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Design and Print Perfect Food Bag Labels
This entry was posted on July 12, 2022.
Creating great labels for packaged food products may be the factor that generates sales for you and pushes your brand ahead of competitors. This is because shoppers see product labels at the pivotal moment when they're about to make a purchase. A good custom printed label clarifies why your brand is the right choice.
Since different foods come in such a wide variety of containers, your labeling efforts must adjust to suit the size and shape of your chosen packaging. For food sold in a bag or pouch — nuts, loose vegetables, seasonings and more — the ideal solution may be specially shaped labels or custom stickers for food bags.
With printed labels the exact right shape and size for your brand's bags, carrying your unique brand imagery and logos can make sure your items stand out on store shelves. The labels' messages will reach potential customers just as they're checking out.
Food Bag Labels: When To Use Them
There are numerous items that are better suited for a bag than a box, can, jar or another type of package. A food bag can even be a form of minimal packaging. After all, many items in boxes have a bag inside to help keep the packaged food fresh. When you sell your products in bags with printed labels applied to the outside, you eliminate the box from the equation.
Some bags are designed to stand up on their own, while others hang from racks on store shelves. One of the most common bagged items straddles the line between the food and beverage categories: whole-bean coffee.
You can also use bags if your brand is a grocery store operator. When you bag items on-site, such as prepared foods or fresh produce, you can apply food bag labels right before placing the items on the shelves. This allows you to show off a professional level of branding on these quickly prepared products.
In all cases, applying a well-designed food bag label combines the necessary information for food products, such as net weight and nutrition facts, with compelling visuals. In this way, bag labels are the same as any food label. The added twist with food bag labels is that the customer can also see the bag underneath, whether it's colorful to add extra branding or transparent to show the contents.
Designing Ideal Food Bag Labels
Buying bags, materials and colors that suit your brand's overall image is step one in effective bag labeling, while step two is designing the labels themselves. These two steps should go together so that the bag and label perfectly complement each other.
This may mean going with smaller die-cut bag labels for foods stored in transparent bags, to better show off the colors and textures of the items within. Imagine fresh green lettuce or bright candies. When dealing with such items, the label's most important purpose may be to let the food advertise itself.
In other cases, it's better to use a colorful, opaque bag and design labels that support this aesthetic. Designers could create labels that use the same colors as the underlying bag for a cohesive look. It's also possible to go for contrast, and make the label stand out. For instance, a black bag with a shining gold or silver label on top could readily catch shoppers' eyes.
Whichever approach a brand takes on its food bag labels, the end result should be in line with the company's overall personality and advertising approach. The huge range of aesthetic options runs from minimal text art to colorful photographs and beyond. With high-quality printed bag labels, any type of imagery can look sharp and distinctive.
Food Labeling Musts and Trends
Custom product labeling for bags breaks down into two categories. First, there are the necessary elements to make sure the food packaging meets its legal requirements. Second, there are the aesthetic choices that ensure labels stand out against the competition. Design decisions tend to run in cycles, as brands step up their efforts to appeal to shoppers’ visual senses.
The following are a few considerations from each side of the functionality/aesthetics divide.
FDA Requirements for Food Bag Labels
The Food and Drug Administration is in charge of ensuring food labels contain comprehensive and detailed information to let consumers make informed decisions about what they eat. The current FDA guidance for brands dates from 2013, though it should be noted that there have been more recent changes to the format of the Nutrition Facts label.
In addition to the updated list of nutrition information, reflecting new dietary priorities, food labels should state clearly what kind of food is in the package, the name of the food manufacturer, packer or importer, the net contents of the container, a full ingredient list and any potential allergens within. In addition to naming the company that made, packaged or distributed the food, labels should state the business's address.
The FDA oversees numerous aspects of food labeling, such as the size of font used to tell customers what type of food they're buying. The agency also oversees the use of statements such as "low in fat" or whether an item is a "good source of'' a nutrient. Using those terms in a way that conflicts with their official definitions may result in an item being pulled from store shelves.
The Latest Food Label Design Trends
While keeping up with legal labeling requirements is all about doing things in a prescribed, uniform way, graphic design is where companies can be creative. Peruse Pinterest's list of best bag label designs, and many interesting trends emerge, from tiny label sizing to the use of pleasing pastel hues for inspiration.
Some companies have recently opted to compromise between clear and opaque bags, using bags with transparent windows to show off a limited amount of the contents. Designers can top these bags off with small labels that sit above the window, on the non-transparent part of the package.
If a bag is completely clear, it may be worthwhile to go for an extremely small and minimal custom label, with just enough room for a brand logo and required disclosures. This can show off the food to its fullest extent, whether the item in question is dried fruit, granola or anything else the producer has decided to sell in bags.
Team Up with the Ideal Label Printing Partner
Bringing great food bag product labels to life is easier when a company teams up with an experienced and skilled custom label printing partner. Lightning Labels has spent over 20 years delivering value for brands of all kinds, using all-digital printing methods to produce full-color food labels on a variety of label materials.
With quick turnaround times and flexible order sizes, Lightning Labels can adapt to serve food producers of any scale or specialty. Lightning Labels consultants can even step in during the graphic design process to ensure labels meet their creators' aesthetic objectives to guarantee shoppers’ future interest.
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The fluid-structure energy exchange process for normal speech has been studied extensively, but it is not well understood for pathological conditions. Polyps and nodules, which are geometric abnormalities that form on the medial surface of the vocal folds, can disrupt vocal fold dynamics and thus can have devastating consequences on a patient's ability to communicate. Our laboratory has reported particle image velocimetry (PIV) measurements, within an investigation of a model polyp located on the medial surface of an in vitro driven vocal fold model, which show that such a geometric abnormality considerably disrupts the glottal jet behavior. This flow field adjustment is a likely reason for the severe degradation of the vocal quality in patients with polyps. A more complete understanding of the formation and propagation of vortical structures from a geometric protuberance, such as a vocal fold polyp, and the resulting influence on the aerodynamic loadings that drive the vocal fold dynamics, is necessary for advancing the treatment of this pathological condition. The present investigation concerns the three-dimensional flow separation induced by a wall-mounted prolate hemispheroid with a 2:1 aspect ratio in cross flow, i.e. a model vocal fold polyp, using an oil-film visualization technique. Unsteady, three-dimensional flow separation and its impact of the wall pressure loading are examined using skin friction line visualization and wall pressure measurements.
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Echo Particle Image Velocimetry
Institutions: University of New Hampshire.
The transport of mass, momentum, and energy in fluid flows is ultimately determined by spatiotemporal distributions of the fluid velocity field.1
Consequently, a prerequisite for understanding, predicting, and controlling fluid flows is the capability to measure the velocity field with adequate spatial and temporal resolution.2
For velocity measurements in optically opaque fluids or through optically opaque geometries, echo particle image velocimetry (EPIV) is an attractive diagnostic technique to generate "instantaneous" two-dimensional fields of velocity.3,4,5,6
In this paper, the operating protocol for an EPIV system built by integrating a commercial medical ultrasound machine7
with a PC running commercial particle image velocimetry (PIV) software8
is described, and validation measurements in Hagen-Poiseuille (i.e.
, laminar pipe) flow are reported.
For the EPIV measurements, a phased array probe connected to the medical ultrasound machine is used to generate a two-dimensional ultrasound image by pulsing the piezoelectric probe elements at different times. Each probe element transmits an ultrasound pulse into the fluid, and tracer particles in the fluid (either naturally occurring or seeded) reflect ultrasound echoes back to the probe where they are recorded. The amplitude of the reflected ultrasound waves and their time delay relative to transmission are used to create what is known as B-mode (brightness mode) two-dimensional ultrasound images. Specifically, the time delay is used to determine the position of the scatterer in the fluid and the amplitude is used to assign intensity to the scatterer. The time required to obtain a single B-mode image, t
, is determined by the time it take to pulse all the elements of the phased array probe. For acquiring multiple B-mode images, the frame rate of the system in frames per second (fps) = 1/δt
. (See 9 for a review of ultrasound imaging.)
For a typical EPIV experiment, the frame rate is between 20-60 fps, depending on flow conditions, and 100-1000 B-mode images of the spatial distribution of the tracer particles in the flow are acquired. Once acquired, the B-mode ultrasound images are transmitted via an ethernet connection to the PC running the PIV commercial software. Using the PIV software, tracer particle displacement fields, D(x,y)
[pixels], (where x and y denote horizontal and vertical spatial position in the ultrasound image, respectively) are acquired by applying cross correlation algorithms to successive ultrasound B-mode images.10
The velocity fields, u(x,y)
[m/s], are determined from the displacements fields, knowing the time step between image pairs, ΔT
[s], and the image magnification, M
. The time step between images ΔT
= 1/fps + D(x,y)/B
, where B
[pixels/s] is the time it takes for the ultrasound probe to sweep across the image width. In the present study, M = 77[μm/pixel], fps
= 49.5[1/s], and B
= 25,047[pixels/s]. Once acquired, the velocity fields can be analyzed to compute flow quantities of interest.
Mechanical Engineering, Issue 70, Physics, Engineering, Physical Sciences, Ultrasound, cross correlation, velocimetry, opaque fluids, particle, flow, fluid, EPIV
Regular Care and Maintenance of a Zebrafish (Danio rerio) Laboratory: An Introduction
Institutions: Edith Cowan University, Graylands Hospital, University of Western Australia, McCusker Alzheimer's Research foundation, University of Western Australia , University of Adelaide, Curtin University of Technology, University of Western Australia .
This protocol describes regular care and maintenance of a zebrafish laboratory. Zebrafish are now gaining popularity in genetics, pharmacological and behavioural research. As a vertebrate, zebrafish share considerable genetic sequence similarity with humans and are being used as an animal model for various human disease conditions. The advantages of zebrafish in comparison to other common vertebrate models include high fecundity, low maintenance cost, transparent embryos, and rapid development. Due to the spur of interest in zebrafish research, the need to establish and maintain a productive zebrafish housing facility is also increasing. Although literature is available for the maintenance of a zebrafish laboratory, a concise video protocol is lacking. This video illustrates the protocol for regular housing, feeding, breeding and raising of zebrafish larvae. This process will help researchers to understand the natural behaviour and optimal conditions of zebrafish husbandry and hence troubleshoot experimental issues that originate from the fish husbandry conditions. This protocol will be of immense help to researchers planning to establish a zebrafish laboratory, and also to graduate students who are intending to use zebrafish as an animal model.
Basic Protocols, Issue 69, Biology, Marine Biology, Zebrafish, Danio rerio, maintenance, breeding, feeding, raising, larvae, animal model, aquarium
Imaging and 3D Reconstruction of Cerebrovascular Structures in Embryonic Zebrafish
Institutions: Western University of Health Sciences, Western University of Health Sciences, Western University of Health Sciences, Western University of Health Sciences.
Zebrafish are a powerful tool to study developmental biology and pathology in vivo
. The small size and relative transparency of zebrafish embryos make them particularly useful for the visual examination of processes such as heart and vascular development. In several recent studies transgenic zebrafish that express EGFP in vascular endothelial cells were used to image and analyze complex vascular networks in the brain and retina, using confocal microscopy. Descriptions are provided to prepare, treat and image zebrafish embryos that express enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP), and then generate comprehensive 3D renderings of the cerebrovascular system. Protocols include the treatment of embryos, confocal imaging, and fixation protocols that preserve EGFP fluorescence. Further, useful tips on obtaining high-quality images of cerebrovascular structures, such as removal the eye without damaging nearby neural tissue are provided. Potential pitfalls with confocal imaging are discussed, along with the steps necessary to generate 3D reconstructions from confocal image stacks using freely available open source software.
Developmental Biology, Issue 86, Zebrafish, cerebrovascular, development, imaging, 3D, embryo, confocal, brain
A Simplified Technique for In situ Excision of Cornea and Evisceration of Retinal Tissue from Human Ocular Globe
Institutions: Fondazione Banca Degli Occhi del Veneto O.N.L.U.S. , Telethon Institute for Genetics & Medicine (T.I.G.E.M.).
Enucleation is the process of retrieving the ocular globe from a cadaveric donor leaving the rest of the globe undisturbed. Excision refers to the retrieval of ocular tissues, especially cornea, by cutting it separate from the ocular globe. Evisceration is the process of removing the internal organs referred here as retina. The ocular globe consists of the cornea, the sclera, the vitreous body, the lens, the iris, the retina, the choroid, muscles etc (Suppl. Figure 1
). When a patient is suffering from corneal damage, the cornea needs to be removed and a healthy one must be transplanted by keratoplastic surgeries. Genetic disorders or defects in retinal function can compromise vision. Human ocular globes can be used for various surgical procedures such as eye banking, transplantation of human cornea or sclera and research on ocular tissues. However, there is little information available on human corneal and retinal excision, probably due to the limited accessibility to human tissues. Most of the studies describing similar procedures are performed on animal models. Research scientists rely on the availability of properly dissected and well-conserved ocular tissues in order to extend the knowledge on human eye development, homeostasis and function. As we receive high amount of ocular globes out of which approximately 40% (Table 1
) of them are used for research purposes, we are able to perform huge amount of experiments on these tissues, defining techniques to excise and preserve them regularly.
The cornea is an avascular tissue which enables the transmission of light onto the retina and for this purpose should always maintain a good degree of transparency. Within the cornea, the limbus region, which is a reservoir of the stem cells, helps the reconstruction of epithelial cells and restricts the overgrowth of the conjunctiva maintaining corneal transparency and clarity. The size and thickness of the cornea are critical for clear vision, as changes in either of them could lead to distracted, unclear vision. The cornea comprises of 5 layers; a) epithelium, b) Bowman's layer, c) stroma, d) Descemet's membrane and e) endothelium. All layers should function properly to ensure clear vision4,5,6
. The choroid is the intermediate tunic between the sclera and retina, bounded on the interior by the Bruch's membrane and is responsible for blood flow in the eye. The choroid also helps to regulate the temperature and supplies nourishment to the outer layers of the retina5,6
. The retina is a layer of nervous tissue that covers the back of the ocular globe (Suppl. Figure 1
) and consists of two parts: a photoreceptive part and a non-receptive part. The retina helps to receive the light from the cornea and lens and converts it into the chemical energy eventually transmitted to the brain with help of the optic nerve5,6
The aim of this paper is to provide a protocol for the dissection of corneal and retinal tissues from human ocular globes. Avoiding cross-contamination with adjacent tissues and preserving RNA integrity is of fundamental importance as such tissues are indispensable for research purposes aimed at (i) characterizing the transcriptome of the ocular tissues, (ii) isolating stem cells for regenerative medicine projects, and (iii) evaluating histological differences between tissues from normal/affected subjects. In this paper we describe the technique we currently use to remove the cornea, the choroid and retinal tissues from an ocular globe. Here we provide a detailed protocol for the dissection of the human ocular globe and the excision of corneal and retinal tissues. The accompanying video will help researchers to learn an appropriate technique for the retrieval of precious human tissues which are difficult to find regularly.
Medicine, Issue 64, Physiology, Human cadaver ocular globe, in situ excision, corneal tissue, in situ evisceration, retinal tissue
The Swimmeret System of Crayfish: A Practical Guide for the Dissection of the Nerve Cord and Extracellular Recordings of the Motor Pattern
Institutions: University of Cologne.
Here we demonstrate the dissection of the crayfish abdominal nerve cord. The preparation comprises the last two thoracic ganglia (T4, T5) and the chain of abdominal ganglia (A1 to A6). This chain of ganglia includes the part of the central nervous system (CNS) that drives coordinated locomotion of the pleopods (swimmerets): the swimmeret system. It is known for over five decades that in crayfish each swimmeret is driven by its own independent pattern generating kernel that generates rhythmic alternating activity 1-3
. The motor neurons innervating the musculature of each swimmeret comprise two anatomically and functionally distinct populations 4
. One is responsible for the retraction (power stroke, PS) of the swimmeret. The other drives the protraction (return stroke, RS) of the swimmeret. Motor neurons of the swimmeret system are able to produce spontaneously a fictive motor pattern, which is identical to the pattern recorded in vivo 1
The aim of this report is to introduce an interesting and convenient model system for studying rhythm generating networks and coordination of independent microcircuits for students’ practical laboratory courses. The protocol provided includes step-by-step instructions for the dissection of the crayfish’s abdominal nerve cord, pinning of the isolated chain of ganglia, desheathing the ganglia and recording the swimmerets fictive motor pattern extracellularly from the isolated nervous system.
Additionally, we can monitor the activity of swimmeret neurons recorded intracellularly from dendrites. Here we also describe briefly these techniques and provide some examples. Furthermore, the morphology of swimmeret neurons can be assessed using various staining techniques. Here we provide examples of intracellular (by iontophoresis) dye filled neurons and backfills of pools of swimmeret motor neurons. In our lab we use this preparation to study basic functions of fictive locomotion, the effect of sensory feedback on the activity of the CNS, and coordination between microcircuits on a cellular level.
Neurobiology, Issue 93, crustacean, dissection, extracellular recording, fictive locomotion, motor neurons, locomotion
Measurement of Factor V Activity in Human Plasma Using a Microplate Coagulation Assay
Institutions: University of Ontario Institute of Technology , University of Ontario Institute of Technology , University of Ontario Institute of Technology .
In response to injury, blood coagulation is activated and results in generation of the clotting protease, thrombin. Thrombin cleaves fibrinogen to fibrin which forms an insoluble clot that stops hemorrhage. Factor V (FV) in its activated form, FVa, is a critical cofactor for the protease FXa and accelerator of thrombin generation during fibrin clot formation as part of prothrombinase 1, 2
. Manual FV assays have been described 3, 4
, but they are time consuming and subjective. Automated FV assays have been reported 5-7
, but the analyzer and reagents are expensive and generally provide only the clot time, not the rate and extent of fibrin formation. The microplate platform is preferred for measuring enzyme-catalyzed events because of convenience, time, cost, small volume, continuous monitoring, and high-throughput 8, 9
. Microplate assays have been reported for clot lysis 10
, platelet aggregation 11
, and coagulation Factors 12
, but not for FV activity in human plasma. The goal of the method was to develop a microplate assay that measures FV activity during fibrin formation in human plasma.
This novel microplate method outlines a simple, inexpensive, and rapid assay of FV activity in human plasma. The assay utilizes a kinetic microplate reader to monitor the absorbance change at 405nm during fibrin formation in human plasma (Figure 1
. The assay accurately measures the time, initial rate, and extent of fibrin clot formation. It requires only μl quantities of plasma, is complete in 6 min, has high-throughput, is sensitive to 24-80pM FV, and measures the amount of unintentionally activated (1-stage activity) and thrombin-activated FV (2-stage activity) to obtain a complete assessment of its total functional activity (2-stage activity - 1-stage activity).
Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) is an acquired coagulopathy that most often develops from pre-existing infections 14
. DIC is associated with a poor prognosis and increases mortality above the pre-existing pathology 15
. The assay was used to show that in 9 patients with DIC, the FV 1-stage, 2-stage, and total activities were decreased, on average, by 54%, 44%, and 42%, respectively, compared with normal pooled human reference plasma (NHP).
The FV microplate assay is easily adaptable to measure the activity of any coagulation factor. This assay will increase our understanding of FV biochemistry through a more accurate and complete measurement of its activity in research and clinical settings. This information will positively impact healthcare environments through earlier diagnosis and development of more effective treatments for coagulation disorders, such as DIC.
Immunology, Issue 67, Factor V, Microplate, Coagulation assay, Human plasma, Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), blood clotting
Long-term Lethal Toxicity Test with the Crustacean Artemia franciscana
Institutions: Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Regional Agency for Environmental Protection in Emilia-Romagna.
Our research activities target the use of biological methods for the evaluation of environmental quality, with particular reference to saltwater/brackish water and sediment. The choice of biological indicators must be based on reliable scientific knowledge and, possibly, on the availability of standardized procedures. In this article, we present a standardized protocol that used the marine crustacean Artemia
to evaluate the toxicity of chemicals and/or of marine environmental matrices. Scientists propose that the brine shrimp (Artemia
) is a suitable candidate for the development of a standard bioassay for worldwide utilization. A number of papers have been published on the toxic effects of various chemicals and toxicants on brine shrimp (Artemia
). The major advantage of this crustacean for toxicity studies is the overall availability of the dry cysts; these can be immediately used in testing and difficult cultivation is not demanded1,2
. Cyst-based toxicity assays are cheap, continuously available, simple and reliable and are thus an important answer to routine needs of toxicity screening, for industrial monitoring requirements or for regulatory purposes3
. The proposed method involves the mortality as an endpoint. The numbers of survivors were counted and percentage of deaths were calculated. Larvae were considered dead if they did not exhibit any internal or external movement during several seconds of observation4
. This procedure was standardized testing a reference substance (Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate); some results are reported in this work. This article accompanies a video that describes the performance of procedural toxicity testing, showing all the steps related to the protocol.
Chemistry, Issue 62, Artemia franciscana, bioassays, chemical substances, crustaceans, marine environment
A Microplate Assay to Assess Chemical Effects on RBL-2H3 Mast Cell Degranulation: Effects of Triclosan without Use of an Organic Solvent
Institutions: University of Maine, Orono, University of Maine, Orono.
Mast cells play important roles in allergic disease and immune defense against parasites. Once activated (e.g.
by an allergen), they degranulate, a process that results in the exocytosis of allergic mediators. Modulation of mast cell degranulation by drugs and toxicants may have positive or adverse effects on human health. Mast cell function has been dissected in detail with the use of rat basophilic leukemia mast cells (RBL-2H3), a widely accepted model of human mucosal mast cells3-5
. Mast cell granule component and the allergic mediator β-hexosaminidase, which is released linearly in tandem with histamine from mast cells6
, can easily and reliably be measured through reaction with a fluorogenic substrate, yielding measurable fluorescence intensity in a microplate assay that is amenable to high-throughput studies1
. Originally published by Naal et al.1
, we have adapted this degranulation assay for the screening of drugs and toxicants and demonstrate its use here.
Triclosan is a broad-spectrum antibacterial agent that is present in many consumer products and has been found to be a therapeutic aid in human allergic skin disease7-11
, although the mechanism for this effect is unknown. Here we demonstrate an assay for the effect of triclosan on mast cell degranulation. We recently showed that triclosan strongly affects mast cell function2
. In an effort to avoid use of an organic solvent, triclosan is dissolved directly into aqueous buffer with heat and stirring, and resultant concentration is confirmed using UV-Vis spectrophotometry (using ε280
= 4,200 L/M/cm)12
. This protocol has the potential to be used with a variety of chemicals to determine their effects on mast cell degranulation, and more broadly, their allergic potential.
Immunology, Issue 81, mast cell, basophil, degranulation, RBL-2H3, triclosan, irgasan, antibacterial, β-hexosaminidase, allergy, Asthma, toxicants, ionophore, antigen, fluorescence, microplate, UV-Vis
Inhibitory Synapse Formation in a Co-culture Model Incorporating GABAergic Medium Spiny Neurons and HEK293 Cells Stably Expressing GABAA Receptors
Institutions: University College London.
Inhibitory neurons act in the central nervous system to regulate the dynamics and spatio-temporal co-ordination of neuronal networks. GABA (γ-aminobutyric acid) is the predominant inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain. It is released from the presynaptic terminals of inhibitory neurons within highly specialized intercellular junctions known as synapses, where it binds to GABAA
Rs) present at the plasma membrane of the synapse-receiving, postsynaptic neurons. Activation of these GABA-gated ion channels leads to influx of chloride resulting in postsynaptic potential changes that decrease the probability that these neurons will generate action potentials.
During development, diverse types of inhibitory neurons with distinct morphological, electrophysiological and neurochemical characteristics have the ability to recognize their target neurons and form synapses which incorporate specific GABAA
Rs subtypes. This principle of selective innervation of neuronal targets raises the question as to how the appropriate synaptic partners identify each other.
To elucidate the underlying molecular mechanisms, a novel in vitro
co-culture model system was established, in which medium spiny GABAergic neurons, a highly homogenous population of neurons isolated from the embryonic striatum, were cultured with stably transfected HEK293 cell lines that express different GABAA
R subtypes. Synapses form rapidly, efficiently and selectively in this system, and are easily accessible for quantification. Our results indicate that various GABAA
R subtypes differ in their ability to promote synapse formation, suggesting that this reduced in vitro
model system can be used to reproduce, at least in part, the in vivo
conditions required for the recognition of the appropriate synaptic partners and formation of specific synapses. Here the protocols for culturing the medium spiny neurons and generating HEK293 cells lines expressing GABAA
Rs are first described, followed by detailed instructions on how to combine these two cell types in co-culture and analyze the formation of synaptic contacts.
Neuroscience, Issue 93, Developmental neuroscience, synaptogenesis, synaptic inhibition, co-culture, stable cell lines, GABAergic, medium spiny neurons, HEK 293 cell line
Protocols for Implementing an Escherichia coli Based TX-TL Cell-Free Expression System for Synthetic Biology
Institutions: California Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Minnesota.
Ideal cell-free expression systems can theoretically emulate an in vivo
cellular environment in a controlled in vitro
This is useful for expressing proteins and genetic circuits in a controlled manner as well as for providing a prototyping environment for synthetic biology.2,3
To achieve the latter goal, cell-free expression systems that preserve endogenous Escherichia coli transcription-translation mechanisms are able to more accurately reflect in vivo
cellular dynamics than those based on T7 RNA polymerase transcription. We describe the preparation and execution of an efficient endogenous E. coli
based transcription-translation (TX-TL) cell-free expression system that can produce equivalent amounts of protein as T7-based systems at a 98% cost reduction to similar commercial systems.4,5
The preparation of buffers and crude cell extract are described, as well as the execution of a three tube TX-TL reaction. The entire protocol takes five days to prepare and yields enough material for up to 3000 single reactions in one preparation. Once prepared, each reaction takes under 8 hr from setup to data collection and analysis. Mechanisms of regulation and transcription exogenous to E. coli
, such as lac/tet repressors and T7 RNA polymerase, can be supplemented.6
Endogenous properties, such as mRNA and DNA degradation rates, can also be adjusted.7
The TX-TL cell-free expression system has been demonstrated for large-scale circuit assembly, exploring biological phenomena, and expression of proteins under both T7- and endogenous promoters.6,8
Accompanying mathematical models are available.9,10
The resulting system has unique applications in synthetic biology as a prototyping environment, or "TX-TL biomolecular breadboard."
Cellular Biology, Issue 79, Bioengineering, Synthetic Biology, Chemistry Techniques, Synthetic, Molecular Biology, control theory, TX-TL, cell-free expression, in vitro, transcription-translation, cell-free protein synthesis, synthetic biology, systems biology, Escherichia coli cell extract, biological circuits, biomolecular breadboard
Simultaneous Synthesis of Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene in a Magnetically-enhanced Arc Plasma
Institutions: The George Washington University.
Carbon nanostructures such as single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) and graphene attract a deluge of interest of scholars nowadays due to their very promising application for molecular sensors, field effect transistor and super thin and flexible electronic devices1-4
. Anodic arc discharge supported by the erosion of the anode material is one of the most practical and efficient methods, which can provide specific non-equilibrium processes and a high influx of carbon material to the developing structures at relatively higher temperature, and consequently the as-synthesized products have few structural defects and better crystallinity.
To further improve the controllability and flexibility of the synthesis of carbon nanostructures in arc discharge, magnetic fields can be applied during the synthesis process according to the strong magnetic responses of arc plasmas. It was demonstrated that the magnetically-enhanced arc discharge can increase the average length of SWCNT 5
, narrow the diameter distribution of metallic catalyst particles and carbon nanotubes 6
, and change the ratio of metallic and semiconducting carbon nanotubes 7
, as well as lead to graphene synthesis 8
Furthermore, it is worthwhile to remark that when we introduce a non-uniform magnetic field with the component normal to the current in arc, the Lorentz force along the J×B direction can generate the plasmas jet and make effective delivery of carbon ion particles and heat flux to samples. As a result, large-scale graphene flakes and high-purity single-walled carbon nanotubes were simultaneously generated by such new magnetically-enhanced anodic arc method. Arc imaging, scanning electron microscope (SEM), transmission electron microscope (TEM) and Raman spectroscopy were employed to analyze the characterization of carbon nanostructures. These findings indicate a wide spectrum of opportunities to manipulate with the properties of nanostructures produced in plasmas by means of controlling the arc conditions.
Bioengineering, Issue 60, Arc discharge, magnetic control, single-walled carbon nanotubes, graphene
Electrospinning Fundamentals: Optimizing Solution and Apparatus Parameters
Institutions: University of Michigan, Southeast University, University of Michigan, Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare Center.
Electrospun nanofiber scaffolds have been shown to accelerate the maturation, improve the growth, and direct the migration of cells in vitro
. Electrospinning is a process in which a charged polymer jet is collected on a grounded collector; a rapidly rotating collector results in aligned nanofibers while stationary collectors result in randomly oriented fiber mats. The polymer jet is formed when an applied electrostatic charge overcomes the surface tension of the solution. There is a minimum concentration for a given polymer, termed the critical entanglement concentration, below which a stable jet cannot be achieved and no nanofibers will form - although nanoparticles may be achieved (electrospray). A stable jet has two domains, a streaming segment and a whipping segment. While the whipping jet is usually invisible to the naked eye, the streaming segment is often visible under appropriate lighting conditions. Observing the length, thickness, consistency and movement of the stream is useful to predict the alignment and morphology of the nanofibers being formed. A short, non-uniform, inconsistent, and/or oscillating stream is indicative of a variety of problems, including poor fiber alignment, beading, splattering, and curlicue or wavy patterns. The stream can be optimized by adjusting the composition of the solution and the configuration of the electrospinning apparatus, thus optimizing the alignment and morphology of the fibers being produced. In this protocol, we present a procedure for setting up a basic electrospinning apparatus, empirically approximating the critical entanglement concentration of a polymer solution and optimizing the electrospinning process. In addition, we discuss some common problems and troubleshooting techniques.
Bioengineering, Issue 47, electrospinning, nanofibers, scaffold, alignment
Permeabilization of Adhered Cells Using an Inert Gas Jet
Institutions: McGill University, Montreal Heart Institute.
Various cell transfection techniques exist and these can be broken down to three broad categories: viral, chemical and mechanical. This protocol describes a mechanical method to temporally permeabilize adherent cells using an inert gas jet that can facilitate the transfer of normally non-permeable macromolecules into cells. We believe this technique works by imparting shear forces on the plasma membrane of adherent cells, resulting in the temporary formation of micropores. Once these pores are created, the cells are then permeable to genetic material and other biomolecules. The mechanical forces involved do run the risk of permanently damaging or detaching cells from their substrate. There is, therefore, a narrow range of inert gas dynamics where the technique is effective. An inert gas jet has proven efficient at permeabilizing various adherent cell lines including HeLa, HEK293 and human abdominal aortic endothelial cells. This protocol is appropriate for the permeabilization of adherent cells both in vitro
and, as we have demonstrated, in vivo
, showing it may be used for research and potentially in future clinical applications. It also has the advantage of permeabilizing cells in a spatially restrictive manner, which could prove to be a valuable research tool.
Bioengineering, Issue 79, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Cellular Biology, Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Biophysics, Transfection, Permeabilization, transfection, shear stress, adherent cells, SEM, cell, microscopy, imaging
Fast Imaging Technique to Study Drop Impact Dynamics of Non-Newtonian Fluids
Institutions: The University of Chicago, The University of Chicago, Yale University.
In the field of fluid mechanics, many dynamical processes not only occur over a very short time interval but also require high spatial resolution for detailed observation, scenarios that make it challenging to observe with conventional imaging systems. One of these is the drop impact of liquids, which usually happens within one tenth of millisecond. To tackle this challenge, a fast imaging technique is introduced that combines a high-speed camera (capable of up to one million frames per second) with a macro lens with long working distance to bring the spatial resolution of the image down to 10 µm/pixel. The imaging technique enables precise measurement of relevant fluid dynamic quantities, such as the flow field, the spreading distance and the splashing speed, from analysis of the recorded video. To demonstrate the capabilities of this visualization system, the impact dynamics when droplets of non-Newtonian fluids impinge on a flat hard surface are characterized. Two situations are considered: for oxidized liquid metal droplets we focus on the spreading behavior, and for densely packed suspensions we determine the onset of splashing. More generally, the combination of high temporal and spatial imaging resolution introduced here offers advantages for studying fast dynamics across a wide range of microscale phenomena.
Physics, Issue 85, fluid mechanics, fast camera, dense suspension, liquid metal, drop impact, splashing
Lipid Bilayer Vesicle Generation Using Microfluidic Jetting
Institutions: University of Michigan, University of Michigan, The University of Texas at Austin, University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Bottom-up synthetic biology presents a novel approach for investigating and reconstituting biochemical systems and, potentially, minimal organisms. This emerging field engages engineers, chemists, biologists, and physicists to design and assemble basic biological components into complex, functioning systems from the bottom up. Such bottom-up systems could lead to the development of artificial cells for fundamental biological inquiries and innovative therapies1,2
. Giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) can serve as a model platform for synthetic biology due to their cell-like membrane structure and size. Microfluidic jetting, or microjetting, is a technique that allows for the generation of GUVs with controlled size, membrane composition, transmembrane protein incorporation, and encapsulation3
. The basic principle of this method is the use of multiple, high-frequency fluid pulses generated by a piezo-actuated inkjet device to deform a suspended lipid bilayer into a GUV. The process is akin to blowing soap bubbles from a soap film. By varying the composition of the jetted solution, the composition of the encompassing solution, and/or the components included in the bilayer, researchers can apply this technique to create customized vesicles. This paper describes the procedure to generate simple vesicles from a droplet interface bilayer by microjetting.
Bioengineering, Issue 84, Microfluidic jetting, synthetic biology, vesicle encapsulation, lipid bilayer, biochemical reconstitution, giant unilamellar vesicles
High-speed Particle Image Velocimetry Near Surfaces
Institutions: University of Michigan.
Multi-dimensional and transient flows play a key role in many areas of science, engineering, and health sciences but are often not well understood. The complex nature of these flows may be studied using particle image velocimetry (PIV), a laser-based imaging technique for optically accessible flows. Though many forms of PIV exist that extend the technique beyond the original planar two-component velocity measurement capabilities, the basic PIV system consists of a light source (laser), a camera, tracer particles, and analysis algorithms. The imaging and recording parameters, the light source, and the algorithms are adjusted to optimize the recording for the flow of interest and obtain valid velocity data.
Common PIV investigations measure two-component velocities in a plane at a few frames per second. However, recent developments in instrumentation have facilitated high-frame rate (> 1 kHz) measurements capable of resolving transient flows with high temporal resolution. Therefore, high-frame rate measurements have enabled investigations on the evolution of the structure and dynamics of highly transient flows. These investigations play a critical role in understanding the fundamental physics of complex flows.
A detailed description for performing high-resolution, high-speed planar PIV to study a transient flow near the surface of a flat plate is presented here. Details for adjusting the parameter constraints such as image and recording properties, the laser sheet properties, and processing algorithms to adapt PIV for any flow of interest are included.
Physics, Issue 76, Mechanical Engineering, Fluid Mechanics, flow measurement, fluid heat transfer, internal flow in turbomachinery (applications), boundary layer flow (general), flow visualization (instrumentation), laser instruments (design and operation), Boundary layer, micro-PIV, optical laser diagnostics, internal combustion engines, flow, fluids, particle, velocimetry, visualization
The Preparation of Electrohydrodynamic Bridges from Polar Dielectric Liquids
Institutions: Wetsus - Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Water Technology, IRCAM GmbH, Graz University of Technology.
Horizontal and vertical liquid bridges are simple and powerful tools for exploring the interaction of high intensity electric fields (8-20 kV/cm) and polar dielectric liquids. These bridges are unique from capillary bridges in that they exhibit extensibility beyond a few millimeters, have complex bi-directional mass transfer patterns, and emit non-Planck infrared radiation. A number of common solvents can form such bridges as well as low conductivity solutions and colloidal suspensions. The macroscopic behavior is governed by electrohydrodynamics and provides a means of studying fluid flow phenomena without the presence of rigid walls. Prior to the onset of a liquid bridge several important phenomena can be observed including advancing meniscus height (electrowetting), bulk fluid circulation (the Sumoto effect), and the ejection of charged droplets (electrospray). The interaction between surface, polarization, and displacement forces can be directly examined by varying applied voltage and bridge length. The electric field, assisted by gravity, stabilizes the liquid bridge against Rayleigh-Plateau instabilities. Construction of basic apparatus for both vertical and horizontal orientation along with operational examples, including thermographic images, for three liquids (e.g.
, water, DMSO, and glycerol) is presented.
Physics, Issue 91, floating water bridge, polar dielectric liquids, liquid bridge, electrohydrodynamics, thermography, dielectrophoresis, electrowetting, Sumoto effect, Armstrong effect
Setting Limits on Supersymmetry Using Simplified Models
Institutions: University College London, CERN, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories.
Experimental limits on supersymmetry and similar theories are difficult to set because of the enormous available parameter space and difficult to generalize because of the complexity of single points. Therefore, more phenomenological, simplified models are becoming popular for setting experimental limits, as they have clearer physical interpretations. The use of these simplified model limits to set a real limit on a concrete theory has not, however, been demonstrated. This paper recasts simplified model limits into limits on a specific and complete supersymmetry model, minimal supergravity. Limits obtained under various physical assumptions are comparable to those produced by directed searches. A prescription is provided for calculating conservative and aggressive limits on additional theories. Using acceptance and efficiency tables along with the expected and observed numbers of events in various signal regions, LHC experimental results can be recast in this manner into almost any theoretical framework, including nonsupersymmetric theories with supersymmetry-like signatures.
Physics, Issue 81, high energy physics, particle physics, Supersymmetry, LHC, ATLAS, CMS, New Physics Limits, Simplified Models
A Protocol for Conducting Rainfall Simulation to Study Soil Runoff
Institutions: University of Maryland Eastern Shore, USDA - Agricultural Research Service, University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
Rainfall is a driving force for the transport of environmental contaminants from agricultural soils to surficial water bodies via surface runoff. The objective of this study was to characterize the effects of antecedent soil moisture content on the fate and transport of surface applied commercial urea, a common form of nitrogen (N) fertilizer, following a rainfall event that occurs within 24 hr after fertilizer application. Although urea is assumed to be readily hydrolyzed to ammonium and therefore not often available for transport, recent studies suggest that urea can be transported from agricultural soils to coastal waters where it is implicated in harmful algal blooms. A rainfall simulator was used to apply a consistent rate of uniform rainfall across packed soil boxes that had been prewetted to different soil moisture contents. By controlling rainfall and soil physical characteristics, the effects of antecedent soil moisture on urea loss were isolated. Wetter soils exhibited shorter time from rainfall initiation to runoff initiation, greater total volume of runoff, higher urea concentrations in runoff, and greater mass loadings of urea in runoff. These results also demonstrate the importance of controlling for antecedent soil moisture content in studies designed to isolate other variables, such as soil physical or chemical characteristics, slope, soil cover, management, or rainfall characteristics. Because rainfall simulators are designed to deliver raindrops of similar size and velocity as natural rainfall, studies conducted under a standardized protocol can yield valuable data that, in turn, can be used to develop models for predicting the fate and transport of pollutants in runoff.
Environmental Sciences, Issue 86, Agriculture, Water Pollution, Water Quality, Technology, Industry, and Agriculture, Rainfall Simulator, Artificial Rainfall, Runoff, Packed Soil Boxes, Nonpoint Source, Urea
Microfluidic Mixers for Studying Protein Folding
Institutions: Michigan State University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, University of California, Davis .
The process by which a protein folds into its native conformation is highly relevant to biology and human health yet still poorly understood. One reason for this is that folding takes place over a wide range of timescales, from nanoseconds to seconds or longer, depending on the protein1
. Conventional stopped-flow mixers have allowed measurement of folding kinetics starting at about 1 ms. We have recently developed a microfluidic mixer that dilutes denaturant ~100-fold in ~8 μs2
. Unlike a stopped-flow mixer, this mixer operates in the laminar flow regime in which turbulence does not occur. The absence of turbulence allows precise numeric simulation of all flows within the mixer with excellent agreement to experiment3-4
Laminar flow is achieved for Reynolds numbers Re
≤100. For aqueous solutions, this requires micron scale geometries. We use a hard substrate, such as silicon or fused silica, to make channels 5-10 μm wide and 10 μm deep (See Figure 1
). The smallest dimensions, at the entrance to the mixing region, are on the order of 1 μm in size. The chip is sealed with a thin glass or fused silica coverslip for optical access. Typical total linear flow rates are ~1 m/s, yielding Re
~10, but the protein consumption is only ~0.5 nL/s or 1.8 μL/hr. Protein concentration depends on the detection method: For tryptophan fluorescence the typical concentration is 100 μM (for 1 Trp/protein) and for FRET the typical concentration is ~100 nM.
The folding process is initiated by rapid dilution of denaturant from 6 M to 0.06 M guanidine hydrochloride. The protein in high denaturant flows down a central channel and is met on either side at the mixing region by buffer without denaturant moving ~100 times faster (see Figure 2
). This geometry causes rapid constriction of the protein flow into a narrow jet ~100 nm wide. Diffusion of the light denaturant molecules is very rapid, while diffusion of the heavy protein molecules is much slower, diffusing less than 1 μm in 1 ms. The difference in diffusion constant of the denaturant and the protein results in rapid dilution of the denaturant from the protein stream, reducing the effective concentration of the denaturant around the protein. The protein jet flows at a constant rate down the observation channel and fluorescence of the protein during folding can be observed using a scanning confocal microscope5
Bioengineering, Issue 62, microfluidic mixing, laminar flow, protein folding, fluorescence, FRET
Analysis of Tubular Membrane Networks in Cardiac Myocytes from Atria and Ventricles
Institutions: Heart Research Center Goettingen, University Medical Center Goettingen, German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) partner site Goettingen, University of Maryland School of Medicine.
In cardiac myocytes a complex network of membrane tubules - the transverse-axial tubule system (TATS) - controls deep intracellular signaling functions. While the outer surface membrane and associated TATS membrane components appear to be continuous, there are substantial differences in lipid and protein content. In ventricular myocytes (VMs), certain TATS components are highly abundant contributing to rectilinear tubule networks and regular branching 3D architectures. It is thought that peripheral TATS components propagate action potentials from the cell surface to thousands of remote intracellular sarcoendoplasmic reticulum (SER) membrane contact domains, thereby activating intracellular Ca2+
release units (CRUs). In contrast to VMs, the organization and functional role of TATS membranes in atrial myocytes (AMs) is significantly different and much less understood. Taken together, quantitative structural characterization of TATS membrane networks in healthy and diseased myocytes is an essential prerequisite towards better understanding of functional plasticity and pathophysiological reorganization. Here, we present a strategic combination of protocols for direct quantitative analysis of TATS membrane networks in living VMs and AMs. For this, we accompany primary cell isolations of mouse VMs and/or AMs with critical quality control steps and direct membrane staining protocols for fluorescence imaging of TATS membranes. Using an optimized workflow for confocal or superresolution TATS image processing, binarized and skeletonized data are generated for quantitative analysis of the TATS network and its components. Unlike previously published indirect regional aggregate image analysis strategies, our protocols enable direct characterization of specific components and derive complex physiological properties of TATS membrane networks in living myocytes with high throughput and open access software tools. In summary, the combined protocol strategy can be readily applied for quantitative TATS network studies during physiological myocyte adaptation or disease changes, comparison of different cardiac or skeletal muscle cell types, phenotyping of transgenic models, and pharmacological or therapeutic interventions.
Bioengineering, Issue 92, cardiac myocyte, atria, ventricle, heart, primary cell isolation, fluorescence microscopy, membrane tubule, transverse-axial tubule system, image analysis, image processing, T-tubule, collagenase
Aseptic Laboratory Techniques: Plating Methods
Institutions: University of California, Los Angeles .
Microorganisms are present on all inanimate surfaces creating ubiquitous sources of possible contamination in the laboratory. Experimental success relies on the ability of a scientist to sterilize work surfaces and equipment as well as prevent contact of sterile instruments and solutions with non-sterile surfaces. Here we present the steps for several plating methods routinely used in the laboratory to isolate, propagate, or enumerate microorganisms such as bacteria and phage. All five methods incorporate aseptic technique, or procedures that maintain the sterility of experimental materials. Procedures described include (1) streak-plating bacterial cultures to isolate single colonies, (2) pour-plating and (3) spread-plating to enumerate viable bacterial colonies, (4) soft agar overlays to isolate phage and enumerate plaques, and (5) replica-plating to transfer cells from one plate to another in an identical spatial pattern. These procedures can be performed at the laboratory bench, provided they involve non-pathogenic strains of microorganisms (Biosafety Level 1, BSL-1). If working with BSL-2 organisms, then these manipulations must take place in a biosafety cabinet. Consult the most current edition of the Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories
(BMBL) as well as Material Safety Data Sheets
(MSDS) for Infectious Substances to determine the biohazard classification as well as the safety precautions and containment facilities required for the microorganism in question. Bacterial strains and phage stocks can be obtained from research investigators, companies, and collections maintained by particular organizations such as the American Type Culture Collection
(ATCC). It is recommended that non-pathogenic strains be used when learning the various plating methods. By following the procedures described in this protocol, students should be able to:
● Perform plating procedures without contaminating media.
● Isolate single bacterial colonies by the streak-plating method.
● Use pour-plating and spread-plating methods to determine the concentration of bacteria.
● Perform soft agar overlays when working with phage.
● Transfer bacterial cells from one plate to another using the replica-plating procedure.
● Given an experimental task, select the appropriate plating method.
Basic Protocols, Issue 63, Streak plates, pour plates, soft agar overlays, spread plates, replica plates, bacteria, colonies, phage, plaques, dilutions
Designing and Implementing Nervous System Simulations on LEGO Robots
Institutions: Northeastern University, Bremen University of Applied Sciences.
We present a method to use the commercially available LEGO Mindstorms NXT robotics platform to test systems level neuroscience hypotheses. The first step of the method is to develop a nervous system simulation of specific reflexive behaviors of an appropriate model organism; here we use the American Lobster. Exteroceptive reflexes mediated by decussating (crossing) neural connections can explain an animal's taxis towards or away from a stimulus as described by Braitenberg and are particularly well suited for investigation using the NXT platform.1
The nervous system simulation is programmed using LabVIEW software on the LEGO Mindstorms platform. Once the nervous system is tuned properly, behavioral experiments are run on the robot and on the animal under identical environmental conditions. By controlling the sensory milieu experienced by the specimens, differences in behavioral outputs can be observed. These differences may point to specific deficiencies in the nervous system model and serve to inform the iteration of the model for the particular behavior under study. This method allows for the experimental manipulation of electronic nervous systems and serves as a way to explore neuroscience hypotheses specifically regarding the neurophysiological basis of simple innate reflexive behaviors. The LEGO Mindstorms NXT kit provides an affordable and efficient platform on which to test preliminary biomimetic robot control schemes. The approach is also well suited for the high school classroom to serve as the foundation for a hands-on inquiry-based biorobotics curriculum.
Neuroscience, Issue 75, Neurobiology, Bioengineering, Behavior, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Marine Biology, Biomimetics, Marine Science, Neurosciences, Synthetic Biology, Robotics, robots, Modeling, models, Sensory Fusion, nervous system, Educational Tools, programming, software, lobster, Homarus americanus, animal model
Determining 3D Flow Fields via Multi-camera Light Field Imaging
Institutions: Brigham Young University, Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, RI.
In the field of fluid mechanics, the resolution of computational schemes has outpaced experimental methods and widened the gap between predicted and observed phenomena in fluid flows. Thus, a need exists for an accessible method capable of resolving three-dimensional (3D) data sets for a range of problems. We present a novel technique for performing quantitative 3D imaging of many types of flow fields. The 3D technique enables investigation of complicated velocity fields and bubbly flows. Measurements of these types present a variety of challenges to the instrument. For instance, optically dense bubbly multiphase flows cannot be readily imaged by traditional, non-invasive flow measurement techniques due to the bubbles occluding optical access to the interior regions of the volume of interest. By using Light Field Imaging we are able to reparameterize images captured by an array of cameras to reconstruct a 3D volumetric map for every time instance, despite partial occlusions in the volume. The technique makes use of an algorithm known as synthetic aperture (SA) refocusing, whereby a 3D focal stack is generated by combining images from several cameras post-capture 1
. Light Field Imaging allows for the capture of angular as well as spatial information about the light rays, and hence enables 3D scene reconstruction. Quantitative information can then be extracted from the 3D reconstructions using a variety of processing algorithms. In particular, we have developed measurement methods based on Light Field Imaging for performing 3D particle image velocimetry (PIV), extracting bubbles in a 3D field and tracking the boundary of a flickering flame. We present the fundamentals of the Light Field Imaging methodology in the context of our setup for performing 3DPIV of the airflow passing over a set of synthetic vocal folds, and show representative results from application of the technique to a bubble-entraining plunging jet.
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Moving your permanent residency from one country to another, getting a work, study or visitor visa can be stressful and confusing tasks. With so many documents and so much legal information to deal with, the process can be a bit intimidating. This is where Immigration Consultants come into play.
Having the right knowledge of what an Immigration Consultant does can help you as you begin changing your citizenship or inquiring about other immigration services.
What You’ll Learn
In this article we will discuss topics like:
- What an immigration consultant is
- The difference between an immigration lawyer and a consultant
- What kinds of tasks consultants do
- For permanent residences
- For Visitors
- About Oro Immigration Services
All of this information will help you understand how an immigration consultant can assist you in crossing the border and becoming a permanent resident, worker or student in a different country.
What Is An Immigration Consultant?
An immigration consultant is the main point of contact for people looking to emigrate from one country to another. The consultant provides legal information and helps with the documentation and immigration process in order to get the individual into the country smoothly. They can also help set up jobs, work studies, and travel visas for individuals looking to stay in a new place for an extended amount of time for academic and business purposes.
Immigration consultants are usually well versed in the immigration laws and procedures that are required when entering and staying in a country. That being said, an immigration consultant is not a lawyer. An immigration consultant is allowed to provide legal services or advice only in immigration matters and not other areas
Immigration Consultant Vs. Lawyer: What’s The Difference?
While the two jobs might sound very similar, there are differences between immigration lawyers and immigration consultants. A lawyer is an attorney that practices immigration law amongst other types of laws such as criminal, corporate, real estate, etc.
These lawyers must complete a law degree and pass the bar exam before practicing immigration law. They are allowed to offer legal advice and services to clients and applicants. Lawyers are often regulated by a law society.
Immigration consultants, on the other hand, are professionals that must also complete a program only based on Immigration law. Once the program is completed they must write an exam to become licensed. Only those who pass the exam will be able to become Regulated Immigration Consultants and are able to represent clients. At Oro Immigration Services, we ensure that in addition to the immigration consultant program, our consultants must have a Bachelor’s Degree.
Since Immigration Consultants focus and mainly study immigration law, they are able to assist you with relocating to Canada permanently or temporarily. They can assist with your Permanent Residency application, study, work, travel or business applications.
To be an Immigration Consultant they must be members of the Immigration Consultants of Canada which means that they are regulated by government agencies. This is meant to protect the interests and needs of clients and to ensure that everything is legal. You can also determine whether a consultant is in good standing by looking at their website.
Whether you hire a consultant or a lawyer, you must ensure that your representative is licensed and in good standing with the Law Society or with The College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants. Remember that only Immigration Consultants and lawyers are able to charge a fee for their services.
What Do Immigration Consultants Do?
Changing your citizenship or permanent residence and applying for a students’ visa or work permit are just a few of the services that immigration consultants can provide. When you hire an immigration consultant, their job is to help people enter Canada for travel, study, or business purposes. From students and refugees to politicians and business professionals, an immigration consultant is there to help everyone who is entering Canada.
For Permanent Residents
When you enter a new place of residence, there are programs, laws, government regulations, legal rights, and immigration rules that you permanent residents need to know about and understand. It’s an immigration consultant’s job to make sure that you have the proper documentation when applying for any program and when crossing the border for landing.
For Visitors, Workers and Students
If you are not a permanent resident, you will have to obtain a work, travel, or student visa which allows you to stay in Canada for a specified amount of time. An immigration consultant can help you obtain your visas and answer any questions you might have. They also assess a client’s chances of being approved for work, travel, or student visa.
A Canadian immigration consultant can also help with permanent residency appeals, family sponsorship, refugee claims, and express entry claims in Canada. They want to make sure that you can obtain your visa and cross the border safely.
When you hire an immigration consultant and start the process of migrating to a new place, you are taking a step to ensure safe and legal entry into the country. Canadian immigration consultants are trained and regulated to work on your behalf. They are well versed in the rights and regulations that are in place in the new place of residence.
Consultants work with a variety of clients and are trained to help make the process of immigrating straightforward so that there are few bumps in the road. From applying for visas or ensuring you have the right documentation, they will be there along the way. Remember that sometimes little mistakes can jeopardize your future in Canada.
Oro Immigration Services
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Kiara Nirghin, a 16 year-old South African student who goes to St. Martin’s in Johannesburg, has been named the overall winner of the 2016 Google Science Fair.
She was awarded the grand prize of $50,000 (R687,470) for her project titled “Combatting drought with a Low-Cost, biodegradable Superabsorbent Polymer made out of orange peels“.
Google said the prize will be given in scholarship funding, and is intended to further Nirghin’s education.
In her online submission to the science fair, Nirghin explains that she conducted three experiments over 45 days to see if she could make a superabsorbent polymer (SAP) out of bio-waste that outperforms existing synthetic SAPs.
“The results of the water retention test showed that the ‘orange peel mixture’ can absorb 76.1% of water, which is significantly greater than the acrylic SAP, starch SAP and pectin SAP,” Nirghin said.
Her orange peel mixture was made out of waste products found in the juice manufacturing industry where the only resources involved were electricity and time. No special equipment nor materials were required, she said.
Nirghin also noted that commercially used acrylic SAP retails for around $2,000 to $3,000 (R27,586 to R41,390) per metric ton, and is not bio-degradable, whereas the ‘orange peel mixture’ could retail at $30 to $60 (R414 to R828) per metric ton.
She said she hopes this low-cost material can reduce juice manufacturing waste while helping local farmers save both money and their crops.
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This course will provide a consistent and effective methodology for market-pricing benchmark jobs within an organization. Participants will have an opportunity to develop their data utilization skills through classroom practicum exercises.
Review common compensation strategies, base pay structure design, and the establishment and use of a job-worth hierarchy.
What You Will Learn:
- Discuss how market pricing can support an organization’s business strategy.
- Discover data sources, data collection options, salary survey formats and use of job matching.
- Learn how the data from salary surveys can help you develop the market rate for benchmark jobs.
- Discuss the use of statistical analysis tools and aging, blending, weighting and slotting data.
- Learn how to handle short- and long-term incentive survey data.
- Find out how to communicate market pricing to upper management and your organization.
Who Should Attend:
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ERIC Number: ED208416
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1981
Reference Count: N/A
Writing in the Schools: Improvement through Effective Leadership.
Glatthorn, Allan A.
Intended to provide school principals and administrators with suggestions for leading a schoolwide writing improvement effort, this book describes the writing process and addresses the kinds of considerations of which administrators should be aware. Chapters in the book discuss (1) the composing process and the teaching of writing, (2) evaluating a school's writing program, (3) planning and implementing a staff development program, (4) improving the composition curriculum, improving writing across the curriculum, (6) supervising the writing program, (7) working with parents to improve student writing, and (8) improving the administrator's own writing. A chapter of resources in the testing and teaching of writing concludes the book. (HTH)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Leadership Responsibility, Principals, School Administration, Staff Development, Teacher Administrator Relationship, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Writing Processes
National Association of Secondary School Principals, 1904 Assocation Dr., Reston, VA 22091 (Order No. 2108103, $5.00; Quantity discounts available: 10-24 copies, 20%; 25-99 copies, 30%; 100 or more copies, 35%).
Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom
Education Level: N/A
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Road statistics information on the condition of and expenditure on local authority roads and trunk roads in England.
Of the 151 local authorities that were sent road condition surveys, usable data were received from all but five. This was the highest response rate in several years. Local authorities across England who provided data for the appropriate years reported that:
- the proportion of the principal road network where maintenance should be considered was higher in 2012 to 2013 than in 2011 to 2012 for 30% of local authorities, 23% said it was the same, 47% said it was lower
- an estimated 6.5% of the principal road network in England received maintenance treatment in 2012 to 2013; on minor roads (B, C and U roads) this figure was 4.0%
Road condition statistics
Road condition statistics public enquiries 020 7944 5032
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Shared Vocabulary and Puppetry in Ramesh Meyyappan’s Butterfly
Theatremaker Ramesh Meyyappan has opinions about the cultural position of “deaf” or “signed” theatre and its role in his own art including his most recent work Butterfly, which ran through May 14 at 59E59 as part of the Brits Off Broadway series. The wordless one-hour piece was developed collaboratively with artists including a dramaturg, a consulting director, a choreographer, and a puppet designer to further Ramesh’s explorations of a theatre language of movement without using sign language. Ramesh and puppet director and maker Gavin Glover discussed by phone and email the background and context for Butterfly, their own backgrounds, and their hopes for a theatre of hyphenated art forms focused on telling stories in new ways.
However, if I didn’t compromise, I’d be waiting around for a role that could be signed and depending on interpreters to be my voice. The solution was to find a language, a vocabulary that was shared and understood directly and not through a third party.
Butterfly is inspired by the same John Luther Long short story used by Puccini for his opera Madame Butterfly, at the core of which is the image of the loss of a child, which first inspired Ramesh. “Butterfly first loses her partner, her love, and then there the loss of a child, a miscarriage, that cannot be fully explained in words,” summarized Ramesh. The piece uses symbols and references to butterflies and flight: the female lead creates kites; suitor Nabokov, named for the writer who was interested in butterflies, captures and studies the creatures; and movement choreographed by Darren Brownlie evokes the beauty and fragility of both butterflies and kites in flight.
Puppet maker Gavin described their storytelling choices:
In this version we left things slightly ambiguous. She is alone. You can believe that she really did have a baby, or you can believe that was a hallucination. It’s a silent piece. The audience is left to make up their own mind, which I find quite strong, quite good.
Ramesh reflected that “there needs to be a place for ‘deaf’ or ‘signed’ theatre, but I do struggle with who the audience is” beyond those who understand sign language. The question of language in art is a deeply professional and personal one for him.
While I absolutely agree that there needs to be a place for sign language, I worry that we deaf limit our audiences and perhaps our opportunities if all we can offer is sign language… I’m proud of my language, it forms who I am. However, if I didn’t compromise, I’d be waiting around for a role that could be signed and depending on interpreters to be my voice. The solution was to find a language, a vocabulary that was shared and understood directly and not through a third party.
Professionally and artistically, Ramesh defies categories—he relies on physicality and “uses a mix of visual and physical vocabularies.” “I’ve devised, I’ve developed, I’ve explored, I’ve performed, I’ve directed—all roles that enable me to create work.”
Ramesh’s visual theatrical vocabulary incorporates multiple elements: puppetry, masks, aerial skills, circus, butoh dance theatre, clowning, and more. In a solo piece Snails & Ketchup, inspired by Italo Calvino’s The Baron in the Trees, he used aerial work because the character wanted to live in the trees. For Butterfly, Ramesh worked with choreographer Darren Brownlie to explore movement and how it helps tell a story or develop character. He worked with dramaturg George Aza-Selinger to unpack the component visual parts of the story, to develop a “visual script” that would allow him to describe his director’s vision to the creative team.
The director’s perspective is a current area of exploration.
I’ve recently finished some research including a practical workshop with Graham McLaren on approaches to texts from a director’s point of view. Graham finds the intention behind the spoken word and that is communicated visually, without any dialogue, then the dialogue is added on again, with quite an interesting impact on the actor’s performances. This could be a starting point for me delving into traditional texts.
Ramesh concluded that the story comes first. “I explore a style or element that will support my storytelling; I do tend to move towards work that tells a human story.”
Gavin Glover was a natural match for Ramesh as another professional hyphenate who looks for ways to tell a theatrical story visually. Gavin came to puppetry after completing three years of a seven-year architecture program, then worked in a puppet theatre in London’s Islington neighborhood where he performed and explored visual techniques including mask, clowning, dance, and movement. He shares:
Puppetry is a serious tool that you can use to create something that’s obviously live. We can see the strings, or the guy in the back, or the actor holding onto it, but that’s the beauty about working in the theatre: you can see it’s all being made in front of you, with no edits.
Gavin described his work as generally “more weird” and “darker” than what we see in Butterfly. He formed several companies with compound names over the past few decades. First a “visual theatre” company called FaultyOptic that ceased activities in 2011, where “most of the shows were without words, more puppet shows than puppets with actors, quite dark, and Samuel Beckett-like.” His current company is PotatoRoom productions, where he creates works that combine “puppets, acting, clowning, video, movement, and dance—in fact whatever is necessary to create a highly intricate and intriguing theatre.” He’s now freelancing, and making a move to Glasgow to work on the National Theatre of Scotland’s adaptation of A Christmas Carol.
Like Ramesh, Gavin draws from multiple art forms and approaches.
Puppets are artistically-made pieces of sculpture. We inhabit this visual arts, plastic arts field, as opposed to the theatre arts field. We’re trying to bring this together, meeting in the middle. I see myself as creating these time-based performances, obviously start-middle-end, just like a theatre show. But it might not be performed in the same way that you would see a scripted play.
Gavin met Ramesh at a workshop in Glasgow, and Ramesh then contacted him about eighteen months ago to explore puppetry in the piece that became Butterfly. “He hadn’t used puppets before, but used himself as a performer. Butterfly was a bit bigger with three people on stage, so he had more space to experiment, with more people to manipulate stuff.” Puppets are not continuously present in the performance, but emerge gradually as Butterfly’s world collapses. The puppets, manipulated by the male performers, include a tiny mountaineering figurine that traverses a sleeping Butterfly and a life-sized yet not-quite-human-looking toddler. Gavin recalled Ramesh’s thoughts on the real yet not-real baby figure. “He wanted a baby that was kind of realistic and moved fairly realistically but is slightly not human. It’s blue so you know that it’s more in her mind.”
The interplay between alien and familiar in the world of the play is enchanting. Gavin noted that he likes to work on projects “where the thing doesn’t necessarily have to be beautiful and it’s the actions of the people around it and their emotions and how they treat it” that animates the scene. The mother Butterfly character has to believe in the toddler puppet. “The puppet has to perform, to be manipulated, in such a way that you believe it’s breathing, it’s looking, reacting, seeing, hearing. There are still those little things that apply to puppets that make it live, to actually get those gasps of disbelief from the audience.”
Ramesh has trained in and created deaf theatre training programs in several parts of the world. He worked with the Hi! Theatre in Singapore, earned his BA at Liverpool Institute of the Arts, and now lives in the UK where he recently was one of two deaf members on a majority hearing design team for a new BA Performance in British Sign Language at English Degree for Deaf at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow, Scotland. “My input was in exploring all the modules and considering potential challenges as well as developing a visual theatre module that I now teach as a core module to deaf and hearing students,” Ramesh noted. “For me it was important to have a visual module as an accessible language that is shared with both deaf and hearing.”
Gavin continues work with the National Theatre of Scotland’s A Christmas Carol, and is making plans to work again with director Graham McLaren to build a show inspired by a famous Edinburgh murder mystery involving life-sized puppets. He’s holding workshops to experiment with video cameras and miniatures. He calls it micro cinema theatre—“not using the puppets at all, using video cameras and videoing little things and then projecting it, trying to tell a story.”
If you treat everything equally in terms of what is going to make theatre that you want—something that’s really evocative, or very calming, or cruel, or grotesque, creates or shows the narrative—puppetry and film and actors and dancers are different colors on a palette that we can choose from.
Gavin’s professional evolution incorporating people with puppets resonates with Ramesh’s new use of puppets with people in Butterfly. Ramesh expanded his tools with puppetry in this piece, and sees the puppets as some of the most successful elements of the production, “using puppets to allow the audience to see the world the female character creates for herself in her darkest moments.” Gavin realized that putting people with his puppets created a new richer dynamic that broadens his aesthetic toolkit.
If you treat everything equally in terms of what is going to make theatre that you want—something that’s really evocative, or very calming, or cruel, or grotesque, that creates or shows the narrative—puppetry and film and actors and dancers are different colors on a palette that we can choose from. Now it’s thinking about choosing equally, not one above the other. | <urn:uuid:2ed0f210-8332-4093-9388-405ff3d8fddd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://howlround.com/shared-vocabulary-and-puppetry-ramesh-meyyappans-butterfly | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.964922 | 2,298 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Two heads… -a graphic novel about social cognition, marriage and the importance of research.
In 2014, Professors Uta and Chris Frith – both eminent neuroscientists who happen to be married to each other – were jointly awarded the Jean-Nicod Lecture Series Prize. It’s a prize awarded to philosophers of mind or, as in this case, ‘philosophically-minded cognitive scientists’. Prize winners deliver a series of four lectures, which they are then charged to collect in book form.
The Friths delivered their lectures, two each, in November 2014. You can watch them online here (in English). The overall theme was ‘social interaction and social cognition’ – the ways and means that human brains use to recognise and interact with other people. The lectures are now collected as a book (to be published by MIT Press), but the Friths decided to reach a wider audience by presenting their ideas in a graphic novel. This format captures the visual element of their lectures and may prove to be a better way to communicate science in general.
Working with their son, Alex Frith, a children’s non-fiction author, and comics author/artist Daniel Locke, the Friths have put together a 300-page comic called Two Heads… that explores, describes and explains social cognition. Along the way, the book also acts as a primer into the basics of neuroscience, from how the brain works to a short history of the people who developed the fields of psychology and neuroscience in the 19th and 20th centuries.
In order to tell the story of social cognition, the book also examines Chris and Uta Frith’s own experiences as a married couple, and as pioneering neuroscience researchers from the 1960s to the present day. In particular, it unpicks their key discoveries in relation to schizophrenia and autism, two conditions that turn out to be remarkably relevant to the question of how brains interact with each other. Read it and learn! | <urn:uuid:2ee73593-d64d-423f-80e7-bf4c51b4aee1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://frithmind.org/two-heads/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.96597 | 406 | 2.84375 | 3 |
June 11 2010
Carrie L. Lukas
Yesterday, the Senate voted against a resolution which would have prevented the EPA from regulating carbon as a pollutant. Reason previously ran this article which described how EPA came to declare carbon a pollutant and the arbitrary way that they were considering enforcing it. Reason had another good roundup of the consequences of this latest vote to allow EPA to move forward with these new regulations:
Now that the resolution has failed, beginning in July 2011 the EPA will start requiring some 15,000 carbon emitters, including coal-fired electricity generation plants, oil refineries, cement manufacturers, and solid waste landfills to have permits for their emissions. This requirement would affect entities that emit about 70 percent of the country's greenhouse gases. The new rules require emitters to use the "best available technology" to control their emissions.
Top-down centralized pollution control regulations are notoriously expensive and cumbersome. The Obama administration and the Democratic leadership will now use the EPA "stick" to beat Congress into voting for slightly less onerous cap-and-trade carbon rationing.
Whether these new regulations are really a way to push companies to submit to a Congressional cap-and-trade plan or if they are an end in themselves, this is very bad news for the economy. We already have anemic job creation (other than government jobs, which are another drain on taxpayers) and high unemployment. We also have an exploding national debt, which high unemployment will make worse.
Yet Congress and the Administration are moving to create new regulatory burdens on companies and drive energy costs higher, all in the name of addressing a problem which may or may not actually exist.
While politicians debate the effects of cap-and-trade and other plans to push up energy costs, the public should consider what's been happening in California, where they are about to implement a cap-and-trade plan of their own. Government analysts are reluctantly revealing that, yes, in fact this kind of policy is a net job killer.
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Fight Identity Theft best by preventing it
By Times Staff Writer
Published November 4, 2007
Identity theft is a serious crime. So far this year, there have been 12-million victims in the nation, with billions in losses, said Bill McCollum, state attorney general.
Identity theft occurs when personal information is stolen and used without your knowledge to commit fraud or other crimes. Thieves use a variety of methods to destroy your credit. Here are a few examples of how they work:
Dumpster diving: They rummage through trash looking for bills or other documents with personal information. Avoid this by shredding paperwork containing personal information before discarding it.
Skimming: Crooks use a special storage device to steal credit or debit card numbers when processing your card at a retail store or restaurant. Try to keep your card in sight when using it to pay for items or services, especially when traveling out of town.
Phishing: Some criminals send out e-mails, pretending to be a financial institution or legitimate company, in order to get you to reveal your personal information. Avoid responding to unsolicited e-mails.
Old fashioned stealing: Sometimes our personal records are stolen from legitimate companies that keep our information on file. This happened to me last week, forcing me to close an account to avoid bogus charges.
The best way to fight identity theft is to prevent it. So it is important to check your credit report often and place a fraud alert if you suspect a problem. Go to AnnualCreditReport.com (or call 1-877-322-8228), a service created by the major nationwide consumer-reporting companies - Equifax, Experian and TransUnion.
William Proffitt, St. Petersburg police spokesman
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12 Best Drawing Software and Apps for Manga and Illustration
As much as we like to use sketchbooks to draw illustrations or doodles we have to admit the digital method is the mainstream nowadays, not only because it can be synced with any device you own but because the software provides you different powerful technic that you can ever imagine. Plus, how fun would it be if the software supports the daily equipment we use?
Today we would like to give you a detailed introduction of the best paid and free drawing software we think we are suitable for designers and designers-to-be!
What should you look for in drawing software?
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Are you looking to draw manga? or a more illustrative style? Ask yourself what kind of drawing style do you prefer.
Type of Brushes:
Drawing software makes drawing easier to pick up, but some real technics are fairly limiting such as the thickness of the stroke? Can you edit brushes? Can you add new brushes? Choosing a drawing app equipped with multiple brushes can give you richer results.
The common brushes include watercolor pens, ballpoint pens, dip pens, airbrushes, pencils, etc. Pay attention to whether the software meets your drawing style.
If you want to make your illustrations professional and refined, the layer function is indispensable. By dividing a picture into several layers, it not only enhances the detailed description but also it's easier during modification without extensive alteration.
Also, the ability to free-transform selections is important as well. It will allow you to lasso select it, scale it up, rotate it slightly, squish it a bit without interfering with anything else on that layer.
Although the same software or app may apply to almost all systems, however, the features may vary. Be sure to check the software supports the device you own and the current version before use.
Whether you want to draw at home? or when commuting? or even if you suddenly lost your devices, cloud storage can help you retrieve your drafts anytime, anywhere.
11 Best Drawing Software and App
Eagle App - Digital Assets Management for Manga & Drawing
Eagle App is an App for designers who works with any kinds of digital materials, it lets you create your own media library, then organize and browse it easily using filters, categories and even with colors where your original Mac/Windows couldn't!
It supports over 81+ formats including images, 3d, icons, videos, fonts and more! Eagle has many great UI especially helpful for designers to store and grab assets, and bring them into Figma, photoshop, illustrators with a quick click and drag to boost your productivity!
1. Adobe Fresco
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Adobe Fresco is a drawing and painting software from Adobe Family built for touch and stylus devices to help artists unleash their creativity wherever inspiration strikes. Its live brushes are unique you can use them to get a natural watercolor or oil look in your paintings.
If you work with some of other Adobe family's products then this will definitely be your to-go on the phone and tablet. You can have Adobe Fresco and Photoshop work together to combine images, retouch artwork, add text, and create with layers.
- Trial: Free with a limited version
- Price: Free for Adobe Creative Cloud subscribers or US $9.99 a month for non-subscribers.
- Platform: iPhone / Pad / Windows
- Website: https://www.adobe.com/products/fresco.html
2. Clip Studio Paint
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Clip Studio Paint is previously called Manga Studio 5, it is a flexible software that supports a wide range of specialties, including character art, concept art, illustration, mangas & comics, and animation. You can create every stroke exactly as you imagine with the powerful brush engine. Clip Studio Paint works with your device to reflect every nuance of your pen, even up to the 8192 levels of pen pressure detected by Wacom tablets.
It also has a Clip Studio ASSETS platform which provides 1000 new materials every month, you can download any kind of assets like patterns, brushes, 3D data, etc for free or paid. You’ll always find something to match your personal style.
- Windows and macOS: 30 days.
- Android/Chromebook: available for download from Play Store.
- Galaxy: available in Galaxy Store.
- iPad: free for up to three months
- iPhone: free to use for one hour every day.
Clip Studio Paint PRO is for character art, concept art, illustration.
Clip Studio Paint EX is for manga & comics, animations
- Windows/macOS One-time payment:
- Clip Studio Paint PRO: US$49.99
- Clip Studio Paint EX: US$219.00
- Windows/macOS/iPad/iPhone/Galaxy (Monthly usage plans for a single device)
- Clip Studio Paint PRO: US$4.49 /month (Annual: US$24.99)
- Clip Studio Paint EX: US$8.99 /month (Annual: US$71.99)
- Windows/macOS One-time payment:
Platform: Windows / macOS / iPad / iPhone / Android
3. Affinity Designer
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Affinity Designer has won Apple Design Award in 2015, it is compatible software to create concept art, print projects, logos, icons, UI designs, mock-ups and more, it’s one of the top choices for professional illustrators, web designers, game developers and other creatives who love vector and raster design tools.
Given the similarity, many people often compare Affinity Designer with Adobe Illustrator, illustrator gives you a bit more control over small details overall. However, you may utilize plugins to add more brushes to be used in Affinity, even if you have to tweak one of two settings to make them work perfectly. It will require a bit of learning before you get your hands on Affinity Designer, and even though there's not much learning material provided by the software itself but you can still easily find people sharing their tutorials online.
The non-subscription price tag is beyond reasonable given the mature and comprehensive feature-set it offers. It also works seamlessly with Affinity Photo, further expanding the kinds of workflows you can perform in the Affinity ecosystem.
- Trial: 10 days free trial
- Price: subscription-free and lifetime updates.
- Windows or Mac: US $54.99
- iPad: US $21.99
- Platform: Windows / macOS / iPad
- Website: https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/designer/
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Loved by creative professionals and aspiring artists alike, Procreate has won the Apple Design Award and it's a classic and well-known app specially made for iPad. Offering hundreds of handmade brushes, a suite of innovative artistic tools, an advanced layer system, and the lightning-fast Valkyrie graphics engine.
Procreate gives you everything you need to create expressive sketches, rich paintings, gorgeous illustrations and beautiful animations. It's simple UI makes it easy to find features when you are navigating your way in the drawing process which is very friendly to beginners!
- Trial: No Trial
- Price: US$9.99
- Platform: iPad
- Website: https://procreate.art/
image from Krita
Krita is an open-source, free graphics software. Krita offers over 100 professional brushes, it also comes with a brush stabilizer in case you have a shaky hand. The built-in vector tools help you create comic panels easily just select a word bubble template from the vector library and drag it on your canvas.
Krita also has a huge community in which you can share your artwork with or even share assets like brush and texture packs from other artists to expand your toolset. If you create some brushes that you love, share them with the world by creating your own bundles.
- Price: Download the desktop version from the official website for free. otherwise, you will be charged.
- Platform: Windows / macOS / Linux
- Website: https://krita.org
6. Corel Painter 2022
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Corel Painter is one of the applications under CorelDRAW. The software is much lite on the system when compared to its competition Adobe Photoshop. You can sketch, paint, illustrate and produce unparalleled photo art using realistic brushes, exciting media, and an array of versatile tools.
Every year it releases new features, the Painter 2022 has a refined brush library, new watercolor brushes and workflow, enhanced stamp-type technology and huge speed gains to help you advance your skills. Although expensive, its preset brushes and intricate customization make it suitable for different range of painting styles.
- Annual subscription: US$199
- One-time payment: US$424 (Free 30-day trial available)
- Platform: Windows / macOS
- Website: https://www.coreldraw.com/
7. MediBang Paint Pro
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MediBang Paint Pro is a FREE digital painting and comic creation software. It's available for PCs and Mac. Even though it's free it comes loaded with features. MediBang Paint includes everything you need to illustrate or make comics. It also comes with over 50 brushes for you to use like the GPen, and Mapping Pen for inking, and the Watercolor brush for coloring. Each brush has various settings so they can be customized to your liking.
If you want to draw manga, Its easy comic panel, comic page management, pre-made tones and backgrounds features are very thoughtful to help create comics while being productive at the same time. If you also work with a team of people MediBang Paint's group project feature is suitable for you to collaborate easily!
- Price: Free (with ads)
- Platform: Windows / macOS / iPad / iPhone / Android
- Website: https://medibangpaint.com/
8. Paint Tool SAI
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PaintTool SAI is high quality and lightweight painting software, fully digitizer support, amazing anti-aliased paintings, provide easy and stable operation.
Compare features with other software Paint Tool it's very simple and easy to get your hands on. It doesn't require as much GPU as Photoshop does, you can see brushstrokes as soon as you press down your tablet pen without any delay. Once you get the hang of it, it isn’t hard to use at all and you make amazing paintings.
- Trial: 31 days Trial
- Price: JPY 5500
- Platform: Windows
- Website: https://www.systemax.jp/en/sai/
image from ibisPaint
ibis Paint is a popular and versatile illustration and manga drawing app. It provides over 2000 brushes, over 1100 fonts, 75 filters, 46 screen tones, 27 blending modes, you can record your drawing processes, create stroke stabilization and various ruler features such as radial line rulers or symmetry rulers, and clipping mask features.
If you like to draw on your smartphones or tablets, this is a great app you shouldn't miss out! In addition, it also has a full range of manga and illustration tutorials on its website and social account.
- Free (with ads and limited functions)
- Paid (ad-free version): US$7.99
- Prime Membership: US$2.99/month
- Platform: iPad / iPhone / Android
- Website: https://ibispaint.com/
image from Photoshop
Photoshop is Adobe's photo editing, image creation and graphic design software. The software provides many image editing features for raster (pixel-based) images as well as vector graphics. It uses a layer-based editing system that enables image creation and altering with multiple overlays that support transparency. It’s also used in design, web, and 3D projects.
You can definitely draw in Photoshop, but it wasn’t created with illustrations or comics mainly. It will take you some time and effort to customize the pen and brush tools pressure. However, still many companies and schools use Photoshop to create awesome projects.
- Free on Mobile with limited features.
- Desktop and iPad: 30 days trial, Creative Cloud Photography Plan: US $9.99/month.
- Platform: Windows / macOS / iPad / Android / iOS
- Website: https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop.html
11. Paintstorm Studio
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Paintstorm Studio is a professional digital drawing software available for Windows, macOS, and iPad. It has a wide variety of brushes and many customizable features and is probably the most customizable interface out there. If you like to draw, you should not miss this software out!
The videos on their Youtube are very helpful and informative to get you started. It can create many powerful painting touches. For the price, it is a very intuitive and simple-to-use tool for beginners.
- Trial: 30 days
- Desktop version (Windows/macOS): US$19.00
- iPad version: US$12.99
- Platform: Windows / macOS / iPad
- Website: https://www.paintstormstudio.com/index.html
image from GIMP
GIMP is a cross-platform image editor available for Linux, macOS, Windows. It is free software, you can change its source code and distribute your changes according to your needs! GIMP is used for producing icons, graphical design elements, and art for user interface components and mockups. Whether you are a graphic designer, photographer, illustrator, or scientist, GIMP provides you with sophisticated tools to get your job done.
If you are tired of some software's features or wanting to add some details into your drawing you can further enhance your productivity with GIMP customization options and 3rd party plugins!
- Price: Free
- Platform: Windows / macOS / Linux
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Before broadband was mainstream, before smartphones and tablets were everywhere, and long before COVID-19 seized the globe, Dr. Javeed Siddiqui saw the future.
In 2002, he was doing video consultations, reviewing lab data and discussing medications with HIV patients in rural California. But the virtual visits of 20 years ago didn’t look like they do today. He was using ISDN — six phone lines spliced together — and bulky cart systems that weighed more than 100 pounds. Eight to 10 frames per second. Poor connections. But at UC Davis — as a disciple of Dr. Thomas Nesbitt, the father of telehealth in California — Siddiqui believed in the potential of doctors seeing patients online, despite the doubters.
“Many of my colleagues thought this was one step away from medical malpractice and this was not a way health care could be delivered,” he says. “Nothing like a global pandemic to justify your life’s work, and it’s sad that it took a global pandemic for this to happen.”
In 2010, Siddiqui co-founded TeleMed2U. This Roseville-based company, where he serves as chief medical officer, provides telemedicine-based specialty care directly to patients in more than 40 states and in-patient telemedicine at 14 hospitals in four states. Evidently, Siddiqui was ahead of the curve.
In 2019, Sutter Health did 7,400 video visits in one year. In 2020, it did 1.1 million. Behavioral health saw the biggest shift. Since 2020, more than 80 percent of outpatient behavioral health visits have shifted to virtual care. Due to new patient referrals via video, Sutter Health also saw a decrease in no-show rates for both established and new patients, down to 5-10 percent (from 15-25 percent).
Since the pandemic began, telehealth visits in California increased by 61 percent, with one in five patient visits now being conducted via telehealth, according to the California Medical Association. Through apps and software, patients now have more access to health care providers than ever. Video visits give physicians a real-time window into the home spaces of their patients (What’s in the fridge? Is the place messy?) to paint a fuller picture. But the expansion of telehealth services has also exposed long-standing problem areas, such as the unequal access to broadband and medical technology designed without providers in mind.
Still, in this public health crisis, the benefits of patients connecting virtually has been transformative in many ways, according to Dr. Albert Chan, chief digital health officer at Sutter Health. He recounts stories where medical technology led to faster assessments. One woman sent in pictures of her bleeding mole, which helped a dermatologist diagnose her melanoma. Another family had a child who was “not walking quite right,” Chan says. A pediatrician observed the child on video, confirmed the parents’ concern, then ordered an MRI for the child, which ultimately revealed a brain tumor.
“If we hadn’t had technology like this, and limited access to evaluation because of COVID, the diagnosis might have been delayed,” Chan says. “But for the doctor to be able to see what the parents were seeing helped them make the diagnosis quickly.”
Prior to the pandemic, reimbursement for telehealth-delivered services was limited, according to Mei Wa Kwong, executive director of the Center for Connected Health Policy. But due to the public health emergency, those barriers were suspended, allowing more people to receive services at home.
The Center for Connected Health Policy operates primarily through grants or federal funds to educate and provide resources to raise awareness. The policy shift has been a boon for people who would otherwise have to travel long distances to see a doctor or therapist, or if they have issues with mobility. During the pandemic, the telehealth option also reduced potential infections or exposure if they could get support without leaving the house. But this benefit wasn’t universal.
“What they discovered was maybe not everybody can take advantage of telehealth,” Kwong says. “Not everyone has access to the internet and broadband. Some can’t afford (it) or live in an area with no Wi-Fi. … What was encouraging was seeing policies and financial investments that the government put into broadband. It’s still not enough, but it’s a good start.”
Kwong also acknowledges this isn’t something the government can fix overnight. Infrastructure needs to be built, but in Sacramento, she highlighted the addition of hot spots in certain neighborhoods or on school buses for children to do schoolwork. These portable hot spots are a patch but not a long-term solution, she says.
“Telehealth isn’t appropriate for every single situation,” Kwong says, “but it should be available when a person needs it and when it’s appropriate to use for that particular situation.”
“Telehealth isn’t appropriate for every single situation, but it should be available when a person needs it and when it’s appropriate to use for that particular situation.”Mei Wa Kwong, executive director, Center for Connected Policy
A wrong approach
Sutter Health’s latest tool, developed by Wisconsin-based Epic, is for pregnant patients, fully integrated with the electronic health record, an extension of Sutter’s My Health Online platform, Chan says. The app checks in with users every week, tailoring pregnancies with timely advice.
“I think that speaks to the power of integration,” Chan says. “Our goal is to say, ‘Hey, in these most intimate times, we’re there for you and personalize care for you.’”
There are certain things the health system can’t do on its own. In these instances, Sutter Health collaborates with qualified partners. But it’s critical those partners have a solid grasp of the opportunities and barriers in health care, such as heightened patient privacy regulations and information security needs, Chan says.
“Often, we see partners who come to us with a mere consumer or product background,” he says, “but don’t fully understand the complexity of needs of our patients and the need for connectivity. We know the most treacherous thing for patients is in these hand-offs. If you have a partnership that is not effective, things get dropped and people feel lost.”
Almond Tree Capital, a Davis-based venture capital firm with a focus on investments in medical devices, diagnostics and health information technology, has seen both sides: Telehealth deployment has accelerated tremendously, but unplanned staffing shortages and virtual-only conferences have caused interruptions or other glitches in product rollouts and in market data and clinical data collection, according to Cary Adams, co-founder of Almond Tree Capital.
In addition, he says, many IT-based approaches to new medical applications don’t learn enough about the segments of specific markets they plan to disrupt before they design their products. Just because a tool might make things more efficient in other industries doesn’t mean it will be useful or welcome in specific clinical settings.
“The tech industry has a long and sorry history of pumping huge amounts of money into startups that are going to ‘transform health care,’’’ he says, citing the collapses of Healtheon and Theranos, and IBM recently selling off its Watson health care technology as examples. “You have to be knee-deep in the gullies and mudflats of the health care industry and appreciate how different each submarket is.”
He highlights academic settings and other sectors within the health care industry as major incubators where some of the most effective solutions are coming from. To disrupt the way things are done in each clinical setting, you have to start from a position of learning how clinical data collection works currently and also understand the financial incentives involved, and what it takes to change their standards of care, Adams says.
“If you don’t approach it from that perspective,” he says, “you’re almost doomed to failure.”
‘The easy part’
When it comes to medical technology, providers also have a learning curve. For example, not all patients have equal broadband access. If providers use specific software, patients might not be able to download and connect. This means telehealth isn’t the quick plug-and-play solution some clinicians may think it is.
“Everyone thought that if they had broadband and a camera, they could do telehealth,” Siddiqui says. “But none of them took into account the art of telehealth. … The provider has to be comfortable. They can’t come on and say, ‘Hey, can you see me? I can see you. Wow, this thing really works!’”
“Everyone thought that if they had broadband and a camera, they could do telehealth. But none of them took into account the art of telehealth. … The provider has to be comfortable. They can’t come on and say, ‘Hey, can you see me? I can see you. Wow, this thing really works!’”Dr. Javeed Siddiqui, co-founder, TeleMed2U
This concept of digital presence (e.g., video quality, audio, lighting, background) plays a big role in connecting to a patient virtually. Also, privacy issues need to be taken into account, even more so than before. Neither the provider nor patient would want to set up a video call near a door or window where other people may hear. The medium also requires physicians to know how to do home-based physical exams and be creative with checking vital signs. Smartwatches and apps can assist with temperature, blood pressure, heart rate and even oxygen saturation, Siddiqui says. “Having a webcam and broadband is the easy part,” he says.
One of the hardest parts is the uncertainty of the future. The suspension of previous telehealth policies is not indefinite. “Will (the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) try to put the genie back in the bottle?” Siddiqui wonders. If so, he believes the decision will be met with a great deal of public outrage. But only time will tell.
“We just can’t assume it won’t go back to how it was,” he says. “Hopefully the current administration and Congress will see this and the value it brings to telehealth delivery and make it become a permanent thing.”
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The brain is the most complicated organ. Indeed it might be the most complicated thing in the universe, with billions of cells and the responsibility for controlling everything that we think and do. Neurologists diagnose and treat of all types of diseases and impairment of the brain, spinal cord, the autonomic nervous system, as well as the blood vessels and muscles that relate to these structures.
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Pendleton County is proud to be a part of the WV Healthy Grandfamilies Program. This program is intended for Grandparents who are raising their grandchildren. There are no requirements other than the grandparent(s) must be raising the grandchildren without the participation of the parents. The grandparents do not have to have legal custody of the grandchildren and there are no income requirements.
The program has many facets, one of which is classes covering topics such as legal issues, communication, parenting in the 21st Century, family relationships, health literacy and self-care, stress management, nutrition, technology, negotiating the public school system, and family response to addiction. Due to increased Covid activity in the county we have had to postpone the start of our classes once again. However, there are still things we can do the help and support our Grandfamilies. For example, WV has begun an incentive program where participants in the Healthy Grandfamilies program can receive a $150 voucher for back-to-school supplies if they are vaccinated.
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CINCINNATI, Ohio — When the Brood X cicadas emerge in parts of the U.S. later this month, they’ll be big and they’ll be loud.
“It's crickets-on-steroids kind of thing,” said Dr. Ian Windmill, senior director of audiology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. “It's not as irritating as fingernails on a chalkboard, but it’s just so persistent. That's kind of the part that drives you crazy.
Windmill said the sounds the cicadas make can get up to about 100 decibels. For comparison, he said the average voice is 50 to 60 decibels and a shout is about 70 to 75.
The loud, buzzing drone can be annoying for anyone, but for a person with autism or a hearing sensitivity, these sounds could cause an emotional or physical reaction.
"To someone who has sensory issues, and someone on the autism spectrum who deals with these, all of those sounds are at 100% volume, all the time, and just going through their head and pounding,” said Autism Rocks founder David Kalhe.
Kalhe knows first-hand what it’s like to care for a child with sensory issues. His 16-year-old son, Parker, has autism and has been highly sensitive to noise from a young age. The solution Kalhe found for helping his son was right at his local hardware store.
“They have headphones that are used in industrial techniques, and depending on the thickness of them, they determine what the decibel range is that they'll bring the noise down," Kahle said. "There's also the foam earplugs that can be used as well, too.”
Windmill said children who have migraine headaches and people who have hearing loss — with some ringing in their ears already — may also have a strong reaction to the cicada sounds. Young children are susceptible as well because their hearing is so pristine.
He recommends trying to minimize the impact for these sensitive populations by doing things like staying indoors and wearing hearing protection.
Kahle also says it’s best to be prepared. He's getting Parker ready by watching videos of cicadas on YouTube.
“He is not as communicative, so we watch those videos over and over and over and it's the reinforcement of, 'This is coming. Don't be so afraid,'” Kahle said. “And it's not just the younger children. It's the young adults as well that we need to be concerned about.”
Windmill said parents can look out for emotional responses or exaggerated reactions from their kids who may be sensitive to noise. If a child would usually react when the band marches by during a parade, for example, they may have a reaction to the cicadas as well. He said if the child is out and about, the simple solution may be the best one.
“A big thing is people do cover their ears, because it seems like a simple solution to the child,” Windmill said. “But that's how I can block sound out.”
He does point out, however, that the noise from cicadas themselves likely won’t cause hearing damage.
“I do think it's important to realize that people are not going to really lose hearing over the cicadas, because they're going to avoid the loud sounds, they're going to be indoors,” he said.
Children and adults may also experience anxiety associated with the Brood X emergence because of the size, noise and sheer numbers of cicadas. TriHealth has a list of tips and resources for how to cope with cicada anxiety.
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The awarding of the 2010 Collier Trophy to Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation for its X2 helicopter marks the 100th anniversary of the nation’s premier aerospace prize. Every year, the National Aeronautic Association awards the Collier for “the greatest achievement in aeronautics or astronautics in America, with respect to improving the performance, efficiency, and safety of air or space vehicles, the value of which has been thoroughly demonstrated by actual use during the preceding year.” The X2 met that final requirement—“actual use”—last September 15, when it hit 250 knots (288 mph) in level flight with pilot Kevin Bredenbeck at the controls. Though that mark is an unofficial record, it’s a trophy-worthy speed.
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Helicopters have a hard time flying very fast because their rotor blades have to cope with a phenomenon called “retreating blade stall.” When a helicopter is moving forward, there is no problem with the advancing rotor blades on one side of the rotor disk, as the airflow over them increases. But on the other side, the retreating blades experience diminished airflow as the helicopter continues to accelerate, and eventually the relative wind over the blades drops below the blades’ stall speed and they stop producing lift. When that happens, the helicopter rolls off to the retreating blade side and the pilot can no longer control it.
Sikorsky’s X2 is a compound helicopter (see “Hot Rod Helicopters,” Sept. 2009). That means that in addition to the main rotor, it has a dedicated thrust producer. Most previous compound helicopters have a tail-rotor that counters the twisting force of the engine and main rotor. But Sikorsky built a compound helicopter with a coaxial main rotor system: two four-blade rotors, set one atop the other and rotating in opposite directions so there are advancing blades on both sides, not just one. The counter-rotating blades cancel each other’s torque, so the X2 needs no tail rotor. Instead, on its tail is a propulsor—a six-blade propeller that produces forward thrust the way an airplane’s propeller does. As the helicopter speeds up, more of the LHTEC T800 engine power goes to the propulsor, and the main rotors can be slowed so the advancing blades’ tips don’t go supersonic.
The X2 is not Sikorsky’s first coaxial-rotor compound helicopter. The company designed, built, and tested the S-69 Advancing Blade Concept prototype, which was designated the XH-59 by the military. For forward thrust, it used a small jet engine instead of a propeller. Its 1970s technology was not as sophisticated as the X2’s, however, and it suffered from vibration problems.
The company launched the X2 program in 2005 and built the aircraft at Schweizer, its newly acquired subsidiary in Horseheads, New York. The X2’s first flight, on August 27, 2008, was just a short 30-minute hop to check out its hover characteristics. On July 26, 2010, it beat the previous speed record: a Westland Lynx reaching 225 knots (259 mph). Now Sikorsky is building a prototype for a compact military recon helicopter it calls the S-97 Raider. Its previous effort, the RAH-66 Comanche, was canceled by the Army; it couldn’t hit 250 knots. Looks like it was worth the wait for the X2. The 2010 award is a great way for the Collier to celebrate its 100th birthday—with speed. | <urn:uuid:60de4db3-8014-4166-a602-ae8c7a3bfb07> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.airspacemag.com/flight-today/from-zero-to-250-162656243/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00302-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925497 | 765 | 2.5625 | 3 |
A new series in the New York Times this week addressed “The Fate of the Humanities”, an issue that has been widely debated in the United States since the release of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Heart of the Matter report this past June. The New York Times has published a number of articles and op-eds about studying the humanities in recent months, and this latest installment sees six different members of the higher-ed community discuss a range of considerations for the state of the discipline.
But what about the social sciences? Science Magazine reported earlier this week that US Senator Elizabeth Warren has announced her support for social science funding from the National Science Foundation, which has faced efforts by other lawmakers to place restrictions on funding for academic research. Warren made a number of comments on the value of basic research and stated that “social science research is a compass for policymakers”.
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) recently launched the second edition of Research for a Better Life: the Storytellers, a competition aimed at highlighting the tangible results and practical applications of research in the humanities and social sciences. The contest opened on November 1st and runs until January 15th, and the top 25 finalists will present their work at the Storytellers showcase at Congress 2014.
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Pioneer VFX was founded on July 29th, 2015 and is focused on providing high quality products and services. Pioneer VFX is a small business specializing in matchmoving, motion graphics, and visual effects for film, television, and web. Dana Dillavou is certified in Adobe After Effects CS5.
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I love to dream about, talk about, and sing about world peace. And I know in my own relationships and community that I am 100% responsible for how that is going. Meaning, if I know two people who don’t get along, perhaps I can offer insights to help clear the air. Or if someone is in disagreement with me, it is my duty to apologize, regardless of who is right or wrong. I personally believe the world is at war with itself over stories about right vs wrong. Just read any thread of comments on any topic shared on the Internet and you will see humanity accusing itself of what is right and what is wrong, often times hatefully or stupidly. In order for us to overcome these small hateful crimes, or even the big world wars, humanity will need to come to a basic understanding. That we are all equal. Everybody hurts. And that from time to time we all just want some gosh darn peace and quiet.
UNITY is more than a film. It provides the basic educational tools to understand the current state of the world and how it came to be. UNITY is a movement. We are constantly evolving and adapting to an ever changing world and UNITY is the message for our time. Were humanity to practice humility and grace, which after all, is what being human is all about, we would have the power to end all wars, feed all people, and as its sung about again and again, live as ONE.
“We must become experts at the intellectual management of our mental seeds… From now on, we need to be careful only to plant good new seeds, and never negative ones.”
- excerpt from How Yoga Works by Geshe Michael Roach
Last fall I joined UrbanFarm.org in their online urban farming class to learn new ways to improve and transform my yard, turning it into a more efficient and edible environment. Yes edible.
Back in January, during a break from tour, I was able to put my new knowledge to good use and improve my yard as well as my compost heap and the quality of life for my chickens. I also enjoyed getting properly chased by my new bees while busy upping the diversity in my orchard by planting 30 new fruit trees. I did all of this in little time thanks to the new insights shared by UrbanFarm.org.
Urban farming is about making the most out of a small space. It’s about declaring your yard, your courtyard or windowsill as an actual farm. And then working with the seasons, the sunlight, and local resources like discarded materials and water-runoff to bring it to life as cheaply and conveniently as possible.
It isn’t as daunting as one might think and the payoff is spectacular. Taking control of your food and water supply means reclaiming your power by saving money, saving energy, saving waste and saving fuel believe it or not. It is the foundation for the idea “think globally and act locally.”
In the coming weeks UrbanFarm.orgwill be hosting a free webinar called “SeedSavingHacked.“ This will be a fascinating class about how to save your own seeds, secure your favorite foods for the future and the interesting events that led up to the patenting and ownership of 78% of our seeds by 3 companies. In the rapidly changing world where the FDA has recently signed off on the Genetically Modified Apple, I feel more encouraged than ever to learn about seeds and seed saving.
To start, it’s important to know the difference between the 3 main types of seeds:
Heirloom – what happens naturally when a plant is left alone for tens of thousands of years; the seed always produces the same variety.
Hybrid, when two sexually compatible plants cross-pollinate to produce a new variety, making interesting food, but sometimes not great new seeds, hence the need for saving. This does occur in nature but is commonly applied by man. A hybrid seed is NOT a GMO.
Sunrise. As a time zone jumper I sleep when I can and wake up when I don’t want to. But at any hour homecoming is nice and I relish my quiet time at a kitchen table with a snoring cat as a centerpiece, some cinnamon toast, and a turmeric latte.
Try the latte! A little honey and a spoonful of turmeric, stirred in a shot of hot water, under a cup of hot homemade almond milk, or whichever nut-milk you prefer.
I spoil myself with delicious homemade beverages, an addiction that started back in 2008. “Vitamineral Green” smoothies became and still are a daily staple in my diet, but with them came a curiosity for other tasty sippers. To make it easy I travel with a second suitcase exclusively to satisfy my cravings. In this “kitchen case” you will find a water filter, a hand blender, sometimes a milk-frother and a tea kettle, and an assortment or superfood powders, tinctures, teas, and spices. Sometimes I do have to pay an extra-baggage fee when traveling, but that $25-$50 is made up by not having to purchase water, or succumb to franchises’ unhealthy coffee concoctions. I also try to carry a container of hemp-milk and a few San Diego made “Perfect Bars” which stay perfectly chilled when traveling under an airplane. Rarely do my ingredients explode but it does happen. Upon arrival in Bangkok last week, I opened my kitchen case to find everything dusted a deep algae green, but it gave me a reason to unpack and reorganize, which my OCD enjoyed.
My usual morning beverage is a dark roast Maté tea, sweetened with a dark stevia, with a splash of hempmilk, topped with Cinnamon. I started drinking Maté back in 2007 to cut down on coffee, which I still enjoy, but only on special occasions – like egg nog.
On performance evenings my mug holds a super-potent “Calli” mint tea from the Sunrider Brand, with a shot of Chinese Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa for the throat if needed. I highly recommend this blend for singers.
By day it’s all water for me, but I do add flower essences, essential oils, stevia, echinacea, and chlorophyll to keep it interesting. I’ll even add salt if I’m heading to hot yoga. When asked what I’m drinking, it’s fun to just say Organic Unicorn Tears. But sometimes it turns brown, in which case Mona refers to it as poo-juice.
Speaking of juice. The fresh juice industry is booming. Say no more other than Yes Please.
I share this in hopes of broadening your horizons on liquid intake, saving you money and keeping you healthy. For example, you’d think with all the planes, trains, and bus rides I take around the world that I would catch a bug from time to time. But I haven’t had even the sniffles in over a year. And I credit this consistency to keeping hydrated – keeping the blood happy – and avoiding sugar drinks and dairy drinks which break down poorly in the body, causing inflammation which causes allergic reactions and phlegmy cold symptoms. Yes, common colds CAN be avoided.
For more health, travel and lifestyle tips, ask me what you want to know. Good Morning!
The modern world is weird. And there’s plenty of reasons to get bummed out about it. Whether it’s war, famine, poverty, environmental negligence, or afternoon traffic, being human in this age takes courage to keep living, and calls for a lot of heart to care about it.
And, when it seems politicians are already bought and paid for, it will take the courage of our conscious communities to carry us to the polls in 2 weeks to vote on measures that matter.
Here are a few important pieces of legislature that need our support in the upcoming election:
1: Food Labeling laws. The right to know what’s in our food.
Major foods brands who make up The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) actually invest millions of dollars into anti-labeling laws nationwide to prevent consumers from knowing about harmful ingredients and genetically modified organisms known as GMO’s. The GMA has even sued the state of Vermont to overturn a GMO labeling law passed there earlier this year. Super Weird.
If you are a new parent. Do not feed your child anything made of non-organic soy. Many baby formulas are made with GMO Soy, which has led to many new cases of severe food allergies & even autism.
In addition to voting, you can also boycott GMA members.
No more fracking. No more drilling. No on anything degenerative. We now live in the age of information where we know it’s all about REGENERATIVE actions and products. REGENERATIVE power. REGENERATIVE agriculture and farming. Actions that help us sustain life! Vote against methods that diminish life. Vote against propositions that are degenerative and accumulate waste.
Today 33 states have opened their minds to medicinal marijuana and 2 states are now legal for recreational use. In those states, citizens now have a choice to combat illnesses with natural cures.
Cannabis is the origin of canvas and as a sustainable-regenerative product it has thousands of uses. Cannabis as a cellulose product has tens of thousands of uses, including bio-fuel and cancer-curing tinctures. In a world where alcohol & tobacco are celebrated, it makes no sense to ban a renewable resources like Cannabis.
For more than 40 years, the war on drugs has proven little to make the world safer against drugs. Each year 700,000 innocent people are arrested on drug charges, most of them young black men. And those arrests make it more difficult to get jobs and often limits their ability to receive an education. The police and the penal system are making a profit by incarcerating these innocent people, and society is losing. Big Time.
Do those drug laws protect us from ourselves? Addicts use drugs to treat pain and/or try to feel connected in society. Drug use is a symptom. The problem is whatever trauma or displacement causes them to need drugs in the first place. Arresting a cannabis user only adds more trauma and pain. Society needs more compassion. Not more prisons.
The time has come to legalize. Are we are the tipping point generation?
All throughout this tour I’ve had the pleasure of singing and speaking about my love for getting back to the earth, even going so far as jump-starting a few gardens before showtime, and sharing pictures of my own garden onstage. And while I passionately promote the idea of growing your own delicious edible landscape, I get a lot of people asking me how. Well, after doing a little digging, here’s the dirt!
If you seek the knowledge to easily grow your own food, here is a cool FREE opportunity to learn from one of the leaders in the Urban Farming movement. Greg Peterson, founder of the Urban Farm, university professor and author of The Urban Farms Simple Sustainability Series will host a FREE webinar on OCT 2nd & again on OCT 4th, sharing the 6 essential ingredients to growing your own healthy and nutritious food. Whether this is your first garden or you’ve been gardening for years, his unique perspective will shed light on just how simple this process actually is.
After the free webinar, there will be a chance to dig deeper as Professor Peterson will be offering an online Urban Farming 101 class starting Oct 13th. I enrolled for that too and look forward to learning from the road. Will you be in my class?
For as long as I can remember, Mr Page’s website has referred to him as “songwriter troubadour filmmaker astronaut.” And in many ways I relate. To tour is to orbit the Earth. We may not travel 17,000 miles per hour like those aboard the ISS (International Space Station), but we do log those miles eventually, on our own time. And we too see the world from many fascinating angles.
Music takes you places. It can guide you through your inner world, making sense of emotion and easing pain, or it can literally take you around the planet, from NYC to San Diego; Antarctica to Outer Space.
I recently had the pleasure of visiting Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX where I got to hang with astronauts on the ground and converse with those in space, all thanks to music. Did you know that we’ve had someone in space for 14 consecutive years? The space-men & women still change shifts every 6 months but plan to extend their stay-cations to an entire year.
The recently retired NASA shuttle program was not the end of our space program at all. Now that the ISS is practically self-sustaining, NASA is refocusing its exploration away from low orbit and looking to soon be exploring nearby asteroids, moons of Mars, and Mars itself; searching for medicines & histories on the frontiers of new technology. Again I see the comparisons between songwriters & astronauts. Troubadours explore new and old worlds to share those worlds’ stories, all the while putting medicine in the music to increase the potency of the message.
On board the ISS, each crew member is required to exercise 2 hours a day in order to preserve their bone mass. They eat processed foods due to the lack of farmer’s markets in space. And they drink recycled pee. Astro-Nutty! We troubadours might eat at gas stations & diners. And we might pee in moving vans if there’s no time to stop before the gig, but the only thing we exercise is our right to free speech. I guess Astronauts have us beat.
I think I’ll keep my feet on the ground and continue to look up to astronauts as I do.
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By Lesley Wroughton
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The World Bank is rethinking its role in the Middle East and North Africa to tackle economic and social problems that sparked political unrest, the bank's President Robert Zoellick said on Monday.
The poverty-fighting institution needs to find some way to convince resistant governments change is needed, he said.
"We have produced a number of flagship reports on governance, youth inequality, quality of education, special disparities, and the noncompetitive nature of the private sector in the region," Zoellick said in opening remarks at a World Bank conference on Arab issues.
"But the record of action has been spotty. Like others, we also have much to learn," he added.
Protests against political repression, corruption, high unemployment and a rising cost of living toppled rulers in Egypt and Tunisia and spurred uprisings in Yemen, Bahrain, Morocco, Jordan, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Libya.
The changes have forced institutions like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to take a harder look at their roles amid criticism they supported economic and development policies of authoritarian governments that worsened poverty and unemployment.
Zoellick said part of the process of modernizing multilateral institutions was to learn from mistakes.
"The challenge we have as an institution is when a government resists, how do we engage?" he told reporters.
"Some people say pull back, don't do anything, but often there are opportunities to ... make a difference," he added.
Zoellick said such issues need to be debated by World Bank member countries who fund the institution and meetings of the World Bank and IMF in mid-April present an opportunity to address ways the bank can support the transitions.
In the near-term, Zoellick said he worried about high expectations for change at a time when global food prices are rising, adding to the fiscal burden of countries in the region that import most of their food.
LEARNING FROM HISTORY
He said while there may be a tendency to want to forget the past, there were important lessons "not necessarily to be choked by them but to understand what questions to ask going forward".
"In order to identify and explore these issues, we need first and foremost to open up a genuine and deep dialogue with and between the different voices in the region," Zoellick told the conference. "They are issues that will not go away simply because one government fell, or one leader replaced another."
Samer Shehata, a professor at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University, told Reuters revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt were reactions against economic and social policies championed by the World Bank and IMF.
"In many ways the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions were against neo-liberal economic policies that were merciless on poor people because they bet on the future," Shehata said, pointing at the 14.4 percent unemployment rate in Tunisia.
Shehata said the institutions needed to change the methods they use to evaluate development and progress in the region, and should not sidestep sensitive political questions.
"They need to focus on the vast majority of the population and their living conditions, and also political issues like how good is the quality of institutions, is there political participation, and are elections free and fair," he said.
"It can't just be simply about rates of growth."
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This gas chromatographic method is for determining individual and total trace hydrocarbon impurities in olefin-free, high-purity benzene. C8 and lower boiling paraffins, naphthenes, toluene, and C8 aromatics are determined. The lower limit of quantitation for any single component is 1 mg/kg (mass-ppm).
Benzene purity can also be determined by ASTM Method D4492, where the lower detection limit is 50 mg/kg per component. Although benzene is not listed in their scopes, ASTM Methods D2360, D5917, and D7504 may also be used to measure impurities in benzene. All of these ASTM Methods determine the non-aromatics as a total whereas this method also provides a distribution.
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So my nephew is getting into cake decorating. His birthday is coming up, and I thought I'd send him some stuff from Global Sugar Art. I don't think he has many tools or any books, but I believe he's got fondant. He called and wanted to make my apple cake.
What would be some good stuff to get him for starting out? What books?
I would get him some classes!!! I think that would be cool. Find out what places in his area offer them, how much, send him the money so he can arrange a time that suits his schedule.
I agree with Tesso. Classes would be great.
As for books, I love the Sculpey Clay modeling line. They are great for learning how to model fondant.
Get him a cake tip kit. Wilton has some of those carrying cases that come with tools inside. A gift certificate for classes would be nice. Have him explore youtube for very useful videos. It's great that he is interested in this art. So many kids are into video games and want nothing to do with hands on crafts. My 8 year old son can make a gumpaste rose thanks to my Nicholas Lodge DVDs. Keep encouraging him.
Give him this website. Then give him a gift card at your favorite cake supply store.
Does he want to decorate or just learn to bake cakes?
How about an assortment of good gel colors, piping bags, bubble tea straws, cake circles...those little neccesities that you might not know you need until you need them .
A treadmill, so he can eat all the cake he wants.
I agree with Elcee, get him some of the basic tools. You could make up a little hamper - to add on to the above I would also suggest fondant smoothers, balling tools etc some cookie cutters (circles/squares) and a personalised apron.
A really good turntable.
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Scientists have developed a new system to study Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the laboratory, paving the way for research to find treatments for the fatal brain disorder.
The team have devised a method of studying the abnormal proteins responsible for the disease - called prions - in specialized brain cells grown from stem cells.
The advance marks the first time scientists have been able to infect human cells with the proteins in the laboratory.
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a human disease similar to Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in cows and Chronic Wasting Disease in deer.
Until now, the only way to study the human form of the disease has been in animals. These studies have yielded valuable information but the relevance of the findings for CJD has been unclear.
Efforts to investigate how prions are passed between brain cells have been hampered by an inability to replicate the proteins in human cells in the lab.
Researchers led by the University of Edinburgh generated brain cells called astrocytes from induced pluripotent stem cells - non-specialized cells that have the ability to transform into other cell types.
They successfully infected these cells in a dish with prions isolated from brain samples of CJD patients.
The infected astrocytes produced more prions and were able to infect neighboring healthy cells, the team found, something scientists had never been able to recreate in the lab before.
Experts say this marks a significant milestone in quest to better understand prion diseases in people, and could eventually aid the development of new therapies.
The research also demonstrates the potential of human stem-cell derived astrocytes to notably reduce, and in many instances replace, animal studies of human prion disease. The team says this could make a significant contribution to lowering the number of animals used in research in line with the principles of the 3Rs - Reduction, Replacement, Refinement - which are a central tenet of the ethical use of animals in research.
Prion diseases cause brain damage that worsens rapidly over time and are invariably fatal. The most common form of prion disease in people is sporadic CJD, which occurs spontaneously in the population. Around one in a million people in the UK are affected each year.
A different form of the disease - known as variant CJD - can be acquired by consuming contaminated meat from animals with prion disease, such as BSE in cows. The disease has claimed 229 lives since it was first identified 20 years ago - of which 177 were from the UK - and it remains very rare. However, it has been estimated that as many as one in 2000 people in the UK could be carrying infectious prions without showing any symptoms.
The study is published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine and was funded by the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement & Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs). The researchers collaborated with experts from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) on the project.
Dr James Alibhai, of the National CJD Research & Surveillance Unit at the University of Edinburgh, said: "Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease was first reported almost 100 years ago but remains a universally fatal disease. We still have little understanding of what triggers the condition and how it is spread.
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(CNSNews.com) - Since Sept. 11, many Americans have donated their dollars to charities that benefit the victims of the terrorist attacks, even so President Bush Thursday reminded Americans not to forget community-based charities this holiday season.
During a visit to Martha's Table, a soup kitchen in Washington, he urged people "to find ways to contribute, not only time but money."
Bush even repeated his support for faith-based initiatives.
"Part of my vision for a better America is that our country understand the power of faith-based and community-based organizations and government should do everything it can to facilitate their expansion all around the country, that a lot of times faith can do things that others can't," the president said.
"And while government should never promote a particular religion, government should not fear faith and should welcome those programs based upon faith, because government couldn't possibly duplicate what goes on inside this building. There is no way that our government could mandate love," Bush said.
"I used to tell people I wish I could make people love one another and I'd sign the bill, but that's not the way life works," he added. "What happens is dedicated citizens decide they're going to do something to better the community in which they live and without government say 'Let's go. Let's roll. Let's make it happen.'"
Instead of gift-giving this year, Bush suggested people contribute to charity.
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Your little one might love Fido, but she has a funny way of showing it. Teasing, taunting and hurting the dog with rough play are just some of the ways children can provoke dogs into potentially dangerous behavior. While many dogs are tolerant of feisty children, even the most patient pooch can have a breaking point. Approximately 800,000 Americans receive medical attention for dog bites per year and half of those treated are children, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Teaching your child to interact safely with the pup can help protect her from possible serious injury.
Immediately separate your child from the dog when she begins teasing or hurting him. Avoid waiting to see if she stops teasing the dog on her own -- an upset dog can lash out with a bite in a matter of seconds. Place the dog in a crate or separate room of your home. Explain to her that teasing, taunting and hurting the dog is dangerous because it can make the dog angry and cause him to bite, possibly causing her serious injury. Stress that animals aren't stuffed toys and need to be handled with care and treated with respect. Inform her that she'll no longer be allowed to play with the dog if she doesn't begin treating him gently with love and kindness.
Nurture your child's instinctual capacity for empathy by teaching her to consider the dog's feelings, recommends the American Humane Association. Explain that animals have feelings and feel pain when they become hurt, just like people do. You might ask, "How do you think Fido feels when you shout at him, pull his tail and try to scare him?" or "How do you feel when the children at school tease you?" or "How would you like it if somebody jumped on you while you're asleep?" Praise her when she answers each question by showing empathy for the dog. You might say, "I know you love the dog and don't want to hurt him."
Forbid your child to be alone with the dog, even for a moment. Closely supervise their interactions until she learns to stop teasing and hurting him. If you need to use the bathroom or answer the door, take your little one with you or place the dog in a secure room or crate. Eighty-eight percent of child fatalities from dog attacks occurred when the child was without supervision, according to the American Humane Society. If she begins teasing or hurting the dog under your watch, continue to enforce time-outs by separating them. You might say, "You pulled the dog's tail after I told you not to. So you won't be allowed to play with him for the rest of the day."
Teach your little one how to read the pup's body language. Explain that because dogs can't talk, they communicate with their bodies to indicate when they're upset with a person or situation. Teasing, taunting and annoying the dog can lead him to reveal his resulting stress through body language. Instruct her to pay attention to signs that indicate the dog dislikes the way she's interacting with him, such as growling, lip smacking, lifting his tail as she approaches or standing very still or stiffly, according to the website Caesar's Way. Warn her to avoid direct eye contact with the pup during those times and slowly move away from him. Advise her to never to follow or chase the dog if he retreats from her.
Items you will need
- Dog crate
- Warn your child never to approach, pet or attempt to play with the dog while he's eating, sleeping, caring for puppies or chewing on a bone or toy. Dogs tend to bite more when they're frightened, startled or protecting their young.
- HealthyChildren.org: Safety Around Pets
- Partnership for Animal Rescue: Dog Tip: Safer Play
- American Humane Association: Kids Interacting With Dogs Safely
- Cesar's Way: How to Prevent Your Child From Being Bitten by a Dog
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Dog Bite: Fact Sheet
- American Humane Association: Dog Bites
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Happy Fun Science Friday everyone! After a busy semester I hope to get into the regular groove of Fun Science Friday posts.
This week I bring you the first and only known venomous crustacean, the remipede Speleonectes tulumensis.
These crustaceans were first discovered in the 1980s and suspected to be venomous after documentation that behind their jaws, they had a pair of sharp, hollow-tipped fangs that were connected to glands. This was a strong indication that the fangs were being used to inject a chemical into prey, though it was never proven…. Until now! Step forward Bjorn von Reumont, from the Natural History Museum in London, whose team thoroughly described the fangs and characterized the cocktail of toxins in the venom of S. tulumensis.
Before reading about this creature it never occurred to me that were no known venomous crustaceans. Admittedly I could never think of an example of a venomous crustacean, however, I just assumed there were plenty of weird ones out there, whose names had never crossed my mental path. Ya know, the whole absence of evidence not being the evidence of absence.
Anywho, I am pleased to report that the first venomous crustacean has been described and now my mind can rest easy knowing one exists. Learn more about this creature here:
Or read the actual science article describing this species here:
Happy Fun Science Friday all!! 😀
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|Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards|
Today, Governor John Bel Edwards signed an executive order providing employment protections for LGBT state employees and employees of state contractors.
This executive order also prohibits discrimination in services provided by state agencies, and recognizes an exemption for churches and religious organizations.
The Democratic governor also rescinded his Republican predecessor’s order offering protections to people who oppose same-sex marriage.
There is currently no state law protecting LGBT Louisianans from employment discrimination.
“We are fortunate enough to live in a state that is rich with diversity, and we are built on a foundation of unity and fairness for all of our citizens,” said Gov. Edwards. “We respect our fellow citizens for their beliefs, but we do not discriminate based on our disagreements. I believe in giving every Louisianan the opportunity to be successful and to thrive in our state. Our goal is to promote the opportunities we have right here in Louisiana. While this executive order respects the religious beliefs of our people, it also signals to the rest of the country that discrimination is not a Louisiana value, but rather, that Louisiana is a state that is respective and inclusive of everyone around us.”
DNC chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz issued this statement via press release in support of the governor's executive order:
“I applaud Governor John Edwards for continuing our party’s strong tradition of equality and protecting all Americans from discrimination. His executive order protecting state workers and contractors from anti-LGBT discrimination will help ensure that LGBT Louisianans have the equal protection under the law they deserve.
“Governor Edwards’ leadership stands in stark contrast to the disingenuous arguments that we’ve heard from Republican leaders in North Carolina, in Mississippi, in Washington, DC, and elsewhere. We have seen Republican Governors cater to the most extreme voices in their party by signing anti-LGBT bills and we’ve seen the Republican National Committee endorse policies that would further target the LGBT community for discrimination.
“Sadly, anti-LGBT measures have become part of the standard Republican playbook. Discrimination is neither a ‘right’ nor a ‘liberty.’ Hatred holds our nation back, and creates divisions where none should exist.
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By Ryhor Astapenia
On 19 August, CEO of Belaruskali, the valuable Belarusian company, Valery Kiryjenka held a press conference on the situation in the global potash market. Kiryjenka criticised Uralkali and hinted that Uralkali keeps trying to make a raider seizure of Belaruskali.
Last month, Russian potash producer Uralkali announced that it would suspend exports through the Belarusian Potash Company. Many have perceived this step as the beginning of a new Russian-Belarusian economic war.
Economic wars remain an important part of relations between Russia and Belarus. By the means of economic wars, Kremlin points the proper place to its younger brother and restricts the independence of Belarus. However, the current conflict differs from the previous ones. For the first time a Russian private company, not a public entity, creates a big challenge for Belarus. The consequences affect not only mutual relations, but the whole world.
The new economic war shows the importance of Belaruskali, which remains the largest taxpayer of the country. Currently the company is undergoing changes. Although Belaruskali will lose part of its profits because of the new war, it will remain an enterprise owned by the Belarusian state. If Uralkali had a chance to acquire the Belaruskali before, the current conflict has buried Russia's hopes to do so.
Why Uralkali Decided to Divorce
On 19 August, Belaruskali`s CEO accused that the Russian management has transferred a number of the BPC's contracts to the Uralkali`s own Trader, and then has gone away to work in the Uralkali. Thus, the Belarusian Potash Company lost most of its distribution network abroad.
Last month, Uralkali`s CEO Vladislav Baumgertner said that Belaruskali started selling fertilisers outside the Belarusian Potash Company, which terminates the existing agreement to jointly trade abroad of all meaning. The Belarusian side quickly blamed Uralkali for selling fertilisers through its subsidiary.
Although both sides exchanged serious accusations, the roots of the conflict lie in the difference between aims of Belaruskali and Uralkali. For a long time Uralkali worked at only 50% of its capacity. The decline in production led to a retention of the high price of potash fertilisers on the world market. That was the purpose of Uralkali.
Belarus today has a very different goal: to earn now, and as much as possible. Belaruslkali remains one of the few companies that bring revenues into the Belarusian economy. In fact, Belarus was in a very beneficial position to increase the prices for potash while Uralkali was limiting its production.
Russians suspected the Belarusian enterprise of using "shady schemes" at the Brazilian market. Officially, this year Belaruskali has been responsible for nearly half of potash fertilisers imports in Brazil.
Economic conflicts between Belarus and Russia remain a significant part of the official fraternal relations. Conflicts of delivery of energy to Belarus exploded in 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2010. In 2009, Russia banned the import of Belarusian dairy products. Journalists called that conflict "milk war".
Although economic conflicts between Belarus and Russia happen now and then today's war has a few differences.
If the previous conflicts were conflicts between the states, today, a private company Uralkali has become one of the parties to the conflict. So far, Russian companies have never challenged Belarusian leadership at this level. Although it seems that Uralkali coordinated its decision with the Kremlin.
As the old economic conflicts were a continuation of the policy only with the use of other means, Minsk and Moscow solved them at the political level. Despite possible coordination, Uralkali`s leadership remains different from the Kremlin: the private company will not give up their own economic interests, if Lukashenka offers further Belarusian-Russian integration.
Previous conflicts have been more of a "local wars", the current conflict has attracted the attention of the world media. Currently Uralkali covers about 20% of the world market. Belaruskali covers a little more - about 23%.
Before the global market crisis, the price of fertilisers reached $1,000 per ton, today it is about $400. At times, the price can go down to as low as $300 or even less. This is especially true due to the slowing pace of the economy in developing countries. In the short term, prices will fall, and manufacturers will start a new struggle for the redistribution of the market.
The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs
Aliaksei Valabuyeu, a local politician from Salihorsk, where Belaruskali is based, explained Belarus Digest that "people in town have become really concerned. Belaruskali had several crises during the last 10 years. Back then, the enterprises forced people to go on a long vacation, and that means not only Belaruskali, but also other companies cooperating with the potash producer." Salihorsk locals worry because the Belarusian Potash industry is undergoing serious changes.
In December 2012, Alexander Lukashenka signed a decree that Belaruskali can sell their products not only through Belarusian Potash Company, but also through other traders. After the break with Uralkali Belarusian state-owned company announced a new partnership with the Qatari firm Muntajat and the Brazilian company Sertrading.
Over the last month the Belarusian Potash Company also changed its board of directors. Former director Valery Ivanou went to work to the Presidential Administration, and his deputy, Alena Kudravets became chairperson of the trader. Previously she served as Belaruskali's Deputy Director for Commerce and Logistics.
Because of the competition at the market, Belaruskali had to produce more fertilisers and sell them cheaper. In the end, Belarus will also suffer from these skirmish. If in 2012 the Belarusian producer brought in a profit of $780m, this year the figure may drop two-three times. Belaruskali`s CEO admitted that "he would never go into an alliance with the Uralkali after what they did. Although if Uralkali change owners and approach - everything is possible."
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Acupuncture For Anxiety And Depression – How Does It Help?
Anxiety and depression are known to be the most shared forms of mental ailments affecting people from all over the world. It can be chiefly credited to your lifestyle choices. With technological innovations and advancements, the typical work routine has been successfully stretched beyond the traditional work hours, leading to stress, anxiety, depression and other mental problems.
Ironically, most people find it easier to ignore these problems instead of addressing them. At some point, you may be faced with the option of using certain anti-depressant drugs. However, as long as the inner problem remains unsolved, it is naïve to expect any positive changes in your life.
Acupuncture can help in addressing the problems of anxiety and depression. Here’s how the science behind acupuncture works.
How Acupuncture Works?
Acupuncture is a form of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) that involves stimulation of Qi (or energy) by the meridians. The TCM believes in the fact that the physical interaction of the body with the elements of character has a thorough-rooted impact on the internal roles, like the psychological health of a person. consequently, by appropriate stimulation of nerves and tissues, the traditional Chinese medicine aims to rectify internal imbalances that rule to anxiety and depression.
The fine needles typically used for acupuncture are placed strategically across dominant pressure points and/or specific areas that help in yielding the desired results. Depending on the location of needles, different therapeutic effects can be observed from the treatment. Acupuncture can help in stimulating the immune system, producing pain-killing chemicals in the body, treating varied illnesses and stimulating mental health.
Benefits of Acupuncture
There are several benefits attached with acupuncture as a medium of resolving anxiety and depression. Here are a few of these to help you understand why acupuncture is better than most other forms of medicine.
• No side effects: Although, in some situations, acupuncture may cause bruising and dizziness, its incidence is fairly infrequent. This mode of treatment does not work all the time but the percentage of acupuncture failures (provided you are approaching the right specialists for the treatment) are few.
• No dependency: Most anti-depressant and anti-stress drugs are known to create dependency. The user cannot stop using these drugs without experiencing certain withdrawal symptoms. In the long run, there may be several other side-effects associated with drug-use that may rule to greater problems.
• Safe and proven: Acupuncture is a tried and tested form of treatment. It has helped several people unprotected to holistic health and fitness goals. You can already use it in combination with traditional medicine in order to enhance the effect of the treatment.
Acupuncture is freely becoming a preferred mode of treatment for anxiety and depression. It helps in relieving stress, which, in turn, helps in clearing the mind of negative thoughts. This also helps you to sleep better, which adequately addresses the inner cause of several health problems. In the absence of stress, you will be able to enhance your medical health automatically. | <urn:uuid:b305fa37-7359-4549-a341-6f2ce3b3a4ce> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://insche.com/acupuncture-for-anxiety-and-depression-how-does-it-help/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.945396 | 624 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Many parents assume that fillings in baby teeth aren’t necessary for their children. After all, baby teeth will eventually fall out and permanent teeth will grow in their place. So why resin fillings in baby teeth?
Resin fillings are a popular method for treating decay or fractures in baby teeth because they emulate the look of real teeth, have safety approval from the FDA, and are long-lasting.
The fact of the matter is that the health of kids’ baby teeth can determine the health of their permanent ones. Treating decay now will prevent serious issues later. Read on to find out why fillings in baby teeth can be a crucial step in helping your child develop a healthy smile in the future.
What Is a Resin Filling?
Just what is resin filling for teeth?
Resin fillings are a dental composite made from acrylic and protected by other ceramic particles such as glass or quartz. Patients prefer these fillings over the metal alternatives used in traditional dentistry because they are more aesthetically pleasing and look like real teeth.
When Do We Use Resin Fillings?
Why do dentists put fillings in baby teeth? Resin fillings in baby teeth can help treat decay or fractures that are small to medium in size. When a larger restoration is needed, stainless steel crowns are the best option.
If your child has baby teeth that are cracked, broken, or decayed, it can lead to their permanent teeth growing crooked or in the wrong place. When a cavity is left untreated for example, the damage can create a malformation in the new emerging tooth.
Our dentists can assess your child’s unique situation and provide expert recommendations to help determine what the best treatment is. Whether it’s resin filling or a different treatment option, evaluating the risks and benefits is important.
Why Fix Baby Teeth?
There are several reasons to fix baby teeth. Aside from helping your child feel better about their smile, treating primary teeth can improve their chances of having healthy adult teeth. It can also prevent more serious issues from developing, such as an abscess from untreated decay.
According to the CDC, leaving decayed or damaged baby teeth untreated can also increase the risks of:
- Oral infections
- Speech problems
- Issues with eating and digestion
- Severe pain
Advantages of Resin Fillings
Resin fillings are becoming increasingly popular in dentistry for several reasons:
- They provide a perfect color match for natural teeth (In dentistry, this procedure code is called resin composite 2s posterior)
- Resin fillings are durable and can last up to seven years
- You can use them to correct imperfections or damage
- There is a reduced risk of fillings coming out
- Resin isn’t prone to expansion like other materials
Disadvantages of Resin Fillings
Though resin fillings are generally a great option, they aren’t suitable for every patient. Some disadvantages include:
- They last approximately half as long as amalgam fillings
- They’re more expensive than other types of fillings
- Placing resin fillings in teeth is a longer process
- This type of filling can only be used for small or moderately sized restorations
How Long Do Composite Fillings Last?
Resin fillings will not last as long as other types of fillings. A composite filling will last an average of five to seven years. With proper care, they may last ten years or longer. Every patient is different however, and the lifespan of resin feelings will depend on several factors, including the following:
- Oral hygiene
- The patient’s overall health
Are Resin Fillings Safe?
It’s natural for patients to worry about the safety of their fillings. Teeth fillings have been the subject of controversy over the years, especially regarding the safety of amalgam fillings.
While amalgam fillings developed a bad reputation due to containing mercury, the debate around resin fillings has to do with the BPA components. Concerns are largely related to whether BPA leaks into the body and potentially accumulates in fatty tissue.
To address concerns, the FDA released several guidelines. The agency concluded that there isn’t available evidence to suggest that resin fillings are harmful. In certain clinical situations, they may be a better alternative to amalgam fillings. Moreover, the FDA doesn’t consider BPA to be a health concern given the small amounts released during application.
In regard to amalgams, health agencies do recommend a more limited use and propose a few limitations. These include avoiding amalgam if the patient is pregnant or has a health condition that puts them more at risk from mercury exposure. In these situations, resin fillings may be a much safer alternative.
Composite Fillings Procedure
Receiving resin fillings is a fairly simple process that can be completed in one visit. There are a few steps to expect during an appointment for resin fillings.
Step One: Selecting a Shade
The first thing a dentist will do when considering a resin filling procedure is determine which tooth color filling or shade works best with the natural teeth.
Step Two: Anesthesia
The next step is to apply a simple injection of local anesthesia to numb the area around the affected teeth. This will ensure the procedure is painless.
Step Three: Removing Decay
If the patient needs a filling due to the presence of cavities, dentists will remove any affected part of the tooth that shows damage.
Step Four: Cleaning and Drying
After removing any existing decay, the dentist will ensure teeth are cleaned and dried before beginning the application process. Moisture inhibits proper adhesion to teeth, so this is an important step. If the patient requires tooth shaving, this will be done during this step as well.
Step Five: Dental Bonding
Bonding refers to the process of repairing cracks or broken parts of a tooth. This includes repairing small chips.
Step Six: Layering Resin Material
After the teeth have been cleaned, dried, and bonded, the next step is to begin the process of layering material. This entails using a light for curing the materials and allowing them to set.
Step Seven: Shaping and Polishing
The final step is for the dentist to shape and contour each repaired tooth to ensure a perfect fit. Lastly, the teeth will be polished.
Even though children grow new teeth, the health of their adult teeth will largely depend on the care their baby teeth receive. It’s common for children to chip their baby teeth or develop cavities, so the dentists at Children’s Dental FunZoe can help you determine the best course of action and help to prep your child for their appointment. In many cases, resin fillings are the most appropriate treatment and can help ensure future oral health. | <urn:uuid:6331191e-028e-42e7-84c2-da9e1387a8e2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://childrensdentalfunzone.com/blog/advantages-of-using-resin-fillings-in-baby-teeth/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.918009 | 1,430 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Pope Francis has certainly made an impression on the people with his compassion for the sick and less fortunate. However, what has been received as a call for capitalism to share wealth with the poor is not garnering any favor with right-wing conservatives and Wall Street. From the day he was announced as the new Pontiff, Pope Francis has been hailed as a “defender of the poor and a champion of social justice“.
In an article written today in the Catholic Online, author Deacon Keith Fournier claims that Rush Limbaugh is wrong and Karen Finney of MSNBC is nuts for their perception on Pope Francis’ comments relating to capitalism. Fournier writes, “The word capitalism does not even appear in the Apostolic Exhortation entitled The Joy of the Gospel. In fact, there is nothing new in what Francis says about economics in this document at all”.
In the 84 page document, known as the Apostolic Exhortation, Pope Francis defines his platform and outlines top priorities for his papacy. Prior comments by the Pope has only focused on the declining state of the global economy, but the document does provide more insight into the belief system of Pope Francis. However, right-wing conservatives such as Rush Limbaugh are making claims that Pope Francis crossed the line by equating “unfettered capitalism” with “tyranny”.
“Pope Francis attacked unfettered capitalism as ‘a new tyranny’ and beseeched global leaders to fight poverty and growing inequality, in a document on Tuesday setting out a platform for his papacy and calling for a renewal of the Catholic Church. … In it, Francis went further than previous comments criticizing the global economic system, attacking the ‘idolatry of money.'” ~ Rush Limbaugh
Pope Francis wrote, “How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points?” He also went on to say, “Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless”.
Pope Francis praised measures by global leaders to improve social welfare, health care, education, and communication, but he also reminds that the majority of people are still living from day to day in dire circumstances. Pope Francis drew from an analogy of the Ten Commandments stating, “Just as the commandment ‘Thou shalt not kill’ sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today we also have to say ‘thou shalt not’ to an economy of exclusion and inequality. Such an economy kills.”
Maybe the document does not include the word “capitalism’ in its word count, but this tidbit does not undermine the weight of his words and its reception by the people. In November, Archbishop Joseph Kurtz was elected as the leader of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). According to his biography, Archbishop Kurtz received a Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Maryland, and he has spent the bulk of his calling working with the Catholic Social Agency and Family Bureau.
In a statement released by Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good on Kurtz’s election states:
We thank God for the election of Archbishop Joseph Kurtz as the President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. With his long pastoral experience, he’s a man who is clearly capable of moving the bishops’ conference forward in the vision laid out by Pope Francis. During this time of great excitement and fanfare for the universal Church, the bishops of the United States have a unique opportunity to renew the American Church as a place of welcome for all God’s children and as a tireless protector of God’s gifts in the public sphere, particularly as a defender of the poor and the marginalized. We look forward to journeying together with him in the years to come.
As an organization, we once again renew ourselves in our dedication to the Church. During his inaugural homily, Pope Francis asked all of us to work together to be protectors of God’s gifts. With Archbishop Kurtz, the bishops of the United States and the entire American Church, we plan to do just that.
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In 1834, novelist Charles Dickens described a bus journey in detail, and focused heavily on the “amusing” passengers who, he claimed, changed as fast as a kaleidoscope. These famous words perfectly sum up the joy of bus travel for many of us – if you are a fan of people watching, there is no better option available! In just a few steps, we will discover how to create our very own bus stop – from there, the limit is your imagination!
Step-By-Step Images and Instructions
Use the brown pen and ruler to draw a line around an inch from the bottom of your page, and add two marks to the corners, pointing up at diagonals.
Connect the top of the corner lines together with another straight line…
And use the brown pen to fill in the shape.
Add three small lines to the bottom of the shape, one at either end, and one in the middle.
Now, use the brown pen and the ruler to add two more parallel lines above the shape.
Join the ends of this to create a long, thin rectangle. Then, add two more shapes above this with the ruler and brown pen.
Fill in the shapes with the brown pen…
With a blue pen and a ruler, add a blue to the very bottom line, extending this out slightly beyond the original line.
Use the blue pen and the ruler to add two vertical lines to either end of the horizontal line you just drew, extending these up towards the top of the page, and down past the legs at the bottom.
Connect the vertical lines at the top with a straight line, extending this out slightly, before adding two shorter lines at either end.
Now, add two tall, vertical lines in the center of the main shape, following this up with two shorter lines emerging from the top line.
Use the cyan highlighter pen to fill in the stop section, creating the top of the bus stop.
Now, use the tools to add a series of diagonal stripes across the back shape – these should start small, and get thicker as they move across to the right of the shape.
With a cyan pencil, fill in the remaining diagonal stripes, creating a “two tone” effect in the background.
Use the blue pen and the ruler to add a thin rectangle to the very top of the bus stop…
And then fill this in to create a solid shape.
Use a gray pencil and a ruler to add a rectangle shape to the bottom of the bench, creating a slightly angled line on the left-hand side.
Then use the gray pencil to fill this in.
Now, add a long, thin rectangle to the very bottom of the page.
Use the gray pencil to fill in this rectangle for a solid shape…
Now add lines to the sides and back, creating a large rectangle underneath the entire structure.
With a cyan pen and the ruler, add two short vertical lines, one on either side of the bus stop.
Return to the dark blue rectangle at the top of the bus stop, and use the cyan pen and ruler to add another rectangle to the top, this time with slightly curved edges.
Use a cyan pencil to fill in the rectangle with light shading…
Take a black pen and use it to write “BUS STATION” in this top section.
Use the gray pencil and use a drawing compass to add two circles to the top of the lines at the edge.
Go over these outlines with a blue pen…
And add two smaller blue circles inside these.
Use a black liner to draw small figures inside the circle – the driver needs to know that this is the bus stop!
With a cyan pencil, gently shade in the main face of these two circular signs to complete your drawing.
And there we have it – your very own bus stop. It is up to you to decide just where is serves, where it goes, and who is visiting it – time to get those creative juices flowing!
When it comes to public transport, the humble bus is perhaps the best-known option for many of us, with variations of the public bus system appearing in countries around the world.
Jakarta, located in Indonesia, tops the list when it comes to accessible bus routes – the city boasts 156 miles of bus lines, and there are 3900 buses in operation at any given time – no need to worry about missing your stop!
In 1662, Paris introduced the first version of a bus line – in its original incarnation, this took the form of a horse and carriage, and allowed up to eight passengers to travel at any one time. Known as “five-penny coaches”, the experience was reserved for the upper classes, and the invention lasted for ten years before losing its appeal. 150 years later, it was reimagined, along with a host of new combustion and steam options to power the vehicles and increase capacity.
We can thank Paris not only for introducing the idea of buses, but also for the name we recognize around the world today. The concept of buses originated in 1828, when the first bus service started, operating from La Madeleine, right up to La Bastille in the city of Paris. The name “omnibus” is derived from Latin roots, and translates as “for all” and this is exactly for whom the initial buses were invented. Using this word to describe the method of transport also originated in this region and named after a hat shop located in Nantes – known as “Omnes Omnibus”. It was here that the very first bus lane finished its route.
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Burden of Proof
Do Political Polls Unfairly Shape Public Opinion?Aired October 26, 2000 - 12:39 p.m. ET
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ROGER COSSACK, CO-HOST: Who's winning? Who's losing? Will the polls predict the results of the November 7 election? Today on BURDEN OF PROOF, do polls unfairly shape public opinion? Are the numbers gathered fairly? And will the Internet change all the rules of the political polling process?
ANNOUNCER: This is BURDEN OF PROOF, with Greta Van Susteren and Roger Cossack.
COSSACK: Hello and welcome to BURDEN OF PROOF.
Several polls are calling the race for the White House a statistical dead heat. The polling numbers for George W. Bush and Al Gore are so close, they fall in many polls' margins of error.
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, CO-HOST: But the media's polls aren't without their critics. Some argue that the sampling of surveyed voters is too small to represent the enormous nationwide electorate. Others say the polls can't possibly represent the diverse nature of the American voters by interviewing a select few.
COSSACK: And joining us today are constitutional law scholar Bruce Fein, CNN polling director Keating Holland, and professor of government Stephen Wayne.
VAN SUSTEREN: And in our back row, Allison Salyer (ph), Jess Mary (ph) and Heather Smith (ph).
Keating, first to you. How many people do you have to talk to before we can conclude it is scientific or reliable in our polling?
KEATING HOLLAND, CNN POLLING DIRECTOR: We're doing about 750 interviews over the three days that we release the tracking poll. We're going to be upping that shortly so that we'll eventually get 1,000.
VAN SUSTEREN: Who picked 750? Or how did that -- you know, people seem to talk about 750 or 1,000. I mean, why those numbers?
HOLLAND: It's basically based on the fact that the margin of sampling error is determine entirely by the number of interviews you do. At 750, we have a margin of sampling error of about 3.5. Some people round that up to four. When we get to 1,000, we'll get that down to plus or minus three. VAN SUSTEREN: How do you actually do this? What are the mechanics? Take me through it.
HOLLAND: Well, very simply, a computer will pick telephone numbers at random. It's a process called random digit dialing, spit them out to a bunch of interviewers sitting in a big room -- actually, several big rooms across the country. They'll call up, do the interview, computer crunches the numbers, we get it the next morning.
COSSACK: Stephen, is there any evidence that polls really do influence the way people vote or don't vote or continue to go or do not leave to go to the -- to go and vote because they think the race is over?
STEPHEN WAYNE, PROFESSOR OF GOVERNMENT: I think there's some evidence that polls influence you in the media to say someone's ahead, someone's not ahead, here's how the horse race is. We know that polls influence the donors, particularly at the beginning of the nomination process -- you don't want to spend a lot of money on a losing horse -- but I don't think polls -- I don't think people read the polls and then determine how they're going to vote.
VAN SUSTEREN: I notice you say -- you said influence. I've got to admit -- maybe I'm just the only one -- but I always sort of with -- for the underdog. I mean, like, now I'm rooting for the Mets. I might have started with the Yankees, but now I'm a little bit for the Mets. I mean, I see these polls are so close, I mean, are there other people out there likely that are sort of being -- so it balances in terms of the influence, some will go with the flow, go with the winning poll and others will sort of feel sorry for the underdog?
WAYNE: The studies that we've done, for example, when the polls close in the East and you get the report of the results, how does that affect California and Oregon? It depresses turnout, but it doesn't seem to impact on the vote for the winning candidate or the losing candidate.
COSSACK: I don't understand what that means, it doesn't impact, if it depresses turnout.
WAYNE: It depresses it equally for all the candidates. So the front-runner is not necessarily advantaged. If someone says that Al Gore has won in New York, and if it looks like Al Gore is going to win the election, the California vote will decrease, but not necessarily more for Gore than Bush.
COSSACK: What if someone says, candidate X -- and I don't want to use any of the ones that we're talking about today -- wins in a runaway. The East -- the whole East is going for candidate X, it's all over but the shouting. Now what happens in the West?
WAYNE: People go home. They don't vote.
VAN SUSTEREN: Keating, I read a number of statistics. I don't know if it's a valid one or not, but 1998, 94 percent of American households had telephones, so I presume those are the people that are likely to be polled. What, do we leave out that 6 percent in polling? And are we satisfied with leaving it out because those people may, perhaps, aren't likely, who don't have telephones, may not also vote? Is that why, or is that 6 percent just such a small number that we don't care about it?
HOLLAND: It's a relatively small number. To a certain extent there are some cost implications. But, yes, if you don't have a telephone it probably means that you're a student in a dorm, you're perhaps a homeless person, you're in prison, you're in a convent or a group housing situation of some sort. Those people don't strike us as likely voters.
COSSACK: Or you're Greta Van Susteren and you don't want to be bothered.
All right, Bruce, let me ask you this: Should we put some kind of -- and I don't know if it's possible given our First Amendment -- but should we be thinking about putting, trying to put some kind of regulation, government or otherwise, on the dissemination of polls, or at least some kind of standards to make sure that these polls really do reflect what they're supposed to?
BRUCE FEIN, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW SCHOLAR: Well, I think the disclosure standards might be permissible. I think the Supreme Court decisions are pretty clear that the government can't seek to regulate speech or dissemination of truthful information because they think mature adults will ask unwisely, either by not voting or changing their vote.
But with regard to disclosure, I think it would be proper, for instance, to require a poll to indicate how many times in the last years they forecast elections correctly or incorrectly, you know, and be more elaborate in explaining the statistical errors so that a scrupulous reader would understand how hazardous it would be to extrapolate from a poll a likely winner, just like Tom Dewey...
VAN SUSTEREN: That's like seeking the FTC, though, on Keating or something, by doing that, but saying, how good are you at your business? But...
COSSACK: What would be wrong with that? I mean, what would be wrong with a full disclosure on polling?
VAN SUSTEREN: Well, because I think the American...
WAYNE: First of all, it might be too technical. Secondly, you don't need it. We're getting hundreds of polls every day. And if one poll is way off, people are going to say, hey, that's crazy, everybody else is showing something else. So it's a kind of self-correcting mechanism.
What you do need is you need to know the size of the sample, you need to know that there's a random selection, and you need to see the questions. How the questions are worded affects the answer. For example, one of the issues today is, who are the likely voters? That's what they're polling. Now, there are different ways to draw the screen on likely voters. The tighter you draw it, the better the Republican candidate will do.
There are -- many of the polls simply ask today, if you're voting, who would you vote for, X, Y or Z? If you ask, if the election were held today, would you vote for X, Y and Z, or haven't you made up your mind yet? you're going to get a different response.
VAN SUSTEREN: Keating, I can see the questions like, who are you going to vote for, Gore, Bush or Nader? would probably get a pretty good answer on that. But I remember hearing Bill Schneider, who's a CNN political analyst here at CNN, talk about polling, that when you call up people that they think there's a right answer. For instance, are you likely to vote? I mean, who wants to say, no, I don't care, it's un-American, I don't feel like voting. Most people will say, yes, I'll vote. How do you sort out that from?
HOLLAND: That's one of the reasons why we ask multiple questions to try to find likely voters and not just rely on a single question. Some pollsters do. I think they're wrong in doing so. We ask a battery of questions to try to really boil it down. Turnout is about 50 percent. We try to throw out about half the people that we talk to in order to make turnout look -- our likely voter model look like turnout models.
COSSACK: Which half? Which half do you throw out?
HOLLAND: The half that admit that they haven't voted in previous elections, the half that say that they are unlikely to vote. You do get some people who are perfectly willing to admit that. And there are various other questions you can ask. For example, Gallup asks, do you know where people who live in your area go to vote? If you don't know where your polling place is, you're probably not going to vote.
VAN SUSTEREN: How do you know if people are answering honestly or if they think they're answering a quiz, like, and they want to make sure they answer the right question so they may not give one that's genuinely true to them?
HOLLAND: That's why we ask multiple questions, so that, eventually, we can boil it down.
VAN SUSTEREN: You can sort through it and figure it out.
HOLLAND: We can drill down until we find a voter's true feeling on one question.
FEIN: Now, Greta, I think your questions illustrate exactly why a compulsory disclosure of this kind of information that is not in the ordinary story you read out of the "New York Times" or "Washington Post" could be very useful for the reader.
VAN SUSTEREN: Well, it might be useful, but I don't think you can force these people. I mean, that's -- what's more, the government could end up... (CROSSTALK)
FEIN: Why can't you? You can enforce disclosure all the time in...
HOLLAND: There is an enforcement disclosure which CNN and the other major networks belong to, the National Council of Public Polls. We agree that we're going to release most if not all of the information that both you have been talking about. Most of that information winds up on our Internet or on Gallup's Internet site because, as you can tell right here, it would take 20 minutes to give that information out on television. But if you look in "USA Today," you'll get most of that information in the small print.
VAN SUSTEREN: We're going to take a quick break.
Up next, many countries have restrictions on when polls can be gathered and when can they be published. No such restrictions exist here in the United States. Should that change? Stay with us.
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According to a new government report, crime rates in the nation's schools have dropped during the last decade. The findings, based on surveys of students, teachers and school administrators, showed that the number of victims in schools dropped from 48 to 43 crimes per 1,000 students between 1992 and 1998.
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VAN SUSTEREN: Many of the national polls survey likely voters via the telephone. Internet polls gather information naturally from the interactive community.
Keating, let me talk about the Internet polls. If you do a poll on the Internet, you are likely to get the upper income people, the more highly educated, you may get someone who votes more than once in the poll, and worst yet, you might get my eight-year-old niece who can't even vote.
Why in the world should we give any credit -- credibility to the Internet polls.
HOLLAND: We don't, CNN doesn't. When we put them on our Web site we make a point of not calling them a poll, number one. And number two, putting a little note that it is not scientific.
VAN SUSTEREN: But it's even worse by saying it is not scientific. I mean, it could also be absurd. I mean, if you've got a bunch of eight-year-olds sitting with their computers and voting I wouldn't be so polite as to say it is not scientific, I would it's ridiculous, on the issue for instance, of voting.
HOLLAND: You'll get no argument from me on that one. I like to do polls scientifically. It bugs me sometimes when I see them done other ways.
COSSACK: Bruce, my issue with this, and we were talking a little bit at the break, you said, I'm afraid sometimes these polls take on such magnificent lives of their own that they become biblical. And I think, somehow, that when you have that possibility of that kind of impact on our elections, that something has to be done, perhaps to at least limit the way they are disseminated.
Now, I know that there's a voluntary way of -- organization that says we're not going to disseminate it until later. But, isn't there something else that could be done?
FEIN: Well, it's very difficult given the Supreme Court's decision to suggest that because you think people will react to polls in various case, the government has a paternalistic role and say all right we have to withhold this information from you because we think you will act unwisely. You will go with the crowd, you won't vote at all. However, I do think the experience abroad, I think countries like France and Mexico, in fact, prohibit campaigning or polling at all in the last two or three days before election don't seem to have warped the result.
VAN SUSTEREN: That would actually be, I think, constitutional in a sense, that when you talk about releasing information, you're really talking about a First Amendment right. But the first amendment isn't an absolute, and putting something that might be reasonable restriction, for instance suppose that a poll really did impact, suppose release of information may impact an election three hours behind us here in the United States. I mean, putting a reasonable restriction may not be a First Amendment violation.
FEIN: Well, let me tell you, Greta, why I think that's dubious. The Supreme Court's doctrine is if the reason for the government action is they think mature adults will act unwisely on information that's truthful, that's not a good -- that's not a constitutional reason to do that. There have been ideas of requiring delay in polling but they've never taken root, in part because the doctrine is so clear.
COSSACK: You are talking, Steve, talking about a real short delay here, possibly. Maybe we're talking about election day.
WAYNE: Don't change things unless you know one thing affects the other, OK. There's no proof that getting the results three hours early from the East Coast is going to do anything but depress West Coast voting.
VAN SUSTEREN: But isn't depressing the vote, I mean, isn't that important enough? I mean, even if you say it's depressed evenly, both Republican or Democrat or Nader, whatever the case may be, I mean, isn't that -- is that enough of a reason?
WAYNE: No, I don't think so, because I think part of the voting decision is whether to vote or not, and whether to vote or not relates in part to whether your vote's going to make a difference. Fortunately, we have a lot of elections on the same day. We have initiatives on the West Coast. So, the likelihood is that it is not going to have a real major effect on the outcome.
COSSACK: Now, it is your position that it depresses both sides equally, but if we -- go back to what I brought up earlier -- but if candidate A is described as everything a landslide victory, doesn't that mean that candidate B's voters and supporters won't show up?
VAN SUSTEREN: Yes, if you've got a choice, go to the movie or go vote and your candidate already lost, you go to the movie.
WAYNE: If your candidate already won you would still go to the movie.
FEIN: No, I think Roger's point is this one, Steve. It's a little bit different. That if, suppose you have a coattail effect that you're counting on. People vote by party. They have slates, so to speak. Gore is reported to have a landslide victory but it's thought that if people in California turn out in large numbers, Gore will carry along Democratic candidate for Senate or House of Representatives. If they decided not to show up because Gore is going to win, that means the subsidiary votes that would go to Democrats aren't going to be there because they don't...
COSSACK: One lever, one vote then.
VAN SUSTEREN: You all have the last word. You are all talking together. But that's all of the time that we have for today. Thanks to our guests and thank you for watching.
Today on CNN's "TALKBACK LIVE," the clock ticks down to election day, should vice president Al Gore include Bill Clinton in his campaign or avoid him? Send your e-mail and tune in at 3:00 p.m. Eastern time.
COSSACK: Maybe we should take a poll on that.
And join us again tomorrow for another edition of BURDEN OF PROOF. We'll see you then.
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I have Beck’s new book, “It IS about Islam,” and if you plan to read it, there is something you need to know before you do. In many ways, Beck has finally arrived to the party, but true to form where Spiritual matters are concerned, he has missed the mark — again. Still, this new book does have value. It does accurately expose the teachings of the Qur’an and Hadith. Unfortunately, Beck cannot bring himself to report the whole truth about Islam. He cannot resist inserting a fallacy into the equation before the discussion even begins; a fallacy that, if the reader accepts it, leaves him with the exact wrong impression. Thus, Beck seeks to undermine whatever good could come from his book before he even starts to expose the truth about Islam. So that you might get the most out of this book, let me point out and correct this fallacy for you.
In the introduction to “It IS about Islam,” on page 8, last paragraph, Beck says:
“There’s a crucial distinction to be made between Islam and Islamism. When discussing a topic this important, terminology is critical. Islam is the faith of 1.5 billion people around the world. Islamism is the supremacist political ideology that insists on imposing sharia, or Islamic holy law, on the world.”
Now, I agree: in a matter this important, getting terms accurately defined is crucial. This is why I am telling you that, by creating a distinction between ‘Islam’ and ‘Islamist,’ Glenn Beck has inserted a deliberate lie into the discussion!
Unfortunately, and fore whatever reason, which I will not hazard to guess, Beck simply cannot bring himself to accept this simple fact: there is no distinction between Islam and the command to spread sharia law. Muhammad said so — clearly, repeatedly and with an imperative force. Sharia is Islam: Islam is sharia — period! They cannot be separated. This is not my ‘opinion;’ it is the command of Allah according to his prophet, Muhammad. So, why does Beck try to create a difference between Muslims and Islamists?
Again, I have my suspicions, but I am not going to hazard a public speculation as to why Beck creates an equivocation in the forward to his book. But what I can and will say is that I know that Beck knows better. After starting to read this book and listening to him promote it the past few days, I can say with absolute certainty that Beck knows this to be true! There is no such thing as a Muslim different from Islamist. On his internet TV show last night, August 17, 2015, Beck correctly said that Muhammad commanded that Islam does not change and that those who try to change it should be killed. Muhammad called such people ‘hypocrites’ and ‘apostates’ and ordered they be killed even before the infidels. But rather than explain that a Muslim must either accept everything Muhammad said or be a hypocrite/apostate, Beck proceeds to cloud the problem even further by implying the need for an Islamic Reformation. (read more on why Islam cannot be reformed).
Again, Muhammad said that Islam does not change. He also said that his commands are those of Allah, and that anyone who refuses to obey them risks hell-fire. Folks, Islam means submission. In other words, like it or not, you submit to everything Muhammad commanded or you disobey Allah. And since Muhammad said that Islam does not change, then the only way Islam could possibly have a ‘reformation’ is if the Muslims Beck calls ‘moderates’ were to convert back to active Jihad warriors trying to convert or kill everyone in the world. This is not the same as the Christian Church undergoing a reformation where the believers tore themselves away from a Catholic Church that had become like Islam: political in nature. The Reformation had the Gospel of Christ to which Christians could return. But Islam has only Muhammad’s commands, and the people setting the world on fire right now are following Muhammad’s commands exactly as Muhammad lived them, himself! There can be no ‘reform’ for these Muslims as they are already following their faith better than all but the most pious of Christians or Jews have ever followed their own.
One of the biggest mistakes we make in trying to understand Islam is in trying to apply Western thinking to what is an Eastern religion. The Western and Eastern minds do not think the same. You cannot apply Western values to the teachings of Islam and expect to arrive at a proper understanding. In many ways, Western Jews and Christians have the same problem with reading their own Scriptures: our culture causes us to perceive a distorted view of the reality in these three religions. But we can use some of our Western tools to help us get a clear understanding of the most crucial aspects of Islam. As with all things that are the work of one man, that man is the highest authority on what he is saying. So Muhammad is the highest authority on what Islam is and what it is not. And according to Muhammad, Islam is the one true religion, and the only true Muslims are those that keep Muhammad’s commands. What’s more, one of Muhammad’s most pressing commands is to spread Islam, by any means — especially the sword — either converting or killing everyone in the entire world until there is only Islam. This means that anyone who tries to ‘reform’ Islam is not only not a Muslim, but must be killed, as well. All of this is by definition, and to argue with a definition is to tell the sky it is not blue: you can do it all you want, but you will not change the truth of the matter.
So, what are we to make of Beck’s book? Well, I am only 1/3 of the way into it, and — for the most part — it accurately cites the Qur’an and Hadith. So Beck is presenting the truth about what is in the holy teachings of Islam — but only to a point. Where Beck goes wrong is in inserting what can only be assumed to be a conscious and deliberate break from the truth. By arguing that ‘peaceful’ Muslims are not the problem and should call for a reformation of Islam and focusing on the people he calls ‘Islamists,’ Beck leaves the reader with a dangerous misconception. Beck is trying to create a belief that Islam can be salvaged. This simply is not the case. To salvage Islam would be a lot like ‘reforming’ baseball so that we take away the diamond, bases, gloves, ball and bat and then saying we still have baseball. I don’t know what you might call it, but if you remove the diamond, bases, gloves, ball and bat, whatever it may be, it is no longer baseball. The same applies to Islam: if you take away Muhammad’s commands, then whatever may be left, it is not Islam. | <urn:uuid:40104bc1-3f36-4ae1-bd3b-338873d221e9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theoyl.com/2015/08/18/before-you-read-becks-new-book-it-is-about-islam/?replytocom=79176 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.965232 | 1,455 | 1.679688 | 2 |
I believed the worst was behind,
the voyage over, cramped and tossing,
the first winter, harsh, finishing
the house as the snow began to fall,
and a spring, glorious, the explosion
of trees into green, into life. We prayed,
we joined in service, we planted what
seeds we had with us and what seeds
the people beyond the trees gave us.
Then came the fever. I dug your grave
as the children watched, our children
who alone kept me moving, caused me
to arise in the morning, he has
your dimple, she has your eyes.
The harvest was good, not overflowing
but good, we would not hunger this winter,
and the leaders and the women thought it
right to mark the harvest, and we prepared
our game, our squash, our maize,
fruits from the forest, and the people
beyond the trees came through the woods,
and watched for a time, finally walking
into our midst, with more game, and fish,
and berries we had not seen before,
creating an abundance. And we spoke
of God’s provision in this beautiful, hostile
land, and we prayed, and ate, and shared
all we had.
But I still think of you, your dimple
and your eyes, and measure the pain
in the thanksgiving.
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Authors: Ivan Lee, Ling Guan
Addresses: School of Computer and Information Science, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, SA 5095, Australia. ' Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario M5B 2K3, Canada
Abstract: Media streaming is a popular application demanding high data rates and hard delay constraints. These requirements raise great challenges in the wireless environment, where signal fading, noise interference and network congestion introduce data losses or corruptions. Today, the availability of the Third Generation (3G) wireless system and the Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) provides a broader bandwidth to cater for multimedia application. Different characteristics of 3G and WLAN networks result in different attributes in video streaming applications. In this paper, we propose a collaborative scheme across 3G and WLAN networks for video streaming, using layered video coding and Unequal Error Protection (UEP) to improve the perceived video quality.
Keywords: wireless networks; video streaming; layered video coding; 3G cellular networks; WLANs; wireless LANs; wireless networks; local area networks; integration; unequal error protection; UEP; video quality.
International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing, 2007 Vol.2 No.4, pp.314 - 323
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Friday, March 8, 2013
In late January, the Range begged you to read a new online Tucson zine that describes itself as "an online zine by radical women and queer people of color." At that point it had close to 16,000 views at only 40 days old.
Well, as of today the zine has almost 27,000 views and MalintZINE is gaining attention nationally in academic and movement circles. A group representing the zine was invited to participate in "Chicana Activism: Fierce Mujeres on the Front Lines," a conference sponsored by the UCLA MECha and the Cesar Chavez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies.
Tonight, the zine officially celebrates its launch after it hosts a special dialogue with Andrea Smith, who is in Tucson this weekend as part of the UA LGBT Institute lecture series. Yesterday, Smith spoke in the after and in the evening. Tonight, at 6 p.m., MalintZINE hosts her at the John Valenzuela Youth Center, 1550 S. Sixth Ave. in South Tucson.
Previously, we were told the evening program, from 6 to 8 p.m. was another lecture. However, organizers told the Range that Smith will facilitate a "community consciousness raising dialogue," to work on accountability on issues facing the community. Because of Smith's work, especially as co-founder of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, organizers hope she can share feedback with everyone who attends, especially on next steps to take. But
In January, the Range said this about the blog:
If you're new to the blog, start from the bottom up to understand why it started — in reaction to an effort by some members of TUSD's Mexican-American Studies movement discouraging discussion on domestic violence and the arrest of a former MAS leader.
MalintZINE aims to highlight sexual and gender violence issues front and center, rather than force women and others to be silent. Social movements don't grow and evolve unless they are called out on their bullshit and that's part of what this blog is doing. But it also features posts on Chicana feminism, gender identity, and poetry that reacts to what is taking place in Tucson right now.
That hasn't changed. MalintZINE is still bringing up these issues and more. After tonight's dialogue, the launch party kicks off at 9 p.m. at Fluxx Studio and Gallery, 414 E. 9th St. A $3-$5 donation is asked, but not required. Doubtful there will be any dart boards, but there could be some great surprises.
If you still want to hear more about what MalintZINE is all about and read a print version out this weekend, head to the Tucson Festival of Books' Nuestras Raices tent tomorrow on the UA mall on Sunday, March 10 at 10 a.m.
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Trav"erse drill. (Mach.)
A machine tool for drilling slots, in which the work or tool has a lateral motion back and forth; also, a drilling machine in which the spindle holder can be adjusted laterally.
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A cosmic storm is roiling the Astrophysics community. Focused on the name of a NASA space telescope, the controversy is one more in a decade-long whirlwind of accusation that has made clear to straight white men that their days of pursuing science free of guilt and obeisance are decisively over.
As an academic field, Astrophysics became 'woke’ years ago and is now one of the most rigidly doctrinaire of the hard sciences. It has seen numerous purity campaigns against non-believers, first against insufficiently feminist-compliant men. A blog called Women in Astronomy promotes indignant tales of female suffering, profiling young women shattered when men expressed sexual or romantic interest, or deeply hurt when researcher Matt Taylor, whose team put a space probe on a comet, appeared on television wearing an ‘inappropriate’ shirt.
In one of the field’s most public spats about female victimhood, renowned Italian particle physicist Alessandro Strumia was ejected from CERN, the prestigious European center for high-energy physics research, after he presented a meticulously documented conference paper arguing that the targeted hiring of women into STEM positions was neither necessary nor wise. For this, he was denounced as a misogynist in a histrionic open letter by Particles for Justice, a posse of modern-day Puritans who hunt academic thought criminals, led by New Hampshire University physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a self-described “activist for equality in science” and AI researcher Brian Nord of the University of Chicago.
On guard against toxic masculinity.
Strumia need not have bothered. Fealty to the principles of “diversity,” especially to the dogma that women and people of color should always be hired and promoted over white men, is now an accepted requirement in Astronomy departments across the western world. Denunciations of misogyny, heterosexism, and anti-blackness have become the primary preoccupations of many astronomy researchers, at least some of whom seem to spend far more time and energy agitating for social justice than studying the heavens. Last year, these crusaders organized a one-day Strike for Black Lives, during which they stopped work to discuss white supremacy (it says something about the nature of their work that nobody noticed the stoppage) and joined with Indigenous activists to prevent the building of the world’s largest telescope on Mauna Kea, a Hawaiian mountain deemed sacred.
The latest ideological conflict is more purely symbolic. It concerns NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the flagship NASA project due for official launch later this year. According to NASA’s website, the Webb will be “the largest, most powerful and complex space telescope ever built and launched into space,” and will provide unprecedented opportunities for research on the origins of galaxies as well as on stars and planetary systems in process of formation. Complementing and extending the work made possible by the Hubble, Webb will revolutionize insight into our universe.
James E. Webb (1906-1992) was NASA’s administrator in the years 1961-1968, shepherding NASA through what was arguably its period of most outstanding progress. He transformed the agency into a highly focused research organization intent on achieving manned flight and a moon landing. It was as a result of Webb’s prescience that NASA developed rockets not only for military and propaganda purposes but for scientific ones as well, with the aim of using American technology to learn about Earth’s solar system and beyond. Without that focus, the Hubble would never have been constructed and astronomical research would have been set back by decades. Every astronomer working today owes a debt to Webb.
But gratitude is in short supply among today’s warriors for social justice, who object to honoring Webb’s memory. Led by Particles for Justice founders Prescod-Weinstein and Nord, and joined by Sarah Tuttle and Lucianne Walkowicz, they are lobbying NASA to find a more suitable (i.e. non-white and non-male) candidate, one who represents “our highest values” for which they conveniently nominate themselves the arbiters. Webb is disqualified because of a less than pristine personal history as a government official during the Cold War.
James Webb: on trial for insufficient Wokeness.
According to the four doyennes of woke Astronomy, who recently published in Scientific American their argument for why “The James Webb Space Telescope Needs to Be Renamed,” Webb was complicit “in homophobic discrimination in the federal government.” It is now well known that federal government employees who were homosexual were believed particularly vulnerable to blackmail by Soviet agents; Webb worked for the federal government at the time the policy of barring homosexual employees from the civil service was discussed and implemented, resulting in hundreds of firings over a period of more than a decade.
It is not known that Webb himself pursued the policy with any zeal—or even that he did anything more than passively acquiesce, as the vast majority of people today acquiesce in workplace policies that may, more than half a century from now, be deemed discriminatory and unjust—but for the proponents of LGBTQ liberation, he was “a facilitator” of homophobia who deserves to be purged in turn. The sum total of the case against Webb deserves to be quoted at length so as to reveal its lack of substance:
When he arrived at NASA in 1961, his leadership role meant he was in part responsible for implementing what was by then federal policy: the purging of LGBT individuals from the workforce. When he was at State, this policy was enforced by those who worked under him. As early as 1950, he was aware of this policy, which was a forerunner to the antigay witch hunt known today as the lavender scare. Historian David K. Johnson’s 2004 book on the subject, The Lavender Scare, discusses archival evidence indicating that Webb, along with others in State Department leadership, was involved in Senate discussions that ultimately kicked off a devastating series of federal policies.
In other words, there is no evidence whatsoever that Webb himself favored, developed, or actively implemented anti-gay legislation. He was, in the authors’ deliberately vague words, “in part responsible” and “aware” of a policy “enforced by [others].” The worst that can be said, it seems, is that “there is no record of him choosing to stand up for the humanity of those being persecuted.” Note, here, how absence of evidence becomes evidence of absence, a classic logical fallacy.
The question that remains is what any of this has to do with a space telescope; or, more specifically, why the astronomy research community should care about James Webb’s failure to be a pro-gay activist at a time when being one would almost certainly have accomplished nothing aside from the sabotaging of his own career, likely with the result that he would never have been able to promote astronomical research at NASA.
The anti-Webb activists have no answer except the melodramatic assertion that “many queer scientists fundamentally do not feel safe in their workplaces” today and a febrile rhetorical question: “What signal does it send,” they ask, “to current and future generations of scientists when we prioritize the legacies of complicit government officials over the dreams of the next generation?”
I’m not sure who nominated these authors the adjudicators of the next generation’s dreams, but even conceding them such authority cannot disguise their use of a false dilemma. Naming a telescope after Webb doesn’t send any particular signal about gay rights, now firmly established in American law and attitudes. If the naming sends any signal, it is simply that a man like Webb deserves recognition for his demonstrated contribution to astronomical research.
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition. Maybe you should.
Purging him, on the other hand, sends a stark signal about the runaway craze of cancel culture, confirming that decades after one’s death, one’s legitimate achievements can be smeared by activists who comb through every recorded utterance and action to find the taint of a retroactively-imposed ethical failure. So convinced are the authors that they have arrived at the end of history that they cannot imagine themselves condemned for an insufficient defense of another’s humanity.
The authors’ choice to replace Webb is almost laughably formulaic. They advocate the telescope’s renaming after an escaped 19th century slave woman and abolitionist, Harriet Tubman. It is not known that Tubman ever gave a thought to astronomical research, but the activists claim that she “almost certainly used the North Star […] to navigate her way to freedom.” If that seems a tenuous connection to high-level astronomical research, then you undoubtedly haven’t engaged in an extensive enough consideration of white male evil. As we are informed, “The time for lionizing leaders who acquiesced in a history of harm is over.” That puts 99.9 percent of the people who lived before us in the west firmly out of the running for commemoration.
Harriet Tubman: hidden figure?
Anyone thinking that a call of such manifest over-reach might be ignored has not taken the febrile temperature of Departments of Astrophysics over the last decade. The appeal has received widespread support, with signatories to petitions registering their opposition to Webb’s memorialization, and NASA officials now running scared. A ponderous article “NASA investigates renaming James Webb telescope after anti-LGBT + claims” explains that NASA officials are reviewing archival documents to investigate the extent of Webb’s “crimes” and will render a decision upon completion of the investigation.
In the short term, NASA officials have little to gain and much to lose in standing firm for Webb. I won’t be surprised if the agency announces, after a suitable period of consideration, that it has found a progressive icon to replace the discredited white man.
Like the forced acquiescence of sports teams, browbeaten into changing their names or removing mascots and logos, the chastisement and bullying of NASA will set an extraordinary precedent. Why should demands halt with Webb? How is it that the Hubble Space Telescope has retained its imprimatur: surely something insalubrious could be found in the life of its namesake? Why not purge all scientific instruments and discoveries of harmful white male names, beginning with Halley’s Comet, Newton’s Laws of Motion, and Einstein’s Theory of Relativity? Only time will tell which pale male will be next in line for elimination. | <urn:uuid:363be861-b9d5-4bde-9387-3de10a3a0ce2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://the-pipeline.org/a-telescope-for-social-justice-long/?replytocom=1827 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00273.warc.gz | en | 0.959449 | 2,215 | 2.0625 | 2 |
The Storyline / Plot Summary
‘B. Wordsworth’ is a short story written by V.S. Naipaul in 1959. The narrator tells the story of his relationship with a poet named B. Wordsworth when he (narrator) was a little boy.
The story starts with the description of beggars visiting houses trying to earn some money or alms in the kind houses of Miguel street. A tidily dressed man knocks on a house where our little narrator lives with his mother. When the narrator asks the reason, the man replies that he wants to see the bees in their compound.
The narrator runs upstairs and tells his mother that a man wants to see the bees. His mother comes and asks the man in an unfriendly manner about what he actually wants. The man again says that he wants to see the bees. The man’s English is so good that the mother suspects him but nevertheless she agrees to let him in the yard.
The boy (narrator) and the man watch the bees together. The man says that he likes watching the bees and asks the kid if he likes it as well. The kid replies that he never has the time to. The man shakes his head sadly and says that’s what he does; he watches. The boy, quizzical about the peculiar man, asks various questions. The man introduces himself as Black Wordsworth. He then says that he can watch a flower like the morning glory and cry.
The kid asks what he cries for. B. Wordsworth replies “when you’re a poet you can cry for everything”. After this Wordsworth asks the child if he likes his mother. The kid says only when she’s not beating him. Wordsworth pulls out a printed paper from his pocket. He tells the kid that on this paper the greatest poem about mothers is written and he’d sell it to him for 4 cents if he likes. The kid rushes up to his mother to ask if she’d buy it but his mother declines. The kid goes back to the man and tells him that his mother doesn’t have four cents.
Wordsworth isn’t bothered by this. The kid asks why he goes around like this and whether he is able to earn enough this way. Wordsworth says that this way he meets new people. He also expects to meet new poets. But not a single copy has been sold till now. After Wordsworth leaves the kid wishes that they meet again.
After one week, while the boy is returning from school, they run into each other. Wordsworth admits that he too was hoping to see him again. He tells the kid that he has the best mango trees in his yard and wants to invite him to eat them. He lives in Alberto Street in a one-room hut. After the kid has had enough mangoes, he returns home. His mother goes berserk upon seeing his shirt stained with yellow juice.
His mother beats him badly that day. In anger the kid leaves home screaming he’ll never come back. He goes to Wordsworth’s place. Seeing the boy’s bleeding nose, Wordsworth consoles him and suggests that if he stops crying, they will go for a walk. They go for a walk down to Savannah and walks to the race-course. They lie on the green grass. Wordsworth asks the kid to look up at the stars and think how far they are from them. The kid does so. Never in his life had he felt so great yet nothing. After this, some light flashes on their faces; a policeman comes up to them, asking what they are doing. Wordsworth replies that he has been asking the same question to himself for 40 years.
Wordsworth makes the kid promise that he’d never tell anyone about him or the mango trees. The boy keeps his promise.
One day the boy goes to meet B. Wordsworth and sees him lying on his sofa, severely ill. Death is written clear on his face. Heartbroken, the boy goes up to him. Wordsworth sits up, placing the boy on his knees, and says that he is going to tell a joke. Then B. Wordsworth says that everything he has ever told the boy about himself was a lie. He also makes the kid promise that he’ll never come back again. Then the kid leaves.
After one year, while the boy was crossing the same street, there was no sign of Wordsworth’s one-room hut or his trees. It was as if Wordsworth had never existed.
B. Wordsworth: A Commentary on the Story
‘B. Wordsworth’ written by V. S. Naipaul is all about the beautiful bond between Wordsworth and the kid. It’s a coming-of-age story written in first person from the young boy’s perspective depicting his growth from young age to adulthood.
Lots of dialogues are used to make the readers understand Wordsworth’s witty attitude. But, as the dialogues are small, those give us only a glimpse of Wordsworth’s character, making him an unsolved mystery until the end. Wordsworth is a vagabond and the kid is considerate, whereas the mother is the opposite of those two.
The story is set in Trinidad. There isn’t much description of the place though.
The main themes are friendship, love for nature, despair, illusion, identity and escapism. At the end of the story, it’s safe to conclude that Wordsworth had been living inside an illusionary bubble which was created by him in hope to build an image of himself which is drastically different from the real him. But in his last moments he seemed to have accepted the reality by revealing that he wasn’t famous.
The vocabulary and narration are intriguing. From the beginning it raises questions about the main character, Wordsworth; about the stories he tells the kid, his past and his true identity. Slowly the answers become clear.
Wordsworth’s character, though a bit peculiar, is quite relatable. There’s a constant internal struggle in him. He seems to be fighting with his old true self to become something he wishes to be. This identity crisis has become rather common in today’s world. | <urn:uuid:ab3fb430-3e72-416a-b664-aab669802da6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://englicist.com/topics/b-wordsworth | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.982587 | 1,315 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Plastic solar cells combine high-speed optical communication with indoor energy harvesting
Around the world, there are currently more than 18 billion internet-connected mobile devices. In the next 10 years, anticipated growth in the internet of Things (IoT) and in machine-type communication in general, will lead to a world of hundreds of billions of data-connected objects. Such growth poses two very challenging problems:
- Securely connecting many wireless devices to the internet as radio-frequency bandwidth becomes scarce
- Powering all these devices
Regular, manual charging of all mobile internet-connected devices will not be feasible, and connection to the power grid cannot be generally assumed. Therefore, many of these mobile devices will need to be able to harvest energy to become largely energy autonomous.
In a new paper published in Light: Science & Applications, researchers from the University of Strathclyde and the University of St. Andrews have demonstrated a plastic solar panel that combines indoor optical energy harvesting with simultaneously receiving multiple high-speed data signals by multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO) visible light communications (VLC).
The research, led by Professor Harald Haas from the Strathclyde LiFi Research and Development Centre, and Professors Ifor Samuel and Graham Turnbull at the St. Andrews Organic Semiconductor Centre, makes an important step towards the future realization of self-powered, data-connected devices.
The research teams showed that organic photovoltaics (OPVs), solar cells made from similar plastic-like materials to those used in OLED smartphone displays, are suitable for high-speed optical data receivers that can also harvest power. Using an optimized combination of organic semiconductor materials, stable OPVs were designed and fabricated for efficient power conversion of indoor lighting. A panel of 4 OPV cells was then used in an optical wireless communication experiment, receiving a data rate of 363 Mb/s from an array of 4 laser diodes (each laser transmitting a separate signal), while simultaneously harvesting 11 mW of optical power.
Prof Turnbull explained: "Organic photovoltaics offers an excellent platform for indoor power harvesting for mobile devices. Their advantage over silicon is that the materials can be designed to achieve maximum quantum efficiency for typical LED lighting wavelengths. Combined with the data reception capability, this opens up a significant opportunity for self-powered internet of Things devices."
Prof Haas said, "Organic photovoltaic cells are very attractive because they are easily made and can be flexible, allowing mass integration into internet-connected devices. In addition, compared to inorganic detectors, OPVs have the potential to be significantly cheaper, which is a key driver to their large-scale commercial adoption.
"Visible light communication provides unregulated, vast resources to alleviate emerging wireless capacity bottlenecks. Of course, visible light can also provide energy. To achieve both objectives with a single device, new solar cells are needed. They must be capable of simultaneously harvesting energy and detecting data at high speeds. It is therefore essential to develop solar cells that have two key features: (a) they exhibit a very large electrical bandwidth in the photovoltaic mode of operation, and (b) have a large collection area to be able to collect a sufficient number of photons to achieve high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and harvest maximum energy from light.
"The two requirements are typically mutually exclusive because a large detector area results in a high capacitance and hence low electrical bandwidth. In this research, we have overcome this fundamental limitation by using an array of OPV cells as a MIMO receiver to establish multiple parallel and independent data channels while being able to accumulate the harvested energies of all individual solar cells. To the best of our knowledge, this has never been shown before. This work therefore lays the foundation for the creation of a very large, massive MIMO solar cell receiver enabling hundreds and potentially thousands of individual data streams while using the huge collection area to harvest large amounts of energy from light (both data carrying and ambient light). It is imaginable to turn entire walls into a gigabit per second data detector while harvesting sufficient energy to power many distributed intelligent sensors, data processing and communication nodes." | <urn:uuid:8b667646-ddc1-453d-b57b-6bcc6de95140> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://phys.org/news/2021-03-plastic-solar-cells-combine-high-speed.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.922488 | 859 | 3.28125 | 3 |
By: Robert Serreyn
Question? In Mark 1:15 why was the kingdom at hand?
Mark 1:15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
The Kingdom of God was at hand BECAUSE the King from heaven (Jesus = God) was here on earth READY TO ESTABLISH his millienual (1,000 year) kingdom IF the Jews would have NATIONALLY accepted him as their Messiah (saviour).
The MOST IMPORTANT thing to know IS Jesus Christ as savior, just simply believe that Jesus Christ went to the cross and DIED and shed his blood, was BURIED and three days later RESURRECTED from the dead to pay for your sins.
-Christ DIED for you – Romans 5:8
-Christ PAID your sins in full – 2 Corinthians 5:21,1 Peter 2:24
-BELIEVE (Trust In Completely) in Christ ALONE as the complete payment of sin for salvation – John 3:16, Acts 16:31, Ephesians 2:8,9
“For the wages(payment) of sin is death (eternal torment in hell); but the GIFT(salvation) of God is eternal life THROUGH Jesus Christ our Lord”. Romans 6:23 | <urn:uuid:391e7393-11a2-4f2d-8528-dd078fad6c2a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rightdoctrinematters.com/question-247/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.941675 | 289 | 2.125 | 2 |
To build an empowered, future-ready workforce by providing essential skills training for students, adult learners, job seekers, and employees.
A world where everyone has the opportunity to develop, demonstrate, and refine their essential skills to prosper and thrive both personally and professionally.
WHAT ARE SOFT SKILLS?
Soft skills are competencies necessary for success in any job or profession. They are known by many names such as durable skills, 21st century skills, interpersonal skills, or employability skills.
Soft skills are critical in determining who is hired, succeeds at work, and receives a promotion. However, these skills often lack empirically grounded definitions, are rarely taught with rigorous evaluation, and are not typically aligned with employer-recognized credentials. As a result, research shows employers rely on subjective methods to evaluate soft skills, which reinforce negative stereotypes that disadvantage low-wage workers and racial/ethnic minorities.
The Essential Skills Program (ESP) is building an engaging series of FREE online training modules exclusively focused on soft skills.
Directly reflects the soft skills and behavior traits most valued by employers through survey and labor market data.
Allows learners to self-reflect, perform knowledge checks, and complete assessments to verify their ability to apply soft skills in practical workplace contexts.
Rewards learners who successfully complete modules and assessments with portable digital badge credentials that link to real-time, searchable job posting data.
Is designed for equity, thanks to peer review provided by our partners who help us serve diverse populations.
WHO WE SERVE
Through our network of pilot partners, including education providers and workforce development organizations, we’re learning from the feedback of diverse participants, including:
OUR PLAN FOR SCALE
ESP is led by the team that scaled the New World of Work program across 116 California Community Colleges and 400 partner organizations. We are now committed to serving all those seeking training to strengthen their professional skills.
To grow rapidly and efficiently, we are working with partners including postsecondary and adult education providers, workforce development organizations, community-based programs, and employers.
These partners will enhance their existing services and resources by providing ESP’s FREE video lessons, assessments, and digital badges to their learners.
OUR NEED FOR INVESTMENT
ESP has been awarded a seed grant from Walmart to develop 10 onboarding training modules that will be available to all learners for FREE.
We are seeking further funding to develop:
15 advanced training modules to complete ESP’s introductory soft skills learning pathway.
Assessments with stackable digital badge credentials that will correlate to all of the 25 soft skills modules.
These initial investments will provide the foundation for ESP’s earned revenue model, which will ensure our long-term sustainability as a non-profit organization.
CONTENT CREATION – 15 ADVANCED MODULES. We need a booster! STACKABLE DIGITAL BADGE CREDENTIALS – ALL 25 MODULES. We need a booster!
By supporting ESP, philanthropic funders will advance the cause of replacing subjective, stereotype-based talent evaluation methods with objective, skills-based approaches that can unlock economic mobility across the global workforce.
As a female co-founded organization, ESP is led by Rajinder Gill, CEO, and Kate OʼRorke, COO, who together with their team brought the New World of Work program to scale. Rajinder is passionate about serving diverse learners, knowing the challenges she faced as a disabled woman of color entering the workforce.
CEO and Co-Founder
COO and Co-Founder
Create maximum social impact through a multiplier effect – backed by labor market data and a decade of experience. | <urn:uuid:807c911d-b5d5-4888-a7a0-8bf429b5ad2a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://essential-skills.org/support-us/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.936536 | 797 | 2.453125 | 2 |
The treatment that clears away symptoms and makes room for you.
Body SDS is widely known to be extremely effective.
The body’s symptoms are all signals that there are areas that are out of focus.
Either you are doing too much or too little. Your body reflects how you live your life, so if you are working against your own body’s signals, they get louder until you start listen.
To be rid of symptoms, you must change your movement patterns. By treating your body, you will get in closer contact with those parts of your body that are imbalanced, and when you feel your body getting closer to balance, the symptoms will disappear. In order to keep them at bay, you then need to keep the internal balance of your body going.
In general the treatment increases :
• Blood flow
• General health
The treatment soothes:
The treatment also helps alleviate mental symptom conditions such as anxiety, depression, stress and self-esteem problems. Through body contact and conversations about your mental state, you will be able to get rid off associations with certain emotions and thought patterns. By listening, feeling and breathing through it, rather than fighting against it, you’ll balance your body and mind.
Read more about Body sds here: www.body-sds.dk/behandling
Many problems occur because there are areas of our lives that we haven’t given enough attention to or been aware of. We can also overdo certain movements, exercise too much or eat unhealthy, all of which cause the the body to experience internal or external pressure.
Some patterns are so deep and inherited, that we cannot see them because we take them for granted. This is life, this is how I am.
People need to break these patterns and habits for a period of time. That can be done by working out differently, changing your diet or simply slowing down the pace for a day and seeing how your body responds. You can also try to fast or settle with certain nutrient sources and see how it affects the feeling of being you.
You can receive endless treatments that can transform from day one, when you finally realize what helps you and what does not help you.
Basic training is part of Body SDS treatment. The training takes place with bare feet on a wooden floor. We start here, and work our way towards achieving balance in the position of our joints. Our breathing and basic position is our starting point and something to which we return during the workout. The aim is to position our joints in the correct place relative to each other - our muscle tonus is processed for optimal with respect to the joint positions.
The training is structured in three stages.
1) The first is a movement through seven stages, where we move through the body's joints from the bottom to the top: toes, knees, waist, spine, shoulders, neck and arms. This stage is often heavy and challenging for people who are experiencing it for the first time. This helps to restore our inner foundation, which grounds us and brings higher sky over our heads.
2) Next, we use playful exercises to get your heart rate up and strengthen your center.This improves coordination of our movements and the training gets slightly easier.
3.) US exercises, expanding astringent. As the name suggests, this stretches and compresses something. We lie in different positions, breathe and moves around the body against external positions. Our nerves are impacted and the body’s muscles will become supple/flexible. This brings balance, as the joints are pushed beyong their natural limits.
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The 2nd Day of the Diaspora Week was marked exclusively by the moralization session of HE Evariste NDAYISHIMIYE President of the Republic of Burundi.
During this session, the President of the Republic returned to the history of Burundi by highlighting a few cases of corruption, criminality and mismanagement of public affairs. The President of the Republic HE Evariste NDAYISHIMIYE indicated that all Burundians should deplore this dark past which has harmed the daughters and sons of the Nation for years to be reborn and make a new start. HE Evariste NDAYISHIMIYE deplored the behavior of some leaders who, through their poor governance, have hampered the development of the country.
He said that Burundi needs competent people capable of managing public affairs as a good father. He thus called on all Burundians to mobilize to fight together against the enemy of the country. The Head of State called on members of the diaspora to bless and praise the property of their country in order to promote the tourism sector.
The President of the Republic of Burundi invited the Burundian Diaspora to initiate and finance a large-scale project that would symbolize its contribution to the development of their country.
The last day of the Diaspora Week was marked by various presentations of the institutions which intervene directly or indirectly in the sector of agriculture and the protection of the environment.
The Diaspora Week ended with the reading of the conclusions and recommendations from the 6th edition of the Diaspora Week in Ngozi where in general these recommendations aim to improve the conditions for the participation of the Burundian Diaspora in the development of the Country. | <urn:uuid:4836350c-75e1-46c5-a48a-57a50de1515d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mae.gov.bi/en/the-burundian-diaspora-is-called-to-contribute-to-the-development-of-their-homeland/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.947366 | 354 | 1.570313 | 2 |
- Cooking Time:
- Preparation Time:
- Several small grape clusters
- 1/2 cup pasteurized egg whites (available in cartons in the grocery-store dairy aisle)
- Granulated sugar to coat.
- Wash and dry a bunch of grapes (make sure the bunch has plump grapes that are firmly attached).
- Snip small clusters of grapes off the bunch and set aside.
- Beat pasteurized egg whites with a fork until small bubbles begin to form.
- Using a small brush, paint a cluster of grapes with egg whites.
- Place grapes on a layer of sugar, then shake a thick coating of sugar over the cluster through a sieve.
- Shake off excess and set the cluster on a rack.
- When egg whites have dried, use frosted clusters as edible garnishes. | <urn:uuid:5e6ab2ac-1584-429e-af67-59c374f2b7da> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.bakespace.com/recipes/detail/Frosted-Grapes/1175/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718423.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00271-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.824001 | 173 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Mobile banking could, in the not-too-distant-future, include motor banking.
As manufacturers increasingly equip automobiles with Internet access, financial institutions are closely studying connected cars to understand what a future saturated with such vehicles could mean for their business.
FIS, the largest fintech vendor in the world, has been researching ways for people to do tasks like check bank balances with their voices, according to company spokesman Brad Fennessy. It's also looking at more complicated scenarios, such as turning the car into a wallet so when someone pulls up to the gas station, the pump is turned on and authorized because the vehicle is identified as belonging to an accountholder.
U.S. Bank posted a YouTube video in June that documented its vision to potentially let consumers use technology to order and send oil when the vehicle is need of a change. Most recently, USAA led the investing round for the company selling the device featured in U.S. Bank' video, Automatic Labs.
The San Francisco startup sells a device that can be plugged into a car to share relevant data such as engine diagnostics or where a car is parked with its smartphone app and other apps. USAA is investing in Automatic to see how the technology could help its members.
While the company originally called United Services Automobile Association is currently focused on the implications of connected cars for its flagship auto insurance business, it also owns a $70 billion-asset bank known for innovative uses of technology. So it's not a stretch to imagine the company incorporating car-related banking features into its mobile app, which serves as members' portal to insurance and banking. Automatic's app gallery includes expense report and car cost management apps, for instance, that could conceivably be linked to bank accounts.
In recent weeks, Fjord, a design and innovation firm, published a report that shined a spotlight on the possibilities of connected cars. These go well beyond obvious uses cases like insurance providers using the sensors to monitor customers' driving to adjust premiums based on how well they drive.
"The car is part of the constellation of different devices probably with the phone at the center," said Andy Goodman, a group director of design strategy at Fjord, which is owned by Accenture. "Think of a car as a remote device for the phone."
Goodman imagines a world where cars can be used to pay for things so the driver doesn't have to fumble with a credit card or cash at a drive-up. He could see a car serving as an ATM card when someone arrives at an institution's cash machine. Goodman also sees banks partnering with car sharing technology companies (not the same thing as ridesharing firms) which facilitate car owners renting their assets to others, to vie for more loan business from auto dealer partnerships. He could even see a day when the car prompts the person with a grocery list based on the driver's usual shopping habits; then the retailer could have those items ready for pick up upon arrival.
USAA sees the investment in the Automatic Labs as a way to test and learn what services could add value into the lives of its military members down the road.
Through its investment in Automatic, USAA is exploring how the tech could help its members in situations like emergencies. Automatic can place an emergency call when it detects a collision, in addition to contacting family members and emergency contacts.
USAA, based in San Antonio, already markets services like roadside assistance from inside its mobile app, but that experience requires members to reach out to USAA. In the connected car experience, the automobile itself could tell the driver's insurance provider and loved ones there's been an accident.
The World Economic Forum published a report Tuesday that discusses the many ways in which the financial services industry is and will continue to be disrupted including insurance. Insurers, which already gather data like the make of the car, will be able to track behavioral information in connected cars so they can predict, say, erosion of tires and then offer drivers discount offers to troubleshoot the looming problem. Insurance providers might be able to continuously refine individual risk profiles in a bid for more accurate underwriting if consumers are willing to share their information.
"Connected devices have the potential to have significant impact on the way in which insurers interact," said R. Jesse McWaters, lead author of the World Economic Forum report.
More broadly, the research also highlighted how firms are increasingly feeling the heat from would-be disruptors and are realizing there's an imperative to collaborate with new entrants.
"There is a recognition on the part of many large financial institutions that doing everything and being a universal bank that provides all aspects of finances isn't really within their capabilities anymore if they want to meet changing and increasing expectations of their customers," said McWaters.
USAA reckons the connected car could help cut down on driving-related fatalities in addition to simplifying peoples' lives by, for instance, reminding them their battery is about to die.
"The first thing we are focused on is how to help members stay safer," said Jon-Michael Kowall, assistant vice president of innovation for USAA Property and Casualty Insurance Group. "Right now, we are doing the iterative testing," he said. | <urn:uuid:fb6091b5-be9e-4d1a-b265-b9b874978561> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.americanbanker.com/news/forget-self-driving-cars-get-ready-for-self-i-banking-i-cars | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281746.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00285-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971886 | 1,071 | 1.648438 | 2 |
The library has purchased a large variety of data: from tax assessor’s data for the Chicago area to satellite imagery of a river in Argentina and the locations of villages in the state of Himachal Pradesh, India. A full list of purchased data is on the program description page at http://www.library.illinois.edu/sc/datagis/purchase/description2015
The deadline for first consideration is October 1, but the Data Services Committee will consider applications that come in later as long as we have funds available and can complete the purchase by the end of the fiscal year.
If you are interested in applying for the Data Purchase Program, the online application is at https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/9886260. If you have questions about the program or need help identifying data for your research, please contact the Scholarly Commons at [email protected]. We look forward to connecting you with the data you need! | <urn:uuid:6db4d117-08fa-40ae-8d8b-27a2023d6a92> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://publish.illinois.edu/commonsknowledge/2015/08/30/help-obtaining-data-is-available-from-the-library-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.936618 | 201 | 1.507813 | 2 |
With each new generation graphics are pushed further, delivering more power. We’ll typically we see a ~30% increase per generation as well as new features (such as tessellation) thrown into the mix. Increased processing power in turn requires building new graphics architectures with more of a chip’s basic constituent parts: transistors. Transistors form the building blocks of both Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) and CPUs alike; the long and short of it is that more transistors equals more ‘oomph’.
Nvidia and AMD (nee ATI) use the same manufacturer for their chips: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp (TSMC). The largest single chip ‘foundry’ in the world, TSMC traditionally performs a magical 'process shrink’ once every 18 months – taking each of the billions of transistors in a modern GPU and making them 20-30% smaller. This secret sauce keeps Nvidia and AMD (as well as Intel and Samsung etc, whose manufacturing arms do exactly the same) in the game of producing more powerful pieces of hardware with each generation, without requiring rolling blackouts across every city in the world. As the designers add more transistors, TSMC’s ‘process shrink’ keeps power draw, heat and production costs in check – without their ingenuity, adding more ‘oomph’ would be near impossible. However, in late 2009 something went desperately wrong at TSMC’s factories. In a ‘more wrong than In a ‘more wrong than SOPA and PIPA combined’ sort of way.
The graphics generation we saw in 2009, flagshipped by the HD 5870 and GTX 480 were released as planned, however due to these issues TSMC ended up producing a bucketload of faulty chips. The consumer never saw this directly; the broken GPUs were simply thrown away, however the failures pushed up prices and reduced availability. Even more disturbingly for AMD and Nvidia the next planned ‘process shrink’ to 32 nanometres didn’t seem to be working at all. TSMC responded by diverting their resources to fixing the myriad faults with their manufacturing – the scale of these issues still aren’t openly known, but it’s rumoured that as much as 90% of these chips were simply binned in the early days.
The chipmaker also completely cancelled the broken 32 nanometre (32nm) process in favour of a 28nm shrink that has ended up being delivered more than two years after the fact. At this point, things were a mess, and with their manufacturer’s stalling, so Nvidia and AMD’s plans followed suit – the follow on generation’s cards’ (GTX 580 and HD 6970 among them) transistors weren’t shrunk via the march of human ingenuity and so to avoid burning out power supplies they were redesigned with less transistors, running considerably more slowly than was originally planned.
It’s may not initially be obvious to every onlooker how significant the scale of the issue was; on the face of it (not) going from 40nm to 32nm may not seem like much of a problem, given 40 and 32 are reasonably proximate numbers. But the proof of the pudding is in the redesigning that occurred. Consider this: if the HD 6xx0 and GTX 5x0 had been made on a 32nm process, the silicon at their hearts would likely have been designed with 50% more transistors, each with a healthy MHz speed bump to boot.
All this would have occurred with reduced power draw. The HD 6870 would have been as fast as the 6970, the GTX 560 Ti as fast as the GTX 580, everything would have been scaled up, all without additional expense, heat or power draw. Shrinking transistors effectively single-handedly kept graphics chips from reaching insane proportions, for example the ‘Southern Islands’ chip in the modern HD 7970 is the exact same size (352mm^2) as the R580+ chip in the 2006 vintage X1950 XTX, inspite of containing over eleven times as many transistors:
In the world of microchips size really does matter, and the lack of movement hamstrung progress right up until the January 9 release of the AMD Radeon HD 7970, sitting in the Atomic labs right now. At this point, GPU manufacturing technology is getting on for three years old, approximately lemon-party age in computing terms. Where the rubber hits the road for us is right now – TSMC skipped but also in effect leapfrogged beyond its borked 32nm process, which has widened the gulf between previous and next gen GPUs. The HD 7970 and its yet to be released stable mates are jumping straight to 28nm; this literally halves the size of each transistor, in theory allowing manufacturers to simply double the amount of processing power in a card (which is exactly what one appears to have done).
There are other factors in play that will make this generation as big an issue for geeks as finding their downloading habits have cost society more than the entire planet is worth. For one, graphics chips are designed around common sets of features, predominantly Microsoft DirectX (DX) along with the much less frequently used OpenGL. As these features are added in DirectX, graphics card transistors are in a broad sense used-up without increasing performance, instead using the extra power running said features (like tessellation). This generation however sees no such sacrifices; while we’ve moved from DX11 up to DX11.1 the newest DirectX is concentrated on increasing speed rather than adding features. All up, then, with the potential to double transistors, increase clockspeeds dramatically, and nothing much holding the designers back it’s more than likely we’ll be seeing the largest graphics speed increase ever over 2012. | <urn:uuid:5a1881a1-6955-4d59-8fa1-896f0f332b34> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.pcauthority.com.au/Feature/288642,hd7970-vs-gtx-780-the-future-of-graphics-cards-in-2012.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280266.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00496-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962921 | 1,209 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Some progress has been made in combating the problem of human trafficking in China, but as Amy Katz reports, participants in a recent Washington hearing say more still needs to be done.
Since 1979, China has imposed a policy that couples may have only one child, to slow population growth. Since the traditional Chinese preference is for boys, many couples have done everything in their power not to have girls -- some even resorting to killing their own babies.
U.S. Congressman Christopher Smith calls the policy cruel. "The one child per couple policy imposes ruinous fines -- up to 10 times both the husband and wife's salary -- for a child who is conceived outside of a government plan. As a direct result of these crimes against humanity China today is missing girls; girls who were murdered simply because they are girls -- gender-cide."
Smith made the comment at a hearing held by the U.S. Congressional--Executive Commission on China in Washington Monday.
The shortage of women now in China has created a market for brides -- leading traffickers to abduct young women and then sell them -- as wives. In Sichuan Province one private detective has found and saved a number of young women. But others just disappear, such as one family's mother. She may have been lured by the prospect of a better job.
Officials have found young women being transported out of the country to become prostitutes abroad. The people responsible for trying to smuggle these women out of China were arrested, proof that China is taking steps to prevent trafficking.
Roger Plant of the International Labor Organization told the congressional committee, "I think we should not underestimate the extent to which some very positive thinking is going on, at various branches of both the national government and provincial governments, as how they can intensify action against trafficking. I think the focus has been so far almost exclusively on cracking down."
Ambassador John Miller, who is the Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking of Persons at the U.S. State Department, says the sentences handed down are tough. "You can get the death penalty under Chinese law for forcing a child under 14 into prostitution for example. But we don't know how many convictions there were and how many sentences there were."
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Question about 2007 Honda Odyssey
Sounds like you fried the board. Best way to check a fuse is pull out and do a continuity check.
This is why most people these days don't stop on the road and jump strart another car. There are too many electronics onboad, if you MUST jump start then the best way is to put the Negative terminal on a piece of metal ; like the motor or chassi to avoid Elect Interference and short a circuit board.
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Paragraph 1 — Introduction sentences You will want to begin your essay with one of the following: It was quite a trek.
His house is near the tree. After a while this filter will start to operate as you write. The trick is to shift gears smoothly by using both the past and future topic close together. What does the sentence before this one say. The good news is that your essay is only required to be words in length.
It is rewarding to see a pattern of progress.
Introduction words are less demanding and signify less than additive ones: Does the sentence contrast or contradict. Can you picture me. As Samson blew out the birthday candles atop the cake, he burned the tip of his nose on a stubborn flame. Incorporate the opposing side. Likewise, transition sentences are a bridge that escort the reader from a previous topic or scene to a new one.
Repeat the word around which the discussion is focusing. OR But overcrowding is being addressed by additional trasit lines, which will allow more people to live in the suburbs. You have ideas to share. And you know the strongest lube to keep your readers hooked.
When you write something you wouldn't say, you'll hear the clank as it hits the page. Empathize with your readers, and understand which squeaks and rattles are slowing them down. Start every sentence in a paragraph with a different word.
I'm not saying spoken language always works best. Then reinforce the correctness of your own thesis. Paragraph 5 — Conclusion sentences In your conclusion, introduce the opposing side.
Remember that you will not be scored on your opinion. You want to inspire people, but everybody continues doing their own thing.
Resumption words are very popular within all sorts of writing. People often tell me how much my essays sound like me talking.
Additive elements add value to the sentence - they emphasize the right information; additive word underlines your attitude to the situation. How to Write a Paragraph.
In this Article: Article Summary Planning Your Paragraph Writing Your Paragraph Reviewing Your Paragraph Paragraph Help Community Q&A The practice of writing paragraphs is essential to good writing. Paragraphs help to break up large chunks of text and makes the content easier for readers to digest.
Ending with a digression, or with an unimportant detail, is particularly to be avoided. If the paragraph forms part of a larger composition, its relation to what precedes, or its function as a part of the whole, may need to be expressed.
How to Write Strong Transitions and Transitional Sentences a transition is a word, phrase or sentence that connects one section to another. A. How to Write a Good Topic Sentence. In this Article: Article Summary Writing a Successful Topic Sentence Planning Your Topic Sentences Avoiding Common Problems Sample Topic Sentences Community Q&A Perfecting the skill of writing topic sentences is essential to successful essay writing.
A topic sentence usually comes at the beginning of a paragraph and lets your reader know what to. Guide to Transition Words and Sentence Samples Two sentences become a sentence, using transitions words or phrases that link sentences and paragraphs together smoothly so that there are no abrupt jumps or breaks between ideas.
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During our chat with artist Tom Sachs about the landing of the Mars rover Curiosity (and cheeseburgers), he told us that his proposal to have NASA fund his project “Space Program: Mars” (which included the plea “I bring sex to the Space Program”) was rejected. We wondered what kind of art does NASA fund? Well, now we know. Bizarre photographs of women in sexy skin-tight space-suits, wandering across a fictional sci-fi terrain with Martian ruins, and even giving birth.
According to the story in Wired, the artists, Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick, were approached by someone from NASA to create a commissioned photographic series. The result is Mars: Adrift on the Hourglass Sea, a set of fictional images created using high-resolution “photo-mosaic” panoramas of Mars taken by the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which were provided by NASA, coupled with the artists’ own montages inspired by Romantic landscape paintings and the sci-fi illustrations of Chesley Bonestell. The narrative for the photographic series was based on the idea of a Martian dystopia, “hope based on gender dynamics” and Barbarella.
From the story:
Their narrative ideas came from “thought-form companions” – the manifestation of the physical by means of meditation – from Alexandra David-Néel’s Magic and Mystery in Tibet. After seeing prototype photos of slim-fitting astronaut suits they decided they wanted to try and “bring NASA into a kind of Barbarella age again.” And since Mars is named after the Roman god of war, seeing the red planet ridden with the relics of a fallen empire seemed natural.
While these slick and stylized images are light worlds apart from Tom Sachs’s installation at the Park Avenue Armory—a life-size tableau replete with a pinball machine, a Darth Vader-shaped fridge loaded with booze and a Landing Excursion Module—his version of the Apollo Lunar Module made from plywood, tape and glue with a monitor showing female explorers canoodling—they do have one thing in common with Mr. Sachs’s work: the vision that the first explorers on Mars will be two sexy women. | <urn:uuid:11cd38c2-a751-4c78-b7e8-e1a524322421> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://observer.com/2012/08/other-mars-related-art/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279368.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00323-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941854 | 466 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Vinca Minor Plant. On the other hand, perennial vincas are also spreading plants, but you can classify them into vinca minor and vinca major. More so, vinca major has a mounding habit compared to vinca minor that only grows up to 6 inches.
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is a mathematical statement that has an expression on the left side of the equals sign (=) with the same value as the expression on the right side.
One of the terms in an equation may not be know and needs to be determined. Often this unknown term is represented by a letter such as "x
(e.g. 5 + x = - 2)
an equation means manipulating the expressions and finding the value of the unknown variable. In order to solve for the unknown variable, you must isolate the variable.
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ERIC Number: ED373825
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1994
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Company Town Shutdown.
Turnage, Martha A.
Saltville, Virginia, is a former company town whose main employer, a soda ash plant, shut down on July 1, 1971. The closure of the chemical plant displaced 700 workers, and created a crisis that threatened not only the existence of the town, but of the entire region. In response, Virginia Highlands Community College (VHCC), in cooperation with the town, opened the Job Preparedness Center (JPC) in Saltville on July 19, 1971. The Center targeted the 56% of plant workers with less than a high school education, and was designed to offer individualized instruction in the basic skills of reading, communication, and mathematics -- all essential for the high school equivalency exam. The first challenge was convincing displaced workers the importance of obtaining a GED; the second was convincing them they were capable of the task. Eighteen months after opening, however, 50 GED candidates had received a diploma, and by the time the center closed in 1973, more than 300 had participated in JPC programs. Today, Saltville dreams of developing a tourism industry. Plans are underway for a paleoecological museum, theater, and arts center. Saltville has been identified as a Superfund cleanup site and remediation should be complete in 1995. As the mayor at the time of the shutdown had predicted, Saltville is better off now than if it had remained a company town. (KP)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, College Role, Community Change, Community Colleges, Community Development, Community Services, Dislocated Workers, Education Service Centers, Educationally Disadvantaged, High School Equivalency Programs, Labor Force Development, Outreach Programs, School Community Relationship, Two Year Colleges
Berwick Publishing, 912 Berwick Drive, Annapolis, MD 21403-2829 ($10).
Publication Type: Historical Materials; Reports - Descriptive; Books
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The first shipments of fabricated structural steel are expected to arrive at the plant this month, MSF Sugar Tableland’s green power plant project manager Mark Magnanini saying it would be used to build the heart of the plant. he factory, an 87 bar high pressure boiler fueled with biomass.
âWith all of the design and engineering now complete, the team is excited to move on to the construction phase,â he said.
He said members of the project team will travel to Thailand in September to begin detailed training, operation and maintenance planning with parent company Mitr Phol.
As a cornerstone of MSF Sugar’s move into the biofuel industry, the power plant is attracting interest from all sectors of the community.
POWER SUPPLY WARNINGS
The news came on the same day that the Australian Energy Market Operator warned the national electricity market was struggling to provide a reliable supply as coal-fired power plants shut down.
The AMEO has warned that southern states could face power outages during the summer as demand increases and people turn on air conditioners to survive the heat.
As the dire warnings apply to parts of the country, Treasurer and Energy Minister Curtis Pitt was quick to point out that Queensland’s supply was secure and that the sunny state had enough energy to power other regions.
“The AEMO report predicts that Queensland’s power generation, which is supported by coal and gas-fired generators and an increasingly diverse mix of renewables and supporting technologies, will be able to meet expected demand in all forecast scenarios, âhe said.
âIn fact, Queensland’s supply is so secure that we will continue to export the electricity supply interstate, which means we can help cover anticipated shortages in the southern states due to extreme weather conditions like the heat waves of last summer. “
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The story of MSF’s power plant – and the vision to transform the company into a modern, integrated sugarcane company – will be the focus of the September meeting of the Cairns Chamber of Commerce.
Mike Barry, CEO of MSF Sugar, and Hywel Cook, Managing Director of Business Development, will give a presentation on the future of the company and what TNQ means to chamber members.
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S: Gwendolyn M. Morrison MHS Class of 2012
4: "TODAY YOU ARE YOU, THAT IS TRUER THAN YOU.THERE IS NO ONE ALIVE WHO IS YOUER THAN YOU" -DR SUESS
6: "TELL ME I'M CLEVER, TELL ME I'M KIND, TELL ME I'M TALENTED,TELL ME IM CUTE, TELL ME I'M SENSITVE, GRACEFUL AND WISE. TELL ME IM PERFECT-- BUT TELL ME THE TRUTH" -SHEL SILVERSTEIN
8: When the last child cries for a crust of bread When the last man dies for just words that he said When there's shelter over the poorest head We shall be free When the last thing we notice is the color of skin And the first thing we look for is the beauty within When the skies and the oceans are clean again Then we shall be free When we're free to love anyone we choose When this world's big enough for all different views When we all can worship from our own kind of pew Then we shall be free We shall be free And when money talks for the very last time And nobody walks a step behind When there's only one race and that's mankind Then we shall be free We shall be free We shall be free Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith, hold out We shall be free ~Garth Brooks Shall Be Free"
9: I'm a little boy with glasses The one they call the geek A little girl who never smiles 'Cause I've got braces on my teeth And I know how it feels To cry myself to sleep I'm that kid on every playground Who's always chosen last A single teenage mother Tryin' to overcome my past You don't have to be my friend But is it too much to ask I'm the cripple on the corner You've passed me on the street And I wouldn't be out here beggin' If I had enough to eat And don't think I don't notice That our eyes never meet I lost my wife and little boy when Someone cross that yellow line The day we laid them in the ground Is the day I lost my mind And right now I'm down to holdin' This little cardboard sign...so I'm fat, I'm thin, I'm short, I'm tall I'm deaf, I'm blind, hey, aren't we all Don't laugh at me Don't call me names Don't get your pleasure from my pain In God's eyes we're all the same Someday we'll all have perfect wings Don't laugh at me ~Mark Wills, "Don't Laugh At Me"
10: "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter" -Martin Luther King Jr
11: The two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you find out why. - Mark Twain
14: "a person who never made a mistake never tried anything new" - Albert Einstein
16: live the life you want to live. be the person you want to remember.make decisions, make mistakes. if you fall, at least you tried.
18: "all that we are is the result of what we have thought"
21: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door - Only this, and nothing more."
22: Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. -John F. Kennedy
24: “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...” Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!
26: “I cannot go to school today" Said little Peggy Ann McKay. "I have the measles and the mumps, A gash, a rash and purple bumps. My mouth is wet, my throat is dry. I'm going blind in my right eye. My tonsils are as big as rocks, I've counted sixteen chicken pox..... -Shel Silverstein
29: "I have bought Golden opinions from all sorts of people." - William Shakespeare, Macbeth, 1.7
30: “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” - Stephen King
33: I've learned that my mom was right about life when she commented, "no one ever said it would be easy."
34: "WHY FIT IN WHEN YOU WERE BORN TO STAND OUT"-DR. SEUSS
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For most of the 18th century, Europe was in a state of virtually permanent but restrained warfare. Armies were relatively small, battles relatively infrequent and civilians relatively well treated. The French revolution changed all that. To embattled revolutionaries surrounded by enemies intent on destroying their new society, war was not some aristocratic game but an apocalyptic struggle between heroic free citizens and enslaved masses. Conscription, mass mobilisation and a disregard for arbitrary "rules of war" were some of the consequences of this new vision of the purpose of war. Tracing the birth of "total war" from prerevolutionary ideas to the exploits of Napoleon's armies, Bell has written a brilliantly original work of military history. His book both throws fresh light on familiar events and argues convincingly for a reassessment of their wider historical meaning. | <urn:uuid:87fb8d04-d35e-41ad-8cca-d2401b1d842c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/culture/books/non_fiction/article64328.ece | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00088-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963323 | 162 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Supposedly, people who suffer from this phobia often do so because of the complexity that involves choosing and drinking wine. Oenophobia is also referred to as a type of social anxiety disorder in which a person will avoid wine altogether, fearing they are not well-knowledgeable about the selection. Individuals may experience anxiety, nervousness, embarrassment, or slight perspiration.
I’m NOT making this up I promise!
From checking a few different sources, it’s suggested that people can overcome the fear on their own; but often a mental health professional may be needed.
Now I’m not a Doctor (even through my handwriting looks like I am), but hiring a Psychiatrist to overcome your fear of wine sounds expensive to me! For a small percentage of what a mental health professional will charge, you can come to my house for dinner a couple of nights in a row. After finishing off a case of wine, I’ll no doubt be able to cure you!
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You’ve booked your ticket, planned your itinerary and packed your bags but how have you prepare yourself to connect to the culture? Here are 5 ways to prepare…
- Sample the cuisine
- Research online
- Learn the language
- Listen to experiences
- Watch Movies with a Mission to inform and inspire dialogue
Movies with a Mission
Sankofa – Sankofa, an Akan word meaning “One must return to the past in order to move forward” Streaming on Netflix
Mona, a contemporary African American model is on a shoot at the infamous slave forts in Ghana, West Africa. Spirits lingering in the dungeons that were used to detain enslaved Africans over a century earlier possess her. She becomes Shola, “house slave” on a sugar plantation; she is in love with Shango, a rebellious field slave and she idolizes Nunu, her surrogate mother. Shola too, learns rebellion when the master advances on her one too many times. After her trials, Shola returns to the present as Mona, deeply aware of her African roots.
500 years later – Rent or Buy
Beautifully filmed with compelling discussions with the world’s leading scholars, 500 Years Later explores the collective atrocities that uprooted Africans from their culture and homeland and scattered them into the vehement winds of the New World, 500 years ago. Infused with the spirit and music of liberation, this epic documentary span over 25 countries to explore the victories and struggles of a people who have fought and continue to fight for the most essential human fight – freedom.
Motherland – Rent or Buy
Motherland is the most powerful documentary on Africa. Fusing history, culture, politics, and contemporary issues, Motherland sweeps across Africa to tell a new story of a dynamic continent. From the glory and majesty of Africa’s past through its complex history. Africa as you have never seen it.
Traces of the Trade: A Story From the Deep North – Rent or Buy
A unique and disturbing journey of discovery into the history and “living consequences” of one of the United States’ most shameful episodes — slavery. In this bicentennial year of the U.S. abolition of the slave trade, one might think the tragedy of African slavery in the Americas has been exhaustively told. Katrina Browne thought the same, until she discovered that her slave-trading ancestors from Rhode Island were not an aberration. Rather, they were just the most prominent actors in the North’s vast complicity in slavery, buried in myths of Northern innocence.
Browne — a direct descendant of Mark Anthony DeWolf, the first slaver in the family — took the unusual step of writing to 200 descendants, inviting them to journey with her from Rhode Island to Ghana to Cuba and back, recapitulating the Triangle Trade that made the DeWolfs the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. Nine relatives signed up. Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North is Browne’s spellbinding account of the journey that resulted.
The Healing Passage: Voices From The Water – Buy
How do we heal from the residuals of The Middle Passage? Cultural artists, along with historians and healers, look at present day behavior that is connected to the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. For more than 300 years Africans were carried from their homeland, across the Atlantic Ocean (“The Middle Passage”), into chattel slavery in the Americas and the Caribbean. The residual impact of this African Holocaust still reverberates in the world today through psychological trauma, genetic memory, personal and community consciousness. The artists use music, dolls, dance, altars, spoken word, visual art and ritual to create paths to healing.
Prince among Slaves – Rent or Buy
The true story of Prince Abdul-Rahman, stolen from West Africa and sold into slavery on a plantation in Mississippi in 1788. His battle for freedom over forty years attracted the support of men such as President John Quincy Adams and he eventually became the most famous African in America. Abdul-Rahman survived the harsh ordeals of slavery through his love of family and his deep faith as a Muslim.
Slavery by Another Name – Rent or Buy
Slavery by Another Name challenges one of Americans’ most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery in this country ended with the Emancipation Proclamation. The film tells how even as chattel slavery came to an end in the South in 1865, thousands of African Americans were pulled back into forced labor with shocking force and brutality. It was a system in which men, often guilty of no crime at all, were arrested, compelled to work without pay, repeatedly bought and sold, and coerced to do the bidding of masters. Tolerated by both the North and South, forced labor lasted well into the 20th century.
Hidden Colors: The Untold History Of People Of Aboriginal, Moor, and African Descent – Buy
Hidden Colors is a documentary about the real and untold history of people of color around the globe. This film discusses some of the reasons the contributions of African and aboriginal people have been left out of the pages of history. Traveling around the country, the film features scholars, historians, and social commentators who uncovered such amazing facts about things such as: *The original image of Christ *The true story about the Moors *The original people of Asia *The great west African empires *The presence of Africans in America before Columbus *The real reason slavery was ended And much more.
Slavery and the Making of America – Buy
A documentary of the history of American slavery from its beginnings in the British colonies through the years of post-Civil War Reconstruction, this series examines the integral role slavery played in shaping the new country and challenges the long held notion that it was exclusively a Southern enterprise. The remarkable stories of individual slaves offer fresh perspectives on the slave experience.
Rise of the Black Pharaohs – Buy
The Kushites were a little-known African civilization that rose up and overthrew the Ancient Egyptians. Egypt and early archaeologists wanted history to forget them, but National Geographic is finally revealing the truth about the mysterious Black Pharaohs.
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I have just installed the Borland C++ compiler.It is set up correctly.
I am now trying to set up Open GL and I am having a problem importing the dll's
I am using the following steps.
When working in the following directory "C:\Borland\BCC55\Lib"
I try the following command "implib glut32.lib C:\WINDOWS\System32\glut32.dll"
I then get the following error " 'implib' is not recognised as an internal or external command,operable program or batch file"
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A new paper from the French Institute of Andean Studies in Lima which examines ancient Peruvian pollen records has finally uncovered the reason behind the sudden and mysterious disappearance of the once-bustling Nazca civilization in 500 AD.
When you see the Mars-like terrain inscribed with the mysterious kilometer long drawings that Nazca is so famous far, it’s hard to imagine that this place was once a lush, Eden-like setting whose flora and fauna supported the expansion of the Nazca settlement.
The anchor species of the entire region was the slow-growing huarango tree, a relative of mesquite, which could live for centuries sending tap roots down 180 feet to access deep water resources. The trees fixed nitrogen out of the air, producing a nutritious seed that was a staple of the Nazcan people, and millineae of deposited leaves created the perfect conditions for a nascent agricultural society.
According to Alex J. Chepstow-Lusty, co-author of the paper, Nazca’s soil fertility was like a siren call, beckoning the society towards a cliff-like future quite similar to our own -- a society that is dominated by “agribusiness” and the widespread deforestation which makes it possible.
The pollen record shows a sequence that will sound familiar. Land was first cleared for large cotton crops, then corn, then protein-rich beans. Soon the quantity of these monoculture crops overtook, then replaced the trees, and by 500 AD the entire basin was entirely deforested.
Along came a huge El Nino flood, and without any soil stability in place, the entire society was quite literally whipped off the face of the earth.
Why is a technology blogger writing about ancient agricultural practices, you may wonder.
The tree (and by tree I don’t mean little sticks used to make paper, I mean old-growth) is by far one of the best “cleantech” solutions we have going to ensuring sustained life on this planet and, according to the McKinsey Institute, one of the cheapest.
How can we compete with a technology that would you build a transportable solar power plant that builds soil fertility, sequesters carbon dioxide, provides food , shelter and fuel all the while capturing, cleaning and securing strategic water resources? You wouldn’t.
And as I’ve blogged before, the protection of native forests AND the regulation of agribusiness (an industry which BTW has been a huge obstacle in creating a clean energy policy here in the U.S.) has to be a key component in the climate talks or else Copenhagen may be looked back upon as a failure.
While the parade of cleantech industries should I agree have a rightfully prominent place in the new post-COP15 low carbon economy, we shouldn’t forget about the humble tree, for without it none of us would even be breathing right now.
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This event took place on 3 Dec 2020. You can watch the livestream here.
Join us tomorrow, 3 Dec 2020 (17:00-19:00 KST, 9:00-11:00 CET), for an online conversation on the strategies and challenges of Korean and European Civil Society working on human rights to engage the public.
Our Executive Director Laura Lasance will talk about youth & civic engagement. She will focus on diversity, inclusion, empowerment & ownership specifically.
Other panelists are Takgon Lee, Lawyer at Dongcheon Foundation, Mi-Yeon Kim, Member of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), and Helen Portal, Policy and Advocacy Officer at Inclusion Europe.
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Abstract In February 1989, the Massachusetts Water Resource Authority (MWRA) began the design and construction of a 15.3-km subsea tunnel and ocean riser system to discharge effluent in conjunction with the design and construction of a large secondary treatment plant. The court-mandated schedule required the tunnel and risers to be completed in July 1995. The paper discusses the project from the viewpoints of management, concept design and construction methods, including the ocean riser system. Key to th success of the project is the accuracy of the location of the risers. The design calls for a final tunnel alignment to be driven within 10 m of the riser shafts, beginning at a distance of 13.1 km from shore. | <urn:uuid:dab1e9e5-17d5-4e4c-a7f3-769cec28e1c8> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.mysciencework.com/publication/show/eaaff4ae4414393c638882c48fbc77be | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718285.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00106-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924149 | 146 | 2.609375 | 3 |
weather, climate and best time to visit
Best time to visit Kisht
The best time to visit Kisht in Afghanistan is from March through May and September through November. In this period you have a hot temperature and almost no precipitation. The highest average temperature in Kisht is 42°C in July and the lowest is 15°C in January.
In the table below you can quickly find the average weather per month in Kisht, the monthly temperatures or the highest rainfall. Our average monthly climate data is based on data from the past 30 years.
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The weather for Kisht over the next 14 days will be 36°C till 43° with a couple of days chance of light rain showers or even quite a bit of rain.
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Kisht has a desert climate. The daytime temperature is warm to hot, while it can also be cold at night. You won't have rain here anytime soon. The average annual temperature for Kisht is 29° degrees and there is about 127 mm of rain in a year. It is dry for 311 days a year with an average humidity of 23% and an UV-index of 7.
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Frequently asked questions
Where is Kisht?
Kisht is located in Afghanistan. It lies in a straight line 11,751 km from Sydney.
The coordinates of Kisht are:
- Latitude: 31.676045
- Longitude: 63.018085
The GPS coordinates are 31° 40' N, 63° 1' E
How long is the flight to Kisht?
The flight time from Sydney Airport to Kisht is approximately 14 h. 50 min.
How big is Kisht?
The surface area of Kisht is 4 km².
What is the currency of Kisht?
In Kisht, the Afghan afghani (AFN) is used for payment.
Exchange rates on 11 August 2022
- 1 Australian dollar = 55.87 Afghan afghani
- 1 Afghan afghani = 0.018 Australian dollar
- 100 Australian dollar = 5,587.24 Afghan afghani
- 100 Afghan afghani = 1.79 Australian dollar
What is the area code of Kisht?
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“Epidemiology of Surgically Managed Pelvic Organ Prolapse and Urinary Incontinence” (1997), by Ambre L. Olsen, Virginia J. Smith, John O. Bergstrom, Joyce C. Colling, and Amanda L. Clark
In 1997, physicians and researchers Ambre Olsen, Virginia Smith, John Bergstrom, Joyce Colling, and Amanda Clark published, “Epidemiology of Surgically Managed Pelvic Organ Prolapse and Urinary Incontinence,” in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology. In their article, the authors retrospectively analyzed data from patients who underwent surgery for pelvic organ prolapse or urinary incontinence two years prior in 1995. Often due to a weakening of or damage to their pelvic muscles, women with pelvic organ prolapse can experience a descent of pelvic organs into the lower pelvis and vagina.
Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex, by historian of science Alice Domurat Dreger, was published in 1998 by Harvard University Press. In the book, Dreger describes how many doctors and scientists treated human hermaphrodites from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. She states that during this time period, many physicians and scientists struggled to determine the nature sex, and to support a classification of sex as male or female, many physicians and scientists resorted to viewing a person's gonads for identification of his or her sex.
“The Standardization of Terminology of Female Pelvic Organ Prolapse and Pelvic Floor Dysfunction” (1996), Richard C. Bump, Anders Mattiasson, Kari Bø, Linda P. Brubaker, John O.L. DeLancey, Peter Klarskov, Bob L. Shull, Anthony R.B. Smith
In 1996, a team of researchers associated with the International Continence Society published “The Standardization of Terminology of Female Pelvic Organ Prolapse and Pelvic Floor Dysfunction” in American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Pelvic organ prolapse is characterized by the descent of the pelvic organs into the lower portion of the pelvis and is often caused by a weakening of the muscles and ligaments that normally hold the organs in place.
“The Social and Psychological Impact of Endometriosis on Women’s Lives: A Critical Narrative Review” (2013), by Lorraine Culley, Caroline Law, Nicky Hudson, Elaine Denny, Helene Mitchell, Miriam Baumgarten, and Nicholas Raine-Fenning
In “The Social and Psychological Impact of Endometriosis on Women’s Lives: A Critical Narrative Review,” hereafter “Social and Psychological Impact of Endometriosis,” authors Lorraine Culley, Caroline Law, Nicky Hudson, Elaine Denny, Helene Mitchell, Miriam Baumgarten, and Nicholas Raine-Fenning review the extent at which endometriosis results in a negative quality of life for affected women. | <urn:uuid:0f5b8011-9d59-43e9-b78f-5a995549735e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://embryo.asu.edu/search?text=Edward%20Donnall%20Thomas&%3Bamp%3Bf%5B0%5D=dc_subject_embryo%3A18&%3Bamp%3Bpage=2&%3Bf%5B0%5D=dc_subject_embryo%3A6914&f%5B0%5D=dc_subject_embryo%3A92&f%5B1%5D=dc_subject_embryo%3A310 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.865073 | 655 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Internation Joint Commission Study Board Releases Report on Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Water Level Regulations
Oswego, NY – The regulations governing water levels on Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River have remained the same since they were first enacted almost 50-years ago. The regulations could change soon under recommendations released this week by a study board commissioned by the International Joint Commission.
Tony Eberhardt is the U-S General Manager of the Study Board. WRVO's Chris Ulanowski spoke to him about the group's recommendations. | <urn:uuid:370082ef-f897-49b4-bbc3-fc88903a8fd7> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://wrvo.org/post/internation-joint-commission-study-board-releases-report-lake-ontario-st-lawrence-river-water | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721595.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00478-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941613 | 109 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Landscaping With Native Plants
Landscaping with plants native to Iowa is beneficial for the environment, but it comes with its own unique set of challenges.
On this weekly edition of 'Horticulture Day,' Iowa State University Associate Professor Cindy Haynes and DNR Forester Mark Vitosh give advice on choosing the right plants for crafting native gardens and landscapes.
Later on, they answer a variety of questions from callers about gardens, grasses, plants, trees and more.
- Cindy Haynes, Associate Professor of Horticulture at Iowa State University
- Mark Vitosh, Department of Natural Resources Forester | <urn:uuid:bbaeb1af-f00e-46b0-a5b7-30bd5a0eb17e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.iowapublicradio.org/show/talk-of-iowa/2019-09-20/landscaping-with-native-plants | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00074.warc.gz | en | 0.891857 | 130 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Brief History of the Organ
from Hydraulis to Miditzer
by Jim Henry
Pipe organs have a history that stretches back centuries B.C. The complexity of these instruments has kept them at the intersection of music and engineering. Advances in organ building have generally been driven by the application of new technologies.
Ctesibius of Alexandrea, who lived about B.C 200 and is variously described as a musician and an engineer, is generally credited with building the first pipe organ, the hydraulis. Supplying the pressurized wind needed by a pipe organ in sufficient quantities at stable pressures was a major challenge for early organ builders. Ctesibius employed an ingenious system using water pressure to regulate the pressure which may have been pumped by a windmill. Some feel that organ building did not progress beyond the achievements of Ctesibius until more than a thousand years later.
The availability of electric power fueled a great leap forward in the art of organ building. Most immediately it replaced the mechanisms for providing the wind supply, often notoriously unreliable human blowers who operated hand pumps. English organ builder Robert Hope-Jones (1859-1914) radically rethought the design of the pipe organ including the application of electricity to connect the organ console to the pipes with an electro-pneumatic action.
Hope-Jones was a brilliant engineer but not a business man. Eventually he sold his business to The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, a highly successful importer and manufacturer of a wide range of musical instruments. Wurlitzer's entry into the organ business in the early 1910s coincided with rapid advances in the movie business. This was a time when the technology for reproducing sound for large audiences did not exist.
Movie exhibitors were experimenting with ways to add the experience of sound to the motion pictures they were showing as a way of drawing audiences from their competitors. Piano music was a popular choice for this job. The success of movies in an era where the main competition was live theatre lead to ever larger movie theatres. This culminated in ornate movie palaces some which seated over 4,000 patrons.
Pianos could not fill such large theatres. The most luxurious theatres employed orchestras to accompany their screenings. However this was an expensive undertaking and the pipe organ was called upon to allow a single musician to provide the music necessary to fill a theatre. Hope-Jones never set out to build a "theatre organ." But his organ with its orchestral voices, advanced console features, and relatively compact size was the ideal choice for placement in a theatre and use in accompanying films. Wurlitzer seized the opportunity to become the pre-eminent supplier of pipe organ to theatres. Sold as the Hope-Jones Unit Orchestra, Wurlitzer produced over 2400 instruments, the bulk of which were sold and installed in the 1920s. The Mighty Wurlitzer reigned supreme as the sound of the silents.
With the advent of sound movies, most theatre organs fell silent. In the 1950s and 60s the advent of Hi-Fi records lead to a rebirth of theatre organs because of there ability to showcase the new advances in recording technology. During this period many theatre organs were saved by being relocated to the homes of theatre organ enthusiasts.
In recent years, organs have taken another leap forward as modern advances in electronics and computers have allowed organs to be built without bulky and power hungry pipes. This has made it practical for individuals to have increasingly faithful replicas of pipe organs in their home. The Miditzer has taken advantage of modern computer technology to provide a replica of the Mighty Wurlitzer that almost anyone with a modern computer that runs Windows® can use to experience the wonder of a theatre organ first hand.
Learn more about the history of the organ at these sites:
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Acts 1:15-17, 21-26 Psalm 1 1 John 5:9-13 John 17:6-19
Next Sunday is Pentecost, the day we celebrate the birth of the church, and the day we read about the Apostles receiving the Holy Spirit. Our readings from Acts these past several weeks have, for the most part, been about events that take place after Pentecost. We have been hearing about how the Christian Church began. Today’s reading is no exception.
Since, after Judas betrays Jesus, he commits suicide, Peter announces they need to name another apostle. Peter says, “One of the men who have accompanied us during all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken up from us– one of these must become a witness with us to his resurrection.” This is significant for two reasons. First, it tells us that there is a distinction between the apostles and disciples. Exactly what that distinction is, is unclear in the gospels. It begins to become clear in this story in Acts, as the apostles are becoming the new leaders of Christ’s church.
For many years I made no distinction in my mind between an apostle and a disciple, I used these titles interchangeably. This report of the selection of Matthias to be the new twelfth apostle, however, got my attention because it reveals something I had overlooked before. Matthias was selected from among the disciples who had followed Jesus from his baptism to his ascension. I don’t remember when it was that I realized what this means – that there were many, many more disciples who followed Christ from the beginning, both men and women, than just the twelve we call apostles. So, it was from among these men that Matthias was selected.
The second thing of note was how Matthias was selected. The apostles did not vote on who would become the twelfth – they draw lots. We are told they prayed, saying: “Lord, you know everyone’s heart. Show us which one of these two you have chosen to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.” To the modern mind, drawing lots is leaving it to chance, but to them it was allowing God to select the man who was best suited for the job.
Today, we pray that the Holy Spirit will guide us in our decisions and we have an extensive process through which people are called to ordain ministry. We have also come to appreciate the importance of recognizing that the gifts of the Holy Spirit are not limited to men – but that was a different time and place and women had to play a different role in promoting the kingdom of God.
I feel blessed to be living in a day and age when we can appreciate what women have to offer and have even set aside a date to celebrate the life of the woman who first taught us what it means to love. For most of us this is the woman who gave birth to us and who raised us – but that is not true for everyone. If this is not true for you, I ask that you think of someone who did this for you as I talk about Mother’s Day.
According to the history channel, Mother’s Day began in the 19th Century when, before the Civil War, Ann Reeves Jarvis helped start Mothers’ Day Work Clubs to teach women how to care for their children. After the war, she organized a Mothers’ Friendship Day to promote reconciliation between Union and Confederate soldiers. Then, after the death of her own mother in 1905, she held a memorial service to honor the sacrifices mothers make for their children. The idea of celebrating Mother’s Day really took off, though, once merchants helped promote it.
In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson officially established the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day. But, much like Christmas and Easter, merchants saw the opportunity it presented for them and what began as movement to get families together for a personal celebration, became a gift giving occasion. So, by 1920, Ann Jarvis was publicly criticizing the commercialization of the celebration.
The idea of recognizing the sacrifices our mothers make for us, can easily get lost in what this day has become. It should not. Like the apostles and disciples, it is their commitment to making this a better world that we need to appreciate. Self-giving love, self-sacrifice, are lessons that we are taught by example.
The apostles knew they needed someone whose heart was in the right place to take over for Judas. None of the disciples or apostles were perfect, and none of our mothers are perfect. But, our mothers – birth mothers, adoptive mothers, and the women who fill in for our mothers, teach us about the love Christ has for each of us because of what is in their hearts.
My mother died a few years ago, but she lives on in my heart and her influence will continue to guide me in my life. In our gospel reading, Jesus says in his prayer for his disciples, “the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they have received them.” I can understand this, in part, because of the lessons I learned from my mother. And, just as Jesus prayed for the protection of his disciples, my mother prayed for my protection.
Matthias was selected from among the men who followed Jesus because God knew his heart was in the right place. Today, on Mother’s Day, I want to give thanks for all the women who have followed in the way of Christ who have their hearts in the right place and taught and raised us to love others as Christ loves us.
Let us pray.
Loving and Gracious God, we thank you for the gift of our mothers. Be with them that they may be filled with your Spirit and have the strength to lead their families through the pain and disappointments in this life. Help us to learn from our mothers how to give of ourselves that others might know and understand the depth of your love for all of humanity. We offer our prayers in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen. | <urn:uuid:b76eb494-6592-4935-b5ff-c097e4cc74a1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://stpaulsbatesville.org/sermon-for-easter-7-year-b-may-13-2018/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.983472 | 1,289 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Constans II and Constantine IV (654–59)
- Accession Number:
- BZS.1955.1.4263 (formerly DO 55.1.4263)
DO Seals 6, no. 20.1; Zacos–Veglery, no. 17a. For a similar specimen see Likhachev, “Nekotorye,” 516, fig. 41.
- 28 mm
Three-quarter length representation of the Mother of God, wearing a chiton and maphorion, and holding Christ, who is framed by an oval mandorla, before her. A cross potent is at right. Wreath border.
Bust of Constans II at left, with long beard and mustache, and a smaller bust of Constantine IV at right. Each wears a crown with a cross and a chlamys. Each emperor wears his hair long at the sides and curled inward. A small cross in the upper field, between the two figures. A circular inscription beginning at left. Wreath border.
D(omini) n(ostri) Con[stan]tinu[s c(e) Constantin(us)].
Domini nostri Constantinus ce Constantinus.
Our lords Constans and Constantine.
- Moneta Imperii Byzantini : Rekonstruktion des Prägeaufbaues auf synoptisch-tabellarischer Grundlage
- Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, Volume 6: Emperors, Patriarchs of Constantinople, Addenda
- Byzantine Lead Seals, vol. 1
- Nekotorye stareishie tipy pechati vizantijskich imperatorov
- Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection, vol. 2, Phocas to Theodosius III (602–717) | <urn:uuid:4bbbea48-c432-42f6-bf5c-442771cd22b4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.doaks.org/resources/seals/byzantine-seals/BZS.1955.1.4263 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00431-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.711314 | 411 | 1.890625 | 2 |
Safe Place is an initiative which provides support in a range of settings for people requiring information on domestic violence. It is estimated that 1 in 4 women and 1 in 9 men will experience domestic violence during their lifetime. In most businesses, it is likely that customers, service users and staff will include victims of domestic violence on a daily basis.
All Police Stations are designated Safe Places.
As a Safe Place Organisation we will:
- Support the Safe Place Campaign Pledge: never to commit, condone or stay silent about domestic violence.
- Provide a safe place for victims of domestic violence to confidentially access information.
- Acknowledge domestic violence is a problem that impacts on all of us as a society, and will be prepared to play our part in supporting victims and state clearly to perpetrators that we will not tolerate abuse in our community.
In 2014, the PSNI were presented with the Platinum Workplace Charter Award in recognition of our workplace policy and training in supporting victims of domestic abuse. It is vitally important that people are aware they no longer have to endure abuse, that there is support for them and a means through the law to address the situation they are in. Many people will be unaware that there are services to help them leave an abusive relationship. The Safe Place logo is reassurance for any victim that there is support available. The PSNI are delighted that the initiative has been so well received - an acknowledgement, we believe, that the message that domestic abuse is never acceptable is endorsed throughout our community. | <urn:uuid:05d209a9-0987-48a5-925c-4b884c30e366> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.psni.police.uk/crime/domestic-abuse/safe-place-campaign/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00010-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969566 | 306 | 2.09375 | 2 |
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- ...bards, To limn their portraits, stately, beautiful, and emulate at will, Homer with all his wars and warriors—Hector, Achilles, Ajax, Or Shakspere's woe-entangled Hamlet, Lear, Othello—Tennyson's fair ladies, Metre or wit the best, or choice conceit to wield in perfect rhyme, delight of singers; These, these, O sea, all these I'd gladly barter, Would you the undulation of one wave, its trick to me transfer, Or breathe one breath of yours upon my verse, And leave its odor there.Book 34 — SANDS AT SEVENTY (13% in)
- The conceits of the poets of other lands I'd bring thee not, Nor the compliments that have served their turn so long, Nor rhyme, nor the classics, nor perfume of foreign court or indoor library; But an odor I'd bring as from forests of pine in Maine, or breath of an Illinois prairie, With open airs of Virginia or Georgia or Tennessee, or from Texas uplands, or Florida's glades, Or the Saguenay's black stream, or the wide blue spread of Huron, With presentment of Yellowstone's scenes,...Book 31 — Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood.... (9% in)
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In the organism of states such men are necessary, as wolves are necessary in the organism of nature, and they always exist, always appear and hold their own, however incongruous their presence and their proximity to the head of the government may be.
If he tried, his pictures seemed incongruous and false.
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Have you been noticing square blocks while driving by billboards, flipping through newspaper ads, or even receiving a tech-saavy friend's business card? Short for Quick Response codes, it's a new form of barcode-like technology that lots of marketing agencies are shifting their attention to. As smartphones become more widely used here, more consumers are getting their hands on camera-ready phones to scan these patterned blocks. After taking a picture of the image, you are typically referred to some online content, like a video ad or coupon from the merchant.
Whereas traditional barcodes scan data horizontally, QR codes are different in that they scan vertically as well. This means that QR codes can hold up to 90 alphanumeric characters, whereas old barcodes are limited to 12 characters. What's in it for companies? Well, for one thing they can use these codes to not only direct customers to more interactive forms of advertising, but also use this data to track the number and location of scans. With more frequent usage, this could become a novel way of consumer reporting in coming years.
In Granada, Spain, back in 2007 QR-coded stamps led people to a historical video of the Alhambra Palace. On its 20th anniversary this year, Croatia's postal offices followed suit by issuing a special edition postage stamp with QR codes in the center. Each unique code served as an indicator for customers for their delivery statuses.
Closer to home, British company QRpro is working on developing QR technology through building professional campaigns, helping different groups create codes for their purposes. Also in the UK, London-based Club Drug Clinic is utilizing QR codes on their stickers to provide statistical information to clubbers using substances recreationally. They hope to promote safe usage by taking advantage of the new technology.
Still, one major upside to QR technology could be that it is more environmentally friendly than printing millions upon millions of posters, flyers, business cards, etc. Instead of handing out physical advertisement, companies and groups could instead save money by sending their customers to these digital replacements. Of course, another risk involved is that they would have to count on customers to actually scan these QR codes. Then again, wouldn't passing out flyers only to be tossed in the garbage the next second be of comparable risk?
In the end, we may be asking how user friendly consumers are finding these codes and whether the technology is catching on as a marketing trend. A recent comScore report reveals that growth with QR codes is in fact moving sluggishly. Not only is the current usage stagnant at a low six percent, but the small group of scanners appears to be wealthy white males, too. Perhaps other already rapidly developing technologies like Near Field Communication (NFC), which is going to simplify payment transactions over smartphones, will take hold at a greater and faster rate than Quick Response has shown to. | <urn:uuid:d7589dce-1501-4e9b-b1cd-4228b451cd45> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ibtimes.com/will-qr-codes-take-over-advertising-648241 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00078-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95033 | 577 | 1.976563 | 2 |
Myth # 1: People are not capable of change.
Here’s the thing, if you are convinced that that’s just the way you are, you will make it so! The way you think becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Thoughts are really, really powerful. Amongst other things, what we think influences what we pay attention to. In other words, we look for things to prove what we think.
Change is always possible, individually and interpersonally. Here's a video by Dr. Joe Dispenza, where he talks about how we get stuck in patterns of thinking and feeling that shape our behavior, which influences how we are responded to by others, which further establishes how we think and feel, and on and on it goes. Watch this video with the patterns in your relationship in mind.
Myth # 2: Conflict is bad and should be avoided.
That’s a huge red flag in my book. How could you live together, spend so much time together, raise kids together and never fight?
That said, there are ways to fight that can be damaging and there are ways to fight that can bring you closer together. Watch this short video on good versus bad fighting in relationships to learn more.
Myth # 3: Tending to your relationship is not as important as tending to your kids.
Kids are demanding. They have lots of needs, which can feel unrelenting. You combine that with work, lack of sleep and financial pressure, and it just becomes automatic that your relationship with your partner gets sacrificed.
Relationships are living entities that need to be tended to regularly. Not doing so will directly impact the wellbeing of your children. So if your concerned about your children’s wellbeing above all else, you need to prioritize your relationship with your partner.
Read the following two articles on the impact that having kids has on marriages and relationships:
Decades of Studies Show What Happens to Marriages After Having Kids
Why Do So Many Couples Break Up After Having a Baby
Myth # 4: Your Kids Are Not Affected By Your Relationship
If you’re stressed, anxious, depressed, or angry, it will get communicated to your kids. It’s going to happen at times. We’re human. But to pretend that they are too young to understand or to be impacted by your behavior is just wrong.
Another way our we impact our kids is via our projections and expectations. It's common for people who have not worked through and processed their own issues to inflict them onto their children.
One of the biggest reasons that I created Love After Kids is because I know that helping people’s relationships will be helping their children as well. Watch this video about how to let go of parenting expectations.
Myth # 5: You can assume that you know what your partner thinks, feels and needs
I don’t care how much you think you know about your partner.
I don’t care how familiar his behavior is, or her facial expressions, or the things he says, or her routines.
The more you assume, the further and further you get from each other, from really knowing each other.
Assuming is the death of relationships. Read the following article from Love After Kids on the Huffington Post loaded with tips and advice called How to Save a Relationship.
Myth # 6: Your Partner Should be Able to Read Your Mind
You’ve got to spell it out. Spell it all out. Don’t assume he knows what you want. Tell him.
Don’t assume she knows your feelings are hurt. Tell her.
Take the mystery out of communication. Make a pact with each other.
Don’t assume he knows you appreciate that he cooked dinner. Thank him.
Expressing gratitude for all the little things is so important.
Who doesn’t want to feel appreciated, recognized and valued?
Here's an article on the importance of gratitude in relationships called:
Encouraging Your Parenting Partner - Praise and Thanks Go a Long Way.
Myth # 7: Relationships Should Come Easy and Should Not Require Work
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I came across a series by Cody Kimmel a few months ago, on the topic of parenting in a postmodern and pluralistic culture. He helpfully defines these terms for folks like me:
- Postmodernism = a rejection of big and exclusive value systems and beliefs
- Pluralism = the belief that there are many and equally-valid ways to live
When Christian parents have seen these obviously anti-biblical worldviews in the culture, they could respond in a number of ways:
- Insulation and Escape
- Attack and Demonize
Kimmel also wrote about three big aspects of the language of postmodernism, as an aid to help parents communicate with their kids.
- "Because I Said So!" Really Won't Work. The Bible is clear that parents are the authority, but postmodern thought rejects this as too exclusive and harsh. But, "the postmodern generation doesn't reject authority because they flat out hate it, [but] because they don't trust it."
- The Online World is an Extension of their Social World. "When we [parents] use the internet, we are generally seeking information. . . . When our kids online, they are generally seeking interaction."
- Heightened Sensitivity to Minority Groups. Voices that were once silent, oppressed, misunderstand now have a platform on TV and online. While the hyper-sensitivity to minority groups can be taken too far, being sensitive to the voiceless and minorities is a good thing. When our children want to recycle, or befriend someone with two dads, we should "recognize the compassion growing in them." After all, Jesus also spent much of His time with the outcasts of society.
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Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, we don’t need to keep running to the dictionary whenever we write something.
Spell check keeps us in check on most words, as well as proper grammar and odd sentence fragments. But what if you still like to write longhand, like I do, before actually typing it out?
The Wolskys invented this pen because their son was having problems learning, and how it works is the pen recognizes the movements you make when writing. The pen vibrates when you make a mistake, and it vibrates twice for spelling and grammar screw-ups. This pen also works with Wi-Fi, and it can send your writing to your computer and transcribe it out, which is definitely cool. (Saves you the extra step of typing it out).
This pen will be out in August, and as writer Nick Venable jokes, "If it helps a couple of knuckleheads finally figure out ‘they’re/there/ their,’ then I’ll buy half of my Facebook friends one as a present." In fact, there’s a music site I go to often where the commentators could really use a ton of these pens.
Of course, no matter how careful we are, mistakes do go through. (Thankfully there’s so many people on the internet who are more than happy to point out when we makes these mistakes so we can correct them).Then again, mistakes are what makes us human, but whatever new technologies that can help us screw up less come along, we’re certainly all for it. | <urn:uuid:1ac91395-00a8-4786-9afb-1a6c94c50d59> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.tgdaily.com/games-and-entertainment-features/69398-this-digital-pen-corrects-spelling-and-grammar | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00251-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960994 | 328 | 1.929688 | 2 |
Re: Abscess...need advice???
I had never heard of this until you posted, but after searching the web this is what I learned:
"An anorectal (perirectal) abscess and an anorectal fistula have a common origin. The abscess is an acute problem and the fistula is a subsequent chronic problem. A fistula is an abnormal communication between the anal canal and the perianal skin.
In 90% of cases of perirectal abscess, the source of the abscess is an infection occurring in glands which empty into the anal canal. Usually, no specific cause of this infection can be found and it is termed a cryptoglandular Infection. A cryptoglandular infection may occasionally be seen in association with a diarrheal illness, anal fissure, tuberculosis, Crohnís disease, and AIDS.
Non-cryptoglandular infection (less than 10%) occurs secondary to trauma, a foreign body or cancer of the rectum. Rarely an intraabdominal source of infection may result in a perirectal abscess.
A patient with a perirectal abscess presents to the surgeon with persistent rectal pain (unlike anal fissure in which the pain occurs following defecation), perirectal swelling, possible fever and drainage if the abscess has ruptured. An abscess may be diagnosed by inspection of the tissue around the rectum or by digital palpation. Occasionally endoscopic examination is required if not too painful. In a small number of patients with severe pain, examination under anesthesia is required for diagnosis. Treatment is rendered at that time.
The treatment of a perirectal abscess is adequate surgical drainage. There is no role for antibiotics as primary treatment; they may be used in conjunction with surgical drainage in some cases. Small abscesses can be drained in the office with the use of local anesthestics. At least one-half of abscesses require drainage under anesthesia, either general anesthesia or spinal anesthesia.
Following rupture of an abscess or following surgical drainage, a fistula may (but not necessarily) develop. Signs of a fistula include persistent drainage and recurrent abscess formation. The presence of a symptomatic fistula is an indication for surgery. Fistulas rarely heal and are associated with recurrent abscesses. Rarely, a long standing fistula may be the site of development of a cancer. Surgical treatment of a fistula usually means complete incision of the fistula (fistulotomy).
The goal of treatment of a fistula is complete eradication of the fistula and maintenance of fecal continence. Fistulas can be simple problems with the diagnosis obvious and treatment straight forward. In a small percentage of cases, the fistula may be difficult to identify and eradicate. Multiple operations may thus follow.
If at the time of drainage of a perirectal abscess a fistula is identified, surgical treatment of the fistula may be carried out. If a definite fistula can not be identified, the best treatment may be simply to drain the abscess and caution the patient that he may need further surgery should a fistula develop.
A fistula usually involves some portion of the anal sphincter muscle and correction of the fistula requires division of a portion of the muscle. The most significant complication of surgery for a fistula is fecal incontinence. If this occurs, the sphincter muscle can be subsequently repaired.
The treatment for a fistula associated with other conditions is treatment of the primary condition.
Some infections and abscesses may occur near the rectum, but do not originate in the rectum. A Bartholinís abscess originates in the vagina. Infections may involve the perianal skin or its appendages. These include infected pilonidal cysts, hidradenitis originating in sweat glands, and infected sebaceous cysts.
Infection of the perirectal tissues may also originate from infections of the urinary system. The treatment of these infections is treatment of the underlying source."
"A fistula is a form of infection around the rectum. It is an abnormal, thin tunnel that connects the inside of the rectum with the outside through a small hole that is located to the side of the rectum. A fistula will usually leak blood-stained pus (cloudy fluid), because, as mentioned, it is a form of mild infection. There usually is some discomfort, but this condition isn't really painful. When the openings of the fistula become plugged an infection (abscess) results. A fistula will not heal without surgical treatment."
Seems like the recurrent abscesses are coming from a fistula and the fistulotomy is the surgical removal of it so that it doesn't continue to abscess and surgery was the only option listed in every article I read. From what I read, if you are diagnosed with Crohn's, and you get the symptoms of it under control then it should help prevent future occurrences of the fistula/abscesses.
Hope this has helped some!!
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Questioning learn how to write a powerful poetry evaluation essay? Confronted with a frightening listing of seemingly unrelated similarities and differences, you might feel confused about the best way to assemble a paper that isn’t just a mechanical train in which you first state all the options that A and B have in frequent, and then state all the ways through which A and B are different. Predictably, the thesis of such a paper is often an assertion that A and B are very related yet not so related in spite of everything. To put in writing a very good compare-and-distinction paper, you must take your uncooked data—the similarities and variations you’ve got noticed—and make them cohere into a significant argument. Listed below are the 5 components required.
Make notes about literary gadgets the author makes use of, reminiscent of figurative language, that relate to your question. Ask your self concerning the narrative methods, such because the viewpoint, and why the writer would use these methods to express these ideas.
It’s not normally a linear course of—authors often to return and examine the literature whereas reformulating their ideas. This additionally means you’ll not be writing the literature review at any one time, however continuously working on it before, throughout, and after your examine is complete.
A majority of journal articles begin with a selective literature evaluate to provide context for analysis reported within the manuscript, which is the broader work for which the literature gives context; the literature evaluation is often included in the introduction.
In case you might be nonetheless puzzled the right way to write an overview in your literary analysis paper, you may find examples on-line. Nonetheless, don’t forget to tailor them in response to your calls for. In the event you nonetheless doubt, you can always contact your professor or a reliable writing company and get comprehensive assistance.
General information about how to decide on a topic to analyze might be discovered below the ” Selecting a Analysis Downside ” tab in this writing guide. Review this page as a result of it might make it easier to determine a subject of research that may be investigated using a single case study design.
This text was co-authored by Stephanie Wong Ken, MFA. Stephanie Wong Ken is a author primarily based in Canada. Stephanie’s writing has appeared in Joyland, Catapult, Pithead Chapel, Cosmonaut’s Avenue, and different publications. She holds an MFA in Fiction and Inventive Writing from Portland State College. This article has been considered 29,744 times.
Simply as you don’t want to over-generalize out of your case research findings, you additionally should be thorough within the consideration of all attainable outcomes or suggestions derived from your findings. If you do not, your reader may question the validity of your evaluation, significantly should you failed to document an obvious final result out of your case examine analysis. For example, within the case of studying the accident at the railroad crossing to judge the place and what kinds of warning indicators must be positioned, you didn’t think about speed restrict signage in addition to warning indicators. When designing your case study, be certain you’ve gotten totally addressed all facets of the problem and don’t depart gaps in your evaluation that leave the reader questioning the results.
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Begin your introduction with a grabber. In a literary analysis essay, an efficient grabber could be a brief quote from the text you’re analyzing that encapsulates some side of your interpretation. Other good grabbers are quotes from the ebook’s writer relating to your paper’s subject or another facet relevant to the textual content and the way you interpreted it. Place the quote in citation marks as the first sentence of the introductory paragraph. Your subsequent sentence should establish the speaker and context of the quotation, in addition to briefly describing how the quote pertains to your literary evaluation.
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Epidiolex, the catchy name of a new drug to treat complex seizures, has generated a wave of controversy around the medical world. Federal advisers recommended the approval of the first prescription drug in which the main component is cannabidiol (CBD), a natural cannabis’ derivative with low addictive power. This drug would be approved just for the treatment of seizures caused by the Lennox-Gastaut and Dravet syndromes, Complex Tuberous Sclerosis and Infant Spasms.
Epidiolex represents a new hope for people living with intractable seizures and rare cases of epilepsy — Philip Gattone, president of the Epilepsy Foundation
Organized groups of patients have already given their blessing to the new medication. Many health professionals seem to agree with the words of Gattone, adding that the confidence of having a product previously approved and manufactured by a prestigious pharmaceutical company is priceless, considering a large number of cannabis products that swarm in the market without any control.
GW Pharmaceuticals, the British company in charge of manufacturing Epidiolex, ensures on its website that Epidiolex has gone through all the necessary tests for its approval by the FDA as well as by any other regulatory authority around the world. All trials in which the drug was tested have shown a greater reduction in seizures in these patients compared to placebo.
“It’s incredibly important as a physician prescribing to patients that we know what we’re giving them and we know we give them one month will be the same that we give them three or six months later,” said Dr. Orrin Devinsky, director of NYU Langone Epilepsy Center, during an NBC interview.
In addition, the defenders of Epidiolex comment that its composition differs a lot from other medicines with cannabis derivatives since it does not contain THC, the constituent that causes most of the addictive effects of marijuana that is used for recreational or even medical purposes.
But as expected, the opponents of cannabis did not take too long to appear and manifest.
The Drug-Free America Foundation stated the following in a section on its website titled Q&A: Marijuana: “Many who claim to need marihuana medicinally simply want to use it recreationally. In states with marijuana dispensaries, the vast majority of patients are young men between the ages of 18 and 25, not cancer or AIDS victims used in voter ads to exploit our compassionate nature.”
In fact, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that epilepsy is becoming more common in the US. Three million adults report they have epilepsy now, up from 2.3 million in 2010.
Even some advocates of the use of medical marijuana have recognized drawbacks with their project. We can read on ProCon’s medical marijuana website: “We recognize the possibility that not all medical marijuana users will register for identification cards and that not all registered persons have valid medical uses for marijuana.”
The legal scope remains as an issue to be solved. Important federal entities in the US such as the DEA and the FDA still consider marijuana as an illegal substance, and the panorama regarding its multiple components is not clear. Police forces usually arrest any person in possession of marijuana or any of its derivatives, usually without saying a word and regardless of whether there is any justified cause for its use, and we do not know to date how they will behave with those individuals who are found with Epidiolex in their hands, considering that CBD is its main component.
There is also the fear that once approved, Epidiolex may serve as a springboard for marijuana traders, legal or not, to take advantage of this scenario as free advertising for their products, so despaired patients or relatives may fall into their trap.
Despite the controversies, there seems to be a consensus among detractors and defenders that cannabidiol (CBD) has important therapeutic effects and few adverse effects. The FDA’s own advisers have already raised the possibility that this drug could also be used to treat autism, anxiety disorders, and inflammatory and autoimmune disorders.
Once the commercialization of Epidiolex has been approved, we will be able to see the behavior of all those involved in this historic and unprecedented event: health and judicial authorities, doctors, pharmacists and especially patients, whose acceptance of the drug will be what sets the tone.
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Fisheries and Oceans Canada has forecasted a largely below-average season for salmon on the Stikine, Taku and Alsek Rivers, according to a notice posted earlier this month.
Total Chinook runs on both the Stikine and Taku are forecasted to come in below the escapement goal range, while Chinook on the Alsek may narrowly make the goal.
The federal department is forecasting a run of 13,400 Chinook on the Stikine (escapement goal of 14,000 to 28,000); 12,400 on the Taku (19,000 to 36,000); and 4,700 on the Alsek (3,500 to 5,300).
For Klukshu Chinook, specifically, fishery manager Bill Waugh said in a Feb. 25 interview that the department has forecasted a run of 1,200, with an escapement goal of 800 to 1,200.
Sockeye runs are forecasted to meet escapement goals on the Stikine and Alsek. A goal has not yet been set for the Taku.
Reliable forecast data is not available for coho, although Waugh said the department was “hopeful” for a slightly-better-than-average run.
While it’s too early in the season to make management calls, Waugh said he anticipates the overall strategy on the Alsek — which sees the most activity in the Yukon out of the three — will be similar to 2019’s.
“We’re likely to have a salmon-angling closure to start the season and that will probably run through to the middle of August … It’ll primarily be designed to protect returning Chinook salmon if they are kind of indeed just at the upper end of the escapement goal range and then the opportunity then will be to switch to maybe sockeye fishery of maybe even expand into a Chinook fishery depending if things return better than expected,” he explained.
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Il Bel Sogno - Opera Arias
Giacomo PUCCINI (1858-1924)
Chi il bel sogno di Doretta - La rondine [3:18]
Si, Mi chiamano Mimi… - La bohème [4:51]
Donde lieta - La bohème [3:17]
O mio babbino caro - Gianni Schicchi [2:37]
Charles GOUNOD (1818-1893)
Trahir Vincent - Mireille [5:44]
Voici la vaste plaine - Mireille [8:10]
Le Roi de Thule, (Air des bijoux) - Faust [11:15]
Il ne revient pas - Faust [5:40]
Jules MASSENET (1842–1912)
Allons! Il le faut... Adieu, notre petite table - Manon [4:39]
Dis-moi que je suis belle…(Air de mirror) - Thaïs
Giuseppe VERDI (1813-1901)
Addio del passato - La traviata [7:46]
È strano… Ah, fors'è lui… Follie! follie!… Sempre libera - La
Inva Mula (soprano); Agim Hushi (tenor – tr. 12)
Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra/Ivo Lipanoviç
rec. 4-7 March, 16-18 April 2009, Lesinski Hall, Zagreb, Croatia.
VIRGIN CLASSICS 6 94538 0 [76:56]
Lyric-coloratura soprano Inva Mula has released an alluring
recital of French and Italian arias for the Virgin Classics
label. ‘Courtesan’ might be a more appropriate title
for the disc as by my reckoning four of the heroine roles operate
in that profession.
Mula demonstrates her splendid credentials as one of the finest
‘French’ sopranos of today performing two arias from Gounod’s
Mireille alongside well-known extracts from his Faust,
and Massenet’s Thaïs and Manon. The Italian repertoire
is represented by standard arias of the repertoire from Verdi’s
La traviata to Puccini’s La bohème, La rondine
and Gianni Schicchi.
The Albanian-born Mula has been given the accolade of opening
the 2009-10 season at the Paris Opera in the title role of Gounod’s
rarely heard five act Mireille. I suspect that there
are many readers who have not heard of this soprano so some
biographical details are in order. In 1987 she won the Cantante
d'Albania competition in Tirana and the next year was successful
in the internationally renowned George Enescu Competition in
Bucharest. Mula was victorious in the 1992 Barcelona Butterfly
competition and in 1993 a prize-winner at the first Plácido
Domingo Operalia competition in Paris. It seems that prior to
the mid-1990s the soprano was using the name Inva Mulla Tchako.
In France, Mula has appeared in Bizet's Carmen and also
in his rarely staged La Jolie fille de Perth and Ivan
IV. Other roles include Bellini's I puritani, Puccini's
Turandot, Berlioz's Béatrice et Bénédict, Lalo's
Le Roi d'Ys, Gounod's Faust and Cherubini's
Médée. In Italy Mula regularly worked in collaboration
with maestro Riccardo Muti, most notably at La Scala, Milan.
Her Italian roles have included Verdi’s La traviata, Falstaff
and Rigoletto, Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor,
Don Pasquale and L'elisir d'amore, Puccini’s La
bohème and Gianni Schicchi. For the Vienna State
Opera, Mula has starred in Verdi’s La traviata and Offenbach’s
Les contes d'Hoffmann with appearances in Germany, USA,
England, Japan, Spain and Canada.
Puccini’s wistful aria Chi il bel sogno di Doretta from
La rondine opens the release. Mula is imperious, confidently
characterising Magda, the sophisticated yet tragic Parisian
heroine. A favourite opera of mine La rondine deserves
to be a staple of the repertoire. Declaring her love of springtime
the soprano gives a convincing portrait of the heroine Mimi
the frail Parisian seamstress in the set-piece aria Si, Mi
chiamano Mimi from Puccini’s La bohème.
From the same opera as a shivering Mimi in the aria Donde
lieta uscì Mula displays that she can build a climax equal
to the finest star sopranos. Puccini’s one act Gianni Shicchi
is celebrated for the show-piece O mio babbino caro.
Mula’s attractive and demure depiction of Lauretta the heroine
in love with Rinuccio is quite delicious.
As the Provençal farm girl Mireille, Mula sings two arias from
Mireille. In the air Trahir Vincent I was
struck by her formidable attack in the closing bars. The
splendid aria Voici la vaste plaine is set in the fiery
and arid Crau desert. Here Mireille sees a mirage of a magnificent
city close to a great lake. It is hard not to be impressed by
Mula’s clear, incisive and expressive tones. As Marguerite in
Gounod’s Faust, Mula is secure and expressive in her
eleven-minute solo scene in Act 3 that commences with Je
voudrais bien savoir…then Il était un Roi de Thulé…and
Un bouquet!…O Dieu! que de bijoux! Mula’s appealing performance
in the conclusion of the scene, the show-stopping mirror aria
known as the ‘Jewel Song’ Ah! je ris de me voir is a
true highlight of the disc. In Marguerite’s aria Il ne revient
pas I love the way Mula soars to the high notes with such
In Massenet’s Manon I was impressed by the soprano’s
cherishable characterisation of the young heroine Manon Lescaut
in the aria Allons! Il le faut... Adieu, notre petite table.
Thaïs, a courtesan in Ancient Egypt is the title role of Massenet’s
opera of the same name. Ah! Je suis seule... Dis-moi que
je suis belle is another mirror aria that the confident
Mula conveys with considerable depth of feeling.
Arias from the Italian master Giuseppe Verdi close the disc.
From the Verdi masterwork La traviata the heroine is
Parisian courtesan Violetta Valéry who is suffering from tuberculosis.
From Act 3 in Addio del passato where Violetta is bidding
farewell to life, Mula with splendid expression provides all
the necessary pathos the role demands. Violetta’s celebrated
Act 1 arias È strano… Ah, fors'è lui… Follie! follie!… Sempre
libera are suitably affecting with Mula demonstrating appropriate
flexibility and a natural feel for pacing.
One cannot fail to be impressed by the spirited and persuasive
playing from the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra under Ivo Lipanoviç.
Recorded in Zagreb at the Lesinski Hall I found the sound quality
to be pleasing, reasonably warm with a good balance. The well-written
notes in the booklet would have benefited from more detail.
On the advertising blurb for the release I have seen references
to a digital bonus track of Verdi’s aria Caro nome from
Rigoletto. I couldn’t make any real sense of it and never
found the track. This is probably another tiresome ploy to get
the listener to visit the label’s website.
These are magnificent performances both spirited and radiant
from Inva Mula a soprano who can compare with some of the finest
names in the recording world. She has a rather distinctive voice
and is undoubtedly comfortable with high tessitura roles where
she can soar upwards and float effortlessly like a seabird in
thermal. Few can rival the creamy timbre and tone colours of
the divas Fleming, Gheorghiu and Netrebko but Mula is blessed
with superb poise and wonderful assurance together with a remarkable
gift to emotionally affect the listener. Pleasurable from start
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Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) wasted no time adding his name to the list of 25 other Republican representatives in the reintroduction of a bill that would redefine life beginning at the moment of fertilization. A personhood amendment, as they are commonly known, has been introduced in the last several congressional cycles. This bill, introduced on January 3, 2013 by Mr. Broun (R-Ga.), is called the Sanctity of Human Life Act. The text of the bill declares:
"The right to life guaranteed by the Constitution is vested in each human being, and is the paramount and most fundamental right of a person; and … the life of each human being begins with fertilization, cloning, or its functional equivalent, irrespective of sex, health, function or disability, defect, stage of biological development, or condition of dependency, at which time every human being shall have all the legal and constitutional attributes and privileges of personhood.
" … the Congress affirms that the Congress, each State, the District of Columbia, and all United States territories have the authority to protect the lives of all human beings residing in its respective jurisdictions."
Personhood amendments can effectively criminalize what a woman does with her body during pregnancy. The absence of personhood amendments, however, has not stopped many states from taking action against pregnant women, as a report in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law found out.
The report traced the arrests and forced interventions of 413 pregnant women in the U.S. from 1973-2005. It noted that that the largest percentage of cases originated in the South, and in individual states the cases clustered in certain areas, even certain hospitals. 71% of the women qualified for 'indigent defense,' or what we would know as court-appointed legal representation. The largest amount of actions were taken against African American women (52% of the cases).
The reason for arrests or intervention in a vast majority of the cases was to protect the unborn child. But in two out of three cases, no adverse pregnancy outcome was reported. These criminal charges were brought upon the basis that there was a risk or positive drug test, but no evidence of harm (p. 319).
Despite our moral and ethical objections to the consumption of alcohol and drugs during pregnancy, these actions are not themselves illegal. States use child abuse laws and drug trafficking statues in order to prosecute women who use drugs while pregnant.
Currently, 38 states have laws making the death of a fetus a crime, and 23 states apply fetal homicide to the earliest stages of pregnancy. The Unborn Victims of Violence Act (UVA), passed in 2004 contained language that defined a ‘child in utero’ as a “member of the species Homo sapiens, at any state of development who is carried in the womb.” The wording of some feticide laws and the UVA essentially grant personhood to eggs, embryos and fetuses. They state that they should be treated legally separately from the women. This is exactly what a personhood amendment would seek to do.
Unlike feticide laws and the UVA which explicitly state that their provisions do not apply to abortion, a personhood amendment would guarantee all the rights and privileges to eggs, embryos and fetuses as granted by the Fourteenth Amendment.
By doing this, this triggers the collapse clause in Roe v. Wade which says:
“The appellee and certain amici argue that the fetus is a 'person' within the language and meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. In support of this, they outline at length and in detail the well-known facts of fetal development. If this suggestion of personhood is established, the appellant's case, of course, collapses, [410 U.S. 113, 157] for the fetus' right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the Amendment. The appellant conceded as much on reargument ... On the other hand, the appellee conceded on reargument 52 that no case could be cited that holds that a fetus is a person within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
Ryan's new personhood amendment is part of a history of attempts by anti-choice groups to circumvent the legal system though legislative loopholes or to force a legal battle in the Supreme Court to reargue Roe v. Wade. Using drug trafficking laws to go after pregnant women who may or may not be using drugs citing the need to protect the unborn child, only does so on the basis that the child ‘should’ be considered a person. The problem is, Roe v. Wade clearly recognizes that an unborn child is not a person, and therefore would not be protected under the 14th amendment.
In Ferguson v. City of Charleston, the court found that the involuntary drug testing of pregnant women at the Medical University of South Carolina violated the Fourth Amendment. The drug tests were done without prior knowledge, and individuals who tested positive were turned over to police. The court held that this amounted to unreasonable search and is therefore unconstitutional.
According to the Guttmacher Institute, women who have been prosecuted for drug use or child abuse are generally successful in having their convictions overturned on the basis that the fetus cannot be considered a person, as defined in the criminal statues. Other states have sided with the women on the basis that it is a violation of their due process.
Obviously, the health and well-being of a mother is an important component of producing a healthy child. The incredibly difficult social issue (and one that I do not believe we have satisfactorily met) is how we deal with substance abuse in general. Dealing with substance abuse and pregnant women presents us with no fewer issues.
So, where does this leave us?
Because it lacks specificity, the Ryan-backed personhood amendment would criminalize a wide variety of women’s choices. If life begins at conception, then it would be difficult to see a place for hormonal birth control, or intrauterine devices (IUDs).
But this is not an article seeking to deal with the issue of abortion; this article is about at what point we recognize that it is impossible to view women as separate from the fetus. The two are obviously not independent of one another. That the drafting and passage of personhood amendments would seek to separate the two and that this has far-reaching legal ramifications which cannot hope to be foreseen and would therefore be in violation of the Constitution.
Personhood amendments endanger not only the rights of women who seek to have abortions, but also those of pregnant women who do not. For whatever reason, this is okay to some, because the life of an unborn child surpasses the life of the women. But the Fourteenth Amendment still recognizes that women are persons, and as such we are endowed to the full rights and privileges of the Constitution.
The report on forced interventions and arrests already noted the ways in which African Americans and those of a lower socio-economic class were unfairly targeted by authorities. I believe a personhood amendment would proliferate those abuses and violate the Equal Protection Clause of the constitution.
I do not foresee an instance where a personhood amendment could pass the muster of strict scrutiny. Least restrictive means? I don’t think so. A personhood amendment and the way it is enacted would seem to be in direct contradiction of a women’s fundamental personal right. The current introduced piece of legislation is so vague in its description of scope or purpose for enacting such legislation that it would surely falter on that test alone.
Americans have continued to reject personhood amendments on the basis that their scope and powers are just too overreaching; that they do not make the appropriate exemptions for women’s health considerations. We are faced with the same issues with the Ryan-backed personhood amendment. The amendment is so broad that its dangers should be readily apparent to all of us. We cannot afford the passage of this personhood amendment, because it endangers the protected rights of women all over the U.S. | <urn:uuid:47dc08a1-492c-44e6-bec1-acc6aa4aed6f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://mic.com/articles/23534/paul-ryan-s-personhood-amendment-threatens-the-constitutional-rights-of-women-across-america | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00314-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962839 | 1,633 | 2.421875 | 2 |
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How to play Neon Hockey game?
Hockey masters here! Get a friend who knows this game as well as you and enjoy the fun in two-player mode. For those who do not know, let's explain.
You have blue and red circles and green balls. Choose your color and start the game. You cannot go further than the middle line that divides the board in half. The ball can reach anywhere. Your goal is to get the ball into your opponent's goal.
Every ball you throw will be written as a score and you will be able to see it on the board. This game full of neon lights will keep your attention alive and will not disturb your focus. You should play this game that appeals to the eyes with your friend.
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It was not expected to be an extraordinarily eventful day. But this warm September afternoon in 1972 would change the way the Purdue administration viewed football games and the safety of those attending them. Tens of thousands of fans poured into Purdue's Ross-Ade Stadium to watch the Boilermakers take on state rival Notre Dame. The game was expected to be an intense battle between the two powerhouses. Yet none of those present realized that the most important battles being waged in Ross-Ade Stadium on that Saturday afternoon were not going to be on the field: they would be in the stands and the surrounding parking lots. This was the day that four visitors to the university would suffer heart attacks and lose their lives in and immediately around Ross-Ade Stadium.
The emergency medical system that existed at the time was extremely stressed by the influx of severe cases that day. Several believed that the systems inadequacies played a role in the high loss of life. Following that tragic football Saturday, Purdue administrators and Athletic Department officials met to evaluate their emergency medical procedures in Ross-Ade Stadium and discuss their options.
It was decided to establish a group to act as first responders within the stadium. These volunteers would be responsible for maintaining basic life support and transporting victims to medical staff members in a first aid station within Ross-Ade Stadium. It was believed that this group of first responders would be capable of relieving the Emergency Medical Technicians in the most basic of first aid and transport problems.
At first, only volunteers from the Purdue staff were asked to provide this service. Staff members from the Physical Plant operations of the University were chosen to be the first responder group. It quickly became clear that manpower needed to be expanded. Student volunteers were recruited, primarily from one of the campus health honoraria, Eta Sigma Gamma. Additional medical staff was added through the support of the Student Hospital, and electric carts became an essential part of the growing rescue team. Before long, most of the participants, with the exception of the professional medical staff and Purdue Safety and Security staff members, were student volunteers.
The group came to be known as Rescue Squad. Rescue Squad became a sub-club of Eta Sigma Gamma. However, those interested in being part of Rescue Squad could actively participate in the group without being a member of Eta Sigma Gamma. Rescue Squad members were volunteers, but the Purdue Athletic Department gave Eta Sigma Gamma an honorarium for the services of the group. The honorarium was divided amongst those who participated in the Rescue Squad operations. Aside from the small cash honorarium, members received, at no cost, a limited amount of food and beverages at each game. Squad members were required to hold a current cardiopulmonary resuscitation certification (CPR, until now) plus be certified or enrolled in advanced first aid or have higher medical training. Special training sessions were developed to familiarize the Rescue Squad members with procedures appropriate to the special situations that arise in a football stadium full of cheering fans.
By 1986, it became evident that being part of Eta Sigma Gamma was becoming a hindrance to the needs, possible growth, and further expansion of Rescue Squad. Squad members were interested in forming their own club. They felt the possibilities existed to expand the usefulness of Rescue Squad from the football stadium to other campus events including triathlons (we provided service to a run by the Co-Rec in 1998), parades, and gatherings that could attract large crowds or become potentially dangerous.
Work began in the fall of 1987 on a constitution that would allow the formation of a university recognized independent student organization. In the fall of 1988, Purdue's Dean of Students Office and the club members approved a formal constitution at that time. The formation of Stadium Rescue Squad was official.
In a little less than 16 years, an idea brought about from a tragedy transformed from a group of about 15 volunteer staff members to an officially recognized university organization with a membership above 100 that includes faculty, staff, and students of Purdue University. And they are all brought together for the same purpose: to help those in medical need in an unfamiliar environment.
Improvement in Rescue Squad did not stop there. Two-way radios were used to communicate among squads, control and medical teams, but unfortunately they were not very good. The Grounds Crew also used the radio channel used by the Rescue Squad at the football stadium, and they used their radios as much as the Rescue Squad did. Communications could not be done when they talked. There had been many delays in communication among the squads, as well as delays for the Ground crew. These delays of seconds or minutes can be very costly to the patient. The squad then started to own their own radios and frequency channel in fall 1998. Since then, communication has been very good. | <urn:uuid:8e5282be-aa8e-44b4-bea0-0bb5928ff489> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~thesquad/history.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00419-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981665 | 964 | 3.296875 | 3 |
As the University of Oregon has become the fourth ranked college football team in the nation, fans of the Ducks have shown their support by holding up their hands in the shape of the letter “O.”
They may want to start thinking of a different hand shape to show that support.
When someone who understands sign language looks up into the stands of an Oregon football game to see thousands of fans holding up their hands in the shape of an “O,” they interpret it as a large group of people screaming the word “vagina” at them.
That’s right, in sign language, holding your hands in the shape of an “O” is the symbol for vagina. When holding that “O” above one’s head like Oregon fans tend to do, it translates to screaming “vagina” at someone.
You won’t see too many of the Oregon players boldly displaying that “O.” That’s because quite a few members of the Ducks take a sign language class to fulfill their foreign language requirement.
The New York Times reported star running back LaMichael James as saying, “I did the ‘O’ once, and I never did it again.”
According the the NYT, sign language is avery popular course for Oregon football players, but not because it’s easy. University of Oregon sign language instructor Johanna Larson explains the athletes’ predisposition towards success in the subject: “Many of them have some sort of innate ability. They’ve been watching signals for so long, and many of the students on the team are real tactile learners with great peripheral vision.”
Larson was also pleased to hear that some of her students-athletes no longer make the “O” sign during games. Still, she delights in telling the 29 football players currently enrolled in her class what they’re actually saying when holding up the spade-shaped “O” sign after scoring a touchdown.
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Adobe 9.0 PDF files continue to be unsafe to use
June 7, 2010
Hackers are continuing to exploit critical and unpatched security vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader 9.0, Acrobat and Flash Player.
The whole thing actually started in January when hackers were targeting Adobe Reader with an unusually sophisticated attack. Last week, Internet security firm McAfee predicted that Adobe's PDF Reader will be the most attacked software in 2010.
Adobe's PDF Reader software uses what's known as egg-hunting shellcode to compress the first phase of the malicious payload into just 38 bytes, a tiny size that's designed to thwart anti-virus detection. As a result, just four of the 41 major anti-virus programs detect the attack more than six days after the exploit surfaced, according to some analysis from Virus Total.
The shellcode then loads an obfuscated binary file contained in the PDF file that installs PoisonIvy, a backdoor client used to maintain control over infected personal computers.
"Not only was this a very interesting example of a malicious PDF document carrying a sophisticated virus, but it also revealed the length attackers are willing to go to in order to make their malware as hard to detect as possible, not only for the anti-virus vendors, but also for victims," wrote Bojan Zdrnja, a SANS-Center worker who analyzed the exploit.
Just to make the attack even harder for end users to detect, the obfuscated binary even runs a third executable file that does nothing more than open a benign file called baby.pdf on the infected machine. Zdrnja believes this is done to deflect attention and prevent users from figuring out their PC has just been compromised.
The Adobe security vulnerabilities are platform independent and can affect users of Adobe products regardless of whether they run Windows, Mac or Linux systems, Adobe warns.
The software developer says that Adobe Reader and Acrobat version 8.x are not vulnerable, but users of the newer version 9.0 of the software are greatly at risk. Adobe has published a workaround involving the deletion of a library file connected with processing Flash content in PDF files pending the development of a more robust and permanent fix.
Adobe has yet to publish a timetable of when security patches will become available. Adobe Flash Player 10.0.45.2 and earlier versions are also vulnerable to the security hole. Users of Flash Player 10.1 release candidate may be in the clear but that's uncertain, as an advisory from Adobe explains.
Adobe's security issues are the latest in a series of security issues to plague Adobe software, joined closely with Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser and applications as the main targets of hacker attacks.
The latest security holes can be blamed on the support of exotic files and formats within PDF files, a problem that has cropped up also since the bug was discovered in January.
Source: Adobe Software.
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From Madame de Sévigné to Pauline Delabroy-Allard, George Sand to Djuna Barnes, Simone de Beauvoir to Monique Wittig, not to forget Céline Sciamma or the 10% et Nina series… An analysis of the different faces of lesbian love over time.
A contribution to the reflection on the art of osteopathic care.
High-profile contributors (including Laurence Boon, Pascal Lamy and Jean-Claude Trichet) provide captivating perspectives (special mention for Alain Madelin!) in a jargon-free style, especially from the entrepreneurs.
The work of Valéry seen through the prism of neuroscience today… Fascinating.
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Based on the most recent scientific studies, this book shows the interdependence between the climate, biodiversity and our health. It will give food for thought to environmentalists
An original insight into the links between the work of a psychoanalyst fascinated by mathematics and a mathematical genius fascinated by the mind.
A book by one of the most renowned specialists of the protohistoric period, to help understand women’s place in the first sedentary societies of the Neolithic period.
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12 million French people suffer from irritable bowel syndrome, 28 million from digestive problems, and 10% from symptoms of depression.
After telling how the art of cooking had humanized, civilized our ancestral apes, Alexandre Stern explores the roots of our humanity to better examine our modern practices and ways of life. | <urn:uuid:a4068b23-02ee-4a07-a4f2-6d705fb7684a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://en.odilejacob.fr/catalogue/?perPage=32&page=1&orderBy=book_release_date&order=DESC | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.877152 | 371 | 2.046875 | 2 |
The same population of space rocks that battered Earth's moon during the early days of the solar system also slammed the huge asteroid Vesta, scientists say.
While the cosmic bombardment – which occurred when Jupiter and Saturn shifted orbits – has been known for a while, this is the first time scientists found evidence of it on Vesta, one of the biggest asteroids in the solar system.
NASA Apollo astronauts collected evidence of the bombardment on the moon during the lunar landing missions of the 1960s and 1970s. On Earth, erosion washed away most of the evidence of the violent chapter during the solar system's formation, researchers said.
"We wanted to study the evolution of the solar system. That was the main topic. So we tried to tackle that with a different scenario approach," said Simone Marchi, who is with the NASA Lunar Science Institute in Boulder, Colo., told SPACE.com. [Photos of Asteroid Vesta by NASA's Dawn Probe]
But it was a surprise to find that the moon and Vesta share the same bombardment history, NASA officials said in a statement. The discovery found that the same population of rocks that etched craters on the moon also affected the asteroid belt's history.
The research, led by Marchi, appears in Sunday's (March 24) issue of the journal Nature Geoscience.
Heavy cosmic artillery
At 319 miles (523 kilometers), Vesta is big enough for an amateur using binocularsto see it. It is so large that it is considered by some scientists as a "protoplanet," or large body that is similar in size to the genesis of the planets in the solar system today.When the solar system was still forming, some planets experienced a sort of dynamic instability as they orbited around the young sun. It was at this period of time that Jupiter and Saturn began moving in their orbits, according to the Nice model of planet formation.
The planets' movements — which took place in only about a million years or so — spurred what is now known as the Late Heavy Bombardment. This coincides with the time that life began to arise on Earth roughly 3.9 billion years ago. Icy and rocky bodies careened into the inner solar system, pummelling the moon, the Earth and other large objects.
Asteroids ejected into high-speed planetary-crossing paths, by their nature, should only have a lifetime of a few tens of millions of years before crashing.
Scientists said it was unlikely that they all were ejected at once. Rather, they were moved in periods stretching over hundreds of millions of years as the planets moved.
The planets' movements carried some asteroids into the inner solar system. The planets also altered the orbits of other asteroids that, after their orbits coincided with other bodies, eventually were kicked out into new orbits veering toward the sun.
Simulations showed that the greatest bombardment on Vesta happened between 4.1 billion and 4.55 billion years ago, as the mass of the young asteroid belt was at its highest. However, only 0.2 percent of impacts was high enough to melt the underlying rock.
That proportion jumps to about 11 percent in the next epoch of Vesta's history, about 3.5 billion to 4.1 billion years ago. This occurred when asteroids began "resonating" with each other and the planets in their orbits, sending some objects careening into the solar system and crashing into Vesta. While these encounters were more rare, they took place at a much higher speed.
A typical asteroid collision on Vesta today occurs at just 3 miles (5 km) a second, which is not fast enough to produce rock melting. On the moon, by contrast, a collision is nearly four times as fast: 11 miles (18 km) a second — that's about 39,600 mph (63,730 km/h). This is because Vesta is orbiting in a swarm of rocks moving at similar speeds, while the moon is on its own and closer to the sun's gravity, researchers said.
A new interpretation of radiometric dating of Vesta's ancient asteroids, however, revealed small bodies smashing into the surface twice as quickly — at velocities exceeding 6 miles (10 km) a second. Craters from these smaller meteorites on Vesta's surface vanished long ago due to gradual erosion from newer impacts.
Because argon is lost during impacts if the "target is heated for a long enough time beyond a threshold temperature," the paper stated, there's enough argon loss on ancient Vesta meteorites to show that they were moving much faster 4 billion years ago than previously believed.
Even later in asteroid's development, about 1 billion to 2 billion years ago, two nearly cataclysmic collisions changed the nature of the Vesta's interior. Scientists, who performed that research separately from Marchi and his colleagues, said this could explain why the asteroid has a thicker crust than could be explained previously.
A suite of NASA scientists were involved in the new research, including some from the Marshall Space Flight Center and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The agency-funded Lunar and Planetary Institute also participated, along with institutions in California, Tennessee, Arizona, Italy and Germany.
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Who calculates the maximum safe weight of a bridge? Who estimates the wind force a warehouse can withstand in a storm? Who evaluates the endurance of a building in case of an earthquake. The answer to each one of these questions is a structural engineer. From the magnitude of tremors to gale force winds, it is engineering that ensures the durability and complete safety of all structures.
Beyond functional security, civil engineering also defines the efficient usage of all building resources. It is an engineer who calculates the optimal grade of a material that is functional, safe and not economically prohibitive. They perform this task while working in collaborating with architects to ensure the aesthetics of the project are met. Pithily put, engineering amalgamates:
- visual appeal
- practical function
- budgetary resources
A Deeper Understanding Of Structural Engineering
The two principles that guide engineering are mathematics and physics. It is when physical laws are considered hand in hand with empirical research that the strength and capacity of any material can be estimated. Additionally, geometry has to be factored in to determine the soundness of a building. Design and analysis are the core elements of engineering.
The Heavy Responsibility of Structural Engineers
A subset of civil engineers and project management, structural engineers have the responsibility of:
- designing large buildings like tunnels
- estimating physical integrity of structures like bridges
Their duty is far removed from those of an architect. While architecture is all about size, shape, appearance, and functionality, structural engineers work singularly on technicalities. It is the obligation of a structural engineer to bring the vision of an architect to reality.
The Numerous Role Hats They Wear
Mechanics. Physics. Mathematics. Creative problem-solving. 3D conceptual skill. All of them are abilities that a structural engineer must imperatively have. But the diverse hats they wear are not limited to these capabilities. Structural engineers have a well of qualities that include:
- Support in Design
They play a crucial role in planning individual elements of a structure and the whole. Their primary function is the design and detailed data about:
- Type of roofs
- Wall retention
- Quantity of steel
- Calculating the stress
- Suspension of bridges
It is their designing role that ensures the beam, columns, and foundation can support the load of the whole structure.
- Analysis Of Material
Technology has given rise to intricate designs that employ an amalgamation of construction material to create modern buildings. Effectively using them and guaranteeing the strength, reliability, and safety of the structure is the task of structural engineers. They analyse the different materials available and decide the specification of each. They estimate the precise and detailed requirement of the substances while keeping in mind codes, regulations and features the client demands.
- Investigation Of Site
The first step to any construction project is a comprehensive investigation of the site where the building will occur. It is the job of the structural engineer to survey the location. They investigate if the site is suitable for constructions and the earth is apt for the upcoming building.
- Security of Workers
How stable a building is when faced with static or dynamic loading is one of the most apparent roles of a structural engineer. But the safety element is not just after the project has been built, it is incorporated during construction too. When engineers plan the design, they ensure that the workers, laborers, and visitors to the site are always secure. They make the building less hazardous and hassle-free.
- Coordination With Others
A project management consultants demands the collaboration of many different professions. It is the onus of the structural engineer to communicate needs and coordinate operations. They have to be in constant touch of:
- environmental scientists
- Government bodies and authorities that inspect the building
- A Managerial Head
The one final cap that structural engineers need put on is that of a manager. It is their chore to check the delivery of every construction material and make sure that it matches the set specifications. They also keep an eye on the equipment required during the building. Furthermore, they supervise and manage all the labour involved on site.
What Training Do Structural Engineers Need?
An undergraduate course in a discipline of engineering followed by professional qualification under the Institution of Structural Engineers. The career demands meeting stringent standards and immense practical experience. Once an engineer gets a foot in the field, they need to train and learn for the rest of their profession. It is vital because the industry is continuously upgrading materials and methods of construction. Any individual who is glad to invest time and dedication to the field will rise high in the sector with exciting projects thrown their way.
It’s An Engineer’s World
Succinctly said, the world of construction and the one we live in is an engineer’s oyster. Without them, we would not have tunnels that break the monotony of traffic or bridges that span kilometres of rivers and oceans. It is structural engineering the dynamically marries physics with mathematics to produce amazing buildings with the best possible design. | <urn:uuid:9907e902-1ae9-4bbf-a103-fb4efaa81aca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ponirevo.com/the-role-structural-engineering-companies-play-in-building-projects/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.936532 | 1,043 | 3.46875 | 3 |
Melanie Chrismer, Children's Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0531147597
Images and clear, simple text introduce comets for ages 4 to 8.
Comets, Meteors, and Asteroids: Voyagers of the Solar System
Ellen Lawrence, Ruby Tuesday Books, 2014, ISBN 978-1909673229
Children ages 4–8 are introduced to space rocks, including asteroids, meteorites, and "space snowballs."
The Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System
Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen, Scholastic, 1992, ISBN 0590414291
Miss Frizzle and her intrepid students tour the planets of our solar system in a book for ages 4–8.
Discover Science: Solar System
Dr. Mike Goldsmith, Kingfisher, 2010, ISBN 0753464470
The large font and engaging montages appeal to 4–8–year-olds as they explore the objects in our solar system, including the sun, planets, dwarf planet, and "space rubble". A few fun, simple activities are also provided.
Exploring Dangers in Space: Asteroids, Space Junk, and More
Buffy Silverman, Learner Publishing Group, Inc., 2012, ISBN 9780761354468
This book discusses space collisions, from the asteroids and comets that strike Earth and other planets to the work scientists are doing to protect our planet.
Our Solar System
Seymour Simon, William Morrow & Company, 2007, ISBN 0061140082
A well-illustrated overview of the planets, comets, and asteroids in our solar system for ages 8–11.
The Kids Book of the Night Sky
Ann Love and Jane Drake, Kids Can Press, 2004, ISBN 1553371283
Sky maps, myths, games, and kid-friendly activities connect children, ages 8 to 13, to the stars, Moon, and planets.
Exploring Our Solar System
Sally Ride and Tam O'Shaughnessy, Crown Books for Young Readers, 2003, ISBN 0375812040
This well-illustrated book takes children ages 9–12 on a tour of the planets (and our Sun!) in our solar system.
13 Planets: The Latest View of the Solar System
David Aguilar, National Geographic Children's Books, 2008, ISBN 1426302363
Children ages 9–12 will discover the eight planets of the solar system and also explore five dwarf planets. Lots of great images accompany the text.
The Grand Tour: A Traveler's Guide to the Solar System
Ron Miller and William K. Hartmann,Workman Publishing Company, 2005, ISBN 0761139095
Older children and adults can tour our solar system without ever having to leave the comfort of Earth! Information about the objects in our solar system is uniquely arranged in order of mass, rather than by distance from the Sun.
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A new report reveals that the cost of student course materials are down thanks to flexible price comparison technology, as well as other student spending behaviors.
According to a new report from the National Association of College Stores (NACS), annual student spending on college course materials in the U.S. has declined steadily over the past seven years. However, the number of required materials have remained steady.
The information comes from the Spring 2015 edition of the twice-yearly survey called Student Watch: Attitudes and Behaviors toward Course Materials, which revealed that the average annual spending from surveyed college students on required materials has dropped from $701 in 2007-2008 to $563 in 2014-2015, down $75 from 2013-2014’s $638 average.
“Many cost estimates are based on purchases of new materials, but the reality is that because of the myriad options students have today – rentals, digital, used and print-on-demand – what students are actually spending is much less than what is generally reported,” said Elizabeth Riddle, director of OnCampus Research for NACS subsidiary indiCo. “Campus stores–the leading resource for acquiring course materials–also have implemented more effective buying practices, increased used books and rental programs, and offered materials in multiple formats to help ease students’ burden.”
It is important to note that freshman take the hardest financial hit on textbooks, technology and school supplies, since they are starting from scratch. Additionally, a student’s major dictates spending to some degree, with Health and Political Science topping the charts at $800 per year while Humanities majors spend the least at $550 a year.
Other factors influencing the trend in declining student spending include faculty being more aware of student cost concerns; faculty working with campus stores to source less costly materials in use for multiple semesters; college stores increasing used course material options and enhanced buyback pricing; and the growing prevalence of free Open Educational Resources (OER) and digital formats online. | <urn:uuid:e38693d1-f8e0-4ac4-8859-15a8fd9470a4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ecampusnews.com/2015/07/23/student-course-materials-300/?shared=email&msg=fail | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.942883 | 412 | 1.976563 | 2 |
Jeff Elrod, Pong, 2002, acrylic on canvas
- Cindy Schwartz’ review in Art&Seek
- KERA radio story:
- Expanded online story:
[crowd noises, amplified speaker:]
CURATOR ANDREA KARNES: “Jeff is here with us tonight and he’s going to say a few words about the exhibition …” applause]
The Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth has just opened a new show in its Focus series. These shows are reserved for smaller exhibitions of works by an up-and-coming artist.
The Focus series also helps winnow the art works — for possible purchase. At the end of the season, members of the Modern Art Museum’s “director’s council” vote on buying a single work from the series.
This Focus exhibition showcases Jeff Elrod, a 43-year-old painter who grew up in North Texas and lives in Marfa. His work has been seen at the Whitney Museum of Art in New York, the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston and a dozen galleries in America, Italy and Amsterdam.
It’s only nine paintings, but this is Elrod’s first solo exhibition in a major art museum.
ELROD: “It’s really cool to do this here, which is, like, coincidence, maybe? I dunno. But it just makes it extra special because I studied around here.”
Elrod studied painting at the University of North Texas. He was fortunate, he says, to be taught by the celebrated art critic Dave Hickey and noted painter Vernon Fisher, who continues to teach there.
ELROD: “Vernon was a great teacher. You know, he teaches you how to think and see. He did not teach us how to paint. A lot of people, I think, were thrown by that. A lot of art schools do teach you how to paint. But our school we had a group of people there, and they were all teaching us how to see and how to think about art. At the time I wasn’t aware of what they were doing, but in hindsight, I think it was sort of genius. ‘Cause if you’re an artist, you’ll figure out what you want to make. You’ll figure it out intuitively.”
Elrod always drew, he says, but he became fascinated by art history, particularly the postwar heyday of American abstract painters, artists like Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman. Elrod’s paintings take the geometric building blocks of minimalism or abstract expressionism — the flat squares and stripes — but he adds elements that normally aren’t found in abstraction. They’re much more common in pop art.
Elements like irony or playfulness. It’s hard to imagine a yellow rectangle being ironic. But Elrod sees abstraction through a computer screen. He fell in love with using a computer mouse to draw — he calls it “frictionless drawing.” But he wasn’t interested in producing the glossy, 3D images one associates with computer graphics — because his other teenage love was the joystick. He played computer games.
Some of his paintings are literally playful – full of game play. There’s a great visual similarity between minimalist art and the earliest computer layout programs and video games. Think of Pong.
We’re standing in front of a 1994 acrylic painting by Elrod called Endgame (above). It features solid blue blocks that seem to be shoving a row of ant-like critters off the canvas. You might recognize these as the aliens from the old Atari game Space Invaders.
ELROD: “It’s got like a Barnet Newman image, it looks like, and then I have a Space Invaders image butting up next to it, where the Newman is eating the Space Invaders. I don’t know, my interest in art was overtaking my interests that preoccupied me for the previous 15 years.”
Elrod has even taken Jackson Pollock’s famous splashes and squiggles and reduced them, ironically updated them, turning them into clean, sharp lines.
He first draws an image on a computer and projects it bigger, which he then paints by hand, even leaving in scrawled commands like “delete” or “save.”
Elrod finds the process and the results beautiful – almost childlike but crisp and smooth.
ELROD: “I think it’s a subconscious influence. Because I can remember thinking it was beautiful to sit in front of a black screen and watch those Pong paddles and the perfect squares. There was something that at the time that I thought was cool. I was absolutely seduced by it.
WEEKS: “So we can blame your art on video games?”
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There are many reasons why we should increase the minimum wage. One key reason is that it would help to reduce poverty and income inequality. According to the National Employment Law Project, raising the minimum wage would lift millions of workers out of poverty. And research from the Center for Economic and Policy Research shows that increasing the minimum wage would also have a positive effect on income inequality.
Another reason to raise the minimum wage is that it would boost economic growth. A higher minimum wage means that workers have more money to spend, which can help to stimulate the economy. Also, when workers have more money, they are more likely to reinvest it in their communities, which can further boost economic growth.
Lastly, raising the minimum wage is simply the right thing to do. Workers who are paid a fair wage for their work are more likely to be productive and motivated, and they deserve to be compensated fairly for their labor. All workers should have the opportunity to earn a livable wage so that they can provide for themselves and their families.
When the federal government boosts the minimum wage, it usually seems to be good news for low-income employees and their families. In 1938, the United States Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act (Wages).
The first minimum wage was set at 25 cents an hour and applied to workers engaged in interstate commerce, the production of goods for interstate commerce, or the operation of certain businesses that affected interstate commerce (Wages). The term “minimum wage” first appeared in the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Currently, the federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour. A full-time worker earning the federal minimum wage earns $15,080 a year, which is below the 2013 poverty line of $23,550 for a family of four.
Some people argue that increasing the minimum wage will lead to job loss because employers will not be able to afford to pay their workers as much. Others argue that raising the minimum wage can actually create jobs and stimulate the economy. A study by the Chicago Federal Reserve found that “for every dollar increase in the minimum wage, up to an additional $2,800 is spent by low-wage workers in their local communities” (Aaronson).
There are many reasons why we should increase the minimum wage. One reason is that it would help reduce poverty. According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, “raising the minimum wage could bring 900,000 people out of poverty” (NBER). Low-wage workers are more likely to spend any additional earnings they receive, which would stimulate the economy and lead to job growth.
Another reason to increase the minimum wage is that it would help close the gender wage gap. Women make up almost two-thirds of minimum wage workers, and they are more likely than men to be the sole breadwinners for their families (NBER). Raising the minimum wage would help to close the gender wage gap and provide much-needed financial support for women and their families.
In addition, increasing the minimum wage would improve worker productivity and morale. A study by the Center for American Progress found that “workers who are paid higher wages are less likely to quit their jobs, miss work days, or be late” (Hall). These workers are also more productive on the job. Happy and productive workers lead to a more efficient workplace and can help increase profits for businesses.
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and child labor requirements for full-time and part-time employees in the private sector as well as government agencies. Workers who are not exempt from the act are entitled to at least $5.15 an hour in wages.
The minimum wage applies to most covered, nonexempt workers in the private sector and in Federal, State, and local governments. The FLSA does not provide wage rates for all workers; some are exempt from both its minimum wage and overtime pay provisions.
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) establishes a minimum wage for all covered, nonexempt employees of $5.15 per hour effective September 1, 1997. The Act also provides that the Secretary of Labor may issue regulations to adjust the minimum wage every three years to reflect changes in the cost-of-living (as measured by the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W)).
On July 24, 2007, President George W. Bush signed into law the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007, which increased the federal minimum wage in three steps: to $5.85 per hour 60 days after enactment (September 1, 2007), to $6.55 per hour 12 months after that (August 1, 2008), and to $7.25 per hour 24 months after that (July 24, 2009).
The FLSA does not provide wage rates for all workers. Some workers are exempt from both its minimum wage and overtime pay provisions. Exemptions are generally based on an employee’s duties, salary level, or salary basis of pay.
It is important to remember that even if an employee is paid hourly, he or she may still be exempt from the overtime provisions, depending on his or her job duties. Exempt employees must be paid on a salary basis; that is, they must receive a predetermined amount of pay each pay period, regardless of the quality or quantity of work performed.
In order for an employee to be considered exempt, he or she must meet certain criteria regarding job duties and be paid at least $455 per week (or $27.63 per hour). Employees who do not meet all of the criteria for exemption are entitled to minimum wage and overtime pay protections.
The FLSA does not require employers to provide meal or rest periods. However, if an employer chooses to do so, any such period must last at least 30 minutes and occur during the employee’s regularly scheduled hours. The employer is not required to pay the employee for meal or rest periods.
The FLSA requires that covered, nonexempt employees be paid at least the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour for all hours worked, plus time and one-half their regular hourly rate of pay for all hours worked over 40 in a workweek.
Some states have their own minimum wage laws. In cases where an employee is subject to both the state and federal minimum wage laws, the employee is entitled to the higher of the two minimum wages.
The FLSA does not require employers to provide fringe benefits, such as health insurance or vacation pay, to workers. However, if an employer chooses to do so, the law requires that any such fringe benefits must be included in computing an employee’s regular rate of pay for purposes of calculating overtime compensation.
Employers are required to keep records of wages, hours, and other conditions of employment for each covered, nonexempt worker. These records must be kept for at least three years and must be available for inspection by the Department of Labor.
The FLSA prohibits employers from retaliating against employees who exercise their rights under the Act. For example, it is unlawful to discharge or in any other manner discriminate against an employee because he or she has filed a complaint or instituted or caused to be instituted any proceeding under or related to the Fair Labor Standards Act, or because he or she has testified or is about to testify in an investigation or proceeding concerning the Act.
The FLSA also prohibits employers from discharging or in any other manner discriminating against any employee because the employee has inquired about, discussed, or disclosed his or her own wages or the wages of another employee. This provision applies to all employees, regardless of whether they are covered by the Act.
Finally, the Act’s anti-retaliation provisions protect employees who cooperate in investigations or proceedings concerning their employer’s compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act. For example, it is unlawful for an employer to discharge or discriminate against an employee because that employee has given information to his or her employer, orally or in writing, about a violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act. | <urn:uuid:18ded6f9-4a10-4d78-b299-dca465d55bc0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://abcdbooks.org/reasons-why-minimum-wage-should-be-raised-essay/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.965848 | 1,646 | 3.375 | 3 |
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