audits and is certainly used widely in Europe as a format for inspections.
- Relate each observation to the appropriate Quality System. Understand the area of impact of the issue in relation to the functions impacted by that “system”.
- Develop a corrective action plan around the entire scope of the issue(s) noted.
- Secure the required resources needed to complete the job in the time frame indicated. DO NOT underestimate the forces needed to complete a job within schedule – let alone evaluating the outcome of the work.
- Verify that responsibilities are assigned to key people and make them accountable. Assignments given to “departments” or groups of people are almost doomed to failure. Someone has to be in charge, assign work, track and modify the assignment as needed. Just as important, a single key individual, typically the head of quality, will need to be responsible for the overall work.
Note that in the steps just provided, points 1 through 7 are directly related to formulating a response to the observation. It is critical to understand that points 6 and 7 directly relate to the response letter in that these actions determine the time frame in which actions can be accomplished.
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March 5, 2009
Union Grove Church, Opelika, will hold a wild game supper and paintball March 14, noon–7 p.m. There will also be a variety of sporting games. Prizes for the games and door prizes will be given. For information call 334-749-0461. Robert Rhodes is pastor. | <urn:uuid:dd687f6c-ec5b-42f8-a91e-f454a0892cf5> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 324 |
Audio Review: Doctor Who and the Talons of Weng-Chiang
09:05 04 January 2013
THERE can be few Doctor Who stories as beloved as this 1977 tale of giant rats, Chinese Tongs and murderous manikins stalking the streets of Victorian London, so perfectly does it embody all that is remarkable and entertaining about the series.
A mishmash of melodrama concocted by legendary Who scribe Robert Holmes, it draws on influences from the likes of Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu stories, Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes series, the Ripper murders, the Phantom of the Opera and any number of Victorian penny fiction tales.
Garbed in a deerstalker and cape instead of his usual hat and scarf, the Fourth Doctor takes futuristic savage Leela to meet her ancestors in 1889 Whitechapel, only to find themselves caught up in a malevolent plot by the hideously deformed 51st century war criminal Magnus Greel, who has been posing as the Chinese god Weng-Chiang in order to reclaim his lost time cabinet.
Allied with theatre owner Henry Gordon Jago and pathologist George Litefoot, they discover Greel has disguised the cyborg assassin known as the Peking Homunculus as a ventriloquist’s dummy called Mr Sin, and that his experiments with the unstable zigma energy have not only bred rats the size of tigers, but threaten to destroy the whole of London...
Christopher Benjamin, who played Jago in the original TV episodes and has since returned to the role for a series of audio adventures, lends his distinctive tones to the reading of the novelisation by Terrance Dicks, the latest in the Target Books range from AudioGo.
The original release of this book came at a time when Dicks was churning out dozens of adaptations of TV scripts with little in the way of expansion or development from the stories as broadcast, and as such it’s quite a lightweight telling of a story which has so much to offer visually as well. It would have been nice to see some of the fleshing out of television stories which characterises other novelisations, rather than a straight-forward retelling of a story easily available on DVD.
That said, you really can’t fault Holmes’ ability to tell a ripping yarn, and his script and dialogue more than makes up for any of Dicks’ shortcomings in novelising what is unquestionably one of the all-time classic Who stories. | <urn:uuid:f9ac653e-6175-44f4-a2f7-acdc1371b91e> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,315 |
The Black Loyalist Heritage Centre interprets the story of the world’s largest free African population outside of Africa in the late eighteenth century in Nova Scotia. Set in two acres of grounds, the centre combines purpose-built archives and conference facilities with historic buildings and the National Monument commemorating the Black Loyalist Landing in Birchtown in 1783. The centre was funded by both government and private donations and opened in 2015.
The centre houses a multimedia presentation of the Black Loyalists' journeys from Africa to the American colonies, then to Nova Scotia and back again. In addition, there is an archive where visitors can trace their own ancestors, a virtual version of Carlton's 'Book of Negroes' that visitors can browse, and an opportunity to create a virtual quilt square reflecting on the visitor experience.
As well as these technological initiatives, there is also a pit featuring archaeological remains excavated from Birchtown in the 1990s. With these collections, the museum showcases both the significance of the African presence in Nova Scotia, as well as the African Diaspora around the world. | <urn:uuid:a780c414-f5cd-46f5-98f8-a770f069fae5> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 1,149 |
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14. Azure Pipelines can deploy Artifacts that are produced by a wide range of Artifact sources, and stored in different types of Artifact repositories
Azure, Artifacts, Are, Artifact, And
15. When authoring a release pipeline, you link the appropriate Artifact sources to your release pipeline
16. "Artifact" is defined as the US spelling of "artefact"
Artifact, As, Artefact
17. Consequently, even though they mean the same, it is recommended that you use "Artifact" if you are writing to an American English speaker, in order to avoid confusion or unwanted debates upon the correctitude of this word.
Artifact, Are, An, American, Avoid
18. An Artifact is a man-made object that has some kind of cultural significance
19. If you find a 12th-century vase, it's an Artifact of that time
20. Find 143 ways to say Artifact, along with antonyms, related words, and example sentences at Thesaurus.com, the world's most trusted free thesaurus.
Artifact, Along, Antonyms, And, At
21. Artifact Creative Recycle is a Portland, Oregon based second hand store that sells design driven men's and women's vintage and modern clothing, accessories and shoes, as well as used furniture, art and decor.
Artifact, And, Accessories, As, Art
22. Artifact helps Academic Institutions put their Student Art Show online so graduating fine artists get discovered and hired faster
Artifact, Academic, Art, Artists, And
23. Artifact is the filmmaking duo of Philip Bradley & Hannah Hoffman
24. Artifact and CRAFT CAFÉ at Mingei are the latest additions to restaurateur Tracy Borkum and Executive Chef Tim Kolanko’s CUCINA family of restaurants
Artifact, And, At, Are, Additions
25. Artefact and Artifact are two versions of the same noun
Artefact, And, Artifact, Are
26. An Artifact is a rare and powerful magic item in Dungeons & Dragons
An, Artifact, And, Amp
27. The means to create Artifacts are either unavailable to mortal ken, or else long forgotten
28. Artifacts are often unique or finite in number, and cannot be destroyed except by specific means
Artifacts, Are, And
29. Certain properties distinguish an Artifact from a normal magic item
30. An Artifact is distinguished from normal magic items by its
31. Artifact is the American spelling.Both spellings are etymologically justifiable, and both are hundreds of years old in English
Artifact, American, Are, And
32. Arcanist's Owl ( 4 ) Artifact Creature — Bird (3/3) Flying
33. AWS Artifact Reports provides several compliance reports from third-party auditors who have tested and verified our compliance with a variety of global, regional, and industry specific security standards and regulations
Aws, Artifact, Auditors, And
34. The personal Artifact selected is a time management plan for a three-day period between the 19th and 21st
35. An Artifact is an assembly of your project assets that you put together to test, deploy or distribute your software solution or its part
An, Artifact, Assembly, Assets
36. People assume this complexity is an Artifact of not having a national health insurance program
Assume, An, Artifact
37. They suggest that Sirtris' earlier findings to the contrary might be due to an experimental Artifact
38. Failure could signal that the promised wave of drugs was simply an Artifact of the bubble.
39. Artifact: An object produced or shaped by human craft, especially a tool, weapon, or ornament of archaeological or historical interest.
Artifact, An, Archaeological
40. • A single obsidian Artifact can not be expected to give a reliable date
41. • But no dream or Artifact looms as large as his words
42. • Now open to the public, the Bunker is a symbolic Artifact on the bridge from the past to the present.
43. 12.2k Followers, 145 Following, 3,262 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Artifact (@Artifactbags)
And, Artifact, Artifactbags
44. It would seem that Artifact pertains more to the physical, whereby something of an artificial nature is something that is able to be created; artefact pertains more to the abstract, with something of an artefactual nature being something that is able to be *re*created, though it may manifest in a physical form i.e
Artifact, An, Artificial, Able, Artefact, Abstract, Artefactual
artefact (noun) · artefacts (plural noun) · artifact (noun) · artifacts (plural noun)
Artifacts can come from any archaeological context or source such as: Buried along with a body From any feature such as a midden or other domestic setting Votive offerings Hoards, such as in wells
An artifact or artefact is "something made or given shape by man, such as a tool or a work of art, esp an object of archaeological interest". "Artifact" is the usual spelling in the US and Canada, "Artefact" in British, Irish and Australian English.
"Artifact" is the usual spelling in the US and Canada, "Artefact" in British, Irish and Australian English. In archaeology, where the used, an artifact is an object recovered by some archaeological endeavor, which may have a cultural interest.
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Have I got your attention? Good. Sit down. It’s time we had ‘The Talk’.
There are two very important things you should know. You are human, and that means you have human rights. You are human, and that also means you have a sexuality.
Here’s how they fit together.
- Everybody has a sexuality, but not everyone has the same sexuality.
- Everybody, and I mean everybody, has the right to life, and the right to the highest attainable level of mental and physical health during that life.
- If someone tries to repress your sexuality, they are depriving you of the full enjoyment of your human rights. If you do the same to someone else, you are depriving them of the same.
- Sexuality is not a physical characteristic, but it is a fundamental aspect of each person. Discrimination based on a non-visible characteristic like sexuality is on par with discrimination based on a visible trait like gender or skin colour.
That’s it. Those are the basics. They may sound obvious, but recent events have led me to the conclusion that a lot of us could be reminded. There are a lot of misconceptions about how sexuality and rights work together in the world right now. Two recent events in particular are useful in illustrating the above basics.
Event Number One: Ontario’s Updated Sex Ed Curriculum
You may have heard that the Ontario provincial government has significantly updated the sex education portion of the curriculum. Given that this particular topic had not been updated since 1998, this was long overdue. In addition to all the standard fare (the reproductive cycle, the mechanics of heterosexual sex, sexual hygiene and safety) children will now learn about the following topics over the course of their twelve years of public schooling: consent, LGBT sexualities, the characteristics of (and interpersonal skills needed for) healthy relationships, the management of privacy and online communication.
Want more information? Check out the curriculum yourself – it’s right here.
The problem: a significant number of parents withdrew their children from school as a manner of protesting the curriculum. They believe the curriculum interferes with their rights – specifically the parental rights involved in raising a child. Religious and moral rights are also frequently cited.
The reality: parental rights and religious or moral rights are both valid kinds of rights. However, as mentioned above, the children also have rights – the right to life and health. Their best possible chance at growing up at ease with their own sexuality, whatever it may be, and of respecting that of others and having theirs respected, is by being educated on it. Their best possible chance at expressing that sexuality and engaging in relationships in a healthy and consensual manner is by being educated, along with their peers, on what healthy and consensual relationships look like.
Being deprived of information on this topic can adversely affect the quality of their entire life, and that effect can also spread to their peers.
I cannot accept the proposition that parental rights trump the human rights of the child in this matter. Too much is at stake.
To the parents who object because I’ve never been a parent: I may not be a parent, but at twenty-five years of age I have come to realize how late I was in learning about consent and sexuality. It took me years too long to truly understand the connection between the words ‘sex’ and ‘relationship’ and as for consent…well, my public school years were behind me by the time I was starting to understand my rights in that field. I would have given anything to have learned sooner.
To those who oppose the new curriculum: see numbers 1-4, above.
Do the right thing. Let them learn about how to live healthy, fulfilled lives.
Respect their human rights.
Event Number Two: The Irish Marriage Equality Referendum
Today is the day that Ireland votes on marriage equality. I think by now it’s obvious where this talk is going.
Where voting matters are concerned I usually say I don’t care what you vote for, I care that you vote. It’s not my right to tell someone who to support.
This isn’t one of those times. I care very much how you vote, because human rights are not a voting matter. It is not within any of our rights to say that one marriage is less valid than the other just because the partners involved have a few more physical characteristics in common than the heterosexual majority. What an absurd and arbitrary distinction. Heterosexual-only marriage laws are going the way of miscegenation laws, and they cannot go that way rapidly enough.
Regarding the referendum I can only say this: while I completely disagree that this is an appropriate topic for a referendum, I will be immensely proud of Ireland if they turn out to be the first country to approve marriage equality by popular vote.
If they reject it, I can only mourn the devastating setback for rights in their country.
To those who oppose marriage equality: see numbers 1-4, above.
Do the right thing. Vote, Ireland, and vote for human rights.
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MINNEAPOLIS — Authorities report an outbreak of a mild form of bird flu in turkeys in Kandiyohi County of west-central Minnesota.
The World Organization for Animal Health says routine surveillance testing confirmed on Monday the presence of a low pathogenic N5N2 virus in a flock of 40,000 turkeys in Minnesota's top turkey-producing county. The virus originated in wild birds.
Previous avian flu coverage
- Bird flu cost Iowa's economy $1.2 billion
- Farmers wiped out by bird flu struggle to rebuild
- Millions of hens euthanized at Iowa farms
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The Philadelphia Eagles are—just objectively speaking—having a great season. Their record is 9-1, and they've really begun to revel in every win. So much so that Eagles end zone celebrations after a touchdown are turning into a thing.
Today, as they were in the process of just destroying the Chicago Bears, they may have leveled up. After wide receiver Alshon Jeffery caught a touchdown, the team lined up and he fake-bowled a strike, knocking them down like ten-pins.
Eagles fans and viewers in general mostly loved it, and it showed on social media.
The bowling celebration wasn't the only one of the day, either. After a play that ultimately didn't go their way late in the game, the Eagles broke out the electric slide.
They've been doing this for a while. In a couple of games, the team celebrated with a baseball theme.
If you're pulling for the team on the wrong end of these celebrations, it's only natural you might really hate the Eagles for rubbing their opponents' noses in it.
At the same time, these shenanigans add some extra fun to a game that can at times—for many reasons—be deadly serious.
After all, you couldn't imagine the entire New England Patriots getting a little goofy like that, can you?
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So, I’ve been playing Smite on PC since it first came out of beta, and I’ve really come to love the game. Being the first MOBA I even played, it was probably what got me into the genre in the first place. I had several friends laugh at me for playing it over League, though the more Smite I played, the more I stood by my choice. Eventually, I started playing other MOBAs, but none of them really gave me the same feeling. Even though I probably play League more now, I still come back to Smite as often as I can for a game or two. Recently, Hi-Rez announced that it would be porting Smite to the Xbox One, which was just as surprising as it was exciting. After having the opportunity to play the Alpha, my opinion has only been solidified.
My biggest concern about this whole porting business was how the game would handle on a controller. On the PC, you have an entire keyboard, as well as the mouse, to assign your buttons to. While a controller does have plenty of buttons, and certainly enough for the games designed around the controller, moving a game designed for a keyboard to a controller, while keeping the controls intuitive. What I mean to say is, how do you take the movement and actions that are natural to the keyboard, and make them feel natural on a controller? Well, I’d say that for the most part, Hi-Rez managed to get it down fairly well. Personally, I had the best experience with the 4th control scheme, using the triggers, LB and RB to use abilities, was easy to get used to, and I think that’s important. While learning the controls for the first time user won’t be a big deal, not managing to make it comfortable for those transferring from a PC could be a huge turn off.
With the controls out of the way, let’s talk about the graphics. While I really only had the opportunity to play the Joust map, I have to admit I’m impressed with the games visuals. Personally, I always thought Smite was a great looking game, especially more so than League, though the two are quite different. So, much like the controls, I was worried about how this game would fair when moved to the console. Once again, I’ve been impressed. The Xbox One does a great job with Smite’s visuals, and at least with my experience, it was just as sharp as the PC version. In addition to that, the game was also able to run at a constant, rock solid frame rate, though I’m not sure what the framerate cap is. As I mentioned before, I only had the opportunity to play the Joust map, but I’m hoping that the Conquest map will be just as nice.
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People involved in works like forestry, mining and plantations are highly prone. In addition to that, pregnant women, children and HIV/AIDS affected individuals are vulnerable.
2. Is Quarantining a Preventive Measure?
No. It is not a preventive measure.
No conclusive evidence is available in this regard. However, small amount of drugs pass to the infant through milk, which arenít harmful.
4. What is Malariaís Natural Reservoir?
Chimpanzees and gorillas
5. Can Children and Infants be Administered with Anti-malarial Drugs?
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The International Corpus of English (ICE) began in 1990 with the primary aim of collecting material for comparative studies of English worldwide. Twenty-six research teams around the world are preparing electronic corpora of their own national or regional variety of English. Each ICE corpus consists of one million words of spoken and written English produced after 1989. For most participating countries, the ICE project is stimulating the first systematic investigation of the national variety. To ensure compatibility among the component corpora, each team is following a common corpus design, as well as a common scheme for grammatical annotation.
Contact information: Professor Gerald Nelson, Department of English, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR. Email: email@example.com Fax: +852 2603 5270
Contact information for individual ICE teams may be found here.
News: February 2016
ICE Puerto Rico
I am very pleased to welcome a new research team to the ICE project: ICE Puerto Rico.
ICAME 37 Conference, May 25-29, Hong Kong
The next ICAME conference will be held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Voices of the International Corpus of English (VOICE) CANADA
Voice Canada is a compilation of 70 sound recordings of speakers of Canadian English, based on recordings made as part of the data collection required for creating the Canadian component of the International Corpus of English (ICE-CANADA). The recordings are free and available for download, along with transcripts, through the University of Alberta Dataverse repository (requires registration in Dataverse and acceptance of terms and conditions).
ICE Workshop at ICAME 2015
A workshop entitled 'The Future of the International Corpus of English (ICE) project: New challenges, new developments', was held on May 27 this year as a pre-conference workshop of ICAME 2015 in Trier, Germany. Details of the workshop are available here.
I am grateful to Ulrike Gut and Robert Fuchs for organising this workshop.
Downloading ICE corpora: Note to teachers
Release of ICE NIGERIA
The full version of the ICE Nigeria corpus is now available. The download includes audio files for the spoken part. You can download the corpus here.
A POS-tagged version of the written part is also available, and a tagged version for the spoken part will be available as soon as possible.
I am very pleased to welcome a new team to the ICE project. ICE Gibraltar will be coordinated by reasearchers at the University of Vigo and the University of the Balearic Islands, Spain. For more details, please visit the ICE Gibraltar page on this site.
I am very pleased to announce the launch of the ICE-Scotland project. The project is based at Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität and at Otto-Friedrich-Universität, Germany. Further details are available here.
ICE IRELAND and SPICE IRELAND
The ICE Ireland corpus, and the SPICE Ireland corpus, are now available to download from this site. SPICE Ireland consists of the spoken component of ICE Ireland, with prosodic and pragmatic annotation. For more information, see the ICE Ireland page.
The following recent publications have made extensive use of ICE corpus materials:
Biermeier, Thomas (2008) Word-Formation in New Englishes: A Corpus-based Analysis. Reihe: Anglistik/Amerikanistik.
Deuber, Dagmar (2014) English in the Caribbean: Variation, Style and Standards in Jamaica and Trinidad. Studies in English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Lange, Claudia (2012) The Syntax of Spoken Indian English. VEAW G45, Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Hundt, Marianne and Ulrike Gut (eds) (2012) Mapping Unity and Diversity Worldwide: Corpus-based Studies of New Englishes. VEAW G43, Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Aarts, Bas (2011) Oxford Modern English Grammar. Oxford: OUP.
Hasselgård, Hilde (2010) Adjunct Adverbials in English. Cambridge: CUP.
ICAME Journal No 34, April 2010, dedicated to 'new' ICE corpora.
Tagged ICE corpora now available
The tagging of all currently available ICE corpora with CLAWS7 and the USAS semantic tagger is now complete, and the corpora are available for non-profit, academic research. If you wish to download any of the tagged corpora, please send an email to firstname.lastname@example.org with the subject line "Tagged ICE Corpora". Your email should also indicate your academic affiliation. I will then get back to you with details of how to proceed.
Thanks to Dr Paul Rayson, Director of the UCREL research centre at Lancaster University, for his generous cooperation in this initiative.
Release of ICE Sri Lanka (written)
I am very pleased to announce the release of the written component of the ICE Sri Lanka (ICE-SL) corpus. The corpus is available in standard SGML format and in a POS-tagged version, using the CLAWS C7 tagset. To obtain a copy of the corpus and Manual, please email email@example.com.
Release of ICE USA (written)
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Sunday, May 17, 2009
Toby got tickets to the NCAA Men's Volleyball Championship tournament for his birthday. Trent did some babysitting for us so that we could go to the final 4, but we took Zeke with us to the Championship game. The game was sooo intense and very exciting. It was UC Irvine vs. USC. UC Irvine won in the 5th game 15-12.
Ok, this isn't the greatest picture of us, but I don't have very many of us on here so it will have to do for now.
Our first day in Oregon we headed over to a very fun play place for Zeke. He wasn't quite big enough to enjoy the big slides, but he loved the ball pits and the miniature slide.
If we were headed over to the nursery, I knew we had to pack an extra pair of clothes. There was no way we were getting out of there without Zeke being completely soaked.
Zeke and I were spoiled by Grandma Lander and given a plane ticket to Oregon. We spent a week playing with cousins and having a blast. Toby joined us for the second half of the week to get in a little bit of playing himself. On one day, we went to Bandon to play at the beach. For those of you that don't know, I'm a beach girl through and through. There is no place I would rather be then sitting by the ocean. Turns out, Zeke loves it as much as I do.
Oops... I really didn't want this to happen, but what can you do.
I don't think he minded being wet. He was in HEAVEN!!! Water and sand... what more could a little boy need?
Zeke had so much fun getting to know his cousin, Joshua a little better. They had a lot of fun playing together.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Zeke had his 18 month check up last week and I figured I might as well post his stats on here. Keep in mind I was a month late getting him in so I guess we could call it his 19 month check up.
Weight 30 lbs
Head Circ: 52.1 (that is huge by the way)
He has always had a huge head and weighed a ton. His weight is finally under 95% and his length is a little more average. I can't believe how much he is growing up. He talks all the time. I call him my little parrot. Right now I hear "MOOOMMMM" more than anything else and a lot of "help, please". We just got a new slide, thanks to my amazing visiting teacher, and he loves going outside to play.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Friday, May 8, 2009
A few weekends ago I begged my mom to come and help me do a little bit of this....
Being the trooper that she is, she drove down and spent 2 whole days working on a sewing project with me. Toby was the best dad ever and kept Zeke busy for us. They worked in the garden, went on outings to the park and did a lot of just playing outside.
Nana couldn't stand to miss out on all the fun, so I let her take a few brakes to get some time in with her favorite grandson.
Due to my mom's expertise, we managed to whip up this adorable bedding set. We made 2 sheets, a bumper pad and a crib skirt. I'm on my own for the quilt. It was so much fun working on the project with my mom. She didn't need a pattern or anything and just figured out the best way to do everything. Not to mention she taught me some cool new tricks on my sewing machine. | <urn:uuid:5cdc2083-c79e-43d8-9c67-7f5d022595c2> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 3,113 |
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Involved in exocytosis by regulating a late step in synaptic vesicle fusion. Additionally we are shipping RAB3A, Member RAS Oncogene Family Proteins (10) and many more products for this protein.
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Human Polyclonal RAB3A Primary Antibody for EIA, WB - ABIN954411
Szodorai, Kuan, Hunzelmann, Engel, Sakane, Sasaki, Takai, Kirsch, Müller, Beyreuther, Brady, Morfini, Kins: APP anterograde transport requires Rab3A GTPase activity for assembly of the transport vesicle. in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2009
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Human Polyclonal RAB3A Primary Antibody for WB - ABIN658735
Branham, Bustos, De Blas, Rehmann, Zarelli, Treviño, Darszon, Mayorga, Tomes: Epac activates the small G proteins Rap1 and Rab3A to achieve exocytosis. in The Journal of biological chemistry 2009
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Human Polyclonal RAB3A Primary Antibody for WB - ABIN372708
Schlüter, Schmitz, Jahn, Rosenmund, Südhof: A complete genetic analysis of neuronal Rab3 function. in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2004
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Dog (Canine) Monoclonal RAB3A Primary Antibody for IF, IP - ABIN967929
Novick, Brennwald: Friends and family: the role of the Rab GTPases in vesicular traffic. in Cell 1993
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Human Polyclonal RAB3A Primary Antibody for ICC, IHC - ABIN1742210
Spangler, Schmitz, Kevenaar, de Graaff, de Wit, Demmers, Toonen, Hoogenraad: Liprin-α2 promotes the presynaptic recruitment and turnover of RIM1/CASK to facilitate synaptic transmission. in The Journal of cell biology 2013
Cow (Bovine) Polyclonal RAB3A Primary Antibody for WB - ABIN2792282
Zahraoui, Touchot, Chardin, Tavitian: The human Rab genes encode a family of GTP-binding proteins related to yeast YPT1 and SEC4 products involved in secretion. in The Journal of biological chemistry 1989
Rab3a accelerates cell proliferation by increasing cyclin D1 (show CCND1 Antibodies) expression, enhances anti-cancer drug resistance, and increases tumorigenicity and self-renewal of glioma cells.
Data indicate that exocytic stimuli promote ADP ribosylation factor 6 (ARF6 (show ARF6 Antibodies)) activation, which accomplishes exocytosis by stimulating Rab3A GTP-Binding Protein.
Five compounds which possess good inhibitory activity and may act as potential high affinity inhibitors against Rab3A active site were identified
alpha-Synuclein (show SNCA Antibodies) membrane association is regulated by the Rab3a recycling machinery and presynaptic activity
Rab27 (show RAB27A Antibodies) and Rab3 sequentially regulate human sperm dense-core granule exocytosis.
Myo5a (show MYO5A Antibodies) and Rab3A are direct binding partners and interact on synaptic vesicles and the Myo5a (show MYO5A Antibodies)/Rab3A complex is involved in transport of neuronal vesicles
Mutation screening of the RAB3A gene in 47 individuals with autism provided no evidence that DNA variants in this gene are associated with autism.
Cholesterol content regulates acrosomal exocytosis by enhancing Rab3A plasma membrane association.
In conclusion, we have found no evidence for RAB3A conferring susceptibility on mental retardation in the Han Chinese population.
Initiates exocytosis in acrosome when prenylated and activated with guanosine triphosphate (GTP (show AK3 Antibodies)).
Rab3a deficiency promotes constitutive secretion and underlies selective impairment of Ca(2 (show CA2 Antibodies))-dependent release of alpha-MSH
Rab3a deletion restores excitatory/inhibitory imbalance in synapsin II (show SYN2 Antibodies)(-) hippocampal slices.
betaARs couple to a cAMP/Epac (show RAPGEF3 Antibodies)/PLC (show HSPG2 Antibodies)/Munc13-1 (show UNC13A Antibodies)/Rab3a/RIM1a (show RIMS1 Antibodies)-dependent pathway to enhance glutamate (show GRIN1 Antibodies) release at cerebrocortical nerve terminals.
key role of Rab3a proteins control the balance between secretory vesicle biogenesis and degradation, and suggest that the ablation of this protein probably changes the nature of the reservoir of secretory vesicles available for regulated exocytosis.
Data show diminished actin plasticity in the cell processes of Rab3A knockout (KO) podocytes.
these findings suggest a crucial role of Rab3A in delivering vesicles to Ca2 (show CA2 Antibodies)+ -dependent release sites at ribbon synapses.
We conclude that Rab3A is involved in a novel presynaptic mechanism to homeostatically regulate the amount of transmitter in a quantum.
Rab3A in the GTP (show AK3 Antibodies) bound conformation prevents activity-dependent facilitation of exocytosis in bovine adrenal chromaffin cells
Involved in exocytosis by regulating a late step in synaptic vesicle fusion. Could play a role in neurotransmitter release by regulating membrane flow in the nerve terminal.
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Best State For Business
Once again ... for the second year in a row according to Forbes ... the best state for business and careers for 2011 is Utah. But why? Well, for one thing, the state’s consistency.
As Forbes ... the national business magazine ... says, “No state can match the consistent performance of Utah. It is the only state that ranks among the top 15 states in each of the six main categories we rate the states on.”
Those six categories are:
- Business Costs
- Regulatory Environment
- Economic climate
- Growth Prospects
- Quality of Life
- Employment growth that averaged 0.6% the past five years as compared to –0.6% over the same period nationally.
- Energy costs 31% below the national average.
- The relatively low 5% corporate tax rate.
- A recent Tax Foundation study ranks Utah 6th when looking at the tax burden on business.
- The overall business cost is 10% below the national average.
- A fast-growing population. One of the nation’s fastest. It means a growing work force.
- A vibrant high-tech sector.
- An emphasis by both the private and public sector to make Utah the most business-friendly state in the country.
Utah has become an attractive lower-cost alternative to California for high-tech companies. With companies such as Adobe Systems, eBay, Oracle, and Electronic Arts all coming to Utah in recent years.
And the story isn't expected to end any time soon. Moody's projects job growth to be 2.4% annually through 2015.
The study factored in 37 points of data to provide a ranking in the six main areas. Business costs ... including labor, energy, and taxes ... were most heavily weighted. A variety of data sources were used with Moody’s being the most prominent one.
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By Sarah Armaghan
A Brooklyn man accused of trafficking and selling 49 guns from North Carolina to an undercover New York City police detective has been indicted for more than 100 felonies, law-enforcement officials said Wednesday.
Christopher McPhaul, 43 years old, first became the subject of his own investigation earlier this year after police made contact with him through a separate case, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.
Mr. McPhaul, who went by the nickname “Country,” operated a “convenient delivery service” for guns in the Bushwick area where he resides, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes said. Ten times between April and September, the undercover officer purchased the firearms — five of which had been reported stolen — for a total of $7,500, or about $153 per weapon.
Family members of victims killed at Sandy Hook Elementary school on Dec. 14 are calling for Starbucks to ban guns within all of its coffee shops, according to a letter reviewed by the Wall Street Journal.
The family members plan to send the letter to Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, asking him to consider changing the company’s firearms policy.
The letter was signed by 13 family members of Sandy Hook victims, including the parents and brothers of Lauren Rousseau, a teacher and Starbucks barrista killed during the Dec. 14 attack.
Law enforcement authorities on Monday said they halted two “loosely-organized” gun-smuggling operations and confiscated more than 250 firearms — which the New York Police Department claims is the largest such seizure in the agency’s history.
The operation involved a single undercover officer who purchased 254 guns in 45 separate transactions, authorities said. The weapons were transported from two southern states through means including low-cost buses to Manhattan’s Chinatown, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.
The seized firearms vary from .22 caliber pistols to semi-automatic rifles. “Among the guns sold were a fully automatic Cobray 9 millimeter machine gun with a 30-round high-capacity magazine” and three Intertec 9 pistols with flash suppressors and magazines that hold 30 or more rounds, according to a news release.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Tuesday said there’s a stark lesson to be learned from Trayvon Martin case: current laws make it too easy for people to be “judge, jury and executioner.”
Mr. Bloomberg, reacting to George Zimmerman’s Saturday night acquittal for the shooting death of Mr. Martin, said the real problem is state laws that make it too easy for defendants to claim self-defense.
A Long Island man died in a shootout with police Friday night after witnesses said he was yelling about New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and firing guns, police said.
Suffolk County Police responded to the man’s house in Shirley around 10:30 p.m. after neighbors said they heard him “yelling about Mayor Bloomberg” and firing a gun, said Lt. Jack Fitzpatrick, commander of the department’s homicide squad.
When officers approached the backdoor of the Carlton Drive East house, the man – whom police have not identified – came to the door and fired a shotgun at them, police said. The officers returned fire and took cover.
After the man retreated into the house for several minutes, he emerged from the front door dressed in a helmet and ballistic vest and fired at least 15 rounds from a rifle at officers gathered outside, police said.
About three hours before dawn on Friday, New York’s Senate voted to amend the state’s new gun law and allow retired police officers to possess large-capacity ammunition magazines.
The bill ”sprang onto the chamber floor shortly before 2 a.m., and drew howls” from some Republican members who think the state’s new gun law should be repealed, not amended, reports the Albany Times Union. “This is ridiculous,” said one senator before the 2 .am. vote.
Read more at WSJ’s Law Blog.
This past weekend, Newtown, Conn. residents were still absorbing the news that the town will tear down Sandy Hook Elementary School—where 20 children and six staff members were shot and killed on Dec. 14—to build a new facility in its place.
Now Nicole Hockley, whose six-year-old son Dylan died at the school, has spoken out publicly about that decision.
“We thank the task force for its leadership, for the sensitivity with which they deliberated this issue, and for their willingness to listen to the voices of the community on how best to move forward with the future of Sandy Hook Elementary,” said Ms. Hockley in an emailed statement.
Gov. Chris Christie proposed new legislation Friday designed to curb gun violence that expands existing gun laws and mandatory mental health screenings and requires parental consent for juveniles buying violent video game.
The announcement comes after a panel appointed by the governor released an 83-page report last week that offered recommendations on school safety and firearms to mental illness. Christie formed the panel after the mass shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Conn., last year.
“There’s no mistaking violence is a problem in America,” said Christie, who also acknowledged the Boston Marathon bombings in his initial remarks.
A day after a measure expanding background checks on gun sales failed to pass in the U.S. Senate, Mayor Michael Bloomberg was still stung by the defeat and said the failure to pass the legislation would lead to more deaths from gun violence.
“Children lost. They’re going to die. And the criminals won,” he told reporters at a press conference at Rockefeller University in Manhattan Thursday. “This a disgrace.”
Bloomberg, who is the co-founder of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, has become a vocal advocate for stricter gun laws, putting up millions of his own money to back gun control supporters for elected offices across the country. Last month, he spent $12 million on a national ad campaign pressing senators to vote for the legislation on background checks.
HARTFORD—Gun owners in the hundreds swarmed the Capitol here Wednesday to protest the passage of a package of new firearms restrictions proposed in the wake of the deadly shooting on Dec. 14 in Newtown, Conn.
Gun-rights advocates booed pro-gun control lawmakers as they passed through the halls of the capital and chanted “read the bill” when rank-and-file legislators walked by. At one point in the morning the group broke out into an impromptu recital of the Pledge of Allegiance.
After the deadly shooting where Adam Lanza shot and killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary, state lawmakers vowed to pass legislation addressing gun control, mental health and school safety that they say would help prevent another tragedy. The bill scheduled to be voted on in the state Legislature would expand Connecticut’s existing ban on so-called “assault weapons,” it would ban ammunition magazines with more than 10 rounds, and it would require background checks for all firearm purchases, among other measures. | <urn:uuid:f29e4317-436f-48a0-98ab-bc20b0cc3182> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 6,991 |
BulkCopy sounds great on paper, but have you actually tried it?
I did. I took a 104,000 record table from SQL2000 on one server and used BulkCopy to import those records into a pre-existing table in SQL2005 on another server.
But first I tried the same operation with DTS as a benchmark and that took 21 seconds. (note that I’m doing this on an older computer that is 700 mhz and I think 512MB Ram. The remote server is an old dog, too.)
Then I wanted to see what it was like in code without bulk copy. I thought I would at least leverage some of the new features in ADO.NET 2.0 for this. I grabbed the same 104,000 records into a DataReader and used DataTable.Load (new feature in ado.net 2.0) to pull it into a DataTable. Then rather than let a DataAdapter.Update insert this one at a time (puh-lease!), I leveraged the new batch capabilities. SQLServer did not like 1000 records at a time (too many parameters in one execute command) so I set UpdateBatchSize to 100. I also am using the beautifully simple little System.Diagnostics.StopWatch class in this test. It’s been running a while. I will come back and insert the time here when it finishes > 41 minutes <. If the lights start dimming in Burlington, you’ll know why!
Before this test though I did the same operation using BulkCopy. Again, I pulled the 104,000 records from the remote server (on the same hardwired network) into a datareader and then passed that datareader into a SqlBulkCopy object, then called it’s WritetoServer method.
So remember the DTS took 21 seconds. How long did the operation take in ADO.NET 2.0?
Let’s have a few guesses and then I’ll tell you. Heh heh heh.
OKAY – it was 23 seconds! Basically the same as the DTS! Rather than 180 times as long as with the batch updating which would have been impossible with ADO.NET 1.1 where there is no batch updating. So that may have been 100 times longer than the batch update way.
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The latest writing has been published - through a Chicago publishing house, my short story picked up last year and now part of this anthology. It made it to #1 in Amazon new releases the day it was released and will be available in bookstores (paperback and hardcover). The authors include award-winning professional writers, producers, actors, and playwrights and I was honored to be selected to be part of it. All royalties on my part will go to the animal rescue groups, as always.
The book is a collection of stories that capture love in its many forms, not just that of romantic partners, but of children, parents, animals, friends, and passionate interests. The theme spoke to me, as it did to the authors within this work, as we recall first loves, lost loves, pets, family members, and that crazy time we ignored all reason and did the impossible
Praise on my story "Letting Go", so far (from authors and professional book critics)""L. B. Johnson’s prose is glorious. Her words put you right there—in the place and in the head of the narrator—as well as any author I’ve read."
"Gorgeous. An absolute heartache."
I think it would make a great Valentine's Gift, (that's a clue by four, as my husband would say).
Friday, January 13, 2023
Treats. Bacon. Stuffie.
But Mom decided to write about books.
She didn't know what she would do without her books. Remember the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury? It was set in a dystopian future in which firemen intentionally burn any house in which a book is located because it's against the law to possess them. In the end, a fireman who had grown to love books escapes the city of quick, mindless but big-screen, reality-based entertainment, to find a small group of book-loving refugees banded together. Each person is assigned the memorization of one complete book -- Aristotle, Dickens, James Joyce, and more -- so the books will survive until society is ready to embrace them again
Reading for her was not just intellectual but embracive. She loved the way the spine of a book feels in the crook of her fingers. The smooth, hard end boards snug on either side of the pages are sewn together, their edges flush and perfect. The smell of ink, the texture of a page as her fingers gently turn it.
Between two pages here is a photo of her Mother in her garden. Outside the window here now, a plant opens up, spilling forth its seed onto the soil. She remembered days of working in the flowerbeds that her Mom so lovingly maintained. After her death, She kept it going as long as she could for her Dad until adulthood called me away. As she toiled in the garden, the sun kissed the top of her head, the touch a benediction, a blessing.
Let the weather play God with her itinerary, let the tanker bringing in supplies break down somewhere, let the post sell the last bottle of whiskey, but if she'd laid up alone in the middle of nowhere after she busts a move down the Himalayas and breaks her leg, she wants a book. Curled up in strange places among a couple artifacts of family that get toted around in her suitcase, she may be lonely, but she will be content.
It's a big old paper dead tree book because she wants to hold something in her hand that feels alive, to me even if a living thing died to create its pages. It's words that form pictures, laid out upon a living thing that never slept, never dreamed of the soft perch of birds or the sharp blade of the ax, never mourned the tender leaves that it nourished and abandoned. It’s a piece of wood, that can be warmth, support, and shelter, or the perfect, pristine bed of memory laid down bare.
Her housework is put aside for at least an hour or two before bed and she'll pick up that book. She'll let it transport her to somewhere far away until a chime will toll for warriors, for battles won and those so easily lost. As her hand turns the pages, she will move among people who lived and died, or perhaps never existed at all, their shadows not of flesh or blood but of imagination, shadows as strong as finely honed steel and shadows as quiet as murmuring breath, forgotten until they were put upon paper.
Tuesday, January 10, 2023
Someone heard the sandwich-makings come out.
When no cheese shows up the Elvis Lip Curl does.
Lorelei has Left the Building.
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We hope you are all having a wonderful Christmas day, however you celebrate it.
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There was a lot of stuff packed away in boxes when I sold the sprawling home that I had prior to meeting my husband, as well as things I'd shipped back from Dad's after my brother passed away. Sitting here this morning looking at an old photo on an even older refrigerator I remember the day I finally had a chance to go through it before moving here, where space is limited and only things most precious are on display. | <urn:uuid:ee5792d8-d5e0-4f5d-88d4-400f8f5c683f> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 5,009 |
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I lead the Automation team and I love the fact that my role is so varied. As well as supporting the Automators, I also work closely with the Project Management, Development and Legal teams. My day-to-day involves fielding technical questions, scoping out projects, advising on approaches and overseeing releases to our internal and client facing servers.
Firstly, the people, we have a closely knit team and everyone works hard for each other. We have great comradery which creates a warm and friendly atmosphere. Secondly, the challenge, each day is different with new and exciting aspects to tackle each day. Finally, knowing what we do offers a benefit to other people.
A beekeeper, I had a fascination with bees, I would attempt to pick them up which often led to one or two incidents. When I was slightly older, I liked receiving parcels, so I decided that I wanted to be a postman. Eventually, I realised that I would be delivering the parcels and not receiving them which is not as fun. Some years later, I was introduced to coding and went into computing. Perhaps when I retire, I could keep bees and be a part-time postman assuming the postal service is not automated by then.
Skiing, I’ve not had the opportunity to ski but it looks fun
1. A crafting knife so I could make/build useful things.
2. Some sort of netting to stop me from getting bitten.
3. First aid kit and by that, I mean rum, I believe it can be used as an antiseptic and has other healing benefits. | <urn:uuid:ee9f8264-8c24-4a30-8d67-dbcdb34428ec> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,769 |
Wood Heating Systems: Pros and Cons
Wood heating systems or biomass systems burn wood to provide heat. Usually burning wooden pellets, chips or logs, there are two types: stoves and boilers. A stove is generally used as a standalone room heater, and boilers can be connected to a central heating and hot water system.
Installation costs can vary widely, depending on the style of stove or boiler you opt for and the labour of having it installed. You can obviously cut costs by installing it yourself, but this requires the right knowledge and the confidence to do it- if you are lacking in either department, then refrain from doing it yourself. Stoves are cheaper, costing around £5,000 at most. Boilers can cost up to £12,000.
How Much Can You Save?
This depends on the type of fuel you are currently using and how much you currently use. It can vary from £580 if you’re replacing electricity to £100 if you’re replacing gas. It is a cheaper option to central heating and hot water if you’re not connected to the gas network.
Biomass fuels are considered carbon neutral as while they produce carbon dioxide, it is offset by the amount that is absorbed while it grows. If you buy locally produced fuel for your wood burner, then the carbon footprint will be even lower.
The fuel cost of a wood burning boiler that runs the central heating and hot water is around £500-700 a year. It’s cheaper to buy in bulk if you have somewhere to store the wood properly. Pellet prices depend on the size and price of delivery- so the more you buy the cheaper it will be. Wood is generally cheaper, but it depends on your local supplier.
Wood chips are generally not suitable for heating a single house, instead more suited to larger buildings or group of buildings. If you opt for using logs, then you must be prepared to fill the boiler or stove by hand. Pellet and chip burners have automatic feeders, but this is not available for logs.
The Renewable Heating Incentive
The Renewable Heating Incentive is a government scheme that will pay you to produce heat from wood burning. It is a one off payment that could see you getting a grant of £950. You can get grants for installing other types of renewable energy heating systems, such as harnessing solar energy or ground source heat pumps.
If you’re looking for a wood burning stove, then check out www.woodburningstovesandflues.co.uk for traditional and contemporary styles.
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|Mayor of La Salle, Illinois|
|Born||March 28, 1829|
|Died||May 26, 1900 71) (aged|
|Spouse(s)||Isabella Farnsworth Norton|
Timothy Beach Blackstone (March 28, 1829 – May 26, 1900) was an American railroad executive, businessman, philanthropist, and politician. He is descended from William Blaxton, an early settler of New England. He worked in the railroad industry for most of his life after dropping out of school. At the time of his death, his estate was worth US$6 million ($186.6 million today).
Blackstone served as president of the Chicago and Alton Railroad from 1864 through 1899, was a founding president of the Union Stock Yards, and served one term as mayor of La Salle, Illinois. He was the benefactor of the James Blackstone Memorial Library in Branford, Connecticut, and his widow donated the Blackstone Memorial Library to the Chicago Public Library in 1902, the first dedicated branch of the Chicago Public Library system.The Blackstones also funded Blackstone Hall for the Art Institute of Chicago Building, and his mansion became the site of the Blackstone Hotel and the Blackstone Theatre.
Blackstone was born in Branford, Connecticut, the sixth child, and fourth son, of James Blackstone and Sarah Beach. His father, James, served in the Connecticut Senate representing the sixth district.James had also served in the Connecticut House of Representatives and the Connecticut militia. The family is descended from William Blaxton, an English settler who arrived in New England in the seventeenth century and became the first European settler in Rhode Island. William Blackstone, an English judge and jurist, is a distant cousin.
Health issues caused Blackstone to drop out of school in 1847, and he began working for Roswell B. Mason, surveying the New York and New Haven Railroad (NY&NH). He only worked on the NY&NH for a year before becoming an assistant engineer on the Stockbridge and Pittsfield Railroad.Again, he only remained with the firm a short time before leaving for the Vermont Valley Railroad. In 1851, Roswell invited Blackstone to supervise construction of the Illinois Central Railroad between Bloomington and Dixon, Illinois. Blackstone accepted the job and moved to La Salle, Illinois.
Blackstone was elected mayor of LaSalle in 1854 and served a single term, his only foray into politics. After leaving office, he returned to working on railroads, first as chief engineer of the Joliet and Chicago Railroad, which would eventually become the Chicago and Alton Railroad.Blackstone became president of the Joliet and Chicago Railroad in 1861, and he kept the line solvent while other divisions were filing for bankruptcy. When the system was reorganized, he was named president of the board of directors for the company, serving with John Drake. Although Blackstone served with the Alton Railroad for more than a quarter century, he refused a salary. When the directors voted to pay him $10,000 per year, he turned it down. In addition to his employment and activities with the railroads, Blackstone was the first president of the company that controlled the Union Stock Yards.
Although Blackstone had refused a salary from the railroad, he was an investor in it. In 1899, a competing group of investors headed by E. H. Harriman wanted to purchase the Alton Railroad but Blackstone disapproved of the sale. After many months of wrangling, Blackstone transferred all of his stock in the company to the United States Trust Company and resigned as president, effective April 1, 1899. This action allowed the Harriman-led group to assume control of the line.
In 1868, Blackstone married Isabella Farnsworth Norton, the daughter of a successful businessman from Norwich, Connecticut.Blackstone died of pneumonia on May 26, 1900, in Chicago, Illinois. His funeral was held at the Second Presbyterian Church and was then transported to Norwich, Connecticut for burial.
Blackstone built a 19th-century mansion for himself at 252 Michigan Avenue in Chicago in what is now the Historic Michigan Boulevard District.The property later became the site of the Blackstone Hotel and the Blackstone Theatre. Following the Great Chicago Fire in 1871, he invited his friend John Crerar to stay with him, which Crerar did for twelve years. Crerar donated the John Crerar Library and Blackstone continued to donate funds toward the maintenance of the building throughout his life. The Crerar Library has now merged with the University of Chicago.
Blackstone donated a library of 5,000 books and a building to the city of Branford, Connecticut with the only stipulation that it be named in honor of his father. A charter was devised for the library by the Connecticut State Legislature vesting control of the library in a self-perpetuating board of trustees consisting of six residents of Branford and the librarian of Yale University. –96.The building was designed by Chicago architect Solon Spencer Beman. The library was constructed from 1893
In 1904, Isabella Blackstone donated the T.B. Blackstone Memorial Branch Library to the city of Chicago. Located at the intersection of Blackstone Avenue, Lake Park Avenue, and Forty-Ninth Street, the library is modeled after the James Blackstone Library in Branford, Connecticut. Blackstone Avenue running along the 1436 east block from 4900 south (starting behind Blackstone Library) to 10350 south is named after him.
Also, the Blackstone's funded Blackstone Hall in the Art Institute of Chicago Building. The two-story ground level gallery was added next to the east wall of the original building for display of architectural and sculptural casts.
The New York Times published details of his will. When Blackstone died, his will directed the disposition of his assets that amounted to US$6 million ($186.6 million today). Of that total, $375,000 was bequeathed to relatives and $250,000 to public institutions (Chicago Art Institute, Chicago Orphan Asylum, Home for the Friendless at Chicago, St. Luke's Hospital, Passavant Memorial Hospital, Chicago Relief and Aid Society, $25,000 each and James Blackstone Memorial Library Association, $100,000). The remainder went to his widow. Blackstone was also a close associate of his cousin, William Eugene Blackstone.
Branford is an affluent shoreline town located on Long Island Sound in New Haven County, Connecticut, about 6 miles (10 km) east of downtown New Haven. The population was 28,273 at the 2020 census.
Branford Center is a neighborhood and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Branford, Connecticut, United States. The CDP encompasses the traditional town center area and the area known as Branford Point. The population of the CDP was 5,819 at the 2010 census.
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James Gamble Rogers was an American architect. He is best known for his academic commissions at Yale University, Columbia University, Northwestern University, and elsewhere.
The Alton Railroad was the final name of a railroad linking Chicago to Alton, Illinois; St. Louis, Missouri; and Kansas City, Missouri. Its predecessor, the Chicago and Alton Railroad, was purchased by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1931 and was controlled until 1942 when the Alton was released to the courts. On May 31, 1947, the Alton Railroad was merged into the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad. Jacob Bunn had been one of the founding reorganizers of the Chicago & Alton Railroad Company during the 1860s.
The Blackstone Hotel is a historic 290-foot (88 m) 21-story hotel on the corner of Michigan Avenue and Balbo Drive in the Michigan Boulevard Historic District in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. Built between 1908 and 1910, it is on the National Register of Historic Places. The Blackstone is famous for hosting celebrity guests, including numerous U.S. presidents, for which it was known as the "Hotel of Presidents" for much of the 20th century, and for contributing the term "smoke-filled room" to political parlance.
Reverend William Blaxton was an early English settler in New England and the first European settler of Boston and Rhode Island.
Solon Spencer Beman was an American architect based in Chicago, Illinois and best known as the architect of the planned Pullman community and adjacent Pullman Company factory complex. Several of his other largest commissions, including the Pullman Office Building, Pabst Building, and Grand Central Station in Chicago, have since been demolished. Beman designed numerous Christian Science churches and influenced the design of countless more.
T. B. Blackstone Memorial Library is a building that is part of the Chicago Public Library System and is named after Timothy Blackstone. The building was designed by Chicago architect Solon S. Beman. It is now known as the Chicago Public Library – Blackstone Branch and commonly referred to as Blackstone Library, or Blackstone Branch and sometimes Blackstone for short. The Concord Granite building's two-year construction started in 1902, and it was dedicated on January 8, 1904. Blackstone Library marks the beginning of the Chicago Branch Library System as the first dedicated branch in the system. Blackstone is also the only branch of the 79-branch Chicago Public Library branch system that was constructed using private funding. The Blackstone Library was designated as a Chicago Landmark.
John Chippewa Crerar was a wealthy American industrialist and businessman from Chicago whose investments were primarily in the railroad industry. Although he had a successful business career he is most well known for his philanthropic efforts, his activism in the Presbyterian Church, and his investment in the John Crerar Library.
Sunbury Township is located in Livingston County, Illinois. As of the 2010 census, its population was 229 and it contained 103 housing units.
The Art Institute of Chicago Building houses the Art Institute of Chicago, and is part of the Chicago Landmark Historic Michigan Boulevard District in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. The building is located in Grant Park on the east side of Michigan Avenue, and marks the third address for the Art Institute. The main building was built for the joint purpose of providing an additional facility for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, and subsequently the Art Institute. The core of the current complex, located opposite Adams Street, officially opened to the public on December 8, 1893, and was renamed the Allerton Building in 1968.
Worthy Stevens Streator was an American physician, railroad developer, industrialist and entrepreneur after whom the city of Streator, Illinois is named. He was instrumental in the creation of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway in Ohio, was president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) and financed the first large-scale coal mine operation in Northern Illinois in 1866. He served as an Ohio State Senator in 1869, and was the first mayor of East Cleveland, Ohio. He was an influential in the development of many civic institutions in his home city of Cleveland, Ohio. He co-founded the Christian Standard magazine, he was an original endower of Case School of Applied Science and was a principal in the creation of the James A. Garfield Monument; the first true mausoleum created in the United States in honor of President James A. Garfield. He was a pallbearer at President Garfield's funeral in 1881.
Blackstone is an unincorporated community in section 7 of Sunbury Township, Livingston County, Illinois, United States. Blackstone is 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Streator and 13 miles (21 km) west of Dwight, Illinois. Blackstone has a post office with ZIP code 61313. It is part of the geographic region known as Streatorland.
The John Crerar Library is a research library, which after a long history of independent operations, is now operated by the University of Chicago. Throughout its history, the library's technology resources have made it popular with Chicago-area business and industry. Though privately owned and operated, the library continues to provide free access to the public for the purpose of conducting research in science, medicine and technology.
Abraham Lincoln: The Head of State is a 9-foot (2.7 m) tall bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln in Grant Park, in Chicago. Created by Augustus Saint-Gaudens and completed by his workshop in 1908, it was intended by the artist to evoke the loneliness and burden of command felt by Lincoln during his presidency. The sculpture depicts a contemplative Lincoln seated in a chair, and gazing down into the distance. The sculpture is set upon a pedestal and a 150-foot (46 m) wide exedra designed by architect Stanford White.
James Blackstone Memorial Library is a public library located in Branford, Connecticut. It is commonly referred to as the Blackstone Library or the Branford Library. The library was commissioned by Timothy Blackstone as a memorial to his father, James Blackstone. It was designed by Chicago architect Solon Spencer Beman. Construction on the building began in 1893 and was completed in 1896. The building was dedicated on June 17, 1896.
Morton Freeman Plant was a United States financier.
Dan Everett Waid (1864–1939) was a prominent 20th century architect operating primarily in Illinois and New York. As chief architect for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, he and his partner designed the Home Office Building at 11 Madison Avenue along with dozens of other commercial, religious, residential and academic structures. He was appointed architect for the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church. He was also President of the American Institute of Architects (1924–1926). | <urn:uuid:0beac772-f3d8-4c33-b550-a3a275e491e8> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 13,630 |
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CISCO: Partners got lots of reassurance and vision from Cisco, but not a lot of brass tacks -- and the networking giant’s refusal to confront the HP elephant in the room was disappointing.
HP: With HP CEO Mark Hurd (pictured) leading the charge, the crew from Palo Alto was on message all the time at APC 2010, pushing partners to drive ESSN engagements hard and to get in front of lots more customers in the Americas.
VERDICT: HP was fired up for battle, Cisco seemed a little gun shy.
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The winners of Australia's Good Design Awards, the highest honour for design innovation in Australia, were announced at the Sydney Opera House on 17 May at the 60th Annual Good Design Awards Ceremony.
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C’est l’heure de l’apéro
Client: Christine Tassan et les imposteures
This is the second time I’ve worked with the lovely musicians from Christine Tassan et les imposteures a ‘manouche’ (or gypsy) jazz band. For their new opus, C’est l’heure de l’apéro, the band members, Christine Tassan, Lise-Anne Ross, Martine Gaumond and Blanche Baillargeon wanted to convey a festive and sunny spring terrasse feel to the album’s visual identity. To create the artwork, we chose to work with the a collage technique so that I could let my inspiration run free and quickly create multiple versions. The result is an explosion of playful colors in a contrasting aerial and soft look and feel.
The album was launched on October 1st, 2012 at the Lion d’or, in Montréal.
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Warner Bros. kicked off their debut into home video in the late '70s under their Warner Communications, Inc. video division. These videos were in large gatefold cardboard boxes resembling books carrying the "W" logo above and the "WCI Home Video" banner on VHS and Beta. I don't own any of these yet, but notable titles include the first home video editions of Superman and The Exorcist. Being flimsy cardboard, they're naturally quite hard to come by in great condition.
Sometime in 1980, Warner dropped the WCI label, but kept the logo, box style, and adopted the "Warner Home Video" banner.
Warner Home Video, Humanoids from the Deep, 1980
The packaging then made another change in 1981 with the introduction of a uniform standard with a design of varying color, a centered still from the given title on the front, two small stills on the back, and a long synopsis with critical reaction. At first these were in cardboard boxes as before, but plastic "puffy" clamshell cases came into prominence. Warner kept both styles going at random until 1982 when clamshells became their norm.
Warner Home Video, Mean Streets, 1985
Most of my Warner tape collection is comprised of these and seem to be the most commonly found clamshells in video history, dating from 1981 through 1985. In the last year, the studio adopted the "WB" logo. After 1985, Warner slid in the usual (and boring) cardboard slipsleeves commonly associated with VHS.
All these are on VHS, except Humanoids from the Deep, The Nesting, and The Pack which are on Betamax. The Mummy (1959), The Hand, and Chino are sealed. There's a good number I still want to find, including The Exorcist, The Amityville Horror, The Town That Dreaded Sundown, Frogs, and Deadly Eyes. | <urn:uuid:4adcc7eb-a3b6-4267-ab1b-25d0aa29990b> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,730 |
Petunia integrifolia is a stunning flowering plant that is beloved by gardeners all over the world. With its vibrant colors, delicate blooms, and charming fragrance, it has become a popular choice for both indoor and outdoor cultivation. But did you know that there is much more to these beautiful flowers than meets the eye? In this article, we will delve into 13 fascinating facts about Petunia integrifolia, shedding light on its history, characteristics, and interesting quirks. So, whether you are a seasoned gardener or simply someone who appreciates the beauty of nature, get ready to be amazed by the wonders of Petunia integrifolia!
Petunia integrifolia is a perennial flowering plant.
With its vibrant colors and delicate blooms, Petunia integrifolia is a popular choice for garden enthusiasts. As a perennial plant, it can thrive year after year, providing a constant source of beauty in your garden.
Petunia integrifolia belongs to the Solanaceae family.
Also known as the nightshade family, Solanaceae includes many well-known plants such as tomatoes, potatoes, and peppers. Petunia integrifolia shares its botanical lineage with these familiar crops.
The flowers of Petunia integrifolia are trumpet-shaped.
One of the most distinctive features of Petunia integrifolia is its trumpet-shaped flowers. This unique floral structure adds elegance and charm to the plant, making it a favorite among gardeners.
Petunia integrifolia comes in a variety of colors.
From vibrant reds and pinks to soft purples and whites, Petunia integrifolia offers a wide range of hues to choose from. This diversity allows for endless possibilities when it comes to creating stunning floral arrangements.
Petunia integrifolia is drought-tolerant.
One of the advantages of growing Petunia integrifolia is its ability to withstand dry conditions. This makes it a perfect choice for gardeners who live in regions with limited water resources.
Petunia integrifolia attracts pollinators.
The vibrant flowers of Petunia integrifolia serve as a magnet for bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. By planting these beautiful flowers, you can create a haven for pollinators in your garden.
Petunia integrifolia can be grown in containers.
Whether you have a spacious garden or a small balcony, Petunia integrifolia can thrive in containers. This versatility allows you to enjoy its beauty even if you have limited outdoor space.
Petunia integrifolia blooms from spring to fall.
One of the reasons why Petunia integrifolia is a favorite among gardeners is its long blooming season. From the first signs of spring until the arrival of fall, this plant will continue to grace your garden with its vibrant flowers.
Petunia integrifolia is easy to care for.
Even for novice gardeners, Petunia integrifolia proves to be an easy plant to care for. With proper watering and occasional fertilization, it will reward you with abundant blooms.
Petunia integrifolia is native to South America.
Originally found in South America, Petunia integrifolia has made its way to gardens all over the world. Its adaptability and stunning beauty have made it a global favorite.
Petunia integrifolia is a great ground cover plant.
Due to its sprawling nature and dense foliage, Petunia integrifolia is an excellent choice for ground cover. It can quickly fill in empty spaces, preventing weed growth and adding a burst of color to your landscape.
Petunia integrifolia is resistant to pests and diseases.
With robust genetics, Petunia integrifolia shows excellent resistance to common pests and diseases that can plague other plants. This makes it a low-maintenance choice for your garden.
Petunia integrifolia is great for hanging baskets and cascading displays.
Thanks to its trailing growth habit, Petunia integrifolia is a popular choice for hanging baskets and cascading displays. It creates a stunning visual effect, with its colorful flowers cascading downwards.
There you have it – The 13 Fascinating Facts About Petunia integrifolia. Whether you’re a seasoned gardener or a beginner, these facts highlight the beauty and resilience of this remarkable plant. Incorporate Petunia integrifolia into your garden or balcony, and enjoy its continuous blooming season and vibrant colors.
In conclusion, Petunia integrifolia is a captivating plant species that offers a multitude of fascinating facts. From its rich history to its diverse color variations and unique growth habits, Petunia integrifolia is sure to captivate the interest of any plant enthusiast. Whether you are looking to add a splash of color to your garden or simply want to learn more about this remarkable species, Petunia integrifolia is a delightful plant to explore. Its vibrant flowers and easy maintenance make it a popular choice among gardeners. So why not bring some Petunia integrifolia into your life and unveil its hidden wonders?
1. What is the native habitat of Petunia integrifolia?
Petunia integrifolia is native to South America, specifically Argentina and Uruguay. It can also be found in other parts of South America, including Brazil and Paraguay.
2. Do Petunia integrifolia plants require a lot of sunlight?
Yes, Petunia integrifolia plants thrive in full sunlight. They prefer at least six hours of direct sunlight each day to ensure healthy growth and vibrant blooms.
3. How often should I water Petunia integrifolia?
Petunia integrifolia plants prefer consistently moist soil. Water them regularly, allowing the soil to dry slightly between waterings. Avoid overwatering, as it can lead to root rot.
4. Can I grow Petunia integrifolia in containers?
Yes, Petunia integrifolia is well-suited for container gardening. It has a compact growth habit and can thrive in containers of various sizes. Just make sure the container has good drainage to prevent waterlogging.
5. Is Petunia integrifolia a perennial or an annual plant?
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As I embarked on mapping the musical traditions in colonial Mexico, my teammates and I were quite frankly overwhelmed with a vast time period, the vast geography, and despite the amount of music being made, we were faced with a scarcity of primary and secondary sources alike. One way in which we were able to come into contact with primary sources is through the online database at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. This database has a large amount of the Villancicos which were a popular form of music at the time. A villancico is now known as a Christmas carol, but during the colonial period in Mexico, these songs were often set to love poems, poetry, or religious text. They were sung in the vernacular and had an alternating refrain and verse. Moreover, villancico’s varied widely and there were different genres such as a villancico negrilla which depicted the style and dance of African slaves in the colonies1.
Before we begin, I do want to clarify what a chapelmaster was. During the era of colonization, chapelmasters were in charge of all music at a cathedral and often composed and performed in the cathedral. The job of Chapelmaster was reserved for individuals with musical talent and Spain sent chapelmasters from all over Europe to preside over the cathedrals in the Spanish colonies. Furthermore, cathedrals were the place in which all ‘art music’ was performed. basically, they were the concert halls of colonial Mexico2.
The villancico I would like to look at for the purpose of this blog post is by a chapelmaster named Antonio Slazaar and was written between 1650 and 1715. The name of this song is “Va de vejamen” which translates to “goes from humiliation”. Antonio Salazar was originally born in Spain and became the chapelmaster of the Puebla Cathedral and later at the Mexico City Cathedral. Antonio Salazar is also one of the most famous composers of the Baroque period in Mexico.
“Va de vejamen” is a part of Salazar’s set of 6 songs called “A sies de la Natividad de Nuestra Señora” or “6 to the nativity of our lady”. Salazar’s piece is about the Christmas season, but not all villancicos were and I want to be clear about that because it is often assumed all villancico’s are carols. I inserted a modern recording of Salazar’s piece below. Something interesting to note is how similar it sounds to a renaissance madrigal. This similarity is common with villancico’s. There is also percussion instrumentation and a strummed string instrument.
The piece itself luckily was preserved well and we have digital access through the National Autonomous University of Mexico database. It includes the parts for the different instruments and voices all written separately. I would encourage you to listen again and try and follow along in the score, especially the tenor3.
1“Repertoire.” San Francisco Bach Choir: Antonio de Salazar. Accessed December 12, 2021. https://www.musicanet.org/sfbc/repertoire/salazara.html.
2Pedelty, Mark. Musical Ritual in Mexico City: From the Aztec to NAFTA. Austin, UNITED STATES: University of Texas Press, 2004. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/stolaf-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3443236. | <urn:uuid:0aa3722c-eadf-4707-816f-7b6c400aa994> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 3,161 |
Community members in one area of town are getting ready for a new park.
The nineteen acre site was donated years ago by the Burkey family.
It has only recently been annexed into the city of Grand Junction.
Now that it's within boundaries, the Parks and Recreation Department has agreed to turn it into something more.
Burkey Park is on Patterson near 30 Road.
Residents are encouraged to put in input on what they want to see in the park.
The preliminary plans drawn out by the city and those requested by the Burkey family don't match.
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J. Steven Manolis: "Living Color" Solo + "Delight In Color" book
Double Start: J. Steven Manolis will get his first solo art show at the Chase Edwards Fine Art Gallery in Bridgehampton, NY. The opening is on September 20th and the exhibit runs for thirty days. In conjunction of 50 works in oil, acrylic and watercolor, at the show he will be debuting and autographing a just released art book entitled “Delight In Color, The Paintings of J. Steven Manolis”. This beautiful coffee table art book tells his history in painting with an essay by one of America’s leading art historians, Dr. Annette Blaugrund, showing 75 luscious colorific painting images, many of which will be in the exhibit! In the meantime he invites you to go to his website, www.jstevenmanolisart.com to gain a better understanding of the categories of his work.
Next: in the Fall/Winter seasons he will be exhibiting intensely in Miami. In the Spring of 2015 his second solo show will be presented at Wynwood Art Group gallery. | <urn:uuid:9383e2a2-697f-498d-b5ec-0c4da9cc6a11> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 998 |
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What I got for Christmas posts are always a bit hit and miss in the blogging world so if they’re not for you, please stop reading now. However as I love reading blog posts about it and watching them on YouTube I like to share my own too. I see it as my way of giving back to the YouTube community because trust me, all I do between Christmas and new year (besides eating) is watch these sorts of videos.
I’m so lucky to be surrounded by friends and family who are very kind and generous. Even though I always feel so spoilt at this time of year, my favourite thing about Christmas is spending quality time with my loved ones… and the week and a half off work. This year I spent Christmas Day with my mum’s family, Boxing Day with my Dad (as it’s also his birthday) and then headed on up to Chester for a few days to see Adam and his family.
For New Year we went for a lovely meal at a restaurant in Birmingham called Le Monde (excellent fish!) and watched the Birmingham fireworks with a glass of champagne. It felt wonderful to have a nice long break from both work and blogging. I think sometimes we’re all o busy with a hundred different things on the go, we forget to take time to ourselves.
So sit back, relax and enjoy my ‘What I Got For Christmas’ video. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year, however you spent it. Don’t forget to subscribe to my NEW VLOG CHANNEL (dedicated purely to daily and weekly vlogging!) You can also read more about my Goals for 2017, HERE!
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By Brian Sewell
This fall, public listening sessions held by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency served as an opportunity to influence future rules to limit carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, the centerpiece of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan.
Comments submitted by citizens and stakeholders, and the large turnouts and media attention at the 11 listening sessions in cities including Atlanta, Chicago and Philadelphia, reflect the high level of public support and condemnation of the EPA.
On Nov. 7, the day of the final listening session, a coalition of environmental groups held a press conference and marched with supporters to EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C., where the session was held.
Since the scheduled cities were announced, Appalachian legislators and members of the media criticized the EPA for not scheduling listening sessions closer to Appalachia — a region crucial to the debate surrounding the administration’s plans to cut carbon.
On the Charleston Gazette blog “Coal Tattoo,” Ken Ward Jr. reminded readers that when previous EPA administrator Lisa Jackson announced curbs on mountaintop removal permitting, she promised that federal agencies would coordinate with state and local entities to help “diversify and strengthen the Appalachian regional economy and promote the health and welfare of Appalachian communities.”
A listening session with EPA “would give coalfield residents a chance to ask EPA what they’ve done in this regard,” Ward wrote, and could offer the agency a chance to learn that “not everyone in the state is totally against doing something about climate change or trying to work toward more clean energy.”
“The Obama administration cannot create a responsible 21st-century energy and climate policy that overlooks the ongoing exploitation of mountain communities by coal and gas companies,” says Thom Kay, legislative associate with Appalachian Voices, the publisher of The Appalachian Voice.
“Allowing coal plants, the single largest source of carbon pollution in our country, to dump billions of tons of carbon dioxide into our atmosphere every year is an unmitigated disaster,” Kay says. “The question is not whether the EPA should be placing limits on carbon pollution from power plants — they are legally obligated to. The question is, why aren’t they already?”
In 2007, a Supreme Court majority decided that greenhouse gases fit well within the Clean Air Act’s definition of an air pollutant, giving the EPA the authority and the obligation to regulate emissions. In June 2012, a federal appeals court upheld that decision and dismissed industry arguments that the scientific evidence for climate change was unsupported.
The EPA will seek additional public input during a comment period once it announces guidelines for existing plants in June 2014. Those rules must be finalized by June 2015.
While the EPA hears from the public on rules for existing coal-fired power plants, some members of Congress are focused on the agency’s more immediate plan to regulate carbon from new plants. A draft bill circulated by Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Rep. Ed Whitfield, R-Ky., would allow power plants to continue dumping unlimited amounts of carbon pollution into the air.
Manchin claims that his proposal will still combat climate change, but would remove the EPA’s ability to set limits on carbon pollution and leave that up to Congress. Rules for existing coal plants would be designed around what Manchin called “commercially feasible” technologies.
A letter signed by 42 groups including Appalachian Voices states that Manchin’s proposal raises a series of impossible barriers for the EPA, and shows that Manchin and Whitfield either “do not believe in climate change, or they do not care about its impacts.”
Under the proposal for new plants released by the EPA in September, coal-fired units would need to meet a limit of 1,100 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour, far less than the average for U.S. coal plants, which is 1,768 pounds per megawatt-hour.
According to the EPA, however, the proposed standards are in line with investments in clean energy technologies that are already being made in the power industry. The EPA says that the rule will “reduce regulatory uncertainty by defining requirements for emission limits for greenhouse gases” and that the agency “intends this rule to send a clear signal about the current and future status of [carbon capture and storage] technology.”
David Hawkins, the director of climate programs with the Natural Resources Defense Council, testified in opposition to Manchin’s proposal, which environmental groups call the “Polluter Protection Act.” Beyond being a major weakening of the Clean Air Act, Hawkins said the proposal would destroy utilities’ incentives to invest in emissions-reducing technologies.
The Energy and Commerce Committee’s top Democrat, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., agreed with Hawkins during a subcommittee hearing on the proposal. Waxman cited common technologies such as power plant scrubbers that cut sulfur dioxide emissions, which industry supporters once said were impossible, and pointed out that “Almost every time the EPA proposes a significant new requirement, industry tells us it can’t be done.” | <urn:uuid:caaa21e8-e449-4a9f-85f8-85e829cf9cb9> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 5,253 |
An Interview with The Mowgli’s
Written by Administrator on February 2, 2018
Photo Courtesy of Cortney Armitage
American alternative rock band, The Mowgli’s will be starting their 2018 tour with Mainland at a sold-out show at Beachland Tavern on Feburary 20th. The band has been working on their single “Real Good Life” set to release on Feburary 2nd. The Mowgli’s create powerful, upbeat songs that give their listeners a happy feeling no matter what they are going through. We asked The Mowgli’s a couple of questions about who they are as a band.
Where does the name of your band originate from? Who thought of the name?
The band is actually named after a dog of a former bandmate, who was of course named after the famous Rudyard Kipling character from the Jungle Book. A lot of us identified with Mowgli the character at the time because he was a carefree child of the jungle, and Mowgli the dog was always around in the beginning process of this band, so it just made sense.
How did everyone meet and decide to form a band?
A lot of us go all the way back to childhood. Andy and Katie have known each other since elementary school. Matt and Dave go back to middle school. Josh and Colin were introduced to the crew a little later in life through the LA music scene, but regardless, we have a long history with each other that spans decades.
What is one thing you can’t live without on tour?
We’re very excited about bringing this old school Super Nintendo on this tour. We already have plans to beat Donkey Kong Country on long drive days… also, coffee maker and blender are key for the bus. Clean toothbrushes, laptops to enjoy whatever media we want. And Matt always brings his yoga mat!
What is the most rewarding aspect of being in a band?
Playing shows across the country for fans new and old. It always validates the long drives, and countless hours of hard work. It’s a wild career choice to do this, but interacting with strangers across the country who are personally affected by our music makes it so worth it.
What is your favorite album you have ever created? Why?
Our last album Where’d Your Weekend Go? was special because it was made up of songs we always wanted to record but never got to, as well as some cool new collaborations amongst all of us, that reflected where we stood as a group after like 4 years of non-stop touring.
Who encouraged you the most to pursue music?
I think that answer is different for each of us, but I think it’s safe to say without the support of family who believed in us, none of this would be happening.
Since there are 6 members of the band, do you ever struggle to all find a spot on stage?
We’ve surprisingly always managed to fit everyone on the stage, even in some weird, small awkward venues. It was even harder back in the day when there were sometimes 10 members on the stage at once.
What was the most unique show or venue you have ever performed at?
Red Rocks was a really special one. That’s kind of the pinnacle for all touring musicians. It’s gorgeous there, with awesome curated lineups and the people who go to shows there are so into it. It’s just a magical, musical place.
How would you describe the energy of your live shows?
Well with 6 of us on stage and all the history we have with one another, we like to think that creates a special energy that not many other bands have. Plus our intention is to play songs that make you feel happy. Katie always says you should feel better leaving our concert then when you came in, and I think that mantra has helped us have success on the road.
What song do you enjoy playing live the most?
Everyone’s answer will be different here, but hi my name is Andy, I play drums, and my top 3 songs to play live are “Bad Dream”, “Spacing Out” and a new one called “Kansas City.”
How do you want your listeners to feel when listening to your new single “Real Good Life”, dropping February 2nd?
The song is very “Mowgli” in its themes. Sun shining, palm trees swaying. Life may be hard sometimes, but look around at all the beautiful things it has to offer. This song should be a reminder to cherish those bright, simple moments.
What do you look forward to the most in your band’s future?
Creating more music and sharing it with you all. It’s a goal of ours to take the band international. We’ve toured the U.S. what feels like millions of times over, and with this new cycle of music, we hope it reaches an even wider audience than before!
If you want to experience The Mowgli’s energetic live performance check out their tour dates: http://www.themowglis.net/tour/
Check out “Real Good Life” now released! The Mowgli’s did not disappoint with yet another banger. Available now on Spotify. | <urn:uuid:145ee529-3598-4a52-94c3-5e04fe2e3f81> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 4,694 |
The Language Arts Department offers a wide variety of classes for all students and courses specific to each student’s grade level. In the middle school classroom, students focus on developing their writing through the five-step writing process and developing their analytical reading strategies to prepare for high school. In 9th grade, the literature course focuses on various aspects of literature including poetry, short stories, plays, and novels. Students in 10th grade participate in a world literature course reading well-known literature reflecting the values of various cultures and impact on individuals within the culture. The 11th-grade curriculum focuses on American literature beginning in the 1800’s working through the literature of today. In 12th-grade student work chronologically through the British timeline reading well know British authors and analyzing the effect of society on literature. Beyond the core English courses, Grove School offers various English electives throughout the year including Creative Writing, Journalism, Poetry, and Deconstructing Disney. Students are continuously assessed using the CCSS writing rubric and participate in a variety of academic-based activities such as Socratic seminars, multisensory projects, lectures, and the composition of various written pieces.
Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12
This course has two primary purposes: (1) to introduce students to some of the achievements of poets writing in English and (2) to help students become a discriminating and confident reader and writer of poetry. Students will understand better what poetry is and what kind of responses it invites from its readers. A wide range of poems from different historical periods, written in a wide range of forms and styles will be read and analyzed. The first part of the course will tend to emphasize the various elements of poetry—imagery, figurative language, tone, sound and rhythm. In the second part, students will spend time considering what can be learned from studying a poem in the context of other poems by the same author or poems on a similar subject. | <urn:uuid:d2df3054-b1a7-44db-95cc-7d8c874fe3eb> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 2,096 |
UPPER SCHOOL SCIENCE TEACHER
The role of the Upper School Science Teacher is to promote literacy across disciplines and collaborate to assess student work, design curriculum, and improve personal practice. Teachers are expected to actively engage and participate in culture building in the classroom, as well as outside the classroom with parents/guardians. Teachers are to be present with students in the classroom, during lunch, and in the hallway while upholding norms and expectations. In addition, Teachers are expected to invest and engage in the work of developing a results-oriented, collegial and productive team-oriented approach to the work. | <urn:uuid:316af0d9-b4be-45f8-b1b9-171171d76976> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 652 |
Changes to Falcon’s busing system may so far have drawn the most attention, but the board’s newly charted innovation plan is far more likely to have a lasting impact on students.
On Jan. 13 the Falcon District 49 school board set in motion a plan designed to empower families, to streamline bureaucracy and to give principals the tools and incentives to succeed. The phrase “innovation zone” at the center of the plan is more than a buzzword or an ethereal abstraction. It represents the promise of positive, transformative change for individual teachers and students.
Under the current structure that prevails in most school districts, many decisions effectively are made at speeds too slow to remedy classroom challenges. Issues affecting curriculum or discipline may be addressed by one-size-fits-all solutions with unintended effects, or remain unresolved altogether. With no ill intent, the priorities of district administrators tend to trump priorities at the school and student level.
One area in which the innovation zone concept could make a positive difference is in staffing. District 49’s high school principals from its three feeder patterns of Falcon, Sand Creek and Vista Ridge — to be designated as site-based “innovation leaders” — will acquire more latitude to hire personnel when and how best suits the needs of their students and unique school programs.
A lot of people talk about making administration leaner, but District 49 is to be commended for doing something constructive about it. Whether in human resources or in areas such as curriculum, site maintenance and student services, Falcon’s proposal will change the central office from master to servant. The door also will be opened to consider more competitive contracting of services.
Falcon’s plan ultimately will place more money under school-level control, a transition that presents its own challenges. Yet district leaders already have put together an extended training program to prepare principals for their new-found authority and responsibilities.
A vital piece of the plan is a new funding scheme known as “backpack budgeting.” Though the details have yet to be forged, the idea is to stop allowing staffing policies and central office decisions determine where the per-pupil funding goes. Instead, the money will follow the student to the family’s choice of school. Teachers and principals will have to focus on meeting student needs or risk losing resources that come with future customers.
More than a dozen school distr icts nationwide have adopted this sort of funding strategy, under numerous different names. As a key part of reform in the struggling Baltimore City Schools, for example, Fair Student Funding has helped to spur further site-based innovations and contributed to a rise in student achievement.
Along with a greater classroom focus to improve student experiences and outcomes, a related goal of the innovation plan is to spend existing funds more productively. District 49 seeks to replace the “use it or lose it” practice of central budgeting with incentives for schools to use taxpayer dollars wisely.
It’s a decision born out of necessity. Decades of widespread per-pupil spending growth have given way to leaner, tighter K-12 budgets nationwide.
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan noted in a November speech that “the challenge of doing more with less…can, and should be, embraced as an opportunity to make dramatic improvements.” Following Duncan’s lead, Colorado’s State Board of Education is weighing a resolution encouraging school districts “to implement cost efficiencies and adhere to the Secretary’s recommendation to improve the productivity of the education system.”
District 49 leaders are providing a strong audition to serve as the poster child for this brand of bold and innovative reform. As long as the board continues pursuing the current path, other districts will have a pioneer to follow.
While yet to receive the attention it deserves, Falcon’s innovation plan represents an important step that could yield positive changes for years to come.
Ben DeGrow is education policy analyst for the Independence Institute, a free market think tank in Golden.
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Few topics in contemporary American life have so gripped the public`s attention as has "cultural diversity." The topic is prominent in daily newspapers, on television, and in the vehicles of mass advertising. It is physically evident in many hometowns where cultural groups either congregate in definable ethnic communities or live among other groups, producing neighborhoods in which dozens of languages are spoken. To travelers, other parts of the country take on a new character as growing populations of immigrants who arrived on our shores in the past quarter of a century are incorporated.
A term of recent vintage, "cultural diversity" generally is used to denote the changing ethnic composition of the United States through immigration of individuals from Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean, or Southeast Asia and their concentration in certain states and cities. The emergence of such ethnic groups with long roots in American society, as Africans and those from certain Asian groups to positions of public prominence, bolsters the perception of the growing diversity of the nation.
Localities in which ethnic changes are the most pronounced will certainly witness a change in the balance of political power that will influence all other aspects of the community. A recent article in The New York Times reflects the tenor of the times: It reported that New York politicians are reaching out into "uncharted territory" in pursuing the votes of the foreign born, "who could one day be as much a force as the turn-of-the-century immigrants who gave political muscle to the Democratic machine of Tammany Hall and gave city politics a decidedly Irish cast."1This profound change inspires both fear and confidence. It causes concern about the effects of a churning ethnic mix in disadvantaged urban areas but also serves as a reassuring reminder that the nation was founded upon, and endured despite, diverse cultural antecedents.
Awareness about the diverse nature of the American population permeates nearly every sector of American society. Cultural diversity is infused into deliberations surrounding educational curricula, employment practices, immigration policy, and urban-revitalization proposals.
Commentators express worry about citizens labeling themselves as "hyphenated Americans" and wonder if the nation can remain united in the face of ethic pride.
During the past decade, the subject of cultural diversity has entered the national discourse because of the results of the 1990 United States census. Analysis of the census produced compelling visual images of changing national demographics. Whereas minority groups were decidedly a minority of the American population at one time, in a few decades the aggregate of minorities will become the majority. At the local level the census explains many of the dynamics in our cities, towns, and rural areas.
The Columbus quincentennial further fueled the debate on cultural diversity. It generated a national discussion about the motivations of the Europeans during the Age of Discovery and their treatment of indigenous cultures in the Americas. What was envisioned as a celebration of national unity became, instead, the occasion for questions about who discovered whom, the Europeans` domination of the native peoples, the devastation of disease brought by the Europeans, and the crosscurrents of cultures between both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
Cultural diversity has also influenced the historic preservation field. At the 1991 National Preservation Conference held in San Francisco cultural diversity emerged as a key trend of the future that the preservation movement must address. The topic is the focus of the 1992 National Preservation Conference, which will be held in Miami, Florida, October 7 to 11. No doubt, cultural diversity will figure in some way in preservation conferences, publications, and programming for years to come.
This article lays out subthemes within the topic of cultural diversity. It is based largely on the more than seventy abstracts submitted to the National Trust for Historic Preservation in response to the call for papers for the 1992 conference distributed to the historic preservation community in the fall of 1991. While the abstracts represent the experiences and activities of the individual abstract writers, as a group they also reflect the status of cultural diversity in the historic preservation field. Additionally, the abstracts rest on the very substantial foundation of a quarter of a century of efforts by the historic preservation field in attaining cultural diversity.
Building on the Foundations of the Past
The full dimensions or limitations of the term "cultural diversity" are yet to become clear. It covers the history of "minority" and ethnic groups in the nation from the American Indians who inhabited the Western Hemisphere to the Spanish, English, and French explorers and settlers in the Age of Discovery; the experience of the African-Americans throughout American history; the arrival of the Germans and other European groups during the nineteenth century; the influx of Eastern and Southern Europeans and Asians at the turn of the century; and the recent arrival of Southeast Asians, Hispanics, Africans, and those from the Caribbean region.
The historic preservation field made initial forays into cultural diversity in the 1940s and the 1950s with the addition to the National Park system of two properties associated with Tuskegee Institute. The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s and the emergence of the "new social history" in the historical profession expanded the scope of the historic preservation movement. For at least a decade before the celebration of the American bicentennial in 1976, hundreds of commemorative local historical studies were undertaken, and the seeds of cultural diversity in historic preservation were sown.
Heightened awareness and appreciation of ethnic and local history resulted in additions of more African-American properties to the number of National Park Service units during the 1960s and 1970s. Many more minority-related properties were designated National Historic Landmarks. Major outdoor and historic house museums developed minority-history dimensions to their interpretative programs. Historic preservation agencies at the federal, state, and local levels sponsored surveys of ethnic-related historic properties and nominated eligible properties to the National Register of Historic Places, state registers, and local landmarks and historic districts lists. Conferences on minority preservation were convened to build bridges between minority groups and historic preservation programs.
The programs and tools of the past quarter of a century to increase cultural diversity in the historic preservation field continue today. However, the increased cultural diversity of the nation during the 1980s has spurred preservationists to new heights of endeavor. Those workings in the field are aware that without a meaningful involvement of cultural groups in the historic preservation process, the preservation will not enjoy solid public support that translates into political action.
Documenting Cultural Diversity
The survey of potentially historic properties constitutes a common early step in many preservation endeavors. Surveys result in written records of properties studied. The process of surveying frequently raises the consciousness of citizens about significant properties in their locality. Survey information may be used for planning purposes and for preparing nominations for listing in the National Register or state registers and for local designation of properties important to cities, towns, counties, and rural areas. Listing entails recognition and some protection, particularly at the local level where zoning regulations come into play. Listing serves as a threshold for tax incentives and grant programs at all levels of government and in the private sector.
The Local History Context
The focus on local history and local historical significance, one of the great leaps forward taken by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, has sparked an awareness of ethnic and cultural diversity. The 1966 act directed state historic preservation offices to conduct comprehensive surveys, many of which unearthed information about ethnic groups that settled in urban neighborhoods and rural enclaves. Preservationists cite community studies as preparatory to uncovering cultural diversity in local historical settings.
The documentation of the North Brentwood community in Prince George`s County, Maryland, by Susan G. Pearl is a representative example of a local survey that resulted in a greater awareness of cultural diversity. The project revealed that the community was founded by Captain Wallace A. Bartlett, a white man who commanded the colored troops from Maryland during the Civil War. In 1892 Bartlett planned a black residential community at the time of the reunion of the veterans of the colored troops. Such community institutions as churches, schools, businesses, citizens` and firemen`s associations served to bind together the subdivision and encourage its development into the 20th century.2
The study of vernacular resources often buildings, structures, and landscapes -- reveals ethnic and cultural threads that can be traced to Old World sources. These threads become interwoven with the forces of necessity--climate and available building materials, for example -- to produce vernacular forms. Vernacular studies also embrace the gradual absorption of distinctively ethnic forms into mass-produced popular building types made desirable by lower costs and by the inhabitants` willingness to conform to the mainstream of American life.
For example, Dena Sanford documented the Korpivaara community in central Montana, an isolated collection of Finnish log homesteads and related agricultural land. Each bore "characteristics of the Northern European building forms, uses, and farmstead organization." Located in an area experiencing economic decline and obsolescence, the community`s resources serve as a challenge to preservationists concerned with finding viable uses for historic buildings.3A group of properties associated with the Korpivaara community recently was listed in the National Register of Historic Places as part of a multiple property nomination.
The Use of Intangible Cultural Resources
Intangible cultural resources present preservationists with additional sources of documentation for tangible historical resources during evaluation and registration processes. Some preservationists also view intangibles as resources that can be appreciated quite apart from physical places because they are as compelling a reflection of culture as tangible resources. As Elizabeth Morton stated when describing her efforts to organize a folklife track at the annual California Preservation Conference, "The primary goal is . . . to encourage preservationists to expand their definition of cultural stewardship to include a stronger focus on [the collection, recording, and interpretation of] intangible resources."4 Patricia L. Parker and Thomas F. King suggest that options for addressing traditions and lifeways include broadening the scope of the National Register of Historic Places, establishing a parallel "register," and including consideration of traditions and lifeways in public agency planning.5
Cultural conservation was a concept developed in the report, Cultural Conservation: The Protection of the Cultural Heritage of the United States (1981), a joint effort of the secretary of the interior and the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress. It addressed the preservation and conservation of intangible elements of the nation`s cultural heritage, such as arts, skills, folklife, and folkways.6 This concept was adopted in the Maine Acadian Culture Survey coordinated by C. Ray Brassieur (see Pages 10 to 18 for an article discussing both the concept and the program). The study of the Frenchspeaking Acadians in the Upper St. John Valley of Maine addressed the importance of language, ethnic identity, traditional belief systems, vernacular architecture, and material culture.7
Jazz is a musical form that originated in an area known as Congo Square in New Orleans, Louisiana. Jane S. Brooks traced the history of jazz from Congo Square, where slaves and free persons of color gathered to drum, dance, and "rekindle their ties to Africa." When blended with military brass bands after the Civil War, the "Western instrumentation with African rhythm" gave the world this uniquely American art form. Since jazz is an art form that continues to evolve, "the challenge for the preservationist" Brooks contends, "is how to interpret this living history in a way that is at the same time respectful and dynamic; that acknowledges the role of the past and the promise of the future."8
Emensio Eperiam of Pohnpei, Micronesia, addressed the significance of oral history in documenting a culture`s history. Oral studies and traditions are passed from elder members of a family or clan to succeeding generations. "Every piece of oral history and cultural tradition is considered extremely valuable and thus is safeguarded tightly within the soul of the individual keepers." The sacredness of these traditions often frustrates researchers who are intent on documentation.9
The conflict between the desires of cultural groups to preserve properties significant to them and the risk to those sites if culturally sensitive information is revealed about them is a concern of Elizabeth A. Brandt. On the basis of her experience with Pueblo Indian and Apache communities, she contends that techniques exist for "understanding, preserving, and respecting the religious and political concerns of Indian communities while still providing adequate documentation using oral history, ethnography, documentary history, and photography.10
Addressing cultural diversity in historic preservation requires preservationists to understand what "history" and "culture" mean to various cultural groups. The definitions most often do not coincide with those of what is termed the "mainstream" American or the "dominant" culture. For example, Roger Anyon describes the Zuni Archaeology Program as "holistic" in approach. The multifaceted strategy toward cultural heritage is oriented toward "holistic historic and cultural preservation goals of the Zuni Tribe." One of the projects involves the development of a museum oriented to community interests and needs. Religious leaders are consulted about impacts on traditional cultural practices. Additionally, "traditional seed varieties are being collected as the genesis of a Tribal Seed Bank." Zuni cultural values are "fully incorporated into the Zuni Sustainable Development Plan."11
The holistic approach is essential to many cultures because they make little distinction between the sacred and the secular and between history and religion. Writing about her work with American Indian cultures of the Southwest, Lynne Sebastian observes "the whole earth is a sacred landscape, integrally related to the history, beliefs, and practices of the people." These differing cultural perspectives make the fit between historic preservation regulations and programs and American Indian culture often an uncomfortable one.12
Interpreting Cultural Diversity
The interpretation of national, state, regional, or local history is, to many, the essential purpose of historic preservation. Historic and cultural resources are saved not only as living parts of our communities, but also as places that express the nation`s history. How that history is written or conveyed to the public determines how that public views its past and directs the national debate about the future.
For many years, some preservationists, community leaders, and representatives of various cultural groups viewed the historic preservation movement as concerned primarily with the history of national leaders and with the architecture of the affluent. In encouraging increased appreciation of the role of all cultural and economic groups in the interpretation of the nation`s history, these individuals and groups inspired a revisiting of many established historic sites and places as well as the exploration of new resources that hold the keys to a more inclusive historical portrait.
The interpretation of the culturally diverse dimensions of historic buildings and places is often based on new documentation. This documentation can lead to new understandings of historic resources that previously were viewed in a single dimension. New discoveries and interpretations are under way at large, established historic sites and house museums, among them Colonial Williamsburg and Mount Vernon. Both properties are expanding their research efforts and interpretation to encompass the experience of both slaves and free blacks in 18th-century life.
Reinterpretation of historic properties is taking place as well. For example, Kim Alan Williams described the origins of Fort Concho National Historic Landmark in San Angelo, Texas, as based on "Anglo-western expansion and dominance as part of the manifest destiny doctrine." The image of the fort continued to be associated with an elitist setting through much of the twentieth century, despite the presence of blacks and Hispanics in the community. Beginning in 1979, a new master plan integrated the two cultural groups. The annual celebration of the Fiesta del Concho involves the Hispanic and Anglo communities, and "special buffalo-soldier ancestor programs and archives now highlight Afro-American contributions to Fort Concho and the city." School programs offer pioneer days during which students experience a multicultural pioneer experience.13 Research efforts directed specifically at the many cultural dimensions of a historic property are also reflected in the Nevada Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology`s study of ethnic groups in the Virginia City Landmark District. During the mining boom of the 1850s, Virginia City was populated by many foreign-born citizens, including Asians, African Americans, Europeans, Mexicans, and Latin Americans. According to Ronald M. James, the Virginia City project "endeavors to understand these groups as they coexisted and interacted. As one of the mining West`s first truly multicultural settings, Virginia City provides an excellent example of an assimilation process that is crucial to understanding our diverse heritage."14
"Cultural layering," which results when cultural diversity and demographic mobility are combined, presents particular dilemmas in interpretation and rehabilitation. Meredith Arms Bzdak described Union City, New Jersey, as presenting a continuum in ethnic diversity from the mid-nineteenth century with the arrival of German settlers via Ellis Island to Puerto Ricans, Cubans, and more recently, immigrants from Central and South America. The succession of groups altered the built environment of Union City, causing a tremendous challenge in evaluating the significance of historic resources. It is particularly difficult for preservationists "accustomed to the investigation of more homogeneous environments."15
The continuous adaptation of buildings and places to suit new owners raises questions about the Secretary of the Interior`s Standards for Rehabilitation, according to Penelope S. Watson. The Standards encourage retaining later changes to a building that have become a part of its overall history. However, buildings can be built for an affluent owner and then subdivided and altered for worker housing. Likewise, worker housing can be upgraded by subsequent owners. "In the first scenario, would destruction of later, inferior finishes be an improper, culturally biased decision? In the second case, would retention of later finishes `whitewash` the history of the site as interpreted to the public?"16
How do preservationists treat historic areas now used as "Chinatowns," particularly when the buildings were previously used by other immigrant groups and reflect early non-Chinese-American history. In Boston`s Chinatown, "only a handful of the present structures were built reflecting the ethnicity of the present Chinese residents and businesses." Through the development of a community plan, Ting Fun-Yeh and Philip B. Herr state that the area`s earlier history is being protected, "while the physical and cultural interests of the Chinese community are served, contributing to social equity and the cultural richness of the metropolitan area."17
The historic preservation community has studied the potential for using culturally diverse historic resources in attracting tourism. Elizabeth MacNeil Boggess noted that recent inventories of American Indian and African-American resources in Natchez, Mississippi, have formed part of a "strategy for multicultural management and tourism" and a complementary tourist experience to the traditional route based on the city`s large mansions and antebellum plantation houses.18
Mario L. Sanchez is developing a heritage trail following a 180-mile-long linear corridor along the Lower Rio Grande between Texas and Mexico. The proposed heritage corridor will interpret the culturally diverse resources in both the United States and Mexico and will cover the shared cultural heritage of both nations. The common themes include colonial river settlements, ranching, river steamboat trade, agricultural development, and military conflicts. The development of cultural tourism in the region promises to foster preservation, economic development, and better relations between communities on both sides of the river.19
Heritage festivals serve to strengthen the ties among members of particular cultural groups and to provide recreational/educational opportunities for other groups. For example, Murney Gerlach reports that "since the late 1980s, San Diego has moved increasingly to preserve its historic and cultural resources, especially in light of the fact that almost forty-three percent of the population of southern California is Hispanic, Asian, African-American, or nonwhite." Schools and cultural organizations have redesigned their offerings to reflect this change in fairs and festivals organized to bring communities together.20
The inclusion of culturally diverse groups and their historical resources into the historic preservation field challenges some of the movement`s basic premises. Not all cultural groups view heritage resources in the same way. Some groups may value resources of little apparent value to others; other groups may value the same resources but at varying degrees of importance. In order to address culturally diverse resources, preservationists must elicit and respect the views of the groups associated with the resources. During a 1990 conference on cultural conservation at the Library of Congress, James Early outlined the concept of "cultural equity": "The basic purpose for inclusion [of culturally diverse people (people of color) in policy positions] . . . is to recalibrate, if not in some instances overturn, reigning assumptions, criteria, expectations, standards, canons, even epistemologies, to engage perspectives and criteria historically evolved by other cultures--cultural equity."21 Carolyn Torma observes that the challenges ensuing from differing cultural values between conventional preservation standards and cultural groups spring "from a somewhat limited understanding of one culture or subculture by another." 22
The gap between the scholars of the historic preservation movement and the groups whose past and present lifeways are the objects of study is discussed by Veletta Canouts. She notes that many cultural resources are "multiply esteemed" and communication between the interested parties often fails because of differences in cultural assumptions and cultural values. "Communication has remained essentially unidirectional . . . as this information has been fielded by passive audiences who are not encouraged to engage in active discourse."23
The disparity between dominant cultures and indigenous groups in the area of historic preservation is evident in the Caribbean region. William Chapman asserts that "historic preservation, when it did come to the islands, tended to be borne by Europeans and North Americans who generally imposed their own ideas of preservation upon an often alienated populace." In fact, historic preservation was viewed "as an effort to expropriate an indigenous culture and as the imposition of a new kind of colonial power." As a first step in finding common ground, Chapman suggests that basic cultural differences be understood and appreciated. Only then can a more effective preservation approach be effected.24
A similar situation exists in the Marshall Islands. Dirk H. R. Spennemann observes that the cultural properties associated with Europeans are considered and treated as more important than indigenous historic sites. "For the islanders a coral head sticking out in the lagoon, with all the oral traditions connected with it, has a far greater spiritual and historical importance than any building the foreigners call `historical`." The Micronesian Historic Preservation Programs are redressing this imbalance by increasingly focusing on the recognition of traditional places and landscapes and "in treating such traditional properties on par with historic buildings."25
Involving Ethnic Participation
The National Park Service`s Applied Ethnography Program was established to develop methods and programs to manage park resources so that both culturally sensitive resources and the traditional users` needs are protected. Muriel Crespi and Jenny Masur define cultural resources as embracing subsistence grounds, massive geological features valued as homelands of spiritual entities, and traditional ethnic neighborhoods Because these resources are not monumental, they have often been undervalued. However, they contribute to people`s sense of cultural distinctiveness. "The integrity and continuing use of such resources, on-site or through legends and myths, can be essential to a groups cultural vitality."26
A regional National Park Service ethnographer, George S. Esber, Jr., suggests that current efforts to increase minority participation are often inadequate because they "are rooted in an idealism that is often expressed in terms of a need for increased sensitivity, kinder . . . behavior, invitations to participate, and a willingness to consult." Ultimately, such gestures are viewed as insincere. Esber suggests that overcoming social distance between cultures lies in the use of language and terminology. "To achieve this end requires a challenge to many misconceptions that are routinely expressed in dominant society. An audit of current language use and thought represents a necessary first step in creating a more hospitable environment for enhanced communication and minority preservation."27
The Urban Challenge
The nations cities remain its foremost cultural centers. In the central city lie the city`s origins, its historic architecture, its ethnic history, and the history of its growth and development. There also lie the origins of the imagery by which it is portrayed in literature and of the memories of countless individuals. These, too, are the places that today reflect the consequences of neglect by city services, abandonment by the middle class, and relegation to the most disadvantaged in American society.
Can historic preservation help reclaim the nation`s cities? Often historic preservationists carry in their historic preservation "tool chest" an offer to deliver services to the inner city. Judith Ann Johnson developed the Special Neighborhood Awareness Project, which was intended as a model for educating low-income residents about preservation as a strategy for neighborhood revitalization. However, because the neighborhood did not become involved in the project, the project failed to achieve its objective of creating a model for other preservation efforts in minority areas. Johnson views the aftermath of the failure as providing lessons important for developing a more effective model.28
Holding the view that historic preservation can be the "glue to hold together the fabric of diverse ethnic, cultural, and racial groups" in urban centers, Donald D. Slesnick II and Louise Yarbrough suggest that revolving funds represent an innovative approach to physically improving the condition of older neighborhoods "while underwriting projects that have created jobs, provided new sources of housing, and overcome the ethnic and cultural barriers that prevent the development of a sense of community." A revolving fund could be made up of monies from private foundations and government agencies along with set-aside bank guarantees. The fund could be used to procure, restore and resell historic properties. It could also serve as a source of low-interest second/third-mortgage money for repairs and maintenance.29
Cultural Unity Issues
The current national preoccupation with cultural diversity has produced myriad observations about the pros and cons of ethnic pride and as many recommendations about how to increase, decrease, or accept the current level of interest. Editorial writer Joel Kotkin wrote recently in The Washington Post that the transformation of California into a new kind of society - an amalgam of Asian, Latino, African-American as well as Anglo influences - was sending shock waves through virtually every sector of the state`s society. The recent riots in Los Angeles raised the specter of a "fundamental choice between cosmopolitan multiracialism or a descent into tribalism."30
The prospect of cultural pride resulting in the disintegration of American society runs counter to the history of the nation itself. For as long as the nation evolved, particularly since the Age of Discovery, Americans have enjoyed the right to practice their own cultural traditions as well as to join the mainstream culture and view themselves as "American." History also indicates that retention of cultural distinctiveness is essential to the adjustment of new arrivals in the nation and continues to play an important role in determining how individuals view themselves and their future prospects. Preservationists have documented the role of cultural awareness and pride in American history and the continuity of cultural characteristics to the present.
Cultural Continuity and Retention
One recent example from the 1990 census demonstrates the remarkable endurance of cultural distinctiveness despite the passage of generations. In the Star Tribune, it was reported that suburbs in Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area still retain their identification as Scandinavian, German, or Irish. In response to a report that suburbs continued to be defined by ethnicity, Rudolph Vecoli, director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota, observed, "Immigrants historically moved to places where they felt most comfortable, where people spoke their language and knew their customes, whether in the country towns or city neighborhoods . . . But even today, people naturally settle near relatives or near their churches."31
In another case, Ted J. Ligibel studied the Toledo, Ohio, neighborhood of Birmingham, an intact Eastern European neighborhood. Founded a century ago, the neighborhood "retains . . . many of the customs of the Old World, some of which died out in the homeland due to religious and political oppression." (In fact, one such custom, the Bethlemish Christmas Play was taped by Hungarian National Television as a historical record of a lost tradition) The close connections that remain between Birmingham and the Old World can also be demonstrated in churches, social halls, schools, and commercial buildings, all of which display ethnic iconography or Old World forms. One residential street appears to be laid out according to the pattern of villages in rural Hungary.32
Preservationists have moved far beyond urging one another to simply do more in the area of cultural diversity; they also are doing their work differently. No longer are they prepackaging their historic preservation tools and delivering them to cultural groups. With the influence of such related professional groups as anthropologists, ethnographers, folklorists,and community planners, preservationists are learning to work with cultural groups, to ask them what their priorities are, to discern how historic preservation tools can work for the groups, and to make adjustments to the tools in order to accommodate cultural differences.
The ability of the historic preservation field to address the needs of the nation`s various cultural entities will determine its success as a national mainstream movement. It also will influence the comprehension of the nation`s history as a whole - whether at the national level or from the vantage point of a small community. Historic preservation efforts leave a consequential legacy in telling the extraordinary story of how, out of many nations, a single and enduring nation was formed.
Antoinette J. Lee is a historian for the National Register of Historic Places, Interagency Resources Division, the National Park Service. Read an update of this article from 2012 in the related links section below.
Published: July/August 1992
1Alison Mitchell, "New York`s Political Parties Vie for Votes of Immigrants," New York Times, July 4, 1992, pp. 1, 22. #Diversity#ForumJournal#Inclusion#AfricanAmerican#AsianAmerican
2Susan G. Pearl, "Historical Survey of an Early Black Community in Prince George`s County, Maryland," abstract for the forty-sixth National Preservation Conference.
3Dena Sanford, "Historic Preservation Education through Documentation: The Korpivaara Community," abstract for the forty-sixth National Preservation Conference.
4Elizabeth Morton, "Historic Preservation and Folklife Resources in Humboldt County, California," abstract for the forty-sixth National Preservation Conference.
5Patricia L. Parker and Thomas F. King, "Traditional Places and Practices in the Federal Planning Process," abstract for the forty-sixth National Preservation Conference.
6Cultural Conservation: The Protection of Cultural Heritage in the United States (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1983).
7C. Ray Brassieur, "The Maine Acadian Culture Survey: Cultural Conservation Helps Define Multiculturalism," abstract for forty-sixth National Preservation Conference.
8Jane S. Brooks, "National Preservation of Jazz Park: The Taskforce and Their Work," abstract for forty-sixth National Preservation Conference.
9Emensio Eperiam, "Using Intangible Resources to Document and Interpret Places Significant to Ethnic History," abstract for forty-sixth National Preservation Conference.
10Elizabeth A. Brandt, "Multicultural Voices, Secrecy, and the Documentation of Traditional Cultural Properties," abstract for forty-sixth National Preservation Conference.
11Roger Anyon, "Historic Preservation as Cultural Preservation," abstract for forty-sixth National Preservation Conference.
12Lynne Sebastian, "All Things on the Earth and in the Sky and under the Waters," abstract for forty-sixth National Preservation Conference.
13Kim Alan Williams, "Fort Concho National Historic Landmark: An Historical Multicultural Paradox," abstract for forty-sixth National Preservation Conference.
14Ronald M. James, "Multiculturalism, Mining and the Wild West," abstract for forty-sixth National Preservation Conference.
15Meredith Arms Bzdak, "Union City, New Jersey: A Case Study in Shifting Cultural Contexts," abstract for forty-sixth National Preservation Conference.
16Penelope S. Watson, "Multicultural Site Interpretation and Conflicts with Established Preservation Practice," abstract for forty-sixth National Preservation Conference.
17Ting Fun-Yeh and Philip B. Herr, "Boston`s Chinatown: Community-Based Planning and Preservation in a Multicultural Context," abstract for forty-sixth National Preservation Conference.
18Elizabeth MacNeil Boggess, "Natchez-on-the-Mississippi: A Case Study in Multicultural Tourism," abstract for forty-sixth National Preservation Conference.
19Mario L. Sanchez, "Documenting, Preserving and Interpreting the Multicultural Resources of the Lower Rio Grande Heritage Corridor," abstract for forty-sixth National Preservation Conference.
20Murney Gerlach, "Multiculturalism in a Quincentennial Year in San Diego," abstract for forty-sixth National Preservation Conference.
21James Early, "Engaging New Perspectives," in "Reconfiguring the Cultural Mission: Excerpts from the Conference," Folklife Center News, XII (1990), p. 9.
22Carolyn Torma, "The Right to Own History: Native American Challenges to Historic Preservation and Public History," abstract for forty-sixth National Preservation Conference.
23Veletta Canouts, "Reading the Past: Multicultural Interpretation," abstract for forty-sixth National Preservation Conference.
24William Chapman, "Historic Preservation in the Caribbean: Prospects for the Future," abstract for forty-sixth National Preservation Conference.
25Dirk H.R. Spennemann, "Historic Preservation and Multiculturalism: A Pacific Perspective," abstract for forty-sixth National Preservation Conference.
26Muriel Crespi and Jenny Masur, "Beyond Monumentalism: The National Park Service Applied Ethnography Program," abstract for forty-sixth National Preservation Conference.
27George S. Esber, "Building Bridges in National Park Service Programs," abstract for forty-sixth National Preservation Conference.
28Judith Ann Johnson, no title, abstract for forty-sixth National Preservation Conference.
29Donald D. Slesnick II and Louise Yarbrough, "The Historic Preservation Revolving Fund as an Outreach to the Inner City," abstract for forty-sixth National Preservation Conference.
30Joel Kotkin, "California`s Lesson: How the Golden State Views the Nation`s 21st Century," The Washington Post, May 31, 1992, pp. C1-C2.
31Peter Leyden, "Scandinavians No. 2 Here; German Ancestry is No. 1," Star Tribune, July 5, 1992, pp. 1A, 13A.
32Ted J. Ligibel, "Birmingham: Preserving an Ethnic Identity," abstract for forty-sixth National Preservation Conference. | <urn:uuid:98b434c6-d9c9-4623-86a9-f4837d14e7d0> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 38,354 |
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