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When companies start to struggle, some people hope that the idea of corporate social responsibility (CSR) can help CEOs understand themselves and learn to adapt, but too often that is engulfed by traditional ways of running a company. Better to look at how we can create an organisation which runs along entirely different lines.
There exists a model which can help. John Mackey, the founder of organic food retailer Whole Foods Market has promoted the idea of “Conscious Capitalism”. On one level it represents an ideal of benevolence and goodness, and has been the starting point for those wanting to build the idea of a conscious business, where values (and CSR guidelines) define business interactions and act as an antidote to greed, corruption and social irresponsibility.
The Conscious Business Institute defines Conscious Business here:
[It] is about people who are aware of the impact their habits and actions have on their organisation and their environment … Conscious Businesses require authentic leaders that do not exercise dominance and control to reach a goal, but who are of service to the business, its people, its customers and the community.
However, Mackey’s original book went deeper and further than just CSR. Conscious Capitalism was about being awake to the consequences of business action. It was about heightening awareness of how a company operates itself, as well as how it senses and responds to the external environment. Problems like those we have seen in the banking sector, and perhaps at the troubled retail giant Tesco, might be addressed with an approach that took this into account.
This deeper definition of conscious business takes a more literal approach. A business can be more or less “conscious”. Consciousness can be viewed along a number of different dimensions. Take Fred Kofman’s, quotes from the Ayn-Rand-acolyte Nathaniel Branden, who died earlier this month and whose broad view of consciousness went beyond this simplistic “good and kind” definition used by so many:
Living consciously is a state of being mentally active rather than passive. It is the ability to look at the world through fresh eyes. It is intelligence taking joy in its own function. Living consciously is seeking to be aware of everything that bears on our interests, actions, values, purposes and goals. It is the willingness to confront facts, pleasant or unpleasant. It is the desire to discover our mistakes and correct them … It is the quest to keep expanding our awareness and understanding, both of the world external to self and of the world within.
Running the show
So much for theory and the grand themes. Let’s imagine that Dave Lewis, the new boss of Tesco, wants to do more than tick the CSR box in his annual report and actually apply the practice of conscious business. Well, there are companies organised along more democratic lines and who operate using open and enquiry-based methods rather than top down, solution-based ways of working. Firms like Nixon-McInnes and Propellernet in the UK are demonstrating new ways of being successful.
Nixon McInnes, voted one of the world’s most democratic companies underlines the importance of creating responsive, enquiry-based relationships with clients, rather than the take-what-you-get traditional delivery-based model. It isn’t what we want to sell them, it is what they need. One process (called, rather strangely “SPIN” by Nixon McInnes founder, Tom Nixon), aims to arrive at a genuinely open conversation between customer and supplier, ferreting out the problems that the customer is really trying to solve. So, a conscious business attempts to raise its awareness of its customers by banishing traditional selling in favour of “sensing” and “responding”.
Propellernet, meanwhile, tries to raise the awareness and “authority” of their clients. The motto goes:
We help our clients to become genuine authorities in their chosen markets.
It becomes more about dialogue than delivery. Propellernet have experienced rapid growth through their much more real-time, responsive approach to clients, seeing the customer relationship more as an ongoing dialogue than the discrete delivery of products or services. This dialogue continues internally, on an ongoing basis. Voted as one of the best places to work in 2014, a culture of openness and transparency is key. Quality of working life, and a democratic approach encourage staff to challenge mediocrity and constructively disrupt the status quo. It doesn’t take a genius to work out that the foreign exchange departments of some of the world’s major banks could have done with a bit of this.
Feeling part of the decision-making process as well as feeling safe to challenge are keys to a business remaining conscious. Of course, in both cases there are still dynamics that can create tension and difficulty around ownership, politics and commercial pressures. Both Propellernet and Nixon McInnes would see conscious businesses an an aspiration rather than an arrival point. In a way conscious business is not an end state but an everyday enquiry into how business is conducted.
It might seem fairly simple, but it is actually represents a u-turn in how many companies operate. The idea is that a conscious business moves away from “advocacy” alone. Advocacy is what we put out, what we deliver, what we decide and what we say. On the other hand, “enquiry” is a state of ongoing responsiveness, curiosity, questioning and openness.
Conscious businesses are more conscious because their core business process is a real time readiness to sense, enquire and respond. This is more successful when both the internal and external environment are changing rapidly. We become more agile because we are enquiring all the time. Action becomes simultaneous to that enquiry, it doesn’t happen “after the fact”. (So, we decide and enquire at the same time). Simply put, a conscious business is highly responsive and able to improvise – a worthy goal for any CEO, in retail, in banking or any other sector. | <urn:uuid:3f112723-e597-4d50-8b7a-6adf8f9b45a8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theconversation.com/conscious-capitalism-how-to-make-the-most-of-the-kindness-in-business-34848 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.964956 | 1,265 | 2.34375 | 2 |
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La ilegalidad, los metaordenamientos y la metapreferencias
This paper parts from the work developed by Sen about metaorders and metapreferences to explain illegality as a rational problem. After showing the scope of this categories, the author exposes some limits of the benefit cost analysis of illegality. He continues suggesting that the concept of metapreferences contributes to understanding the fuzzy space that exists between legal and illegal frontiers, and between legitimacy and illegitimacy. González point out the necessity of a more detailed analysis of the way in which beliefs and desires shape individual and social preferences, if we don’t want to fall in simplistic explanations of illegality based on an arbitrary criteria of the good. He concludes too that the inconsistency of metapreferences can explain why more expenditures in security and justice don’t result in a reduction of impunity.
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Covid has hit over 500 factories
published : 30 Jul 2021 at 14:41
writer: Online Reporters
Since April 1, Covid-19 outbreaks have hit 518 factories and a total of 36,861 of their employees in 49 provinces, according to the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration.
CCSA spokesman Taweesilp Visanuyothin said on Friday that Phetchaburi province recorded the most infected workers at 4,464, followed by 3,487 in Phetchabun, 2,538 in Prachuap Khiri Khan, 2,496 in Samut Sakhon and 2,209 in Songkhla province.
Fifteen provinces each had 1,000 or more infected workers, five provinces from 501 to 999 infected factory workers and 29 provinces fewer than 500.
The hardest-hit industry was the food sector with 99 factories hit by Covid-19, followed by 74 electronics factories, 42 garment factories, 42 metal factories and 36 plastic factories.
There were 64,038 factories nationwide and 18,005 were evaluated for their Covid-19 control measures, of which 68% passed disease control criteria.
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Last summer, in this capital of gridlock, a miracle occurred.
The American people rose as one and told the government of the United States not to drag us into another Middle East war in Syria.
Barack Obama was ready to launch air and missile strikes when a national uproar forced him to go to Congress for authorization. Congress seemed receptive until some Hill offices were swarmed by phone calls and emails coming in at a rate of 100-1 against war.
Middle America stopped the government from taking us into what even the president now concedes is “somebody else’s civil war.”
This triumphal coming together of left and right was a rarity in national politics. But Ralph Nader, in “Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State,” believes that ad hoc alliances of left and right to achieve common goals can, should, and, indeed, shall be our political future.
To call this an optimistic book is serious understatement.
Certainly, left and right have come together before.
In “Those Angry Days,” Lynne Olson writes of how future presidents from opposing parties, Gerald Ford and John F. Kennedy, backed the America First Committee to keep us out of war in 1941, and how they were supported by the far-left Nation magazine as well as Colonel Robert McCormick’s right-wing Chicago Tribune.
Two decades ago, Ross Perot and this writer joined Ralph and the head of the AFL-CIO to stop NAFTA, a trade deal backed by America’s corporate elite and its army of mercenaries on Capitol Hill.
Congress voted with corporate America — against the country.
Result: 20 years of the largest trade deficits in U.S. history. Transnational corporations have prospered beyond the dreams of avarice, as Middle America has seen its wages frozen for a generation.
In 2002, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry joined John McCain and George W. Bush in backing war on Iraq. Teddy Kennedy and Bernie Sanders stood with Ron Paul and the populist and libertarian right in opposing the war.
The Mises Institute and The American Conservative were as one with The Nation in opposing this unprovoked and unnecessary war.
The left-right coalition failed to stop the war, and we are living with the consequences in the Middle East, and in our veterans hospitals.
As America’s most indefatigable political activist since he wrote “Unsafe at Any Speed” in 1965, Ralph is calling for “convergences” of populist and libertarian conservatives and the left — for 25 goals.
Among these are many with an appeal to the traditionalist and libertarian right:
— Break up “Too Big to Fail” banks. Further direct democracy through use of the initiative, referendum and recall.
— End unconstitutional wars by enforcing Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, which gives Congress alone the power to declare war.
— Revise trade agreements to protect U.S. sovereignty. End “fast track,” those congressional surrenders of constitutional authority to amend trade treaties negotiated by the executive.
From the subtitle, as well as text, of his most recent book, one may instantly identify whom it is Ralph sees as the main enemy. It is megabanks and transnational corporations without consciences whose highest loyalty is the bottom line, the kind of men Jefferson had in mind when he wrote: “Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.”
Where such men see a $17 trillion economy, we see a country.
Undeniably, there has been a growing gap and a deepening alienation between traditional conservatives and those Ralph calls the “corporate conservatives.” And it is not only inside the conservative movement and the GOP that the rift is growing, but also Middle America.
For America never voted for NAFTA, GATT, the WTO, mass immigration, amnesty, or more H-1Bs to come take the jobs of our workers. These votes have been forced upon members of Congress by leaders carrying out their assignments from corporate America and its PACs, which reward the compliant with campaign checks.
Both parties now feed at the same K Street and Wall Street troughs. Both have oligarchs contributing tens of millions to parties and politicians who do their bidding.
In 1964, a grassroots conservative movement captured the Republican Party and nominated Barry Goldwater. In 1972, a grassroots movement of leftist Democrats nominated George McGovern.
Neither movement would today survive the carpet-bombing of big money that would be called in if either came close to capturing a national party, let alone winning a national election.
Because they have principles and visions in conflict, left-right alliances inevitably fall out and fall apart. Because they are almost always on opposite sides of disputed barricades, it is difficult for both to set aside old wounds and grievances and come together.
A social, moral, and cultural divide that did not exist half a century ago makes it all the more difficult. But if the issue is keeping America out of unnecessary wars and restoring American sovereignty, surely common ground is not impossible to find. | <urn:uuid:54d5ad32-9df0-4648-9447-274b9e255148> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://buchanan.org/blog/left-right-convergence-6408 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.951597 | 1,095 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Summary The lateral hypothalamic area (LHA) acts in concert with the ventral tegmental area (VTA) and other components of the mesolimbic dopamine (DA) system to control motivation, including the incentive to feed. The anorexigenic hormone leptin modulates the mesolimbic DA system, although the mechanisms underlying this control have remained incompletely understood. We show that leptin directly regulates a population of leptin receptor (LepRb)-expressing inhibitory neurons in the LHA and that leptin action via these LHA LepRb neurons decreases feeding and body weight. Furthermore, these LHA LepRb neurons innervate the VTA, and leptin action on these neurons restores VTA expression of the rate-limiting enzyme in DA production along with mesolimbic DA content in leptin-deficient animals. Thus, these findings reveal that LHA LepRb neurons link anorexic leptin action to the mesolimbic DA system. | <urn:uuid:f50f8e46-d43a-466f-acd0-e18608a4801f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.mysciencework.com/publication/show/f8581a622bd860d5326e3e294b5dd84f | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285289.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00153-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.825447 | 202 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Early LED fixtures were not receptive to dimming. In recent years, advancement in LED technology has made dimming possible and even easy, but it will still require a little planning.
First things first: dimming 110VAC is different in a few critical ways in comparison to 12VDC or 24VDC. If you’re working with 12VDC or 24VDC, click here for our "choosing a power supply" article, which discusses power supplies and dimming more in depth for low voltage products. This article refers exclusively to 110VAC dimming.
- How do I know if my fixture is 110VAC or 12/24VDC?
- All of our strip lights and color changing products are 12/24VDC. For everything else, there should be a label on the fixture or wires saying whether it’s low voltage (12VDC/24VDC), line voltage (110VAC), or higher (240, 347 or 480VAC).
- Are all 110VAC aspectLED fixtures dimmable?
- Not everything. Although almost all our recessed fixtures are available in dimmable varieties, some products still have limitations.
-Our smallest (2” and under) fixtures have poor dimming performance due to the difficulty of decreasing the current to a fixture that already consumes so little
-In-Ground/landscape lights and specialized fixtures are not dimmable due to their included (built-in) drivers being non-dimmable.
-Products that plug directly into wall outlets (such as flood lights and wall washers) are not designed to be dimmed.
You can determine whether the product you’re looking at is dimmable by looking at the “Specifications” table on the product page. Some products require you to choose the dimmable option when adding to cart.
- Why are dimmable LED fixtures more expensive?
- There’s a little extra hardware circuitry and development cost involved with them, as well as increased customer service costs. Rather than raise all of our prices, we prefer to pass the cost savings on to our customers who don’t require dimming.
- So if I buy a dimmable fixture, will any dimmer do the job?
- Not quite - but we’ll help you choose one that will. Our fixtures use ELV (electronic low voltage) dimming, whereas most traditional incandescent dimmers use MLV (magnetic low voltage) technology which is not compatible with any of our recessed fixtures. Some ELV dimmers that we have tested to work with our products include:
Eaton TAL06P1 - Our lowest cost dimmer and probably our favorite. This supports both ELV and MLV and performs great.
Lutron Skylark SELV-300P
Lutron Diva DVELV-300P
Any other ELV dimmer that can be found at your local hardware store should perform admirably, but these are simply the ones we recommend and sell.
- Do ELV dimmers have a minimum load?
- This depends on the specific dimmer. As a general guideline, we typically recommend 40 watts per dimmer, but you’ll have to check the documentation on your specific model.
- Do ELV dimmers have a maximum load?
- Probably. Many dimmers have a load limit of 300 watts. Again, you’ll have to check the documentation for your specific model to avoid overloading it. For most home installations, thanks to the low power draw of LEDs, this shouldn’t be a concern.
- Do your lights buzz when they dim?
- No. They shouldn’t buzz under any circumstances.
- Does it shorten the life of LEDs when used with dimmers?
- When set up correctly with a compatible dimmer, dimming will have no significant impact on the life of your LED fixture.
- My lights are flickering when I try to dim them. What would cause this?
- Most flickering issues are due to incompatibilities - either with the dimmer in question, or voltage.
1. Verify the product you purchased is dimmable.
2. Check that you’re using a compatible ELV dimmer. Many people install incompatible dimmers and experience issues. You can simply swap these out with a recommended ELV unit and you’ll in business.
3. Verify voltages. Your 110VAC driver needs between 100 and 120VAC supply. Many commercial buildings use 277VAC or even higher. If that is the case, you will cause damage to your driver by feeding it too much. The solution is to purchase a step down transformer designed to step down from your voltage level to 110VAC.
4. Dimmer or occupancy sensor may be under loaded. Most dimmers require a 25-40 watt load in order to recognize a light is attached to them, and dim it correctly. That may be an issue if you’re looking to put a single 10W LED light on the circuit. Solutions in these cases involve using a load simulator or resistor to meet the minimum load necessary for optimal performance.
5. Your dimmer could be overloaded. Most dimmers have a maximum load of 300-600 watts. That may sound like you could run 20-40 15W LED fixtures, but you also need to account for start-up in-rush current, which draws roughly another 20% on most of our fixtures very briefly. That means you can’t run quite as much, despite the lower operating wattage.
Still no luck? Contact us and we’d be happy to troubleshoot.
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Welcome to Using Graphic Novels in Education, an ongoing feature from CBLDF that is designed to allay confusion around the content of banned books and to help parents and teachers raise readers. In this column, we will examine books that have been targeted by censors and provide teaching and discussion suggestions for the use of such books in classrooms.
In our first column, we’ll take a closer look at Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi.
The autobiographical graphic memoir Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi was pulled from Chicago classrooms this past May by Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett due to “inappropriate” graphic language and images, specifically, scenes of torture and rebellion. Parents, teachers, and First Amendment advocates protested the ban, and as a result — while still pulled from 7th grade — Persepolis is currently under review for use in grades 8-10. (For details, see CBLDF Rises to Defense of Persepolis.)
Persepolis is an important classroom tool for a number of reasons. First, it is a primary source detailing life in Iran during the Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War . Readers of all ages get a glimpse of what life is like under repressive regimes and relive this period in history from a different perspective. It also begs detailed discussion of the separation of church and state. Furthermore, this is a poignant coming-of-age story that all teens will be able to relate to and serves as a testament to the power of family, education, and sacrifice.
Persepolis is the story of Marjane Satrapi’s childhood and coming of age within a loving, educated family that lived in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution and Iran-Iraq War. It is drawn in simple, stark, black and white ink with style, poignancy, and elegant detail as well as occasional flourishes (usually in the dream sequences) traditionally found in Eastern art.
Introduction: Satrapi provides a brief text introduction that delivers historical context and background. She also explains her goal: to show that the West’s perception of modern Iran as an Islamic Fundamentalist country filled with “fanaticism and terrorism…is far from the truth…I also don’t want those Iranians who lost their lives in prisons defending freedom, who died in the war against Iraq, who suffered under various repressive regimes, or who were forced to leave their families and flee their homeland to be forgotten.”
Main Text: Satrapi depicts her childhood growing up in volatile Tehran between the ages of 6 and 14 ((1970-1984). It is a personal story, one we can all relate to as she talks about school, friends, and dreams, and yet her story is starkly different from ours as she grew up in Iran during war, religious upheaval, and revolution.
Throughout Persepolis, Satrapi discusses the following:
- Tolerance and intolerance on personal, political, and social levels;
- Being required to do and say things she did not remotely believe in;
- The dramatic changes that took place in her school and personal life after the Revolution;
- The games she played growing up;
- Her various career goals, from “last prophet” to social rights advocate;
- Her father’s explanation of the history of the Revolution, from Reza Shah’s desire to overthrow the King of Persia to install a republic, to British aid to Reza Shah, to life under the Shah, to life after the Shah and the Revolution.
- The roles her family played in Iran, from being princes to revolutionaries and communists;
- The Iran-Iraq war and the role played by Islamic Fundamentalists, revolutionaries, common citizens, and the West;
- Her family’s search for truth;
- The totalitarian dictates of religion;
- The impact of class differences and status and how that changed pre and post Revolution;
- Typical coming of age issues such as rebelling against her parents, parties, music, and life ambitions.
Culture and Cultural Diversity
- Discuss the similarities and differences between growing up in an Islamic versus Western cultures in terms of:
- Going to school — classrooms, uniforms, curriculum
- Kids’ games and interests outside of School (Satrapi discusses how they played “Revolutionaries,” pretending to be Castro, Che Guevara, and Trotsky.)
- The difference in kids’ heroes between Islam and the West
- Career goals
- The place of religion in home, school, and government
- Adult, teen, and children’s involvement in the politics and issues around them
- Have students recall incidents in which Satrapi, as a child and later as an adult, had to do things because she was told to, without either understanding or believing in the rationale behind the edicts, which came from both her parents and the government. Discuss, re-enact, or have students create journal entries relaying what it feels like to be made to do things that you do not understand or want to do, and ask them to predict what the alternatives might have been.
- Discuss when one should forgive and forget, and when one should fight or at least stand up for their views and perspectives?
History, Governance, Civic Ideals, and Global Connections
- Define “revolution, “ and compare the Iran Revolution to the following:
- American Revolution
- French Revolution
- Communist Revolution
- Industrial Revolution.
- Compare Satrapi’s story of the Iran Revolution and Iran-Iraq War to those told by Western media and historians. Discuss the role of perspective.
- Discuss the roles of certain figures in revolutions.
- Ms. Satrapi discusses how she and her friends played “Revolutionary,” each child assuming a different role: Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Trotsky, and Lenin. Ask students why Satrapi and her friends picked these revolutionaries. Then, break the class into small groups to research these individuals.
- Ask students to come up with their own games of “Revolutionary.” Have them identify who they would play in the game and why.
- On pages 12-13, Satrapi notes that to enlighten her, her parents bought books about Palestine, Castro, and revolutionaries, such as such F. Rezat, Dr. Fatemi, and H. Ashraf, of her country. Have students investigate the contribution Rezat, Fatemi, and Ashraf made to the Iranian Revolution.
- Satrapi mentions her favorite book — a comic book entitled Dialectic Materialism, in which Descartes and Marx discuss “the material world.” Have students research and read the works of Descartes and Marx and then have them stage that discussion.
- Discuss truth and the nature of reporting news in Iran as well as in the West.
- On page 19, Satrapi relates a discussion she had with her father. After the revolution, textbooks were changed and while they were taught the new books in school, her father related the truth at home.
- On pages 83-84, 111, and 135, Satrapi mentions how they couldn’t trust the news reports and had to rely on other methods.
- Compare the role of religion in the West and in predominantly Islamic countries.
- Discuss the issues of church versus state and the religious debates that began in the West in the late 1700s to today.
Language, Literature, and Language Usage
- Discuss the use of political slogans.
- On page 115 Ms. Satrapi relays a slogan in Iran, “To die a martyr is to inject blood in the veins of society.” Ask students to discuss what this means and then have them compare this slogan to other political slogans from around the world.
- Discuss idioms on life, liberty, and/or revolution.
- On page 10 (see section below) Satrapi notes in simile that, “The revolution is like a bicycle. When the wheels don’t turn, it falls.” Discuss this image, and have students create their own idioms on life, liberty, and/or revolution.
- Have students go on a scavenger hunt for puns, similes, and metaphors throughout Persepolis.
- Have students hunt for Satrapi’s references to philosophers, political leaders and writers of Iran, Russia, and the West. Compare the difference in text types, use of language and text purpose when Satrapi discusses these figures versus when she tells her own story.
Modes of Storytelling and Visual Literacy
In graphic novels, images are used to relay messages with and without accompanying text, adding additional dimension to the story. Discuss with students how images can be used to relay complex messages. For example:
- On page 10, Satrapi notes that, “And so went the revolution in my country.” The image shows one large bicycle with seven seats and 20-30 people riding on it or lying on it, (taking up the whole bottom of the page) with arms, legs, and heads flailing in multiple directions. Have students analyze this image. Then, have students create text to replace the image. Discuss the pros and cons of relaying messages in text versus image.
- Page 77 contains text at the top: “Things got worse from one day to the next. In September 1980, my parents abruptly planed a vacation. I think they realized that soon such things would no longer be possible. …And so we went to Italy and Spain for three weeks…” The rest of the page has an image of buildings on either side, with swirls, a female figure rising from the swirls, and Marjane and her parents flying on a carpet above the woman and the swirls. Discuss the way text and images relay complex messages.
Suggested Prose Novel Pairings
For greater discussion on literary style and/or content here are some prose novels you may want to read with Persepolis:
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens: A fictional accounting (based on fact) of life in Paris during the French Revolution.
- The Chosen by Chaim Potok: About a boy from an ultra orthodox Jewish family who wants to shape his own life and destiny and who wrestles with the role of religion in secular life.
- Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children and Don’t You Grow Weary by Elizabeth Partridge: An account of the Freedom March of 1965 that depicts the power of teen voices.
- Mao’s Last Dancer by Cunxin Li: An autobiography about Li’s rise from poverty in Communist China to dance stardom and a defection that caused an international incident. This account reflects life under a Communist rule, in which life choices are frequently dictated rather than chosen.
- The Kid’s Guide to Social Action by Barbara A. Lewis: Just as Marjane and her parents participated in demonstrations protesting aspects of Islamic rule, students can read how they might effect social changes in their communities.
- Snow Falling in Spring: Coming of Age During the Cultural Revolution in China by Moying Li (memoir): This work also reflects life under a Communist rule and how life choices are dictated under the regime.
- The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sis (memoir): This work reflects the lack of personal choice under Soviet Communist rule.
Common Core State Standards
This non-fiction memoir is full of advanced vocabulary, simile, metaphors, slogans, and details of historical events from a different viewpoint. It promotes critical thinking, relates a non-Western perspective of the turmoil in Iran during the Revolution and the subsequent Iran-Iraq War, provides verbal and visual story telling that addresses multi-modal teaching, and meets Common Core State Standards including:
- Key ideas and details : Citing textual evidence, determining a theme or central idea, describing how a plot unfolds, analyzing how particular elements of the story interact; analyzing how particular lines of dialogue or incidents of a text reveal aspects of a character or provoke a decision; analyzing a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.
- Craft and structure : Determining the meaning of words and phrases including figurative and connotative meaning; analyzing how particular sentences, chapters, scenes or stanzas fit into the overall structure of a text; explaining how a point of view is developed; analyzing how a text’s structure or form contributes to its meaning; analyzing a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature; determining the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary specific to domains related to history/social studies; describing how a text presents information
- Integration of knowledge and ideas: Comparing and contrasting texts; and distinguishing among fact, opinion, and reasoned judgment in a text.
- Range of reading and level of text complexity: Reading and comprehending literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in grades 6-8; in grades 8-10 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
- Knowledge of language: Using knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening
- Vocabulary acquisition and use: Determining the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases; demonstrating understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in world meanings; and acquiring and using accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases.
- Research to build and present knowledge: Drawing evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research;
- Comprehension and collaboration: Engaging effectively in a range of collaborative discussions building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
- Presentation of knowledge and ideas: Presenting claims and findings, sequencing ideas logically and using pertinent descriptions, facts, and details to accentuate main ideas or themes.
Meryl Jaffe, PhD, teaches visual literacy and critical reading at Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth OnLine Division and is the author of Raising a Reader! and Using Content-Area Graphic Texts for Learning. She used to encourage the “classics” to the exclusion comics, but with her kids’ intervention, Meryl has become an avid graphic novel fan. She now incorporates them in her work, believing that the educational process must reflect the imagination and intellectual flexibility it hopes to nurture. In this monthly feature, Meryl and CBLDF hope to empower educators and encourage an ongoing dialogue promoting kids’ right to read while utilizing the rich educational opportunities graphic novels have to offer. Please continue the dialogue with your own comments, teaching, reading, or discussion ideas at [email protected] and please visit Dr. Jaffe at http://www.departingthe text.blogspot.com.
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Complex genetic interaction between the mosquito and the virus that causes dengue fever lie at the spread of this dangerous disease, a study by French and Thai scientists said Thursday.
The mosquito-borne disease has traditionally been considered a problem of the tropics, but globalisation, climate change and jet travel are helping it move into more temperate zones, experts say. There is no vaccine or cure.
In a study published in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics, a team found that some mosquitoes of the main vector species, Aedes aegypti, are able to hand on the virus after sucking blood from an infected human, but others do not.
The answer lies in a genetic pairing between insect and virus, according to the paper France's Pasteur Institute and the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences in Bangkok.
To be able to infect humans, the mosquito first has to become successfully colonised by the virus.
After the mosquito feeds on an infected individual, the virus becomes established in the insect's mid-gut cells, then disseminates throughout the rest of body.
The mosquito becomes infectious only once the virus reaches the salivary glands and is released into its saliva.
But the infection is established only when the right strain of mosquito meets the right strain of dengue, according to the paper, which tested wild insects on the four viral types.
A mosquito may be resistant to one type of virus but vulnerable to another.
The finding has implications for plans to control dengue by releasing genetically engineered virus-resistant mosquitoes, the paper says.
"Such strategies may need to knock down a larger number of genes than previously thought to confer complete resistance," it cautions.
The World Health Organisation estimates that there may be 50 million to 100 million dengue infections worldwide every year, and 2.5 billion people are at risk from the disease.
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A SWF has one or more Frames, and code that dictates when to switch to the next Frame (stop, play, gotoAndStop, etc). A SWF also has an initial frame rate that can be changed later by code.
The player basically had a timer based on the current frame rate. When that timer goes off (or as soon as possible later if the player is busy), the player determines whether to run scripts in the last SWF Frame or a new SWF frame depending on whether the last SWF Frame had any code that called stop.
Most Flex SWFs have two SWF frames (preloader, and app) and, on a slow network, you watch the preloader frame on each frame tick until the rest of the app is downloaded then we switch to frame 2 and you're stuck there for the rest of the duration of the app.
Thank you for your reply!
I was reading about SWF Frames and Flash Player Frame, when I Found your slide presentation "Modules". I really appreciate it!!
P.S. Is there a video on Adobe TV?
Could you explain these concepts with a little example?
I'll try to explain what I need to understand the Frame concept.
For the sake of simplicity, suppose I have a two frames appliacation: SWF Frame 1 and SWF Frame 2.
The rule is: the Flash Player streams in a swf; until a full SWF Frame is read, the Flash Player cannot render it.
First Scenario: without stopping execution
So, when the first frame (SWF Frame 1) is fully loaded, Flash Player can render it.
The first question is: How long does the Flash Player take to load and render SWF Frame 1? In this situation, is SWF Frame 1 paired to Flash Player Frame?
When the SFW Frame 2 is ready, Flash Player can rendere it too.
The second question is: How long does the Flash Player take to load and render SWF Frame 2? In this situation, is SWF Frame 2 paired to Flash Player Frame?
Second Scenario: stopping execution at SWF Frame 2
Assuming there is a stop request in SWF Frame 2, the player will not rewind, but it will continue to execute code containde in both SWF Frame
The third question is: In this situation how long is the Flash Player Frame?
Third Scenario: stopping execution at SWF Frame 1
Assuminh SWF Frames (SWF Frame 1 and 2) are larger than previous ones.
Fourth question: How long does the Flash Player take to load and render SWF Frame 1? In this situation, is SWF Frame 1 paired to Flash Player Frame?
Then, if you stop requested, the Flash Player doesn't try to render SFW frame 2 and reexecutes code in SWF Frame 1.
Fifth question: n this situation, is SWF Frame 1 paired to Flash Player Frame?
Finally SWF Frame 2 completes loading. The player renders SWF Frame 2.
I hope it's all clear!!
Thank you for your patience!!
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No video of that presentation.
When a frame is finally downloaded, the player will try to render that SWF frame on its next frame (so it is paired) and it can take "forever" if there are enough code to run and objects to render.
thank you! You're very helpful.
The last question for you!!
The player streams in a SWF to load its frames.
When does the flash player's timer start to? Does it start after the first frame is completely downloaded or not?
Thanks in advance.
Are you referring to getTimer()? I don't know exactly, but it appears to reset to 0 when the SWF bytes start to stream in.
I'll try to explain what i need to understand.
Could you underscore when the Flash Player Frames (understood as the time period between two consecutive enterFrame events) take place?
Suppose an application with two frames (FR1 and FR2) and a specific frame rate
The Flash Player streams in the SWF:
1 Flash Player starts to load FR1
2 FR1 is completely loaded
3 FR1 calls stop() method
4 Flash Player is waiting to load FR2
5 FR2 is completely loaded
6 FR2 calls stop() method
To summarize: Can Flash Player Frames can be took place many times per SWF Frame?
Thank you again
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When FR1 is completely loaded, you should get the first enterFrame. Because there is a stop() on FR1, you will get enterframes at the frame rate (unless lots of code and rendering slow it down), and the currentFrame will remain FR1. Meanwhile, FR2 is downloading. When it is finished, unless there is code that switches to FR2, you will remain getting enterframes at the frameRate and currentFrame will remain FR1.
Flex SDK Developer
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Since eggs are quite voluminous inside, your verbiage doesn't need top be just one line; you can write a poem or a small message related to puns. Even the most verbose oration can fit inside this ova.
Be creative with your egg theme, your guests will eggspect as much once they realize the egg is a bearer of fortune.
I searched everywhere looking for some unique eggs puns that weren't cliché: turns out, it's impossible. I'm pretty sure there's no such thing as a new egg-related pun or eggspesssion. In my internet search I even found my way back to an Instructable forum topic (was hit #6 on Google for 'egg puns'!).
Here's the ones I used:
- “I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.” - Oscar Wilde
- omletting you know you've got egg on your face
- Egg puns: Albumening to talk to you about that, an oeuf is enough
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History of Daihatsu
The Japanese company Daihatsu traces its history back to 1907-year, and its base is firmly connected with the names of professors Osaka University Turki and Ishinca founded a company for the production of internal combustion engines of its own design. The company today is the largest manufacturer of small cars and is part of the Toyota group.
A new brand of engines called Hatsudoki Seizo Co., as the name itself Daihatsu appeared much later. The first engines were gas power units, which worked on methane and were indispensable for gas, mining and Maritime transport. In 1919 the first year the company thinks about the production of new vehicles - cars and produces 2 of the truck. The automotive industry grew rapidly in the 1930s year, the company presented its first three-wheeled model. It was equipped with an engine of 500 cubic cm And was extremely cheap. Following 4 years the company has brought its own design, which resulted in Japan's first compact four-wheeled vehicle. Low price and incredible compactness "Japanese" has generated a huge demand for these little cars. In 1938 a new factory opens In Ikeda. In the same year the company introduced to the public a sports car with the engine of 1.2 liters and three speed transmission. Such a small car could easily overclocked up to 70 km/h!
In 1951 the company Daihatsu was renamed Daihatsu Kogyo Co. Due to a series of reorganizations. And after 6 years, the Japanese market was completely saturated with small cars and the company took the decision to export. The first microassemblies, which has left the country became a Midget, who enjoyed great popularity.
However, the company has developed its own version of a pickup truck and in 1960-th year presented a model Hi-Jet, 2-stroke twin-cylinder engine 356 cubic see also in 1961 published a two-door wagon Hi-Jet, and a year later the New pickup-Line with engine capacity of 797 cubic see In the next year saw the light of the second generation models Hi-Jet.
In 1966 Daihatsu Compagno becomes the first Japanese company, which exports cars to the United Kingdom. In addition, in 1968, the year the world saw the Fellow SS - another microassembl with a carbureted engine, 32 HP, It became a kind of answer to the Honda N360 with a 31-horsepower engine.
In the 1970s, the company Daihatsu produces several new models of their cars and began to export them to the UK. Published 4 door sedans Fellow. In 1975, is the renaming of the company in Daihatsu Motor Company. On the basis of the Toyota Corolla going car Daihatsu Charmant, which is quickly becoming popular. Simultaneously there is an increase in the volume of motor vehicles up to 2.5 litre diesel engines.
In 1980 year, the Japanese car market saw another innovation - Mira Cuore, which is a commercial version of the machine Cuore. In 1984 the company also produces SUV Rocky. Simultaneously, Daihatsu opens a new plant to assemble cars in China, which can significantly reduce of the cost. In 1985, the first year was released 10 millionth vehicle company. New models in the company appear every 3 years, each with its own unique design and technology.
In the 1990s, the release of new models under the brand name Daihatsu continues. In 1992 appears the model Opti, which replaced the rather old already Leeza. Hijet began to gather in Italy in a joint venture with Piaggio V. E..
In addition, the company produces auto racing. For example, Charade Gtti receives first place in the competition of the Safari Rally in 1993. New car Move was presented to Japanese consumers in 1995 and was a little more than its predecessors, almost beyond transfer.
In 1996 the car was slightly altered, and its dimensions were close to traditional. The model is called Gran Move. In 1999 the plant Tada to be certified according to ISO 9001.
In November 2003 Daihatsu began to sell the car TANTO. He was positioned as a "space for a happy family".
In December of the same year, Daihatsu and Toyota has announced the launch of the dual model Daihatsu XENIA and Toyota AVANZA in Indonesia.
In 2004, the market entered a joint development Daihatsu and Toyota - model Boon (Daihatsu) or Passo (Toyota). In August of the same year began the sale of the car MOVE LATTE. In November Daihatsu updated model Mira Gino.
In 2005, nachlis sale Daihatsu Delta, HIJET CARGO Hybrid. Also was announced Daihatsu Sirion. At the end of the year, a new supermini Esse.
In 2006 began selling compact SUV Be-go (Daihatsu) or Rush (Toyota), and Sonica. There is a new machine Soo.
In 2007 Daihatsu Sonica wins Energy Saving Award and Resource Energy Agency Director Award. We began selling Daihatsu XENIA in China. In Indonesia presented Daihatsu Gran Max.
In 2008 Daihatsu has announced a new SUV - Perodua Nautica. Updated Tanto Sloper. Began to be sold Move Conte Move ConteCustom and Boon Luminas.
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It’s time to ditch the catch-all term “artificial intelligence” and move away from efforts to simplify and “neaten” regulation in the space, ANU School of Cybernetics Associate Professor Ellen Broad says.
In a policy paper included in The Innovation Papers, launched in Canberra on Thursday, Professor Broad said we need to move away from using artificial intelligence as a term to bind together a huge range of tech offerings and solutions, and instead develop a “more precise vocabulary to describe technical systems”.
“If we are actually going to realise the promise of more robust, reliable and safe AI systems, then first we need to relinquish our desire to contain many different kinds of systems under the term AI in pursuit of making things simple,” Professor Broad said in the policy paper.
“We could entertain years of objections about how low-risk activities could get swept up in efforts to regulate a few bad actors in high-risk settings, because we are reluctant to let go of AI as a discrete industry, its limits to be defined by an elite few. These debates would only serve those who benefit from inaction.
“Or we could get specific in our intentions and purposeful in how we use language to give life to those intentions. These issues are not simple. They deserve attention. The world is complex – and getting more so.”
Australia should take the lead of the US-based Center on Privacy & Technology, Professor Broad said, which earlier this year announced it would no longer be using the terms “artificial intelligence”, “AI” or “machine learning”.
“The terms…placehold everywhere for the scrupulous descriptions that would make the technologies they refer to transparent for the average person,” the Center said in March.
“Rather it is something to which we have been compelled in large part through the marketing campaigns, and market control, of tech companies selling computer products whose novelty lies not in any kind of scientific discovery, but in the application of turbocharged processing power to the massive datasets that a yawning governance vacuum has allowed corporations to generate and / or extract. This is the kind of technology now sold under the umbrella term ‘artificial intelligence’.”
In her piece, Professor Broad said it is common to hear complaints about the current “patchwork” nature of AI-related regulation in Australia and around the world.
“While inconsistencies and contradictions have long been part of law-making challenges, these complaints speak to a desire to neaten things up, to gather together fraying threads,” she said.
“But when we look at the backdrop of other waves of technological innovation this patchwork effect not only makes sense, but is the sign of a deepening and more distributed landscape of expertise.
“Trying to pave over this only delays its growth. We’re part way on a journey that will occupy our lives, our children’s lives and the lives of their offspring. Considered this way, the increasing complexity of AI regulation is not to be fixed but to be faced head-on, requiring new professions and new expertise to cultivate on.”
It’s not possible to find a solution to regulate AI that is perfect or neat, she said.
“The perfect solution won’t be a simple rulebook, covering our entire society – it will be complex, reflecting the society it seeks to shape. It will be iterative, diverse and embrace complexity. And it will aim to build a robust, distributed and multilayered system regulation and expertise,” Professor Broad said.
“When it comes to ‘regulating AI’, we shouldn’t let the false perfection of simplicity and unity be the enemy of the good: the messy, ongoing and partial reality of progress.”
In her policy paper, Professor Broad called on the federal government to expand existing grant schemes for new and novel technologies, with funding specifically for research and applications that promote safety, standardisation and verifiability of AI systems.
She also recommended the government take the best bits of technology assessment agency models, such as the US Office of Tech Assessments, and adapt them for Australia, and expand education programs which are embedded in real-world contexts.
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اولویت های مشروط محیط زیست : مواجهه با نشانه های بصری ترجیحات رقابت مستقیم مرد با مرد و افزایش ثروت زنان برای مردسالاری در چهره مرد
|کد مقاله||سال انتشار||مقاله انگلیسی||ترجمه فارسی||تعداد کلمات|
|38051||2013||8 صفحه PDF||سفارش دهید||محاسبه نشده|
Publisher : Elsevier - Science Direct (الزویر - ساینس دایرکت)
Journal : Evolution and Human Behavior, Volume 34, Issue 3, May 2013, Pages 193–200
Abstract Previous studies show that parasite prevalence and mortality/health are related to cultural variation in women's preferences for attractive and masculine traits in men. Other studies have suggested that both male–male competition and wealth may also be important correlates of cross-cultural variation in women's masculinity preferences. Here we examined whether exposure to cues of direct male–male competition, violence, or wealth influenced women's face preferences. We showed women slideshows of images with cues of low and high direct male–male competition/violence or wealth and measured their visual preferences for masculine face traits. Recent visual experience changed women's preferences for facial masculinity, with women preferring more masculine male faces after exposure to images of men engaged in direct physical competition, images of weapons, or images depicting items of high monetary value. Recent visual experience had no significant effects on preferences for masculinity in same-sex faces. Given that high levels of direct physical competition and violence among males may increase the importance of direct intra-sexual competition, it may be adaptive for women to shift visual preferences in favor of males with face cues indicating physical strength and dominance over investment in such environments. Similarly, in wealthy environments investment may be less important than other aspects of quality and so it may be adaptive for women to shift visual preferences in favor of males with face cues indicating other aspects of quality over investment. Overall, our data demonstrate that preferences can be strategically flexible according to recent visual experience and support the notion of environment contingent preferences.
1. Introduction Across many animal species, sexual dimorphism is an important trait involved in sexual selection (Andersson, 1994). Sexually dimorphic traits in human faces have received much attention by those interested in evolutionary approaches to human preferences and perception (see e.g., Thornhill & Gangestad, 1999). Sexually dimorphic traits (relative masculinity/femininity) in human male faces has been proposed to relate to both inter-sexual selection (Little et al., 2011b and Thornhill and Gangestad, 1999), influencing attraction to the opposite sex, and intra-sexual selection (Swaddle & Reierson, 2003), relating to competition between members of the same sex. In terms of attractiveness to the opposite sex, there are benefits that could be associated with sexual dimorphism: (1) indirect benefits, genetic benefits that are passed to offspring such as genes associated with strong immune systems, and (2) direct benefits, benefits that are directly passed to mates or offspring such as resources or avoidance of disease. 1.1. Variation in preferences for men's masculinity Evidence for the attractiveness of sex-typical masculine facial traits (e.g., large jaws, prominent brows) in male faces is mixed: some studies have shown masculine preferences (e.g., Cunningham et al., 1990, DeBruine et al., 2006 and Grammer and Thornhill, 1994), while other studies have shown preferences for feminine faces (Perrett et al., 1998 and Little and Hancock, 2002). Many studies, however, also demonstrate systematic variation in women's preferences for male facial masculinity and the direction of preference for masculine traits does not preclude adaptive individual differences. Women prefer relatively more masculine-faced men when they think themselves or are rated as attractive (Little et al., 2001 and Penton-Voak et al., 2003), when they already have a partner (Little, Jones, Penton-Voak, Burt, & Perrett, 2002), at peak fertility in the menstrual cycle (Penton-Voak et al., 1999 and Jones et al., 2008), and when rating for short-term relationships (Little et al., 2002). These findings have been interpreted as consistent with ideas that masculinity in male faces is associated with indirect benefits, (i.e., they are assocaited with genetic quality, Thornhill & Gangestad, 1999), as these are conditions under which we might expect women to be most attentive to heritable genetic benefits. Of course this does not preclude that facial masculinity is in part preferred due to direct benefits or that it plays a role in male–male competition. 1.2. Trade-offs inherent in preferences Individual variation in attraction to masculinity may be related to a trade-off between quality and investment (Gangestad and Simpson, 2000 and Little et al., 2002). High-quality individuals may invest less in each partner (and offspring) or be more likely to cheat on/desert partners. High-quality individuals may not make ideal long-term partners in a species, such as humans, with extended parental investment (Burley, 1986 and Moller and Thornhill, 1998). For example, masculine-faced men are perceived as dominant but also as poor-quality parents (Perrett et al., 1998). Indeed, while masculine-faced men report better health (Thornhill & Gangestad, 2006) and are physically stronger (Fink, Neave, & Seydel, 2007) but also have more short-term partners (Boothroyd, Jones, Burt, DeBruine, & Perrett, 2008) which suggests low investment in relationships. In this framework, masculinity in men is associated with both indirect and direct benefits with a trade-off between investment and quality. For example, masculinity may be negatively linked to levels of investment (direct benefit) but also positively to quality in terms of genes for health/dominance (indirect benefits) and current health/resources (direct benefits). Such a trade-off is consistent with many aspects of masculinity preferences such as increased preferences for masculinity in short-term contexts (Little et al., 2002) or at peak fertility (Penton-Voak et al., 1999 and Jones et al., 2008). 1.3. Environmental influences on preference Previous studies have mainly focused on individual differences based on factors intrinsic to the choosing individuals (e.g., physical attractiveness), but we may also expect variation according to extrinsic ecological conditions that influence the relative value of investment versus other (e.g., good genes/dominance) benefits from partners. For example, resource scarcity and pathogen stress in the environment an individual inhabits might influence the trade-off between preferring a high-investing partner and one with a high-quality immune system or who is more dominant/healthy. Such reasoning may help explain observed cross-cultural differences in preferences for male masculinity. Penton-Voak, Jacobson, and Trivers (2004) found stronger preferences for male masculinity in rural Jamaica than in the UK and Japan. One reason they suggested for this finding is that a higher pathogen prevalence in Jamaica may result in increased preferences for masculinity in male faces, as health benefits, both direct and indirect, may be more salient under higher disease stress. The Hadza, a tribe of African hunter gathers, have also been found to exhibit stronger preferences for facial symmetry, another putative cue of mate quality that is also correlated with facial masculinity in Hadza men (Little et al., 2008), than do participants in the UK (Little, Apicella, & Marlowe, 2007). A difference in pathogen load between samples may also explain increased preferences for symmetry in the Hadza because individuals close to the equator have higher pathogen loads (Low, 1990) and outdoor living is likely to increase exposure to pathogens. Another study has examined a cross-cultural sample of 30 countries, calculating both the average female preference for male facial masculinity and a composite health index derived from World Health Organization statistics (DeBruine, Jones, Crawford, Welling, & Little, 2010). This study found that poorer health (i.e. higher mortality and incidence of disease) was related to stronger female preferences for male masculinity (DeBruine et al., 2010). This relationship between health factors and masculinity preferences was replicated in a follow-up study of differences in the average masculinity preference of women in US states (DeBruine, Jones, Little, Crawford, & Welling, 2011). Results from these cross-cultural studies indicate that health risks are a potentially important determinant of mate preferences, but such studies are correlational and do not address how such associations arise. There are of course other factors that vary across culture and often co-vary with health, such as wealth. Indeed, a reanalysis of the data presented in DeBruine et al. (2010) suggested that factors associated with relative wealth and male–male competition (i.e., homicide rates) are associated with variation in preferences for face masculinity in women across cultures (Brooks, Scott, Maklakov, Kasumovic, Clark, & Penton-Voak, 2011), although this pattern was not replicated in a further study of regional differences across US states (DeBruine et al., 2011). One way to disentangle the reasons behind such variation is through experimental exposure. If preferences are sensitive to environmental cues then we predict that preferences will vary accordingly. One study has demonstrated that imagining oneself as being in either a high- or low-resource availability scenario affected women's preferences, with a low-resource environment leading to higher preferences for feminine-faced men for long-term partnerships (Little, Cohen, Jones, & Belsky, 2007). A harsh, low-resource environment then appears to promote a strategy wherein women favor lower-quality but potentially higher-investing men for long-term relationships. In contrast, another study demonstrated that exposure to cues of pathogens increased women's preferences for male facial masculinity and symmetry, and hence quality over investment (Little, Jones, & DeBruine, 2011). Potentially, these patterns of data highlight different aspects of environmental influence on preferences. Resource availability and parasite prevalence may drive face preferences in different ways. Abundant resources may allow women to choose with lower concern for investment and so enable the selection of higher-quality partners whereas scarce resources may place pressure on women to choose investing partners, at the expense of quality. Parasite prevalence, on the other hand, will increase health risks/child mortality and so choosing a healthy partner may be more important than choosing an investing partner under conditions of high disease and parasite risk. Alongside resource scarcity and parasite prevalence, the degree of male–male intra-sexual competition could also influence female preferences. Across cultures, variation in human mating systems (monogmamy vs. polygny) is related to variation in male resource control according to ecological variables as well as variation in male–male competition for status (Marlowe, 2000). Where males can control resources, we expect there to be an unequal distribution of resources, as some males will be better able to control resources than others. This would lead to female preferences for male traits indicating that males can successfully compete for and control resources. In groups in which direct male–male competition is prevalent, and status, or even survival, is dependent on successful competition, we would also expect females to prefer cues of successful male competition. While cues to the ability of acquiring resources may be varied, success in direct physical competition is likely partly related to physical strength and fitness. As a man's physical strength is positively related to ratings of facial masculinity and dominance (Fink et al., 2007), we can predict that masculinity in faces would be preferred in conditions where men physically competing with one another is more common. 1.4. The current experiments Previous experimental work on exposure to visual cues of pathogens suggests a role of health concerns in generating preferences for masculinity. Other environmental cues of male–male competition and wealth also appear likely alter the balance of preferences for male facial masculinity according to how valuable associated traits are under difference conditions. Here we address whether visual exposure to cues of male engagement in direct, combative competition versus indirect, non-combative competition (Experiment 1A), cues of violence (Experiment 1B), and cues of high wealth versus low wealth (Experiment 2) also affect women's preferences for male facial masculinity. Because masculine men may be better able to successful compete with other men and women would benefit from choosing men who can successfully compete in their current environment, we predicted that exposure to cues highlighting such competition or violence would also lead to increased preferences for masculinity in line with previous suggestions that high levels of direct male–male competition would be related to preferences for masculinity (Brooks et al., 2011). Given the fact that higher wealth may allow women to choose quality over investment, removing some of the potential costs of masculinity and the benefits of femininity, we predicted that exposure to cues of a wealthy environment would lead to higher preferences for masculinity in line with a previous experimental study in which cues of a resource rich environment led women to prefer more masculine male faces (Little et al., 2007). Finally, because the benefits described above of preferring masculine-faced individuals are mainly relevant for mate choice, we predicted that exposure effects would be relatively specific to opposite-sex faces in line with prior work on experimental exposure to pathogen cues (Little et al., 2011).
نتیجه گیری انگلیسی
10. Results As in Experiment 1A, for each participant, we calculated the proportion of masculine faces out of the 10 pairs of male and female faces. One-sample t-tests against chance (50%), ignoring condition, revealed that women significantly preferred masculine male faces in both the pre-exposure (M = .547, SD = .29, t(170) = 2.16, p = .032) and post-exposure tests (M = .548, SD = .28, t(170) = 2.24, p = .026). Women significantly preferred feminine female faces in both the pre-exposure (M = .333, SD = .22, t(170) = 9.74, p < .001) and post-exposure tests (M = .371, SD = .24, t(170) = 6.91, p < .001). To examine the change in preference between pre- and post-exposure tests, scores in the pre-exposure test were subtracted from scores in the post-exposure test as in Experiment 1A. A mixed-model ANOVA was carried out with change in preference as the dependent variable, sex of face (male vs. female) as a within-participant factor, and condition (high wealth vs. low wealth vs. mixed wealth) as a between-participant factor. This analysis revealed a significant interaction between sex of face and condition (F2,168 = 9.98, p < .001, ηp2 = .106) a significant main effect of condition (F2,168 = 8.40, p < .001, ηp2 = .091) and a close-to-significant main effect of sex of face (F1,168 = 3.23, p = .074, ηp2 = .019). Separate one-way ANOVAs for each sex of face revealed a significant effect of condition for male faces (F2,168 = 17.01, p < .001, ηp2 = .168) but no significant effect of condition for female faces (F2,168 < 0.01, p = .996, ηp2 < .001). For male faces, planned contrasts revealed that all conditions were significantly different from each other (all p < .036). For female faces, planned contrasts revealed that all conditions were not significantly different from each other (all p > .925). To examine whether difference scores differed from chance (0), we split by condition and conducted one-sample t-tests. For the low-wealth condition, women significantly decreased their masculinity preferences for male faces (t56 = − 4.62, p < .001) but not female faces (t56 = 1.59, p = .117). For the high-wealth condition, women significantly increased their masculinity preferences for male faces (t56 = 3.49, p < .001) but not female faces (t56 = 1.25, p = .151). For the mixed-wealth condition, women did not significantly change their masculinity preferences for either male faces (t56 = 0.77, p = .443) or female faces (t56 = 1.38, p = .173). Together, these analyses demonstrate that women's preferences for masculine male face traits are stronger after exposure to cues of high levels of environmental and male wealth than after exposure to images with lower or mixed levels of environmental and male wealth. Exposure to cues of mixed levels of wealth did not influence preferences, whereas exposure to cues of high wealth increased preferences for masculinity and low wealth decreased preferences for masculinity. Again, changes in preferences were restricted to judgments of opposite-sex faces and did not occur for judgments of own-sex faces. The pattern of results implicates absolute wealth over wealth inequality as the more important determinant of women's masculinity preferences. Mean proportion difference scores can be seen in Fig. 4. Experiment 2: change in preference (±1 SEM) for masculinity in male and female ... Fig. 4. Experiment 2: change in preference (± 1 SEM) for masculinity in male and female faces after exposure to cues of high, low, and mixed environmental and male wealth. | <urn:uuid:5f49628e-2209-459c-90b8-b55f9f721791> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://isiarticles.com/article/38051 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00531-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92095 | 3,827 | 1.84375 | 2 |
A prime example of Identity theft is when someone steals your credit identity and uses credit in your name. This can have a serious impact on your credit score and bring it down significantly. As a result, you may not be able to access credit when you need it the most.
Besides, it may result in a financial loss that may be bad enough to put a blot on your CIBIL report for as long as seven years and you may be marked as a CIBIL defaulter even if you do your bit to maintain a high CIBIL score. If your CIBIL score drops to a level lesser than 750, you may have to resort to bad credit personal loans when you are in dire need of funds. The truth is that in this hyper connected world, identity theft is a hard reality. You are therefore likely to come across "people awareness campaigns" on cybercrimes such as identity theft on the website of financial institutions. Besides awareness campaigns are all over TV, radio and other mediums. If such messages have intrigued you, and you wish to know how to check CIBIL defaulter, you need to know how to protect yourself from identity theft. Here are some tips to prevent yourself from identity theft Be wary of social media platforms Most of us are on numerous social media platforms these days. In a pursuit to use more and more apps, you may willingly disclose sensitive information that makes you vulnerable to identity theft. Whether or not you are new to the social media frenzy, make sure your privacy settings on such platforms remain highly secure. Sharing any kind of financial information over such networks such as passwords and the like are a strict no-no. Also, be completely sure about the authenticity of websites or apps before granting permission to access information such as date of birth, residence address, occupation and place of work. A savvy hacker does not take long to stitch this information together to construct likely passwords and before you know it your financial information has been hacked, your CIBIL score is compromised and you are left with no option but to access bad credit personal loans when you need a quick line of credit. Emphasise on password strength If you are internet savvy, you are most likely to use internet banking and make other financial transaction over the web. This necessitates the use of passwords. Stay away from over simplistic passwords while making financial transactions. Words that are found in the dictionary should be avoided. Construct strong financial passwords with the use of mnemonics, numbers and special characters. The more complicated your passwords the more you can ensure yourself against identity theft. Avoid financial transactions in unsecured Wi-Fi zones These days it is easy to access the internet in public wi-fi zones.
As fun as it may be to banter over social media in such places, making financial transactions over such networks is not a good idea. Wait till you are in a secured wi-fi environment to make such transactions, else switch to your mobile data if it is an absolute must. By using your phone to make financial transactions in unsecured wi-fi networks you are making yourself susceptible to identity thefts. Be careful about physical documents It is true that most of us are increasingly using soft copies to store important documents. However, some documents such as credit card statements and bank account details arrive in the physical mail and when you are tired of the stash of paper, you just discard them without a second thought. Do so by all means, but ensure that you are using a shredder first! Those who are on the lookout to steal your identity may derive information from such documents easily. Therefore, it is important to destroy them before you discard them for good.
Keep a hawk eye on your CIBIL report. Lastly, but not the least, if you wish to know how to check CIBIL defaulter, the one thing that you must do without fail is to keep a check over your CIBIL report. Because of the large amount of data handled by banks and credit bureaus, errors and discrepancies cannot be ruled out. However, if you keep a check on your CIBIL report at regular intervals, you will be able to spot such errors if any and raise a CIBIL dispute to take a corrective action at the earliest. In this hyper connected world that we live in today, it is thus very important to keep a strict vigil over financial transactions, records and passwords in order to protect your identity. Further, if you are not quick to spot and act upon errors in your credit report, there may be a situation in which you are forced to access loan for low credit in a financial crunch. | <urn:uuid:8fa70f62-0e75-499d-9c31-01fead095e96> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.saralcredit.com/blog/tips-to-prevent-identity-theft-in-india | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.947027 | 924 | 2.453125 | 2 |
California voters will find a dozen statewide propositions on their June 7 primary ballot, and atop the list is a proposed constitutional amendment that may seem as unnecessary as it is obscure.
Proposition 66 would require county assessors to be elected and not appointed to office, even though all 58 California county assessors are already elected by voters.
While critics claim the measure is indeed superfluous and would threaten local autonomy, proponents contend its passage is vital to ensure that counties continue to elect assessors and avoid any political abuse that an appointed position may bring.
'Must Be Insulated'
"One of the main reasons (the measure) is out there for the people to vote on is that we all believe that the assessors must be insulated from revenue demands made by county boards or county administrative officers," said Virginia Loftus, president of the California Assessors Assn. and Shasta County assessor.
"We feel that in order to maintain our posture of independence and our capacity to say no, which is sometimes important, we have to be independent," said Los Angeles County Assessor John Lynch.
Lynch and Loftus spoke this week at a sparsely attended news conference at the downtown Hall of Administration where Lynch admitted that it is difficult to interest voters in what he described as "a backwater position" among elected offices.
But what the assessor's job lacks in political appeal, it makes up for in its influence over hundreds of millions of dollars in local property tax revenue. In Los Angeles alone, property tax revenue accounts for 22% of the county's nearly $7.6-billion budget.
County assessors determine the value of all private property subject to local property taxes, including homes, businesses and personal property such as boats and planes.
Supporters of Proposition 66 contend that assessors, if appointed to their jobs, would be more likely to succumb to pressures to unjustly increase property values or audit businesses of those who may be at odds with a county supervisor. They also warn of assessors being asked to lower tax assessments or increase tax exemptions for campaign contributors or other supporters of politicians who appoint them.
Joining Lynch and Loftus at the news conference were Ventura County Assessor R. J. Sanford, former Los Angeles County Assessor Alexander Pope and state Board of Equalization Member William Bennett, who also urged passage of the ballot measure.
"Assessors are subject to pressures from the county boards of supervisors. That's the nature of the system," said Bennett, who added that an elected assessor can better resist those pressures than one who owes an appointment to those same county supervisors.
While there is no organized opposition to Proposition 66, the County Supervisors Assn. of California opposes the measure and disputes claims that local assessors have been politically pressured.
"I don't believe that has happened," said Barbara Shipnuck, president of the supervisors group and a Monterey County supervisor. "It hasn't been brought to our attention. I think it's just another smoke screen."
Shipnuck said her organization is against Proposition 66 because it is unnecessary and it would erode local autonomy.
"This creates job security for assessors, but it does not allow local voters to determine what form their own county government should take," she added.
Although assessors in all California counties are elected, voters in 12 charter counties could reverse that requirement and make the job an appointed position. In the remaining 46 counties, assessors could be made appointive by a vote of the Legislature. Proposition 66 would remove these provisions from the state Constitution and make the office elective only.
Charter counties include counties such as Los Angeles and San Francisco that have considered changing the assessor's position.
Two years ago, Los Angeles County supervisors sought voter approval to make the assessor's job an appointive position but were overwhelmingly rebuffed when 85% of the voters opposed the idea. A similar proposal in San Francisco was rejected in 1980.
In arguing to eliminate the appointive option for assessors, Loftus pointed out that in some counties, including her own, supervisors have already asked to change other elected positions to appointed posts. She said other county boards may be ready to do the same with assessors.
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When you think of penguins, you may picture them surrounded by snow and ice. However, there is one species of penguins that is acclimated to warmer climates. African penguins live in colonies on the coast and islands of southern Africa.
Also called jackass penguins, they make donkey-like braying sounds to communicate. They can dive under water for up to 2.5 minutes while trying to catch small fish such as anchovies and sardines. They may also eat squid and crustaceans.
The African penguin averages about 60 cm (2 ft.) tall and weighs up to 3.6 kg (8 lb.). Their short tails and flipper-like wings that help them navigate in the water, while their webbed feet help propel them.
To keep dry and insulated in cold water, African penguins are covered in dense, water-proof feathers. These feathers are white on the belly and black on the back, which aids in camouflage. Their white belly will blend with the light when predators look up at them from below, and their black backs meld with the darker seas when predators look down on them from above.
African penguins breed within their colonies; they do not travel to give birth. The penguins nest in burrows they dig out of their own excrement, called guano, or in areas under boulders or bushes. Recent removal of the guano for fertilizer has forced the penguins to change their habits and nest primarily under bushes and boulders. Their nests protect eggs and chicks from the sun and from predators like cats and seagulls. Eggs are laid in pairs and both parents help incubate them. Both parents also feed the newly-born chicks. After 2-4 years, the chicks will mature and lay their own eggs.
African penguins can live for an average of 10-15 years, however many do not reach their full life span, and populations have been steadily decreasing. The loss of nesting places due to guano removal has contributed to the population decline as well as a decrease of food due to overfishing and pollution. As such, African penguins are now considered endangered by IUCN’s Red List. This means there is a high risk they may become extinct.
What You Can Do to Help
If you would like to help the African penguin, you can volunteer, donate, or adopt a penguin through the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds.
African Penguin Distribution
- Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds
- New England Aquarium
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Searching for a nursing home for his hospitalized father in semirural Massachusetts, a friend of mine recently came up against an unexpected barrier. It’s harder to find a bed for a man than for a woman.
Finding a nursing home for an ailing loved one, and a good nursing home that is affordable, is already a fairly difficult task. Unfortunately, it’s only likely to grow in difficulty as the number of elderly in need of care begins to peak. Unfortunately, too, there are some factors that you just might not think of. Like this: it is disproportionately difficult to find a nursing home for a male patient.
This fact was recently pointed out over at the New Old Age Blog and I thought it was worth sharing. What is working against our male elderly loved ones is not much more than simple math, with a bit of Medicare policy work at play. As you are likely aware, women have a longer life span on average and therefore there are more women in nursing homes to begin with; that’s already a bottleneck based on population statistics. Then you throw in the fact that, under Medicare rules, most rooms in nursing homes are no more than “semi-private”, a delicate euphemism, and co-ed rooms aren’t allowed either. Thus, with more women already in such rooms the more that only women can be admitted into a facility. The math is fairly easy to figure out, but it’s a strange and unintended consequence nonetheless.
Reference: The New York Times The New Old Age Blog (January 30, 2011) “Fewer Beds For Men Entering Nursing Homes”
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Working across rap, dance, acting and graffiti, Danzal Baker is a multi-talented, multi-lingual, Indigenous artist. Danzal, otherwise known as Baker Boy, is the first Indigenous artist to achieve mainstream success rapping in the Yolngu Matha language.
Raised in Milingimbi and Maningrida, Danzal rapped his way to national prominence when his single Marryuna was voted into 17th place in Triple J's Hottest 100 for 2017; a notable follow-up from his debut single Cloud 9, which won Triple J's Unearthed competition.
Danzal is also an award winner at the National Indigenous Music Awards. He has signed a record deal with Island Records Australia and was handpicked by English rapper Dizzee Rascal to be his Australian support act. In 2018, Danzal won the prestigious Charles Darwin University Art Award at the Northern Territory Young Achievers Awards.
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1. Tending or able to repercuss; having the power of sending back; causing to reverberate.
Ye repercussive rocks! repeat the sound. --W. Pattison.
2. Repellent. [Obs.] “Blood is stanched by astringent and repercussive medicines.”
3. Driven back; rebounding; reverberated. “Rages loud the repercussive roar.”
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Thanks to the hard work of activist entrepreneurs, and the vast receiving and connective nature of the internet, we fashion admirers can now use our consumer power to support communities globally. For the myriad ways which we benefit from the immense resources of Africa’s diverse continent (over-mining the land for precious stones like diamonds and minerals; killing elephants for ivory) it’s important to find ways to support local and regional African communities. Below are 5 eco-friendly fashion brands that give back to Africa. Whether it’s providing jobs, or donating free yoga services, this list can help you connect with ethical companies that aim to help make our world a better, and more fashionable place.
Providing women with a sustainable way to make a living is a challenging and noble goal and FashionAble is taking it on. Having orchestrated the very successful philanthropic project, Mocha Club—a program which asks that westerners forgo a few cups of mocha every month to fund development projects in Africa, FashionAble’s founder, Barrett Ward, is dedicated to finding sustainable ways of giving by fostering a culture of Slow Fashion. FashionAble champions the idea that “who makes our stuff matters.” Their business is based on the innovative production model of women owned cooperatives that craft all of the beautiful accessories.
FashionAble’s goal is to help Ethiopian women find alternative ways to support themselves that do not involve the sex trade. Each scarf that is purchased is named after one of the women in the program, and is attached with a handwritten note of gratitude by the weaver.
My favorite of FashionAble’s items is the Mamuye leather tote bag. Handcrafted by Mamuye herself, this tote is a rich, and luscious toffee brown color. Rich neutrals blend seamlessly into outfits, but have the added benefit of being able to stand their own sartorial ground.
You may be thinking, “It’s summer. Why would I need a scarf, Chrislande?” Well, the scarves are lightweight and whimsical which is great for keeping the heat off your hair and the sweat from dripping down into your eyes. Personally, I need to carry a scarf with me on the subway (Those express trains are wicked cold in the summer).
Shop Bop x Born Free
It’s not every day that 22 of the worlds most popular designers collaborate together on a cause. That’s exactly what Born Free Africa does. The organization’s goal is to make sure that children born from HIV and AIDS infected parents do not contract the virus in utero. With 98% of cases being preventable, Born Free has partnered with Vogue, Shop Bop, DVF, and the likes of Alexander McQueen and Isabelle Marant to form a campaign to end in-utero transmission of the virus. In short: “Shopbop will donate 100% of the profit from the sale of the Born Free Collection to Born Free.” Not only do all of the proceeds from your purchase goes to benefit Born Free, but, “The M∙A∙C AIDS Fund will match the total purchase price of all tickets sold for the Born Free Mother’s Day Family Carnival and the total purchase price of all products sold, up to $500,000.”
AIDS and HIV are such devastatingly horrific experiences for impoverished children. To see so many designers put an effort into the cause is not only heartwarming, but makes me feel hopeful about the communal future of our planet. As most things from higher end designers, these pieces are made in the U.S.A at a small quantities specifically for this campaign.
The Born Free campaign features Wangechi Mutu’s art on printed fabrics. The internationally recognized Kenyan artist, and mother, is passionate about fixing this very solvable problem. Mutu works with collages, and focuses on the lives of women as the crux of her artistic projects. I love the way her work is being used in the Isabelle Marant blouse featured above. Score some of the collectible digs, which are surprisingly well-priced, and help end fetal H.I.V transmissions!
Soko x Africa Yoga Project
Soko was founded on the understanding that empowering women is a way to empower and change a whole community. The company helps artisans have access to a market for their products without doing the time-consuming, and backbreaking work of lugging crafts and designs to faraway markets. The Soko business model helps shoppers connect directly with the women that produce their artisanal wares in order to nurture a sustainable creative economy.
Soko and the Africa Yoga Project have partnered to bring us a collection of SHINE bracelets. The delightfully multi-colored bracelets are made of recycled kikoy fabric. What is the Africa Yoga Project, you ask? AYP is an organization that believes in the transformative power of Yoga. By bringing yoga practice to different cultures across the continent, AYP seeks to bring physical enjoyment and leadership skills to youth in Kenya. Since the inception of the program in 2007, more than 5,000 people have joined over 250 community yoga classes.
Soko’s offerings also include beautiful artisan made earrings that use up-cycled and recycled materials. Check out these Tapered Bone Earrings that have been made with up-cycled bone rescued from local butcheries. The elegant drop add a nice touch to these mahogany colored earrings.
Started in 2003, Global Mamas is dedicated to connect skilled women from different—buts mostly coastal cities in Africa to a market for theirs skills and products. As the name suggest, Global Mamas seeks to help mothers bring opportunity to their children, and economies. The skilled sewers and artisans produce jewelry made of recycled plastic materials, bespoke dresses, and Shea butters and lotions.
Global Mamas was actually founded by six Ghanian women who are passionate about their skills as Batikers and seamstresses, and the ability of their skills to change the economic status of their communities. They partnered with two western women who were former Peace Corps volunteers, and embarked on the journey of empowering their communities through business.
The company provides items to cover a wide range of needs. Are you looking for something cute and sustainable for your pet? Global Mamas have got your back. The company is one of the most full-service retailers on this list. They also provide a whole option for businesses who want to carry Global Mammas products in their stores. Look to their gorgeous and whimsically printed dressed for some excitement to your summer style.
On a mission to bring peace and sustainable growth to Uganda, Kate von Achen and Lauren Parnell Marino started Awava, a fair trade fashion company that produces handbags, apparel, and items for the home. Awava means “origin” in the Luganda language. The company seeks to change the face of fashion retailing by asking the hard questions about sourcing, and equitable work. Like many companies on this list, Awava’s goals are to build supportive economic conditions for Ugandan communities. Your purchases go to help families secure schooling, health care, and a plethora of other essential human rights.
Awava’s products are not only fair trade, but they are very affordable and cover variety of needs. You can score some earrings, and even Christmas ornaments. For you seasoned chefs, try the Amata aprons. They come in two beautiful prints that are sure to inspire some eclectic new vegan recipes. You can also give Awava products by purchasing a gift certificate for the fair-trade loving fashionista in your life.
Inspired by Uganda, Awava is building a community of skilled women that can inspire their country to recover from the Lord’s Resistance Army’s terror attacks, and kidnappings. Awava also raises the labor payments of artisans and their groups every month if 75% of their products are sold. This system provides incentives for the seller—and buyer to bolster the local Ugandan economies.
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The Workforce Logistics Needs
HGV drivers are core to the logistics sector. Bringing in a more diverse workforce will be key to the industry's future success. However, Brexit has worsened a long-term shortage of drivers, with thousands of EU nationals leaving the UK, and with restricted access to non-UK workers and limited funding for training, urgent reform is needed.
Logistics UK is campaigning for reform to the Apprenticeship Levy and the National Skills Fund to ensure all high-quality vocational training is funded, and for reforms to Visa arrangements to allow access to qualified non-UK nationals.
What is Logistics UK campaigning for?
Logistics UK has four priorities for The Workforce Logistics Needs:
- Reform of the National Skills Fund to include priority Level 2 courses such as HGV driver: Currently only Level 3 courses are funded.
- Apprenticeship Levy should become more flexible to suit logistics needs. Rigid rules on duration, training hours and work placements make the Levy hard to use.
- Provision of access to qualified non-UK logistics workers through amended Skilled Worker Visa and T5 Visa arrangements.
- Continued development of suitable Apprenticeship standards, T-Levels, and vocational courses in partnership with the education sector.
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This short book graphically illustrates how difficult, if not often impossible, it is to prove a negative. The author has set himself the daunting task of trying to debunk 10 of the "espionage myths of World War II," including claims that President Franklin D. Roosevelt had advance warning of the Pearl Harbor attack, that Adm. Wilhelm Canaris, chief of German intelligence, was a British spy and that the Nazis were tipped off in advance about the Dieppe commando raid of 1942.
However unlikely these or others of the "myths" examined may be, West, a British writer who specializes in the subject of espionage, falls well short of establishing the facts in most of the situations. It soon becomes evident that his are shorthand arguments and that, even assuming all the facts are available, which they are not, a much more exhaustive treatment of each matter being considered would be necessary to adequately make the case.
What West does succeed in demonstrating is that espionage literature is often extremely confused and that the truth is elusive. He makes the point that since the facts of intelligence operations are so hard to come by, writers are frequently all too prone to copy one another. A mistake made by one will thus be repeated and even exaggerated to such a degree that, relatively soon, myth does take hold and something that may never have had any basis whatsoever may become widely accepted. | <urn:uuid:4fd4b3f8-b8fd-434b-ba11-1bb9b07f382e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://articles.latimes.com/1985-06-09/books/bk-9755_1_pearl-harbor | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00439-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982324 | 275 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Tuesday unveiled a vision document to cut the state’s infant and maternal mortality rates.
Assam’s infant mortality rate (IMR) is 58 compared to the national average of 47. The maternal mortality rate (MMR) of 390 is similarly much below the national average of 212.
“Our rate of improvement in economic growth during 2001-2010 was sixth highest among all states. But we have a long way to go when it comes to social indicators. Though we have brought down IMR from 76 to 58 in the last 10 years, which is still behind the national average of 47. The MMR too has been brought down from 490 to 390 during this period, but we are nowhere near the national average of 212,” Gogoi sad.
The chief minister said his government has accorded topmost priority to development of women and children. “The vision document thus encompasses areas such as safe drinking water, school enrolment, sanitation, reservation for women and prevention of crimes against women,” he added.
Gogoi also underscored the high prevalence of malnutrition and anaemia among girls and women. Coupled with a high percentage of girls marrying below 18 years of age, these were major factors for high IMR and MMR in Assam, he said.
Approximately 67.8% of adolescent girls (15-19 years) are anaemic in Assam.
The vision document quoted DLHS-III (2007-08) as saying that about 40% women in Assam in the age-group of 20-24 years married before the legal age of 18 years. Though this is less than the national average of 42.9%, the increase in mean age of marriage for women had a cascading effect on maternal and child health in the state. | <urn:uuid:f35c5458-6611-422e-84ad-c3e3ebceb12c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.hindustantimes.com/india/assam-vision-document-to-cut-infant-maternal-mortality-rates/story-UbuMLntU539RcjwhDpsLNM.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00164-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967993 | 376 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Most women feel that conceiving and giving birth to their baby is the most monumental experience of their life.
Pregnancy is a phase in a woman's life which is a combination of various emotions.
One minute, a pregnant woman is joyfully thinking about holding her newborn, the next minute she is filled with anxiety about the possible health complications that are related to pregnancy.
There are various health complications that may occur during pregnancy, ranging from miscarriages to abnormally developed infants.
Molar pregnancy is also one such abnormality that can occur even before the foetus is formed in a woman's womb.
Molar pregnancy happens when the tissue, which is supposed to develop into a human foetus instead, develops into an abnormal tissue growth and lodges itself in the uterus.
The causes for a molar pregnancy to happen can be either a genetic disorder or abnormalities in the sperm or eggs.
A molar pregnancy can make a woman experience symptoms that are common during the early stages of pregnancy; however, she is not really pregnant.
Here are a few facts about molar pregnancy that you need to be aware of, have a look.
A woman with molar pregnancy can experience early pregnancy signs like morning sickness, absence of periods, sensitive breasts, etc.
Initially, it may be difficult for the women to differentiate between the signs of a normal pregnancy and a molar pregnancy.
A molar pregnancy includes other symptoms, which are seen in a few days after its development, such as vaginal bleeding, irregular heartbeat, profuse sweating, nausea, enlargement of the uterus, etc.
Once the doctors diagnose a molar pregnancy, it has to be terminated right away, otherwise it can lead to severe health complications in a woman.
After the termination of a molar pregnancy, it is very crucial for the woman to have regular follow-ups with her doctor and take tests to make sure that she is out of risk.
The woman needs to wait to conceive again, until her doctor has assured her that she can go ahead with trying for a child again.
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Rescue pets of the week: Spike and Ditzi
Spike may be wearing an "I'm Irish" bandanna, but he's German ... German shepherd mix, that is!
This neutered 10-month-old arrived at Tri-County Humane Society as a transfer from another facility. He can be dog selective, so a meet-and-greet with any resident dog would be required. He has a high prey drive and shouldn’t go to a home with cats or other small critters.
Spike would love an active home; he has plenty of energy to burn! Obedience training might be a great option for Spike. He’s already figured out how to sit with only a hand gesture and a treat – he's one smart dude!
Spike would appreciate plenty of toys to stimulate his mind and body. Check out options available in the TCHS Re-Tail Shoppe (all profits go back to the pets).
Ditzi made this face when we told her that she's been at Tri-County Humane Society since Feb. 19!
This spayed 8-year-old was found as a stray and had a bad kitty cold when she arrived, but she's feeling much better now. She would benefit from a high-quality diet in her new home to keep her as healthy as possible as she ages.
Ditzi tested positive for Feline Immunodeficiency Virus, which affects a cat's immune system. This virus is spread primarily through bite wounds between cats. While some cats can have health complications from FIV, many more live long, happy, healthy lives.
Her adoption fee would be waived for a senior or veteran.
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One continent, multiple media battlefields. This year, some of our most compelling stories have come from Latin America. During the Mexican presidential elections, the country’s media giant Televisa stood accused of colluding with the man who is now president of the Republic, Enrique Pena Nieto and his party. Meanwhile, the media death toll continued to rise in the country’s bloody drugs war. In central America, journalists continued to face the dangers of reporting impunity in a region scarred by the legacy of civil war. Otto Perez Molina, Guatemala’s former army chief and new president pledged to protect journalists and freedom of expression – but will he succeed? And the mother of all media stories: the battle between media conglomerates and democratically elected left-wing presidents around the continent. Ecuador’s Rafael Correa was one of those leaders: press freedom pariah for some, press freedom fighter for others. This year he took the country’s media to court for trying to incite a coup to overthrow him – and he offered WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London.
As the year comes to an end, we have put together a special edition with three very different stories. In Argentina, the legal showdown between the government and the country’s most powerful media group Clarin. In 2009, the Kirchner government pushed through a media reform law that was as contentious as it was comprehensive. The law is designed to break up media conglomerates. Media reform has been on the cards since the end of the dictatorship and her supporters say the reform is long overdue. Critics say the target of the legislation is just Clarin and that freedom of expression and the president’s credibility is on the line. This is one of Argentina’s most contentious struggles over power and public influence in years and its only just heating up.
In Mexico, journalists are some of the first in the firing line in a drugs war that has claimed more than 60,000 lives. This year alone, at least 27 journalists have been killed; media outlets have been bombed and even those who thought social media might be a safer way to report have died in the attempt to fill the information vacuum. In this part of the show, we team up with Al Jazeera’s documentary programme Witness to bring you the story of a photographer Ernesto Martinez working in the western Mexican state of Sinaloa. Filmed by Rick Rowley and John Gibler, the report follows Martinez for two days and reveals the risks some journalists are prepared to take to report what has become one of the world’s deadliest beats. | <urn:uuid:349b403b-156d-4988-a1e5-017a70ebd05f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://documentary.net/video/latin-americas-media-battlefields/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.96079 | 537 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Preheating is the process involves heating the surrounding base metal near the joint to be welded, to a specific desired temperature prior to the welding or thermal cutting operation.
Purpose of Preheat:
1) It raises the overall temperature of the material, which results in a slower cooling rate of the base materials, HAZ and the weld to prevent steel from cracking (by reducing the hardness) those are susceptible to formation of brittle microstructure (martensite) if cool fast.
2) The slower cooling rate provides sufficient time to diffuse out the hydrogen from the weld metal without causing cracking.
3) It helps to reduce the shrinkage stresses that can lead to cracking and distortion especially in case of highly restrained joints.
4) Preheating introduces the necessary heat into the weld area to ensure proper penetration. This benefits thick materials and those that conduct heat quickly. By preheating, you can use less heat in the welding arc and still achieve optimal penetration, because the base material starts out at an elevated temperature. And preheating also helps in thermal cutting of high thickness material.
When Preheat is required?
Preheating is especially important when welding:
- Highly restrained weld joints.
- Base materials having high carbon equivalent
- High hydrogen content of weld metal.
- Thick materials (preheat varies by material type).
- Base materials that tend to be more brittle, such as cast iron.
How to measure Preheat:
Preheat measuring often is done with Temperature indicating stick (tempilstik) and infrared digital thermometers. Generally, the preheat temperature should be measured for a distance at least equal to the thickness of the thickest welded part (but not less than 3 in [75 mm]) in all directions from the point of welding and be preferably measured on the opposite face to the one being welded.. The preheat temperature should be verified directly before welding begins.
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Walking into a room full of strangers or speaking in front of a group of people can be intimidating. But for people with Social Anxiety Disorder, or social phobia, it can be debilitating.
The more than 15 million people who have the disorder have a disabling fear of being around other people, whether it’s standing up in front of a group, picking up the phone to call someone, or eating in a room full of people. They also have an intense and chronic fear of being humiliated and judged by others.
Symptoms of Social Anxiety Disorder include the following:
- Trembling or shaking
- Nausea and upset stomach
- Heart palpitations
- Muscle tension
- Excessive sweating
- Difficulty talking and a shaky voice
Social Anxiety Disorder symptoms can interfere with your work, home, and social life, and make it difficult to sustain relationships. While you may be able to find a way to handle your anxiety, the disorder is not likely to go away without treatment.
Social Anxiety Disorder Treatment
Living with Social Anxiety Disorder can cause a lot of unnecessary stress and make even the most routine interactions unbearable. Fortunately, the disorder can be successfully treated so that you can start participating in life again.
A residential treatment center for anxiety disorders can provide you with the treatment you need to be more comfortable in a group setting and better manage your anxiety in social situations. Anxiety treatment typically involves individual and group therapy, anti-anxiety medications, and the use of specialized therapies such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Somatic Experiencing (SE) therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).
If you are experiencing a co-occurring disorder such as depression, substance abuse, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), or another anxiety disorder along with Social Anxiety Disorder, an anxiety disorder treatment center with the proper resources can effectively treat those as well.
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Information technology (IT) theft is rampant worldwide, especially in emerging economies. As the Business Software Alliance’s 2010 Global Software Piracy Study found, 78 percent of software installed on Chinese computers is pirated, as is 83 and 87 percent of the software installed on Vietnamese and Indonesian computers, respectively.
Most of the attention on victims of software or other IT intellectual property (IP) theft focuses on the economic loss incurred by firms producing IT software or hardware. But there is another subtler yet equally damaged set of parties—all those firms who have fairly purchased IT software and products and must reflect that in the price of their products whom must compete against foreign firms that have illegitimately procured IT inputs. As ITIF has noted, this is the piracy subsidy that thieves of information technology IP enjoy, and it severely damages U.S. producers, especially the small- and mid-sized enterprise (SME) manufacturers whom account for 98 percent of U.S. manufacturing enterprises. These SME manufacturers have a difficult time competing against foreign firms that unfairly achieve competitive advantage by using large quantities of stolen IT to reduce their operating costs and thus reduce the costs of their exported products. The costs of foreign IP theft to the U.S. economy are indeed profound: for example, Chinese IP theft alone, in the year 2009 alone, cost the United States an estimated $49 billion and 1 million jobs.
Therefore, it’s vital that that the United States pursue a “whole of government” approach to combat foreign IT IP theft. This starts with the quality of trade agreements the United States enters into (and the trade infringement remedies they permit) and continues through the effectiveness of U.S. agencies and policies charged with combatting IP theft and enforcing trade agreements. While these efforts are spearheaded by the U.S. Trade Representative’s Office, the U.S. International Trade Commission, and particularly U.S. Customs and Border Protection on the enforcement side, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) also has a vital role to play in cracking down on foreign manufacturers who are ripping off U.S. intellectual property and using stolen information technology in their products.
On August 2, a bipartisan group of 19 Members of Congress sent a letter to FTC Chairman Jon Liebowitz urging the FTC to use its existing legal authority to crack down on foreign firms leveraging pilfered information technology resources to create an unfair advantage over domestic competitors. The Congressmembers’ letter follows a plea from the nation’s attorneys general for the FTC to use its authority under Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act to combat unfair methods of competition. Any steps the Federal Trade Commission can take in that direction cannot come soon enough for American manufacturers, design and process engineers, software designers, scientists, chemists and inventors—in other words, the core of our economic future.
As ITIF explains in the Charter to Revitalize American Manufacturing, which has the support of a diverse group of stakeholders, federal policymakers must take up a wide array of actions to recharge American manufacturing. These include not only proactive investments to bolster U.S. manufacturing firms’ competitiveness and better tax and talent policies, but also more funding for agencies tasked with tracking and enforcing IP rights. Ultimately, the United States must finally resolve to shut down rampant innovation mercantilism and use its still-considerable economic and political clout to marginalize countries that don’t play by the rules. We need a trade policy that better supports the interests of U.S. firms, manufacturers in particular. In the absence of effective, coherent policies to support U.S. manufacturing, the rampant loss of jobs and market share that has eviscerated U.S. manufacturing industries over the past decade is likely to only continue. | <urn:uuid:022282e7-d10e-43c7-ae7c-ac65602ce6a0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.innovationfiles.org/foreign-it-ip-theft-severely-damages-u-s-sme-manufacturers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00090-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942601 | 774 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Making Strides Against Breast Cancer
I have seen breast cancer tear families apart. We are blessed to have Grambo living with us as such an important piece of the family puzzle. W depends on her as much as he depend on J and I. I don’t want anything to threaten the health of my mother and I. I want W to grow up with us by his side.
Although neither of us has had to fight against breast cancer, I am all about supporting any work against the disease that has plagued so many moms. No child should have to lose their mom to breast cancer. I lived through watching a friend of mine lose her mother to cancer at a young age. It has stuck with me the rest of the my life.
The American Cancer Society is working to help people across the nation battling breast cancer while striving to find a cure. The Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walks are designed to raise awareness in communities around the nation while honoring breast cancer survivors. They are about education and raising money to work towards a cure. They are about passion in action.
You can find a walk in your area and join the journey to end breast cancer! You can tart a team, join a team, or walk as an individual in one of the 3- to 5-mile events. The 2013 Making Strides Against Breast Cancer will be in Houston on May 12, 2013! I’m looking forward to getting out and walking with my friends and family!
Making Strides Against Breast Cancer is the American Cancer Society’s nationwide series of walking events to raise funds and awareness to end breast cancer.
When is the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer in your area?
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By Hazzan Barbara Barnett
We are in the midst of Hanukkah, the Festival of Light. Exactly why we celebrate it has been a matter of debate for generations. Yes, we celebrate a miracle, for as it is written upon the letters of the dreidel (Nun, Gimel, Hey, Shin—or if you are in Israel, Peh) in acronym: “a great miracle happened there” (or in Israel, “here.”)
But which miracle are we celebrating? The miracle of a small band of zealous Jews who refused to give into the oppressive demands of the Syrian-Greeks, led by the tyrant Antiochous? Or the later traditional explanation: that a small cruse of pure oil, needed to relight the menorah in the Temple lasted for eight days? Or is the real miracle that the people, despite knowing the oil would last only one day, lit it anyway, and in so doing demonstrated that while much had been destroyed, their hope and courage could not be quashed? In the end, does it matter?
Perhaps, the miracle of the tiny vessel that prevailed against all odds to last far longer than anyone might have anticipated is a metaphor for the rebellion. The defeat of the mighty by the small and inspired—it is a proud tradition for us to remember. A miracle in the midst of certain defeat—the spirit of the few prevailing over the physical might of the powerful.
We recall the miracle in ritual, song, and even (of course) in our gastronomic choices. We light the chanukiah, beginning with a single candle for the first night, and each night increasing the light by one candle, until all eight (plus the shamash) are ablaze. The second blessing we recite: “she-asah nisim l’avoteinu, ba-yamim ha-heim, baz’man hazeh” thanks God for the “miracles that God made for our ancestors in their days at this season.” We eat latkes and jelly donuts (sufganiot) fried in olive oil to recall the miracle (metaphorical or not) of the oil.
Hanukkah, which, in Hebrew, means “dedication,” is also the Festival of Light, and many other religious traditions celebrate winter festivals of light, at this, the darkest time of the calendar year. But I think, the connection between Hanukkah, the light of the candles, the spirit of a small band of people (the Maccabbees) to defeat a much bigger foe, the miracle of a small vessel of oil lasting a week has another dimension.
The Baal Shem Tov, 18th Century founder of Chassidism, said, “From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven.” Each of us has within us the light, the spark of the Divine, to prevail against the odds and do amazing things.
The prophet Zechariah says in the haftarah for Shabbat Hanukkah, “Not by might, and not by power, but by my spirit…” Perhaps we are meant, at this time of the year (“ba’zeman hazeh”) to rededicate ourselves in the darkest, coldest time of the year to renewing that spark of light that resides in all of us.
Each of us has that light, no matter how dimmed it might have grown over a difficult year or other adversity, or how brightly it still shines in your life. In this joyous season of Hanukkah, surrounded by the light of the chanukia, by celebration, by song, and community can be rededicated, relit, renewed for another year. | <urn:uuid:a72553c4-ced0-4033-ba5e-f86f93da83b1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nssbethel.org/2019/12/oh-hanukkah-oh-hanukkah/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00479.warc.gz | en | 0.960265 | 799 | 2.546875 | 3 |
This DIY kit will allow you to build a beautiful doorbell for your room. While building it, you will discover gear trains and basic mechanical principles like the friction effect. You will manipulate nuts, screws, washers, etc. Each step is clearly explained in the booklet. You will discover many kinds of gears and their function in the objects around us.
How does it work?
First, detach the gears from the wooden boards, then identify all the small parts and the screws. Once assembled, you can PAINT it to personalize it and nail it to your bedroom door (there are 4 holes on the corners for this purpose).
What will you learn?
- The different types of gears: gear trains, rack and pinion, circular, etc.
- Ratios to calculate the speed at which gears turn
- The friction effect, the crank
- What is in the kit? You will find wooden elements: three large wooden gears, a large board and small parts to assemble. There are also screws and nuts: nuts, screws, rings, washers, wing nuts
- Ages 6+
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Tiips for eating better
If you're attempting to switch to a healthier lifestlye, consider these helpful tips.
Eating healthy can get you on a path to a healthier life, along with more physical activity. Before throwing out all the food you have and buying the new diet craze “must haves,” try some of these ways to eat better – now.
- Use the smallest plate that will accommodate the food
A large plate begs to be filled; smaller plates can train your eye to serve up smaller portions.
- Switch to whole-wheat pasta
Today’s whole-wheat pastas taste much better than their predecessors, and will get the health benefits from eating whole grains.
- Go vegetarian one night a week
Vegetarian meals can help you cut back on saturated fats and increase your intake of fiber. Beans can also be much less expensive than meat.
- Brew your own cold beverages
By keeping home-brewed iced tea on hand, you can more easily avoid high-calorie soft drinks and sweetened juices.
- Switch from whole milk to low-fat or skim
If you’re already drinking two percent milk, see if you can make the change to one percent or skim. You can still get the benefits or dairy without the saturated fat and excess calories.
- Make your coffee “black”
You can stop “drinking your calories” by forgoing the sugar and cream. If you can’t stand it black, try using two percent or skim milk instead.
- Eat fish one day a week
Most experts advise eating fish – especially those high in omega-3s like salmon – twice a week, so designating a weekly “fish night” is a good start. Fish sticks don’t count, and neither does fried fish!
- Make your rice brown
If cooking brown rice from scratch takes too long or gives you gummy results,try the instant variety.
- Eat breakfast
If you’re not eating it every day, now is a great time to start. Studies show that people who eat a healthy breakfast are less likely to gain weight.
- Slow down
It can take twenty minutes for the food you eat to be digested enough for the glucose to enter your bloodstream and your body to register a sense of fullness. Practice mindful eating. Pausing to taste and savor the food can give your body time to give the “stop” signal.
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Matias, C. E.(2019). Ripping Our Hearts: Three Counterstories on Terror, Threat, and Betrayal in U.S. Universities. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education.
Chow, CJ, Case, GA, &Matias, C. E. “Tools for discussing identity and privilege among medical students, trainees, and faculty” MedEdPORTAL.15(10864).
Liou, D. &Matias, C. E.,(2019). "Affirming Immigrant Families' Educational Expectations: Race-Conscious Transformative Leadership Breaking the Educational Racial Contract.” SoJo Journal: Educational Foundations and Social Justice Education.Volume 4.
Matias, C. E. &Aldern, J. (2019). The (Un)Common White Sense: The Whiteness Behind Digital Media. Journal of Postdigital Science and Education.
Matias, C. E., Walker, D. & del Hierro, M. (2019). Tales from the Ivory Tower: Women of Color’s Resistance to Whiteness in Academia. Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education, 18(1), 34-58.
Matias, C. E. (2018). Tell the Devil I’m Back: A Self-Reflection on the Radical Possibilities for Racial Justice. Taboo. 17(1). 4-14.
Le, P. T. & Matias, C. E. (2018). Towards a truer multicultural science education: how whiteness impacts science education. Journal of Cultural Studies of Science Education.
Matias, C. E., Nishi, N. & Sarcedo, G. (2018). “Whiteness and Teacher Education” invited Oxford Encyclopedia entry.
Walker, D., Matias, C. E. & Brandehoff, R (2018). “Smartmouth: The Misconceptions of Black and Brown Girls Who Have Experienced Trauma” Bank Street Occasional Paper Series. No. 38.
Grossland, T. & Matias, C. E. (2018). “Fervent Fortitudes: Exploring Emotions And Racial Literacy As Antiracist Pedagogy.” Journal of Curriculum Theory, 32(2). 72-83.
Cabrera, N., Matias, C. E., & Montoya, R. (2017). Activism or slacktivism?: The Potential and pitfalls of social media in contemporary student activism. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. DOI: 10.1037/dhe0000061
Matias, C. E. & Newlove, P. (2017). The Illusion of Freedom: Theoretical Examinations in the Epistemology, Rhetoric, and Emotionality of Whiteness. Equity, Excellence, and Education. DOI: 10.1080/10665684.2017.1336951
Matias, C. E. & Newlove, P. (2017). “Better the devil you see than the one you don’t”: Bearing Witness to Emboldened En/Whitening Epistemology in the Era of Trump. Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. DOI: 10.1080/09518398.2017.1312590
Matias, C. E. (2017). “When Whiteness Attacks: How This Pinay Defends Racially Just Teacher Education: Journal of Curriculum and Social Justice.
Matias, C. E., Henry, A. & Darland, C. (2017). The Twin Tale of Whiteness: Exploring the Emotional Roller Coaster of Teaching and Learning about Whiteness.Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education. 16(1),7-29.
Matias, C. E. (2016). “Mommy, is being brown bad?”: Critical Race Parenting in a “Post-Race” Era. Journal of Race and Pedagogy. 1(3). Article 1.
Montoya, R., Matias, C. E., Nishi, N., Sarcedo, G. (2016). Words are Wind: Using DuBois and Bourdieu to ‘Unveil’ the Capricious Nature of Gifted and Talented Programs. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies. 14(1). 127-143.
Nishi, N. W., Matias, C. E., Montoya, R., & Sarcedo, G. L. (2016). Whiteness FAQ: Responses and Tools for Confronting College Classroom Questions. Journal of Critical Thought and Praxis, 5(1), Article 4.
Matias, C. E., & Mackey, J. (2016). Breakin’ Down Whiteness in Antiracist Teaching: Introducing Critical Whiteness Pedagogy. The Urban Review, 48(1), 1-19.
DePouw, C. & Matias, C. E. (2016). Critical Race Parenting: Understanding Scholarship/Activism in Parenting Our Children. Journal of Educational Studies. 52(03), 237- 259. DOI: 10.1080/00131946.2016.1169182.
Matias, C. E., Montoya, R., & Nishi, N. W. (2016). Blocking CRT: How the Emotionality of Whiteness Blocks CRT in Urban Teacher Education. Educational Studies, 52(1), 1-19. DOI:10.1080/00131946.2015.1120205
Matias, C. E. & Grosland, T. (2016). “Digitalstorytelling as Racial Justice: Digital Hopes for Deconstructing Whiteness in Teacher Education” Journal of Teacher Education, 1-13. DOI: 10.1177/0022487115624493
Nishi, N. Matias, C. E., & Montoya, R. (2015). “Exposing the White Avatar: Projections, Justifications, and the Ever-Evolving American Racism.” Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, 21(5), 459-473.
Montoya, R., Matias, C. E., & Nishi, N. (2015). “American Chimera: The Ever- Present Domination Of Whiteness, Patriarchy, And Capitalism…A Parable.” Journal of Educational Philosophy and Theory, 1-12. DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2015.1068683
Matias, C. E. (2015) “Why do you make me hate myself?” Love, Abuse, and Whiteness in Urban Teacher Education. Teaching Education. 27(2), 194-211. DOI:10.1080/10476210.2015.1068749
Sarcedo, G., Matias, C. E., Montoya, R. & Nishi, N. (2015). Dirty Dancing with Race and Class: Microaggressions toward First-Generation and Low Income College Students of Color. Journal of Critical Scholarship on Higher Education and Student Affairs. 2(1), 1-17.
Matias, C. E. (2015). White Skin, Black Friend: A Fanonian application to theorize racial fetish in teacher education. Journal of Educational Philosophy and Theory, 48(3), 221-236. DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2014.989952
Matias, C. E. & Zembylas, M. (2014) “When saying you care is not really caring”: Whiteness and the Role of Disgust. Journal of Critical Studies in Education. 55(3). 319-337.
Matias, C. E. & Allen, R. L. (2014). “Do You Feel Me?” Amplifying Messages of Love in Critical Race Theory. Journal of Educational Foundations.
Viesca, K. M., Matias, C. E., Garrison-Wade, D., Galindo, R., & Tandon, M.(2014). “Push it real good!”: The challenge of challenging dominant discourses regarding race in teacher education. Critical Studies in Education. 5(11), 1-24.
Matias, C. E. (2014). And our feelings, just don’t feel it anymore”: Re-Feeling Whiteness, Resistance, and Emotionality. Understanding and Dismantling Privilege. 4(2). 134-153.
Matias, C. E., Mitchell, K., Wade-Garrison, D., Tandon, M & Galindo, R. (2014).“What is Critical Whiteness doing in OUR Nice Field like Critical Race Theory?” Equity & Excellence. 47(3), 289-304.
Matias, C. E. & Liou, D. (2014). “Tending to the Heart of Communities of Color Towards Critical Race Teacher Activism” Urban Education, 50(5), 601-625.
Matias, C. E. & Allen, R. L. (2014) “Loving Whiteness to Death: Sadomasochism, Emotionality, and the Possibility of Humanizing Love” Berkeley Review of Education. 4(2), 285-309.
Matias, C. E. (2013). Check Yo’Self Before You Wreck Yo’Self and Our Kids: Culturally Responsive White Teachers? Interdisciplinary Journal of Teaching and Learning. 3(2). 67-80.
Matias, C. E. & DiAngelo, R. (2013). “Beyond the Face of Race: Emo-Cognitive Explorations of White Neurosis and Racial Cray-Cray” Educational Foundations. 27(3-4). 3-20.
Matias, C. E. (2013). “Tears Worth Telling: Urban Teaching and the Possibilities of Racial Justice” Multicultural Perspectives 15(4). 187-193.
Matias, C. E. (2013). “On the Flip Side: Unveiling the Dangerous Minds of White Teacher Candidates” Teacher Education Quarterly. 40(2). 53-74.
Matias, C. E. (2012). Who you callin’ White? A Critical Counterstory of Colouring White Identity” Race, Ethnicity, and Education. 16(3), 291-315.
Matias, C. E. (2012). Beginning with Me: Accounting for a Researcher of Color’s Counterstories in Socially Just Qualitative Design” Journal of Critical Thought & Praxis. 1(1), 119-143.
Matias, C. E. Gorski, P., & Jackson, T. (Forthcoming). The Other Elephant:White Liberalism and the Persistence of Racism in Schools. NY: Teachers College Press.
Matias, C. E. (2021). The Handbook of Critical Theoretical Research Methods in Education. Edited book. NY, NY: Routledge
Matias, C. E. (2020). Surviving Becky(s): Pedagogies for Deconstructing Race and Gender. Lanham,MD: Lexington/Rowman and Littlefield.
Matias, C. E. (2016). Feeling White: Whiteness, Emotionality, and Education. The Netherlands: Sense Publishers.
Matias, C. E.(2020) Whiteness and Emotionality. In Z. Casey (Ed). Encyclopedia of Critical Whiteness Studies in Education. Boston, MA: Brill Publishers
Matias, C. E.& Bougher, C.(2019) Deconstructing Whiteness in Racially Just Teachers. In M. A. Peters (Ed). Encyclopedia of Teacher Education. Singapore: Springer Publishers.
Matias, C. E.& Aldern, J. J. (2019).“I See Whiteness” In K. Han & J. Laughter (Eds). Critical Race Theory in Teacher Education: Informing Classroom Culture and Practice, New York, NY: Teachers College Press, p. 36.
Matias, C. E. (2019). Beyond White: The Emotional Complexion of Critical Research on Race. In K. Struck & L. Locke (Eds), Research Methods for Social Justice and Equity in Education (pp. 263-274). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Sarcedo, G. & Matias, C. E. (2018).“Forgive Them Father For They Know Not What They Do....But What If They Do Know?!: The Impact of Whiteness on Girls of Color” in M. Sankofa Waters, V. Evans-Winters, & B. Love (Eds), Celebrating Twenty Years of Black Girlhood: The Lauryn Hill Reader. NY: Peter Lang Publishers.
Matias, C. E. (2018). “Before Cultural Competence: Exploring the Latent and Overt Emotionalities of Whiteness” S. Poulsen, PhD & R. Allan (Eds.) Cross-Cultural Responsiveness & Systemic Therapy: Personal & Clinical Narratives. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Publishers. pp. 21-40.
Sarcedo, G. L. & Matias, C. E. (2016). Academic advising and the maintenance of whiteness in higher education. In P. R. Carr, V. Lea, & D. E. Lund (Eds.), Critical Multicultural Perspectives on Whiteness: Views from the Past and Present New York, NY: Peter Lang. pp. 293-300.
Matias, C. E. & Silverstein, L. (2017). “When Teaching Whiteness Threatens: Pedagogical Strategies for Teaching Whiteness” B. Ahad-Legardy & O. Poon (Eds.), Difficult Subjects: Radical Teaching in the Neoliberal University. VA: Stylus Publishing. pp. 35-53.
Matias, C. E. (2016). “Shadowboxing Whiteness inside Teacher Education: Critical Race Activism to the Race-Gender Degree.” In D. Taliaferro Baszile, N. Guillory, & K. Edwards (Eds.) Race, Gender, and Curriculum Theorizing: Working in Womanish Ways. New York, NY: Lexington Books. pp. 71-86.
Matias, C. E. (2016). White Tundra: Exploring the Emotionally Frozen Terrain of Whiteness. In N. Hartlep & C. Hayes (Eds.), Unhooking from Whiteness: Resisting the Esprit de Corps). The Netherlands, Sense Publishers. pp 89-100.
Matias, C. E. & Nishi, N. (2016). "Becky please!”: White Teachers and Their Issues with Whiteness. In C. Warren and S. Hancock (Eds.), White Women’s Work Charlotte, NC: Information Age. pp. 107-122.
Matias, C. E. & Montoya, R. (2015). “When Michael’s Death Means Our Own Children’s Death: Critical Race Parenting During a Time of Racial Extermination” in K. Fasching-Varner & N. Hartlep (Eds.) The Assault on Communities of Color: Exploring the Realities of Race-Based Violence. New York, NY: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 79-84.
Matias, C. E. (2015). “I Ain’t Your Doc Student”: The Overwhelming Presence of Whiteness and Pain at the Academic Neo-Plantation. In K. Varner, Albert, R. Mitchell, & C. Allen (Eds.), Racial Battle Fatigue in the Academy. New York, NY: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 59-68
Matias, C. E. (2015). “To Lumpia or to Not”. In J. Landsman, R. Salcedo, & P. Gorski (Ed.), Voices for Diversity and Social Justice: Literary Education Anthology. New York, NY: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 83-86.
Leonardo, Z. and Matias, C. E. (2013). “Between Colonial and Postcolonial Mentality: The Critical Education of Filipino Americans”. In R. Bonus & D. Maramba (Eds.), The Other Students: Filipino Americans, Education and Power. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing. pp. 3-18.
Montoya, R., Matias, C. E., & McBride, M. (2017). Between the World and Me.Journal of Multicultural Perspectives. 19(1). DOI: 10.1080/15210960.2017.1267517
Matias, C. E., Nishi, N., Montoya, R. (2014). Whiteness in Academia: Counter- stories of betrayal and resistance. Journal of Race Ethnicity and Education. 17(4). 591- 600.
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Tiny Garden: Microgreens
Delicious, easy-to-grow microgreens bring miniature gourmet to your garden
In the spring of 2010, Kate Brun knew she had to take action. As a real estate agent, she hadn’t had a closing in almost twelve months and her husband’s construction business was the slowest it had been in years. “Both of us were really struggling,” she says. So instead of sticking with real estate, Brun turned to a favorite pastime: gardening. “We’d heard about growing microgreens from a friend who lives in California and thought, ‘Let’s give it a shot,’” she says. Her new venture, Lucky Leaf Gardens, is housed in her backyard greenhouse at her home in Harrisburg. She specializes in microgreens—tiny vegetables and herbs that are harvested when they’re still juvenile (about five days after sprouting). “Microgreens have a much higher concentration of flavor and aromas [than their more mature counterparts]. They taste so fresh,” says Brun.
Brun’s first attempt was one batch of mixed microgreens, which she now refers to as “Lucky Mix”—a blend of broccoli, radish, kale, and cabbage. She sold that first harvest to The Brass Button Restaurant in downtown Concord. “It escalated from there, and soon we were selling our microgreens to restaurants from Ballantyne to Davidson and everything in between.”
Now, two years later, Lucky Leaf Gardens’ microgreens are on plates at hot spots such as Halcyon, Pewter Rose, Flatiron Kitchen + Taphouse, Enzo Sushi, Harvest Moon Grille, and dozens more. And the options have expanded from the flagship Lucky Mix to forty other veggies, herbs, and even edible flowers. We sought out Brun’s expertise on why microgreens are the perfect garden for a novice and why so many nutritionists advocate eating them.
What’s the best way to grow microgreens?
Brun suggests purchasing organic seeds at a local store such as The Bradford Store in Huntersville. Fill a small container with holes in the bottom (for drainage) with organic compost or organic feed starting soil. Plant your seeds, spritz with water, and then place on a sunny windowsill. There are no exact requirements for how much sun per day microgreens need, adds Brun. “After five days of growth, you can harvest them,” she says. “It’s that easy.”
What if I want to grow them outside?
“No problem,” says Brun. Find a container with holes in the bottom—microgreens don’t like wet feet—and plant the seeds. Microgreens can’t tolerate frost or heavy sun, so bring them inside if the temperature dips and place them in indirect sunlight during the summer months.
What about pesticides if the microgreens are grown outside?
“There’s no need to fertilize or spray with pesticides because the plants grow for such a short period of time,” says Brun. “There’s not enough time for insects or bugs to attack. It’s a foolproof garden.”
What microgreens are best for beginners to grow?
The Lucky Mix. It’s a combination of radish, broccoli, cabbage, and kale. “Plant all four and mix them up in a batch. They’re easy to germinate, harvest, and grow,” says Brun. “Plus, they have a great shelf life.”
Can I cook or steam my microgreens?
Brun doesn’t suggest it. “There’s no need,” she says. “Put them on top of cooked salmon, throw them in omelets, put them in wraps, or toss them with a very light vinaigrette.”
I don’t want to grow my own microgreens. Where can I buy yours?
Lucky Leaf Gardens will grow a batch of whatever microgreens you want—in fact, “we only harvest what’s ordered so there’s never anything sitting around waiting to be sold,” says Brun. You can pick up your order at Atherton Market or at any Piedmont Farmers Market for $3 per ounce. | <urn:uuid:46d0c657-2573-4ee1-b170-927a3e37a770> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.charlottemagazine.com/tiny-garden-microgreens/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.942182 | 945 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Rare Orangutan Born at County's Henry Vilas Zoo
For more information contact:Jim Hubing, interim zoo director, 266-4708
Sharyn Wisniewski, 267-8823
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Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk announces that an extremely rare Bornean orangutan has been born at the Dane County Henry Vilas Zoo. The father, Teriang, and mother, B.B., are both 30 years old. Both baby and mom are doing well, according to zoo interim director Jim Hubing.
[The carefully monitored birth took place February 7. Announcement was delayed until zoo officials could determine if the mother and infant would bond or if the infant would have to be transferred to a specialized nursery.]
The Henry Vilas Zoo orangutan birth is part of a Species Survival Plan (SSP), a cooperative breeding and conservation program, which is managed by the American Zoo & Aquarium Association, the accreditation organization for zoos and aquariums.
Only two SSP orangutans were born last year. The head of the Orangutan SSP, Lori Perkins, Zoo Atlanta, states "Bornean Orangutans are our most critical focus. This birth is especially important. It's the best news possible!"
"The birth of this rare orangutan is a great gift not only to Dane County, but to the world," said Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk. "We are very fortunate to have a zoo of such high caliber right at our doorstep," said Falk.
In anticipation of the coming orangutan birth, Henry Vilas Zoo staff worked closely with the Brookfield and Memphis Zoos' primate centers and the UW School of Veterinary Medicine to complete preparations for birthing. Vitamin supplements, ultrasound examinations, operant conditioning training using nursing bottles, dolls and videos of orangutans giving birth were used to get ready.
Habitat was improved by using natural bedding material for ground nests. Elevated hammock-type sleeping nests were made by weaving fire hoses together. Infrared cameras were used to monitor the orangutans in their sleeping areas.
Gestation is 8 ½ months, and babies weigh 3 ½ to 4 pounds. At birth, infants are capable of grasping their mother's hair and completely supporting their own weight. Infants learn what to eat by observing their mothers, eating particles of food left on their mother's coat.
Babies stay small for many years, depending on their mothers for nurturing. Not as social as other great apes, a bond between a female and her most recent offspring continues well past the three-year nursing period.
"Orangutans are generally good mothers, being very gentle and loving. B.B. is especially attentive, never leaving her baby," said zoo director Hubing. "She either holds or places her baby on top of her head as she moves about."
The largest tree-dwelling animals, orangutans are the most human-like in appearance of all primates. They live on fruits and vegetables, foraging in the tropical rainforest and lowland swamp. Standing five feet tall and weighing over 200 pounds, orangutans have great strength and agility. They can hang from one arm and rotate 360 degrees.
Orangutan is a Malay word meaning "person of the forest." There are two species, Sumatran and Bornean, only found in the wild on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo.
Orangutans are an endangered species. Their habitat continues to be threatened by logging and adult females are killed to obtain babies for pet traders.
Welcoming and naming ceremonies for the baby orangutan will be announced soon.
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BURLINGTON, ON, Oct. 17, 2016
BURLINGTON, ON, Oct. 17, 2016 /CNW/ - Elric Nielsen has been named a Hero of Everyday Life for his leadership in combatting hunger in Calgary by Sodexo Canada's Stop Hunger Foundation, which has raised over $3 million to fight hunger across Canada since 2007.
The annual award, which includes a grant for $3,000 to be donated to the hero's charity of choice, recognizes outstanding Sodexo employees who have made a significant impact on reducing hunger in their community.
Elric, who is general manager of Sodexo's food service operations at Bow Valley College, has spearheaded a range of hunger-fighting initiatives to ensure that people at risk have ready access to nutritional meals.
Among his many accomplishments is the establishment of a multi-year lunch program at the "DI", a nearby drop-in centre for homeless people. More than a 1,000 nutritious lunches are regularly served at the centre by Bow Valley College and Sodexo volunteers.
Elric also leads Stop Hunger's Feeding our Future initiative, the city's largest summer lunch program for at risk children. Each summer, an army of volunteers from Bow Valley College, community partners and Sodexo and its vendors prepare thousands of free, nutritious lunches for delivery to 10 summer camps across the city for disadvantaged children.
With the arrival of more than about 1,400 Syrian refugees late last year and in early 2016, Elric teamed with Soup Sisters of Calgary to provide a warm culinary welcome. Using Middle Eastern styled recipes, Soup Sisters collaborated with Elric to involve the Calgary community in soup making blitzes at the college's kitchen facility with the support of college and Sodexo volunteers. The 6000 servings of soups were frozen and distributed to refugees by a wide range of community organizations.
This July he also headed the organization of a special picnic for children of Syrian refugees in partnership with the Calgary Islamic School.
"Elric is a strong community leader who has worked tirelessly to improve the quality of life of those at risk of hunger in Calgary," says Barry Telford, president of Sodexo Canada. "His ability to network with community partners to develop innovative hunger fighting initiatives and mentor and inspire volunteerism is extraordinary. Stop Hunger is proud to name him a Hero of Everyday Life."
The grant will be donated in Elric's name to 1000 Women Rising, a Bow Valley College initiative to help women pursue their post-secondary education and achieve their career ambitions.
"This award belongs equally to our hundreds of volunteers and community partners who all share a united passion for addressing hunger issues," says Elric. "In particular, the amazing support provided by students, faculty and staff at Bow Valley College has been instrumental in improving the quality of life for Calgarians at risk of hunger."
About Sodexo in Canada
Sodexo has been delivering On-Site Services in Canada for over 40 years. Recognized as a strategic partner, Sodexo Canada has consolidated its position by providing a range of Quality of Life Services for clients, their employees and visitors in the healthcare, corporate, education and remote sites segments. Delivering food and facilities management services for over 200 clients, Sodexo is a market leader in Canada in terms of revenue and consumers served, and has been recognized as a top employer for the past four consecutive years. Sodexo Canada is proud to have created the Sodexo Foundation, an independent charitable organization that has donated more than one million meals to at risk youth in Canada since it was founded in 2000.
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Greenshields, Christopher and Reese, Jason (2005) Some consequences of non-local-equilibrium in hypersonic aerodynamic flows. In: 1st European Conference for Aerospace Sciences, 2005-07-04 - 2005-07-07.
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In simulating high-speed, high-altitude aerodynamics it is important to be able to capture physical phenomena that are due to the non-local-equilibrium nature of the rarefied gas flow (this is in addition to any effects due to dissociation, ionisation and energy partition in diatomic molecules). The physical effects of the gas rarefaction can be particularly important close to any solid surface, where they have implications for the heat transfer and mechanical stresses experienced by the surface, and hence on the design of the leading edges and control surfaces of aerodynamic vehicles.
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An amazing city founded in 1571 but inhabited since about 3,000 BCE, Manila is the capital of the Philippines. With 16 districts to explore, it’s a place of incredible diversity and beauty.
See the Angono Petroglyphs
An astonishing site with 127 carvings of humans and animals, the Angono Petroglyphs are believed to date back to the late Neolithic period. The site is maintained by the National Museum of the Philippines and serves as a unique introduction to the nation’s cultural heritage. A collection of artefacts is housed nearby.
Visit the Walled City of Intramuros
A historic walled area that covers 64 acres, Intramuros dates to the Spanish Colonial Period. Settled in 1571, it features a citadel and defensive stone walls, including the 1644 Bastion of San Diego. Among the buildings inside the walled city, you’ll find the 1607 San Agustin Church, along with the Intendencia Ruins, the Hospital de San Juan de Dios, and more.
Take Time Out at An Internet Café
Refresh yourself with a cool beverage and a snack while you take care of a few essential online tasks between outings. Take advantage of Viber rates to make cheap calls to people back home, and spend a little time transferring your photos to the cloud for storage. Most internet cafes offer monitors in case you need them; you’re welcome to use your own device with Wi-Fi as well.
Photograph Manila Cathedral
One of the most iconic buildings the city has to offer, the Manila Cathedral is beautiful inside and out. The original cathedral was built in 1581, and the latest renovations were completed in 2014. Works of art can be seen throughout the cathedral, including original stained glass windows by the artist Ocampo.
See Rizal Park
Also known as Liwasang Rizal, this historic urban park is located between the walled city of Intramuros and Manila Bay. The park spans 140 acres and is home to a musical dancing fountain as well as several statues, sculptures, and monuments. The National Planetarium is located here, along with a library, a café, a stunning Japanese garden, and more.
Take a Trip to Binondo
Renowned as the world’s oldest Chinatown, Binondo was established in 1594. It is located just across the river from Intramuros and features a number of canals that date back to the Spanish Colonial Period. Despite a troubling history, the area is a fascinating place to visit. Be sure to photograph the famous Binondo Chinatown Arch, which is best viewed from Jones Bridge. Additionally, take a few moments to pause at the Chinese Goodwill Arch, which celebrates the friendship between Filipinos and Chinese. A beautiful Chinese cemetery and a fascinating museum are two additional standout attractions.
Take a Tour of the City
If you’re not sure where to begin, why not take a guided tour of Manila? Different tour packages are available, with some offering a general introduction to the city, and others providing close-up experiences at sites like Intramuros and Chinatown.
Visit the Pinto Art Museum
With six galleries, beautiful outdoor art installations, and manicured landscaping, the Pinto Art Museum is home to works by many of the Philippines’ most prominent contemporary artists. You’ll find a wonderful café on site, perfect for resting during a leisurely afternoon spent exploring.
View Marine Life at Manila Ocean Park
If you’re interested in nature, then you’re likely to appreciate an up-close introduction to the Philippines’ marine life with a visit to Manila Ocean Park. While this is an educational and conservation facility first and foremost, it is also a fun destination for the whole family. Visitors can get up close to sharks and rays and watch from beneath the oceanarium as these beautiful animals swim overhead. For a closeup encounter with colourful fish and other reef animals, consider an aquanaut voyage. An evening show, onsite restaurants, and encounters with birds and reptiles will round out your visit. There’s even an aqua-themed hotel on site: An eco-spa, bars, and restaurants provide beautiful views while helping you relax after a long day of exploring.
Visit Malacanang Palace
Malacanang Palace dates back to the 18th century. While it is the official home of the President of the Philippines, it includes a museum and other features that are open to the public. It’s best to visit this venue with the help of an organized tour company since permits are required 7 days in advance.
Go Shopping at Divisoria in Tondo
With a reputation as the Philippines’ biggest shopping mecca, Divisoria is occupied by large stores as well as small vendors. The area is served by the Philippine National Railways and features the main transport hub that includes the Tutuban Center shopping mall. All sorts of bargains can be found here, from small appliances to clothing, so be sure to spend some time browsing!
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A usual Sunday morning for most, for Christians Palm Sunday—the Sunday before Easter—marks the beginning of Holy Week, the holiest of weeks, in which the most important moments of Christ’s life take place, which include the suffering and torture He went through after His arrest, His journey while carrying the cross to Calvary where he was crucified and died, and finally His rising from the dead.Blessed palm leaves cannot be discarded as trash, so the Catholic Church incinerates them, which in turn provides the ash used to mark foreheads during the Ash Wednesday observances in the following year. The Indian Orthodox Church burns the palm leaves in a symbolic bonfire during the Christmas liturgy.
Holy Week begins with Palm Sunday when Christ triumphantly entered from Gailiee into Jerusalem to celebrate Passover with his disciples. According to the Gospels in the Bible, He entered Jerusalem on a young donkey (signifying humility) to shouts of ‘Hosanna’ from the townspeople, who threw clothes and palm leaves along his path, and waved palm leaves as a sign of homage. The people happily welcomed him, because they believed that Christ would free them from the oppression of the Roman government at that time. Ironically, it was in Jerusalem that the Jews plotted against him and arrested him after Judas betrayed Him. On Palm Sunday, palm leaves are blessed and distributed to Christians, who then go in procession to the church waving the palm leaves.
As the blessed palm leaves cannot be discarded as trash, the Catholic Church incinerates them to create the ashes used to mark foreheads during the Ash Wednesday observances, the following year. The Indian Orthodox Church keeps the palm leaves till Christmas, when the leaves are burnt in a symbolic bonfire during the liturgy (a religious service, according to which public worship, especially Christian worship, is conducted). The bonfire symbolises the fire that the shepherds of Bethlehem made in the cave where Christ was born, while the burning of leaves symbolise the burning away of all impurities (evil/sin). The warmth of the fire symbolises the salvation, which in the Christian belief, the crucifixion made possible for mankind.
Maundy Thursday: A day of service and love (March 29)
The word ‘Maundy’ is derived from the Latin word for ‘command’ and refers to Christ’s commandment to his disciples, ‘love one another as I have loved you’. Marking the beginning of the Triduum—the three days ofMaundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday—Maundy Thursday commemorates the Last Supper that Christ had with His apostles on the night He was betrayed by Judas for 40 pieces of silver. It was during the Last Supper that Christ instituted the Eucharist also known today as the holy mass—a Christian service, ceremony, or sacrament celebrating the Last Supper, in which bread and wine are consecrated and consumed. At every Mass on Maundy Thursday, the priest washes the feet of 12 persons from the community as an act of humility and service, just as Christ washed the feet of his 12 apostles.
As Christ broke bread and shared it with his apostles at the Last Supper, the tradition of blessing and distributing hot cross buns on Maundy Thursday is followed today. The hot cross buns, which are blessed by the priest are taken home by the people to share with their families and friends either on that day or on Good Friday. It is a reminder of them sharing their lives with one another.
Understanding the ‘good’ in Good Friday (March 30)
How can a day of suffering and death be considered good? The day of Christ’s suffering, crucifixion and death has been called ‘good’, because it led to His resurrection and. The Church mourns for Christ’s death and reveres the Cross. The faithful attend the Way of the Cross (some of them live demonstrations), which dwells on Christ’s journey from His arrest to His death; the Three Hours Agony, which reflects on the last seven words (in Aramaic) of Christ as he hung from the Cross; and the Good Friday evening service, after which, the body of Christ (as a statue) is reverently brought down from the Cross and is taken to the Church in procession, where it is venerated by the faithful. | <urn:uuid:99eec0a5-f65b-482e-918e-12463cc86be7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mynews.in/national-news/the-holy-week-all-you-need-to-know-about-the-lead-up-to-easter-and-the-good-in-good-friday/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.969643 | 914 | 3.484375 | 3 |
Sarvik Vivekananda Gram Seva Sanstha (SARVIK) is a non-profit organization made up of graduates of the Ramakrishna Mission program Samaj Sevak Shikshana Mandira at Belur Math in Howrah, West Bengal, which puts to practice their theoretical and practical training in social service based on the ideals of Sri Ramakrishna, Holy Mother Sarada Devi, and Swami Vivekananda. Into the loom of their stable Indian culture and heritage, they weave modern science and technological innovations to support existing villages desperately in need of assistance. …
Sarvik Vivekananda Gram Seva Sanstha has embarked on a lot of philanthropic activities out of its own volition – besides sponsored by the Govt. & Non-Govt. organizations. Most note-worthy of those are starred below :
- Running of hostels at the vicinity of schools & collage with free provision of boarding & lodging for poor students of remote villages.
- Conducting functional literacy programmes for illiterate SHG women members.
- Holding blood donation camps.
- Dovetailing character – building extracurricular activities like ‘Bratachari’, cultural functions etc. along with the principal academic curriculum for students.
- Devotional involvement and effective role of all staff and board members in natural calamities.
All these we could do due to spontaneous all out support from philanthropist organisations and generous people.
Sarvik Vivekananda Gram Seva Sanstha was formally registered as a non-profit social organization in 1993-94 with branch centres across eleven districts in West Bengal, Tripura and Orissa providing economical, social, cultural, educational, health and hygiene assisting services with a morale boosting spirit of “Shiva Gyane Jiva Seva” (Worshipping God By Serving Man).
Our Skill Development Training Programme in various district.
COVID-19 Alert! – We are working for COVID-19. Follow us https://sarvikvivekananda.com/projects/welfare/covid-19
All the wealth of the world cannot help one little Indian village if the people are not taught to help themselves. Our work should be mainly educational, both moral and intellectual. Educate our people, so that they may be able to solve their own problems, until that is done all these ideal reforms will remain ideals only. We have therefore to wait till the people are educated, till they understand their needs and are ready and able to solve their problems.’’ — Swami Vivekananda
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OTTAWA — The kitchen-table conversation about mounting family debt found its way into the leaders' debate Thursday as three political rivals staked out their different positions on Canada's over-extended households.
The exchange about housing debt came just days after a new Statistics Canada report showed Canadians hit record levels of indebtedness earlier this year — a period when they took on credit at a quicker pace than their incomes rose.
Interest rates in Canada have remained at rock-bottom levels for years, which has fuelled concerns about overvalued homes and perhaps even housing bubbles in hot markets like Toronto and Vancouver.
The Bank of Canada has identified climbing household debt as a point of vulnerability for the economy.
On Thursday, Conservative Leader Stephen Harper said the ability of Canadians to continue borrowing in spite of global financial instability should be a source of pride.
"Well, no doubt there are some people who are overextended — (but) I think the housing story is a very positive story in this country," Harper said during the debate in Calgary.
"You know, you look around the world where there have been all of these financial and other crashes — a lot of them centred around the housing market. In Canada, we have seen home ownership rise to record levels."
Harper said Canada now has higher home ownership than the United States because people have taken advantage of lower interest rates at a time when their incomes have been growing.
"That's a positive Canadian story that we should celebrate."
During the campaign, he added, the Conservatives have laid out plans that would encourage Canadians to spend even more on homes. They include his party's promises to revive a home-renovation tax credit and to examine the impact of foreign home ownership.
He has also pledged to raise the amount first-time home buyers can withdraw from their registered retirement savings plans for a down payment — to $35,000, up from the current $25,000 limit.
Last spring, Harper said debt-servicing costs in Canada had fallen and default rates remained extremely low.
Harper's opponents, meanwhile, focused on their respective plans to help Canadians keep up with their expanding credit levels.
NDP Leader Tom Mulcair attacked Harper for allowing housing prices in some areas to soar well out of reach for many Canadians.
"Look at the cost of housing in some of our major cities," Mulcair said.
"It is out of control. And at the same time, Mr. Harper says, 'It's OK, I've got a renovation tax credit.' How do you renovate a house you can't afford to buy in the first place?"
To help cash-strapped families, Mulcair said the NDP would work to put more money in their pockets with a $15-per-day child-care program across the country and a $15-per-hour minimum wage on federal jobs.
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said Canadians need to be reassured their wages will grow at the same speed as the value of their homes.
"The fact is, for many Canadians their entire economic security is in their home," Trudeau said. "It's their savings, it's their retirement and we need to make sure that while housing prices rise, incomes are rising as well."
He also reiterated his promise to take advantage of the low interest rates at the national level to invest for the future — an idea that echoes how many households have proceeded in recent years.
If elected, Trudeau has pledged to borrow cash to fund what he calls job-creating infrastructure projects, even though it would mean running deficits over the next three years. He challenged Harper Thursday by comparing his plan to people assuming a mortgage or a renovation loan.
Mulcair criticized both his rivals on their plans for the economy, saying Harper thinks all is well while Trudeau is promising to pile tens of billions of dollars in debt on future generations.
"The prime minister wants to hit the snooze button while Mr. Trudeau is hitting the panic button," he said.
The Bank of Canada has been forced to lower its trend-setting interest rate twice this year to help cushion the blow from the sharp collapse in oil prices, which had a considerable negative impact on the economy.
The lower rates have enticed people to borrow more.
Last week, Statistics Canada said the ratio of household credit market debt to disposable income climbed in the second quarter of 2015 to 164.6 per cent, up from 163.0 per cent in the first three months of the year.
That means Canadians owed nearly $1.65 in consumer credit and mortgage and non-mortgage loans for every dollar of disposable income.
However, economist Jack Mintz said Thursday after the debate that he thought household debt concerns were "way over-exaggerated."
Due to variable interest rates, Mintz said financing costs relative to disposable income have not gone up much over the past decade.
"People are able to meet their mortgage payments without significant difficulty," said the University of Calgary economist.
"I think where people are worried is that one day we may see higher interest rates."
He thought the leaders were "quite weak" when they responded to the question on housing because they didn't really have an answer on how to help millennials enter pricey housing markets, particularly in Toronto and Vancouver.
Mintz believes municipalities may actually have a bigger role to play in that area than Ottawa because he thinks they could adjust local land-use policies to make housing more affordable.
The central bank has warned about the risk of a housing correction and estimated last December that real-estate prices were overvalued between 10 and 30 per cent in some areas.
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Maybe you've always wanted to visit Florence, or perhaps you saw "Tea With Mussolini" and fell in love with this enchanting city, cradle of the Renaissance.
Consider the fall. September and October (even early November) are wonderful times to visit Tuscany, which, for artistic, culinary and other reasons, many people consider quintessential Italy. The weather's delightfully mild; the summer crowds have faded; and restaurant tables, hotel rooms and tickets to the Uffizi Gallery are easier to come by.
On top of this, much of the allure of the city's old quarter is enjoyable at the best rates--that is, for free. From the bustling Gothic Mercato San Lorenzo to the little shops of the picturesque Ponte Vecchio. From the Renaissance architecture and statue gallery on the Piazza della Signoria to jewels of churches like the Duomo, Santa Maria Novella and Santa Croce.
Everyone goes to Santa Croce, by the way, to see the frescoes and altarpieces by Giotto and Fra Angelico, as well as the tombs of Galileo, Michelangelo, Dante, Macchiavelli and Rossini. But few know that off to the right of the nave, in a corner, a group of leather artisans work calf, reptile and even ostrich skins into decorated desk sets, jewelry cases, jackets, handbags and a hundred other items, then sell them for prices well below what local leather shops charge.
Finally, don't forget to take a stroll up the hill to Piazzale Michelangelo for a panoramic look at one of Europe's most fabled cityscapes.
Beyond a slice of pizza (often sold by the gram), a focaccia sandwich or some other "fast food," many of the restaurants catering to tourists in the historic quarter are not particularly cheap. But try the Trattoria Za Za (25r Piazza del Mercato Comune), in business since the 14th century (but closed Sundays). Their "spaghettata," a double order of pasta with bread and red wine, goes for about $8. Usually crowded, it's typically Florentine, with wooden benches and tables, chairs with straw seats and wine bottles lining the walls.
To really get down with the locals, sit down to a three-course abbondanza for $8.25 at the Mensa DLF (also known as the Ristofer) at 4 Via Alemanni, alongside the Santa Maria Novella railroad station. It's a 200-seat cafeteria run by the railway labor union, and it dishes up hearty fare at bargain prices.
When it comes time to lay your head down, there are numerous pensions to choose from. One example: On the third floor of a renovated apartment building is the eight-room Pensione Sole (8 Via del Sole, telephone/fax 011- 390-55-239-6094). It has doubles for about $45 without private bath ($57 with bath), and doesn't take credit cards.
If you prefer to go the "independent package" route (hotel, air fare and transfers included, but you're essentially left to your own devices), check out Italiatour, tel. (800) 237-0517, Internet http://www.italiatour.com, the tour-operator arm of Alitalia airlines. It has some good five-night deals to Florence, including one running from November through March (Christmas to New Year's excepted) starting at just $699 from San Francisco or Los Angeles.
For more information: Italian Government Tourist Board, 12400 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 550, Los Angeles, CA 90025; tel. (310) 820- 0098, fax (310) 820-6357. Internet http://www.italiantourism.com.
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World’s Largest Polio Reservoir In Pakistan City: WHO
Pakistan’s city of Peshawar is the world’s largest pool of the polio virus, with the vast majority of cases in the country and neighboring Afghanistan tracing back to the restive northwestern city, the World Health Organization announced Friday.
Some 90 percent of polio cases found around Pakistan can be genetically linked to the city, the U.N. organization said. Even 12 of the 13 cases reported in 2013 in neighboring Afghanistan can also be traced back to Peshawar, officials said, showing the challenge of combating the disease in a country where militants target vaccinators.
“If you do not take care of this reservoir it will keep threatening other parts of the country as well. Then the final eradication would be much more difficult,” said Elias Durry, who heads the
WHO’s eradication efforts in Pakistan.
Pakistan, along with Afghanistan and Nigeria, are the only countries in the world where polio remains endemic.
The WHO announced this week India, which had previously been considered one of the toughest places in the world to eradicate polio because of high-risk communities in remote areas, is to be declared polio-free by the end of March.
Pakistan has struggled for years to eradicate the disease through a series of repeated vaccination campaigns of children.
But that effort has been hampered in recent years by militant attacks that have left more than 30 vaccinators and police officers who protect them dead. Two powerful Pakistani Taliban militants also have banned vaccinators from North and South Waziristan, two tribal regions that border Afghanistan to the west.
The number of polio cases in Pakistan jumped from 58 in 2012 to 91 in 2013. Of the polio cases recorded last year, 65 were located in the remote tribal regions.
Hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis seeking refuge from fighting in the tribal regions in recent years have flooded into Peshawar, which is also the capital of Khyber Paktunkhwa province. Those infected bring the disease back with them when they leave. Hundreds of thousands of Afghans also travel to and from the city daily.
The WHO and the government regularly test samples of the sewage water in Peshawar as well as other major cities across the country. During the last six months, they detected the highly contagious polio virus in all the samples collected in Peshawar, Durry said.
The organization is calling for repeated vaccination campaigns to help get rid of the disease in Peshawar.
Pakistan has been under pressure internationally to eradicate the disease, which usually infects children living in unsanitary conditions. The disease attacks the nerves and can kill or paralyze.
But vaccination teams have had a hard time reaching all children in parts of the troubled northwest. Durry said roughly 260,000 children are believed to have missed vaccinations last year in North and South Waziristan.
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“The births of all things are weak and tender, and therefore
we should have our eyes intent on beginnings.”
Questions to consider
“If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
If I am not for others, what am I?” Hillel
Do you know the fish story by David Foster Wallace?
‘There are two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, ‘Morning, boys, How’s the water?’
And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, ‘what the hell is water?’
Wallace continues, ‘How do we keep from going through adult life unconsciously…we have to remind ourselves over and over, this is the water, this is the water.’
Breathe in – think, enjoy life now, breathe out – think, enjoy life now
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Weleda consists of 19 majority shareholders and the company employs approximately 2,000 people worldwide. About 40 percent of the capital and about 80 percent of the voting rights of the Weleda AG are owned by two major shareholders, the General Anthroposophical Society (AAG, Dornach, Switzerland) and the Arlesheim Clinic (KA, Arlesheim, Switzerland), formerly Ita Wegman Klinik AG. The remaining registered shares and the non-voting participation certificates are in free float. Only members of the AAG are eligible for registration in the share register.
Weleda’s commitment to sustainability from the beginning
Since the company’s founding in 1921, Weleda has been socially, environmentally and economically responsibly in all its business operations from the procurement of raw materials to the manufacture of skin care and medicinal products, packaging and distribution.
Weleda also grows medicinal plants and runs its own tincture production facility, where there is further processing of raw materials through distillation, extraction or potentising. Although some of our methods have changed over time, we have always been true to ourselves, our founders and our values. Socially, environmentally and economically we operate on the same principles since founding. We truly believe that it is this consistency which makes a positive difference to the world.
With an expected increase in the world’s population, from seven to nine billion by 2050, the demand for diminishing natural resources is growing. According to the anthroposophic ideas of Rudolf Steiner, the founder of Weleda, we must do our best to support an adequate living for everyone today, without compromising the needs of future generations.
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Cyber Security is a real and constant threat that has gained more and more traction every year. Small businesses have become prime targets because they have low security budgets and a mindset that it will never happen to them. We can tell you firsthand that you are susceptible to cyber attacks as long as you are connected to the internet.
- Monthly or quarterly reports. We compile reports from every system on your network and show you in a simplified document what needs to fixed and/or upgraded to better protect your network from the outside.
- Real-time defense against intruders trying to gain access to your network by providing 24/7 reporting on key areas such as user-login, anomalous logins, administrative access to client/personal information and more.
- Perimeter firewalls that provide Gateway Anti-virus that filters traffic BEFORE it even gets to your system. They provide Intrusion Detection/Prevention built right into the device. We monitor and maintain the devices, so you are headache/worry-free.
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If you were first exposed to the internet in the ’90s, chances are it was because you got an AOL CD (or, gasp, a floppy disc) in the mail. And the disc strategy worked. As the AOL CEO at the time, Steve Case, said:
When we went public in 1992 we had less than 200,000 subscribers; a decade later the number was in the 25 million range”
The internet has moved on from AOL, the loud connecting noises and slow loading pages. It has now exploded from 25 million users to over three billion active users.
Today, you can instantly reserve a flight from a wide choice of airlines online (thank you, Expedia and Priceline). You can live stream movies (cheers, Netflix) and instantly book hotel rooms and apartments online (yes, we see you Airbnb).
Same goes for books, groceries, taxis, banking, canoe and even B2B purchases. But not so much searching for online freight rates.
So we asked ourselves (and some logistic professionals)…
So what kept freight rates offline?
Shipping rates and fees are complicated.
Lets start with the sheer complexity of rate management.
A typical mid-sized freight forwarder has dozens of ocean contracts, over 50 airline contracts and over 100 trucking contracts. These 200+ contracts will be in different formats, ranging from PDFs and Excels to simple emails. And many of them are constantly changing.
One tariff with 10 different surcharges and pricing rules is complicated. Five tariffs are daunting. 400? Well …
Tariff formats and contracts aren’t standardised
One man’s BAF is another man’s BAC..or even IFP. In fact, forwarders often have three or four different names for the exact same fee. The result is a complicated mess of acronyms that can make life difficult for a forwarder, more-so for a novice shipper.
Prices originate from multiple countries and different agents
Forwarders may be able to automate freight rate management at their own offices. But international shipping is, well, international, creating dependencies on other branches, offices or companies.
Full door to door quoting depends upon external rates, from either agents or overseas company offices. Not much incentive to automate when the result is partial at best.
Freight is one of the oldest industries in the world – the Australian continent was first settled over 30,000 years ago by people who had to travel globally. Trade lanes have been around for at least as long.
Combined with a plethora of rates, no standardisation of fees, and a myriad of agents and overseas offices, it’s no wonder that 3PLs rely on personal networks.
Those relationships have kept the freight industry up with the frenetic pace of the growth of world trade. So if automation meant burning those relationships, well that sounded like madness.
Freight as a big-ticket item
There’s a huge difference between shipping a book and shipping a 40′ high top.
Early online selling started with smaller consumer goods. They were low-priced, pricing was easier, and parcel shipping was far easier. Amazon started out with books. Freight, as a complex big-ticket item, naturally missed the first waves of automation.
But today, you can buy a boat online. You can buy house-sized power generators. Heck, you can buy a house. Things are changing.
The stakes are high in freight. How secure is the payment mechanism? How protected is the company’s supply chain, especially the security protocols of each and every agent? Getting freight rates online clearly means being connected to the internet. And that rightfully leaves 3PLs nervous.
Culture of conservatism
All together these make for some high hurdles. And with literally hundreds of thousands of freight sales managers globally in a similar situation, there has been a sense that it is just too hard.
So are these concerns still valid?
The sheer complexity of rate management, tendering and rate quoting beg for automated solutions.
Courier and parcel shipping are a great example of a predecessor for online automation. FedEx and UPS have taken advantage of online sales to increase revenue during periods of online sales growth.
FedEx and UPS Revenue show how revenue increased as online E-Commerce sales and fulfillment increased.
Automation brings order from potential pricing chaos. It’s happened in other industries. And a few intrepid freight pioneers are leading the online freight rates charge today, especially in domestic trucking. But it’s only been in a piecemeal fashion.
As for the personal relationship, modern IT platforms can actually be an enabler of interactions, rather than an alienator. Alibaba, for example, connects foreign manufacturers with importers, helping to forge new relationships, rather than replacing them with only digital transactions.
And although there are still legitimate concerns with online security, the E-Commerce revolution now has two decades under its belt. Airlines, banks and trading companies have long since taken the plunge.
Is it time now to move to online freight rates?
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Stamp Out Bodysnarking
When we asked if you’ve ever been bullied because of your physical appearance, 90% of you said yes. Now get ready to say a big N-O to bodysnarking. We’re taking on the body bullies—and we’re not backing down. Here are three easy ways you can take action today:
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Bullying is linked to 65% of eating disorders. Bodysnarking is not okay. It's something we can all live without. These celebs are joining the fight, too!
"In middle school I heard a girl comment on how another girl looked 'chunky' and that no one should be friends with her because of it. This comment, which wasn't even directed towards me, changed the way I saw myself." Read Mary Streech's story of how bodysnarking was linked to her eating disorder.
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A cloud-based bitcoin mining operation which rents out computing power to customers could soon be churning around around $20 million worth of bitcoins each month.
Earlier this week a bitcoin mining operation near Seattle opened its doors to a local TV station, showing two warehouses filled with racks of bitcoin mining rigs.
It's operator Dave Carlson told the Komo news station that he was operating with a processing power of one petahash and was mining an estimated $8 million (£4.8m) worth of bitcoins every month.
While Carlson's operation may be "the largest mine in North America and most of the rest of the world" it is about to be dwarfed by that of bitcoin mining company CloudHashing.com.
2.5 petahashes per second
The company, which is registered in London, is currently operating at a capacity of 1.5 petahashes per second, but a spokesperson for the company claimed that by the end of March it will have expanded that capacity to 2.5 petahashes per second.
While calculating exactly how many bitcoins this processing power will generate is difficult, it is safe to say that mining bitcoins is all about processing power, and with CloudHashing.com using the latest in ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) technology, estimating that its entire network will generate somewhere in the region of $20 million worth of bitcoin is probably a safe bet.
Of course as the equations which need to be solved in order to mine a bitcoin become ever more complex - and therefore take longer to solve - this figure will drop unless CloudHashing invests in more powerful machines.
The $20m figure will also of course be dependant on the price of bitcoin. The cryptocurrency is currently valued at around $635 but should that increase or decrease, the value of CloudHashing's network will be directly affected.
Formidable cloud supercomputing network
CloudHashing says it has built what it calls "a formidable cloud supercomputing network of mining machines" which it rents out to individual customers at rates of between $999 and $8,999 per year, dependant on the processing power you want to wield.
At the end of each day, CloudHashing.com divides up the bitcoin spoils between its customers, but it also retains 20% of its network's capacity for itsself - meaning it could soon be raking in around $4m worth of bitcoins a month.
It has datacentres dotted around the globe including one in Iceland where the company takes advantage of clean and abundant energy - something which is vital if its operation is to remain profitable.
MtGox Customer Relief Effort
The company typically rents out its network at a price of around $25 per gigahash, but in an attempt to help out the thousands of people who have lost bitcoins following the closure of MtGox it is offering people who can prove they were customers of the Japanese exchange access to the network for the cut-rate price of $8 per gigahash.
The MtGox Customer Relief Effort - as CloudHashing is calling the campaign - was inspired by one of its own employees, Lukas Gilkey, who personally lost more than $40,000 overnight when MtGox became insolvent.
Gilkey said he and the CloudHashing team developed the MtGox relief effort to support others like himself:
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New Agers present Christians with a challenging evangelistic opportunity. On the one hand, they have already accepted that they have a spiritual void in their lives and are actively attempting to fill it. Thus they are seemingly “half way home” to the kingdom of God. On the other hand, they have bought into a set of ideas that strongly prejudice their reading of the Bible.
In Part One I suggested a basic strategy for holding New Agers accountable when they begin to deal dishonestly with Scripture. Now I will demonstrate the following three-step approach to dealing with specific ways New
Agers mishandle biblical texts: (1) Point out how the immediate context of the passage supports a different interpretation than the one they have offered. (2) Overwhelm them with examples from the larger context of the Bible that contradict their view. (3) Demonstrate that the source they quoted from the Bible to support their position actually adhered faithfully to that larger tradition that contradicts their view.
Although any number of doctrines that New Agers try to find in the Bible could be used to demonstrate this approach, space limitations dictate that I deal with only one here. I have chosen the foundational New Age belief in the divinity of all things.
Acts 17:28. To support their doctrine that humans and the world partake of the very being of God (pantheism: “God is all”; or, for some, panentheism: “God is in all”), New Agers sometimes cite the words of the apostle Paul in Acts 17:28, that “in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said…” (NASV). Is the apostle Paul here endorsing the pantheistic philosophy of the Stoic “poets” Aratus and Cleanthes, from whom he quotes? This is not a warranted conclusion.
Of course, Paul is seeking to find some common ground with his Greek audience on which to build his evangelistic appeal. So he cites a statement with which — at least to a certain extent — a Christian can agree. For the affirmation Paul quotes is, of itself, perfectly consistent with the biblical doctrine that God is omnipresent. In other words, since there is no place where God does not exist, He could be accurately thought of as completely encompassing His creation (nothing occurs anywhere in the universe that is not within the limitless range of His presence and being). This is all Paul means; his words do not affirm that the Creator and His creation share the same identity or essence. We can see this by looking at the overall body of Paul’s address.
It is evident that Paul disagrees at many points with pantheism in general and the Stoics in particular. He begins in verse 24 affirming that “God…made the world and all things in it.” Clearly Paul believes in an ontological distinction between God and the world, with the world being dependent on God for its existence. Paul proceeds in verses 24-25 to affirm that God is in need of nothing within the creation to sustain His existence. This affirmation simply could not have been made in Stoic philosophy; nor can it be consistently made in New Age philosophy today. If the world is of one essence with God, then by definition God is not independent or free of the world.
Paul concludes by affirming in verses 30-31 that God now declares to all men that they should repent of idolatry because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness, through Jesus — whom He raised from the dead. Here we find that God is involved in a sovereign and personal manner with the world as its lawgiver and judge, and that He has intervened in human history miraculously to establish both salvation from, and judgment upon, human sin. None of these activities of God could be true within a pantheistic system, but all are perfectly consistent with the infinite, personal, holy God of Judeo-Christian theism.
Luke 17:20-21. Even more popular with New Agers are the words Jesus uttered in Luke 17:20-21. After being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied: “The kingdom of God does not come with your careful observation, nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,’ because the kingdom of God is within you” (NIV). It seems that the entirety of New Age philosophy is often read into these words, and New Agers come away from this passage convinced that Jesus is one of them.
A serious consideration of the context of Luke 17, however, reveals that pantheism was the furthest thing from Jesus’ mind. We must first notice what Jesus did not say: He did not affirm that the very being or nature of God is “within you.” He specifically was speaking about the kingdom of God, a concept with a well-defined meaning in biblical usage. The kingdom of God is the rule of God and Christ and the place where they rule (e.g., Rev. 11:15; 12:10). The citizens of the kingdom are those who do the will of God and Christ (Luke 11:2; Matt. 7:21).
The Pharisees wanted to know when the kingdom of God that Jesus often spoke of would appear. Although Jesus did teach that the kingdom would come at a future time in glory, He also taught that the kingdom comes in stages, and in its earliest phase was already present (see, e.g., Matt. 13:31-32). It was present in the sense that the reign of the King had already taken a foothold on earth as Jesus’ disciples obeyed His commands.
This accords with the fact that the Greek word entos (“within you”) can also be translated “in your midst” (see, e.g., the New American Standard Version). And so, Jesus’ point was, “You are looking for the kingdom to come only in a cataclysmic fashion [“with observation”], and thus you fail to notice that the King and His subjects are already in your presence.”
With the proper understanding of what “kingdom of God” means, it is clear that Jesus would never have told the Pharisees that His kingdom presently existed inside their souls. For they were determined not to accept the messianic kingship of Jesus.
The Larger Biblical Context. It is not only the immediate context of the above passages that rules out the New Agers’ interpretations, but, even more so, the overall context of biblical tradition. All of Scripture presupposes a subject-object relationship between God and His creation.
For example, humanity’s separation from God is never attributed to a subjective blindness to our true union with the divine, as in a pantheistic system of thought. Rather, it is sin or transgression of God’s holy law that has objectively and truly separated us from Him (Isa. 59:1-2).
In the first chapter of the Bible we find that the world was created ex nihilo (out of nothing) by a divine decree (cf. Ps. 33:6, 9; Heb. 11:3; Rom. 4:17). That it was ex nihilo is supported by the fact that the Hebrew word (bara) used for the initial creation of the universe and man is never used in Scripture (unlike other Hebrew words for “create”) with reference to preexisting material, out of which the created object would be fashioned. Thus God did not fashion the world out of Himself. At the core of man’s being he is a creature — there is no divine spark that can be fanned through meditation or other New Age practices.
The infinite gap between creator and creation revealed in Genesis 1 is maintained consistently throughout Scripture (e.g., Ps. 102:25-27; 113:4-6; 1 Kings 8:27). In fact, the identification of the creation with God is denounced as the very essence of idolatry (Rom. 1:18-25). The pride of man is condemned for the very reason that he is a mere creature, and only the Creator — who bestows on man whatever glory he possesses — is worthy of exaltation (Isa. 2:11, 17, 22; cf. Ps. 100:3). Furthermore, humans who make a profession of deity receive a special condemnation from Yahweh (Isa. 47:8-11; Ezek. 28:2, 6-9).
Now, it is within the setting of this overarching theism that Jesus and Paul conducted their ministries. While they made a few statements that might sound pantheistic to pantheists, the pantheist needs to understand that they were faithful representatives of the Jewish theism out of which they sprang. Thus, since their words can also be interpreted in theistic senses, the theistic interpretations should prevail.
Jesus: Hebrew or Hindu? When pressed, many New Agers would grant that Paul was probably not a pantheist. But they cannot afford to make the same concession regarding Jesus. Generally speaking, even they are compelled to acknowledge the superior spiritual status of Jesus in human history. If He contradicted their beliefs this would seriously challenge their own faith in New Age mysticism. Thus New Age teachers have gone to great lengths to remold Jesus in the image of an Eastern mystical master.
First, they tell us, Jesus Himself was a mere human like all of us. But, like all of us, He possessed within a divine or “Christ” principle. At the time of His baptism He finally manifested this Christ self, achieved “Christ consciousness” (divine self-awareness), and thereby became a “Christ.” Therefore, they conclude, His unparallelled life is a proof for New Age (not “fundamentalist Christian”) doctrine, since itshows forth the possibilities of human potential. By following Jesus’ example, they assure us, we too can become “Christs.”
Second, according to much of New Age literature (e.g., Levi’s The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ), Jesus obtained His wisdom and powers not so much from His Jewish background as from His alleged (though biblically unsupportable) wide travels through Asia and the Mediterranean world. In such remote places as the Himalayas he was supposedly trained in the “mysteries” of occult knowledge.
New Agers often add that Jesus disavowed distinctive doctrines from His Jewish heritage, such as blood atonement and the wrath of God against sin that necessitates such atonement. Some even go so far as to say that Jesus disavowed Yahweh (the “vengeful Jewish tribal deity”) altogether in favor of His heavenly Father, whom He revealed as a new god to the Jewish people.
In response the Christian must show that the New Testament — the only extant record of Jesus’ life and teaching drawn from eyewitness testimony (as opposed to accounts based on the visions of nineteenth and twentieth century occultists!) — lends absolutely no support to the New Age view. Jesus told the woman at the well, “You worship that which you do not know; we worship that which we know, for salvation is from the Jews” (John 4:22; emphasis added). In His Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5:17-18), Jesus endorsed the entire Old Testament law, stating that He came for the very purpose of fulfilling it (including blood atonement — cf. Matt. 26:27-28). To the Pharisees, the most “fundamentalist” sect of Judaism, He proclaimed that the Old Testament God they claimed to worship and His heavenly Father are one and the same (John 8:54). In fact, Jesus claimed to be the Old Testament Yahweh incarnate (John 8:58; cf. Exod. 3:14-15).
Christians must warn New Agers that by abstracting the term Christ (Hebrew: mashiyach or Messiah, meaning “anointed one”) from its historical Hebrew usage they have created a counterfeit “Jesus” in opposition to the living Lord (show them 1 Cor. 11:3-4). In its proper usage, “Christ” is not a cosmic principle, but the title of one specific person, the promised deliverer-king of Israel.
In Daniel 9:25-26 this individual’s coming was prophesied down to the very year, and His sacrificial death for our sins was foretold. And in stunning fulfillment of that prophecy Jesus was born, whom the angels called Christ at the time of His birth (Luke 2:11). It was the Holy Spirit who came upon Him at His baptism — not some mythic Christ consciousness. Thus the term Christ is never used in the New Testament with reference to anyone or anything but Jesus. In fact, the apostle John identified the ancient Gnostic (and today’s New Age) teaching that Jesus and Christ are two separate entities as the doctrine of the antichrist (1 John 2:22).
A Final Challenge to New Agers. After convincingly setting the biblical record straight, Christians can grant to New Agers that perhaps they have abused the Bible in ignorance. But from now on they know better than to use the teachings of the Bible and the name of Jesus to support New Age beliefs. If they wish to honestly continue down the New Age path they must first conclude that Jesus was simply deluded about God and His own mission. If they are not prepared to draw such a conclusion, they need to seriously wrestle with His person and claims on their lives.
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I have just completed reading a book titled “Really inside BOSS – A tale of South Africa’s late Intelligence Service (And something about the CIA)”. Self-published by Pieter Swanepoel, the book provides a brief history of the Bureau for State Security, (BFSS) or BOSS as it came to be known, and its successor, the National Intelligence (NI).
Although English is not Swanepoel’s first language, he has done a good job in describing, amongst others, the origins of the service, the Smit murders, the assassination of Dr Verwoerd and the role played by the CIA in destabilising the National Party government. He also covers some of the difficulties and frustrations an intelligence officer experiences in the course of his duties. He even relates particulars of a “dirty trick” perpetrated by himself in Namibia in the 1960’s.
The main purpose of the book was to discuss some of the allegations made by BOSS informer, Gordon Winter, after he fled South Africa and published a book called “Inside BOSS” in 1981. The acclaimed British historian, Dr. James Sanders, referred to a number of these allegations in his book about South Africa’s intelligence services, Apartheid’s Friends, and this apparently annoyed Swanepoel and led him to provide another view of these events. Although I have not read Winter’s book, I would be prone to accepting Swanepoel’s version as he cross-references to many documents to prove his writing. Additionally, he spent 32-years in that organisation so he knows what he is writing about. In a recent copy of the magazine, Molotov Cocktail, Dr. Sanders described Really Inside Boss as “a fascinating book” and promised to return to it in a later edition of that magazine.
Readers ought however to take note: the book does not cover intelligence tradecraft and can be heavy reading at times. It nevertheless remains an important account on the history of BOSS.
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by Belle Dume for Institute of Physics
London, UK (SPX) Mar 01, 2013
Tiny gold particles called nonocages that emit Cerenkov light could be used to image tumours and deliver drugs to destroy them at the same time. That is the claim of researchers in the US, who have detected Cerenkov light from within live mice that had been injected with the nanoparticles.
The nanocages are among the very first reported "theranostic" nanoparticles that have the potential to fulfil both therapeutic and diagnostic roles in medicine. Gold nanocages are tiny structures with hollow interiors and ultrathin porous walls.
They are of particular interest to medical researchers because they do not interact with biological materials and can therefore be used within the body. Nanocages can also be designed to absorb and scatter light in the near-infrared (NIR) region of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Light at these wavelengths (700-900 nm) can penetrate deeply into soft biological tissue and so is perfect for optical imaging based on photoacoustic and optical-coherence tomography.
Younan Xia at the Georgia Institute of Technology, together with Yongjian Liu from Washington University School of Medicine and Cathy Cutler at the University of Missouri, have done experiments that suggest that gold nanocages containing radioactive gold-198 could also be used as contrast agents in luminescence imaging, while in addition carrying drugs to tumours.
Cerenkov light from tumour cells
To demonstrate this, the researchers detected the Cerenkov light emitted by gold nanocages in live mice using a commercial imaging system.
Normally, such tumour markers are made to give off light by illuminating the region of interest with an excitation light source. This can sometimes cause healthy tissue to emit the same sort of light as a tumour - a problem that could be minimized by using Cerenkov-emitting nanocages.
No separation anxiety
"Our approach is thus a new and robust way to label a nanoparticle. In conventional radioisotope labelling (where the isotope is attached to a nanostructure by chemical means), there is always the concern that the label will 'come off' during treatment. By incorporating gold-198 atoms into the walls of the gold nanocages, such an issue does not exist anymore."
The technique developed in this research could be used for diagnosing cancer and to guide nanoparticle delivery for treating tumours, Wang says. The latter could be achieved by adding targeting molecules, such as peptides, to the gold nanocages - something that the team is now investigating.
The hope is that this could offer a new and improved way of delivering drugs to cancer cells that could be used in photothermal treatment, chemotherapy or a combination of the two.
The current work is reported in Nano Letters.
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WHEN IT COMES The UK Government lacks ambition and self-esteem to tackle climate change. In 2019, we enacted a law that promises to reach zero net greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.Medium-sized countries, which account for 1% of the world’s emissions, occupy other parts of the world United Nations Climate change conference to be held in Glasgow next month. But is Britain serious about keeping its own promises? The surge in government plans announced this week suggests that this is not the case.
The Net Zero strategy has many bold goals, but it is often tricky. By 2035, the UK will be fully green-powered “provided that the supply is safe.” By the same year, all new home heating systems installed should be efficient electric heat pumps or hydrogen boilers, as long as the cost of such is reduced to a reasonable level. Tree planting speed is more than doubled.
Wisely, the government recognizes that there are many ways to reduce emissions to net zero. The UK has the potential to rapidly transition from fossil fuels to electricity provided by wind turbines and new nuclear power plants. Alternatively, you can rely on hydrogen to capture the carbon released when it is produced from natural gas. The government has invested in many technologies, such as hydrogen production, small nuclear reactors, and equipment to extract carbon from the air, and expects some to work cheaply.
“It’s more detailed and ambitious than what’s found elsewhere in the world,” says Chris Stark, CEO of the Climate Change Commission, an official watchman. Inevitably, some government sectors (such as business and transportation) have bolder and more detailed plans than others (such as agriculture). But it is useful to know which one is behind. Encouragingly, most political critics of the plan argued that the government should do more and not less.
Still, reaching or approaching Net Zero is so difficult that the UK must do everything right. And there are two weak connections in the chain that connects dreams and achievements. Unfortunately, these are the two most powerful institutions in the government.
The first is the Ministry of Finance. That’s true, but the problem isn’t so much that it may have provided more money to speed up the green transition. For example, a £ 450m ($ 620m) grant for heat pumps could cover only 30,000 facilities annually. The bigger problem is that Jill Rutter, a former finance minister currently working at the institute for government in the UK, a think tank, calls the tax department a “fully owned ownership approach.”
The Treasury believes that the job is to collect money from the general public, distribute it to other departments, and spend it on their projects (often unwise but afraid). It does not consider taxes as a means to help the department achieve its goals. Therefore, the transportation sector must attempt to decarbonize roads by subsidizing electric vehicles and banning the sale of gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles. A more obvious (and economically efficient) route to tax higher fuels is out of the question.
The second weakness is Prime Minister Boris Johnson. This week he shilled for his government’s green plan with a typical jackpot.He cheerfully mistakenly quoted Gordon Gekko from the movie “Wall Street” and compared it to Moses to the reader. Sun The “Boiler Police Green Shirt” is a newspaper that “kicking the door with your feet in sandals” will not seize the gas-fired device.
Political salesmanship and cheers are good. Johnson’s problem is that he can’t stand to give the bad news. The government’s Net Zero strategy contains soothing words about dealing with consumer-choice grains. As the Prime Minister says, it’s not a “visible hair shirt.” But in order for Britain to reach Net Zero, many noses have to be disjointed.
Especially the nose that belongs to those who depend on voting for Mr Johnson. Older people emit more carbon dioxide than younger people, mainly because they tend to live alone or with one other person. Their consumption patterns will have to change. Still, the conservative government relies on older voters (see graph). Troublesome geographic patterns exacerbate the problem. Installing a heat pump costs about 7% of the average net housing property in Midland and northern England. Here, the Conservatives won many new votes in the 2019 general election, but less than 3% in London, where the party abandoned.
Johnson may be more daring.Poll economist Ipsos Woods Not only are 83% of British people concerned about climate change, but 51% say that the cost of tackling climate change will outweigh the savings, such as reducing heating costs and cheaper gasoline, within a year. I think it will be. Only 9% think the savings will outweigh the costs. People expect the trade-offs to be more favorable in 10 years. The British seem to be ready for their hair shirt. They just don’t want to wear them forever.■■
This article was published in the UK section of the print version under the heading “Jolly Green Giant”
Britain has an ambitious climate change plan and has two problems
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Last week, the Senate passed the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act. The legislation amends Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act, which holds that online platforms cannot be responsible for their users’ content, to exclude sex trafficking. Big tech companies warned that the bill could inadvertently compel them to block controversial political speech. Though they lost the fight over this exception, the tech lobby hopes to expand their immunity across North America via NAFTA renegotiations, also invoking free expression.
Despite this rhetoric, Google and other social media giants cite Section 230 to defend their own censorship policies in court. Congress enacted the law in 1996 to nullify a court decision, which made online message board owners liable for their users’ posts under some circumstances. In response, the Communications Decency Act established that “interactive computer services” (ICSs), where users post content on another platform, cannot be “treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided.”
Over the past two decades, interactive platforms have taken over the Internet. Google, eBay, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, the Apple and Android app stores, and Instagram all receive Section 230’s protections. Most controversially, courts have ruled the law immunized Backpage.com, which had received over 90 percent of its revenue from “adult services” advertisements on its website.
Legislators responded with legislation to strip the immunity from ICSs that allow sex trafficking on their platforms. Although the Internet Association, which represents all major online firms including Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Facebook, eventually supported a scaled back version of the bill, its general counsel Abigail Slater testified that adding “ambiguity” to Section 230 “would send a dangerous signal to other countries that are seeking to require U.S. internet services to filter dissenting political speech.” The association also argues that the United States should demand that Canada and Mexico enact similar laws to protect Americans from countries with “weaker standards on free speech” who “can impose extraterritorial control on the activities of U.S. citizens and companies.”
These are legitimate concerns. Most countries do not share America’s commitment to free speech. In addition to authoritarian regimes, Germany has threatened to jail social-media executives for not removing hate speech. As the United Nations special rapporteur on free speech David Kaye warned: because “major companies operate at scale,” the “troubling content regulations in Europe” risk seeping, “into global corporate practices with an impact on the uses of social media and search worldwide.”
Moreover, there are five hundred million tweets, over five hundred thousand hours of YouTube videos, and billions of Facebook comments posted every day. Even if liability was limited to blatantly illegal posts, overly-broad enforcement would lead platforms to filter out legitimate content.
Yet big tech’s demand for absolute immunity is less compelling in light of their use of Section 230 to justify political bias and censorship. Conservative commentator Dennis Prager is suing Google for demonetizing and restricting access to many of his PragerU YouTube videos on topics such as “Gun Rights Are Women’s Rights” and “Israel’s Legal Founding.”
Among other claims, Prager’s attorneys argue that Google cannot advertise itself as a “platforms for free expression,” while enacting politically based restrictions on content. Google responded to the lawsuit by citing Section 230. Its attorneys argued that limiting its ability to censor would “impose liability on YouTube as a publisher of [Prager’s] videos.” In the same motion, Google argues that its right to restrict political content also derives from its “First Amendment protection for a publisher’s editorial judgments encompasses the choice of how to present, or even whether to present, particular content.” Twitter, which describes itself as the “great public square,” has made near identical arguments.
In fairness, lawyers often offer legal theories in lawsuits that do not mirror their clients’ official public policy. However, the tech industry advocates for absolute and global intermediary immunity specifically to avoid unintended consequences in litigation. While Section 230 was partly enacted to encourage companies to obscene and violent content in good faith, it was not meant to shield political censorship. Indeed, the law described ICSs as a “forum for a true diversity of political discourse.”
Stopping abusive and illegal posts on social media without restricting lawful speech requires difficult tradeoffs. But rather than balancing concerns, the tech titans’ thumbs are on both ends of the scale. Before the U.S. government tries to impose Section 230 on our trading partners in the name of free speech, the courts or Congress should clarify that it cannot be used to restrict political speech.
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Nick Bostrom is Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University and founding Director of the Future of Humanity Institute and of the Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology within the Oxford Martin School, UK. He has been listed in the FP 100 Global Thinkers list, the Foreign Policy Magazine’s list of the world’s top 100 minds.
David Pearce is a British utilitarian philosopher. In 1998, he co-founded the World Transhumanist Association (WTA) with Nick Bostrom. The association, which later changed its name to Humanity+, advocates transhumanism –an ideology and movement which has emerged to support the recognition and protection of the right of citizens either to maintain or modify their own minds and bodies so as to guarantee them the freedom of choice and informed consent of using human enhancement technologies.
Andrés Lomeña: Transhumanism, or human enhancement, suggests the use of new technologies to improve mental and physical abilities, discarding some aspects as stupidity, suffering and so forth. You have been described as technoutopian by critics who write on “Future hypes”. In my opinion, there is something pretty much worse than optimism: radical technopessimism, managed by Paul Virilio, the recently deceased Baudrillard and other thinkers. Why is there such a strong strain between the optimistic and pessimistic overview?
Nick Bostrom: I can’t recall any instance of me personally being labeled “technoutopian,” although certainly it’s a term that has been applied to transhumanism by some critics. In fact, there is some justice in this criticism. Transhumanism is a very diverse movement, and some individuals who call themselves transhumanists might fairly be called “technoutopian” in the sense of “uncritically accepting of the view that technology will inevitably soon solve all big problems.”
I don’t know whether technopessimism is worse or better than technoutopianism. It seems to me that we should try to overcome biases in either direction–biases towards positive as well as biases towards negative outcomes–and assign probabilities based on evidence and honest judgment rather than on the basis of ideological or temperamental prejudice.
David Pearce: Is our quality of life in technologically advanced societies better than life for our hunter-gatherer ancestors on the African savannah? The answer might seem, “Obviously, yes.” Technopessimists might reply that evidence suggesting we’re on average any happier is thin–and then go on to extrapolate accordingly. Such extrapolation is premature. We’re on the eve of a profound transformation of human nature itself. In theory, we can even recalibrate the hedonic treadmill and become constitutionally happier –relegat-ing pessimism to history. Technopessimism can sometimes be useful when it encourages deeper thought on unanticipated consequences of new technologies, worst-case scenario planning and better riskreward analysis. But if humans were all depressive realists, then we’d still be living in caves. Transhumanists believe that we can overcome our physical, intellectual, emotional (and moral?) limitations as human beings via the responsible use of technology. For what it’s worth, I’m a pessimist by temperament. But I (tentatively) believe that infotech and biotechnology will deliver billions of years of invincible well-being far richer than anything feasible today.
A.L.: There is much fear and even more ignorance. Wikipedia classifies them as follows: infeasibility, playing God argument, Fountain of Youth argument, Brave New World argument, Frankenstein argument or Terminator argument (based on Our Final Hour by Martin Rees). Which of these issues are sound (understandable) fears and which are not? One common criticism uses to be the eschatological vision of transhumanism (like Marxism and Christianity, for instance). In short, how can we struggle against these dystopian points of view?
N.B.: On a case-by-case basis, as well as by trying to identify biases that could affect our judgments across a broad range of cases. Fear is not necessarily a bad thing, provided it’s directed at something that really is dangerous, and that it results in some constructive striving to reduce the danger. For example, it makes good sense to be concerned about pandemic disease, naturally occurring as well as the possibility of bioengineered superbugs. But to fear having the option of delaying disease and senility through some effective rejuvenation therapy is perverse. In fact, I don’t think there are many people who are actually afraid of that, although some might express opposition
for ideological reasons. For an illustration of how one might attempt to diagnose and
remove a bias affecting judgment across a range of enhancement issues, see a paper on status quo bias (http://www.nickbostrom.com/ ethics/statusquo.pdf), which I wrote together with Toby Ord.
D.P.: Hubris/Playing God? What could be more “godlike” than creating new life? Not all cultures historically have made the connection between having sex and reproduction; but we have no such excuse. On the one hand, we condemn writers of computer malware who release corrupt code. Yet we freely propagate our own corrupt code across the generations–notably a lethal genetic disease (aging) and a predisposition to anxiety disorders, depression and other nasty Darwinian states of mind. As reproductive medicine advances, what’s wrong with acting as responsible parents instead? Why not plan the long-term genetic health and happiness of future generations?
Contempt for the flesh/Fountain of Youth argument? What could show more contempt for the flesh than to champion Darwinian bodies which crumble and die? As genetic medicine matures, why not design blueprints for perpetually youthful bodies? Moreover, we will soon have the opportunity to explore richer forms of sensuality; to magnify the somato-sensory cortex; and to isolate the molecular signature of sexual desire and amplify its substrates on demand. Transcending the flesh might be an option; it’s not an obligation.
Brave New World? This argument is harder to dismiss outright. But biotechnology can potentially empower the individual citizen rather than the state. For example, enhancing mood tends to increase personal autonomy and active participation in society. Conversely, low mood is associated with subordination and social withdrawal.Huxley’s soma was wrongly touted as an “ideal pleasure drug.” Truly utopian pharmacology will surpass it.
Dehumanization / the Frankenstein argument? Yes, technology can dehumanize; and biotech can create monsters. Yet biotech can also create saints and angels. Put less poetically, we will shortly be able “humanize” ourselves. For we can biologically enhance our capacity for empathy – whether by functionally amplifying our mirror neurons, or by use of pro-social designer empathogens, or by genetically engineering sustained oxytocin-release to promote social trust. Will we do so? I don’t know.
The Terminator argument? Bioterrorism and “gray goo” are perhaps the most worrying scenarios. But within the next few decades, we will most likely have self-sustaining bases on the Moon and Mars. Even on the most apocalyptic scenarios, any existential risk to intelligent life will thereby be sharply diminished. From an ethical utilitarian perspective, it’s critical that human beings survive to become posthuman. For we are the only species capable of eradicating suffering in all sentient life. We are also the only species smart enough to spread intelligent bliss throughout the accessible universe.
A.L.: Probably, the most important problem is the shortage of information. Actually, we do not know too much about Transhumanism, excepting some of Fukuyama’s articles (initially optimistic and then pessimistic). We would like to ask you about the connections between transhumanism and other topics. For instance:
Transhumanism and religion: Do you consider yourself religious? Is there an atheist or agnostic transhumanism?
N.B.: I would call myself agnostic. Most transhumanists appear to be non-religious, but there are also Catholic transhumanists, Mormon transhumanists, Buddhist transhumanists, etc.
D.P.: I think it’s hard to reconcile transhumanism and revealed religion. If we want to live in paradise, we will have to engineer itourselves. If we want eternal life, then we’ll need to rewrite our bugridden genetic code and become god-like. “May all that have life be delivered from suffering,” said Gautama Buddha. It’s a wonderful sentiment. Sadly, only hi-tech solutions can ever eradicate suffering from the living world. Compassion alone is not enough.
A.L.: Transhumanism and eugenics: Are all transhumanists eugenicist? Do you have a political program with regards to this topic? Do you consider yourself a lobby of future generations?
N.B.: The World Transhumanist Association has officially adopted a statement banning all forms of neo-Nazi eugenicists from the organization. (This was in response to an incident some years ago when one or two such trolls attempted to infiltrate the WTA.) Transhumanism supports reproductive rights among other human rights. We tend to think that it is better that reproductive decisions be in the hands of parents, in consultation with their doctor, and within broad guidelines laid down by the state. It would be ethically unacceptable, as well as potentially very dangerous, to have the state impose a one-size-fits-all formula on what kind of people should exist in the next generation.
If I were a parent, I would consider myself as having a moral duty to take all reasonable steps to ensure that the child which I was about to bring into the world would start his or her life with the best possible chances for a good life. If a pregnant woman can improve her child’s IQ by taking folic acid or choline supplements, and by avoiding alcohol, tobacco, and lead-contaminated drinking water, I believe would be irresponsible for her to fail to take these easy steps. Similarly, if I were using in vitro fertilization, and there were a simple genetic test which could select the embryo with the best genes for health and other desirable capacities, then I believe it would be negligent not to make use of the test. It would be a very small inconvenience for a potentially large gain.
D.P.: Transhumanists aren’t eugenicists in anything resembling the odious traditional sense. However, humanity is on the brink of a reproductive revolution. Prospective parents will soon be empowered to choose the kinds of children they want to bring into the world. Preimplantation diagnosis is likely to become routine. Designer genomes will follow. Most parents will aspire to have happier, smarter, healthier children. In principle, a majority of people today would probably support use of genetic medicine to prevent diseases such as cystic fibrosis. By contrast, only a minority of people currently favor “enhancement” technologies. But today’s enhancement technologies are tomorrow’s remedial therapies. By the standards of our successors, mortal humans will presumably all seem tragically diseased and dysfunctional. At present we think it’s morally acceptable to pass on to our children the lethal hereditary disease of aging –and a predisposition to various ugly states of mind (e.g. jealousy, low mood, anxiety, resentment, and loneliness) adaptive in the ancestral environment. Yet human life could potentially be so much richer. As technology matures, why not replace the cruel genetic roulette of natural selection…? | <urn:uuid:d53ab2b5-bbb6-41c8-99d2-3dfc3441b276> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://literalmagazine.com/transhumanism-nick-bostrom-and-david-pearce-talk-to-andres-lomena/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281746.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00292-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938471 | 2,442 | 1.960938 | 2 |
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against D-Link on Thursday, accusing the company of failing to take steps to protect its routers and internet-linked security cameras from hackers.
D-Link said in a statement it would "vigorously defend itself against the unwarranted and baseless charges".
The FTC "fails to allege, as it must, that actual consumers suffered or are likely to suffer actual substantial injuries," it added.
Concerns about security of internet-connected devices have surged since last year when hackers used compromised routers, webcams and other electronic devices to launch a series of increasingly powerful attacks that severed access to some of the world's biggest websites.
Security experts blamed those attacks on lax security in large numbers of IoT devices from dozens of manufacturers.
The FTC's complaint alleged that D-Link neglected to protect the devices from "widely known and reasonably foreseeable risks of unauthorized access," even as it highlighted security features in communications with consumers.
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Although I've totally resolved the question which began this thread, I'm still struggling with the rest of lemma 3.
For the cases where either v1 is not a or vn is not b, I understand completely that such circles described in the paper would resolve the issue. I also understand that we have the right to move the circle small distances. The problem is that the circle may be touching the polygon outside of gamma(A). Without appealing to geometric intuition, it's hard for me to be sure that small transformations of the circle won't cross tangent lines outside gamma(A). If I draw pictures, I can be sure that this kind of problem won't happen. But, if you appeal to geometric intuition, you might as well just accept JCT without proof.
I'm fairly confident about the case where v1 is not a and vn is not b. However, the case where v1 = a but vn is not b, still troubles me.
I really hope that once I've mastered lemma 3, the rest of the proof is easier (for me). I've wanted to learn a proof of this theorem for literally about half my life, but I've always given up my earlier attempts. | <urn:uuid:0913b988-cd94-414c-a0f5-2f2b5699438f> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=9168028 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721558.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00045-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972776 | 251 | 1.835938 | 2 |
World of Speed 2017 is one of the coolest speed-driven events in the US and one of the top Utah Salt Flat racing events. It is held over four days in mid-September and features some of the fastest racing of all kinds of vehicles that you will see anywhere.
World of Speed Facts and History
The great Bonneville Salt Flats provide some of the best conditions for setting land speed records. Other locales perfect for this include Black Rock Desert (also a dry lake bed) in Nevada and home to the famed Burning Man Festival; El Mirage (another dry lake bed) in the Mojave Desert of California; Lake Gairdner in Australia; the famed Texas Mile, run on an unused runway about 50 miles north of Corpus Christi; and the LTA Maine Event in Aroostook County of Maine. It was in 1896 that this area was first recognized as a perfect place for land speed trials. Since then, just about every land speed record (including has been set here.
You do need to be aware of and prepared for the environment and conditions. This is not a spectator sport for everyone. The weather can be harsh; so can the salt underfoot and the sun overhead. Bring some sort of shade shelter like a beach umbrella, lawn chairs, and drinking water. Wear a wide-brimmed hat, and bring sunshade. There are portable toilets, as well as vendors serving food and beverages. If you've decided to come at another time of year, there may not be any facilities at all. Check before you set off into the desert. Becoming a participant in one of the events is fairly straightforward—you have to have a vehicle proven to be capable of reaching and maintaining a certain minimum speed. There are motorcycle races, car races, and even the fastest barstool race. Don't turn your nose up at this World of Speed event—the fastest barstools have been clocked at more than 70 miles per hour!
Directions to World of Speed
The Bonneville Salt Flats are located about 100 miles west of the Utah capital of Salt Lake City, just off Interstate 80. Take Exit 4, the last exit before or first exit after the Nevada state line. You will find a BLM (Bureau of Land Management) sign about four miles north of the exit. You can park here or drive out onto the flats. If you're in a rental car, you will probably have been told that driving the vehicle onto the salt is not allowed as it is not good for the car.
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The World of Speed 2017 charges a nominal fee to get to the course viewing areas. No reservations or advance purchase tickets are required. (If you're a racer, you must pre-register.)
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The Salt Flats are administered by the Bureau of Land Management. Camping is forbidden, and all World of Speed, and Bonneville Salt Flats Speed Week spectators and participants must be out by dusk. There are camping areas outside of the flats, and the nearest hotels will be found in the town of Wendover, which is about ten miles away. Wendover sprawls across the border into Nevada, and there a number of casino and hotel resorts on the Nevada side of the border. The Wendover Nugget Hotel & Casino sits right on the border at 101 Wendover Boulevard. It boasts more than 500 spacious rooms and suites, restaurants and bars, and large swimming pool. Take the exit on the Utah side of the border. | <urn:uuid:972583e6-86b9-44a9-a5e9-0ec3080e0413> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.destination360.com/north-america/us/utah/world-of-speed | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00180-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941801 | 719 | 1.601563 | 2 |
When your horse moves in a balanced, collected frame, he’s propelling himself forward from his hindquarters rather than dragging himself along with his front end. Not only will this lengthen his stride, but it’ll increase his maneuverability and present a more natural, pleasing picture, in keeping with recent AQHA western pleasure judging recommendations.
My rule of thumb is that you know your horse is loping correctly when it feels as though he could change leads at any time. I’ll discuss three different levels of the lope, from a downhill, man-made looking lope to a true, balanced lope.
1. If your horse’s head is behind the vertical and her weight is shifted to the forehand, she looks as though she’s loping downhill. As a result, she’ll appear as though she’s laboring and uncomfortable. She may have an intimidated expression or pinned ears. Rather than having her feet land softly, with the same stride length between her front legs and hind ones, she’ll move unevenly and her feet will hit the ground hard. She’ll feel rough and choppy from the saddle. And, this short, choppy stride is counter to the long-strided, slow-legged movement that comes with true collection.
2. Try easing your restraint on your horse’s front-end and add a bit of impulsion. You’ll help her balance and she’ll move more naturally — and she’ll be happier. Her weight will shift back onto her hindquarters a bit more, and she’ll be better able to use her shoulders. With a bit more collection, you’ll improve her balance and athleticism.
3. Now, maintain the impulsion you’ve developed by bringing your horse’s face perpendicular to the ground. You’ll balance her body and improve her stride. Her hip will look bigger and longer (evidence she’s using it to balance her weight and power her stride.) This rearward shift will round her back, and she’ll be able to elevate her shoulders. This freedom in her shoulders will create a longer stride.
End result? A happy, relaxed horse that presents a natural, pleasing picture!
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July 20, 2013
- bandy (verb)
- What does it mean?
- 1 : to exchange (words) in argument2 : to discuss or mention in gossip or small talk
- How do you use it?
- Several names for the team are being bandied about, and soon we'll get to vote on which one it'll be called by.
- Are you a word wiz?
Like many words, "bandy" started out with a meaning different from its current common meanings. Which of the following do you think is the original meaning of "bandy"?Did you bandy about possible answers to the question with anyone? Well, if you settled on A, you chose correctly. When "bandy" was first used in the late 1500's, it meant "to bat (something, such as a tennis ball) to and fro." No one knows where the word "bandy" comes from, but the word's connection to games did not end with the original meaning of the verb. "Bandy" can also be a noun. As a noun, it refers to a game similar to hockey. In fact, hockey is believed to have developed from the game of bandy. | <urn:uuid:e7c6bae6-be51-47e4-9f99-339a191f385e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://wordcentral.com/buzzword/buzzword.php?month=07&day=20&year=2013 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00345-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977969 | 250 | 3.140625 | 3 |
The situation in Japan is causing severe problems on the supply front and it’s set to worsen, rather than get better, it appears.
Taiwanese wire Digitimes reports that memory prices have soared because of problems with the infrastructure but that’s not the only problem. Apparently vast networks of photovoltaic systems in the north east of Japan have been damaged by the earthquake and tsunami, while there will be shortages of polysilicon too, because of the lack of electricity in the country, augmented by continuing problems with nuclear power stations.
However, we in the UK don’t need to worry too much. Energy secretary Chris Huhne has issued a statement to this effect: “We take this incident extremely seriously even though there is no reason to expect a similar scale of seismic activity in the UK. I have called on the Chief Nuclear Inspector, Dr. Mike Weightman for a thorough report on the implications of the situation in Japan and the lessons to be learned. This will be prepared in close cooperation internationally with other nuclear regulators.
“It is essential that we understand the full facts and their implications, both for existing nuclear reactors and any new programme, as safety is always our number one concern.” So much for the global village concept.
Supplies of flat panels for LCD screens will also be affected by the continuing problems in Japan, Digitimes notes.
Japan makes around 15 percent of stuff used in gizmos. Bourses across the world have been badly impacted by the disaster. Google has a page, here, that is tracking the extent of the catastrophe across several fronts. | <urn:uuid:153eb542-4518-4563-9bfa-966377cee671> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.techeye.net/chips/japan-component-supply-crisis-gets-far-worse?mobilesite | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284405.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00036-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961079 | 331 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Patients to benefit from new liver scanner at Torbay Hospital
Published: 26 June 2015
A new scanner that detects and measures liver damage has been purchased for South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (Torbay Hospital) by Torbay Hospital League of Friends.
The Fibroscan (Hepatic Fibrosis Measurement System) scanner will enable the hospital to diagnose liver problems more quickly with a simple and painless test. Previously the degree of liver damage was assessed by a biopsy of the liver, or patients would need to travel to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth for a Fibroscan.
Dr. Keith George, Senior Consultant Gastroenterologist at Torbay Hospital, said: “The Fibroscan machine kindly purchased by the League of Friends will change the way patients with liver disease are assessed at Torbay Hospital.
“The machine can accurately assess the degree of damage suffered by the liver, due to a variety of conditions, thus helping us make more informed treatment decisions. It can also help us make quicker treatment decisions for our patients with liver disease as they can now have a Fibroscan performed as part of their initial consultation in the outpatient department.”
David Rogers, Chairman of Torbay Hospital League of Friends, said: “The League was very pleased to have been able to find the money for this machine especially as it will have such an enormous benefit to patients with liver problems in the Torbay area”.
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Between coining ‘OK Boomer’ as a catch-all response to outdated views and overripe politicians and catapulting the School Strike 4 Climate movement into the public’s eye, 2019 has been an exceptionally busy year for Gen Z.
Young people have always been at the forefront of the burgeoning social movements of their time, but now with new technology being developed every minute – and the trends that come with them – the divide has grown larger. Just ask anyone over the age of 30 to try to navigate TikTok and it’ll be apparent.
That’s not to say we should ignore them or abandon hope of reaching out to them. Our research has revealed 43% of young people are graduating not knowing what they want to do after high school and 68% have struggled with their mental health.
These social issues are enough to warrant our efforts to solve them and are even more stark when considering the wider impacts it has on our economy. For example, it’s been reported that youth unemployment results in $15.9B in lost GDP each year.
And with ATAR results being released last week, another group of Gen Z students have entered adulthood. So as we prepare to enter a new decade here are the latest marketing and youth engagement trends we expect to carry weight into 2020.
It pays for businesses to behave more ethically
Gen Z don’t just want businesses to take a tokenistic stance on social issues, they want it embedded in the very fabric of their purpose. They want for it to change what it means to conduct business effectively.
For young consumers, this trend has the potential to influence both where their money goes and where they look for jobs. In fact, we discovered that 84% say their social and environmental concerns affect their spending and 73% won’t work for a company that isn’t making positive action for the environment.
A 19-year-old from Victoria told us how this influences her.
“Seeing a brand or business trying to improve our world will make me want to purchase [from them] and become a loyal customer,” she said.
But businesses also need to make sure their actions are genuine rather than elaborate PR stunts. A 22-year-old from NSW said he could easily sniff out any attempt that comes off as inauthentic.
“Too many businesses now focus on their image rather than their morals. It is easy to read which businesses are truly passionate, driven and moral,” he said.
Passion takes priority
When asked what information Gen Z needed to make a decision about their future career, 84% said it needed to match their passions. This was the most popular option – even more than money and flexibility.
Whether you’re an educator, employer or simply selling them a product, it’s clear that organisations need to speak to youth in terms of their passion if they want to connect with them.
A 16-year-old from Queensland shed some light on this trend.
“I want the perfect balance between my dreams, my passions, my belief that I can change the world and something that is obtainable,” he said.
A 16-year-old from South Australia told us something similar.
“Future success to me means being passionate and loving what I do, hopefully all the while making a positive contribution to society and serving my purpose on this earth,” she said.
It’s this messaging that should take centre stage in your marketing efforts, especially as these trends solidify with more Gen Z growing up and entering post-school pathways in the coming years.
The community-building potential of social media gets realised
Social media is the ultimate double-edged sword in that it both exacerbates the many problems youth face and helps to solve them. Don’t believe us? Check out these stats.
19% of Gen Z say they’ve been bullied on Instagram, 44% say they feel they’re addicted to social media and 24% say they don’t present the real version of themselves on it. On the other hand, 74% say social media makes them feel ‘connected’, 64% say ‘informed’ and 31% say ‘happy’.
In our surveys we hear from young people who frequently feel the need to disconnect from social media when life gets intense for them. We also hear from those that use online communities to connect with their peers. One respondent said they use social media to connect with other chronic pain sufferers.
As both technology and the people on it mature, we predict the good to outweigh the bad and for it to reach its potential in helping people. This shift may not come right away in the new decade, but already we’ve seen a trend of growing support groups on Facebook such as the HSC Discussion Group every year, Subtle Asian Traits and various mental health support groups.
Businesses are even using groups to create online communities around their brand. This form of marketing, though less overt than most other types, strikes all the right chords with Gen Z. Young people want to be able to participate in the conversation, not be told what to think.
The connection between career advice and mental health becomes apparent
When we asked Gen Z what word best describes how they feel or felt about Year 12, 71% said ‘stressed’ and 63% said ‘anxious’. When we investigated what they were stressing about, we discovered their biggest struggle is figuring out what they want to do in the future.
A 16-year-old female from South Australia described her experience.
“I’m held back by not knowing what career I want to follow and by the pressures of what my parents would like for me to do and what school tells us we should do – such as go to uni,” she said.
A 19-year-old female from NSW shared this sentiment.
“I struggle with the uncertainty of what I want to pursue career wise, deciding what I would actually enjoy doing and also make a decent living out of,” she said.
It’s this uncertainty and lack of connection to purpose that’s leading to youth graduating with doubt, anxiety and other symptoms of mental health issues. In fact, our data shows 27% of young people have seen a mental health professional in the past year and 24% haven’t but feel like they need to.
Moving into 2020 we predict this link between career advice and mental health to become stronger. We expect organisations seeking to address youth wellness to do so at the school level rather than waiting until symptoms manifest when they’re older and already feeling lost.
Youth are increasingly speaking in a visual language
Much has already been said about Gen Z’s move from Facebook to Instagram. However rather than simply being a shift in platforms, we believe this trend is indicative of a wider change in how young people share and consume content.
Today’s youth speak visually and this makes for a much quicker transfer of information – and instant judgement if a piece of content is relevant or not.
A 20-year-old male from NSW explained it well.
“If they don’t catch my interest straight away, I’m out,” he said.
“I need to be hooked in the first 3 seconds if it’s a video and if it’s a picture it needs to be very aesthetically pleasing, relevant and luring.”
Visual content is even changing how youth respond to ads, with 45% saying they actually like seeing ads on Instagram.
“Instagram ads are good because they’re tailored to your interests and aren’t in your face either,” she said.
“I can live with sponsored ads on Instagram because I can swipe past it if it doesn’t relate to me. That’s the idea, it’s a quick glance of what it’s selling.”
This trend is only being cemented with the booming popularity of TikTok, where Gen Z have joined in droves to create short-form video content to share with their friends and followers. They’ve even ditched the old-school, highly curated Instagram aesthetic for a more unfiltered and genuine look into their lives.
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My guess is its the exact same proportion as offline. Meaning only a small percentage make their living off of the internet as a business and most go belly-up as is true in the general marketplace.
The only difference would be probably many more are attempting to earn a living off the internet than offline and the ability to earn a couple extra bucks is much greater than ever before.
With that said, the internet offers great potential to earn a living but very few attain it. Most make a few bucks here and there. Maybe 100 to 500 extra dollars per month. Some are in the 500 to 1000 range. 99% of ebayers are in this category.
Off eBay and Amazon, my guess is 99 out of 100 websites fail after the first year or break even.
From my readings, there are three ways to make money online. Offering a product or service, SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and affiliate marketing with affiliate marketing requiring some SEO knowledge.
Personally, I have only ever been involved with offering products for sale and have had some periods of great success and periods of little success.
I have only ever sold on eBay with a couple of Craigslist and other site sales.
My greatest successes came from jumping on the bandwagon in certain computer parts a couple years ago; selling for a collectibles shop on a commission basis; and finding stuff to sell.
My first eBay sale was finding a Cricket bat at a Goodwill store for 7$ and reselling on eBay for 25$.
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THE Green Party stands for: A fairer distribution of the nation’s wealth.
Sustainable development, to protect the environment for future generations.
A sensible economy that does not rely on casino banking.
We want to see the re-nationalisation of the railways, water and energy supply industries, and the implementation of a living wage to replace the minimum wage.
If elected, Green Party councillors would fight any attack on Bolton’s health services. The coalition government’s cuts and privatisation agenda is threatening to dismantle our NHS.
We will press for a “no evictions” policy in Bolton, to safeguard those who have fallen into arrears due to the appalling legislation known as the bedroom tax.
We oppose any cuts to jobs and services caused by the government’s austerity agenda.
There are fairer and better ways to improve the economy that do not involve attacks on the vulnerable.
We oppose any fracking for shale gas in Bolton. Fracking will not bring down energy costs.
It will disrupt communities and create the potential for earth tremors, water contamination and air pollution.
We will press for measures to make our communities safer, including the urgent implementation of 20mph speed limits on all residential roads.
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Windshield ice and snow removal guide for winter driving
To remove windshield ice and snow, you must have a mind for safety. The added stress on your windshield from the freezing temperatures can lead to disaster if you are not careful.
Action Auto Glass is here to help you understand the safe methods to remove windshield ice and snow.
What matters most for windshield ice and snow removal?
Time is the most important tool. If you rush the removal, you greatly increase the risk of damage.
During the cold winter months, be aware of overnight weather conditions. Plan to get up early after freezing nights with precipitation.
How can I prevent windshield ice and snow?
The best offense is a good defense. Listen to the local weather report and try to do the following:
- Park in a garage or covered area.
- Use window covers or a tarp to cover your car.
- If your budget is tight, make a windshield cover from paper bags or cardboard, then place the home made covers under the wiper blades.
Any of these steps will reduce the chance of frozen water on your windshield. In other words, you will not have any ice or snow to remove at all!
What if windshield ice and snow removal is required?
- Before you get into your car, check to make sure no ice or snow is blocking your tailpipe. A blocked tailpipe could cause a build-up of carbon monoxide in your car. Even if you think it won’t take long, take the time to check the tailpipe and prevent the possibility of carbon monoxide poisoning in your vehicle.
- Cold glass is under stress; applying heat too quickly causes more stress. Start your car and set the defrost and the fan to “low” to prevent the windshield from heating up too quickly.
- Allow at least 5 minutes for the windshield to slowly heat up.
- Use a plastic ice scraper and a soft brush to clear the ice and snow off of your windshield.
- If you allow plenty of time for your windshield to warm up, a scraper and brush should be sufficient.
- Use a left-to-right sweeping motion to remove melted ice snow.
- Make sure you use the edge of the scraper which is designed to remove ice and snow from glass surfaces. Use of other edges of the scraper could scratch or crack the windshield.
- Be careful if you find you need to chip ice from the windshield. Excessive force can damage the windshield’s integrity and cause cracks or breaks. | <urn:uuid:dbe21da6-6168-42d7-894e-bcf9c3c17c88> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.actionautoglass.com/windshield-ice-snow-removal/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280065.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00546-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900791 | 522 | 1.710938 | 2 |
No. 77 The Simorgh heals Rakhsh
Safavid: Shiraz, c.1590–1595
Opaque watercolour, ink and gold on paper
London, British Library, MS Add. 27257, fol. 306v
Rostam and his horse Rakhsh were severely wounded in combat with prince Esfandiyar. Rostam retreated to his father, Zal, who burnt a feather of the Simorgh and summoned her assistance. The magical bird drew eight arrowheads out of Rostam and six out of Rakhsh, and provided another of her feathers to stroke and heal their wounds. We see the fully restored Rostam — whose wide turban indicates the period of Shah ‘Abbas I (1587–1629) — kneeling behind his father. They are surrounded by the three braziers mentioned in the text. The Simorgh’s questing beak is the chief focus. The main image and the margin are both united and divided by the Simorgh’s streaming tail, reminding the viewer that she is a creature of two worlds. | <urn:uuid:21db919f-45e8-4be1-ab2d-05e27e6b831f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/gallery/shahnameh/vgallery/section4.html?p=77&g=,64,66,68,69,71,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,84,85,86,89,90 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285315.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00573-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966905 | 232 | 2.1875 | 2 |
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Reagan: An American Story
by Adriana Bosch
published by TV Books
Introduction: In Search of Ronald Reagan
by Austin Hoyt
The idea of doing a biography of Ronald Reagan for AMERICAN EXPERIENCE was that of Peter McGhee, Vice President for National Programming at WGBH. The decision was made in 1994. Reagan had been out of office only five years. The dust of history was far from settled. But Peter saw a rare opportunity to make, not just chronicle, history -- to embark on a journey in search of Ronald Reagan the man and the meaning of the Reagan presidency.
I had met Ronald Reagan thirty years ago, in December 1967, at the front door of Yale's Timothy Dwight College, where he had come to speak to the students. I was there to document the encounter for the Public Broadcast Laboratory's "PBL" program, the precursor of PBS. In response to campus animosity, the college master had posted a notice asking students to "remember he was a guest of the college and to comport themselves accordingly. But," he added, "this does not imply any surrender of our convictions." For four days, students badgered Governor Reagan mercilessly over his backing of the Vietnam War and lukewarm endorsement of civil rights. I was pleased they pushed him so hard. It would make for better television. The New York Times headline was, "Reagan Keeps Smiling at Yale Despite Sneers and Hostile Air."
At the end of the week, addressing Reagan at a forum at the law school, a student tried a knockout punch. "Yesterday you had lunch with the political science faculty," he began. "One member noted that unlike other public figures you asked no questions or in any other way attempted to learn from these men. Does this mean you are closed to learning, especially from academic experts?" There were murmurs amid the painful silence. "Well, I don't know which member of the luncheon group that was," Reagan responded. "But I would think in all fairness that he might also add that at no time was I free of the questions that had been asked of me, and as a guest, I felt I should answer what was being asked." The auditorium erupted with sustained applause.
Though I would have several encounters with Ronald Reagan after the one at Yale in 1967, that was my introduction to the disarming charm and rhetorical power of Reagan.
The process for The American Experience began when my colleague and the author of this volume, Adriana Bosch, contacted the Office of Ronald Reagan in Los Angeles and sent them a copy of the biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower that she and I had done for The American Experience. We were informed that President and Mrs. Reagan liked it and would cooperate with us. That was more than flattering. It was crucial. Probably all the people we would contact who had served Reagan when he was governor or president would call his office to find out if the Reagans trusted us. Needless to say, this willingness to cooperate was not contingent upon any right to review our scripts at any stage, nor would we have agreed to any such request.
One of the advantages of producing something so soon after Reagan had left office is that the key participants and eyewitnesses, at least to his presidency, are still alive. One of the risks in a project at this point in time is that people will hold back critical comments of a man who remains enormously popular and who is ill.
We interviewed fifty-one people on camera -- including Mikhail Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher, even John Barletta, his Secret Service agent at the ranch -- and spoke to many more. They gave us a wealth of first-person stories and anecdotes. We were especially lucky to have the cooperation of two biographers who are candid about Reagan's frailties: Edmund Morris, whose own authorized biography of the president was published in 1999, and Lou Cannon, who has written three biographies of Ronald Reagan.
It was a pity that Tip O'Neill, Reagan's adversary as Speaker of the House, was not alive. We turned to Christopher Matthews, O'Neill's press aide, who has remained critical of many of Reagan's policies, although he admires Reagan as a very effective politician. We thought we'd talk to the Russians, his adversaries in the Cold War. They would muss him up a bit. It turns out that very soon after Mikhail Gorbachev met Reagan in Geneva in 1985 he began to like Reagan. This was the word we got in Moscow from Alexander Bessmertnykh and Sergei Tarasenko, high officials in the Foreign Ministry responsible for U.S. affairs on Reagan's watch.
We missed Gorbachev when we were in Moscow, but caught up with him in New York. I was granted half an hour for the interview. Gorbachev's final comment was, "He is really a very big person. A very great political leader, and, well, the rest is up to you."
Indeed it was. So what to make of Ronald Reagan?
His son Ron, who we found to be a very frank, amiable, and insightful fellow, warned us, "You're not going to figure him out. That's the first thing you need to know. I haven't figured him out. I don't know anybody who has figured him out." Lou Cannon remembered when someone asked Reagan on the eve of his election, "What is it, Governor, that people see in you?" Reagan's response was, "Would you laugh if I told you that they look at me and they see themselves?"
How true my colleague Adriana and I found that to be. People did see in Reagan a reflection of themselves. When I asked Nancy Reagan if Ronald Reagan was at heart a peacemaker or a Cold Warrior, she replied without hesitation, "Peacemaker, of course." That is how she wanted to see him. George Shultz stressed Reagan's negotiating skills. The Secretary of State believed in negotiations. Sergei Tarasenko of the Soviet Foreign Ministry called Reagan "perhaps the last romantic of his generation." Tarasenko struck me as an incurable romantic. Reagan's speechwriter Tony Dolan, responsible for the "Evil Empire" speech, placed Reagan among America's most intellectual presidents. Dolan is very cerebral. And on it went. The search for Ronald Reagan was not going to be easy.
"Go to the ranch," Edmund Morris urged. "That's where you'll find his soul." He described the ranch house as small and simple, with a fireplace but no central heating. "That's him," Morris said. "The fancy Los Angeles life is Nancy." In the barn at the ranch all the chain saws and pole saws, his brush cutting tools, were lined up in an orderly manner. And the posthole diggers. What impressed me most about the ranch were the fence posts made of telephone poles. Reagan and his sidekicks Dennis LeBlanc and Barney Barnett sawed all the posts, lined them up, and dug all the holes. First around the patio, then around the pond, then the pasture, and finally they tackled the orchard. That was a lot of digging, sawing, and aligning. And those fences are a beautiful sight. Reagan, Dennis told me, would never ask anyone to do something he would not do himself. That tells you something of the man.
And what about the woman behind the man? Nancy was at the ranch when we arrived. She had arranged to have Dennis show us around. Dennis was one of the elite of the California Highway Patrol who trained with the Secret Service and was detailed to protect Governor Reagan. He is a big handsome guy who I imagine would be difficult to push around. Dennis was with us when we were filming on the back forty. A Secret Service agent drove up -- a beefy guy who looked like Yul Brynner and sported a pistol on his hip. "Dennis," he said, "it's supper time. Rainbow wants you at the ranch house," referring to Nancy by her code name (the president's is "Rawhide"). Of course Nancy was his boss, but still, I've never seen a guy disappear so fast. That was my first glimpse of the power of Nancy Reagan.
Nancy consented to an interview, the first she had given since she left the White House. There was a lot she did not want to talk about, which is her right, but we were pleased with some of her anecdotes, which we could not have gotten from anyone else. Later, she felt she had not done well on camera and wanted very much to redo the interview. We disagreed, and when she relented her last words were, "I just want to do what's right for Ronnie."
We learned, in the making of the film, of Reagan's disgust with his drunken father: how as a child of an alcoholic, he learned to shut out the unpleasant -- the explanation, perhaps, to why he denied for so long that he traded arms to Iran for hostages. He found solace in his mother's church, the Disciples of Christ. He was a lifeguard on the Rock River in the summers as a student, and his subsequent political life, as Edmund Morris told us, was devoted to the general theme of rescue. As an actor and later as president, he needed to be engaged as a performer in a production. He saw himself once on a television monitor and said, "Oh, there he is." He often found it hard to distinguish fantasy from reality. From a childhood of adversity he forged a determined character. Beneath the affable exterior, his long-time advisor Martin Anderson observed, is "a solid tempered-steel bar."
That gives a glimpse of the man. But what about the president?
Reagan was nearly seventy when he was inaugurated, the oldest president in American history. For the previous twenty years, ever since Eisenhower, the presidency of every one of his predecessors had ended in failure. Many pundits felt the office was unmanageable, too much for anyone to handle, much less an actor turned president. And the problems America faced when Reagan came into office in January 1981 were enormous: an economy in shambles, an emboldened Soviet adversary and a crisis of self-confidence.
Reagan had little use for the details of government, tended to overdelegate, and grew increasingly disengaged. But he almost always rose to the occasion and pursued his ideals with great determination.
Through the force of his rhetoric and his capable staff, Reagan pushed through Congress his conservative program -- cuts in taxes and domestic spending and a military buildup, winning what he called "the biggest political victory in half a century." He saw the nation through its worst recession since the Great Depression and then through its greatest economic expansion in peacetime history. But he failed to curb the growth of government, leaving behind a trillion-dollar budget and a huge deficit. Under Ronald Reagan, for the first time in the twentieth century the United States became a debtor nation.
He succeeded in reviving the American spirit. Edmund Morris puts it well: "He rescued America from a period of poisonous self-doubt." When he left the White House in 1989, he was one of the most popular presidents in history.
The passion of his lifetime, ever since he battled Communists in Hollywood as a member of the Screen Actors Guild, was a hatred of Communism and the Soviet Union. I don't think he had a master plan to bring down the Soviet Union. But he did sense, as he told Lou Cannon and others at The Washington Post during the Republican primary in 1980, that his proposed defense buildup would not accelerate the arms race because the Soviet Union would not be able to compete. He seems to have had an uncanny intuition on this. His declared policy was to build up America's defenses and then negotiate from a position of strength. It came as a surprise to me to learn how much Reagan abhorred nuclear weapons and wanted to eliminate their threat. But administration insiders told us he wanted more than to negotiate arms reductions. He wanted to win the Cold War.
The Soviet Union collapsed on George Bush's watch, but the turning point came on Reagan's. There were actually two turning points. One was when he deployed Pershing and cruise missiles in Western Europe in 1983, thwarting the Soviet Union's efforts to split the NATO alliance. The other was a hastily arranged summit at Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1986, when he refused Gorbachev's demands to limit research on the Strategic Defense Initiative. Reykjavik seemed like a failure at the time, but as Gorbachev told me in New York, their discussions brought them "to the top of the hill, and from the top of the hill you can see a long way."
Scholars will debate for decades what role Ronald Reagan played in the end of the Cold War. Many give the primary credit to Gorbachev. I too came to feel that Gorbachev played a major role in ending the Cold War -- he lost it. As Anthony Lewis of the The New York Times told me, "He lost it gracefully, and how lucky we all are that he did." Gorbachev was intelligent enough to realize the need to reform Communism and to reach a new understanding with the West. But he could not control the reforms he initiated. When they spiraled out of control, the Soviet Union disintegrated.
Ronald Reagan wanted to win the Cold War: he threatened the Soviets with his arms buildup, he supported anti-Communist insurgencies around the world, he committed the CIA to keep Solidarity alive in Poland, and he predicted to the British Parliament that Marxism-Leninism would end up "in the ash heap of history." Poland was freed, the Berlin Wall came down, and the Soviet Union collapsed. Maybe you can't prove a cause-and-effect relationship, but to deny one seems foolish.
To the extent that "Reagan" the film and Reagan the book are biographies, it doesn't matter what credit you give him. You understand the man through his commitment. If character is revealed through action, Reagan's determination, his willful optimism, his faith in America and Western ideals are revealed in his battle against big government and Communism, the crusades of his lifetime.
Chapter 1: Reagan
On July 4, 1986, Lady Liberty's one-hundredth birthday, Ronald Reagan stood on the deck of the John F. Kennedy. As he pushed the button that sent a laser beam across the New York harbor to light the refurbished symbol of the American promise, the skies above erupted in the biggest display of fireworks in history. Midway into his second presidential term, Ronald Reagan was at the height of his popularity. He had become as one with America's great symbol: the embodiment of the nation's most cherished myths.
"He was a man for whom the American dream became a luminous reality," wrote journalist and Reagan biographer Lou Cannon, "the wholesome citizen hero who inhabits our democratic imaginations, an 'Everyman' who was slow to anger, but willing to fight for right, and correct wrongdoing when aroused."
"Reagan was a bit of a mystic," his close aide Lyn Nofziger said, "very much a Christian and very much a man who believes in the Almighty and in a plan that the Almighty may have. And he thought that America was sent here between two oceans for a very specific purpose, which was literally to be a beacon of freedom to the rest of the world."
He had come to office in 1980 to rescue America from "a period of poisonous self-doubt," in the words of biographer Edmund Morris, to restore the nation's confidence, to demonstrate to Americans that they had a role, a special role of moral leadership in the world, something that they had forgotten in the dark decades of the 1970s and 1960s. When he left office in 1989, he left an America that was militarily stronger, wealthier, and more confident.
Yet he also left behind an America saddled with a national debt exceeding one trillion dollars, a country in which many social problems remained unsolved or had grown worse, a society that many felt had become less compassionate, and where the gap between rich and poor had widened.
"The sad thing about the Reagan era was, there were cuts in domestic programs but certainly no cuts in government spending enough to prevent this enormous growth in deficits ... to the point now where one of the chief costs of government is paying off the debt that was incurred," Christopher Matthews told AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. "I can't tell you what history is going to say one hundred years from now about Ronald Reagan's presidency," concurred ABC correspondent Sam Donaldson, "but, if you talk about today, we're still paying for tripling the national debt. We're still paying ... for what went on during [the Reagan] years. "A hundred years from now, there's no doubt that ending the Cold War will be on Reagan's historical tombstone," countered Richard Norton Smith. "We'll forget the change of the mood of the country. We'll forget the economic indices of the Reagan era. But we will remember that he ended a forty-year nightmare, in which a mushroom cloud loomed over all of our heads." "If you seek his monument, look for what we don't see," George Will added eloquently. "We don't see the Berlin Wall. We don't see 'the iron curtain from Stetin to Trieste. '"
The only actor ever to become president, Ronald Reagan rose in politics through the power of his rhetoric, bursting onto the political scene in 1964 with a speech on behalf of conservative Republican Barry Goldwater. The "Great Communicator," Reagan used the presidency as a place of moral leadership, a "bully pulpit" to mobilize the American people with his unwavering optimism and to convert them to his own convictions -- his aversion to big government and his hatred of Communism. But this most ideological of presidents was also a pragmatist, a skillful politician who understood the value of compromise. Chief of Staff James Baker told AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, "President Reagan wanted to succeed and he knew that to succeed in politics, particularly with a Democratic Congress, he would have to compromise. He said to me many times, 'I would much prefer to get 80 percent of what I want than to go off the cliff with the flag flying.'"
Ronald Reagan was indeed a man of paradoxes, a mystery that has yet to be unraveled despite the efforts of scores of aides, biographers, even his own family. As his son Ron told us, "I haven't figured him out, I don't know anybody who has figured him out."
He was an idealist who believed in America's inherent goodness, in freedom and its ultimate triumph. Yet sometimes he acted with the expediency of a Machiavelli. Under the "Reagan Doctrine," he confronted Communism throughout the world, aiding dictators and democrats, Islamic fundamentalists and African warlords, faithful to the timeless maxim that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend."
He cut the benefits of millions and watched Americans suffer through the hardest economic times since the Great Depression, yet he would respond compassionately to the hardship of individuals by writing them personal checks from the Oval Office.
He called the Soviet Union "the focus of evil," but negotiated arms reductions agreements with its leaders. He abhorred nuclear weapons, but built them by the thousands. He repeatedly stated that "a nuclear war cannot be won and must not be fought," but took the world to the brink by deploying Pershing missiles in Europe in the fall of 1983, scaring millions worldwide, including the founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, Dr. Helen Caldicott, who feared that "Reagan could push the [nuclear] button."
He seldom went to church, but was deeply religious -- he had faith in the power of prayer and believed that the hand of God determines human events. He believed in Armageddon -- the inevitable and final confrontation between good and evil -- yet an incurable optimist, he did everything in his power to try to prevent it. He preached family values, but was himself a detached father who failed to reach his children.
Reagan was not a learned man. His lack of command of factual details -- even on important issues -- and frequent gaffes -- misstatements or factual errors -- lead many to think that he was not intelligent. But as his aides report, he had a formidable memory and an uncanny ability to listen to a debate, reducing issues to their essence and formulating them in terms that were simple and crystal clear. "This guy was very smart," Reagan's advisor Martin Anderson told The American Experience. "And there's one piece of hard evidence if anyone disbelieves that. We have here in the archives of the Hoover Institution some handwritten drafts of major speeches that Ronald Reagan wrote all by himself. Ask any intellectual, the real test of how well a person thinks or how much you know, or how you can assimilate and put together information, is to sit down with a blank piece of paper and a black pen and write it yourself in your own hand. Try it. That is really a very powerful test of overall intelligence. And the record has survived."
"Reagan was certainly smart enough to be president," Lou Cannon concluded, and his temperament was ideally suited to the job. He didn't rattle, he could shut out the clamor ... shut out what was going on around him and focus on the business at hand.... That's a big thing if you are in that Oval Office. "
He was gentlemanly and considerate, but he was also tough and determined, and as many an adversary discovered, a formidable foe. Columnist George Will told AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, "the stricken fields of American politics are littered with the bleached bones of those who underestimated Ronald Reagan."
Mostly he is remembered as a simple, aging president, whose humor and charm captivated much of America. Less known is the younger man: the fast-talking, quick, and aggressive conservative governor and candidate, whose mind, in the words of a biographer, "worked like clockwork."
Tip O'Neill's aide Christopher Matthews, who met Reagan in the early days of his presidency when he still had most of his old vigor, recalls him as "tough and confrontational, feisty and streetwise ... more like James Cagney than Jimmy Stewart." Martin Anderson best described him as a "nice soft silky pillow ... but if you took a hard punch, you would find in the middle a solid tempered-steel bar. That was the real Ronald Reagan. That was the essence of Ronald Reagan."
This essence, which Reagan biographer Edmund Morris has called Reagan's "atman" -- a Hindu term meaning a strong inner core -- was forged against the adversity of a poor, nomadic and isolated childhood, a childhood which began in the plains of rural western Illinois, where Reagan spent the first years of his life.
My American Experience
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Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. Around the world, more than 1.5 million women are diagnosed with the disease every year. In Singapore, the cancer affects 1 in 15 women under the age of 75.
While there are many factors that cause cancer, there are a number of ways to reduce the risk. This includes watching what you eat, making changes in your lifestyle, and going for regular screening.
Many women fear the possible implications of being diagnosed with breast cancer, such as having a breast removed. However, there are in fact several treatment options. Read on to find out more. | <urn:uuid:c28d897e-1ace-4cf9-9e27-5e19ec115fc9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.parkwaycancercentre.com/in/news-events/news-articles/news-articles-details/breast-cancer-special-reducing-the-risk | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.977167 | 124 | 2.640625 | 3 |
How did the underdog New England Patriots win this year's Super Bowl?
By sticking to their guiding rule: Check egos at the locker-room door. They didn't even want their names announced before the kick-off.
A team without superstars and with many humbling seasons behind it found its strength in the spirit of mutual support. Their triumph was an example of "what happens when guys believe in each other," said winning quarterback Tom Brady, who was a third-stringer at the start of the season. He had the unselfish support of star quarterback Drew Bledsoe, who was injured early in the season.
And Bill Belichick, once a failing coach of the Cleveland Browns, recycled himself with a warm and winning style as the Patriots coach.
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Happy Earth Day! Here at Collage we have always tried to work with sustainable materials and love making all sorts of crafts with recycled things!
We hope to share our love of caring for the earth with all our students and celebrate the wonderful planet we all live on!
Today's story time book, '10 things I can do to help my world', is in celebration of Earth Day!
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My 2 mnthly check out at Papworth Hospital today after sleeping, last night attached to the Oximeter which, I understand, is designed to measure the amount of saturated oxygen in the lungs whilst one is asleep.
On the whole the results were fairly predictable. A general deterioration all round with a rather more serious drop, from 74% to 64% in my FVC. All of this indicates that I will almost certainly require some form of oxygen intervention sooner rather than later. I specifically raised with the doctor the business of flying to Thailand and he advised me to try not to sleep and also not to lie at lower than a 45° angle. I explained that the help on traveling business class was to have a flat bed. As the flight from London to Dubai is approximately 8 1/2.hours, with the two or three hour gap between the next onward flight to Bangkok, again another 8 1/2.hours, it is difficult to see how I am goinging to be able to keep awake for the 36 hours or so from door to door. In the past I’ve always had a generous supply of champagne before taking a couple of sleeping tablets and then lying flat for a few hours sleep. I would like to think I can do the same again.
The problem, as explained to me by the doctor, is that the amount of oxygen at 35 to 40,000 feet is around 15% lower than normal. Then, when you sleep you breathe more shadowly,again taking less oxygen, so with someone with weakened lung muscles there is a danger of a buildup of carbon dioxide. Maybe I can persuade the airline to let me sleep with an oxygen mask. I shall ask the doctor what he thinks about this idea.
I also raised the question of the possibility of having a diaphragmatic insert to assist my breathing. The Dr. explained that this was something that wasrecently invented in the US and he suspected that not many more than 40 such operations have taken place there. Apparently a hospital in Sheffield has begun attempting these procedures but again the operation is very new and in his opinion unproven. However, he will bear in mind the fact that I would be prepared to consider being a guinea pig if the opportunity arose and, indeed, I needed such invasive assistance. | <urn:uuid:b4b62c9f-54f6-4407-99bb-ee3149eed8cb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dmarkcato.com/2010/08/23/23-august-2010/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.976474 | 466 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is fighting to keep the 93,000 acre Elliott State Forest in public hands. The 140-square mile forest located north of Coos Bay contains some of the finest Roosevelt elk, Blacktail deer, and wild salmon habitat in the state and contains rich stands of mature and old growth timber. It is cherished by those who enjoy all outdoor activities including hunters & anglers.
On August 13, 2015, the State Land Board approved a resolution to sell this forest to raise money for the Common School Fund. The forest is estimated to be worth between $285 and $400 million dollars. While the state wants to sell this land to an entity that will protect recreational access, older forest stands and watersheds, this is not guaranteed. These rich stands of trees have been coveted by lumber companies for years. If lumber companies purchased this land, recreational users would lose access or have to pay high fees to access it, as evidenced by actions taken by lumber companies on lands surrounding the Elliott.
We therefore petition the State Land Board, Governor Kate Brown, Secretary of State Jeanne P. Atkins, and State Treasurer Ted Wheeler to sell only to entities like public land trusts or other interests that will commit to balanced management, preserve public access and protect the values of our wild public lands, waters, and wildlife for future generations. | <urn:uuid:1da4896a-11dc-46b2-8f5c-d38167b4bbd9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.backcountryhunters.org/keep_the_elliott_state_forest_in_public_hands | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00133-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950899 | 269 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Believe it or not, your purse and/or wallet, mailbox, discarded trash, and consumer credit report contains a wealth of information about you. As a matter of fact, way to much information.
Unfortunately, in the hands of a corrupt individual, this information could be used against you to commit various methods of fraud. Fortunately there are a number of things you can do to help reduce your risk of being a victim.
Easy Ways To Prevent Identity Theft
- Don't provide your personal information unless your certain it is necessary.
- Don't provide information over the telephone unless you initiated the call and you know whom you are speaking to.
- Don't feel obligated to fill in every blank on application forms. Find out what information is necessary.
- Look for the "lock and key" symbol when using the internet.
- Contact the Better Business Bureau to confirm whether or not an organization is legitimate before you do business with them.
- Remove your name from the mailing lists by using Opt Out.
- Check your credit report once a year from a major credit bureau.
Reducing Access To Personal Information
- Always mail bill payments from the Post Office never from your home mailbox.
- Never write your credit card account number or social security number on your checks when making a payment.
- Purchase and use a quality personal shredder for all financial receipts instead of tearing them up.
- Never leave your purse of wallet unattended in a public place. While at home never leave your purse of wallet in plain view of company or in an unlocked house while you are in the yard.
- While shopping keep your ATM and credit cards separate from your wallet or purse.
- Never write your account number on the outside of a return envelope.
- Never use a post card to order anything through the mail, always use a envelope
- If at all possible never give out personal information over a cellular telephone or cordless telephone.
- Restrict the amount of information you provide on a warranty card. Never provide financial information not pertaining to the product.
- Never carry any personal information in your briefcase while traveling.
- Never fill out any free prize raffles. The information on these cards can be distributed to other companies.
Credit Card Fraud
- Reduce the number of credit cards you use.
- Carry only one or two of them in your wallet at one time.
- Cancel any unused accounts.
- Keep a list or photocopy of all you credit cards, account numbers and phone numbers of the customer service departments in case they become stolen.
- Never give out your credit card information over the phone unless you trust the company and you initiated the call.
- Always take the receipts with you, never toss them in a public trash can.
- Request in writing that the credit card companies remove your name form their marketing lists. When using a pay at the pump gas station always remember to remove your receipt from the pump.
- If you purchase something from an old carbon style charge slip make sure you ask for the carbons. Never let the sales clerk retain the carbons.
- Have the sales clerk hand you your receipt rather than put it in the bag. This keeps your personal information with you if something happens to the bag.
- Never let a sales clerk walk away from you with your credit card. Always keep it in your sight.Never sign a blank transaction slip. Always draw a line through any blank spaces on the slip. This will help prevent any additional charges being placed on the bill.
- Never loan your credit card to anyone.
Passwords and PINs
- Do not use common words or numbers for any password. (Including last names. dates or birth, pets name, consecutive numbers)
- Shield your hands when using an ATM, protect yourself from shoulder surfers.
- Never use the same PIN or password on all you cards.
- Never write your PIN or password on the card or keep it with you on a piece of paper.
- Consider changing you PIN or password semi-annually.
- When opening a new personal checking account or placing an order for checks never place your Social Security Number, middle name, driver's license number, or telephone number on any of the checks.
- When ordering new checks have them delivered to the financial institution instead of your home.
Social Security Numbers
- Release your social security number only when absolutely necessary or when required by law.
- Do not print your social security number on your checks.
- Offer your driver's license number to a merchant instead of your social security number to a merchant when writing a check.
- Always block the view of the keypad while entering your PIN or Password
- If you use an ATM at night select one in a well lit area.
- Never use an ATM where someone is " Hanging Around"
- Always remember to remove and put away your card after the transaction.
- Always remove and take with you the receipt from the machine. Never throw it away in a trash container near the ATM.
- Never write your PIN on the ATM card.
- Never disclose your PIN to anyone.
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Who are the Northeast Municipal Foresters?
Years ago, when I was a young forester right out of Michigan State University, I started work for the Village of Mount Prospect, Illinois. I had done well in school but had no practical experience in the field. Soon I was struggling with the realities of my job and feeling really out of my element. One day I got a call from Erwin Page, the forester for Arlington Heights, the town next to mine. Erwin had heard that Mount Prospect had hired a forester, and he offered to introduce me to other area foresters at an upcoming meeting. That was how I first learned about the group now known as the Northeast Municipal Foresters. I owe a real debt of gratitude to Erwin, because this group has had a major influence on my career. In fact, but for the support I received from these foresters, I’m not sure I would even have remained in the field of arboriculture.
The meeting locations and many of the faces have changed since those days in the late 70’s when we used to meet at Hackney’s in Glenview, but the basics remain the same. We are still a group of area municipal foresters who gather informally once a month to network, listen to a presentation, and afterwards have lunch. We usually take the summer months off. There is no cost except for our food, which nowadays is usually five or six dollars for pizza. (I have to admit I still miss those bricks of onion rings from Hackney’s, though!) Depending on the length of the presentation, we sometimes start the meetings now with an “open microphone” session, where members of the audience can bring up any topic for a group discussion.
The meetings cover a wide range of topics of interest to municipal foresters, though other arborists are always welcome to join us. Some recent examples are GIS mapping, tree planting policies, tree hazard assessment, invasive insects, and wood utilization. The speakers are usually researchers, consultants, commercial or municipal arborists, or nursery personnel. Sometimes we hear from other municipal staff such as engineers or human resource professionals. Vendors have also spoken about pertinent issues, though we try not to let the meetings become a venue for sales pitches. The Northeast Municipal Foresters are now considered the municipal branch of the Illinois Arborist Association, and Certified Arborists typically receive CEU’s for attending our presentations.
After we left Hackney’s our “home base” eventually moved for awhile to Oak Lawn, where Heather Green did a wonderful job hosting the meetings. Now our “home base” is at Mount Prospect Public Works, but we move around as needed, depending on who’s speaking.
Over the years I personally have learned a great deal from the presentations, but I’ve gained even more from the many conversations with my fellow municipal arborists. When I’m struggling with a particular issue, it’s great to be able to go to the next meeting and ask the group, “How do you handle this in your town”? Invariably I get some really useful ideas, along with the names of people I can follow up with after the meeting. Many of the successes I’ve had in my career have been based on ideas I’ve gotten from my fellow municipal foresters at these meetings. How wonderful it was to learn years ago that I didn’t have to reinvent the wheel each time an unfamiliar problem arose!
I invite you to join us and see for yourself. Better yet, call up the forester from the town next to yours, or maybe your Park District staff, and invite them along as well. Our meeting calendar is posted on the IAA website, and you can get the announcements emailed directly to you by contacting April Toney at 877-617-8887.
By Sandy Clark, Forestry/Grounds Superintendent, Village of Mount Prospect
Upcoming NEMF Meetings
Date: Thursday, January 19, 2017
Time: 10:30am – 12:00pm
Location: Village of Lombard
Title: Reclaiming the Edges: The Role of Agroforestry in Urban Areas
Description: Urban landscapes contain a variety of elements and spaces – in areas that are overlooked, a challenge to maintain, and sometimes have room for improvement. The care of such areas is often the responsibility of a municipality, or park agency.
There are practices from the world of agroforestry that might be applied to such areas. We live in a time when many are looking to add beauty, biodiversity and even food production into their communities. Taking a new look at improving some of these marginal spaces is the theme of this presentation.
NOTE: Attendees should bring copies of maps of their towns/areas they manage to this workshop!
Speaker: Dave Coulter, Osage Inc.
$5 for lunch. Please RSVP.
Please RSVP: April Toney at [email protected] or call 877-617-8887.
Date: Thursday, April 20, 2017
Topic: Woody Decay Fungi: Recognition of the Most Common Species in Our Area
As arborists, we commonly observe mushrooms and conks growing on and in close proximity to the trees we care for. We also know that fungal decay is a major cause of tree failure. While some decay fungi make their presence obvious, others are less so or even hidden from direct view. While we are not expected to be professional mycologists, we are expected to be able to identify common decay fungi on sight and formulate management options. We will discuss the most common decay fungi, how to identify them and options for dealing with them.
Speaker: Rex Bastian
Location: Lombard Village Hall, 255 E. Wilson Ave., Lombard, IL
Cost: $5 for Lunch
Please RSVP: April Toney at [email protected] or 877-617-8887.
Date: March 23, 2017
Title: Preserving and Expanding the Urban Forestry Legacy
Speaker: Reinee Hildebrandt
Location: Village of Lombard
Reinee Hildebrandt will discuss the current status and potential future of urban and community forestry including how politics impacts the profession, what current trends can be seen in planning documents, and funding options. The future direction of Tree City USA and the Growth and other program support will be mentioned. She will look at what we have done right and what needs improvement and re-direction.
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The states which are not getting a 4G upgrade immediately — including Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala — are among the most lucrative data markets in India.
It is not clear why subscribers in these four states are not being upgraded, but part of the reason could be the presence of MTS — which is being acquired by RCom — in these areas.
(As Mr Ravichandran points out in the comments, these are also circles where RCom has not completed the regulatory formalities for converting their CDMA service into a liberalized 4G service as market-prices for the spectrum was not available. However, recently, the government allowed RCom to pay TRAI-mandated prices for converting its ‘free’ spectrum into 4G spectrum, and the company is expected to complete the formalities soon.)
MTS is present in eight circles including the above four, as well as Delhi, Kolkata, West Bengal and UP West.
Since MTS is already present here, RCom has shifted its CDMA subscribers to the network of MTS, thus freeing up its spectrum. This spectrum will be joined with Reliance Jio’s 4G spectrum to create a combined network.
In states where RCom does not have a back-up partner in the form of MTS, the Anil Ambani company has to first shift its subscribers outside the network before switching off its CDMA service and diverting its spectrum to Jio’s 4G network.
Subscribers in the four remaining circles where the upgrade is not happening immediately are likely to be given an option to upgrade in the second phase of RCom’s 4G roll out.
The three southern states especially are lucrative data markets, and by launching 4G services before, or at the same time as, RCom, Jio will enjoy the first-mover advantage in these areas. Of course, incumbents like Idea Cellular and Bharti Airtel have also launched their 4G services in these states, but their networks cover only a fraction of the area that the combined RCom and Jio network currently covers.
While Jio has a total of around 1.5 lakh 4G base stations in India, Bharti Airtel and Idea Cellular have only around 15,000-17,000 each.
Meanwhile, Jio has started widening its pilot services by including members of the public, who are being given unlimited data and voice under a special 90-day preview offer. Many Reliance employees have got entitlements to invite 10 members of the public to be part of the preview offer.
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Those darn whistle blowers are at it again. This time via a system set up by NASA so that airline pilots and workers can register safety concerns without fear of being fired.
The current worry from many pilots is strictly enforced low fuel load rules that are making them fly with a dangerously low level of fuel for the distances that they are covering.
Less than a month after pilots at US Airways took out a full-page ad in USA Today accusing the carrier of skimping on fuel loads to save money, pilots at other airlines are continuing to sound the alarm and are expressing concerns about the safety of airline crews and passengers.I feel so much more comfortable now preparing to fly the many thousands of miles from Tokyo to Denver in a couple of weeks. The care and concern of the FAA is gratifying. (this story brought to you from our continuing series "Don't Worry Be Happy" Or "Failure of Oversight Departments A Way of Life in the USA")
Pilots said that their airline bosses, desperate to cut costs, are forcing them to fly uncomfortably low on fuel. The situation got bad enough three years ago, even before the latest surge in fuel prices, that NASA sent a safety alert to federal aviation officials. Since then, pilots, flight dispatchers and others have continued to sound off with their own warnings, yet the Federal Aviation Administration says there is no reason to order airlines to back off their effort to keep fuel loads to a minimum.--AP | <urn:uuid:3a37a8f8-902b-43b1-8761-40220769a00a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.groupnewsblog.net/2008/08/pesky-pilots-complain-about-safety.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00180-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957257 | 299 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Shakespeare and His Interpreters Bevington, Welsh and Greenwald SHAKESPEARE script, stage, screen Chapter 4 The spectrum of interpretive possibilities • Reviewers, critics, directors, and actors all bring their own backgrounds, prejudices and personal experiences • Jonathan Miller: With the passage of time Shakespeare’s plays have quite properly assumed the status of myths... The director has a responsibility to interpret these myths • Richard David: Miller’s imaginative distortions are a form of translation...a process if diminution • Both men are talking about “concept” directing Elizabethan and Jacobean Interpretations • No professional theatre critics...Acting companies did not employ directors...Our accounts today are based upon writings of diarists and theatregoers • Simon Forman, an astrologer and theatregoer • Henry Jackson, an Oxford don • Acting styles were not what we’d recognize today • Actors spoke rapidly • Gestures were conventional • Transitions were quick because of lack of scenery • The audience consisted of “practiced listeners” • No female actors Shakespeare enjoyed a strong reputation as a dramatist, unusual for his time according to contemporary authors like Francis Meres and Ben Jonson. Jonson viewed Shakespeare as an untutored genius writing undisciplined if brilliant plays for an unrefined age. Restoration Age: The Rise of the Actor-Manager Samuel Pepys, the most notable diarist of the age, saw and wrote about numerous Shakespeare revivals Restoration Age: The Rise of the Actor-Manager Shakespeare’s plays were adapted to neoclassical ideals. Most notable in John Dryden’s ALL FOR LOVE (1678) Restoration Age: The Rise of the Actor-Manager Performance was licensed to two companies in London and gave rise to powerful actormanagers. The first licenses were awarded to Thomas Killigrew and William Davenant Restoration Age: The Rise of the Actor-Manager Thomas Betterton (16351710) succeeded Davenant in 1668. He consolidated the two licenses at Drury Lane in 1682...As an actor, he is noted for his formal acting style. Plays, like Nahum Tate’s adaptation of KING LEAR, changed the endings of Shakespeare’s plays. The actress emerged on the stage, the most famous Nell Gwynn, known also as the King’s mistress. 18th Century: Neoclassical Rules and Tastes Carried on the neoclassical traditions of the Restoration...also known as the Augustan Age or “The Age of Reason.” Shakespeare was still considered a “native” English writer whose “natural” genius needed the polish of refinement. Alexander Pope was one of the great critics of the age. 18th Century • David Garrick (1717-1779) the great actor-manager of the day • Theatre buildings grew in size and capacity. Under his leadership, which begag in 1740, Drury Lane grew to a capacity of 2000. • Garrick organized the Shakespeare Jubilee at Stratford-on-Avon • As was common in the day, Garrick and others, produced plays that were “altered” 18th Century Garrick as Richard III by Hogarth, 1745 18th Century Acting An age of great acting...in addition to Garrick, the most famous actors of the age included Charles Macklin, James Quin, Hannah Pritchard, Peg Woffington and Susanna Cibber. (Pictured, Macklin as Shylock.) Peg Woffington 19th Century--Character Criticism and Spectacle • Generally, the early 19th century was a period of decline in the English theatre • The great poets of the Romantic period (Wordsworth, Keats, Byron) did not write for the stage • Romantic critics considered Shakespeare in their terms, as a poet and not as a man of the theatre 19th Century--Character Criticism and Spectacle Productions were treated as opera is in our time: – Lavish productions – Huge spectacles – Large auditoriums – High declamatory style Great Shakespearean actors of the day were international stars. They included… 19th Century EDMUND KEAN as Richard III 19th Century William Charles Macready Charles Kemble as Romeo 19th Century Actors Edwin, John Wilkes and Junius Brutus Booth 19th Century Actors Henry Irving Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth 19th Century Actors Sarah Bernhardt (in her coffin) Eleanor Duse Early 20th Century Lavish spectacles were popular at turn of century under the influence of Macready and Irving. Herbert Beerbohm Tree was one of the outstanding actormanagers of the Edwardian age. Tree’s famous production of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM Early 20th Century William Poel founded the Elizabethan Stage Society to return Shakespeare to its roots. It influenced Harley Granville-Barker, Tyrone Guthrie and Lilian Baylis at the Old Vic. (In 1964, the Old Vic became the National Theatre.) Pictured above is Poel’s production of Hamlet. Early 20th Century The 20th century saw the rise of the “director” New ways of viewing Shakespeare viewed his characters in modern terms...in Freudian terms, for example Mid-20th Century Historical criticism (professed by F.R. Leavis and others) sought to present a close reading of Shakespeare unencumbered by biographical or historical information. This approach heavily influenced modern directors like Sir Peter Hall (pictured) Mythological criticism, as argued by Northrup Frye and others, suggests that Shakespeare’s plays well up from our primal associations with nature and seasons. Post-WW II: Marxism and Existentialism Jan Kott published Shakespeare Our Contemporary (1964) His work strongly influenced Peter Brook. Post-WW II: Marxism and Existentialism Kott was influenced by the epic theatre of Bertolt Brecht Counter-culture movement of the 1960s further influenced approaches to Shakespeare Contemporary Criticism and Interpretation: Deconstruction, New Historicism and Feminism • These movements have encouraged an openness to the other, an acceptance of multiplicity of perspectives--ethnic, feminist, gay • Shakespeare’s plays are elastic--exceptionally responsive to new questions and new approaches Shakespeare also borrowed and adapted • The only original plays in the are LOVE’S LABOURS LOST, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM and THE TEMPEST • Sometimes, as in KING LEAR and MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, he combined stories from two sources ADAPTATIONS, SPIN-OFFS and PARODIES • First memorable adaptation was Dryden’s ALL FOR LOVE (1678) that was based upon ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA • Classical composers have adapted many of Shakespeare’s plays such as Verdi’s OTELLO (1887) and FALSTAFF (1893) • Mendelssohn wrote famous incidental music for an 1843 performance of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, most famously the wedding march ADAPTATIONS, SPIN-OFFS and PARODIES 1957 - WEST SIDE STORY follows the plot outline although it does not use any of the dialogue of ROMEO AND JULIET. ADAPTATIONS, SPIN-OFFS and PARODIES Cole Porter’s KISS ME KATE (1947) FILM SPIN-OFFS MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO (1991) based on Henry IV plays FILM SPIN-OFFS TEMPEST (1981) an inventive tale by Paul Mazursky FILM SPIN-OFFS BROKEN LANCE (1954), A THOUSAND ACRES (1997), KING OF TEXAS (2002) are all based upon KING LEAR FILM SPIN-OFFS THRONE OF BLOOD (1957) is a Japanese retelling of MACBETH SATIRES AND PARODIES • California gold miners presented oddities like Romeo and Suet: or, A Cup o’ Pizen and Odd Fellow, the Boor of Venice • During the Vietnam years, Lyndon Johnson was mocked in a play called Macbird! TOM STOPPARD • Tom Stoppard had successes with Dogg’s Hamlet and Cahoot’s Macbeth in addition to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead • He also co-scripted SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, based on Shakespeare’s life and ROMEO AND JULIET. It won the Oscar for best picture in 1997. ON TELEVISION Sid Caesar’s YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS often spoofed Shakespeare in sketches written by Mel Brooks A famous episode of Moonlighting starring Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd spoofed THE TAMING OF THE SHREW ON TELEVISION A Happy Days episode featured Fonzie as Hamlet SLINGS AND ARROWS In recent years, the Showtime comedy Slings and Arrows centered on a single play each season (Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear) as produced by an imaginary Canadian Shakespeare festival. Shakespeare has become familiar enough to find a place in popular culture. | <urn:uuid:c93150a9-a0b7-43d1-83b4-40c3682ef178> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://slidegur.com/doc/80605/shakespeare-and-his-interpreters | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988725470.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183845-00075-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927278 | 1,916 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Humans encode 6 topoisomerases: Two type IB: Top1 and Top1mt, two type IIA: Top2A and Top2B, and two type IA: Top3A and Top3B. Topoisomerase enzymes are critical to avoid or limit DNA supercoils, knots and catenanes. Therefore, they are required for all DNA transactions, especially transcription and replication. Top3B was recently discovered to resolve RNA untanglements and to be critical for transcription in neurons. TOP3B mutations have been associated with neurological defects and neurodegenerative diseases. Top1 is the target of irinotecan and topotecan, which are camptothecin derivatives efficiently used to treat ovarian, colon and lung cancers as well as hematologic and pediatric malignancies. However, camptothecins have well-defined limitations including chemical instability (due to their alpha-hydroxylactone), drug efflux by the ABCG2 and ABCB1 plasma membrane transporters, and dose-limiting gastro-intestinal and bone marrow toxicity. We have pursued our discovery and molecular pharmacology of novel Top1-targeted anticancer agents (the indenoisoquinolines) to alleviate these limitations. The indenoisoquinolines have been discovered, patented and pursued in collaboration with Dr. Cushman at Purdue University and the NCI Drug Development Program (DTP). We have now established that the indenoisoquinolines have significant advantages over the camptothecins: 1/ they are chemically stable and relatively easy to synthesize and chemically optimize; 2/ they trap Top1 cleavage complexes at specific genomic sites that differ from those trapped by camptothecins; 3/ their cellular half-life is much longer than camptothecins; 4/ the Top1 cleavage complexes they produce are more stable than those trapped by the camptothecins, which reflects their tight fit in the Top1-DNA cleavage complexes (interfacial binding); 5/ they are not substrates for the multidrug resistance efflux pumps (such as ABCB1 (Pgp), ABCG2 (Mrp/Bcrp) and ABCC1 (Mrp1)). Two indenoisoquinolines (NSC 725776 -- indimitecan and 743400--indotecan) are in clinical trials at the NCI clinical center. In addition, a third derivative, LMP 744, is in clinical trials with the two other derivatives in the Clinical Oncology Program (COP) in multiple veterinary clinics across the USA. This drug development is a collaboration between LMP (our group and Dr. Bonner for gamma-H2AX biomarker), the Clinical Oncology Branch (Dr. Doroshow and Alice Chen for the human clinical trials), DTP and SAIC (Dr. Hollingshead, Dr. Parchment and Dr. Kinders for mouse models and pharmacodynamic biomarkers), and Purdue University (Dr. Mark Cushman for drug synthesis). Our goal is to make the indenoisoquinolines the first non-camptothecin drugs. We are also continuing to develop indenoisoquinoline derivatives as second generation. The new series encompasses compounds that are even more potent than the indenoisoquinolines presently in clinical trials. Moreover, we are initiating a project to formulate the indenoisoquinolines in delivery vectors to increase their concentration in tumors while sparing normal tissues. This aim meets the goal of precision medicine by targeted drug delivery. Regarding the basic biology of topoisomerases, one of our most recent discovery is that, when Top1 binds to a DNA substrate with a misincorporated ribonucleotide, the Top1cc is spontaneously converted into a single-strand break after the 2-prime-hydroxyl group of the sugar eliminate Top1 by forming a 2-prime,3-prime-cyclic nucleotide at the 3-prime-end of the break that was initially made by Top1. This finding is important for two reasons: first, because Thomas Kunkel and his group, one of our collaborators, have recently shown that ribonucleotides are readily misincorporated during normal replication (especially on the leading strand for DNA synthesis), and second because we have shown that those misincorporation sites give rise to short nucleotide deletions and insertion, and to DNA double-strand breaks when a second Top1 site occurs in the vicinity of those misincorporated ribonucleotide in a Top1-dependent manner. Together these new results add to our previous findings showing the recombinogenic and potentially mutagenic properties of Top1. We have pursued our studies relating Top1 to transcription. First, we showed the critical relationship between Top1 and transcription stop points that are associated with the formation of alternative DNA structures (guanosine quartets and R-loops) in the negatively supercoiled DNA segments that tend to arise in the wake of transcription complexes. Such negative supercoiling is facilitated by deficiency in Top1, which under normal conditions functions to eliminate the negative supercoiling generated in the wake of moving transcription complexes. We also demonstrated that Top1 stabilization by Top1-targeted drugs (and abnormal DNA structures; see above) induces abnormal splicing, especially in genes that encode splicing factors. Finally, using microarray analysis, we were able to show that the trapping of Top1 cleavage complexes by camptothecins blocks transcription selectively in long transcripts and at intron-exon junctions, which is consistent with the role of Top1 to relieve transcription-induced supercoiling and in splicing. Mitochondrial type IB topoisomerase, Top1mt, was discovered in our laboratory. Top1mt is encoded by a nuclear gene present in all vertebrates, which probably arose by duplication of a common ancestral TOP1 gene (found today in simple chordates and more distantly in yeast and plants). Although TOP1mt knockout mice are viable, we found that they are hypersensitive to the cardiotoxicity of doxorubicin. This is because Top1mt is required to regenerate mitochondrial DNA upon damage by doxorubicin. We also found that Top1mt is required to maintain the normal supercoiling of mitochondrial DNA and acts throughout the mitochondrial genome with preferential sites in the regulatory and replication origin regions. The viability of the TOP1mt knockout mice, which we generated in our laboratory prompted us to determine which other topoisomerase could complement for lack of TOP1mt. We found that both Top2A (topoisomerase II alpha) and Top2B (topoisomerase II beta) are present and functional in mitochondria. This finding not only explains the mild phenotype of our Top1mt knockout mice but also the cardiotoxicity of doxorubicin because of the trapping of mitochondrial topoisomerase II by doxorubicin. 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A former Exeter student is set to chair a UK-wide virtual debate that will give young environmentalists a chance to discuss the big issues being raised by world leaders at the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow.
Bek Trehern (27), who graduated with a degree and masters in Zoology from the University of Exeter’s Cornwall Campus, will host the COP26 Youth Debate on November 3 on behalf of environmental education charity the Field Studies Council (FSC).
The event, which will coincide with the UN Climate Change Conference (October 31 to November 12) is expected to attract a wide audience of young environmentalists from across the UK, who will be given the opportunity to share their own ideas and thoughts on how world nations are tackling the climate change crisis.
Bek, who has remained in Cornwall since graduating from university, now works with FSC as an engagement and training assistant and since joining has been instrumental in the development of the charity’s eco-skills courses that run online and across the UK to encourage hobbyists and young people looking to take their first steps into an environmental career.
She said: “Education has a significant role to play in the future fight against climate change and many of the young people who will be taking part in this debate are already developing the skills and knowledge needed to tackle the challenges we face.
“By sharing ideas and knowledge, we as a council, can encourage greater engagement in nature and the environment and help shape and influence environmental actions at a grass roots level.”
“This will be a great opportunity for young people that have a passion for the environment to put forward their ideas or reservations on how the world is addressing climate change.
“We will be discussing and debating the headline topics being raised at the COP26 conference but also sharing our own solutions and ideas on how we can build back greener.
“Anyone with an interest in the environment, either through their studies or work, can take part in the debate and we look forward to welcoming as many people as possible.”
The Field Studies Council has been delivering environmental education in the UK for more than 75 years and is considered a leader in its field.
It operates a network of field study centres across England, Wales and Scotland including FSC Slapton Ley which is located in the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, near Exeter.
It aims to educate people of all ages from primary school upwards about the environment, how to connect with it, protect it and understand it.
Mark Castle, Chief Executive, added: “FSC is here to inspire curiosity about the world around us and share the knowledge needed to protect and defend it.
“Through our events, courses and wildlife guides, we aim to encourage positive and practical ways for people to make a difference to managing the climate change challenge and this debate is a fantastic way for young people to get involved in discussing global issues and have their say on how we can better address the ongoing challenges.”
The FSC Youth Council is made up of 12 volunteers who represent and provide a voice for the increasing number of young people that are involved in the charity’s work and educational courses.
There's still space to attend and young people can sign up either as a participant or as a member of the audience. To register for the debate, visit https://www.field-studies-council.org/shop/courses/cop26-youth-debate/.
There is also an opportunity for individuals and professionals outside of the 18-25 age category to take part in the event by emailing [email protected].
For more information about FSC’s environmental courses, experiences and wildlife guides for adults, families and young people, to find out more about what the charity is doing to tackle its own carbon footprint and how you can support them visit https://www.field-studies-council.org/fscs-response-to-cop26/. | <urn:uuid:f95dc47d-29bb-4641-82dc-2ab60fac00fb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theexeterdaily.co.uk/news/local-news/former%C2%A0exeter-student-leads%C2%A0cop26%C2%A0debate-young-environmentalists%C2%A0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00675.warc.gz | en | 0.962024 | 832 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Gold Choice Instant Tongkat Ali Ginseng Coffee
EURYCOMA LONGIFOLIA JACK (LJ100)
Tongkat ali or malaysian ginseng directly enhances testosterone production by stimulating the Leydig cells in the testes. These special cells convert cholesterol into testosterone.
Tongkat ali also has been shown to free up testosterone in the blood. Testosterone that circulates in the blood is bound to the carrier protein called SHBG. While this protein extends the time testosterone stays in the blood, it also prevents it from entering muscle cells.
This rainforest plant has been used by the men of Malaysia have a traditional remedy for boosting sexual prowess. It does this by increasing testosterone production, freeing testosterone and lowering cortisol levels.
An Indian study in 2006, showed that eurycoma increased users testosterone levels by 16% higher than the members of the placebo group. The increase was attributed to lower cortisol levels.
Tongkat ali research studies
Indian Journal of Urology; Traditional Asian Folklore Medicines in Sexual Health; Peter Lim Huat Chye; August 2006
Sexual arousal in sexually sluggish old male rats after oral administration of Eurycoma longifolia.J Basic Clin Physiol Pharmacol. 2004. Ang HH, Lee K. School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University Science Malaysia, Minden, Penang, Malaysia.
The objective of this study is to evaluate sexual arousal in sexually sluggish old male rats, 24 months old and retired breeders, receiving 200, 400, or 800 mg/kg of various fractions of tongkat ali, twice daily, for 10 days. Control rats received 3 ml/kg of normal saline. The aphrodisiac effect was monitored by the act of yawning and stretching because yawning, either alone or associated with stretching, is considered an ancestral vestige surviving throughout evolution that promotes sexual arousal. The results showed that 800 mg/kg of tongkat ali increased yawning by 50% and stretching by 16% in sexually sluggish old male rats, by 676-719% and 31-336%, respectively, in sexually active male rats, and by 22 to 44% and 75 to 100%, respectively, in middle aged, 9 months old and retired breeders. We conclude that the results of this study support the folk use of this plant as an aphrodisiac.
Eurycoma longifolia enhances sexual motivation in middle-aged male mice.
J Basic Clin Physiol Pharmacol. 2003.
Tongkat Ali was investigated for sexual motivation activity in adult, middle-aged male mice and in retired breeders. Each mouse received 500 mg/kg of one of 4 fractions of tongkat ali : chloroform, methanol, butanol, and water, whereas the mice in the control and yohimbine groups received 3 ml/kg of normal saline and 30 mg/kg of yohimbine daily respectively for 10 days. Our study showed that this potent herb continues to enhance sexual motivation in adult, middle-aged male mice and in retired breeders.
The effects of tongkat ali were studied on the sexual qualities of middle aged male rats after dosing them with 0.5 g/kg of various fractions of tongkat ali whilst the control group received 3 ml/kg of normal saline daily for 12 weeks. Results showed than tongkat ali enhanced the sexual qualities of the middle aged male rats by decreasing their hesitation time as compared to controls. This study shows that it enhanced the sexual qualities of middle aged male rats, further supporting the folk use of tongkat ali as an aphrodisiac.
Effect of Eurycoma longifolia Jack on libido in middle-aged male rats.
J Basic Clin Physiol Pharmacol. 2002.
The effect of increasing doses of various fractions of tongkat ali extracts on libido was examined in middle-aged male rats. The results of this study show that tongkat ali extracts can increase libido in middle-aged male rats.
Effect of Eurycoma longifolia Jack on orientation activities in middle-aged male rats.
Fundam Clin Pharmacol. 2002.
Results showed that subjects treated with tongkat ali increased orientation activities towards the receptive females (anogenital sniffing, licking and mounting), increased genital grooming towards themselves and restricted movements to a particular area of the cage but decreased interest in the external environment (climbing, raring, exploration) as compared with the controls during the investigation period. In conclusion, this study gives further evidences that different fractions of tongkat ali modified the orientation activities of the middle-aged male rats.
Effects of Eurycoma longifolia jack on levator ani muscle in both uncastrated and testosterone-stimulated castrated intact male rats.
Arch Pharm Res. 2001. Ang HH, Cheang HS. University Science Malaysia, Minden, Penang, Malaysia.
Effects were studied on the levator ani muscle in both uncastrated and testosterone-stimulated castrated intact male rats after dosing them for 12 consecutive weeks. Results showed that it significantly increased the levator ani muscle strength. | <urn:uuid:0efa0595-be22-48b0-908e-a6a3fec287ce> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.helpyougetgains.com/2012/11/testosterone-coffee-tongkat-ali-study.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00471.warc.gz | en | 0.915792 | 1,061 | 1.640625 | 2 |
I cannot believe this year marks our fifth year of homeschool. Looking back at the first year of homeschool, I wish I knew then what I know now. Don’t get me wrong; I have no regrets about deciding to homeschool, but when I first started this journey I had it all wrong.
I thought I had to fit into a mold. I don’t know exactly what mold I was trying to fit into, but I didn’t fit and trying to force it was only making things worse. I had read all kinds of blogs and posts about how with homeschool you didn’t need schedules and books, and your kids could learn anywhere and everywhere. I stressed myself out trying to turn my crazy pre-planning overly organized self into a no-schedule needed homeschool mom. Spoiler alert: it didn’t work. I stressed myself out trying to be something I’m not.
I am going to share some secrets with you that will hopefully make your first year of homeschool more enjoyable:
- There is no mold for homeschool! The amazing thing about doing your child’s schooling at home is that you can cater it to your and their needs. If your child needs more time on a subject, they can have it; if your child flew through a topic and did a week’s worth of work in a day, you can move on. It’s all up to you and your child, which leads me to my next point…
- Don’t stick so closely to a schedule that you are afraid to get “behind.” I was guilty of this in my first few years of homeschooling. The kids would have a hard time with a subject and instead of slowing down to let them learn at their pace, I stressed about getting “behind” according to the lessons (the schedule I made). The schedule is FLEXIBLE for a reason, so don’t stress trying to keep up with a schedule that you created. Schedules can be changed and should be when needed. Homeschool doesn’t have to be modeled after traditional school! This point was huge for me; when we first started, I tried to make homeschool as close to traditional school as possible. When that didn’t work, I felt like it was a “me” issue, when in reality it was never supposed to be like traditional school. This is the beauty of homeschool — it is customizable for each child.
- There are ups and downs, but it’s supposed to be this way. I cannot count the number of times I said, “I don’t think I am getting through to them” or “How do I know I am teaching them enough?” Only to later witness the “Ah-ha” moment, which is my favorite moment of homeschool. What is an “Ah-ha” moment, you ask? It is the moment you see that little lightbulb come on and the lessons they have been working so hard on suddenly click. This moment for me is the highlight of homeschool; it makes it all worth it.
- Schooling can be done anywhere! Have appointments and no “classroom” time? Take along some of the work. I have found a change of scenery mixes things up and the kids (and I) really enjoy it.
- Join a homeschool group or co-op! My first few years of homeschooling I felt so alone and overwhelmed. I didn’t know there were homeschool groups and co-ops, but once I found them, our entire outlook changed! We love meet ups with other homeschool families and we love our co-op. But most of all, I love the connection I have formed with other moms and dads that are either going through similar experiences or have already been through them. It’s nice to have community.
- Last but certainly not least, enjoy it. I know at times it can be overwhelming, but the years are short and before you know it, you are looking back over the last four years swearing it was just yesterday when your journey began.
Over the years, our homeschool style has changed; we have adapted as we saw what each child needed. We have made learning fun and hands-on when we could by having science lessons outside and planting things or taking a family field trip to the aquarium or Mayfield dairy. We make lessons into games, we explore interests, we work hard. We laugh, we love and we learn. | <urn:uuid:3524bb6f-7c7f-443e-9c36-0bd22c5bf1e7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://chattanoogamoms.com/child-development/education/how-i-survived-my-first-year-of-homeschool/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.981687 | 953 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Windows Defender is a security technology that helps protect Windows users from spyware and other potentially unwanted software. Known spyware on your PC can be detected and removed. This helps reduce negative effects caused by spyware including slow PC performance, annoying pop-up ads, unwanted changes to Internet settings, and unauthorized use of your private information. Continuous protection improves Internet browsing safety by guarding over 50 ways spyware can enter your PC.
The worldwide SpyNet community plays a key role in determining which suspicious programs are classified as spyware. Microsoft researchers quickly develop methods to counteract these threats, which are automatically downloaded to your PC, so you stay up-to-date.
- Note If you have version 1.1.1592.0, you must first manually uninstall Windows Defender before you can install this newer version. To configure or remove the existing version, use Add/Remove programs in the Control Panel.
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Excellent program that works unobtrusively in the background, updates automatically, includes real time protection and is completely free.
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I used Defender early on in XP, never found one thing. Now 1 1/2 months later in Vista, still the same, never finds anything while Webroots Spysweeper is often triggered. I went to edit a photo using Windows Photo Gallery and immediately Spysweeper prompted me of an embedded trojan, Windows Defender, not a peep. I use Defender for the Software Explorer under Tools. Nice feature, I give it a 3 for that.
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Three of the authors of new meta-analysis were members of the EPA's scientific advisory panel on glyphosate
A new scientific meta-analysis of the cancer-causing potential of glyphosate herbicides found that individuals with high exposures to the herbicides have a 41% increased risk of developing non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The findings by five US scientists run counter to an assessment by the US EPA that found no cancer concerns.
The paper is published in the journal Mutation Research/Reviews in Mutation Research, whose editor-in-chief is EPA toxicologist David DeMarini. Three of the study authors were members of the EPA's scientific advisory panel on glyphosate who have stated publicly that the EPA failed to follow proper scientific practices in its glyphosate assessment.
The authors state in their paper, "Together, all of the meta-analyses conducted to date, including our own, consistently report the same key finding: exposure to glyphosate, more precisely to GBHs [glyphosate-based herbicides], is associated with a statistically significant increased risk of NHL."
They conclude, "The overall evidence from human, animal, and mechanistic studies presented here supports glyphosate’s carcinogenic potential in mediating NHL. Given that humans are exposed to adjuvant-containing mixtures known to provoke synergistic toxic effects in vivo and in vitro, future studies of GBHs in experimental animals should be conducted."
The new meta-analysis includes the most recent update of the Agricultural Health Study (AHS) in 2018.
Bayer/Monsanto has heavily relied on the AHS study in the Roundup cancer litigation in the US in claiming there is no link between NHL and glyphosate herbicide exposure. This claim is in line with the conclusion of "no effect" from glyphosate on NHL that was reached by the authors of the previously published AHS study reports.
However, the authors of the new meta-analysis point out that the results of the previous analyses were biased by the inclusion of people with very low exposure, which can dilute the risk estimates. When people with high exposures are considered independently, a link between glyphosate herbicides and NHL is found.
Exposure to glyphosate-based herbicides and risk for Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma: A meta-analysis and supporting evidence
Luoping Zhang, Iemaan Rana, Emanuela Taioli, Rachel M.Shaffer, Lianne Sheppard
Mutation Research/Reviews in Mutation Research
Available online 10 February 2019
Glyphosate is the most widely used broad-spectrum systemic herbicide in the world. Recent evaluations of glyphosate’s carcinogenic potential by various regional, national and international agencies have engendered controversy. We independently investigate whether there is an association between high cumulative exposures to glyphosate and increased risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) in humans and conduct a new meta-analysis that includes the most recent update of the Agricultural Health Study (AHS) cohort in 2018 along with five case-control studies. For comparison, we also perform an additional meta-analysis with the earlier AHS (2005) report and multiple sensitivity tests to assess the validity of our findings. Using the highest exposure groups when available in our meta-analyses, we report the overall meta-relative risk (meta-RR) of NHL in glyphosate-exposed workers is increased by 41% (meta-RR = 1.41, 95% CI, confidence interval: 1.13–1.75). Our comparison meta-analysis with the earlier AHS shows an increased meta-RR for NHL of 1.45 (95% CI: 1.11–1.91), which is higher than the meta-RRs previously reported. Sensitivity tests did not reveal meaningful differences from our estimated meta-RR. To contextualize our findings of an increased NHL risk in workers with high glyphosate exposure, we also consider available animal and mechanistic studies. We uncover further support in studies of malignant lymphoma incidence in mice treated with glyphosate, and its potential links to immunosuppression, endocrine disruption, and genetic alterations that are commonly associated with NHL. We recommend that future animal studies investigate the glyphosate-based formulations that most humans are exposed to. | <urn:uuid:56220e3c-1aab-401a-9f4e-994b4c5c465f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gmwatch.org/en/106-news/latest-news/18763-exposure-to-glyphosate-based-herbicides-increases-risk-of-non-hodgkin-lymphoma-new-analysis | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.932435 | 924 | 1.9375 | 2 |
Understanding print quality settings
Print quality settings affect how light or dark the print is on the page and the style that the graphics
are printed. You can also use the print quality settings to optimize the print quality for a specific
media type. See
Optimizing print quality for media types
for more information.
You can change the settings in the printer properties to accommodate the types of jobs you are
printing. The following are the print quality options:
This option prints at 600 dpi and provides the best print quality. This is the
This option prints at a slightly reduced resolution so that the job can print faster.
You can use this option to specify your own custom print quality settings.
EconoMode (Save Toner):
This option prints using less toner. This option is useful when you
are printing drafts.
To change the print quality settings
Access the printer properties. See
Printer properties (driver)
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by: Vera Raposo
If you are creating a photo album for your baby for the first time, or
are unsure where to begin in creating a scrapbook of your baby's first
year, here are some tips to make it quick and easy to preserve your
photos and memories:
Rather than including every photo you take of your baby, organize your
pictures according to the month they were taken and chose a few of your
favorites from each month.
You can make single page or several pages from each particular month and stage of development without having to spend a large amount of time gluing every single photo into your scrapbook.
Be sure and include birth announcements and baby shower invitations as a special touch.
Keep a notebook or calendar within easy reach to record milestones in
your child's development. You can then coordinate the events on your
calendar with the month-by-month photos.
It is always a good idea to keep an ongoing journal of special times in your baby's life so that you can include those moments in your scrapbook. It does not have to be elaborate or detailed, just a few special dates and events that you can include as text next to your pictures.
How to Make a Quick, Easy Baby Album
About The Author
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Peace rally in Florida on Mumbai Terror attacks
It was a show of unity and solidarity between various Hindu, Jewish and Christian groups which came and stood together against the nefarious design of Jihadi terrorists.
By: United Hindu Front
"It is an ideology of hatred and violence, a method of committing the most heinous acts known to man, all in the name of a religion, all in the name of Islam. Mumbai wasn’t just about Pakistanis seeking retribution against India’s Hindus, because if that were the case they wouldn’t have targeted and tortured and murdered Jews. So let us call Mumbai what it is, Islamic terrorism -- Islamic terrorism." said Joe Kaufmann the chairman of ‘Americans against Hate’ with a loud applause from the attendees.
He ended his speech by saying that "To the world’s Muslims, I say get out from hiding and speak out against the groups that commit this evil, because you know that your radical brethren target you as well. And to the world, I say do the right thing -- before it’s too late to do anything."
"In the wake of this terrible tragedy there are few words of comfort that can be offered as we collectively mourn the loss of those lives lost in Mumbai Massacre. This was an act of Jihadi terrorism inspired by radical Islamic ideology. And to deny this truth is to deny any measure of Justice that can be afforded the victims we now mourn." said Adam Hasner. Majority leader in the Florida House of representative in a written statement read at the rally.
In an emotionally charged speech Rabbi Andrew Jacobs of the Ramat Shalom said "200 innocent victims were murdered and 300 innocent souls were injured in Mumbai, and make no mistake the attacks on Hindus, Jews, Westerners and other were not simply an attack against India, it was another battle waged by brutal terrorists as they pursue their Global Jihad."
"We the American people, and the Indian people and people around the world will stand against Islamic terrorism and we will win, we will have victory. The way we can win is this: three things - through love, unity and education. We must educate the world concerning Islamic fascism. to win against it you have to name the enemy that you are fighting. You are fighting Islamic fascism. they are out to destroy all the western and decent cultures along with Israel" said, Reverend O'Neal Dozier of the Worldwide Christian Church.
"We have gathered here to show our sympathy, concern, support and solidarity with all the families who have lost their loved ones and hundreds injured by this heinous barbaric and cowardly act in Mumbai India, on 26th of Nov, by the ruthless Islamic terrorist organization from Pakistan" said Dr. Iyengar. These sentiments were reciprocated by Dr. Vinod Patel who reminded the gathering the need to condemn the 'Global Jihadi terrorism' for killing fellow human beings unprovoked and in cold blood and urged the authorities in India to do their duty to protect the mankind and not get swayed away by politics
It was a show of unity and solidarity between various Hindu, Jewish and Christian groups which came and stood together against the nefarious design of Jihadi terrorists. The crowd was not to be deterred by a windy South Florida afternoon and lit candles and immersed flowers in the ocean in the memory of victims. A resolution adopted on this occasion urged the government of United States to intensify its campaign against global terrorism, particularly the one perpetrated by its so-called allies and others in the Indian sub-continent and declare such nations as Rogue nations.
Coalition of Community Organizations United against Global Terrorism
Americans Against Hate
Christians and Jews United for Israel
Unitarian Universalist Congregation
World Wide Christian Center
Shiva Vishnu Temple
South Florida Hindu Temple
Jain Center Of South Florida
Florida Arya Samaj
Sindhi Association of Florida
Florida Security Council
Shri Laxmi Narayan Temple
Palm Beach India Association
International Kashmir Federation (IKF)
Indian Religious and Cultural Center (IRCC)
United Hindu Front
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Do I Really Need a Will?
When someone dies, what they leave behind is called the Estate. The Estate is the total amount of property, whether personal or real, owned by the decedent at his or her death. Once a person dies, the estate is submitted to the probate court. If there is a Will, the probate court will determine if the Will is valid and then oversee the administration of the estate by the Executor. The Executor is the person appointed in the Will by the decedent to oversee the estate. The Executor owes fiduciary duties to anyone who has an interest in the estate. What this means is that the Executor owes a duty of loyalty and must act in the best interests of the estate. Included in this duty of loyalty, is a duty to act in good faith to manage estate assets and not to cause the estate to lose value.
Here’s where it gets dicey, what if there is no Will or the Will is determined to be invalid? The probate court will appoint an administrator and the decedent’s property will be distributed according to the State’s laws of inheritance. Many people inaccurately believe that when they die, everything they have will automatically go to their surviving spouse.
That’s not always the case.
In Pennsylvania for instance, the surviving spouse gets the entire intestate estate only if there is no surviving issue (child, grandchild or great-grandchild) or parent of the decedent. Let’s assume that there is surviving issue from the marriage. In that case, the surviving spouse gets the first $30,000 plus one-half of the balance of the intestate estate if there are children, grandchildren or great-grandchildren of the decedent all of whom are also issue of the surviving spouse. (Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case of a decedent who died as a result of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, a surviving spouse will be entitled to 100% of any compensation award paid pursuant to the Air Transportation Safety and System Stabilization Act).
However, the intestate estate share to the surviving issue of the marriage, get distributed to the child(ren) regardless of their age, and without regard to when or how the inheritance gets cipro online usa used or distributed. Typically, a Will establishes parameters or guidelines for when, what and how an inheritance is distributed to minors, especially. Imagine what a 17 year old would do upon distribution of a significant inheritance after a parent has died? A will with trust provisions for issue is capable of establishing guidelines such as the age of when an inheritance is distributed and the amount of to be distributed at each specified age to a child, grandchild or great-grandchild. Further guidelines may be established for limited use of the money during a time the beneficiary is a minor, such as health, welfare and education of the minor before any distributions are made.
Doesn’t my surviving spouse get everything even if I had children from another marriage?
The simple answer is NO. This is a common misconception when the decedent has children, for instance, from another marriage. In that case, pursuant to Pennsylvania law, the surviving spouse gets one-half of the intestate estate if there is surviving issue of the decedent, one or more of whom are not the issue of the surviving spouse. Under these circumstances, the surviving spouse will have to share the estate equally with the decedent’s children, grandchildren or great-grandchildren, whether from another marriage or adopted.
The right of a Widow to the entire estate of his/her deceased spouse depends on whether the decedent left issue (children, grand-children or great-grandchildren), and not on whether the surviving spouse had children in cases where the decedent did not have a will or the will was deemed to be invalid.
So why leave things for chance, or for a Court to determine who and how much will inherit when you die. Having a will ensures that those you want to inherit from your estate when you die will do so and that your intentions are followed as opposed to those of a court. Whether it be a spouse you want to take care of after your death, or a special needs child, or even a spend thrift child who may need some constraints as part of his or her inheritance, a will is the one way to make it happen.
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What is digital transformation?
Digital transformation is the process of transforming businesses’ digital technology capabilities to improve operating procedures. By reviewing existing processes and updating them to integrate digital technology, businesses give themselves the best chance of survival in a world of rapid technological change and innovation.
Why is digital transformation so important?
The key driver behind digital transformation is often survival. Companies that want to succeed in our modern world of ever-changing and improving technological advancement must be willing to adapt and change their processes to stay ahead. They have to learn to challenge the status quo, to experiment and to think outside of the box.
The development of digital transformation solutions comes with its risks and, particularly for larger businesses, it isn’t cheap. Upgrading technology will always come at a cost, but a complete transformation of how you use technology to run your business demands a significant investment. The fact that spending on digital transformation is on the increase, despite the costs and risks involved, is testament to the importance it’s given by businesses worldwide.
Why are businesses putting digital transformation at the top of the agenda?
Every business introducing digital transformation solutions will be motivated by factors specific to the development of their business strategy. One driving factor may be staying ahead or keeping up with competitors who are using digital technology in a more innovative way. More often however, rather than being driven by a need to use the latest technology, digital transformation comes from a need to move away from outdated technology and processes that no longer serve their purpose in the most efficient way. Across all business sectors, digital transformation is moving to the top of the agenda for business innovation.
What can digital transformation achieve?
Businesses undergoing the digital transformation process will expect quick, tangible and quantifiable results as a return on their investment, and done properly, this is exactly what you can achieve. Benefits include:
In a world where we can get things done quicker and more efficiently than ever before, speed is a priority for every business, and will be top of the digital transformation agenda.
Cyber attacks are a huge risk, capable of crippling any business, so investment in upgrading cyber security is essential.
Improved customer service
Modern digital technology can transform the way you communicate with, deliver to and manage your customer base.
Integrated digital solutions
Rather than buying package software and trying to make it fit, businesses are thinking outside of the box and developing customised, innovative software packages to meet their specific requirements.
Who is responsible for driving digital transformation?
While CIOs and IT Directors will drive the digital transformation process, it can only achieve its aims and improve the business if it starts at the top, and has buy-in across departments, job roles and working groups across the business.
We know the value a digital transformation can bring to your business. Our digital transformation consulting services can help define and implement a strategy that will drive the most value to move your business forward. We also understand the investment you have in your current systems, and the budgetary constraints you will face when considering your transformation project. This is why a large part of the digital transformation work we do with our clients involves modernising legacy systems to update the outdated technology that no longer achieves its purposes. So rather than scrapping the system you’ve used and relied on for so long and starting from scratch, we can save you time and money by using the foundations of your old system, and developing new, more efficient technology around it.
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Useful Notes / Siege of Vienna
Venimus, vidimus, Deus vincitnote
-Jan III Sobieski
In 1683 the Ottoman Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa marched up the Danube with the objective of conquering the city of Vienna. They laid siege to the city in July. They battered and dug at the hapless city, slowly closing in on the defenders. Meanwhile the Hapsburg Emperor
Leopold I assembled a coalition including several German princes and the Polish King Jan Sobieski. They attacked the Ottomans at Vienna on September 12, and routed the Ottoman army in a sudden and amazingly successful attack . This was to be the last time the Ottoman empire would attempt a major conquest in Europe and foreshadowed later offensives to be launched in turn by the Austrians and Russians which would severely reduce the Ottomans and gain these powers territory in the Black Sea region.
An earlier siege in 1529 by Suleyman the Magnificent is also important historically, and may sometimes be confused with the the later one. Together with the siege of Malta and Battle of Lepanto
, it pretty much defined the limits of the Ottoman Empire's reach in Europe and the Mediterranean Sea.
Fictional Works Set During the Siege(s) of Vienna Include
- The Drawing of the Dark by Tim Powers - An epic fantasy novel in which brewing beer is Serious Business; set during the 1529 siege.
- In Quicksilver, first volume of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, "Half-Cocked" Jack Shaftoe and Eliza first meet at the Siege of Vienna, where he is serving as a mercenary and rescues her from the Sultan's harem.
- The story The Shadow of the Vulture by Robert E. Howard uses the earlier siege as the historical backdrop to tell its tale about a personal vendetta between the Sultan himself (carried out by his servants rather than him personally, of course) and a Christian knight who happens to end up in Vienna at the beginning of the siege. It also gives us the original Red Sonja.
- James A. Michener's Poland has an entire chapter devoted to the siege and battle of Vienna wherein Jan Sobieski appears as a major character. The famous hussar charge is recounted as well.
Real Life Tropes of the Siege of Vienna Include
- The Alliance: Poland, Austria, Royal Hungary, and others.
- Badass Boast: Jan Sobieski's quote, "Venimus, Vidimus, Deus vincit" (We came, we saw, God conquered).
- Bling of War: The winged hussars.
- The Cavalry: The allied army. Not the least of which was the Polish Army, famed for having some of the finest horses in Europe and therefore was literal as well as metaphorical cavalry. In fact, the cavalry charge at Vienna was the largest in history: eighteen thousand knights (including three thousand Winged Hussars) led by King Jan III Sobieski prompted the Ottoman army to do a good impression of a piece of drywall hit with a sledgehammer.
- To give an idea of how massive it was, that's three times the size of the Rohirrim Charge in The Return of the King.
- Cool Horse: See hussars.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Once the reinforcements arrived, that is.
- Crazy Awesome / Obfuscating Stupidity: Jan Sobieski. People took him a lot more seriously after he won the battle and saved the city.
- Dude, Where's My Reward?: King Jan Sobieski, who led the allied forces and is a legendary figure in Poland, is not commemorated much in Austria.
- Even Better Sequel: The Ottomans also besieged Vienna in 1529 - a very significant battle in its own right but one which has been overshadowed by this one.
- Morally Ambiguous Chancellor: Kara Mustafa. (That is a cool name though).
- The Empire: The Ottoman Empire (do remember that most accounts are given by Europeans rather than Turks).
- The Habsburg Empire, as well.
- The Federation: The Holy Roman Empire.
- Folkhero: Legend has it that the first Vienna coffeehouse was opened by a merchant who found coffee while gathering plunder from the Ottoman camp.
- Future Famous People: This was the first battle of Eugene of Savoy, who would go on becoming one of the greatest generals of his time.
- Gondor Calls for Aid
- Glory Days: Ironically, the end of Poland's. The siege of Vienna was the Commonwealths last moment as an important player in European politics. It would spend the rest of its days being occupied, ruled or pillaged by Germans (several sorts), Swedes and Russians.
- Holy Roman Empire
- The Kingdom: Poland.
- Last Stand: Averted spectacularly.
- Must Have Caffeine: Legend has it that the Viennese café culture began after a Polish general who had spent some time as a Turkish captive picked up the bags of roasted coffee beans the Turks had left behind during their retreat and opened a coffee shop that the Austrians went totally mad for.
- Real Men Love Jesus: Jan Sobieski.
- Warrior Prince: Jan Sobieski.
- What an Idiot: Sobieski, to the future generations of Poles. 100 years later Austria and Germany (and Russia) partition Poland, and Turkey is the only neighboring state that doesn't recognizes the loss of Polish Independence.
- It is hard to see how he could be responsible for that and Turkey was the chief threat at the time.
- Actually, Stefan Batory (who was the king of Poland a while back) was trying to get Russia's help against Turkey (Russia wasn't really interested).
- Sobieski's real fault was that he was a good warrior, but a somewhat lousy politician, unwittingly preparing the ground for later Russian dominance over Poland. Plus, a reason why Turkey didn't recognise the Partitions was that they were quite impressed by Sobieski and Poles note .
- The battle of Vienna elevated Sobieski to hero status in Poland. Unfortunately, it was his only success. His main concern was dynastic politics (he wanted to get his son elected as the next king of Poland and marginalize other magnate families to create a ruling dynasty) and while he wasn't the first in the succession of weak, decadent kings which ultimately led to the Partitions, his rule was the point of no return.
- Granted, "Austrian Poland" was generally benign (the Habsburgs are still recalled well ...Or So I Heard).
- Kara Mustafa himself. By all accounts, the Turks should have captured Vienna. However, Mustafa decided to wait. This was probably because he gambled on the Austrians surrendering, which would have allowed him to claim all the city's possessions for the Sultan, whereas if the city was taken by force, its possessions would be divvied out between the army. Instead of attacking, he bid his time and was caught completely by surprise by the Polish and German reinforcements. Had he won, the Ottomans would have used Vienna as a bridge to Western Europe. Instead, it marked the stagnation of their holdings in Europe.
- Who Would Be Stupid Enough?: According to some accounts, the Poles dragged their cannons over mountains to bring them to the battlefield. By hand. The Turkish commanders refused to believe anyone would try something so foolhardy and dismissed these reports. Big mistake.
- You Have Failed Me: The Grand Vizier was executed for his defeat at the battle. A celebrated anecdote has him move his beard out of the way of the executioner's garrotte. | <urn:uuid:90c980aa-7cd0-4b96-b484-f75d9799dc21> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/SiegeOfVienna | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720737.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00220-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970753 | 1,610 | 2.375 | 2 |
Strategic Partnerships with the Competition
Does having competition make you uncomfortable? Perhaps you should consider making a strategic alliance instead.
Competition can be a scary thing, but it can also be useful, if handled correctly. Few industries or markets are only large enough for a single player, which means that there is little reason for anyone to be afraid of their competitors. Instead, if companies welcome their competition, they will soon discover that they can benefit one another.
For example, two web development companies might initially think that they are in direct competition. However, the reality is that both companies get much of their business via referrals, for which there is no competition. Having a partnership with another company means that each company can quietly outsource their extra work when they’re busy, maintaining a positive outward appearance to their clients.
This can benefit both sides, since idle workers are expensive, so accepting the work, even at a reduced rate, benefits both businesses. Likewise, the ability to get additional workers when needed on an ad hoc basic minimizes the expense of keeping a large staff.
There are other ways as well in which companies can not compete, for example, targeting slightly different markets, or offering variations on the same service. In either case, there can even be the ability to share clients, allowing each company to focus on what makes them different from their competitors, instead of getting hung up on what makes them all the same. | <urn:uuid:0cfa4b3b-6330-44a0-8ff4-2c04e88c7e5a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blog.optimalupgrades.ca/2011/03/strategic-partnerships-with-the-competition/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280266.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00494-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977551 | 291 | 1.5 | 2 |
SOUTHERN PROVINCE, Rwanda — Callixte Karemangingo was among the thousands of Rwandans incited by extremist propaganda and nefarious leaders in government to carry out one of the worst atrocities the world has ever seen.
But that was before he became a Christian and realized he had spiritual gifts.
During the Genocide against the Tutsi in 1994, Tutsis looking to keep their lives were told to go to certain locations where they believed they would be safe.
As countless Tutsis gathered at these locations (in many cases churches or places of worship), many of them turned out to be slaughter traps.
Despite being a predominantly Christian nation, over 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in the span of three months, from April to July 1994, by enraged Hutus and military forces. Neighbors killed neighbors and Christians killed Christians.
Callixte, a Hutu cattle farmer living in the Nyamagabe district, was among the Hutus who led his Tutsi neighbors to a "safe" place in their community despite knowing that was the place where they'd be executed.
Some of them were people he considered friends. But those relationships didn't stop him from leading them to certain death.
Why? Because there was hatred in his heart that was inspired by toxic extremism and government propaganda that led Callixte and tens of thousands of others to believe that Tutsis were the enemy of the Rwandan state.
But after the genocide ended and the rise of a new government, Callixte was sent to jail in May 1995. He was there along with thousands of other genocide perpetrators and even Hutus who had nothing to do with those crimes against humanity.
Spending five years in prison, Callixte eventually began a personal relationship with Christ.
"[I repented] on Feb. 8, 2000. That is when I had my revelation," Callixte told reporters who visited him, his wife, and their friends while on a trip with the humanitarian agency World Vision. "I had a voice telling me that the air is going to blow but the one who has repented of his sins from the bottom of his heart, that air will do nothing to him."
It was at that point that Callixte took his relationship with Christ to a new level. He was preached to and started reading the Bible on a consistent basis.
"That is when I started repenting of my sins, each and every sin. I mainly focused on the sin of participating in genocide," he said through a translator in his native tongue of Kinyarwanda.
"I was thinking about the Rwandans who were blamed for their tribe when they were not the ones guilty themselves. When I would think about it, I would just bust out and start crying."
Inspired by the word of God and the teachings of reconciliation and unity promoted by the Rwandan Patriotic Front, which rose to power following the genocide and end of the Rwandan Civil War, Callixte said he made the decision to live a godly life.
He said he knew that he should listen to the "good leadership" that rose to power in his country instead of the "bad leadership" that enabled the genocide to occur.
Songs of peace and reconciliation
As a musician, Callixte's change of heart inspired him to compose songs centered around love, unity, peace and reconciliation. He said he could prophesize through music.
"Those songs actually touched people's lives, mostly the prisoners, and they started to change their ways," he said. "When I started composing those songs, they started moving me [to different places] in other districts to sing those songs. I even went to the city to sing those songs."
Callixte also said he began preaching inside the overcrowded prison.
"I became a teacher of the community court within the prison. I could teach them about living with others," he explained. "I could always emphasize on the fact that God told me whoever asks for forgiveness, he would be forgiven."
At first, he said, his fellow prisoners were still influenced by the ideology that got them into prison and rejected his teachings. But eventually, he said, many prisoners started listening to him.
As a musician, Callixte got involved in different competitions where he sang songs and was even rewarded for it. Even though he was still a prisoner, he said the government allowed him to keep the money he earned from those competitions.
As he became a vocal leader among the prisoners, he said he helped lead at least 8,600 prisoners to repentance with many of them coming to know Christ.
"The number [8,600] is really small compared to the number of people that requested for forgiveness and were released because they told the truth," he said.
One of the main Bible passages Callixte would recite while preaching in the prisons was 1 Corinthians 1:1-30.
That passage calls for believers of Christ to be “perfectly united in mind and thought” — an idea that might have seemed far-fetched considering the ethnic tension that had existed in the country for at the time.
Callixte's request for fellow prisoners to repent of their sins was aided by the fact that the Rwandan government had launched an initiative allowing perpetrators to seek forgiveness through local community "Gacaca" courts.
The Gacaca initiative presented not only the opportunity for perpetrators to seek forgiveness of their crimes from their victims but also for community members to decide what a perpetrator's punishment should be.
This initiative was launched as there were too many cases for the nation's judiciary system to handle in a timely manner.
"Many people came to know Christ and confess their sins. I was preaching on two things: the Gacaca government directive and the word of God," Callixte recalled. "So for me, asking for forgiveness was not that difficult." | <urn:uuid:98a27fe5-71f7-4403-905d-37901b3f86ae> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.christianpost.com/news/genocide-killer-turned-prophet-led-thousands-christ-repent.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.990096 | 1,215 | 1.625 | 2 |
The College of DuPage is excited to announce a major update to our Blackboard Learn system. While most of Blackboard continues to look and function exactly as it did before, the new service pack introduces several improved features for students. Below are links to information about some of these new features, as well as some helpful advice.
Users will experience problems when using Blackboard with Internet Explorer 9 when IE is set in Compatibility Mode.
This problem has been traced to the Internet Explorer browser and Compatibility settings. As an easy workaround, users may simply choose a different browser. However, the IE browser may be adjusted to allow it to work.
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Files can be attached, but not embedded in the Discussion Board.
When writing a discussion post, please do not use
Instead, click the Browse My Computer button in the Attachments section.
You can view your grade and any annotations your instructor made to your assignment submission directly from the assignment attempt without downloading the file.
When completing an assignment that allows multiple attempts, some students have reported problems seeing all attempts in My Grades when using the Internet Explorer browser.
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If you are having trouble with Blackboard, please check first whether you are using a supported system and browser. Visit the Software Recommendations page and ensure that the system you are using is appropriate. Sometimes switching to a different browser can solve a particular issue.
When you visit the Software Recommendations page, you will notice that mobile devices and their systems (iPads, Androids, etc.) are not listed. While you may have some success working with these devices in Blackboard, these devices are not supported. Taking a test on a mobile device is strongly discouraged.
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Kenya: Slum Community Radio Hits the Airwaves
A five-story apartment building on the edge of Kibera recently sprouted a new antenna. It isn't much to look at - just six-feet high and dwarfed by the satellite dish beside it. But this is the wand through which the Voice of Kibera is now being broadcast to the transistor radios of a million neighbours.
Pamoja 99.9 FM quietly added its signal to the air waves two weeks ago. It joins a growing chorus of community radio stations responding to the lack of local media coverage. "Mainstream media just aren't touching on anything to do with the day-to-day aspects of life in Kibera," explains Muchiri Kioi, Pamoja's director of operations and the driving force behind the fledgeling project. He says the station will focus on issues that bear directly on its listeners: environment, women's rights, drug abuse, and community awareness, among others. "Even free funeral and wedding announcements," he adds, "things that no one here has access to at the moment. If you tune in to any other radio station, it's as though the million people living here don't exist".
Pamoja's own struggle to exist is by no means over. In the first place, they had to overcome considerable resistance from a government that perceived them as supporting the Opposition.
"The fact that we are in Raila Odinga's constituency seemed to hinder our relations with the Communications Commission of Kenya," says Kioi. Odinga is a leading opposition politician in the Orange Democratic Movement and a presidential aspirant. It took two and a half years for Pamoja to finally clear the bureaucratic hurdles set before it by the regulatory body.
"Now that we finally have permission to broadcast, we do feel entitled to some monetary support from the MP. After all, we are working hard to improve living conditions in his constituency." Thus far, he adds, Odinga has expressed verbal support but is yet to back that up financially.
Pamoja's need is demonstrated by the modesty of its headquarters. The station broadcasts from the top floor of the X9 building in Kibera's Ayany estate, but most of the rooms are bare. There is only one computer, but no soundboards, and no back-up generator in an area that suffers from regular sustained power outages, meaning the broadcast often falls silent.
What money they have managed to raise has gone to pay rent and buy the bare essentials needed to put out a signal. To save costs, the studio was hand-built by Kioi and his team of 12 Kibera youths; they soundproofed the walls with hardboard and super foam, then lined the ceiling with egg cartons. The studio is equipped with just one computer, a hand-held microphone, a single headset and an outdated sound mixer.
"We've had a very difficult time getting anyone to invest in a radio station that wasn't already up and running," he says "but how do you start up a radio station without any funds? After almost three years, we've finally managed to get off the ground - but only just. We are in dire need of donations to modernise the studio."
As a non-profit venture, Pamoja FM is legally prohibited from selling advertising, making it even more difficult to generate funds.
In the meantime, Pamoja compensates for its penury with enthusiasm. The youths are clearly thrilled at the chance to control the airwaves, and Mr Kioi relishes the opportunity to give something back to the community he grew up in.
A graduate of the University of Nairobi's Journalism School, Kioi put aside a globe-trotting career to focus on this project. He started out as a photo-journalist, working for the Kenya Times and the Daily Nation before moving to South Africa, where he spent a year freelancing for various news outlets. He subsequently moved to Oslo, Norway, reporting for Service Press, before the harsh weather brought him back to Kenya. In 1997 he became the BBC's Rift Valley correspondent, covering the democratic struggles that tore the region apart that year. When peace returned, he joined BBC's East Africa Bureau in Nairobi and moved into radio, where he stayed until 2005 when he decided to start up a station of his own.
Kioi is using his connections and experience to train the next generation of Kibera youth. Both BBC and Internews have offered to help him mentor the team he's assembled, as have a handful of seasoned independent reporters coming from Kibera.
Pamoja's young DJs range in age from 17 to 26, representing a diversity of interests and experience. They are clearly thrilled at the opportunity now before them, and dedicate long unpaid hours to the project. They meet daily with Mr Kioi to plan their individual shows and orchestrate Pamoja's overall programme. They all continue to live in the slum they grew up in, and aside from a common desire for fame and fortune they are motivated to give expression to a community that rarely speaks for itself.
"I want to use my programme to help free the people who live here from captive mind frames," says Achmed Yusuf, 22. "They have opportunities, you know, they just need to see them."
Ibrahim Husein, a lanky 26-year-old, plans to host a talk show featuring local leaders, along with radio dramas highlighting such issues as drug abuse and HIV/Aids.
Chris Oluwenyi is a 19-year-old reggae artist who will be running the station's music segment, including a "Pass-the-Mic" programme that invites local artists to perform for their own crowd. "We have some incredible talent in Kibera," he says, "but it's all underground. No one has an outlet for their music. If we go to one of the bigger stations with a new song, they don't even look at us. But with Pamoja FM, local artists will have a chance to get their voices out."
Hadija Ahmed is a 22-year-old passionate about the environment, a pressing concern in a region famous for its flying toilets and garbage heaps. "We have to sensitise the people," she says, "because solutions exist for them right here - they can improve their own environment without waiting for help, but a lot of them just don't know how."
Pamoja FM itself is setting a fine example, having started life as a youth development centre four years ago. When Mr Kioi and his team first started thinking about ways to expand, they initially struck upon the idea of a community newspaper.
"But not many people in Kibera would ever buy a newspaper," he says, "and more importantly, there are many here who can't read."
Kioi describes the new radio station as the original Pamoja Development Centre's "daughter," asserting that the essential mission of helping Kiberans to help themselves remains unchanged - only the tactics have evolved. "We've got a wider network now," he says, "we've broadened our wings. But we're still Pamoja, still trying to bring Kiberans together."
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In the world of science, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is synonymous with “excellence.” Eleven scientists associated with Berkeley Lab have won the Nobel Prize and 55 Nobel Laureates either trained here or had significant collaborations with our Laboratory. Thirteen of our scientists have won the National Medal of Science, our nation's highest award for lifetime achievement in fields of scientific research. As of 2008, there have been 61 Berkeley Lab scientists elected into the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), considered one of the highest honors for a scientist in the United States. This translates to approximately three-percent of the total NAS membership, an unparalleled record of achievement. Eighteen of our engineers have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, and two of our scientists have been elected into the Institute of Medicine. In addition, Berkeley Lab has trained thousands of university science and engineering students who are advancing technological innovations across the nation and around the world.
Berkeley Lab is a member of the national laboratory system supported by the U.S. Department of Energy through its Office of Science. It is managed by the University of California (UC) and is charged with conducting unclassified research across a wide range of scientific disciplines. Located on a 200 acre site in the hills above the UC Berkeley campus that offers spectacular views of the San Francisco Bay, Berkeley Lab employs approximately 4,000 scientists, engineers, support staff and students. Its budget for 2008 was approximately $600 million. Studies estimate the Laboratory’s overall economic impact through direct, indirect and induced spending on the nine counties that make up the San Francisco Bay Area to be nearly $700 million annually. The overall economic impact on the global economy is an estimated $1.4 billion a year. Technologies developed at Berkeley Lab have generated billions of dollars in revenues, and thousands of jobs. Savings as a results of Berkeley Lab developments in lighting and windows, and other energy-efficient technologies, have also been in the billions of dollars.
Berkeley Lab was founded in 1931 by Ernest Orlando Lawrence, a UC Berkeley physicist who won the 1939 Nobel Prize in physics for his invention of the cyclotron, a circular particle accelerator that opened the door to high-energy physics. It was Lawrence’s belief that scientific research is best done through teams of individuals with different fields of expertise, working together. His teamwork concept is a Berkeley Lab legacy that continues today. | <urn:uuid:c6002ac2-5438-4242-b18e-0075e4915f15> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.biotechsciencenews.com/Resource/1544-Judith--Campisi%09%09.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00180-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958069 | 483 | 2.796875 | 3 |
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