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Concerns about the impact of anti-circumvention legislation on public access and use of public domain materials is frequently addressed by arguing that the legislation only protects works that are subject to copyright. Since public domain materials fall outside that definition, works such as old public domain films that are enclosed with DRM could be lawfully circumvented. Those assurances notwithstanding, without the inclusion of a public domain circumvention right, circumventing DRM on works that combine public domain content with materials still subject to copyright could give rise to liability. In other words, pure public domain may be circumvented (provided you have the tools to circumvent), but once someone builds on a public domain work, they will benefit from the anti-circumvention provisions.
This is a particularly pronounced concern for historians, archivists, and film scholars since their ability to use public domain film or video may be limited by anti-circumvention legislation. For example, the distributor of a DRM'd DVD containing public domain films along with an additional commentary track would likely argue that there is sufficient originality such that the DVD is subject to copyright and that anti-circumvention provisions apply. While even supporters of the DMCA acknowledge that anti-circumvention legislation should not be used to privatize the public domain, they are loath to establish a full exception or circumvention right for public domain materials, arguing that all works contain some elements of the public domain and that a blanket exception could be used to cover virtually any circumvention.
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Today is Friday, Dec. 6, the 340th day of 2013. There are 25 days left in the year.
On this date in:
1790: Congress moves to Philadelphia from New York.
1884: Army engineers complete construction of the Washington Monument by setting an aluminum capstone atop the obelisk.
1907: The worst mining disaster in U.S. history occurs as 362 men and boys die in a coal-mine explosion in Monongah, West Virginia.
1917: Some 2,000 people die when an explosives-laden French cargo ship collides with a Norwegian vessel at the harbor in Halifax, Nova Scotia, setting off a blast that devastates the city.
1922: The Irish Free State is created under terms of the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
1947: Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated by President Harry S. Truman.
1988: Trumbull County and Girard reach an agreement to bring sewers to the Weathersfield Township site of a $6.5 million Petro truck stop.
A majority of the Cortland Council says it’s opposed to a proposed ban on smoking in public places that was drafted by council President Dennis E. Linville.
Browning-Ferris Industries agrees to pay $1 million for water lines that will serve some areas where residents contend that their wells were contaminated by the Carbon Limestone landfill.
1973: County prosecutors say that regardless of claims that Ohio’s new shock parole law will save hundreds of thousands of dollars in imprisonment costs, the new act will do more harm than good.
The mixed chorus from U.S. Steel Corp.’s Youngstown Works sings at the company’s headquarters in Pittsburgh as part of third annual USS Christmas Choral Festival.
Angry truckers renew a blockade of the Ohio Turnpike that had shut down the highway for 24 hours as a protest against high fuel prices and rationing along the highway.
1963: The Christmas season in Youngstown opens officially with the traditional tree lighting ceremony in Central Square attended by several hundred people gathered around the tree and Nativity scene.
Campbell City Council overrides Mayor Joseph A. Vrabel’s veto of pay raises for themselves, the solicitor and treasurer and a salary schedule for the new municipal court that Vrabel said was “exorbitant.”
The Youngstown Heart Association opens its 1964 fund drive during a luncheon at the Mural Room. The campaign will peak with the Heart Sunday canvass in February.
1938: Youngstown City Council and the Board of Education authorize the letting of contracts so that work can get underway by Jan. 1 on $7 million in PWA projects.
The proposed Vienna airport site is the only one near Youngstown that would make a first class “terminal airport,” say Marshall C. Hoppin of Chicago, regional airport engineer for the Civil Aeronautics Authority, and Ernest C. Hall, state director of aeronautics.
About 150 members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce treat their bosses to dinner at the annual “bosses night” and hear William F. O’Neil, president of General Tire & Rubber Co. of Ohio, blast “mealy-mouthed politicians” who are pushing European ideas in the U.S. | <urn:uuid:5d385e7f-8b2d-4867-b84c-8636d3050c63> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.vindy.com/news/2013/dec/06/today-is-friday-dec--the-th-day-of--ther/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280266.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00497-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932701 | 694 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Regulation of cell proliferation and survival by Rb, cyclin/Cdk, and cell type specific regulators
The retinoblastoma protein (Rb) is a prototype tumor suppressor. In addition to retinoblastomas, Rb mutations have been found in significant frequencies in cancers of other tissues such as the bone, lung, bladder, and prostate. Our laboratory is studying how Rb controls cell proliferation and survival in collaboration with general cell cycle regulators and cell type-specific regulators. At present, we are pursuing the following three lines of investigation.
(1) The best established biochemical function of Rb is repression of the transcription factor E2F, which is believed to account for Rb's ability to induce G1-to-S phase cell cycle block. However, the kinetics of repression of E2F regulated genes lags behind the onset of G1-to-S phase cell cycle block in timed Rb reexpression experiments and certain partial penetrance Rb mutants do not repress E2F but can still induce G1-to-S phase cell cycle arrest. We are studying how the ubiquitin ligase component Skp2 functions in a pathway with Rb to control cell proliferation.
(2) While Rb's function in cell cycle regulation improves our understanding of Rb as a central regulator of proliferation regulation, the reason for the apparent cell type specific patterns of Rb mutations in cancer remains unexplained. We hypothesized that certain functions of Rb may depend on certain cell type-specific regulators, which may also be mutated in carcinogenesis of that type of cells. Using this rationale, we discovered an apoptosis inducing activity of Rb that is dependent on the androgen receptor in prostate cancer cells. We are investigating the molecular mechanisms for this functional collaboration between Rb and the AR.
(3) While run-away cell proliferation is an hallmark of cancer, appropriate stimulation of cell proliferation often is the key to the success of cell-based therapies. We are applying knowledge learned from studying cell proliferation regulation to cell based therapy. Inactivation of the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p27Kip1 in the mouse led to increases in cell numbers of many organs that remain otherwise normal. One such organ is the liver. We have demonstrated that inactivation of p27 in mouse hepatocytes increased their proliferation potential after their transplantation into failing livers to rescue the hosts. We are currently using more sophisticated techniques to determine whether such advantages will be applicable to humans.
1. Ji, P., Goldin, L., Ren, H., Sun, D., Guardavaccaro, D., Pagano, M., and Zhu, L. Skp2 contains a novel cyclin A binding domain that directly protects cyclin A from inhibition by p27. J. Biol. Chem. 281:24058-24069 (2006)
2. Sun, D., Melegari, M. Sridhar, S., Rogler, C.E., and Zhu, L. A multi-miRNA hairpin method that improves gene knockdown efficiency and provides linked multi-gene knockdown. BioTechniques I41:59-63. (2006)
3. Ji, P., Jiang, H., Rekhtman, K., Bloom, J., Ichetovkin, M., Pagano, M., and Zhu, L. An Rb-Skp2-p27 pathway mediates acute cell cycle inhibition by Rb and is retained in a partial penetrance Rb mutant. Molecular Cell 16:47-58 (2004)
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As you watch the debates and notice how confusing the claims and counterclaims are, it is worth noting that the confusion often comes from two men struggling to claim the same spot on the ideological spectrum. Who wants to tax the middle class fairly? Who wants you to have the best possible health care? Who supports tough action against Iran? Why, both of them.
We have had times in this country when the differences between two nominees were openly asserted and clear to all. Think Richard Nixon and George McGovern, or Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale. We no longer have that—perhaps because the two parties know not to nominate anyone with too distinctive a set of views.
Because of this dynamic, we have candidates accusing each other of misrepresenting where they stand, or each one claiming to be the true advocate of a popular position, rather than presenting different, competing ideas.
Another reason for the lack of meaningful choices is the absence of viable, visible third parties offering dramatically different approaches. Not that they’re not out there—it’s just that because of the way things are structured, plus a near-total media blackout, you may not even know about Rocky Anderson, Jill Stein, Gary Johnson, Virgil Goode, or a handful of others also seeking your vote.
Significantly, the two major parties have been able to co-opt the issues of third parties—a balanced budget, “green” policies, and so on—without necessarily doing a lot about them. By simply adopting the language and slogans of these smaller entities, the big guys keep the little guys marginalized. And by not actually instituting many of the promised reforms, the leading candidates mollify their establishment backers.
Both nominees must be all things to all people. They must convince you that their only concern is ordinary people—“grandmothers”, “the middle class”, “homeowners.” It’s no accident they keep on telling us the stories of regular folks they met, as if they could possibly expect to do something in those peoples’ interests, while simultaneously visiting and staying at the homes of major donor bundlers from big corporations, law firms, investment houses, and the like.
The problems with the American presidential election system are well known—and include the primary calendar, which gives disproportionate influence to small states, and the Electoral College, with candidates able to secure all of the electors from a state with as little as a one-vote plurality. The result is that candidates have to invest a huge effort in low-population states early on, and then pump massive resources into media buys to tip several close races, mostly in bigger states. If our presidential nomination and general election processes were different, we’d see more interesting candidates, and hear more interesting and diverse proposals.
It’s not just the presidential deck that’s stacked. Our Congress is elected based on the single-winner system, by district, rather than under proportional representation, i.e. a share of the total vote received by their party. Thus, candidates who wish to win know they have to join one of the two major parties—and in some parts of the country, they know they must join the dominant one, or have no chance at all. Shades of joining “The Party” in the old USSR. Only if the rules of the game were changed to permit proportional representation would we begin to see fresh ideas gain serious attention. Let’s say the Libertarians, or Greens, or Labor, were to run candidates in a proportional system. They very likely would win at least a few seats, and thereby gain a platform from which to offer a much wider array of choices– for example, presenting the public with health insurance scenarios from an all-private system to an all-public one, and everything in between.
None of this is to minimize some very real differences between the current nominees, including probable Supreme Court appointments, and on gay marriage and women’s reproductive rights, as well as fundamental differences on views about the role of government.
But it’s never a bad idea to imagine a much better system, and how we might invite truly bold leadership and creative solutions.
Here are some places you can go for information on other ways we could be electing our leaders:
The Center for Voting and Democracy : instant runoff voting, proportional representation, a national popular vote, universal voter registration, and more
Common Cause: national popular vote, voter protection, and more
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The dragon, a symbol of Asian art and mythology, appears in many guises and is always adaptable — a survivor par excellence. Asian Americans display this same supple strength as they move between their Asian culture and their American one.
In American Dragons, Laurence Yep brings together twenty-five talented writers, each with a different story about the Asian American experience:
A Chinese American girl struggles to find her place in a suburban high school without denying her true intelligence.
A young woman is torn when her romantic feelings clash with the expectations of her Vietnamese parents.
A twenty-first-century teenager and his aging grandfather learn that it is possible to live in the future without losing touch with the past.
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Extreme sports in our life (Сочинения ЕГЭ английский язык)
To start with, in the hectic world of today we can't imagine our life without extreme sports. Sure, there are a ton of adventure for all tastes and most are more than just a scary good time. But I suppose that snowboarding and surfing are the most popular and awesome extreme sports nowadays.
Surprisingly, there are some common sides between snowboarding and surfing although these two sports have a difference in location. For example, first of all, the board is the main attribute of these adventures. Moreover, as well as other extreme sports they will help to keep fit and offer a workout that will have you feeling good from your toes to your head after the initial shock to your muscles. It's obvious that this sports require serious preparation to provide yourself with positive emotions and to avoid detriment to your health during training.
Snowboarding - one of the top daredevil winter extreme sport, which consists in the descent from the snowy slopes of the mountains and on snowboard.
Snowboarding runs on unprepared slopes and at high speeds, for protection against injuries using various equipment - helmets, protection of joints, arms, legs and back. Snowboarding is conjugate with health risks, like other winter sports. Wrist fracture is the most common injury in this sport, but there are others such as: concussion, sprains and other fractures.
Surfing - is one of the toughest swimming activities to master. It's riding on a waves on special light boards. It does not require serious protection as opposed to snowboard. Surfers can use diving coast only in rare cases when the water is cold. Besides surfing is more safer than snowboarding, but here you can get some injury, too. For example: concussions, dislocations, scratches and so on.
As for me, I'm passionate about snowboarding. Personally I believe that it might be right up my alley. Incredible speed during the descent will help to feel free , to relax and forget about problems. Besides it's loads of fun to explore new terrain and see impressive views, especially when surprise may lie around each corner. The elevation changes will help to keep in a top shape and offer a workout that will have you feeling good from your toes to your head after the initial shock to your muscles. It seems to me that this sport offer a sheer adventure. But unf I'm sure the memories will last a lifetime.
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Kurnool is known as the Gateway to Rayalaseema. It is a city and municipal corporation and the administrative headquarters of Kurnool district, state of Andhra Pradesh, India. Post bifurcation of the state, Kurnool is the Fifth-most populous city of Andhra Pradesh. Kurnool served as the state capital of Andhra (not Andhra Pradesh) from 1 October 1953 to 31 October 1956.
The Ketavaram rock paintings from the Paleolithic era and are (18 kilometres from Kurnool). Also the Jurreru Valley, Katavani Kunta and Yaganti in Kurnool District have some important rock art's and painting's in the vicinity, may be dated from 35,000 to 40,000 years ago.
Little was known about Kurnool Town before the 11th century. The earliest knowledge of this settlement dates from the 11th Century. It has developed as transit place on the southern banks of the river Tungabhadra and was commonly known as 'Kandenavolu'. It was a greasing place for the carts which used to transport stone for the construction of temples at Alampur from which the name 'Kandenavolu' was derived. It was ruled by Cholas and later by Kakatiya kings in the 12th and 13th Centuries. Later on it became an independent part of the country under Jagirdars. Late it came under the influence of Vijayanagar Kings and it was during the 16th Century that Achyuta Raya built the Kurnool Fort. During the 17th Century it was ruled by Gopal Raja. Abdul Wahab conquered king Gopal Raja and ruled over the country for 16 years. The town came under the influence of Moghal Emperor Aurangazeb in 1686. Later the town was ruled by Nawabs from Dawood Khan to Gulam Rasool Khan (1823). In 1839 the British Government took over control. In 1858 it was made over to a Collector under the General regulations. The British rule continued till 1947 during which period, Kurnool town was a part of the Madras presidency. After separation of the 11 districts of Andhra from the composite of Madras state in 1953, Kurnool became the state Headquarters on 1 October 1953.
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Preparing the dough
Begin by preparing the rye starter and the wheat starter. Both must rest, covered at room temperature, for 12 to 20 hours; the rye starter will have the texture of very soft clay.
Portion the starters by weight—7-1/2 ounces of the rye and 5 ounces of the wheat. Put the weighed starters in a medium bowl. In a large bowl, mix the flour and salt. Dissolve the yeast in the water in a measuring cup, add that to the starters, and use your hands to combine well. Add the starters to the flour and salt, and mix by hand until the mixture comes together in a sticky, shaggy mass.
Kneading and rising
Turn the dough out onto a clean surface that has not been floured. Knead by pushing the dough away from you, folding it back toward you, turning it a quarter turn, and pushing it away from you again. The dough will be very sticky, but resist the urge to add flour; instead, use a pastry scraper to bring up any dough that sticks. Continue kneading for about 8 minutes. To get the smoothest, best-developed dough, let it rest for about 10 minutes, covered with a damp towel, and then resume kneading for another few minutes. The dough has been sufficiently kneaded if it springs back when you poke it with your finger.
Put the dough in a large, lightly oiled bowl and cover with a damp cloth. Let it rise in a warm (but not hot), draft-free area until not quite doubled, about 1 hour. When the dough reaches this size, gently deflate it and give it a quick knead or two. Return the dough to the bowl and let it rest another 1/2 hour.
Now cut the dough in half and gently flatten each piece into a disk. Fold an edge up, overlapping the disk by two-thirds. Rotate the disk slightly and fold again; repeat, overlapping the folds (there will be about five) until you reach the original fold. As you fold, gently stretch the underside of the disk. Roll the dough over so the smooth side is up.
Stretch the surface taut by gently pressing the dough against the work surface with cupped hands, tucking any excess dough underneath. Take care not to rip the surface. Cover the balls with a damp cloth and let them rest for 15 to 20 minutes.
Forming the loaves
Set the dough balls, seam side up, on a lightly floured surface. Flatten one ball into a rectangle about 7 inches across and 8-1/2 inches long. Fold the top toward you about two-thirds of the way down and press the dough with the heel of your palms to seal. Pick the dough up and turn it around 180 degrees; the fold will be nearest you and the single edge farthest from you. Fold the top toward you to about two-thirds of the way down (like a business letter) and press the seam again to seal. Now fold the dough again, this time in half, bringing the top edge all the way to the bottom edge. Seal the edge with the heel of your hand, flattening the tight cylinder somewhat. Roll the somewhat flattened dough into a cyllinder about 11 inches long, tucking in the ends and pinching them lightly. Repeat with the other ball of dough.
Put the loaves on the back of a well-floured baking sheet or pizza peel. Cover with a damp cloth and let rise in a warm, draft-free area until almost doubled, about 45 minutes.
While the loaves rise, get your oven ready: put a baking stone on the middle shelf and a heavy, ovenproof, rimmed pan on the bottom shelf or oven floor, and set the oven for 450ºF.
Slash the tops of the risen loaves perpendicularly with a razor blade, making 4 or 5 shallow cuts. Carrefully pour a small amount of water into the hot pan in the oven and quickly close the door to create some steam.
Place the baking sheet or the peel on top of the stone and quickly pull it away from under the loaves so that they drop onto the stone. Spray the loaves with water from a spray bottle and add a little more water to the pan. Bake the bread for 10 minutes. Reduce the oven temperature to 400ºF and bake for another 10 minutes. Rotate the loaves and bake until they're an even brown color and have a slightly hollow sound when tapped on the bottom, another 15 to 18 minutes.
Cool the bread on a wire rack. For the best flavor, don't slice the bread until it has cooled almost completely.
Make Ahead Tips
The leftover starters will keep for up to a week in the refrigerator.
nutrition information (per serving):
per slice; based on 16 slices, Calories
0.5, Fat Calories
5, Saturated Fat
3, Monounsaturated Fat
16, Polyunsaturated Fat
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The education sector in India is constantly expanding due to the high demand fuelled by the country’s increasing population. Education is the core need for our children to acquire knowledge and become responsible citizens in the future. Through various initiatives, the government has made education accessible to the society at large. Nevertheless, the need for private schools is on the rise to cater to the growing demand of good quality education and to increase the literacy rate in India. Along with the satisfaction of contributing towards the social cause of providing education, schools serve as capacity building centres too. As a result, people from various walks of life – entrepreneurs, academicians, landowners, and corporates, to name a few, are venturing into the setting up of schools.
The task of setting up a new school may seem daunting and challenging. To make the task easy for school promoters, the guidelines for setting up a new school have already been published by us, and can be found However, new and unanticipated challenges inevitably crop up once the school starts functioning, i.e., at the ‘school management stage’. The opportunity to provide a perfect learning experience for the students and teachers may prove to be overwhelming for school management. One of the major challenges observed is the lack of setting clear expectations, guidelines, and policies related to the most important asset of the school- the staff members, consisting of the principal, teachers, and non-academic staff.
Globalization and the ease of movement of working professionals has led to the much-needed increase in multicultural environments in workplaces. Schools also benefit from hiring professionals from a culturally diverse talent pool. These professionals have a broad range of skills that are usually not found when hiring locally. Despite the obvious benefits of having a culturally diverse team, the local management faces new challenges in maintaining this multi-cultural team, especially in newly set-up private schools in remote or non-cosmopolitan areas. The most general ones observed are listed below:
Cultural Stereotypes or Prejudices –This can lead to management or staff making decisions about people around them with little or no information. Biases based on stereotypes may lead to dissatisfaction, stress, absenteeism, and lack of team-spirit among staff. Management must be able to not only abstain from, but also spot the presence of prejudice and stereotyping in the school environment.
Lack of Openness and Inclusivity –This often leads to members from deferential cultures struggling to communicate their ideas in team meetings along with speaking up to senior members in the hierarchy.
Communication and Language Barriers – The barrier of language is just one of the many challenges in this area. Though all the staff may speak English, accents may vary due to regional influence. Comprehending the various accents can be an issue not only by the colleagues but also for the students and may lead to parents’ complaints. Another observation is how a few people who know the same language tend to speak it in the presence of another person who can’t understand them, leading to groupism on one hand, and feelings of isolation on the other. Often, the management or the leadership comprising of the local people tend to do the same during meetings, excluding others. This is a recipe for friction within the team, and this insensitivity needs to be avoided. Thirdly, since the parents of the students are primarily from local communities, management needs to have an experienced person/persons within the team who has excellent communication skills in, both, the local language and the English language. This person should have an in-depth understanding of local dynamics to bridge the communication gap between the principal/teachers (who do not know the local language) and the parent community. Non-verbal communication, which is a subtle part of cultural interaction, plays an important role. It includes body language, gestures, eye contact, facial expressions, etc., and may lead to misunderstandings within the team.
Differences Affecting Teamwork – Different attitudes towards work, behaviours, values, etiquette, and manners, etc., of team members may be enriching, yet may also cause conflicts within the team.
Lack of Professional Communication –Usually, an employee handbook is ready with the management before school starts. It is often seen, however, that this important document is not shared with staff, who remain unaware of the HR policies and procedures. In cases where it is shared with them at the beginning of the session, subsequent changes are not shared, and they remain ignorant, leading to non-transparency in dealings, which, in turn, can lead to dissatisfaction, confusion and lack of team spirit among people coming from highly organised and professional working backgrounds.
The challenges mentioned above often undermine the management’s efforts in building a cohesive team, which is the main ingredient of productivity. These issues can be addressed with cultural audits, cultural and diversity workshops for employee awareness, taking feedback from staff regarding their experiences, and inviting suggestions for changes. The driving force of the school culture is leadership. Along with policies and procedures, school management needs to set behaviour standards through their actions and words.
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Double Basin Sinks
In a busy professional kitchen, you need more than one sink in order to do more than one job at a time. That means the double basin sink is a much needed and valued part of any commercial kitchen. Wash and then rinse dishes in clean water, let two chefs or cooks prep veg at the same time without having to wait or get in each other’s way – there are lots of reasons why double basin sinks are a good idea.
Although automated dishwashers are popular and helpful in a commercial kitchen, they are sometimes limited by capacity and unable to fit some sizes of dish. Doing it by hand is sometimes necessary, and that’s when pot wash sinks can come in handy.
However, one sink is not always enough. Double basin sinks are designed with two adjacent basins and can make it easy to plumb in and drain a double unit without too much fuss. One sink can be used to soak and scrub while the other is used to rinse. Alternatively, one sink can be used to wash potatoes and the other to peel and rinse. There are multiple uses for the double basin sink around any kitchen.
We stock a range of double basin sink options, suitable for all types of kitchen. There are various sizes available, depending on your space requirements. The most popular material for commercial kitchen sinks is stainless steel. Not only is it tough and durable but it is also easy to clean. The surface does not mark or scratch easily, so bacteria can’t build up and you can simply wipe it down, no matter how dirty it gets.
As well as double basin sinks, we also stock all the taps, rinsers and stand pipes that you need to help you clean and prepare food in the kitchen. Whether you are creating a professional kitchen from a new plan or upgrading your older equipment, our range of top-quality basins and sinks from the leading names can help you achieve your perfect kitchen set up.
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Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) Chairman Nandan Nilekani has told the finance ministry that IT infrastructure for the Goods and Services Tax (GST) would have to be rolled out on a priority if the government wanted to introduce the proposed indirect tax by April 2011.
Unlike in the present system, where the Centre and the states have separate IT platforms, he said, both would have to work together on the IT structure for GST.
Nilekani, also the chairman of the Technology Advisory Group for Unique Projects (TAGUP), had two rounds of meetings on IT preparedness for GST with officials of the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) in the last one month. He will help the Centre and the states roll out IT infrastructure for GST in a time-bound manner. We had a good brainstorming session on how to go about it. He acknowledged that the time is less and a lot of work needs to be done at both the Centre and state levels, said a finance ministry official who attended the meeting.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee had in his Budget speech this year announced the formation of TAGUP to look into various technological and systemic issues in five key areas Tax Information Network, New Pension Scheme, National Treasury Management Agency, Expenditure Information Network, and GST.
The official said GST had been identified as the most crucial of these areas.
In the two sessions with CBEC officials, Nilekani said the central and the state governments could not work in isolation on IT infrastructure for GST and that the system must be taxpayer-friendly to increase compliance. He said there should be a platform where the states IT team and the Centres IT team interact with each other and meet on a regular basis to share their views.
IT infrastructure will play a huge role in interstate GST. Inter-state GST (IGST) will be collected by the Centre and passed on to the states. It will have to be transferred electronically, another official said. He said the Centre had started working with the states to upgrade their IT infrastructure, which had to be developed simultaneously and uniformly in all the states, unlike in the case of IT structure for value-added tax.
The official said the Centre had broad IT infrastructure in place, but it was a major issue with states, especially in case of IGST. The Centres online tax payment application ACES will be tweaked a bit to take care of the GST but computerisation of states is the biggest concern. Maharashtra, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu are even ahead of the Centre, but a large number of states do not have the infrastructure. | <urn:uuid:ad100a9b-ff31-4ae6-b5fc-e36a511e3b3f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.cainindia.org/news/6_2010/gst_to_be_put_on_fast_track.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00058-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970587 | 531 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Creating uniform gun laws or getting around home rule?
West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin signed into law a bill requiring all cities to follow state and federal gun laws.
It has particularly been an issue in the City of Charleston.
The bill allows people with concealed carry permits to bring guns to city-owned recreation areas, including swimming pools.
The City of Charleston has approved its own gun law, and the mayor has publicly opposed the bill lawmakers debated throughout the current legislative session.
Parkersburg Mayor Bob Newell says the issue really isn't guns, but the ability of cities to set their own laws.
"We don't have any gun laws that are contrary to state law, but our needs are different than Charleston. And that's the whole point the legislature misses each and every year," says Mayor Newell. "Charleston has a different problem than we do, and they should do different things to protect their city."
Recreational facilities affected by the law include places such as Parkersburg City and Southwood Parks, and even sports venues owned by cities.
Charleston Mayor Danny Jones plans to fight the new law.
West Virginia Senate President Jeff Kessler Wednesday issued a statement saying the intent of the law is to create uniform statewide firearms laws.
The statement goes on to say it is unfair to make cities throughout West Virginia choose between citizens second amendment rights and improving living conditions.
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Research Reveals Possible Treatment for Autism-related Angelman Syndrome
Pioneering Scientist Embarks on Research after Attending Angelman Syndrome Foundation Scientific Symposium and Receiving ASF Grant
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 21, 2011 - Research published today in the scientific peer-reviewed journal Nature has discovered a potential treatment for Angelman syndrome, a neuro-genetic disorder similar to autism that occurs in one in 15,000 live births. By creating the motivational environment and access to resources that launched this research initiative in 2009, the Angelman Syndrome Foundation (ASF) is enthusiastic about the results of the work conducted by a team of scientists and doctors at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. The research, which is being continually funded by the ASF, has revealed that drugs currently used in the treatment of cancer may also be useful in treating Angelman syndrome.
“Three years ago I attended a scientific symposium hosted by the ASF, and after meeting with families of individuals with Angelman syndrome and networking among the Angelman syndrome community, I was inspired to conceptualize a research and drug discovery project that would identify how to restore proper function to the gene that causes Angelman syndrome,” said Ben Philpot, Ph.D., a scientist at UNC and one of the lead researchers behind this project. “The ASF provided the initial seed grant to launch this research project, and after countless hours of research and lab testing, our team has discovered a unique approach that may help treat individuals with Angelman syndrome and help them lead normal lives.”
Angelman syndrome is a congenital disorder causing severe neurological impairment that appears in newborns and lasts for a lifetime. During fetal development, the loss of function of a particular gene in the brain occurs, resulting in neurons functioning incorrectly and causing deficits in development.
Individuals with Angelman syndrome experience development delay, lack of speech, seizures, and walking and balance disorders, and typically exhibit a happy demeanor characterized by frequent smiling, laughter and excitability.
“This discovery is groundbreaking for the entire Angelman syndrome community, creating a sense of hope for individuals with Angelman syndrome, their families and caregivers that we have previously never experienced,” said Eileen Braun, executive director of the ASF. “This is exactly why the ASF was founded: to provide support for those affected by Angelman syndrome and to fund research that will lead to scientific breakthroughs such as today's news. We are optimistic about the future and are looking forward to seeing what the next phase of this research uncovers.”
Through the research conducted, and for the first time in history, a drug compound has been used to restore proper function of the Ube3a gene. Since improper function, or “silence,” of the Ube3a gene is what has been determined to be the cause of Angelman syndrome, restoring proper function of the dormant Ube3a gene represents a possible therapeutic approach for treating the disorder. Using a unique process of screening more than 2,000 drug compounds through brain neurons – an extremely rare undertaking – 16 “unsilencing” compounds were discovered using a mouse model. The researchers then further experimented with those compounds with chemical derivatives of each compound to further enhance and target the intended affect of awakening the Ube3a gene.
“We have an exceptional team of 15 scientists, doctors and researchers at UNC who have spent the last three years focused on this project,” said Philpot. “Thanks to the intellectual ability, curiosity and experience of our team, and the in-house availability of technology and equipment at UNC that is usually only found at major pharmaceutical companies, we have made a significant advancement that will now lead us to the next phase.”
Conducting pre-clinical trials is the next step in evaluating how to make this treatment available to individuals with Angelman syndrome, which is essential to determining the right compound, the right dosage and the right delivery method prior to conducting clinical trials. Since the compounds that were found effective in activating the Ube3a gene are similar to drugs used to treat cancer and can be found in chemotherapy treatments, side effects may be similar to those experienced by individuals being treated for cancer, necessitating further research.
The ASF provided the initial grant in 2009 of $200,000 to launch this research and drug discovery endeavor. Organizations such as the Simons Foundation, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and others then granted the UNC team additional funds for the project. In September 2011, the ASF granted another $400,000 to the research team for further drug discovery research and pre-clinical investigational work, creating a cumulative total of more than $3.6 million in grants to the UNC research group to date. The research was conducted at UNC's Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities in the Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology. Ben Philpot, Ph.D., Mark Zylka, Ph.D., and Bryan Roth, M.D., Ph.D. led the project with peer researchers Hsien-Sung Huang, John A. Allen, Angela M. Mabb, Ian F. King, Jayalakshmi Miriyala, Bonnie Taylor-Blake, Noah Sciaky, J. Walter Dutton Jr, Hyeong-Min Lee, Xin Chen, Jian Jin, and Arlene S. Bridges.
For more information about Angelman syndrome and the ASF, please visit www.angelman.org.
ABOUT THE ANGELMAN SYNDROME FOUNDATION
The Angelman Syndrome Foundation's mission is to advance the awareness and treatment of Angelman syndrome through education and information, research, and support for individuals with Angelman syndrome, their families and other concerned parties. The ASF sponsors Angelman syndrome research through grants to researchers pursuing promising avenues of discovery. Since 1996, the ASF has funded 66 research grants totaling more than $4.6 million. The ASF has awarded a majority of these funds ($4.3 million) beginning in 2005. For more information about the ASF, please visit www.angelman.org.
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by Gary Wunder
From the Editor: Gary Wunder is secretary of the National Federation of the Blind. He chairs the Bolotin Awards committee. Here is his announcement about the 2010 Bolotin Awards program:
The National Federation of the Blind is once again pleased to announce our acceptance of nominations for the Dr. Jacob Bolotin Awards. The cash awards have been issued at the annual convention of the National Federation of the Blind for two years running, and the winners and their acceptance are described in the August-September issue of the Monitor each year. The Bolotin Award is a way to recognize individuals and organizations working in the blindness field that have made outstanding contributions toward achieving the full integration of blind people into society on a basis of equality. Named for a pioneering blind physician who practiced in the early twentieth century, these awards are made possible through the generosity of his late nephew and niece. Their bequest, the Alfred and Rosalind Perlman Trust, will allow the National Federation of the Blind to provide direct financial support to people and organizations that are improving the lives of the blind throughout the United States.
Dr. Jacob Bolotin was a blind physician who lived and practiced in Chicago in the early part of the twentieth century. As chronicled in his biography, The Blind Doctor by Rosalind Perlman, Bolotin fought ignorance and prejudice to gain entrance to medical school and the medical profession. He became one of the most respected physicians in Chicago during his career, which spanned the period from 1912 until his death in 1924. He was particularly known for his expertise in diseases of the heart and lungs. Bolotin used his many public speaking engagements to advocate for the employment of the blind and their full integration into society. Interested in young people in general and blind youth in particular, Dr. Bolotin established the first Boy Scout troop consisting entirely of blind boys and served as its leader.
Jacob Bolotin’s wife Helen had a sister whose husband died suddenly, leaving her to raise a son, Alfred Perlman. The Perlmans moved in with the Bolotins when Alfred was eleven, and for four years (until Jacob Bolotin's untimely death at the age of thirty-six), "Uncle Jake" became Alfred's surrogate father. Alfred later married Rosalind, and the couple worked on a book about Dr. Bolotin's life. After Alfred's death in 2001, Rosalind dedicated the rest of her life to completing and publishing the book. In her will she left a bequest (the Alfred and Rosalind Perlman Trust) to the Santa Barbara Foundation and the National Federation of the Blind to publish Dr. Bolotin's biography and establish the Dr. Jacob Bolotin Award program. Blue Point Books <www.BluePointBooks.com> published The Blind Doctor: The Jacob Bolotin Story in 2007.
The National Federation of the Blind will again distribute cash awards totaling $50,000 in 2010. The Dr. Jacob Bolotin Award committee will establish the number of awards and the amount of each, based on its determination of the relative merits of the pool of applicants. The committee will determine the total amount to be distributed each year based on the trust income received. Each year one or more awards will be presented to individuals and one or more to corporations, organizations, or other entities. Both blind and sighted people may apply. The committee may also accept nominations made by third parties.
Who Should Apply?
Individuals: Only individuals over eighteen years of age may apply for a Dr. Jacob Bolotin Award. Applicants must demonstrate that they have shown substantial initiative and leadership in improving the lives of the blind. Examples of such initiative include but are not limited to developing products or techniques that increase the independence of the blind, directing quality programs or agencies for the blind, or mentoring other blind people. All individual applicants must be able to demonstrate that they have worked on their projects related to the advancement of the blind within the twelve months prior to submitting their applications. Applications by individuals must include at least one letter of recommendation from a person familiar with or directly affected by the work done by that individual to improve the lives of blind people.
Organizations: Organizations may apply for a Dr. Jacob Bolotin Award in order to help them further programs, services, technology, or techniques that have assisted and will continue to assist the blind. Organizations applying for a Dr. Jacob Bolotin Award must be able to demonstrate that their programs or services include substantial participation by blind people as developers, mentors, administrators, or executives, and not merely as clients, consumers, or beneficiaries. For example, an organization operating a program for blind youth might demonstrate that a substantial number of the counselors, teachers, or mentors involved in the program are blind. The organization must be able to demonstrate that it has substantially aided blind people within the twelve months prior to application and that a Dr. Jacob Bolotin Award would allow it to build on previous successes. The application must also include a testimonial from at least one blind person who has benefited from the programs or services.
To qualify for an award, both individuals and organizations must be domiciled in the United States of America, and their work must primarily benefit the blind of the United States.
Application materials are available on the Website of the National Federation of the Blind. Online submission of nominations, letters of support, and other relevant materials is strongly encouraged, though paper applications will be accepted. The URL is <www.nfb.org>. Applications for a Dr. Jacob Bolotin Award for any given year must be received no later than March 31 by the award committee chairperson. Candidate recipients will be notified no later than May 15 that the committee intends to present them a Dr. Jacob Bolotin Award. All decisions of the Dr. Jacob Bolotin Award committee are final. The awards will be presented in July during the annual convention of the National Federation of the Blind. Individuals selected to receive an award must appear in person, not send a representative. Organizations may send an individual representative, preferably their chief executive officer. Recipient candidates must confirm in writing that they will appear in person to accept the award at the National Federation of the Blind annual convention. Failure to make such written confirmation by June 1 will result in forfeiture of the award.
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At 8:45 am on September 11, 2001, John Murphy, the CEO of Oppenheimer Funds, was out for a run in lower Manhattan’s Battery Park. He was thinking about the company’s reorganization plan, which he had announced the day before, when suddenly he saw an explosion near the top of the north tower of the World Trade Center. He stopped to watch black smoke pour from the place of impact—an awful lot of smoke, it seemed, for what was probably a small plane that had lost its way. He thought of his own employees in the neighboring south tower and made a mental note not to renew Oppenheimer’s lease in that building. “First the bombing in 1993 and now a plane accident,” he thought. “What’s next?” He continued jogging, now in the direction of the office.
At the same moment, some 1,600 miles away, Timothy Doke was fighting rush-hour traffic on his way to American Airlines headquarters in Dallas. His pager went off at the same time his cell phone started ringing. As Doke, American’s vice president of corporate communications, scrambled to answer the phone and fish the pager out of his pocket, a sinking feeling came over him—a feeling made worse by a voice on the phone informing him that one of American’s flights out of Boston had been hijacked. Doke passed the exit to his office and headed for the next one, which would take him to American’s strategic command center, the company’s hub for handling crisis situations.
Back in New York City, Mary Beth Bardin was in a cab on the traffic-snarled streets of midtown Manhattan on her way to a breakfast meeting when she, too, saw smoke billowing into the otherwise clear blue skies. “Something must be on fire downtown,” she thought. The cabdriver turned on the radio, and Bardin was stunned to hear that a jetliner had crashed into one of the World Trade Center’s towers. Traffic ground to a halt, and Bardin, executive vice president of public affairs and communications at Verizon, jumped out of the cab and headed on foot to her company’s offices at 42nd Street and Sixth Avenue. She immediately thought about the 2,200 Verizon employees working in lower Manhattan, especially those located in the World Trade Center and in Verizon Wireless’s store there. Could they have been hurt? Her pace quickened, and she reached for her cell phone to let headquarters know she was on her way in.• • •
Many companies have faced disasters in the past. What was unique about the events of September 11 was the breadth of their impact on business. Some companies lost scores of employees. Many others saw key components of their infrastructure destroyed, at least temporarily. A still larger group had to struggle with secondary effects—customers requiring heroic levels of service, suppliers unable to fill orders, breakdowns in transportation and communication, collapses in demand. And every company in the country had to deal with traumatized and bewildered workers. Suddenly, crisis management was every executive’s job.
I’ve spoken with many managers about their experiences and how they responded to the events of 9/11. Some of them, like John Murphy and Mary Beth Bardin, were near Ground Zero. Others, like Tim Doke, were far away from the site of the attacks but were nevertheless buffeted by their impact. What I discovered is that, in a time of extreme crisis, internal communications take precedence. Before any other constructive action can take place—whether it’s serving customers or reassuring investors—the morale of employees must be rebuilt. In the words of Ray O’Rourke, managing director for global corporate affairs at Morgan Stanley in New York, “We knew within the first day that, even though we are a financial services company, we didn’t have a financial crisis on our hands; we had a human crisis. After that point, everything was focused on our people.”
Before any other constructive action can take place—whether it’s serving customers or reassuring investors—the morale of employees must be rebuilt.
In my conversations with a range of executives, I was able to distill five lessons that I think can serve as guide-posts for any company facing a crisis that undermines its employees’ composure, confidence, or concentration. Many of these lessons relate to preparation—to establishing plans and mechanisms for emergency action. But if 9/11 taught us anything, it’s that we can’t anticipate every contingency. Sometimes, we have no choice but to improvise. Here, too, the experiences I uncovered can serve as useful models. Improvisation, after all, is most effective when a strong corporate mission and vision are already in place to inform and guide it.
Get on the Scene
In a move that would soon attain legendary status, New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani arrived at the World Trade Center within minutes of the first attack to take charge of the rescue operation. In the days and weeks that followed, he would conduct several press conferences in the vicinity of the destroyed towers, attend many funerals and memorial services, and maintain what seemed like a ubiquitous presence in the city. His visibility, combined with his decisiveness, candor, and compassion, lifted the spirits of all New Yorkers—indeed, of all Americans.
During the crisis, the most effective managers maintained similarly high levels of visibility in their own organizations. They understood that a central part of their job is political and that their employees are, in a very real sense, their constituents. In periods of upheaval, workers want concrete evidence that top management views their distress as one of the company’s key concerns. Written statements have their place, but oral statements and the sound of an empathic human voice communicate sincerity. And if the voice belongs to a company leader, the listener has reason to think that the full weight of the company stands behind whatever promises and assurances are being made. In the words of Rob Densen, Oppenheimer’s director of corporate affairs and a survivor of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, most people engulfed in a crisis “want to be led and accordingly need to trust that you are going to lead them.”
As the local telephone service provider to much of New York, Verizon faced enormous business and operational challenges in the wake of the Trade Center attacks. The 2,200 Verizon employees who were situated in the vicinity of the Center were involved in running the densest knot of cables and switches anywhere in the world. The attack knocked out 300,000 voice access lines and 4.5 million data circuits and left ten cellular towers inactive, depriving 14,000 businesses and 20,000 residential customers of service. Within hours, Larry Babbio, the head of the company’s telecom business, traveled to the site to inquire after the safety of employees and inspect the damage. The CEO, Ivan Seidenberg, during the week following the attack, worked closely and at length with the communications team to craft and record voice mails addressed to employees who could still be reached outside the area of devastation. These messages went out daily until the stock market reopened the following Monday. “This was a time for leadership, and employees wanted to hear directly from the leader,” Bardin says. The messages focused on employee safety, those unaccounted for, the condition of the network, and how Verizon was going to get the New York Stock Exchange open for business. In addition, senior managers toured various facilities to meet with employees, and Seidenberg himself inspected the damage to Verizon’s building at 140 West Street.
Employees at the New York Times faced a particularly harrowing challenge after the attacks. They were as traumatized as other New Yorkers—the company’s main offices are on West 43rd Street, about three miles from Ground Zero, close enough for them to see the smoke. But it was their job to cover the attacks with the clearheadedness and distance of professional journalists. The sheer scale of the event, and its effect on friends and neighbors, shook even the most hard-bitten news-room veterans. Russell Lewis, CEO of the New York Times Company, realized that the leadership team had to be seen acting “calmly, rationally, and humanely”—indeed, to be seen smiling—“so that our staff would mirror our behavior.” One of the first things he did was to go to the building’s fire command station and use its emergency public-address system to assure the staff that, until more was known about the attack, the safest place to be was within the Times’ fortress-like headquarters. He would use the system frequently over the next several days to reassure and update employees.
“When people heard us on the speakers, they listened. Your voice must sound calm, in control and, most important, earnest,” says Lewis, thinking back. He, Chairman and Publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., and Times newspaper President Janet Robinson became the crisis management team, walking throughout the building each day to answer employees’ questions concerning such matters as building security and to thank them for their dedication. “Most of all, we wanted people to know we were all in the same boat,” Lewis says.
Communicating with the people actually covering 9/11 was far from unnecessary. “If anything,” he says, “journalists needed more information [than other Times employees] about what the company was doing in response to the crisis. They are paid to be skeptical of authority, and if you can’t adequately explain and defend what it is you’re telling them, they won’t go along.”
The presence of senior management wasn’t just important for companies in Manhattan—all around the country, bewildered and frightened employees were hungry for leadership. Think of Dell. It’s headquartered in Texas, and its people suffered little direct impact from the terrorism. Yet they were devastated emotionally. Within a few days of 9/11, CEO Michael Dell and Kevin Rollins, Dell’s president and chief operating officer, out of a simple desire to be involved and heard, decided they would meet with all of their directors and vice presidents, who were encouraged to talk about how they and their teams were holding up. To keep the meetings small and personal, three were held. The meetings were also taped and put on the company intranet for the benefit of every employee. In a stark departure from business as usual, Dell and Rollins said the focus should not be on sales or margins but rather on Dell’s people and helping affected customers rebuild.
Choose your Channels Carefully
Whether natural or man-made, disasters often disrupt normal flows of communication. Phone lines and power lines may be destroyed. Computer networks may go down. Groups of employees may be stranded or isolated. This was certainly the situation many companies faced after 9/11. To reach their people, managers often had to be creative in using unusual communication channels. Many, for instance, used the mass media to communicate with employees. Oppenheimer Funds, which occupied five floors at Two World Trade Center, wanted to send a message to both its employees and its customers that it would be operational as soon as the markets reopened. So CEO John Murphy appeared on CNBC’s Squawk Box to deliver that message. In fact, its contingency site in New Jersey was ready for trading before the markets reopened.
Normally, of course, the news media and corporate America have what may best be described as an adversarial relationship—one that communications officers are asked to “manage.” However, as the events of 9/11 unfolded, many of them realized that they needed to start thinking of the media as allies—in part because their failed communications systems left them no other choice. At Morgan Stanley, the voice mail system serving its 2,700 employees based in Two World Trade Center and another 1,000 in Five World Trade Center, a smaller structure, had been disabled, as had the internal Web site for its broker network.
But affected companies did not view the media channel as merely a default communications system. Ray O’Rourke of Morgan Stanley explains: “[Our employees] take real-time news feeds on their desktops. They are very news sensitive. They read it, analyze it, question it. The media were critical for communicating with our employees.”
Oppenheimer’s Rob Densen concurs: “Employees take their cue from the external media, so you need to demonstrate your functionality through the media.” One way Oppenheimer did so was by publishing a full-page letter from Murphy to his employees in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and the New York Times.
Some employees will trust a message that has been mediated by independent gatherers and distributors of the news more than one that comes directly from the company or appears as a paid advertisement. This filtering effect is especially useful at companies where employees tend to be suspicious of statements from management. American Airlines, for instance, has had a history of troubled relations with two of its unions, the Association of Professional Flight Attendants and the Allied Pilots Association. According to Tim Doke, “In a crisis, we usually end up relying on news media to get our message out… [CEO] Don Carty speaking directly to employees through media outlets such as CNN’s Larry King Live and the network morning shows has built bridges and created understanding between management and labor.” In the aftermath of 9/11, both unions waived a number of the rights of their rank and file to help American Airlines get its planes back in the air.
Although some companies have put computer kiosks on factory floors, the continuous nature of manufacturing operations and the distance of some workers from on-line hookups make communicating via e-mail in such venues difficult. American Airlines found a way around this by using its reservation system to reach as many employees as possible. “[Carty’s] voice mails were transcribed and sent to the SABRE machines—those machines that print your itineraries and tickets—as well as posted on the Internet and e-mailed to employees,” says Doke.
The machines are scattered all over airports, including employee lounges. While their major function is to receive messages, they do have a module permitting the company to communicate with employees, especially those in the field. “The SABRE machines meant that even maintenance people on tarmacs, who might not have Internet access at work, could be kept informed,” Doke says. American Airlines also recorded Carty’s messages on Internet hot lines and posted transcripts of them on its Web site.
To confirm that they were safe, Morgan Stanley’s employees could call one of the toll-free numbers that fed into the company’s Discover Card call centers. The firm also put the number on the ticker display that wraps around its Times Square building. Here, too, the TV networks played a role by broadcasting the number. Quickly, the Discover Card call center became the call center during the crisis, even routing calls from non-Morgan Stanley employees looking for information.
Stay Focused on the Business
“Everyone wanted to know what they could do in the wake of 9/11,” says Russell Lewis. “At the New York Times Company, no one had to even ask that question. Our mission is to put out the best newspaper we can so that readers can be as informed as possible. Just like a trauma surgeon, this is what we train for. There was no question that our employees felt that their job had meaning. And in the end, the Times received Pulitzer Prizes for its 9/11 reporting.”
A focus on work, in fact, can be enormously helpful to employees in a time of crisis. It provides an outlet for their desire to help, gets them back into a normal routine, fosters their pride in the company and what they do, and builds strong bonds between themselves and their customers, many of whom desperately need the company to keep their products and services flowing.
According to Elizabeth Heller Allen, vice president of corporate communications at Dell, “the key was finding an outlet for our employees’ desire to help.” The urgency of getting some 75 of Dell’s customers at Ground Zero and others in the DC area back in business pulled the staff together. At the same time, the senior leadership knew that only a revitalized staff would be able to deliver on Dell’s strong reputation for customer service. A Dell document stated that the objective of its response plan was “to increase employee understanding of how the September 11 terrorist attacks affected Dell’s customers and business and how Dell would respond.” But, other company documents showed, top management knew that Dell’s employees could assist affected customers only if they had a sense of security themselves.
Dell’s business model, which dispenses with the middleman, puts the firm directly in touch with its thousands of customers. Because of that direct contact, employees know exactly what these customers need and want. “We have complete records of what we’ve sold to every customer, so we knew what they had lost,” said Allen. “While it meant working around the clock to get the computers configured with the correct software, It was our way of giving back.”
Other employees worked those hours to pack and ship systems to the affected customers, who could place orders 24/7. Dell also established service and response teams that customers could reach through dedicated phone lines and the company’s Web site, which gave instructions for obtaining immediate assistance.
“Reaching out to employees struggling with shock, grief, and anger with a more family-like tone enabled us to focus those feelings on responding to our customers’ urgent needs. Maintaining that tone with regular updates more firmly than ever linked our customer-experience strategy to our teams’ everyday work,” says Rollins.
Months after 9/11, the company tried to measure how effective these strategies were. It determined that Dell Helping Rebuild America, an internal Web site, received 54,947 hits in its first two months. The site averaged 603 hits per day, and had 11,016 unique visitors during that period, almost a third of the workforce. In addition, the company asked for feedback from employees and found that 90% thought that Web casts from the CEO and COO during the crisis were helpful and relevant to their jobs and the organization.
Starbucks displayed a similar mixture of head and heart. The chain of coffee shops had a total of 250 branches in New York City’s five boroughs, four of them adjacent to Ground Zero. “A major part of what’s helped us through this was engaging in the relief effort,” Marty Annese, a senior vice president, told a trade publication. The initial “instinctive” response of the company’s crisis management team, according to Chairman Howard Schultz, was to close all company-owned stores in North America so that employees “could return home to be with family and friends,” according to a company statement. Headquarters conveyed this message by voice mail and e-mail to all the stores.
But with the exception of 15 or so stores at the southern end of Manhattan, the New York City branches reopened on September13. Several served food and coffee to rescue workers at Ground Zero, to people at blood donation centers, and to those at the Jacob Javits Convention Center, the command center for volunteer operations during the crisis.
Have a Plan in Place
While many companies have crisis contingency plans and disaster recovery plans in place, few had been tested as rigorously as they were on September 11. As Gregor Bailar, then chief information officer of Nasdaq, commented, “People will have to look very carefully at their backup strategies and see whether they can communicate with everybody easily, whether [critical data] are stored in that same building that could experience [a] disaster.”
Having contingency plans means, among other things, establishing contingency work sites. Soon after a truck bomb exploded in the garage of the World Trade Center in 1993, the New York Board of Trade began planning them. By 1995, it had built two sites in the borough of Queens. For six years, they sat empty, costing NYBOT $300,000 annually in rent and utilities. After September 11, 2001, however, these remote trading pits proved to be one of the best investments NYBOT had ever made.
Web-based communications require their own version of contingency planning. When the destruction of Oppenheimer’s Trade Center offices knocked out its intranet Web server, staff moved quickly to post crisis communications on a newly created employee section of the company’s Web site. Many other companies also took that approach so that employees who had Internet access at home could stay connected.
Although operations during a crisis should be decentralized, decision making should not be. Airlines have some of the better-developed crisis command centers. At American, the strategic command center is a vast room featuring a large, horseshoe-shaped table with fully equipped workstations and a conference call line that can accommodate as many as 200 outside callers. Large-screen televisions set up to receive satellite broadcasts allow command center employees to monitor all news coverage of the crisis.
Operations during a crisis should be decentralized, but decision making should not be.
Messages should also be sent from a centralized source. At Oppenheimer Funds, Bob Neihoff, then manager of contingency planning, called a designated number within moments of the attack, punched in some information, and activated the company’s crisis plan. Employees already knew to call into the Denver operation, which assumed control of the technology running the Web sites and voice mail systems. However, the substance of all communications came from Densen, the corporate affairs director, and CEO Murphy in New York City.
A widely circulated toll-free number can help ensure that employees obtain information from a single authorized source. Because Verizon had such a number, its 250,000 employees nationwide were able to access recorded messages containing the latest information about the crisis. Morgan Stanley’s toll-free number was televised as early as 11:00 am on September 11, making it, according to President and COO Bob Scott, “the first national emergency number of any organization, including the federal government.” By 1:30 pm that day, the firm’s crisis center had received more than 2,500 calls.
Finally, many executives I spoke with emphasized how important it was to have experienced communications professionals on board. These people were panic proof, executives said. “The advantage of communications veterans,” adds American Airline’s Tim Doke, “is that they have done everything, so in a crisis you can easily pull them out of one job and put them in another.”
Improvise, but from a Strong Foundation
“All of the planning that you do for a crisis helps you get through the basics,” says the New York Stock Exchange’s Robert Zito, its executive vice president for communications. Still, “people need to think on their feet and make quick decisions. Until the crisis comes, in whatever form, you don’t really understand how valuable all the preparation was.”
There is more to preparation than training. As important is instilling in employees the firm’s values. Although Starbucks ordered its 2,900 North American stores closed within a few hours of the attacks, the managers of several undamaged stores near the disaster site decided on their own initiative to stay open, a few all night, to provide coffee and pastries to hospital staffs and rescue workers. Others served as triage centers for the injured. People who had been wandering the streets of lower Manhattan in a daze were grabbed by Starbucks employees and pulled inside—and in some cases, lives were saved when nearby buildings collapsed.
One of the eight precepts recited in Starbucks’ mission statement is, “Contribute positively to our communities and our environment.” Many of Starbucks’ outlets are, even in Manhattan, neighborhood-gathering places, full of comfortable chairs in which customers may linger for hours. Essentially, they had helped bring together the community they served.
Goldman Sachs’s neighborhood is, in the abstract, the global marketplace, but its employees’ dedication to this community couldn’t have been fiercer. In one of his regular voice mails, Goldman Sachs CEO Henry Paulson saw something of the typical bond trader’s agility and coolness under fire in his employees’ ability to cope with a disabled transportation system. “Getting to work remains very difficult,” he said. “Many routes are sealed off or closed. But that hasn’t stopped you… The police stepped in and stopped the buses [you chartered]. So one of you had the clever idea to secure ferryboats. What you couldn’t do by land you did by sea. Today, the idea of special buses with police escorts was a winner. And every colleague who needed to be in the office was here.”
That may have been due, in part, to other remarks Paulson had made. “Our assets will always be our people, capital, and reputation, with our people being the most important of the three… And the lesson here is that our principles will never fail us as long as we do not fail to live up to them.”
Goldman Sachs employees weren’t the only ones using nautical approaches to get to the office. At the New York Times, Russell Lewis told us that one reporter kayaked across the Hudson River to get to work.
Many of the executives we spoke with emphasized that a company cannot start communicating its mission and vision during a crisis. Employees will know what to do only if they have been absorbing the company’s guiding principles all along. Two of Oppenheimer’s shared values, according to an internal document, are “dedication to caring” and “team spirit.” Thinking back to 9/11, CEO John Murphy says, “If you have a strong culture, you have the ability to maintain focus. On 9/11, we had a structure, a belief system, and a hierarchy all in place. That helped us to get through the crisis, and we haven’t skipped a beat since.”
Employees will know what to do in a crisis only if they have been absorbing the company’s guiding principles all along.
The company had one more advantage: a communications strategy, which succeeded in reminding its employees and the world of those assets. When the markets reopened, Oppenheimer, the only mutual fund manager in the towers, had one of the largest net inflows of any broker-sold fund family in the United States.
The most forward-thinking leaders realize that managing a crisis communications program requires the same dedication and resources they typically give to other dimensions of their business. They also realize that a strong internal communications function allows them not only to weather a crisis but to strengthen their organization internally.
Just as a death in the family often brings people closer together, so did the catastrophe on 9/11. Many of the executives I interviewed talked about how their companies sustained that sense of community long after 9/11 by keeping the lines of communication open. At the New York Times, the strength of these bonds was tested soon after the terrorist attacks when a reporter received an envelope containing a white powder suspected to be anthrax. Once again, Russell Lewis and other senior executives went on the public address system. “For that time period,” he recalls, “we were a family, and that doesn’t wear off, as long as you are consistent in your concern for coworkers.” | <urn:uuid:78d96243-d52b-4594-b512-4b69df51dac3> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://hbr.org/2002/12/crisis-communication-lessons-from-911 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719155.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00332-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973875 | 5,834 | 1.742188 | 2 |
In this society people are discriminated against based on their physical attractiveness. This form of discrimination results in increased income and opportunities for taller, in shape, good-looking workers and lower pay, an increased chance of poverty, and reduced opportunities for shorter, fatter, less good-looking workers. Legislation and actions by federal agencies may alleviate some of the burden borne by the unattractive members of society, but the problem may be too deeply rooted in culture and instinct to be eliminated.
The Existence of Appearance-based Discrimination
In a study published in 1994, Drs. Jeff Biddle and Daniel Hamermesh compared the results of three surveys, two of them Canadian and one American. The surveys were conducted by government agencies in their respective countries and consisted both of questions asked regarding the income, occupation, and background of interviewees and of ratings of the attractiveness of interviewees by their interviewers. The attractiveness of the interviewees was rated on a five-point scale ranging from "homely" to "handsome or beautiful", with stops in between for "below average", "average", and "above average". Biddle and Hamermesh found that the combined results of the surveys "make it clear that there is a significant penalty for bad looks among men."1
Biddle and Hamermesh's 1994 study showed that the 9 percent of working men who were rated by interviewers as either "homely" or "below average" in physical appearance also received 9 percent less than average in terms of hourly earnings. By contrast, the 32 percent of men who were rated "above average" or "handsome" by interviewers earned 5 percent more than the average for men in the sample. Interestingly, the study showed that women, although also rewarded and penalized for their looks, were not penalized at the same level as the men. The most attractive women earned only a 4 percent premium, whereas the least attractive 8 percent of women in the workforce suffered only a 5 percent penalty.2
In a second study published in 1998, Biddle and Hamermesh focused their attention on lawyers graduating from a "selective" but unidentified law school. In the law school study, panels of individuals were shown pictures taken of students at the time they matriculated to the law school and asked to rate them on a five-point scale. When the ratings given to the male students in the 1970's age cohort were graphed, it was found that, one year after graduation, a difference of two standard-deviations in a student's appearance was worth a 3 percent increase in salary.3 Five years after graduation, the same difference was worth a 10 percent increase and, after a lawyer became established in his profession, the difference was worth 12 percent.4 After fifteen years of practicing law, each increase of one standard deviation in a lawyer's appearance was worth $3,200 for lawyers in the public sector and $10,200 for lawyers in private practice.5
In addition to discrimination based on general attractiveness, discrimination based on weight and height are addressed in an article by Jennifer Laabs in Personnel Journal. Laabs quotes a study by David Blanchflower which found that when persons reached their teens and got their first jobs, discrimination had already begun to take its toll. Blanchflower's study found that the heaviest 10 percent of 16-year-old girls earned 7.4 percent less than slimmer peers and the heaviest 1 percent earned 12 percent less. While weight was not found to play a significant factor in the earnings of teenaged boys, each four-inch increase in a boy's height corresponded to a 2 percent increase in his earnings. Height did not seem to play a factor in the earnings of girls. To show the persistence of discrimination, Laabs quotes a second study which appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, showing that, among other things, "[s]hort men were 10% more likely to be poor and earned about $3,000 less than men a foot taller." 6
Having seen that persons are indeed discriminated against based on appearance, one might next ask how this discrimination relates to diversity in the workplace. The first and most obvious answer is that, like racial, sexual, and religious bias, discrimination based on elements of appearance not directly related to job performance impacts workplace diversity by unnecessarily limiting the pool of applicants for a job. In spite of a "famous" study by Lewis Terman which reputedly showed a positive association between IQ and physical attractiveness, there remain many short, overweight, or unattractive but otherwise talented and skilled people whose abilities and insights are at best underutilized by and at worst lost to discriminatory organizations.7 Imagine if Janet Reno, Madeline Albright, or Abraham Lincoln had been judged purely on the basis of their looks.
The Influence of Attractiveness Discrimination on Diversity
Appearance discrimination also impacts the workplace when it overlaps and reinforces the stereotypes associated with other forms of discrimination such as sexism and racism. A study of the relationships of gender and attractiveness biases to hiring decisions speculated that appearance bias may keep some women out of traditionally male jobs. According to the study, attractive women are perceived as being more feminine and delicate than their less attractive peers and therefor less capable of performing certain tasks.8
The penalties in terms of wages listed above should make at least some of the ramifications of appearance discrimination on workers obvious. Other ramifications may not be so obvious. Laabs suggests that one reason why overweight teenagers who remain overweight into adulthood continue to be paid less than their svelte counterparts may be that earlier discrimination damages their self-esteem, resulting in lower performance over the course of their lifetimes.9 A number of sources also make note of the fact that unattractive or overweight women are either less likely to find a mate, or more likely to find a mate of low quality.10
The Impact of Discrimination on Workers
Discrimination and the Law
Although the Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973 is sometimes cited as a the first piece of legislation affecting discrimination against overweight persons, the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) is generally listed as the main cause for legal concern on the part of employers. The ADA "defines an individual with a disability as a person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, a record or such an impairment, or is regarded as having such an impairment…."12 The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has also "asserted that obesity…should be regarded as a protected disability under federal law."13 The Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the ADA, and state and local laws have been successfully used by obese persons who felt they had been discriminated against, as in the cases of John Rossi who sued under a California state law and Bonnie Cook who sued under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 in Rhode Island.14
Although it has not happened yet, Stephen Crow and Dinah Payne argue that, given current and past social and legal trends and the vague language of the ADA, it is possible that anti-discrimination protection may be extended beyond the obese to the physically unattractive.15 Crow and Payne suggest that a "disfigurement", although not necessarily disabling by itself, becomes disabling in view of a "public perception of impairment." The decisions of the EEOC regarding how to define "impairment" and "disfigurement" and how to interpret the ADA will apparently be the determining factors in when and if protection is extended.16
Appearance discrimination will not go away. Even if those elements in our society which encourage the worship of beauty could be removed, the advantages which attractive people have in their personal and professional relations would not go away. According to Laabs, "[s]tudies consistently show that babies are more attracted to the faces of people who rate higher on the 'beautiful' or 'handsome' scale than to those who rate Iowa. [sic]"17 Obviously the problem goes deeper than people being trained to have certain aesthetic preferences based on the bombardment of images coming from the mass media. Whether or not discrimination of this sort can be eliminated, it may be possible to ameliorate it in certain situations.
The Future of Appearance Discrimination
In the working environment, the penalties and premia handed out to workers based on appearance seem to come from two directions: down from management, and up from consumers. When the problem originates with management, both governmental and non-governmental action may be possible.
A study by Marlowe, Schneider, and Nelson indicated that managerial discrimination based on attractiveness was at least partially related to the managers level of experience. When managers were asked to rank pictures of four candidates for a job from "most likely to become a vice president" to "least likely", an attractive candidate was selected by new managers 73 percent of the time, by moderately experienced managers 65 percent of the time, and by highly experienced managers 47 percent of the time. The authors of the study suggested that more experienced managers may be less swayed by attractiveness because they had more seen more qualified but unattractive managers as well as more unqualified but attractive managers than their less experienced counterparts.18 The reduction in attractiveness bias with experience suggests that bias among new managers might be reduced by introducing them to a broader spectrum of personnel.
While actions like that suggested above may help to reduce bias or its impact in some companies, other companies will take no action and will be sued for discriminating according to physical attractiveness. As a result of the court cases which will no doubt arise in coming years, the courts and the EEOC will be asked to rule on the legality of such discrimination. While the courts may rule attractiveness discrimination illegal and try to enforce their decisions, the issue is so tied up with personal tastes and preferences that it is questionable how discrimination could be proven in many cases.
In their study of lawyers, Biddle and Hamermesh found that, although there were disparities between the income of attractive and unattractive lawyers, there were no disparities between the income of lawyers working for themselves and those employed by a larger firm. According to Biddle and Hamermesh, the similarity in incomes indicates that at least some discrimination comes not so much from managerial bias as it does from bias on the part of clients.19 When discrimination comes from customer choice, it is doubtful anything non-Orwellian can be done.
Discrimination according to physical appearance, whether based on height, weight or general attractiveness is a fact of life for all persons. This form of discrimination results in increased income and opportunities for attractive persons and lower pay, an increased chance of poverty, and reduced opportunities for those considered unattractive. While legislation such as the Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the ADA may help to alleviate some forms of appearance discrimination in the workplace, it is questionable whether they can provide a remedy for all forms or in all situations and whether they should even try. Based on the behavior of presumably culturally unbiased infants, it appears that on some level appearance bias is inherent in human beings and therefore unsolvable.
1Biddle, Jeff, & Hamermesh, Daniel. (1994) Beauty and the Labor Market The American Economic Review. 84(5) p 1186.back
2Biddle & Hamermesh. Beauty and the Labor Market. p 1186.back
3Biddle, Jeff, & Hamermesh, Daniel. (1998) "Beauty, Productivity and Discrimination: Lawyers Looks and Lucre" Journal of Labor Economics. 16(1). p. 184.back
4Biddle, Jeff, & Hamermesh, Daniel. (1998) "Beauty, Productivity and Discrimination." pp. 185 – 187.back
5Biddle, Jeff, & Hamermesh, Daniel. (1998) "Beauty, Productivity and Discrimination." p. 193.back
6Laabs, Jennifer J. (1995 Dec.) "Does Image Matter?" Personnel Journal. 74(12). pp48 – 53. In ABI/Inform Database, Ovid. [p. 3] Throughout the paper, bold page numbers in brackets indicate the pagination used in the database copy of the article rather than in the original print version. back
7Seligman, Daniel. (1996) "Lucky Lookers." Fortune. 133(3). pp117-119. In ABI/Inform Database, Ovid.
[p. 1] I was unable to find any other references to the study by Terman mentioned in Seligman's article and remain skeptical of its reputed findings.back
8Marlowe, Cynthia; Schneider, Sandra, & Nelson, Carnot. "Gender & Attractiveness Biases in Hiring Decisions: Are More Experienced Managers Less Biased?" Journal of Applied Psychology 81(1) p. 12.back
9Laabs. [p. 3]back
10Laabs. [p. 3] ; Biddle & Hamermesh. Beauty and the Labor Market pp. 1188—1189.back
11Barro, Robert J. (1998, March 16) "So You Want to Hire the Beautiful. Well, Why Not? " Business Week. p18.back
12Crow, Stephen & Payne, Dinah. "Affirmative Action for a Face Only a Mother Could Love?" Journal of Business Ethics. 11(11). pp869 – 875. In ABI/Inform Database, Ovid. [p. 2]back
13Laabs. [p. 6]back
14Laabs. [pp. 5-6]back
15Crow & Payne. [p. 2]back
16Crow & Payne. [p. 10]back
17Laabs. [p. 2] Although the ABI/Inform database is extremely convenient, it should be noted that the text contains a surprising number of typos. Presumably "Iowa" should be "lower".back
18Marlowe, Schneider, & Nelson. p. 18.back
19Biddle & Hamermesh. Beauty, Productivity, and Discrimination. p. 197.back
Barro, Robert J. (1998, March 16) So You Want to Hire the Beautiful. Well, Why Not? Business Week. p18.
Biddle, Jeff, & Hamermesh, Daniel. (1994) Beauty and the Labor Market The American Economic Review. 84(5) pp1174 – 1194.
Biddle, Jeff, & Hamermesh, Daniel. (1998)Beauty, Productivity and Discrimination: Lawyers Looks and Lucre Journal of Labor Economics. 16(1). pp172 – 201
Crow, Stephen & Payne, Dinah. Affirmative Action for a Face Only a Mother Could Love? Journal of Business Ethics. 11(11). pp869 – 875. In ABI/Inform Database, Ovid.
Laabs, Jennifer J. (1995 Dec.) Does Image Matter? Personnel Journal. 74(12). pp48 – 53. In ABI/Inform Database, Ovid.
Marlowe, Cynthia; Schneider, Sandra, & Nelson, Carnot. Gender & Attractiveness Biases in Hiring Decisions: Are More Experienced Managers Less Biased? Journal of Applied Psychology 81(1) pp11 – 21.
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Featured image: Jessica Lange as Fiona in American Horror Story: Coven
Witchcraft has long been associated with the paranormal and supernatural, and in Western societies has explicitly been gendered. For many, the prevailing image of the witch is an old, misshapen hag who rides a broomstick, curses her neighbours, and inflicts misery on all who cross her. Other societies differ in their treatment and perception of witches – in Africa, for example, the witch doctor is typically male and witchcraft is used to explain all events out of the ordinary. It’s interesting to explore whether mass media in modern Western societies continue to propagate this perception of the (female) witch.
It seems that witches are all over the television at the moment. While they served as popular symbols of the supernatural alongside dark sexuality and female power in the late 1990s, by the 2000s they had arguably given way to vampires, as conveyed in successful films and programs such as the Twilight series, True Blood and The Vampire Diaries. But female witches had played a significant role in modern media far before this quick on-screen popularisation of vampires. From this perspective, a worthwhile place to start might be the 1996 film adaptation of Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible.
In the heavily religious society of late seventeenth century Massachusetts, young village girls engage in ritual chicken murder, drinking blood and wishing for the death of a fellow villager’s wife. Abigail (Winona Ryder) wishes for this death after previously enjoying an affair with the woman’s husband, fuelled by hatred, jealousy, and feelings of rejection. Eventually, Abigail and her acquaintances become outcasts, marginalised by their community after their plans go awry. Rather than presenting the female witches in this film as deformed and ugly elderly women, The Crucible seeks to emphasise the agency of adolescent girls who, in a climate of sexual jealousy, religious influence and societal pressures, take control of their own fates and attempt to control the fates of others.
That the portrayal of female witchcraft in modern mass media is complex and multifaceted is demonstrated by the 1993 American horror-comedy and Halloween favourite Hocus Pocus. Similarly drawing on the background of the seventeenth-century Salem witch trials, the themes of this film centre on jealousy and hatred and, above all, a desire for power. The film’s witches, three sisters, absorb the life force of children in order to fulfil their dreams of eternal youth. The agency and power of female witches in guiding their own destinies, therefore, is clearly a visible and recurring theme. Bette Midler, who stars as Winifred, clearly conforms to the dominant representation of the female witch as old, ugly, and wicked. The more sexualised portrayals of her younger sisters, Mary and Sarah, indicate a very different representation of the woman witch as sexual predator. They bewitch and seduce passers-by into walking, zombie-like, to the sisters’ household to become victims of their evil plots.
The uncannily terrifying 1990 film adaptation of Roald Dahl’s novel The Witches subscribes to traditional stereotypes of the female witch as physically deformed, abnormal, and frighteningly ugly, yet rejects and challenges the archetypal broomstick-flying, cauldron-stirring hag. Although the Grand High Witch herself is the epitome of grotesque monstrosity, her human disguise is rather more complicated: played by Anjelica Huston, her dark hair, bewitching eyes and sensual costume render her a sexually mysterious, if unnerving figure who engages male figures in flirtation and fantasy. Her accomplices are well-dressed, even attractive women, suggesting that witchcraft acts both to disguise and create monstrous notions of femininity.
The attractively modern portrayal of witches in the U.S. television show American Horror Story: Coven, in which female witches are powerful, sexually independent and ruthless, coincides with the legacy of the feminist movement, which challenged traditional perceptions of women as domesticated, virginal and delicate beings, assigning them a much greater agency than hitherto. The show compellingly characterises Fiona, a coven’s leading witch, as the anti-hero of a heavily female cast. She stands out for her cruelty, promiscuity and ruthless ambition. At the same time, her character is multifaceted and complex, her personal troubles and battle with cancer leading us to a deep sympathy.
Tilda Swinton’s portrayal of the White Witch in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) presents a somewhat unique perspective, for the witch here is unusual for her regal hegemony: she is queen. The competing roles of queen and witch are fascinating: as queen, the White Witch naturally holds dominion and authority over all who reside in Narnia. However, as a witch, she enjoys her own unique authority, not deriving from the status of queenship but from corporeal ability. It is too simplistic to render the White Witch evil or subversive: her character is complex, for while her white costume and icy demeanour confirm her as cold, ruthless and power-hungry, her own sense of agency and admirable decision-making suggest a being of other qualities: intelligence, resourcefulness, and leadership.
Although the stereotype of the female witch as a deformed and ugly old woman arguably remains dominant, the likes of American Horror Story: Coven indicate changing perceptions of the female witch as a powerful woman who is more complex than traditional stereotypes permit. Shifts in witchcraft portrayal indicate the exciting scope of possibilities for representations of the female witch in the media. This coincides with a new representation of women in cultural forms more generally: rather than being reduced to simplistic and sexually charged caricatures (whore or virgin, mother or prostitute, for example), female characters are complex and intelligent, negotiating their own decisions and enjoying power and autonomy. | <urn:uuid:dc40b5c6-fedb-4f26-b3c1-fd92f6702f09> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://exeteramagazine.com/witches-rule-ok/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.945056 | 1,216 | 2.453125 | 2 |
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|Title:||‘Community means the World to me’: an ethnographic study of a public house and bowling club|
|Authors:||Glen, Ian James|
|Publisher:||University of Stirling|
|Abstract:||This thesis is an ethnographic study of two local institutions within the community of Fallin which explores how twenty-four men understand, maintain and reproduce community and belonging. Throughout, the thesis suggests that the past acts as a stable reference point for the men to deal with social change. The Bowling Club and the Pub are suggested as being sanctuaries for this type of collective remembering to take place as they still reflect a mode of life associated with the past. It is argued that imagined histories were recollected, recreated and maintained through the power of storytelling and sharing experiences to the younger generations or outsiders (Blenkinsopp, 2012; Homans, 1974). This thesis suggests that perceived threats from outsiders only serve to further galvanise the central values of their community (Cohen, 1985; Homans, 1974). Chapter Two provides a review of the literature and theoretical concepts which sets out the academic foundations of this thesis. The work of Bourdieu shapes the theoretical, methodological and reflexive nature of this project. Chapter Three introduces the ethnographic method which gives this study an in-depth account of the narratives and identities of the men in this project. Chapter Four outlines the reflexive nature of the author’s relationship with the community, the Bowling Club and The Goth and how this affects the interpretations presented in this thesis. Chapter Five provides the reader with descriptive and demographic data of the community of Fallin and the research sites. Chapters Six and Seven analyse the data and directly answer the research question through interpreting interview data and using field notes. Concluding in Chapter Eight, this thesis suggests that the version of community that the men helped to reproduce and maintain is strongly associated with a historical working-class mode of life. This thesis suggests that these local institutions reproduce historical notions of community and belonging through outside forces and incomers challenging this traditional mode of life. Of particular interest is how the younger men in the study often adopt this shared habitus and learn how to be a man through regular interactions in The Goth and the Bowling Club.|
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March 20, 2014
Underage Youth and Adults Differ in their Alcohol Brand Preferences
Youth are not merely mimicking the alcohol brand choices of adults, suggesting that other factors may influence their drinking preferences. This is the conclusion of a new report comparing the alcohol brand preferences of underage drinkers and adults from the Boston University School of Public Health and the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth (CAMY) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
The report, published online by Substance Abuse, is the first study to compare brand-specific consumption of alcohol between underage youth and adults. The researchers identified several brands that appear to be disproportionally consumed by youth, including Keystone Light beer, Bacardi malt beverages, Malibu rum, Captain Morgan rum and Smirnoff malt beverages.
Previous research from the authors documented the top alcohol brands consumed by underage youth. By examining the brand-specific drinking patterns of adults, the researchers were able to assess whether youth are simply copying what they see adults drink.
“Underage drinkers are not just adopting the brand choices modeled by their parents or other adults,” said lead study author Michael Siegel, MD, MPH, professor of Community Health Sciences at the Boston University School of Public Health. “Other factors are influencing which brands of alcohol young people are consuming.”
Each year, approximately 4,300 people under 21 die as a result of alcohol use, and underage drinking costs an estimated 24.6 billion dollars. More than 70 percent of high school students report having consumed alcohol and about 22 percent report having engaged in heavy episodic drinking.
Three data sources were used to estimate youth, adult, and overall consumption of alcohol by brand: a 2012 internet-based survey of underage drinkers ages 13-20; GFK MRI’s Survey of the Adult Consumer for the years 2010-2012 which provides brand-specific consumption data for adults; and national data compiled by Impact Databank to estimate overall market shares for each brand. Researchers calculated prevalence ratios for each brand, defined as the ratio of the percent of youth that reported drinking the brand compared to what market research reports for adults.
Results show that 15 leading brands among youth had disproportionate underage youth consumption as measured by prevalence, market share, and ratios of prevalence and market share: Smirnoff Malt Beverages, Jack Daniels Whiskeys, Mike’s Malt Beverages, Absolut Vodkas, Heineken, Bacardi Malt Beverages, Grey Goose Vodkas, Malibu Rums, Keystone Light, Patron Tequilas, Corona Extra Light, Jack Daniel’s Cocktails, Burnett’s Vodkas, Bud Ice and Natural Ice beer.
The top brand for youth in terms of prevalence and market share compared with adults was Smirnoff Malt Beverages:
- Seventeen percent of youth drinkers (ages 13-20) reported drinking Smirnoff Malt Beverages in the past month (the highest of any brand).
- These beverages accounted for close to three (2.9) percent of youth alcohol consumption in the youth survey.
- These beverages took up a share of youth consumption that was nearly 7 times (6.7) their share of adult consumption.
The researchers caution that the findings of this paper are not sufficient to confirm the reasons for differences in youth and adult alcohol brand preferences.
“Future research is urgently needed to understand to what extent other factors such as price, taste and marketing play a role in young people’s choices of these particular brands,” said study co-author David Jernigan, CAMY director. “Follow-up studies will allow us to measure the degree of association between exposure to alcohol advertising and marketing efforts and brand preferences in young people.”
“Differences in Alcohol Brand Consumption between Underage Youth and Adults—United States, 2012” was written by Michael Siegel, MD, MPH, Kelsey Chen, BA , William DeJong, PhD, Timothy S. Naimi, MD,MPH, Joshua Ostroff, BA, Craig S. Ross, MBA and David H. Jernigan, PhD.
This research was supported by a grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
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The Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth monitors the marketing practices of the alcohol industry to focus attention and action on industry practices that jeopardize the health and safety of America’s youth. The Center was founded in 2002 at Georgetown University with funding from The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The Center moved to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2008 and is currently funded by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth media contact: Andrea Maruniak at 410-502-3373 or [email protected].
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The US Department of Labor estimates that almost 50 million Americans have a disability. Laws and organizations, including the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), work to prevent discrimination towards individuals who have mental or physical conditions that substantially limit one or more major life activity.
Statistics indicate that people with disabilities make up 20 percent of the American workforce. Employers are required by law to provide reasonable accommodations to those who disclose their disability. When employees engage in misconduct resulting from their disabilities, employers often approach disciplinary action cautiously to avoid potential lawsuits.
On April 13, 2011, the Fourth District Court of Appeals gave employers greater clarification on disciplining disabled workers through a case of first impression. The Appellate Court ruled in favor of the employer that terminated plaintiff Linda Wills, who sued for disability discrimination, in the case of Wills V. Superior Court of Orange County.
California’s Superior Court of Orange County fired Wills from her position as a court clerk in October 2007 because of threats she made to her coworkers. Wills was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1997 and started her job at the Superior Court in 1999. Although she took several medical leaves to treat her disorder, she did not reveal her disability to her employer.
In July 2007, Wills received a work assignment at the Anaheim Police Department. She became angry when she had to wait for workers to let her into the department’s lockup facility. The police department’s employees informed the Orange County Court that Wills swore at them and told an officer she would add him to her Kill Bill list, referring to the popular movie about a female assassin. The employees of the police department described Wills’ behavior as threatening and asked the Superior Court to no longer assign her to their facilities.
Wills claimed that her outburst happened during an early stage of a severe manic episode. Her doctor placed her on medical leave shortly after the incident. Wills sent coworkers, friends and family members threatening, offensive and illogical emails and videos during her time away from work. When her doctor permitted her to return to work, her employer put her on paid administrative leave while it investigated her inappropriate behavior.
At the beginning of the investigation, the Superior Court received a letter from Wills’ doctor stating that she suffered from bipolar disorder. The doctor also said she would not cause danger to her coworkers. The Orange County Court decided to terminate Wills after its investigation for four reasons:
- Threatening a police department while performing official business
- Threatening and inappropriately communicating with her coworkers
- Misusing court resources
- Exhibiting poor judgment
Wills reacted to the termination with a lawsuit. She sued under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) and alleged that she was fired because of her mental disorder. The Fourth District Court of Appeals did not deny that her disorder incited her misconduct, but it agreed with her employer and confirmed that Wills’ behavior was a legitimate, nondiscriminatory cause for her termination.
In proceeding cases, such as Gambini V. Total Renal Care, violent outbursts caused by mental disorders were not grounds for termination. This is because courts typically have ruled that ADA protects both the disability and disability-related misconduct unless the behavior was related to criminal activity or drug and alcohol abuse.
The key difference in Linda Wills’ case is that her threats and violent behavior were aimed at her coworkers, which put her employer on a “razor’s edge,” as the Appellate Court described. The Orange County Court could have violated the law if it terminated Wills, but it could have also violated the law if its employees were working in an unsafe environment, which the Appellate Court called being “caught on the horns of a dilemma.”
By reviewing the EEOC’s interpretation of ADA, the Appellate Court determined that an employer can discipline disabled employees for violating workplace conduct standards by threatening violence or committing violence against their coworkers. The Appellate Court purposely limited the scope of its decision to protect the disabled from discrimination and also allow employers to protect their staff from threats and actions of violence. Wills and her lawyers petitioned her case to the Supreme Court, but the high court agreed with the Appellate Court’s decision and decided to not review the case.
The Orange County Court’s preparedness with its written policy against workplace threats and violence, as well as its thorough investigation that included several witnesses, helped the Appellate Court determine that Wills’ termination was based on legitimate, nondiscriminatory reasons.
The takeaway from this case for employers is to draft extensive workplace policies that are enforced throughout the organization and record all instances of misconduct. Employers are allowed to distinguish between disability-related misconduct and the disability itself when the behavior threatens a coworker with violence, but solid documentation and supporting evidence is required to prove that disciplinary action is based on nondiscriminatory factors.
Companies should still take heed when addressing misconduct from employees with disabilities. Although Wills provided a victory for employers, suspicious accusations and theorized claims may not be protected by this decision. For additional information on ADA or to discuss your organization’s handbook or workplace policies, please contact a member of CAI’s Advice and Counsel at 919-878-9222 or 336-668-7746. | <urn:uuid:aad881e0-2893-4011-8309-3fbce262824d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blog.capital.org/court-case-gives-employers-clarity-on-disciplining-disabled-workers-for-misconduct/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00393-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977185 | 1,108 | 2.078125 | 2 |
colorectal clear cell adenoma
Tuesday 13 March 2012
Clear Cell Adenomas of the colon
Usually the areas of clear cell differentiation intermingle with areas of more traditional adenoma.
The clear cells tend to exhibit minimal atypia and often contain basal nuclei.
The apical cytoplasm is filled with pale, foamy-appearing cytoplasm.
The nuclei are round and appear minimally pseudo-stratified.
In another variant of clear cell adenoma, the pseudo-stratified nuclei exhibit clear cytoplasmic contents above and below the nuclei in a pattern somewhat reminiscent of endometrium.
These areas of clear cell adenoma presumably give rise to the clear cell carcinomas that are sometimes encountered in the colon.
There is no known clinical significance to the presence of the clear cells in the adenoma.
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“State of the Taliban 2012,” the secret report commissioned by the U.S. and NATO, was never supposed to see the light of day. Unfortunately for those on the right who want to prolong the war in Afghanistan it was leaked to the press and the New York Times has published many of its observations and conclusions.
The report was based on information taken from 4,000 prisoners, Taliban and others, that have fallen into the hands of U.S. forces. To the surprise of the U.S., the prisoners are rather upbeat about the progress of the war and think they are actually winning it. The report says that while the U.S. thinks it is winning and is about to start winding down its own participation, the interviews of the captives shows “a Taliban insurgency that is far from vanquished or demoralized.” The same issue of the Times reported the optimistic statement of Defense Secretary Panetta that the U.S. would set 2013, not 2014, as the date for ending U.S. combat in Afghanistan. This was later corrected by the ground commanders in Afghanistan – 2014 is the date – and we may still remain after that date for a long, long time.
The report says the prisoners think that in areas where the U.S. forces withdraw and turn over control to the Afghan Army, that army begins to cooperate with the Taliban- as do the local Afghan government officials. “Many Afghans are already bracing themselves for an eventual return of the Taliban.” The report also says that while the Afghan government says it will carry on the war after the US withdraws “many of its personnel have secretly reached out to insurgents, seeking long-term options in the event of a possible Taliban victory.” Well of course, all options should be kept on the table.
The report gives the impression that the war is lost, and that the government can’t deal with this reality. Lt. Col. Jimmie E. Cummings a U.S.-NATO spokesperson said, “This document aggregates the comments of Taliban detainees in a captive environment without considering the validity of or motivation behind their reflections. Any conclusions drawn from this would be questionable at best.”
Wait a minute. We captured these people and interrogated them to get information about the enemy. We don’t like the information we get, so then say that due to a “captive environment,” the conclusions are “questionable.” But all interrogations of prisoners take place in a “captive environment” and are therefore “questionable.” So why bother? It appears that if the government likes the information it gets it’s credible, otherwise it’s “questionable.”
This is completely intellectually dishonest and we should not believe a word we are told by the military, unless we have independent third-person verification.
What could be more comical than NATO spokespersons attempting to refute their own report once it became public. The State Department has also gotten into the act. The report mentions that the Taliban has strained relations with their “Pakistani patrons.” But Pakistan is supposed to be a U.S. “ally.” How foolish does the U.S. look when the money it lavishes on the Pakistanis is redirected to the Taliban and used to kill U.S. troops? How can you even dream of winning a war when you are all tied up in these contradictory circumstances? The State Department realizes how bad this looks and also played down the significance of the NATO report, saying it was “in no way designed to impact our ongoing efforts to be back on track with Pakistan.” Were we ever “on track” with Pakistan, or just being used by the Pakistanis after they realized we didn’t know what we were doing in Afghanistan? The U.S. government knows all this anyway and is still trying to sort out its relations with Pakistan in the hopes (probably vain hopes) that the Pakistanis will alter their behavior.
For example, the Pakistani government, according to the report, “is thoroughly aware of Taliban activities and the whereabouts of all senior Taliban personnel.” And “there is a widespread assumption that Pakistan will never allow the Taliban the chance to become independent of ISI [the CIA/FBI of Pakistan – the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate] control.” Yes, lets get back on track: the U.S. is at “war” with the Taliban, the Taliban is controlled by Pakistan. Therefore… draw your own conclusions.
An important conclusion of the report, that NATO and the U.S. really don’t want people to know about, is the following: “Taliban commanders, along with rank and file members, increasingly believe that their control of Afghanistan is inevitable. Though the Taliban suffered severely in 2011, its strength, motivation, funding and tactical proficiency remains intact.”
Where does the funding come from? It comes from us! Money from the U.S. to Pakistan goes to the Taliban. Trucks and weapons we give to the Afghan Army are sold off at bargain basement rates, or “donated,” to the Taliban by corrupt elements in the Karzai government. The Taliban’s strength is intact – we are withdrawing. Their motivation is intact – we just want to get out as soon as possible (sooner). Their tactical proficiency is intact; we are turning operations over to the Afghan Army, many of whose troops would rather shoot us than the Taliban. Is it really too hard to see how all this is going to end? Oh, I forgot to add that besides the ISI, the report says, the Afghan intelligence agency also supplies the Taliban with information about where American troops are located so that they can be attacked.
So there you have it. We are spending $2 billion a week to support the war against the Taliban, and both our “ally” Pakistan and the Afghan government we set up and are “defending” are on the side of the Taliban. General Petraeus retired just in time. If he runs the CIA as well he did the war in Afghanistan, the decline of U.S. imperialism will be well underway. | <urn:uuid:f6b582ec-7e47-4e5a-b4be-b351dfa78f4b> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.peoplesworld.org/article/behind-the-scenes-the-secret-nato-report-on-afghanistan/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988717783.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183837-00075-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967072 | 1,292 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Ibn Battuta, the famed 14th century Moroccan traveler, set out in 1325 from his native
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“Vehicle applications demand a different scale in both size and performance, and no other incumbent technology combines the power and energy performance of Li-ion batteries,” said Kevin See, Lux Research Analyst and the lead author of the report titled, “Searching for Innovations to Cut Li-ion Battery Costs. Plug-in vehicles' fates are tied to the cost of Li-ion batteries, so developers need to focus on the innovations that have biggest impact on cost."
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- Materials improvement and scale are insufficient to cut costs. While scale does have a significant impact in driving costs down, it is not likely to lead to a disruptive drop in battery pack costs unless coupled with other innovations.
- Cathodes remain the biggest target. Cathode capacity and voltage improvement hold much more value than anode innovation. In the optimal case, with a maximum voltage increase of 1V and capacity increase of 200 mAh/g, the nominal pack cost dropped 20%.
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In The Ministry of Christ: Past, Present, and Future, Mackintosh attempts to correct an imbalance of focus. Too often, he says, Christians focus on ministering for Christ without considering how Christ might minister to them. In doing so, the church unwittingly obscures the ways in which Christ himself ministers. Beginning with Jesus’ words “I come not to be served, but to serve,” Mackintosh’s account links together the concept of glory with Jesus’ life of humiliation, and links Jesus’ washing of feet with his life-changing resurrection.
Praise for the Print Edition
Man’s complete ruin in sin, and God’s perfect remedy in Christ, are fully, clearly, and often strikingly presented [in Mackintosh’s writings].
—Andrew Miller, a leader of the Plymouth Brethren movement
- Title: The Ministry of Christ: Past, Present, and Future
- Author: C. H. Mackintosh
- Series: C. H. Mackintosh Collection
- Publisher: Loizeaux Brothers Publications
- Pages: 30
About Charles Henry Mackintosh
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What causes seeds in buds while growing cannabis?
What does it mean to find seeds in your marijuana buds? Is it something to be worried about? This is something that happens while buds are forming in the flowering stage, but can be prevented with the right steps. Learn more below.
There’s a seed in my bud!
Sometimes you don’t see the seeds until they fall out of your buds
What causes seeds?
Seedy buds are the result of pollination. What does that mean? Cannabis buds are flowers. Like other flowers, they make seeds when pollinated. Cannabis buds get pollinated when they come into contact with cannabis pollen while the buds are forming.
Seeds happen when pollen gets on the hairs (pistils) of buds as they’re forming. In other words, seeds in weed are caused by pollination.
This bud is full of fat seeds because pollen got on the pistils during bud development.
Pollen typically comes from the pollen sacs of a male cannabis plant. Male plants spray pollen everywhere when their flowers are mature. Sometimes female cannabis plants will produce pollen (known as herming) due to genetics or stress. Any source of pollen, whether the plant is male or female, can pollinate buds in the vicinity and cause seedy buds.
If you’re not growing with feminized (all-female) seeds, about half the plants will be male and grow pollen sacs (male flowers) that release pollen. Unless you want seeds, male plants should be removed from the grow room immediately because they will otherwise seed all your buds.
Seeds are caused by the presence of male flowers while buds are growing. Male flowers release pollen that pollinates buds and causes seeds to grow.
Any time you see “bananas” or “balls” it’s important to separate that plant immediately to prevent possible pollination. These are the result of a hermaphrodite plant (“herm”) and these structures also release pollen.
Example of a hermaphrodite plant making seeds
You may notice a bunch of little yellow growths in these buds. They almost look like mini bananas. This plant is “herming” or growing male flowers that spew pollen everywhere. If this plant isn’t removed from the grow space, it will pollinate itself and all other plants in the area, causing seedy buds
This is the same plant. You can see that some of the pure white hairs have turned brown early. This is because those hairs were pollinated. If this plant were allowed to continue flowering, there would be a seed growing at the base of all those brown hairs.
You may not realize that seeds are forming while your buds are growing
But once they get really seedy, buds may look like they have huge plump calyxes/bracts (female flowers) or they may even be misidentified as pollen sacs (hermie/male flowers).
When handling the buds after harvest, you may see seeds or hear them as they fall onto the surface below
Does it mean the weed is bad? No!
If it’s very seedy the buds may not feel as potent, though a few seeds here and there won’t make much difference in bud potency. The main problem with seedy weed is that you are getting less smokeable bud for the amount of total mass there. If it is seedless, you will get more bang for your buck. Seedless bud (sinsemilla) is considered to be the highest quality and most potent type of weed.
Seedy weed is still good to smoke
However, cannabis plants waste energy developing seeds that could have been used to fatten buds. When a bud has lots of seeds, it often isn’t as big and plump as it would have if the plant had not been pollinated. Notice how all the mass of this bud is in the seeds. The rest of the bud is airy and small.
Are seeds good to grow?
I’ve seen some growers get impressive results with bagseed (seeds you find in a “bag” of weed), but overall results seem to be hit or miss. Plants can grow in odd ways and often either the yields or quality isn’t as expected. The problem is that seeds often don’t “breed true” to the buds that they came from.
“Found” seeds can sometimes produce excellent results
But sometimes the plants grow poorly or buds don’t turn out anything like the buds you found the seeds in
That is why many growers either stick to clones (which are exactly the same as the “mother” plant) or purchase seeds of a stabilized strain from a trustworthy breeder. Starting with stable genetics helps ensure each of the plants will grow the way you expect, and buds have the smell, yield, and potency you want.
If you’re not sure what strains to get, here are a few recommendations. These strains produce excellent weed and are generally easy to grow. These seeds are all feminized, which means they will only grow female plants (no pollen to worry about!) Click the links for more information.
– top-shelf looks and smell with classic effects reminiscent of 90s buds but stronger. Easy to grow. – this version is MUCH more potent than regular White Widow. The buds tested between 24-26% THC. Don’t plan to do anything else that day ? – for those who are looking for a face melter. These buds test up to 28% THC and produce buds with quintessentially “American” looks and smell. The mental and physical effects may be too intense for most beginners. is a good choice for commercial growers with high THC up to 30%, big yields, and a short flowering time. is a potent Sativa hybrid with great yields and uplifting unique mental effects is an autoflowering strain that produces photoperiod-quality buds in about 70 days from seed to harvest.
Platinum Cookies is essentially a more potent version of the popular Girl Scout Cookies strain.
How can I tell if it’s a viable seed?
Good seeds are often dark and relatively hard. Very pale or white seeds that can be easily crushed between the fingers often don’t sprout. However, I have been surprised to find some very flimsy seeds sprout and produce amazing plants (we aren’t breeding them for hard seeds after all) so when in doubt, I highly recommend doing the true test to see if the seed is viable – try to germinate the seed and see if it sprouts.
The best way to tell if a seed is viable is to try to germinate it and see what happens.
Marijuana plant anatomy
The cannabis plant has several structures, many of which we can find on any ordinary flowering plant species. Cannabis grows on long skinny stems with its large, iconic fan leaves extending out from areas called nodes.
Cannabis really stands out in its flowers—or buds—where unique and intricate formations occur: fiery orange hairs, sugary crystals, and chunky buds enveloped by tiny leaves.
Parts of the cannabis plant
Seeds are produced in female cannabis plants and carry the genetics of a male and female. Seeds need to germinate to sprout and will grow a taproot, which will become the main root that anchors the plant.
These are the first leaves to grow from the seed after germination. They usually come in pairs, and seeing them is a sign of successful germination and that your plant is on its way to growing healthy and strong.
The roots grow down from the main stalk of the plant into the soil. When growing from a seed, the main root is called the “taproot.” Roots are the lifelines of a cannabis plant, pulling water and oxygen into the plant so it can grow healthy and strong.
Mycorrhizae, a beneficial fungus, can be added to soil to improve root systems.
The main stem, or stalk, of a cannabis plant grows straight up from the root system and supports all lateral branches. The stem gives a plant structure and stability.
Often, growers will top, or cut off, the stem after about five nodes, which forces the plant to grow out laterally more, creating more bud sites.
Branches grow out of the main stem and support fan leaves and buds. Growers often train a cannabis plant by topping branches to create more bud sites.
A node is a point at which a branch grows off of the main stem, or one branch from another branch. Fan leaves and buds can grow on some nodes, but not necessarily all.
When determining the sex of a cannabis plant, pre-flowers, or the beginnings of male and female sex organs, will appear at the nodes.
The space between nodes is called “internodal spacing” and will give you a sense of whether a plant will grow tall or short.
Check out Johanna’s full video series on how to grow weed on Leafly’s YouTube .
Fan leaves are the large, iconic leaves of the cannabis plant. They capture light for the plant and typically have little-to-no resin and are usually discarded when trimming.
Sugar leaves are the small, resin-coated leaves that buds form around. Sugar leaves are usually saved as “trim” during harvest and can be used for pre-rolls, extracts, and other cannabis products.
Also known as “buds,” the flowers of a cannabis plant are the fruits of your labor. They contain the cannabinoids and terpenes that get you high or offer health benefits. Flowers only grow on female cannabis plants and must be dried before consumption.
A cola, also called a “bud site,” refers to a cluster of buds that grow tightly together. While smaller colas occur along the budding sites of lower branches, the main cola—sometimes called the apical bud—forms at the top of the plant.
Bract and calyx
A bract is what encapsulates the female’s reproductive parts. They appear as green tear-shaped “leaves,” and are heavily covered in resin glands which produce the highest concentration of cannabinoids of all plant parts.
Enclosed by these bracts and imperceptible to the naked eye, the calyx refers to a translucent layer over the ovule at a flower’s base.
Stigma and pistil
The pistil contains the reproductive parts of a flower, and the vibrant, hair-like strands of the pistil are called stigmas. Stigmas serve to collect pollen from males.
The stigmas of the pistil begin with a white coloration and progressively darken to yellow, orange, red, or brown over the course of the plant’s maturation. They play an important role in reproduction, but stigmas bring very little to the flower’s potency and taste.
Despite their minute size, it’s hard to miss the blanket of crystal resin on a cannabis bud. This resin is secreted through translucent, mushroom-shaped glands on the leaves, stems, and calyxes.
Plants originally developed trichomes to protect against predators and the elements. These clear bulbous globes ooze aromatic oils called terpenes as well as therapeutic cannabinoids like THC and CBD. The basis of hash production depends on these trichomes and their potent sugar-like resin.
Male vs. female marijuana plants
Cannabis is a dioecious plant, meaning it can be male or female, and the male and female reproductive organs appear on different plants. What’s in your stash jar now are the flowers of a female marijuana plant.
Female plants produce the resin-secreting flower that is trimmed down into the buds you smoke, and males produce pollen sacs near the base of the leaves. Male plants pollinate females to initiate seed production, but the buds we consume come from seedless female plants—these are called “sinsemilla,” meaning “seedless.”
Growers can ensure the sex of their plants by growing clones or the genetically identical clippings from a parent strain. Feminized seeds are also made available through a special breeding process.
How to determine the sex of a marijuana plant
Cannabis plants show their sex by what grows in between their nodes, where leaves and branches extend from the stalk. Pollen sacs will develop on a male plant to spread seeds and stigma will develop on a female to catch pollen. You can see these differences weeks before they actually start serving their purposes in the reproduction cycle. These are known as “pre-flowers.”
Pre-flowers begin to develop four weeks into growth, but they may take a little longer depending on how quickly the sprouting phase occurs. By the sixth week, you should be able to find the pre-flowers and confidently determine the sex of your plant.
Examine the nodes of the plant and look for either the early growth of small sacs on a male, or two bracts on a female, which will eventually produce the hair-like stigma.
Female marijuana plants
Females are the prizes of cannabis plants—they are the ones that grow the buds that we all know and love. Anytime you see a picture of a cannabis plant with buds, you are looking at a female plant.
Female cannabis plants receive pollen from males to produce seeds, which will carry on the genetics of both plants to the next generation.
However, cannabis is primarily cultivated for buds, not seeds, so the practice of growing sinsemilla, or “seedless” cannabis, is prevalent today: Females and males are grown separately, or males are even discarded, to prevent pollination. This allows female plants to focus their energies on bud production instead of seed production.
Males and females are usually only pollinated when crossbreeding plants or creating new strains.
Male marijuana plants
Male cannabis plants grow pollen sacs instead of buds. Male plants are usually discarded because you don’t want them to pollinate the females, which will produce seeds—no one wants to smoke buds with seeds in it.
Males are important in the breeding process, but that is generally best left to expert breeders. When pollinating females, males provide half of the genetic makeup inherited by seeds.
Because of this, it’s important to look into the genetics of the male plants. Their shape, rate of growth, pest and mold resistance, and climate resilience can all be passed on to increase the quality of future generations.
Male plants can also be used for:
- Hemp fiber—males produce a softer material, while females produce a coarser, stronger fiber. The soft fiber from males is more desirable for products like clothing, tablecloths, and other household items.
- Concentrate production—males do have some THC and can be psychoactive, but much less so than females. Small amounts of cannabinoids can be found in the leaves, stems, and sacs, which can be extracted to produce hash and other oils.
What are hermaphrodite cannabis plants?
The rare hermaphroditic plant contains both female and male sex organs. These plants can sometimes self-pollinate, but this is typically bad as it will create buds with seeds and also pass on hermaphroditic genes.
“Herming out,” as some call it, is something that generally happens when a plant becomes excessively stressed. Some stressors include:
- Plant damage
- Bad weather
There are two types of hermaphrodite plants:
- A plant that develops both buds and pollen sacs
- A plant that produces anthers, commonly referred to as “bananas” due to their appearance
While both result in pollen production, true hermaphrodite cannabis plants produce sacs that need to rupture; anthers are exposed, pollen-producing stamen.
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Timothy Geithner Wiki Biography
Born Timothy Franz Geithner on the 18th August 1961 in Brooklyn, New York USA, he is an economist and businessman, best known to the world for his service as the 75th US Secretary of the Treasury under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, among many other achievements. His career started in the mid- ‘80s.
Have you ever wondered how rich Timothy Geithner is, as of early 2017? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Geithner’s net worth is as high as $2 million, an amount earned through his varied career.
Timothy Geithner Net Worth $2 Million
Timothy is of English and German ancestry; his mother has English roots, while his father is a German American. Timothy’s childhood was marked by constant migration with his father’s work with the Ford Foundation, living in Zambia, India, Zimbabwe and Thailand as well. While living in Thailand, he went to the International School Bangkok. After high school, Timothy enrolled at Dartmouth College, and obtained an BA degree in government and Asian studies. Also, he attended Beijing Normal University where he studied Mandarin, then obtained an MA degree in international economics and East Asian studies from John Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies in 1985.
Timothy’s got off to a great start when he found a job at Kissinger Associates, in Washington, D.C., working for the consulting firm from 1985 until 1988, and then joined the International Affairs of the US Treasury Department. A while later he started serving as an attaché at the Embassy of the US in Tokyo, and consistently taking steps forward in holding several positions from the mid- ‘90s until early 2000s, including Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs, from 1998 until 2001. In 2001 he joined the Council on Foreign Relations as a Senior Fellow in the International Economics department, while also serving as director of the Policy Department and Review Department at the International Monetary Fund for two years, between 2001 and 2003.
Then in October 2003, Timothy became president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, serving in the position until 2009, which only increased his net worth to a large degree, since his salary for 2007 year amounted to $398,200. In 2008, during the presidential campaign, Timothy was often mentioned as the new Secretary of Treasury, for both John McCain and Barack Obama. During Obama’s campaign, he announced that he intended to appoint Timothy as the new Secretary, if he is elected President. Timothy was sworn in as the new Treasury Secretary on the 26th January 2009, and served in the positon until 2013, when he left Obama’s administration, but soon after he became a member of the Council of Foreign Relations.
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Regarding his personal life, Timothy has been married to Carole Sonnenfeld since 1985; the couple has two children.
|Full Name||Timothy Geithner|
|Net Worth||$2 Million|
|Date Of Birth||August 18, 1961|
|Place Of Birth||Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States|
|Profession||Former United States Secretary of the Treasury|
|Education||Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (1985)|
|Spouse||Carole Sonnenfeld Geithner (m. 1985)|
|Children||Elise Geithner, Benjamin Geithner|
|Parents||Peter F. Geithner, Deborah Moore Geithner|
|Siblings||David Geithner, Sarah Geithner, Jonathan Geithner|
|Nicknames||Timothy Franz Geithner , Tim Geithner , The Credit Fairy , Timothy F. Geithner|
|1||[on his role as Secretary of the Treasury] I learned something valuable at the beginning, which is how fragile financial systems are, how connected they are to the economy, how hard it is to separate a trauma in a financial system from trauma in the economy, how hard it is to protect the average person from financial panics.. What it takes to protect people from a panic is really the opposite of what feels fair or just or effective. It's a paradoxical thing. It's perfectly understandable people wanted a measure of justice.|
|2||[on joining Barack Obama's cabinet] When your President asks you to serve, you have to say yes. You do. I tried to talk him out of it, and I wanted to make sure he understood what he was getting.|
|1||U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (2009-2014).|
|The 44th President: In His Own Words||2017||TV Movie documentary||Himself|
|Hamilton's America||2016||TV Movie documentary||Himself|
|Inside Obama's White House||2016||TV Mini-Series documentary||Himself - Secretary of the Treasury|
|Charlie Rose||2009-2015||TV Series||Himself - Guest|
|All Eyes and Ears||2015||Documentary||Himself|
|CBS This Morning||2014||TV Series||Himself|
|The Daily Show||2014||TV Series||Himself|
|On the Money||2014||TV Series||Himself - Former Treasury Secretary|
|Good Morning America||2014||TV Series||Himself - Former U.S. Treasury Secretary|
|Face the Nation||2011-2012||TV Series||Himself - Secretary of the United States Department of the Treasury / Himself - U.S. Treasury Secretary|
|Meet the Press||2011-2012||TV Series||Himself - U.S. Treasury Secretary|
|This Week||2011-2012||TV Series||Himself - United States Secretary of the Treasury|
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The largest and longest-lived ecological network in the United States, LTER provides the scientific expertise, research platforms, and long-term datasets necessary to document and analyze environmental change.
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The Network’s vision is a society in which long-term ecological knowledge contributes to the advancement of the health, productivity, and welfare of the global environment, thereby advancing human well-being. This vision underpins LTER’s mission, which is to provide the scientific community, policy makers, and society with the knowledge and predictive understanding necessary to conserve, protect, and manage the nation’s ecosystems, their biodiversity, and the services they provide.
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The LTER program has grown in size and mandate since its inception. It currently supports sites representing major biotic regions of the continental U.S., Alaska, islands in the Caribbean and the Pacific, and the Antarctic continent. Its disciplinary scope includes population and community ecology, ecosystem science, evolutionary biology, phylogenetic systematics, social and economic sciences, urban ecology, oceanography, mathematics, computer science, and science education. The existence of a network across sites allows for continental-scale questions to be addressed.
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The LTER Network receives its greatest funding from NSF, but other Federal agencies such as the USDA Forest Service and Agricultural Research Services, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the US Geological Survey, the US Environmental Protection Agency, and the US Department of the Interior’s National Park Service and Fish and Wildlife Service also support various projects at site and network levels.
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When the current state highway numbering system was first posted in January 1964, the highway that was to become SR 432 was numbered SR 832. SR 832 began at Jct US 830 about a mile NW of downtown Longview and headed south then SE on Nichols Blvd to Tennant Way. Continuing on Tennant Way, SR 832 headed east, crossing the Cowlitz River and ending at I-5/US 99 Exit 36. This interchange is sometimes called the Longview "Wye". When US 830 was dropped from the US highway system in 1968, former US 830 west of I-5 was redesignated as SR 4. SR 832 became SR 432. Around 1970, SR 432 was upgraded to 4 lane expressway from an interchange of Tennant Way with 3rd Ave to I-5.
Effective April 1, 1992, the route of SR 432 was changed in the Longview area. The western terminus of SR 432 was moved to a junction with SR 4 about 6 miles west of downtown Longview. From this point, SR 432 now heads south, then ESE via the industrial area along the Columbia River. SR 432 follows Industrial Way to 3rd Ave and then heads north on 3rd to Tennant Way. At the interchange of 3rd and Tennant, SR 432 rejoins its former route and continues east to I-5. Today, SR 432 is 10.32 miles long.
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This study focused on levels of physical activity (PA) in adolescents from Niterói, Rio de Janeiro. Adolescents (n = 325) from the public school system filled out the physical activity questionnaire (PAQ-C) developed by Crocker et al. (1997). Anthropometric data (body mass, stature, and body mass index) and television (TV) viewing time were also assessed. Mean PAQ-C scores were 2.3±0.6 and 2.0±0.6 for males and females, respectively (p < 0.01). Mean TV times were 4.4 h/day and 4.9 h/day for males and females, respectively. The most popular PA was soccer for boys and soccer and walking for girls. Adolescents in the sample tended to be more active on weekends as compared to weekdays. PAQ-C scores classified 85% of boys and 94% of girls as inactive individuals. These results pose a concern as to the high prevalence of inactivity in this age group, which increases the probability of inactive adults. However, other studies are needed to investigate PA throughout adolescence and the determinants of PA in Brazilian adolescents.
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Puritan Authority We shall be as a City upon a Hill the eyes of all people are upon us the Puritan John Winthrop wrote The Puritans left for the New World because of their belief that the Church of England was hopelessly corrupt and no longer stood for their way of life They believed that they could create an ideal Christian society across the ocean which would be a model for others to follow Some even compared themselves to the Hebrews and thought they were founding the New Israel Graebner They would soon realize this goal would be more difficult to achieve then they originally expected The Puritans had difficulty establishing the authority of the Church in the New World due to their own corruption and the deterioration of their society Religion has long been the cause for conflict and turmoil throughout the history of the world and continues to be today Freedom of religion and the separation of church and state have been essential principals in the United States but in the colonial period these were radically new ideas As religious laws had governed the people of Israel so the church would regulate New England society There was no place for toleration in Puritan America Those not in agreement with the colonys purposes and government would be forced to move elsewhere Many people learned this very quickly as they were banished from Massachusetts for various reasons Roger Williams was one of these people He challenged the charter of the colony and preached that the church and state should be separate so the government could not force religion on individuals This threatened the very reason for the colonys existence so the leaders of Massachusetts tried him and threw him out to keep others from following his ideas Roger Williams also disagreed with how the Puritans treated the Indians and their land Land rights of Native Americans were never taken seriously Rather they were
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There is a mantra for encouraging more sustainable habits of consumption and disposal: reduce, reuse, recycle. It has a nice ring, but it’s missing a fourth imperative: rethink.
Like most children, I learned how to rethink and repurpose – to upcycle – before I lost all my baby teeth. Among some of my most ingenious re-designs I count a bookcase Barbie mansion (bigger and better than the Barbie Dream House of which I was cruelly and relentlessly deprived), paper towel roll rainsticks, used tissue box carpet skates, some hideous couch cushion ammo and matching armrest cover head dressings for sibling pillow battles.
I like to think one never loses their imagination, rather too many lose touch with it, or forget how to access it and why we should in the first place. Innovation, a most precious and practical tool, serves you well at any age, provided you remember to wield it. At my prime (circa age six), environmental stewardship came effortlessly, beyond conscious awareness. Now, though I have t try a little harder, I find that applying a little creativity can extend the lifetime of an object, limit my footprint on this planet and my bank account, and rekindle that childhood joie de vivre that makes me so nostalgic.
If you’ve ever laid eyes on the likes of web wonders Pinterest or Apartment Therapy, you already know that a used shipping pallet is a goldmine in the land of shabby chic DIY interior design and that everything looks better in a Mason jar. Here are a few things I’ve learned by way of exercising my rethink abilities:
1. A used egg carton is a palette for my paints.
And after that, a dozen cardboard flowers. Ta da!
2. A large framed Animal Kingdom poster (neighborhood yard sale rescue, gifted to me upon graduation by my youngest brother) is a picture frame-meets-bulletin board. A simple thread strung in place of the old poster works like a clothesline for photos and oddities like cardboard flowers (see 1). I think it looks neat. Little brother has forgiven, or more likely in this case, forgotten.
3. Used corks make fine corkboards. Surprise!
Of course, in addition to creating – by recreating – these upcycled wonders, I’ve accumulated a modest collection of reusable food containers, because packaging that arrives with a built-in ziplock closure or snapping lid is a terrible thing to waste, and to toss it and purchase anew is, let’s face it, absurd. Clean the container and use it again. Really, it’s that simple.
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hi i wanted to ask you about my moms ct results. it showed a mass in her upper lobe left lung kind of in the center of upper lobe which the dr. said showed just a few involved lymph nodes i guess around the mass maybe but no where else so far even though they have not done a pet scan yet.he will biopsy it tomorrow by a bronchoscope and he said he would be able to tell more like if it has involved the bronchioles or branch or windpipe but the biopsy would take 2-3 days to find out what type of cancer it is!is the prognosis worse if its in the left lung or right or does that even matter? does the size matter if it is like the size of a lemon or as small as a dime as far as prognosis? does the area of the lung high or low, outer or inner have a better prognosis from ur experience? can the lung still be resected if it involves bronchioles,branch,or windpipe? are nsclc masses bigger or smaller than sclc?i just need some answers for more hope and to ease some of my worries!
Thank you for your question. One of the most important things to determine during the assessment of a mass is if it is malignant. Despite any findings by CAT scan or PET scan, a biopsy is necessary to establish the diagnosis. Should a diagnosis of lung cancer be established, the next step is to determine the stage. Staging is based on the size and location of the lesion, presence of multiple lesions, involvement of lymph nodes of the chest or areas outside of the chest. Whether the mass is on the left or right is less important than its size, proximity to important structures in the chest and involvement of lymph nodes. A larger lesion implies more advanced disease. Surgical resection is very dependent on whether the primary lesion involves important structures in the chest and whether there are multiple lesions or evidence of metastatic disease. Both NSCLC and SCLC can present as small or larger lesions. Once the biopsy has been performed and results available, you should obtain further consultation from your physician.
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This presentation is part of the Preserving U.S. Military Heritage: World War II to the Cold War, June 4-6, 2019, Fredericksburg, TX.
Allan Blank: Thank you. Good afternoon. We had a peacemaker and a minuteman taking it out to lunch, and we’ll have Nike bringing you back home. Just want to mention, it’s a privilege being with all of you … so many great people: conservationists, and scientists, and doctors, and I’m a park interpreter.
Nike Site SF88 in San Francisco is the last of a breed. It’s the last one. And, it’s a site that was open as a military base from 1955 until 1974. Ironically, the land on which the site sits became a National Park in 1972. For two years, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which by the way in 2018, the most visited national park unit … have to throw that in, good plug … which helped us somewhat, because when the site closed in 1974 as part of the SALT I Agreement, the United States Army said to the National Park Service, “We have a present for you. We’re going to give you a Nike site.” But, like the Army, they took everything with them, and left us a bunch of buildings and a lot of holes.
The site stayed dormant for about 15 years. When in the late 1980s, a retired army Lieutenant Colonel by the name of William Bud Halsey … the name Halsey rings a bell? His uncle was the famous Admiral Halsey … found the site and recruited some former Nike veterans to try and do something with the site and they worked at it for about 10 years and hopefully got things going, and the site chugged along. It was part of the Maintenance Division and they opened up one day a month for a couple of hours to let the public in, take a look. Speeding up to 2013, I was asked, told, directed, to go out to the Nike site as the site was now going to become part of the Division of Interpretation.
If I can see, it’d be great. Did I hit the wrong button? I did. I can’t see it. I’m blind. Oh, here I am.
When we arrive at Nike Site SF88-L, there are three parts to a Nike site and I’ll touch upon that in a couple of minutes. The main entrance is within an area of the park called the Marin Headlands. Golden Gate National recreation is very unique. Everybody rushes to come see the Nike site even though we have Alcatraz and Muir Woods.
We didn’t even have a road marker to tell people where the site was. When I got there in 2013, and I was directed to the site because, I’ll be perfectly honest with you, I had been in the park for nine years and couldn’t remember exactly how to get there. I went to the sign committee and said, “Can we get some signs that said, ‘Nike site?'” Well, we had to go before the sign committee and talk to everybody and do everything. In a speedy fashion of two and a half years, we got signs that said, “This way to the Nike site.” It was a unique opportunity for us to preserve history and to show off something that you cannot see anywhere else in the world, because this is the last preserved-in-full site there is.
We needed to gain recognition of the site’s importance. We had to identify all the areas that had to be rehabilitated. Finding a funding source, that was the most difficult. We had no funding for our site specific. That was our major issue. I had to seek out historical architects, project managers, cultural affairs, natural resources, all people before we can start on any project, and how do we allocate all this funding?
The site is unique. Cultural Affairs has deemed it to be a museum. Interpretation looks at it as an interpretive site. We had to work together. Cultural had their ideas of what they wanted; Interpretation had their ideas of what they wanted. On a couple of areas, we were able to get together. Being that the site is located right on the Pacific Ocean, forgetting about the salt there and the rust, we have a lot of groundwater. When the volunteers first came, there was nine feet of water in the underground magazines that had to be pumped up.
When we look at this picture, you have two pictures of a door. This leads down to one of the magazines where the missiles would’ve been kept. Now, the idea to restore them, we had to use as much as the original material as we could. Doors like this don’t exist, so we had to have the doors cast from scratch from the original blueprints. Cultural Affairs came up with the funding to replace the doors. The first thing that was done, the first rehabilitative project from the time that the United States Army gave us the site in 1974, happened in 2014, when we replaced the doors going down to the magazine.
Being an interpreter, and not being one into contracts and into PMIS, and all the other things that went along, when I saw how much these doors cost, my rehabilitative list shrank, because you know, I said, “We’ll do this, we’ll do that, we’ll do this,” and then all of a sudden, “Maybe we can do this and that.” It really became a tough object.
I had at the time, the Deputy Superintendent come out to the site. This was just towards the end of 2014 not long before he left the site, and I said to him, “A decision has to be made: Either we fix the place or we close the place. We can’t have it both ways. The site is rusting out, it’s falling apart, nothing works. It’s a disgrace. We have no funding. We are the only one of its kind. This is something that we need to preserve. It’s our heritage. It’s our history.” I had him out there for two whole days.
The next week, we got funding, and we were able to do a lot of things to enhance the visitor experience. We’re creating a welcome center out of an unused building. This was the old generator building and the only thing that was in there was garbage and more garbage. We emptied out the building: building was restored on the inside, just about finished, just waiting for the fire suppression systems to be put in so we can put artifacts back in there.
Then the problem came up, “What do you do when things just don’t exist?” One of our historic architects came up with a new word: “rehabilitative restoration.” We’ll rehabilitate, and we’ll restore. We’ll put it all together.
We have a building, and I’ll show you a picture in a second, of the assembly building. All the buildings on the site are cinder block except one, and that’s this assembly building which came later to fit the new Nike Hercules missile, a much bigger missile. It was built out of wallboard and corrugated metal. And being that we’re on the Pacific Ocean and corrugated metal and Pacific Ocean: rust! The whole thing rusted out and it became a nature sanctuary inside the building. Fortunately, none of our critters that decided to occupy the building were endangered.
We were able to gently move them out. We took a building that was totally rusted out and what we did … we had to have lead abatement and all … this is the original siding that’s been sanded, sandblasted, repainted. That which we couldn’t replace, we cut away. I don’t know if you can see on the bottom here; that’s all been cut away and painted green to match.
This is our rehabilitative restoration that we’ve been doing. And again, that building is finished, and again, we’re just waiting for our phone company to come in and put the phone lines in for fire alarms and security alarms. And, these two buildings have taken approximately two and a half years to complete.
Now, guard dogs were an important part of the site. There were four of them and they lived at the site; important interpretive piece of history, not really accessible because of where it’s located, but visually, it can be seen. The only thing that we were able to see was a pile of junk. Our next project was to restore the kennel and the supply sheds to bring back the original look, and this was all restored using as much of the original material from the original blueprints. We have the blueprints and we’re recreating the training course for the dogs and we’re going to have a Marin County, California dogs train out there, which they used to do. This is a whole new avenue for us and a whole new part of the site that wasn’t available before.
I came to California 22 years ago. I’m originally from the deep south of New York: New York City. I never knew what an avocado was. I didn’t know. I came to California and I discovered an avocado. They looked great on the outside. Sometimes, if you open an avocado, looks great on the outside, it’s rotten on the inside?
Well, that’s another problem that we have and that’s called the hydraulics. We have a lot of motorized equipment and we’re faced with a dilemma. We have about 280 little hoses and those little hoses are 60 years old and the fittings are as old as the hoses. They all need to be replaced. Problem is can it be done? And, we’ve had people come out and give estimates. It’s difficult to decide what’s important to the site to keep it active as an Interpretive Site, to keep its heritage alive, or what’s not.
Now, I talked about cultural and natural. They all have their ideas of what they want done. We have our ideas, what they want done. Natural resources decided they wanted the grass and the bushes to look like 1963 or 62. How are we going to do that? Goats. So, the Nike Site, for several months, had goats wandering around. Now that the goats are finished, what happened to the grass? It’s right back where it started from. We have another dilemma. Do we look at that part as important to our interpretive situation or is that something that we can just put on the side?
When you’re working with multiple divisions, you know, interpretive, I’m out there with the interpretive idea of what to do, and cultural resource, being a museum, they have an idea of what they want to do and what they want me to do, and what natural resources wants me to do, so it presents a problem. Currently, the site is open between one and three days a week and we operate three to four hours a day, depending upon the time of the year. We do three to four tours a year. We had about 22,000 plus visitors in 2018. The staff is one ranger plus volunteers. The site currently, all the mechanics; the elevators, the launchers, are being done by former Nike veterans. They come in … and myself … was a V J image, whereas my best friend, all the uniforms I’ve roomed with, hydraulic fluid, to keep fixing it and we have no annual dedicated budget, so we’re running into issues that are difficult.
When we were at the museum last night, I was talking to Mike, the retired general who heads the fundraising arm, and he asked me a question. I was introduced to him by Mary, who said, “Here’s Allan, the Nike guy.” We got into this conversation, and he asked me, “Why is the site open at all?” And I asked him, “What do you mean by that?” He said, “Why do people want to come see missiles?” I said, “It’s not about the missiles. It’s about the story. We had school groups come out and they talk about the Cold War and they said, ‘People get sick during the Cold War? Is that why they got colds?'” And that’s true.
As an interpreter for the National Park Service, I have a job to fulfill, and that’s to tell that story to make sure everybody knows what this Cold War was about. About a missile, when we talked about it this morning, Eric had mentioned mutually assured destruction, and we talk about a defensive missile that can travel 80 to a 100 miles whose goal was to take out a squadron of nuclear-carrying Soviet aircraft with a bomb more powerful than Little Boy and Fat Man put together. What were we doing? What were we thinking? What was the world like for those that lived through the Cold War? Can you identify with hiding under the desk? The stories that we tell, the life that we lived, missiles were a lot cheaper than keeping divisions of army all over the place. It was just an incredible time.
Here you see one of our missiles up in its launch position and we demonstrate this when we’re open; we do lift and it’s all done hydraulically. And, the picture on your right is one of the magazines, and there were six missiles down there and we bring them up on the elevator. We do all the demonstrations to show people what life was like, what the fears were.
Our history is why we’re here, so when we look at all of this and we see it, what is our limit? Where do we go? Is it worth our time and energy to save it? Of course it is. It’s like we were trying to preserve everything else that we’re here to do.
We’re leaving the park to the people and it’s maintaining our heritage and I’m the front man for all the Cultural people and Natural people and our historic architects. So when I’m pointing my finger at a building, that’s also to give thanks to all of you who work on the preservation part. I may help with an idea, “Let’s do this. Let’s do that. Let’s do this,” but I’m not the one doing the paperwork and finding the right bid, and bidding out the contract, and choking when I see how much the amounts are.
It’s just an incredible, incredible thing to see it and to see these people when we get last Saturday … Oh, and what’s great about it, the first Saturday of the month, is an open house where I have about 10 to 14 former Nike vets out there. We had close to a thousand visitors this past Saturday, and we can drive in, you can drive in, and we can park cars and trailers and all kinds of stuff in there. The site’s pretty big. It’s an incredible gift that the army gave to us, unknowingly probably. But, to be the only one is an incredible thing to have.
And I want to leave you with the Oozlefinch. The Oozlefinch! The mascot of the NIKE soldier, knight in the Air Defense team. It’s a blind, featherless bird that flies backwards at supersonic speed. Nike represents about the last opportunity to keep the Oozlefinch alive, but in reality all of us are Oozlefinches. We’re all part of the order of Oozlefinches flying at supersonic speed, to keep the heritage and preservation of our historic sites alive. I thank you for all that you do and I look forward to great times ahead, and thank you for allowing me to speak to you this afternoon. Thank you all.
Mary Striegel: Who has a question.
Speaker 1: You mentioned that the site is at the launcher installation? That component? Do you have possession of the integrated fire control or the administrative area?
Allan Blank: I failed to mention it, thank you. The Nike site was made up of three parts; you had the launch area, the control area, and the admin area. The control area for this site is inaccessible other than by foot, and that area contained the radar, the launch trailers, and the computers. What we’ve done … and I can’t take credit for it, this was done prior to me being there. We brought the radar and the trailers down to the launch area, and we actually even hooked up the radar that spins around, and the computers light up and the radar works, we can get it to work, and the administrative areas where the men slept and ate is now a YMCA. But thank you for reminding me about that. It’s all there, and we’re never here in San Francisco, I promise you it won’t be a hundred degrees, and it won’t be 95% humidity. When I left San Francisco Monday, it was 44.
Mary Striegel: Any other questions?
Speaker 2: Hi, I’m just wondering, like the other missile sites, are you also doing an oral history collection with the Nike veterans?
Allan Blank: Yeah, we have quite a few. Again, the gentlemen who served at Nike now are in their mid-seventies to late eighties. We have quite a few oral histories. I guess working Nike site has kept these guys going, and we are continuing our oral history. What is amazing about the Nike site and with the division of the launch area and the control area, if you worked in the control area, you knew nothing about the launch area, and vice versa. We get many guys who worked in the control area who come to the site just to see the launch area and they say, “By the way, while you’re here, you mind if we get an oral history?” That’s how we’ve been able to accumulate those.
Speaker 3: Since you’re from New York City, you know that there’s some Nike missile sites that were part of the defenses of the city and now part of the Gateway National Recreation Area-
Allan Blank: Yeah, Gateway at Sandy Hook … and I’ve been there, I’ve worked with them to try and get this site up, but when Super Storm Sandy came in, it totally destroyed the site.
Speaker 3: Well, it didn’t totally it because I’m-
Allan Blank: Well, it destroyed it enough that the work that we put into it at the time-
Speaker 3: Right, and that was my question for you, is, with the rising sea level and the storms that are getting worse and worse because of it, is there some armoring or anything else that’s going on with your site and if so, how is that working? What are you doing?
Allan Blank: Well, we have groundwater problems as it is and we run 18 pumps all the time. Nothing else is being done as far as fortification against flooding or anything like that, no, and I have not seen any plans to do so.
Mary Striegel: One last question. Here we go.
Speaker 4: Thanks a lot. Putting aside money for a minute, because everybody in this room faces money problems and so on, what do you take as the biggest challenge of rehabilitating or protecting this site so it can tell the story of the Nike Program and the Cold War.
Allan Blank: We have to make the determination of, “Is there a point where, if we can’t do something, is it still a viable site?” And that is the mechanical aspect where the equipment is old and not replaceable because it’s just not made. So, we jerry-rig parts, but that’s eventually not going to help it at a point, and that’s the biggest challenge. So really, money couldn’t even probably fix it, because how do you fix something that doesn’t exist without ripping the whole thing out and rebuilding the whole thing, which is not what we’re about. The hydraulics, that snake in the pit, that is our biggest challenge. As an alternative, can we do the site as well, as effective, without the missile? It’d just be a static missiles down below without bringing it up and all that kind of thing.
Allan Blank has been at Golden Gate National Recreation Area since 2004. During his tenure at the park, he has worked as an Interpreter on Alcatraz Island, and at Muir Woods National Monument and the Marin Headlands. He has also worked for the park in Public Affairs and the Office of Special Park Uses.
One of his current duties is Site Manager for historic Nike Site SF-88. Over a period of the last five years, the park has undertaken a restoration of the site keeping in mind its’ historic place in history, a remarkable and rewarding experience. Originally from New York City, he never thought that his life’s adventure would bring him to San Francisco to work on the restoration of a nuclear missile site. But this work has been the most rewarding of all. | <urn:uuid:ac94e9a8-1e62-4544-9a52-05d7a3c5c7c6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ncptt.nps.gov/blog/nike-bringing-a-site-up-to-speed-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.974524 | 4,610 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Social distancing, wearing face masks and handwashing should continue alongside vaccines to protect people from Covid-19, experts have suggested.
Researchers made the conclusions after analysing studies that assessed the effectiveness of global public health measures in reducing rates of Covid-19, SARS-CoV-2 transmission and Covid-19 mortality.
The peer-reviewed paper, which has been published in the British Medical Journal, examined 72 studies, of which 35 evaluated individual public health measures and 37 assessed multiple public health measures.
Of the 35 studies of individual measures, 34 were observational and one was a randomised controlled trial.
They were carried out in Asia, the US, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, South America and Australia.
The researchers found that in eight of the 35 studies there was a 53% reduction in Covid-19 rates with mask wearing while there was a 25% reduction with social distancing.
Handwashing also showed a 53% reduction in Covid-19 rates but the authors say this was not statistically significant after adjusting for the small number of studies included.
Meanwhile detailed analysis for other measures – such as lockdowns, closing borders, schools and workplaces – was said not to be possible due to differences in study design, outcome measures and quality.
They added that there needs to be further assessment on those measures so that the potential negative effects on general populations can be weighed up against any positive results.
The researchers state that while Covid-19 vaccines have proved to be safe, effective and save lives, most do not give 100% protection and it is not known how vaccines will prevent future transmissions in different variants.
“Until herd immunity to Covid-19 is reached, regardless of the already proven high vaccination rates, public health preventive strategies are likely to remain as first choice measures in disease prevention, particularly in places with a low uptake of Covid-19 vaccination,” lead author Dr Stella Talic, at Monash University, Australia, said.
Concluding the research, she added: “Current evidence from quantitative analyses indicates a benefit associated with handwashing, mask wearing, and physical distancing in reducing the incidence of Covid-19.
“Further research is needed to assess the effectiveness of public health measures after adequate vaccination coverage has been achieved. It is likely that further control of the Covid-19 pandemic depends not only on high vaccination coverage and its effectiveness but also on ongoing adherence to effective and sustainable public health measures.”
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Hungary is among the famous popular countries in Eastern Europe. The country is characterized by glittering cities, mighty castles, magnificent architecture, and stunning countryside. An exciting culture that blends naturally with history and fantastic food, transforming your travel into an incredible and unique experience you have never felt.
From Budapest, the magnificent capital city of Hungary, which is called the city of light, to various fantastic scenery and quaint villages, the country powerfully evokes a unique sense. Besides, Hungary has become the most prominent tourist draw in Eastern Europe. If you want to experience the feeling, explore the treasures and secrets of the country.
Here are the three best and most amazing travel destinations in Hungary you might not know yet.
3 Amazing Travel Destination in Hungary
Hungary has been strongly swayed by its conquerors, which showed in its remarkable and interesting tradition and culture. Therefore, it is necessary to explore the treasures and secrets of Hungary before you initiate your trip plan to this incredible country.
In addition to being Hungary’s capital city, Budapest is also one of the country’s largest cities. It is stated that Budapest’s architecture represents the history of Hungary. In Budapest, visitors can experience the distinctiveness of Hungarian culture through its wide variety of hot water spas, from Turkish-era baths to modern public bathhouses.
Budapest is also well-known for its abundance of establishments serving authentic Hungarian fare, such as goulash, a specialty of the city (meet soup and vegetables). There are also different games spots like casino, table tennis, or any other game you might be interested in. Besides, you can get the best casino gambling site from online-kaszinó.com.
If you’ve decided to spend a few nights in Budapest, don’t hesitate to look into hotels in the city. Hotel prices in Budapest are comparable to those around Hungary, and some Budapest hotels stand out for their opulent art decor or spectacular views of the Danube River. Besides, Budapest is one of Europe’s most beautiful cities at night and Hungary’s most attractive cities overall.
Badacsony is a village, a mountain, and a region in Hungary. Even if it is your first trip to Hungary, you should have heard of it. Because of its proximity to Lake Balaton, its magnificent volcanic peak, and the abundance of vineyards dot the landscape.
It is highly advised that visitors to Badacsony rent a bicycle rather than drive about in a car because it is far more convenient and cost-effective. There are various hillside vineyards where you may sample the great local white wine and go for lovely excursions across the countryside.
Even though lava eruptions stopped millions of years ago, the butte is now home to fascinating geological formations known as “basalt organ pipes.” A unique grape variety is grown on its hills to manufacture the world-famous Badacsony wine.
Badacsony forms part of the Upper Balaton National Park. The park’s administration put in a lot of time and effort to create a pleasant and exciting geological-botanical-zoological nature trail. It has numerous beautiful lookout points and attractions, making it a great site to spend a whole day.
Despite its small size, Badacsony deserves a visit since it’s the only site in Hungary where you can drink wine from the country’s best vineyards while looking out over Lake Balaton.
Sopron, also known as “Tiny Prague,” is a picturesque little town located on the Austrian border. Because Sopron is regarded as the most attractive town in Western Hungary, it should be on your list of places to visit in Hungary.
The town’s historic core is a popular destination for strolls at any time of day or night. It’s also a great spot to unwind with a hearty meal and a glass of the region’s world-renowned Sopron wine.
Consider taking a winery tour in Sopron, where you may sample some of the region’s most renowned white and red wines. Wines from Sopron have a unique flavor and sweetness that can’t be found anywhere else.
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An electromyogram (EMG) is a common clinical test used to assess function of muscles and the nerves that control them. EMG studies are used to help in the diagnosis and management of disorders such as the muscular dystrophies and neuropathies. Nerve conduction studies that measure how well and how fast the nerves conduct impulses are often performed in conjunction with EMG studies.
Examples of EMG studies (courtesy of Seward Rutkove, MD, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School) are given here.
Data were collected with a Medelec Synergy N2 EMG Monitoring System (Oxford Instruments Medical, Old Woking, United Kingdom). A 25mm concentric needle electrode was placed into the tibialis anterior muscle of each subject. The patient was then asked to dorsiflex the foot gently against resistance. The needle electrode was repositioned until motor unit potentials with a rapid rise time were identified. Data were then collected for several seconds, at which point the patient was asked to relax and the needle removed.
The figure shows three examples of EMG data from: 1) a 44 year old man without history of neuromuscular disease; 2) a 62 year old man with chronic low back pain and neuropathy due to a right L5 radiculopathy; and 3) a 57 year old man with myopathy due to longstanding history of polymyositis, treated effectively with steroids and low-dose methotrexate. The data were recorded at 50 KHz and then downsampled to 4 KHz. During the recording process two analog filters were used: a 20 Hz high-pass filter and a 5K Hz low-pass filter.
Suggested readings about EMG:
- Kimura J. Electrodiagnosis in Diseases of Nerve and Muscle: Principles and Practice, 3rd Edition. New York, Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Reaz MBI, Hussain MS and Mohd-Yasin F. Techniques of EMG signal analysis: detection, processing, classification and applications. Biol. Proced. Online 2006; 8(1): 11-35.
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Home schooling vs regular schooling: Which is better?
Home schooling has long been an option for parents to provide for their children.
While some have always taken this option and educated their kids at home, the pandemic saw a large increase in home school rates across New Zealand and the world. In late 2021, there were 8,552 pupils at home, up from 6,573 across the country in 2019.
This shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise, considering our Kiwi Education Report showed that half of all parents said that COVID-19 impacted their decisions around school choice.
Not all parents made the switch due to the disruptions of the pandemic, but for some, it’s put the question on the table: homeschooling, or regular schooling?
Let’s take a closer look at the pros and cons of each teaching method, and how you can switch to home schooling your children if you feel it’s best for your family.
Pros of traditional (public) schooling
There are several key benefits of public schooling.
One of the more obvious perks of a child being in a school is that they can develop their social skills and social life alongside their education. They’ll learn about human behaviours in a way they couldn’t in a book, such as how to work well as a group and how to listen to others even when they disagree.
Diversity is especially common in co-ed schools, where children will meet people from different cultures and learn about how to get along with others of their own and the opposite gender.
Another key benefit is that of professional instruction. Even if you’re pretty savvy in all things maths, science, English, history, and economics, being able to teach these subjects can be a whole different ball game. Teachers in schools have received training on how to pass on these skills and knowledge, and know how to help when kids struggle with certain topics.
Finally, schools offer easy access to a huge variety of extracurriculars. Kids can sign up for a wide range of activities on top of their formal education, from drama and choir to debating, gymnastics, computer clubs, and more. This gives them an outlet for any further interests they have at the same easy, trusted location.
Cons of traditional (public) schooling
The benefits of traditional schooling can make for a convincing argument, but parents should always be aware of the less attractive side of the coin.
The first is the traditional curriculum. How many schools teach kids how to grow their own vegetables, file their taxes, or organise a home data plan? How many kids finish school knowing what KiwiSaver is or why it’s important? When you opt for a homeschool education, you can adjust the curriculum to ensure your kids are learning some of the important things they’ll need to know to become functional adults, even if that’s not something they would typically learn in school.
Sadly, teachers being overwhelmed is also a con of public schooling. In a survey of primary school teachers, almost half worked more than 50 hours per week, and amongst primary school leaders, 20% worked more than 60 hours per week.
NZEI Te Riu Roa president Liam Rutherford said “When teachers and principals are overworked this ultimately impacts on tamariki and their learning environment.”
Finally, the reality is that with groups there can also come social struggles. From the challenges of fitting in to peer pressure and bullying, some children may experience difficulties within these settings.
Our Kiwi Education Report found that a third of parents think that bullying is extremely common in schools today, with a further 56% saying they think it’s reasonably prevalent. Almost half of all parents’ said bullying was a top three concern for their children.
Pros of home schooling
Home schooling has become more popular over the past couple of years, but not just because of traditional schooling being so disrupted due to the pandemic. There are a host of benefits to teaching your little ones at home.
A key benefit is the ability to tailor the curriculum. The Ministry of Education states that you must teach a child “at least as regularly and as well as” a teacher in a registered school would. However, you can tailor your curriculum, covering a more diverse range of topics than you might find in a public school.
In our Kiwi Education Report, we found that only a third of parents thought that the current traditional school curriculum is equipping children with the skills they need to thrive in professional working environments. By choosing your own curriculum, you may be able to better meet those needs.
Additionally, home schooling allows you to choose your own schedule. You could split the school day into two if you preferred, take holidays at different times of year than traditional schools, or enjoy a sleep in and start later than public schools do.
Finally, home schooling can be a good option for those who would otherwise have a long, difficult, or expensive commute. Especially with petrol prices being what they are these days.
Cons of home schooling
On the flipside, there are several downsides to home schooling.
Naturally, the need for a parent to give up significant portions of their time for education is a big ask. It’s not just the lessons themselves, but lesson planning, researching topics to make sure you’re refreshed and ready to teach them, and marking work.
There’s also the cost. Many home school parents purchase a pre-set curriculum that greatly reduces the amount of research and planning that goes into their teaching program. Pre-made subjects can cost $60-$80 each per year, and you may also need to purchase learning supplies such as a laptop or tablet, books, sports equipment, crafts, and more.
Finally, there are social life restrictions to home schooling. Kids can miss out on learning the social cues and norms they would from being around their peers, but they can also miss out on making close friendships if they don’t have other ways to meet kids their age.
What is required for home schooling
So, what does it take to educate at home? According to the Ministry of Health, any parent or legal guardian of a child aged five to 16 can apply. To be approved, your application must convince the Ministry that the child will be taught “at least as regularly and as well as they would be in a registered school.”
The government also provides a supervision allowance, which is paid in instalments twice per year. Currently, the annual total payments are:
- first child $743.00
- second child $632.00
- third child $521.00
- subsequent children $372.00
There are also numerous support programmes and resources available for parents educating their children at home, including:
You can find a full list of support services and resources on the Ministry of Education.
It’s a big decision, but one only you can make for the best outcomes for your child. Much like taking a moment to organise Life Insurance for yourself, all any parent wants is the best for their kids in the future.
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which ever will, or ever can remove them. But this only by the
26. Concerning the other qualities of style to be found in these writings, I acknowledge I have not much to add. Simplicity, gravity, and perspicuity, as necessarily resulting from simplicity, are certainly their predominant characters. But as
in writings it is not always easy to distinguish the qualities arising from the thought, from those arising merely from the expression, I shall consider, in a few sentences, how far the other properties of good writing, commonly attributed to the style, are applicable to the evangelists. In what concerns harmony, and qualities which may be called merely superficial, as adding only an external polish to their language-about such, if we may judge from their writings, they do not appear, as was hinted before, to have had any the smallest solicitude. To convey the sense (the only thing of importance enough to be an object to them) in the most familiar, and consequently in the most intelligible terms to their readers, seems to have been their highest aim in point of style. What concerned the sound alone, and not the sense, was unworthy of their attention.
In regard to elegance, there is an elegance which results from the use of such words as are most in favour with those who are accounted fine writers, and from such an arrangement in the words and clauses as has generally obtained their approbation. This is still of the nature of varnish, and is disclaimed, not studied by the sacred authors. But there is also an elegance of a superior order, more nearly connected with the sentiment; and in this sort of elegance they are not deficient. In all the oriental languages great use is made of tropes, especially metaphor. The Scriptures abound with them. When the metaphors employed bear a strong resemblance, and the other tropes are happily adapted to the subjects they are intended to represent, they confer vivacity on the writing. If they be borrowed from objects which are naturally agreeable, beautiful, or attractive, they add also elegance. Now of this kind, both of vivacity and of elegance, the evangelists furnish us with a variety of examples. Our Lord illustrates every thing (agreeably to the use of the age and country) by figures and similes. His tropes are always apposite, and often borrowed from objects naturally engaging. The former quality renders them lively, the latter elegant. The ideas introduced are frequently those of corn-fields, vineyards, and gardens. The parables are sometimes indeed taken from the customs of princes and grandees, but oftener from the life of shepherds and husbandmen. If those of the first kind confer dignity on the examples, those of the second add an attraction, from the pleasantness of images which recall to the fancy the thoughts of rural happiness and tranquillity. And even in cases where propriety required that things disagreeable should be in
troduced, as in the story of the rich man and Lazarus, the whole is conducted with that seriousness and chaste simplicity of manner which totally exclude disgust. We may justly say, therefore, that the essential attributes of good writing are not wanting in these histories, though whatever can be considered as calculated for glitter and ostentation is rather avoided than sought.
27. Upon the whole, therefore, the qualities of the style could not, to those who were not Jews, nor accustomed to their idiom, serve at first to recommend these writings. The phraseology could hardly fail to appear to such, awkward, idiomatical, and even vulgar. In this manner it generally did appear to Gentile Greeks upon the first perusal. But if they were by any means induced to give them a second reading, though still not insensible of the peculiarity, their prejudices and dislike of the idiom rarely failed to subside. A third commonly produced an attachment. The more they became acquainted with these books, the more they discovered of a charm in them, to which they found nothing comparable or similar in all that they had learnt before; insomuch, that they were not ashamed, nay, they were proud to be taught by writers for whose persons and performances they had formerly entertained a sovereign contempt. The persecutors of the church, both Jews and Pagans, perceived at last the consequences of conniving at the study of the Scriptures, and were therefore determined to make it their principal object to effect the suppression of them, particularly of the Gospels. But the more this was attempted, the more were the copies multiplied, the more was the curiosity of man excited, and the more was the inestimable treasure of divine knowledge they contained circulated. Early, and with avidity, were translations demanded in almost every known tongue. Those Christians who had as much learning as to be capable, were ambitious of contributing their share in diffusing amongst all nations the delight as well as the instruction which the study of these books conveyed into the soul. Nor was this admiration of the divine writings to be found only among the vulgar and the ignorant. It is true it originated among them, but it did not terminate with them. Contrary to the common course of fashion, which descends from the higher ranks to the lower, it arose among the lowest classes, and ascended to the highest. Not only nobles and senators, but even philosophers and men of letters, the pupils of sophists and rhetoricians, who by the prejudices of their education would be most shocked with the inelegancies, the vulgarisms, and even the barbarisms (as they would account them) of the sacred writers, found a secret and irresistible attraction, which overcame all their prepossessions, and compelled them to acknowledge that no writers could so effectually convey conviction to the understanding, and reformation to the heart, as these poor, homely, artless, and unlettered Galileans.
ON THE RIGHT METHOD OF PROCEEDING IN THE CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF THE BOOKS OF THE NEW
It was remarked in a foregoing Dissertation,* that notwithstanding the sameness both of the language and of the idiom employed by the penmen of the New Testament, there is a sensible diversity in their styles. The first general rule, therefore, which demands the attention of him who would employ himself in searching the Scriptures, is to endeavour to get acquainted with each writer's style, and, as he proceeds in the examination, to observe his manner of composition, both in sentences and in paragraphs; to remark the words and phrases peculiar to him, and the peculiar application which he may sometimes make of ordinary words, for there are few of those writers who have not their peculiarities in all the respects now mentioned. This acquaintance with each can be attained only by the frequent and attentive reading of his works in his own language.
2. The second general direction is, to inquire carefully, as far as is compatible with the distance of time, and the other disadvantages we labour under, into the character, the situation, and the office of the writer, the time, the place, and the occasion of his writing, and the people for whose immediate use he originally intended his work. Every one of these particulars will sometimes serve to elucidate expressions otherwise obscure or doubtful. This knowledge may, in part, be learnt from a diligent and reiterated perusal of the book itself, and in part be gathered from what authentic or at least probable accounts have been transmitted to us concerning the compilement of the canon.
3. The third, and only other general direction I shall mention, is, to consider the principal scope of the book, and the particulars chiefly observable in the method by which the writer has purposed to execute his design. This direction, I acknowledge, can hardly be considered as applicable to the historical books, whose purpose is obvious, and whose method is determined by the order of time, or, at least, by the order in which the several occurrences recorded have presented themselves to the memory of the compiler. But in the epistolary writings, especially those of the apostle Paul, this consideration would deserve particular
4. Now, to come to rules of a more special nature: If, in reading a particular book, a word or phrase occur which appears obscure, perhaps unintelligible, how ought we to proceed? The
Diss. I. Part ii. sect. 1.
first thing undoubtedly we have to do, if satisfied that the reading is genuine, is to consult the context, to attend to the manner wherein the term is introduced, whether in a chain of reasoning, or as belonging to an historical narration, as constituting some circumstance in a description, or included in an exhortation or command. As the conclusion is inferred from the premises; or, as from two or more known truths, a third unknown or unobserved before may fairly be deduced; so from such attention to the sentences in connexion, the import of an expression, in itself obscure or ambiguous, will sometimes with moral certainty be discovered. This, however, will not always answer.
5. If it do not, let the second consideration be, whether the term or phrase be any of the writer's peculiarities. If so, it comes naturally to be inquired, what is the acceptation in which he employs it in other places? If the sense cannot be precisely the same in the passage under review, perhaps, by an easy and natural metaphor, or other trope, the common acceptation may give rise to the one which perfectly suits the passage in question. Recourse to the other places wherein the word or phrase occurs in the same author, is of considerable use, though the term should not be peculiar to him.
6. But, thirdly, if there should be nothing in the same writer that can enlighten the place, let recourse be had to the parallel passages, if there be any such, in the other sacred writers. By parallel passages, I mean those places, if the difficulty occur in history, wherein the same or a similar story, miracle, or event, is related; if in teaching or reasoning, those parts wherein the same doctrine or argument is treated, or the same parable propounded; and if in moral lessons, those wherein the same class of duties is recommended: or, if the difficulty be found in a quotation from the Old Testament, let the parallel passage in the book referred to, both in the original Hebrew and in the Greek version, be consulted.
7. But if in these there be found nothing that can throw light on the expression of which we are in doubt, the fourth recourse is to all the places wherein the word or phrase occurs in the New Testament, and in the Septuagint version of the Old; adding to these, the consideration of the import of the Hebrew or Chaldaic word whose place it occupies, and the extent of signification of which, in different occurrences, such Hebrew or Chaldaic term is susceptible.
8. Perhaps the term in question is one of those which very rarely occur in the New Testament, or those called ȧaž λɛyoμɛva, only once read in Scripture, and not found at all in the translation of the Seventy. Several such words there are. There is then a necessity in the fifth place, for recurring to the ordinary acceptation of the term in classical authors. This is one of those cases wherein the interpretation given by the earliest Greek
fathers deserves particular notice. In this verdict, however, I limit myself to those comments wherein they give a literal exposition of the sacred text, and do not run, as is but too customary with them, into vision and allegory. There are so many advantages which people have for discovering the import of a term or phrase in their mother-tongue, unusual perhaps in writing, but current in conversation, above those who study a dead language solely by means of the books extant in it, that no reasonable person can question that some deference is, in such cases, due to their authority.
You will observe that, in regard to the words or phrases whereof an illustration may be had from other parts of sacred writ, whether of the Old or of the New Testament, I should not think it necessary to recur directly to those primitive, any more than to our modern expounders. My reason is, as the word or phrase may not improbably be affected by the idiom of the synagogue, the Jewish literature will be of more importance than the Grecian for throwing light upon the passage. Now this is a kind of learning with which the Greek fathers were very little acquainted. Whereas, on the other hand, if the term in question' rarely or but once occur in the New Testament, and never in the version of the Old, there is little ground to imagine that it is affected by the idiom of the synagogue, but the greatest reason to suppose that it is adopted by the sacred penmen in the common acceptation.
I think it necessary to add here another limitation to the reference intended to the ancient Greek expositors. If the doubtful passage have been produced in support of a side, in any of the famous controversies by which the Christian church has been divided, no regard is due to the authority, whatever may be due to the arguments, of any writer who lived at, or soon after, the time when the controversy was agitated. If you know the side he took in the dispute, you are sure beforehand of the explanation he will give of the words in question. Nothing blinds the understanding more effectually than the spirit of party, and no kind of party-spirit more than bigotry, under the assumed character of religious zeal.
9. With respect to the use to be made of the Fathers, for assisting us to understand the Scriptures, there are two extremes, to one or other of which the much greater part of Christians show a propensity: One is, an implicit deference to their judgment in every point on which they have given an opinion; the other is, no regard at all to any thing advanced by them. To the first extreme, the more moderate Romanists, and those Protestants who favour pompous ceremonies and an aristocratical hierarchy, are most inclined; and to the second, those Protestants, on the contrary, who prefer simplicity of worship, and the democratical form in church government. But these observa | <urn:uuid:f84764fe-9b81-43bc-81ab-a0eb12f72094> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://books.google.ro/books?id=YF4TAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA99&vq=%22to+buy,+the+bridegroom+came,+and+those+who+were+ready+went+in+with+him+to%22&dq=editions:ISBN0852442904&lr=&hl=ro&output=html_text | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.968747 | 2,984 | 1.898438 | 2 |
Debiopharm Presents the "Debiopharm Group Life Sciences Award 2012" and Two "Junior Debiopharm Group Life Sciences Awards 2012" During the Annual EPFL SV- Life Science Symposium
8/31/2012 8:31:01 AM
LAUSANNE, Switzerland, August 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
Debiopharm Group (Debiopharm), a Swiss-based global biopharmaceutical group of companies with a focus on the development of prescription drugs that target unmet medical needs and companion diagnostics, today presents the 'Debiopharm Group Life Sciences Award 2012' in collaboration with EPFL (Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) to Professor Daniel D. Pinschewer for his outstanding research in the field of Infectious Diseases and Immunology. Furthermore, Doctors Daan Noordermeer and Kelly Tan each receive a 'Junior Debiopharm Group Life Sciences Award 2012' for their research in the field of Cellular and Molecular Biology. Organised by the Global Health Institute (GHI), the ceremony is taking place at the EPFL during the Annual EPFL SV- Life Science Symposium 2012 on the theme 'Global Health meets Infection Biology'.
The 'Debiopharm Group Life Sciences Award 2012' honours Professor Daniel D. Pinschewer of the department of Pathology and Immunology, University of Geneva Medical School. As one of the most promising scientists in the field of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, his research bridges cutting-edge molecular virology, cellular and molecular immunology to investigate the immune control and pathogenesis of viral infection and vaccination. The award amounts to CHF 50'000 of which CHF 40'000 are made available to support the prize winner's research through his home institute, whilst CHF 10'000 are given to the winner for personal use.
The two 'Junior Debiopharm Group Life Sciences Awards' are granted to Doctors Daan Noordermeer from the laboratory of Professor Denis Duboule, EPFL, and Kelly Tan from the laboratory of Professor Christian Lüscher, University of Geneva Medical School. The two scientists receive CHF 25'000 each, of which CHF 20'000 go to their respective institutes and CHF 5'000 are for their personal use. The junior awards are destined to young researchers in Switzerland, in the wider field of cellular and molecular biology. They are ideally at the stage of late postdoctoral studies or launching an independent research group. The selection criteria are based on excellence in previous work and originality of future projects.
"We wish these three brilliant and well published scientists all the best for their future," said Rolland-Yves Mauvernay, President and founder of Debiopharm Group. "The innovation and quality of their work made it easy for the jury to reach a unanimous decision. Their findings have brought us one step closer to the development of novel therapeutics."
Professor Daniel D. Pinschewer
Professor Pinschewer's work demonstrated the key importance of 'damage-associated molecular patterns' (damage of our own body's cells) in driving protective antiviral CD8+ cell responses. These findings have a lot of potential for refined vaccination strategies. (Science. 2012 Feb 24;335(6071):984-9). His work also focused on the recombinant lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (rLCMV), perceived as the most promising novel platform technologies to advance global health vaccination efforts against tuberculosis, malaria, hepatitis C. And he studied the role of antibody responses in resolving chronic viral infection.
Doctor Daan Noordermeer
Dr Noordermeer's work at the EPFL has focused on understanding the three dimensional organisation of the genome in the nucleus of the eukaryotic cells where the genetic material is carried. He was able to identify active versus non-active clusters in the genome. The techniques developed by Dr Noordermeer could be helpful in better understanding the mode of action of the epigenetic cancer therapies, which is currently not fully understood, and to eventually monitor patients' response.
Doctor Kelly Tan
During her post-doctoral studies at the University of Geneva, Dr Tan used a variety of very innovative techniques, including optogenetic manipulation to dissect the neural basis for the addictive properties of benzodiazepines, known to trigger physical dependence after long-term use. Her research could lead to the development of novel compounds with less addictive profiles.
About Debiopharm Group
Debiopharm Group (Debiopharm) is a Swiss-based global biopharmaceutical group of companies with a focus on the development of prescription drugs that target unmet medical needs. The group in-licenses, develops and/or co-develops promising biological and small molecule drug candidates having reached clinical development phases I, II or III, as well as earlier stage candidates. It develops its products for global registration and maximum commercial potential. The products are out-licensed to pharmaceutical partners for sales and marketing. Debiopharm is also active in the field of companion diagnostics with a view to progressing in the area of personalised medicine. Debiopharm independently funds the worldwide development of all of its products while providing expertise in pre-clinical and clinical trials, manufacturing, drug delivery and formulation, and regulatory affairs.
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Adopt-A-Park Supporters Program Home / Recreation / Parks and reserves / Adopt-A-Park Supporters Program Page Content Do you regularly visit your local park and playground? Do you want to play an active role in helping make your neighbourhood a safer place? If so, sign up to the City of Stirling's Adopt-A-Park Supporters Program. All you need to do is report graffiti, broken playground equipment and overfull rubbish bins to help maintain your local park and keep it looking pristine. Your contribution will help keep our local parks and community safe and clean.Program objectivesThe Adopt-A-Park Supporters Program aims to reduce anti-social behaviour and vandalism, enhance the appearance of local parks, inform users of local laws and promote community pride in parks across the City.The role of Adopt-A-Park Supporters includes being the 'eyes and ears' of adopted parks and reporting matters to the City to allow them to be resolved sooner. Supporters are discouraged in confronting, challenging or cautioning anyone.How do I adopt a park? Register onlineEmail: [email protected] or telephone (08) 9205 8555Want to go that step further? Help the City ‘Wipeout Graffiti’. Submit a request for a handy pack of graffiti safewipes and email to [email protected]. Graffiti Safewipes Registration Form How many people and parks are involved?Since the program was introduced in 2008, more than 400 residents have adopted 150 of the City's parks and reserves. Our goal is one day to have every one of our parks adopted by an Adopt-A-Park Supporter. | <urn:uuid:d5e230be-a42b-4574-9b06-dc919848c878> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.stirling.wa.gov.au/Recreation/Parks-and-reserves/Pages/Adopt-A-Park.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00456-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910188 | 347 | 2.015625 | 2 |
The Molecular Retrovirology Unit started out back in the mid 1980s working on the molecular biology of the AIDS retrovirus HIV, hence its name. We were the first to publish the sequence of HIV. Through research on retroviral hypermutation the group was able to show that the human genome encodes a pair of DNA mutator enzymes capable of mutating chromosomal DNA. Following this unexpected lead, the unit has moved to working on cancer for on these mutator enzymes that are intimately linked to oncogenesis.
Cells showing chromosomal damage (orange) from APOBEC3A expression (green) with the nucleus outlined in blue.
The human APOBEC3A and APOBECB enzymes make mutations in DNA by deaminating cytidine bases. The result is DNA peppered with uridine (dU). As dU base pairs as dT, this generates hypermutants with monotonously substituted C residues. The degree of editing can be phenomenal: up to 90% and sometimes more. This results in a meltdown of genetic information, essentially death by deamination. As such it is clearly pro-apoptotic/necrotic. By contrast hypomutation, lower levels of mutation that do not overwhelm DNA mismatch DNA repair, can introduce hundred or so mutations in one go. If the process is iterated a genome can accumulate tens to hundreds of thousands of mutations which turns morphs it into a cancer genome.
These DNA mutator enzymes are now accepted as being on a par with UV light and benzpyrenes in cigarette smoke in the genesis of cancer. Furthermore, APOBEC3A enzyme also mutates 5-methylcytidine residues and makes double stranded breaks both of which are hallmarks of cancer genomes.
The really crucial observation is that the APOBEC3A gene is massively upregulated by interferon alpha. There is a large literature linking chronic inflammation and cancer that even back goes to the 19th century. The identification of APOBEC3 as a mutator of chromosomal DNA adds a simple, and hitherto missing link to this scenario. Chronic inflammation emphasizes the iteration of DNA mutation and the steady accumulation of mutations that eventually unleashes the genome.
Because APOBEC3A is a DNA mutator it is a causal cancer susceptibility gene. A naturally arising polymorphism with high penetrance exists in SE Asia.in which most of the APOBEC3B gene is deleted. The deletion is particularly associated with a higher incidence of breast, ovarian and liver cancer. The unit was able to show that the deletion resulted in much higher intracellular levels of the APOBEC3A DNA mutator enzyme.
How special or unique is this enzyme? APOBEC3A is functionally conserved across most placental mammals meaning that is has been around for around 150 million years. Clearly this apparently dangerous enzyme has an evolutionary selective advantage that clearly outweighs the downside of cancer.
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On 24 November 1971, a man wearing a black raincoat over a dark suit and clip-on necktie entered the Portland International Airport, Oregon, USA. Carrying a black attaché case, he approached the Northwest Orient Airlines counter and asked for a one-way ticket to Seattle, Washington. In those days a person did not need to show any identification to purchase an airline ticket or even board a plane. The man simply gave his name as Dan Cooper.
Cooper paid the $20 fee in cash and boarded Flight 305, a 30-minute journey aboard a Boeing 727, which took off on schedule at 2:50pm. Sitting in the rear of the plane, Cooper calmly lit a cigarette and ordered a bourbon and soda.
Shortly after takeoff, Cooper passed a note to one of the stewardesses, Florence Schaffner. Believing the note to contain nothing more than a pick-up line and a telephone number, Schaffner ignored it. That was until Cooper leant towards her declaring, “Miss, you’d better look at that note. I have a bomb.”
The exact wording of the note is unknown as Cooper later reclaimed it, but from what Schaffner later recalled, it declared Cooper had a bomb and he wanted her to sit with him. When she did he calmly opened his attaché case revealing a bunch of wires amongst some red coloured sticks. He then dictated his demands to her.
Cooper wanted $200k in “negotiable American currency” and four parachutes to be delivered to the plane when it landed in Seattle. He also wanted a fuel truck standing by to refuel the plane. If these demands were not met he would blow up the aircraft killing all 36 passengers and 6 crewmembers in the process.
Described as white with a Latin appearance, middle-aged, accent-less, between 5ft 10in and 6ft tall, Cooper was apparently polite, “rather nice,” and not at all nervous. He also appeared to know the local terrain, commenting a couple times on the features below.
Schaffner relayed his demands to the pilot, who in turn passed them onto air traffic control and the relevant authorities. The president of Northwest Orient authorised the payment and after two hours of circling the plane landed in Seattle at 5:39pm by which time the authorities had assembled Cooper’s demands.
Now wearing wrap-around sunglasses, Cooper requested the plane taxi to a quiet well-lit part of the airstrip and demanded the cockpit lights be turned off to deter snipers. An employee of Northwest Airline approached the aircraft and exchanged the money (10,000 $20 bills with serial numbers beginning with “L”) and parachutes, which had been obtained from a local skydiving school, with one of the stewardesses onboard. At which point all 36 passengers and two crewmembers (including Schaffner) were released.
As the plane was being refueled Cooper informed the pilots he wished to fly to Mexico City. They advised the aircraft did not have the range to reach that destination without another stop. They agreed to refuel at Reno-Tahoe Airport in Nevada. Finally Cooper demanded the plane fly below 10,000 feet at a speed of around 120mph.
Around 7:40pm the plane took off on its new course. Two fighter jets from the nearby Air Force Base followed the 727 (one above it and one below) and one Lockheed T-33 also shadowed it without Cooper’s knowledge.
Before sending all crew to the cockpit, Cooper was seen tying something around his waist, most likely the bag of money. With no peephole in the cockpit door, the crew had no idea what Cooper was doing in the back. Around 8pm a warning light in the cockpit informed the crew that the rear airstairs had been lowered and at 8:13pm a sudden upward movement was felt emanating from the aircraft’s tail section. The jets following the aircraft saw nothing exit the airliner.
Two hours later the plane successfully landed at Reno Airport and was surrounded by FBI agents and local police, who subsequently searched the aircraft. Cooper was nowhere to be seen. All that was left behind were cigarette butts, a black clip-on tie (which would later provide a partial DNA sample), two parachutes and 66 unidentified fingerprints.
The first man questioned was an Oregon man called D.B. Cooper on the off chance the hijacker had used his real name. The man was quickly dismissed as a possible suspect but the media confused the hijackers name with the Oregon man’s, lodging D.B. Cooper in the public psyche.
In the subsequent months and years, the police considered more than 800 suspects. They recreated the event to pinpoint a landing zone and conducted thorough ground and aerial searches. No signs of the hijacker or the parachute have ever been found.
In February 1980, an eight-year-old boy name Brian Ingram uncovered three packets of badly disintegrated money with matching serial numbers to the Cooper stash, totaling $5,800. This discovery raised more questions than answers, casting doubt over Cooper’s landing zone or whether indeed he even landed safely.
From early on the FBI believed Cooper did not survive the fall. Jumping into a heavy rainstorm with an approximate temperature of -7°C (-57°C with wind chill) in the pitch-black night, wearing just a raincoat and no helmet, the FBI argued it’s unlikely he “even got his ‘chute open.”
The Bureau also debates his attention to detail. Out of the four parachutes (two primaries, two reserves), Cooper selected the worst two; he chose the technically inferior, older primary and the reserve parachute he chose was a training one which was sewn shut. The FBI concluded he did not have the sufficient knowledge to survive the jump and even if he did, he’d unlikely have survived the freezing mountainous wilderness he landed into.
45 years on and no arrests in connection to the hijacking have ever been made. Multiple people have come forward either claiming to be D.B. Cooper or knowing who he was. Fingerprint and DNA analysis, physical attributes and lack of substantive evidence have discounted each and every one of these people. As of July 8 2016, the FBI suspended active investigation of the case.
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Dr. Dwight D. Bowman
Several years ago it was believed that the source of the agent causing equine protozoal myeloencephalitis had been discovered. That is, it was believed that the cycle into which the horse was being unfortunately introduced was the life cycle of a Sarcocystis species, Sarcocystisfalcatula, wherein the opossum served as the source of environmental contamination and the grackle served as the reservoir through which opossums became infected. Unfortunately, this does not appear to be the case. Although, there was one initial report from Kentucky of disease being caused in horses fed sporocysts from opossum feces, this has not been replicated in two trials in Florida, nor in a trial here. Thus, it would appear that the initial jubilation over having discovered the source of equine infection was misplaced, and we now find ourselves almost exactly where we were when the organism was first described as Sarcocystis neurons in 1991.
Advances have been made, however, relative to the development of tools to look for the infection in the wild. Our lab, and several others, now have expertise in maintaining Sarcocystis species in culture. We have avian models, the parakeet, which allows the growth of pathogenic tissue-culture infective stages that can be used for parasite isolation. We now have the technology that allows the molecular separation of species. Also, we are now developing the tools that can be used to differentiate the organisms both morphologically and antigenetically. Thus, although we still do not know what the source of infection is for the horse, we now have in place many tools that did not exist for this purpose in 1991.
Thus, the goal of this research will be to examine a series of North American wildlife to identify the host that serves to produce the sporocysts that are infecting horses. The work will simply consist of reproducing what has been done with the opossum-grackle model system with other carnivore(or omnivore)-prey systems. The work is being carried forward in conjunction with similar studies being performed by the USDA in Beltsville under the direction of Dr. Dubey. We believe that application of the tools which have been developed should allow us to rapidly identify several other potential species that are likely to be sources of infection in the horse. | <urn:uuid:fe6a73dd-98a8-4e23-a900-27c20341828b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://vet.cornell.edu/research/Zweig/projects/Bowman99.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00484-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979462 | 485 | 3.171875 | 3 |
My Kuala Lumpur Heritage Trail is a self-guided tour of the historic heart of KL, covering many famous colonial-era landmark buildings clustered in a compact area surrounding Merdeka Square.
You can easily see all the sites mentioned here within 2 to 3 hours.
The suggested starting point for this Kuala Lumpur Heritage Trail is Central Market (which was the final stop on my previous tour - see Chinatown Walking Tour).
Make your way from Central Market to Lebuh Pasar Besar (Old Market Square). This square was once the commercial heart of Kuala Lumpur with the main branch of Hongkong and Shanghai Bank at one end of the square and Mercantile Bank at the other end surrounded by the offices of many of their major customers.
HSBC is still there but their rather grand building was replaced by a bland modern tower in the 1970s.
Today the square is an untidy mix of somewhat dilapidated heritage shophouse blocks and non-descript modern buildings.
The main highlight for Kuala Lumpur Heritage Trail enthusiasts is the OCBC Building. This was designed in 1938 in Art Deco style for the Overseas Chinese Banking Corporation by AO Coltman. It included underground parking for bicycles.
At the centre of the square on what was once a busy market stands the Clock Tower, built to commemorate the coronation of King George VI in 1937. It may have looked imposing at the time with its Art Deco motifs but today it seems rather lost and forlorn amid the bus stands and coin-operated public toilets.
Time to move on.
Continue our Kuala Lumpur Heritage Trail along Lebuh Ampang and you will see the white coloured Gian Singh Building on the corner with Jalan Tun Perak. This was constructed in 1909 on behalf of various owners each according to their individual designs but with a common facade and roofline. The whole block was occupied by Gian Singh, a textile trading company (which still exists), from the 1920s onwards.
On a nearby corner is the Oriental Building (also known as the Bank Bumiputra Building), designed in 1930, again by architect AO Coltman, to house Radio Malaya. Some say the design looks like a 1930s-era radio. I could not make out if the building is occupied at present.
Across the street is the entrance to the Masjid Jamek (Jamek Mosque). This was the first brick built mosque in KL, designed in 1907 in Mogul style by A.B Hubback, who also designed many of KL's other famous landmarks from that era. The mosque is sited where KL's history began, at the confluence of the Klang and Gombak rivers, the muddy estuaries which gave Kuala Lumpur its name. The mosque's compound contains a number of coconut palms which help to retain a rural atmosphere in the heart of busy KL. Non Muslims are welcome to visit outside of prayer times (between 9am and 11am is a good time to visit except on Fridays).
Next door is the Sessions and Magistrates Court, the first of a row of former court and government buildings which line Merdeka Square. This grand building, formerly known as the Federated Malay States Survey Office, dates from 1910 and boasts onion shaped domes and cinque-foil arches. Some of the domes appear to have weeds sprouting out of them which illustrates the difficulty of maintaining these heritage buildings given Malaysia's corrosive weather conditions.
Next on our Kuala Lumpur Heritage Trail comes the former City Hall, now named Panggung Bandaraya (City Theatre), a slightly older building designed by AB Hubback in 1896. The interior was destroyed by fire in 1992 but since restored and updated. It is the venue for the Kuala Lumpur International Short Film Festival in 2012.
The neighbouring building is the former High Court built in 1909 and designed by A.C. Norman. It now appears to be used by the Ministry of Information, Communications and Culture.
Continuing along the edge of Merdeka Square on Jalan Raja Laut you will pass the Sultan Abdul Samad Building, the best known symbol of Malaysia until the Petronas Towers were built and still today one of the most photographed buildings in Malaysia. Built between 1894 and 1897 it was designed by A.C. Norman and R.A.J. Bidwell in Mogul architectural style and features copper domes and a 40m high clock tower. The building was named after the then Sultan of Selangor and over its lifetime it has served as government offices and as a High Court and Supreme Court. Today, like its neighbouring buildings, it is occupied by the Ministry of Information, Communications and Culture. While the architectural style is not particularly Malaysian and would look more at home in India, it has come to symbolize Malaysia and has played an important role in the country's history.
Next door is the Old General Post Office, another Hubback creation, dating from 1896 and built in similar style to the Sultan Abdul Samad building. The post office was relocated to a modern building in 1984.
Completing this row of colonial relics is the National Textile Museum housed in an elegant and historic Mogul style building. Originally built in 1896 (architect A.B. Hubback) to house the headquarters of the Federated Malay States Railways it was later used by various government departments before being refurbished as a museum in 2007. Now I have to confess that a textile museum did not sound that exciting to me but I gave it a try and it was quite interesting to see how batik is made, to learn about woodblock printing techniques and to see samples of fabric made from pineapple fibre. It was also an opportunity to cool off in the air-conditioned galleries and to use the toilet. Admission is free. Open daily from 9am to 6pm.
Across the street is the old Chartered Bank building, built in 1919. In recent years the building has served as a National History Museum, then a restaurant and is currently (March 2014) being refurbished as a Music Museum. The most famous story about this bank concerns the floods of 1926 during which the basement of the building was submerged. When the floods subsided the bank had to dry out their vault contents and millions of dollars worth of banknotes were spread out on the cricket pitch in front of the bank to dry in the sun.
Next stop on our Kuala Lumpur Heritage Trail, next door to the bank, is the former Government Printing Office, a lovely Mogul style building built by A.C. Norman in 1899. It was used as a Memorial Library for some years but is now converted into the Kuala Lumpur City Gallery. Also in this corner of Merdeka Square is the Queen Victoria Fountain which you can read about on my blog. Facing the Sultan Abdul Samad building is the prestigious Royal Selangor Club, founded in 1884. The clubhouse was known as the Spotted Dog during colonial times when Dataran Merdeka was called the 'padang' and used for cricket and other sports. The current building was built after the earlier one burnt down in 1970.
Nearby is the Cathedral of Saint Mary The Virgin, built in 1894 in English Gothic style.
Ducking under the flyover behind the church brings us to Jalan Tangsi where the offices of the Malaysian Institute of Architects (PAM) are located, housed in one of the finest old buildings in Kuala Lumpur. It was built in 1907 as a town house for Loke Chow Kit and named Loke Hall. It was thought to be designed by an Anglo-Indian architect, A.K. Musdeen. In 1909, the building became the Empire Hotel and in 1919 it changed to the Peninsula Hotel which it remained until PAM acquired the premises in 1973. There is a small restaurant in the courtyard area where you can take refreshment after your long walk and appreciate this highlight of the Kuala Lumpur Heritage Trail.
Next door to the PAM building is the Wisma Ekran. This building formerly housed the head office of Anglo Oriental, a mining company. Also designed by A.O. Coltman, this is another fine example of the Eclectic Art Deco style.
That completes the Kuala Lumpur Heritage Trail but if you would like to add on an extension you could walk to the famous old KL Railway Station, another Hubback masterpiece dating from 1904 and surely one of most striking railway stations anywhere. See the map for directions but be warned, access to the station requires crossing some very busy roads which are not pedestrian-friendly so take care. The best way to visit the station is by train or take a taxi.
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Bart Rulon was active/lived in Washington. Bart Rulon is known for wildlife painting-birds in landscape.
Biography Bart Rulon
A painter who spends much time at Whidby Island in Washington state,
Bart Rulon photographs and sketches wildlife in the field and completes
the work in his studio. He is especially known for the wide
variety of birds he paints including seabirds, songbirds and waterfowl.
To get close to his subjects, he uses a "floating blind", a camouflage,
floating tube that he covers with vegetation and then sneaks in close
to the birds.
He has exhibited in the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum exhibition in
Wausau, Wisconsin for twelve years since 1994, and is a member of the
Society of Animal Artists.
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Rare zebra-donkey mix born in Florence animal reserve
The zonkey named Ippo only one in Italy22 July, 20:22
The zonkey named Ippo is the foal of an endangered donkey breed from Amiata and a zebra that was adopted by the center after it was confiscated from a failing zoo.
Many of the animals adopted by the Florence animal reserve run by the Aglietti family have been seized by police from private zoos throughout Italy, including a camel, parrots and a racehorse that was destined to be butchered.
"Ippo is the only one of his kind in Italy," Serena Aglietti said.
Reportedly there are other zonkeys in Germany, China and Georgia.
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History of the Center's Collections
The Center's collections go back sixty-eight years to Josiah Kirby Lilly, the then retired president of Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals and Josiah K. Lillylongtime Foster devotee, who began assembling the Foster Hall Collection in Indianapolis to document the life of Stephen Collins Foster and to authenticate his works. When the University of Pittsburgh built its campus in the Oakland area of the city in the 1920s and 1930s, it sought to memorialize Foster, who was a Pittsburgh native and who wrote most of his works in Pittsburgh. In 1937, Mr. Lilly donated his collection to the University to be housed and displayed in the new Stephen Foster Memorial building, which he had helped to fund. The Foster Hall Collection, as it was then called, established a regular agenda of humanities programs, and was the first center for the study of American music.
The original Foster Hall Collection of 10,000 items constitutes the world's principal repository for materials concerning Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864), America's first professional songwriter. It thoroughly documents the life, work, images, and influence of Foster, the only individual consistently given entire chapters in histories of American music, and composer of songs that are still among the best known in the world. Lilly was aware that his collection was unique, having collaborated with scholars, the Library of Congress, the foremost music collectors, arrangers, performers, and publishers to collect and document its holdings.
The Collections Today
Since 1937, the holdings have trebled; the Center now collects reference and research materials for American music, with an emphasis on popular culture of the period between 1840 and 1940. Because Foster's music and images have pervaded all classes of American society from the late 1840s to the present, the Center offers a rare vantage point from which to interpret American cultural history. The holdings have been called, in the words of a 1985 NEH-funded assessment, "one of the major research collections for 19th-century American music, and American culture in general, in the entire country" with "a large and priceless collection of 19th-century song."
The 10,000 items deposited in 1937 are indexed by Answer Songs, Arrangers, Books, Broadsides, First Editions, Foster Hall Collection publications and recordings, Letters, Magazines, Manuscripts, Parodies, Pictures, Recordings, Plays, Poems, Songbooks, and Scores (subdivided by number and type of voices and instruments). An additional 20,000 items reflecting Foster, composers influenced by him, and music in American life have been gathered since 1937. The holdings include 250 pages of holographs and manuscripts; musical instruments; scrapbooks, account books, correspondence and papers; early photographs; 73 portraits and art works; 12,000 music scores to the 1930s; 1,200 songbooks and songsters; 1,000 broadsides; 700 books and 250 periodicals; nine shelf-feet of early 78 rpm recordings; and maps, deeds, documents and other objects. The Collection's concentration of 19th and early 20th century American music has allowed the Center's research and programs to promote understanding of the original meanings and changing interpretations of the cultural products of nineteenth-century America, particularly inasmuch as they have affected societal attitudes over generations down to the present.
Access to the Collections
Since 1987, the Center has systematically filed its archival papers; documented the art works; produced a guide to the collections; catalogued its books, serials, songbooks, songsters, music scores, programs, pamphlets, and broadsides with two major grants from the NEH Research Program; and created MARC-format pre-catalog records for other holdings. The catalog records are available on cards in the Center, via the University's on-line catalog Pittcat, and internationally via OCLC. Photographs are made of any item at cost; interlibrary loan is available through photocopies and cassettes. Although holdings are non-circulating, materials are loaned to other institutions. The Center's staff will gladly answer any reference questions or respond to any research inquiries. We recommend scheduling an appointment to use the library to guarantee staff's availability. The Center for American Music welcomes and encourages donations and bequests of materials that will increase the research value and utility of its holdings, particularly sheet music, books, sound recordings, and any material pertaining to Stephen Collins Foster. Of special interest to the Center is material relating to American music in the period between 1840 and 1940. | <urn:uuid:d1493137-17cf-43c4-aae3-d64f5339f482> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.pitt.edu/~amerimus/AboutCollection.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00070-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940549 | 928 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Hong Kong’s Medical Device Control Office (MDCO) issued two regulatory documents on January 4, 2010. One document is the Guidance Notes GN-00: Definitions and Abbreviations for the Medical Device Administration Control System (MDACS). The other document is Technical Reference TR-003: Classification Rules for Medical Devices. TR-003 replaces Appendix I of the Guidance Notes GN-01.
TR-003 is adapted from the GHTF/SG1-N15:2005 document where medical devices are classified according to risk. A Class I medical device will have the lowest risk while a Class IV medical device will have the highest risk.
If, based on the manufacturer’s intended purpose, two or more classification rules apply to the device, then the product will be given the highest classification level. Medical devices used with each other will be classified depending on the purpose. For example, if the combination serves a different purpose than that of the individual devices, then the combination is a new medical device in its own right and should be classified according to its new intended use. If the combination is for the convenience of the user but does not change the intended use of the individual medical devices, then the classification will be given based on the highest classified device in the combination.
Accessories to be used together with a ‘parent’ medical device will be classified as though it is a medical device in its own right. Standalone medical software will also be classified accordingly, depending on whether it is independent of any other medical device or influences the use of a separate medical device.
The MDCO has provided a chart in document TR-003 to help manufacturers determine their medical device classification.
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Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA)
MANA promotes midwifery as a quality health care option for families.
American Academy of Husband-Coached Birth
This website describes the goals of the Bradley method of childbirth and can help expectant parents find an instructor in their area.
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)
This site offers information on numerous health issues. The women's health section includes readings on pregnancy, labor, delivery, postpartum care, breast health, menopause, contraception, and more.
The mission of Lamaze International is to promote a birth experience that is "awake, aware, and supported by family and friends" through education and advocacy.
International Childbirth Education Association (ICEA)
ICEA offers professional certification programs for childbirth educators and includes a list of ICEA-certified educators for expectant parents wishing to attend prepared childbirth classes.
Maternal and Child Health Bureau
This U.S. government agency is charged with promoting and improving the health of mothers and children.
American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM)
The ACNM supports the practice of midwifery through research, accreditation of midwife education programs, and establishment of clinical practice standards.
National Association of Childbearing Centers
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The Winter Garden
Cyclamens nose their way into the thin sunshine, hellebors produce their sombre blooms out of fallen leaves and the silver catkins of the Salix acutifolia Blue Streak etch moving patterns across the winter sky. The beech hedges hang tightly to their warm copper dry leaves; only the occasional rustle with the wintry air. There may even be occasional snow flakes drifting through the garden.
The first hint of spring can be seen in the blooming of the majestic grandis rhododendrons, their great trusses of creamy flowers concealing purplish black throats. Our witch hazel collection is also flowering in yellows and lemons and rusty pinks. However, Cloudehill is largely still in winter dress. The air is brisk and the ridge line subject to dramatic cloud effects, a glorious time for strolling with mist swirling through the bare trees and leaves crackling underfoot.
Inky blue grape hyacinths commence their flowering in their tens of thousands across the spring meadow accompanied by golden narcissus. The big cambellii magnolias throw open their huge and elegant blooms in shades of white and cyclamen pink, crimson purple and soft grape. Our colossal Magnolia denudata flowers with thousands of milk white goblets, and the aboreum rhododendrons are alight in soft pinks and blood reds.
The Spring Garden
Bluebells take the baton from the grape hyacinths in the meadows, their haze of mid blue interspersed with hosts of daffodils. Maples leaf out in clouds of brilliant colour and the early hybrid rhododendrons announce themselves with bugle calls of blossom.
Japanese tree peonies present their sumptuous blooms while lilacs flower in the shrub walk. Soft coppery pink leaves clothe the beech trees, the spring sunshine breaking through their part translucent foliage to the massed bluebells below. Rhododendrons continue with their hue and cry and and during this month we stage our big Diggers Garden Festival weekend.
The Melbourne Cup weekend is generally the best time to enjoy the flowering of our lutea hybrid tree peony collection; these produce sculptured bowls of lemon and ochre, yellow and apricot, wine and flame crimson. The late flowering rhododendrons are perhaps the most spectacular. These announce themselves like dowager princesses last to the ball while little scotch briar roses cover themselves with tiny soft blooms.
The Summer Garden
The early season perennials in the herbaceous borders have filled in and give a very fresh, silvery look with an interweaving tapestry of colour. The tulip tree is just finishing its flowering while the Chinese dogwoods and the Japanese silver bell commence theirs. Handsome Christmas trees are on offer in the nursery.
Newly clipped hedges make for astonishing architectual effects, providing tight, crisp green geometry amidst the over-flowing luxurience of summer. The herbaceous borders are at their mid-season height now and especially glorious in soft eveing light for those attending the summer twilight event series that Cloudehill is famous for. Check the program. Invite your friends.
The later perennials and the ornamental grasses are now in full cry and the gardens in general summer floraison. Lyrebird still call from the Mountain Ash, though not so frequently now, while iced teas and summer puddings are the order of the day in Seasons at Cloudehill.
The Autumn Garden
The perennial borders are still very full for the first weeks of March, then soften and open to 'autumn effects'. Hints of cooler weather are in the air and there's a big push in the garden preparing for the annual Melbourne international Flower and Garden Show and lots of interstate garden enthusiasts visiting.
The big ornamental grasses are at their finest right now, all beiges and tawny crimsons, while the weeping maples turn to the colour of the setting sun. The huge Enkianthus perulatus by the summer house sink into soft purple, then erupt to a slow burning crimson, the temple pool fills with lemon and pink leaves.
Beeches throughout the gardens fill with russet and gold and the last of the maples flush silk pink and crimson. The summer's green bleeds away from the borders, the last of the salvias are tattered wands of cobalt and pink waving amongst grey lemons and tawny browns; we contemplate scything all to the ground. | <urn:uuid:952ea2a9-d3b2-4db7-a436-a47c174adc1a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.cloudehill.com.au/theseasons.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.915603 | 984 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Paris - Cybercriminals are exploiting the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines plane by luring users to websites purporting to offer the latest news in order to steal their personal information, an Internet security firm warned.
Trend Micro urged Internet users to exercise caution when clicking on links shared on social media for news of flight MH370, which mysteriously vanished from the radar in the early hours of March 8 while on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
There is no trace of the aircraft or the 239 people on board, despite a massive international search.
Trend Micro said its global network of research, service and support centres TrendLabs had spotted an executable file disguised as a video that, when clicked, allowed scammers to collect a user's data, such as his or her IP address.
“Given the heightened interest in the missing flight, it was only time (before) cybercriminals used it to their advantage,” TrendLabs expert Paul Oliveria said in a statement.
Another scam enticed Facebook users to click a link that leads to a page with the heading: “(BREAKING NEWS) Malaysia Plane Crash into Vietnam sea MH370 Malaysia Airlines is found!”
When the link is clicked, users are taken to a fake page with a “ready to play” video. Further clicks will prompt the user to share the link before the video can be viewed.
“Sharing the video, of course, helps cybercriminals spread their malicious link to other users,” Trend Micro said in a statement.
After sharing, the user will be asked to verify his age by completing a 'test'. The test was “nothing but another survey scam,” it said.
Trend Micro added that cybercriminals have previously used tragedies such as last year's Super Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines and the deadly bomb attack on the Boston Marathon to lure unsuspecting users to malicious websites. - AFP | <urn:uuid:1f051976-8af0-43fb-bd1a-33ceae431e2d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.iol.co.za/business-report/technology/flight-mh370-watch-out-for-online-scams-1663903 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279368.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00321-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936112 | 394 | 1.6875 | 2 |
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- the car seat beside the driver of an automobile; believed to be the most dangerous place to sit in a car in case of an accident | <urn:uuid:1b91a970-5f92-4585-8137-adb8623a2906> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.abbreviations.com/serp.php?st=death%20seat&qtype=3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.926932 | 139 | 1.679688 | 2 |
A new venture from the world’s largest DNA sequencing company aims to detect cancer via blood tests before symptoms arise.
Over the weekend, the San Diego-based Illumina announced that its blood tests should reach the market by 2019, and cost around $1,000 or less.
Illumina, for the venture, has created a new company called Grail. Thus far, the new company has raised over $100 million, which includes funding not only from Illumina, but from venture capital firm Arch Venture Partners, Microsoft’s co-found Bill Gates, and Amazon founder and CEO Jeffrey P. Bezos.
According to MIT Technology Review, the new testing concept is referred to as “liquid biopsy.” The technique uses “high-speed DNA sequencing machines to scour a person’s blood for fragments of DNA released by cancer cells,” MIT Technology Review reports. “If DNA with cancer-causing mutations is present, it often indicates a tumor is already forming, even if it’s too small to cause symptoms or be seen on an imaging machine.”
Liquid biopsies for cancer detection and monitoring are becoming a big area of interest. Guardant Health announced on Jan. 7 that it raised $100 million for a similar liquid biopsy test. On the same day, Exosome Diagnostics announced it raised $60 million for their liquid biopsy platform.
Currently, liquid biopsies are used on patients with confirmed cancer. Tests reveal the tumor’s mutations, allowing doctors to select the best drugs for treatment, The New York Times reports.Liquid biopsies are also used to determine whether a specific treatment is effective.
The new tests will need to differentiate between mutated cells in the bloodstream caused by cancer, and mutations caused by polyps or moles, which can resemble tumors.
Additionally, at such an early stage, it is difficult to determine whether a cancer will eventually cause enough harm to warrant treatment.
“The hardest part is not only demonstrating the ability to detect cancer early, but being able to say this knowledge is in fact meaningful in terms of patient outcomes,” American Cancer Society’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer J. Leonard Lichtenfield said to MIT Technology Review.
Last year, Pathway Genomics started offering a liquid biopsy test for early cancer detection. The test cost $699. But the test prompted a letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which informed the company the test needed proper regulatory approval. “We…have not found any published evidence that this test or any similar test has been clinically validated as a screening tool for early detection of cancer,” the letter reads.
Grail plans on conducting intensive DNA sequencing on 30,000 to 50,000 people to figure out what mutations are indicative of cancer.
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By Bill McKibben — LA Times.
Environmentalists have tried the compromise route. It hasn’t worked.
Try to fit these facts together:
•According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the planet has just come through the warmest decade, the warmest 12 months, the warmest six months and the warmest April, May and June on record.
•A “staggering” new study from Canadian researchers has shown that warmer seawater has reduced phytoplankton, the base of the marine food chain, by 40% since 1950.
•Nine nations so far have set their all-time temperature records this year, including Russia (111 degrees), Niger (118), Sudan (121), Saudi Arabia and Iraq (126 apiece), and Pakistan, which also set the new all-time Asia record in May — a hair under 130 degrees.
•And then, in late July, the U.S. Senate decided to do exactly nothing about climate change. It didn’t do less than it could have; it did nothing, preserving a perfect two-decade bipartisan record of no action. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid decided not to even schedule a vote on legislation that would have capped carbon emissions.
I’m a mild-mannered guy, a Methodist Sunday school teacher. I’m not quick to anger. But the time has come to get mad, and then to get busy.
For many years, the lobbying fight for climate legislation on Capitol Hill has been led by moderate environmental groups, outfits such as the Environmental Defense Fund. We owe them a great debt, and not just for their hard work. We owe them a debt because they did everything the way you’re supposed to: They wore nice clothes, lobbied tirelessly and compromised at every turn.
By the time they were done, they had a bill that would have capped carbon emissions only from electric utilities (not factories or cars) and was so laden with gifts for industry that if you listened closely, you could actually hear the oinking. Sen. John Kerry, the legislator they worked most closely with, issued this rallying cry as the final negotiations began: “We believe we have compromised significantly, and we’re prepared to compromise further.”
And even that was not enough. They were left out to dry by everyone — not just Reid, not just the Republicans. President Obama wouldn’t lend a hand either.
The result: total defeat, no moral victories.
So now we know what we didn’t before: Making nice doesn’t work. It was worth a try, but it didn’t work. So we’d better try something else.
Step 1 involves actually talking about global warming. For years now, the accepted wisdom was: talk about anything else — energy independence, oil security, beating the Chinese to renewable technology.
But the task at hand is to keep the planet from melting. We need everyone, beginning with the president, to start explaining that basic fact at every turn.
It is the heat, and also the humidity. Because warm air holds more water than cold, the atmosphere is about 5% moister than it was 40 years ago, which explains the freak downpours that seem to happen someplace on this continent every few days.
It is the carbon. That’s why the seas are turning acid, a point Obama could have made with ease while standing on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico. Energy independence is nice, but you need a planet to be energy independent on.
Step 2, we have to ask for what we actually need, not what we calculate we might be able to get. If we’re going to slow global warming in the very short time available to us, we don’t actually need an incredibly complicated legislative scheme that gives door prizes to every interested industry. We need a stiff price on carbon, set by the scientific understanding that we can’t still be burning black rocks a couple of decades hence.
Asking for what you need doesn’t mean you’ll get all of it. Compromise still happens. But as David Brower, the greatest environmentalist of the late 20th century, explained amid the fight to save the Grand Canyon: “We are to hold fast to what we believe is right, fight for it, and find allies and adduce all possible arguments for our cause. If we cannot find enough vigor in us or them to win, then let someone else propose the compromise.”
Which leads to the third step in this process. If we’re going to get any of this done, we’re going to need a movement. For 20 years, environmentalists have operated on the notion that we’d get action if we simply had scientists explain to politicians and chief executives that our current ways are unsustainable. That turns out, quite conclusively, not to work. We need to be able to explain to them that continuing in their current ways will end something they actually care about: their careers. And because we’ll never have the cash to compete with Exxon, we better work in the currencies we can muster: bodies, spirit, passion.
We’re not going to get the Senate to act next week, or maybe even next year. It took a decade after the Montgomery bus boycott to get the Voting Rights Act. But if there hadn’t been a movement, then the Voting Rights Act would have passed in — never. We may need to get arrested. We definitely will need disciplined, nonviolent but very real anger.
Mostly, we need to tell the truth, resolutely and constantly. Fossil fuel is wrecking the one Earth we’ve got. It’s not going to go away because we ask politely. If we want a world that works, we’re going to have to raise our voices.
Bill McKibben is the founder of 350.org and the author, most recently, of “Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet.” He’s a scholar in residence at Middlebury College. A longer version of this piece appears at tomdispatch.com. | <urn:uuid:9d71ab9a-7807-49be-bfc8-5951e4878a57> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.barbrastreisand.com/news/climate-change-its-time-talk-and-act-tough/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.960607 | 1,293 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Merging Pockets to Print Scrapbook Pages
So let's talk about um what you do from here let's say that this layout is done it's close enough for me so we can move on um what do you do from here? What is this going to look like in different mediums so let's start with digital um obviously for digital scrapbooking you're going to have a twelve by twelve layout and if you want there to be separation between your pockets your your pockets themselves are going to have to be smaller than four by six and three by four and I don't like tio necessarily use the templates out there that have the smaller pockets to begin with because I find that re sizing everything as I'm going along it annoys me so I normally will design like this and then resize afterwards so the important part is to make sure that you have everything um merged together per pocket once you're absolutely done designing your pages so I'm going tio merge these pockets together make sure got but photo in there and just take command e and because everything is clipped to it ...
it's all just going to be a four by six so I'm going to grab these emergencies together luckily with the journaling cars that don't but we don't need that luckily with the journaling cards that don't have anything added to them we already deleted the place holders we don't have to merge anything one emerged this all of these lines of journaling oh my gosh, so let's actually go and select him like this and what we're going to have to dio is we're gonna have to de select some of this other stuff you should see that the bounding box was huge because it was selecting these papers up here as well. So now we can merge emerge this together we're gonna like this stamp and the photo and the important part is to just make sure that you have all of these layers march together because if you're going to try and start adding or start re sizing things, you're going to miss letters, you're going to miss photos, you're going to miss something that's going to cause you tio have a problem with the layout, so I'm just going to go make sure that they're all emerged before I start emerged this one okay, we're good to go right now, so now that we have most of them urged, we're going to re sise and if you're going to want to match a pre designed, um a pre designed template, then you're going to want to pull this template in and you're going to want to grab this card and copy and paces from the control aid a cop there took select all control seat a copy and then I'm going tio clip right? Click right here and picks it and then I'm going tio resize it so that it fits now this is a flat template it's just a p indy guide for your cards so if you bring it in before you re side that you can see that if you clip it it actually will fill all of the pockets so I'm just going to use this as a guide for therese re sizing these cards you want to hold down shift while you re size so that it constrains the proportions and then one by one coming here and copy and paste all of these pieces and put them where they were no um some people find this to be more difficult than just scrap booking on the template to begin with it just depends on your workflow and how you like describe book I would prefer to come in here and resize myself and to make sure that they all become the same size and they all fit in the template perfectly just make sure that this corner lines up it'll snap to the corner if you have your your snap on which is over here you can snap tio grades guys layers document bounds I always have all my snaps on so that you can just snap it right to the corner and then the first one you want to resize so that if it's perfectly zoom in to see if you can see any black edges around the thing. If not, you're going to go, and then you could actually clip it if you want to and you can see that I have a little bit of a black edge, so I'm just going to resize it a little bit larger. You, khun you know, if you remember, I said that you can resize things and increments of five percent, so if you have just a tiny anybody edge, don't feel free to just resize and not start over. So as we go in now that we have one size perfectly, we can go in and copy what we did before snapped to a corner and size it perfectly. You just rebuild your layout. If you're if you're not talking through like I am it's, really simple process, you can actually coming here anything select one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. I don't think this one's merged. We have issue with that one, so you can grab them all together and just click and drag them on to lay out altogether if you prefer and just resized them one by one. | <urn:uuid:d37eba2c-ac64-44ba-a8fa-ce33e73d313a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://firehose.creativelive.com/class/advanced-digital-scrapbooking-design-layouts-photoshop-traci-reed/lessons/merging-pockets-to-print | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.977317 | 1,036 | 1.5 | 2 |
Recent headlines demonstrate that data breaches are having a far more negative impact on the bottom line than anyone could have imagined, especially for publicly-traded companies. Record-breaking regulatory fines, mounting litigation costs and downward trending stock prices are real financial concerns and business risks.
Large data breaches cost an average of $347 million in legal fees, penalties, remediation costs, and other expenses, according to a report that analyzed the data breaches among public companies. There seems to be no end or limit in sight for some. Financial analysts estimate that Marriott’s data breach will cost the company a whopping $1 billion. And there is still more to learn over time.
A recent study on cyberattacks and stock market activity found that data breaches create a negative shock to a firm’s reputation and its future growth prospects. After a cyber breach, companies likely suffer a short-term hit to share prices, and in the long run, pay lower dividends and invest less in research and development, leading to a loss of competitive edge.
The stakes are clearly high and long term, but across most industries, all signs point to cybersecurity being under-resourced in both staff and in technology. In fact, after any significant public breach, it is usually always followed by a major uptick in spending on much needed cybersecurity tools and people.
As Capitol Hill, Wall Street and Main Street keep watch over companies that have data breaches, it requires CEOs, CFOs, CISOs and CIOs to put cybersecurity on the top of the agenda, and rightsize their investments to prevent breaches from happening in the first place.
Cybersecurity spending trends
The good news is that companies are taking notice, and cybersecurity spending is on the rise. In fact, data from IDC shows that global spending on cybersecurity solutions is anticipated to top $103 billion this year alone, which is an increase of 9.4% over 2018. And they expect that rate of growth to continue for the next several years companies increasingly invest in security solutions.
But oftentimes, companies don’t know the right mix of cybersecurity products or how much funding to allocate and haven’t matched their spending according to cybersecurity risks. For instance, web application vulnerabilities are the No. 1 cybersecurity risk for several years, yet only 3% of spending in IT is going towards web application security. Other common reasons for data breaches include phishing, malware and insider threats.
Building a cybersafe business
While threats will most certainly continue to evolve with increasing sophistication, organizations must take a proactive and continuously vigilant approach to plan, prepare, fund and defend their company against cyberattacks. And this will require everyone’s collaboration.
As budgets are mapped out for 2020 over the next few months, senior leadership may consider the following to ensure they’re doing everything they can to ensure a cybersafe company and minimize risk:
- Regularly re-assess your risk: Security officers should be encouraged to conduct comprehensive audits on an annual basis – or as often as the business deems necessary – to identify the biggest threats and security gaps, and then prioritize needs according to risk. It’s important to align assessments with business changes and disruptions. For instance, acquiring new firms introduces new security risks that have been outside the company’s control. Thorough investigations should be conducted as the business grows, adds new lines of revenue, introduces broad technology changes or reduces company headcount. On the flip side, redundant technologies can also be reduced if possible.
- Foster collaboration between CISOs and executives: Strong partnerships between cybersecurity and business executives can lead to a clearer understanding of the threat landscape, the impact to the business and the right level of resources needed for a stronger posture. CISOs and team members should attend business planning meetings often to help identify new risks and keep lines of communication open regarding what can and should be done as business changes go into effect.
- Consider an outside perspective: To analyze and assist with security budgets, risk management, technologies, and staffing, consider bringing in an external perspective. While every business and risk profile is unique, independent consultants can provide benchmarking against peer institutions, offer deeper security expertise and another viewpoint for consideration.
- Consider cyber insurance: Cyber insurance policies are available to provide a company with the necessary assistance to deal with the investigations, lawsuits or privacy violations that may have resulted from a data breach. It’s important to re-evaluate policies over time according to the latest risks and market activity to see if larger policies or broader coverage are needed.
- Invest on the inside: Assess current management programs and technologies that help minimize insider threats through user behavior monitoring and employee education. Ongoing training on company policies, best practices for secure data management, as well as ways to prevent ransomware attacks can go a long way. There is also an opportunity to teach employees to identify and report potential internal breaches.
It’s clear that cybersecurity is becoming everyone’s responsibility, and leadership must approach it with the same fastidiousness of the most important business initiatives. Afterall, in today’s business climate, cybersecurity is important to future survival. If your business is not proactive, it could mean the difference between becoming an industry darling, or facing a potential downward spiral.Track Latest News Live on CEOWORLD magazine and get news updates from the United States and around the world. The views expressed are those of the author and are not necessarily those of the CEOWORLD magazine.
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The Egyptian mission working in the Saqqara antiquities area next to the pyramid of King Teti, the first king of the Sixth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom, announced Saturday important archaeological discoveries dating back to the old and New Kingdoms.
The mission is headed by Dr. Zahi Hawass, who works in cooperation with the Ministry of Antiquities and Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
These discoveries will rewrite the history of this region, especially during the 18th and 19th dynasties of the New Kingdom, during which King Teti was worshiped, and the citizens at that time were buried around his pyramid.
Mostafa El-Feki, Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandria, said that the Zahi Hawass Center for Egyptology has been practicing its activities successfully since its establishment in 2018.
Today, El Feki expressed his happiness to participate in the ceremony announcing the archaeological discovery of the center, in Saqqara, which is a new breakthrough in the process of discovering Pharoahs antiquities in this region.
Hawass stressed that the mission had discovered the funerary temple of Queen Nearit, the mother of King Teti, part of which was already uncovered in the years prior.
The mission also found three mud-brick warehouses attached to the temple in the southeastern side – these stores were built to store temple provisions, offerings and tools that were used in the queen’s tomb.
Among the most important discoveries of the mission also at the site was the unveiling of 52 burial shafts, that reach to 10-12 meters deep, and inside these shafts hundreds of wooden coffins dating back to the New Kingdom were uncovered. This is the first time that coffins dating back 3,000 years have been found in the Saqqara region.
These coffins are wooden and anthropoid, and are many scenes of the gods that were worshiped during this period were represented on the surface of the coffins, in addition to various excerpts from the Book of the Dead that help the deceased to pass through the journey of the other world.
The mission also succeeded in discovering a cache of anthropoid wooden coffins. Inside this shaft, 50 coffins were found in good condition.
The mission found inside the wells large numbers of archaeological artifacts and large numbers of statues in the form of deities such as the god Osir and Ptah Sukur Uzir, in addition to a unique discovery, where the mission found a four-meter-length papyrus and one meter in width representing Chapter 17 of the Book of the Dead, on which the name of its owner is recorded, which is (Bu-Khaa-Af).
The same name was found recorded on four orchid statues; a wooden coffin was also found on the human body of the same person, and many beautiful shabty statues made of wood, stone and vines were found. It dates back to the era of the New Kingdom.
The discoveries found in the shaft are considered one of the most important findings uncovered in the Saqqara region.
The mission also found many wooden funerary masks as well as a shrine dedicated to god Anubis (Guardian of the Cemetery) and beautiful statues of Anubis, as well as many games that the deceased used to play in the other world, such as the game (Senet), which is similar to the modern chess, as well as the (Twenty) game with the name of the player recorded.
Many artifacts were found that represent birds such as geese, as well as a magnificent bronze ax, indicating that its owner was one of the army leaders during the New Kingdom.
The upper part of the stelae represents the deceased and his wife in an adoration gesture in front of god Osiris, while the lower part represents the deceased sitting and behind him his wife seated on a chair. Below the chair of the wife there is one of their daughters sitting on her legs and smelling the lotus flower, and above her head is the ointment flask.
In front of the man and his wife we see six of their daughters and sons, who were depicted in two registers, the upper one for seated daughters smelling the lotus flowers and above their heads are the ointment flasks, and the lower one for standing sons.
The mission also found impressive quantities of pottery dating back to the New Kingdom, including pottery that gives us evidence about the commercial relations between Egypt and Crete, Syria, Palestine.
This discovery confirmed the existence of many workshops that produced these coffins, which were bought by the locals, as well as mummification workshops.
The mission studied the mummy of a woman and determined that this woman suffered from a chronic disease known as “Mediterranean fever” or “swine fever”, a disease that comes from direct contact with animals and leads to an abscess in the liver.
Dr. Sahar Selim, a professor of radiology at Qasr al-Aini, conducted studies on mummies using X-ray, and determined the causes of death and the age of the deceased on death, as well as studying a mummy for a young child.
Hawass confirmed that this discovery is considered the most important archaeological discovery during the current year and will make Saqqara, along with other discoveries, an important tourist and cultural destination. It will also rewrite the history of Saqqara during the New Kingdom, in addition to confirming the importance of the worship of King Teti during the 19th Dynasty of the New Kingdom.3 | <urn:uuid:4a2507a6-3c22-42aa-90b4-2e25b17bd3d4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://see.news/hawass-announces-new-archaeological-discovery-in-saqarra/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.98159 | 1,133 | 2.515625 | 3 |
“I think a little bit of what’s happening is our fitness minded, sports-centric focus in the US is maybe a little bit ahead of everybody else. Our obesity epidemic was ahead of everybody else. So no we have this audience that has been interested in trying to get out of that with these products,” Susan Kleiner, PhD, told NutraIngredients-USA. Kleiner is Washington State-based sports nutrition formulation expert and the author of Power Eating, Fourth Edition (Human Kinetics, 2013).
“I would assert in my experience that is has always been the case that US brands do indeed convey a cachet or a halo, in China, Australia, or Europe,” said Anthony Almada, principal of the sports nutrition firm Genr8speed, based in Dana Point, CA.
More science backing
Kleiner and others said that increased science backing is driving the new flurry of product development among US brands.
“Go back 10-12 years and sports nutrition did not really exist as a field. If you wanted to do science on sports nutrition or dietary supplements you would be laughed at. Today, it is a legitimate field, and there are dissertations being written about dietary supplements and sports nutrition. Today, it’s a booming category for both academia and industry,” said Jose Antonio, PhD, CEO of the International Society of Sports Nutrition.
“I think there is a lot of innovation that happens here. I think that we have moved very recently into a time where industry funding of research is starting to take hold which is very exciting. That research is more and more university based and is so higher quality and it allows the development of higher quality products. The research field in the US has exploded in the last decade,” Kleiner said.
Almada, a longtime critic of the amount of research done in the dietary supplement sector, agrees with Antonio and Kleiner—to a point.
"If you put it into perspective, still only about one out of a thousand sports nutrition goods have even one study done independently showing their product is effective and safe. On an absolute scale that's laughable, but relative to a lot of other countries that's a lot," he said.
The regulation of sports nutrition products is more settled in the US than in Europe, which may help to drive some of that innovation. Sports nutrition products in the US are generally sold as supplements, and regulated under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act, which has been in place since 1994. They are subject to supplement GMP requirements as well as other regulations, though they can be marketed as foods, too. Industry executives in the EU have bemoaned the regulatory limbo in which sports nutrition products find themselves there, as regulators have debated over the past decade whether to carve out a separate category for these products from general food regulations. That debate is slated to be decided within the next two years.
Third party certifcation
Kleiner said contrary to some observers who criticize the US supplement industry as being “unregulated” she sees that US sports nutrition products are gaining international respect for quality and oversight, especially in ensuring that they are free of banned substances.
“We are in the early days of this but there in an increasing emphasis on third party certification for purity and potency. It is clearly setting the bar that the whole sports nutrition industry. It is essential for drug tested athletes. That laboratory certification is still improving.
“I think that combination of data, product development and third party lab certification is positioning us very well for worldwide recognition,” Kleiner said.
Among the developments in the space recently that pointed to increased export potential was GNC’s purchase of the largest online sports nutrition marketer in the UK, Discount Supplements, Among the reason for the move was to give GNC’s own brands, which already account for more than 27% of the US market, a bigger export distribution footprint. And Boca Raton, FL-based supplement marketing firm Nutrition Products International has formed an arm called NPI Global Export specifically to give US brands, including sports nutrition product developers, increasing access to world markets. | <urn:uuid:284717ac-54d1-4ecb-873c-6666ac345c7e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/Article/2013/10/11/Science-certifications-drive-export-potential-of-US-made-sports-nutrition-products-experts-say | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.966785 | 863 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Family, Clan, Tribe, Nation
"Now The Lord said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who curses you I will curse; and by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves." (Genesis 12:1-3 RSV)
Although the modern-day definition of nation is commonly that of a politically organized body of people under a single government (i.e. a country), the original meaning of nation in Bible History was a grouping of related people. Beginning with a single individual (such as shown in the above example with Abraham - see also Hebrew), a nation was composed of tribes, which were composed of clans, which were composed of families.
A clan was a kinship group that was composed of more than a single family. Not always clearly defined, and with some variation in organization, clans are translated as "divisions," "kindred," "family," and sometimes even "tribe." Clans were however generally the subgroups of tribes, and were composed of families.
"Moses and Aaron took these men whose names had been given, and they called the whole community together on the first day of the second month. The people indicated their ancestry by their clans and families, and the men twenty years old or more were listed by name, one by one, as The Lord commanded Moses. And so he counted them in the Desert of Sinai." (Numbers 1:17-19 NIV)
Jacob had twelve sons: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph and Benjamin. God changed Jacob's name to Israel. From the descendants of these twelve sons of Israel came the Israelites, the nation of Israel.
Jacob had 2 wives, Rachel and Leah (who were sisters, and first-cousins of Jacob), and 2 concubines, Bilhah and Zilpah, an apparently common and accepted practice of the day. Rachel and Leah did not object to the other two women because it was their idea to have more children with them (Genesis 30:3,9).
- Rachel - Jacob's favorite wife. She died while giving birth to Benjamin and is buried at Bethlehem. Her children were Joseph and Benjamin.
- Joseph - 11th-born overall. Definitely his father's favorite son, from his favorite wife, it was Joseph who was sold for slavery into Egypt by his jealous brothers (see Coat Of Many Colors). There, with God's help, he rose to become the highest official of the Pharaoh, saving the nation from the famine that was prophesied. When the rest of Jacob's family moved to Egypt to escape the famine, it was Joseph who had made their survival possible (they would remain in Egypt 400 years, eventually becoming slaves until the Exodus). While there, Joseph had 2 sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, who were themselves made into individual tribes of Israel to bring the number back to 12 - the priestly tribe of Levi was not counted separately, but was absorbed among the other tribes.
- Ephraim - Younger than Manasseh, he was never the less ranked higher in the family structure (Genesis 48:19). His descendants were to become a great future group of nations.
- Manasseh - 1st-born of Joseph, he was prophesied to become a great single nation.
- Benjamin - The youngest of the 12 sons. Rachel died while giving him birth. The apostle Paul (see On The Road To Damascus), who wrote much of the New Testament, is descended from Benjamin.
- Leah - It seems that Jacob did not have a great deal of love for her, perhaps because she became his wife by deception (Genesis 29:16-30). Never the less, Leah is the mother of the greatest number of the Tribes of Israel, and is today buried with Jacob (along with Abraham, Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah) in the high-tension area of The Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron. Her children are Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, and Israel's only recorded daughter, Dinah.
- Reuben - 1st-born overall. He was disqualified from his position as eldest son when he committed an act of sexual immorality with Jacob's concubine Bilhah (Genesis 35:22).
- Simeon - 2nd-born overall.
- Levi - 3rd-born overall. From Levi came the Levites who were dedicated to God's service. As such, they were later not counted as a separate tribe. Moses and Aaron and John The Baptist were descended from Levi.
- Judah - 4th-born overall. Perhaps the most famous of Jacob's sons, it was from Judah that the Jews are descended. Jesus Christ (see also The Chosen People), and most Christians in the earliest days of the church, were descended from Judah. A vital element for understanding Bible Prophecy is that while all Jews are Israelites, not all Israelites are Jews (just the same as all Belgians are Europeans, but not all Europeans are Belgians). There are many millions of people around the world today who are Israelites, but are not Jews.
- Issachar - 9th-born overall.
- Zebulun - 10th-born overall.
- Dinah - Israel's only daughter.
- Bilhah - Rachel's maid, it was Rachel's idea that Jacob have children with her (Genesis 30:3-6). Her children were Dan and Naphtali.
- Dan - 5th-born overall.
- Naphtali - 6th-born overall.
- Zilpah - Leah's maid, it was Leah's idea that Jacob have children with her (Genesis 30:9). Her children were Gad and Asher.
- Gad - 7th-born overall.
- Asher - 8th-born overall.
Fact Finder: When he knew that he was dying, did Jacob specifically request that he be taken out from Egypt and buried in the family tomb in Hebron?
This Week's Bible Quiz
1. Which of the sons of Israel had twin sons with his widowed daughter-in-law?
2. What was the name of the widowed daughter-in-law in question 1?
3. What was Isaac's wife's name?
4. Who were the twin sons of Isaac?
5. Were Isaac's twin sons identical or fraternal twins?
6. Which of Isaac's twin sons had red hair?
7. Which of Isaac's twin sons was a hunter?
8. Which of Isaac's twin sons was a quiet man who remained at home?
9. Which son did Isaac favor?
10. Which son did Isaac's wife favor?
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Maureen grew up in a one room shack with dirt floors and one family bed for six people. The poorest of the poor. Breakfast and lunch were a luxury and dinner usually consisted of porridge without sugar. She didn’t know what it felt like for her stomach not to rumble.
Once after going several days without food, she and her sister decided to go look for some in their Nairobi slum. They found rotten vegetables and rotten fruit and thanked God for it. “I was around 6 years old. It was a breakthrough,” she says.
Maureen was invited to register in a Compassion project and got a sponsor when she was seven years old. Her life slowly began to improve. She says at first she only went to the Saturday project for food. It was the first time she’d had a balanced meal, which is enough to prevent malnutrition. She would pretend like she was going for seconds and fill her bag with food for her three other siblings. Compassion dropped off monthly food supplies to her home and paid for her school uniforms, shoes, education.
After some time as a sponsored child, she asked Jesus into her heart. “I let go of my bitterness and God came into my life.”
Maureen is a special young woman. She is now 24 years old. After completing the child sponsorship program, she interviewed and was accepted into Compassion International’s Leadership Development Program, designed for bright students with leadership skills who want to go to the University. There are 275 LDP students in Kenya (one of them is the man from the video yesterday who met his sponsor at the Catalyst conference). It costs $300 a month to sponsor an LDP student. This pays for their college education and gives them a living allowance.
She will graduate in May with a degree in Education. Her eyes welled up with tears when she mentioned the sponsor she’d never met. She said, “Do you know them? They are well-known because they sponsor sixty LDP students.” I quickly calculated $18,000 in my head and thought I misunderstood her.
“Yes, it’s true,” they are great donors to Compassion and they write us all letters. They are creating a legacy in us.
I spent a lot of time talking and the more I got to know Maureen, the better I began to understand the beauty of Compassion International and the total picture. It was so fulfilling to see this young girl escape poverty and learn that she used her LDP monthly allowance to move her entire family out of the slum and better their life.
We exchanged email addresses and she said, “Are you on Facebook, I’d like to friend you.” I laughed at the unexpected question! and said yes, of course.
When she was asked, “What would you say to your sponsor if you could right now?”
She answered confidently, “I’d tell them I’m a hero because of them.”
I have now seen the ends and outs of Compassion International. I have never been more impressed or blessed with a ministry that answers the high calling of God. It’s the real deal. If you still haven’t sponsored a child, this is your day. Don’t neglect the tug you feel in your heart. It’s God. | <urn:uuid:4b3b734c-c2df-41e0-adaa-1704f8cfa776> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://wearethatfamily.com/2010/03/day-6-maureen/comment-page-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280266.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00494-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981926 | 710 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Alhumdulillah, once again, Allah azzawajal permitted Shaykh Haitham Al-Haddad & Shaykh Farid Haibatan to perform Hajj again with Amaana Tours. They were the main guides for the group from Amaana Tours. The Shuyookh spent just over a fortnight in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia where they were delivering lectures on a daily basis. The Shuyookh also took the time to meet some of the scholars from around the world who also came to perform Hajj. Shaykh Haitham delivered lectures at other Hajj groups from the UK. Shaykh Haitham also delivered a lecture at Madinah University, and the King Fahd Medical Complex in Madinah.
Shaykh Haitham also had the opportunity to visit Riyadh where he met a number of scholars and academics to sight the starting of Fajr in the desert just outside Riyadh
Below are some of the lectures he delivered and a brief summary;
Glorification of Allah during Hajj and how it is the basis for Hajj and Ibaadah in general. The misconception about the relationship between the rights of Allah and a human’s rights.
The importance of the remembrance of Allah during Hajj in specific and life in general. The lecture addressed the fact that the remembrance of Allah is not just remembering him by name , rather it is a bigger concept.
The importance of Dua during Hajj and in general. The lecture highlighted the role that dua takes place within a person’s life, the meaning of dua being accepted, the times for dua to be accepted and the etiquettes of dua.
The virtue of the day of Arafat.
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A new book highlights airports that, while often imperfect, all have awe-inspiring architecture.
BY LILY WAN
Memories of the airport tend to arouse less pleasant emotions, namely growing frustration and panic. But a handful of exemplars show that the mundanity of terminals, security checkpoints, and waiting lounges can be beautiful. Out this month from Frances Lincoln Limited, the new book The Art of the Airport: The World’s Most Beautiful Terminals travels through 21 stunning hubs that, at least in appearance, seem worthy of their role as gateways to the world. At the same time, however, many of the airports are flawed: A number are nearly obsolete because of age or location, and others exemplify the challenge of maintaining cutting-edge facilities. Richard Branson’s Spaceport America in the New Mexico desert, for instance, has yet to see a single cosmos-bound passenger (though the Foster + Partners-designed site will be the base for Virgin Galactic as soon as space tourism takes off). Copenhagen Airport’s Vilhelm Lauritzen Terminal, built in 1939, ceased public operations in 1960 after a new terminal opened. Enclosed by an undulating brick ceiling, the old terminal, now used only for Danish royals and state visitors, is said to be haunted. John F. Kennedy International Airport, whose inclusion here New Yorkers might wince at, gets a nod for its Eero Saarinen-designed Trans World Flight Center, a terminal that has been vacant since 2001 and will be transformed into a hotel in 2018—but for now, it counts. While the book shouldn’t be seen as any sort of travel guide or record of endorsement, it’s an entertaining survey of the world’s most architecturally stunning terminals. At least at these airports—premature, over-budget, or defunct as some may be—any travelers’ headaches aren’t caused by eyesores. | <urn:uuid:9e88158b-d3ce-487f-a8fa-b13db4488ba7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://shop.surfacemag.com/articles/book-architecture-the-art-of-the-airport-terminals | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00238-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931828 | 400 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Three of the biggest hot buttons in politics these days are health care, privacy and guns. Put all three of them together and you get an explosive claim.
A reader recently asked us to look into a blog post at the website Mr. Conservative, with the provocative headline, "Obama Quietly Uses Executive Orders For Two New Gun Control Laws."
"Just a few weeks ago," the post said, President Barack Obama "quietly used executive action — one of his new favorite pastimes — that has got gun owners’ feathers in a ruffle. According to Obama’s newest unconstitutionally enacted law, health care professionals are now required to violate HIPAA privacy laws and submit medical data to the government. The illegally obtained data is then used as justification for gun confiscation by the federal government."
Mr. Conservative’s claims don’t have to do with Obama’s health care law. Obamacare explicitly bars the collection of information about "the lawful ownership or possession of a firearm or ammunition" or the maintenance of "records of individual ownership or possession of a firearm or ammunition."
Rather, at issue is a proposed rule that would clarify some currently murky interpretations of privacy restrictions under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, which set limits on who can share and receive private health information about individuals.
The provision cited in the blog post is designed to make clear that state authorities are allowed to share certain information to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, which is used to screen potential gun purchasers.
Under existing federal law, several factors can prevent someone from buying a gun. Most of these have to do with law-enforcement issues, such as a prior felony conviction or a record of domestic abuse. Another one -- the one that’s important for this discussion because it intersects with the health care system -- is involuntary commitment to a mental institution.
The instant background check system is supposed to streamline the process of gun purchasing by quickly weeding out those who cannot legally buy a gun. But such a system is only as good as the databases it’s linked to. If someone is ineligible to purchase a gun but their information didn’t get into the right database, then the background check won’t stop the purchase.
Several analyses have shown that these databases are far from complete. According to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, privacy is a key reason cited by states that haven’t provided data about involuntary commitments.
The federal government’s argument is that these states are being needlessly cautious. The government says the kind of data being sought for background checks isn’t subject to HIPAA’s privacy restrictions. The HHS proposal would explicitly clarify that point.
Let’s take a look at the claim phrase by phrase.
• It’s an "unconstitutionally enacted law." Like the old-timey drink known as an egg cream -- which includes neither egg nor cream -- this provision isn’t a law, it isn’t enacted yet and it’s not unconstitutional.
A law is a bill passed by Congress and signed by the president; that doesn’t describe this provision. Nor is it an "executive order," the term used in the headline. Executive orders are directives written and personally signed by the president.
Instead, it’s an administrative regulation. Specifically, it’s a notice of proposed rulemaking issued by the Department of Health and Human Services. In other words, it’s a policy proposal emerging from a federal agency, with a specified public comment period before the agency decides whether to enact it -- or scrap it.
So while it’s fair to say the Obama administration is behind it, it would be incorrect to say it’s already "enacted." It’s currently in the comment phase, and it may not ever be enacted.
As for "unconstitutional," the Supreme Court, for one, doesn’t consider the regulatory process to be problematic constitutionally. "Some people do question the constitutionality of the administrative state, but as far as the Supreme Court is concerned, it's been settled law for almost 100 years that Congress can delegate rulemaking authority to federal agencies," said Kermit Roosevelt, a University of Pennsylvania law professor.
• "Health care professionals are now required to violate HIPAA privacy laws to submit medical data to the government"
The information reportable to NICS doesn’t concern physicians’ medical records about diagnoses of mental illness, prescriptions, or treatment recommendations. Rather, the relevant information for gun-buying purposes -- and thus for providing data to NICS -- are decisions by "a court, board, commission, or other lawful authority."
As HHS put it when it released the proposed rule, "Seeking help for mental health problems or getting treatment does not make someone legally prohibited from having a firearm, and nothing in this proposed rule changes that. Furthermore, nothing in this proposed rule would require reporting on general mental health visits or other routine mental health care, or exempt providers solely performing these treatment services from existing privacy rules."
Importantly, HHS added that "the proposed modifications would merely permit, and not require, covered entities to report to the NICS." That directly conflicts with the blog post’s claim.
So, let’s recap:
"Health care professionals" is misleading -- it’s courts, boards and commissions, not doctors, who would be submitting to NICS. "Are now" is wrong because, as we noted, this is a proposal and is not in force yet. "Required" is wrong because state entities would be able to submit to NICS, but would not be required to do so. "To violate HIPAA privacy laws" is at best misleading because HIPAA already didn’t block the transfer of this kind of data; the proposed rule simply makes that point extra clear. And "to submit medical data to the government" is misleading because only involuntary commitment data is sought by NICS, not detailed treatment records.
• It’s "justification for gun confiscation"
The idea that Obama wants to take away Americans’ guns is a durable one among his critics. But it’s unclear the extent to which the HHS proposal would make this scenario more likely.
On the surface, all NICS does is prevent ineligible people from newly purchasing a gun. It says nothing about taking away the guns they already own. But if someone is unable to purchase a gun, it also means they’re unable to own a gun. The question is how aggressively this is enforced.
Critics of the proposal say that increasing the flow of mental-health information to NICS could promote rise in confiscation. If enacted, the proposal "would make it clear that the ATF and other federal agencies could troll this database for persons with Alzheimer's, PTSD, ADHD, etc.," said Michael Hammond, legislative counsel for Gun Owners of America, a group that has been critical of the HHS proposal.
In the group’s official comments to HHS on the proposal, it cited a letter from Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., that says that 140,000 veterans have been added to the NICS list over the years. Coburn and Gun Owners of America say too many of these veterans are being caught up in the dragnet.
In addition, California in 2013 passed a law that allocated $24 million to enforce the confiscation of firearms from people who are not allowed to own them, using a variety of databases; about 30 percent of these people were mentally ill.
While NICS only accepts into its database the official determinations of mental incompetency, Hammond warned that there’s no universal standard for incompetency determinations. They may be "made with little more than a psychiatric diagnosis and perhaps a star-chamber proceeding, in which a supposedly incompetent person is deemed competent to have waived all of his or her rights," Hammond said. "This would mean that the names of persons who had received little due process" might find their information newly added to NICS, leaving them open to confiscation.
But even if these are legitimate concerns, others don’t see the HIPAA proposal as a harbinger of massive gun confiscations. Mark Heyrman, professor at the University of Chicago Law School, called any kind of large-scale gun confiscation effort based on the HHS action "implausible."
Jay Corzine, a sociologist who studies gun policy at the University of Central Florida, agreed, saying the proposal strikes a "reasonable" balance.
Federal law "proscribes possession of a firearm by persons in these groups and could conceivably lead to seizure of firearms owned prior to their change in status," he said. "This currently occurs in selected situations -- domestic violence cases in some states for example. Not very many people would be impacted, however, and the idea that this is the opening move in a planned campaign for large-scale gun confiscation is far-fetched at best."
The post we’re checking said that, "according to (Barack) Obama’s newest unconstitutionally enacted law, health care professionals are now required to violate HIPAA privacy laws and submit medical data to the government," which is "then used as justification for gun confiscation."
The elements of this claim range from misleading to flat-out wrong. The one area of reasonable concern is that some jurisdictions may lack full due process for declaring someone mentally incompetent, potentially putting some people at risk of seeing their guns confiscated. But this depends on how proactively the authorities enforce gun laws. Experts say widespread gun confiscation is implausible.
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SOME HIGHLIGHTS OF THE FOLLOWING NEW LAWS FOR 2011
(This page will be updated from time to time with new information or analysis.)
CHANGING THE DOOR LOCKS FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Landlords must change the locks of a dwelling unit upon written request by the tenant not later than 24 hours after that tenant gives the landlord a copy of a court order that excludes another person from the same dwelling unit OR within 24 hours after a tenant who is victimized by someone who lives somewhere else, gives the landlord a copy of a court order or police report stating the tenant is a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking. In both cases, the landlord shall give the protected tenant a key to the new locks. As an additional remedy, if the landlord does not timely act, the tenant may change the locks regardless of any lease prohibition to do so (for leases entered into after this act took effect) .
Civil Code Sections1941.5 and 1941.6
EVICTION AND LEASE BREAK PROTECTION BASED ON BEING A VICTIM OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
If a tenant is a victim of Domestic Violence, Stalking or Elder Abuse and the tenant has taken the steps as outlined in Code of Civil Procedure section 1161.3, (i.e restraining order or police report) then the landlord is prohibited from evicting that tenant. Further, a tenant who is a victim of Domestic Violence, Stalking or Elder Abuse may terminate a tenancy under Civil Code section 1946.7. There are exceptions and conditions to these protections outlined in the codes.
INCREASED PENALTIES FOR UNLAWFULLY RENTING DWELLINGS
A new law increases the criminal penalties to a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500), or by both, for any person to claim ownership or claim or take possession of, or cause another to enter or remain in, a residential dwelling for the purpose of renting or leasing the dwelling to another without the consent of the owner or the owner's lawful agent.
TENANT FORECLOSURE PROTECTION LAW
SB 1149 amends Sections 1161.2 and 1166 and adds Section 1161c to the Code of Civil Procedure relating to residential tenancies and foreclosure. This law protects tenants after a foreclosure in two important ways.
First, it would help protect tenants' credit who were forced into an eviction action due to a foreclosure. The law would mask an eviction action from the public (and credit reporting agencies) that was filed against the tenant unless the purchaser at the foreclosure (i.e. the bank) obtained a favorable judgment "after a trial" within 60 days of its filing against all the tenant defendants. If not, the case remains sealed from public view. This allows tenants to defend themselves without fear of having their credit impacted by banks who file improper or abusive evictions.
Second, it will require the buyer of the rented home after a foreclosure (including the mortgage bank), to serve a special warning notice (within the first year after a sale) attached to the notice to vacate to the tenant who was renting at the time of the foreclosure sale . It will state that an eviction will follow the notice and it warns about taking proper action to protect your rights. Included in the notice is the following warning which we, at the Tenants Legal Center have been advising since 1993. (see EVICTION DEFENSE and PROTECT YOUR RIGHTS) The new notice will say, in part,... "You should talk to a lawyer NOW to see what your rights are. You may receive court papers in a few days. If your name is on the papers it may hurt your credit if you do not respond and simply move out. Also, if you do not respond within five days of receiving the papers, even if you are not named in the papers, you will likely lose any rights you may have. In some cases, you can respond without hurting your credit. You should ask a lawyer about it." This notice law is set to expire on 12/31/2012. ** August 2012 UPDATE * SB 825 amended CCP 1161c (the notice requirements above) to extend to December 31, 2019.
CARBON MONOXIDE DETECTORS
An owner or the owner's agent of a dwelling unit intended for human occupancy who rents or leases the dwelling unit to a tenant must install and maintain carbon monoxide devices in that dwelling unit on or before July 1, 2011. The bill would permit the owner or the owner's agent to enter that dwelling unit to install, repair, test, and maintain carbon monoxide devices, as specified.
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[Twisted-Python] A pseudo-deferred class that can be canceled
terry at jon.es
Mon Jan 4 23:29:17 EST 2010
I read through <http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/990> without trying to
get all the details (some are not relevant to me, see below).
I'll make a few comments here, then continue in the ticket, supposing
- It would simplify things to separate discussion of canceling deferreds
from discussion of timeouts, which I think you were saying too. The timeout
issue seemed to fade in that ticket, which is good. The stuff I posted is
just about cancelation, nothing to do with timeouts.
- Deferreds are fairly simple, would be good to keep them that way (i.e.,
not add to the class). Deferreds are very general, you can use them as
building blocks to do more complex things, which is what my class does -
it's just a deferred in the middle.
- Once someone has made a function call, gotten a deferred, added
call/errbacks to it, etc., it's gone. It's in flight. Forget about it.
Relax and let it happen, etc. It's too complicated to try to stop things
from happening that someone else set up to happen in some potentially
complex manner. Other code, that the Deferred class itself can't possibly
be aware of, may be relying on the deferred firing and at least part of
its callback chain being run, etc. The simplest thing to do is to just
provide a mechanism whereby the eventual holder of the deferred can opt
to trigger their deferred immediately and ignore the final result of the
original call (supposing there ever is one).
- My class seems a bit like the Operation class proposed by Peaker. But
it's simpler because you still only work with normal deferreds. You just
get to fire a deferred any time you want to, with any value you want, and
to ignore what would have been the result had you not preempively fired
Those are some reactions to the thread. I'm happy to continue there.
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Taking screenshots on iPhone is pretty much easy as compared other Smartphones because approximately all iPhone, and iOS versions follow the same method to take and store screenshots.
You can’t take screenshots on the first generation iPhone, however, the procedure is same for the rest of them. Moreover, in the latest iOS , Apple has introduced a new album for screenshots, so, now all of the screenshots on iPhone will be saved under this album. Here’s how you can take a screenshot on iPhone.
How to Take a Screenshot on iPhone
Go to the application, web page, settings or conversation that you want to capture on your iPhone. The screenshot will capture all the items on the list.
Once in the app or a particular place, press the Power button and Home button simultaneously for a second.
For iPhone 5 and older models, Power button is located on top of the iPhone. However, for iPhone 6, 6 Plus, 6S and 6S plus, even iPhone 11 the Power button is located on the right side. Home Button is basically the center button on your iPhone.
As soon as you press these button at the same time, you will hear the shutter sound of camera and iPhone screen will blink for like a millisecond. If you have heard the voice or seen that flash, your screenshots is taken and saved in the library. If you don’t hear any voice or see the flash, you need to try again.
Although this method is very much easy, but it may still take some time for users to get used to it.
Go to Home Screen and tap on Photos. Here you will find the screenshot.
For iOS users, Apple has also incorporated an extra folder to locate screenshots easily. Tap on Albums in the top right corner and here you will a new album Screenshots.
In order to edit a screenshot, click on the Edit button in the top right corner.
To cut out the extra screen or rotate the image, click on the Crop and Rotate button.
You can also apply different filters on your screenshots. After editing the screenshot, click on Done to save the settings.
To share this screenshot directly from your iPhone, tap on the little Arrow button on the bottom left side.
Now, tap on Next in the top right corner.
Here, you can copy, slideshow, assign to a contact or use it as a wallpaper. From the top layer of apps, select an app to send it via E-mail, iMessage, WhatsApp, Twitter, iCloud, Gmail and many other applications.
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Hi, you're right. No 2 people experience the same thing and some have some symptoms while some have others. Speaking only for myself, because of the wobbly valve to do with body temperature re. M.E., I find I just can't get warm in the winter. Everyone's immune system is depleted when they get cold, and a lower body temperature would probably be the reason for the increased exhaustion we feel. I am not a doc but it sounds logical. Also I think that anyone with pain would feel worse in the colder weather. I also feel worse when the seasons change. If it gets warmer I do feel better but if it gets too hot (ha ha, in the Uk? about 3 days a year!) I can't move and feel like I have heatstroke without the fever. I look out of the window and see people being completely normal and just can't understand how they can stand it.
I hope you are having a good day today, and if not, that it will be better tomorrow. Take care
I do hope you
Thank you for your message. It's a little confusing as on the websites it will say you can be affected by heat and cold. It doesn't say about one affecting people more than the other so it's nice to hear from other sufferers to see how the illness personally affects them. But as I have other conditions anaemia, reynauld's and low b12. I personally prefer hotter climates to improve my symptoms.
As a long time ME./CFIDS women, I believe my body as been transformed into a barometer! My pain begins to elevate before the weather report. I swell and all FM spots hurt. My inflammatory symptoms are out of sight When the front fully arrives, my symptoms start to ease. I just have to ride it out.
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I'm at a conference at San Francisco State all weekend and I'm surrounded by Dickheads. One hundred and thirty of them, to be precise — a sellout crowd.
These are not your garden-variety Dickheads. They're a serious, scholarly bunch of fans, writers, filmmakers, doctoral candidates, university professors, all passionately dedicated to the life and works of Philip K. Dick. PKD, of course, is the legendary science-fiction writer usually designated as a cult author.
But on the evidence of this gathering, that description no longer applies. Thirty years after his death Dick has gone from marginalized to mainstream, an apotheosis long desired but never achieved in his lifetime. The posthumous capstone to his career is the recent incorporation of 13 of his novels into the prestigious Library of America series under the editorship of Jonathan Lethem, himself an award-winning author and keynote speaker at this year's Philip K. Dick Festival.
It's easy to see how Dick's recent success fits the mythology of his life: the visionary artist as counterculture hero, drug-addled and touched by madness, dying prematurely like a latter-day Rimbaud. The analogy is far from perfect. Rimbaud could be terse because he wasn't getting paid by the word; Dick, on the other hand, ground out stories and novels at a prodigious, amphetamine-stoked rate to support an ever-expanding string of ex-wives and children. It is nothing short of miraculous that this pulp outpouring resulted in some indisputable masterpieces — Ubik, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, and A Scanner Darkly, to name a few. These are works fraught with metaphysical anxiety, paranoia, and a deep questioning into the nature of identity and reality, leavened by black humor and a fine sense of the absurd. He died at the age of 53, not long after seeing the rushes for Blade Runner, the film based on his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and never saw the finished version.
Eight years before his death, Dick's brain cracked open in a moment of transcendent (some would say psychotic) awareness. Was it madness or theophany? He spent the rest of his life trying to make sense of what had been revealed, ultimately scribbling 500,000 words of what he called his Exegesis. A compendium of these notes, edited by Lethem and Pamela Jackson, was published in a massive volume last November. The book is a confusing, contradictory mess, alternatingly brilliant and deeply frustrating. There are no answers here, just a ceaseless, earnest questioning.
It's that spiritual yearning for answers that drew me to him in the first place — that and an appreciation for his wonderfully weird ideas and the occasional brilliance of his characterizations, so unlike those of other science-fiction writers of his era. I also resonated with his evident empathy and compassion toward his characters, what he called caritas, best translated from the Vulgate Bible not as charity but as caring. In 1968 I wrote him a letter telling him how much I cared about him and his writing. We met on Labor Day at the World Science Fiction Convention in Berkeley, and he invited me to stay with him as his houseguest. We remained friends, and to some extent confidants, until his death. | <urn:uuid:3140aabc-2765-4eb1-b4ad-e53965c61dbc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://portland.thephoenix.com/Boston/arts/145111-philip-k-dick-was-a-friend-of-mine/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.976571 | 691 | 1.5 | 2 |
A basic kit consists of a bucket, shovel, and screen set and is primarily used for wet sifting. One basic kit provides enough equipment for two to three people to use. An advanced kit consists of the same tools as a basic kit, in addition to a saruca.
What tools are needed for diamond mining?
Diamond Digging: Everything You Need To Know
- Pick/trowel – to loosen rocky or packed soil.
- Spade shovel – to dig through the soil; a pointed spade shovel is easier to use than a flat square one.
- Bucket/wheelbarrow – to transport soil to the sifting location.
How do you mine diamonds?
Open-pit mining, such as the Kimberley Big Hole, involves removing the layers of sand and rock found just above the Kimberlite. The ore in the pit is then broken up by blasting. Once this ore is broken, it is loaded and then transported to a primary ore crusher where the diamond extractor process begins.
What to look for when mining for diamonds?
What Do Diamonds Look Like?
- Shape: Diamonds found at the Crater are typically smooth and well rounded. …
- Size: The average size of a diamond is about the size of a paper match head, approximately 20-25 points weight. …
- Appearance: Diamonds feel like they have an oily film on them. …
Is Crater of diamonds pet friendly?
Your pet is welcome anywhere in the park, except for the gift shop area of the visitor center, the park restaurant, the water park, and the bathhouses. Also, the pet must remain under physical control of the owner at all times.
How often is Crater of diamonds plowed?
We follow the lay of the land when plowing to help water drain from the surface and promote natural sorting of the diamond-bearing soil. We plow about once a month as weather allows, or six to eight times each year.
How deep do you have to dig for a diamond?
To find diamonds in “Minecraft,” you’ll need to dig down to at least layer 15, and use an iron pickaxe or better. You can see what layer you’re on by opening “Minecraft’s” debug menu, which will show your current coordinates. Diamonds can be used to craft some of the best weapons and armor in all of “Minecraft.”
How much does Crater of diamonds cost?
Admission is a daily pass, it is $10 for ages 13 and up, $6 for ages 6-12, and 5 and under are free. This is current pricing which will be effective throughout 2020. over a year ago. over a year ago.
Can diamonds be found on the surface?
Most diamonds reach the surface brought up within an odd type of molten rock called Kimberlite. … At the surface it forms a carrot-shaped pipe which nowadays is often the site of a large circular diamond mine. Diamonds and other deep minerals are brought to the surface as fragments within the kimberlite magma.
What machinery is used to extract diamonds?
PROCESSING OF ORE TO EXTRACT ROUGH DIAMONDS
The primary crusher is responsible for reducing the size of the ore into smaller, more manageable pieces or chucks measuring no larger than 150mm. A secondary crusher, known as a roll-crusher, may also be used to reduce the size of the ore even further.
How do I find diamonds in my yard?
You can look through the alluvial deposits of sand and mud from old river and stream beds to pan for diamonds by using methods that include scanning the surface, sifting the soil, and then sifting the soil in water.
What rock is diamond found in?
Diamond is only formed at high pressures. It is found in kimberlite, an ultrabasic volcanic rock formed very deep in the Earth’s crust. The extreme pressures needed to form diamonds are only reached at depths greater than 150km.
Is there a diamond finder for Minecraft?
Yes, It finds all the diamonds on a certain seed, making strip mining a thing of the past but at the cost of maybe feeling like cheating. Like the End Portal finder, The Diamond Finder allows players to use either the Bedrock edition and the Java edition.
What do real diamonds look like?
Most diamonds will reveal blue florescence under a black light; therefore, you’ll see a medium to strong color of blue, which means the diamond is real. If you don’t see the blue color and instead see a slight green, yellow or gray fluorescence then this usually indicates the gem is not a real diamond. | <urn:uuid:2159d35f-75bd-4fcc-8368-1f9ae3f60891> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://khannajewelsco.com/jewelry-making/what-equipment-do-you-need-for-diamond-mining.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.927546 | 993 | 2.5625 | 3 |
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Scammers Using Desperate Phone Calls to Prey on Senior Citizens
A shameless phone scam that tricks senior citizens into thinking a grandchild has been arrested abroad continues to deplete the bank accounts of those who fall for it.
In a recent White Plains incident, a victim of this scam said the caller concocted a story that her “grandson was with a friend driving in Buffalo, New York and crossed the Canadian border and was arrested for drug possession.” He instructed her to wire money to Canada to post bail.
This scam is not limited to phone calls, it has also been perpretrated via email. Residents will receive emails from the account of a friend or loved one claiming to be in another country and requesting a large sum of money for a plane ticket, bail money, or other emergency expenses. In reality, a scammer has obtained control of the sender’s email account and contact list/address book, and the victim sends the money directly to the scammer.
Red Flags of these particular scams include:
- Anyone you’ve never met or spoke to on the phone that is asking for money through the Internet or to be wired to them is scamming you.
- Always thoroughly research anyone you meet on a social-networking or Internet dating website.
- Be very suspicious if you are asked to send anything through a third party.
- Be very suspicious if an email has misspellings, broken English, or any grammatical anomalies.
- An Ontario, Canada area code
If you receive an urgent call asking for help for a family member, be suspicious and make every attempt to find out whether the emergency is real before acting. Ask for the caller’s name and contact information. Make some calls and find out whether the story is true. Don’t be pressured by a caller who tells you that you must act immediately. Even if the caller’s account is true, there is no emergency so critical that you cannot take some time to verify the facts.
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September 11, 2001 was a day like any other day for me. I was a kindergarten teacher in Texas, mother of an almost 2 year old, and wife of a husband who traveled several days a week. I was very fortunate to work on a team of teachers that was very supportive in every way possible. With a husband that traveled so frequently and family that lived in other states, they often helped by filling in gaps for me.
When the news first broke about the plane hitting the first tower, I was in the middle of teaching a lesson. The special ed. teacher that I worked with came hustling in my room with a worried look on her face, and asked if I knew where my husband was that day. All my friends knew that my husband's travel schedule was never set in stone. He could show up for work and get sent to X, Y, or Z city. This teacher remembered how upset I was the day of the Oklahoma City bombing. I couldn't reach my husband that day and didn't know if he was there (OKC) or not. I said I thought he was in town today, but I was going to call to make sure. Thankfully, he answered right away.
My husband was supposed to be in NYC when this happened. He would have been on the top 2 floors of the Tower 2 in a breakfast meeting the morning of September 11th, except he couldn't find a early enough flight. He was driving to the airport to catch a flight to NYC when he heard the news of the first tower falling. We were one of the "almost happened" stories that you heard about on the news shows after this happened.
One of the things that impressed me when I watched the horrific images on the news that day was all of the first responders rushing to the building while everyone else was running away from the building. Most of the time when we hear about news, it is after the event, it is not watching something currently taking place. There were so many unknowns. How long would the structure stay standing? If two planes have hit it, will there be a third? So many unknowns . . . yet, the first responders showed exactly what a hero is in every sense of the word. Hard word, courage, mercy, compassion, team work, selflessness, and the list could go on and on. Patriot Day, is the perfect day, to show your local heroes your appreciation for all they do for us. You can do this many different ways.
*Write letters or make cards of appreciation
*Collect and organize snack baskets for their break room.
*Collect money to donate to their equipment fund. There is never enough funds for emergency equipment.
If you want to motivate your students to donate to this fundraiser, organize a Penny War. Each class has a 5 gallon plastic jug like this one:
The jug has the teacher's name on it and sits outside the teacher's classroom door in the hallway. Students from that class puts pennies in the jug. Each penny in the jug counts as one point. Pennies count as points. Any other type of money takes away points. Students from other classes can put money in your class's jug because all is fair in WAR! If a student from another class puts a coin or paper money in the jug, it erases however many points the coin or paper money is worth.
Mrs. Dollartree's Class has 281 pennies in her jug - $2.81
Mrs. Greenwithenvy Class has 255 pennies in her jug - $2.55
One of the students in Mrs. Greenwithenvy's class puts 2 quarters in Mrs. Dollartree's jug. This subtracts 50 cents from her total. So, now her total is $2.31
If it was the end of the Penny War, Mrs. Greenwithenvy's class would win the war.
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Submitted by IWB, on January 27th, 2016
By Michael Snyder
There is a reason why the financial world hangs on every single word that is issued by the Fed. That is because the massively inflated stock prices that we see today were a creation of the Fed and are completely dependent on the Fed for their continued existence.
Right now, stock prices are still 30 to 40 percent above what the economic fundamentals say that they should be based on historical averages. And if we are now plunging into a very deep recession as I contend, stock prices should probably fall by a total of more than 50 percent from where they are now.
The only way that stock prices could have ever gotten this disconnected from economic reality is with the help of the Federal Reserve. And since the U.S. dollar is the primary reserve currency of the entire planet, the actions of the Fed over the past few years have created stock market bubbles all over the globe.
But the only way to keep the party going is to keep the hot money flowing. Unfortunately for investors, Janet Yellen and her friends at the Fed have chosen to go the other direction. Not only has quantitative easing ended, but the Fed has also decided to slowly raise interest rates. The Fed left rates unchanged on Wednesday, but we were told that we are probably still on schedule for another rate hike in March.
So how did the markets respond to the Fed?
Well, after attempting to go green for much of the day, the Dow started plunging very rapidly and ended up down 222 points.
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A structured approach to pastoral care and poverty
Although the plight of the poor and Christian benevolence is a topic often discussed in scientific and popular literature, the existing research is not nearly enough to address the many complicated issues surrounding the subject. Many reasons for this sad state of affairs may exist, one being the lack of the necessary skills to apply biblical and economic principles in order to make a marked difference. This article presented a biblical perspective on the caring of the poor and suggested a few contextual principles for pastoral counselling. Forces were joined with economic insights and the experience of Local Economic Development to empower the church to make a substantial difference to the plight of the poor. This approach could give structure to efforts that often achieve very little in terms of lasting results. | <urn:uuid:82540fe0-38ad-4a98-b8d8-587591569480> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/19718 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00347-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964455 | 150 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Conley Group, An ABBAE Company, was retained by the City of Dallas to provide Exterior Restoration for 106 Harwood located in Dallas, Texas.
Over 100 years old, the historic municipal building is clad in limestone and terra cotta ornamentation and was restored to house the University of North Texas Law School.
The structure had suffered significant deterioration of the ornate, exterior decorative elements. As a result, an extensive exterior wall remediation, interior demolition, structural stabilization, interior remodel, renovation, and tenant finish-out was required. Conley Group served as the prime consultant and led a multi-disciplined
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Definitions for shaanxiˈʃɑnˈʃi
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word shaanxi
a north-central province of the People's Republic of China, and includes portions of the Loess Plateau on the middle reaches of the Yellow River as well as the Qinling Mountains across the southern part of the province.
Origin: From Mandarin 陕西. By regular Hanyu Pinyin rules, if tone marks are not written, both Shaanxi and the neighbouring province of Shanxi, to the east of Shaanxi, should be spelled "Shanxi"; the difference is in tone: Shānxī and Shǎnxī. To make the difference clear without tonal marks, the spelling "Shaanxi" was contrived (following the Gwoyeu Romatzyh romanization system developed by Yuen Ren Chao in 1925-1926) for the province of Shǎnxī, while "Shanxi" is used for the province of Shānxī. Shaanxi is the official romanization used on the Chinese Government's official Web portal. This makes "Shaanxi" the only name of Chinese provinces that has not been romanized according to pinyin rules.
Shaanxi is a province of the People's Republic of China, officially part of the Northwest China region. It includes portions of the Loess Plateau on the middle reaches of the Yellow River in addition to the Qin Mountains across the southern part of this province. Shaanxi is the historical home, along with Gansu of the dialect of the Dungans, of the Hui people, who emigrated out of China to Central Asia.
The numerical value of shaanxi in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
The numerical value of shaanxi in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
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When I run a Windows Forms App on a particular computer a huge delay develops in firing the serialPort_DataReceived() event in my code which I don't see when I run the app on another machine. I know that the data is going into the UART because I have snooped
on it, but the serialPort_DataReceived() event handler delays firing for up to 20 seconds after the data goes in the port. No data is ever lost, it just gets way behind in firing this event handler. The really strange thing is that if I put the snooper on
the serial port to watch the data going into the computer it loads the line a little and draws the peak voltage down from 16.3 V to 15.3 V on the RS232 transmission line going into the computer and the event handler starts firing without delays. This doesn't
seem like just a hardware problem because the buffer on a UART is quite small and I never loose any data. I am sending data continuously at 57600 baud at a rate of about a dozen characters per second. In order for this to have a delay of up to 20 seconds before
the event handler fires in my C# code it must be getting buffered in Serial Port Object, right? If it gets that far, why isn't the event handler firing on this computer? And why does he same code work fine on another machine?
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Inspiring students to take a critical and multifaceted approach to reading, Perspectives combines skills instruction and authentic academic content to prepare learners for the demands of post-secondary education. In Part I of the text, a careful and thorough handling of reading skills and strategies-such as annotating text, managing difficult vocabulary, assessing inferences, distinguishing between facts and opinions, and evaluating techniques of persuasion-establishes a foundation from which students cananalyze and synthesize information. Explicit instruction is combined with activities, in the form of sentences, paragraphs, and short passages, giving students the opportunity to practise the skills and strategies immediately.Part II comprises eight stand-alone reading units, each with three readings selections from a different disciplinary perspective. These readings expose students to more than twenty academic disciplines, including sociology, environmental studies, mechanical engineering, business, and biology, withinthemed units that range from "Maintaining Law and Order" to "Living with Nature" to "Culture." Each reading is followed by a variety of questions and activities to test students' comprehension and fundamental reading skills. The reading units end with an opportunity for reflection and synthesis,where students exercise more cognitively demanding reading skills, thinking critically about information related to all three readings in that unit. A thought-provoking, practical, and versatile resource, Perspectives affords students the tools required to take on their academic reading with confidence. | <urn:uuid:43e9bc25-2907-4302-bdf6-63a78f5b1fb1> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/perspectives-academic-reading-skills-and/9780199009541-item.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718285.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00107-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923125 | 285 | 3.875 | 4 |
People have been using flaxseed oil for thousands of years, and it has various health benefits. Manufacturers extract flaxseeds oil from flax seeds. People can use oil for cooking and baking.
In this article, learn about the health benefits of flaxseed oil, including lowering cholesterol, fewer skin problems, and reducing inflammation.
We also cover the potential dangers of using flaxseed oil.
What is flaxseed oil?
Flaxseed oil can lower cholesterol and fight cancer.
Flaxseed oil from ripe flaxseed seeds is produced by cold-pressed to extract oil. Another name for flaxseed oil is linseed oil.
Flaxseed oil is available for sale in both capsule and liquid form. It contains an omega-3 fatty acid called alpha-linolenic acid (ALA).
The body uses ALA from flaxseed oil and converts it in small amounts to other fatty acids, including docosahexaenoic acid and eicosapentaenoic acid.
Omega-3 fatty acids are essential for a person’s physical and mental health.
Flaxseed oil does not contain the same nutrients as whole grains. For example, flaxseeds contain fiber, magnesium, and vitamin B, but flaxseed oil does not.
Benefits of flaxseed oil
Although scientists have done more research on flaxseed than flaxseed oil, some studies on an oil show promising results.
Potential benefits of flaxseed oil include:
1. Lowering cholesterol:
Like flaxseed, flaxseed oil can help lower cholesterol levels. ALA in flaxseed oil may play a role in lowering low-density lipoprotein (LDL) or “bad” cholesterol.
In another small study involving 15 adults, participants ate flaxseed oil or corn oil once a day for dinner.
The researchers measured the participants’ cholesterol levels at the beginning of the study and repeated them after 12 weeks.
Those who ate corn oil did not change their cholesterol levels, while those who ate flaxseed oil had a significant decrease in LDL.
2. Fighting cancer:
Flaxseed oil can help fight certain types of cancer. Although further research is needed to reach a definite conclusion, other animal studies are encouraging.
One study of mice with lung cancer found that those who ate a 10 percent flaxseed diet had fewer abscesses than those in the control group.
Researchers have also studied the effects of flaxseed and flaxseed oil in some cancers.
Other literature reviews show that in animal studies, fatty acids in flaxseed oil may suppress breast size and growth and promote cancer cell death.
3. Treatment of atopic dermatitis:
Flaxseed oil may benefit the skin and hair, as it can reduce some of the symptoms of atopic dermatitis. Atopic dermatitis is eczema, a chronic condition that causes red and itchy skin.
One study looked at the effect of using flaxseed oil in mice with dermatitis. By three weeks, the rats have reduced dermatitis symptoms, such as redness, swelling, and itching.
4. Reducing the risk of diabetes:
Flaxseed oil can also help reduce the risk of diabetes. A 2015 systematic review analyzed studies to determine the effect of flaxseed oil on people with diabetes.
One study involved 25 people with prediabetes. These participants were women who had menopause or men who were overweight. They consume 13 grams (g) or 26 g of flaxseed daily for 12 weeks.
After 12 weeks, those who ate 13 g of flaxseed experienced lower blood sugar levels. Those who ate high doses of flaxseed did not experience any changes.
Researchers are not sure why the high-dose group has no changes. Although flaxseed oil may positively affect people with prediabetes, more extensive studies are needed to make firm conclusions.
5. Reducing inflammation:
In a single meta-analysis, flaxseed and its derivatives reduced the circulation of C-reactive protein, which is a sign of inflammation. However, these effects were only available to obese adults.
6. Improves Skin:
ALA is a powerful antioxidant. It is often recommended that cosmetic manufacturers have “anti-aging” properties.
Studies show that flaxseed oil can help reduce inflammation of skin cells and promote skin regeneration.
7. Aids in Weight Loss:
A 2012 report in Appetite magazine found that flaxseed supplements could help with diet, allowing for weight loss.
8. Reduce Menopause Symptoms:
There is some evidence that flaxseed oil can help with the symptoms of menopause. Another 2015 study of 140 menopausal women who used flaxseed oil supplements showed a drop in hot flashes and an increase in quality of life.
Side Effects of flaxseed oil
Side effects of flaxseed oil can include gas and constipation.
According to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, using flaxseed oil in moderation is generally safe.
Minor side effects can occur depending on the dose and individual response. Potential side effects include:
There is little information on whether flaxseed oil is safe to use during pregnancy or lactation.
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not regulate flaxseed oil as a dietary supplement.
If someone wants to take flaxseed oil for a specific health condition, it is best to talk to a doctor first to ensure no possible interaction with their current medication or treatment.
The doctor may recommend stopping flaxseed for a few weeks before surgery.
How to use flaxseed oil?
Flaxseed oil is sensitive to light and heat, so it is best to buy them in a clear or dark glass bottle to protect them from light and keep them in a cool, dark place.
The taste of flaxseed oil is mild. People can drink a straight spoon or mix it with dips and sauces.
People can use flaxseed oil instead of other oils or butter for cooking. Flaxseed oil is sensitive to heat, so cooking with it will change the properties of nutritious foods.
For those who do not want to add flaxseed oil to the diet, it is also available in the form of a capsule as a supplement.
Flaxseed oil does not have as much nutritional value as flaxseed seeds. However, it is still a good source of ALA, which is one type of omega-3 fatty acid. Side effects are rare and usually mild.
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Art’s enfant terrible Damien Hirst shares insight into new coffee artwork ahead of plans to burn thousands of paintings for new project
Could this be the most expensive cup of coffee ever?
World’s richest artist Damien Hirst, who is worth £315million, has taken a look at a new work of art, a cappuccino that features in its milk froth the 57-year-old and his ex-ballerina girlfriend Sophie Cannell, 28.
According to Daily Mail’s Richard Eden, Hirst is set to burn thousands of his famous dot paintings next month in a project focused on art as currency.
Buyers who spent £1,600 on the physical art had the option to burn their investment in exchange for a digital version known as a Non-Fungible Token (NFT).
An NFT is a unique computer file encrypted with an artist’s signature that acts as a digital certificate of ownership and authenticity.
They probably needed something stronger than coffee after making that decision.
World’s richest artist Damien Hirst (left of both images) has glimpsed a new work of art, a cappuccino (right image) containing in its milk froth the 57-year-old and his ex-ballerina girlfriend Sophie Cannell (right ) represents both images), 28
He created 10,000 unique Dot paintings in 2016 which were later linked to corresponding NFTs and sold for $2,000 (£1,639) each.
Buyers could keep the NFTs or trade them in for the physical artwork.
4,180 people chose to exchange their NFT for a physical work of art, and 5,820 kept their NFT, reported Heni, a technology company focused on the art market.
The alternative versions will be destroyed.
In recent years, NFTs have been embraced by people looking to turn art, music, video and games into digital assets — and have been hailed as the digital answer to collectibles.
His love: Damien is said to be infatuated with Sophie, who appears with him on the coffee artwork, but although he gives her a diamond ring, they are not engaged
Most NFTs use blockchain — the decentralized league first used by Bitcoin to track cryptocurrency ownership — to record who owns them and allow them to be traded or modified.
Most NFTs are part of the Ethereum blockchain – Ethereum is a cryptocurrency and one coin is worth £1,285.04 or $1,628.43.
Damien is said to be infatuated with Sophie, who appears with him on the coffee artwork.
Better times: Damien’s love life before Sophie included his longtime girlfriend Maia Norman, with whom he shares three sons – at the UK premiere of Disney/Pixar’s Finding Nemo in 2003
It was previously reported that the couple met at the chic Chiltern Firehouse, where she used to work as a waitress.
Damien’s love life prior to Sophie included his longtime girlfriend Maia Norman, with whom he shares three sons.
The former couple are parents to Connor Ojala, 26, Cassius Atticus, 21, and Cyrus Joe, 16.
Although he never married Maia, he referred to her as his “common-law wife”.
After the birth of his eldest child Connor, the artist spent much of his time in a remote farmhouse near Combe Martin in Devon.
What are NFTs?
What is an NFT?
A Non-Fungible Token (NFT) is a unique digital token encrypted with an artist’s signature, certifying its ownership and authenticity and permanently associated with the piece.
How do you look?
Most NFTs contain digital artwork such as photos, videos, GIFs, and music. In theory, anything digital could be converted into an NFT.
where do you buy them
Currently, NFTs are most commonly sold in so-called “drops,” timed online sales through blockchain-powered marketplaces such as Nifty Gateway, Opensea, and Rarible.
Why would I want to own one?
There are a number of reasons someone would want to buy an NFT. For some, the reason may be emotional value, as NFTs are considered collectibles. For others, they are viewed as an investment opportunity similar to cryptocurrencies as the value could increase.
When were NFTs created?
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To commemorate the occasion, listed under are fifty two of the most influential Latina women in history. They’re revolutionaries that have shattered obstacles and proven time and time once more that “si, se puede”—a term coined by Latina civil rights activist Dolores Huerta. Although feminists often cite the gender wage gap as a scourge holding again women in the office, in fact for Latinas, the hole is much worse. According to some estimates, Latinas earnjust 55 centsfor every greenback earned by non-Hispanic white men.
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Even extra, the curvy Latina ideal is so pervasive in our communities that limiting in an effort to suit the stereotype is taken into account more healthy than doing so to fulfill an ultra-thin perfect. Coordinate public policy to supply low-cost services to youngster care centers and enhance public subsidies and employee compensation. Just like these girls, you can reverse this trend in your individual family – and in your personal life. Being born Hispanic does not have to be synonymous with coronary heart disease, or death. But in order to do that, you want to share the fervour and love you might have for your family with yourself.
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Article written by guest writer Kecia Lynn
What's the Latest Development?
In a study of 80,000 British citizens, led by Dartmouth's Daniel Blanchflower, it was discovered that those who described themselves as being highly satisfied with their lives also tended to eat more vegetables on a daily basis. "Those who consumed eight or more servings of vegetables daily rated themselves 0.27 points happier, on average, than those who had no servings to speak of. The effect was strongest for those who ate seven servings of produce daily." Similar results were found in a study done by Blanchflower's students involving American participants.
What's the Big Idea?
Blanchflower is careful to note that correlation does not equal causality. It's not clear whether happier people eat more veggies, or whether eating veggies makes people happier. That said, the pattern remains even when the data is adjusted for income and education. The introduction to the paper says, "[S]o much attention has been paid...to possible links between physical well-being and human diet....Could the nature of food have an important potential role in humans' psychological [well-being]?"
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RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – With the number of teens and adults getting COVID-19 vaccines slowing dramatically in North Carolina, doctors hope to offer shots in familiar places, like primary care or pediatric offices, can encourage more people to get the vaccine.
For a while, people who wanted a vaccine had to go to a place like a mass vaccination center or pharmacy to get it. Doctors say that worked for those who were eager to be vaccinated, but for those who are on the fence, or simply don’t feel like making a trip to a pharmacy or vaccination site, getting it during a doctor’s appointment may be the best option.
Maylonnie Downey, 15, has had quite a few conversations about the COVID-19 shot.
“I talked about it with my doctors and my mom,” she said.
Although kids her age became eligible for the shot in May, Downey, who has cystic fibrosis and sickle cell disease, just got her shot on Friday when COVID-19 vaccines were available at one of her regular medical appointments.
“She said, ‘Do you want the shot today?'” she recalled.
“We’re offering them to anybody who’s coming in for their specialty clinic appointment,” said Dr. Ceila Loughlin, a pediatric pulmonologist at UNC and medical director of UNC’s Specialty Services at Raleigh.
Loughlin said the clinic has only had vaccines available for patients for about two weeks.
“For those who still felt a little uncomfortable or want to talk to us before getting it, it’s a great way. They get it right in clinic with doctors they know,” she said.
UNC is shifting its vaccination strategy away from mass clinics toward doctors’ offices. According to UNC, each office must register with the state, but UNC is getting so many vaccine doses from the state that it can transfer those shots to doctors’ offices and clinics within the health system.
Duke is also making vaccines available at some family practices, urgent cares, and pediatricians.
“That relationship with the pediatrician, I think, will really help families to feel comfortable giving the COVID vaccine to their teens,” said Dr. Kitty O’Hare with Duke Primary Care Pediatrics. “Families really trust their pediatricians and come to know their pediatrician as a trusted source of information.”
Loughlin added: “Being able to offer it to them right there when you’re having that conversation and being able to give them data about the vaccine and why it’s important seems to be helping.”
Downey is glad she got the shot so she can feel comfortable going back to school in person.
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Australia has designs on becoming the leading natural gas supplier for not only Asia, but the entire world. Indeed, the country has the offshore resources and the thirsty markets nearby in Asia to pass Qatar as the world’s top supplier of LNG.However, Australia’s march towards energy superpowerdom is beginning to run into domestic problems—and new competition. Rising labor costs and high prices in Australia’s booming economy are making it unexpectedly difficult for the Aussies to export their gas and now energy-hungry Asian countries like China and Japan are starting to eye alternative and equally cheap gas from North America. The Financial Times explains:
The direction is clear: Asian prices are under pressure. Australia’s expensive bid for world domination is safe – unless Asian prices fall, and that is a real risk if significant US and Canadian exports begin. For a country with a goal as grand as overtaking Qatar, that is a precarious position to be in.
Whether it’s Australian, American, or Canadian gas that wins the race to the Asian market (and most likely, there is plenty of demand for all three), a few things seem clear:(1) The long era in which the Middle East was the global supplier of hydrocarbons is coming to an end.(2) A global switch from coal to natural gas is one of the most practical ways available for civilization to begin the transition to a new kind of energy market. Greens take note.(3) Asia is not going to be self sufficient in either energy or food in the 21st century, which, from the standpoint of those who hope to see the world becoming a more peaceful and economically integrated place, is a very good thing. The rising Asian powers will need a healthy, stable and secure global system to feed their people and run their economies.Otto von Bismark once said that the most important fact of the 20th century would be that the Americans and the British spoke the same language. The most important fact of the 21st century may well be that Asia and the English speaking world share a set of complementary interests in building a peaceful world system. | <urn:uuid:232912e7-487d-42a8-ba47-a05f733ea374> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.the-american-interest.com/2012/12/29/us-canada-and-oz-prepare-for-the-asian-gas-wars/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719215.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00200-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950103 | 431 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Early in the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln was hard pressed by the Radical Republicans -- the party's abolitionist wing -- to abolish slavery by proclamation. Lincoln was opposed. He said that his main concern was preserving the union and he subordinated his feelings about slavery to that goal: "My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery." Moreover, he knew that if he decreed emancipation at the beginning of the war, Missouri, Kentucky, and probably Maryland, all of which technically remained on the Union side, would have joined the South. As the war gloomily dragged on in 1862, and things looked bleak for the Union cause, Lincoln realized that he would have to end slavery. He was willing to issue an Emancipation Proclamation but he felt that the people of the North were not yet ready for it. He needed a military victory. In September of 1862, he barely got one. Five days after the Confederate Army's northward march was stopped at the battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862, Lincoln issued a preliminary proclamation.
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Three dead dolphins washed ashore Monday, bringing the total death count to a little more than 100 in less than a month. Biologists say red tide is the most likely culprit for the die-off, but there's still a question as to why so many have died in such a small period of time.
There are still a lot of unanswered questions. This isn't the first time a dolphin die-off has been possibly linked to red tide here in the Panhandle, but this time the number of dead animals has climbed at a much faster rate.
"We see red tide a lot along the coast and particularly in St. Joe Bay. Matter of fact, if you remember back to 1999 and 2000 we had an event that effected the whole Gulf Coast," says On-Site Coordinator, Ron Hardy.
That red tide outbreak killed about 150 dolphins over a seven-month period along the Panhandle, but in this month alone about 104 dolphins have already washed ashore.
Biologists have been preserving the dolphins so they can continue to take samples for testing. They believe the high death count could be linked to a higher concentration of red tide.
"In certain conditions you get a bloom when lots of algae have exactly what they need to grow. They multiple and reproduce, and you get a large concentration of them and they can turn the water red, that's why it's called red tide, and when you get these large concentration you get toxin," says Biologist Sarah Wilkin.
Wilkin says they still haven't been able to find the red tide bloom, but that's probably because it’s far offshore and deep beneath the Gulf's surface, which may be why people visiting the beach haven't been affected by the red tide.
Some of the dolphins found in recent days have been dead for a while, which leads biologists to believe that the red tide may be clearing up.
"If there's no more events than it's not a big problem, but if it crops up every month or every two weeks than this could be a bigger event yet," says Hardy.
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descriptive essay is based on creating a picture in the mind of your reader
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Pick up Your Topic
this type of essay, you focus on a single event, location, person, or item, as
a rule. Your task is to make your idea about the topic clear by describing that
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You have not to tell your reader, but to show what you describe trough creating
a picture in their mind.
must have sense, so the essay needs to be structured and all the paragraphs
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Make a Statement
statement is your next step. It represents an important idea of your essay. The
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This paragraph is an introductory one and defines the framework of your topic.
Get the Senses Properly
Now you have
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touch, and sound of your topic. Provide all the sensory details supporting the
thesis. You can use metaphors, personification, similes, and other literary
filling the columns with the details which help support your thesis, i.e. the
most interesting items you will provide in the body paragraphs. The topics have
to be set out in every paragraph, a topic sentence starts the paragraph, and
your intro paragraph and your thesis have to be related to each other.
Make an Outline
outline is the next crucial step. It should list the details of the discussion.
High school students usually have to write an essay containing five paragraphs,
while students at the college have more freedom and can choose the length of
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Write your Conclusion
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Review the Essay
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Former secretary of state describes the most pressing issues that the next president will inherit and why the VP is so important for dealing with those issues.
Tavis: I’m pleased to welcome Madeleine Albright back to this program. The former secretary of state under Bill Clinton is now principal of the Albright Group. She’s also a bestselling author whose latest is out tomorrow in paperback. The book is called “Memo to the President: How we can Restore America’s Reputation and Leadership.”
She joins us tonight from Boston. Madame Secretary, nice to have you back on the program.
Madeleine Albright: Great to be with you, Tavis, thank you.
Tavis: Let me start with news made by another secretary of state yesterday, you might have heard (laughs) that Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama. You started out as a Hillary supporter; you, of course, now supporting Mr. Obama. What do you make of Secretary Powell’s endorsement yesterday?
Albright: I think it’s terrific. I am very, very glad it happened, and it’s really historic because he has served with Republican presidents and generally been pro – many Republican positions. But I thought that his explanation of why he was for Barack Obama was so important in terms of understanding Obama’s wisdom, judgment, curiosity, calmness in the face of many difficult problems. So I thought that was great.
And then the other part, Tavis, that I think was really, really important – the context into which he put his endorsement and his real warning about the kinds of things that we should not be saying or doing during this campaign.
Tavis: I think you’re right about the fact he offered about as brilliant an explanation as one could for why and how he made his choice. He was clear, he was direct, and I understood it and apparently most other Americans did, at least in the way he laid it out.
That said, the one thing that I did have concern about is how Obama accepts the nomination – accepts the endorsement, rather, of one who got us into the war in Iraq, which Mr. Obama has staked his campaign largely on, that he would have handled this differently, but he accepts an endorsement of one who took us in that direction. How do you juxtapose those two things?
Albright: Well, I think that secretary or General Powell has talked a lot about the whole issue and how he saw the information. He and I are good friends and we’ve talked about this, and I think he understands now that this war has to end. He and Senator Obama agree on that. And I also think that people are entitled to have different opinions about issues, but this is a truly important endorsement I think for many reasons.
Because General Powell is a highly respected American, both military and political figure, and it makes a difference when somebody from an opposing party does the endorsing. We now have three former secretaries of State endorsing Barack Obama, so I think it’s terrific.
Tavis: Let me ask you whether or not, as Newt Gingrich suggested yesterday on one of the other talk shows, that Powell’s endorsement of Obama pretty much wipes out the experience argument, or lack thereof, that Republicans have been leveling at him, when you can get a Colin Powell to say that he endorses you, that the experience argument, or again, the lack thereof, pretty much goes by the wayside now?
Albright: Well, he basically made very clear that he thought Barack Obama was ready to be commander-in-chief. I think many of us have been saying that; it’s nice to have it emphasized by Colin Powell. But I think it’s very clear from any number of actions that Barack Obama has taken that he is ready and will be ready on day one. So I think – I rarely agree with Newt Gingrich, (laughter) but I think that it’s great.
Tavis: As one who started out strongly in support of your friend, Hillary Clinton, whose husband, of course, you worked for, how did you make your peace with your endorsement of Mr. Obama when that was over with?
Albright: Well, I am a very good and loyal Democrat, and I want very much to see us win. And I also think – I supported Hillary Clinton because she is a very, very good friend and I saw her as a really remarkable political figure and somebody who would make a great president. But I also never felt anything negative about Barack Obama.
I thought that he was a fascinating candidate and a really thoughtful and wise person, and so I am finding it – I found it very easy, and I find it a great honor to be able to support him now. And I think he will be a terrific president.
Tavis: I want to go from Colin Powell to your text, “Memo to the President,” because in Mr. Powell’s interview yesterday on “Meet the Press” endorsing Mr. Obama, he talked about – and I’m paraphrasing here – regaining our standing in the world. And that’s really what this book is all about – “Memo to the President: How we can Restore America’s Reputation and Leadership.”
Let me ask this question now, and I asked this question of you many, many months ago when this book first came out in hardback. But so much has happened in the world since then, so let me ask the same question I asked you a few months ago – whether or not that is still in your mind, in your judgment, possible at this time. Or is the damage irreparable that this administration has done?
Albright: Well, we talked about this before. I don’t think it’s irreparable, but it is a very difficult job for the next president, which is exactly why we need somebody with the kind of vision and judgment that Barack Obama brings. And I think as Americans we are can-do and optimistic, and the world is waiting for a change. And I think I probably put it this way then, Tavis, which is that people want American leadership; it’s just that American leadership has been wanting.
So it’s not anything that’s going to happen overnight in terms of everybody thinking that we’re doing everything correctly and are willing to go along with us, but I think it will happen, and it will happen because Barack Obama has a different style of operating. And that is listening to others, working with other countries, consultations.
So it’s not irreparable, but it’s not going to be easy. We’re in a pretty deep hole. But at least we’re going to stop digging and begin thinking about how to restore our leadership.
Tavis: To your point of his style, Mr. Obama’s, that is, and his willingness to sit down and to talk to others, he’s been hit pretty hard by the McCain camp, by McCain specifically, about his being willing to sit down and meet with world leaders without preconditions. Your take on that notion?
Albright: Well, it’s interesting – the last time we were all together as former secretaries of State was at a panel about three weeks ago. And we were asked, all five of us there were asked what we would do in terms of negotiating or having a dialogue with Iran without preconditions.
And so Henry Kissinger, Jim Baker, Colin Powell and Warren Christopher and I all agreed that we should be willing to talk to Iran without preconditions. So the bottom line is I’m not sure people understand what that means when you say “preconditions.”
It means that you would be – you can’t say that you will not talk to people until they agree to the things that you want to talk about. So the other part that I think is evident – talking is not always pleasant, and it is a way to deliver tough messages and listen.
So I found it interesting that all five of us actually thought it was important and necessary to talk to Iran without preconditions.
Tavis: You are certainly, as a former secretary of state, and for that matter even before you took that position, much more traveled around the world than one Barack Obama is, and he’s been pilloried for that by the McCain camp, that he didn’t really venture out into the world until weeks ago in this campaign.
If you were giving him a Madeleine Albright world politics 101 crash course, what’s most important for him? I’m not talking about particular hotspots, but across the board, what’s most important for him to understand about where our reputation in the world is as we speak?
Albright: Well, I think the most important thing for him, and this has changed, and it’s just an example of how quickly things happen, is to do something about this financial crisis, because it’s a global financial crisis, and it is affecting our reputation also. So he’s going to have to focus on that.
But then I think he has to look at how to deal with the two hot wars and their unintended consequences. So Afghanistan, and then how to deal with Pakistan that I think contains everything that gives you an international migraine. It has nuclear weapons and poverty and corruption and extremism, and it’s in a very important place. And then Iraq – we have to systematically get out of Iraq and deal with the unintended consequence of a rising Iran and their questioned nuclear issues.
And then, Tavis, what I have been saying is I think that in one form or another, a President Obama is going to have to pay attention to other parts of the world, to various countries in Africa and to our neighbors in Latin America. It’s a huge agenda, which is why we need somebody who has a sense of curiosity and the ability to multitask and to get good people around him, and I think Barack Obama’s really shown that very clearly in the last months.
Tavis: Got just about 30 seconds here, but to your latter point I want to follow up right quick, given how bad our economy is at the moment, and given how tenuous our reputation and position is on the world stage, can you multitask in that way, since both require so much attention? Of course, a president always has to do more than one thing at a time, but both of these situations require such attention, can you do both, whether your name is Obama or McCain?
Albright: Well, I think that you have to do both, and the bottom line is, which is why it’s so important who you choose as your vice president. And I think Senator Biden is going to be a terrific partner for Senator Obama in terms of dealing – just name the issues on the international scene, as well as domestically.
So I do think that it’s a heavy agenda and you’re – whoever is president is going to have to do both, and then also get a good team. I really have talked a lot about the importance of getting smart, good people who act as a team but are willing to present different opinions. And what I like is a president who in fact is confident enough to get a lot of different opinions. And I think that’s what we’re going to have if we elect Barack Obama.
Tavis: Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Her book, out in paperback tomorrow, is called “Memo to the President: How we can Restore America’s Reputation and Leadership.” A new, updated edition. Madame Secretary, always an honor to have you on. Thanks for your insights, as usual.
Albright: Great to be with you, Tavis, thanks much.
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Fields of Remembrance
Remembrance tributes are planted in our Fields of Remembrance, with each tribute carrying a personal message to someone who lost their life in the Service of our country.
Each year, hundreds of volunteers help us to plant more than 120,000 tributes across six Fields of Remembrance in the UK.
Members of the public can make a Remembrance tribute to be planted in the fields, in the form of a religious or secular symbol carrying a poppy and a personal message to someone who lost their life in the Service of our country.
Online tributes are now closed for 2016. Please visit one of our fields to make a tribute and join us as we lead the nation in Remembrance.
A Field of Remembrance is held annually in the grounds of Westminster Abbey, with further Fields in the following locations:
- National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire
- Cardiff, Wales
- Royal Wootton Bassett (Lydiard Park), Swindon
- Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Gateshead, near Newcastle
We take great care and attention in planting thousands of personal Remembrance tributes to create each Field. Row upon row of tributes with their scarlet poppies, personal messages and photographs bring home to all of us why Remembrance continues to be such an important and personal event. It also shows that we will never forget the sacrifice made by so many on our behalf.
The very first Field of Remembrance was held in the grounds of Westminster Abbey in November 1928, when The Poppy Factory took a group of disabled veterans, a tray of poppies and a collecting tin to the grounds of St Margaret's Church in Westminster. Only a handful of poppies were planted around a single cross, but it began a tradition that has grown over the decades.
A fitting tribute
Amanda Binnie, planted a cross in memory of her husband Sean who died while serving in Afghanistan. Amanda says that for her, the rituals of Remembrance are part of the healing process.
“They bring home how many people have lost their lives and how important it is that we never forget what they have done for this country.”Amanda Binnie
Visiting the fields
Each November, The Royal British Legion welcomes members of the public from across the UK to join us to honour and remember loved ones who we have sadly lost serving in our Armed Forces.
The Fields of Remembrance are officially opened with a special Remembrance service where we honour The Two Minute Silence at 11am. A bugler plays the Last Post and the Exhortation is read. All the Fields are open during daylight hours. Please note that on 11 November (Armistice Day), they can be very crowded.
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