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- Clinton says only negotiations will lead to a two-state solution
- New resolution aims to raise Palestinian status to non-member observer
- Several European countries back effort, but U.S., UK and Israel do not
- Palestinians lost statehood effort in 2011 when proposition failed Security Council vote
Palestinian leaders, using a new strategy, will return Thursday to the U.N. General Assembly in their latest bid to garner enhanced international recognition.
After its failed bid to win United Nations recognition as an independent state, the Palestinian Authority is seeking non-member observer state status, one step up from its current status as a permanent observer.
Palestinian Authority leaders have been working with dozens of supporting nations to put together the wording of a formal draft of a resolution. Among those on board are Norway, Spain, Denmark, Iceland, France and Switzerland.
The United States and the United Kingdom oppose the effort, arguing that the only real solution to the conflict will come when Palestinians and Israelis return to the bargaining table.
"I have said many times that the path to a two-state solution that fulfills the aspirations of the Palestinian people is through Jerusalem and Ramallah, and not New York," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters Wednesday afternoon.
Germany said it will abstain from the vote.
The renewed effort comes a year after a more ambitious full statehood bid died because it would not get a majority of votes on the Security Council.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told supporters in Ramallah in the West Bank that the resolution, which many observers call symbolic, "is the first step to achieve all our national Palestinian rights."
If approved, the new status would place the Palestinians in the same category as the Vatican.
Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev called the move "political theater."
"The Palestinians can get a piece of paper from the United Nations, but they are not going to get a state because Palestinian statehood can only be achieved through negotiations with Israel," Regev said.
Palestinian leaders argue they have the right to go to the U.N. because Israel failed to comply with agreements it signed more than 20 years ago. The last round of negotiations with Israel and the Palestinian Authority was in 2010.
"It's about a contract. Our contract is that in five years we should have concluded the treaty of peace and all core issues. This did not happen, and we're talking about 20 years later. And going to the U.N. is not a unilateral step," Palestinian Authority chief negotiator Saeb Erakat said in September.
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Item description for Network Analysis & Circuits (with CD-ROM) (Engineering) (Engineering) by M. Arshad...
Intended as a textbook for electronic circuit analysis or a reference for practicing engineers, the book uses a self-study format with hundreds of worked examples to master difficult mathematic topics and circuit design issues. Computer programs using PSpice and MATLAB on the accompanying CD-ROM provide calculations and executables for visualizing and solving applications from industry. It covers the complex mathematical topics and concepts needed to understand and solve serious circuits problems. +++Features +Self-study format provides over 300 step by step solved examples +Includes a CD-ROM with functional software, PSpice & MATLAB simulations, calculations, tutorials, and figures +Covers the complex mathematical topics and concepts needed to understand and solve serious circuit issues +Major units are graph theory, network theorems, network functions, two port networks, network synthesis, and filters +++Brief Table of Contents 1. Introduction. 2. Kirchhoff s Laws and Their Applications. 3. Graph Theory. 4. Laplace Transforms 5. Basic Signals and Wave Form Synthesis. 6. Circuit Analysis by Classical Method. 7. Application Of Laplace Transforms. 8. Network Theorems. 9. Network Functions. 10. Two Port Networks. 11. Network Synthesis. 12. Resonance and Selectivity. 13. Filters. Appendices I-VI. Index.
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Release Date May 28, 2008
Publisher Infinity Science Press
ISBN 1934015199 ISBN13 9781934015193
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College-level teachers needing a textbook for electronic circuit analysis will find this an excellent self-study reference offering hundreds of worked examples to master difficult math concepts and circuit design issues. College-level courses strong in engineering will find it provides over 300 such worked examples, includes a CD-ROM of software integrated to book tutorials and exercises, and includes graph theory, network functions and filters, and much more. | <urn:uuid:38f76d7f-5121-42c8-997e-88e1b07d38e9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.promiseangels.com/m-arshad/network-analysis-circuits-with-cd-rom-engineering/SKU/244986 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00389-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.858755 | 526 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Calculation of air conditioning ducts
As you already know, section HS3 applies mainly to residential buildings. To the interior of the dwellings and to the waste storage rooms, storage rooms, parking lots and garages of the building itself. In buildings of other use to parking lots and garages. For buildings or premises for other uses, the RITE must be applied.
This section has been recently modified. Exactly last June 23 was published on the website of the technical code the updated healthiness document, which includes the modified section HS3. We already talked in a previous article about these modifications. You can consult these changes in this link: This is the modification of DB HE and DB HS of the CTE.
2. The flow rate shall be the necessary to remove pollutants not directly related to human presence. The condition is satisfied with a minimum flow rate of 1.5 l/s per habitable room in periods of non-occupancy.
The required flow rate shall be 33 l/s for both intake and exhaust. For the calculation of the hourly renewals we multiply by 3.6 for the change of units (3600s/1000l=m³/h) and divide by the volume of the dwelling in m³. For example, if the dwelling has a volume of 252.50 m³ (101 m²x2.5m): 33 l/s x 3.6 : 252.50 = 0.47 renewals/hour.
Calculation of gas ventilation grilles
As is well known, an HVAC system consists of heating, ventilation and air conditioning. Of these three branches, ventilation is usually overlooked or not given adequate importance because it is typically not as complex as the other two; however, there are times when a good ventilation system is the most economical and efficient option.
The counterpart to CFM is the static pressure drop that exists upstream and downstream of the ventilation equipment. As with pumping equipment, ventilation equipment must be selected to move the fluid (in this case air) through the circuit (ductwork, for example, but not necessarily) and all the accessories that are installed throughout the ventilation air distribution system. This value is usually given in inches of water column.
There are many elements, in addition to ducts, grilles or dampers, that generate static pressure drop and must be considered when selecting a fan. Wall louvers, filters, bird screens, electric heaters and, of course, any other element that is installed within the air flow and represents an obstacle to circulation must be taken into account.
How to calculate the ventilation of a room
It is important that rooms with natural gas appliances have adequate ventilation. The ventilation grilles must be in perfect condition and it is important to ensure that they are not obstructed, always allowing air to escape.
Natural gas is lighter than air, so it tends to rise and disperse quickly in the atmosphere. For this reason, in the case of natural gas installations, the grille must be close to the ceiling.
If we glaze the terrace or clothesline, we will have to put new vents to ensure our safety. Remember that in the inspection of your natural gas installation, the authorized technician will check, among other things, the state of the vents so that the gas does not concentrate in the house if there is a bad combustion.
Ventilation grilles are the terminal elements of ventilation and air renewal systems. We find grilles in the supply circuit, designed to blow air into a room, and grilles in the return or extraction circuit, designed to collect the air inside the room to send it to the outside.
In exhaust systems (or return) grilles can be found: attached to ducts, in the false ceiling (if ventilation is done by plenum), or attached to walls if the ventilation is direct.
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Palestine wins its “birth certificate” by 138 – 9 with 41 abstaining
By Stuart Littlewood
The day before the United Nations vote on Palestine, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague was explaining his devious policy to Parliament:
We support a negotiated settlement leading to a safe and secure Israel living alongside a viable and sovereign Palestinian state; based on 1967 borders with agreed land swaps, Jerusalem as the shared capital of both states, and a just, fair and agreed settlement for refugees.
This is the only way to secure a sustainable end to the conflict…
It’s always a “safe and secure” Israel and only a “viable” Palestine, never the other way round. A Palestinian state, it seems, cannot expect to be safe and secure – it must be vulnerable at all times.
Singing in harmony with Israel
He was desperate to extract a promise from the chairman of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Mahmoud Abbas, not to bring charges against Israeli war criminals, not to go for full UN membership and to submit once again to direct negotiations. He said:
We judge that if the Palestinians were to build on this resolution by pursuing ICC [International Criminal Court] jurisdiction over the occupied territories at this stage it could make a return to negotiations impossible.
In the absence of these assurances, the United Kingdom would abstain on the vote… The only way to give the Palestinian people the state that they need and deserve, and the Israeli people the security and peace they are entitled to, is through a negotiated two-state solution.
Hague was singing in close harmony with Israel’s UN ambassador, Ron Prosor, who said: “Trying to circumvent direct negotiations will raise frustrations, raise expectations, will change nothing on the ground.”
What’s on the ground, of course, is vitally important. In the past, off-on slow-grinding talks have bought Israel time to establish irreversible fact on the ground that have already rendered a viable Palestinian state impossible and are designed to make the occupation permanent. It has worked like a charm for Israel for the last 20 years – and Hague knows it.
Hague surely knows that nothing worthwhile is likely to be achieved by a strong side bullying a weak side – by an Israel bristling with weapons of mass destruction facing a defenceless and impoverished Palestine across a negotiating table. It’s both obscene and immoral. I haven’t yet heard a convincing argument for returning to such a lopsided and discredited scenario, especially while Israel’s land grab and colonization continue.
The way forward is already set out by international law and numerous UN resolutions, which are still waiting to be implemented. Therein lies justice. Direct negotiations require Palestinians to make “compromises” and give away what little is left of their lands and resources to a greedy, merciless “peace partner” that has abused and humiliated them for 64 years. What justice can possibly come out of that?
A word search on the internet shows that Hague made no mention of the fact of the occupation nor did he call on Israel to end it. He expects Palestinians to return to talks with Israel’s jackboot still on their neck and while the Zionist regime maintains its illegal blockade.
In case you’re wondering what nationality Hague is, he was recruited into the Conservative Friends of Israel at the impressionable age of 15.
After his statement he faced dozens of questions. One MP wanted to know which Israelis he [Hague] spoke to before putting together
this miserable little offer that continues to treat the Palestinians as second-class citizens, if citizens at all. What, apart from the fact that Israel wants it, should lead the Palestinians to fetter their access to the Security Council and the International Criminal Court, and what in particular should make them enter negotiations for their own land when the colonization of that land continues?
Hague replied: “Their plight will be alleviated only if there is a successful negotiation between both parties… “
Another MP asked:
Given the blockades, the illegal settlements, the wall, the destruction of Palestinian farms, the arrests, the imprisonment, the decades of ignoring UN resolutions, the refugee camps, the abject poverty and the rest, how much worse does he think that it can get for the Palestinians?
A third MP said:
What I am interested in is what he said to the Israeli government about their threat to withhold the taxes that they owe the Palestinians. What is he doing to prevent that threat being carried out?
Hague told Parliament he wanted to see Palestine in the United Nations but it would come about only as a result of a successful negotiation with Israel. He said:
That is our guiding principle; it is an overriding principle… Any such negotiation requires both parties to conclude it successfully, and they must be prepared to make the necessary compromises…
International law and UN resolutions are never mentioned
Israel and the US and other opponents of the bid such as Hague keep saying, ad nauseam, that a Palestinian state should emerge only out of bilateral negotiations. They complain that the Palestinians are bypassing the negotiation process set out in the 1993 Oslo peace accords and going direct to the UN for statehood.
Why shouldn’t the Palestinian question now go back to the international community for determination within the parameters of key UN resolutions and international law?
But those accords were of no benefit to the Palestinians. If the West had wanted to sow confidence in the negotiating process they would have ensured a measure of success – they had the leverage to do so. Confidence evaporated long ago not only in the process itself but also the gang of dishonest brokers promoting it.
Palestinians could argue that Israel and its allies are trying to bypass the law. Why shouldn’t the Palestinian question now go back to the international community for determination within the parameters of key UN resolutions and international law? That step must come before so-called negotiations, surely. The US and Israel would cut up rough but – who knows – the other states might discover a collective backbone.
On his big day Abbas trumped all of Hague’s mean-spirited delaying tactics with simple good sense, saying: “It is time to move forward – that is why we are here today.” The UN, he said, had a moral duty that couldn’t stand further delay. He invited member states to issue a birth certificate for the emerging Palestinian state. Delegates stood and clapped.
The glum Israelis did not applaud. They knew the score.
A sour United States representative called the vote “counterproductive” and warned that Palestinians would wake up in the morning to find “the prospect of a durable peace had receded”.
If so, no-one will be in doubt that it’s largely America’s fault.
Great Britain explained that it abstained because it received none of the assurances demanded of Abbas. In other words the blackmail failed.
It was very noticeable how so many delegates were reading from the same script word for word. The mantra: “only through direct negotiations without preconditions” was tediously repeated throughout the proceedings. That insistent phrase “without preconditions” presumably means without reference to international law and the pile of unimplemented UN resolutions.
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The Importance of a Winning Mentality
Even those living under rocks have heard the news.
We’re still monitoring developments about the virus, and will put out a full statement in the coming days. But for now, I want to share something about our values.
For us, winning is about much more than finishing first in a competition; it’s a mindset, a mentality that gives you the confidence and strength to succeed. The real winners, as we always say, are those who truly learned something at our Awards.
As we move into more uncertain times, that same mindset is what will see us through. A belief that problems can be overcome, if only we work together. That our ingenuity is never fully known until it is fully tested, and that we keep rising to meet our challenges: this is what defines a winning mentality.
Our new Global Ambassador, Luke Murfitt, exemplifies these traits. In his view, positivity is an essential part of any winning mentality. With the world seeming a more chaotic place, that positive can seem harder to find. You might not even want to find a positive spin, and that’s ok too. But I do agree with Luke: seeing the good in things, focusing on the affirmative things you can do, and accepting what you cannot change, is essential to personal growth.
This situation is certainly serious, but we’ve already seen it bring out some of the finer portions of the human spirit. Whether it’s Italians serenading each other from balconies, the immense bravery of medical staff, or merely those at home making mountains of irreverent memes, there are countless examples of this winning attitude around the world right now.
Our sincere hope is that this situation will increase our appreciation for what it means to gather together, something that may feel stifled in the coming weeks. If that is to be the case, let’s never take it for granted again – and throw one hell of a party when this thing blows over! | <urn:uuid:d594942d-a0b1-44d5-b792-7cc87033d11c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ukbizawards.com/blog/the-importance-of-winning-mentality | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.949032 | 415 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Our community school is located in the Bryn Mawr Neighborhood and serves a diverse group of 514 Pre-K, and Hi-5 through 5th grade students.
Our school values the highest degrees of individual student learning, and this is supported by our campus facilities. Our school was built in 1996 and is designed to fit the needs of pre-K through 5th grade students. Our Hi-5, Kindergarten, and 1st grade classrooms feature individual student storage cubbies, in-class bathrooms, drinking fountains, and hand washing facilities. While our 2nd-5th grade classrooms are large, with breathtaking views of the beautiful Theodore Wirth Park, this is adjacent to the perimeter of our school. Our playground has a variety of large motor equipment for balancing, climbing, sliding, and swinging activities and large play and field areas for soccer and touch football, as well as hard surfaces for basketball, hop scotch, jump ropes and ball play.
The Media Center features a variety of children's literature geared for our age students, a reading room, and is where our students receive a superior instructional curriculum in 21 century skills. The technology curriculum is also supported by 2 Mac Computer labs, iPad carts for classroom use, and interactive white boards in all of our classrooms.
Our gymnasium features a full-size, well-lit, activity space that is shared by community for a wide array of events for families and students. Our students health and fitness are reinforced daily with nutritious breakfast, lunch and snacks of fruit or vegetables and they are challenged to be physically active.
We have Specialists who teach Art, Vocal/Instrumental Music, Media/Technology, and Physical Education. We offer Hi-5, All-day Kindergarten, English as a Second Language (ESL), and on-site after-school child care through Minneapolis Kids. After-school and summer academics, include Spanish language instruction, reading and math enrichment, and Girls in Engineering, Mathematics, and Science (GEMS) and Guys in Science and Engineering (GISE) robotics knowledge for students ages K-5.
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The Minneapolis Public School district holds itself accountable for continuous improvement to close the achievement gap while raising achievement for all students. The Continuous Improvement process addresses the needs of all schools and all academic departments. MPS is committed to using data to inform and focus improvement efforts.
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United States military nuclear incident terminology
|This article may need to be rewritten entirely to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards. (December 2009)|
The United States Armed Forces uses a number of terms to define the magnitude and extent of nuclear incidents.
United States Department of Defense directive 5230.16, Nuclear Accident and Incident Public Affairs (PA) Guidance, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Manual 3150.03B Joint Reporting Structure Event and Incident Reporting, and the United States Air Force Operation Reporting System, as set out in Air Force Instruction 10-206 detail a number of terms for internally and externally (including press releases) reporting nuclear incidents. They are used by the United States of America, and are neither NATO nor global standards.
Pinnacle is a Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff OPREP-3 (Operational Event/Incident Report) reporting flagword used in the United States National Command Authority structure. The term "Pinnacle" denotes an incident of interest to the Major Commands, Department of Defense and National Command Authority, in that it:
- Generates a higher level of military action
- Causes a national reaction
- Affects international relationships
- Causes immediate widespread coverage in news media
- Is clearly against the national interest
- Affects current national policy
All of the following reporting terms are classified Pinnacle, with the exception of Bent Spear, Faded Giant and Dull Sword. AFI 10-206 notes that the flagword Pinnacle may be added to Bent Spear or Faded Giant to expedite reporting to the National Military Command Center (NMCC).
Bent Spear refers to incidents involving nuclear weapons, warheads, components or vehicles transporting nuclear material that are of significant interest but are not categorized as Pinnacle - Nucflash or Pinnacle - Broken Arrow. Bent Spear incidents include violations or breaches of handling and security regulations.
Broken Arrow refers to an accidental event that involves nuclear weapons, warheads or components which does not create the risk of nuclear war. These include:
- Accidental or unexplained nuclear detonation.
- Non-nuclear detonation or burning of a nuclear weapon.
- Radioactive contamination.
- Loss in transit of nuclear asset with or without its carrying vehicle.
- Jettisoning of a nuclear weapon or nuclear component.
- Public hazard, actual or implied.
Broken Arrow incidents
- 1950 British Columbia B-36 crash
- 1956 B-47 disappearance
- 1958 Mars Bluff B-47 nuclear weapon loss incident
- 1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision
- 1961 Yuba City B-52 crash
- 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash
- 1964 Savage Mountain B-52 crash
- 1965 Philippine Sea A-4 incident
- 1966 Palomares B-52 crash
- 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash
- 1980 Damascus, Arkansas incident
Nucflash refers to detonation or possible detonation of a nuclear weapon which creates a risk of an outbreak of nuclear war. Events which may be classified Pinnacle - Nucflash include:
- Accidental, unauthorized, or unexplained nuclear detonation or possible detonation.
- Accidental or unauthorized launch of a nuclear-armed or nuclear-capable missile in the direction of, or having the capability to reach, another nuclear-capable country.
- Unauthorized flight of, or deviation from an approved flight plan by, a nuclear-armed or nuclear-capable aircraft with the capability to penetrate the airspace of another nuclear-capable country.
- Detection of unidentified objects by a missile warning system or interference (experienced by such a system or related communications) that appears threatening and could create a risk of nuclear war.
This term is a report that has the highest precedence in the OPREP-3 reporting structure. All other reporting terms such as Broken Arrow, Empty Quiver, etc., while very important, are secondary to this report.
Emergency Disablement refers to operations involving the emergency destruction of nuclear weapons.
Emergency Evacuation refers to operations involving the emergency evacuation of nuclear weapons.
Empty Quiver refers to the seizure, theft, or loss of a functioning nuclear weapon.
Faded Giant refers to an event involving a military nuclear reactor or other radiological accident not involving nuclear weapons.
Dull Sword is the term that describes reports of minor incidents involving nuclear weapons, components or systems, or which could impair their deployments. This could include actions involving vehicles capable of carrying nuclear weapons but with no nuclear weapons on board at the time of the accident. This also is used to report damage or deficiencies with equipment, tools, or diagnostic testers that are designed for use on nuclear weapons or the nuclear weapon release systems of nuclear-capable aircraft.
- Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents
- List of military nuclear accidents
- Nuclear and radiation accidents
- United States and weapons of mass destruction
Notes and references
- "DoD Directive 5230.16, "Nuclear Accident and Incident Public Affairs (PA) Guidance", 12/20/1993". www.dtic.mil. Archived from the original on 7 Nov 2009. Retrieved 2010-02-05.
- "Air Force E-Publishing - Home". www.e-publishing.af.mil. Retrieved 2010-02-05.
- "Air Force Instruction 10-206" (PDF). United States Air Force. 11 June 2014.
- Warrick, Joby; Pincus, Walter. "Missteps in the Bunker - washingtonpost.com". washingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2010-02-05.
- Nuclear weapons: an accident waiting to happen 2013Sep14
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Answer - B.
Presetting one flip-flop and clearing all the other flip-flops is the correct way to start a ring shift counter.
A detailed solution to the question, to operate correctly starting a ring shift counter, requires provided here.
A common use of the Shift register is as a ring counter. The shift counter and the ring counter are nearly identical. The only difference is that, in the case of the ring counter, the input of the first flip-flop is now connected with the output of the last flip-flop.
The ORI used are Preset (PR) and Clear (CLR). PR and CLR both are active low signals. When PR equals 0, the result is 1. Additionally, the output is 0 when CLR is 0.
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[cnn-photo-caption image= http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/POLITICS/11/13/poll.obama/art.obama.bush.gi.jpg caption=" Obama met with Bush at the White House last month."]WASHINGTON (CNN) – President-Elect Barack Obama offered praise for at least one aspect of President Bush’s foreign policy Monday, during videotaped remarks to the Saddleback Civil Forum on Global Health hosted by Pastor Rick Warren.
“I salute President Bush for his leadership in crafting a plan for AIDS relief in Africa and backing it up with funding dedicated to saving lives and preventing the spread of the disease,” Obama said. “...My administration will continue this critical work to address the crisis around the world.”
The taped message was part of a forum marking the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day.
Under the Bush administration, more than two million people suffering from HIV/AIDS – most living in Africa - have received life-saving antiretroviral treatment as part of PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS relief. In July, the President signed legislation reauthorizing the program and authorizing up to $48 billion to expand it.
Obama has long praised Bush for the program. "I actually think that the PEPFAR program is one of the success stories of his administration," Obama said in response to a question about the role of faith in fighting HIV/AIDS during an April forum at Messiah College in Pennsylvania. The faith forum, co-sponsored by CNN, was held shortly before the Pennsylvania primary. "My view is, is that we should use whatever the best approaches are, the scientifically sound approaches are, to reduce this devastating disease all across the world,” he said.
Obama’s nominee for Secretary of State, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, said at the same event she wanted to “commend” Bush for the program, which she called “bold” and “important.” | <urn:uuid:37dbb1d6-5ad5-4711-a700-76bbf24ab8b0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/12/01/obama-again-praises-bushs-aids-relief-efforts/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.956656 | 432 | 1.625 | 2 |
The Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore is David Phillip’s favorite place in Northwest Indiana. In fact, it’s hard to keep him away; visiting the shores of Lake Michigan is a weekly event for Phillips.
“I try to visit two or three times a week if I can,” said Phillips. “Even if it’s for a few moments later in the evening so I can take some pictures.”
Yet Phillips is no ordinary beach-goer. Starting earlier in the Spring, he has been helping host beach clean-up days, partnering with local businesses to help keep the beach clean. Phillips has led four events so far, and plans on hosting well into the colder months.
Phillips has always been passionate about keeping the environment healthy. From his early years at Griffith High School, to now living in Porter, it wasn’t until his kids left the nest that he finally found the time to make it down to the beach and help clean. It was this past spring that Phillips discovered Great Lakes Adpot.
Alliance for the Great Lakes, “Adopt-A-Beach,” is an organization that has been connecting volunteers with locations and businesses across all of the Great Lakes for over 25 years. It was through this organization that Phillips started making connections with activists and other nature-lovers in the Region. Philips noted activists such as Paul Stofko inspired him to start his own clean-ups. Hosting these events introduced Phillips to local environmental companies in the area as well, such as Mermaid Straw.
Based in Valparaiso, Mermaid Straw is fighting against the aggressive plastic consumption in the region and across America. They create reusable metal straws, and they are good at it too, as they have saved over 10 million plastic straws from being used.
While some might think that the use of metal straws might be a little trivial, it’s important to help keep our lakeshore and drinking water clean. According to the Rochester Institute of Technology, there are over 22 million pounds of plastic in the Great Lakes alone. If that doesn’t scare you, it should be important to note that plastic doesn’t biodegrade like other trash might. Plastic pollution just becomes tinier pieces, called “microplastics,” which can contaminate our beaches, our drinking water, and even our beer.
Yet, through clean-ups, like those that Phillips and Mermaid Straws host, we can prevent microplastics and help keep our beaches clean for future generations.
Switching over to reusable utensils is an easy fix for everyone on an individual level, and each person is capable of accomplishing more than you might think.
When Phillips recalls those who inspired him to help make a difference, he named activists such as Charlotte and Herbert Read and Henry Chandler Cowles, activists who all brought national attention to the Northwest Indiana Lakeshore.
Married couple, Charlotte and Herbert Read, were environmental activists from the ‘60s who were crucial in the role of the establishment of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in 1966. Henry Chandler Cowles was a botanist from the early 1900’s who brought attention to the Dunes. The Cowles Bog Trail is located in the park today.
“I think they’re so inspiring just because they are singular individuals who brought changes to their community just by bringing attention to the things they cared about,” said Phillips.
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Book DescriptionThis volume offers some of the most wonderful drawings to come out of Florence, Umbria, and Rome under the influence and genius of Raphael. With more than fifty drawings, it represents one of the most dazzling collections of drawings in the world. Over more than a century, in red and black chalk, silverpoint, and ink, in portraits, studies, and preliminary sketches, one can follow the influences, interdependence of the artists, and their aesthetic choices that are reworked, corrected, exchanged, shared, modified, and sometimes magnified. Many different expressions of individuality are at the heart of a network that brought them together and enriched them all. | <urn:uuid:ea151230-143f-479d-9ca2-af30ddca9349> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.knigapoisk.ru/book/78802/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720153.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00323-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.653429 | 359 | 1.90625 | 2 |
The Scarecrow and His Servant Paperback
One night there was a thunderstorm. A tattered scarecrow stood in the wind and rain, taking no notice ...until a bolt of lightning struck his turnip head.
The scarecrow blinked with surprise and came to life.
So begins the story of the Scarecrow, a courteous but pea-brained fellow with grand ideas.
He meets a boy, Jack, who becomes his faithful servant, and they set out to journey to Spring Valley together.
Along the way there's no end of excitement - battle and shipwreck, brigands and tricksters - and it's up to Jack time after time to save the day.
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations
- Publisher: Random House Children's Publishers UK
- Publication Date: 03/11/2005
- Category: General
- ISBN: 9780440863762
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An honest, but rather dim, scarecrow is brought to life, and chooses bright young Jack to be his servant and companion. The two wander the country, have many adventures, and become friends while searching for the place that the scarecrow knows to be his home... at the same time, a mysterious dark figure relentlessly pursues them. Funny, clever and very readable. | <urn:uuid:271445b4-23ee-43cc-8f8f-dab5f3a634d3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Philip-Pullman/The-Scarecrow-and-His-Servant/1021269 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00132-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929636 | 288 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Continuing our series of videos showing custom offline mobile editing for ArcGIS. We have developed a framework which allows us to build very flexible mobile apps for clients providing offline GIS editing. In the demo below we show how users can download and use base maps when offline.
Offline Mobile Editing for ArcGIS
As shown in the video, the workflows have been designed to be simple and intuitive.
Yikes, now that is a question: does conformity allow for GIS creativity?
But it is worth pondering. We encourage our children to think for themselves, to be creative, be individual thinkers. And yet we live in a world where one is expected to conform. In both action and thought.
Conform in action and thought?
In work we concern ourselves with pleasing bosses, not rocking the boat, remaining within organizational constraints. Ok, that is maybe an overstatement. But we are first and foremost concerned with conformity, not moving out of step. That is not all bad. But where does that leave creativity and individual thinking?
We have put together below a demo showing work we are doing providing online offline mobile editing from map or geoform.
Offline Mobile Editing from Map or Geoform
There are two perspectives possible when editing data in the field. Map-centric starts obviously with the map. Drop a point (line or polygon), and edit an associated attributes window pop up. There is a second or form-centric perspective. So starting with a form. This maybe a form associated with a feature. It might also be a custom form, required as part of a job; maybe for inspections or legal purposes, which is stored or distributed to concerned/interested parties.
Don’t you hate that. Thinking: I don’t understand your GIS web site, and product offering!
It might look nice, be very professional. But leaves you no wiser as to the product or services offered than before you started browsing. What a waste. Maybe the product is as empty as the Web site. But maybe not. If the latter, you are blowing it royally.
I came across a great example the other day. I know the company well. Know their staff, and the great work they do. They have just launched a new GIS mobile solution suite. A tonne of work has gone into this, their first true products. But visit the Web site and …. you’ll see polish and professionalism, some high level descriptions, mostly marketing messages, but are left with little else. Just ‘Contact us for more Info’.
Its a question worth asking: where do great GIS ideas come from?
I attend plenty of conferences. Its always a pleasure to see how companies and individuals are applying the technology. Always, there are a small group who stand out. Those with unique ideas and products. These are often breathtakingly simple. See Valarm and their work with monitoring and sensors for an example.
Where do great GIS ideas come from?
So do innovators sit in dark rooms on stormy nights pen in hand, feverishly scribbling down ideas?
We often have clients come to us and request we build a mobile app for iPad and/or iPhone. Our first question, before touching on functionality is: should you build a mobile GIS app for Apple devices only?
There are many reasons why building a mobile GIS app for just one platform (Apple iOS in this case) makes sense. Maybe your staff all have, and love, iPads and iPhones. They are comfortable with Apple products, and your IT department is set up to support iOS devices alone. I know many iOS fans who would cringe at the suggestion of switching to Android, for example. Apps which run on Apple devices are usually (and we will come back to this) written in a programming language called Objective-C. A language unique, or native, to Apple.
So … custom cross platform mobile GIS apps are expensive?
They certainly can be. Let’s imagine you would like a custom version of Collector for ArcGIS. Maybe you want a tool which is not provided by Collector. Lets say custom forms. iFormBuider won’t cut it. You need something for your unique workflows. Since you have a field team who use Apple, Android and Windows mobile devices (that means smartphone and tablets) you need a cross platform solution. What do you do?
More than likely you turn to a GIS development company like ours. You’ll ask us, if such a custom app is possible. And most importantly how much it might cost?
We live in a world of narrow thinking. How often do you hear comments like:
“I vote Republican (Democrat) because that is the way my parents have always voted”
“I know that mine is the one true religion?”
Or been in one way conversations where you (are forced to) listen to somebody telling you every small detail of their life. Their career, promotion etc.
How do we grow as people, as GIS professionals, if we spend our time staring at our own navels?
Widen your GIS thinking
Its time to widen your thinking.
How useful is somebody who keeps a narrow focus? Their boss wants (expects) them to be continually valuable to the company. That takes more than just doing the “right things” for promotion. Its taking an active interest in the (GIS) activities of the company; the industry, watching what others are doing, talking, reading, making suggestions, having ideas. Its too easy to sit back and go through the motions. Follow behind others. Focusing on how to get promoted directly, instead of what value you can bring to make the company more successful. You more successful. Its a subtle but big difference.
GIS is exploding. As a GIS professional opportunity knocks. Don’t sit and stare at your navel, or worry about all those new “GIS graduates” making you less valuable. You are incredibly valuable. Grab your career by the horns. Read, ask questions, contribute directly to your companies future (not just your immediate tasks).
Take your great ideas and start a company of your own!
Don’t miss out on the GIS wave. Join of us. Before it has passed.
There are a number of subscription based GIS Web application builders currently available. In this post we will discuss whether, in today’s rapidly evolving GIS market, you should subscribe to a GIS Web app Builder?
What are GIS Web App Builders?
GIS Web app builders are wizard based tools which allow those without programming skills to quickly stand up sophisticated GIS web applications. If your organization needs a variety of Web applications, maybe executive dashboards, mobile Web apps, or Web apps with a particular purpose, GIS Web app builders provide a quick way to assemble and launch these applications. They often come with a variety of modules which provide custom functionality, often targeted at specific markets; oil and gas, public safety, mining etc.
The release of ArcGIS 9 in May 2004 came with few Web applications. A number of companies saw the need to provide easy to use wizards to help GIS and non GIS staff generate Web apps quickly and easily. The goal was to provide simple, easy to use tools to produce Web applications for users across organizations. No need for a team of developers. Though they were expensive, these subscription based wizards became very popular, particularly with the ArcGIS community.
A New world of GIS Web Applications
We are in the midst of dramatic changes in GIS. Mobile and cloud are transforming the world of GIS. We have moved to GIS anywhere anytime. ArcGIS server remains, ArcGIS Online – a cloud based variant of server – is becoming increasingly more popular. Let’s look at the current landscape:
GIS Web application development has never been easier
Changes in technology, particularly with a move towards HTML5, have meant GIS Web application development has never been easier. The cost for developing GIS Web applications is at an all time low.
Free GIS Web apps everywhere
Over the last few years Esri have released a slew of free Web applications, targeting both ArcGIS server and Online. Easy to configure, these application are both general and industry targeted. The Esri local government team, for example, have over 40 free configurable templates available. No knowledge of programming is needed to configure these applications for use in organizations. They are also easy to extend to provide more custom functionality.
Esri’s Web App Builder for ArcGIS
We have already begun development planning around producing new widgets. Soon after the full release of Web App Builder for ArcGIS we will be launching widgets which provide custom functionality. targeting utilities, transportation and pipeline industries. As an example, we will be launching widgets for use on mobile devices, which will provide mid-stream pipeline companies simple online/offline custom data collection, QA/QC solutions which integrate seamlessly with backend PODS.
Excuse the pun, but the question need be asked: has Collector helped to put mobile GIS on the map?
We are just back from the Esri user conference in San Diego. A horrible place to go for a conference! As ever a terrific event. And the most popular sessions were ….. anything mobile. The Collector demos were standing room only extending into the corridor. Everybody seems to have mobile and Collector fever. Having been preaching the gospel of mobile GIS and mapping for so many years, this fills our hearts with joy.
From our perspective, this surge in mobile interest has created new client needs. Most notably:
Collector Set up and Training
We’ve been inundated with requests from clients to help set up and train staff on the use of Collector. The app is popular with GIS and non GIS trained staff alike This has necessitated familiarizing these field based workers with the online and offline Collector workflows. Data set up and publishing in ArcGIS Online has also been required. Collector is replacing older pen and paper based methods once used to collect data. Using a smartphone or tablets built-in GPS, users location and the location of features can be automatically set. Feature attributes are stored on the device if offline, locally stored edits or additions are pushed to ArcGIS Online when back online. Images can be attached to features using the mobiles built in camera. (more…) | <urn:uuid:7fa02010-f6cb-45c0-b1a3-117c125c3a73> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www10.giscafe.com/blogs/mobilegis/category/mobile-arcgis/page/14/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281746.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00281-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946356 | 2,171 | 1.585938 | 2 |
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Neoliberal hegemony or power is seen as the contemporary form of capitalism, a social-historical formation with three dialectically-related aspects: the state, the economic system and ideological systems. These exist side by side and are interconnected and inter-dependent but they are not identical. Considering these aspects "in themselves" is a challenge, because the economic foundations of neoliberal capitalism are frequently viewed as a seamless, monolithic, omnipotent social system.Thedoi:10.33241/cadernosdogposshe.v2i1.1520 fatcat:cl4evdjabjg7vfysgu7bbu2ubu | <urn:uuid:b3a65397-d1b4-4f78-aac3-bf072eee1033> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://scholar.archive.org/work/argehszus5dg3bj2fpp4rp5pxm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.924083 | 180 | 1.78125 | 2 |
cat -- concatenate and print files.
cat [-benstuv] [file ...]
cat reads and prints the files in order they are given. If no files are given, standard input is processed. A lone dash represents standard input as well.
cat accepts the following options:
Number all the non blank lines, starting at 1.
Print a dollar sign ($) at the end of each lines. Implies -v.
Number all the lines, starting at 1.
The squeeze option. Sequential empty lines are squeezed into a single empty line.
Display tabs as ^I. Implies -v.
Display non-printable characters in a printable way. Characters in the range \000 - \037, with the exception of tabs and linefeeds, are printed as ^X, where X is the symbol \0100 higher. DEL is printed as ^?. Characters whose highest bit is set are printed as M-, followed by the representation of the character with the high bit stripped.
The working of cat is not influenced by any environment variables.
cat has no known bugs.
This cat implementation is compliant with the IEEE Std1003.2-1992 specification, also known as POSIX.2.
This cat implementation is compatible with the OpenBSD implementation.
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The Perl implementation of cat was written by Abigail, [email protected].
This program is copyright by Abigail 1999.
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Hong's Hangul Page
IntroductionYou might want to check out "Hangul Romanizations" page so that you can understand how I am writing romanized Hangul on this site.
This will be a simple description of the written Korean language (한글 HanGeul, or more commonly Hangul). Your browser will need to be able to handle the EUC-KR character set encoding and to display Korean fonts.
This is neither about the Korean language in general (i.e., how to say "xxx" in Korean) nor about the representations of the Korean language in computers and Internet (i.e., how to display a Korean site on your computer). You may find a better reference in the resource page.
A Brief History of HangulThe Korean language existed long (don't quote me on this, but I think, at least, there is a historical reference dating back to around 400 A.D.) before the writing system. Before (and long after) its invention, almost all of writing was done with Chinese characters (한자 HanJa). The influence of Chinese characters can be seen everywhere in the modern Korean language and society.
The Korean writing system is quite unique in that it was invented, relatively recently, in 1443 by King SeJong (세종대왕 SeJongDaeWang) and his scholars at 집현전 JipHyeonJeon. It was published three years later. The system was originally known as 훈민정음 HunMinJeongEum, which translates to "the proper sound for teaching people". The name, Hangul (한글 HanGeul), is known to be coined by 주시경 Ju SiGyeong in 1913.
Before this document describing the writing system was discovered in 1930s (I was never good at History), no one knew what this system was based on. Some claimed that King SeJong one day looked at his "window" (before glass, thick papers were used to cover wooden frames with geometric shapes) and came up with the idea.
However, the document describes the philosophical (i.e., 천지인 CheonJiIn / "heaven, earth and human") and physiological (e.g., shapes and locations of mouth and tongue) bases for each alphabet (자모 JaMo).
The exact purpose of this creation has been debated for a long time. What King SeJong wrote initially about it is that the Korean language and the Chinese language are different and it makes it difficult for common people to express themselves well with Chinese characters and that he created these characters so that they can be easily learned and used everyday.
Its use didn't become popular overnight despite its ease of use. It was still a time when China had great influences over Korea in every aspect, so aristocrats and scholars kept using Hanja and despised its use. If you wanted to get ahead in life (e.g., becoming a scholar or landing a government position), one was required to learn HanJa. So, Hangul was mostly used by women and people of lower classes. It wasn't until recently, in the mid-20th century, that its use became more prevalent among people.
I think the Hanja education in the secondary schools is continuing in a way, but not much. Since the late 1980s, newspapers have started to use only Hangul. It used to have mixture of Hangul and Hanja and I remember that I often got reprimended for not being able to read newspapers well (I wasn't good with Hanja).
These days, most of the printed media use Hangul exclusively. Some did have come back to using both, especially for personal names. But for the most of the younger Koreans, Hanja isn't such a big issue in everyday life.
One last thing. Koreans used to celebrated October 9th as the Hangul Day (한글날 HanGeulLal) nationally (that is, a national holiday). But about a decade ago, they canceled it citing, if I remember correctly, that we had too many holidays (whether that was the real reason, I have no idea)! Anyway, it is no longer a national holiday, but some do still remember.
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Most camp counselors and recreation leaders are wonderful people who are completely dedicated to the well being of the children in their care. Unfortunately, a very few have bad intentions and can cause tremendous harm.
To help keep your kids safe when they are away from you, we encourage you to take a few minutes to watch this Kidpower parent-education video and learn:
- A key question to ask and how to assess the answer from a summer camp or recreational program;
- How to teach and role play boundary setting skills with kids to help them stop unwanted touch, teasing or affection;
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- What to do if a child tells you about a problem or you feel uncomfortable yourself.
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Let’s take back reform and revive, rally, and recover public schools.
Here she takes on Arne Duncan (red mine):
The fact is there has been a concerted effort for years to get rid of special education. It did not start with Arne Duncan and it probably won’t end with him either.
Consider IDEA 1997 and IDEA 2004. Why did they come up with those reauthorizations? If you think throwing all kids into regular classes, in the name of inclusion, and curbing parental rights for legal representation is a gift, think again.
The sad fact is the ed. reformers know special ed. requires credentialed, well-prepared teachers and good programming and they don’t want to pay for it. Charter schools don’t know how to serve these children…or they don’t want to pay for it. And it is tough to implement good special education with Teach for America.
You also can’t sell Common Core State Standards. Special education is a great indicator to show the importance of differences. You can’t put everyone on the same page, with any of the standards really, if students require an Individual Educational Plan. See here.
But it's not all bad news, not by a long shot.
So are students with special needs doomed? I don’t think so. I’m remembering the court cases PARC v.Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Mills v. Board of Education of the District of Columbia. There are other cases too.
I am actually encouraged. I see special education as the Achilles heel of the reform movement. Duncan and his ilk don’t know how to assist these kids, and parents find the “high expectations” talk shallow. What parent has low expectations for their child? What person becomes a teacher not to expect great things for their students?
And if it has been done before, it can be done again. We can fight for the rights of children. The ed. reformers know this. It is what they are afraid of.
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Gold bullion could be the measurement associated with the body weight and brightness of gold. Gold bullion will help you make some good profit after investing money to get gold-bullion coins and taverns. During overall economy gold-bullion coins give great cause customers. In the event that you probe, you will see that there are lots of distinguished entrepreneurs including topmost famous people who’ve strengthened their monetary problem by dealing with pure gold coins. Basically, in accordance with the experts, the value of un-circulated gem/gold coins is a lot higher than circulated coins. In case the gold coins are free of scratches and dents, the standard of the coins will be believed to be great. Rates will be instantly increasing. For this reason, it’ll be better for you to get un-circulated gold taverns and coins for selling at warranted price range.
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Originating in Ancient China, Tai Chi is a most effective and easy exercise to learn for healing mind and body. While it is a wonderful moving meditation for anyone, this gentle form is an accessible exercise, done all standing, for anyone who suffers from arthritis, fibromyalgia or a stressed-out body.
Studies show Tai Chi meets the medical and fitness authorities’ standards to be an effective exercise for health by improving cardio-vascular fitness, strengthening muscles – keeping joints stable and protected, and increasing flexibility and range of motion – all of which makes us more functional, healthy and active.
Tai Chi also improves posture and balance, reduces stress and promotes relaxation.
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Regularly eating white rice can significantly increase the risk of type 2 diabetes, a study claims.
Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health studied the connection between the rice, which is the most commonly eaten worldwide, and the risks of contracting the illness.
The authors of the paper, published in the British Medical Journal, analysed the results of four studies, two in China and Japan and two in the US and Australia.
They found a significant trend in both Asian and Western countries, with a stronger association among women than men.
White rice has high GI values (a measure of carbohydrate effects on blood sugar levels) - often connected with type 2 diabetes - and is eaten in far greater quantities in the East, with an average of four portions a day eaten in Asian countries. In the West the average is five portions a week.
The authors argue that white rice also increases risks because it lacks nutrients such as fibre, magnesium and vitamins, which are found in brown rice.
"A dose-response analysis showed that each serving per day of white rice consumption was associated with an 11 percent increase in risk of diabetes in the overall population," the study claims.
"The recent transition in nutrition characterised by dramatically decreased physical activity levels and much improved security and variety of food has led to increased prevalence of obesity and insulin resistance in Asian countries."
The authors recommend that people eat whole grains and avoid refined carbohydrates in an effort to cut down on the risks.
"The dose-response relations indicate that even for Western populations with typically low intake levels, relatively high white rice consumption may still modestly increase risk of diabetes," they add.
Bruce Neal, senior director of the George Institute for Global Health, Sydney, said: "Although over-consumption of energy and accumulation of excess body fat is a common cause of type 2 diabetes, diet almost certainly has other unknown effects and specific food with particular adverse effects may have a direct role in the development of type 2 diabetes."
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I recently had an electrical survey conducted on a house we intend to
buy. One of the main issues that arose was that 'there is no main CPC
(Circuit Protection Conductor) from the suppliers side. Can anyone
explain what a CPC is, whose responsibility it would be to install one
(us or the supplier?) and how much this might cost?
thanks in advance
The CPC conductor is what you and I call the earth wire.
It's rather a glaring omission if there really is "no main CPC
(Circuit Protection Conductor) from the suppliers side". Is this a
rather old installation? If it's old it *might* be that the only
earth connection is one to the incoming water main but this is
definitely not a good idea nowadays with the proliferation of plastic
It's the supplier's responsibility to tell you what sort of earth they
are providing and where you should connect to it but I think that's
all. They *might* (I suppose) tell you that they are not providing an
earth in which case you need to provide your own earth rod and use
RCDs. Is this in the country with an overhead supply?
It's impossible to guess costs without more information. Presumably
this is from a survey/check, does your mortgage depend on it or is it
just something you want to fix?
Thanks for your response -
The installation is quite old - I can't be sure when it was last updated but
the previous occupants of the house were there for 40 years and judging by
the decor didn't do much in the way of home improvements since the 70s so we
could be looking at a system thats not been touched for more than 30 years.
The location is in a residential area of Leeds so I doubt there's anything
unusual about the supply. Since posting the last message I've spoken to the
electricity supplier who says that they reckon the installation is something
that should be done by an electrician at our expense and then they will come
and check that the connection meets the required standards. Didn't explain
what a CPC was though!
Our mortgage offer states that we must get the work done, but personally I'm
more interested in making the electrics safe rather than fulfilling my
mortgage companies legal requirements!
The supplier is under no obligation to provide you with a main
earth connection, and even if they do, you do not have to use it.
Of course, there does have to be a main earth connection, but it
can be via your own earth rod/tapes/plate/... but not via any of
the other services such as water pipe, although if metallic, they
must be bonded to it.
The OP has now told us that this is an oldish house in Leeds so it
seems likely to me that the supply will be either TN-S or TN-C-S, so
there *should* be an earth from the incoming supply I would have
thought. Thus it may be that all that is needed is a piece of (thick)
wire in the right place.
I agree that the supplier isn't obliged to provide an earth but in a
town I would have thought it likely that there is one.
This isnt a problem, since earth rod installs are common and perfectly
acceptable. I would be starting to wonder if about the survey by now.
I'm not saying its wrong, but something isnt squared yet here.
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Got IBS? These 5 Carbs Could Be Behind Your Symptoms
One of these types of carbohydrates might be distressing your bowel. Sue Shepherd, PhD, outlines how you can figure out which are causing your IBS symptoms in her book ‘The 2-Step Low-FODMAP Eating Plan: How To Build a Custom Diet that Relieves the Symptoms of IBS, Lactose Intolerance, and Gluten Sensitivity.’
IBS: A prevalent problem
If you’re like 10 to 15 percent of Americans, you might suffer from irritable bowel syndrome. It’s not a disease per say, but a disorder that makes you bloated, gassy, and prone to diarrhea or constipation after you eat. These are clear signs you have IBS. FODMAPs are types of carbohydrates that continue to the large intestine when you eat instead of being absorbed by the small intestine, Dr. Shepherd says. They get more water and gas in your intestines, and affect how the muscles in your bowel work and look. FODMAPs could be driving your IBS symptoms, and cutting one or more from your diet could give you the relief you need. Here’s more on what a low-FODMAP diet looks like.
Fructose is a sugar that occurs naturally in every fruit, but that doesn’t mean you should eliminate healthy fruits from your diet. The problem comes when foods contain more fructose than glucose, meaning they don’t absorb as well as those with a higher ratio of glucose, Dr. Shepherd says. Fruit juices, apples, and watermelon are common fruits with excess fructose, while more balanced choices include bananas, cantaloupes, and grapes.
All mammals’ milk contains the sugar lactose, but you don’t have to restrict yourself to a dairy-free diet. Even lactose intolerant people can usually handle up to 4 grams of lactose at a time (a glass of milk typically has 12 to 16 grams), and some dairy products like hard cheeses have practically no lactose, Dr. Shepherd says. If you do want milk or ice cream, you might want to buy lactase enzyme tablets, which will break down the lactose so your body can absorb it. These are lactose intolerance symptoms you might overlook.
As a general rule, the sugar alcohols polyols end in –ol, though polydextrose and isomalt are also part of this category. Sorbitol and mannitol occur naturally in foods like peaches and cauliflower, but others such as xylitol and maltitol are added to processed foods. Those packages will have a label warning about their laxative effects, which could be paired with gas and bloating if you’re sensitive to them. Find out what your stomach pain means here.
These fructose compounds actually cause symptoms in everyone, but some people can eat way more than others before feeling the effects. Garlic and onions have large amounts, as do wheat, barley, and rye. You’ll probably be able to tolerate wheat in small amounts, like in soy sauce. Here are some natural ways to relieve IBS symptoms.
GOS can be particularly hard for vegetarians to give up—they’re found in lentils, soybeans, and chickpeas, which could be major sources of protein. If you restrict them from your diet, you could consider replacing them with eggs, tofu, or nuts.
Making the low-FODMAP diet change
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The world knows renewable energy offers extensive, far-reaching benefits that can help mitigate climate change. If we want to make progress, we need to move away from fossil fuels permanently. That’s an issue where most people agree. It is now evident there is another argument for renewable energy besides sustainability. This option has become much more efficient, both production- and cost-wise. Let us explore how renewable energy manufacturing has become more efficient in recent years:
Production Innovations Boost Effectiveness
Consider how renewable energy was received publicly 10 or 15 years ago. It wasn’t exactly an avenue that most individuals or businesses knew existed. There have been various challenges regarding implementation across America. Hurdles like government support and wide-spread education are examples.
That’s changed as more information has been released about how fossil fuels negatively affect our planet. It’s now evident that renewable energy prospects continue to grow annually — even during COVID-19. That’s largely due to how production methods have transformed over the past several years.
The renewable energy industry can now manufacture sources through smarter means. For example, we used to harness wind power from land-based turbines. Those opportunities have expanded as offshore capabilities are now more mainstream. This innovative progress has become applicable to other sources, too.
These new ideas are significantly responsible for how renewable energy has become more efficient. If we never changed our manufacturing processes, we couldn’t produce renewable energy on a large enough scale. There’s no denying that continuous innovations will make choices like solar, hydro and geothermal increasingly accessible.
As a result, we can enjoy more options as consumers. There’s also cost to consider — which unquestionably determines how efficiently people view renewable energy. They need to be even cheaper than fossil fuels.
Costs Are Lower Than Ever Before
It is important to highlight how renewable energy has turned into an affordable alternative. This cost-efficiency will be necessary to help people choose renewable energy sources over fossil fuels. There are many reasons why prices for eco-friendly power have fallen.
The most significant components are subsidies. These government-backed incentives help manufacturers switch to alternative energy sources for less money. It’s also evident that options exist for individuals and businesses. People can access tax incentives to support their sustainable power pursuits financially.
2. Non-Profit Organizations
There’s also help from green non-profit organizations. Take GRID Alternatives Mid-Atlantic as an example. They provide free solar panel installation to households that can’t otherwise afford renewable energy. That’s a useful resource to help drive accessibility to these alternatives.
What about renewable energy investments? These endeavors are more prevalent than ever. If our country’s most influential figures put their money in renewable energy, we can expect to pay less for green power. Texas has the lowest energy costs in America — and they also use the most wind power. That’s not a coincidence.
These three points ensure that renewable energy becomes more affordable yearly. Various entities need to work together to ensure that sustainable options are accessible. They need to be more available than fossil fuels to ensure they catch on as alternatives.
Future of Renewable Energy Manufacturing
There’s a bright future for renewable energy. As a result of innovative and cost-effective manufacturing progress, Americans now have access to various eco-friendly power sources. If we can keep making strides regarding production, we should be able to create renewable energy on a far-reaching scale.
This process won’t happen overnight. It’s taken decades for renewable energy to be seen as even a viable alternative to harmful fossil fuels. But we’re in an ideal place right now. It shouldn’t be long before renewable energy becomes even more efficient. There’ll then be no excuse for people to keep using fossil fuels. | <urn:uuid:9be8efd2-4fed-4544-b36b-2ec5a4923456> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bioenergyconsult.com/tag/renewable-energy-investments/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.934757 | 806 | 3.375 | 3 |
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This year, A Wolverine will be heading to Capitol Hill to participate in ONE Campaign, a program that works to help fight extreme poverty and disease in Africa.
Sara Isaac, a rising LSA senior, was one of 16 college students selected to serve on the Student Advisory Board of the ONE Campaign and attend the campaign program based in Washington D.C.
Each year, ONE Campaign selects students from various campaign chapters located at college campuses across the U.S. to participate in the three-day program. Throughout the program, students collaborate with political leaders, activists and others to plan new campaign programs to implement on college campuses.
According to a press release from campaign leaders, this year’s students were selected because of their skills as on-campus organizers around ONE’s mission of ending extreme poverty. They were also selected because of their eagerness to engage with other students and young people to encourage similar activism.
In a statement, Laurie Moskowitz, who serves as senior director of U.S. Campaigns, said she was excited to hear fresh ideas from this year’s Student Advisory Board.
“ONE’s Student Advisory Board brings together the best and the brightest of ONE’s student
activists to provide crucial insight and shape the organization’s campus work,” she said. “We’re really excited for this year’s talented Student Advisory Board members to bring their ideas to Washington.”
Isaac currently serves as leader of the University’s chapter of the ONE Campaign, and worked with fellow campaign members to gain Senate co-sponsorship for the Electrify Africa Act, a resolution that could bring electricity to 50 million people living in Sub-Saharan Africa if passed.
As a member of the advisory board, Isaac, who also served on the board from 2013-2014, will participate in a meeting with members of Congress at Capitol Hill to discuss the resolution.
In an e-mail to the Daily, Isaac said she was thrilled to find out she was chosen to serve on the board again.
“It was incredible to discover that I had been selected to serve on the SAB again,” she said. “Lobbying senators on Capitol Hill is extremely gratifying, and having the opportunity to do that is pretty awesome.”
She also said she hopes to use her experiences to educate the University community more about poverty and disease in Africa.
“The number of people living in extreme poverty (on less than US $1.25 a day) has halved since 1990, thanks largely to organizations like ONE,” she said. “I hope that serving on the SAB gives me the tools I need to help remove the greatest barriers to Africa’s development and prosperity, like lack of electricity, which trap hundreds of millions of people in extreme poverty. I’m excited to educate Michigan’s students and faculty about issues like energy poverty.”
Moskowitz said the efforts of college student activists are vital in ending extreme poverty.
“College students bring a powerful and passionate voice to the global fight against extreme
poverty and have made a historic difference in persuading American lawmakers to confront
some of the world’s most difficult challenges,” she said.
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Blacksmiths in Colorado use their anvils to turn guns into gardening tools, reshaping America’s gun culture one strike of the hammer at a time.
This is the work of the “Swords to Plows” initiative of the nonprofit RAWTools. Gun owners from around the country send RAWTools their disassembled weapons for transformation. Most guns can be made into several tools, such as hoes and pickaxes. Shotguns often become hand spades, and a weapon like the AR-15 that was used in recent mass shootings has a thicker barrel that suits an afterlife as a mattock.
RAWTools’ first donated gun was an AK-47 from a retired public defender. Since then, it has reshaped more than 200 weapons so far, with more in progress. The tools they create are typically returned to the donor, given to community gardens, or sold to raise money for programming.
RAWTools founder and Executive Director Mike Martin was inspired to learn blacksmithing and start the nonprofit after the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, Connecticut. By late May 2018, 23 school shootings in the U.S. have involved injury or death this year.
This summer, RAWTools and the Newtown Foundation, an organization formed after the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting to focus on post-gun violence healing, will carry out an extensive version of weapons transformation. In cooperation with the New Haven Police Department in Connecticut, weapons from a gun buyback program will be taken apart by a local metal sculptor. Volunteer inmates from the New Haven Correctional Center will do the blacksmithing to create the tools, which will be used by students at local high schools to plant gardens. The harvests will be donated to soup kitchen and shelters.
“The entire process will essentially transform weapons of death into implements of life,” Newtown Foundation Communications Director Steve Yanovsky said.
Martin is a former Mennonite pastor. “Swords to Plows” is a reference to the biblical quote, “They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks … nor will they train for war anymore.”
He works with his dad and three other blacksmiths locally in Colorado Springs, as well as in traveling programs. RAWTools also promotes community dialogue around gun violence and leads peacemaking workshops. It partners with churches, community groups, and organizations like the Newtown Foundation and the Children’s Defense Fund.
Getting firearms out of circulation is only one of many potential ways to reduce gun violence.
During the group’s community demos and workshops, participants can try their hand at forging the metal. Cherie Ryans is one of numerous mothers who lost a child to gun violence and has taken a turn at the RAWTools forge. Martin said that between each swing of the hammer to the iron she said: “This bang is bang for bang my bang son.”
“I was holding the hot metal as she did it. Everyone was in tears, and it was all I could do to hold the metal safely,” Martin said.
The type of gun surrender program that RAWTools is reimagining has been going on in the U.S. since the 90s in the form of police-run buybacks. Weapons can be turned in anonymously to police, no questions asked. To encourage participation, police often give out gift cards in return.
Mike Martin with local participant Derrick Gregory in New York. Photo by Jenny Lando.
A 1994 study evaluating a Seattle buyback, which the National Rifle Association references, concluded that while buybacks are broadly supported by communities, their effect on decreasing violent crime and reducing firearm mortality is unknown. The nonprofit GUNXGUN, which mobilizes community-funded buybacks, states the infrequent and isolated nature of U.S. buyback programs makes it hard to analyze their effectiveness. But, it points out that after a 1996 mass shooting in Australia, an extensive buyback program coupled with stricter gun regulations led to a significant reduction in firearm deaths.
Getting firearms out of circulation is only one of many potential ways to reduce gun violence. Along with changing guns into peaceful instruments, RAWTools runs workshops on intentional conflict resolution. Martin says these range from “serious to silly” and integrate dramatic arts, role-playing, and direct instruction.
“Guns drain so much of our imagination to explore other ways to engage with conflict or confrontation.”
RAWTools artist-in-residence Mary Sprunger-Froese leads many of these multiage programs, which might include rapping, personal storytelling, skits, and other ways to train in de-escalation and peacemaking. So far she has taught an adult bystander intervention class and led a theater and nonviolent tools workshop for middle schoolers.
Martin envisions a nationwide RAWTools network, and said it’s happening already.
Volunteers across the country have helped gun donors disable guns for the forge, and churches have opened their parking lots for tents and anvils. Blacksmiths throughout the U.S. have signed on, and Martin says he needs “more people to help make tools, especially if they come from guns in their region.”
RAWTools is piloting a regional chapter in Toledo, Ohio. This summer, it will host youth workshops involving making tools from guns, creative expression and conflict mediation.
“There’s something beautiful and good about participants forging something that destroyed our community in some way into something that will bring beauty and life to our community,” says pastor Joel Shenk, who is leading the project.
New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence in Santa Fe, which previously collaborated with RAWTools, has now started their own creative gun transformation program. They invite community members to use the metal and the plastic from relinquished guns to make tools, sculptures, and jewelry.
Elsewhere in the U.S., a group called Lead to Life changes guns into shovels for tree plantings at sites affected by violence in Atlanta and Oakland, also citing the “swords to plowshares” tradition as an inspiration. So does Mexican artist Pedro Reyes, who also turned guns into shovels.
For Martin, transforming weapons at the forge and teaching nonviolence are important because guns in America are “elevated to such a level that they are viewed as an ultimate problem-solver.” He said, “Guns drain so much of our imagination to explore other ways to engage with conflict or confrontation. They are a tool to use power over others for the sake of the individual and not the community. This is what motivates me to do the work of RAWTools.”
A military veteran named James gave his guns to RAWTools after studying Christian scripture supporting pacifism. He wrote that he could no longer justify owning the guns because there was “no way to guarantee they would never be used to take a life.”
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2015 Shetland Environmental Award Winners Announced
Published: November 11, 2015
enlarge Shetland Amenity Trust hosted the Shetland Environmental Awards at a ceremony held in the Museum and Archives today. Seven local environmental projects won an award for demonstrating sustainability, innovation and best practice.
Brian Gregson, Chairman of Shetland Amenity Trust and the Shetland Environment Group which judge the awards, said: “On behalf of Shetland Amenity Trust, I would like to thank the Shetland Environment Group for judging the award nominations. The awards, as always, have been truly inclusive, and there were nominations for a wide variety of projects from all sectors of the community. Congratulations to all of this year’s winners – who should all be incredibly proud of what they have achieved over the last twelve months. We hope you enjoy the award and continue to inspire others to preserve, protect and champion Shetland’s incredible environment in the future.”
Unfortunately this year’s presenter, renowned local naturalist and wildlife photograph Brydon Thomason fell ill on the eve of the awards but kindly donated a framed wildlife print to the winner of the Alan Inkster Award, which was presented to Logan Johnson by Ruby Inkster for his outstanding voluntary contribution and commitment to the environment. Ruby also stepped in to present Shetland Environmental awards to all seven winning projects.
enlarge The 2015 awards were made by Cunningsburgh based Enviroglass, from recycled glass and concrete. This year’s design took the form of polished circular planters.
This year’s awards were again sponsored by the major players within the environment sector in Shetland, including Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Scottish Natural Heritage, Shetland Islands Council, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Shetland Civic Society, VisitScotland and Shetland Amenity Trust. The awards presentation event was also sponsored by the Total Laggan-Tormore Project.
The winners of the 2015 Shetland Environmental Awards are:
Anderson and Brae High School Pupils
For their highly successful and wide-reaching Bruck Monster campaign targeting roadside litter.
Brae High School
For engaging the entire school and Brae community to design and create a playground that connects pupils and local families with nature.
For his long-term commitment to the environment and for encouraging his peers to get involved in wildlife.
Nesting Primary School
For transforming a piece of waste ground into a picnic and safe play area for the whole community .
For their Nature Friendly Schools programme to create play areas that encourage wildlife and better connect Shetland pupils with the natural world
Whiteness Primary School
For engaging the entire school and Whiteness & Weisdale community to design and create a playground that connects pupils and local families with nature.
Yell Community Council
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Abstract: This article analyzes the nuclear disarmament of South Africa through neorealist, liberal, and constructivist lenses in order to determine which theory most accurately describes why South Africa ended their nuclear weapons program. It argues that constructivist theory best explains the end of South Africa’s nuclear program because of its ability to explain how domestic decision making affects how the state interacts in the international system. Under President De Klerk, South Africa became the first and only state to give up its nuclear arsenal without international pressure to do so. According to neorealists, South Africa pursued disarmament in order to form stronger alliances. Under liberal theory, South Africa pursued disarmament due to the democratic and economic developments the state underwent in the 1990s with the end of apartheid. The nuclear program proved to be a huge burden on the economy and therefore had no place in the post-apartheid South African society. Finally, constructivist theory argues that nuclear disarmament occurred because of the prevailing desire in South African society to identify as a Western state. To pursue this identity would mean giving up nuclear weapons to appeal to Western states, and in turn South Africa would be given the opportunity to join Western collective security organizations.
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Andrew Murray has spent thousands of hours trekking the world's topmost trails. At the earth's crown, he notices a lot of things: the looming peaks, the lack of vegetation, and the way light plays in the thin air. But as a physiologist, he fixates on the people carrying his stuff. "You'll be huffing and puffing your way up what looks like a fairly gentle slope, but you're held back by the low oxygen," he says. "Then a porter will breeze by you, he's maybe much older than you, and he's carrying your bags and other people's bags, walking like it's a stroll in the park." Murray says this at-altitude fitness is most striking in the Sherpas, an ethnic group in eastern Nepal famous for mountaineering.
His observation is more than happenstance: Nepali Sherpas have evolved to perform like superhumans at altitude, according to a study Murray led that was recently published in Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences. That's what his team from Cambridge University concluded after they discovered that the Sherpas are able to use oxygen more efficiently in low-oxygen environments.
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As you gain altitude, your body responds by producing more oxygen-carrying red blood cells. Previous studies have found that Sherpas do ramp up their red blood cell production when climbing, but at not nearly the rate of lowlanders—which means they actually have less oxygen in their blood than we do while climbing. Murray and his team wanted to know the Sherpa's trick.
To conduct the study, the scientists took thigh muscle biopsies on a group of Sherpas and Westerners at low altitudes. The groups—who were matched for age, sex, and general fitness level—then trekked from Katmandu to Everest Base Camp. Once they arrived at the 17,600-foot camp, the scientists again took the biological measurements.
The biopsies contained the magic: The Sherpas' mitochondria—tiny power plants within human cells that power our bodies—produce more ATP, or energy, using less oxygen at altitude. They also found that the Sherpas used fat as fuel more efficiently. "It's interesting because the Sherpas are actually unremarkable at sea level," Murray says. "You don't see them winning marathons. Their adaptations is not one that gives them super performance at sea level, but it does at altitude when the oxygen is scarce."
In other words, Westerners have the engine of a gas guzzling four-by-four, while the Sherpas are more like a sensible hybrid that sips fuel. When fuel is abundant—at low altitude—both engines get the job done. But when you climb into a fuel-scarce, high-altitude environment, the more efficient engine is optimal. It can help you climb farther, faster, and with less effort.
Even more striking, the team of scientists retook the biological measurements of both groups after they'd spent two months at Everest Base Camp and found the energy levels in the muscles of the lowlanders dropped. Yet like a flower exposed to the sun, the Sherpa muscle energy levels steadily increased despite having less oxygen.
Although the sport of mountaineering was pioneered by westerners, Sherpas hold the world record for most Everest ascents—Apa Sherpa and Phurba Tashi Sherpa both summited the peak 21 times. They also hold the majority of speed summiting records. Pemba Dorje climbed from Everest's South Base Camp to summit with supplemental oxygen in eight hours and ten minutes, while Kazi Sherpa completed the feat without supplemental oxygen in 20 hours and 24 minutes.
The new findings are important as a first step in developing treatments for intensive care unit patients suffering from hypoxia, or a lack of oxygen, Murray says. Hypoxia occurs in healthy people at high altitude, and also in critical care patients, where it's life threatening. Currently, doctors add oxygen to these patient's blood. But that thickens the blood and can cause complications like clogged blood vessels.
Murray's research is in its infancy, but the ultimate goal is to develop a method—a pill, perhaps—that allows patients to become more Sherpa-like, and use what little oxygen they have more efficiently, thereby leading to better health outcomes.
Ultimately, if you want the genetically-gifted oxygen-sipping qualities of a Sherpa, you'll have to be reborn as one. "They've adapted and evolved over thousands of years," Murray says. But Westerners can still get some of the unique fitness benefits of Sherpas, whose jobs entail carrying gear uphill among the camps of Everest. Carrying weight for distance is a fundamental physical skill, one that Westerners rarely practice today, according to Doug Kechijian, a doctor of physical therapy and owner of Resilient Performance PT in New York City.
Walking while loaded down with a weight equal to anywhere from 15 to 50 percent of your bodyweight—whether it's a in a backpack, held at your sides, or worn in the form of a weight vest—gives you a new fitness stimulus, Kechijian says. This kind of training may also improve your endurance, according to a study conducted by the Mountain Tactical Institute. And performing loaded carries may fill gaps in your strength, and increase your lifting performance across the board, according to a study in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research.
"If you're planning on mountaineering, this training is essential," Kechijian says. But even if you're just trying to burn off the cheeseburger you ate for lunch, walking while loaded down burns about three times the calories compared to plain old walking, research shows. And that's without any of the lung and leg burning anguish of running.
Training like a Sherpa is also beneficial for injury-prone runners: "Running is a skill, and many people do it wrong," says Kechijian. It's also impactful. Run too often with questionable mechanics and you get injured. Walking doesn't take much skill. Doing it while weighed down improves your endurance, but with less of the impacts of running. Translation: Less risk of injury.
If you want to try it, Kechijian has many of his clients toss on a weighted vest, crank a treadmill's incline to its max, then walk for twenty minutes to a half hour. Conversely, you could just toss some weight in a backpack—start with 20 to 30 pounds—and go for a walk. Read This Next: Why You Should Make Your Ass Your Strongest Muscle | <urn:uuid:cdafd7ea-8d5d-426f-9af0-c44a1253eeb7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.vice.com/en/article/xw8dqn/the-fittest-people-in-the-world-barely-break-a-sweat | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.960317 | 1,372 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Mons pubis without hair
In human anatomy, and in mammals in general, the mons pubis (also known simply as the mons, and known specifically in females as the mons Venus or mons veneris), is a rounded mass of fatty tissue found over the pubic symphysis of the pubic bones. In human females, the mons pubis forms the anterior portion of the vulva. It divides into the labia majora (literally "larger lips"), on either side of the furrow known as the pudendal cleft, that surrounds the labia minora, clitoris, urethra, vaginal opening, and other structures of the vulval vestibule.
The size of the mons pubis varies with the level of hormone and body fat, and it is more apparent in females. After puberty, it generally becomes covered with pubic hair and enlarged. The fatty tissue of the mons pubis is sensitive to estrogen, causing a distinct mound to form with the onset of puberty. This pushes the forward portion of the labia majora out and away from the pubic bone. Likewise, the mons pubis often becomes less prominent with the decrease in bodily estrogen experienced during menopause.
- New Oxford American Dictionary. Oxford University Press. 2011.
The rounded mass of fatty tissue lying over the joint of the pubic bones, in women typically more prominent and also called the mons veneris.
- Gould, A.M., M.D, George Milbry (1894). An Illustrated Dictionary of Medicine, Biology and Allied Sciences. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston, Son & Company. pp. 778–779. Retrieved 2014-10-08.
Mons pubis: the eminence in front of the body and horizontal ramus of the os pubis; it is called also, in the female, mons veneris.
- "mons pubis". Merriam–Webster. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
A rounded eminence of fatty tissue on the pubic symphysis especially of the human female.
- "mons pubis". American Heritage Dictionary. 2011. Retrieved 2013-09-19.
A rounded fleshy protuberance situated over the pubic bones that becomes covered with hair during puberty.
- Zink, Christoph (1988). Dictionary of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co. p. 201. ISBN 3110857278. Retrieved 2014-10-08.
Pubic mount: mons pubis, in females mons veneris; the hairy region above the anterior commissure of the large labia or penis.
- Basavanthappa, B.T. (2006). Textbook of Midwifery and Reproductive Health Nursing (1st ed.). New Delhi: Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers. pp. 23, 42, 791. ISBN 8180617998. Retrieved 2014-10-08.
[Female] mons pubis (mons veneris), labia majora and minora, clitoris, prepuce of clitoris, vestibule, fourchette, and perineum… [Male] mons pubis, penis, and scrotum… Hair-covered fat pad overlying the symphysis pubis.
- Gray, Henry (1918). Lewis, Warren H., ed. Anatomy of the Human Body. (20th ed.). Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger. ISBN 1-58734-102-6.
- Myers, J.D., John E.B. (2011). The APSAC Handbook on Child Maltreatment (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications. ISBN 1412966817. Retrieved 2014-10-08.
- Braun, Kirsten (2007-09-01). "Ageing down under". Women's Health, Queensland Wide. Retrieved 2014-10-08.
- Sloane, Ethel. Biology of Women. Cengage Learning 2002, ISBN 978-0-7668-1142-3, p. 31
- Gray, Henry: Anatomy of the Human Body. Lea & Febiger, 1918
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"You've got hoodlums everywhere you live," Tennessee Highway Patrol Lt. Christina Faulkner said, warning the class of 16 women and a teenage boy not to be complacent about safety, even in a small town like Lewisburg.
The instruction ranged from how to walk - with your head up, confidently making eye contact with people you meet - to how to get away from someone who grabs you around the neck or by the arm.
"If you practice, you'll remember it and you'll use it," Faulkner said. "Think about it and find out what's best for you."
The self defense lessons were taught Saturday morning at NHC Lewisburg on West Commerce street.
The class divided into pairs to try the moves on one another. The boy, who came to the class with his mother and sisters, came in handy to demonstrate what it really feels like to have a man, with his extra height and superior upper body strength, grab you.
"Don't get in a car," Faulkner exclaimed. You have a 75 percent chance of surviving if you get away from someone who grabs you in a parking lot, but only a 25 percent chance if they get you into a vehicle, she explained.
Walking to your car, Faulkner told the class, you should have your keys in hand, held between the fingers as an improvised weapon, with your thumb near the alarm button on the key fob (if you have one). Once inside the vehicle, lock the doors immediately. This not only keeps strangers from getting in with you, it increases the strength of the side of your car by 40 percent as you're driving down the road.
"I am not the answer," Faulkner said, urging class members to think for themselves and become safety conscious.
A mother was worried about her daughter's safety when she was running, training for a marathon. Faulkner and the group discussed this and came up with several suggestions: Don't run on the road; Carry a loud metal whistle to alert people she needs help; Only have a headphone in one ear, so the other ear can listen to what's going on around her; Always have Freeze Plus P (a self-defense spray) with her; and, Vary her routine, so a potential stalker can't predict where and when she'll be running, but always inform her family where she's going and when she'll be back.
Even in our own homes, there are ways to be safer, such as having an evacuation plan in case of fire and a designated meeting place for family members after they have left the home. If you shelter from a tornado, be sure to take a mattress, pillows or a comforter to help protect you from falling debris.
Faulkner doesn't recommend guns for protection in the home. "A baseball bat and an iron skillet" are good weapons, she said, and so is wasp spray, which can be used on an intruder from 20 feet away.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE99-55
July 14, 1999
Contact: Cathy DelliCarpini (718/595-6600)
DEP Gives Progress Report On Implementation Of The Watershed Memorandum Of Agreement
New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner Joel A. Miele Sr., P.E. today gave a progress report on DEP's implementation of the Watershed Memorandum of Agreement (MOA). The MOA's goal is to maintain and improve the integrity of the upstate Catskill/Delaware watersheds by incorporating and expanding long-range watershed protection and water quality improvement programs, and formalizing innovative partnerships between citizens, environmentalists and officials in the City and Upstate.
Commissioner Miele said, "This agreement remains a high priority for the Giuliani Administration. The MOA includes aggressive and innovative programs DEP has implemented to continually improve the quality of New York City's drinking water. I am proud of how the MOA, which became effective on January 21, 1997, has taken shape and look forward to seeing additional watershed protection and water quality improvements develop in the future."
This progress report is being issued midway through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (USEPA) current 5-year Filtration Avoidance Determination (FAD) for the Catskill/Delaware watersheds. The current FAD is the latest in a series of waivers the City has received from USEPA of the federal requirement to filter water from its Catskill/Delaware supplies. The current 5-year FAD is effective through 2002 when the impact of the MOA on water quality protection will be assessed by State Health and the USEPA.
Programs in the City's watershed protection program include:
- upgrading the nine City-owned upstate sewage treatment plants at a cost of $232 million;
- rehabilitating and upgrading City-owned dams and water supply facilities at a cost of $240 million;
- implementing the Watershed Agricultural Program at a cost of $40 million;
- expanding the water quality monitoring program to include sampling from all 110 wastewater treatment plants in the watershed and increased sampling in reservoirs and other waterways; and
- instituting an active waterborne disease surveillance program.
Commissioner Miele said, "New Yorkers are fortunate to have tap water of exceptional quality from a water supply that is considered to be among the finest in the nation. The MOA ensures the quality of the City's drinking water for generations to come."
DEP has developed the following program areas as part of MOA implementation:
- Stronger Watershed Regulations The MOA included the first revision of the City's watershed regulations since 1953. The regulations serve as the first defense against pollution, and dramatically strengthen the City's legal ability to protect water quality.
- Land Acquisition and Stewardship Under the MOA, the City is acquiring, through outright purchase or conservation easements, interests in undeveloped land near reservoirs, wetlands and watercourses, or land with other natural features that are water quality sensitive.
- Partnership Programs The MOA established several locally-based watershed protection initiatives, funded by the City, to build and support a strong working relationship between the City and its upstate neighbors the day-to-day stewards of water quality.
- Education and Outreach Although not required by the MOA, DEP's Education and Outreach programs serve a range of constituencies, including watershed residents, interested citizens, technical professionals in stormwater, wetlands and stream corridor management, and local college students.
DEP is committed to ensuring the quality of New York City's drinking water. The successful implementation of the MOA will enable continued watershed and water quality protection for eight million people in New York City and an additional one million people living in Westchester, Putnam, Ulster and Orange Counties.
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North London Rape Crisis
Provides counselling, advocacy, group work and body therapies to women and girls aged 14 years and over who have experienced any form of sexual violence at any stage of their life. Also provide awareness raising to community groups and organisations and specialist training to other service providers.
0808 802 9999 (24 hours)
On healthtalk.org you can find out about what it’s like to live with a health condition, by watching other people share their stories. Our health affects every aspect of our lives. This website helps to prepare you for what’s ahead, beyond the symptoms and treatments. Healthtalk.org contains hundreds of real people’s stories. These stories are collected by academic researchers who interview people in their own homes, using their own words.
We are the independent national champion for people who use health and social care services. We’re here to find out what matters to people, and help make sure their views shape the support they need.
03000 683 000
Are you being pressured to get married against your will? Do you fear to bring shame or dishonour on your family? Have you been emotionally or physically abused? Are you confused about what they say scripture demands of you? Do you worry about being disowned?
0800 5999 247
Opoka is a specialist service working to stop domestic violence against women and children in the Polish community our aims to help create a world free of domestic violence against Polish women and their children where women feel safe, secure and can engage and participate in society.
0300 365 1700
Contact the Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) if you’re trying to stop a forced marriage or you need help leaving a marriage you’ve been forced into.
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Students will have homework each week. Homework will go home on Monday with the newsletter and is due the following Friday.
1. Writing Sheet – Your child should complete the handwriting sheet each week. A sheet will be sent home each week that explains how to form the letter and the terminology used. Please supervise your child’s writing to make sure he/she starts their letters at the top. This must be done in pencil so your child can make corrections if needed. If done incorrectly, it is harder to break the habit and he/she will not pass the test on Friday (Letter Checkup). The letter checkup is a four-square assessment that asks them to write the letters from the week and tell a word that begins with that sound.
2. Read at least 15-20 minutes every day!
First Grade, Second Grade
1. Read at least 15-20 minutes every day!
2. Spelling lists will be sent home on Mondays in the newsletter that will be emailed to parents. Please work on these lists throughout the week so students are prepared for the spelling test each Friday. I will also email different ways students can practice spelling words called monthly spellers choice for each month if you would like some ideas.
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Scholastic book orders will come home each month. This is a great opportunity to foster a love of reading early with your child. You can order online with my teacher code listed below.
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Pictorial Evidence: the Image as Scientific Tool in the Work of the Swedish Institute of Racial Biology
The Section for Maps and Pictures of the Uppsala University Library holds a unique photo collection brought together by the Swedish Institute of Racial Biology that was active in Uppsala 1922-1959. The aim of the Institute was to survey different ethnic [Swedish] groups in terms of environment and heredity in order to lay a basis for a rational and scientific eugenic population policy. The source and research material, amongst others photographs, was collected during gathering expeditions around the country. The photographic material not only constitute a unique documentation of the Swedish eugenic project, but show also the instrument importance the photography had in the scientific work of the institute. In many ways the photographs were determinative when it came to promote physiognomy, i.e. how psychological traits and what to expect from a person?s life could be determined from the study of his/hers facial and bodily features. The objective of the present project is to study the photographic work of the Institute, specifically the scientific function of the images and how these were utilized in the scientific process.the Image as Scientific Tool in the work of the Institute of Racial Biologythe Image as Scientific Tool in the work of the Institute of Racial Biology.
Ulrika Kjellman (2013) "A Whiter Shade of Pale: Visuality and race in the work of the Swedish State Institute for Race Biology" in: Scandinavian Journal of History. Version of record first published: 27 Feb 2013: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/yr8A7b6pDdzm9HcMUd9Q/full
Senior lecturer at the Department of ALM and docent in library- and information science.
Education and research interest
- Image and knowledge construction
- The image as scientific document
- Cultural Heritage and digitalization
PUBLIKATIONER Kopplat till Projektet
Kjellman, U. (2019). The Construction of Whiteness in the Work of The Swedish State Institute for Race Biology.Ingår i: Shades of Whiteness, Brill Academic Publishers. 53-63.
Kjellman, U. (2017). Images as scientific documents in Swedish race biology: two practices.Information research, UNIV SHEFFIELD DEPT INFORMATION STUDIES. 22(1).
Kjellman, U. (2017). Fysionomi och fotografi – den rasbiologiska konstruktionen av den nordiska rasen som vit.Ingår i: Ras och vithet: Svenska rasrelationer i går och i dag, Tobias Hübinette (redaktör), Stockholm: Studentlitteratur. 47-67.
Kjellman, U. (2016). To Document the Undocumentable: Photography in the scientific practice of physical anthropology and race biology. Journal of Documentation, 72(5): 813-831.
Kjellman, U., Eld, C. (2015). The Construction of Whiteness in the Work of The Swedish State Institute for Race Biology.Ingår i: Conceptions of Whiteness: White Privilege, 10th to 12th May 2015, Dubrovnik, Croatia (Hrvatska)
Ulrika Kjellman (2014) ”How to picture race?: The use of photography in the scientific practice of the Swedish State Institute for Race Biology”, Scandinavian Journal of History. In press.
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Veganism is becoming a lifestyle choice among several millenials. But there are certain questions that still remain. For example, are meat substitutes like sop protein, nuts, legumes, or mock meats enough to meet the body’s protein demands? A new study has revealed that the proteins found in a plant-based substitute for chicken were not as readily available to human cells as those from the meat.
The study was published in the journal, ‘Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.’
For the study, Da Chen, Osvaldo Campanella, and their colleagues looked into the possibility that human cells could also absorb the same amount of peptides from a meat substitute as they can from a chicken.
Through the process of extrusion, the researchers were able to create a meat alternative that is made from wheat gluten, and soy. When it was cut open, the pieces of the material resembled chicken. After it was ground up, the pieces were broken down using an enzyme commonly used by humans to digest food.
The tests done in lab conditions in a test tube rather than inside the human body revealed that the peptides from the plant-based meat substitutes were less water-soluble than those from chicken. They also did not work well with human cells.
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Reset fuel cut-off switch Fiat Seicento. This is a safety cut-off switch which comes into operation in the case of an accident to block the supply of fuel thereby stopping the engine.
If, after a crash, you can smell fuel or see leaks from the fuel system , no not reset the switch to avoid fire risk.
If you cannot see any fuel leaks and the car is in a fit state to continue its journey, press button A-fig. 49 located in the engine compartment on the dashboard bulkhead to reactivate the fuel supply system, as illustrated. Remember to turn the key to STOP to avoid deploying the battery. | <urn:uuid:0c829c8e-c859-4a40-bb3f-cb7751d654bf> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://resetservicelight.com/reset-fuel-cut-off-switch-fiat-seicento/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00016-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937264 | 133 | 1.539063 | 2 |
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Neuropsychology Abstract of the Day: Alzheimer's Disease
We explored the neuropsychological and neuromorphometrical differences between probable Alzheimer's disease patients showing a good or a bad response to nine months treatment with donepezil. Before treatment, the neuropsychological profile of the two patient groups was perfectly matched. By the ninth month after treatment, the BAD-responders showed a decline of the MMSE score together with a progressive impairment of executive functions. A voxel-based morphometry investigation (VBM), at the time of the second neuropsychological assessment, showed that the BAD-responders had larger grey and white matter atrophies involving the substantia innominata of Meynert bilaterally, the ventral part of caudate nuclei and the left uncinate fasciculus, brain areas belonging to the cholinergic pathways. A more widespread degeneration of the central cholinergic pathways may explain the lack of donepezil efficacy in those patients not responding to a treatment that operates on the grounds that some degree of endogeneous release of acetylcholine is still available.
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Some say euthanizing cats not humane
A recent study by the American Bird Conservancy reported that free-ranging domestic cats kill between 1.4 and 3.7 billion birds each year. To combat the program, advocates are calling for cat owners to keep their felines indoors, as well as voicing their opposition to the trap-neuter-release program that many communities practice on stray cats.
But now cat supporters are fighting back. Pat Munafo is a longtime Jamestown resident and a co-founder of PawsWatch. The nonprofit organization was started in 1997 with the mission of promoting and administering the trap-neuter-release program as a humane solution for dealing with feral cats. PawsWatch is the only group dedicated to the program, and there are currently six chapters of the organization statewide.
PawsWatch is an all-volunteer network. It has processed about 15,000 feral cats over the years. The procedure involves humanely trapping the cats, bringing them to a veterinary office for sterilization, and then returning them to the wild. While in veterinary care, the cats are given a rabies and distemper vaccination. A small portion of the tip of their left ear is then removed for identification purposes.
“They are returned to the wild providing that we know that they have consistent food and shelter,” Munafo said.
Feeders are often the ones who call PawsWatch. They let the group know of any feral communities. This allows the organization to return the cats to areas where there is food, such as the back of restaurants, a popular destination for stray cats. This allows them to live out their lives in the wild, but without the ability to reproduce. The ultimate goal of the program is to reduce the population of feral cats in a humane fashion.
“If we know they have food there, we can also work with those people to ensure that the cats have adequate shelter,” said Munafo.
PawsWatch raises money through a number of fundraisers each year. Grant money also helps to fund the organization, and a number of people pay for the treatment of the cats as a method of donation.
In a story last month in the Jamestown Press, resident Chris Powell voiced his opposition to the trap-neuter-release program. His resistance of the strategy is based on the fact that allowing cats back into the wild is having an adverse effect on many bird species. Powell, the former head of the Conservation Commission, supports capturing and euthanizing the cats.
The debate has been going on for a long time. Munafo said there are a number of national groups that support the release program: the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the Humane Society of the United States and the National Animal Control Officers Association, to name a few.
Munafo said trap-neuter-release advocates believe strongly that the strategy is the only humane way to reduce the feral cat population. “It’s been proven,” she said. “The whole principle behind it is that cats are allowed to live out their lives not reproducing and will die off through attrition.”
Munafo said there are a number of veterinary studies that say it’s an effective management tool, although she conceded that it doesn’t solve the problem overnight.
“Anybody who says that it’s birds over cats is choosing one species over another, but not promoting any kind of humane solution,” she said. “The reality is that trapping and euthanizing all outdoor cats is inhumane and completely impractical. For one thing, the public won’t stand for it. There are too many cat lovers.”
According to Munafo, the costs of trapping and euthanizing feral cats would be more than most municipalities could handle. She says it’s unlikely that a privately funded organization that supports euthanasia could be created because of the huge public outcry that would result.
Munafo and Powell do agree on one point. Munafo said that in an ideal world, domestic cats would be kept indoors. It is better for the cats, she said, who tend to live longer and healthier lives indoors. Veterinarians and animal welfare organizations also agree.
“No one is going to say that a cat doesn’t hunt, so some wildlife would be saved,” said Munafo. “But we don’t live in an ideal world. You can’t dictate what people do with their cats.”
Munafo expressed skepticism about the number of bird deaths that were cited by the American Bird Conservancy. The release was based on a report written by Nature Communications, a peer-reviewed journal that appears online.
“Every trap-neuter-release group will acknowledge that a cat will kill a bird,” she said. “For every article that Chris Powell can cite listing statistics about the number of birds that are estimated ... to be killed, there are a slew of articles that say that those numbers are unfounded or they’re overestimating.”
According to Munafo, Jamestown no longer has much of a problem with feral cats. She said that in the last several years, calls to PawsWatch from Jamestown residents have gone down signifi- cantly. She credits at least some of this progress with the success of trap-neuter-release programs. | <urn:uuid:a7a3c6a5-3336-49d6-8f8b-89cba5046f99> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.jamestownpress.com/news/2013-03-14/News/Some_say_euthanizing_cats_not_humane.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00429-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966449 | 1,137 | 2.625 | 3 |
That field of beans west of the barn, it looked gaunt come October, bean pods all hanging like bony ribs.
Whenever the wind sighed, the whole field just rattled skinny.
That’s how my Dad always spoke of a railish man, that you could count his ribs. Nothing in me wanted to count those beans, know the yield, from this spare field.
When the Farmer rolled the combine in and lowered the combined head to bring those beans in, I sat beside him, raised my voice to ask it above the working engine:
Is it possible that something that doesn’t look anything — can still amount to anything?
The field, it was hard to even look at.
I’ve known a face in a mirror much like that.
“It isn’t much to look at, is it?”
The Farmer looks up from the combine’s steering wheel, looks across the field to the north.
“Weedy. And thin.”
The white of the sow thistle seeds mingle with the dust. This field had no rain in July and a man can’t make a sky give. He can just make the knees bend and the hands raise.
The harvest looked like a failure.
I’ve known this, been this, am this.
The first time thanksgiving is ever mentioned in Scripture, this is what we discover about first about thanksgiving:
“And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings that one may offer to the LORD.
If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the thanksgiving sacrifice unleavened loaves mixed with oil, unleavened wafers smeared with oil, and loaves of fine flour well mixed with oil.
With the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving he shall bring his offering with loaves of leavened bread….”
The thanksgiving offering was part of the peace offering and that is the thing:
No one receives the peace of God without giving thanks to God.
Thankfulness is the deep, contented breath of Peacefulness.
Is this why He asks us to give thanks even when things look a failure? When there doesn’t seem much to give thanks for?
The beans rattle through the combine, the auger filling the bin with golden beans like bread rising slow.
There were to ten offerings of bread in every Thank-offering of the Israelites.
The first were like crackers. The second like wafers. These were known for their thinness. This was the order of thanks.
The thanks began for the thin things, the wafer things that almost weren’t, and the way to give thanks for the people of God is first to give thanks for even the meager and unlikely.
Then it came, thanks for the leavened bread. Why leaven, yeast, that seen in Scripture as impure, unwanted, as part of the thanksoffering?
Authentic thanks is always for all things, because our God is a God kneading all things into a bread that sustains. Paul gave “glory in tribulations” (Ro. 5:13) and took “pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake” (2 Cor. 12:10), and he knew that which didn’t look like anything good might yield good, all in the hand of a good God.
To bring the sacrifice of thanksgiving means to sacrifice your understanding of what is beneficial and thank God for everything because He is benevolent.
A sacrifice of thanks lays down our perspective and raises hands in praise anyways – always.
A sacrifice is by definition not an easy thing.
There is this: We give thanks to God not because of how we feel – but because of Who He is.
“See it on the monitor?”
The Farmer points to the screen to the right of the combine’s steering wheel.
“See the numbers, how many bushels an acre? If you didn’t see the numbers – you’d never guess, would you? It’s yielding much more than it looks.” He’s shaking his head in happy wonder.
“Really? How can that be?” The numbers on the screen defy the seemingly sparse, stunted crop seems and I’m laughing incredulous.
“I know! I know…” The Farmer smiles, glances down at the beans feeding in the combine head, one eye still watching number of bushels on the screen.
He who is grateful for little is given much laughter… and it’s counting the ways He loves, this is what multiplies joy.
And the life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.
Why don’t I keep an eye on the number of His graces? Why don’t I want to know that even though it doesn’t seem like there’s been enough rain, He reigns and He is enough and the bounty is greater than it appears?
That the thin places might be the places closest to God and the skinny places might be fuller than they seem and who isn’t full with Christ?
“Look how many seeds were really hiding in this pod!”
Shalom calls to me walking back across the field. “Count them, Mama.”
“Yes.” I say. “Yes, let’s count.”
And there’s this counting the ribs of the field and graces fill unexpectedly and thanksgiving is always this path to inner peace and I see it —
How the Farmer waves to me from the harvest seat, his hand turned willingly up to the sky
Counting more of the endless, One Thousand Gifts…
Thank you, Lord…
#2823 … for yield out of impossibly thin places
#2824… that You reign and You are enough
#2825… for a husband that trusts and works faithfully on
#2826… for the crazy grace of You harvesting something anyways out of the not-much: #9 for One Thousand Gifts on November’s Evangelical Christian Publishers Bestseller’s List (The gift season begins and the gratitude revolution grows, us counting all the gifts we have in Him!)
#2827… for blueberry buckle on Sunday afternoons
#2828… for standing in the congregation and singing It is Well with My Soul
#2829… for Christ who made peace for us through the blood of the cross and leads us in the way of sacrifice
#2830 that I can count on, knowing always Who I can count on
Free Printables to wear the habit of Joy
NOVEMBER’s Free Gratitude Calendar (whew! finally! Thank you for grace!)
(folding instructions for booklet here)
Will you join us? And happily change everything by keeping your own crazy list of One Thousand Gifts? Please, jump in, make your life about giving thanks to God! — Just add the direct URL to your specific 1000 gift list post… and if you join us, we humbly ask that you please help us find each other in our refrain of thanks by sharing the community’s graphic within your post. Give thanks to the Lord! His Love Endures Forever! | <urn:uuid:1094c4e7-fbff-4acf-8fd7-75b332538d91> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://annvoskamp.com/2011/11/the-first-real-thanksgiving/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00455-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953373 | 1,571 | 1.664063 | 2 |
In her new book, The Way Through the Woods, the Norwegian-Malaysian writer Long Litt Woon describes the various sensory pleasures that are involved in the gathering of mushrooms: the beguiling way they yield to the human hand; their different textures, whether velvety or hairy, rubbery or powdery; even the noises they make (some pop when snapped). Above all, there are the different ways that they smell. The prince mushroom comes with top notes of marzipan. The wood blewit brings to mind burnt rubber. The common stinkhorn emits the sweet aroma of rotting flesh.
Smell plays a vital role in a mushroom’s popularity as food – though as Loon notes, this isn’t always straightforward. Different cultures favour different smells. When the matsutake or pine mushroom was discovered by a Norwegian mycologist in 1905, it was given the name Tricholoma nauseosa on the grounds that its odour was unpleasant (the American mycologist David Arora has since described it as being reminiscent of dirty socks). In Japan, however, where those who pick it wear white gloves and there are poems describing its virtues that date from 759 BC, it is considered to smell divine – which is why, in 1999, when it was discovered that T. nauseosa and the Japanese pine mushroom are the same species, people there lobbied for the right to rename it T. matsutake (the Japanese for pine mushroom).
Long’s book, in which she recounts how mycology helped her to recover from the death of her husband, could hardly be better timed. In the UK, we’re just coming, thanks to some well-timed rain, to the end of the best mushrooming season in years. Where the British were once distinctly nervous of foraging for fungi, now everyone’s signing up for courses and merrily buying field guides. The other day I saw a newspaper headline that read: “THREE TO PICK NOW.” Beside it was a picture of a parasol mushroom. It was as if it was sale time, and the fungus was a Burberry trench or a pair of shoes by Jimmy Choo.
All this is great, of course. Even as we pursue our wretched Brexit, it seems that some of us are becoming more European, in this way at least. But I have to admit to feeling proprietorial about it, too: like a teenager whose favourite obscure band has just had a No 1. I look at the wallpaper on my phone – a picture of an enormous fly agaric that I found on Stanton Moor in Derbyshire – and wonder if I should change it. How on earth did a predilection I always thought of as rather odd suddenly become so hip?
When I was little, fly agaric, the toadstool (red with white spots) most beloved of gnomes, was a name as familiar to me as that of Basil Brush or John Noakes. My father was a mycologist – at the weekend, as if his professional status was somehow in doubt, he used to wear a T-shirt with the word “mycologist” on it – and thanks to this, mushrooms were part of the landscape of my childhood. Giant puffballs and penny buns, shaggy inkcaps and beefsteaks: how I loved these names, and how I loved to find them in the wild. If it was boring that they, unlike fly agaric, were edible – like most children, I was entranced by the idea that a mushroom could kill you – it was also magical, pushing back the grass or bracken and finding them there: miniature standing stones that you could crush with a single foot.
People talk, in these fractious times, about mindfulness. They wonder how to shut out the din, and get back to the important, elemental things in life. Mushrooms, here only fleetingly and easily damaged (though not the bit of them that hides below ground), do this effortlessly – and perhaps this is one reason for the popularity of foraging. On the hunt, you will be in a field or, more likely, a wood, which is a balm in itself. But for success, you will need both to concentrate and to be in possession, at the crucial moment, of a great and careful gentleness. Suddenly, you will see what you are looking for and, after a brief moment of what feels like resistance, it will be yours: gold that may be taken home and eaten on toast. | <urn:uuid:7ae1bbab-1c67-45ae-8189-25b96f574280> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/nov/17/why-mushroom-picking-is-the-best-form-of-mindfulness | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.977627 | 943 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Suitability of Visual Resource Assessment Procedure in Determining Public Perception of Malaysian Landscape Quality
Saidon, Mohd Nazri (2007) Suitability of Visual Resource Assessment Procedure in Determining Public Perception of Malaysian Landscape Quality. Masters thesis, Universiti Putra Malaysia.
The issue on who is responsible to determine whether visual landscape quality is good or bad, attractive or unattractive, and so forth is still in much debate. This research was conducted to investigate the preference between expert personnel and public in visual landscape quality. This is due to the problem whether either method being use by expert can represent public preferences. The hypothesis of this study is there is no significant difference in visuaI landscape quality preferences between the expert and public to the study area. The goal was to determine if the expert method (VRAP) is suitable in representing the public preferences for visual quality of Malaysian landscape. There are two groups of respondents, which are expert and public groups. The expert consists of ten ( ~ 1 0 r)e spondents conducted the field assessment by following strictly the expert method (VlUW) while the public respondents were shown thirty-six tests slide photographs (based on public method). These photographs were systematically taken at the site and the respondents were asked to rate their preferences for each photos. The scale of visual quality preference was given range fiom extremely attractive, attractive, little attractive, unattractive to extremely unattractive. The individual score (percentage ranking) of public assessment was then compared to the median (percentage ranking) of expert groups evaluation using non-parametric statistical analysis. At the same time, several statistical tests were also conducted to determine the pattern of expert and public preferences of visual quality assessment. Results indicated that there are significant difference of visual preference (p-value =O. 004) between the expert and public at the study site. This finding suggests that experts and public have difference perception of visual quality preference of Malaysian landscape. Therefore, the expert method (VRAP) is not able to represent public preferences in this study.
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Marketing strategy, behavioral economics, and (perhaps) business ethics collide in “shrinkflation”: the not-new but recently much reported-on phenomenon of resizing product volume downward rather than raising prices on consumer products—particularly groceries.
On one hand, it shouldn’t matter: whether a package in an existing size carries a higher price or is downsized while carrying the same price as the earlier, larger size, you pay more (per ounce, per pound, per paper towel sheet) either way. On the other hand, the propensity of consumer product companies to opt for same-price/smaller-package rather than higher-price/same-package suggests it does matter to them. But why?
Enter marketing strategy and behavioral economics: many people are far more sensitive to prices than they are to quantities or product volumes. That is, they treat items like a roll of paper towels, a “family size” container of ice cream, or a can of coffee beans as if they were a standard unit of measure even though they aren’t. If the price changes, they notice; if the volume or count in the package changes, they are less likely to notice. Thus, a 12.5% price increase on a 16 oz can of coffee beans may be enough to induce a given consumer to seek a substitute good, but a 2-ounce (12.5%) reduction in the size of the can of coffee beans (to 14 oz) is less likely to make the same consumer search for an alternative. In short, it’s an existing-consumer-alienation-avoidance strategy born of the heuristics many people use when comparing consumer products.
What, if anything, does this have to do with business ethics? One might be inclined to say that the practice is deceptive. However, if the price is known and the volume or unit count is displayed on the package (as is required, at least in the United States, by consumer protection law), consumers have readily available the information they need to see how much they are paying per unit of volume.
The main lesson here may be to be a smart shopper: check quantities and do the division necessary to find out how much you’re paying per ounce, per pound, or per toilet paper sheet. (Some retailers are eager to help. One of the editors shops regularly for groceries at Walmart Neighborhood Market, where price tags carry not just the price of the item, but also the price per relevant unit of measure. Amazon does something similar.) In short, be sure you know what you’re getting, not just just what you’re paying. >>>
LINK: “Shrinkflation” is hitting the grocery aisles as companies charge the same amount for less (by Aimee Picchi for CBS News)
Ice cream maker Tillamook said in a recent blog post that a sharp rise in the price of berries and other ingredients left it no choice: It would “reduce the carton size from 56oz to 48oz and keep the price the same” rather than shock shoppers with a sharp price hike.
Welcome to the post-pandemic grocery aisle, where consumers are increasingly paying the same price for less — a phenomenon known as “shrinkflation.” It’s not a new trick, as the technique often comes into play during periods of rising inflation or economic downturns, experts say.
“If you are a manufacturer or retailer, you have a couple of choices — you can keep prices the same, which means you have lower margins. Second, you can run fewer promotions, and that definitely happened in the last year,” said Anne-Marie Roerink, the founder of market research firm 210 Analytics. “And the third measure is to keep prices the same but have a little less in the box.”
She added, “In times of high inflation, your ribeye will be cut a little thinner, so you are around that price point that a consumer believes is ideal.”
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Recently the City Council passed a resolution that would require that any amendments proposed to the Uniform Development Code be subject to an economic impact analysis to see how much cost they would add to new developments. Many community activists are concerned that this would stifle public input, although the intention was to identify what extra costs would be passed on to consumers.
I don’t think it will limit public input, but the opponents raised a really interesting question. Why is the question of economic impact always one-sided, namely the side of the developer?
For centuries there has been debate over the issue of “takings.” “Takings” is when the government takes your property and has to pay you for it. About a century ago some clever lawyers came up with the idea of “regulatory takings” – whereby you put so many regulations on a property you stripped it of all its value. As with most clever concepts, it hit a hard stop in reality when even the prohibition of all development on a beach site in the Carolinas did not zero out property value (Lucas, 1989)
Here’s what gets me: Why doesn’t anyone talk about “givings?” Like when New York City doubled the zoning envelope in 1961, effectively giving every landowner a massive boost in asset value. Chicago did the same in 1957 – we were all going to be living on Mars by 2000 anyway, so it didn’t matter. Every bit of IDZ spot-zoning is a public “giving” to a private property owner. That’s what needs to be quantified.
“Givings” are in fact central to the entire history of real estate. In the 19th century canals and railroads were financed by the sale of public land along their routes. Kind of like TIRZ (TIF). In the 20th century it was hard roads and then interstate highways. Today it is tax increment financing, bonds and incentive packages.
The entire history of real estate development is a history of chasing public subsidies, primarily transportation. You hear “Location, location, location” and what that means is “transportation, markets, infrastructure.” Two-thirds of that recipe is public.
I’m not saying public support is bad. I have supported public subsidies of private developments that really made a difference. I’m just saying you need to count on both sides.
Back in the 1980s, there were so-called “impact fees” that municipalities would assess new residential developments that required new sewers, schools, streets, sidewalks, security, etc. That led to whining, which led to the era of “property rights” and by the 90s there were attempts in Congress to compensate owners for the reduction in the property value caused by regulations.
That silliness aside, the question has always been formulated on only one side of the equation: What are they taking from the property owner?
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Appuldurcombe House (also spelt Appledorecombe or Appledore Combe) is the shell of a large 18th-century baroque country house of the Worsley family. The house is situated near to Wroxall on the Isle of Wight.
Homes - Historic
It is now managed by English Heritage and is open to the public. A small part of the large and 1.2 km² estate which once surrounded it is still intact, but other features of the estate are still visible in the surrounding farmland and nearby village of Wroxall, including the entrance to the park, the Freemantle Gate, now used only by farm animals and pedestrians. | <urn:uuid:40121f97-6ce5-4d89-aece-ca51da7ccd09> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/appuldurcombe-house/view/google/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00122-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963911 | 141 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Rails commands, such as generators, migrations, and tests, have a tendency to be slow because they need to load the Rails app each time. Here I show three tools to make this faster: Zeus, Spring, and Commands.
Learn how to add performance tests that automate benchmark and profile reports. Here I show how to find the bottlenecks to optimize a page. I also show how to compile Ruby with gcdata to get information about memory usage. | <urn:uuid:83c87f10-01dd-413a-a123-0ac1354a1d78> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://railscasts.com/episodes/413-fast-tests?view=similar | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00530-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920887 | 96 | 1.78125 | 2 |
If you have or are having difficulty becoming pregnant, chances are pretty good that iodine deficiency is your culprit. Your whole body needs iodine and the highest concentrations can be found in your uterus and ovaries among others. Hypothyroidism A.K.A. Iodine deficiency can cause menstrual irregularities, decreaseddrive, , failure to ovulate, premature childbirth and pre-eclampsia. Some women experience an autoimmune version of hypothyroidism in which their bodies are producing killer cells which attacks their own tissues (including their own thyroid or an embryo). If you have symptoms of hypothyroidism and have experienced a miscarriage then you definitely need to begin supplementing with the list of vitamins provided on the I'm deficient, Now what? page.Though Iodine is the number one supplement it works synergistically with other vitamins, minerals and nutrients. The consequences of not resolving your deficiencies is the likeliness that you will not be able to maintain a pregnancy without treatment.
Deficiency of iodine seems to cause more damage in developing embryos and in fact, in pregnant women iodine deficiency causes abortions and stillborns. It is not cretinism alone that holds risks from deficiency, but the very survival of the infant itself. Adequate iodine may also provide protection from infection and vaccine damage. In a study done on 617 infants between the ages of 6 weeks and six months, in an iodine deficient area, it was shown that with the addition of 100 mg of iodine oil to the diet of newborns, that the death rate of infants was markedly lower than for those without any supplementation.
Hypothyroidism is a common cause of infertility in women and incompetent sperm in men. Many childless couples have the misfortune to be hypothyroid (one or both partners) and yet not have an abnormal lab value (T3 or T4 test) to convince the doctor to prescribe thyroid replacement therapy.
Another common symptom of hypothyroidism is dysfunction of the female cycle. In children, the onset of menses may be delayed or, paradoxically, it may come years early with hypothyroidism. At the other end, menopause may happen much too early or much too late. During childbearing years the menstrual cycle may be upset in just about any pattern imaginable. The most common condition is that of irregular bleeding. The lining of the uterus, the endometrium, just like other tissues in the body, requires thyroid hormone for proper growth and function.
Iodine during pregnancy is so much more important than anything else. Severe iodine deficiency in a mother's diet during pregnancy increases the risk of miscarriage and stillbirth. If the baby survives to term, it is likely to suffer irreversible mental retardation. This is known as cretinism and is a major cause of preventable intellectual impairment in low iodine areas. Mildly iodine-deficient children have learning disabilities and poor motivation. The developing fetus, newborn and young children are most susceptible to the effects of an iodine- deficient diet, and treatment before conception or in early pregnancy is essential to prevent irreversible damage. Breast milk contains more iodine than formula milk and premature babies who are formula-fed may be at risk of deficiency. Take a look here to see the scary side of iodine deficiency during pregnancy.
In newborns, iodine deficiency causes cretinism (neonatal hypothyroidism), which is characterized by jaundice, poor appetite, constipation, a hoarse cry, outpouching of the navel (umbilical hernia), and slowed bone growth. If not diagnosed and treated within a few months of birth, iodine deficiency results in mental retardation. Iodine deficiency that begins in childhood (juvenile hypothyroidism) slows growth, sometimes resulting in disproportionately short limbs as well as delayed development of teeth.
Ideally one would achieve full body sufficiency of not just Iodine but all other vitamins and mineral prior to trying to conceive, However, if you are already pregnant (congratulations!) there is more to it than pop an iodine pill. The whole point of this site is to encourage you to be more active in your health care, and that means giving you the pros and cons so that you can make an informed decision. Because iodine pushes out heavy metals some will cross the placenta and affect your unborn baby, although it will anyways because your body naturally does this anyway, the iodine increases the amount excreted. However, the iodine your child receives is beneficial in helping their bodies excrete toxic metals as well, as you can read below, any risks are far outweighed by the benefits of iodine supplementation.
"Growth and development of 207 children (49% males; mean age 5.4 years [SD 0.2], range 4 to 7.3 years whose mothers received iodine during pregnancy, and children who received iodine first in their 2nd year, were examined in 1996; 192 children (49% males; mean age 6.5 years[SD 0.2], range 5.8 to 6.9 years) whose mothers received iodine while pregnant were seen in 1998. Children were from the southern part of China's Xinjiang Province which has the lowest levels of iodine in water and soil ever recorded. Head circumference but not height was improved for those who received iodine during pregnancy (compared with those receiving iodine at age 2) and for those supplemented before the end of the 2nd trimester (relative to those supplemented during the 3rd trimester). Iodine before the 3rd trimester predicted higher psychomotor test scores for children relative to those provided iodine later in pregnancy or at 2 years. Results from the test for cognitive development resulted in trend only differences between those children supplemented during pregnancy versus later."
"The literature search revealed that 60 million mainland Japanese consume a daily average of 13.8 mg of elemental iodine and they are one of the healthiest nations, based on overall wellbeing and cancer statistics (4). Japanese women do not stop consuming iodine-rich foods during pregnancy, and Japanese fetuses are exposed to maternal peripheral levels of iodide at concentrations of 10-5M to 10-6M (1-4). Either the Japanese are mutants, capable of striving on toxic levels of iodine or we have been grossly deceived, and the human body needs at least 100 times the RDA, which was established very recently in 1980 and confirmed in 1989!! (7)"
It affects animals in the same way!
"The results demonstrated that iodine supplementation restores fertility of sheep living in iodine deficient areas and may represent a means to achieve a silent iodine prophylaxis of local populations."
Anderson’s ‘LSD file’ holds a pile of research papers (mainly international) linking iodine, vitamin E and selenium with better immune responses and lamb survival when given pre-lambing. Research covers sheep and cows, even American buffalo and Awassi sheep.
There is also research on the benefits of selenium and iodine given pre-tuppping. For example, ewes given 50mg of selenium three weeks before mating had heavier twin lambs. The lambs also had a ‘boosted’ immune system (levels of glutathione peroxidase).
In another trial, iodine deficient ewes were given a ‘hefty’ 480mg dose of iodine pre-tupping and had a radically improved lambing percentage. In this overseas trial, the ewes achieved 100% vs only 37% for non-supplemented ewes (Ferris, 2003).
"Iodine supplementation (20 mg KI twice weekly) to ewes during the last month of pregnancy and the first 3 months of lactation increased productivity. Production traits enhanced by this treatment included the birth weight (3.9 vs 3.5 kg; P < 0.01), survival (84% vs 64 %), growth rate (P < 0.05), and mature SIP wool follicle ratio of lambs (1 4.9 ¦ 1.2 vs 10.3 ¦ 1.6). " | <urn:uuid:dbae2377-4ad5-4e2d-87e0-58d9690d14ac> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://theiodineproject.webs.com/pregnancyandiodine.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283008.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00079-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95236 | 1,651 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Police cracking down on drivers passing buses
Camera system approved for Frederick buses
Area police will be watching for drivers who don’t stop for school buses.
The Woodstock Police Department has reported an influx of calls concerning vehicles that fail to stop on the southern end of Main Street for school buses dropping off or picking up students.
Police Chief Eric Reiley said even though students don’t necessarily cross the street in that area, drivers aren’t exempt from obeying state law. Passing a school bus that is stopped with its lights flashing constitutes reckless driving. Only drivers who are traveling on the opposite side of a roadway separated by a physical barrier or unpaved area are not required to stop for buses.
“I think it’s just a lack of awareness, just because the road is so wide,” he said. “I don’t know that they realize that you do have to stop.”
He said officers will be stationed near the problem area and on the lookout for violations.
Lt. Charles Bockey, of the Warren County Sheriff’s Office, said that he isn’t aware of any issues with drivers not stopping for school buses so far this year.
Frederick County school buses now have the all-clear to equip stop arm cameras, which would capture footage while a bus’ stop arm is extended. Violators, as determined through footage and information vetted through the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office, would pay a $250 civil penalty to the county.
Last week, the Frederick County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved an amendment to county code that authorizes such a system. Steve Edwards, Frederick County Schools’ coordinator of policy and communications, said the division has considered stop arm cameras for more than a year.
“Now that we’ve got that final ordinance amendment…we’re able to proceed now with that,” he said. “… There needed to be a change made in state code as well, which the General Assembly addressed this past legislative session in January.”
Edwards said the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office has been a partner with the schools in trying to equip buses with cameras. He said the division will start off by reaching an agreement with a stop-arm camera vendor.
Redflex Traffic Systems, one such vendor that the division has considered, offers its system to schools for no upfront cost. Documents from a meeting of the county’s Code & Ordinance Committee state that the vendor of the schools’ cameras would collect 75 percent of revenue generated from fines.
Frederick supervisors suggested that funds collected from the video monitoring system could be distributed to personnel at the county Sheriff’s Office or General District Court clerk’s office. The Board of Supervisors saved further discussion on that issue for a later date.
Contact staff writer Rachel Mahoney at 540-465-5137 ext. 164, or [email protected]
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MONDAY, July 18, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Offensive linemen who play college football -- even at small Division III schools -- are getting bigger than ever, a new study shows.
Researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston found these players were 38 percent heavier than their counterparts were in 1956. Meanwhile, the average male's weight increased only 12 percent during the same period.
"Through selective recruiting, weight training and nutrition ['hyper-nutrition'], we end up with a population of large linemen," said senior study author Dr. David Greenblatt, professor of integrative physiology and pathobiology.
"The public health issue is that everybody involved with American football needs to develop concerted ways to assure the health of players when their football days are over," he said in a Tufts news release.
"The results of our study emphasize the importance of helping these players to develop a healthy post-football lifestyle in order to reduce their risks of serious long-term health complications," Greenblatt added.
Such complications include heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure.
For the study, the researchers examined the football rosters of 10 colleges and universities in the New England Small College Athletic Conference. Rosters from 1956 to 2014 were analyzed in five-year intervals.
The researchers divided the players in groups based on the position they played. Using game programs and rosters available online, they also recorded the athletes' weight, height and BMI -- a measure used to determine if someone is a healthy weight for their height. The data on the players was then compared with a control group of average men between the ages of 20 and 29.
The mean weight of the offensive linemen in the study surged 38 percent, but their height increased only 3.8 percent overall since 1956, the study found.
The researchers noted the weight changes among players in other positions, such as quarterbacks, wide receivers and kickers, were similar to the men in the control group.
After analyzing the players' BMI, the study showed the average BMI of the offensive linemen in 1956 was 26, compared to nearly 34 in 2014.
Nearly one out of three offensive linemen had a BMI greater than 35. None of the offensive linemen who played in the conference in 1956 had a BMI over 35. The researchers explained that people with a BMI over 30 are considered obese.
The researchers added that more studies are needed to determine if athletes in other Division III conferences had similar changes in size over the past several decades.
The findings were published on July 12 in the Journal of Athletic Training.
The NCAA Sport Science Institute offers more on the body composition of college athletes.
SOURCE: Tufts University, news release, July 12, 2016
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June 21, 2002, Issue No. 62
AHRQ News and Numbers
In 2000, 145,432 U.S. patients were hospitalized for bronchoscopy and biopsy of the bronchus, with an average length of stay of 9.3 days and an average charge of $27,786. [Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, Nationwide Inpatient Sample.]
- New AHRQ/CDC report on physical activity in older Americans
- Experience in Florida SCHIP may provide lessons for other States' re-enrollment requirements
- Research shows that elderly with osteoarthritis can become more responsible for their care and improve their quality of life
- Expanding patient-centered care to empower patients and assist providers
- New Evidence-based Practice Centers awarded
- Correction to link to NIH Consensus Statement on management of chronic hepatitis C
- Journal article details development of MEPS databases
- Web-assisted audioconferences on bioterrorism: View Web events or order audiotapes
- National Health Care Quality Report fact sheet available
- AHRQ in the professional literature
1. New AHRQ/CDC Report on Physical Activity in Older Americans
AHRQ and CDC developed a white paper on Physical Activity in Older Americans to accompany President Bush's activities this week to promote physical fitness. This report describes the importance of physical activity, the prevalence and costs of inactivity, and the health benefits of regular activity. It also recommends levels of physical activity in older adults.
2. Experience in Florida SCHIP May Provide Lessons for Other States' Re-Enrollment Requirements
AHRQ announced new study findings indicating that Florida's "passive re-enrollment" policy, which does not require parents to take steps to prove that their children are still eligible for the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), results in a significantly lower percentage of children losing coverage than in States that require parents to verify periodically their children's eligibility. The research is part of a set of studies being conducted under the Child Health Insurance Research Initiative (CHIRI™), jointly sponsored by AHRQ, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and HRSA. The findings of the study, "The Consequences of States' Policies for SCHIP Disenrollment," were published in the June 2002 issue of Health Care Financing Review. Select to access the AHRQ press release and the CHIRI™ Issue Brief, which summarizes the article. A print copy is available by sending an E-mail to [email protected].
3. Research Shows That Elderly With Osteoarthritis Can Become More Responsible for Their Care and Improve Their Quality of Life
AHRQ announced a Research in Action synthesis about how elderly patients with osteoarthritis can become more active and responsible for their own care, make more informed decisions, help to control the costs of health care, and improve their quality of life. The Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (CDSMP) has helped patients manage their symptoms and reduce health care use. The Well Elderly Study showed that providing preventive occupational therapy to the elderly helps improve their personal and social relationships as well as their health status. Select to access this synthesis, Managing Osteoarthritis: Helping the Elderly Maintain Function and Mobility. A print copy is available by sending an E-mail to [email protected].
4. Expanding Patient-centered Care To Empower Patients and Assist Providers
AHRQ announced a Research in Action synthesis suggesting that a broader use of tools developed by the Agency can help patients, providers, and health plans make better choices when choosing a health plan, obtaining quality care, avoiding medical errors, and getting preventive care. As health care moves toward a patient-centered model rather than a disease-centered model, these tools can help patients become more active in their care. Tools developed as a result of AHRQ funding include the Consumer Assessment of Health Plans (CAHPS®), Your Guide to Choosing Quality Health Care, and preventive services tools such as Personal Health Guide, Child Health Guide, and Staying Healthy at 50+. Select to access the research synthesis, Expanding Patient-Centered Care To Empower Patients and Assist Providers. A print copy is available by sending an E-mail to [email protected].
5. New Evidence-based Practice Centers Awarded
AHRQ announced 13 new 5-year contracts awarded to serve as Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPCs). The EPCs will provide a variety of services and products, including development of evidence reports and technology assessments. The reports and assessments are systematic reviews of the evidence based on rigorous, comprehensive syntheses and analyses of relevant scientific literature, emphasizing explicitly detailed documentation of methods, rationales, and assumptions. Select to access the list of the new EPCs.
6. Correction to Link To NIH Consensus Statement on Management of Chronic Hepatitis C
In last week's issue, we announced the summary of a new evidence report on the Management of Chronic Hepatitis C by AHRQ's Evidence-based Practice Center at Johns Hopkins University. This evidence report was used as the basis of the NIH Consensus Development Conference on June 10-11. However, the link we provided to the NIH Consensus Statement was incorrect. The correct link is http://consensus.nih.gov/cons/116/116cdc_intro.htm. Also, select to access the evidence report summary.
7. Journal Article Details Development of MEPS Databases
An article in the May/June 2002 issue of Journal of Effective Clinical Practice, "The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey: An Overview," details the development, content, and uses of MEPS databases and tells readers how to obtain the data. The author is AHRQ's Steven B. Cohen, Ph.D. A print copy is available by sending an E-mail to [email protected].
8. Web-Assisted Audioconferences on Bioterrorism: View Web Events or Order Audiotapes
AHRQ's User Liaison Program cosponsored with CDC on April 29, 30, and May 1 Web-assisted audioconferences on Bioterrorism and Health System Preparedness: Emerging Tools, Methods and Strategies.
Event 1 on April 29 was called Enhancing Public Health, Health Care System, and Clinician Preparedness: Strategies to Promote Coordination and Communication.
Event 2 on April 30 was called Promoting Clinical Readiness.
Event 3 on May 1 was called Assessing Hospital and Health System Preparedness and Response.
Select to access the sessions. To order the audiotapes, send an E-mail to [email protected].
9. National Health Care Quality Report Fact Sheet Available
AHRQ developed a fact sheet on the status of the congressionally mandated National Quality Report (NQR). The NQR will include a broad set of performance measures that will be used to measure the Nation's progress toward improved health care quality. The Agency is currently in the design phase of the initiative and expects to deliver the first NQR to Congress in fiscal year 2003. A print copy of the fact sheet is available by sending an E-mail to [email protected].
10. AHRQ in the Professional Literature
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Chan E, Zhan C, Homer CJ. Health care use and costs for children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2002 May; 156(5):504-11. Select to access the abstract on PubMed®.
Zuvekas SH, Regler DA, Rae DS, et al. The impacts of mental health parity and managed care in one large employer group. Health Aff 2002 May-Jun; 21(3):148-59. Select to access the abstract on PubMed®.
Sohn M. A relational approach to measuring competition among hospitals. Health Serv Res 2002 Apr; 37(2):457-82. Select to access the abstract on PubMed®.
Eisenberg JM, Zarin D. Health technology assessment in the United States. Int J Technol Assess Health Care 2002 Spring; 18(2):192-8.
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If pharmacists and technicians are properly trained at navigating the idiosyncrasies of managing medication with limited shelf-life, you’ll be in a better position to save on your pharmacy spend.
As with any perishable item, short-dated drugs are more prone to the risk of destruction if they are not managed appropriately. These medications should be approached differently to help ensure that the product is used for its original intended purpose – to treat patients. Whether stock is aging on the shelf, a short-dated discount becomes available, or there is limited supply in the market, pharmacy teams are often faced with having to procure & manage short-dated inventory. How effectively and proficiently this is done can be the difference between dollars saved or dollars lost within the hospital pharmacy’s budget.
With the proper procedures in place, pharmacy teams can drive down their drug spend by sourcing manufacturer surplus, improving medication access for the healthcare facility, and helping to reduce the risk of drug destruction by making the right decisions with short-dated product internally.
Here the 7 best practices to follow:
▪️Don’t buy more than you need – Look at your Average Monthly Utilization (AMU) of the drug and calculate how many months are left on the drug’s lot. Then subtract any system dating thresholds to determine the appropriate quantity to purchase. For example, if a lot has 5 months to expiration, your AMU is 75 packs, and your hospital has a policy of removing product from the floor that has 60 days to expiry or less, you’ll only want to purchase up to 3 months’ worth of the drug.
▪️Check inventory on hand – After you figure out your average usage rate, confirm in your inventory management system (or put eyes on the shelves) how much stock you have on hand today. What’s the expiration date? Using the example above, if you have 25 packs already on hand (and it too is short-dated), you may want to trim the order quantity down to 200 packs.
▪️Verify any spatial limitations – All pharmacies are different: from the people, location, specialty, and size. Confirm that you have the physical space to store the product that you are evaluating. If your typical storage area is at or near capacity – consider extra shelving, modifying to a library-style shelving system, or propose an alternate (over-flow) storage area at your next pharmacy meeting.
▪️Calculate your true savings – Before committing to the purchase, figure out both your Wholesale Acquisition Cost (WAC) and your Actual Acquisition Cost (AAC) savings to help with pharmacy cost-containment initiatives. Remember to keep track of your drug savings analytics each month! Depending on the dating, short-dated discounts can range from 20-60% off what you’d typically pay
▪️Color-code – Once your short-dated product arrives from the supplier, label the outside of the drug’s packaging with a color (i.e. a green sticker) to indicate that the product has limited dating and should be placed in front of any other full-dated items on the shelf.
▪️Transition from FIFO (First In, First Out) to LIFO (Last In, First Out) inventory management practice when stocking short-dated pharmaceuticals. Some pharmacy teams have adopted to a FEFO (First Expired, First Out) policy that examines each lot’s date so that the product closer to expiry is used first.
▪️Incentivize good practices – Pharmacy technicians who manage short-dated inventory effectively can be the difference between saving or losing significant dollars within the department. Rewarding the pharmacy staff starts with acknowledging the cost-savings achieved (and waste avoided) with proficient inventory management. Healthcare systems should consider incentives both monetary (as part of the employee’s performance evaluation) and non-monetary (with additional vacation time or a special lunch).
Coming off the manufacturer’s production line, the average shelf life of a drug is between 24-36 months. Especially with multi-source generic medications where product availability/pricing ebbs and flows depending on drug companies entering or leaving the market, it is inevitable that you have to address short-dated inventory. However, proactive pharmacy teams will have the advantage. If pharmacists and technicians are properly trained at navigating the idiosyncrasies of managing medication with limited shelf-life, you’ll be in a better position to save on your pharmacy spend whenever manufacturer discounts become available, stock up on short-dated supply (and pivot to FIFO or FEFO) whenever there are market shortages or limited allocations, and ultimately play a role, however small it may be, at a reducing unnecessary waste in the pharmaceutical supply chain | <urn:uuid:6ac1814e-d5d3-4f5e-8a44-97c60f88336f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pharmahub.com.ng/best-practices-for-pharmacies-managing-short-dated-inventory/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00073.warc.gz | en | 0.929763 | 995 | 2.078125 | 2 |
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Senators Suggest Dropping Checked Baggage Fees to Reduce Wait Time at Airport Security Checkpoints
Two U.S. senators from New England said they know how to reduce the long airport security checkpoint lines that have recently dominated the headlines.
Senators Edward Markey of Massachusetts and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut called for the nation’s airlines to temporarily suspend their checked baggage fees in order for passengers to move more quickly through the screening process.
Last week, the Transportation Security Administration, which is responsible for manning and managing the checkpoints, said it would increase the number of agents and canine teams and expand the PreCheck trusted traveler program. It also said it would ask airlines and airports to assist with non-security related tasks such as returning bins to the front of the lines so that more of its agents could man the lines.
The two senators said they know that suspending the fees wouldn’t completely eliminate the lines but believe it is a start.
Airlines are unlikely to heed the senators’ advice, as it will result in longer check-in lines for passengers to check their bags as well as higher fares to offset the loss in revenue from fees for checked luggage.
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St. Mary the Virgin, Wilshaw Road, Wilshaw
- location: Wilshaw Road, Wilshaw
- status: exists
- category: church
- architect/builder: John Kirk (1817-1886)
- notes: the western section of the church was the Sunday School
Historic England Listing
- first listed: 24 January 1984
- listing entry number 1134671
WILSHAW ROAD (Wilshaw). Church of St. Mary. A church of highly eclectic design, having some German Romanesque forms, the elaborate central tower roof of French gothic type, and the windows typical of the Italian Renaissance. Built 1863 by John Kirk of Huddersfield at the expense of Joseph Hirst of Wilshaw. Hammer dressed stone.
Exterior: Pitched slate roof with round arched corbel table. Symmetrical plan with church to east and former Sunday School to west with large vestibule surmounted by large square tower with very steep pyramidal roof with lozenge slating and decorative ironwork to top. Large central porch on north side, with panelled double doors and semi-circular fanlight with turned radial glazing bars. Doorway has colonnette in reveals with foliated capitals, and moulded and decorated arch. Oculus in gable apex of porch with stone wheel in front of glass. 5-bay nave to left with round-arched 2-light windows with circle in head and three detached colonnettes to each window, which has archivolt. The one-bay chancel side windows are similar but without the circle in head. The east window is 3-light with a detached outer skin with four colonnettes and two circles, each with stone wheel. The hood mould has well carved angels as stops. The 5-bay Sunday School to right has similar detailing to the church, but more plain. Warden's house (formerly the vicarage) to west end with addition to match the chancel. The central tower has octagonal stair tower on south side with pointed lozenge slated roof and spiral stone stairs. The tower has, on each side, two tall round arched cross windows with archivolts, colonnettes in reveals and as centre mullion, circle in head, and round arched lights. Louvred lucarnes in roof of tower.
Interior: round chancel arch on clustered responds. Gallery to rear with well carved oak front with panels of different foliage patterns. Arched braced collar beam roof. Barrel vaulted chancel roof in wood. Pulpit, reading desk and organ case, all elaborately carved in oak in round arched style with foliage and spiral decorated colonnettes. Choir stall fronts equally well carved each with three wheels and musical instruments carved in spandrels. Carved oak lectern of 1902. Memorial to Joseph Hirst of 1876: a marble low relief carving of the legend of the Good Samaritan in elaborate well carved stone surround. East window by Clayton and Bell in memory of Mary, the only child of Jospeh and Eleanor Hirst, c.1863. Vestibule beneath the tower and Sunday School, quite plain.
- Huddersfield & District Family History Society — baptisms 1873-1952
- Huddersfield & District Family History Society — burials 1874-1898
- Ancestry.co.uk — births & baptisms 1863-1910
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The Jersey Devil, sometimes called the Leeds Devil, is a creature said to live in the Pine Barrens in southern New Jersey. The creature is often described as a flying biped with hooves. The story of its exist has been around for over 260 years. There are apparently over 2,000 eyewitnesses reports and its sighting has been responsible for the closing of schools and factories at times when it was at its peak.
The origin of the creature lies in a legend concerning a Mrs Jane Leeds who came from a poor family in the Pine Barrens of Jersey. In 1735 she was pregnant with her 13th child and she said to friends and relatives that the “Devil can take the next one”, and supposedly he did. When the baby was born it was said to be a deformed monster. It supposedly grew to more than 20 feet long, with a reptilian body, a horse’s head, bat wings and a long, forked tail. It then escaped up the chimney (or out of a window depending on the version of the tale) and began haunting the Pine Barrens. Some said Mrs Leeds was a witch and the father of the child was the devil. Another legend says a young girl fell in love with a British soldier during the Revolutionary War and the people of Leeds Point cursed the girl. When she gave birth to a child it looked like the devil. In 1740 a priest was brought in to exorcise the devil from the area and for years it was not seen.
Alfred Heston, the local historian for the area, believes that the Jersey Devil could have been born to either the Leeds or the Shrouds families. Mr Heston discovered that a Daniel Leeds had land in Great Egg Harbour in 1699 and the family home was in Leeds Point.
Sightings of the devil started again when it was seen in the 1800s.
Joseph Bonaparte, former king of Spain and brother of the famous Napoleon Bonaparte, reported seeing the Jersey Devil in Bordentown between 1816 and 1839 when out hunting.
In the 1840s a strange creature with a piercing scream and odd hoof-like footprints was reported to be killing livestock in the area around the Pine Barrens.
On January 16th 1909 it was seen by many people:
Thack Cozzens of Woodbury reported seeing a flying creature with glowing eyes. John Mcowen heard and saw the creature on the banks of a canal. Policeman James Sackville fired on a strange creature as it flew away. E. W. Minister, Postmaster for Bristol, also reported seeing a bird-like creature with a horse head and a piercing scream. Mr and Mrs Nelson Evans of Gloucester were awakened by a strange noise and on looking out of the window, Mr Nelson watched what he claimed was the Jersey Devil for 10 minutes.
On January 19th 1909 a Burlington police officer and the Reverend John Pursell of Pemberton reported seeing the Jersey Devil. Reverend John Pursell was quoted as saying “Never saw anything like it before.”
On January 20th 1909 it was seen by members of by the Black Hawk Social Club and also seen by a trolley full of people in Clementon. Mrs Sorbinski of Camden heard a commotion in her back yard. Upon inspection, she discovered the Jersey Devil with her dog in its grasp. Mrs Sorbinski beat the Jersey Devil with a broom until it dropped her dog and flew off into the night.
Then on January 21st 1909 Camden police officer Louis Strehr witnessed the Jersey Devil drinking from his horse’s trough.
The next documented sighting was in 1927 when a cab driver on his way to Salem got flat tyre and whilst he was fixing it, an upright-standing creature landed on the roof of his cab. The creature shook the cab violently and the cab driver ran away. When he returned it had gone.
In August 1930 berry pickers at Leeds Point and Mays Landing reported seeing the Devil in the fields eating blueberries and cranberries. It was reported again two weeks later in the north.
In November 1951 a group of children were allegedly cornered by the Devil at the Duport Clubhouse in Gibbstown. The creature left without causing any harm.
In 1960 a group of people near Mays Landing were scared by strange cries and screams. State officials tried to calm the nervous residents but no explanation could be found for the strange sounds. Harry Hunt, who owned the Hunt Brothers Circus, offered $100,000 for the capture of the creature.
In 1961 a couple were parked up along a road in the Pine Barrens when they heard a loud screeching noise outside. Suddenly the roof of their car smashed and the screeching sound was now right on top of them. The couple fled but later said when they returned they saw an unknown creature flying along the treeline making the same screeching noise.
In 1966 the Jersey Devil was blamed for the death of 31 ducks, 3 geese, 4 cats and two dogs at a local farm. One of the dogs was a large German shepherd found with its throat ripped out.
In 1987 in Vinland, another German shepherd was found torn apart and the body apparently gnawed upon. The body was located 25 feet from where the dog was chained up. Around the body were strange tracks.
In 1993 a forest ranger named John Irwin was driving along the Mullica River in southern New Jersey. He found the road ahead of him blocked by what looked like the Jersey Devil. He described it as being about six feet tall with horns and matted black fur. Irwin stated that he and the creature stared at one another for several minutes before the monster finally turned and ran into the forest.
More recently, in 2004 on a snowy winter night the Winkelmann children were playing outside when they were scared by a creature and headed indoors. Later that night Mrs Winkelmann and her 11-year-old son headed outside to unplug Christmas lights and they noticed a two-legged winged creature in the trees above. The woman and her child ran back to the house as the creature landed on their roof. For the rest of the night the entire family stayed safely locked inside the house. The next morning when they went outside they noticed footprints on the roof and took pictures as evidence to prove the story was real.
This site: http://www.njdevilhunters.com/ claims to be official jersey devil hunters site includes reports of sightings up to 2003.
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According to Occam’s Razor, the best explanation of any phenomenon is the simplest. In the case of the World Trade Center towers, this criterion would certainly favor the analysis that the towers were weakened by aircraft impacts, further weakened by fire, and ultimately fell in a gravity-driven progressive collapse.
A variety of evidence indicates that the Twin Towers were indeed struck by large commercial (or militarized) jet aircraft, and that the wing structures of those aircraft were massive and strong enough to slice like a knife through the exterior columns (and perhaps even some interior columns) of the buildings — leaving each tower intact, to be sure, but in a structurally precarious condition. The ensuing fires certainly would certainly have caused some further progressive weakening of the structures. In this situation, it seems reasonable that some interior floors might have partially or completely collapsed, or disconnected from the exterior columns. As the unsupported height of the exterior columns increased, the idea of a sudden buckling around the perimeter of the building doesn’t seem impossible, especially if the core columns were already weakened by fire and aircraft damage. And this is exactly what is seen in the videos of the collapse: without any sign of explosive cutter charges going off, the exterior columns appear to yield in a process of smooth and uniform crushing, almost as if they simply melted away.
After the collapse initiation, the videos appear to show a “zone of destruction” accelerating downwards at almost free-fall speed, with the intact upper stories of the towers pounding against the stationary lower stories in a spectacular orgy of mutual destruction, with dust and structural fragments thrown outwards in massive volume — until finally nothing can be seen except the billowing cloud moving downwards and also hanging in the air and exploding upwards at the same time. An explanation for this phenomenon was provided in a paper by Bazant & Zhou that was allegedly written and rushed through peer review in a matter of days after 9/11: the amount of energy required to buckle and break the columns of the WTC towers is quite trivial compared to the gravitational potential energy of the towers, assuming that the appropriate leverage is applied by the dynamics of the collapse.
A more imponderable factor is the possibility of accelerated combustion during such a collapse process. As the collapse initiated, the contents of the smoldering office fire would have been swept downwards into a turbulent maelstrom. Could the flaming embers have been fanned to hotter temperatures by this turbulent compressed air, and quickly ignited more flammable materials encountered at each new floor on the way down? Any such process would be limited by the amount of air contained in the towers as the collapse began; but if as much as 50% of this oxygen had been consumed in such an accelerated process of combustion during the 10 seconds it took for each building to collapse, the energy released would have been equivalent to 165 tons of TNT. Such an energy source could go a long ways towards accounting for the explosive appearance of the collapses, and for the expansion of the dust clouds.
However credible this scenario might seem, it has been challenged in virtually every detail by many investigators well aware of the long history of false-flag operations perpetrated by governments preparing their people for war. The evidence is overwhelming, from many lines of argument, that 9/11 was just such a false-flag inside job; the collapse of the World Trade Center must be evaluated in light of that basic fact. In context, the needs of the perpetrators for an operationally successful event must have taken the highest possible precedence. For that reason alone, considering the many imponderables of the collapse process, it seems unlikely that the perpetrators would have left the collapse of the towers to chance. A partial or asymmetrical collapse, or non-collapse, would have been catastrophic to their plans. Thus, it seems highly probable that the perpetrators planned some technological means to insure the outcome.
Moving along to more specific arguments: firstly, it seems unlikely that the fires in the buildings were intense enough to have substantially weakened the structure much beyond the initial damage caused by the aircraft impacts. A substantial portion of the fuel on board the aircraft would have flashed in the fireball seen on impact, while any remaining fuel would have either burned off quickly, or drained to lower floors. After the jet fuel was gone, the remaining fire would have been simply a typical office fire, as indicated by the smoldering black smoke that was emerging from the flames. Such fires do not burn hot enough even to significantly weaken structural steel, much less cause a collapse; and has often been pointed out, no other modern steel-framed skyscraper has ever been destroyed by such a fire.
The collapse initiation scenario of Bazant & Zhou has been disputed by Gordon Ross, who argues that the entire building both above and below the collapse zone should have acted like a resilient system of springs and dampers that would have absorbed and dissipated some of the energy of impact, stopping or at least slowing the initial collapse. Also, there is no reason why all the columns on the initiating floor should all buckle at the same time, offering no further resistance, as postulated by Bazant & Zhou; again, in the event that a single column failed in a buckling mode, the surrounding web of beams, columns and floors would be subject to both elastic and inelastic deflections which would redistribute the load while absorbing kinetic and potential energy, slowing or halting the onset of the collapse.
However plausible the “accelerated combustion” scenario might (or might not) be, it is very difficult to account for such processes generating extremely high, directed and explosive pressures. The intensively energetic nature of the collapses has been extensively documented by investigations of video footage and other photographic records, interviews with eyewitnesses, first responders and cleanup crews, forensic reports on the dust and debris, and analysis of seismographic recordings and infrared thermal imaging reports. The results of these investigations, as well as the basic questions about the plausibility of the gravity-driven collapse scenario, have led to extensive speculation as to whether the collapse of the Twin Towers was actually caused by some sort of intentional demolition, and if so, how this could have been accomplished.
Derrick Grimmer suggested in 2003 that the core columns could have been quietly destroyed by thermite. He estimated that a core column could be melted by a coating of thermite of approximately 2 inches thick, and that 11 metric tons of thermite should be more than sufficient to provide the energy needed to drive the expansion of the pyroclastic cloud of hot gas and dust that enveloped Manhattan as a result of the collapse of the towers, as calculated by Jim Hoffman. Grimmer suggested that this modest amount of thermite could have been installed at the time of the towers’ construction, or that it could have been applied as an “insulation coating” during routine maintenance.
However, in Spring 2005, an anonymous “Finnish Military Expert” argued that there were some aspects of the WTC event that could not be explained by any conventional thermal or explosive technology, but could only be explained by the use of a pure fusion device similar to what I have suggested above. The Finnish expert cited the predominance of extremely small particles < 300 microns in size in the dust (typical of nuclear molecular decomposition rather than any chemical process); a brown shade of color in the air; selectively burned cars in the parking areas and other effects resembling EMP (electromagnetic pulse) induction; superheated pools of molten steel, including core columns melted completely to a height of 65 feet; elevated tritium levels in the WTC debris; a blast wave whose onset was very soon after the first collapse began, which apparently destroyed WTC6 (the customs building) before it was struck by falling debris, and which ejected steel columns outwards to a distance of up to 175 meters. This Finnish expert mentioned the thermite theory as well as the possibility that explosive cutting charges were used, and he denied that either of these methods could account for all the effects.
Recognizing that any nuclear explosives used must have had fairly low yield and precise effects, the Finnish Military Expert wrote:
While looking for a bomb with a small size and a strong effect, a pure hydrogen bomb was an obvious solution. When no atomic device is needed for igniting, the size of the hydrogen bomb gets even smaller and the yield (effect) can be set within a wide range, for example between from 1 to 100. This succeeded in the 1980’s, as well as the neutron bomb, which kills only living things and leaves most material untouched.
A remarkable claim, yet casually asserted as if it were an indisputable matter of fact. In 2007, the Expert published an addendum to explain his claim that such weapons exist:
With almost unlimited funds and the sharpest minds of the known scientific community, do you believe all the universities researching this have continuously failed for some 50 years? There are some 10 ways to ignite such a fusion ball besides the atomic bomb which is the only way the audience is generally aware of. Half of these could be useful in weapons applications. [….] 4th generation thermonuclear weapons and directed energy. Google (Swiss researcher) Andre Gsponer and read all his weapons-related material you can get.
If Gsponer’s work is the only source of this information, then of course the Finnish Expert’s “10 ways to ignite such a fusion ball” can only be viewed as highly speculative. As we have discussed above, Gsponer never claimed to have any inside knowledge about whether the technical possibilities he discussed had actually come to fruition. Nevertheless, the evidence and argument that the Finnish Military Expert was presented was influential enough that in the aftermath of its publication, another sort of explosion ensued, disrupting and ultimately fissioning the so-called “911 Truth” movement.
Finnish Military Expert’s views won some influential support from Dr. Ed Ward (MD), who noted the many cancers that were starting to emerge in first responders, and wrote:
The spectrum and percentages of cancer are massive. There are at least 4 classifications of blood-cell cancers: leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s and myeloma. There are many more classifications of soft tissue cancers. There is brain cancer. There is breast cancer. For most of these there are subclassifications of many different types of specific cancer in each, so far not publicly disclosed. There are huge percentages of respiratory distress and loss of function. Multiple reports of ‘irregular cycles’ (miscarriages?). Most likely there will be several more types of cancer to follow. In particular, responders should be checked for thyroid cancer and function. There has been no noting of birth defects which also needs to be done. There is one thing and only one thing that can cause all these cancers and problems – RADIATION.
Ward agreed with the view that a small pure-fusion weapon was probably responsible. However, William Tahil, a British engineering consultant, published a book-length analysis titled “Ground Zero” in 2006, answering that well-known fission technology was more likely responsible. Tahil focused on the issue of the superheated pools of molten metal found in the debris pile. He reasoned that these long-lived underground heat sources could only be accounted for by the meltdown of nuclear reactors, which he claimed had been built into the basement of the WTC towers. Tahil reviewed a USGS study of the dust from the towers, and found highly elevated and correlated levels of barium and strontium. Unfortunately, the USGS study did not reveal whether these were the radioactive isotopes of barium and strontium. Tahil argued that the barium and strontium in the dust must indeed have been highly radioactive fission products, and that the elevated level of zinc must have come from a special jacket designed to enhance the deadliness of the radiation.
Another blogger going by the handle of “The Anonymous Physicist” attempted to debunk both Tahil and the “Finnish Expert”, claiming that small, tactical-style nuclear weapons were the explosive of choice. Such weapons would have been readily available from any major nuclear nation’s arsenal, and thus would not have required exotic development such as “Finnish Expert” postulated, nor was there any requirement for generational advanced planning and secrecy such as Tahil’s model suggested. “Anonymous Physicist” was very critical of Tahil’s dust analysis, noting that the strontium could easily have been a component of limestone aggregate in the concrete, and barium and zinc could be common components of white paint. However, “Anonymous Physicist” acknowledged that even in his scenario, there should have been easily detectable levels of radioactivity throughout Manhattan after 9/11, and he claimed that results to the contrary must have been faked.
Meanwhile — Steven Jones, famous for his earlier work in “cold fusion”, emerged in 2005 as an advocate for the thermite hypothesis. Many 9/11 activists greeted Jones enthusiastically into the movement because of his prominent status as a full professor at Brigham Young University. Jones initially worked together with Dr. Jim Fetzer, another full professor who was also famous (or infamous) for his work on the JFK assassination, to create the “Scholars for 911 Truth” organization and its “Journal of 911 Studies”, a venue for publication of “Peer Reviewed” scientific papers.
Jones and Fetzer quickly came into conflict, however, as Fetzer was willing to entertain a wide variety of theories about the causes of the WTC tower collapses, including not only the various nuclear theories, but also Judy Wood’s view that exotic directed-energy technology was involved; while Jones insisted that any such views were incompatible with the ‘scientific method’ as he saw it. Fetzer, for his part, argued that thermite and other conventional explosives couldn’t possibly have accounted for all the effects seen on 9/11.
As the conflict became heated, Fetzer attempted to dismiss Jones and his allies from their positions within the “Scholars” group, and in late 2006, Fetzer threatened legal action to take sole control of the group’s web sites. Jones founded an alternative group, “Scholars for 911 Truth and Justice”, which is said to have attracted a majority of the membership of the original group. Fred Burks brokered a truce in the legal battle, in which the original website became a disambiguation site with links to the alternative “Scholars” homepages. Jones’ faction kept control of the “Journal of 911 Studies”.
Over time, both Fetzer and Jones have displayed “Jekyll and Hyde”-like behavior syndromes, appearing very reasonable at times, and fierce or insane at other times. This has led to accusations that both Fetzer and Jones are “controlled opposition”, or “Lifetime Actors”. One website critical of Fetzer noted that he lists his work on the JFK assassination and 911 on his academic curriculum vitae as “applied philosophical research”, and speculates:
When Dr. Fetzer meets up with his friends or old colleagues, he doesn’t need to play the role of a crackpot whose cognitive powers are in decline, leading him to fall for preposterous hypotheses whilst developing an irresistible urge to broadcast his weird beliefs to the world. He simply tells them that his “applied philosophical research” includes his role in infiltrating “conspiracy theorists”.
Jones, for his own part, has developed an interest in “over-unity” research, involving an implausible belief that simple electronic oscillator circuits can somehow draw significant amounts of power from the quantum foam, or some other unknown and mysterious source. Much earlier, Jones’ top-notch research on muon-catalyzed cold fusion took place against a background of his far less credible research findings that Jesus visited America.
The net effect of Fetzer and Jones’ antics, however, has been to convey the impression that even the best-qualified 9/11 conspiracy researchers can safely be dismissed as nut-cases — while at the same time consistently drawing attention away from the possibility that a pure fusion weapon was used.
As incredible as it may seem from a viewpoint limited to technology in the public domain, pure fusion is the only explanation that’s fully compatible with the data that has been released from credible and/or official sources. Fetzer and others in the conventional nuclear explosives camp are forced to ignore or deny the data indicating very low or negligible levels of residual radioactivity in the debris, dating from as early as those measurements were taken; while Jones and his followers are forced to obfuscate or evade the many lines of evidence pointing towards nuclear effects, including the evidence of extraordinarily high temperature reactions, the “dustification” of so much of the debris, and the pattern of radiation-induced cancers in first responders.
Given an air density of 1.22 kg per cubic meter, and an estimated volume of air 1.5e6 cubic meters per tower, the mass of air in each tower would be 1.9e6 kg. With a stoichiometric ratio of 15 kg of air for each 1 kg of fuel, we could burn 138 tons of fuel with the air in each building. If the energy available in the contents is 10 gigajoules/ton, we would obtain 1380 gigajoules of energy, or 380,000 kwh (equivalent to 330 tons of TNT.) This is an approximate upper limit on the energy that could have been released by accelerated combustion, but the real figure is probably much lower: stoichiometric combustion is an ideal that can only be approached in highly controlled conditions. A more reasonable estimate might be in the range of 20% to 50% of this upper bound.
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What’s the difference between clean energy and renewable energy? Put another way, why is nuclear power in the doghouse when it comes to revamping the nation’s energy mix?
The issue has come to the forefront this week during the debate over the Waxman-Markey energy and climate bill and its provisions for a national renewable-energy mandate.
Simply put, Republicans have tried—and failed—several times to pass amendments that would christen nuclear power as a “low-emissions” power source eligible for all the same government incentives and mandates as wind power and solar power.
Granted, Republican amendments—as many as 400 have been threatened—are as much a stalling tactic as policy proposal. But the spat raises a very important question: Is Washington trying to promote cleaner energy in general, or just certain types of energy? | <urn:uuid:1420cccc-5783-4839-bf70-83f703c1eeb7> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2009/05/21/is-nuclear-power-renewable-energy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720468.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00487-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959649 | 178 | 2.25 | 2 |
The Royal Shakespeare Company is the natural home for Pushkin's great drama, with its echoes of Macbeth and the history plays, and its policy of commenting on the political turmoil of its own era, the 1820s, through a depiction of the unrest in an earlier period – Moscow at the cusp of the 17th century.
Given a springy translation by Adrian Mitchell, and incisively directed by Michael Boyd, this production marks its English-language premiere at a flagship theatre.
With feigned reluctance, the title character takes the throne by demand after the death of Ivan the Terrible but his reign is dogged by rumours that he ordered the murder of Ivan's son. A monk, Grigory, challenges his authority by assuming the identity of this rightful heir and raising an army.
Crackling with topicality, the play is a mordant commentary on the instabilities of power, which Boyd's production is alive to in the modernity that creeps into the clothing and the physical black slapstick.
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Traffic Light Labelling
What is traffic light labelling?
Many food labels now have traffic light labelling to inform the comsumer on how much fat, saturated fat, salt and sugar is in that food (the things we should keep an eye on). This system is not a legal requirement - it is there to try and help consumers make healthier choices when buying food products. You are able to quickly tell the healthy choices from the not so healthy ones.
- a RED light means that the product is not so good and you should eat it rarely.
- an AMBER light means that the product is ok but you should only eat it every now and then.
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Query: keyword: "Philippines"
|Authors||R. de Jong, C.G. Treadaway|
|Title||The Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera) of the Philippines|
|Keywords||Lepidoptera; Hesperiidae; Philippines; biogeography.|
|Abstract||All species and subspecies of the Hesperiidae known from the Philippines are listed and their distribution across the islands, preferred habitats and flight habits are indicated. By far the richest habitat is the primary lowland forest. In view of the high rate of deforestation it is estimated that 50% of the hesperiid species is endangered and may become extinct over the next 10 to 15 years. With 151 species the Philippines is considerably poorer than Borneo (214 species), but much richer than Sulawesi (84 species).|
In terms of endemicity, however, the Philippines is with 35 endemic species (23.2%) relatively much richer than Borneo (12 species, 5.6%), and almost as rich as Sulawesi (20 species, 23.8%). The distribution and endemicity of species and subspecies are analysed and compared with what is known of the geological history of the Philippines. It is concluded that the fauna is relatively young and essentially of Bornean derivation. The faunal connections with Sulawesi are ambiguous, and those with Taiwan very weak. Hie Hesperiidae do not provide patterns of vicariant speciation events in the Philippines, but there is a general north-south (Luzon-Mindanao) differentiation with an intermediate area of islands showing intricate and various biogeographic links. This agrees with the geological history: the islands of the Philippines are not the result of fragmentation of a single land mass (such a fragmentation could have been a vicariant speciation event), and most of the present-day islands apparently emerged from the sea and may have been much further apart rather than closer together in the geological past. Lowering of the sea level during the Ice Ages must have united the islands in a few clusters, but such clusters are not apparent in the distribution of the Hesperiidae, contrary to what has been reported for the Mammalia. Instead the islands between Luzon and Mindanao are seen as an area with repeatedly changing dispersal opportunities.
Palawan does not fit in this picture; biogeographically it is best described as a northern extension of Sundaland (which geologically speaking its southern half actually is).
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Although I am pleased that you have drawn attention to the important issue of Cyprus, your May 1 editorial "Cyprus' divided hopes" is factually flawed in numerous ways.
The editorial incorrectly refers to "Greek Cyprus," as well as to the "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus," an entity declared illegal by the United Nations Security Council and recognized only by Turkey. There is only one internationally recognized state and government on the island: the Republic of Cyprus.
Moreover, your editorial fails to mention that the division of Cyprus and its people is the result of the 1974 illegal Turkish invasion and subsequent occupation of more than one third of the island.
You correctly point out that Turkey is a sponsor of the Turkish Cypriot community, given its control over the occupied area. The claim, however, that Greece sponsors the Greek Cypriot community is factually incorrect. Cyprus is an independent and sovereign country.
Perhaps most egregious is your allegation that Cyprus was admitted to the European Union because the "EU caved in" to Greek demands. Cyprus met the accession criteria and joined as an equal member state in 2004.You fail to mention that despite Turkey's occupation and nonrecognition of the Republic of Cyprus, Cyprus has supported Turkey's membership ambitions.
However, Turkey must end its occupation and meet its obligations towards Cyprus and consequently the EU, which it has so far refused to do. Turkey will be evaluated on the implementation of its obligations and the values and principles on which the EU is founded: rule of law, democracy, and human rights.
Andreas S. Kakouris
the Republic of Cyprus
to the United States
Blade sports columnist Dave Hackenberg's brilliant tribute to his very best friend brought water to my eyes and had me searching through old photo albums for pictures of my two departed Shetland sheepdogs ("Fond farewell to this man's very best friend," May 2).
Mr. Hackenberg's prose stirred dormant feelings that only a dog lover can fully understand. I have owned several felines too. They'll do in a pinch, but unlike dogs, who come eagerly when you call, cats merely take a message and get back to you at their convenience.
How sad that Christians would leave their denomination because it is too tolerant ("Maumee church votes to quit denomination; Recognition of same-sex unions at issue," April 28).
Jesus brought a message of love, brotherhood, tolerance, forgiveness, and unity. What does the Bible quote Jesus as saying about homosexuality? Nothing.
When Moses came down the mountain with God's Top 10 list, homosexuality wasn't mentioned. How did it get to be the number one fear of the Christian right?
Jesus Christ would never have turned away anyone who was gay. If Christians are his followers, how can they?
The writer of the May 1 letter "Atheism exhibits moral superiority" thinks atheists are moral and that religion is the cause of the world's bloodshed.
Atheists abide by no moral code, especially attributed to a supreme being. They do not expectconsequences for their actions in an afterlife. Without the definition of sin, how can an atheist determine right from wrong, except in a person's own opinion?
Because the writer cannot remember atheists "slaughtering" Christians, he should bereminded thatmost of the world's deadly conflicts have been at the hands of atheist dictators. Mao killed and imprisoned thousandsofChristians. Soviet communistsdid the same in the bloc nations for generations.
Hitler was the opposite of a Christian in that he was involved in the occult for his hatred of Jews.
I guess if the writer tells his lies often enough, he thinks people will believe them.
The letter writer must never have heard of Marxism, Leninism, or communism.
The Soviet Union, Red China, Vietnam, Fidel Castro's Cuba, North Korea, and the former Eastern European Communist countries killed millions of their own citizens, many simply for being religious. Some Christians are still imprisoned for their beliefs in China.
Did the letter writer study history? Did he pass or fail? I would bet he failed.
Under atheist Adolf Hitler, Nazi Germany slaughtered 6 million Jews and many Christians. Joseph Stalin, an atheist, closed churches in the Soviet Union and was responsible for the slaughter of at least 20 million of his countrymen, including Christians and Jews. In Cambodia, Pol Pot, an atheist, slaughtered 2 million of his countrymen.
Atheist Mao Zedong made religion illegal in Communist China and slaughtered 10 million of his countrymen, includingBuddhistsin Tibet.The atheist regime in China still imprisons and slaughters people of all faiths. The Dalai Lama is still in exile.
The God-is-dead 20th century was the bloodiest century in history because, in large part, of atheist dictators.
Christians know that all of humanity has the potential for such behavior. The capacity of mankind for all sorts of evil is one of the most empirically verifiable claims of Christianity.None of us is morally superior - we are all morally deficient.
When it comes to texting while driving, I have only one word to describe it:asinine ("Texting drivers give ban a thumbs down," April 27).
When you are driving, your attention should be on the road and any hazards that could cause an accident. Is it really worth risking life or limb to send a text message?
University of Toledo students who text and drive may be book smart, but they lack common sense.
I was dumbstruck as I watched an episode of Oprah Winfrey's show listening to all the stories about young people talking or texting on cell phones while driving.
How many people have been killed because of their actions? Why do parents allow their children to have cell phones? They are a distraction not only in the car, but in the classroom too.
It is sad that the art of writing and the art of conversation are both lost because all people have to do now is send a text message.
Welcome to our future.
I thank The Blade for your sponsorship of the U.S. Army Field Band and Soldiers' Chorus that performed at John F. Savage Arena on April 30.
It was an incredible evening of music. A talented young group entertained us.The place was packed.
There were some emotional moments, and many proud ones.
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The National Automatic Merchandising Association's 2012 Coffee, Tea and Water conference featured a keynote address by Ric Rhinehart, executive director of the Specialty Coffee Association of America (see our report in this issue). Rhinehart related the rebound in U.S. coffee consumption to consumers' renewed awareness of the pleasures of quality coffee, which he attributed to the emergence of the specialty coffee business in the early 1990s.
As I took notes on his historical summary, I vividly recalled being assigned to do a story on the Coffee Brewing Center, some 45 years ago. CBC had been established by the now-defunct Pan-American Coffee Bureau as part of PACB's ongoing campaign to promote the consumption of Central and South American coffees in the United States.
During our visit, the CBC staff told us that per-capita coffee consumption in the United States had been declining since 1962. They attributed this to the introduction, and growing acceptance, of percolators (instead of the classic drip brewers of our childhood) and of instant coffee. Both were marketed as time-savers, but neither produced a truly good-tasting cup of coffee. People who drank coffee regularly might tolerate that shortcoming as an acceptable tradeoff for easier preparation, the CBC experts told us, but the danger was that younger consumers who did not drink coffee would be less likely to start if they didn't like the taste.
Rhinehart's narrative commenced with 1975, the year in which Brazil's coffee production was crippled by a devastating frost. The resulting scarcity caused green coffee prices to rise. The U.S. coffee industry, fearful of losing sales if it passed the increased cost along to consumers, responded with blends containing more and more low-quality beans, coupled with a variety of ingenious technical measures to permit brewing the same volume of beverage with less ground coffee. But that beverage did not taste as good, and the percentage of the American public that drank coffee declined from about 60% in the early 1970s to 47% in 1995. That percentage began to increase again in the late 1990s, and by 2011, was approaching 60%. "Why?" the speaker asked. "Because coffee had begun to taste good again."
The specialty coffee business certainly was in the vanguard of the recovery, not least because it persuaded a new generation that better quality could be had only at a higher price. Quite a few coffee service and vending operators, whose patrons finally understood that all coffee is not the same and that "hot and black" is not a description of quality, paid fervent tribute to Starbucks for its success in persuading people of this.
I reflected, too, that one of the catalysts of the specialty coffee revolution was launched by the coffee service industry. The Coffee Development Group grew out of discussions initiated with the International Coffee Organization (London, England) by leaders of the National Coffee Service Association. In 1981, NCSA president Hatton C.V. Smith, Royal Cup Coffee (Birmingham, AL), announced that the ICO's Promotion Fund had agreed to underwrite a trial marketing program to be conducted by NCSA through four regional committees (see VT, May 1981).
That trial was successful. The program grew into the Coffee Development Group, which performed many valuable services during the decade or so of its existence. CDG ended when the ICO wound down the Promotion Fund under a modified International Coffee Agreement in the early 1990s. We think it deserves to be remembered.
The mature Coffee Development Group set up taskforces to work with coffee service and vending operators, to introduce a quality coffee curriculum into culinary education and to establish coffee houses on the campuses of colleges and universities whose graduates would become the next generation of managers and executives. All of these programs continued for years and delivered results that demonstrated the relationship among promotion, education, quality and perception of value.
The launch of the Coffee Development Group coincided with the introduction of fresh-brew coffee vending machines that ground whole beans for each cup they brewed, and with a tilt in the coffee service segment away from low pack weights and toward more advanced coffee brewing, holding and dispensing systems. It also coincided with the National Coffee Association's "Coffee Achievers" advertising campaign, which was criticized by some industry members for being too generic and ending too soon. But it certainly contributed to the discussion. We don't think that the flowering of specialty coffee and the transformation of workplace refreshment services in the 1990s can be understood without remembering the heroic efforts made by these industries in the previous decade.
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Northern California is pretty famous for good fishing. In fact, I‘ve often wondered how much this may have to do with why a lot of people moved here to begin with. Many have also heard something about removing some dams on the Klamath River. It might be helpful to talk about what’s going on in non-scientific terms, and how this might affect prospects for even more good fishing in the future.
Why is removing dams good for fishing? Most anglers are at least vaguely aware that salmon and steelhead live most of their lives in the ocean, but need freshwater rivers to reproduce (spawn). When you install a dam (usually for hydroelectric energy production or flood control) this blocks fish from reaching their spawning grounds, resulting in fewer fish. Dams around the world are at least partly responsible for many runs of ocean-going species to be listed on the Endangered Species list. When you remove a dam the fish once again have access to successful spawning, resulting in many more fish.
Conservation organization California Trout (CalTrout) recently hosted a webinar on the removal of four Klamath River dams for the benefit of salmon and steelhead. Removing the four, Iron Gate, Copco 1 and 2, and J.C. Boyle dams will be the largest dam removal project in American history allowing fish access to over 300 additional miles of spawning habitat. To be specific, the fish don’t really spawn in the Klamath River. They spawn in all the smaller streams and rivers that flow into the Klamath. The Klamath is the highway fish must take to get to the tributaries, so removing the “road closed†signs will likely be a big help. CalTrout brought scientists and project managers together to talk about removing the dams and restoring the smaller streams and rivers where the fish actually spawn. Many conservation organizations, public entities in California and Oregon as well as Tribal governments have been involved in this for many years.
The Klamath dams are quite old, which means in this day and age the amounts of energy they can produce is relatively small. When it came time to relicense the dams, new federal regulations required the installation of fish ladders on the dams for the benefit of the salmon and steelhead. It didn’t take rocket scientists to see that it would be cheaper to remove the dams entirely than install modern fish ladders. The other things dams do is block the natural flushing cycle of rivers, which means fine sediment builds up behind all dams. If left in place long enough (hundreds of years) most dams would fill up with sediment completely turning the dam into a manmade waterfall. When dams are removed the sediments are flushed back out into the ocean and redistributed by ocean currents.
What’s the Plan?
The four dams are scheduled for removal, so instead of being stopped at Iron Gate Dam in northern California, the fish will be able to get as far as Keno Dam just over the border in Oregon, and all the smaller tributary streams they will actually use for spawning. Meanwhile numerous organizations, farmers and landowners are working with California and Oregon Departments of Fish & Wildlife to coordinate and finance restoration of all the spawning tributaries. Private landowners may have altered tributary streams by building small dams, irrigation canals and diversions, so steps will be taken to remove these impediments to fish while modernizing these systems by making them more efficient, thereby requiring less water for agriculture and providing more water for fish. Emphasis will be given to stream connectivity to the main stem of the river as the water recedes in certain areas.
The plan for the spawning tributaries includes assessing current condition of each stream. Once that’s done they will identify restoration projects and seek solution that benefits both the landowners and the fishery, especially in the Shasta and Scott River watersheds.
Before the dams are actually removed, some early construction projects will need to get done to make ready for what is coming. They will need to replace the City of Yreka’s water line which now runs along the bottom of Iron Gate Reservoir. Several bridges will need improvements as well as building some structures to help prevent flooding in high-water years. They will also need to relocate and replace the Iron Gate Fish Hatchery. In designing the dam removal plan, interested parties made trips to other sites where dams have been removed to glean information on what worked and what didn’t.
Once the dams are removed there will be approximately 8,000 acres of land previously under water exposed. A massive restoration project is planned involving the planting of tons of seeds to revegetate the land employing nurseries to get them started in 2023 and 2024. Mitigation for losing “lakefront property†will be available to landowners.
Another major component of the Klamath dam removal will be advanced scientific studies monitoring every phase of the project. That begins with a full biological assessment of the entire system. Water temperature monitors will be installed throughout the system. Water chemistry and aquatic insects (juvenile fish food) will be monitored before and after the dam removal. They intend to track fish growth and how juvenile fish use all the various parts of the watershed before and after dam removal.
What’s the Time Frame?
There’s an awful lot to do on a fairly tight schedule. If all goes well, the drawdown of water behind the four dams will take place January–March 2023. The drawdown will pause in April while juvenile coho salmon migrate out of the Klamath into the ocean. If there is still water remaining behind any of the dams, the drawdown will resume in Jun 2023 if needed. The actual removal of the dams and powerhouses will begin in June-July, and take six to nine months.
The Unique Klamath River System
The Klamath has been called an “upside-down†river. Most rivers begin as ice-cold, gin-clear streams and end up collecting sediment as they travel downstream ending up in lowland wetlands before entering the ocean. Because of the dams and abundant sediments, the water quality in the upper reaches is terrible. Algae blooms in the various reservoirs have been known to turn the water neon green. As the river makes its way toward the ocean, it is fed by numerous streams with much higher water quality, like the Salmon and Trinity Rivers. The Klamath looks beautiful where it enters the Pacific Ocean.
What About That Sediment?
There was a lot of concern about the plumes of sediment that will blast through the river once the dams are removed. The river will be temporarily impacted as the sediment makes it way out to the ocean to be dissipated. It’s been calculated that the volume of additional sediment that will be released when the dams come out is roughly equivalent to one year’s-worth of natural sediment transfer. That’s what rivers do. They move sediment downstream 24-7, 365 days per year. Experts agree that the river may be discolored for a time while the sediment moves out. But once that sediment cycles out to sea, the river will have a lot better water quality overall. There is nothing abnormal or unhealthy about the sediments in the Klamath, so the impact of the plume moving downstream should be minimal.
What About the Fishing?
Obviously, the reason this project is happening to begin with has to do with putting more wild salmon and steelhead into the river; so that’s a good thing. We know the project is likely to upset the river in 2023 and 2024, and some of the river be and fish differently than before the removal.
These days fish stack up below Iron Gate Dam in California, and this is a popular spot for anglers and guides. After the project many fish are likely to move farther upstream to just below Keno Dam in Oregon. The project will result in better access to the river, more boat launches in both states. At this point there is very limited access to the river above Copco in the J.C. Boyle and Keno stretches of river, so we can expect this to improve.
Today the J.C. Boyle and Keno stretches are remote and offer wild redband trout. On J.C. Boyle a day of fishing likely includes catching many trout, but they are usually pretty small fish. The Keno stretch has fairly opaque, brown water, some white water, and harbors a lot of really huge wild redband trout. It’s very difficult to fish without floating the river, and boaters should have solid white water skills before even attempting it. Both sections have limited access for wading anglers, and a higher than average population of rattlesnakes.
After dam removal we might expect better water quality throughout the system, and especially in the upper river. Wild salmon and steelhead will eventually be rubbing fins with the non-migratory fish population. Some of the redbands in the upper river will likely stay and adapt to having ocean-going fish in the same river. Others will make their way downstream, and it isn’t inconceivable that some of these redbands will make it all the way down to the ocean and grow huge. The upper river is likely to become really phenomenal fish habitat, which will have a positive impact on the entire fishery.
Bottom line, there will be more fish in the river and much more productive water to fish. Guides are likely to be more spread out, offering everyone a higher-quality fishing experience.
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A deal to resettle refugees in Cambodia will be signed by Immigration Minister Scott Morrison on Friday.
The Cambodian government revealed on Wednesday that the country's Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister of Cambodia Sar Keng and Mr Morrison will sign a memorandum of understanding in Phnom Penh on Friday afternoon.
A spokeswoman for Mr Morrison later confirmed the meeting, saying "further details will be provided following the signing of an agreement".
It is understood the resettlement deal will be for up to 1000 asylum seekers who are found to be refugees.
During a National Press Club address earlier this month, Mr Morrison hinted that the deal was close to being signed.
"We are world renowned for what we do on refugee resettlement so, who better is placed than Australia to work with a country such as Cambodia to help them develop that capability to do the job as well," Mr Morrison said.
"If we say they're not supposed to be involved in refugee resettlement, then I'm not quite sure who is."
But the deal has been long criticised by human rights groups who say the country is not equipped to cater for refugees, and who are concerned about the country's chequered human rights record.
Labor Immigration spokesman Richard Marles called for Mr Morrison to "come clean" on the deal, also questioning why the minister had previously rejected the "Malaysia Solution" under the Labor government, in which Malaysia would take 800 asylum seekers from Christmas Island in return for Australia accepting 4000 refugees from Malaysia.
"Scott Morrison needs to provide immediate information about what deal he is about to do with Cambodia," he said.
"Labor has serious concerns about Mr Morrison's capacity to manage another regional arrangement given his disastrous handling of the Regional Resettlement Arrangement with Papua New Guinea."
Greens immigration spokeswoman Sarah Hanson-Young said it was a "shameful deal".
"Cambodia doesn't have the capacity to look after these refugees, but the Abbott government simply doesn't care," Senator Hanson-Young said.
Cambodian officials say the refugees will be encouraged to work despite the country being among the world's poorest. A majority of people live hand-to-mouth in rural areas.
While initially provided accommodation, they will be told to plan to have their own housing, including outside the capital Phnom Penh.
A key sticking point in negotiations has been Cambodia's insistence that refugees not to be sent to the country against their will, raising doubts that many will agree to resettle in the country with little chance of moving legally to another country.
Shane Prince, a Sydney lawyer who represents refugees, said recently he believed those on Nauru will refuse the Cambodia option "because they will hold out in the hope there is a policy change and they will eventually be able to get to Australia".
An asylum seeker on Nauru said in May that refugees on the island came to get protection from Australia not Cambodia.
"It's not a developed country. It is poor. It cannot look after refugees," said the man who was receiving medical treatment in Australia.
The agreement was negotiated amid a crackdown on dissent and anti-government rallies in Phnom Penh where strongman Prime Minister Hun Sen has ruled with an iron-fist for more than three decades.
Mr Hun Sen was a former cadre of the murderous Khmer Rouge in the early 1970s before he defected to Vietnam before becoming one of Asia's youngest leaders.
He negotiated an agreement in July that saw opposition leader Sam Rainsy's Cambodia National Rescue Party agree to enter Parliament following a year-long political crisis.
But Phil Robertson, deputy director of Human Right Watch's Asia division, said the "human rights situation continues to worsen because persons with power get away with a host of actions that include killing activists, seizing land, busting up labour unions, attacking peaceful protesters with deadly force and rounding up people and placing them in prisons on trumped up charges or administratively committing them to abuse detention centres". | <urn:uuid:b024581c-6e4a-44a8-88fe-7714dd47962b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/scott-morrison-set-to-sign-refugee-resettlement-deal-with-cambodia-on-friday-20140924-10le2o.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280900.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00002-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968492 | 814 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Wireless Hearing Aids: Connect To The World Of Sound
To enhance sound quality and listening enjoyment, many hearing aid models now feature the ability to wirelessly connect to different audio devices including:
- TVs and MP3 players – high quality stereo sound (e.g. music) can be wirelessly streamed from these devices through the wearer’s hearing aids.
- Mobile phones –wearers are able to converse in a hands-free manner (without even removing the phone from their bag or pocket) with the hearing aids becoming a virtual phone headset.
Hearing aids support wireless audio-streaming in two major ways:
(1) Direct Audio-streaming – a relatively new technology this enables hearing aid wearers to wirelessly stream stereo audio from an audio source (e.g. mobile phone) to their hearing aids without an intermediary or secondary device. Wearers can stream audio at a distance of up to ten metres.
Until recently, this technology was only available with hearing aids labelled “Made for iPhone™” (e.g. Signia Nx, Resound Linx, Starkey Halo). “Made for iPhone” hearing aids are designed to share a low energy 2.4 gigahertz bluetooth link between the hearing aids and an Apple device (e.g. iPads/iPhones). This technology has grown in popularity over the last 5 years and now all major manufacturers offer “Made for iPhone” hearing aid models within their range .
Unfortunately most hearing aid manufacturers do not offer direct audio-streaming to Android or other non-Apple Bluetooth devices. Phonak (a leading hearing aid manufacturer) however recently brought out a hearing aid model called “Audio B Direct” that uses technology they call “Made for All”. This hearing aid does offer direct wireless audio-streaming from any bluetooth device (using “Classic” Bluetooth), however it should be noted that the audio-streaming is only possible for phone audio (not music or video) and streaming is to one hearing aid only (the wearer does not get a stereo input).
(2) Indirect Audio-streaming – The majority of hearing aids support indirect wireless stereo audio streaming using a secondary device. This secondary device is usually worn around the neck or in a pocket. Wearers wirelessly connect this device to the audio source (e.g. mobile phone, television) and using Bluetooth, audio is then wirelessly streamed to this device (at a distance of up to ten metres) which then relays the audio stream to the wearer’s hearing aids. The reason this secondary device needs to be around the neck, is that the device uses digital magnetic field induction (MFI) to transmit the audio into the hearing aids (MFI can only work over a short distance – normally less than 50 cm).
Compared to direct audio-streaming this method of audio-streaming is much more energy efficient. It is not uncommon for wearers using indirect audio-streaming, to find their hearing aid batteries last twice as long as uses of direct audio-streaming.
To stay connected to your network of friends and family, talk to Sounds of Life today about our wireless hearing aid range.
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What is an example of a third party sender?
Accounts Payable software providers, such as Tipalti and Bill.com, are also third-party senders. An example of a third-party service provider would be Modern Treasury. We connect with our clients’ bank accounts to automate the movement of money, but funds never touch Modern Treasury-owned bank accounts.
What is a third party sender for ACH?
A third party sender is a type of third party service provider that acts on behalf of the originator only. In other words, it is an intermediary between the originator and the ODFI. In this type of relationship, there is generally no contractual agreement between the ODFI and the originator.
Can an ODFI be a third party sender?
An ODFI may originate Entries initiated by a Third-Party Sender, subject to compliance with these Rules, including Section 2.2 (Prerequisites to Origination). In its performance of the obligations of an ODFI (as required by Section 2.15.
What is the criteria for sending third party transactions?
Third party network transaction means any transaction that is settled through a third party payment network, but only after the total amount of such transactions exceeds $20,000 and the aggregate number of such transactions exceeds 200.
What is a 3rd party service provider?
A third-party service provider is generally defined as an external person or company who provides a service or technology as part of a contract.
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What is an ACH risk assessment?
Designed to minimize financial losses and help your institution operate more efficiently, EPCOR’s ACH Risk Assessments consist of a comprehensive evaluation of your ACH operations against a menu of potential risk vulnerabilities, regulatory guidance and industry best practices. …
Who pays for a third party order?
The order directs a third party who owes money to the judgment debtor to pay that money instead to the judgment creditor.
What does sold to 3rd party mean?
Third-Party Sale means the sale of all or substantially all of the Purchased Assets to a Person other than Buyer or an Affiliate of Buyer.
Is a service provider a third party?
A vendor is a subset of a third-party, including those entities with whom the institution has a contract or conducts commerce. A third-party service provider describes a subset of vendors who provide outsourced services for the institution.
What is considered a third party?
A third-party is any company or individual with which or whom you have entered into a business relationship to: Provide goods and services for your own use. Perform outsourced functions on your behalf. Provide access to markets, products and other types of services.
What are ACH activities?
ACH transfers are electronic, bank-to-bank money transfers processed through the Automated Clearing House Network. Direct deposits are transfers into an account, such as payroll, benefits, and tax refund deposits.
Who is a nested third party sender in Ach?
A “Nested Third-Party Sender” would be defined as a Third-Party Sender that has an agreement with another Third-Party Sender to act on behalf of an Originator, and does not have a direct agreement with the ODFI Nested TPSs must be addressed in ACH Origination Agreements
When does a third party audit need to be done?
Third-Party Sender & Service Provider ACH Compliance Audit The NACHA Operating Rules require that all Third-Party Service Providers and Third-Party Senders conduct an audit of compliance with the Rules annually by December 31st.
Can a third party sender be an originator?
A Third-Party Sender must have an Origination Agreement with the ODFI of the Entry. A Third-Party Sender is never the Originator for Entries it Transmits on behalf of another Organization.
What are the responsibilities of a third party sender?
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Ukraine has opened 5,600 war crimes cases, official says
State of play: The International Criminal Court last month launched an investigation into allegations of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide committed in Ukraine.
- Last week, 93 countries voted to suspend Russia from the UN Human Rights Council over reported atrocities in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha and elsewhere in Ukraine.
- At least 300 people were killed by a Russian airstrike on a theater in Mariupol, where Russian forces also struck an art school, a mosque and a children's hospital, Ukrainian authorities said.
Of note: Venediktova said Ukraine has identified 500 alleged war criminals, including senior military and political officials, as well as Russian President Vladimir Putin — who she called the "main war criminal of the 21st century," though she acknowledged any sort of prosecution would be difficult.
Driving the news: At least 50 people were killed and nearly 100 were hospitalized after a Russian missile struck a train station in the city of Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine on Friday, Ukrainian officials said.
- "Absolutely it's a war crime, it was a Russian missile which killed more than 50 people," Venediktova said.
- "These people just wanted to save their lives, they wanted to be evacuated. It was women, it was children and they just wanted to save their lives," Venediktova added.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday called the train attack "another war crime of Russia."
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Astm C1074 Predicts The Strength Of Concrete In Place
Aug 16, 2021 Use two cylinders to obtain the compressive strength at each of the test agesusually 1, 3, 7, 14, and 28 days. If any cylinders deviate from their mean strength by more than 10, test an extra cylinder. We care about early-age strengths for several reasons. In prestressed concrete, the production facility is on a 24-hour cycle. | <urn:uuid:885b68cc-fb96-4963-96ed-0c8fb2597dcb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dagonfly.pl/compressive/Aug-24_31194.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00671.warc.gz | en | 0.932994 | 93 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Virtualization is the creation of a virtual (rather than physical) version of something, such as a hardware platform, operating system, storage device, or network resources.
Infrastructure Virtualization and Management-
Simplify your IT infrastructure as you create a more dynamic and flexible datacenter with virtualization solutions built on industry leading virtualization platforms. Ensure continued IT innovation while meeting enterprise, medium, and small business’ application availability and increase time-to-market for application provisioning and upgrades. Virtualization helps you reduce capital expenses through server consolidation and improve operating expenses through automation, while minimizing lost revenue by reducing both planned and unplanned downtime.
Get automated operations management for the new dynamic virtual infrastructures with management software, so you can accelerate IT service delivery, improve operational efficiency, ensure compliance and reduce risk.
- Reduce costs by increasing energy efficiency and requiring less hardware with server consolidation
- Build up business continuity through improved disaster recovery solutions and deliver high availability throughout the datacenter
- Use policy-based automation and ensure compliance and performance with a zero-touch infrastructure using virtualization management
Delivering desktops as a managed service lets you create a more flexible IT infrastructure so you can help your business respond more quickly to market changes and opportunities. Deploy applications and desktops faster and more consistently to a wider variety of clients, lowering costs while improving service levels. Extend the life of legacy applications and eliminate installation conflicts by virtualizing applications. For remote and branch offices, move your desktops into the cloud and deliver them as a managed service wherever they’re needed while retaining the control and security you need.
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- How and why do amendments become part of the Constitution?
- What problems with the original document motivated the adoption of the Bill of Rights?
- What have been the effects of the Bill of Rights?
- What problems with the original document, or changes in society, led to later amendments? Choose one of the following groups to discuss:
o Thirteenth through Fifteenth Amendments
o Seventeenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-Third, Twenty-Fourth, and Twenty-Sixth Amendments
o Twelfth, Twenty-Second, and Twenty-Fifth Amendments
- What have been the effects of these later amendments?
Cite at least 3 sources.
Remember - I cannot do the assignment for you directly. All I am permitted to do is give you sources and a bunch of ideas to get you started organizing and writing your own answers.
Even more, these questions are of immense complexity - I can only give you the basics.
How and why do amendments become part of the Constitution?
Amendments become part of the Constitution either by a) the calling of a new Convention or b) the acceptance of the amendment by 2/3 of the states. The Constitution has been amended for several reasons, but the most general one is that new issues come up that threaten the fabric of the society (think of slavery (amendment 13; or widespread alcoholism, amendment 18 (repealed later)) that require the Constitution to be moderately changed to accept new legislative proposals.
To settle the possibility of a disputed succession of a president who is assassinated or resigned, the 25th amendment was passed in 1965 (2 years after JFK's murder) that guaranteed that the Vice President will always succeed the assassinated president.
What problems with the original document motivated the adoption of the Bill of Rights?
The big issue here goes back to the Convention debates themselves. The Constitution, without the BOR, has little in terms of guarantees of rights. The argument of the Federalist movement was that since the ...
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Here is a comparison of the mapping used in the current IDNA (IDNA2003) with the proposed IDNA2008.
- The first page shows characters where the mappings are not equal, and where the 2003 mapping gives a valid 2003 string, and the 2008 mapping gives a valid 2008 string. So these are the truely problematic cases.
- The columns indicating validity after each sample column are marked with an abbreviation consisting of a letter and digit:
- Valid vs x=not valid
- 3 for 2003 vs 8 for 2008.
- The first column shows the Unicode version for the character. Note that the characters after U3.2 are valid in IDNA2003 clients, but unmapped.
- The first 4 are exceptions
- The next 5 are due to changes in NFC, before it was made completely stable by Unicode.
- The rest are due to the additions of case mappings, before case folding was made completely stable by Unicode.
- ~ means that the mapping is the same as the source.
- The second page shows the strings clustered into groups according to their validity characteristics under mapping. A sample from each group is provided (the highest frequency character on the web), together with the count of characters.
- All of the items on the previous page are grouped under on of three groups:
- 03C2 (ς) GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA (the first 4), or
- 2F9BF (䗗) CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F9BF (the next 5), or
- 04C0 (Ӏ) CYRILLIC LETTER PALOCHKA (the rest)
- The orange items (⇹) in the Eq? column are those with different mappings under IDNA2003 vs IDNA2008. Many of them don't matter because they are not valid under either scheme.
- The character counts are the number of Unicode characters in each group. Counts marked with re red are lower frequency on the web.
- The third page shows more samples of each group, with the top ten characters in the group (measured by web frequency).
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It seems weird today that four peaks were supposed to be Motown’s jazz vocal act. Very accomplished, with an impeccable mastery of harmony, one of their first singles was for the specialized jazz label Riverside, and they had worked with the to balance singer Billy Eckstine and singer Della Reese, but it seems neither the band nor the company were convinced of their place on Berry Gordy, Jr.after joining Motown in 1963. The renditions of jazz standards they had recorded, destined for an album with a working title of Drill, remained in the box. They saved themselves a useful backing vocal for other artists, and watched and waited. Their break-up came in 1964 with their first single for the company, “Baby I Need Your Loving” – an all-time classic that was nothing but sweet soulful music.
“We were in the studio from 2 a.m. until 8 a.m.”
The band’s lead singer, Levi Stubbs, recalls, “We were at 20 Grand Nightclub in Detroit watching temptations Where Martha and the Vandellas play – I don’t know which one – and Brian Holland and most of the company people were there. Brian said, “I think we’ve got a #1 record for you,” and I said, “Well, yeah, we’d love to hear it!” It was about half past one in the evening. We were like, ‘Well, why don’t we just wait until the show is over and we go over there? [to Motown’s Hitsville HQ] and listen,” because the club closed at 2 a.m. So we went down and stayed there until eight in the morning and we cut it – and it was a smash.
The song had a somewhat curious design, but not unique. Motown’s brilliant young production team of Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland constructed the backing track without having a song to go along with it, or an idea of who might sing it when they wrote one. Having worked with Four Tops as backing vocals on (Brian) Holland And Dozier’s single “What Goes Up, Must Come Down” in 1963, the producers knew Four Tops was a hit in the making and fashioned a song on their new backing track for it. remarkably gifted quartet. (At other times, producers would work on a track for one act but put it off to another later.) Motown released the single in the United States on July 10, 1964, and by fall it was rolling high in the Billboard chart, although Brian Holland’s prediction did not come true – “Baby I Need Your Loving” only made 11th place. It sold a million copies, however, and the pop landscape was blessed with Levi Stubbs’ sore baritone for decades.
A moving miracle
The UK had yet to embrace the Detroit sound, so the record was not a hit there, leaving the door open for a cover version to make its mark. Merseybeat band The Fourmost did their best to replicate the magic of Motown, though Mike Millward’s game-changing attempt to deliver the lyrics with the stripped-down passion of Levi Stubbs proved unsuccessful. Fourmost’s version made UK No. 24. Meanwhile, back at Motown HQ in Hitsville, Holland-Dozier-Holland continued to craft Four Tops’ next single, “Without The One You Love” . Its lyrics opened with the line “Baby I need your good lovin’…”, a trick designed to remind fans that they already knew this band.
“Baby I Need Your Loving” had an afterlife at Motown. Marvin Gaye recorded it with two duet partners, Kim Weston (It takes two1966) and Tammi Terrell (Easy1969), and he appeared on Gladys Knight And The Pips’ silk and soul album (1968). Beyond Hitsville, covers included those of Johnny Rivers, OC Smith and a good disco makeover by Gayle Adams. But none captured the moving miracle that Levi Stubbs, Obie Benson, Lawrence Payton and Duke Fakir recounted in the dead of night after a visit to 20 Grand. The group would never look back.
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Practical Design of Digital Circuits: Basic Logic to Microprocessors demonstrates the practical aspects of digital circuit design. The intention is to give the reader sufficient confidence to embark upon his own design projects utilizing digital integrated circuits as soon as possible.
The book is organized into three parts. Part 1 teaches the basic principles of practical design, and introduces the designer to his "tools" - or rather, the range of devices that can be called upon. Part 2 shows the designer how to put these together into viable designs. It includes two detailed descriptions of actual design exercises. The first of these is a fairly simple exercise in CMOS design; the second is a much more complex design for an electronic game, using TTL devices. Part 3 focuses on microprocessors. It illustrates how a particular design problem changes emphasis when a microprocessor is introduced.
This book is aimed at a fairly broad market: it is intended to aid the linear design engineer to cross the barrier into digital electronics; it should provide interesting supporting reading for students studying digital electronics from the more academic viewpoint; and it should enable the enthusiast to design much more ambitious and sophisticated projects than he could otherwise attempt if restricted to linear devices.
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“The Lady With the Lamp” is considered the founder of modern nursing because of her innovative approach to the field. By focusing on personalized patient care — like good hygiene — recovery was more likely. The holistic approach she advocated, considered revolutionary at the time, is still implemented today.
How did Florence Nightingale influence modern nursing?
Not only did she improve the standards of the nursing profession, she also enhanced the hospitals in which they worked. While working in a filthy facility during the Crimean War, Nightingale made recommendations for sanitary improvements and established standards for clean and safe hospitals.
Why is Florence Nightingale important today?
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), known as “The Lady With the Lamp,” was a British nurse, social reformer and statistician best known as the founder of modern nursing. Her experiences as a nurse during the Crimean War were foundational in her views about sanitation. She established St.
Who founded modern nursing?
If there is one nurse pioneer whose name is recognizable among regular citizens, not just those in healthcare, it is Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), “the Lady with the Lamp,” whose name is synonymous with caring and advocacy.
Who is the mother of nursing?
Florence Nightingale: The Mother of Nursing.
Who was the first nurse?
Florence Nightingale, the First Professional Nurse.
What is Florence Nightingale famous for?
Often called “the Lady with the Lamp,” Florence Nightingale was a caring nurse and a leader. In addition to writing over 150 books, pamphlets and reports on health-related issues, she is also credited with creating one of the first versions of the pie chart.
What’s the meaning of Nightingale?
(Entry 1 of 2) : an Old World thrush (Luscinia megarhynchos synonym Erithacus megarhynchos) noted for the sweet usually nocturnal song of the male also : any of various other birds noted for their sweet song or for singing at night.
Who is the father of fundamental of nursing?
May 12, 1820: Florence Nightingale, Founder of Nursing, Is Born.
What is the real name of Florence Nightingale?
Florence Nightingale, byname Lady with the Lamp, (born May 12, 1820, Florence [Italy]—died August 13, 1910, London, England), British nurse, statistician, and social reformer who was the foundational philosopher of modern nursing.
Who was the first nurse in India?
Answer: Florence Nightingale was the first woman to have great influence over nursing in India and brought reforms in military and civilian hospitals in 1861. St. Stevens Hospital at Delhi was the first one to begin training Indian women as nurses in 1867.
What is a modern nurse?
What is the “Modern” Nurse? The Modern Nurse values community, personal and professional growth, and flexibility; is passionate about creating different and sustainable expectations for the profession; and, leverages technology and advancements to provide the highest quality care available.
What is the full form of nurse?
The Full form of NURSE is Nurse Practitioner.
What was the first nursing theory?
Nightingale is considered the first nursing theorist. One of her theories was the Environmental Theory, which incorporated the restoration of the usual health status of the nurse’s clients into the delivery of health care—it is still practiced today.
Who is the mother of nursing in Ghana?
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The collapse of a British-era bridge at Mahad on Mumbai –Goa Highway last month could have been avoided had land acquisition and green clearances for an alternative structure been secured in time, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said.
“If land acquisition and environmental clearances had come in time, a new bridge would already have been constructed (over river Savitri),” he said.
The Union Road Transport Minister, who had owned up responsibility for the August 2 tragedy, rued people are dying on the Mumbai-Goa National Highway due to troubles with land acquisition, environmental clearances and shifting of encroachers.
“The Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Devendra Fadnavis, is concerned about this, I am also very concerned. But what can we do?” he said.
Gadkari said his ministry has prepared a Rs. 12,000 crore plan for four-laning the busy highway and announced that full concrete road will be completed by 2018.
As many as 26 people were killed when a part of the over a century-old bridge on Savitri River near the town of Mahad handling north-bound traffic collapsed last month.
At least two state transport buses and a multi-utility vehicle plunged into the river, which was swollen due to torrential rains.
Noting that there has been a four per cent rise in deaths on roads over the last two years, he said the government’s top priority is to bring down such accidents.
Having identified faults in road engineering as a major factor leading to accidents, Gadkari said a Rs. 11,000 crore plan has been prepared to improve the roads at 786 specially identified spots across the country.
He said the government is targeting to reduce accidental deaths on roads by 50 per cent before its term comes to an end in May 2019.
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29 Planes And 1,300 Passengers: How The Chaos Of 9/11 Unfolded At Mid-Continent Airport
In Wichita, the chaos and confusion that unfolded on 9/11 was felt most acutely at Mid-Continent Airport.
Everyone remembers where they were and what they were doing the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.
Valerie Wise had just arrived at Wichita’s Mid-Continent Airport, where she worked as an administrative aide.
She didn’t know it yet, but in Wichita, the chaos and confusion that would unfold that day would be felt most acutely at Mid-Continent.
Less than an hour after the first tower at the World Trade Center was hit, the Federal Aviation Administration ordered all planes in the air to land.
At Mid-Continent, 22 passenger airliners and seven cargo planes landed in less than 60 minutes.
“I heard people from the community were commenting about how they were watching all these planes circling, waiting to land,” said Wise, who is now the Air Service & Business Development manager at Eisenhower National Airport.
“I went over to the terminal building and went to the information desk to help out wherever I could. And the terminal was just teeming with passengers.”
More than 1,300 of them, suddenly stranded in a strange city with nowhere to go, caught up in a national tragedy.
Bob Knight was Wichita’s mayor in 2001. He said he had been to New York the week earlier for a conference, where Mayor Rudy Guiliani showed visitors the city’s new emergency communications center.
When Knight arrived at Mid-Continent, city and airport officials were scrambling to figure out how to house the unexpected visitors.
Knight got on the airport’s public address system.
“I made a couple announcements,” he recalled, “[that] the city of Wichita would do everything it could do to accommodate them under the circumstances. And they have our full attention.
“But, yeah, it was just a horrendous time.”
Among the passengers were 123 Israelis aboard an El Al flight headed from New York to Los Angeles. Wise said they were initially hesitant to get off the plane because they were uncertain what was happening.
The city made arrangements to send them to Camp Hiawatha, a summer camp run by the Salvation Army near 53rd Street North and the Little Arkansas River.
Jami Scott is the director of Homeless Services for the Salvation Army. She was part of the group that helped get the bunkhouses and dining hall ready for the Israeli passengers.
“We felt that we were doing something, even though we weren't like at ground zero, we were doing something to help our community, our world,” Scott said.
The Salvation Army enlisted the help of local synagogues and the Mid-Kansas Jewish Federation. Scott said the passengers shared stories about life in Israel, and she taught them about Wichita and Kansas.
“I don't want to say it was a good time, but it was a time where people came together and did what needed to happen to make sure people were safe,” Scott said. “But we were still able to share … our cultures with each other.
“I think what that taught me was that in the middle of chaos and fear, people will come together and people will figure it out and that you can still be kind in the middle of all that.”
By Tuesday afternoon, all of the passengers were taken care of, many of them driven to hotels on city buses. Security crews had completed sweeps of the terminal and runways and had set up new procedures for screening passengers.
But for the next 48 hours, before the FAA allowed airlines to begin flying again, Wise said Mid-Continent was strangely silent.
“Wednesday was like a ghost town,” she said. “The airfield was so eerily quiet. It was just like a desert with aircraft sitting there.”
Travel resumed the next day, and the passengers stranded in Wichita were allowed to continue their trips.
Twenty years later, Wise said she still recalls how she felt after she left work the evening of Sept. 11.
“I remember going home at night after the crazy day. I didn't have a chance to watch the news to see what was happening,” she said.
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A Facebook worm has attacked more than 45,000 accounts and compromised login data, mainly in France and Britain. Called Ramnit, the worm was first discovered over two years ago, and was recently re-engineered to steal login credentials.
It could have been developed to add users illegally to corporate Facebook accounts or to gain access to corporate Facebook pages. As of now, it's unknown just what purpose Ramnit serves, but it's clear that its damage has been widespread.
In a statement to the press, Facebook was quick to point out that the virus spreads across computers, not across the actual Facebook platform. "Thus far, we have not seen the virus propagating on Facebook itself, but have begun working with our external partners to add protections to our anti-virus systems to help users secure their devices,” a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement.
Facebook has also said that much of the login information stolen was out-of-date. "Over half of these logins were either invalid or had old/expired passwords,” a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement.
Even though it seems the virus has been semi-contained, I still recommend running anti-virus software if anything on your Facebook account looks fishy – like new friends added or spammy links where there should be none.
Figure 2: Ramnit.C Facebook Infection Distribution By Country
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Back in February, Ford CEO Jim Farley said that he believed that the global microchip shortage, which has severely disrupted the automaker’s production for months, would be essentially over by Q3 of 2021. Others have echoed this sentiment, but as the weeks go by, it seems that expectations are changing. In fact, some now believe that the global microchip shortage could go on for years.
“I have been in this industry for 31 years, and this is a situation I have never experienced before,” president of the automotive division at Infineon Technologies, Peter Schiefer, told Automotive News. “This will not be sorted out in the next few weeks.”
“The latest incoming information suggests that production disruptions will be more severe than initially thought,” added LMC Automotive analyst James Norris. “The shortage is expected to drag on until the closing months of 2021 and undermine the capacity for automakers to catch up lost volumes in the second half.”
If these predictions come true, it’s expected that the automotive industry could see production cuts of up to two or three million vehicles this year across the entire globe. Ford recently saw cuts of 44,000 vehicles in just one week, as we recently reported.
Meanwhile, FoMoCo is rethinking its supply chain strategy in light of the chip shortage, focusing on stockpiling critical parts instead of sticking to a just-in-time philosophy. Jim Farley will also attend today’s White House summit, along with other major automaker executives and chipmakers, as the group attempts to find a solution for this ongoing issue.
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These 3 Nations are Aiming Higher in the International Space Race
Japan and Canada are making significant changes to how their national space agencies operate, while Australia is examining whether there is a need for national space agency at all. Speakers from each had time to dig deeper into their respective countries’ space industry plans during the 33rd Space Symposium last week in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Space in Japan
According to Shuzo Takada, director general of Japan’s National Space Policy Secretariat, the country has made a major shift in the goals of its space policy from the previous decade. Previously, Japan had banned all military use of space assets, limiting the industry to commercial and research purposes. Now, however, the country has established new laws on space development that place heavy emphasis on space security.
This is due in part to growing threats from countries such as North Korea and, as Takada put it, “space’s increasing importance in national security policy.” Defense-wise, Takada said Japan had largely focused on the resiliency of its space systems in the past. Now it’s taking a three-pronged approach: building resilient systems, but also taking measures to prevent incidents from happening in the first place, and emphasizing countermeasures in the event of an attack. All of these are “indispensible for mission assurance,” Takada said.
Although Research and Development (R&D) currently eats up the majority of Japan’s space budget, Takada expects the amount of funds allocated toward space security to increase over time. He said that Japan plans to strengthen national security by using optical and radar observation to improve Space Situational Awareness (SSA), and by expanding cooperation with allied countries such as France and the United States.
On the civil side, Japan’s biggest short-term project is the completion of its Quazi-Zenth Satellite System (QZSS). The first satellite, Michibiki, launched back in 2010, and Japan plans to deploy the remainder of the seven satellites by 2023. As a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), QZSS is designed to provide communications and also complement existing Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites by increasing accuracy down to the centimeter. The constellation will fly in an elliptical Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) to ensure at least one satellite hovers over Japan at all times.
Space in Canada
Not unlike Japan, Canada’s industry was largely built around its mandate for the peaceful use of space, said Canadian Space Agency (CSA) President Sylain Laporte. Any missions planned exclusively for national security are passed along to the military, which is part of the reason why the CSA is relatively small compared to other agencies such as NASA. Nonetheless, the CSA has been involved in a number of international space endeavors, including manufacturing instruments for the James Webb Space Telescope.
Because of the country’s geography, much of Canada’s space investments have gone toward Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) and Earth Observation (EO) technology. “We use Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) to look at … these immense, vast agricultural fields. By feeding that back to the farmer he is able to optimize his yield,” Laporte said. The panelists agreed that strength in these areas should continue, fueled particularly by start-ups entering Canada’s maturing commercial space industry. “I see very rapid growth in the smallsat environment. That’s really good news for space agencies like mine where you try do as much as possible on a limited budget,” said Laporte.
Laporte also highlighted Maritime Launch Systems’ (MLS) efforts to construct a new launch pad in Nova Scotia as a testament to Canada’s growing commercial prospects. “They have partnered with a company in the Ukraine looking at a medium capacity launch vehicle,” Laporte said. “They’re looking at reaching initial operating capability in the 2020-2021 time frame. It is entirely a commercial venture.”
Donald Osborne, president of MDA Information Systems, noted that the government of Canada has been very supportive of the commercial side of the industry and likely will continue to be. “The Canadian space industry is underpinned by strong relationships with the government. Whether you’re large or small you’ve used the CSA or government funding to be successful,” he said. “The secret for being successful in our industry is leveraging what you can do with government funding into the export market or commercial sales.”
According to Laporte, the idea of bringing new technologies to the international market runs throughout all of Canada’s space activities, on both the government and the commercial side. He stressed that Canada will continue to rely on its friends across borders to advance space capabilities. “The rapid growth and exciting opportunities that we’re seeing are being put into a context of international collaboration, and all of us are sharing our information to ensure we can leverage from one another. Humanity is going at this together,” he said.
To that end, Canada plans to contribute wherever it can to the international space community. Most recently, the government set aside funds for the CSA to begin preparing for the next Mars mission to modernize the satellites currently orbiting the planet.
Space in Australia
Meanwhile, Australian officials continue to debate the pros and cons of having a national space agency. Because there is no equivalent to NASA or CSA in Australia, research is typically done through the universities funded by the Australian Research Council, said Shaun Wilson, chief executive officer of Shoal Group.
This has led to a desire for governmental coordination across the industry, according to Russell Boyce, chair for space engineering at the University of New South Wales-Canberra. “Such an agency could be the vehicle to stimulate a mature Australian space sector,” he said. Nova Group co-founder Peter Nikoloff agreed, noting that it’s important to have an organization driving a national strategy for space. His vision is to have one central body governing everything from scientific research to national security to the growth of the commercial sector, each of which he said needs to be “equally balanced.”
Anna Moore, director of Australia National University’s Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Center (AITC), said that despite the lack of a national agency, the Australian government hasn’t necessarily shirked its responsibility to fund science projects. In fact, it recently invested $300 million into the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), a next-generation telescope that will be built across Australia and South Africa. Still, there are gaps she hopes a national body could potentially address, such as funding for small missions run by students. “There’s no funding mechanism they can apply to that directly address space,” she said — and to make matters worse, they must also compete with established companies in Australia’s relatively large ground infrastructure sector. Moore said she hopes to see new funding sources in the next five to 10 years geared specifically toward young researchers.
Anthony Murfett, minister counselor of industry, science and education at the Australian Embassy in the United States, said that it’s important for Australia to first establish its strategic priorities before running headlong into creating a national agency. “I think what will really assist the government in determining its role and [how] we go forward is getting a good understanding of Australia’s competitive advantage,” he said.
According to Wilson, Australia has thus far chosen explicitly to focus on ground infrastructure and data processing, with space segment services typically provided commercially. That should function as a good starting point for the industry’s continued growth as NewSpace companies such as Sky and Space Global enter the arena. Overall, even without a national agency, the speakers seemed optimistic that commercial initiatives can help propel the Australian industry forward into the future, both in its niche of ground infrastructure and outside of it. | <urn:uuid:c33677b8-099b-43b5-a713-8dd06f382989> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.satellitetoday.com/government-military/2017/04/11/3-nations-aiming-higher-international-space-race/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.949894 | 1,665 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Crowds thronged Jerusalem as tens of thousands of Muslim faithful headed for the first Friday prayers of Ramadan at the al-Aqsa mosque compound in the Old City.
Israeli authorities eased access restrictions for Palestinians from the West Bank, allowing men aged 50 and over and women of 45 and over to enter the site.
Israel generally prohibits Palestinians from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to enter its own designated territory or east Jerusalem, which it occupied in the 1967 Six-Day-War and later annexed.
At the Qanladia checkpoint into Jerusalem, long lines of people could be seen streaming into the city from early morning onwards.
The Israeli army has extended opening times at some checkpoints for the month of Ramadan, and said in a statement soldiers manning the barriers have been told to "refrain from eating and drinking in public" whenever possible "so as to demonstrate a high level of respect and understanding."
Security forces beefed up their presence, particularly in the vicinity of the al-Aqsa mosque compound.
The compound is known as al-Haram al-Sharif to Muslims and is Islam’s third holiest site after Mecca and Medina. Jews refer to the same area as the Temple Mount, the location of the Second Jewish Temple razed by the Romans in 70 AD and Judaism’s holiest site. | <urn:uuid:86b04ae1-d4bd-43db-9048-56cc4ff34192> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.palestinechronicle.com/muslims-throng-jerusalem-for-ramadan-prayers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.954609 | 283 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Much of Target’s Canadian failure has been attributed to supply chain issues. All fulfillment companies can learn from Target and use the following checklist to ensure they are utilizing their supply chain services correctly:
1. Do You Have the Proper Software?
The media has noted that Target Canada didn’t have the proper software management services to link the retailer with its supply chain companies, something a business cannot let happen. While it’s true that technology can be frustrating and hard to keep up with, you have to make sure that your supply chain software is working in order to handle orders quickly.
2. Do You Keep the Right Stock?
It was also said that Target Canada didn’t stock their shelves properly. Having taken over from previous retailer Zellers, Target did not pay attention to what items the old chain’s clients bought–and that’s for the products they actually had. Making sure your supply chains can get you the right stock is imperative; if yours fails, find another that can.
3. Do You Stay Client-Focused?
Making the above mistakes insults your clients and shows a lack of respect for them. You have to work in conjunction with supply chains to determine what clients want and then keep those items in stock while also finding new products they might be interested in.
4. Do You Ensure the Best Pricing?
Target Canada made a mistake in regards to their pricing by having it fail to beat those of competitors, even during holiday seasons, when they could have offered promotions or discounts to move more stock. The prices both you and your suppliers set are a key indicator of how enthusiastic you are that the public buy from you. As such, you’ll want to keep an eye on your pricing and change it when the need arises.
5. Do You Keep Clients Engaged?
Finally, Target did not succeed at engaging consumers. Offering assembly services on larger products, setting up a special buyers’ club with your suppliers, and offering online exhibitions of new products through e-newsletters are just some ways you can avoid making this mistake.
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Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
2005 September 29
Explanation: The combined light of the stars of the Milky Way are reflected by this cosmic dust cloud that soars some 300 light-years above the plane of our Galaxy. Dubbed the Angel Nebula by astronomer Steve Mandel's 13 year old son, the dusty apparition is part of an expansive complex of dim and relatively unexplored diffuse nebulae, traced over large regions seen toward the North and South Galactic poles. Along with the blue tint characteristic of more commonly observed reflection nebulae, the Angel Nebula and other dusty galactic cirrus also produce a faint reddish luminescence, as dust grains convert the Milky Way's invisible ultraviolet radiation to visible red light. Spanning 3x4 degrees on the sky in the constellation Ursa Major, this wide-angle, high-resolution image was recorded as part of the Unexplored Nebula Project.
Authors & editors:
NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers
NASA Official: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply.
A service of: EUD at NASA / GSFC
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Antibodies are marvelous molecules. Over millions of years, evolution fine-tuned antibodies to bind single targets with incredible precision, playing a crucial role in the immune system’s defense against foreign invaders like bacteria and viruses. In recent decades, scientists have harnessed this power to help fight diseases such as cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, and multiple sclerosis. Now we can take therapeutic antibodies even further, beyond the capabilities that evolution has provided.
Thanks to recent advances in molecular engineering, including a technique we developed in our labs, it’s possible to make antibodies do something they never could before – bind two different targets simultaneously. These so called “bispecific” antibodies offer an unprecedented combination of precision, stability and diverse targeting ability that have the potential to revolutionize the way we treat serious diseases. See how in the video below. | <urn:uuid:a3e1ae9f-de11-4818-863f-4e1d74010ecd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.gene.com/stories/a-bispecific-revolution | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.924528 | 176 | 3.203125 | 3 |
- Climate change could be hurting sales growth at Greggs.
- Recent extremes of hot and cold weather have triggered four profit warnings and created volatility in Greggs' stock price, according to Barclays.
- Data from the Met Office show Britain is getting hotter and rainier as the years go by.
LONDON — Climate change could be hurting sales growth at Greggs, the gigantic baked goods chain, according to an analysis of Meteorological Office data by Barclays.
Recent extremes of hot and cold weather have triggered profit warnings in recent years, moving Greggs' stock price, according to Barclays analyst Richard Taylor and his team. High temperatures hurt sales growth, their analysis shows.
"Greggs issued a profit warning at its AGM in May following extreme cold weather (as well as ‘weaker market conditions’), so investors are very focused on how trading evolves. Our analysis indicates that in previous heat waves trading has been disrupted (hot food is not appealing), and there have been one positive and two negative share price outcomes," he told clients in a research note seen by Business Insider.
The pastry chain's sales are affected by severe weather in both winter and summer, the data show.
Broadly, Greggs is unstoppable. It has nearly 1,900 locations in the UK, dwarfing chains like McDonald's, Starbucks and Pret a Manger. It is not uncommon to see multiple branches of Greggs on a single street, or two stores facing each across an intersection, such is Britain's insatiable need for pies. The sausage-rolls-and-sandwiches company opens new locations in Britain at a rate of more than 10 per month. Its revenues are still growing: like-for-like sales were up 1.3% in May.
Greggs is so vast that is it perhaps not surprising its business can only be swayed by planet-wide events, like global warming. The worry is that growth might be pinched if people don't want to eat starchy baked pastries in warm weather, or they stay at home during winter storms, the Barclays analysis suggests.
Britain's climate is certainly becoming more extreme. Average temperatures have risen nearly 2 degrees Centigrade since the beginning of the 20th Century, according to the Met Office.
Britain also has heavier rain. In 1961, Britain got an average of just over 150 centimetres of rain per year. In 2017, it was well over 160 centimetres, the Met data say.
And the UK has fewer frost days now than 50 years ago, too.
In May, Greggs issued a profit warning because sales were reduced by the "Beast from the East," an unusually severe winter snowstorm that brought Britain to a halt for a few days. A large number of Greggs outlets were unable to open, and those that did saw lower foot traffic. The stock dropped 15% on the news.
So Barclays decided to find out just how much of a problem the weather is for Greggs. "Writing about the weather and its potential impact is never a proud moment for us, as we do not believe it affects the fundamental value of a company. However, we are regularly asked about recent warm weather, and share prices clearly react to this news," Taylor told clients.
He discovered that Greggs has warned of the effect of weather on its business on three previous occasions, which coincided with the three greatest temperature anomalies since 2003.
Right now, of course, Britain is basking in a glorious — albeit unusual — heatwave that began at the start of June. There has been almost no rain across the country for several weeks. No one is in the mood for a cheese and bacon wrap.
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Last time, I tried to explain how the world of objects in space and time isn’t the world of particles and waves.
This was disconcerting, but it gets worse when we consider our own identities. According to two popular ways of looking at identity, at self — the notion that, no matter how surreal the universe becomes, I’m “in here” perceiving and acting on it — is not really real, either.
One of these ways of looking at consciousness is proposed by Daniel Dennett in his book Consciousness Explained. Dennett describes consciousness mechanically, as the result of the mental processes by which the brain constantly organizes the perceptual inputs which are its source of information. He calls this group of processes the “Multiple Drafts” model of consciousness:
According to the Multiple Drafts model, all varieties of perception — indeed, all varieties of thought or mental activity — are accomplished in the brain by parallel, multitrack processes of interpretation and elaboration of sensory inputs. Information entering the nervous system is under continuous “editorial revision.”
Dennett proposes a concurrent series of processes, brain actions which blend and interact dynamically, hence the idea that rather than a single “narrative” there is a group of drafts whose threads the brain can combine in a wide variety of ways:
This stream of contents is only rather like a narrative because of its multiplicity; at any point in time there are multiple “drafts” of narrative fragments at various stages of editing in various places in the brain.
Why is there no single narrative, no “stream of consciousness”? Because, Dennett argues, there is no whole identity, no central observer, which weaves our multiple drafts into a single, coherent story:
There are multiple channels in which specialist circuits try, in parallel pandemoniums, to do their various things, creating Multiple Drafts as they go. Most of these fragmentary drafts of “narrative” play short-lived roles in the modulation of current activity but some get promoted to further functional roles, in swift succession, by the activity of a virtual machine in the brain.
According to Dennett, this set of processes is not “hard-wired.” Rather, it is an adaptation of mental processes which began with other functions:
They were not developed to perform peculiarly human actions, such as reading and writing, but ducking, predator-avoiding, face recognizing, grasping, throwing, berry-picking, and other essential tasks. They are often oppor-tunistically enlisted in new roles, for which their native talents more or less suit them.
Innate mental processes, shared to greater or less extent with other animals, work in conjunction with uniquely human factors:
… it is augmented, and sometimes even overwhelmed in importance, by microhabits of thought that are developed in the individual, partly idiosyncratic results of self-exploration and partly the predesigned gifts of culture. Thousands of memes, mostly borne by language, but also by wordless “images” and other data structures, take up residence in an individual brain.
In this conception of consciousness, there is no Cartesian self, no non-material soul, no single “I” to take its place in “I think, therefore I am.” Our identities are closer to “my brain does stuff, and we are they.” This ruthlessly mechanistic view of consciousness, of identity, of self, removes the soul, Rile’s “ghost in the machine,” and replaces it with an organic computer, a biological Von Neumann machine.
Related to this idea, but somewhat differing from it, is the notion that “we are our narratives.” Combining physiological data and psychological insights, the narratives explanation of consciousness is another way of denying the reality of a separate, single self. In this view, the left cerebral cortex works to organize our sensory input and experiences into a fluid autobiography, one with all of the key features we recognize in the creative fictions of storytellers.
John Bickle and Sean Keating (url below) put it this way:
“We are our narratives” has become a popular slogan. “We” refers to our selves, in the full-blooded person-constituting sense. “Narratives” refers to the stories we tell about our selves and our exploits in settings as trivial as cocktail parties and as serious as intimate discussions with loved ones. We express some in speech. Others we tell silently to ourselves, in that constant little inner voice. The full collection of one’s internal and external narratives generates the self we are intimately acquainted with. Our narrative selves continually unfold.
Bickle and Keating cite Gazzaniga’s research with “split-brain” patients, subjects whose brain hemispheres have been separated surgically (typically to treat a severe form of epilepsy). This empirical neuroscience shows that the left hemisphere of the brain is hard-wired for language and hypothesis, and responds to the right hemisphere’s sensory inputs by creating narrative interpretations of our perceptions:
… Gazzaniga argues that the human brain’s left hemisphere … possesses the unique capacity to interpret — that is, narrate — behaviours and emotional states initiated by either hemisphere. Not surprisingly, the left hemisphere is also the language hemisphere, with specialised cortical regions for producing, interpreting and understanding speech. It is also the hemisphere that produces narratives.
These left-hemisphere functions, according to Gazzaniga, what he terms the “interpreter,” give us our sense of self, our personal identity:
The interpreter sustains a running narrative of our actions, emotions, thoughts, and dreams. The interpreter is the glue that keeps our story unified, and creates our sense of being a coherent, rational agent. To our bag of individual instincts it brings theories about our lives. These narratives of our past behaviour seep into our awareness and give us an autobiography.
How does this work? Bickle’s explanation is that we have what he calls a “little inner voice,” a running stream of narrative produced by the always active left hemisphere’s language centres:
One compelling study used PET imaging to watch what is going on in the brain during inner speech. As expected, this showed activity in the classic speech production area known as Broca’s area. But also active was Wernicke’s area, the brain region for language comprehension, suggesting that not only do the brain’s speech areas produce silent inner speech, but that our inner voice is understood and interpreted by the comprehension areas. The result of all this activity, I suggested, is the narrative self.
The interior narrative function of the left hemisphere’s language centres creates the same kinds of stories as we encounter externally. In effect, our public literary traditions are built of the same stuff as our personal histories, and for the same reasons, since we seem to be hard-wired to see the world in a certain way, which we then reconstruct when creating stories for others:
If we create our selves through narratives, whether external or internal, they are traditional ones, with protagonists and antagonists and a prescribed relationship between narrators, characters and listeners. They have linear plots with a fixed past, a present built coherently on it, and a horizon of possibilities projected coherently into the future.
How did we develop this story-telling capacity? Gazzaniga suggests that the interpreter provided an evolutionary advantage by reinforcing “a new capacity for relentlessly hypothesising about possible causal patterns, combined with an older, right hemisphere capacity to make probability-based decisions.”
In this second scenario, Descartes fares no better than he does in Dennett’s “multiple drafts” model. Rather than a separate, enduring entity, in Gazzaniga’s “interpreter” the self becomes a never-ending narrative, a story that the brain constantly spins for itself, a tale in which the “I” is not the author, but rather the protagonist.
Where does all this leave me, the self? Who knows just how far neurological research will take our understanding of ourselves, but one thing we can say with confidence: one place that all this new science doesn’t take us is back to the discredited realm of the immaterial soul.
Dennett denies the existence of a single entity, an “observer” in a “Cartesian Theater”; Gazzaniga’s description accepts the observer paradigm, but his “interpreter” is a non-unitary concatenation of physiological brain functions.
So far in this informal and intermittent series on self and identity, we’ve looked at theories which if true make four-dimensional space-time and the I’s inside our heads much less secure than we thought, or than we’d like. What are we to make of all this? If our world is a representation created by our minds, minds that are transactional moments of ever-shifting brain processes — what happened to reality? And what happens to those of us who are empirical realists?
Some of that discussion next time we take up this topic, in a final look at the ideas in Stephen Hawking’s The Grand Design, in a piece called The many worlds of M-theory, coming soon to this location.
Bickle and Keating’s article can be read in its entirety here.
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http://debka.com/article.php?aid=1358Georgian tanks and infantry, aided by Israeli military advisers, captured the capital of breakaway South Ossetia
Russians may just bear with the pro-US Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili’s ambition to bring his country into NATO. But they draw a heavy line against his plans and those of Western oil companies, including Israeli firms, to route the oil routes from Azerbaijan and the gas lines from Turkmenistan, which transit Georgia, through Turkey instead of hooking them up to Russian pipelines.
DEBKAfile discloses Israel’s interest in the conflict from its exclusive military sources:
Jerusalem owns a strong interest in Caspian oil and gas pipelines reach the Turkish terminal port of Ceyhan, rather than the Russian network. Intense negotiations are afoot between Israel Turkey, Georgia, Turkmenistan and Azarbaijan for pipelines to reach Turkey and thence to Israel’s oil terminal at Ashkelon and on to its Red Sea port of Eilat. From there, supertankers can carry the gas and oil to the Far East through the Indian Ocean.
In recent weeks, Moscow has repeatedly demanded that Jerusalem halt its military assistance to Georgia, finally threatening a crisis in bilateral relations. Israel responded by saying that the only assistance rendered Tbilisi was “defensive.”
This has not gone down well in the Kremlin. Therefore, as the military crisis intensifies in South Ossetia, Moscow may be expected to punish Israel for its intervention.
Жвалави демонократски русфобичари код нас пенили како је Русија агресор лад су спасили братски Јужно Осетски народ и абхасе од истребљења.
Иронија да су у првом нападу грузијци уништили синагогу у јужној осетији 1991 кад су извршили геноцид у Јужној Осетији и сада:
http://www.russiatoday.com/ossetianwar/news/30985The Jewish quarter in South Ossetia’s capital Tskhinval is the oldest of all the national communities there, but it was ruined as long ago as 1991 due to Georgian aggression, said Zinovy Kogan, head of Congress of Jewish Religious Organisations and Unions, in an interview with Osetiainfo.ru.
Osetinfo.ru: Is the Jewish Congress planning to help the victims of the conflict in South Ossetia?
Zinovy Kogan: The Russian Jewish Congress is already helping them in different ways. We have collected a number of documents and sent them to the UN for an investigation into Saakashvili’s war crimes. Witness data has been collected, it’s a big pile of documents.
Osetinfo.ru: Will the Jewish quarter be rebuilt?
Zinovy Kogan: The Jewish quarter was destroyed back in 1991, and after that almost all Jews who lived in Tskhinval left the city. Of course, it will be reconstructed, but will it go on being a ‘Jewish quarter’? For example, the synagogue will be reconstructed as a memorial to Jews who used to live on this land. Maybe it will be a synagogue, maybe it will be a museum.
Tskhinval is one of the world’s oldest cities. It’s more than 2000 years old. And the Jewish quarter is the oldest there. A legend says the synagogue is 2,600 years old. This quarter was very rich, there were markets there. You could buy whatever you wanted there whenever you wanted. The houses were so solid they saved hundreds of people who were hiding in the basements. It’s the second time the Jewish quarter has been directly fired on. This time it was exactly the same as in 1991. It’s astonishing how strong Georgian hatred is.
Osetinfo.ru: Is it possible that Jews will come back to Tskhinval?
Zinovy Kogan: I think, yes. I went to Grozny in Chechnya not long ago, and I want to say that as soon as peace was established in that republic, Jews started moving there: engineers, programmers, managers. They came there – those were Chechen Jews. By the way, Chechnya’s President Ramzan Kadyrov is very happy with this and he is giving the best positions to them. It is said that if Jews are coming back it means peace is coming back. That is right, and I think Ossetian Jews will surely come back to the country and revive the synagogue and their quarter. Not only Jews, but also Armenians, Russians and many others will live there. | <urn:uuid:f4b189d9-0645-4ecb-b6fc-95647635e975> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://forum.krstarica.com/showthread.php/277645-Јевреји-признају-да-је-Израел-подржао-Грузијску-агресију | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721555.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00178-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929592 | 1,199 | 1.554688 | 2 |
It’s difficult to go out to a large, crowded outing without fearing a shooter or another tragic possibility in the back of your mind. For some, it’s more the front of your mind.
Either way, it’s easy to see the world as a dangerous place. Anxiety exists as a warning – an alarm system that something is wrong. As you see all of the terrible things that can happen on the news, it’s easier and easier to think of the world as a more violent place than it used to be.
Yet, as you go about your day, do you recognize equally how many people want to be helpful to you, or how many people want to live in peace as much as you do?
With social media and 24/7 news channels, it is easy to forget. It’s unwise to be uninformed, but too much information skewed in a way that promotes viewership without regard to emotional wellness is unhelpful for the management of anxiety.
This year, in order to reduce your own anxiety, you can do several things to shift your own focus from the blaring headlines of everything wrong in humanity.
First, moderate your “mental diet” more carefully. Pay attention to how much news, politics, crime dramas, horror stories, or otherwise potentially disturbing material you are viewing or reading about. As with food, some things serve people better as an occasional treat rather than a staple.
It is important to remain informed to an extent, but unless you are extremely socially isolated it is almost impossible not to know the significant events that transpire from the people with whom you interact on a day-to-day basis alone. A lot of information is truly superfluous to your life.
Second, take time to clear your mind. Even if it’s just for a split second, your brain needs a break from time to time.
If you are thinking about things seemingly even in your sleep, learning some meditative skills to quiet your mind will allow you to manage your emotional state with much greater success.
Challenge yourself daily to see how long you can keep your mind as a blank slate, up to 20 minutes (and not while driving or operating heavy machinery).
And finally, if your anxiety persists, it is important to seek professional help. Just as if you had physical symptoms for more than a few weeks, assessment and intervention can help you tackle your problems, bringing you more enjoyment in 2016.
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The book was listed in Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century.
"Manuscripts don't burn"
A memorable and much-quoted line in The Master and Margarita is: "manuscripts don't burn" (рукописи не горят). The Master is a writer who is plagued by both his own mental problems and the harsh criticism of most of the Soviet writers in the Moscow of the 1930s. He burns his treasured manuscript in an effort to cleanse his own mind from the troubles the work has brought him. Woland later gives the manuscript back to him saying, "Didn't you know that manuscripts don't burn?" There is an autobiographical element reflected in the Master's character here, as Bulgakov in fact burned an early copy of The Master and Margarita for much the same reasons.
Bulgakov museums in Moscow
In Moscow, two museums honor the memory of Mikhail Bulgakov and The Master and Margarita. Both are situated in Bulgakov's old apartment building on Bolshaya Sadovaya Street No. 10, in which parts of The Master and Margarita are set. Since the 1980s, the building has become a gathering spot for Bulgakov's fans, as well as Moscow-based Satanist groups, and had various kinds of graffiti scrawled on the walls. The numerous paintings, quips, and drawings were completely whitewashed in 2003. Previously the best drawings were kept as the walls were repainted, so that several layers of different colored paints could be seen around the best drawings.
There is a rivalry between the two museums, mainly maintained by the later established official Museum M.A. Bulgakov, which invariably presents itself as "the first and only Memorial Museum of Mikhail Bulgakov in Moscow".
The Bulgakov House (Музей – театр "Булгаковский Дом") is situated at the ground floor. This museum was established as a private initiative on May 15, 2004, and contains personal belongings, photos, and several exhibitions related to Bulgakov's life and his different works. Various poetic and literary events are often held, and excursions to Bulgakov's Moscow are organised, some of which are animated with living characters of The Master and Margarita. The Bulgakov House also runs the Theatre M.A. Bulgakov and the Café 302-bis.
Museum M.A. Bulgakov
In the same building as the Bulgakov House, in apartment number 50 on the fourth floor, is a second museum that keeps alive the memory of Bulgakov, the Museum M.A. Bulgakov (Музей М. А. Булгаков). This second museum is a government initiative founded on March 26, 2007. It contains personal belongings, photos, and several exhibitions related to Bulgakov's life and his different works. Various poetic and literary events are often held.
Allusions and references
Various authors and musicians have credited The Master and Margarita as inspiration for certain works.
- It has been suggested that Mick Jagger may have been inspired by the novel in writing the song "Sympathy for the Devil". Will Self's foreword to the Vintage edition of the Michael Glenny translation suggests the same.
- The grunge band Pearl Jam were influenced by the novel's confrontation between Yeshua Ha-Nozri and Pontius Pilate for the song, "Pilate" on their 1998 album Yield.
- Surrealist artist H. R. Giger named a 1976 painting after the novel. The painting was later featured on the cover of Danzig's 1992 album Danzig III: How the Gods Kill.
- Famous Russian heavy metal band Aria references the novel in two of their songs: "Krov za krov" (off their eponymous 1991 album) and "Bal u knyazya tmy" (off their 2003 album Kreshchenie ognyom).
- Russian pop singer Igor Nikolayev has a song, "Master i Margarita". (Russian: Мастер и Mаргарита)
- Canadian band The Tea Party has a song entitled "The Master and Margarita" in their album The Interzone Mantras.
- Scottish band Franz Ferdinand's song "Love and Destroy" is based on Margarita in the novel.
- Chicago-based punk rock band The Lawrence Arms referenced the novel several times on their album The Greatest Story Ever Told: it features a song called "Chapter 13: The Hero Appears", named after the same chapter in the book; names one of the band members (corresponding to guitarist Chris McCaughan) as Ivan Nikolayevich; features the lyric "text to burn" (in the song "A Wishful Puppeteer") in reference to the catch phrase "Manuscripts don't burn", see above; and also features the same quote from Faust in the liner notes.
- In the movie My Dinner with Andre, Wallace Shawn describes an episode wherein he wore a cat's head as part of his costume in a stage production of The Master and Margarita.
- Swedish stoner band Hong Faux uses imagery and references from the final chapters of the novel in the song "Sparrow Hills" from their debut album The crown that wears the head from 2012.
- Moscow chain Moo Moo Restaurant had for a brief period a mixed drink called "The Master Margarita". The drink was served in a cat-shaped glass.
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Introduction to Project Management
In this Topic, we are going to learn about the Introduction to Project Management. As it’s widely known, Henry Gantt was one of the pioneers of project management who developed the popular Gantt Chart, which is used as a diagram for project management.‘Projects’ are tasks that could be part of our routine lives or any business. Projects could be anything from preparing a meal at home or organizing a vacation tour. And, if it’s business or work-related, developing a website or software, product or a tool, construction of a building can be termed as ‘Projects’.
Thus, the project is an endeavor, with a set of temporary tasks implemented to attain targeted objectives within defined time, scope, resources, and cost. The distinguishing factor between ‘project management and ‘management’ is that the latter is an ongoing process while the former has a definite span of time and deliverable. In simpler terms, ‘Project Management is a process which requires the application of knowledge, skills, and expertise, tools and techniques as well as deliverables to make the project a success so as to attain the desired objectives/goals.
Elements of Project Management
As we learned about the Introduction to Project Management in the above section, so let’s understand the five elements:
- Initiating: The first stage of PM, where formalizing of the project plan, charter and scope are defined so as to determine the cost, resources, timeline, and budgeting for the project.
- Planning: The most crucial stage of all, this stage includes strategist the scope of a project, identifying risks, if any, and developing mitigation plans by creating a set of tasks to administer the project.
- Executing: This is a stage where the project team is ready to launch or administer the project. The tasks are delegated and resumed so as to keep track of the project and efficiently manage the same.
- Monitoring/Controlling: At this stage, evaluation of project performance is undertaken by comparing the real-time results to the defined actuals so as to ensure all the goals and deliverables are met.
- Closing: The last stage of a project where deliverables are surrendered to the customers, forwarding of documents to the business, the release of resources, and notifying the closure of the project to the stakeholders are carried out.
Apart from the above-mentioned phases, project management also includes many discrete functions such as defining project scope, schedule, resources, and budgeting. Procurement, managing risks, communication, and negotiation with the stakeholders also form an integral part of the management of the projects.
Types of Project Management
After going through the wide Introduction to Project Management and the five elements, we are going to explore the different types of project management which are developed to align with the requirements of particular industries or different types of projects. Let’s explore them.
- Waterfall PM: As the name suggests, this is the conventional type of PM that follows the traditional pattern wherein the next task is resumed only after the completion of the previous task. Therefore, project timeline and attention to the sequence of tasks are paramount in this type of PM. In this type of PM, the team size goes on expanding as the smaller tasks are finished and the larger ones begin.
- Agile PM: The IT sector were the pioneers who use this type of PM. Unlike the conventional one, Agile follows the continual process of improvement through monitoring, continuous follow-up, and interactions with the team members as per the business conditions. Thus, it helps in identifying and rectification of errors without having to resume the entire process all over again, which is a plus!
- Lean PM: Lean PM is based on the principle of avoiding waste of time and resources. It practices the methodology of creating more value from less, which is primarily based on the Japanese way of functioning. So, the lean way of PM focuses on adding value by the elimination of everything else that fails to add value!
Role of Project Manager
The Project Manager is the ‘captain of the ship’ who is leading the project team, plans and executes a project. The project manager is required to ensure whether or not the project is in alignment with the customer’s vision and quality standards. The success or failure of the project is bestowed on the shoulders of the Project Manager.
Here are the roles and responsibilities of a Project Manager:
- Identifying and defining the project scope, timeline, resources, and developing the budget.
- Formalizing the identified factors and putting forth the documents, preparing schedules and charts.
- Monitoring, evaluating, and reporting the progress to the stakeholders
- Conducting risk analysis, managing risks, and developing mitigation plans.
- Communicating and negotiating with the stakeholders
- Maintaining the quality standards of a project.
- Monitoring and managing the results as per the defined actuals.
- Closing the project by analyzing the results and communicating the same to the stakeholders.
Want to start a career in Project Management? Here is what you need to know:
As organizations are continually striving to improve the success rates for their projects, there is a substantial and emerging market for skills in project management. Globalization has resulted in a demand for project management roles. Whichever be the industry, project management professionals are in constant demand. Every organization in every sector is in need of project managers. Be it public or private sector, or an NGO, the demand for project managers is increasing. Therefore, keeping it as a career option will definitely land you with many job opportunities in different sectors around the world. Since project management is a job with great responsibilities and requires specific skill-sets, the compensation offered for project managers is quite good.
A professional course/degree in project management would enable to acquire skills in any professional tasks, develops expertise in handling stakeholders, managing risks and resources. There are many different types of certifications available for those willing to kickstart their career in project management. Having said so much about project management and its applicability in today’s world, don’t miss an opportunity to make your dream career in project management!
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For many Indian women the subject of sex is taboo. They are brought up to believe that the sexual act is dirty and something that is to be discussed only in hushed whispers. Consequently, there is widespread ignorance.
The ignorance is so great, that I have seen women use vaginal’ gel and spermicide on their fingers!
Most young women believe that any thing they want to know about sex can be gleaned from their husbands and they are consequently reluctant to seek information elsewhere. Unfortunately, the men are multiply in a vicious cycle.
What are these misconceptions? Here I am listing them and also trying to clear up some doubts on certain old wives’ tables.
“In my practice, I have found that among women the most common problems are myths regarding virginity. I know at least 20-25 couples whose marriages almost broke up because there was no bleeding during intercourse.
The myth that a broken hymen means loss of virginity has caused undue misery and embarrassment to several women”.
Couples also come to me for problems regarding lovemaking. “Of all my patients 78 % have an actual physiological problem, the rest suffer from psychological blocks in the mind which comes in because of various misconceptions and beliefs“.
One common complaint for many women is painful intercourse “The problem arises chiefly because the husband is impatient and avoids foreplay. The next time the woman is tense and anticipates the pain; this makes the complaint even more painful. The result is that the husband gets annoyed and brands his wife as frigid.
Coming to the subject of menstruation, how the monthly cycle could affect a woman’s mood and her sexuality. Premenstrual tension affects some women who complain of breast tenderness, nausea, backache and irritability. There is a feeling of discomfort in the pelvic region and the emotional disturbances can inhibit her sexuality.
Other women, however, find that their sexual drive is enhanced, resulting from an increased pelvic congestion, which increases pelvic awareness, without causing discomfort.
Sex during menstruation is perfectly safe and natural if both partners desire it. Some women believe that sex during pregnancy is harmful. However, a healthy woman with a normal pregnancy can safely indulge in it. However, it should be avoided if there is pain or bleeding at any stage. If there is any history of miscarriage, then sex must be avoided during the first trimester.
One note of warning from me. If, for any reason, intercourse has been forbidden by the doctor during pregnancy the woman must take care to avoid having an orgasm by any other means, including masturbation. The contractions of the uterus following masturbation are far more intense compared to normal sexual intercourse.
For questions relating to sexual intercourse after the birth of the baby, I am listing the following Don’ts…
Do not indulge in sexual intercourse until the episiotomy scar has healed. (An episiotomy is an incision that is often made to ease the birth of the baby).
Do not rush into sex if the woman does not feel like resuming normal sexual activity. Pregnancy and giving birth to a baby are deeply demanding experiences and she needs time to resume her normal life-style.
I also like to clear the air regarding questions about pregnancy. Can a woman conceive if she has not actually had sexual intercourse? The answer is “Yes” if at any stage of heavy petting the sperm is deposited near the vulva.
They can pass through the minute hole of an intact hymen and travel the full length of the vagina and uterus.There is a misconception that men are more sexual beings and that, therefore it is the male prerogative to indulge in extramarital affairs.
However, women, freed from sexual taboos and constraints are also capable of equal enjoyment. After an orgasm there is a refractory period when a male is incapable of immediate arousal but a woman is capable of multiple orgasms if adequate stimulation is provided.
Written by Dr. Paras Shah.
About: At present, Dr Paras Shah is Chief Sexologist of Gujarat Research & Medical Institute (Rajasthan Hospital) & Director of Sannidhya Institute & Research Center for Sex, Sexuality and Health.He is the worthy son of eminent surgeon Dr K K Shah whose successful career has been in existence for decades in Ahmedabad.
You can reach to him at:
Cell: +91 98240 63332
Website: www.s4sq.com & http://www.impotenceinfocentre.com
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Bone up on aviation history with Smithsonian book
- Article by: DOUGLASS K. DANIEL
- Associated Press
- April 14, 2014 - 7:40 AM
"The Smithsonian Book of Air & Space Trivia" (Smithsonian Books), edited by Amy Pastan
Who discovered the planet Uranus in 1781? Don't feel bad if the name William Herschel, a British musician and telescope builder, doesn't come to mind in a snap.
Only those with out-of-this-world interests could possibly score well in answering the questions posed in "The Smithsonian Book of Air & Space Trivia." And such buffs would probably chafe at the suggestion that this informative little book, edited by Amy Pastan, is filled with unimportant details.
These days the excitement once generated by astronauts and spaceships is easier to find in video games and in movies like "Gravity" than in headlines and TV news. Lest we forget, this book shows us how far we have come — and suggests how far we have yet to travel.
See how well you know some of the key names in aviation history (the answers are below):
1. What daring aviator flew solo around the world in the Winnie Mae?
2. Who was the first woman to fly solo and nonstop across the Atlantic?
3. What flamboyant pilot briefly flew with a pet lion?
4. Who was the first woman to fly solo around the world?
5. What was the name of the first chimp in space?
6. Which Hollywood film producer set a world speed record in 1935 and broke the record for flying a transcontinental route in 1937?
7. Who earned the nickname "Muttnik"?
8. Who was the first pilot to fly at twice the speed of sound?
9. Who was the first African-American woman to be a licensed pilot?
10. Who was the first person to dine in space as well as the first to photograph the Earth from space and was also the oldest space traveler?
(1) Wiley Post made only 11 stops in his nearly eight-day trek in 1933.
(2) Amelia Earhart made her 15-hour flight in 1932, five years after Charles Lindbergh did it in twice the time.
(3) Roscoe Turner flew with a lion cub in 1930 while working for Gilmore Oil Co., which used a lion's head for its trademark.
(4) Geraldine Mock piloted the Spirit of Columbus from Ohio's capital on a 29-day flight in 1964.
(5) The trained chimp named Ham was place inside a Mercury spacecraft in 1961 to test whether humans could fully function in space.
(6) Howard Hughes not only set fight records, he also produced the 1930s movies "Hell's Angels" and "Scarface."
(7) A mixed-breed stray dog named Laika went into space in 1957 as the Soviets studied the effects of space flight on mammals. During the flight of Sputnik 2, "Muttnik" died from stress and an overheated cabin.
(8) Scott Crossfield, in 1953, beat the record of Mach 1 set six years earlier by Chuck Yeager.
(9) Bessie Coleman, a native of Texas, was licensed in France in 1921. She later performed stunt flying in the U.S. until she died in an accident in 1926.
(10) John Glenn was also the first American to orbit the Earth, in 1962. He returned to space at age 77 in 1998.
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Of all the major singers of the late 20th century, Nina Simone was one of the hardest to label. She recorded extensively in soul, jazz, and pop and was also comfortable with blues, gospel, and Broadway. She has subsequently been labelled as a 'soul' singer in terms of emotion, rather than form. Her repertoire included jazz standards, gospel and spirituals, classical music, folk songs of diverse origin, blues, pop, songs from musicalsand opera, African chants as well as her own compositions.
Containing 15 songs transcribed for piano & voice, including - Angel of the Morning; Baltimore; Black is the Colour of my True Love's Hair; Break Down & Let it All Out; I Get Along Without You Very Well; I Shall Be Released; I'm Gonna Leave You; Lilac Wine; My Man's Gone Now; New World Coming; The Pusher; Seems I'm Never Tired Lovin' You; Strange Fruit; Turn Me On; Wild is the Wind.
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How do you use exquisitely in a sentence. English majors, readers, & those learning a new language might especially benefit from this page. The lines of text below use exquisitely in a sentence, and provide visitors a sentence for exquisitely.
- A perfect figure, though rather short; a dovelike face, whose exquisitely shaped, just-opened lips seemed to be demanding sugar-plums. (8)
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- Caleb Balderstone, in his endeavour to keep up the honour of a noble household in a state of beggary, is an exquisitely comic character. (10)
- Emma knew she must have seen in the library a row of her literary ventures, exquisitely bound; but there was no allusion to the books. (10)
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- He did not listen, for he was thinking what a deadly charming and exquisitely horrid witch she was. (10)
- He was good, obedient, humane; he was generous, exquisitely bred; he brought her peace, and he had been warned. (10)
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- She was, she felt she was, in the greatest danger of being exquisitely happy, while so many were miserable. (4)
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In the kind of writing most of us do every day—the kind of writing I’ve mainly been concerned with in these columns—the only criteria that matter are clarity and precision.
The kind of writing that most of us do every day: I’m talking about expository writing, analytical writing, writing that is not narrative fiction or poetry.
(And even as I make this distinction I am aware of how flimsy these generic categories are. Even analytical writing is basically narrative, having a formally strict beginning, method of proceeding, and an unambiguous end. And Chaucer’s advice that “the end is every tale’s strength” is as true for an environmental analysis as for a novel.
And in writing, the practical, generic distinction between fact and fiction is virtually useless. One of my favorite little nuggets of etymological wisdom is to note that these words “fact” and “fiction,” which for us are diametric opposites, come from two Latin words that mean the same thing: “fact” comes from facere, which means to shape, to make, as in manuFACTure, and “fiction” comes from the Latin word fingere, which also means to shape, to make, as in what we use fingers for.)
But in the kind of writing most of us do every day, the only two criteria that matter are clarity and precision. What we write should be clear, and it should be accurate, a close approximation of whatever it is we’re trying to explain.
The writer’s problem is that those two criteria are consummated only in the minds of the readers.
A sentence or paragraph may be perfectly clear in my own mind and still leave the reader scratching his or her head. I’ve read a lot of sentences like that, sentences where the writer surely had some clear idea in mind when writing, but there’s no clue for the reader what that clear idea might have been.
Sure, we need to be clear in our own minds about what we’re saying. That much seems obvious. But even this first step sometimes gets neglected. It’s hard to imagine a writer not beginning there, but sometimes we use words as fictions designed to mask the fact that we have no idea what we’re talking about. (Can you say “Donald Trump?”)
My knowing what I’m talking about is never enough. Writing is the act of ensuring that readers know what I’m talking about.
It seems odd even to have to say so. It seems even odd to have to say so.
Odd. Even. Even. Odd.
But so much empty verbiage is flung at us these days, babble that comes out of the most superficial attempt at thinking and has no real target—no audience, no action to be taken. Look at anything that reeks of that emptiest of genres, the “Strategic Plan.” You can recognize it by all the -izes: prioritize, maximize, actualize, conceptualize, organize, strengthenize.
(Okay, okay—I made that last one up. I’ve never seen “strengthenize”—yet.) But these are signs that what the language is suggesting exists only in some kind of Platonic, intellectual heaven where all good strategic plans go when they die. The Strategic Plan is an art form that was born dead. Like MTV. It started out as kind of a commercial for something real: “This is what we’re going to do and how we’re going to do it.” But then it realized it had no need for its parent reality and it abandoned empirical reality as pretty much beside the point.
So much verbiage is flung at us that this bears repeating: writing is the act of ensuring that readers know and understand what we are talking about. Just as the concept of aim is meaningless without a target, the concepts of clarity and precision are meaningless unless they occur in the minds of our readers.
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22.214.171.124 Ball mills. The ball mill is a tumbling mill that uses steel balls as the grinding media. The length of the cylindrical shell is usually 11.5 times the shell diameter ( Figure 8.11). The feed can be dry, with less than 3% moisture to minimize ball
With more than 100 years of experience in ball mill technology, Metso Outotec ball mills are designed for long life and minimum maintenance. They grind ores and other materials typically to 35 mesh or finer in a variety of applications, both in open or closed circuits.
Jul 05, 2020 A ball mill also known as pebble mill or tumbling mill is a milling machine that consists of a hallow cylinder containing balls mounted on a metallic frame such that it can be rotated along its longitudinal axis. The balls which could be of different diameter occupy 30 50 % of the mill volume and its size depends on the feed and mill size.
The ball-milling tables can operate multiple jars at the same time as the jars rotation is induced by continuous rotation of the tables rollers. Ball mill is typically used to grind and/or blend materials and it can be done wet or dry. It can be used to mix ceramic powders, disperse particles in solvents, homogenize ceramic slurries, etc ...
Ball Mill Working Principle. To be chosen according to the grinding material, material is composed of a ball mill feed end of the hollow shaft is arranged in the tube body, when the ball mill cylinder rotation time, grinding body due to inertia and centrifugal force, the effects of friction, making it attached to the cylinder liner on the cylinder body away, when taken to the height of a ...
Feb 20, 2017 Ball mill shells are often furnished with two manholes. Ball mills with small balls or cylpebs can produce the finest product of all tumbling mills. 80% minus 74 microns is a normal requirement from the concentrators. The CRRK series of wet grinding ball mills are tabulated below. PEBBLE MILLS
Economy Ball Mill, a division of JSB Industrial Solutions, Inc. manufactures Ball Mills that are diverse in applications and uses. Since we are an OEM and our product line has been around for over 50 years, we can provide the experience and knowledge to enhance your process capabilities by applying our procedural based manufacturing methods to your process
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FL ball mill for cement grinding , The FL ball mill is designed for grinding of clinker, gypsum and dry or moist additives to any type of cement , requirements in terms of plant layout, mill drive, lining types and end product specifications, as required...
Planetary Ball Mill PM 400. Planetary Ball Mills are used wherever the highest degree of fineness is required.Apart from the classical mixing and size reduction processes, the mills also meet all the technical requirements for colloidal grinding and have the energy input necessary for mechanical alloying processes.The extremely high centrifugal forces of planetary ball mills
Apr 24, 2015 Ball mill consist of a hollow cylindrical shell rotating about its axis. Axis of the shell horizontal or at small angle to the horizontal It is partially filled with balls made up of Steel,Stainless steel or rubber Inner surface of the shell is lined with abrasion resistant materials such as Manganese,Steel or rubber Length of the mill is ...
Ball mill. The ball mill produced by Great Wall Machinery, also known as the tube mill, is a tubular cylinder with supporting devices at both ends. Because the grinding medium in the cylinder is steel balls, it is named ball mill machine. Cylinder Diameter 1.5-4.0m. Capacity 10
plant ball mills grinding efficiency (Fig. 1). The functional performance parameters mill grinding rate through the size of interest, and cumulative mill grinding rates from both plant and small-scale tests are applied to this task. A plant media sizing methodology, and
ball mill outlet receptacles Prior art date 1968-12-10 Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.) Expired - Lifetime Application number Inventor Jacob Kurtz
The ball milling process is carried out for approximately 100150 h to obtain uniform-sized fine powder. In high-energy ball milling, vacuum or a specific gaseous atmosphere is maintained inside the chamber. High-energy mills are classified into attrition ball mills, planetary ball mills, vibrating ball mills, and low-energy tumbling mills. In high-energy ball milling, formation of
Feb 13, 2017 These ball mills are relatively small, bearing mounted on a steel frame. All ball mills are sold with motor, gears, steel liners and optional grinding media charge/load. Ball Mills or Rod Mills in a complete range of sizes up to 10 diameter x 20 long, offer features of operation and convertibility to meet your exact needs. They may be used for pulverizing and either wet
Mixer Mills grind and homogenize small sample volumes quickly and efficiently by impact and friction. These ball mills are suitable for dry, wet and cryogenic grinding as well as for cell disruption for DNA/RNA recovery. Planetary Ball Mills meet and exceed all requirements for fast and reproducible grinding to analytical fineness. They are used for the most demanding tasks
High-energy ball mill that accommodates sample sizes ranging from 0.2 - 10 grams. Ideal for grinding dry, brittle samples, mechanical alloying, slurry grinding, blending powders, and mixing emulsions. Typical samples include rocks, minerals, sand, cement, slag, ceramics, catalyst supports, glass, Related Products Mixer Mill Compare this item
Nov 26, 2019 The internal machinery of the ball mill grinds the material into powder and continues to rotate if extremely high precision and precision is required. Application. The ball mill can be applied in the cement production plants, mineral processing plants and where the fine grinding of raw material is required.
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If a ball mill uses water during grinding, it is a wet mill. A typical ball mill will have a drum length that is 1 or 1.5 times the drum diameter. Ball mills with a drum length to diameter ratio greater than 1.5 are referred to as tube mills. Ball mills may be primary or secondary grinders.
Ball Mill. We bring forth a highly advanced Ball Mill, specifically engineered for both wet as well as dry cement grinding applications. Classified depending on the circuit design, bearing, grinding type and drive, the selection is made on the basis of the product fineness, quality, and nature of raw material, site conditions and specific requirements.
Laboratory Planetary Ball Mill Mining Equipment Grinding Machine for Sale. FOB Price US $ 1000.0-1500.0 / Piece. Min. Order 1 Piece. Introduction Laboratory planetary ball mill is a necessary device of high-tech materials mixing, fine grinding, sample making, new product development and small batch ...
Planetary Ball Mills are used wherever the highest degree of fineness is required.In addition to well-proven mixing and size reduction processes, these mills also meet all technical requirements for colloidal grinding and provide the energy input necessary for mechanical alloying.The extremely high centrifugal forces of a planetary ball mill result in very high pulverization
Nov 18, 2008 Basic principle Ball mill is generally used to grind material 1/4 inch and finer, down to the particle size of 20 to 75 microns. To achieve a reasonable efficiency with ball mills, they must be operated in a closed system. There is a
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May 11, 2021 The ball mill is a very noisy machine especially when a metal cylinder is used. Ball mill is a slow process. The soft, tacky, fibrous material cannot be milled by a ball mill. These materials may cause problems by caking on the sides of the mill
Ball Mill Operation. Ball mills ride on steel tires or supported on both ends by trunnions. Girth gears bolted to the shell drive the mill through a pinion shaft from a prime mover drive. The prime movers are usually synchronized motors. During rotation, a portion of the charge is lifted along the inside perimeter.
Ball Mills are the most effective laboratory mills for rapid batchwise comminution of medium-hard, soft, brittle, fibrous, temperature-sensitive and moist samples down to the finest particle size. The comminution of the material to be ground takes place through impact and friction between the grinding balls and the inside wall of the grinding ...
Cobalt Steel Ball End Mills with Two Milling Ends. With better heat and wear resistance than high-speed steel, these cobalt steel end mills can run at higher speeds and provide better performance on hard material, such as iron, hardened steel, titanium, and tool steel. When one end wears out, turn the tool around for a sharp edge.
Feb 14, 2018 A ball mill, a type of grinder, is a cylindrical device used in grinding (or mixing) materials like ores, chemicals, ceramic raw materials and paints. Ball mills rotate around a horizontal axis, partially filled with the material to be ground plus the grinding medium. Different materials are used as media, including ceramic balls,flint pebbles ...
The starting point for ball mill media and solids charging generally starts as follows 50% media charge. Assuming 26% void space between spherical balls (non-spherical, irregularly shaped and mixed-size media will increase or decrease the free space) 50% x 26% 13% free space. Add to this another 10%-15% above the ball charge for total of 23% ...
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