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Mark Stanford, a music education major at Youngstown State University, has teamed up with the United Way to bring relief to Hurricane Sandy victims in his hometown of Bucks County, Pa.
Bucks County was one of the hardest-hit areas in Pennsylvania, experiencing power outages and damage to property, roads and public buildings.
Shortly after the storm hit, Stanford contacted the United Way to see how he could help the area.
“We are in the position of advancing the common good,” said Danielle Bush, community impact assistant for the United Way. “We connect; we make connections for the agencies. We are not a direct service provider.”
United Way of Bucks County serves the community as a nonprofit organization, funding 52 programs and 31 agencies.
After the storm, the United Way found that food banks across the area were unable to deal with the increase in food necessities.
Relief services could offer only limited support, as they were preoccupied with highly damaged areas. In addition, the requests for relief from food banks grew, and resources ran thin across the coast.
“It was just very vulnerable, you know, if something were to happen again,” Stanford said.
The United Way is now working to help restock supplies, and in an effort to assist, Stanford has launched a campuswide fundraiser.
He’s placed collection boxes in each residence hall, and a box was included in the Tunnel of Oppression, which was located in Kilcawley Center last week.
Stanford is now running the fundraiser through the Catholic Student Association at YSU, and he has reached out to other organizations such as Housing and Residence Life and the Scholars and Honors Program.
Stanford has also worked with other students and faculty members across campus to help the program expand.
“As of right now, I think I have raised $100, which is a decent amount, but I think we have higher goals,” Stanford said.
He has worked with Cory Okular, president of the Student Government Association, and Ronald Shaklee, director of the Scholars and Honors Program, to create an incentive program to encourage university scholars and honors students to donate.
“I have agreed to allow a prize to be letting somebody pie me in the face if they raise $300 in donations,” Okular said.
If students in the program can raise $600 by the end of the week, the chance to pie both Okular and Shaklee by the semester’s end will be raffled off.
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This webinar provides evidence for the use of RNA in situ hybridization (RNA ISH) as a replacement for immunohistochemistry (IHC) in cancer research and diagnostic applications.
IHC is the gold standard for many diagnostics, but the approach has some shortcomings, including low diagnostic sensitivity, background staining, unstable antibodies, no available antibodies and a multitude of staining protocols.
RNA ISH has the ability to overcome these problems with IHC and has the potential to address issues with other technologies, including molecular “grind and bind” methods such as PCR, next-generation sequencing and gene expression profiling. The RNAscope RNA ISH method from Advanced Cell Diagnostics uses a brightfield in situ hybridization-based assay to visualize cellular RNA in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue sections. The highly sensitive assay shows promise for detecting biomarkers that are missed by other methods.
In this webinar, IHC expert Fan Lin of Geisinger Health System reviews the common applications of RNA ISH in anatomic pathology, discusses how to interpret RNA ISH results and touches on the potential pitfalls of RNA ISH. | <urn:uuid:8be4a6b8-e549-4a1d-a3b0-5d8e92247ab8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.360dx.com/resources/webinars/rna-situ-hybridization-next-generation-immunohistochemistry | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.918458 | 237 | 1.976563 | 2 |
• A local, slice-of-life story from a Monitor correspondent.
Ireland’s fall from financial grace is one of the most dramatic in the Western world. The flashy cars and jet-setting lifestyles that came with the country’s unprecedented economic growth between 1995-2007 – known as the Celtic Tiger period – are now all rapidly disappearing.
But away from the bigger cities, in the rural villages of Ireland, such as my home village of Ballymahon in the country’s midlands, the roar of the Celtic Tiger brought about only one major change – houses, and lots of them.
Real estate construction was a major facet of Ireland’s economic miracle. At one point, the construction sector employed some 15 percent of the Irish workforce. Easy credit and over-speculation by housing developers led to years of unbridled development, especially in traditionally underpopulated areas, which benefited from tax-exemption schemes for development.
The result was a dramatic change to the physical space and nomenclature of the village where I grew up. Ballymahon’s hinterland areas have names, anglicized from Gaelic, that connect the name to the place – Terlicken (place of flat stones), Gurteen (the small tillage field), Lissaniskey (water fort), Shrule (small river), Drinan (blackthorn bush), and so on.
As the years passed and the development scramble heated up, new names such as Auburn Village, Moyvale, Thomand Hall, and Hill Crescent, jostled in with the old. But now these brand-new suburban-style housing developments with a terra cotta aesthetic sit meaninglessly in the rural landscape.
In Ballymahon, as in many other similar villages dotted across rural Ireland, the lasting legacy of Ireland’s deep recession is hundreds of empty, unsold houses; a hijacked organization of space; and a visually polluted rural vista.
“You can’t put a price on these houses now,” says Jenny White, a Ballymahon-based real estate agent tasked with the job of selling off the estimated 40 percent of units that remain empty and unsold around the village. “Nobody is going to buy a house here now, so technically [they’re] not worth anything.” | <urn:uuid:37ec2cde-a97a-402a-abd2-e6694f99007d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2010/0219/Ireland-s-rural-wasteland-a-legacy-of-deep-recession | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.944777 | 490 | 2.25 | 2 |
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be accumulated in the course of a year, and the cost will be merely nominal.
Applying The Manure.—As soon as the winter rains are well started the manure may be applied to the orchard. Care should be taken not to heap it about the bodies of the trees. It is of very little use there in any event, and may do harm. It should be spread over the ground as far as the lateral roots extend and, with large trees, the whole surface of the ground may be covered with advantage. Turn it in with a plow, and the work is done. The rains will carry the soluble elements down into the earth, making them available for the roots, and the fibrous matter will be incorporated with the surface soil to its great benefit. Stiff soils are thus rendered more friable, and sandy soils more loamy.
Both will be susceptible to finer tilth and will retain moisture the better therefor.
Artificial Fertilizers.—When California orange growers shall have utilized the cheap fertilizers at hand, which now go to waste, and then feel the necessity for more concentrated manures, it will be time to talk to them about the manufactured article. My object at present is to urge upon them the subject of fertilizing in the main. If they do it at all they will do it well. I believe the home-made compost heap, as outlined above, would furnish all that is required in the way of fertilizers at a tithe of the expense of the commercial compounds.
Let the California orange grower renew his soil in some way, and the sooner he begins this task the better.
ENEMIES OP THE ORANGE TREE.
The orange tree has its enemies;—so have we all. Probably the horde of orange tree pests is no more numerous or implacable than that which proys upon our other domestic trees; but when it comes to numbering and cataloguing them—aye, or fighting them either—they seem formidable enough. It is this numbering and cataloguing and studying their habits which painstaking men have performed for us that has placed within our hands the weapons for their destruction. Let nobody be appalled by the array of orangetree pests presented in these and subsequent pages; they do not all attack at once, and by taking them in detail and following prescribed methods, every one of them can be vanquished.
The Gopher.—This is a .little animal resembling a rat; somewhat more compactly built and with shovel teeth and a stubby tail. He burrows in the ground and is almost a universal pest in California. He is especially destructive with orange trees because he attacks the roots, many times doing the utmost damage without giving*evidence upon the surface that he is at work. The first indication,
perhaps, is the wilting of the leaves, and then, when one seeks the cause, the tree topples over, the main root having been eaten entirely away. In attacking large trees the gopher's method is to girdle the main stock just below the surface and then destroy the lateral roots by peeling away the bark.
How To Fight Him.—The way to serve the gopher is to carry the war into Africa, and fight a battle of extermination. Do not wait for him to attack a tree. As soon as you discover his mound of earth thrown up anywhere in the orchard, or near it, open hostilities.
Poison.—I have found crystals of strychnine one of the handiest and surest means of giving the gopher his quietus. I provide myself with a little bottle or box of poisoned raisins which I keep constantly in my pocket while about the farm. Then, upon discovering a gopher mound I dig it away and work down until the hole is exposed. A couple of the raisins are thrown in as far as they will go and the gopher is left to his fate. Sometimes, hower, ho resists temptation to the extent of filling the hole and throwing the raisins up with the dirt. Then it is necessary to dig and try it again. If he refuses the raisin bait entirely, try him with a wedge of poisoned watermelon, or a piece of carrot or turnip or sweet potato. Never give up until you are sure that the gopher is dead. If allowed to remain he will surely do some mischief and, what is worse, he will soon have a family to join him in his marauding. After poisoning a hole, you will generally find it filled up, but if there are no after evidences of work in that vicinity you may conclude that the poison has been effective. As previously remarked, strychnine is the best destroyer. Pulverize the crystals snd insert only a little of the powder in the bait. Arsenic will not serve at all; the gopher fattens on it.
Traps.—Several patterns of gophertraps are in use, the best of which are skeleton claws, which are inserted in the hole and close with a spring upon the gopher when he pushes the trigger. In setting them it is best to dig down to the main runaway and place the trap as nearly on a level as possible. Then cover the hole with something to exclude the light. The most successful trap I have ever found is called the Cushing, and is constructed of wire, with a sheet-iron trigger. It has "a very taking way " with the gophers.
Squirrels.—Another burrowing pest is the ground squirrel. He has his nest below ground and a hole for entrance and exit much larger than the gopher hole, which he always leaves open. He does not attack the roots of a tree unless they happen to be in his way while tunneling. The damage which he does the orange tree is in gnawing the bark of the trunk.
Exterminators.—Squirrels are exterminated by poison and by fumigations with apparatus gotten up for the purpose of driving bi-sulphide or carbon gas or brimstone smoke into their holes. Wrapping or whitewashing the trees, as suggested in the chapter on planting, is a good means of protection against squirrels. These pests are by no means so universal as gophers and are more easily disposed of.
Rarrits.—Both the Jack and the "Cotton Tail" rabbit are destructive enemies to the orange tree, gnawing the bark as
high as they can reach. Wrapping or whitewashing the trunk is a protection against them. Some people suspend bits of bright tin in their trees, the glint of which in either sunlight or moonlight, frightens the depredators away. Another method is to smear the trunks with diluted blood. The rabbit has a fine sense of smell, and this offense to his olfactories keeps him away. Kabbits are disposed of with the shot gun with double advantage, if one has time to hunt them. Otherwise poison may be used or the services of a good dog or cat invoked. When one starts an orchard in a comparatively new and wild region, all measures of protection seem ineffectual except a rabbit-tight fence.
Grasshoppers.—In newly settled localities grasshoppers are apt to prove troublesome for a number of years, or until all the contiguous lands are brought under cultivation. Plowing the ground seems to kill their eggs and put an end to the nuisance. When grasshoppers preyail to a considerable extent they destroy young orange trees by denuding them of leaves and even stripping the bark from the tender shoots. The best protection to small trees is to wrap the stocks with paper or cloth and enclose the top in a grain bag or other covering. Chickens are of great service in making war upon grasshoppers. I have colonized my flocks in the orange orchard with the most satisfactory results to the chickens and the trees.
Scale Insects.—The most formidable enemies, after all, are the scale insects; probably because they are the most insignificant. They belong to a low order of animal life known as coccidse. I shall not here attempt a techinal description of the scale insects, but will rather refer the reader to the scientific discussion of the subject taken fron the work of Hon. Matthew Cooke and appearing as an appendix to this work. I cannot too highly commend the efforts of Mr. Cooke in behalf of th,e fruit growers of our State. They owe him a debt of gratitude which must needs be paid in installments by successive generations. For the fullest information relative to insects injurious to> all tree and plant life I take pleasure irk referring my readers to Mr. Cooke's work.*
The Black Scale.—This is the most common, and is considered the least dangerous of the scale family. It may exist in a tree a long time without destroying it, but we may be sure the effect is constantly deleterious. The scale appears in all tints from a whity yellow of the newlyhatched to a brown of middle age and black in maturity, and in form is a little blister adhering to leaf, stem or stock. It does not attach itself to the fruit. Trees thus infested should be thoroughly pruned and washed with a solution of whale-oil soap as directed in the appendix.
Fungus, Ok Smut.—This is an attendant of the black scale. Scientific investigation has shown that the scale excretes a gummy substance called honey-dew, which, in falling, attaches to the upper surfaces of leaves, twigs and fruit. This gum holds the dust that chances to fall upon the surfaces covered by it, and the mass generates a fungus growth termed back smut. This smut, although seeming to do no damage to the tree other than to render it unsightly, must retard its growth by obstructing the stomata or air-breathing surfaces of leaves and branches. It also renders the fruit unsalable, or nearly so. Neither scale nor smut should be tolerated in an orchard. The whale-oil soap solution extirpates both.
This Red Scale.—This is similar to the
black scale, except that it is somewhat smaller and of a reddish color. It adheres only to the under side of leaves and to the fruit, and avoids the limbs and trunk. The red scale is more dangerous than the black and, if unmolested, will utterly destroy an orchard in a few years. For treatment see Appendix.
The White Or Cottony Cushion Scale.—This approaches more nearly to a distinct animal than either of the other scales and is the most dangerous of the three. For full description and manner of treatment see Appendix.
Gum Disease.—Lemon trees especially and orange trees occasionally, are subject to gum disease, an affection of the bark close to the ground. This is caused by injudiciuos irrigation. The bark splits and a gum exudes. If unchecked, the disease encircles the tree and kills it. The best treatment upon discovering the first symptoms of gum disease is to cut away the affected part and daub the wound with paint, wax or tar. In irrigating thereafter do not allow the water to touch the body of the tree and be sure that the soil is well stirred after each irrigation.
"Die Back" and many of the other maladies to which the orange trees of Florida and some other lands are subject are wholly unknown in this country.
♦note.—Injurious Insects of the Orchard, Vineyard, etc., by Matthew Cooke, late Chief Executive Horticultural Officer of California. Sacramento: H. B. Crocier & Co.
The Young Orchard. — When the young trees are planted in orchard it is a good plan to give them a thorough washing. Whatever of extraneous growth, either scale or smut, may be upon them is thus cleared off, and the trees are given a clean start in life, which is as valuable to them as to a man.
Preventive As Well As Cure.—If the plan is followed of giving the trees a washing once or twice a year thereafter it will greatly promote their vigor and insure them against attack by the scale insect. With these pests of the orange tree the ounce ef prevention is a hundred t imes the easiest and best.
Washing Sovereign And Imperative. —For older trees already infested with scale, washing is the only reliable remedy. When once cleaned, they too should receive periodical sprayings and scrubbings. It might as well be accepted by the orange growers of California as an unavoidable conclusion that all orange trees, to be healthy, productive and long lived, must be washed.
The Solution in common use for this purpose is made of whale-oil or some other cheap and strong soap. For my use I have found the addition of a little concentrated lye most efficacious. The strength of the solution needs to be varied to suit requirements. The strongest is needed in treating obstinate cases of scale. For simply washing trees to cleanse them, and as a measure of prevention I recommend the following:
A Simple Wash.—Heat the water almost to the boiling point and dissolve in it sufficient concentrated lye to make it slippery between the fingers. Then add whale-oil soap, a quarter pound to the gallon. The solution may be applied to the trees hot without danger of injuring them.
Stronger Solutions. — For stronger washes, and those of various kinds, such as tobacco mixture, coal oil emulsion, etc., see the recipes of Matthew Cooke in the Appendix to this work.
Method Of Application.—A broom or a scrubbing brush is serviceable for washing the stock and main limbs of tbe tree. In treating the tops, the solution may be "switched" in with a broom or brush or sprayed with a hand sprinkler. The switching process is available only with small trees when the tops are well thinned out. For those of larger growth a hand sprinkler, such as shown in the accompanying illustration, is used:
no. 2—The Force Pump.
The Sprayer.—Fig. 1 illustrates a hand sprayer with the nozzle attached to the piston: The bucket containing the solution is placed on the ground and the apparatus worked with both hands. This will throw a rose-spray to the heighth of twelve or fifteen feet, or a solid stream twenty feet.
The pump shown in Fig 2 is known as the Excelsior No. 1. It is generally mounted on a barrel containing the solution, and the whole apparatus is hauled about the orchard in a wagon. The advantage of this pump is that, being double acting, it throws a continuous stream. Double hose may be attached, thus giving two streams simultaneously. The wash is applied through a three-quarter inch hose twelve or fifteen feet long with a nozzle of ordinary iron pipe eight or ten feet long, which can be pushed well into the top of the tree by the operator. The spray is formed by closing theend of the pipe excepting only a thin slit. Four men make up the spraying party:—one to drive the team, one to work the pump and two to hold the nozzles. With this force at work an orchard is soon gone over.
WORKING, WATCHING AND WAITING.
'But the waiting time, my brothers, is the hardest time of all." A Year Or Two Lost.—As stated in a
preceding chapter, the orange tree loses a year's growth in trans-planting. Under the most favorable circumstances it is not until the second year in orchard that the tree regains its normal vigor. If in the meantime any special causes have intervened to set it back, such as the loss or partial loss of its leaves by grasshoppers, or the gnawing of its roots or stock by vermin, or injury by frost—any or all of which are liable to occur—the tree may not get a good start before the beginning of the third year after planting. If it do not show itself in a thrifty growing condition by that time, better dig it up and throw it away. I would not wait that long with a tree that gave earlier evidences of being stunted.
When Budded Trees Yield.—But if good budded trees are planted and thrive well from the start, the third year in orchard they ought to yield a little fruit, by way of sample. The fourth year they will produce more, but not enough to bring much revenue. At the end of the fifth year there should be quite a fine crop. If the trees have been retarded in any way the fruiting may be a year later. Accordingly, the man who plants an orchard of budded oranges, must expect to wait from five to six years for his first substantial proceeds.
When Seedlings Yield.—With seedling trees one must wait nine or ten years.
A Long Wait.—Five years is a long time; ten years a great deal longer. If a man is possessed of a plethoric purse he can abide the issue with equanimity; but for one who is dependant for a living upon his own energies this hiatus is a most serious matter. It is a matter which one should weigh well and provide against before embarking in the enterprise. Not only must the family have a living, but there is a continual demand for the expenditure of money or its equivalent— energy—in caring for the orchard.
Tiding Over.—Many and divers ways are resorted to by men of limited resources to tide over this period of waiting. The mechanic finds work at his trade for a part of each year; the teacher returns to teaching, and the professional man to his practice. If the previous vacation was that of a farmer the orohardist can generally find work to do near at home in caring for the places of others or in general farm labor. Some may be able to pay
their way as they go from their own places. Such are to be envied most of all. It often happens, however, that the fruit farm par excellence is not well adapted to raising general produce. This is the case with many of the mesa locations.
Helps.—But with all farms established on a right basis there are helps to the living which prove most valuable at this period. The cow is one of these adjuncts; chickens another; the vegetable garden a third. If a man is provident he can have his patch of alfalfa and his fodder growing in odd strips and corners of the place, thereby providing, without any outlay of cash, enough feed for his cow and some to help along with the support of the other animals. Chickens, as an auxiliary, under the charge of the gentle and painstaking housewife, are not to be despised; but I warn the novice against placing too much dependence on the chicken business as a principal means of livelihood. Heretofore some people, principally dealers in fancy stock, have indulged in a good deal of hyperbole regarding the profits of the poultry yard, and some other people have believed them and have been badly disappointed.
Economy Wins.—The thrifty man, aided by his helpmeet, can devise many ways to cut down expenses and produce a little revenue pending the issue of the main horticultural venture; and those who address themselves earnestly to the task, and keep clear of debt, generally work through and find themselves on the comfortable side of independence in a few years.
Diversified Planting.—Most people who improve small places diversify their planting, i. e. set a portion of the farm in deciduous fruits and a portion in grapevines; and some devote consideroble space to small fruits. These come into bearing at two to four years and shorten the unproductive period correspondingly.
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Network options for the BTL series
Micropulse transducers are available with various network options.
CANopen offers greater flexibility through comprehensive configurability of the position.
Micropulse transducers transmit absolute position and speed, 4 byte each, with a maximum cycle time of 1ms to the control.
The resolution of the position can be adjusted in 5 μm steps and the resolution of the speed in 0.1 mm / s steps. Work spaces and zero point can be defined for each position encoder.
Typical features of the open VARAN interface are fast real-time data transmission with cycle times <100 μs, automatic addressing, hot plug-in, high failure-protection, low implementation costs, easy maintenance and service with appropriate service and diagnostic tools.
EtherCAT focuses on extremely short cycle times (≤ 100 μs), low jitters for exact synchronization (≤ 1 μs) and low hardware costs.
IO-Link is a point-to-point connection under any network.
PROFINET is an industrial bus system based on the physical layer of the Ethernet. The BTL can detect and process up to 16 magnets. The maximum number of magnets depends on the nominal length. The position and velocity of each magnet can be output.
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Costco Wholesale Canada Inc. is recalling Rader Farms Fresh Start Smoothie Blend from the marketplace due to possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination surrounding the spinach and kale contained in the fruit and veggie blend. Consumers should not consume the recalled product described below.
|Brand Name||Common Name||Size||Code(s) on Product||UPC|
|Rader Farms||Fresh Start Smoothie Blend||6 Pouches – 8 oz Each Net
Weight 48 oz (1361 g)
|8 84038 85148 9|
What you should do
Check to see if you have recalled product in your home. Recalled product should be thrown out or returned to the store where it was purchased.
Food contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes may not look or smell spoiled but can still make you sick. Symptoms can include vomiting, nausea, persistent fever, muscle aches, severe headache and neck stiffness. Pregnant women, the elderly and people with weakened immune systems are particularly at risk. Although infected pregnant women may experience only mild, flu-like symptoms, the infection can lead to premature delivery, infection of the newborn or even stillbirth. In severe cases of illness, people may die.
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A bill to put higher-alcohol beer in Utah grocery and convenience stores was gutted by a House committee Wednesday and replaced by one that would create a task force to study the proposal.
But the initial bill still could be revived on the House floor, said its sponsor, Sen. Jerry Stevenson.
“It’s not over,” the Layton Republican said after the vote.
The initial version of SB132 would have hiked the alcohol limit on retail beer from its current 3.2 percent by weight to 4.8 percent.
Even with such a change, Utah’s alcohol limit for grocery store beer still would rank among the nation’s strictest, said Stevenson, who resisted the task force measure, saying it was unnecessary.
“I’ve studied this for three years now,” Stevenson said. "This is a good move."
Even before Wednesday’s hearing, the lawmaker said he knew the proposal was in jeopardy after House leadership placed it before the Health and Human Services Committee. Liquor bills usually are heard by the Business and Labor Committee.
“It was sent to this committee for one reason,” he said. “To kill it.”
Utah’s predominant faith, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, opposed the original proposal, but Stevenson said the measure was about business and commerce. If Utah were to keep the 3.2 beer status quo, it would harm consumers, who would have fewer product choices, and stores, especially ones in which beer makes up a significant chunk of their sales.
More than a week ago, the Senate approved Stevenson’s original bill, 27-2.
Kate Bradshaw, director of the Responsible Beer Choice Coalition, which supported Stevenson’s initial bill, said the Senate may not be agreeable to a task force proposal when it comes up for a vote. "The House and the Senate are not in agreement on this.”
Bradshaw also was concerned about the makeup of the proposed task force, which was heavily weighted toward those in the alcohol-prevention and underage-drinking groups.
Under current state law, only beer that is 3.2 percent by weight (or 4 percent by volume) can be sold in grocery and convenience stores. Stronger beer is sold in liquor stores operated by the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.
In recent months, alcohol law shifts in other states have caused Utah’s 3.2 beer selection to evaporate. New laws took effect in Oklahoma and Colorado that allowed higher-alcohol beer to be sold in grocery stores. Kansas is not far behind; it will allow full-strength beer in stores April 1.
Large companies, such as Anheuser-Busch and MillerCoors, have said that it’s not worth brewing lighter beer for such a small market.
Small-business owners, Utah grocery and convenience stores, beer distributors and some brewers have been pushing to boost the alcohol limit so consumer selection is maintained.
“If this bill is not approved, we stand to lose $2.5 million in sales,” warned David Hancock, vice president and chief legal counsel for Maverik Inc. Stores have had changes to about 58 beer products in recent months, “and we are reassessing employee staffing at stores.”
Gayle Ruzicka, president of the Utah Eagle Forum, said the state should be concerned about the effect more alcohol would have on underage drinkers.
“What will the [additional] alcohol do to these children?” she asked. “We already know it affects developing brains and driving. It affects their grades and their lives drastically. Please consider the children.”
Utah brewers are divided about stronger beer.
Small brewers, like Fisher Brewing in Salt Lake City, would like to see the alcohol cap increased to 4.8 percent, said head brewer Colby Frazier.
“This is a moderate, responsible way to move the needle,” he said, " and it would allow brewers to make a wider variety of beers."
Larger brewers, however, say the small bump to 4.8 percent alcohol by weight (6 percent ABV) gives an advantage to the mega-brewers.
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Widsith (wĭdˈsĭth) [key], 7th-century Anglo-Saxon poem found in the Exeter Book. It is an account of the wanderings of a Germanic minstrel and of the legends he relates. The poem gives an excellent description of minstrel life in the Germanic heroic age.
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Peter King hearing: Why won't media – or Muslims – address Islamism in America?
America’s freedoms aren't in danger from Islamists. But we can't ignore Islamist influences on Muslim-American organizations. It is not enough for Muslims here simply to assert their rights but also to address questions whose continued neglect fuels understandable anxieties.
Boston and Washington — How worried should we be about Muslims in America?
That question lies at the heart of this week’s controversial hearing about radicalization in America’s Muslim community chaired by Rep. Peter King (R) of New York. Supporters call it a timely investigation. Critics call it a witch hunt.
But as Arab uprisings raise prospects for broader Islamist governance in the Middle East, both sides should use the hearings to reflect on how US policies toward Islamists overseas could inform the way we address Muslim activists here at home. Despite obvious differences, there are some parallels worth pondering.
Whether overseas or at home, we have typically muddled along, often pursuing the path of least resistance.
In Egypt, this meant supporting a dictator who kept the Islamists at bay. Here in the US, our approach has been more multifaceted, but ad hoc and opportunistic nevertheless.
A day of reckoning
Consequently, the day may come when we wake up, as we have in Egypt, to the realization that our aversion to more-demanding, far-sighted approaches leaves us with fewer and less-palatable options here at home than we would like.
At bottom, Islamists are Muslims who want to make the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad the basis of government. In Egypt, they are organized as the Muslim Brotherhood, exercising their clout through social, charitable, educational, and political channels. Islamists don’t enjoy similar influence here, but they have long been a prominent factor in the political life of American Muslims.
This does not mean that Islamists reflect the views of the majority of Muslims in either country. Nor does it mean that most Muslim-American leaders are members of the Muslim Brotherhood, though many have been and some may still be. The key point is that the leadership of the Muslim American community does have historical ties and intellectual debts to Islamism. Here, as in Egypt, Islamism has importantly shaped the discourse and the organizations that Muslims are now using to carve out civic and political space for their religion.
Does this mean that America’s freedoms are in danger from these same Islamists? We think not. But we are struck as well by the tendency of many in the United States, including the media and various government agencies, to ignore the Islamist influences on established Muslim-American organizations and their leaders. For example, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), which has origins and ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, is routinely described and treated as though it were just another civil rights or advocacy organization.
The price of ignorance
In turn, such studied ignorance in the face of this easily verified history, has created a backlash among other Americans that something important is being hidden from them – a sure recipe for generating conspiracies and popular distrust of Muslim Americans more generally.
Not unlike former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s approach toward his opponents, this has led others to indulge such instincts and fixate exclusively on these organizations’ links to Islamism, however remote or attenuated.
These divergent responses are each in their own way inadequate. Not surprisingly, both sides reach out to Muslims who suit their purposes. Such “user-friendly Muslims” either denounce extremism, paint mainstream Muslim-American organizations in the worst possible light, or gratify some other positive or negative interpretation of Islam. One way or another, these individuals embrace some value or values that resonate with non-Muslims – whether secularism, humanism, feminism, pacifism, or gay rights.
The problem is that such Muslims tend to come from minority sects, like the Ahmadiyya and Ismailis, or the more numerous Sufis. Despite their many talents and often good intentions, these “represetatives” aren’t really representative: they lack meaningful connections to the vast majority of Muslim Americans. And while the leading organizations may not adequately reflect the views of all Muslim Americans, or even a majority, their well-established and ongoing relationships with Muslim communities across the United States afford them better street-level credibility than the “user-friendly” alternatives.
Separate fact from fiction
What to do?
First, our elites, ever prone to political correctness, must face up more forthrightly to the Islamist origins and lingering influences on mainstream Muslim-American leaders and organizations. Once this step is taken, we can begin to sort out genuine concerns and threats from presumed ones.
Although Islamists might seek to convert their fellow citizens to their faith, they do not pose the threat that many Americans might assume. Muslims are simply too few in numbers to produce any real change in this deeply Christian country. Moreover, as we have seen with other immigrant groups, and to the credit of the American way of life, the passage of time, the pursuit of successful careers, and the raising of families in tolerant and religion-friendly communities have smoothed the rough edges of many an Islamist. After all, if the Muslim Brotherhood has earned much less than majority support in the fertile environment of Egypt, what exactly do we have to fear from Islamists here?
For their part, Muslim Americans must face up to the full implications of the Islamist origins and history of their leadership. To be sure, for many, this is a legacy of struggle and pride. Yet here in America it is also a source of confusion among many Muslim Americans as to their obligations to Muslims around the globe – the ummah – and to their fellow Americans.
At a time when Americans, including some Muslims, are in combat overseas against Muslim adversaries, Muslim Americans cannot afford to consider themselves as a community apart. If they are to realize full citizenship, it is not enough for Muslims here simply to assert their rights but also to address questions whose continued neglect fuels understandable anxieties about Islam among their fellow citizens. | <urn:uuid:e33468f0-687a-4550-a497-8322bfe54690> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2011/0310/Peter-King-hearing-Why-won-t-media-or-Muslims-address-Islamism-in-America | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719027.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00301-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958402 | 1,251 | 1.929688 | 2 |
It is a pleasure to be here with you tonight. This night would not have been possible if it were not for the tremendous effort of so many people. Thank you all for organising and hosting this event.
Thank you for LBC administration. Thank you Michael Fink, Rabbi Jonathan, Jerry, Rafiq, Albert and all others involved.
I like to share some thoughts about the Muslim practice of fasting.
Fasting is part of all Abrahamic religions. Abstinence from food clears the body and mind to boost the spirit. In Islam, overindulgence in food is considered as a character flow. The Prophet advises that it is ideal to fill ⅓ of the stomach with food, ⅓ with water and the last ⅓ with air. In other words Muslims are not supposed to eat to their fill. It is also highly recommended to eat only when hungry. Bloating dampens the spirit.
For a whole month every year, Muslims fast every day from sunrise to sunset. Food, drink, smoke, and sex are all forbidden during the course of the day. This fasting is ordained on adult Muslims. The young, the frail, pregnant and nursing women, travellers are exempted from fasting.
Ramadan is the one month of the year where Muslims cleanse their inside as they try to clean their outlook. Abstinence from food, drink and sex are the common features of fasting. But Almighty wants us to cleanse our hearts and senses as well. The eyes are cleansed from looking at forbidden things, our ears from spying and listening to Haram, our hearts from carrying grudges against other humans, our mouths from telling lies or abusing other creatures of God and our hands from stealing or abusing the Law of Almighty in any way.
The month of Ramadan is a once-a-year crash course that would set Muslims right on the correct path for the rest of the year. Whoever faces up to his commitments in this month with an honest effort is assured the highest rewards in this life and the Hereafter.
Families train their young to fast. For the toddlers, perhaps an hour’s fasting that is generously rewarded by the parents may be the start. Then the period is increased gradually as the child grows up. For the primary school age children fasting from the morning till lunch time is usual. When children reach the age of puberty they must be able to fast the full day. This is the aim of such training.
Muslims usually break their daily fast in communal gatherings, like the one we’re having tonight. This practice cements relations between individuals and gives them that sense of community.
As you know, Muslims are required to pray five times every day and night. In the month of Ramadan an extra night prayer is shared by Muslims who gather in the mosque for the additional prayers.
There is no doubt that fasting affects the physical ability of people. Life for the Muslim generally slows down in Ramadan as hunger and interrupted sleep affect our bodies. But on the positive side, we find that we reach a high level of spirituality that brings us to attain that feeling of oneness with the whole universe.
At the end of Ramadan, Muslims celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr which simply means the festival of breaking the fast. A morning prayer at about 8 o’clock in the morning at the local mosque starts the day of celebrations for most Muslims. Communal breakfast in the usual morning time follows to be shared by all. The days of Eid-ul-Fitr are time for merriment and enjoyment. Children are usually pampered on these days with new cloths, toys and outings.
The benefits that may be earned from fasting are quite numerous:
- One would regain command of his/her desires.
- Patience is practiced rather than preached.
- Only a hungry person would understand how hunger affects people. Fasting would develop a sense of responsibility towards hungry people in the world.
- Highly spiritual elevations occur where one experiences real inner peace.
These are some of the benefits of fasting. But fasting in the month of Ramadan is an act of obedience to Almighty, our Creator, Who knows what is best for us.
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Getting clean in physique and mind, wearing Rudraksha mala by neck and Bhasma on forehead, One should keep on reciting Siva Panchakshari, viz. ‘Om Namaha Sivaya’ and perform worship as prescribed in the Scriptures.
The service of bilva puja, ‘abhisheka’( Vedic bath of milk, coconut water and finallyof ash or bhasma and so on along with ‘Naivedya’ are an integral part of the worship. More specifically, each service be designated by addressing the Lord as follows:
Om Namah Sivaya- Prokshana (sprinkling of water) on various Puja materials;
Om Namah Rudraya-Kshetra Suddhi (Purification of surroundings);
Om Namah Nilagreevaya-Panchamrita prokshanam (sprinkling of mixture of milk, curd, sugar, honey, fruit);
Om Mahesaya Namah-Asanam ( Seating); Om Paramesvaraya Namah- ‘Nyasam’or identification of self with by Paramesvara by offering the entirety to Him;
Om namah Visvarupaya-Padyam or water for cleaning His feet; recitation of Rudra Gayatri [ Om Bhur Bhuvah Svaha Om Tatpurushaya Vidmahe Maha Devaya Dheemahi Tanno Rudrah prachodayaat];
Om Ghrishnaya Namah- Uttareeyam ( clothing);
Om Parthaya Namah-Bilva Patra Puja; Om Kapardineya Namah-Dhupam ( incense sticks);
Om Jyeshthaya Namah-Dadhyanna or curd rice Naivedyam;
Om Rudraya Namah- Phalam or fruits; Om Vrajaya Namah- ‘Sakalam’ or every thing;
Om Hiranya Garbhaya Namah- Dakshina or Present to the Pandit performing the worship;
Om Devasya Namah- ‘Abhishekam’;
Om Sambho namah- ‘Neerajanam’ or Aarathi;
Om Parama Sivaya Namah-‘ Sashtanga Namaskara’ and offerings of Siva Mudras].
Keeping in mind the Five Faced Bhagavan with the names of Sadyojata, Vamadeva, Aghora, Tatpurusha and Esana, one concludes the worship by reciting: Bhavaya, Bhavanasakaya, Mahadevaya, Dhimahi, Ugraya, Ugranasaya, Sarvaaya, Sashi Mouliney!
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Panasonic's SFY relay series features a force-guided contact structure that complies with EN 50205, Type A. This structure enables detection of contact welding and construction of a safety circuit. They have a small size and low profile - 4 pole: (L x W x H) 31.0 x 28.6 x 14.5 mm, 6 pole: (L x W x H) 39.0 x 28.6 x 14.5 mm, and offer different contact arrangements including: 4 pole: 2 Form A 2 Form B, 3 Form A 1 Form B; and 6 pole: 4 Form A 2 Form B, 5 Form A 1 Form B.
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"Absent parent" is a legal term that may define the way some parents relate or fail to relate to their children. These parents are not the custodial parent, or the parent with whom a child lives. Instead, they are non-custodial parents who do not reside with the child.
There are a couple of ways the term absent parent can be used. Once child custody arrangements are determined, the parent who does not live with the child, and who usually only has visiting rights without sharing custody, is the absent parent. This parent can still be involved in a child’s life and pay child support, but he or she doesn’t live with the child, so he or she is absent or missing from the child’s daily life.
Another form of absent parent is one who is completely missing from the child’s life, fully abandoning the child and having nothing to do with him or her. This includes acts such as refusing to make child support payments or refusal to participate in the child's life.
If an absent parent does not provide child support, and in the absence of a mutual and voluntary arrangement between the parents, an absent parent may owe back child support at a later time. The absent parent may be responsible for some support payments if the parent and child have depended on social services like welfare. To avoid this, parents have to go to court and sever the parental rights of the uninvolved parent. This same requirement may exist if at a later point, the custodial parent remarries and has a spouse who would like to adopt the child of the absent parent.
When an absent parent needs to pay missed child support payments, courts can seize assets to help make these payments or garnish paychecks. When parents purposely avoid fulfilling their responsibility to their children, custodial parents can use investigators or a variety of services to locate them. Once found, absent parents usually will need to appear in court to discuss their failure to pay adequate child support and are generally given information on new payments and how they will be deducted.
I recently learned my husband, a Florida resident, had a Florida judgment in 1985 awarding $27,000 to the Ocean County Social Services, NJ, in back payments for welfare payments to his ex-wife and two small children. I checked and this award is now worth $68,000.
Ocean County is "not interested" in pursuing this. Can you believe that? My husband makes more than $50,000 a year and we have no bills so he can easily afford to pay but the government can't be bothered.
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Glowlight tetras (Hemigrammus erythrozonus) are small tank fishes of Tetra family, which have a nice glowing stripe along their body. A school of these fishes can impress even an experienced and skilled aquarist. With aging the fish body color becomes more and more saturated and the fish becomes more good looking.
Neon fish (lat. Paracheirodon innesi) is a kind of freshwater fish from Characidae family and it is the most popular aquarium species. Except its attractive appearance, the fish is also peaceful and has high adaptivity, i.e. it doesn’t require any specific care.
Cardinal tetra (lat. Paracheirodon axelrodi) are amazingly beautiful fishes and they are the most popular ones in aquarium husbandry. The most of the fish beauty can be seen in the fish school – in a thickly planted tank such a school looks especially glamorous.
Black neon tetra (lat. Hyphessobrycon herbertaxelrodi) is a graceful and active aquarium fish. If you put a school of fish in a thickly planted tank with dark bottom substrate, the tank will look magnificent. Except for their beauty, that tetras are known for their peaceful temper and for being good tank mates. They are somehow alike neon tetras – just like them they have a stripe on their body, even though the fish is called black neon they are completely different fishes. | <urn:uuid:b9b4e60a-ae51-421d-8025-3e5f42e0fd1f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://meethepet.com/category/characins/page/4/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.962618 | 302 | 2.21875 | 2 |
[NBC New York] A wild scene unfolded on New York's Staten Island Wednesday when a zebra and a pony were spotted running along a busy roadway after they apparently beat feet from a Christmas tree seller. I already seen dis movie...
Part of their journey was captured on video by Zachary Osher, who was busy at work when he looked out the window of his shop and saw the animals on Victory Boulevard.
"Is this actually happening to me, am I finally losing my mind. This can't be happening," Osher told NBC 4 New York he remembered thinking. "This is a zebra on Staten Island. On the street!"
Osher used his phone to film the pair as they dodged traffic just after 9 a.m.
They had apparently beat feet from a nearby Christmas tree business, where they were used as an attraction, according to Giovanni Schirripa, the owner of the business.
The animals were later returned to the property, he said.
Both the pony and the zebra, a 4-month-old male named Rozzy, are doing fine, he said. They will be sent to live in a barn in New Jersey after the holidays.
When are foals weaned? A little googling suggests four to six months. The guy bought this zebra when it was two months old. I hope he's taking good care of it. Next Christmas, it won't be so cute and adorable; what will happen to it then?
[National Journal] The U.S. birth rate dropped to its lowest level since the beginning of the Great Depression, led by a drop among immigrants, according to a report data released Thursday by the Pew Research Center.
In 2011, the overall birth rate was 63.2 per 1,000 women of childbearing age, the lowest since at least 1920, Pew reported, citing numbers from the National Center for Health Statistics. The birth rate reached 122.7 in 1957, the peak of the Baby Boom. After the mid-1970s, the birth rate stabilized at about 65 to 70 births per 1,000 women annually, until the beginning of the Great Recession.
Since 2007, both the U.S. birth rate (the number of live births per 1,000 women ages 15-44) and the number of births have dropped significantly, according to the report.
Overall, the birth rate declined 8 percent from 2007 to 2010. Among U.S.-born women, the birth rate dropped 6 percent. The decline among foreign-born women was 14 percent. Among Mexican women, the birth rate fell even more, to 23 percent.
In modern America the role of men has become almost insignificant - government has replaced them as the family provider, enforcement of any kind of family discipline is illegal, and turkey basters or the medical equivalent remove their biological necessity (except for a few breeding bulls in a pen somewhere.) Further, their percieved tendency towards violence makes them untrustworthy around civilized society, except for the metrosoxuals and other pseudo-castrati (perhaps female hormones in so much of the food supply contributes to the increase in such semi-men.)
Add to the above 1) the belief that humans are the cause of world problems and really should exterminate themselves, 2) the delay in starting families until one can 'afford it', 3) the focus of the breeding generation on 'me, me, me', and 4) the harmful effect of @bortions on ferti1ity and it should be no surprise at the birth rate reduction.
[Iran Press TV] Libyan veterans of last year's revolution, which ousted dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...a proud Arab institution for 42 years, now among the dear departed, though not the dearest... , have once again gathered outside the Zawiya Oil Refining Company in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of thich is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... to protest against the government, calling on authorities to send them abroad for medical treatment.
According to reports, a large crowd of maimed veterans attended the demonstration on Thursday.
The protesters also forced Zawiya's officials to shut down operations at the refinery.
"We are in a state of total shutdown...the demonstrators are preventing employees from entering the refinery and fuel trucks are unable to leave," said refinery front man Essam al-Muntasir.
"Many of them (the veterans) want the government to send them abroad to receive treatment or they want to get more money from the government as compensation for their efforts," he noted.
On November 5, a similar protest was held in the same region where angry veterans prevented the employees from entering the company.
According to Libya's Deputy Oil Minister Omar Shakmak, the protest outside the refinery can cause fuel shortage in the North African country.
"We have enough fuel stored in Tripoli to last us 25 days, but the problem is that protesters are not allowing trucks in or out of the fuel storage areas of the refinery, which could cause a shortage," he said.
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[An Nahar] The case against a young Tunisian woman allegedly raped by two coppers has been dropped, her lawyer said on Thursday.
The case was dismissed "against the woman and her boyfriend," lawyer Emna Zahrouni said.
The 27-year-old rape victim faced possible indecency charges with her fiance based on the testimony of the alleged rapists, coppers who say they took the couple by surprise in an "immoral position" just before the attack purportedly took place.
The case sparked a storm of protest in Tunisia, with NGOs, media and opposition figures saying the proceedings had transformed the victim into the accused and reflected the Islamist-led government's policy towards women.
Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali, from the ruling Islamist party Ennahda, said in October that the coppers, enjugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! shortly after the incident, would be "severely judged."
But he also said there may be a case of indecency to answer.
However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki in October offered a state apology to the woman.
"The Tunisian president received the young woman raped by the coppers... and after listening to the details of this painful case... he expressed total sympathy (with the woman) and offered a state apology," a statement from his office said.
[KCNA] Archaeologists of the History Institute of the DPRK Academy of Social Sciences have recently reconfirmed a lair of the unicorn rode by King Tongmyong, founder of the Koguryo Kingdom (B.C. 277-A.D. 668).
The lair is located 200 meters from the Yongmyong Temple in Moran Hill in Pyongyang City. A rectangular rock carved with words "Unicorn Lair" stands in front of the lair. The carved words are believed to date back to the period of Koryo Kingdom (918-1392).
Jo Hui Sung, director of the Institute, told KCNA:
"Korea's history books deal with the unicorn, considered to be ridden by King Tongmyong, and its lair.
The Sogyong (Pyongyang) chapter of the old book 'Koryo History' (geographical book), said: Ulmil Pavilion is on the top of Mt. Kumsu, with Yongmyong Temple, one of Pyongyang's eight scenic spots, beneath it. The temple served as a relief palace for King Tongmyong, in which there is the lair of his unicorn.
The old book 'Sinjungdonggukyojisungnam' (Revised Handbook of Korean Geography) complied in the 16th century wrote that there is a lair west of Pubyok Pavilion in Mt. Kumsu.
The discovery of the unicorn lair, associated with legend about King Tongmyong, proves that Pyongyang was a capital city of Ancient Korea as well as Koguryo Kingdom."
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11/30/2012 13:26 ||
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They're trying to prove they're the legitimate ones and the guys-in-the-south are traitors.
[Dawn] The 18-month-old boy suffering from polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... and living in Liaquatabad town acquired the virus from during a visit to relatives in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... , not Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , Dawn learnt on Wednesday.
Sources in the World Health Organisation (WHO) said that after observing the genome sequence of the virus, the authorities were convinced that the polio case belonged to Mardan and not Bloody Karachi.
"Though the child is a resident of Liaqatabad's union council 11, in view of the findings of WHO it would now be counted in the tally of Mardan," said the source.
"Two polio cases have already been reported in Mardan while no cases have been reported from Bloody Karachi this year. The number of polio cases in Sindh remains at four."
The senior polio coordinator for WHO said that the polio eradication initiative confirmed that 18-month-old SLearned Elders of Islamn, son of Abdur Rehman, was the 55th polio case reported all across Pakistain till Nov 21 this year. He said that the genomic sequence of the Bloody Karachi/Mardan case showed that the virus was from Khyber Pakhtunkwa and matched viruses from Charsada and Bajaur closely.
Technology voids the Constitutional Fourth Amendment, I guess. That, and six months.
When Petraeus resigned from his post one of the more startling revelations was that the dalliance was discovered when the FBI sifted through his private Gmail account.
More alarming is that the average American could easily be subjected to the same snooping that Petraeus endured. According to current law, police can access email through a provider, like Yahoo or Gmail, without a warrant if the message is more than 180 days old.
The Senate Judiciary Committee met on Nov. 29 to consider an update to the Act which would require police to get a warrant to read email or other electronic communiques.
Citizens might be surprised to learn that their email accounts, their phones and even their houses are subject to warrant-free electronic surveillance.
The Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution was enacted in 1791, Barket says. It was enacted at a point of time to deal with government intrusion and searches that they could possibly comprehend. Now we have government searches that nobody up until the last 10 years could even envision. Could you ever envision that the government could track every movement by simply calling up a cell provider?
I'm linking this to provide some background to the recent events in Myanmar/Burma. It's a recent oppressive incident that happened in Burma that doesn't appear connected to anything having to do with the Rohingya, or any of Burma's other ethnic conflicts. To get a sense of the location click here.
RANGOON--Protesters demanding a complete shutdown of a Chinese-backed copper mining project near Monywa in Upper Burma were forcefully dispersed by police using tear gas and water cannons early on Thursday morning in a raid which led to dozens of people being badly burned.
In the most violent government response to civil disobedience since tentative democratic reforms were introduced last year, riot police descended on six protest camps at around 2:30 am with a raft of aggressive measures that reportedly left large areas ablaze. I'm trying to remember other incidents that involved use of "tear gas" that wind up having incendiary effects.
"At 2:30 am, the main gate of Wanbao suddenly swung open and police charged in. Ten monks at our camp stood up to protect the rest of the protesters but the monks were knocked down by water jets. Then the fire bombs came in. They set our motorcycles on fire. We had to run for our lives," said Aye Net, one of the protest leaders.
"Monks dragged me away. Otherwise, I would have been killed or arrested," she added.
"We have 10 injured protesters, including monks," said Thaw Zin, an anti-copper mine activist at another camp, adding that 15 people from his area are still missing and were likely arrested. To summarize, they're not sure how many were injured or how badly, how many were arrested, etc. The attack happened on the eve of Aung San Suu Kyi's visit to the area. One notable statement:
"When the raid started, we didn't believe that [the police] would use that kind of violence as we are no longer under military dictatorship. We were shocked," said Thaw Zin. "We weren't disturbing law and order. We were unarmed people who were just asking for our rights." There's also a heavy security cordon around the major hospital in the area.
They save the initial cause of the protests for the end of the piece.
The mining project, a joint-venture between the military-owned Union of Myanmar Economic Holdings Ltd and China's Wan Bao Company, has come under fire since August after more than 300 residents from 12 villages in the Letpadaung mountain range staged protests to demand its closure, citing environmental destruction, forced relocations and illegal land confiscation.
More than 7,800 acres of land from 26 villages under the shadow of the mountain range have been seized to make way for the project that began last year. Since mid-November, protesters have been disrupting workers by linking arms to block the path of trucks at the construction site, and erecting camps nearby.
"I feel very sad. I never thought they would respond to us like that. We are the Burmese and [the police] are Burmese too," added Aye Net. "But on witnessing that they are protecting Chinese interests by using force on their fellow Burmese, it has caused me a great deal of heartache." I think this illustrates a really bad situation the modern deindustrialization of the United States has put us in. We can buy from and support the people who committed this or we can forego any modern consumer electronics and much modern industrial equipment.
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forcefully dispersed by police using tear gas and water cannons
Reminds me of the '68 DNC in Chicago.
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*Comedian John Cleese has clapped back at the backlash over comments he made about slavery during a panel discussion at SXSW.
The 82-year-old Monty Python star participated in the John Cleese in Conversation at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, on March 11 – alongside fellow comedians Dulcé Sloan, Jim Gaffigan, and Ricky Velez. According to the Hollywood Reporter, at one point during the conversation, the panel discussed colonization and slavery.
After Sloan, who is Black, made a joke about colonization, Cleese noted that people “forget the British Empire was the basic political unit of organization for 6,000 years — the British didn’t start [colonizing].”
“We know, but y’all did it so well!” Sloan responded, as reported by MSN. “It’s the reason I’m here! I’m not supposed to be here!”
“We gave you free passage, too,” Cleese replied, and the comment drew “shocked groans from the crowd,” according to THR.
Next time the Editor of the Hollywood Reporter sends someone to review a Comedy Festival he would do well to send a reporter with a sense of humour
Otherwise it’s like sending someone deaf to review a concert
— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) March 15, 2022
“History is a history of crime,” Cleese continued. “It’s a history of people who were stronger beating up people who were weaker, and it’s always been that. It’s deeply, deeply distasteful. But to pretend that one lot were worse than another — you do know the British have been slaves twice, right?”
“[People] get competitive about this business of being oppressed,” he said. “We were oppressed, the English, by the Romans for 400 [years], from about 0 to 400… I want reparations from Italy. And then the Normans came over in 1066… they were horrible people from France, and they came and colonized us for 30 years — we need reparations there too, I’m afraid.”
Pasternack then joked about ‘playing the Jew card,’ which prompted Cleese to start a stereotypical joke about Jewish people. At that point, Sloan relieved Cleese of his microphone.
“And now you saved the colonizer,” Pasternack told her. “I saved a comic whose career I respect,” Sloan replied.
According to the UK Metro, Cleese has since tweeted: “Next time the Editor of the Hollywood Reporter sends someone to review a Comedy Festival he would do well to send a reporter with a sense of humour. Otherwise it’s like sending someone deaf to review a concert.”
One follower commented: “John, I love ur humor man, but mockingly comparing getting reperations for things that happened 1000 years ago, to things that happened less than a generation ago is a flawed comparison. But u do u.”
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By Stephen S. Power: When I researched what it was like to drown, I didn’t expect to one day use that research to save my own life.
In the first chapter of The Dragon Round, two sailors from the trading galley Comber are swept into the sea. Like most sailors during the ages of wooden ships, they can’t swim. Their captain, who can, dives in to save them, but I wanted to know what the sailors would undergo before he could reach them. All I remembered from my junior lifesaving class forty years ago was the possibility that a struggling swimmer might drown a rescuer by trying to use them as a flotation device.
Fortunately, Slate published a great article by Mario Vittone on just this topic, “Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning”. A person in aquatic distress might yell and thrash, and they might be able to assist in their rescue, but this stage doesn’t last long, and once they start to drown they can’t do any of this for several reasons. The one that struck me most was the first: “Except in rare circumstances, drowning people are physiologically unable to call out for help. The respiratory system was designed for breathing. Speech is the secondary or overlaid function. Breathing must be fulfilled before speech occurs.” While I could understand that our reverting to lizard brain instincts in time of peril, I couldn’t fathom not being able to call for help.
Flash forward to Fourth of July last year. My family took a deck boat out on Lake Minnetonka for some cruising, swimming and fishing. As a pre-teen I used to swim across a lake in the Catskills, and I’m in reasonably good shape, so I dove in without thinking, followed by my brother on an inner tube.
What I didn’t realize in my blitheness is that a 10-foot deep, third of a mile-wide, man-made Catskill lake is like a bathtub compared to the wild abyssal sea that is Lake Minnetonka. Nor did I figure that the wind would immediately blow the deck boat far away. I tried to swim for it, but I realized after only a dozen yards that there was no way I could fight the waves and the wind and reach the boat. Also, forty years is a lot of years since I could swim a lake. So I shouted for the boat to come to me, but it wouldn’t start. Then I called for my brother.
While I treaded water, I could feel my chest tightening up, and I was quickly tiring from moving all that lake. That’s when I understood why a drowning person can’t call out. Our lungs act as floatation devices. You don’t want to deflate them the slightest bit, even if you figure you can kick hard, stick your head out of the water and take a replenishing breath–because what if you can’t?
Fortunately, my brother made it to me, tiring himself out. He got me on the inner tube, which he then got on himself, and we concerned ourselves with a new problem: the integrity of the seals on the tube. Eventually the boat reached us, and the summer didn’t end.
What if I hadn’t known what would happen to me during this process? I imagine I wouldn’t have called in time, I would have gone silent and still, and after a few moments my brother would have been left wondering where I’d disappeared to. (Did I mention our mother was on the boat, watching this all play out? Yea.)
Perhaps The Dragon Round will help people too by showing them how to light a fire, prepare crab, row a galley and ride a dragon. I hope it doesn’t need to help them avoid trouble in the water, though, because I’d prefer to hope they don’t get in trouble in the first place.
Stephen S. Power
The Dragon Round
Simon & Schuster
The Dragon Round is the first of a series of at least three novels. I’m currently outlining the sequel, tentatively titled The Dragon Tower. This series, in fact, is the first of several, each of which will cover the major turning point events in human-dragon relations over the ages.
For fans of Scott Lynch and Naomi Novik comes a high fantasy epic that blends swashbuckling adventure with a dark tale of vengeance–when a ship captain is stranded on a deserted island by his mutinous crew, he finds a rare dragon egg that just might be the key to his salvation and his revenge.
He only wanted justice. Instead he got revenge.
Jeryon has been the captain of the Comber for over a decade. He knows the rules. He follows the rules. He likes the rules. But not everyone on his ship agrees. When a monstrous dragon attacks the Comber, his surviving crew, vengeful and battle-worn, decide to take the ship for themselves and give Jeryon and his self-righteous apothecary “the captain’s chance:” a small boat with no rudder, no sails, and nothing but the shirts on their backs to survive.
Marooned and fighting for their lives against the elements, Jeryon and his companion discover that the island they’ve landed on isn’t quite as deserted as they originally thought. They find a rare baby dragon that, if trained, just might be their ticket off the island. But as Jeryon and the dragon grow closer, he begins to realize that even if he makes it off the island, his life will never be the same again. In order for justice to be served, he’ll have to take it for himself.
- Website: http://stephenspower.com/novels/
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Follow this steps below to create an interactive dashboard.
First you have to create the background. Do this by selecting many cells and changing the background color. In this case we have hanged the background color to violet.
After creating the background you will use the data within the other spreadsheets to create the visual elements for the dashboard. Once you have created each visual element, copy and paste the charts, graphs, and tables from the other spreadsheet to your dashboard.
Now you have to create interactive buttons. Interactive buttons will allow users to "drill down" to see more details about the information displayed on the dashboard. By adding buttons onto the dashboard, any user that would like to visit a specific spreadsheet containing raw data. To create a "button" add a rectangle shape to the dashboard, apply bevel effects and change any other formatting, if desired. Add text to the shape that describes where the button will take the user, when clicked.
Now you need to hyperlink the rectangle button to the appropriate sheet. Right Click on the rectangle button, then click on the Insert tab, and then click on Hyperlink. A dialog box will appear. Click on Place in This Document and select the appropriate spreadsheet linked to your graph. (In this case we select Bar chart for the button movies).
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There are many problems in the decision-making process One of them is that everything hangs on making the right choice Make the right decision and you will find yourself with a feeling of accomplishment make the wrong decision and you will find yourself feeling like a looser or even worth loosing your business We need tools and techniques such as the histogram to make such decisions in our business and daily lives Knowing the right time to use the proper tools and techniques is important for the survivability of the organization for which we work As we make decision we need to be able to think clearly and weight up evidence effectively A histogram will help us to make the decision making process a lot easier to handle by viewing the data that was accumulated or will be accumulate to measure pass performance of any given organization To understand how a histogram is beneficial to an organization one needs to know what it is and the purpose of it A histogram is a specialized type of bar chart where individual data points are grouped together in class so that you can get an idea how frequently data in each class occur in the data set The higher the bars are the more points in a class and the lower bars indicate fewer points One of the advantages of the histogram is that it provides an easy-to-read picture of the location and variation on the data set However there are two disadvantages the histogram present 1 the histogram can be manipulated to show different picture and 2 if too few or too many bars are used the histogram can be misleading A histogram is used to make decisions about a process or procedures that could be improved after carefully examining the variation and it displays the variation of the process The purpose of the histogram is to graphically summarize the distribution of a univariate data set
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To fix your credit score, open a bank account, get a secured credit card, take out an installment loan and pay your student loans. Lastly, become an authorized user on a relative’s credit card.Continue Reading
Open a bank account with a bank that offers special accounts for people with bad credit. Your access to services may be limited until you rebuild your credit score.
Use your bank account as collateral to get a secured credit card. Choose a card that does not charge an application fee but one that has low annual fees. Ensure that the card appears on your credit report.
Create a good relationship with your bank for a few months before applying for an installment loan. Ensure that the amount is small enough for you to repay on time. Make all your monthly payments on time. Do not use the loan for nonessentials.
Make paying off your student loans a priority. Your loans appear on your credit report once you start paying. Ensure that you make all your payments on time.
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The wage gap, of course, is the gap between men and women. We don’t talk about the wage gap between, say, black men and white men because the causes are so visible. Like, most black boys do not grow up with a father, and in some cities 50% of black men have been in prison.
But we talk about the wage gap between men and women like it is some Escher puzzle that we can solve through infinite stories in the media.
But in fact, the wage gap between men and women is as big a red herring as the gap between black and white men. Women don’t care about workplace stuff and men don’t care about home stuff.
I know that’s a stereotype, a cliche. But it’s a cliche for a reason. I’m right.
The issue is that if you take a man and woman who have equal qualifications at work and you add kids to the mix, the woman’s salary goes down as the man’s goes up. We know that this is by choice. Each gender typically makes choices that move their salary one way or the other.
Here’s how to understand those choices:
Unmarried men almost always say they want to share household duties equally. However this is so completely not how it turns out that evolutionary psychologist David Buss says the equality thing is merely a mating call. Men can’t be in a relationship today unless they say they want to assume household duties.
I actually think men do want to do half. But they want to do half of what they think needs doing. So, for example, changing the sheets on the kids’ beds does not matter to a guy. The sheets don’t have poop on them, so they’re clean. If the sheets have poop on them, the guy has no trouble changing them. He does it immediately.
My brother’s friend, who is a banker married to a stay-at-home wife and surely does nothing around the house but surely thinks he does, suggests that couples use a chess clock to keep track of household contributions. He says you announce that you are doing a household chore, and you ask your spouse if it is something they care about. If the answer is yes, you hit the clock while you’re doing the chore.
This experiment would make things look equal. And you can take this beyond household chores. For example, when a mom drops a kid off at a new friend’s house, the mom stops and talks to the parent and sniffs out the house. The dad says hello and leaves.
Yes, that’s a stereotype, but there is a ream of hard data to show that on balance, this is true.
Which brings me to March Madness. In high school I played NCAA brackets because I wanted to hang out with the boys who did that. It was a way to get them to pay attention to me. When I worked on the trading floor, the betting pools are so entrenched in the culture that there are arbitrage signs for when trading stops to deal with the betting pools. During the NCAA playoffs, if you ask for a bid in the S&P pit, miming a basketball shot means that the trading volume is reallly low because the traders are cleaning up their brackets.
The New York Times reports that women work more hours at the office than men do. There’s a problem with that statistic too, though. Men think they are working at work just like they think they are doing chores at home. Most of work is social. So women are putting their heads down and knocking out their to-do lists while men are running betting pools.
The problem with the data about who works harder at the office is who defines what work is—the same problem is at home, defining housework. At the office, the most important work is socializing. It’s the stuff that comes from emotional intelligence and makes you an office politics star. The real work at work is knowing what people need and helping them get it so they give you what you need.
The gap between men and women working at work starts in school. Girls work so much harder at getting good grades than boys do that it’s easier to get into college if you’re a boy. And girls work so much harder at doing what they are told to do in college that more girls graduate than boys. The problem is that the work world doesn’t revolve around your grades. The work world relies on the same skills boys have been developing the whole time they have been getting sent to the principal’s office.
So what do we do with this information?
1. Stop treating men and women the same. There’s a great letter in the Princeton alumni magazine to women in Princeton: get married in college, which is where the pickings are better. I like the letter because it’s a warning to the next generation: don’t be mislead by older people telling you that men and women can do the same work: at home, in the office, or in school. In each stage of life, men and women care about different things. [Note: Princeton removed the link from their site. But there is conversation all over the Internet about it anyway. Here’s a discussion at NPR.]
2. Understand the different stages of life. For women, when they turn 30, it’s time to have kids if they want them. Men can start a new career when they’re 30. Women can’t. You can’t start two new careers at once, and having a kid is starting a new career for women. Not men.
3. Accept that this is a problem inherent in school. School teaches that linear progression is important. And that high achievement through ranking and competition is important. Using your intelligence to gain influence and or money is important. None of these things happen when you scale back your career to have kids. None of these things happen when your husband thinks the bathroom is clean and you don’t. School teaches girls that the things women value and the choices women make are largely not valuable. At least not as valuable as ranking and influence and money and achievement.
The real gap here is between the values we teach kids in school and the values we reward in the work world. We really do value what we choose to spend time doing. Women make choices that are not a linear progression from what we learn in school. Which means that at age 30, there is a crisis: women have been high performers their whole lives and they realize, often, that they don’t care enough about that contest to keep winning at it.
The real workplace revolution is not happening at work. Women today reject our chronically unbending and incredibly demanding corporate culture. Most women don’t want to get past the glass ceiling.
Which means that the real revolution begins in school, where we have to start teaching kids that there is a wide range of paths in adult life, and many of them have nothing to do with book knowledge and high IQ. Until we start doing this, women will always feel regret and disappointment when they stop being high achievers in order to make decisions more consistent with their values. | <urn:uuid:6b4638d6-d593-4e1e-8b1d-b3d3143dd6b7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2013/04/04/march-madness-sheds-light-on-the-real-workplace-revolution/comment-page-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00476-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96777 | 1,513 | 2.21875 | 2 |
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Take some time to read about the Battle of Valcour Island. Using a graphic organizer to identify the key people, places, and things involved.
We Have Some Measuring to Do
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" Blower comes on, cycles through, and releases gas but the igniter never glows"
This observation indicates the pressure switch is working fine. If it were not you would never have gas flowing.
"Disconnecting the connector to the pressure switch and checking the voltage at the connector it remains at a steady 24VAC"
Does the above happen with the gas flowing too?
I would double check your AC voltage measurements. If you look on the control board you should find a small relay that's used to power the HSI. Possibly that relay is the problem. Check the board for any signs of loose connections/cold solder joints. You can always jumper the pressure switch connector to totally remove the switch from the circuit but I doubt it's the switch... they work or they don't.
Another possibility is the gas valve solenoid, when activated opening the gas valve, is causing the voltage drop. You can measure the impedance of the solenoid coil and see if it's correct. Also check the transformer connections to the control board. | <urn:uuid:8a3b6f75-f559-4f72-89d3-df222af64b1a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.hvacmechanic.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1490&p=5534 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00269-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944833 | 216 | 1.710938 | 2 |
When did Neal Adams start Batman: On Batman, Adams worked with writer Dennis O’Neil for the first time. Under the supervision of editor Julius Schwartz, the team would breathe new life into the character with a series of notable stories that reintroduced Batman’s dark, brooding demeanor while also moving the comics away from the campy appearance and feel of the 1960s and 1970s.
When did Neal Adams start Batman
Beginning with Man-Bat, co-created with Frank Robbins in Detective Comics #400, Adams introduced new characters to the Batman mythos.
The Joker was reborn by the same creative team in The Joker’s Five-Way Revenge in Batman #251, a major story that returned the character to his roots as a homicidal madman who murders people on the spur of the moment and revels in his mayhem. | <urn:uuid:b03f510c-40df-44f0-b5e0-93485f7bd580> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.stiest.site/when-did-neal-adams-start-batman/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.959542 | 173 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Since 2007, Colorado has maintained a commitment to best practices related to the protective factors in communities and families. The Colorado Strengthening Families Network hosts a quarterly online learning community for professionals across sectors in an effort to embed the Protective Factors in the work of child and family serving agencies of all types.
The network is halfway through the year, and we have already had two exciting and impactful meetings, with two to go, as well as the Strengthening Colorado Families and Communities Conference in September. The conference will be the first time in over two years the Network will have the chance to collaborate and socialize together, face to face!
So far this year, the Network has had presentations, and opportunities to collaborate with other family-serving professionals, on grounding in the Protective Factors.
In the 2021 Strengthening Families Network Survey we learned there are many new members of the Network with an interest in better understanding the foundational history of the Protective Factors and how they are being utilized in Colorado. So, we began the year by Gail Mendes and Kathy Kennedy sharing their vast experiences using and embedding the Protective Factors into their work. The large group had time to network and share in small groups how the Protective Factors are present in their local communities.
If you are looking for a refresher on the history of the Network and/or an introduction to the Protective Factors, the recording includes a presentation on both. The recording of February’s network meeting can be found here.
In May, we had a visit from our friends at the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) on new and innovative ways to embed the Protective Factors into practice. Here is the link to view the recording of the presentation which included a discussion of Youth Thrive, an initiative of the Center for the Study of Social Policy. It is the companion framework to Strengthening Families that focuses on older children, adolescents, and young adults (ages 9-26).
Youth Thrive believes that all young people should be valued, loved, and supported to reach their goals. To achieve this, Youth Thrive works with youth-serving systems, community-based organizations, advocates, and other partners across the country. Our shared goal is to improve policies, programs, and practices so that they build on what we know about adolescent development, value young people’s perspectives, and give youth opportunities to succeed. Kaysie Getty and Francie Zimmerman, two staff members from Youth Thrive, shared a brief overview of the Youth Thrive protective factors and a variety of strategies, tools, and resources for partnering with young people to support their healthy development and promote well-being.
The August network meeting is canceled in lieu of the Strengthening Colorado Families and Communities Conference in September. In November, we will reconvene online and discuss takeaways from the conference, and share how we are individually and collectively taking care of ourselves, our coworkers and the families we serve. Self-care is more than a slogan. It is actively taking time to regroup, destress and ensure we are able to show up as the best versions of ourselves in both personal and professional settings. Don’t worry if you didn’t have a chance to attend the conference! There will be tips and techniques you can start incorporating right away.
We are always happy to welcome new faces, new professions and professionals. And, regardless of what work you do in or out of the home, if this sounds interesting to you, we would love to see you! For more information on attending the remaining meetings, visit our website. For more information on the Strengthening Colorado Families and Communities Conference, visit the conference website.
About the Author
Anne Auld is the director of education for Illuminate Colorado. Auld has worked with children and families for more than 20 years, training parents, professionals and community members on subjects including strengthening families, safe storage, child sexual abuse prevention and much more.
Meet the 2022 Strengthening Colorado Families and Communities Conference Keynote Presenters: Dr. Wendy Ellis
The Strengthening Colorado Families and Communities Conference is less than two months away, and we are excited to welcome Dr. Wendy Ellis as one of our engaging keynote presenters. It is immediately apparent how Dr. Ellis' work relates to the theme of this year's...
This year, we have three excellent keynote presenters lined up for the 2022 Strengthening Colorado Families and Communities Conference, which will take place in Pueblo, CO, September 19-21, 2022. We are excited to welcome Vu Le as one of our engaging keynote...
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Honker the Mixed Up Mother Goose
June Taylor as narrator, tells the story of Honker - The Mixed-Up Mother Goose . Honker was hatched on a ranch with the chickens and she thinks she is their mother. The chickens think so too. But chickens can't fly. Everyone on the ranch felt sorry for Honker and thought she needed a mate. Grand Dandy Gander enters the story and he and Honker get along so well they raised a family of little goslings who could fly . Wild Canadian Geese visited the pond on the ranch every year when they flew south in the winter time and north in the summertime. The chickens couldn't leave with the wild geese because they couldn't fly, but the goslings could fly and they left with the wild geese every year. The characters in the story are : June Taylor-Honker and narrator. Wade Crookham - Grand Dandy- Jeb-Grandpa-Wild Geese- Email Honker [email protected] Big Gosling-Mr.Horse-Mrs.Moo-Moo Cow-Ducks- Brian Landes --Brian --- Bianco Sisters & Michele Ayres- Chickens. | <urn:uuid:2a202c58-d437-4320-959c-7ce5f3372986> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.wowhd.co.uk/june-taylor-honker-the-mixed-up-mother-goose/760814508122 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00353-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936422 | 250 | 2.640625 | 3 |
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"He was very proud to be a Marine," said the young serviceman's mother.
The private first class attended Thomas Edison High School
before joining the Marine Corps
PFC Pettus ws assigned to Company H of the 2nd Battalion,
4th Marines, 3rd Marine Division.
He died in Quang Nam Province, Vietnam, on March 30, 1967.
Source: Philadelphia Daily News 10/26/1987
Thomas Alva Edison High School of Philadelphia,
lost 54 former students during the Vietnam War,
more than any other U.S. high school. ...
School District of Philadelphia.
The 2/4 Marines' Command Chronology for March 1967 contains the following entry:
"On 30 March 1967, Company H on way to provide security for rice harvest
at AT8256 were ambushed by a company of VC dug in at AT810574.
At 0813H, Bald Eagle (Company E) was alerted. At 0940H, Bald Eagle
and Command Group 'A' departed their CPs by truck to CAC B2-2 position,
where the Bald Eagle was picked up by helicopters and dropped into LZ
at AT791566. Companies H and E commenced a search and clear mission to the west
and southwest of Hill 25 AT807553. Sporadic contact was made during the day.
At approximately 1700H the sweep secured.
Results are as follows: VC KIA (Conf) 11, VC KIA (Prob) 8, Detainees 6,
USMC KIA 8, USMC WIA 6."
The Operations Log makes it clear the 14 casualties occurred
during Hotel 2/4's initial engagement, which began at about 0800.
The casualties had been medevaced by 0911.
Unfortunately, the death toll was increased when Pfc James R. Morgan
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Cost effective availability enhancement of switches and crossings using reliability analysis Marine Parahy Master of Science Civil Engineering Luleå University
Tutor / director / avaluadorGhodrati, Behzad
Tipus de documentProjecte/Treball Final de Carrera
Condicions d'accésAccés restringit per decisió de l'autor
This project is being conducted by various institutions as governmental and private companies as Trafikverket and Alstom, but also with public institution as Lule˚a Tekniska Universitet. Six people are working on this project. Two persons are from Trafikverket in Lule˚a, Arne Nissen and Per-Olof Larsson-Kr˚aik; two other persons from Alstom in Paris, Pierre Dersin and Benjamin Bonnet. The coordinator of this project is Behzad Ghodrati from Lule˚a University of Technology. The last person working on this project is Marine Parahy, student at the Technical University of Catalonia (ETSEIB: Escola Tecnica Superior d’Enginyeria Industrial de Barcelona, UPC), as an exchange student in Lule˚a University of Technology doing her master thesis while working in this project. The goal of this project is to obtain significant results implementing field data given by Trafikverket in Alstom’s RDAT (reliability data analysis tool) software in order to find which are the costs drivers for switches and crossings. With these results we will be able to increase the availability of the Swedish railway system cost effectively. The results will probably help to improve the maintenance of switches and crossings in Sweden and also improve the software. The data we have for this project is field data recorded for several years. The period over which we will focus is the period between January 1st, 2005 and December 31st, 2009. Sweden is a particular country very extended in length but with traffic concentrated on certain corridors. Also another difference with other countries in Europe is the difference of temperature and climate that we have between south and north. The idea is really important for the rest of the study to better understanding the failures on the railway system of switches and crossings. The distribution of tracks in Sweden is shown in Figure 1. We can see that the country is divided into eight regions (Boden, Stockholm, Göteborg, ˚Ange, Gävle, Hallsberg, Malmö and Norrk¨oping). | <urn:uuid:fde2361e-f02d-40fd-abd5-a9588c02ce2c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://upcommons.upc.edu/handle/2099.1/14651 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00311-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.882941 | 525 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Many of us have had to learn a foreign language at some point, whether it was in school, in preparation for travel, or out of personal interest. We all know that learning a new language can feel like a never-ending process of skimming dictionaries and memorizing vocabulary, and without the proper tools, many learners end up getting frustrated.
One of the most essential tools for language learning is a quality bilingual dictionary. While people often head to the bookstore and look for a nice print dictionary, a dictionary app can be a good idea because of how fast and easy it is to look up words by typing. As far as dictionary apps go on the Mac, Ultralingua is one of the few solid, comprehensive choices. Read on to see how it can benefit your language studies.
As a student, I know exactly how boring studying is. You spend all day locked in your room, poring over a textbook thick enough to stop a bullet at 30 yards, and trying to concentrate on those printed words while resisting the temptation to let your mind wander.
Sound familiar? I’m sure every student has been in this situation at least once and I can tell you now, it isn’t a fun one to be in. But studying doesn’t have to be a daily slog through endless sheets of notes and lifeless, black-and-white textbooks. There are plenty of ways to rekindle the ever so slight spark of fun in your studies.
Everyone has their own different study techniques, but I find that flash cards are a useful way of memorizing information quickly and easily. However, going down to Staples and buying a pack of note cards is a bit too 20th-century. In this digital age, we want something more modern and “flashy”.
This is where Smartr comes in. It is a small, lightweight flash card application for Mac OS X that helps you easily compile flash cards and test yourself on the computer. This avoids the need for hundreds of note cards lying around everywhere and saves you the time it takes to write them all out by hand.
Let’s take a look at Smartr in a bit more detail to see if it can really make studying less of a chore.
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There is a dispute taking place in Washington that will have a significant impact on the availability of high quality geospatial data for commercial purposes. The EnhancedView program – which would give government agencies access to commercial high resolution satellite imagery and would also provide production and services to support the defense and intelligence communities – is under attack due to current budget constraints. While this battle is often portrayed as solely an issue for DigitalGlobe and GeoEye, the two U.S.-based commercial satellite imagery companies, the outcome will impact numerous existing and planned geospatial products and services that rely on high quality satellite imagery. As a result, this is a battle that should concern the broader geospatial community, much like the ongoing GPS-LightSquared dispute.
EnhancedView is a public-private partnership between the National Geospatial- Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the commercial satellite imagery providers. It was created in Fiscal Year 2010 and was intended as a 10-year program to serve as a complement to national overhead capabilities. GeoEye and DigitalGlobe collectively committed over a billion dollars of private capital to make the investments necessary to fulfill their respective obligations under the program. Such investments, including increased hiring for well-paying, highly skilled geospatial positions and significant purchases of hardware and software from vendors throughout the geospatial community, would continue over the term of the program. However, the companies are now being told that the EnhancedView program may be subject to budget cuts. These potential cuts not only jeopardize the economic viability of the EnhancedView program from a commercial standpoint, but also threaten geospatial positions and vendors throughout the geospatial ecosystem. Given the current economic prognosis, if the program is cut it is unlikely to regain its original form.
Up to now, the commercial imagery providers have been representing the industry in this dispute largely on their own. Since the EnhancedView program falls under the NGA budget, GeoEye and DigitalGlobe are undoubtedly being forced to defend against the trade-off between funding the EnhancedView program and future national imaging systems and collection programs. In such an environment, the odds are clearly stacked against the commercial providers.
However, while at this point the U.S. government is still the primary customer of both DigitalGlobe and GeoEye, many others that now recognize the value of high quality geospatial imagery, including businesses, non-government organizations (NGOs), academics, scientists and consumers, are likely to feel the greatest impact if the EnhancedView program is slashed. Wavering government commitment to the EnhancedView program could make it more expensive for private companies to acquire necessary financing, resulting in fewer imaging satellites and therefore less imagery collected and/or made available for commercial use. Commercial satellite imagery that was available for commercial use might become more expensive, as commercial providers will be forced to otherwise recover their investments. Also, the U.S. role as a leader in the international geospatial technology market would likely decline as companies would be less willing, or financially able, to take risk on future innovation.
The impact would go well beyond GeoEye and DigitalGlobe. Many companies are involved in providing the hardware, software and services necessary to collect, process and use commercial satellite imagery. It is impossible to measure the financial impact a cutback to EnhancedView would have at this time to the broader geospatial industry given the uncertainty in the budget process. It is fair to say, however, that a drastic reduction in the program could hurt a number of geospatial companies that supply DigitalGlobe and GeoEye with these products and services. Similarly, numerous companies are developing products and services that assume increased availability of high quality satellite imagery. If such assumptions prove incorrect, the business models being built around such products and services will be threatened.
Also, the geospatial industry should not underestimate the value of having two U.S.-based public companies as representatives in both the political and financial capitols of the world. Such stature gives them a gravitas and a presence at the table that can be difficult to achieve otherwise. In addition, as good corporate citizens, they are major supporters of numerous trade associations, journals, educational programs and non-profits. Significant cuts in the EnhancedView program likely would result in them having to reevaluate their current commitment levels, which would further impact the geospatial industry.
Moreover, the threat to the EnhancedView program is not an isolated incident. Rather it is an example of steps taken by governments around the world that would effectively limit or regulate the collection and/or availability of geospatial data. The reasons given for such efforts vary. Government agencies will justify their efforts by citing concerns over budgets, privacy or national security. In some cases, their efforts are simply intended to protect local businesses. Often, such limitations will appear to impact one form of geospatial data type, or a particular sensor. However, as is the case with cuts to the EnhancedView program, the impact will be felt throughout the geospatial industry.
As a result, it is time for the various segments of the geospatial industry to look beyond their respective domains and understand the impact such measures might have. The future growth of the geospatial industry as a whole will depend upon its success in fighting such measures. The challenge for the geospatial industry will be to see things not as a “commercial remote sensing” problem, or a “GPS” problem, or a “smartphone” problem, but as broader issue that impacts the entire geospatial ecosystem. Unless the industry is willing to work together to address these issues, it may find restrictions on the collection, use and transfer of the geospatial data – the lifeblood of the industry – to be burdensome. | <urn:uuid:5dca776e-ac6d-4451-86ec-0e4146694226> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.directionsmag.com/entry/enhancedview-why-the-entire-geospatial-industry-should-care/224579 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281424.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00335-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952675 | 1,168 | 1.984375 | 2 |
The Operation Kenova team has apparently arrested Freddie Scappaticci (72) at a location somewhere in England. The former head of the IRA’s Internal Security Unit was a spy in the pay of the British Army’s Force Research Unit (FRU), which handled ‘Scap’, as he is widely known, in alliance with MI5, who had an officer stationed in the FRU’s Thiepval barracks HQ, and the RUC Special Branch.
Scappaticci was responsible for the deaths of an unknown but decidedly large number of people some of whom may have been informers and some who were probably not.
His story covers what was probably one of the darkest and dirtiest chapters of the British state’s secret war against the IRA in which the republican movement’s top spycatcher was in an ideal place to subvert his own comrades while giving British intelligence an unprecedented opportunity to manipulate IRA policy and personnel.
During that enterprise it is more than likely that British intelligence allowed Scappaticci to kill people and may even have connived at others’ deaths in order to promote their intelligence goals. It is hard to understand how Scappaticci was employed by the British without at least a blind eye being turned to what he did.
In that capacity he was in a position to help British intelligence advance the careers of other informers, halt or divert the careers of those who were not and, arguably, help shape IRA military and political policy. He was probably the most valuable British spy of the Troubles. The British general who was GOC during some of this time, Sir John Wilsey, described Scappaticci’s recruitment as a major intelligence breakthrough.
It is likely that the handling of Scappaticci was known about and discussed at the highest levels of the British government, by members of the Joint Intelligence Committee whose reports are read by the British prime minister. Did Margaret Thatcher or any of her successors know about Scappaticci and if so, how much were they told?
A number of other questions follow from Scappaticci’s arrest: how far will Operation Kenova take the investigation? Will it stop with the arrest and arraignment of Freddie Scappaticci – as essentially happened in the case of Brian Nelson – or will the investigation dare to delve deeper into the darker corners of British intelligence?
One question in particular screams out for an answer: how many people, not just IRA members, were allowed to die to preserve Scappaticci’s cover or to enable British intelligence to advance an agenda?
Readers of this blog will be forgiven if, like this writer, they are sceptical about the chances of Operation Kenova probing any deeper than Scappaticci himself. Hard scrabble experience can do that to you. But we shall see.
In the meantime we should pause for a moment and recall that it was an ex-British soldier, a former member of the Force Research Unit, Ian Hirst who, using the pseudonym ‘Martin Ingram’, exposed the Scappaticci story to daylight. Without his bravery the Scappaticci story would have been buried as deeply as many of his victims.
Efforts by the British Ministry of Defence to silence Hirst led to a court injunction forbidding him to use or promulgate Scappaticci’s code name, ‘Steak Knife’. So instead he called ‘Scap’ ‘Stakeknife’ and the media followed suit. ‘Scap’s’ real code name though was ‘Steak Knife’. | <urn:uuid:fd89857e-675e-480a-a919-91e6edf855d7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thebrokenelbow.com/2018/01/30/scappaticci-arrested-the-questions-that-follow/?shared=email&msg=fail | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.981359 | 754 | 1.632813 | 2 |
"It was so sweet of you to do this," said the smiling bride.
"It was lovely to be able to do it for you, dearest," whispered the Story Girl, "and oh, Miss Reade—Mrs. Dale, I mean—we all hope you'll be so, so happy for ever."
"I am sure I shall," said Alice Dale, turning to her husband. He looked down into her eyes—and we were quite forgotten by both of them. We saw it, and slipped away, while Jasper Dale drew his wife into their home and shut the world out.
We scampered joyously away through the moonlit dusk. Uncle Blair joined us at the gate and the Story Girl asked him what he thought of the bride.
"When she dies white violets will grow out of her dust," he answered.
"Uncle Blair says even queerer things than the Story Girl," Felicity whispered to me.
And so that beautiful day went away from us, slipping through our fingers as we tried to hold it. It hooded itself in shadows and fared forth on the road that is lighted by the white stars of evening. It had been a gift of Paradise. Its hours had all been fair and beloved. From dawn flush to fall of night there had been naught to mar it. It took with it its smiles and laughter. But it left the boon of memory.
CHAPTER XXVII. THE OLD ORDER CHANGETH
"I am going away with father when he goes. He is going to spend the winter in Paris, and I am to go to school there."
The Story Girl told us this one day in the orchard. There was a little elation in her tone, but more regret. The news was not a great surprise to us. We had felt it in the air ever since Uncle Blair's arrival. Aunt Janet had been very unwilling to let the Story Girl go. But Uncle Blair was inexorable. It was time, he said, that she should go to a better school than the little country one in Carlisle; and besides, he did not want her to grow into womanhood a stranger to him. So it was finally decided that she was to go.
"Just think, you are going to Europe," said Sara Ray in an awe-struck tone. "Won't that be splendid!"
"I suppose I'll like it after a while," said the Story Girl slowly, "but I know I'll be dreadfully homesick at first. Of course, it will be lovely to be with father, but oh, I'll miss the rest of you so much!"
"Just think how WE'LL miss YOU," sighed Cecily. "It will be so lonesome here this winter, with you and Peter both gone. Oh, dear, I do wish things didn't have to change."
Felicity said nothing. She kept looking down at the grass on which she sat, absently pulling at the slender blades. Presently we saw two big tears roll down over her cheeks. The Story Girl looked surprised.
"Are you crying because I'm going away, Felicity?" she asked.
"Of course I am," answered Felicity, with a big sob. "Do you think I've no f-f-eeling?"
"I didn't think you'd care much," said the Story Girl frankly. "You've never seemed to like me very much."
"I d-don't wear my h-heart on my sleeve," said poor Felicity, with an attempt at dignity. "I think you m-might stay. Your father would let you s-stay if you c-coaxed him."
"Well, you see I'd have to go some time," sighed the Story Girl, "and the longer it was put off the harder it would be. But I do feel dreadfully about it. I can't even take poor Paddy. I'll have to leave him behind, and oh, I want you all to promise to be kind to him for my sake."
We all solemnly assured her that we would.
"I'll g-give him cream every m-morning and n-night," sobbed Felicity, "but I'll never be able to look at him without crying. He'll make me think of you."
"Well, I'm not going right away," said the Story Girl, more cheerfully. "Not till the last of October. So we have over a month yet to have a good time in. Let's all just determine to make it a splendid month for the last. We won't think about my going at all till we have to, and we won't have any quarrels among us, and we'll just enjoy ourselves all we possibly can. So don't cry any more, Felicity. I'm awfully glad you do like me and am sorry I'm going away, but let's all forget it for a month."
Felicity sighed, and tucked away her damp handkerchief.
"It isn't so easy for me to forget things, but I'll try," she said disconsolately, "and if you want any more cooking lessons before you go I'll be real glad to teach you anything I know."
This was a high plane of self-sacrifice for Felicity to attain. But the Story Girl shook her head.
"No, I'm not going to bother my head about cooking lessons this last month. It's too vexing."
"Do you remember the time you made the pudding—" began Peter, and suddenly stopped.
"Out of sawdust?" finished the Story Girl cheerfully. "You needn't be afraid to mention it to me after this. I don't mind any more. I begin to see the fun of it now. I should think I do remember it—and the time I baked the bread before it was raised enough."
"People have made worse mistakes than that," said Felicity kindly.
"Such as using tooth-powd—" but here Dan stopped abruptly, remembering the Story Girl's plea for a beautiful month. Felicity coloured, but said nothing—did not even LOOK anything.
"We HAVE had lots of fun together one way or another," said Cecily, retrospectively.
"Just think how much we've laughed this last year or so," said the Story Girl. "We've had good times together; but I think we'll have lots more splendid years ahead."
"Eden is always behind us—Paradise always before," said Uncle Blair, coming up in time to hear her. He said it with a sigh that was immediately lost in one of his delightful smiles.
"I like Uncle Blair so much better than I expected to," Felicity confided to me. "Mother says he's a rolling stone, but there really is something very nice about him, although he says a great many things I don't understand. I suppose the Story Girl will have a very gay time in Paris."
"She's going to school and she'll have to study hard," I said.
"She says she's going to study for the stage," said Felicity. "Uncle Roger thinks it is all right, and says she'll be very famous some day. But mother thinks it's dreadful, and so do I."
"Aunt Julia is a concert singer," I said.
"Oh, that's very different. But I hope poor Sara will get on all right," sighed Felicity. "You never know what may happen to a person in those foreign countries. And everybody says Paris is such a wicked place. But we must hope for the best," she concluded in a resigned tone.
That evening the Story Girl and I drove the cows to pasture after milking, and when we came home we sought out Uncle Blair in the orchard. He was sauntering up and down Uncle Stephen's Walk, his hands clasped behind him and his beautiful, youthful face uplifted to the western sky where waves of night were breaking on a dim primrose shore of sunset.
"See that star over there in the south-west?" he said, as we joined him. "The one just above that pine? An evening star shining over a dark pine tree is the whitest thing in the universe—because it is LIVING whiteness—whiteness possessing a soul. How full this old orchard is of twilight! Do you know, I have been trysting here with ghosts."
"The Family Ghost?" I asked, very stupidly.
"No, not the Family Ghost. I never saw beautiful, broken-hearted Emily yet. Your mother saw her once, Sara—that was a strange thing," he added absently, as if to himself.
"Did mother really see her?" whispered the Story Girl.
"Well, she always believed she did. Who knows?"
"Do you think there are such things as ghosts, Uncle Blair?" I asked curiously.
"I never saw any, Beverley."
"But you said you were trysting with ghosts here this evening," said the Story Girl.
"Oh, yes—the ghosts of the old years. I love this orchard because of its many ghosts. We are good comrades, those ghosts and I; we walk and talk—we even laugh together—sorrowful laughter that has sorrow's own sweetness. And always there comes to me one dear phantom and wanders hand in hand with me—a lost lady of the old years."
"My mother?" said the Story Girl very softly.
"Yes, your mother. Here, in her old haunts, it is impossible for me to believe that she can be dead—that her LAUGHTER can be dead. She was the gayest, sweetest thing—and so young—only three years older than you, Sara. Yonder old house had been glad because of her for eighteen years when I met her first."
"I wish I could remember her," said the Story Girl, with a little sigh. "I haven't even a picture of her. Why didn't you paint one, father?"
"She would never let me. She had some queer, funny, half-playful, half-earnest superstition about it. But I always meant to when she would become willing to let me. And then—she died. Her twin brother Felix died the same day. There was something strange about that, too. I was holding her in my arms and she was looking up at me; suddenly she looked past me and gave a little start. 'Felix!' she said. For a moment she trembled and then she smiled and looked up at me again a little beseechingly. 'Felix has come for me, dear,' she said. 'We were always together before you came—you must not mind—you must be glad I do not have to go alone.' Well, who knows? But she left me, Sara—she left me."
There was that in Uncle Blair's voice that kept us silent for a time. Then the Story Girl said, still very softly:
"What did mother look like, father? I don't look the least little bit like her, do I?"
"No, I wish you did, you brown thing. Your mother's face was as white as a wood-lily, with only a faint dream of rose in her cheeks. She had the eyes of one who always had a song in her heart—blue as a mist, those eyes were. She had dark lashes, and a little red mouth that quivered when she was very sad or very happy like a crimson rose too rudely shaken by the wind. She was as slim and lithe as a young, white-stemmed birch tree. How I loved her! How happy we were! But he who accepts human love must bind it to his soul with pain, and she is not lost to me. Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it."
Uncle Blair looked up at the evening star. We saw that he had forgotten us, and we slipped away, hand in hand, leaving him alone in the memory-haunted shadows of the old orchard.
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE PATH TO ARCADY
October that year gathered up all the spilled sunshine of the summer and clad herself in it as in a garment. The Story Girl had asked us to try to make the last month together beautiful, and Nature seconded our efforts, giving us that most beautiful of beautiful things—a gracious and perfect moon of falling leaves. There was not in all that vanished October one day that did not come in with auroral splendour and go out attended by a fair galaxy of evening stars—not a day when there were not golden lights in the wide pastures and purple hazes in the ripened distances. Never was anything so gorgeous as the maple trees that year. Maples are trees that have primeval fire in their souls. It glows out a little in their early youth, before the leaves open, in the redness and rosy-yellowness of their blossoms, but in summer it is carefully hidden under a demure, silver-lined greenness. Then when autumn comes, the maples give up trying to be sober and flame out in all the barbaric splendour and gorgeousness of their real nature, making of the hills things out of an Arabian Nights dream in the golden prime of good Haroun Alraschid.
You may never know what scarlet and crimson really are until you see them in their perfection on an October hillside, under the unfathomable blue of an autumn sky. All the glow and radiance and joy at earth's heart seem to have broken loose in a splendid determination to express itself for once before the frost of winter chills her beating pulses. It is the year's carnival ere the dull Lenten days of leafless valleys and penitential mists come.
The time of apple-picking had come around once more and we worked joyously. Uncle Blair picked apples with us, and between him and the Story Girl it was an October never to be forgotten.
"Will you go far afield for a walk with me to-day?" he said to her and me, one idle afternoon of opal skies, pied meadows and misty hills.
It was Saturday and Peter had gone home; Felix and Dan were helping Uncle Alec top turnips; Cecily and Felicity were making cookies for Sunday, so the Story Girl and I were alone in Uncle Stephen's Walk.
We liked to be alone together that last month, to think the long, long thoughts of youth and talk about our futures. There had grown up between us that summer a bond of sympathy that did not exist between us and the others. We were older than they—the Story Girl was fifteen and I was nearly that; and all at once it seemed as if we were immeasurably older than the rest, and possessed of dreams and visions and forward-reaching hopes which they could not possibly share or understand. At times we were still children, still interested in childish things. But there came hours when we seemed to our two selves very grown up and old, and in those hours we talked our dreams and visions and hopes, vague and splendid, as all such are, over together, and so began to build up, out of the rainbow fragments of our childhood's companionship, that rare and beautiful friendship which was to last all our lives, enriching and enstarring them. For there is no bond more lasting than that formed by the mutual confidences of that magic time when youth is slipping from the sheath of childhood and beginning to wonder what lies for it beyond those misty hills that bound the golden road.
"Where are you going?" asked the Story Girl.
"To 'the woods that belt the gray hillside'—ay, and overflow beyond it into many a valley purple-folded in immemorial peace," answered Uncle Blair. "I have a fancy for one more ramble in Prince Edward Island woods before I leave Canada again. But I would not go alone. So come, you two gay youthful things to whom all life is yet fair and good, and we will seek the path to Arcady. There will be many little things along our way to make us glad. Joyful sounds will 'come ringing down the wind;' a wealth of gypsy gold will be ours for the gathering; we will learn the potent, unutterable charm of a dim spruce wood and the grace of flexile mountain ashes fringing a lonely glen; we will tryst with the folk of fur and feather; we'll hearken to the music of gray old firs. Come, and you'll have a ramble and an afternoon that you will both remember all your lives."
We did have it; never has its remembrance faded; that idyllic afternoon of roving in the old Carlisle woods with the Story Girl and Uncle Blair gleams in my book of years, a page of living beauty. Yet it was but a few hours of simplest pleasure; we wandered pathlessly through the sylvan calm of those dear places which seemed that day to be full of a great friendliness; Uncle Blair sauntered along behind us, whistling softly; sometimes he talked to himself; we delighted in those brief reveries of his; Uncle Blair was the only man I have ever known who could, when he so willed, "talk like a book," and do it without seeming ridiculous; perhaps it was because he had the knack of choosing "fit audience, though few," and the proper time to appeal to that audience.
We went across the fields, intending to skirt the woods at the back of Uncle Alec's farm and find a lane that cut through Uncle Roger's woods; but before we came to it we stumbled on a sly, winding little path quite by accident—if, indeed, there can be such a thing as accident in the woods, where I am tempted to think we are led by the Good People along such of their fairy ways as they have a mind for us to walk in.
"Go to, let us explore this," said Uncle Blair. "It always drags terribly at my heart to go past a wood lane if I can make any excuse at all for traversing it: for it is the by-ways that lead to the heart of the woods and we must follow them if we would know the forest and be known of it. When we can really feel its wild heart beating against ours its subtle life will steal into our veins and make us its own for ever, so that no matter where we go or how wide we wander in the noisy ways of cities or over the lone ways of the sea, we shall yet be drawn back to the forest to find our most enduring kinship."
"I always feel so SATISFIED in the woods," said the Story Girl dreamily, as we turned in under the low-swinging fir boughs. "Trees seem such friendly things."
"They are the most friendly things in God's good creation," said Uncle Blair emphatically. "And it is so easy to live with them. To hold converse with pines, to whisper secrets with the poplars, to listen to the tales of old romance that beeches have to tell, to walk in eloquent silence with self-contained firs, is to learn what real companionship is. Besides, trees are the same all over the world. A beech tree on the slopes of the Pyrenees is just what a beech tree here in these Carlisle woods is; and there used to be an old pine hereabouts whose twin brother I was well acquainted with in a dell among the Apennines. Listen to those squirrels, will you, chattering over yonder. Did you ever hear such a fuss over nothing? Squirrels are the gossips and busybodies of the woods; they haven't learned the fine reserve of its other denizens. But after all, there is a certain shrill friendliness in their greeting."
"They seem to be scolding us," I said, laughing.
"Oh, they are not half such scolds as they sound," answered Uncle Blair gaily. "If they would but 'tak a thought and mend' their shrew-like ways they would be dear, lovable creatures enough."
"If I had to be an animal I think I'd like to be a squirrel," said the Story Girl. "It must be next best thing to flying."
"Just see what a spring that fellow gave," laughed Uncle Blair. "And now listen to his song of triumph! I suppose that chasm he cleared seemed as wide and deep to him as Niagara Gorge would to us if we leaped over it. Well, the wood people are a happy folk and very well satisfied with themselves."
Those who have followed a dim, winding, balsamic path to the unexpected hollow where a wood-spring lies have found the rarest secret the forest can reveal. Such was our good fortune that day. At the end of our path we found it, under the pines, a crystal-clear thing with lips unkissed by so much as a stray sunbeam.
"It is easy to dream that this is one of the haunted springs of old romance," said Uncle Blair. "'Tis an enchanted spot this, I am very sure, and we should go softly, speaking low, lest we disturb the rest of a white, wet naiad, or break some spell that has cost long years of mystic weaving."
"It's so easy to believe things in the woods," said the Story Girl, shaping a cup from a bit of golden-brown birch bark and filling it at the spring.
"Drink a toast in that water, Sara," said Uncle Blair. "There's not a doubt that it has some potent quality of magic in it and the wish you wish over it will come true."
The Story Girl lifted her golden-hued flagon to her red lips. Her hazel eyes laughed at us over the brim.
"Here's to our futures," she cried, "I wish that every day of our lives may be better than the one that went before."
"An extravagant wish—a very wish of youth," commented Uncle Blair, "and yet in spite of its extravagance, a wish that will come true if you are true to yourselves. In that case, every day WILL be better than all that went before—but there will be many days, dear lad and lass, when you will not believe it."
We did not understand him, but we knew Uncle Blair never explained his meaning. When asked it he was wont to answer with a smile, "Some day you'll grow to it. Wait for that." So we addressed ourselves to follow the brook that stole away from the spring in its windings and doublings and tricky surprises.
"A brook," quoth Uncle Blair, "is the most changeful, bewitching, lovable thing in the world. It is never in the same mind or mood two minutes. Here it is sighing and murmuring as if its heart were broken. But listen—yonder by the birches it is laughing as if it were enjoying some capital joke all by itself."
It was indeed a changeful brook; here it would make a pool, dark and brooding and still, where we bent to look at our mirrored faces; then it grew communicative and gossiped shallowly over a broken pebble bed where there was a diamond dance of sunbeams and no troutling or minnow could glide through without being seen. Sometimes its banks were high and steep, hung with slender ashes and birches; again they were mere, low margins, green with delicate mosses, shelving out of the wood. Once it came to a little precipice and flung itself over undauntedly in an indignation of foam, gathering itself up rather dizzily among the mossy stones below. It was some time before it got over its vexation; it went boiling and muttering along, fighting with the rotten logs that lie across it, and making far more fuss than was necessary over every root that interfered with it. We were getting tired of its ill-humour and talked of leaving it, when it suddenly grew sweet-tempered again, swooped around a curve—and presto, we were in fairyland.
It was a little dell far in the heart of the woods. A row of birches fringed the brook, and each birch seemed more exquisitely graceful and golden than her sisters. The woods receded from it on every hand, leaving it lying in a pool of amber sunshine. The yellow trees were mirrored in the placid stream, with now and then a leaf falling on the water, mayhap to drift away and be used, as Uncle Blair suggested, by some adventurous wood sprite who had it in mind to fare forth to some far-off, legendary region where all the brooks ran into the sea.
"Oh, what a lovely place!" I exclaimed, looking around me with delight.
"A spell of eternity is woven over it, surely," murmured Uncle Blair. "Winter may not touch it, or spring ever revisit it. It should be like this for ever."
"Let us never come here again," said the Story Girl softly, "never, no matter how often we may be in Carlisle. Then we will never see it changed or different. We can always remember it just as we see it now, and it will be like this for ever for us."
"I'm going to sketch it," said Uncle Blair.
While he sketched it the Story Girl and I sat on the banks of the brook and she told me the story of the Sighing Reed. It was a very simple little story, that of the slender brown reed which grew by the forest pool and always was sad and sighing because it could not utter music like the brook and the birds and the winds. All the bright, beautiful things around it mocked it and laughed at it for its folly. Who would ever look for music in it, a plain, brown, unbeautiful thing? But one day a youth came through the wood; he was as beautiful as the spring; he cut the brown reed and fashioned it according to his liking; and then he put it to his lips and breathed on it; and, oh, the music that floated through the forest! It was so entrancing that everything—brooks and birds and winds—grew silent to listen to it. Never had anything so lovely been heard; it was the music that had for so long been shut up in the soul of the sighing reed and was set free at last through its pain and suffering.
I had heard the Story Girl tell many a more dramatic tale; but that one stands out for me in memory above them all, partly, perhaps, because of the spot in which she told it, partly because it was the last one I was to hear her tell for many years—the last one she was ever to tell me on the golden road.
When Uncle Blair had finished his sketch the shafts of sunshine were turning crimson and growing more and more remote; the early autumn twilight was falling over the woods. We left our dell, saying good-bye to it for ever, as the Story Girl had suggested, and we went slowly homeward through the fir woods, where a haunting, indescribable odour stole out to meet us.
"There is magic in the scent of dying fir," Uncle Blair was saying aloud to himself, as if forgetting he was not quite alone. "It gets into our blood like some rare, subtly-compounded wine, and thrills us with unutterable sweetnesses, as of recollections from some other fairer life, lived in some happier star. Compared to it, all other scents seem heavy and earth-born, luring to the valleys instead of the heights. But the tang of the fir summons onward and upward to some 'far-off, divine event'—some spiritual peak of attainment whence we shall see with unfaltering, unclouded vision the spires of some aerial City Beautiful, or the fulfilment of some fair, fadeless land of promise."
He was silent for a moment, then added in a lower tone,
"Felicity, you loved the scent of dying fir. If you were here tonight with me—Felicity—Felicity!"
Something in his voice made me suddenly sad. I was comforted when I felt the Story Girl slip her hand into mine. So we walked out of the woods into the autumn dusk.
We were in a little valley. Half-way up the opposite slope a brush fire was burning clearly and steadily in a maple grove. There was something indescribably alluring in that fire, glowing so redly against the dark background of forest and twilit hill.
"Let us go to it," cried Uncle Blair, gaily, casting aside his sorrowful mood and catching our hands. "A wood fire at night has a fascination not to be resisted by those of mortal race. Hasten—we must not lose time."
"Oh, it will burn a long time yet," I gasped, for Uncle Blair was whisking us up the hill at a merciless rate.
"You can't be sure. It may have been lighted by some good, honest farmer-man, bent on tidying up his sugar orchard, but it may also, for anything we know, have been kindled by no earthly woodman as a beacon or summons to the tribes of fairyland, and may vanish away if we tarry."
It did not vanish and presently we found ourselves in the grove. It was very beautiful; the fire burned with a clear, steady glow and a soft crackle; the long arcades beneath the trees were illuminated with a rosy radiance, beyond which lurked companies of gray and purple shadows. Everything was very still and dreamy and remote.
"It is impossible that out there, just over the hill, lies a village of men, where tame household lamps are shining," said Uncle Blair.
"I feel as if we must be thousands of miles away from everything we've ever known," murmured the Story Girl.
"So you are!" said Uncle Blair emphatically. "You're back in the youth of the race—back in the beguilement of the young world. Everything is in this hour—the beauty of classic myths, the primal charm of the silent and the open, the lure of mystery. Why, it's a time and place when and where everything might come true—when the men in green might creep out to join hands and dance around the fire, or dryads steal from their trees to warm their white limbs, grown chilly in October frosts, by the blaze. I wouldn't be much surprised if we should see something of the kind. Isn't that the flash of an ivory shoulder through yonder gloom? And didn't you see a queer little elfin face peering at us around that twisted gray trunk? But one can't be sure. Mortal eyesight is too slow and clumsy a thing to match against the flicker of a pixy-litten fire."
Hand in hand we wandered through that enchanted place, seeking the folk of elf-land, "and heard their mystic voices calling, from fairy knoll and haunted hill." Not till the fire died down into ashes did we leave the grove. Then we found that the full moon was gleaming lustrously from a cloudless sky across the valley. Between us and her stretched up a tall pine, wondrously straight and slender and branchless to its very top, where it overflowed in a crest of dark boughs against the silvery splendour behind it. Beyond, the hill farms were lying in a suave, white radiance.
"Doesn't it seem a long, long time to you since we left home this afternoon?" asked the Story Girl. "And yet it is only a few hours."
Only a few hours—true; yet such hours were worth a cycle of common years untouched by the glory and the dream.
CHAPTER XXIX. WE LOSE A FRIEND
Our beautiful October was marred by one day of black tragedy—the day Paddy died. For Paddy, after seven years of as happy a life as ever a cat lived, died suddenly—of poison, as was supposed. Where he had wandered in the darkness to meet his doom we did not know, but in the frosty dawnlight he dragged himself home to die. We found him lying on the doorstep when we got up, and it did not need Aunt Janet's curt announcement, or Uncle Blair's reluctant shake of the head, to tell us that there was no chance of our pet recovering this time. We felt that nothing could be done. Lard and sulphur on his paws would be of no use, nor would any visit to Peg Bowen avail. We stood around in mournful silence; the Story Girl sat down on the step and took poor Paddy upon her lap.
"I s'pose there's no use even in praying now," said Cecily desperately.
"It wouldn't do any harm to try," sobbed Felicity.
"You needn't waste your prayers," said Dan mournfully, "Pat is beyond human aid. You can tell that by his eyes. Besides, I don't believe it was the praying cured him last time."
"No, it was Peg Bowen," declared Peter, "but she couldn't have bewitched him this time for she's been away for months, nobody knows where."
"If he could only TELL us where he feels the worst!" said Cecily piteously. "It's so dreadful to see him suffering and not be able to do a single thing to help him!"
"I don't think he's suffering much now," I said comfortingly.
The Story Girl said nothing. She passed and repassed her long brown hand gently over her pet's glossy fur. Pat lifted his head and essayed to creep a little nearer to his beloved mistress. The Story Girl drew his limp body close in her arms. There was a plaintive little mew—a long quiver—and Paddy's friendly soul had fared forth to wherever it is that good cats go.
"Well, he's gone," said Dan, turning his back abruptly to us.
"It doesn't seem as if it can be true," sobbed Cecily. "This time yesterday morning he was full of life."
"He drank two full saucers of cream," moaned Felicity, "and I saw him catch a mouse in the evening. Maybe it was the last one he ever caught."
"He did for many a mouse in his day," said Peter, anxious to pay his tribute to the departed.
"'He was a cat—take him for all in all. We shall not look upon his like again,'" quoted Uncle Blair.
Felicity and Cecily and Sara Ray cried so much that Aunt Janet lost patience completely and told them sharply that they would have something to cry for some day—which did not seem to comfort them much. The Story Girl shed no tears, though the look in her eyes hurt more than weeping.
"After all, perhaps it's for the best," she said drearily. "I've been feeling so badly over having to go away and leave Paddy. No matter how kind you'd all be to him I know he'd miss me terribly. He wasn't like most cats who don't care who comes and goes as long as they get plenty to eat. Paddy wouldn't have been contented without me."
"Oh, no-o-o, oh, no-o-o," wailed Sara Ray lugubriously.
Felix shot a disgusted glance at her.
"I don't see what YOU are making such a fuss about," he said unfeelingly. "He wasn't your cat."
"But I l-l-oved him," sobbed Sara, "and I always feel bad when my friends d-do."
"I wish we could believe that cats went to heaven, like people," sighed Cecily. "Do you really think it isn't possible?"
Uncle Blair shook his head.
"I'm afraid not. I'd like to think cats have a chance for heaven, but I can't. There's nothing heavenly about cats, delightful creatures though they are."
"Blair, I'm really surprised to hear the things you say to the children," said Aunt Janet severely.
"Surely you wouldn't prefer me to tell them that cats DO go to heaven," protested Uncle Blair.
"I think it's wicked to carry on about an animal as those children do," answered Aunt Janet decidedly, "and you shouldn't encourage them. Here now, children, stop making a fuss. Bury that cat and get off to your apple picking."
We had to go to our work, but Paddy was not to be buried in any such off-hand fashion as that. It was agreed that we should bury him in the orchard at sunset that evening, and Sara Ray, who had to go home, declared she would be back for it, and implored us to wait for her if she didn't come exactly on time.
"I mayn't be able to get away till after milking," she sniffed, "but I don't want to miss it. Even a cat's funeral is better than none at all."
"Horrid thing!" said Felicity, barely waiting until Sara was out of earshot.
We worked with heavy hearts that day; the girls cried bitterly most of the time and we boys whistled defiantly. But as evening drew on we began to feel a sneaking interest in the details of the funeral. As Dan said, the thing should be done properly, since Paddy was no common cat. The Story Girl selected the spot for the grave, in a little corner behind the cherry copse, where early violets enskied the grass in spring, and we boys dug the grave, making it "soft and narrow," as the heroine of the old ballad wanted hers made. Sara Ray, who managed to come in time after all, and Felicity stood and watched us, but Cecily and the Story Girl kept far aloof.
"This time last night you never thought you'd be digging Pat's grave to-night," sighed Felicity.
"We little k-know what a day will bring forth," sobbed Sara. "I've heard the minister say that and it is true."
"Of course it's true. It's in the Bible; but I don't think you should repeat it in connection with a cat," said Felicity dubiously.
When all was in readiness the Story Girl brought her pet through the orchard where he had so often frisked and prowled. No useless coffin enclosed his breast but he reposed in a neat cardboard box.
"I wonder if it would be right to say 'ashes to ashes and dust to dust,'" said Peter.
"No, it wouldn't," averred Felicity. "It would be real wicked."
"I think we ought to sing a hymn, anyway," asseverated Sara Ray.
"Well, we might do that, if it isn't a very religious one," conceded Felicity.
"How would 'Pull for the shore, sailor, pull for the shore,' do?" asked Cecily. "That never seemed to me a very religious hymn."
"But it doesn't seem very appropriate to a funeral occasion either," said Felicity.
"I think 'Lead, kindly light,' would be ever so much more suitable," suggested Sara Ray, "and it is kind of soothing and melancholy too."
"We are not going to sing anything," said the Story Girl coldly. "Do you want to make the affair ridiculous? We will just fill up the grave quietly and put a flat stone over the top."
"It isn't much like my idea of a funeral," muttered Sara Ray discontentedly.
"Never mind, we're going to have a real obituary about him in Our Magazine," whispered Cecily consolingly.
"And Peter is going to cut his name on top of the stone," added Felicity. "Only we mustn't let on to the grown-ups until it is done, because they might say it wasn't right."
We left the orchard, a sober little band, with the wind of the gray twilight blowing round us. Uncle Roger passed us at the gate.
"So the last sad obsequies are over?" he remarked with a grin.
And we hated Uncle Roger. But we loved Uncle Blair because he said quietly,
"And so you've buried your little comrade?"
So much may depend on the way a thing is said. But not even Uncle Blair's sympathy could take the sting out of the fact that there was no Paddy to get the froth that night at milking time. Felicity cried bitterly all the time she was straining the milk. Many human beings have gone to their graves unattended by as much real regret as followed that one gray pussy cat to his.
CHAPTER XXX. PROPHECIES
"Here's a letter for you from father," said Felix, tossing it to me as he came through the orchard gate. We had been picking apples all day, but were taking a mid-afternoon rest around the well, with a cup of its sparkling cold water to refresh us.
I opened the letter rather indifferently, for father, with all his excellent and lovable traits, was but a poor correspondent; his letters were usually very brief and very unimportant.
This letter was brief enough, but it was freighted with a message of weighty import. I sat gazing stupidly at the sheet after I had read it until Felix exclaimed,
"Bev, what's the matter with you? What's in that letter?"
"Father is coming home," I said dazedly. "He is to leave South America in a fortnight and will be here in November to take us back to Toronto."
Everybody gasped. Sara Ray, of course, began to cry, which aggravated me unreasonably.
"Well," said Felix, when he got his second wind, "I'll be awful glad to see father again, but I tell you I don't like the thought of leaving here."
I felt exactly the same but, in view of Sara Ray's tears, admit it I would not; so I sat in grum silence while the other tongues wagged.
"If I were not going away myself I'd feel just terrible," said the Story Girl. "Even as it is I'm real sorry. I'd like to be able to think of you as all here together when I'm gone, having good times and writing me about them."
"It'll be awfully dull when you fellows go," muttered Dan.
"I'm sure I don't know what we're ever going to do here this winter," said Felicity, with the calmness of despair.
"Thank goodness there are no more fathers to come back," breathed Cecily with a vicious earnestness that made us all laugh, even in the midst of our dismay.
We worked very half-heartedly the rest of the day, and it was not until we assembled in the orchard in the evening that our spirits recovered something like their wonted level. It was clear and slightly frosty; the sun had declined behind a birch on a distant hill and it seemed a tree with a blazing heart of fire. The great golden willow at the lane gate was laughter-shaken in the wind of evening. Even amid all the changes of our shifting world we could not be hopelessly low-spirited—except Sara Ray, who was often so, and Peter, who was rarely so. But Peter had been sorely vexed in spirit for several days. The time was approaching for the October issue of Our Magazine and he had no genuine fiction ready for it. He had taken so much to heart Felicity's taunt that his stories were all true that he had determined to have a really-truly false one in the next number. But the difficulty was to get anyone to write it. He had asked the Story Girl to do it, but she refused; then he appealed to me and I shirked. Finally Peter determined to write a story himself.
"It oughtn't to be any harder than writing a poem and I managed that," he said dolefully.
He worked at it in the evenings in the granary loft, and the rest of us forebore to question him concerning it, because he evidently disliked talking about his literary efforts. But this evening I had to ask him if he would soon have it ready, as I wanted to make up the paper.
"It's done," said Peter, with an air of gloomy triumph. "It don't amount to much, but anyhow I made it all out of my own head. Not one word of it was ever printed or told before, and nobody can say there was."
"Then I guess we have all the stuff in and I'll have Our Magazine ready to read by tomorrow night," I said.
"I s'pose it will be the last one we'll have," sighed Cecily. "We can't carry it on after you all go, and it has been such fun."
"Bev will be a real newspaper editor some day," declared the Story Girl, on whom the spirit of prophecy suddenly descended that night.
She was swinging on the bough of an apple tree, with a crimson shawl wrapped about her head, and her eyes were bright with roguish fire.
"How do you know he will?" asked Felicity.
"Oh, I can tell futures," answered the Story Girl mysteriously. "I know what's going to happen to all of you. Shall I tell you?"
"Do, just for the fun of it," I said. "Then some day we'll know just how near you came to guessing right. Go on. What else about me?"
"You'll write books, too, and travel all over the world," continued the Story Girl. "Felix will be fat to the end of his life, and he will be a grandfather before he is fifty, and he will wear a long black beard."
"I won't," cried Felix disgustedly. "I hate whiskers. Maybe I can't help the grandfather part, but I CAN help having a beard."
"You can't. It's written in the stars."
"'Tain't. The stars can't prevent me from shaving."
"Won't Grandpa Felix sound awful funny?" reflected Felicity.
"Peter will be a minister," went on the Story Girl.
"Well, I might be something worse," remarked Peter, in a not ungratified tone.
"Dan will be a farmer and will marry a girl whose name begins with K and he will have eleven children. And he'll vote Grit."
"I won't," cried scandalized Dan. "You don't know a thing about it. Catch ME ever voting Grit! As for the rest of it—I don't care. Farming's well enough, though I'd rather be a sailor."
"Don't talk such nonsense," protested Felicity sharply. "What on earth do you want to be a sailor for and be drowned?"
"All sailors aren't drowned," said Dan.
"Most of them are. Look at Uncle Stephen."
"You ain't sure he was drowned."
"Well, he disappeared, and that is worse."
"How do you know? Disappearing might be real easy."
"It's not very easy for your family."
"Hush, let's hear the rest of the predictions," said Cecily.
"Felicity," resumed the Story Girl gravely, "will marry a minister."
Sara Ray giggled and Felicity blushed. Peter tried hard not to look too self-consciously delighted.
"She will be a perfect housekeeper and will teach a Sunday School class and be very happy all her life."
"Will her husband be happy?" queried Dan solemnly.
"I guess he'll be as happy as your wife," retorted Felicity reddening.
"He'll be the happiest man in the world," declared Peter warmly.
"What about me?" asked Sara Ray.
The Story Girl looked rather puzzled. It was so hard to imagine Sara Ray as having any kind of future. Yet Sara was plainly anxious to have her fortune told and must be gratified.
"You'll be married," said the Story Girl recklessly, "and you'll live to be nearly a hundred years old, and go to dozens of funerals and have a great many sick spells. You will learn not to cry after you are seventy; but your husband will never go to church."
"I'm glad you warned me," said Sara Ray solemnly, "because now I know I'll make him promise before I marry him that he will go."
"He won't keep the promise," said the Story Girl, shaking her head. "But it is getting cold and Cecily is coughing. Let us go in."
"You haven't told my fortune," protested Cecily disappointedly.
The Story Girl looked very tenderly at Cecily—at the smooth little brown head, at the soft, shining eyes, at the cheeks that were often over-rosy after slight exertion, at the little sunburned hands that were always busy doing faithful work or quiet kindnesses. A very strange look came over the Story Girl's face; her eyes grew sad and far-reaching, as if of a verity they pierced beyond the mists of hidden years.
"I couldn't tell any fortune half good enough for you, dearest," she said, slipping her arm round Cecily. "You deserve everything good and lovely. But you know I've only been in fun—of course I don't know anything about what's going to happen to us."
"Perhaps you know more than you think for," said Sara Ray, who seemed much pleased with her fortune and anxious to believe it, despite the husband who wouldn't go to church.
"But I'd like to be told my fortune, even in fun," persisted Cecily.
"Everybody you meet will love you as long as you live." said the Story Girl. "There that's the very nicest fortune I can tell you, and it will come true whether the others do or not, and now we must go in."
We went, Cecily still a little disappointed. In later years I often wondered why the Story Girl refused to tell her fortune that night. Did some strange gleam of foreknowledge fall for a moment across her mirth-making? Did she realize in a flash of prescience that there was no earthly future for our sweet Cecily? Not for her were to be the lengthening shadows or the fading garland. The end was to come while the rainbow still sparkled on her wine of life, ere a single petal had fallen from her rose of joy. Long life was before all the others who trysted that night in the old homestead orchard; but Cecily's maiden feet were never to leave the golden road.
CHAPTER XXXI. THE LAST NUMBER OF OUR MAGAZINE
It is with heartfelt regret that we take up our pen to announce that this will be the last number of Our Magazine. We have edited ten numbers of it and it has been successful beyond our expectations. It has to be discontinued by reason of circumstances over which we have no control and not because we have lost interest in it. Everybody has done his or her best for Our Magazine. Prince Edward Island expected everyone to do his and her duty and everyone did it.
Mr. Dan King conducted the etiquette department in a way worthy of the Family Guide itself. He is especially entitled to commendation because he laboured under the disadvantage of having to furnish most of the questions as well as the answers. Miss Felicity King has edited our helpful household department very ably, and Miss Cecily King's fashion notes were always up to date. The personal column was well looked after by Miss Sara Stanley and the story page has been a marked success under the able management of Mr. Peter Craig, to whose original story in this issue, "The Battle of the Partridge Eggs," we would call especial attention. The Exciting Adventure series has also been very popular.
And now, in closing, we bid farewell to our staff and thank them one and all for their help and co-operation in the past year. We have enjoyed our work and we trust that they have too. We wish them all happiness and success in years to come, and we hope that the recollection of Our Magazine will not be held least dear among the memories of their childhood.
(SOBS FROM THE GIRLS): "INDEED IT WON'T!"
On October eighteenth, Patrick Grayfur departed for that bourne whence no traveller returns. He was only a cat, but he had been our faithful friend for a long time and we aren't ashamed to be sorry for him. There are lots of people who are not as friendly and gentlemanly as Paddy was, and he was a great mouser. We buried all that was mortal of poor Pat in the orchard and we are never going to forget him. We have resolved that whenever the date of his death comes round we'll bow our heads and pronounce his name at the hour of his funeral. If we are anywhere where we can't say the name out loud we'll whisper it.
"Farewell, dearest Paddy, in all the years that are to be We'll cherish your memory faithfully."
MY MOST EXCITING ADVENTURE
My most exciting adventure was the day I fell off Uncle Roger's loft two years ago. I wasn't excited until it was all over because I hadn't time to be. The Story Girl and I were looking for eggs in the loft. It was filled with wheat straw nearly to the roof and it was an awful distance from us to the floor. And wheat straw is so slippery. I made a little spring and the straw slipped from under my feet and there I was going head first down from the loft. It seemed to me I was an awful long time falling, but the Story Girl says I couldn't have been more than three seconds. But I know that I thought five thoughts and there seemed to be quite a long time between them. The first thing I thought was, what has happened, because I really didn't know at first, it was so sudden. Then after a spell I thought the answer, I am falling off the loft. And then I thought, what will happen to me when I strike the floor, and after another little spell I thought, I'll be killed. And then I thought, well, I don't care. I really wasn't a bit frightened. I just was quite willing to be killed. If there hadn't been a big pile of chaff on the barn floor these words would never have been written. But there was and I fell on it and wasn't a bit hurt, only my hair and mouth and eyes and ears got all full of chaff. The strange part is that I wasn't a bit frightened when I thought I was going to be killed, but after all the danger was over I was awfully frightened and trembled so the Story Girl had to help me into the house.
THE BATTLE OF THE PARTRIDGE EGGS
Once upon a time there lived about half a mile from a forrest a farmer and his wife and his sons and daughters and a granddaughter. The farmer and his wife loved this little girl very much but she caused them great trouble by running away into the woods and they often spent haf days looking for her. One day she wondered further into the forrest than usual and she begun to be hungry. Then night closed in. She asked a fox where she could get something to eat. The fox told her he knew where there was a partridges nest and a bluejays nest full of eggs. So he led her to the nests and she took five eggs out of each. When the birds came home they missed the eggs and flew into a rage. The bluejay put on his topcoat and was going to the partridge for law when he met the partridge coming to him. They lit up a fire and commenced sining their deeds when they heard a tremendous howl close behind them. They jumped up and put out the fire and were immejutly attacked by five great wolves. The next day the little girl was rambelling through the woods when they saw her and took her prisoner. After she had confessed that she had stole the eggs they told her to raise an army. They would have to fight over the nests of eggs and whoever one would have the eggs. So the partridge raised a great army of all kinds of birds except robins and the little girl got all the robins and foxes and bees and wasps. And best of all the little girl had a gun and plenty of ammunishun. The leader of her army was a wolf. The result of the battle was that all the birds were killed except the partridge and the bluejay and they were taken prisoner and starved to death.
The little girl was then taken prisoner by a witch and cast into a dunjun full of snakes where she died from their bites and people who went through the forrest after that were taken prisoner by her ghost and cast into the same dunjun where they died. About a year after the wood turned into a gold castle and one morning everything had vanished except a piece of a tree.
(DAN, WITH A WHISTLE:—"Well, I guess nobody can say Peter can't write fiction after THAT."
SARA RAY, WIPING AWAY HER TEARS:—"It's a very interesting story, but it ends SO sadly."
FELIX:—"What made you call it The Battle of the Partridge Eggs when the bluejay had just as much to do with it?"
PETER, SHORTLY:—"Because it sounded better that way."
FELICITY:—"Did she eat the eggs raw?"
SARA RAY:—"Poor little thing, I suppose if you're starving you can't be very particular."
CECILY, SIGHING:—"I wish you'd let her go home safe, Peter, and not put her to such a cruel death."
BEVERLEY:—"I don't quite understand where the little girl got her gun and ammunition."
PETER, SUSPECTING THAT HE IS BEING MADE FUN OF:—"If you could write a better story, why didn't you? I give you the chance."
THE STORY GIRL, WITH A PRETERNATURALLY SOLEMN FACE:—"You shouldn't criticize Peter's story like that. It's a fairy tale, you know, and anything can happen in a fairy tale."
FELICITY:—"There isn't a word about fairies in it!"
CECILY:—"Besides, fairy tales always end nicely and this doesn't."
PETER, SULKILY:—"I wanted to punish her for running away from home."
DAN:—"Well, I guess you did it all right."
CECILY:—"Oh, well, it was very interesting, and that is all that is really necessary in a story." )
Mr. Blair Stanley is visiting friends and relatives in Carlisle. He intends returning to Europe shortly. His daughter, Miss Sara, will accompany him.
Mr. Alan King is expected home from South America next month. His sons will return with him to Toronto. Beverley and Felix have made hosts of friends during their stay in Carlisle and will be much missed in social circles.
The Mission Band of Carlisle Presbyterian Church completed their missionary quilt last week. Miss Cecily King collected the largest sum on her square. Congratulations, Cecily.
Mr. Peter Craig will be residing in Markdale after October and will attend school there this winter. Peter is a good fellow and we all wish him success and prosperity.
Apple picking is almost ended. There was an unusually heavy crop this year. Potatoes, not so good.
Apple pies are the order of the day.
Eggs are a very good price now. Uncle Roger says it isn't fair to have to pay as much for a dozen little eggs as a dozen big ones, but they go just as far.
F-l-t-y. Is it considered good form to eat peppermints in church? Ans.; No, not if a witch gives them to you.
No, F-l-x, we would not call Treasure Island or the Pilgrim's Progress dime novels.
Yes, P-t-r, when you call on a young lady and her mother offers you a slice of bread and jam it is quite polite for you to accept it.
Necklaces of roseberries are very much worn now.
It is considered smart to wear your school hat tilted over your left eye.
Bangs are coming in. Em Frewen has them. She went to Summerside for a visit and came back with them. All the girls in school are going to bang their hair as soon as their mothers will let them. But I do not intend to bang mine.
(SARA RAY, DESPAIRINGLY:—"I know ma will never let ME have bangs.")
D-n. What are details? C-l-y. I am not sure, but I think they are things that are left over.
(CECILY, WONDERINGLY:—"I don't see why that was put among the funny paragraphs. Shouldn't it have gone in the General Information department?")
Old Mr. McIntyre's son on the Markdale Road had been very sick for several years and somebody was sympathizing with him because his son was going to die. "Oh," Mr. McIntyre said, quite easy, "he might as weel be awa'. He's only retarding buzziness."
GENERAL INFORMATION BUREAU
P-t-r. What kind of people live in uninhabited places?
Ans.: Cannibals, likely.
[Footnote 1: The obituary was written by Mr. Felix King, but the two lines of poetry were composed by Miss Sara Ray.]
CHAPTER XXXII. OUR LAST EVENING TOGETHER
IT was the evening before the day on which the Story Girl and Uncle Blair were to leave us, and we were keeping our last tryst together in the orchard where we had spent so many happy hours. We had made a pilgrimage to all the old haunts—the hill field, the spruce wood, the dairy, Grandfather King's willow, the Pulpit Stone, Pat's grave, and Uncle Stephen's Walk; and now we foregathered in the sere grasses about the old well and feasted on the little jam turnovers Felicity had made that day specially for the occasion.
"I wonder if we'll ever all be together again," sighed Cecily.
"I wonder when I'll get jam turnovers like this again," said the Story Girl, trying to be gay but not making much of a success of it.
"If Paris wasn't so far away I could send you a box of nice things now and then," said Felicity forlornly, "but I suppose there's no use thinking of that. Dear knows what they'll give you to eat over there."
"Oh, the French have the reputation of being the best cooks in the world," rejoined the Story Girl, "but I know they can't beat your jam turnovers and plum puffs, Felicity. Many a time I'll be hankering after them."
"If we ever do meet again you'll be grown up," said Felicity gloomily.
"Well, you won't have stood still yourselves, you know."
"No, but that's just the worst of it. We'll all be different and everything will be changed."
"Just think," said Cecily, "last New Year's Eve we were wondering what would happen this year; and what a lot of things have happened that we never expected. Oh, dear!"
"If things never happened life would be pretty dull," said the Story Girl briskly. "Oh, don't look so dismal, all of you."
"It's hard to be cheerful when everybody's going away," sighed Cecily.
"Well, let's pretend to be, anyway," insisted the Story Girl. "Don't let's think of parting. Let's think instead of how much we've laughed this last year or so. I'm sure I shall never forget this dear old place. We've had so many good times here."
"And some bad times, too," reminded Felix.
"Remember when Dan et the bad berries last summer?"
"And the time we were so scared over that bell ringing in the house," grinned Peter.
"And the Judgment Day," added Dan.
"And the time Paddy was bewitched," suggested Sara Ray.
"And when Peter was dying of the measles," said Felicity.
"And the time Jimmy Patterson was lost," said Dan. "Gee-whiz, but that scared me out of a year's growth."
"Do you remember the time we took the magic seed," grinned Peter.
"Weren't we silly?" said Felicity. "I really can never look Billy Robinson in the face when I meet him. I'm always sure he's laughing at me in his sleeve."
"It's Billy Robinson who ought to be ashamed when he meets you or any of us," commented Cecily severely. "I'd rather be cheated than cheat other people."
"Do you mind the time we bought God's picture?" asked Peter.
"I wonder if it's where we buried it yet," speculated Felix.
"I put a stone over it, just as we did over Pat," said Cecily.
"I wish I could forget what God looks like," sighed Sara Ray. "I can't forget it—and I can't forget what the bad place is like either, ever since Peter preached that sermon on it."
"When you get to be a real minister you'll have to preach that sermon over again, Peter," grinned Dan.
"My Aunt Jane used to say that people needed a sermon on that place once in a while," retorted Peter seriously.
"Do you mind the night I et the cucumbers and milk to make me dream?" said Cecily.
And therewith we hunted out our old dream books to read them again, and, forgetful of coming partings, laughed over them till the old orchard echoed to our mirth. When we had finished we stood in a circle around the well and pledged "eternal friendship" in a cup of its unrivalled water.
Then we joined hands and sang "Auld Lang Syne." Sara Ray cried bitterly in lieu of singing.
"Look here," said the Story Girl, as we turned to leave the old orchard, "I want to ask a favour of you all. Don't say good-bye to me tomorrow morning."
"Why not?" demanded Felicity in astonishment.
"Because it's such a hopeless sort of word. Don't let's SAY it at all. Just see me off with a wave of your hands. It won't seem half so bad then. And don't any of you cry if you can help it. I want to remember you all smiling."
We went out of the old orchard where the autumn night wind was beginning to make its weird music in the russet boughs, and shut the little gate behind us. Our revels there were ended.
CHAPTER XXXIII. THE STORY GIRL GOES
The morning dawned, rosy and clear and frosty. Everybody was up early, for the travellers must leave in time to catch the nine o'clock train. The horse was harnessed and Uncle Alec was waiting by the door. Aunt Janet was crying, but everybody else was making a valiant effort not to. The Awkward Man and Mrs. Dale came to see the last of their favourite. Mrs. Dale had brought her a glorious sheaf of chrysanthemums, and the Awkward Man gave her, quite gracefully, another little, old, limp book from his library.
"Read it when you are sad or happy or lonely or discouraged or hopeful," he said gravely.
"He has really improved very much since he got married," whispered Felicity to me.
Sara Stanley wore a smart new travelling suit and a blue felt hat with a white feather. She looked so horribly grown up in it that we felt as if she were lost to us already.
Sara Ray had vowed tearfully the night before that she would be up in the morning to say farewell. But at this juncture Judy Pineau appeared to say that Sara, with her usual luck, had a sore throat, and that her mother consequently would not permit her to come. So Sara had written her parting words in a three-cornered pink note.
"My OWN DARLING FRIEND:—WORDS CANNOT EXPRESS my feelings over not being able to go up this morning to say good-bye to one I so FONDLY ADORE. When I think that I cannot SEE YOU AGAIN my heart is almost TOO FULL FOR UTTERANCE. But mother says I cannot and I MUST OBEY. But I will be present IN SPIRIT. It just BREAKS MY HEART that you are going SO FAR AWAY. You have always been SO KIND to me and never hurt my feelings AS SOME DO and I shall miss you SO MUCH. But I earnestly HOPE AND PRAY that you will be HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS wherever YOUR LOT IS CAST and not be seasick on THE GREAT OCEAN. I hope you will find time AMONG YOUR MANY DUTIES to write me a letter ONCE IN A WHILE. I shall ALWAYS REMEMBER YOU and please remember me. I hope we WILL MEET AGAIN sometime, but if not may we meet in A FAR BETTER WORLD where there are no SAD PARTINGS.
"Your true and loving friend,
"Poor little Sara," said the Story Girl, with a queer catch in her voice, as she slipped the tear-blotted note into her pocket. "She isn't a bad little soul, and I'm sorry I couldn't see her once more, though maybe it's just as well for she'd have to cry and set us all off. I WON'T cry. Felicity, don't you dare. Oh, you dear, darling people, I love you all so much and I'll go on loving you always."
"Mind you write us every week at the very least," said Felicity, winking furiously.
"Blair, Blair, watch over the child well," said Aunt Janet. "Remember, she has no mother."
The Story Girl ran over to the buggy and climbed in. Uncle Blair followed her. Her arms were full of Mrs. Dale's chrysanthemums, held close up to her face, and her beautiful eyes shone softly at us over them. No good-byes were said, as she wished. We all smiled bravely and waved our hands as they drove out of the lane and down the moist red road into the shadows of the fir wood in the valley. But we still stood there, for we knew we should see the Story Girl once more. Beyond the fir wood was an open curve in the road and she had promised to wave a last farewell as they passed around it.
We watched the curve in silence, standing in a sorrowful little group in the sunshine of the autumn morning. The delight of the world had been ours on the golden road. It had enticed us with daisies and rewarded us with roses. Blossom and lyric had waited on our wishes. Thoughts, careless and sweet, had visited us. Laughter had been our comrade and fearless Hope our guide. But now the shadow of change was over it.
"There she is," cried Felicity.
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WASHINGTON -- European Central Bank President Mario Draghi on Saturday acknowledged the challenges of using U.S.-style bond purchases to jolt the euro zone from weak growth and said officials may instead have to consider other measures.
Draghi, who spoke to reporters after the International Monetary Fund's annual spring meeting in Washington, D.C., gave no indication that the ECB is closer to deciding whether to launch a stimulus program to combat low inflation that threatens to slow the region's nascent emergence from recession.
Last week, he said ECB policymakers unanimously agreed that they were prepared to use "unconventional" tools, besides lowering interest rates. IMF officials have urged the ECB to take more aggressive action.
Low inflation can lead to deflation, or falling wages and prices, that prompts consumers to put off purchases, which slows growth and makes it tougher for governments, businesses and consumers to pay off debts. The area's inflation fell to an annual rate of 0.5% in March, well below the ECB's 2% target.
Draghi said Saturday, "We see no evidence that people are postponing their spending patterns." ECB officials, he said, expect growth to accelerate toward the 2% target later this year as food and energy prices pick up. He added that low inflation has its advantages, such as making products and services more affordable for consumers.
But acknowledging the perils of falling prices, he added, "We should not be complacent." He added that the ongoing appreciation of the euro ultimately may force the ECB to take stimulus action. A rising euro makes imports less expensive for consumers, exacerbating low inflation, and it hurts economic growth by making exports more expensive.
Many economists expect the ECB to purchase massive amounts of bonds to push down long-term interest rates, similar to the program the Federal Reserve undertook in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and is now winding down. But Draghi conceded the size of the euro zone asset-backed bond market is limited to about $100 billion, noting that corporate borrowing in Europe is mostly done through banks.
"We may need to consider other unconventional measures," he said.
He was not more specific. But in an interview, IMF First Deputy Managing Director David Lipton said the ECB could buy assets directly from bank balance sheets, instead of in the bond market.
Another option is the ECB could push near-zero interest rates into negative territory, meaning banks would have to pay to park their money at the ECB, theoretically prodding them to lend the money instead.
Draghi downplayed the ability of monetary policy to address the region's 12% unemployment rate. "If you think monetary policy can fix all the problems in the world, you're wrong," he said.
Draghi also responded coolly to IMF officials' recommendation that advanced economies, such as the United States and eurozone, better coordinate monetary policy with emerging markets, such as India and Brazil.
Last year, foreign capital poured out of emerging markets when U.S. Fed officials began discussing plans to reduce its bond-buying program, which pushed up U.S. interest rates and made foreign assets less attractive.
Similarly, when the Fed and the ECB took steps to lower interest rates during the financial crisis, foreign investors rushed into the emerging markets, driving up their currency values and making their exports less attractive.
Draghi said, "We look at spillover" effects on emerging markets. "It's good to be aware of the impact of our action."
But he added, "It's very hard to coordinate" policy. "Each of us has our (own) mandate." Fed officials have voiced a similar view.
Separately, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde told reporters Saturday she was encouraged that the global recovery is strengthening, but she added: "It's uneven, it's too slow, it's too fragile."
In its communiqué, the IMF's International Monetary and Financial Committee called for steps including more infrastructure investment and labor market overhauls in some countries. The changes would increase productivity and expand the role of women and older workers, among other measures.
IMF officials also reiterated their disappointment in the failure of Congress to approve 2010 IMF reforms that would increase the voting power of emerging markets to reflect that their economies now make up two-thirds of global growth. The IMF said it would examine other options if Congress does not ratify the reforms by yearend.
As the changes -- which also would double the IMF's lending reserves -- languish, "We are much more likely to see more disruption," said Tharman Shanmugaratnam, chairman of the monetary and financial committee and deputy prime minister of Singapore. Nations, he said, will become more likely to form regional alliances instead of taking part in the IMF, a global group with 188 member countries.
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Class 2S has been learning different skills that we might need when we go out shopping in our local community. Starting with a Learning Intention of: To identify different shops and what they sell, we worked together to use our knowledge to create a shopping list, and then identify different types of coins.
Our work started by asking what do we do inside a shop, and what do we need to give to the shopkeeper in return for what we buy? We worked together on the class whiteboard, to help answer a series of questions based on what we might buy from a particular shop. The aim was to help the pupils think about the differences between shops, and to understand what items can be bought from where.
We asked our Class 2S members what their favourite types of food are, and then used this information to put together a class shopping list. Our work finished with a really useful session in identifying the complete range of English currency, from 1p to a £2 coin.
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Today Harrow Way attended the annual Blue Fusion event run by IBM at their premises in Hursley with six Year 10 students. During the day the students competed in a series of challenges “Designed to challenge the teams, but also to develop their awareness of science, engineering and technology through interactions with emerging technologies”.
These varied from working out how to ‘speak’ to a computer using DTMF tones played on musical instruments to solve maths problems, how to control a mechanical arm by controlling the different ‘muscles’, planning routes for taxis to collect customers and earn money against other teams, encode a message using cryptography techniques and send it to the other half of the team via morse code, design the flightpath of a spaceship designed to photograph multiple planets and more.
Each activity required massive amounts of teamwork and each member of the team had their own roles to play. The day culminated in a match against the spaceship every team had designed earlier in the day to see which took the best ‘photos’ and so made the most money.
The Harrow Way students consistently held the 1st place on the scoreboard throughout the day against the other 11 schools taking part and maintained this lead, taking the 1st place award in the IBM Theatre at the end of the day.
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BOSTON (AP) — A new Massachusetts law that prohibits discrimination against transgender people in public restrooms is “punishing” the protected religious speech of churches and pastors, a conservative Christian organization claims in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday.
Alliance Defending Freedom, based in Scottsdale, Arizona, said it sued on behalf of four Massachusetts churches to protect their right to operate their facilities “in a manner that doesn’t violate their core religious beliefs.” The lawsuit names Democratic state Attorney General Maura Healey and members of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination as defendants.
The law that went into effect in July bars discrimination against transgender people in public accommodations. Among other things, it allows individuals to use the bathroom or locker room that corresponds with their gender identity.
Healey has found that churches are places of public accommodation.
The ADF contends in the lawsuit that churches would be forced to open changing rooms, shower facilities and restrooms based on perceived gender identity and not on biological sex. The groups says because the law also prohibits covered entities from making statements intended to discriminate or to incite others to do so, Healey and the commission “also intend to force churches and pastors to refrain from religious expression regarding sexuality that conflicts with the government’s views.”
“Neither the commission nor the attorney general has the constitutional authority to dictate how any church uses its facility or what public statements a church can make concerning a deeply held religious belief, such as human sexuality,” said attorney Steve O’Ban, senior counsel for ADF.
A spokeswoman for Healey’s office did not immediately provide comment. An assistant to the commission did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
The lawsuit asks the court to suspend enforcement of the law against the churches while their lawsuit proceeds. The churches suing are Horizon Christian Fellowship, in Fitchburg: Abundant Life Church, in Swansea; House of Destiny Ministries, in Southbridge; and Faith Christian Fellowship in Haverhill.
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The process of starting your own business can be downright intimidating - and it almost doesn't feel real until your business has a registered name. Choosing a name for your business can be harder than naming your first born child... there isn't a baby book for business names. While some entrepreneurs may choose to use their last name - i.e. Madden’s, that doesn't always speak to their brand identity. Others might leave their decision up to an online name generator. These free naming tools can help to spark ideas, but the results are often generic and uninspired. If your creative juices just aren’t flowing and you find yourself lacking inspiration on the name selection front, you are not alone. Branding decisions are hard, but by following the methods other well-known businesses used to come up with their names, you may find yours.
Questions to Consider Before Naming Your Business
Before you start brainstorming actual names, answer the following questions about your business and brand. Your answers to these questions will be the foundation of your brainstorming process. They will ensure that your chosen name has meaning and supports the overall mission of your business!
- How would you describe your business/products/services?
- What sets your business apart?
- Why do your customers choose you?
- What is your business’s personality?
- How do you want to make people feel?
Company Name Brainstorming Tips
Now to the meat of the name selection turkey! Below you’ll find some important things to consider when picking your business name, as well as some ideas for developing a unique and meaningful name. As you’re reading through the list, have a pen & paper at hand. Jot down any and all random words that come to mind - it doesn’t matter how silly they may seem, I swear to you they will come in handy!
- Keep it Simple & Short
- Should not be a mouthful - “The Best Place to Buy Pet Clothing in Providence”, not matter how descriptive of your business, is just too long and wordy
- Should roll off the tongue
- Alliteration can be helpful to accomplish this - ie. Growing Garden (garden shop)
- Make it Memorable & Unique
- Be sure other businesses in your area/industry do not have similar names that may be confused in the market.
- The name should not be so unique that it's hard to remember, and not so generic that it's the same as hundreds of other businesses.
- Try a Word Dump
- On a blank piece of paper, write down every word that comes to your mind when you think about your business. Don't hold back, and write as many words as possible. Later, you can choose the ones that stick out to guide your brand's naming decisions.
- If you need guidance for your word dump, think back to the questions you asked yourself earlier about your brand.
- Use a Thesaurus!
- Use to find interesting & unique words that relate to your brand’s mission and personality
- Other words for PRETTY include; lovely, beautiful, angelic, gorgeous, & divine
- Try Making Up Words
- This sounds weird but it certainly makes for a unique business name.
- Choose parts of words that are meaningful to you and your business, and tie into your answers to the brand questions above.
- Opening a floral-themed clothing store? Try “Flor” or “FloCo”
- Opening a cat boutique? Try “Purtique” or “Meow-tique”
- Research Folk Lore, Mythology & History
- These types of stories and legends are both meaningful and well-know - especially Greek & Roman mythology.
- Use parts of God or Goddess names that have meaning to your brand.
- Have a dating service? Try a play on Greek Goddess of love, Aphrodite
- Opening a flower shop? Pull inspiration from Artemis, Goddess of wilderness & nature.
- Try Other Languages
- Words in other languages can be meaningful, unique & recognizable.
- “Pretty Cat” in French is “Joli Chat” - the “Joli Chat” Pet Boutique
- “Pretty Flower” in Italian is “Bel Fiore” - the “Bel Fiore” Clothing Store
** I totally used google translate for this - if you're actually using another language for your a name, definitely run it by someone who actually speaks the language. If you or your family speak the language, that makes it all the more meaningful. Also, be away of the cultural connotations of the name - you don't want one of these blunders happening to your business!
- Assess Awesome Acronyms
- Can be short & sweet - incorporating meaningful words into the name without the length
- FC Inc = Floral Clothing Incorporated
- CCA Boutique = Cutest Cat Alive Boutique
- Are YOU Your Brand?
- If it’s important to you that you establish a brand around yourself, then I take back what I said earlier about not using your last name as the business name. In these cases, using your own name can actually help generate trust and authority.
- Common for artists, doctors, lawyers, or real estate agents.
- Is the Name Available?
- Has the name been trademarked?
- Is the domain name available for a website? If having a website with the same name as your business is important to you, then be sure to check for available domains before you get too attached to a certain name.
Now, brainstorm, brainstorm, and brainstorm some more. Stew on it for a while. Dream about it. Run ideas past family and friends. Say to your barista - “Hey what does “FloCo” sound like to you?” Remember to check out available domain names before settling on an idea. In the end, the name you choose should inspire and excite you! Let it be your rallying call!
Once you’ve chosen your business name and have secured the trademark or other licensing, you’ll want to order marketing materials customized with your business’ name. From a custom printed acrylic office sign, to a waving feather flag, we’ve got tons of customizable displays that let you show off your new business with pride! | <urn:uuid:20ee0e4f-3490-47c3-83ac-846e21f1a06a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.displays2go.com/Article/How-Come-Great-Business-Name-64 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.925581 | 1,361 | 1.765625 | 2 |
And yet if Jawaharlal Nehru "discovered" India, it can reasonably be said that PV Narasimha Rao reinvented it.
Apple alum Tony Fadell reinvented the boring market for home thermostats with his sleek and eco-savvy digital Nest.
Steven Raichlen Steven Raichlen is best known as the man who reinvented barbecue in America.
A Christmas Carol revived and reinvented it around the gift of giving.
The rap/nu metal entrepreneur Kid Rock reinvented himself as a country star.
Substantially the same device in principle has been reinvented and incorporated in patents numerous times since.
They invariably went out of use after a time, however, and had to be reinvented.
The essential point is that "Australia was reinvented by Flinders."
In 1758 John Dolland reinvented and introduced the same in the manufacture of telescopes.
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Julie and Don Sager had no idea of the danger they were exposing their toddler Adam to when they sanded the walls of their house in the early 1980s.
Their boy ran around sweeping up the dust that was left behind, his parents unaware it contained deadly asbestos.
It was a common material used in thousands of buildings across Australia until the late 1980s.
In his early 20s, Adam felt a sharp pain in his chest and had to go to hospital to have fluid drained from his lungs.
He had malignant mesothelioma, a form of cancer common in people who were exposed to asbestos at work.
It slowly became harder and harder for Adam to breathe, until one night he was rushed to hospital.
His dad remembers telling Adam to keep breathing, but his son closed his eyes.
"I thought `oh ok, that's it,' and then he opened his eyes," Julie said, recalling her son's final moments.
"They were crystal clear, beautiful blue. He looked at Don, and he looked at me, and he smiled at both of us and then he just closed his eyes again."
The Sagers spoke at the launch of Queensland's asbestos plan on Thursday morning.
The scheme includes a hotline, a website and an education program to help people find out if there's asbestos in their homes.
Widow Helena Simpson told AAP outside the launch of how her husband Bill ran his own air-conditioning business.
She remembers him crawling through ceilings and drilling holes in walls, kicking up thick clouds of asbestos dust.
"They used to roll clumps of it into balls and throw it at each other," she said.
One year he began to get thinner, lose his balance and have seizures.
They thought it was emphysema but when the tests came back it was mesothelioma.
Bill Simpson died less than five years later.
Not only did Helena lose her companion, but she now lives with the knowledge that she could die the same way because she had washed his clothes for years.
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Acoustic shock – is it new to your ear? What is acoustic shock? It is any disturbance to the ear as a result of being exposed to unexpected sharp rise in pitch while using a telephone headphone/earphone. An acoustic shock is the ear’s response to an acoustic incident, which is defined as a sudden and unexpected sound transmitted through a telephone line straight to a headset.
What are the causes of acoustic shock? There are no known direct causes of acoustic shock but there are some factors that have been identified that might cause it:
• Faulty headset
• Faulty telephone line
• Transmission glitches in the network
• Fax tones
• Cellular phone interference
• Oscillations between the cordless telephone and base
• Lightning strikes
• Malicious sounds like shouting from the other line
This is considered to be a potential work-related injury. Those workers that are considered to be at high risk are call center agents who have endure being on the phone for most of their office duty. If you are a part of this growing industry and you suspect that you might develop the condition, find below the typical signs and symptoms of acoustic shock:
• Ear pain – which is felt at onset of the sound
• Hollow feeling inside the ear
• Ringing in the ear (Tinnitus)
• Poor balance as a result of the sounds inside the ear
• Hearing impairment over time
• Burning sensation around the face and the head areas
The above things mentioned above are just some of the most obvious symptoms; over time, there are symptoms that might manifest, such as the following:
• Anxiety – the feeling of panic anticipation of an acoustic incident might happen anytime
• Hypersensitivity to loud sounds when that wasn’t the case before the acoustic incident
• Difficulty in sleeping
• Constant headaches
• Co-workers might get affected as they would be apprehensive if they, too, would experience an acoustic incident
Experts say that prevention is always better than finding a cure for the condition, in fact, there are no known specific cure for acoustic shock yet. Call center companies have to make sure that the working environment will help minimize, if not eliminate the risks of acoustic incidents.
Steps to be undertaken can start by limiting the sound levels in the workplace. However, it is worthy to make mention that acoustic shock is not loud based on the loudness parameters. What companies can do is to also make actions into reducing ambient noises – ensuring that there will be less background noises.
The call center, when it becomes a stressful workplace can take its toll on the workers, then add to that the stress level they might reach when they have to endure acoustic shock. The best way to deal with this is to reduce the stress level in the workplace by providing some recreational activities for the agents when on break.
Regular medical checkup has to be in place to ensure that the workers are in tip-top shape.
Superiors might also consider a worker that has been affected by acoustic shock to have him or her transferred to a different department or given different responsibilities or assignments.
Proper diagnosis and prevention are your best options.
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A Journalist's Perspective on 'Deep Throat'by Howard Hewitt • June 1, 2005 Share:
Reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward had a profound impact on journalism through their Watergate reporting for the Washington Post.
After the entire scandal and President Richard Nixon’s resignation, they wrote a best seller, All the President’s Men. Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman turned the book into a popular movie.
But the impact on the media, politics and journalists has long been discussed.
Wabash College as a liberal arts institution does not teach journalism within its curriculum but does publish a student newspaper. Numerous College graduates have gone on into media careers.
Raymond Moscowitz, Peru, Ind., is a retired editor, publisher, author and newspaper executive who has spoken to student journalists at Wabash. He also is the father of David Moscowitz, who taught in the Speech Department this past school year.
"I believe Watergate illustrates how important it is for newspapers to carry out their role as watch dogs of government. Without Woodward and Bernstein’s dogged determination – aided by Deep Throat – we might never have learned about one of the saddest chapters in American history," Moscowitz said.
"It is a chapter that taught us a vital lesson as a nation – that freedom and democracy must never be taken for granted."
Moscowitz, who is a member of the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame, fears the lessons learned during Watergate have faded from some memories.
"I’m not sure how much we learned," he lamented. "Unfortunately, the kind of reporting Woodward and Bernstein did then is seen too rarely now, thanks, in large part, to the worshiping of the bottom line.
"After Woodward and Bernstein’s reporting was vindicated, credibility, which is and always will be journalism’s core principle, spiked. We cannot place enough importance on that."
At left: Woodward and Bernstein's bestseller.
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(WNS) -- Majed El Shafie grew up a Muslim in Cairo, Egypt. After his conversion to Christianity as a young man, he was arrested and tortured. He will describe his torture in graphic detail, but he can’t eat anything after talking about it. He was sentenced to death by hanging and put under house arrest, but he escaped to Israel and then immigrated to Canada as a refugee in 2002.
A few years later, El Shafie became one of the key people pushing the Canadian government to launch an international religious freedom office. Now Canada’s Conservative government is working on creating such an office in its Foreign Affairs Department for the first time — the hope is to officially open the office in the next few months, though a date hasn’t been set. In late April a delegation of a half dozen Canadian members of Parliament traveled to the Washington meet with members of Congress as well as members of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom to discuss the new office. It was apparently the first such delegation from Canada to Washington on the issue of religious freedom.
El Shafie now heads up a religious freedom group in Toronto, One Free World International, and he said his group has been in talks with the government about the creation of such an office for six years. He sees the Arab Spring as a strong reason to get the office off the ground.
“My fear is that we’re losing an important human rights battle,” he said. “Why do they call it an Arab Spring? It’s turning to be a deadly cold winter for the minorities.”
Canadian members of Parliament say the Arab Spring isn’t the driving reason for the new office, but the timing seems right after a year peppered with news of religious persecution from Egypt to Nigeria. Conservative MP Russ Hiebert, a member of Parliament’s international human rights subcommittee, traveled with the group to Washington to get “background” on the issue, he said.
“I believe it’s important for free and democratic countries to defend the persecuted and promote freedom together,” Hiebert said, adding that the office would focus on reporting on religious freedom abuses around the world and incorporating religious freedom into Canadian foreign policy.
The Conservative Party, in its official platform, also wrote that the office would help provide protection “to vulnerable religious minorities through our generous refugee resettlement programs” and work with other groups that do the same. “Other countries will recognize that this is an important consideration for us,” said Hiebert.
Canadian politicians expect their religious freedom office to be modeled somewhat after the U.S. State Department’s Office of International Religious Freedom. Last summer, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird met with Suzan Johnson Cook, the U.S. ambassador at large for international religious freedom, to discuss the new office.
The idea of a religious freedom office may seem uncontroversial to American audiences, but in Canada some liberal members of Parliament criticized it as a melding of church and state. Others said the Conservative Party was pandering to immigrant communities. Minister Baird denied those allegations and said the office would simply build on Canada’s commitment to human rights.
Hiebert and others might see the U.S. office as a model for the Canadian office, but El Shafie wants the Canadian office to be a prod to the United States to do more on religious freedom.
"I promise you, they will hear from us,” he told me.
At a committee hearing in Congress last fall, El Shafie testified that the United States has been “half-hearted” in implementing the International Religious Freedom Act, and that the issue has been in “perpetual subordination” to other issues. He feels the urgency of someone in the midst of what he calls a religious freedom “disaster.”
When we talked this spring, he said the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom is “useless” and just issues reports: “What will they do with the reports?” Of the Canadian office, El Shafie said, “If this office has no power … this office will be useless.”
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The Nogglins spend a day at the seaside. There’s a shape surprise for all the Nogglins, but will Nono find his? Show more
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The tide is out, and there’s lots to see as the Noggle lands on the seashore. There must be a Tiny Wonder to explore. Yapp-Yapp makes a discovery that surprises all the Nogglins.
The Nogglins play hide-and-seek deep in the forest. Can Yapp-Yapp find the perfect hiding place? Show more
It’s a busy day in the park. The Nogglins explore to find another Tiny Wonder when they discover something sticky. As they investigate, Nono gets too close and ends up needing a bath.
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Advantages & Disadvantages of Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser that accounts for roughly 28 percent of total browser usage worldwide, according to recent reports published by W3Schools and StatCounter. The free and open source nature of the browser is a primary reason for the high adoption rates that Firefox has experienced throughout the decade because the browser can be easily customized to suit your needs. On the other hand, some users shy away from using Firefox because the browser cannot correctly render certain websites, particularly business websites, that were designed to take advantage of Internet Explorer technology. Many users have also complained that Firefox uses an enormous share of system resources, causing sluggishness and browser crashes.
Advantage: Extensions and Themes
Firefox is one of the most easily customized browsers with support for browser extensions, plugins and themes that fundamentally alter the function and appearance of the browser to best suit your needs. As of June 2011, the Firefox Add-ons library features more than 6,000 extensions and more than 500 themes. Extensions are capable of performing everything from providing access to your Facebook wall from the Firefox toolbar, keeping tabs on your Gmail and alerting you of breaking news to altering website elements with scripts, consolidating the Firefox interface and much more.
Firefox has been at the forefront of Web browser security, introducing numerous features that protect you from phishing schemes, viruses and other common exploits. The browser includes a powerful pop-up blocker and strong authentication protocols that prevent attackers from running unauthorized code when you are browsing. Furthermore, Firefox security can be greatly enhanced with extensions like NoScript and FlashBlock that enable you to selectively execute advanced code on websites.
Internet Explorer has a distinct advantage over Firefox in that it can run ActiveX controls that allow you to interact with the Windows operating system and programs like Microsoft Office. Those websites that utilize ActiveX controls to enable deeper Windows integration, among them many of the most used business websites, are incompatible with Firefox.
Disadvantage: Resource Usage
Mozilla Firefox is often among the most resource-intensive Web browsers when it is compared to other Web browsers in independent testing. While browser start-up times and RAM usage have improved with each successive release of Firefox, the installation of extensions often negates those improvements as the code used in extensions is not always the most efficient. | <urn:uuid:6f9f992a-5a72-4327-808d-290573f3f0b3> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.techwalla.com/articles/advantages-disadvantages-of-mozilla-firefox | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719027.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00302-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913985 | 473 | 2.25 | 2 |
Teachers are having to step in to feed pupils, mend their clothes and wash their uniforms, according to a survey.
The UK’s largest teaching union the NASUWT asked more than 3,250 teachers about the pressures children were under.
Almost three quarters of teachers responding said they had seen pupils arrive at school hungry. More than half said their school had needed to step in and provide food – and a quarter said they had done so personally.
Teachers said children were anxious and unable to concentrate because their families were under financial pressure, according to the annual study carried out since 2013.
Housing was an increasingly worrying issue
- More than a third of teachers said they had seen pupils living in temporary accommodation.
- A quarter had seen pupils who had lost their homes
- A third had seen pupils have had to leave school in the middle of term because they were forced to leave their homes.
The effect of financial worries
Children became anxious, the teachers said. Three quarters of teachers said they had seen absences from school. Nearly two thirds said they had seen kids with behavioural problems.
#clocksgoforward and not everyone’s happy about itChris Keates said: ‘It is clear that teachers and schools are being left to pick up the pieces of callous fiscal and social policies.
‘Poverty is not incidental to teachers. It is a key inhibitor to educational progression and schools simply cannot be expected to tackle these issues alone.’
He criticised Chancellor George Osborne for continuing to cut public services despite them being ‘the only remaining lifeline for many children and families.’
It is hardly credible this is happening in one of the world’s largest economies
He added: ‘As the survey shows, poverty and homelessness take an enormous physical and emotional toll on children. They often cannot concentrate when they are in school because they are tired, hungry and anxious.
‘Children living in poverty are more likely to suffer from low confidence and behavioural issues.
Teachers getting ready to strike over Government’s plans for schools‘Homelessness leads to ill health and absenteeism when the distance and cost of travelling to school from temporary accommodation is prohibitive.
‘Teachers and support staff are mending clothes and washing uniforms, providing food and equipment.
‘It is hardly credible that this is happening in one of the world’s largest economies.’
The Department for Education
A spokesman said: ‘This government is committed to working to eliminate child poverty and improving life chances for children.
‘Thanks to our reforms, there are more people in work than ever before and the number of children growing up in workless families is at a record low – down by 480,000 since 2010.
‘We also want to ensure more children have a nutritious breakfast as a healthy start to their school day, which is why, as part of the Budget, we announced £10m funding a year to expand breakfast clubs in up to 1,600 schools, starting from September 2017.
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Nuclear Power — Will be addressed on its own merits — 22 Oct 2002 at 22:00
Andy Burnham MP, Leigh voted with the majority (Aye).
The majority of MPs voted for the motion:
- This House
- welcomes the publication earlier this year of the Performance and Innovation Unit's review of the strategic issues surrounding energy policy for Great Britain up to 2050;
- welcomes the Government's commitment to publish an Energy White Paper in the New Year setting out a long-term framework for energy policy following its recent extensive and innovative public consultation on energy issues;
- understands that British Energy's problems, and those of certain other players, are about companies rather than a way of generating electricity and welcomes the speed with which the market can respond to protect the interests of consumers;
- recognizes that the future of nuclear power in the UK is a question that has to be addressed on its own merits, not in the light of a particular set of circumstances surrounding a particular private sector company;
- further recognizes that it is not the responsibility of Government to bail out electricity suppliers unless it threatens safety or security of electricity supplies; and
- welcomes the work Government has done to promote sustainable energy use in terms of energy use reductions and to promote the development of renewable energy.
This replaced a previous motion that had been voted down by the majority of MPs.
- Brian Wilson MP, House of Commons, 22 October 2002
- Energy Review, Performance and Innovation Unit, February 2002
- Nuclear Power - Not competitive - rejected, House of Commons, 2002
Votes by party, red entries are votes against the majority for that party.
What is Tell? '+1 tell' means that in addition one member of that party was a teller for that division lobby.
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Among the many data types available from NASA's Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC), precipitation data is both one of the most recognizable and most scientifically useful. GES DISC features data generated by two missions: the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), which collected data from 1997 to 2015, and the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission, which began collecting data in 2014 and is continuing at present. GES DISC provides multiple ways for users to acquire data from these missions, several different Web services that enable visualization and initial analyses.
This presentation will describe and distinguish precipitation data products available from TRMM and GPM, delineate the different ways that users can get the data, and also demonstrate the visualization and analysis tools and services provided by GES DISC for these important data sets. Examples of recent noteworthy precipitation events will be used as exemplars for meteorology and climate research. For more information visit GES DISC. | <urn:uuid:30239119-a260-4403-ab00-dd77a27db5d0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/webinars-and-tutorials/webinar-trmm-and-gpm-precipitation-products-and-services-nasas-ges | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00273.warc.gz | en | 0.88868 | 199 | 2.84375 | 3 |
A. Holmberg (1849- ), Architect
A. Holmberg was born in Germany circa 1849. He was married and had two children. Holmberg was not found in the federal census in Nebraska in 1870 or 1900.
Compiled Nebraska Directory Listings
Educational & Professional Associations
1880: Lincoln, Nebraska.
Buildings & Projects
1. 1880 United States Census, s.v. “A. Holmberg,” Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska, accessed through HeritageQuestOnline.com.
D. Murphy, “A. Holmberg (1849- ), Architect,” in David Murphy, Edward F. Zimmer, and Lynn Meyer, comps. Place Makers of Nebraska: The Architects. Lincoln: Nebraska State Historical Society, January 12, 2015. http://www.e-nebraskahistory.org/index.php?title=Place_Makers_of_Nebraska:_The_Architects Accessed, August 13, 2022.
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If you're a boiler professional, the fourth edition of this classic guide offers you the latest guidelines for installing, operating, and maintaining boilers in all types of facilities. The book now covers federal and state jurisdictional requirements...changes to the asme boiler code, such as the new confined space entry requirements... The liberalization of the overseas requirement to obtain u.s. National board certification...and the use of new materials in boiler construction. It also contains questions & answers that help you review for oral and written license tests.
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LONDON, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- An attempt to test a World War II plan to create ships from ice came to an abrupt end when the frozen boat melted and sank, observers said.
The project, for the BBC science series "Bang Goes The Theory," was meant to test a concept that warships could be made from water frozen in molds, The Daily Telegraph reported Thursday.
Geoffrey Pyke, an inventor, suggested in the 1940s that in the event of steel stocks running out it would be possible to make an unsinkable aircraft carrier using a material he called Pykrete, made of ice and wood pulp.
The mixture could be molded into any shape and, with a slow melting rate, would be perfect for seafaring vessels, he claimed.
The BBC decided to put Pyke's theory to the test by mixing 1,300 gallons of water with hemp and freezing it in a 20-foot, boat-shaped mold.
It took three weeks to freeze it in one of the United Kingdom's largest ice warehouses before it was ready for launch.
Barely an hour after being put in the water, the boat was taking on water and capsized with the cast of the television show aboard, all of whom were rescued.
Giles Harrison, director of the show, blamed the failure on a design fault allowing water to pour into the vessel sooner than expected.
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If you have a teenager who’s just learning how to drive or recently got his or her license, then you’ve likely spent a few sleepless nights worrying about their safety. Sure, they’re probably great drivers when you’re in the car, but what happens when they’re with their friends? To paraphrase former president Ronald Reagan, when it comes to teen drivers, you want to trust … but verify. New tech built into the 2016 Chevrolet Malibu, simply called Teen Driver, allows you to do just that.
The Teen Driver car safety system encourages good driving habits by tying them to the proper operation of the car’s sound system. If your teen doesn’t fasten his or her seatbelt, the radio simply won’t work. If your teen exceeds the maximum speed you set the vehicle to allow, they’ll get audio and visual warnings over the multimedia system. You can also restrict the maximum volume of the car’s radio, in case you’re worried about blaring music distracting them from the road.
Data-minded parents, meanwhile, have access to a number of monitoring tools through Teen Driver. You can track your teen’s miles driven, maximum speed, the number of over-speed warnings, antilock brake events, forward collision alerts and forward collision braking events. The system is enabled by entering a PIN into the car’s MyLink system, and is linked to your teen’s keyfob.
“We developed this system so parents could use it as a teaching tool with their kids – they can discuss and reinforce safe driving habits,” explains General Motors safety engineer MaryAnn Beebe. “As a mother of two, I know anything that has the potential of keeping one’s family safer is of great value to parents.”
Teen Driver is not subscription-based, so there’s no monthly fee to use it. The feature will be standard on Premiere trim and options on LT models if equipped with the Convenience Package and up-level radio. The 2016 Chevy Malibu will be available for sale by the end of the year.
You can learn more about Teen Driver by watching the short YouTube video below.
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Barry's Open Road
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Coromandel, Waikato NZ
Public Television: Season 6
Driving Creek Potteries and Railway
academics, conformity, manual labor, material possessions, originality, parents, pots, pottery, railroad, railway, school, teaching, trains, unique, vision
- Knew from a young age that he wasn't great at academic work, but he always loved to sculpt, make pots.
- Everyone assumed he would go to university, get a degree and a stable job, but he wanted none of it.
- Reluctantly got a degree and became a schoolteacher; was so unhappy he quit after one year, went back to pottery.
- His dad told him making pots would be no way to support a family; Barry said, that's fine, I'm still going to do it.
- Lived in poverty, but always preferred wearing raggedy clothes and "being free" to wearing a suit and tie.
- His other interest was railroads: he invested all of his money on a plot of land and spent years building his own railroad.
- Estate came to be named Driving Creek Potteries and Railway-combined his two passions in one space.
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The above poem appeared in both the commercial for Glenn Beck’s newest book, The Overton Window, a political thriller, and resonates often throughout the novel as well. It fittingly describes how quickly mankind forgets the political past of its country and willingly allows bad history to repeat itself.
Funnily enough, when this commercial aired, the Left had a field day, mocking it and the poem Beck used, seemingly unaware that it was written by one of the most famous poets in history: Rudyard Kipling.
Beck’s The Overton Window is aptly named for a political technique used by the political elite. The Overton Window is the “way of describing what the public is currently ready to accept on any issue, so you can decide how best to move them toward what you want”.
The novel centers around the character of Noah, who works for a powerful public relations firm that works with the oligarchy of the United States. The firm controls what the public knows about their country’s progress, and continuously aids in the movement of the Overton Window towards the more radical extremes in a way that the public willingly accepts under the guise of say, emergency scenarios like “war” or the threat of “terrorism.”
Noah is a man who, despite his connections to the dangerous and evil PR firm, is on the fence. He has the potential to see the error of his ways and join the group of determined individuals who aim to save the country from the politicians and their progressive agendas that will ultimately take the United States to a new age of a one world government and one world economy. This group, the Founders’ Keepers, similar to our modern day Tea Party movement, led by Molly Ross, has grown wise to the true agenda of the politicians and works vigilantly to save the United States.
The Overton Window allows its readers to see what happens when the lines between patriots and terrorists is skewed, as can be seen today even. Strewn with actual quotes from our political leaders, past and present, including the memo entitled “Growing Threat of Domestic Terrorism” issued by the Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC), which over-generalized virtually anybody on the Right as a potentially dangerous militia member. The Overton Window provides its readers with a glimpse of what may come if Americans continue to sit by idly as their civil liberties are infringed upon.
In this political thriller, much of the police department has been corrupted by the governments’ interference, and can no longer be trusted. With the police engaged in rabble rousing and torture techniques, Americans have few trustworthy individuals to whom they can turn.
The government and the PR firm have the power to rewrite history, and do so regularly, in order to turn perception of hardworking Americans and fierce patriots into lunatic militia members.
Critics of the novel claim that most of the ideas expressed in The Overton Window are absurd, paranoid conspiracy theories. Yet much of what is written therein can even be seen today. In the same way that Tea Party members are depicted as violent racists — though an arrest has yet to be made at a Tea Party event, nor has any proof been provided of Tea Party racism (which is more than can be said at Leftist rallies or union gatherings) — the Founders’ Keepers are portrayed by the PR agency as dangerous, and the government uses the threat of danger to push a more radical police state.
Today, we see very similar scenarios in our country. The government has used Americans’ fear of terrorism to pass the Patriot Act and now considers taking control of the Internet, under the guise of cybersecurity.
It is not difficult to see that in the novel, the PR agency is mirrored after our mainstream media, as it manages to distort every despicable act of large, multinational corporations and the political elite to portray them in a positive light. Likewise, the character of Noah represents all independents who are aware that something is awry but cannot quite place their finger on the discomfort they feel, nor can they see how they can make any real change.
I believe the character of Danny Bailey, one of the more outspoken members of the Founders’ Keepers, is mirrored after Glenn Beck himself. Bailey has used blogs, and other less mainstream media outlets to put forth his message, which is often distorted to appear insane and potentially dangerous, though it is never his intention to promote violence.
The last 20 or so pages of the novel actually identify most of the areas throughout the text that are based on actual events, people, and language used by America’s politicians and other powerful individuals, including Edward Bernays, author of the 1928 book, Propaganda, and a member of Woodrow Wilson's World War I propaganda agency — the Committee on Public Information. Bernays’ ideas on propaganda were so demented and powerful that his book was actually used by Hitler’s Joseph Goebbels.
The Overton Window is a heart-pounding thriller and can be read in two sittings if the proper amount of time is allotted for it. What’s most intriguing is the familiarity you will feel as you read it, noting similarities to news stories and quotes that you may recall.
Additionally, what makes the novel such a thriller is that for many, reading The Overton Window will feel like witnessing all of their worst nightmares come to life on the pages. Most of the novel is not far-fetched, and readers will learn how the Overton Window strategy has been used on Americans. You will feel bamboozled!
Beck is a great writer, and has a way with words. I’ve read several of his nonfiction books, and in doing so, have appreciated his sarcastic humor and clever poignancy, but The Overton Window is a new genre of writing for Beck, and readers will be pleasantly surprised to learn that his talents span even beyond what we have already seen.
But don’t take my word for it. Some people believe that you can judge a person by the friends that they keep. I believe that you can judge a person by his/her enemies. Take a look at who Beck’s enemies are and what they have said about his novel:
Simon Maloy of The Huffington Post writes: “Glenn Beck’s The Overton Window: A Conspiracy to Bore you Senseless”.
Maloy goes on to describe The Overton Window as Beck’s “very own fantasy land” where “all the conspiracies and apocalyptic rhetoric that clutter his chalkboards every night are proven to be entirely true”.
The LA Times described Beck’s novel as “incoherent and not at all thrilling.”
According to the Washington Post, “The danger of books like this is that radical readers may take the story’s fiction for fact, or interpret the fiction — which Beck encourages — as a reflection of a reality that they must fend off by any means necessary.” (It is my guess that the factual truth upon which most of the book is based is inconvenient for this reviewer).
Media Matters wrote, “As we slogged through its many plot holes, ridiculous narrative devices, and long-winded limited-government sermonizing passed off as a dialogue, we singled out ten moments that define The Overton Window as the truly and remarkably awful novel that it is.”
Obviously there is something about this book that the Left does not want the readers to be exposed to. If those reviews aren’t enough for you to realize how truly effective Beck’s novel must be, nothing is.
It must burn Beck’s enemies to learn that despite their best efforts, The Overton Window remains at the top of the New York Times bestseller list.
My advice? Make it a part of your own personal library today and once you’ve read it, circulate it amongst your friends that might be on the fence. This book has the power to tip their scales.
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Ken Boyd, owner of St. Louis Test Preparation (www.stltest.net) presents part 5 of his course on Understanding Intermediate Accounting. Boyd points out that students can have success with Intermediate Accounting concepts by making connections to actual examples from business. As a former CPA, College Accounting professor and Auditor, Ken has a wealth of experience to bring to the subject.
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Thursday, October 16, 2008
This blog was pending for some time now since I watched Rituparno Ghosh's latest experiment in story-telling 'The Last Lear'. This blog was meant mainly for the movie but with the recent advances leading Amitabh to the hospital and mourning his death today for a few minutes (of course a rumour), has led me to dedicate the blog to Amitabh Bachchan, whose acting incidentally happens to be the only thing in the movie to write about.
The Movie is based on a drama 'Ajker Shahjahan' by Utpal Dutt. It is about a stage artist, Harry, who lives Shakespere in every moment of his life. Due to some personal reasons he has already given up the stage and also has a great distaste for cinema. One day he meets Siddharth, a movie director much like the same in characteristics as himself. Siddharth manages to persuade him to do the lead role in his upcoming film. It was an unusual experience for Harry to watch a film being made and when asked by a journalist about the climax scene being done by a body double, he decides, against all odds, to do the life-threatening scene himself. He suffers the dread of trauma and ends up with a coma. The film is scheduled to be released on Diwali night besides the lead actor sleeping in coma. This is somewhat indigestible to Harry's partner Vandana. Moreover, Siddharth, the director, never even visited Harry's home after the accident to see him.
This is almost the whole about the story of the film which I think fails to connect with the masses and there are too many reasons for that. There is too much of Shakespere in the film and I don't really understand why. I have not read Shakespere's tragedy of King Lear but the wikipedia article on that led me to conclude that there was nothing in the film which could be connected to that story except for the fact that Harry wanted to enact King Lear once on stage but he couldn't do that. Maybe, Rituparno wanted to show the role of Harry as the circus clown in Siddharth's film as like King Lear but even that role didn't look like one; only the element of tragedy was similar. The personal rift of Preity Zinta (Harry's co-star in the film) with her husband and that between Divya Dutta (Harry's nurse) with her boyfriend has simply nothing to do with the story and it seems that it was done only to add some feminism to the movie, not understandable why.
Rituparno's projection as a director of different-looking films doesn't suffer much here. His style of film making truely comes out in this film with the ponderous speed and too much of the unnecessary melodrama in the film. Making a different film is not equivalent to making a good film and this is what Rituparno should understand sooner or later. The whole film is made in English and too much of shooting us done indoors (typical of Rituparno).
Amitabh as Harry (Harish Mishra) is adorably great and has done a job according to his capabilities after much time. Shefali as Vandana is good, Divya Dutta as Harry's nurse is wasted and useless. Arjun Rampal, as Siddhrth shocks me with his acting. I think its his best job till now in bollywood. Other actors are also good in their roles.
At last, Amitabh job is the only thing for which the film can be seen otherwise its better to skip it.
Monday, October 13, 2008
A Wednesday is a recent film written and directed by Neeraj Pandey. The promo of the film showed yet again a bomb-threatened Mumbai leading you to establish an idea about the film as yet another movie based upon terrorism and terrorists. With the recent upsurge of terrorism in our part of world i.e. south-east Asia, we have in past few years seen so many of these terrorist movies that now I am getting confused about which film was that one or the other one. Watching this film was again not a different feeling till 77 minutes (out of total 94 minutes of movie) where from the movie takes a strange turn and the whole context of the story changes. Though I have (not in many movies) seen common man being dragged into some evil job or him taking on the evil men of the society especially after one of his kin suffers the terrorism, this movie here is something different.
It is about a “stupid common man”, as the character introduces himself, who wants to “clean his house”. The house is his country and what he wants to clean off is terrorism. He is not some superman or some he-man who will shave off every evil from the society but only tries to show a path to awaken the sleeping common people. He only gives you a start on which a splendid end can be phrased. This is in short what the director wants to tell which I don’t agree with and I would come on that later in this blog.
The story starts with the voice of Anupam Kher playing Prakash Rathore, commissioner of police, Mumbai who before his retirement (scheduled to be on the next day) is recalling one of the cases he handled. The case occurred on a Wednesday when a man (Naseeruddin Shah) calls him and says that he has planted several bombs all over the city and wants four of dreadly terrorists out of imprisonment. For the purpose of authenticity he also plants a bomb in a police station just in front of the police headquarters. He has a completely worked out plan of action for this and is unreachable. Finally he gets the terrorists out of the prison and with a full proof-plan, gets them to a runway of an air-base. There he gets those terrorists killed and this is the twist in the tale. After this he reveals himself and then follows an emphatic speech about the common man and his sufferings; the same age old speech of bollywood on this topic is repeated.
The screenplay is really fantastic and keeps you bound all throughout. The director manages to keep the suspense of the film till the very end and really gives you a real shock with the twist; it is superbly great, truly uncommon in bollywood movies are such a fabulous twist. The performances are of the highest order. Anupam Kher and Naseeruddin Shah are both, as usual, brilliant. Anupam portrays the commissioner with all its essence and who can be better than Naseer in showcasing a common man; really commendable performances. Jimmy Shergil and others are good in their little cameos.
Now coming back to the topic which I left earlier, it is a good idea to show in a film about common man doing all this. But is it possible practically? I heard somebody telling that this film should be shown to as many Indians as possible, even if only 1 lakh of them manage to wake up, it will bring an end to 4 lakhs terrorists. Really a nice idea!!! But is it authentic outside the filmy world? I don’t think so. Yes, I agree to the point that what is the need to keep such terrorists alive when you know they have taken hundreds of innocent lives, yes I agree to this. But I don’t agree to the point that common people should take law in their hands to do such a thing. Police is there to do that and let it do its own job and let us support them. When an encounter occurs many of us stand against it saying it brutal and inhumane. There I think, we should be supporting our police and yes I firmly believe our police to be given more of the power to deal with all this.
Final word for the film, really “pathbreaking” rather “pathfinding”!!!
Thursday, October 09, 2008
It's been a long time since I have been out of blogging. Was only busy doing the routine studies compensating for my time that I gave to blogging and internet in the past few months. Anyways, as usual, with studies there are some movies that I saw recently and there are some which I saw earlier and could not write about but with these recent movies they inadvertently came to my mind and I think this will be the right time to write about these.
In this blog I want to focus mainly on ‘Kidnap’ and ‘Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na’ rather I should say on Imraan Khan. Kidnap is the most recent movie I saw and Imraan’s second appearance on the screen after Jaane Tu…….. Both these films have nothing in common except the name of Imraan Khan; even for him, its only the name that is common, the role is completely different, not even a single shade is common.
Kidnap a Sanjay Gadhvi film starring Imraan, Minisha Lamba and Sanjay Dutt is a suspense thriller that presents Imraan in a grey shade just opposite to the chocolaty Imraan in Jaane tu…. It is a story about revenge that Imraan takes from Sanjay Dutt for his injail-ruined childhood. To save his friend’s life the adolescent Imraan steals Sanjay’s car with his daughter only to return it after his friend is saved. He only manages to have a head-on accident with the car ramming into a tree with Sanjay’s daughter severely injured. Sanjay, with his approach, manages to have a seven year imprisonment for the boy for attempting to steal his car and abducting his daughter. After 15 years Imraan comes back and abducts Sanjay’s daughter (Minisha) in reality and wants Sanjay to feel sorry for what he did years ago. This is the storyline of the film in short. The credits of the film were presented in the very beginning with the whole story of child Imraan going to jail and feeling the pity of it with the help of cartoon sketches. Film started with introduction of Minisha with a song and soon after her abduction when she goes to swimming alone at a manless beach just after a spat with her mother. Imraan makes Sanjay follow his instructions on phone and provides him with clues to catch him after every instruction is correctly followed. Finally, Sanjay is able to crack the clues and then the whole story of 15 years run in flashback in a quite short time. While watching the film many a times I felt it to be similar with the story of ‘Zinda’ another of Sanjay starrer thriller. The story and the script has nothing much new to present, direction is disappointing, music avoidable, casting pathetic, and the performances more so.
Vidya Malvade (the Chak De goalkeeper) plays Minisha’s mother. Can anybody tell me from which angle does she look like Minisha’s mother? There were scenes were minisha looked like her mother or at best she looked like her elder sister. Anyway, moving on with the cast, Imraan, I think suits well in chocolaty roles. He is too cute for doing this role; nonetheless his performance is quite powerful and this only is his looks that he misfits in this role for. Sanjay Dutt, I feel, is doing the right job, at 50+ now, by doing roles of father of the heroine and in the meantime, doing the role of hero as well. I think the 45+ Khans of the industry should really think over this.
Now the performances, I am really impressed by Sanjay’s energy (and this energy is the only thing I am impressed with in Sanjay's acting in this film) that he has put in this film at an age of well over 50. Vidya is pathetic (I am sorry for my instant vocabulary, I couldn’t get a better rather worse word to describe her here). Imraan is good and Minisha does nothing. All in all, Kidnap is a film to watch only when you think you have too much of money to waste.
Few words for ‘Jaane TU… Ya Jaane Na’, a Aamir Khan produced film introducing his nephew Imraan. I had a lot of expectations from the film with Aamir (my favourite actor) producing the film. I thought it to be another of the perfect work from the Mr. Perfectionist. Disappointingly, the film was only OK maybe due to the high expectations that were from the film with Aamir’s name connected to it. Nevertheless, it had many positives also. Abbas Tyrewala as the director is good and better as the lyricist. His dialogues in Munnabhai M.B.B.S are loved by one and all and here he manages to bring the same magic with the hunky-funky lyrics on the even more hunkier-funkier music by A.R. Rahman. The songs are really nice and a bit new in flavor although many of them are meaningless. Anyway, Imraan impressed ne and all with his performance and another newcomer from south Jelenia Desouza also looked quite fresh. Naseruddin Shah and Ratna Pathak-Shah are surprisingly disappointing in their short cameos probably because they were not needed in the film. So where Sohail and Arbaaz Khan, who always were able to bring headaches on. The story was very simple, the same old ‘Ek larka aur ek larki sirf achhche dost nahi ho sakte’. Nevertheless, the film was OK at least once watchable. | <urn:uuid:c22f1a1b-a25c-4d18-bce4-2afb398939f8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://draashu.blogspot.com/2008/10/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.98149 | 2,881 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Importance of IT Governance
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The importance of IT Governance greatly impacts an organisation’s ability to achieve its objectives. IT Governance also helps an organisation reduce their risks and increase its value.
IT Governance provides a good base for a risk framework.
IT Governance concentrates on performance and transforming IT to meet the present and future demands of the organisation and its customers. IT Governance is thus concerned with objectives that focus on the alignment of IT and business, value and benefits of IT, managing risk within IT and measuring the performance of IT services.
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5 Money Lessons For Investors From Kite Flying Festival
In this article, we will discuss 5 investment lessons from Makar Sankranti, popularly known as a Kite Flying Festival. Indian skies are going to break into a variety of colours today as people celebrate Kite Flying Festival with zeal and high spirits. Kites of different shapes, sizes, colours and textures will vie in sky with each other and entangle in pursuit to outshine the others. Here are the top 5 money lessons for investors from the Kite Flying Festival.
Investment Lessons From Makar Sankranti | Kite Flying Festival
Significance of Makar Sankranti
- Makar Sankranti marks the movement of the Sun from tropic of Cancer to the tropic of Capricorn. ‘Capricorn’ is known as ‘Makar’ in India and ‘Sankranti’ means movement and hence named as ‘Makar Sankranti’.
- The Makar Sankranti, also known as Til-Gul in Maharashtra, Uttarayan in Gujarat, Pongal in Tamil Nadu, Poush Sankranti in West Bengal and Bihu in Assam.
- It is a festive time for the farmers because it ends the biting winter season and thus marked as the beginning of new harvest season. The warmth in the air is appropriate to sow new seeds. Therefore, Makar Sankranti is also celebrated as the Thanksgiving day.
Top 5 Investment Lessons From Makar Sankranti
Apart from flying a kite, you can learn some important financial lessons from the kite flying festival. Lets discuss the key investment lessons which this Kite Flying festival teaches us.
This Kite is a symbol of having high aspirations and an elevated vision. Your investment goals and dreams are similar to a kite. Be careful in choosing the right one before investing.
Manja (The Thread)
Here, Manja is the mean of achieving the goal of flying high. The quality of Manja determines the success. A good financial advisor or good knowledge acts as your Manja for financial success.
We all know, Firki lets us adjust the length of manja we use to fly the kite, by giving ‘Dheel’ or retract (‘Lapeet’). Similarly, one should monitor his/her investments and keep tweaking your portfolio based on changes in market & goals.
Tapes & Bandages are used to avoid Manja related injuries. Similarly, regarding your finances, you should cover your risks and take adequate insurance whenever needed.
Kai Po Che
Kites do get cut and you need to start all over again. In investments too, everything will not work. Sometimes, you need to start all over again but experience helps in such cases.
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicts above-average activity this year. If this sounds familiar, that’s because 2022 would be the seventh consecutive year with above-average hurricane activity. Some contributing factors include the ongoing La Niña conditions, warmer surface temperatures in both the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea, and enhanced West African monsoons.
The Colorado State University Tropical Meteorology Project experts went further, stating that the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season will be “well above average.”
Storms wreak havoc as they tear through the state, including contributing to pest problems. This is true of hurricanes as well as storms that don’t officially reach that status. Here are a few reasons why:
In response to this year’s predicted above-average hurricane activity, it’s best to be proactive with your pest control and other precautions to protect your home.
We recommend starting by performing an inspection of your property. This is a good way to determine the next steps you will need to take for your unique property and concerns. Every home is different, but they will all show wear and tear over time.
If a hurricane watch or warning exists for your area, move anything in your yard that could blow around including toys, grills, potted plants, garbage bins and lids into a garage or other sturdy shelter. This will help keep them from blowing around and becoming flying objects that can damage your home. Do this as part of your procedure when boarding up windows and doors and otherwise prepping for the storm.
If a significant storm occurs, conduct another house and property inspection after it has passed, and make any necessary repairs to protect yourself and your home from the next storm.
Rather than waiting until standing water is significant, it is advisable to manage this issue on an ongoing basis. This involves identifying places where water collects—such as flowerpots and saucers, grill covers, bird baths, children’s toys, and so forth. If a hurricane is predicted, you can move these items into a garage so they don’t get damaged or fill up with water. With a lesser storm, you could flip many of these items upside down to prevent water collection. Then, after the storm, check for any sources of standing water and address them, as they will become breeding grounds for mosquitoes.
When you’re checking for mosquito breeding areas, wear clothing to protect yourself against potential bites and apply an EPA-approved repellent on exposed skin where mosquitoes can still bite you. Besides being annoying, these insects can carry and transmit a wide range of dangerous diseases, including dengue fever, the Chikungunya virus, West Nile virus, malaria, the Zika virus, and more.
Heavy rainfall can go beyond creating the ideal environment for mosquitoes. Damp debris and rotting wood can serve as an invitation for termites. This destructive pest quite literally causes billions of dollars of property damage annually.
And termites aren’t the only critters that are attracted to debris, very wet soil can create problems as ants and other creatures that typically live underground will move upwards. Cockroaches also gravitate to moist conditions, and nobody needs a cockroach infestation on top of storm and water damage.
Although some gathering of excess water may be obvious shortly after the storm, it’s important to remember what you can’t see. Wooden structural portions of your home may hold onto moisture. This can lead to ongoing growth of mold and mildew, and continual rotting of the wood—ideal circumstances for termites, carpenter ants, and more.
If a power outage is prolonged, food will spoil in your home. This will attract a wide range of unwanted pests: flies, ants, roaches, rats, mice, and more. Put any spoiled food into tightly sealed bags and then into sealed trash cans that are kept away from your home as soon as possible to try and avoid the onslaught of unwelcome visitors.
During a hurricane, rats, mice, snakes, and other unwanted critters will look for dry ground, which can include your garage, crawl space, or even your living space. They may seek higher ground, such as your attic. During a hurricane, the homes of wildlife will be destroyed, just as the homes of people can be. As such, displaced pests and wildlife will look for new shelter.
They may also gather in debris formed by the hurricane. So, after the storm ends, it’s important to inspect your home and property; however, if you believe a wild animal has turned your home into theirs, please do not attempt to catch the animal yourself. We urge everyone to put the health and safety of the people and pets in the house first and call in a professional to handle any 4+ legged intruders. Please remember that no matter how cute the animal may be, wild animals can be dangerous and unpredictable when cornered or otherwise approached. Wildlife control professionals will know where to look and how to safely handle the wildlife and other pests that may be in your home or yard.
Turner Pest Control offers all of the residential services you’ll need. We start with a free home inspection and no-obligation quote for the services you need: rodent control, mosquito control, termite control, lawn and outdoor services, and more.
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Back to school with a new ‘do
Published 12:00 am Saturday, August 1, 2015
LaGRANGE — As local children prepare to begin another school year, one organization is making sure students enter their classrooms in style.
Positive Contributions is hosting its eight annual Hair Cutz 4 Kidz event on Aug. 9 at Williams-Griggs Recreation Center. Michael Fannin, a third grade teacher at Callaway Elementary School, began the program as part of an effort to help children as much as he could outside the classroom.
“I was blessed to grow up with parents who made sure I had school supplies and a fresh hair cut before school started each year,” said Fannin. “I just want to give kids that same opportunity because, sometimes, that can make a huge difference in a student’s learning experience.”
Hair Cutz 4 Kidz has grown from a small gathering in its first year to a back to school bash featuring food, water slides and games for kids to play in addition to free hair cuts and school supply giveaways.
“The first year we had it, one of our organization’s members, Tonya Boyd, actually drove around and found kids from around the neighborhoods to bring in and get their hair cut or styled,” said Fannin. “Last year, we probably had about 1,000 kids show up.”
The event offers free hair cuts for boys and free hairstyles for girls, as well as free backpacks and other school supplies for children in grades K-12.
“I thought about how I could make kids better in other ways besides teaching,” said Fannin. “I thought that this was a great thing to do because I’m helping to provide them with the means to succeed in school.”
The event is sponsored by Positive Contributions, West Georgia Star and The Connector.
“I have to give a special thanks to all of my volunteers, barbers and beauticians,” said Fannin. “I also want to thank Chad Cooper of West Georgia Star. He is a valuable friend and asset.”
Hair Cutz 4 Kidz begins 1 p.m. on Aug. 9 at the Williams-Griggs Recreation Center. Attending children can get free hair cuts and hairstyles, along with free hot dogs, hamburgers and popcorn from 1 to 5 p.m. School supplies will be distributed 5 to 6 p.m. Children must be present in order to receive school supplies. | <urn:uuid:8f4e2d3d-2889-403a-bec1-b1e6b6624da4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lagrangenews.com/2015/08/01/back-to-school-with-a-new-do/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.977912 | 537 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Ann Robinson will always be an educator at heart.
Last summer, however, she had to ask herself a question all too familiar to people with long careers that come to an unexpected end: "Now what am I going to do?"...
A year later, Robinson answered her own question by rediscovering her "artsy" side – and a latent love for dyeing and working with hand-woven textiles.
In a twist, the artist's scarves and wall hangings – all made from natural fibers such as cotton, silk, bamboo, even soy – have become teaching tools.
"When the economy didn't rebound after the first of the year, I started volunteer work at the Women's Wisdom Project in Oak Park," Robinson says.
The program, offered through the Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services, offers free classes to women to bolster their self-esteem.
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Medicine is always being transformed by technology: scanning devices, artificial joints, prosthetic limbs, electronic implants, designer drugs, computerized health records. And many of the medical advances that you hear about are, in fact, engineering achievements.
While a doctor can treat a few thousand people in a life’s time, the engineer who develops a better medical technology can improve the lives of millions.
In additional to working in traditional medical areas, engineers can also have a positive impact on people’s health by helping design new methods of processing food to make it easier to eat healthy; or designing parks and transportation systems to make it easier for incorporate exercise into our daily routines.
Engineering changes lives by making the things that keep us safe, make us healthy, and help us overcome illness or physical challenges.
PostedThursday, June 11, 2015 at 11:29 AM
Author Simil Raghavan
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Is it possible to get pregnant after an abortion?
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How quickly can a woman become pregnant after an abortion?
Women can become pregnant directly after an abortion as ovulation can occur at multiple times in a woman’s cycle. It is even possible to become pregnant while you are bleeding. If you do not want to get pregnant again it is important to start taking birth control. If you do want to get pregnant, you can conceive immediately after having a non-surgical method of abortion. However, surgical procedures such as dilation and curettage (D&C), offered at abortion clinics and centers, are harsher on the body and you are usually instructed to wait a month for the uterus to heal before you conceive.
How can a woman confirm if she is pregnant again after an abortion?
After an abortion, you will have a transvaginal sonogram to confirm that the pregnancy was terminated, however, a urine pregnancy test can remain positive for over a month. The best way to confirm a new pregnancy is to come to our offices and have a repeat sonogram and a blood test preformed by our Board Certified OB/GYNs.
Is it unsafe to be pregnant after an abortion?
If a woman becomes pregnant again directly after a recent abortion, there is no need for concern. Pregnancy can either continue or be terminated. If you decide to have another abortion, it is safe to do so. Having multiple abortions has not shown to cause any problems with fertility. If you decide to carry out the pregnancy there is also no need to be worried. When the uterus is ready to conceive, it is also ready to carry a pregnancy. | <urn:uuid:18d5f0fa-fc5f-470a-99f1-da371e4a528c> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.safestabortion.com/aftercare/pregnancy-after-abortion/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718278.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00239-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942312 | 836 | 1.609375 | 2 |
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May 26/10| For Immediate Release
WATERLOO – Wilfrid Laurier University is entering a $2-million partnership agreement with the Government of the Northwest Territories to support environmental science research that will provide important data for effective freshwater-resource management and the sustainability of northern ecosystems.
The agreement will be signed at a special event in the Science Courtyard on Laurier’s Waterloo campus Wednesday May 26, starting at 10 a.m. The Honourable J. Michael Miltenberger, Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, will sign the agreement on behalf of the Government of the Northwest Territories; Laurier President Dr. Max Blouw will sign on behalf of the university. A tour of Laurier hydrology, biology and chemistry labs will follow the signing event.
Under the agreement, the Government of the Northwest Territories will provide $2 million over five years (2010-15) to support the Canadian Aquatic Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Boreal Ecosystem Research (CALIBER) program, which is based at Laurier and involves researchers from the Laurier Institute for Water Science and Laurier’s Cold Regions Research Centre.
The CALIBER program has also received funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Wilfrid Laurier University, and donations from the private sector.
“This agreement is a reflection of Wilfrid Laurier University’s significant research expertise in water resources and northern environments,” Blouw said. “We are delighted to partner with the Government of the Northwest Territories to engage in the science needed to make effective policy decisions involving water-resource management and the sustainability of northern ecosystems.”
The agreement will expand CALIBER’s research activities and enable it to build on its past and current research in the NWT. It also enables the Government of the Northwest Territories to participate as a member of the program’s science committee as it sets research agendas and associated studies for the NWT, and to develop mentor and training opportunities for NWT residents. The partnership includes scientific and technical training and mentorship components, professional development for government, industry and other organizations, and outreach to promote interest in water science and the boreal ecosystem in schools and communities.
“This partnership will support and enhance the work being done through the NWT Water Stewardship Strategy and provide some of the vital information needed to protect our water resources and address critical issues such as the current and future impacts of rapid development and climate change,” Miltenberger said. “This partnership will also help us train the next generation of water scientists and managers.”
The Canadian Aquatic Laboratories for Interdisciplinary Boreal Ecosystem Research (CALIBER) is based at Wilfrid Laurier University, with key research conducted in the Northwest Territories in partnership with the Government of the Northwest Territories. CALIBER involves researchers from the Laurier Institute for Water Science and Laurier’s Cold Regions Research Centre.
• The Government of the Northwest Territories’ contribution to the research partnership is $2 million over five years (2010-2015). Another $2 million for infrastructure for the project, and $1.3 million for operating and maintenance funds, is being provided by the Canada Foundation for Innovation, an independent corporation created by the Government of Canada to fund research infrastructure. Other funding is provided by Wilfrid Laurier University and private donations.
• Boreal aquatic ecosystems make up Canada’s largest freshwater reserve. The CALIBER partnership is designed to develop leading-edge scientific studies to ensure the sustainability of northern ecosystems.
• CALIBER applies a holistic, interdisciplinary and ecosystem approach based on watersheds, and responds to the urgent and serious concerns on the availability (flows and storage processes) of, and the associate effects of nutrients and contaminants on, boreal freshwater.
• Current CALIBER projects in the NWT include:
- Slave River Delta (mouth of Slave River, near Fort Resolution).
- Scotty Creek (near Fort Simpson).
- Daring Lake (upper Coppermine River system).
• Past CALIBER projects in the NWT include:
- Trail Valley Creek (near Inuvik).
- Havipak Creek (near Inuvik).
- Axel Heiberg Island (when it was part of the NWT).
- Ellesmere Island (when it was part of the NWT).
• Laurier will provide eminent scientists to advance NWT research on water stewardship including research on basin-scale drainage and energy flow processes in the boreal environment and developing laboratory and field methodologies to improve assessments of contaminant effects.
• The research partnership supports the following keys to success in the NWT Water Stewardship Strategy:
- Advance the physically-based understanding of water and energy cycling as it affects the volume and timing of run-off within and from boreal regions.
- Improve the understanding of special causal linkages between landscape disturbances and resulting changes in hydrological and geochemical characteristics of northern aquatic systems.
- Generate knowledge clarify specific links between natural resource development and climate variability on the sustainability of boreal ecosystems.
- Develop and test comprehensive models that integrate the results of previous research into prediction tools for boreal ecosystems.
- Create a community of scientists and uses that can become partners in discovery and development.
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A newly published paper explores the vaccine information battle taking place online. It is between robust evidence-based facts on vaccinations vs anti-vaccination myths.
Why does this matter?
We live in a world where resistance to the use of a vaccine for COVID-19 will have dire fatal consequences for many people.
The paper has been published within Nature on 13th May 2020 and lays out the details of research conducted at George Washington University.
Nature (May 13 2020): The online competition between pro- and anti-vaccination views
Distrust in scientific expertise is dangerous.
If many people oppose vaccination with a future vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, the causal agent of COVID-19, then future outbreaks could be amplified. This is not an abstract theory, we have seen this happen last year with the 2019 measles outbreak.
What we have is the emergence of online communities where homemade remedies and falsehoods are being shared widely along with dismissal of evidence and expert-based advice.
What exactly does this paper do?
They explain it like this …
Here we provide a map of the contention surrounding vaccines that has emerged from the global pool of around three billion Facebook users. Its core reveals a multi-sided landscape of unprecedented intricacy that involves nearly 100 million individuals partitioned into highly dynamic, interconnected clusters across cities, countries, continents and languages.
Although smaller in overall size, anti-vaccination clusters manage to become highly entangled with undecided clusters in the main online network, whereas pro-vaccination clusters are more peripheral. Our theoretical framework reproduces the recent explosive growth in anti-vaccination views, and predicts that these views will dominate in a decade. Insights provided by this framework can inform new policies and approaches to interrupt this shift to negative views.
Our results challenge the conventional thinking about undecided individuals in issues of contention surrounding health, shed light on other issues of contention such as climate change11, and highlight the key role of network cluster dynamics in multi-species ecologies15
Here is their snapshot of a moment in time …
a, In the above the item marked a. (that blob on the upper right-hand side), is a snapshot from 15 October 2019 of the connected component in the complex ecology of undecided (green), anti-vaccination (red) and pro-vaccination (blue) views comprising nearly 100 million individuals in clusters (pages) associated with the vaccine topic on Facebook. The colour segregation is an emergent effect (that is, not imposed). Cluster sizes are determined by the number of members of the Facebook page. Black rings show clusters with more than 50% out-link growth. Each link between nodes has the colour of the source node.
b, This shows the Global spread of a for a small number of clusters. The ‘global ether’ represents clusters that remain global (grey).
c, This shows that Anti-vaccination clusters have a stronger growth in cluster size. Each coloured dot is a node; data are from February–October 2019.
d, This illustrates that Anti-vaccination individuals are an overall numerical minority compared with pro-vaccination individuals; however, anti-vaccination individuals form more separate clusters
How it then plays out
They then build on all of the above and give an illustration of how this plays out over time as follows …
a, Link growth during February–October 2019 for anti-vaccination (red; left) and pro-vaccination (blue; right) clusters. Anti-vaccination clusters successfully added many new links within the largest network patch and between network patches, despite the media ambience against anti-vaccination views during the measles outbreak in 2019. The underlying clusters are identical to Fig. 1a, that is, each network patch is a clustered region of clusters from Fig. 1a.
b, Anti-vaccination clusters have a stronger growth in node eigencentrality—which indicates the influence of a node in a network—than pro-vaccination clusters. Data are from February–October 2019.
They put 100 million facebook users into one of three categories …
- red = anti-vaccination
- blue = pro-vaccination
- green = undecided
Then put them into clusters (people in the same Facebook group who interact) and over time they can then see what happens.
They discovered that …
- The total number of anti-vaccination people was smaller that pro-vaccination …. but … there are 3 times the number of anti-vaccination clusters … hence they had a far greater reach to the undecided
- This left the pro-vaccination clusters on the edge and not really reaching the undecided
- They also observed that pro-vaccination communities which focused on countering larger anti-vaccination communities may be missing medium-sized ones growing under the radar
The researchers also found anti-vaccination communities offer more diverse narratives around vaccines and other established health treatments — promoting safety concerns, conspiracy theories or individual choice, for example — that can appeal to more of Facebook’s approximately 3 billion users, thus increasing the chances of influencing individuals in undecided communities. Pro-vaccination communities, on the other hand, mostly offered monothematic messaging typically focused on the established public health benefits of vaccinations.
Comments by the researchers
Professor Neil Johnson who led the research team …
“There is a new world war online surrounding trust in health expertise and science, particularly with misinformation about COVID-19, but also distrust in big pharmaceuticals and governments,” Dr. Johnson said. “Nobody knew what the field of battle looked like, though, so we set to find out.”
“We thought we would see major public health entities and state-run health departments at the center of this online battle, but we found the opposite. They were fighting off to one side, in the wrong place,”
“Instead of playing whack-a-mole with a global network of communities that consume and produce (mis)information, public health agencies, social media platforms and governments can use a map like ours and an entirely new set of strategies to identify where the largest theaters of online activity are and engage and neutralize those communities peddling in misinformation so harmful to the public,” Dr. Johnson said.
The COVID-19 Impact
As scientists around the world scramble to develop an effective COVID-19 vaccine, the spread of health disinformation and misinformation has important public health implications, especially on social media, which often serves as an amplifier and information equalizer.
In their study, the researchers proposed several different strategies to fight against online disinformation, including influencing the heterogeneity of individual communities to delay onset and decrease their growth and manipulating the links between communities in order to prevent the spread of negative views.
Doing nothing is not an option
Anti-vaccination clusters show the highest growth during the measles outbreak of 2019, whereas pro-vaccination clusters show the lowest growth.
Some anti-vaccination clusters grow by more than 300%, whereas no pro-vaccination cluster grows by more than 100% and most clusters grow by less than 50%. This is consistent with the anti-vaccination population being able to attract more undecided individuals by offering many different types of cluster, each with its own type of negative narrative regarding vaccines.
Medium-sized anti-vaccination clusters grow most. Whereas larger anti-vaccination clusters take up the attention of the pro-vaccination population, these smaller clusters can expand without being noticed
The complex cluster dynamics between undecided, anti-vaccination and pro-vaccination individuals mean that traditional mass-action modelling cannot be used reliably for predictions or policies.
Under the present conditions, their model predicts that total anti-vaccination support reaches dominance in around 10 years.
These findings suggest a new theoretical framework to describe this ecology, and inform new policies that allow pro-vaccination entities, or the platform itself, to choose their preferred scale at which to intervene.
- Nature (13 May 2020) – The online competition between pro- and anti-vaccination views
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Health officials recommend groundwater standards for 22 substances, including some 'forever chemicals'
State health officials are recommending groundwater quality standards for 22 substances found in Wisconsin waters, including pesticides and "forever chemicals."
The Department of Health Services announced this month the suggested standards, which include 12 PFAS substances and six types of pesticides.
The Department of Natural Resources in 2019 suggested a list of 40 substances to the DHS for regulation, according to a DHS release, but because of limited health information for 18 of those substances, no standards were recommended.
“These recommendations demonstrate our ongoing commitment to ensuring clean, safe drinking water for Wisconsin residents,” DHS Deputy Secretary Julie Willems Van Dijk said in a release. “With this essential information in hand, we continue our vital work to protect this precious resource."
PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are a family of man-made chemicals used for their water- and stain-resistant qualities in products like clothing and carpet, nonstick cookware, packaging and firefighting foam. The family includes 5,000 compounds, which are persistent, remaining both in the environment and human body over time. Accumulation of the chemicals in the body has been linked to cancer, studies have shown, or other adverse health effects.
The recommendation for standards for the 22 substances follows the beginning of the process to create standards for PFOA and PFOS, two of the more well-known PFAS compounds. The Natural Resources Board signed off on the recommendations for those two substances in January, saying that any combination of the compounds shouldn't measure over 20 parts per trillion in any groundwater, surface water or public drinking water.
PFOA and PFOS are two of the most commonly recognized combinations, said Darsi Foss, administrator of the DNR’s environmental management division. A few of the compounds noted in this round of standards are also known to break down into PFOA and PFOS when introduced to the environment.
Once the recommendation is completed, the policy-setting arm of the DNR, the Natural Resources Board, will propose a rule to create the new standards via rulemaking, a process that takes several years. During that time, there will be several opportunities for the public and other groups to comment.
After being passed by the board, the rules will be handed over to the Legislature for approval.
The Natural Resources Board in October also passed a rule that is now pending the approval of the Legislature that prohibits companies that manufacture PFAS-containing firefighting foam from testing the substances without proper containment and treatment.
The rule allows fire departments to use foam containing PFAS during emergencies, such as for fires at airports or oil refineries, or in the case of testing facilities with proper ability to remove PFAS from the water that leaves the facility.
Rob Lee, a staff attorney for Midwest Environmental Advocates, said the organization is glad to see regulations like these being proposed but said there is more work to be done in locating who is impacted by contamination and how to address it.
"Two-thirds of Wisconsin gets its drinking water from groundwater," he said. "And we're still not fully aware how widespread this contamination is."
Midwest Environmental Advocates along with several other environmental groups this fall called on the state to begin testing all public drinking water systems for PFAS to find who is being impacted by the contamination, Lee said.
"It only works if we know there's a problem," he said. "People have the right to know their drinking water is safe."
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(This has nothing to do with goatse.cx. Seriously)
Goat cheese is a cheese made from goat milk, rather than either sheep or cows’ milk. And it's yummy!
On a hot summer's day, there is nothing more delightful to eat than a plate of light, gently warmed goat cheese, a sharp rocket salad, with some crispy toast and a couple of glasses of a dry white wine.
The flavour of the goat cheese is reminiscent of mown grass, and the acidic wine cuts through the fat of the cheese, while the crisp toast contrasts strongly with the soft cheese. Ahh! Bliss!
However, start looking hard at goat cheese, and it becomes as complicated as the wine business. The reason for this is that almost all goat cheeses (and there are hundreds of them—see below) are made by individual farms, and made by hand, rather than in heavily industrialised processes.
The flavour of the cheese depends not only on the breed of goat and what you fed them on, but also on the way you make the cheese, how long it is ripened and matured and many other factors.
Goat cheeses can vary in texture from spoonable to very hard, and in flavour from fresh and grassy to powerful with a strong odours of ammonia. The creamy, over-matured cheeses with the tang of ammonia are much prized in some parts of France, but newcomers to goat cheese find the crumbly, younger cheeses much more palatable.
Nevertheless, France is the home of goat cheese, with the production there centred on the districts of Poitou-Charentes , Pays de la Loire and the Centre , which cover the middle and western parts of the country. There is also significant production of goat milk and goat cheese in the Rhone-Alpes and Midi-Pyrenees regions, where the mountainous terrain is well-suited to farming goats.
Because France makes so much goat cheese, many French people use the French word for goat—Chèvre—as a synonym for goat cheese. It is not clear if there is a strict definition of chèvre as opposed to goat cheese, but I think it is just the French-made goat cheeses which are classed as chèvres.
Goat cheese typically has a fat content of 40-45 percent, which is similar to a good cheddar cheese (48 percent), but lower than the figure of up to 70 percent found in full-fat sheep or cow cheeses. Nevertheless, there is not a great deal of difference in the fat, protein and vitamin content of goat milk compared with either cow or sheeps’ milk. Possibly the biggest difference is in the high proportion of goat-specific fatty acids, known as capric, caprylic and caproic acids, which give the milk and resulting cheeses their unique flavour.
One of my favourite types is the crottin de chavignol, made in the Sancerre region of France. These are small (4cm x 3cm) disks of cheese with a soft rind, wrapped in paper or other covering. A brief translation: Crottin is the French for dropping.
This list of various goat cheeses from www.cheese.com
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In this lesson we will look at the Band Descriptors for Academic Task 1, then focus on specific sentence structures. I would strongly suggest you get a pen and paper for this podcast and take notes.
Listening and then writing will engage not only your auditory and visual memory but possibly your kinaesthetic memory too, and we know the more senses we stimulate the easier it is to remember something. So grab a pen.
In order to complete any large task efficiently it is often useful to break it down into its smaller parts. In this case we will break down Academic Task 1, sentence by sentence. First of all we have 150 words to write, which means between 8 and 9 sentences. The introduction and summary will take 2, leaving roughly 8. In the official Band Descriptors, under Task Achievement we see ‘presents a clear overview of main trends, differences or stages ‘. I want to focus on ‘differences’ because if we dedicate 2 sentences to differences, that leaves 6 sentences left to write.
Following the strategy of breaking it down into the smallest components we now know EXACTLY what to write for 50% of the report. One sentence for the introduction, one for the summary, two can be dedicated to differences. Even before going into the exam we now know what 50% of the report will look like. Awesome.
To describe differences we can use ‘ADVERB CLUASES OF COMPARISON’.
To make comparisons we can use a simple structure as shown below, if you are listening I strongly suggest you write these down.
More Europeans prefer Football than Americans.
More Germans prefer vodka than Colombians.
Fewer Italians drink tea than Austrians.
These are simple to start with because they are the base.
Then to pick up more points and show the examiner we can use a VARIETY OF STRUCTURES we can transform them into a passive structure:
Football was chosen by more Europeans than Americans .
Vodka was preferred by more Germans then Colombians.
Tea was drank less by Italians than by Austrians.
Step 3 is to add an adverb.
Considerably more Europeans prefer Football than Americans.
Significantly more Germans prefer vodka than Colombians.
Substantially more time is spent on the internet than before.
Be careful because adverbs can be placed in different places:
Production fell significantly
Significant production fell.
Clearly market share tumbled.
Market share tumbled clearly.
Now we have adverbs under control, lets analyse another.
ADVERB CLAUSE OF CONCESSION
Definition: Adverb clause of concession implies something surprising is conveyed in the principal clause when compared to the subordinate clause.
Now the key to using this type of clause effectively is to find something that really is a contrast, ‘a difference’.
For example you could have a line graph, showing the progression of sales, and suddenly for a particular year the sales slump. In this case we could say:
Although sales reached 20 million in 1993, they crashed to just 1 million in 1992.
Write this structure down, we have the subordinate clause ‘Although sales reached 20 million in 1993’ <COMMA> then the main clause ‘they crashed to just 1 million in 1992’.
Although every Asian country was experiencing an increase in urban population figures, Bhutan’s figures showed a significant decrease.
Although the number of Welsh pet owners is at its lowest in 1990, it almost doubles in 1993.
To use this structure effectively, ALWAYS place although at the beginning of the sentence, ALWAYS. Yes you can place it in the middle, but I want to give you a simple structure to make passing the exam as stress free as possible, NOT TEACH THE ENTIRE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
So for reasons of simplicity, and exam preparation, just place it at the front, after the exam experiment.
WHEREAS AND WHILE
Very briefly the conjunctions ‘while and whereas’ are similar except ‘while’ is slightly less formal and it can be used for comparisons in time; ‘She drove while talking on her mobile’,
We can use WHEREAS in the middle of the sentence to contrast two ideas.
Females scored higher in analytical subjects, whereas males scored higher in creative disciplines.
A COMMA IS NEEDED AFTER THE FIRST CLAUSE.
Derbyshire allocated the majority of its budget on leisure services, whereas Yorkshire invested hardly any of its budget in leisure.
For most of the years output from English factories grew, whereas in Wales it actually fell.
In 2014, 33% of visitors were from Asia, whereas in 1992 the proportion was just 11%.
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Tips for Academic IELTS Task 1.
My name is Ben Worthington from ieltspodcast.com and you may recognize my voice. Just for the record, I am from England, I am a native English speaker, and if you’re going to ieltspodcast.com you can find out lots more about me, about passing IELTS, about the guarantee I offer, and how you can word with me. And also, I’d strongly recommend you sign up for the email list. And there you get tips every single week which will help you to pass. There is good quality material that’s been sent out as well. So I strongly recommend that.
Now, let’s have a look at the content of this podcast. What we’re going to do is first look at the Band descriptors for Academic Task 1. Then we’re going to look at the adverbs of clauses, adverb clauses of comparison, adverb clauses of concession, and then using “whereas” and “while” to express contrast.
This may sound a little bit tricky. It may sound a little bit advanced. But trust me, the way I’m going to teach it makes it simple. I’m going to try and avoid grammar jargon and focus more on just a really practical way of doing this.
And there’s a lot of logic behind this. What we’re going to do is break it down into tiny, tiny, tiny, tasks that are easy to digest, absorb, use, and therefore making it a lot easier than the traditional approach.
One final thing, get a pen and paper and take notes. This is because it is going to help you. You’re going to… If you’re taking active notes, one, you’re going to see the sentences that you hear, and you’re going to be writing them down. So you’ll have the pen and paper in your hand so you’re not only going to be engaging in your auditory senses. You’re going to be engaging in your auditory, visual when you write it down, and kinesthetic because you’ve got the pen in your hand. So by engaging in your senses, it’s more likely that you are going to remember these things.
Just a quick note, there’s a new “Resources” section at ieltspodcast.com where you can find IELTS tutors willing to teach you online, you can find online courses, you can find out more information about the sentence guide, you can get books, and there’s even a proofreading service now. So check that out. Go to ieltspodcast.com and you’ll see a bright colored button saying “Resources.”
Right then. Let’s get cracking.
First of all, let’s go to the official Band descriptors. Under “Task Achievement” for IELTS Academic Task 1, you will present a clear overview of main trends, differences, or stages. And that was for IELTS Band 7 or above.
Let’s have a look at this logically. We’ve got 150 words to write. From my experience that’s between 8 and 9 sentences roughly. If we use 1 sentence for the introduction and 1 sentence for the summary, that leaves about 6 or 7 sentences.
Now with these 6 or 7 sentences, 2 of them we can use for describing differences specifically. We allocate 2 sentences which are going to describe differences. Then the other 4 sentences will also have a specific task (and we can talk about those in another podcast/another video).
Just by following this strategy and dedicating 1 sentence for the introduction, 1 sentence for the conclusion, and the 2 sentences for differences, we’ve written 8 sentences and we know exactly what to do for 50% of the actual task.
So even before we’re going to the exam, we have half of the task completely under control. I hope you’re writing this down because literally this is a plan. A game plan for entering the exam and knowing what to write, and basically killing the confusion.
First of all, for one of these sentences to describe the differences, we’re going to use an adverb clause of comparison. I’ll give you the basic structure. And then from this, we can build on it.
We can say for example, “More Europeans prefer football than Americans.” “More Germans prefer Vodka than Colombians.” And we can also use the reverse. “Fewer Italians drink tea than Austrians.” Very simple structure. Adverb clause of comparison. Very simple. You just choose 2 different parts of the graph and you just basically write down what you see using that structure.
To pick up more points, we can transform it to the passive. In this case, “Football was chosen by more Europeans than Americans.” What I would do if you are taking notes (and hopefully you are), you’d have written those 3 sentences I’ve said before. What I would do now is change them into the passive. So press pause, and try and transform them into sentences. The Vodka and German and Colombian sentence. And the tea, and Italian, and Austrian sentence. Pause it, have a go, and then check with the answer which I’m about to tell you now.
So let’s go.
“Vodka was preferred by more Germans than Colombians.” And finally, “Tea was drank less by Italians than by Austrians.” So hopefully you’ve got all of these right.
Now to pick up more points we can add an adverb to the beginning. We can say “Considerably more Europeans prefer football than Americans.” “Significantly more Germans prefer Vodka than Colombians.” “Substantially more time is spent on the internet than before.”
Now, be careful with these. For a quick fix, you just stick them at the front. You can also place them at the end but be careful. You need to know the rules. For example, if we put it at the end, we can say, “Production fell significantly.” But we cannot say “Significant production fell.” That’s terrible. Alternatively, we can say “Clearly, market share tumbled.” Putting it at the front. However, we cannot put it at the end for this one. If we say “Market share tumbled clearly,” that’s terrible.
Stick it at the… well… experiment. And the way to experiment is to get it corrected. Try a few different variations, get it corrected, find a native speaker and just ask them “Excuse me, can you just tell me which ones are correct and which ones aren’t?” If you don’t have any native speakers around, find an online correction service. This one at my site at ieltspodcast.com. Just click the colored button that says “Essay Correction.”
The other way we can do it, which is slightly more advanced, we use an adverb clause of concession. And we use this because it implies there’s something surprising. I’m going to get into the details about the principle clause and the subordinate clause. All I’m going to do is give you a very simple, practical, way to use it. Because now is not the time to get into clauses. Now is the time to learn some sentences pretty quickly.
First of all, the first tip for using this, what you really need to do is find something that is a difference. Otherwise, it doesn’t make sense. What I mean by “difference” is something that you can contrast significantly. For example, a tiny portion on the pie chart compared to the majority portion. The largest portion. Or if we’re talking about a bar chart, we would take the smallest bar and contrast it with the largest bar. If we’re talking about a line graph, we would look for the biggest change in the line graph. For example it’s level, and then suddenly it just drops to the absolute base of the Y axis or X axis (for example). So it drops right to the bottom. That is a difference. That’s a real contrast.
So the way we use this is… Once again, this is just to completely, 100% practical way to use it. What we do is we use “although,” and we say “Although sales reached 20 million in 1993, they crashed to just 1 million in 1992.” So we start off with a subordinate clause… No… I said I wasn’t going to get into this… Yeah, so basically, something that in the principal clause (what is surprising) and then the contrasting subordinate clause.
I’ll say it again. “Although.” We start off with “Although” and then we say “Although sales reached 20 million in 1993, they crashed (the subordinate clause) to just 1 million in 1992.”
I’ll give you some more examples. “Although almost every Asian country was experiencing increase in urban population figures, Bhutan’s figures shows a significant decrease.” And we’ve contrasted. We’ve just picked up points for taking note of the differences and using a fairly sophisticated sentence structure.
Let’s have another look. “Although the number of Welsh pet owners is at its lowest in 1990, it almost doubles in 1993.”
Now, there are different ways of using this. We can place it in the middle and in some cases we can… ah, no, we can’t put it at the end, sorry… but we can place it at different places in the sentence. However, if… I’m just going to give you this very simple sentence structure. You can learn all the rules and do more experiments later, but stick with this structure and it’s practical.
You can use it and you’ve just picked up points for taking note of the difference, and like I said before, it’s a sophisticated sentence structure.
Now talking about getting feedback, there’s is a new CV checking service at ieltspodcast.com. So go and have a look at that. That’s ieltspodcast.com/cv. And you can even get your CV checked for free.
Anyway, let’s go.
The next part of this podcast, we’re going to talk about “whereas,” and “while.” Once again, this is entirely focused on the practical basis. These are the conjunctions. And we’re going to use just “whereas” because “while” is slightly less formal and there’s a bit more confusion regarding “while.”
For example, you can use it for comparisons in time. “She drove while talking on her mobile.” And we can also use it for comparisons on the graph. But for the time being, we’re going to use “whereas” because it’s simpler and it sounds slightly more formal. And we can use these in the middle of the sentence.
So once again, we’re going to use these sentences to show a contrast. Two different groups of information. I’ll give you an example. “Females scored higher in analytical subjects, whereas males scored higher in creative disciplines.” We say the first clause, place a comma, followed by “whereas” and then our second clause.
Let’s have another look. “Derbyshire allocated the majority of its budget on leisure services, whereas Yorkshire invested hardly any of its budget in leisure.”
So once again, I hope you are writing these sentences down. Then write a few sentences of your own, and get some feedback on those. Experiment. This is how you learn them.
Like I said before at the beginning. You’ve got 2… Or even maybe 3 different structures you can use. You’ve got the comparison one, which I’ve said before, add an adverb at the beginning to make it a little bit more complex. Then we’ve got the “although,” to show something more surprising. And we’ve got a contrast with the “whereas.” This is just to show comparison.
So there you go. You’ve got three sentences. Actually, more than 50% of the exam is totally under control… Not the exam but Task 1 of the exam.
I’ll just give you a few more sentences which you use. Copy these down and change the vocabulary. But write them down because they’re useful.
“For most of the year’s output from English factories grew, whereas in Wales it actually fell.” Now this would probably be either a line graph or a bar chart, I’m guessing. Another sentence. “In 2014, 33% of visitors were from Asia, whereas in 1992 the proportion was just 11%.” Obviously that would be a pie chart.
Okay. We are coming towards an end. So hopefully you’ve got a couple of notes. Start using the sentences. Write out lots of sentences. You can get a massive resource pack at ieltspodcast.com/academic… I think it’s the Academic Resources… Either way, you’ll see, if you will scroll through the home page, you’ll see the big colored button on the right.
Now, there’s 5 things you can do to increase your chances of passing the exam. First one, sign up for the tutorials. Sign up with your best email address and you’ll get lots of decent material, resources, tips, and more tutorials like this in your inbox every week. Fill your phone up with these podcasts. You can fill it up with your mp3s as well. Listen to this 24/7.
I’m doing the same with some other material that I’m trying to learn, and it’s a really good way. What you do is just listen all the time and just let it seep into your brain. Let it fill your brain with this information. And you don’t even have to work while you do this. You can just be in the supermarket and you just keep on listening to the recordings. Do this especially for the speaking task and you can respond. Or even for the model essays which I read. And just let it soak. Let your brain soak in all this information.
The third thing you can do is subscribe to the YouTube channel. Just jump on Google, put “IELTS Podcast YouTube.” Subscribe to that and you’ll get to see the actual videos if you’re more of a visual learner.
And of course subscribe to the iTunes podcast (that’s the fourth thing). And the 5th thing, if you’re having any problem at all, send me an email [email protected], or [email protected]. Either of those will work for you.
1. If you’re having problems, get help. Send me an email or find somebody else.
2. This is not impossible. I was just talking to a student a couple of days ago, Mega. You’ll hear the interview in about a week or two. She took her test 13 times. 13 times. What I want to say is that it’s not impossible. And if you do get the right resources, the right help, you will pass. You just got to keep pushing on. And if motivation is a problem, jump on to YouTube and just put “motivation.” At the moment, I use CT Fletcher. It’s quite insane and there’s lots of profanity in there but I’m using that for my gym motivation, alright? That really gets you fired up. So yeah. Each person is different. What you need to do is basically just find out what works for you.
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This is the person is also required to communicate with SEVIS on the school's behalf. In addition, they keep updated international student records and issue documents for SEVIS. On our campus there is one DSO: Colby Sheldon.
A document issued by USCIS that allows you to begin working in your OPT period or Economic Hardship period. Do not begin work before receiving your EAD card and/or before the start date of your OPT. In order to be eligible to receive an EAD card for OPT or Economic Hardship, you must first complete the application process with Colby Sheldon. Once you receive your EAD card, you will need to submit a copy of it to Jane Marshall or Colby Sheldon.
In extreme cases where students lose their sponsorship and/or their home country has a political or economic crisis or a natural disaster, students may apply to be able to work off campus in order to pay for college. It costs $380 to apply for economic hardship and it is not guaranteed that you will receive it; however, if you find yourself in either of the situations above, please see International Programs to discuss this as an option. You must be in F-1 status for three full terms and at credit level to be eligible. Apply with Colby Sheldon.
The visa category that allows international students to come to the United States to study full time.
The visa category for children or spouses of F-1 students.
This document is issued by the (P)DSO. The document is reissued when you are approved for CPT or OPT, change your major, and experience other changes in your record. Upon your initial entry to the U.S., you received your I-20 in your home country and had to take it to the embassy or consulate with you for your visa appointment. If you transfer to Lane from another U.S. institution, you will receive this document after you have attended classes at Lane for 30 days. You must keep every I-20 you are issued on file for your personal records. Before you travel anywhere outside of the U.S., take your I-20 to a (P)DSO to get a travel signature from them.
This is the small white card issued to you at the airport when you enter the U.S. It is stapled into your passport and you must not lose it. Immigration charges a fee of $330 to replace this document using a Form I-102 from the USCIS website.
The opportunity for paid work off campus in an internship position. You are eligible for CPT whenever you are in status, have successfully completed your first nine months on an F-1 visa and are enrolled in a college level major. Typically CPT is allowed when you participate in an internship through Cooperative Education. You may work up to 20 hours a week during the school year or 40 hours a week on a break or vacation term. You must have CPT authorized before you begin and may only work on the specific dates the DSO authorizes. If you complete 365 days of CPT you will lose your eligibility for OPT. See Colby Sheldon to apply.
This is the opportunity to work in the United States for one year after you finish your certificate or degree program. You are eligible for OPT once you complete a certificate and when you finish your 2-year Associate's degree, Bachelor's degree, Master's degree and PhD (doctorate degree) as long as you are in status when you graduate. You must apply for this F-1 benefit in an upward progression. That means that if you do OPT after a Master's degree and then earn a certificate, you cannot do OPT after obtaining the certificate. You must apply for OPT during the term prior to graduation. Contact Colby Sheldon to apply during your last term prior to your graduation date.
A grace period is the time you may stay in the U.S. when you are no longer enrolled in classes (after graduation) without any immigration penalty. In general, if you do not complete a program, are terminated, or withdraw from classes, you must leave the U.S. 15 days after your last day in class. If you graduate from a program or a degree, you may stay in the U.S. for up to 60 days after your last day in class.
This refers to illegally staying in the United States after your grace period is over. The result is that you will likely not be allowed to return to the U.S. from 3 to 10 years depending on the length of your overstay.
If you have been terminated and you wish to remain in the U.S., you must file for reinstatement to F-1 status with USCIS.
Student and Exchange Visitor Information System. This is the database and tracking system for F-1 students. Lane is required to use this system to report international student information to DHS.
This means that you are no longer a student in the U.S. on F-1 visa status. Some I-20 terminations are positive and some are negative on your immigration record.
- Examples of Positive Termination:
- Authorized Early Withdrawal: you have remained in status but are choosing to leave the U.S. before the completion of your program.
- Examples of Negative Termination:
- Unauthorized Early Withdrawal: you did not attend classes or dropped below 12 credits per term (college level) or 18 class hours per week (ESL).
- Failure to Enroll: you did not enroll in a full course of study.
- Violations of F-1 visa requirements leading to termination:
- Working off campus without permission
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Is your school too far away to visit Fort Ligonier? We can bring our educators to you! Our team will come to your school site and present content to meet your curricular needs. We offer several themes to choose from, each beginning with a basic overview of the history surrounding Fort Ligonier during the French & Indian War. Depending on the number of students and the area of focus you select, we will tailor an individual program to meet your needs.
Price dependent on program and number of students. Please contact our education department at [email protected] for pricing information and to create your program.
Possible Program Topics:
- Young George Washington and the French & Indian War
- French & Indian War 101
- Colonial Life: What did people eat and wear?
- The Seven Years War: The first World War
- Life in a Frontier Fort
- Can You Dig It? Mock Archeology Dig
- George Washington: Forts and Failures that Led to Success
Virtual Field Trip Experience
Too far to bring your students? Visit us virtually!
Our programs can be translated into a virtual setting! Contact us for pricing.
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David France's acclaimed How to Survive a Plague has been streaming since mid-January on Netflix and other venues, giving those of us who haven't been in the neighborhood of a live screening a chance finally to see the film --- nominated this year for a "best documentary" Oscar.
The experience is illuminating --- and a little eerie. I keep catching the eye in crowds in near-seamless archival footage of Keith Haring (1958-1990), artist and social activist --- although not a major player in the film --- whose work I admire.
The great value of the film is its documentation of the supremely important place ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) and its Treatment Action Group (TAG) had in the drive to contain --- so far prevention and cure have proved elusive --- HIV/AIDS.
First detected in 1981 --- a mere 30 years ago --- and perceived at first as a disease affecting expendable gay men, perhaps deserving the judgement of Christianity's petty little god of that time, neither the medical nor research community seemed in any hurry to deal with it.
ACT UP --- organized in New York City in 1987 --- changed all of that through a combination of activism, street theater, anarchy --- and hard science.
Faced with public hostility, apparent government indifference reflected in funding levels and the stately, but exceedingly slow, processes then in place at the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control, ACT UP volunteers absorbed all there was to know about HIV/AIDS. They produced the first coherent treatment and research protocols for HIV/AIDS --- for the most part adopted later by both researchers and physicians --- and almost single-handedly forced a shift in research emphasis from the abstract to living (and dying) people.
All of this while focusing public attention on the disease and its victims in ways both polite and perceived by some as rude.
Finally, in 1996, with the introduction of protease inhibitors into antiretroviral combination therapies, it became possible to offer those afflicted with HIV/AIDS the potential of near-normal life spans and relatively good health, although drug therapies can have debilitating side effects and are not effective or have a limited span of effectiveness in some cases.
Larry Kramer --- an ACT UP organizer still alive, kicking and as irascible as ever --- maintains with a good deal of authority that today's therapeutic drugs and effective treatment and research protocols can be attributed directly to the organization he helped to found. He calls its work a shining example of how a community, once and in some cases still marginalized and despised, rose up and figured out for itself how to survive a plague.
This is not necessarily an easy film to watch, but it captures the essence of a decade of movement from death to hope better than anything else I've seen. It's even possible to laugh now and then --- at footage, for example, of activists wrapping Sen. Jesse Helms' Arlington, Virginia, home in a giant canvas condom as the old devil himself looks on, cradling his poodle. But humor is generally rare --- and dark.
The film also serves as a reminder of the perhaps 650,000 Americans who have died of AIDS and its complications, of the millions who have died in less-fortunate places, of the fact an estimated 1.1 million Americans currently are living with HIV/AIDS (roughly a fifth unaware because they haven't been tested) and many times that number in Africa, Asia and elsewhere, and that in the United States, an estimated 50,000 new cases of HIV infection occur annually. | <urn:uuid:a86e57ac-bfe3-4bdd-a124-de5d4f8b4b62> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://lucascountyan.blogspot.com/2013/01/jesus-wouldnt-save-us-but-act-up-did.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281746.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00286-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969508 | 722 | 2.0625 | 2 |
To be able to work in the three-dimensional space that Blender uses, you must be able to change your viewpoint as well as the viewing direction of the scene. While we will describe the 3D Viewport editor, most of the other editors have similar functions. For example, it is possible to pan and zoom in the Image editor.
Some navigation tools require a middle mouse button or numpad. If you don’t have one of these, see the Keyboard and Mouse page of the manual to learn how to work around this. | <urn:uuid:7c054f33-76a2-4e53-957f-06cff38a0cb2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://docs.blender.org/manual/pt/dev/editors/3dview/navigate/introduction.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00471.warc.gz | en | 0.915453 | 118 | 2.25 | 2 |
Do you ever feel that the weather is worse on the weekend? Well you might be right!
Jeffrey Sachs wants to press governments to follow through on their promises.
Do environmental regulations help or hurt the economy? Democrats and Republicans sharply disagree. Six of our experts consider whether we have too much or too little regulation.
Digital devices are ubiquitous. A new film looks at where they come from, who makes them, and where they end up when they're discarded.
The oceans are filled with sounds produced by animals. However, a recent study shows that ocean sounds are diminishing due to nutrient pollution and ocean acidification.
Siberia's red river reminds us that mining for minerals and metals can still compromise the environment.
Waste plastic affects marine life significantly but better education and recyclable plastics could go a long way in resolving this issue.
The ACCC has launched proceedings against VW for allegedly misleading consumers. But consumers won't be directly compensated from the case.
An expert panel has announced that we truly are living in the geological era defined by humanity's fingerprint. But is it as simple as that, and does it leave "Anthropocene science" open to attack?
Without careful policy consideration the rise of artisanal and small-scale mining in resource rich African countries stands to disturb agricultural activity and associated livelihoods.
Wastewater treatment systems around the world are hamstrung by outdated tests that don't identify a growing array of pathogens or identify the sources of pollutants.
Beyond the environmental cost, what is the psychological toll on communities of mountaintop removal coal mining?
Africa has largely been ignored when it comes to official global air quality programmes. Yet low-income countries like many of those in Africa are particularly affected by air pollution.
As Australia joins a New York summit to discuss the UN Sustainable Development Goals, it still faces questions over whether it is meeting water standards at home.
Coal dust and oil can spread toxic chemicals hundreds of kilometres out to sea. But Australia's monitoring guidelines do not meet the standards used in countries such as the United States.
When it comes to reducing air pollution, scoring and ranking cities is neither accurate, nor productive.
You've heard of cap-and-trade schemes for greenhouse gases. Perhaps we also need one to limit the amount of fertiliser runoff onto the Great Barrier Reef.
A combination of factors – pollution, disease and overfishing – is harming corals but scientists have found clues to effective treatment by studying corals' microbiome.
Microplastics go largely unseen but are a scourge of the oceans. Filmmaker Jo Ruxton answers questions about the challenge of filming it.
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Steelwork offers the opportunity for architectural expression, as well as being structurally versatile and adaptable material. Good detailing is vital because it affects structural performance, costs, buildability and, perhaps most importantly, appearance. Whilst the choice of the structural form is often the province of the structural engineer, architects should have a broad appreciation of the factors leading to the selection of the structure and its details. Traditionally, most detailing of connections is the responsibility of the steelwork fabricator, but for exposed steelwork, detailing is of much more interest to the architect, as it impacts on the aesthetics of the structure. In this respect it is important that designers appreciate the common fabrication and erection techniques which may exert a strong influence on the method and approach to the detailing of modern steelwork in buildings. Architectural Design in Steel is a design guide to the detailing of exposed steelwork in buildings. It is a guide which offers technical guidance and general principles, as well as examples of best practice.
It covers all aspects from manufacture to detailing, specification of finishes and fabrication, providing architects, as well as engineers, with essential information to inform the design.
Peter Trebilcock is Consultant Architect to The Steel Construction Institute and an Architect at AMEC. Mark Lawson is Research Manager at SCI. The work was funded by Corus (formerly British Steel (Sections, Plates and Commercial Steels)) and Corus Tubes and Pipes and the former Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions under the Partners in technology initiative.
1. Introduction 2. Introduction to Expressed Structural Form 3. Frame Design 4. Types of Beams, Columns and Trusses 5. Connections Between I Sections 6. Connections Between Tubular Sections 7. Tension Structures 8. Space Frames 9. Glazing Interface Details 10. Steelwork Penetrations of the External Envelope 11. Technical Characteristics of Steel 12. Corrosion Protection 13. Fire Protection 14. Site Installation 15. Other Design Considerations 16. References and Sources of Information
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MetZoom: A CNN/LSTM hybrid based model for water reservoir inflow prediction
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- Master theses
Hydropower reservoir volumes fluctuate as water levels increase or decrease according to precipitation, valve output and inflow through water retained in the surrounding area. Predicting these fluctuations with machine learning is possible through the use of an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) architecture proposed in this thesis. The neural network model aims to fore- cast the changes in relative water level for a reservoir managed by Saudefaldene, a hydropower company in Rogaland, Norway. The predictions are made through the use of radar images reflecting the precipitation rate, and a dataset provided by Saudefaldene. The provided dataset contains the precipitation history, valve-opening records and relative water levels across 2014- 2021. Such a forecast can have various impacts on hydropower reservoir management, which lay the foundation for the thesis. The architecture proposed in this thesis, namely MetZoom, contains a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture which predicts future precipitation rates in the form of radar image replications and precipitation i up to 12 hours ahead. The use of radar images is motivated by the intent to forecast precipitation as a tool for predicting changes in the relative water level. The predictions made by the CNN are forwarded to a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) in the form of a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network to learn the fluctuations of reservoir water levels. The architecture of Met- Zoom is a result of several tested CNN and RNN models and a combination of these. | <urn:uuid:7e537613-aa9f-4218-a0cd-1000489caa5b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bora.uib.no/bora-xmlui/handle/11250/3004276 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.914419 | 348 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Mention the Dutch and you probably think of windmills, tulips and the classic “clog” shoes that once were a fashion phenomena in the United States.
But during Christmas in the Netherlands, a man named Sinterklaas takes center stage. Wearing the clothes of a bishop and riding a horse throughout a parade, this “king” among men marks the high point of celebration among Netherlanders.
You’re forgiven if you, too, have to consult a map to make sure you can locate the grand kingdom of the Netherlands, located north of Belgium and west of Germany. Even Ornamentshop.com had to double-check its geography to make sure that our global tour of Christmas traditions was on the right course. And boy; are we glad we did.
We found that Sinterklass makes quite a scene, arriving from Spain on a steamer on the last Saturday of November and traveling a straight path to meet the queen in her palace. Meanwhile, Dutch television stations broadcast the annual scene as if St. Nicholas truly was a visiting king – and to the Dutch, Sinterklaas is the next best thing during Christmas in the Netherlands.
Of course, Sinterklaas can’t be everywhere—but his spirit can. And so nearly every town in the Netherlands hosts its own Sinterklaas parade, and in some places the man in red velvet may make his grand entrance to town by carriage, moped or helicopter before setting up his “headquarters” at a grand hotel.
He keeps a busy schedule in the days before St. Nicholas Day (December 6), visiting schools, hospitals, department stores, malls and their homes. Meanwhile, Sinterklaas “treasure hunt” parties are hugely popular during Christmas in the Netherlands, and families can spend an entire evening deciphering clues and riddles that lead them to their gifts.
To top off the evening, Dutch families celebrate with food prepared in a gourmetten, or a small, tabletop grill that they gather around to cook dinner (meat, potatoes and vegetables) in together. A focal point during Christmas in the Netherlands, the gourmetten is an ideal way to bring everyone together for a leisurely meal — especially if there is enough brood (bread), Gouda cheese (for which the Netherlands is famous) and knofloofkboter (garlic butter) to go around.
After all that, it’s understandable that Christmas Day is usually a quiet affair in the Netherlands. (So is December 26, which is known as “Second Christmas Day.”) The quiet is broken only by the sound of farmers who blow horns across the countryside to honor their beloved national figure.
At Ornamentshop.com, we’re not just tipping at windmills; read the full story of Christmas in the Netherlands and share it with your Dutch-loving friends on Twitter and Facebook. | <urn:uuid:e80ca538-c970-4fca-bd94-4630899702bd> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.ornamentshop.com/christmas-blog/christmas-in-the-netherlands/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282935.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00235-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965034 | 613 | 1.515625 | 2 |
As I noted back in 2014, Immanuel Wallerstein, the great sociologist of capitalism in the late 20th century, has been writing about the instability of the ‘world system’ (a term he coined) for over 40 years. He believes that the ‘world system’ of capitalism has been in decline since about 1968, so that we are now in a transition phase. The new system will not necessarily be better for ordinary people. In an intriguing piece from May 2014 – “The center isn’t holding very well” – he says:
- As our existing historical system is in the process of dying, there is a fierce struggle over what kind of new historical system will succeed it. Soon, we may indeed no longer live in a capitalist system, but we could come to live in an even worse system – a “rough beast” seeking to be born? To be sure, this is only one possible collective choice. The alternative choice is a relatively democratic, relatively egalitarian system, also seeking to be born. Which one we shall see at the end of the struggle is up to us, bottom-up. | <urn:uuid:78868663-e8e6-4da9-919b-670b64dafc02> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.climateplus.info/tag/nordic-model/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.953796 | 235 | 2.09375 | 2 |
2. Subtract 10 or 100
Practice subtracting 10 or 100 mentally from a 3 digit number. Subtracting 10 or 100 from a number is the same as decreasing the amount of tens or hundreds in a number. This should be simple for students comfortable in place value concepts and they should not require the use of models or pictures for help. Building mental fluency in such special cases of subtraction helps to contribute towards overall proficiency in subtraction.
Common Core Alignment
2.NBT.8Mentally add 10 or 100 to a given number 100—900, and mentally subtract 10 or 100 from a given number 100—900. | <urn:uuid:eb94f3c7-691d-49db-a7c3-4cab3f543bcd> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.splashmath.com/math-skills/second-grade/subtract-within-1000/subtract-10-or-100 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00238-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.820712 | 135 | 3.5625 | 4 |
Gaming Knitting Patterns
Knitting patterns from favorite video games like Angry Birds, Super Mario Bros., Legend of Zelda, Pokemon, Tetris, Minecraft, Pac Man and more!
To get the knitting patterns, scroll down the page to the individual pattern you want and click on the link to that pattern.
All links on this site are for informational purposes, but please note that some links are to affiliate sellers that pay me a small commission on purchases.
Free Knitting Patterns
Angry Bird Hat
Heidi Yates designed this pixie hat for game lovers in sizes from newborn to adult.
Angry Birds Plush Toys
Knitterbees created these softie versions of Red Bird, Yellow Bird, and Green Pig.
Angry Bird Hat
Lene Brattland designed this hat sized for 3-5 years and 6-9 years
Minecraft Creeper Hat
This Cute Creeper stocking cap was designed by Krista Sodt.
Minecraft Creeper Blanket
Katherine Youngs designed this easy blanket of 100 squares of 7 shades of yarn.
Warhammer Chaos Dwarf Hat
Rose Anne designed this intricate hat and beard inspired by the Warhammer Fantasy world. The hat fits an average adult head of between 21-24”.
Pac Man Hat
Maja V. Rød designed this colorwork beanie in Norwegian and English with charts.
Pac Man Scarf
Jenn Skinner designed this scarf to be knit in the round with fair isle but other techniques can be used. Options include fruit and power pills.
Deep Sea Flower Dice Bag
Nina Nyland designed this as dice bag but it’s pretty enough for any use. Available in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Mario Transformation Hat
Colleen Sandridge designed this colorwork beanie of Mario’s adventures. Note: Most of the Ravelry knitters mentioned how they needed to modify the size of the hat.
Chain Chomp Hat
Allison MacAllister designed this hat inspired by the enemy of the Mario Bros.
Super Mario Sweater
Joanna Rankin Happy Seamstress designed this Super Mario themed vest.
Mario Kart Koopa Troopa Turtle Shell
Lahelaknits pattern comes with photos for assembly.
Happy Seamstress designed this Legend of Zelda outfit for babies about 3 months old.
Emily Hastings designed these mitts inspired by Legend of Zelda games. They’re based on the gauntlets that Link wears in OoT and in Super Smash Bros. Melee.
Patterns for Purchase
Pokeball Fliptop Mittens
Perfect for hunting pokémons in cooler weather. These mittens have a flap that you can easily flip open to use your phone or close to keep your hands warm.
This Pikachu toy measures roughly 22cm tall and has movable arms.
Bulbasaur pokemon measures roughly 18cm tall, making him the perfect size for cuddling and a perfect gift.
This Pokemon toy softie measures roughly 22cm tall and has movable arms and legs.
Link’s Hat and Rupee Bag
Designed by critknits for Legend of Zelda fans.
Legend of Zelda Bomb Bag
Pattern includes instructions for both the bombs and the bag.
Legend of Zelda Tri-Force Case
This pattern includes written instructions for a knitted DS case with the Tri-Force logo on the front. This case will fit the Nintendo DS, DSi, DSlite, or 3DS. But it looks like it is customizable to other sizes for phones, etc.
I Dream of Falling Blocks scarf is knit mostly in garter stitch with the blocks done with intarsia.
This is a great beginner blanket. The only knit stitches involved are knit and purl. The squares are joined together using crochet with full illustrated instructions for how to do so.
Space Invaders Hat
LaVischDesigns designed this Old School Gaming Hat with characters from the arcade game
Terry is a knitting late-bloomer, learning to knit as an adult from Internet tutorials, because she wanted a craft that was useful, fun, and portable. Knitting hats for cancer patients inspired her to design her own patterns—available for free at her blog, intheloopknitting.com. Terry met her husband Ken at a science fiction convention and moved to the Kansas City area to be with him more than 30 years ago. Terry supports her yarn stash by creating websites and other digital media. Terry firmly believes in Knitting in Public—it's a great conversation starter! | <urn:uuid:ff0a836d-ab76-4602-8ed3-bc98ec8e86a6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://intheloopknitting.com/gaming-knitting-patterns/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00060-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.876128 | 934 | 1.640625 | 2 |
The University of Wisconsin Sea Grant College Program today announced the award of more than $5.8 million in Great Lakes research, education and outreach dollars for 2020-22 as part of a federal-state partnership.
Sea Grant will fund 15 research, three education and 32 outreach projects on six University of Wisconsin campuses and at a private college. Other entities will participate in the projects, such as the Wisconsin Historical Society, which will conduct research on Great Lakes shipwrecks.
“For the coming two years, just as in our program’s preceding 52 years, our outreach and education activities and funded research will go forward on the basis of scientific integrity and relevance. The Great Lakes are a true treasure and we’re privileged to undertake this work to ensure their continued sustainability,” said Jim Hurley, Sea Grant director.
Researchers will look into the effects of high Great Lakes water levels on infrastructure, a series of chemical contaminants known as PFAS, fostering the growth of the sportfish walleye, and more.
In all, nearly 100 researchers, staff and students will be engaged in this work, Hurley said.
The campuses within the University of Wisconsin System are Green Bay and its campus in Manitowoc, Madison, Milwaukee, Stevens Point and Superior. The other campus is St. Norbert College.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce, provides funding for this work through the National Sea Grant College Program. The state of Wisconsin provides a match for the federal funds—50 cents on the dollar. | <urn:uuid:07e6bf24-32aa-40af-b2e1-f3b9e3f792a7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/news/wisconsin-sea-grant-to-provide-more-than-5-8-million-for-great-lakes-research-education-and-outreach-over-two-years/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.930041 | 315 | 1.578125 | 2 |
What happens to a Big Island landscape in the aftermath of dramatic lava flow?
Tim Tunison, a longtime botanist, now retired from his posts at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, has spent a lot of time probing the question of the “colonization of new geological surfaces,” a process that ecologists also call “primary succession.”
On Sat., March 23, Tunison will share observations and insights during a field seminar set for 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the park. The event, titled Life on Recent Lava Flows, is presented by the Hawaii Volcanoes Institute, which is part of the nonprofit Friends of Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park.
Seminar participants will learn about the characteristic small suite of plant and animal species found on recent lava flow areas; how succession on lava in Hawaii differs from that on rock surfaces; how rates of colonization differ on fast-moving aa (rough, jagged and clinker lava surfaces) versus slow-moving pahoehoe (smooth, billowy, and ropy lava surfaces) and from dry to wet areas; and why there are few alien, invasive plants on recent lava flows.
The day involves short walks in three or four sites. Tuition includes a pictorial species identification handout and a CD “mini book” to take home. Click here for details about seminar registration.
In a news release about the seminar, Tunison said: “The lava flows along the Chain of Craters Road, resulting from the Mauna Ulu flows and other eruptions in the 1970s, are a highly accessible and informative area.” He added, “Life has noticeably recolonized these 30 to 40 year old flows and deposits, but the simplicity and sparseness of life make species identification manageable — and ecological patterns readily apparent.”
Tunison was at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park from 1982-1994 in charge of programs dealing with invasive plant management, plant community restoration, rare plant recovery, and fire ecology. From 1995-2006, he served the park’s Chief of Resource Management. Since retirement, Tunison has stayed connected with the park’s plants by teaching field botany classes.
Daily updates on Kilauea volcano activity are available at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory website.
HawaiiMagazine.com has reported regularly on lava activity at Kilauea volcano and Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island. Click here to catch up with all of our Volcano News posts. You can also follow our updates on our Twitter and Facebook pages.
For more information about Friends of Hawaii Volcanoes, click here.
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September 21, 2008
By Buchanan, Gale A Dunn, Joseph A; Fischer, James R; Johnson, Stanley R; Finnell, Janine A
Opportunities to increase biofuels This feature on biomass feedstocks is the first in a series of four examining biomass energy.With increasing concerns over dwindling reserves and unstable supplies of petroleum coupled with climate change caused by the burning of fossil fuels, the search is on for cleaner energy. Biomass is a solar energy resource with the potential to be a significant contributor to the United States' energy portfolio with a low carbon footprint. Several types of biomass are currently used as feedstocks in energy conversion processes to produce liquid fuels, power, and heat, including wood, agricultural, and forest product residues and municipal solid and industrial waste.
Energy goals set by President George W. Bush (Twenty in Ten), the U.S. Department of Energy (30x30), the private sector and interest groups (25x'25), and Congress (which recently enacted Energy Independence and security Act of 2007) to develop biobased fuels will require an unprecedented engagement of American agriculture in domestic energy production.
Many states are also supporting biofuels. For example, California recently enacted a Low-Carbon Fuel Standard to reduce the carbon intensity of transportation fuels sold in that state by 10 percent by 2020. Many of the low carbon fuels expected to be commercially available in large quantities in California within the 2020 time horizon are anticipated to be biofuels.
Research and development the focus
The primary biofuels produced at a commercial scale today in the United States are ethanol, which exploits the starch resources in corn and other grains, and transesterified biodiesel from oilseed crops, such as soybeans and animal fats. Ethanol production and use is approaching 3 percent of our total national fuel consumption today and is expected to reach about 7 percent by the end of this decade. However, to expand anticipated biofuels production in the future and as new biomass energy conversion processes are perfected to produce "advanced" biofuels, research is focusing on improving the characteristics of existing biomass feedstocks as well as exploring the potential for new energy crops and new biobased fuels/ products.
For example, research is being conducted on sugar and starch crops to make them more efficient in existing conversion processes, e.g., new strains of sugarcane that produce more sugar and enable these tropical crops to be grown in more temperate climates and oilseed crops that increase the yield of oil and have enhanced fuel quality attributes.
Most of the federal research and development effort is focused on developing the "next generation" of biofuels that will allow lignocellulosic crops, both herbaceous and woody plants, and crop and forestry residues to be converted into biofuels. Both herbaceous and woody crops are more widely available biofuel feedstocks than sugar and starch crops. One of their greatest advantages is that they are short-rotation, perennial crops; they regrow after each harvest, allowing multiple harvests without having to be replanted. Switch grass, which is indigenous to U.S. prairies where it is grown to reduce soil erosion and to create wildlife habitats, is being studied extensively for its potential as an energy crop. One recent study, conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) shows that switch grass yields more than five times the energy needed to grow, harvest, and transport the grass and convert it to ethanol. Alfalfa is also another potential energy crop that, unlike corn and other grasses, fixes its own nitrogen and thus requires less fertilizer.
Crop and forestry residues may also be collected as by-products, such as corn stover or rice or wheat straw, or they may be collected at processing facilities such as lumber mills, cotton gins, or vegetable processors. Residues, especially corn stover, are expected to be the first feedstocks for cellulosic biofuels to be used. However, excessive residue removal can increase soil erosion and reduce soil productivity. ARS recently conducted a longterm study in eastern Nebraska to evaluate the impact of stover harvested for bioenergy on soil productivity. It concluded that more residues than previously thought must be retained on the field to avoid adverse impacts on soil productivity. Major breakthroughs in cellulosic conversion and commercialization are expected within the next five to ten years that will help to bring additional sources of cellulose into sustainable, environmentally sound use.
Traditional oilseed crops, including soybeans, canola, mustard seeds, and sunflower seeds, are grown throughout the United States for biodiesel production and new crops, such as camelina and jatropha, show potential. Some varieties of algae are known to produce large amounts of fatty acids and have been proposed as biofuel feedstocks.
The future's best of the best
The best energy crops may be those that are multipurpose and allow farmers to respond to market changes by combining food, feed, fiber, and biofuel product streams. Many advances have already been made with conventional plant breeding using molecular genetics and plant physiology to significantly improve crops. These technologies can also lead to significant improvements in bioenergy feedstocks.
In the future, engineered plants may be the solution to low- cost, abundant feedstocks. By tweaking plant genes, scientists can encourage production of more biomass or change a plant's cell wall composition so that it can be readily converted into biofuels or industrial products such as lubricants, inks, fabrics, or glue. ARS has 20 gene banks across the country that can be used to design, develop, and produce better energy crops.
Considerations vis-a-vis sustainability will be an important consideration in the emerging, high-volume biofuels industry. A federal government National Biofuels Action Plan points out that there is currently "limited understanding of potential impacts of large-scale energy feedstock production on land uses, water, carbon sequestration, and ecosystems (particularly excess fertilizers, pesticides, and sediment in surface waters) ... "
Because of the wide variation in biomass feedstocks and their impacts by geographic location, research is being conducted on many of these issues on a regional basis. Land grant and other universities, as well as ARS, are evaluating various crops for suitability and sustainability based on eco-region, genetic variation, and production economics. Some land grant universities have joined together in five geographical locations throughout the country to address regional biomass feedstock capabilities in terms of sustainable production for energy purposes. Many of these crops will be on public display at the USDA Energy Garden exhibit being developed for mid-2008, (see USDA Candidate Plants on previous page) to inform the public on a range of plants that are grown in the United States that are, or have potential to be, used as renewable energy sources.
The biomass resources in this country have the potential to make a significant impact on energy use not only as fuel but as bioproducts. For this potential to come to fruition, it will require the research, education, and extension resources of USDA and its university partners to help develop the technology, sustainability, and profitability that will be needed to build a clean and prosperous energy future.
USDA Candidate Plants for Biofuel Garden and Exhibit (Power Plants)*
U. S. National Arboretum
Sorghum Sugar beet
Castor bean Peanut
Sugar cane Switch grass
Hybrid popular Miscanthus
Cuphea Babassou Palm
African Oil Palm Algae
* Scheduled for June 2008
For further information:
* National Biofuels Action Plan Workshop Summary Report, U.S. Department of Energy, May 2007
* "Forum - America's Farms: Growing Food, Fiber, Fuel - and More," Agricultural Research Magazine, U.S. Department of Agriculture, April 2007
* "Corn Stover to Sustain Soil Organic Carbon Further Constrains Biomass Supply," W. W. Wilhelm et al., Agronomy Journal, Vol. 99, November-December 2007
* "Biofuels on a Big Scale," by Robert F. Service, ScienceNOW Daily News, January 8, 2008, http:// sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/ content/full/2008/107/1
Gale A. Buchanan is Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics, USDA, Washington, D.C., USA; [email protected] Joseph A. Dunn is a special advisor to the Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics, USDA; [email protected] ASABE member James R. Fischer is a scientific advisor for Energy, Science, and Education to the Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics, USDA; [email protected] Stanley R. Johnson is distinguished professor emeritus, Iowa State University, Ames, and assistant to the dean, University of Nevada, Reno, USA; [email protected] Research assistance was provided by Janine A. Finnell, Technology & Management Services, Inc., Washington, D.C., USA; jafinnell@ yahoo.com.
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PATCHOGUE, N.Y., Sept. 30, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — In their ongoing efforts to assist companies in not only utilizing but maximizing digital media, Internet marketing company, fishbat, shares how digital platforms can redefine the automotive industry.
In the United States, the automotive industry is among the most lucrative. It has seen steady growth from year to year, which has been facilitated by entities including small car lots and established dealerships. A few decades ago, if a shopper desired a new or used car, they would either have to sift through newspapers or visit lots to see what was available. With the advent of digital media that a NY SEO company uses, the lives of shoppers have been made easier. Just as importantly, it provided the automotive industry with different possibilities.
One can see the impact of digital tools, on the automotive industry, in the way that people shop for vehicles. With most major dealerships having their own websites, it has become effortless to browse the various makes and models of cars available on different lots. From there, shoppers can inquire about additional features and auto insurance, just to name a few variables that can influence prices. Instead of simply traveling to a lot, taking a chance on finding a car worth purchasing, shoppers can perform thorough research ahead of time.
Social media has become one of the most important digital platforms and it only continues to grow. It can be used to share content across different social networks, including Facebook and Twitter, but this is just the beginning of its value to automotive companies. Social media is an effective engagement tool, allowing companies to interact with existing and potential customers alike. In this sense, it can be just as much of a customer service platform as a 24/7 hotline. Furthermore, social media doesn’t cost much to invest in, depending on the ads automotive companies run, which makes it that much more of a worthwhile investment.
In the future, it wouldn’t be unfathomable for augmented reality to be used in the automotive industry. First-person experiences are essential when making substantial purchases, but it’s possible that shoppers will need incentivization to take the next step. This is where augmented reality can be used, allowing potential shoppers to see new and used cars up close. They can see how they look at different times of the day, how big the windows are, and whether it will be able to accommodate them and their families. As augmented reality matures, expect it to become commonplace in the automotive industry.
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Albany Fish Traps facts for kids
The Albany Fish Traps, also known as the Oyster Harbour Fish Traps, are a series of fish traps situated in Oyster Harbour near the mouth of the Kalgan River approximately 14 kilometres (9 mi) east of Albany in the Great Southern region of Western Australia.
The traps were constructed by the Menang peoples and are over 7,500 years old. The area is sacred to the Menang and was once a corroboree area that was mostly used during the warmer months. The low loose stone walls of the traps are on the northern shore of Oyster Harbour and are back by a steep hill. As the tide moved the fish would be stranded inside the courses of the stones, which were topped with brush, then collected at low tide.
Arranged in a crescent shape the traps are composed of eight separate weirs each consisting of thousands of stones. The area occupies an area of approximately 800 square metres (8,611 sq ft); excavation of a 1 metre (3 ft) section revealed 80 stones were used in that section.
Only visible at low tide the traps were described by George Vancouver in 1791. Nicolas Baudin described the traps during his expedition of 1803 as did Philip Parker King in 1818. All of the stones used in the traps are dark, almost black, lateritic material found naturally on the shoreline.
The site was vested in the National Trust in the 1966, and was in the first group of sites to be declared as Protected Areas under the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972 when they were gazetted in 1973.
At the request of the traditional owners a series of minor excavations were carried out by archeologists from 2000 to 2006.
The site was returned to the Menang people through the Albany Heritage Reference Group Aboriginal Corporation in a ceremony in 2009.
Following the discovery in 2011 that hundreds of the stones had been removed, a A$170,000 project was initiated to construct a cultural shelter, boardwalk and interpretation signs adjacent to the traps. The project was completed and opened in 2015.
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North Carolina Risk Management: What you need to know
Governing Law and Regulations
State risk management program: 15A North Carolina Administrative Code 2D.2101 to 2D.2104
Forsyth County risk management program: Forsyth County Code 3D.2101 to 3D.2104
Western North Carolina risk management program: Western North Carolina Regional Air Quality Agency (WNCRAQA) regulations 4.2101 to 4.2104
Mecklenburg County risk management program: Mecklenburg County Air Pollution Control Ordinance 2.2101 to 2.2104
North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Environmental Management Commission Division of Air Quality
North Carolina Department of Crime Control and Public Safety Division of Emergency Management
Forsyth County Environmental Affairs Department
Mecklenburg County Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)
See ADDRESSES & CONTACTS for addresses and telephone numbers.
See national section for basic information and federal regulations.
Comparison: State vs. Federal
• Rules. DENR, Forsyth County Environmental Affairs Department, WNCRAQA, and Mecklenburg County DEP have all adopted the federal risk management program and received delegated authority. Risk management plans and subsequent revisions must be submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and a certification of such submittals must be provided to DENR or the appropriate local regulatory agency. For more information on the federal program, see the national section RISK MANAGEMENT PROGRAM.
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Latitude coverage of solar absorption spectrometry observations of the middle atmosphere from a heliosynchronous orbit
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The conditions under which atmospheric measurements by solar absorption spectrometry could be performed from a space platform in a heliosynchronous orbit are analysed. Those conditions, and particularly the annual latitudinal coverage of the observations, depend essentially on the mean local time at the ascending node of the orbit.
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The new Safe Space workshop training is modeled after the concept of "continuing education" in order to encourage active allyship and to allow participants to stay up-to-date within a changing landscape of gender and sexuality. After completing the Safe Space 101 2.5-hour workshop , faculty, staff and students are invited to become a part of the Oneonta Safe Space Network by displaying the symbol, but network membership is not a requirement for participation in the actual workshop.
Participating members are then encouraged to attend 201 and 301 level workshops in order to expand their allyship skills. After these workshops, partiticants can collect 201 and 301 stickers to display thier renewed committment to allyship.
Responsibilities of Oneonta Safe Space Network Members
To display network symbol
To be available to members of the College community who wish to discuss lesbian, gay, bisexual and “questioning” concerns
To share information about College and community resources related to LGBTQ life
To respect people's need for privacy and confidentiality.
To commit to continuing to learn about LGBTQ issues
In the Safe Space 101 training you can expect to learn:
Ally skills such as making referrals and dealing with students in crisis
Campus resources for LGBT students
Awareness of campus climate issues
Brief overview of LGBT history and current civil rights issues
Current research and trends in higher education regarding LBGT students
Exploration of cultural stigma and affects on students
Want to get involved? Call the GSRC at 607-436-2190 or email us at [email protected] to find out more about our training schedule for the Spring 2016 semester.
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Klip Wild dagga (Leonotis nepetifolia) is an impressive plant visually. It also has a number of medicinal and psychoactive properties that make it a attractive plant. Wild dagga has an amazing array of applications and a very strong connection with South African people. This plant is widely used in traditional medicines to treat a wide range of ailments. One of the uses of its roots are treating stings and bites, including snake bites. External mixtures are applied to remedy boils, itches and other skin complaints, as well as muscular cramps. Wild dagga mixtures are also consumed to help high blood pressure, jaundice, haemorrhoids, dysentery, fever, headaches, influenza, asthma and coughs. Leaves are also smoked to help treat epilepsy and partial paralysis.
Wild dagga is commonly referred to as ‘wild cannabis’. This is because this plant has very similar effects to those experienced when using cannabis. Calming and sedating sensations are felt when the flowers are consumed as a tea, while euphoric reactions occur when the flowers are smoked. South African tribes have traditionally smoked wild dagga flowers and leaves for its euphoric effect. It is not only South Africans that have long appreciated the benefits of wild dagga, as this plant features strongly in Chinese and Vietnamese culture for its euphoric effects.
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English Guess papers with all the important topics include essays, narrations, translations, short questions and answers for class 10th (Matriculation level) are given below. These are best for 2015 and 2016 upcoming annual exams of board like Rawalpindi board, Lahore board, Bahawalpur board and Multan boards etc. You should prepare all the important and guesses topics because we find these on the basis of last three years old papers from different boards of Punjab education.
Important Summary for Exams
Try again and peace
Important Paragraph writing:
My school , my neighbor , an accident , girl guide , a picnic
Continuous paragraph guesses:
1 2 3 4 5 6 8 10 11 12 13 14 15
Answer Questions, Translation
First 6 chapters
Important Objective from English Book
All Exercises of Book & Bright Book First 5 Chapters Additional
Guess(ENGLISH 10th) # 2
Important Essays topics for Exams:
Allama iqbal.My hobby.My last day at school.An accident.The teacher I like best.A river in flood.True muslim
“Paragarph#5 6,7,8,10,12,15,16 17,20,22,25
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(from punjab textbook
PAIR of words# 2,7,9,13,15,17,20, 26,31,34,37,38,40,
Fashions,My Neighbour,A Fortune Teller, Pakistani woman.
Ch#1 para #7,4
Ch#2 para 4,5
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How to detox the safe and natural way!
It seems to be a very natural habit for human beings to cleanse and detox their bodies. We may do weekly or monthly detoxes or cleanse our bodies at the start of a new season. It all really depends on how you personally think and feel. Just as the sea regularly cleanses itself by removing waste so do we. Remember, we are made of up to 70% of water so it is probably just something we have in common with the Ocean! ☺
Signs that your body is screaming at you for a detox!
- Often waking up in the morning feeling tired and pretty much remaining like that for the rest of the day definitely means that your body could do with a colon cleanse
- Frequent bouts of constipation could mean that you require a colon cleanse to rid built up toxins. Try adding a lot more raw veggies and fruits to your diet. Vitamin supplements are also a great way of adding what your body needs for healthy functioning
- Brain fog or inabity to focus - If you consistently find that you lack the ability to focus and find yourself drifting off in a mental fog, your body could be screaming for a detox. It has been said that a candida cleanse alone can restore clarity, focus, and concentration by ridding your body of excessive and damaging candida fungus
- Feeling a bit down in the dumps could be the result of eating foods that are of low-quality or even toxic to the body The problem is that when you start to make changes to your diet to include more life-giving foods, the toxins will block the nutrients (as sad as that sounds) from finding their way to your brain. Toxins have a way of nestling into the body and can remain there unless acted upon. In this case a body detox could help your mind back to the right space!
- If you are still overweight after numerous attempts at weight-loss programs, and you often feel like you are fighting an uphill battle in the weight-loss department, this could be due to a build-up of toxins in your body, preventing all the good nutrients and vitamins from being absorbed and working with your body in the correct healthy way. We recommend using a natural weight-loss remedy and detox drops so that both can work in harmony with each other for the best weight-loss results!
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- We recommend using Detox Drops – A Natural herbal detox remedy for systemic cleansing & liver health. (Tip – you get a FREE Detox Diet with every bottle of Detox Drops ordered online!)
- Drink plenty of water to flush out all unwanted toxins
- Replace unhealthy high caffeine drinks with healing herbal teas like Yogi Detox Tea or Yogi Ginger Lemon Green Tea. Sweeten your tea naturally with Raw Organic Honey
- Regular massage – A deep tissue massage is great at applying pressure on your pressure points where toxins tend to build up. The hard pushing down technique applied on them enables them to release clogged unwanted toxins
- Try the Cocobaci oil pulling 15 day oral and body detox – Oil pulling is an ancient Ayurvedic dental technique used to improve oral health and also overall health by drawing all unwanted toxins out of your body.
- Regular exercise – Sweating from exercise can help your body get rid of unwanted toxins
- Apple Cider Vinegar (with the Mother) has many health benefits including the ability to remove unwanted toxins from the body. Drink 2 tablespoons of ACV in a glass of water, you can add 2 teaspoons of raw organic honey as a natural sweetener. You can drink this detox drink for a few days, a month or as often as you like. Some people drink this up to 3 times in a day!
- Fasting for a day, once a week can be very cleansing and rejuvenating! You can fast for 12 hours or 24 hours – depending on how you feel. Some people find benefit in a liquid fast (using Yogi Teas or pressed juices and no solid food), while others prefer a complete fast
Important tips to remember when doing a body detox
- Try and set out a realistic detox plan with a time frame
- Replace unhealthy food with healthy organic food choices. Healthy foods that you enjoy!
- Use healthy cooking oils like Virgin Organic Coconut Oil and Organic Olive Oil to replace regular unhealthy cooking oils
- Some people may experience headaches, body aches or fatigue during the first few days of a detox. This is due to toxins being eliminated by the body so don’t let these symptoms stop you!
Detoxing your body can go a long way to helping you feel healthy and full of vitality! Try to incorporate some of these healthy, positive mindful choices into your daily living routine.
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Cassini Finds Particles Near Saturn's Moon Enceladus
April 26, 2005
(Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
The Cassini spacecraft has discovered intriguing dust particles around Saturn's moon Enceladus. The particles might indicate the existence of a dust cloud around Enceladus, or they may have originated from Saturn's outermost ring, the E-ring.
"We are making measurements in the plane of the E-ring," said Dr. Thanasis Economou, a senior scientist at the University of Chicago's Enrico Fermi Institute. Economou is the lead researcher on the high rate detector, part of a larger instrument on Cassini called the cosmic dust analyzer. "It will take a few more flybys to distinguish if the dust flux is originating from the E-ring as opposed to a source at Enceladus."
Enceladus is rapidly becoming a very interesting target for Cassini. So much so that scientists and engineers are planning to revise the altitude of the next flyby to get a closer look. Additional Cassini encounters with Enceladus are scheduled for July 14, 2005, and March 12, 2008. The July 14 flyby was to be at an altitude of 1,000 kilometers (620 miles), but the mission team now plans to lower that altitude to about 175 kilometers (109 miles). This will be Cassini's lowest-altitude flyby of any object during its nominal four-year tour.
Earlier this year Cassini completed two flybys of Enceladus. On February 17, Cassini encountered Enceladus at an altitude of 1,167 kilometers (725 miles). On that date, the cosmic dust analyzer with its high rate detector recorded thousands of particle hits during a period of 38 minutes. Cassini executed another flyby of Enceladus on March 9 at an altitude of 500 kilometers (310 miles). "Again we observed a stream of dust particles," said Economou. The largest particles detected measure no more than the diameter of a human hair -- too small to pose any danger to Cassini.
Scientists have speculated that Enceladus is the source of Saturn's E ring, the planet's widest, stretching 302,557 kilometers (188,000 miles). It's possible, the scientists say, that tidal interactions between Enceladus and Mimas, two other moons of Saturn, have heated Enceladus' interior causing water volcanism.
"These measurements are extremely important in order to understand the role of Enceladus as the source of the water ice particles in the E ring," said Dr. Ralf Srama, of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany. Srama is principal investigator of the cosmic dust analyzer science team. This study requires precise measurements of dust densities near the Enceladus region, "but without the high rate detector this would not be possible," said Srama.
Another of Cassini's instruments, the magnetometer, recently discovered water ions which could be part of a very thin atmosphere around Enceladus. Enceladus is a relatively small moon. The amount of gravity it exerts is not enough to hold an atmosphere very long. Therefore a strong, continuous source is required to maintain the atmosphere.
Enceladus measures 500 kilometers (310 miles) in diameter and reflects nearly 100 percent of the light that hits its ice- covered surface. It orbits Saturn at a distance of approximately 237,378 kilometers (147,500 miles), about two-thirds the distance from Earth to the Moon.
The cosmic dust analyzer provides direct observations of small ice or dust particles in the Saturn system in order to investigate their physical, chemical and dynamical properties. It is made up of two detectors. The University of Chicago built the high rate detector, which made these observations. With further analysis, the cosmic dust analyzer might be able to determine whether the particles are made of ice or dust.
For images and information on the Cassini mission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and http://www.nasa.gov/cassini .
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter was designed, developed and assembled at JPL.
Carolina Martinez (818) 354-9382
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
Steve Koppes (773) 702-8366
University of Chicago News Office
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Ever wanted to fund a property development or investment quickly, but were unsure how you might achieve this? This blog highlights all you need to know about using bridging loans in this scenario…
Property developers and investors need to be able to act fast when new opportunities present themselves. But, sometimes finding the right finance solution to help can be a bit of a barrier to their success.
That’s where a short-term funding solution like bridging finance could help. In this blog, we’ll highlight situations when you might need this option and break down the basics of this solution, so you can make accurate and informed financial decisions.
What is bridging finance?
Bridging finance is a borrowing option that is taken out on a short-term basis, usually over 1 to 3 years, and is used until a longer term solution is put into place, such as selling the property or remortgaging the property.
When might you need bridging finance for property investments and developments?
A property investor or developer can turn to bridging loans when they need quick access to funds in order to start their next project or complete an existing one.
Some examples of when these short-term loans may be needed are:
- One common reason for taking out short-term financing is to purchase investment properties at auction. The bridge loan is used to buy the property and fund any refurbishments it may require, in order to get the house into a habitable condition ready to be let out or sold on. At this point, if the refurbished property is to be let out, an alternative longer-term finance solution will be arranged.
- Some property developers may take out multiple finance streams when completing a certain project. After a while, these can become expensive and challenging to manage. In this instance, the developer may be interested in consolidating their loans into a single balance through bridging finance. Once the project has been sold, or the investor has remortgaged, the proceeds will be used to pay off the bridging finance.
- There may be times when you’ve found a house or a plot of land that you would like to buy, however it doesn’t have planning permission agreed and it is quite run down. In this case, you may be struggling to get finance approved for the purchase. Many people in these situations look to bridging finance to cover the purchase costs. Once purchased they apply for planning permission and when it is agreed they either sell it on for a profit or develop it themselves.
Why do people use them?
These solutions give people the flexibility they need to quickly seize investment opportunities, and so they are becoming more and more popular with property developers and investors.
The versatile and fast nature of this option makes it ideal for situations where people need funds quickly to develop property or complete a house purchase, so these are common purposes of this funding solution.
In some cases, they can even assist business owners who need immediate cash flow to help with issues or situations that arise in their company. For example, you may need short-term money in order to cover operational expenses or purchasing of stock.
Overall there are a range of different reasons why people use this solution, but one particular area that is a common use of this option is property developments and investments.
How are they repaid?
Unlike other finance solutions (where you make monthly repayments), these options are repaid in full when your longer-term solution comes into place. For example, you may use the proceeds you get from a property sale to pay off the bridging finance.
The type of loan you get can also influence how you repay. There are two main types known as open or closed bridging loans.
Open bridging finance is where you won’t have a set date when you need to repay. Instead lenders are a bit more flexible around your repayments, but usually they would like it to be cleared within 12 months.
On the other scale is closed bridging loans where you do have a set repayment date. With this option, lenders are a bit stricter and will expect the loan to be cleared on the date given to you.
How long do I have to repay the bridging finance?
Bridging finance is not a long-term borrowing solution. Instead, they are taken out over a shorter period of time, which means you don’t have a long window to repay.
Generally speaking, most lenders will offer you a term ranging from one to three years, however this can be dependent on the type of project that you are undertaking.
Due to this, it’s important that you think carefully about your options before you commit. You want to make sure that you have a solid exit strategy in place to repay the bridging finance at the end of the term, otherwise you are likely to run into some problems with your lender.
What interest rate could I expect to get?
Interest rates can vary on a case by case basis, so it’s hard to determine what you might receive.
Some of the factors which can cause variations include:
- The provider you go with and their qualifying criteria
- Type of property being used as security and its value
- Whether you have a good or bad credit history
- Loan size you’re looking for
- Predicted value of the property once complete
To sum up, bridging finance can be a great option for property developers and investors who need access to funds quickly to start or finish a project. However, before committing to this solution it’s always important to make sure that you have a clear and solid exit strategy in place to repay the bridging finance, otherwise you may encounter some problems. | <urn:uuid:204fc0bf-2b7d-4ce2-bbed-5344293be98b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theloansengine.co.uk/news/bridging-finance-for-property-investments-and-developments/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.954374 | 1,171 | 1.523438 | 2 |
B.C. has earned the earned the shameful status of the most hateful province in Canada.
According to figures from the Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety released through Statistics Canada, the province topped the nation in police-reported hate crimes per capita in 2020, with a rate of 10.1 per 100,000 population.
Overall, Canadian police reported 2,669 hate-motivated criminal incidents in 2020, the largest number recorded since comparable data became available in 2009. B.C.’s incident report total grew by 198 over 2019, the second-largest jump behind Ontario’s 316.
The report points to two broader categories of potential causes.
The first is a general disconnect between stated public policies protecting specific populations and actual practice.
“Indigenous peoples and those designated as visible minorities generally report feeling less safe than the rest of the population, in some cases are much more likely to be over-represented in the justice system, and along with sexual minorities, are more likely to report experiencing discrimination and victimization,” it reads.
The second concerns the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The (pandemic) … further brought to light the varying experiences and perceptions of some of Canada’s diverse population, as well as the systemic barriers they face, including varying levels of perceived safety and self-reported victimization.”
Within this context, the report points to the rise of hate crimes targeting East or Southeast Asian populations, a legacy of false, populist rhetoric that initially framed COVID-19 as a ‘Chinese’ disease.
Crimes motivated by hatred of a race or ethnicity represented 62 per cent of the total – a substantial increase over previous years, the report states – while religion-related hate crimes dropped to 20 per cent.
Crimes motivated by hatred of a sexual orientation accounted for 10 per cent of the total, while those targeting language, disability, age, sex, or gender comprised seven per cent, a similar proportion to recent years.
Separating incidents by physicality, the report stated that non-violent hate crimes rose 41 per cent, while violent hate crimes were up 32 per cent.
Police-reported statistics capture only crimes that come to the attention of police or other authorities. Other studies have found that a large number of incidents perceived to be motivated by hate went unreported for a number of reasons, including but not only “a lack of confidence or trust in the police or other social institutions.”
Based on population, the B.C. capital region’s 8.3 police-reported hate crimes per 100,000 people in 2020 ranked it 12th in Canada and was higher than the national average of seven. The near-doubling of incidents reported pushed Victoria CMA up from 20th place on the national list in 2019.
Among census metropolitan areas (CMAs) with at least 10 hate crimes reported to police, Victoria CMA’s 97-per-cent increase ranks third highest in the country. Only Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo (up 253 per cent) and Peterborough (126 per cent) CMAs had higher increases year over year.
Vancouver CMA recorded B.C.’s highest rate with 13.8 cases/100K, and the fourth-highest in Canada. Victoria’s rate was also higher than Abbotsford-Mission CMA (3.9/100K) and Kelowna CMA (2.3/100K).
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Altun Ha Mayan Ruins
Hmmm, I meant to post this sooner. Our Belize vacation already feels like it was a long time ago. As I mentioned just after we got back, we spent most of our Belize vacation on a small island, hanging out, sometimes snorkeling but mostly just sitting in a hammock. At the end of our trip we did one true sightseeing thing, we went to the Mayan ruins of Altun Ha.
Anita and I have both been to Mayan ruins before, but not for about ten years. Altun Ha is a good one. The entire site is about 25 square miles, mostly focused around two main plazas that are cleared and excavated, with pyramids as tall as the trees. The name means Stone Water or Rockstone Pond, named for the limestone wells. It was settled around 250 BC, with the first buildings going up around 100 AD. The population got up to 10,000 people at it height; it was abandoned around the 10th century. Now there’s just forest around it and it would be hard to imagine a lot of people ever living there if it weren’t for the big stone pyramids.
Mayan ruins are great, and I of course was interested in the stonework. Each building was built over about a one hundred year period, sometimes directly on top of previous buildings. During the Mayan times the stone would have also been covered with stucco and painted.
More detail photos than anyone really needs to see are below.
The Mayan style of arch is not a true arch; rather the stones are cantilevered in until they are close enough for a single lintel stone to span them. Very cool.
I liked where it was possible to see the cross-sections of the walls. The facing is limestone with a different stone used as rubble backfill.
The large mound is the oldest building at the site, a royal palace. It was built using only limestone, before the masons started backfilling with rubble. The archaeologists had trouble excavating because of all the tree roots penetrating it, so the structure was only uncovered a little at the top.
The Temple of Masonry Altars has carved faces. Pretty spooky. I saw the name Temple of Masonry Altars and wondered if I should be making some kind of offering, pray that my own walls might last 1,000 years.
This seemed like a window and not just a gap in the masonry. I don’t actually know, I don’t think of Mayan temples as having windows, but it did have a view of another major building and there was a similar opening on the wall directly across from it.
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Hospitals unprepared to screen and treat black fungus casesBlack fungus patients have to be sent to Kathmandu for treatment, as the region is unable to handle the infection.
Health workers are suspecting that a 60-year-old man from Kapilvastu, who had recovered from Covid-19 earlier, recently died of black fungus at the Lumbini Provincial Hospital.
The man, a patient of diabetes, had recovered from the virus at the Corona Hospital in Butwal last month.
“But after he recovered and was discharged from the hospital’s ICU, he started complaining of prolonged headaches and even lost his vision. The patient died in the course of treatment at Lumbini Provincial Hospital,” said Dr Sudarshan Thapa, senior consultant physician at the hospital. “He had all the symptoms of black fungus. We did not document the patient’s condition as black fungus, but we believe that the patient died of the disease.”
The “black fungus” is an infection caused by a group of fungi, which is on the rise among Covid-19 patients and survivors, doctors say.
In the last two weeks, four Covid-19 patients were found with the black fungus infection at Nepalgunj-based Bheri Hospital.
“Among the four patients, one died while undergoing treatment at the hospital,” said Dr Rajan Pandey, chief consultant physician at the Bheri Hospital.
According to him, patients with diabetes are more vulnerable to black fungus.
Black fungus is not transmissible like Covid-19, said Naresh Shrestha, the health officer in Banke.
“The infections can be seen in one out of 1,000 Covid-19 patients,” he said. “We have sent some black fungus patients from Nepalgunj to Kathmandu for treatment in the last few days.”
According to doctors, black fungus develops in Covid-19 patients when they are treated through supplemental oxygen and steroid medicines in the High Dependency Unit or Intensive Care Unit.
“A patient’s immune system gets compromised during the treatment for Covid-19 and that is when the fungus develops in them,” said Dr Thapa. “Sometimes, eye removal surgeries are needed to stop fungal infection from reaching the brain.”
So far, black fungus patients have not been reported in Kapilvastu. Dr Kishor Banjade, medical superintendent of the District Hospital in Kapilvastu, said the hospital has been alerted on the rising cases of black fungus in the country and that it will be on the lookout for the infection.
Meanwhile, in Bardiya district, there’s not a single preparation going on to prevent and treat black fungus.
“We have no ophthalmologist here. This is why the treatment of black fungus is not possible in the district,” said Dr Subhash Pandeya, medical superintendent of the District Hospital in Bardiya.
Similarly, the health institutions in Sudurpaschim Province, which are already suffering from a poor health infrastructure, are far from prepared to handle the impending threat of black fungus. Seti Provincial Hospital in Dhangadhi, the major hospital in the province, is yet to prepare treatment services for black fungus patients.
“We are yet to ascertain if there are black fungus cases in Sudurpaschim Province or not. We need to be fully prepared for the treatment of such patients, as many people in neighbouring India are suffering from the disease,” said Dr Sher Bahadur Kamar, a consultant physician at the provincial hospital. “Black fungus cases have not been reported in the hospital as of now.”
Dr Hemraj Pandey, the medical superintendent at the provincial hospital, admits that the institution could have problems in providing treatment to black fungus patients in the region.
“We need to think about the possible cases of black fungus and prepare accordingly,” said Pandey. “The hospital will take the necessary initiatives to handle the infection.”
Mahakali Hospital in Mahendranagar, meanwhile, claims that it has started preparations to identify black fungus cases and provide treatment to the patients.
“The hospital has been holding regular talks with ENT (ear, nose and throat) doctors for the diagnosis and treatment of black fungus patients. The process to buy medicines required for the treatment of black fungus is also underway,” Dr Hari Shrestha, the medical superintendent at Mahakali Hospital. “Both the Covid-19 patients and doctors should be careful about the possible contraction of the fungus.”
Currently, 50 Covid-19 patients are receiving treatment at Mahakali Hospital. “The hospital has not reported any black fungus cases so far,” said Dr Gobinda Rokaya, the coronavirus focal person at the hospital.
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Within Jerusalem Old City’s Jewish Quarter there is a complex of four Sephardi Synagogues each built at a different time and for different communities. In 1589 the Ottomans closed the Ramban Synagogue leaving Sephardi Jews (Jews from the Iberian Peninsula) with no place of worship. Until the four Sephardi synagogues were constructed between the 16th and 18th centuries. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War the Jewish Quarter fell to the Jordanians. Under Jordanian occupation, the synagogues were left to deteriorate and used as stables. Following the Six Day War in 1967 the synagogues were restored and once again used for prayer.
Yochanan ben Zakai Synagogue
This synagogue stands on the site of the Rabban Yochanan ben Zakai Beit Midrash. He was responsible for establishing the Sanhedrin in Yavneh in 70 AD. The building was constructed on land below street level in abidance with the Ottoman law that no Jewish place of worship would be higher than any mosque. The synagogue was the seat of the Chief Sephardi Rabbi during the Ottoman and British eras and was used for the inauguration of the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel.
In the 18th century, a group of Turkish Jews began using a building alongside the Yochanan ben Zakai Synagogue as their place of worship. Over the years more Eastern European Jews joined their congregation. A plaque commemorating the restoration of the synagogue in 1836 can be seen at the entrance. It is the largest of the four Sephardi synagogues and today is used by a community of Spanish and Portuguese Jews.
Eliyahu Ha’navi Synagogue
This synagogue was constructed in the 16th century and is the oldest of the four synagogues. Today the synagogue is mainly used as a Beit Midrash (place of Torah study). Since the 18th century, the synagogue has been used by an Ashkenazi congregation.
The Emtsai Synagogue (Middle Synagogue) is the smallest of the four synagogues. Its location at the center of the complex was originally the Yohanan ben Zakai Synagogue courtyard. In the 18th century, the courtyard was given a roof and converted into an official synagogue. | <urn:uuid:bc85af6b-45c5-4854-9e9a-40ede1c8bb87> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.beinharimtours.com/sephardi-synagogues/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.965887 | 486 | 3.390625 | 3 |
Definition of Caviling:
Opposite/Antonyms of Caviling:
Sentence/Example of Caviling:
There is no hesitation, cavil, or debate in the acceptance of it as a duty.
I should n't want to have it go abroad that we had not acted formally, if there was any one disposed to cavil.
Of this he complains, with some cause, as it afterwards occasioned numbers of unsanctified critics to laugh and cavil at him.
Some discontented Frerons or Arnauds, might cavil against it: but this was rebellion, not controversy.
This appeared to be a contradiction in terms, but public apathy accepted it without cavil.
I took up her book again and tried to cavil at it,over one or two dainty bits of poetic simile and sentiment I laughed,enviously.
That Mr. Talbot was very angry indeed was established beyond cavil.
The cavil against the Colonel abated not a jot; the epithets hurled at his devoted head were as picturesque as of yore.
Spiritual insight establishes two facts beyond cavil or dispute or reversion.
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