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Modern design spreads the concept of "less is more". The focus is on architectural design, not decoration. The modern architectural style shows a stronger linear element, a straight and angular to curved design tendency. His crazy lines are often seen in the designs of stairs, beams, and rooflines.
One of the most prominent features of professional architects designing modern homes are the floor-to-ceiling windows and sliding doors that flood the house with light. There is no shortage of leading architectural firms that follow this approach to attract potential clients. You can share important info about the preferences to build your home.
Modern homes favor the "less walls and more open space" ideology. The design focuses on using the sun and natural light sources for efficient use of energy. Modern architects can even integrate homes into their natural surroundings.
Indoor and outdoor spaces are combined with a personal touch and the result is an inviting living room. Modern homes can have large windows of unusual shapes. Inherent in modern design, contemporary homes are filled with as much natural light as possible.
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The mission of the Barrington School District is to be an inclusive school community where students are prepared to be intellectually and physically engaged members of the local and global community.
We foster an environment that encourages and celebrates life-long learning and teaching for students, staff, and community members based on the principle that we all have strengths and experiences to contribute.
Math in Focus Parent Informational Night
On Wednesday October 5th, the Barrington School District will hold a Parent Information Night regarding Math in Focus. The meeting will be held at Barrington Elementary School in the Music Room from 6:00-8:00 PM.
Below are two links to help you become familiar with our new math resource.
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US President Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK was offered with exceptional speed, from a position of weakness, writes.
Delayed once, through presidential pique, Trump has now arrived in the UK.
But greater than the usual preoccupation with the “special” relationship is the question of whether there is now even a settled relationship.
Given that the experiences of presidents and prime ministers derive from both structural alliance and individual contingency, can the relationship withstand a president whose very appeal has been eschewing conventions, legacy ties, and alliances? In an age of new normals, there may be need for new norms.
Some previous relationships worked because of a similarity of outlook.
This was true for Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, and for Tony Blair and Bill Clinton. Others worked through a chemistry, be it personal or generational or a combination, such as John F. Kennedy’s and Harold Macmillan’s, Jimmy Carter’s and James Callaghan’s, and Barack Obama’s and David Cameron’s.
Some worked, forged as they were by war, notably Franklin D. Roosevelt’s and Winston Churchill’s, and George W Bush’s and Tony Blair’s. Some did not work – such as Harold Wilson’s and Lyndon Johnson’s, and Bill Clinton’s and John Major’s.
But no president and prime minister have been as dissimilar and as incompatible as Donald Trump and Theresa May.
An unusual relationship
Even when there had, in the past, been disagreements there were always trammels: diplomatic language; due process. This president behaves with too little, this prime minister too much, restraint.
Fitting neatly with her unmanageable Brexit inheritance, from the moment Trump won the election, May faced an unenviable choice.
She could either defy popular opinion to strategically embrace an international pariah or, opt for the more popular tactic of shunning him. As it turned out, he was literally to embrace her.
However implausible their paring, Trump and May were bound by a similarity of circumstance. As with the “right turn” of the 1980s, and the “third way” of the millennium, they found themselves in office at the same time and as a consequence of respective national iterations of the same phenomenon.
The shock results of the EU referendum and the US presidential election occurred five months apart and shared many of the same characteristics and many of the same characters.
But while the president has brilliantly channelled and exploited the public sentiment that propelled him to power, the prime minister has been far less convincing.
May had come to office by the very virtue of not having taken a stand on the great issue of the day; he had been elemental to it. Both countries were sharply divided.
In the UK more than at any time without war all other matters were subsumed in one all-consuming and often traumatic national debate; in the US the president was the debate.
Insofar as each was a beneficiary of exceptional circumstances there was at least the possibility of mutual utility on which to base special relations.
But this was a prime minister who, more than any other, had circumscribed herself, by having quite unnecessarily called, and effectively lost, a general election she had confidently expected to win convincingly. Her already subordinate position was weakened further.
Of the greatest political challenge to Britain in peacetime, the president, claimed paternity (“They will soon be calling me Mr Brexit!”) and was keen to demonstrate shared endeavour: “They took their country back, just like we will take America back.”
Brexit meant that trade would complement security and intelligence as the cement of the special relationship.
But it also meant there was an opportunity for Trump to leverage the UK: he would be working with a prime minister with an even greater imperative than usual to establish a close connection with the US.
A sign of the times
Some have still to adapt to the new norms. The BBC recently regarded Trump’s undermining of May as “a highly unusual intervention”, but it was no longer unusual.
Before his first visit in 2018 he lauded her most likely and active usurper (as he has since). Then, once he had arrived, while standing next to her, he questioned her Brexit policy (as he has subsequently).
The publicly stated grounds for the president effectively endorsing one of currently 13 candidates to replace May, are suitably narcissistic: “I have a lot of respect for Boris [Johnson]. He obviously likes me, and says very good things about me.” There is more to it than that: the broader commonalities behind Brexit and Trump.
Brexit also connects Trump and Nigel Farage. In an early transgression, Trump advocated the latter as the next UK ambassador to the US. In the latest, he promoted Farage as Brexit negotiator and plans to meet with him during this visit, contrary to the wishes of the host government.
Even a bilateral meeting with the prime minister appears to have been cancelled. It is less that protocols have been breached than it not being clear if there are any protocols left.
This is a state visit offered in haste and regretted at leisure. To cap it, no prime minister has had to ensure the humiliation of knowing in advance that a presidential visit is the end of their premiership.
Misleading as it may be overly to personalise this moment, it’s hard not to. The unprecedented challenges of 2016 have been faced, by common accord, by the one being unsuited, and the other unfit, for the offices they hold.
In another age, interventions by a foreign head of even a friendly government in another country’s domestic affairs would widely be regarded as intolerable.
It is a measure of our age and Britain’s predicament that tolerated they will be.
This article was written by Martin Farr, Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary British History, Newcastle Universityand was originally published on The Conversation.
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A team’s success can be traced back to mindset. It’s the foundation for good work, the right attitude and healthy collaboration. Without taking the time to understand mindset and set it up the right way, efforts can be undermined and relationships strained. Adopting a growth mindset approach is key to putting the emphasis back on development.
What teams will explore
- The concept of ‘growth mindset’
- Why we need to ‘flip our thinking’
- Overcoming ‘negativity bias’
- Reframing to see all sides of a situation
- How effort and application trumps talent
What teams will apply
- Strategies for activating growth mindset
- Techniques for flipping thinking
- An ability to catch negativity bias
- Phrases to reframe fixed thinking
- Effort instead of ‘making excuses’
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We know that computers have beat humans in chess, that was a great breakthrough and a milestone in AI.
The worlds strongest AI for chess, called Stockfish was recently dethroned by a deep reinforcement AI by Googles DeepMind called AlphaZero.
Here is a walkthrough of the third game further explanation on chess.com “How Does AlphaZero Play Chess?”
Titta på AlphaZero vs Stockfish Chess Match: Game 3 från Chess på www.twitch.tv
If you are building a robot driven by Raspberry Pi and want to use image recognition and object detection you may want to look into Googles Mobile Nets platform which lets you do use a several mobile-first computer vision models for TensorFlow, combined with an Intel Movidius Neural Compute Stick on a Rasrberry PI 3. The MobileNets platform is designed to be run on resource conservative devices while maintaining accuracy and the latter will give you an order of magnitude more compute power than running the detection on the raspberrys CPU. | <urn:uuid:7579e31d-01e7-49b6-a49d-fe45b3f8a427> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bskog.com/ai/2017/12/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.917769 | 215 | 2.09375 | 2 |
PSYCH-105 Industrial Psychology
Chapter 6: Job Satisfaction
Definition of Job Satisfaction
Job satisfaction is defined as the amount of pleasure and contentment associated with a job. Job satisfaction is employee’s perception that the job content and context actually provide what an employee values in the work situation. Job satisfaction is an emotional response to a job situation. It is a result of employee’s perception of how well their job provides those things that are viewed as important.
The term Job satisfaction was brought to limelight by Hoppock (1935). Hoppock describes job satisfaction as, “any combination of psychological, physiological and environmental circumstances that cause and person truthfully to say I am satisfied with my job.”
Locke (1976), defined job satisfaction as “a pleasurable or positive emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one’s job or job experiences” It is the most widely accepted explanation of job satisfaction.
Feldman and Arnold (1983): “Job satisfaction is the amount of overall positive affect (or feelings) that individuals have towards their jobs.”
Kreitner and Kinicki (1995) described, Job satisfaction is an affective or emotional response toward various facets of one’s job. This definition means job satisfaction is not a unitary concept.
Davis and Newstrom (1989) explained Job satisfaction is a set of favorable or unfavorable feelings with which employees view their work.”
Andrew (1988) stated that job satisfaction is the amount of pleasure or contentment associated with a job.
Job satisfaction has many dimensions. Commonly noted facets are satisfaction with the work itself, wages, and recognition, rapport with supervisors and co-workers, and chance for advancement. Each dimension contributes to an individual’s overall feeling of satisfaction with the job itself.
Importance of Job Satisfaction
It is a diagnostic instrument for knowing employees’ problems, effecting changes and correcting with least resistance. It strengthens the communication system of the organization and management can discuss the result for shaping the future course of action. It helps in improving the attitudes of employees towards the job and facilitates integration of employee with the organization. It inspires sense of belongingness and sense of participation leading to the overall increase in the productivity of the organization. It helps unions to know exactly what employees want and what management is doing. Thus, it facilitates mutual settlement of grievances and other unwanted situations. It facilitates in determining the training and development needs of the both, employees and the organization. To list them we can say:
- Job satisfaction improves productivity.
- It reduce absenteeism and labour turnover
- Individuals become affectionate with the organisation
- Job satisfaction improves image of corporation
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I assume you use tulle instead of "Hug Snug" (rayon seam binding), or just turning the fabric on itself, to create more flare/less droop? And you keep the thread on the outside of the hem (rather than between the fabric and hem) to prevent ironing marks appearing on the front side? Is this on the bias or straight-grain, or does it matter? Any "tricks", if bias, to prevent deforming the hemline by stretching (such as using a teflon, or roller foot)?
Horsehair can be a boon or a curse; sometimes it's hard to decide which! Did you either "stretch" or "compress" (i.e. push the ends toward each other) when applying? I find the malleability easily flattens or bulges the garment, but on a bustline, one could have desired either.
Why would you not underline if the fabric is so impressionable? I think it would be easier than making all those strips, and keeping everything aligned--I know from "reinforcing" cb seams with tape. It's more of a pain than it ought to be.
I encountered this very problem back in the 70s, in my second Tailoring Class, where I was attempting to make a "maxi-coat" out of some very loosely woven wool. I used tailor tacks in a similar manner, but was stumped by what to do about bound buttonholes. No "Fray-Chek" back then. I ended up doing them all by hand, with little tiny stitches to catch every loose yarn, and vowed "Never again!". Kenneth, what are your ideas: Hand-worked buttonholes? Fused/Fray-Cheked bound ones? I completely agree that serging comes right off . . .
Ah, yes---this is all SUCH good news! Armed with a B.S. degree in Clothing & Textiles from 1976, I've been a Tailor ever since, and you-all are my favorite clients. Colleges have been discontinuing these degrees (my class was the last where I attended), so I saw the day coming when I would have total job-security.
DO buy the clothes you can find that come close to fitting (really, only the shoulders are a "must"), and contact your local Tailor. We don't charge like your hairstylist, either, so it'll be worth it. Mind you, I'm not talking about someone who does "Alterations". Pick someone with training; a four-year degree works. Shopping will be more fun, especially if you include the Tailor (I love going with).
Should you choose to make it yourself, once again the Tailor can help. We can make you a sloper (basic fitting pattern), and you'll be set.
In church this weekend, looking at the fit on the woman in front of me, I thought of something else: Is the WB actually too big and your pants are sitting too low on your hips? Pull up and pinch in the waist and seat. If you can, take that in.
Answer for "mclones1": If I understand you correctly, the crotch is too high/rise is too short (the distance from the WB to the crotch). Let me guess; does the CB waistband pull down? If flatfelled seams are not involved, it's an easy fix (but tricky to explain). To lower the crotch, you actually have to "take it in" by stitching a deeper "U" and definitely trim the seam allowance. Experiment in small increments so you don't end up with the crotch to your knees.
Okay, okay. Are we talking strictly about a droopy seat, or is the seat just plain too big? Two slightly different problems.
If it's actually both, have a trusted (better yet, skilled) person stand behind you and pin, taking in the center back seam until it's smooth over the hips, then HORIZONTALLY pin each leg where it meets the seat (i.e. the crothline) the amount it takes to make the legs hang straight to the floor. This one is only a measurement. Compare the two; they SHOULD be the same, but if not, split the difference.
Chalk your CB pinline inside, remove pins and stitch, tapering up to the WB. Leaving the CF seam alone, rip the inside leg seams to the knees (typically 12"; often there's a notch).
NOW, measure IN at the BACK crotch from the seamline the amount you had pinned horizontally. Taper a chalkline from there back to the knees, and stitch.
Create a new crotch seam AS HIGH AS POSSIBLE into the seam allowance, matching CF and CB; this may take some adjustments. When you're satisfied, stitch everything again and trim all seam allowances. Now you can walk in public confidently. No one looks good with too much fabric hanging off her backside!
To "Kate13": THANKS for using a tailor! While I understand your desire to avoid costs, this is how I make a living and why I spent four years in college to get a Bachelor of Science degree in Clothing & Textiles. Please do utilize our skills and don't feel you must "reinvent the wheel". It's nice to be needed.
My biggest distress is trying to match thread colors for garments made in years past. I own a lot of thread of dubious vintage/strength, just to be able to alter and repair older clothing. Yes, new palettes are fun, but whew!--a lot to keep up with!
Or you could just do what manufacturers do (check the kick pleat of your winter coat): on the inside, after hemming, start at the hem fold and (backstitch 1st) stitch 1/4" in from the fold of the pleat, angling up to the pleat edge just above the finished hem. It's easy, fast, and keeps the pleat always in place.
I find it easier to do exactly opposite: keep the body of the garment towards me, and catch the hem on the away side. This is also the stitch to use for a pinked (catch 1/4" down) or seam-binding-edged hem. Keep the stitch under 3/8" total.
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Silent predators of the night, owls are fascinating birds that play a crucial role in controlling rodent populations and maintaining ecological balance. In this carefully researched, well-illustrated book — the first full-scale owl-watching field guide ever published — one of the foremost American authorities on owls tells how to locate and study these remarkable birds. Birders will find expert advice and information on owl-watching equipment, owl pellets and food habits, migrations and invasions, survival adaptations, conservation, and more, along with 65 photographs plus other illustrations.
The native owls of North America belong to two families — barn owls and typical owls — ranging in size from smaller than a man’s hand to large and powerful birds capable of killing skunks, rabbits, and other sizable prey. In this volume, Mr. Heintzelman offers detailed descriptions and information about 19 native species, including the barn owl, northern pygmy owl, elf owl, burrowing owl, spotted owl, great gray owl, and long-eared owl. For each species, the author provides a wealth of specific data: size, wingspread, flight style, habitat, food, nesting, distribution, and other pertinent information. In addition, he has included detailed descriptions of and directions to a host of owl-watching sites in 40 states and Canada.
Well-written, authoritative, and brimming with easily accessible information and expert advice, Guide to Owl Watching in North America
belongs in the library of any birder or nature lover interested in observing and studying these magnificent birds of prey.
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Since creating the first Amarone in 1936, generations of grape growers have tended their vineyards and handed down the region’s history and culture on behalf of Cantina di Negrar. They share in the pride and joy of belonging to a cooperative winery staffed by people who love their home and make wine by emulating the tradition and beauty of this generous region.
Garganega is the queen of white Veronese grape varieties, typical of Soave.
Located in the heart of the Soave area, on foothills 80 metres above sea level with soils of volcanic origin. Grassed vineyard. Training system: modified Veronese pergola. Age of producing vines: 20 to 30 years.
Straw-yellow with greenish reflections with fine delicate notes of white fruit, lightly floral. Harmonious, fresh, combining freshness with a final note of bitter almond, typical of the Garganega grape variety.
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Our closest celestial neighbour has kept us company for at least four billion years and has entertained our imagination in a variety of
ways. It certainly has been involved in our maturation as a species with man's first step on a body beyond our planet during the latter
part of the twentienth century and will, inevitably, be our first stop prior to any sort of manned travel to a further celestial body
such as Mars. The moon has been a great source of education about our own planet's evolutionary history; it has entertained many
inquisitive minds from earlier cultures and generations about the universe in general and man's role in particular; it has enriched the
minds of young children taking their first look through a telescope and continues to impact our lives in ways we may or may not readily
recognize including tidal forces and various natural rhythms and cycles.
Note: The image below is an extension of a prolonged effort to capture the rising full moon against the Temple of Poseidon (450-440 BC) in southern Greece and which was finally realized in early May/2005 as well as June/2008 (for example, see here). The primary task in such an exercise is to reverse engineer as accurately as possible the perspective of the Temple of Poseidon with respect to its physical azimuth and altitude from my proposed shooting location approximately 1670 meters northwest of the foreground and the primary road which connects Sounion with Athens along the west coast of Attica. Such a distance was both desireable and ideal so as to have a greater balance between the apparent size of the Temple of Poseidon in the foreground and Luna in the background and as confirmed by the image below. Three other efforts and results from the same session in addition to the image below are available here, here, and here.
Note: For additional photos of the sun and/or full moon against other well-known Greek archaeological grounds and sites, please click here.
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Are you a history buff? Do you have a shrine to notable Jewish historical figures in your basement? Then why not take it to the next level and name your kid after your favorite past Jew? Here are just a few suggestions to get you started.
1) Golda (Golda Meir–Israeli Prime Minister)
2) Betty (Betty Friedan–author of The Feminine Mystique)
3) Emma (Emma Goldman–anarchist/activist)
4) Chana (Chana Senesh–fought against Nazis)
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Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org, has announced Sh2.7 billion($25 million) in cash grants for the Google.org Impact Challenge (GIC) focused on women and girls’ economic empowerment in Africa. The cash grants to be given to non-profits and social enterprises enable them create pathways for women to achieve their full economic potential and thrive.
These enterprises have until Friday, 2 April at 11:59pm GMT to submit their applications at g.co/womenandgirlschallenge where an all-female panel of expert Google executives, world leaders, researchers, educators, business leaders, entrepreneurs, activists and more will preside over the application review and selection process.
Agnes Gathaiya, Google Kenya Country Director says they are looking for applications from organisations that advance all-round economic empowerment on programmes that address systemic barriers to economic equality, to cultivating entrepreneurship, developing financial independence and more. “Building on our previous work in gender equity with grantees like the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Laboratoria and GiveDirectly, in the past five years, Google.org has given over Sh6 billion ($55 million) in cash grants to non-profit organisations that support gender equity and access to opportunity for women and girls around the world,” said Ms Gathaiya.
Each beneficiary will receive funding ranging from Sh32.8 million ($300,000) to Sh219.3 million ($2 million) with each organisation selected receiving capacity building support and mentoring from Googlers. “We have a collective responsibility to ensure that generations of women and girls from all walks of life, no matter their race, sexual orientation, religion or socioeconomic status live in a world where they are treated equally and can realise their full potential,” Ms Gathaiya said. This gives women and girls the tools, resources and opportunities to turn their potential into power changes their economic trajectory while benefiting their communities.
In a statement, Google observed that despite years of major gains made in women empowerment, disparity between men and women had worsened due to the global pandemic. According to the Foresight Africa report 2021 in Africa, women and girls have largely borne the brunt of the pandemic, as the virus has exacerbated already-existing gender inequalities, laying bare serious fault lines in safety, physical and mental health, education, domestic responsibilities and employment opportunities. Ms Gathaiya added that job cuts, income losses and lack of education were not only side effects of the pandemic but will prevent economic strides for women and girls for many years to come.
The GIC for Women and Girls, follows initiatives like the 2019 Africa launch of Women Will, Google’s initiative to create opportunities for women and Google’s #IamRemarkable workshop series, work to counteract conditioning that women should not celebrate their achievements. | <urn:uuid:5ec5f15a-aa97-410c-b9a7-d87ca012ba0e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cioafrica.co/google-orgs-25m-pledge-reinforces-commitment-to-women-girls-in-africa/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.938166 | 585 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Estonians second most optimistic on EU 03.08.2012, 12:14
Crisis or no crisis, Estonians remain bullish on the European Union, according to an Eurobarometer poll.
A survey conducted in May showed that 52 percent of the population had confidence in the European Union while 35 percent tended to be down on the community's outlook, reported ERR.
That put Estonia among the EU's leaders - second only to Bulgaria.
"Surprisingly, in spite of the flood of news about crisis, trust in the EU has actually risen by a smidgen compared to the last Eurobarometer poll from November 2011 that used the same methods," said the head of the European Commission's office in Estonia, Hannes Rumm, writing in his blog.
"Estonians' trust in the European Union is all the more surprising considering that by the time the last poll was conducted, the Chancellor of Justice had called into question the constitutionality of the Treaty Establishing the European Stability Mechanism. The reason for the high confidence […] is likely the fact that Estonians see the European Union as a trustworthy and needed partner which increases national security in several senses," said Rumm.
Besides Bulgaria's (55 percent), other high scores were turned in by Denmark, Belgium and Slovakia (49 percent). The average figure for confidence in the EU-27 was 31 percent. | <urn:uuid:7421e466-1f53-43f8-8bd3-e350ffe047a8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.bbn.ee/article/2012/8/3/estonians-second-most-optimistic-on-eu | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00009-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966609 | 282 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Because prevent of one’s Great Recession, college subscription-additionally the student loan borrowing from the bank you to goes with it-could have been losing every year. (Get a hold of Figure step 1.) The new steepest refuses into the the fresh new scholar debt for the past a decade had been at the schools in which subscription has also been declining: for-money universities. Such colleges, which in fact had person easily just before and you will inside the market meltdown-apparently, by using pushy recruiting plans and you may delivering an inferior knowledge, because bulk of their cash are generally intent on revenue-shrank given that discount recovered over the past years.
Nevertheless the lowering of new beginner personal debt about to own-cash university business has corrected, based on TCF’s studies off federal student loan studies due to –20 instructional 12 months. A great eight per cent increase in government student loan disbursements-that is, in the buck value of the funds awarded to youngsters-within for-cash universities ’s the first 12 months-over-season increase because 2010. At nonprofit and you will social colleges, conversely, credit went on a pattern regarding modest refuses, shedding 2 per cent and you may step three %, correspondingly.
The newest Beginner Debt at Stealth To possess-Earnings Surges Up
The greatest upsurge in new beginner financial obligation is at Huge Canyon School, where loan disbursements increased because of the $119 million as a result of elizabeth period the earlier year, a bounce that’s more than twice that any other university in the united kingdom. Grand Canyon is actually a covert to own-profit; which is, it has been product sales alone because a nonprofit college, nevertheless You.S. Agency away from Education this past year discover the college become a great “attentive buyer” off an as-money organization that is along with work at from the school’s chairman. The new Ceo had boasted to shareholders one “Getting out there so many times 1 day claiming ‘the audience is nonprofit’ has had a direct impact.”
Grand Canyon, and therefore stated joining 90 payday loans open sunday in Sherman Texas,253 pupils in the slide off 2018, uses less than 20 dollars of any university fees buck into the training. The school enjoys an actual university when you look at the Phoenix, but the almost all the youngsters, pre-pandemic, have been signed up exclusively on line (94 per cent of the 36,114 scholar pupils and 67 per cent of their 54,139 undergraduates). While the you to beginner may receive several loans (along with a loan so you can a father), the new readily available studies to your full dollars frequency and you may quantity of fund do not let getting analysis of one’s quantity of unique consumers therefore the numbers borrowed. Huge Canyon people lent 25 % a lot more cash, but got out only eleven per cent a lot more financing, indicating the increase in total financial obligation stems from several items: a lot more students is borrowing from the bank, and you can college students are borrowing from the bank so much more.
Other schools with sketchy states nonprofit condition in addition to expanded the beginner loans. Stevens Henager College or university and its own online Freedom University paid fifteen % way more education loan dollars so far it academic year compared to the a year ago. Credit on Keiser College flower several per cent, while mortgage volume at the Best Scientific Academy increased a far more small six percent.
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Of one’s large, well-known colleges signing up pupils inside the entirely online programs, Florida-mainly based Complete Cruise University, owned by a personal security company, encountered the large financing growth rate, a good 34 per cent rise in mortgage bucks and you may thirty-two per cent a whole lot more loans-suggesting an enormous upward increase in registration. The to own-cash College of Phoenix and Strayer College each other increased the financing within a great a dozen percent video, nonprofit Independence College or university showed a 10 percent rise in financing volume, societal Arizona Condition College enhanced college student credit by the 8 percent, and for-cash Walden University’s mortgage regularity increased from the dos percent. Brand new nonprofit Southern area New Hampshire College or university, with sex rapidly nowadays, had good 5 % reduced total of mortgage frequency, if you’re total education loan money during the nonprofit West Governors University, for-money Capella School, and you can personal-for-cash Purdue All over the world had been fundamentally unchanged. | <urn:uuid:38f926e5-6bd8-4c6a-8c5b-ce17b6a9cb49> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://butik.golfrent.eu/pupil-loans-is-flooding-in-the-having-profit/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.945584 | 954 | 1.632813 | 2 |
A Book of Myths
Page: 156“The tenderness of heartsweet Deirdrê”—so runs a line in an old, old Gaelic verse, and it is always of her tenderness as well as her beauty that the old Oea speak.
Sometimes she would hunt the red deer with Naoise and his brothers, up the lonely glens, up through the clouds to the silent mountain tops, and in the evening, when she was weary, her three loyal worshippers would proudly bear her home upon their bucklers.
So the happy days passed away, and in Erin the angry heart of Conor grew yet more angry when tidings came to him of the happiness of Deirdrê and the Sons of Usna. Rumour came to him that the king of Alba [Pg 320] had planned to come against Naoise, to slay him, and to take Deirdrê for his wife, but that ere he could come the Sons of Usna and Deirdrê had sailed yet further north in their galley, and that there, in the land of his mother, Naoise ruled as a king. And not only on Loch Etive, but on Loch Awe and Loch Fyne, Loch Striven, Loch Ard, Loch Long, Loch Lomond and all along the sea-loch coast, the fame of the Sons of Usna spread, and the wonder of the beauty of Deirdrê, fairest of women.
And ever the hatred of Conor grew, until one day there came into his mind a plan of evil by which his burning thirst for revenge might be handsomely assuaged.
He made, therefore, a great feast, at which all the heroes of the Red Branch were present. When he had done them every honour, he asked them if they were content. As one man: “Well content indeed!” answered they.
“And that is what I am not,” said the king. Then with the guile of fair words he told them that to him it was great sorrow that the three heroes, with whose deeds the Western Isles and the whole of the north and west of Alba were ringing, should not be numbered amongst his friends, sit at his board in peace and amity, and fight for the Ultonians like all the other heroes of the Red Branch.
“They took from me the one who would have been my wife,” he said, “yet even that I can forgive, and if they would return to Erin, glad would my welcome be.”
At these words there was great rejoicing amongst the lords of the Red Branch and all those who listened, [Pg 321] and Conor, glad at heart, said, “My three best champions shall go to bring them back from their exile,” and he named Conall the Victorious, Cuchulainn, and Fergus, the son of Rossa the Red. Then secretly he called Conall to him and asked him what he would do if he were sent to fetch the Sons of Usna, and, in spite of his safe-conduct, they were slain when they reached the land of the Ultonians. And Conall made answer that should such a shameful thing come to pass he would slay with his own hand all the traitor dogs. Then he sent for Cuchulainn, and to him put the same question, and, in angry scorn, the young hero replied that even Conor himself would not be safe from his vengeance were such a deed of black treachery to be performed.
“Well did I know thou didst bear me no love,” said Conor, and black was his brow.
He called for Fergus then, and Fergus, sore troubled, made answer that were there to be such a betrayal, the king alone would be held sacred from his vengeance.
Then Conor gladly gave Fergus command to go to Alba as his emissary, and to fetch back with him the three brothers and Deirdrê the Beautiful.
“Thy name of old was Honeymouth,” he said, “so I know well that with guile thou canst bring them to Erin. And when thou shalt have returned with them, send them forward, but stay thyself at the house of Borrach. Borrach shall have warning of thy coming.”
This he said, because to Fergus and to all the other of the Red Branch, a geasa, or pledge, was sacrosanct. [Pg 322] And well he knew that Fergus had as one of his geasa that he would never refuse an invitation to a feast.
Next day Fergus and his two sons, Illann the Fair and Buinne the Red, set out in their galley for the dun of the Sons of Usna on Loch Etive.
The day before their hurried flight from Erin, Ainle and Ardan had been playing chess in their dun with Conor, the king. The board was of fair ivory, and the chessmen were of red-gold, wrought in strange devices. It had come from the mysterious East in years far beyond the memory of any living man, and was one of the dearest of Conor’s possessions. Thus, when Ainle and Ardan carried off the chess-board with them in their flight, after the loss of Deirdrê, that was the loss that gave the king the greatest bitterness. Now it came to pass that as Naoise and Deirdrê were sitting in front of their dun, the little waves of Loch Etive lapping up on the seaweed, yellow as the hair of Deirdrê, far below, and playing chess at this board, they heard a shout from the woods down by the shore where the hazels and birches grew thick. | <urn:uuid:b62c799a-8ca6-44b7-b87d-0c379de109e4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.greekmythology.com/Books/a_book_of_myths/156/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283008.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00088-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.990531 | 1,223 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Kailzie Equestrian Centre is located on the outskirts of Peebles, the Scottish Borders, offering lessons in riding, hacking and trekking.
Kailzie Equestrian Centre, situated in the picturesque countryside southwest of the Scottish Borders town of Peebles, in the heart of excellent riding country. The centre caters for all abilities and offers hacking and trekking activities and lessons for children and adults.
Trekking is for beginners. For the very nervous person or young children, the centre’s staff perform ‘a lead’ and accompany the rider on foot, walking the horse along the trails. A beginner’s trek is for novice riders or people competent only at walk and trot. These treks usually involve crossing small tributaries to the River Tweed and around nearby woodland on trails.
The centre also offers hacking which is for the more skilled who must be able to walk the horse, do a rising trot and canter. Riders will follow the same trails as those on a trek. Most of the riding is off-road using, tracks and forest paths.
At certain times of the year, the centre also arranges beach rides, for example at John Muir Country Park near Dunbar (Edinburgh and the Lothians). | <urn:uuid:1cc2df89-627c-4a16-ba56-db96aa82093f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.visitscotland.com/info/see-do/kailzie-equestrian-centre-p263141 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00136-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942338 | 265 | 1.617188 | 2 |
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Indoor air is the next coronavirus frontline
A growing body of research has made it clear that airborne transmission of the coronavirus is possible.
Why it matters: That fact means indoor spaces can become hot spots. Those spaces also happen to be where most business and schooling takes place, so any hope for a return to normality will require better ways of filtering indoor air.
- That marked a shift from initial assumptions that the virus was mostly transmitted via contaminated surfaces and respiratory droplets emitted at close range, like an infected person coughing near someone susceptible.
- More evidence was added to the airborne hypothesis last week, when researchers at the University of Nebraska Medical Center reported in a paper published in Nature that they had found coronavirus-filled aerosols — small airborne particles of fluid — in the air of COVID-19 patients' hospital rooms.
- It's still not clear just how much or how often the airborne transmission happens, a question Anthony Fauci has said the White House coronavirus task force will examine.
Context: If coronavirus-contaminated aerosols can indeed hang in the air, perhaps for hours, then "mitigating airborne transmission should be at the front of our disease-control strategies for COVID-19," Joseph Allen of Harvard's Healthy Building program wrote in the Washington Post.
- Schools in particular "definitely present a challenge," says Barry Po, president of connected solutions for mCloud Technologies, a provider of cloud-based remote HVAC management. Many school buildings in the U.S. are old and poorly ventilated, which makes them prime locations for indoor transmission.
The good news is there are existing technologies that can filter out or destroy coronavirus trapped in indoor air.
- The easiest way is simply opening windows whenever possible, which dilutes the amount of virus in the air. In Japan windows are kept open in subway trains, which has helped prevent outbreaks in the country's crowded transit system.
- Portable HEPA filters, which can cost as little as a few hundred dollars, are capable of capturing particles as small as the novel coronavirus and could be used to clean individual classrooms.
- Commercial HVAC systems can be adjusted to increase the number of times they exchange air per hour, analysts from McKinsey said in a report last month.
The catch: Increasing ventilation decreases energy efficiency, and Po estimates that net energy costs for buildings could increase by at least 10% in the COVID-19 era.
A more high-tech solution involves the use of specialized UV light to deactivate coronavirus in the air or on surfaces.
- Fred Maxik, the founder of Healthe Lighting, developed Far UVC 222, a short-wave UV light spectrum that the company reports can neutralize 99.9% of coronavirus in a space. The UV light breaks the chemical bonds in the virus, Maxik says, making it incapable of replicating.
- Unlike the UVB rays in sunlight that can damage DNA and cause skin cancer, Far UVC 222 doesn't penetrate the human body.
- The Healthe system has been installed in Seattle's reopening Space Needle, as well as the practice facilities of the Miami Dolphins. "This is one of the only methodologies where we can continually clean a space in real time," says Maxik.
The bottom line: Despite the runs early in the pandemic on Clorox wipes, it may be the air we breathe more than the surfaces we touch that need to be kept clean. | <urn:uuid:aafcd1b2-401b-4275-995c-67fdf97026f9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.axios.com/2020/08/08/airborne-transmission-coronavirus-covid-indoor | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.940517 | 725 | 2.984375 | 3 |
I wonder if war will ever end. I wonder if the day will come when the powers-that-be decide to abolish war like governments abolished slavery.
Do you think that could happen?
Until the day comes when swords are beaten into ploughshares, our work should be to help heal as much damage that comes from war as possible.
And I believe the truest statement I can make about war is that no one is spared from the damage.
Friday is Veterans Day. I'd like to shine a light on three areas that will help honor, dignify and rehabilitate veterans in our area.
First: Create a Veterans Court within Chattanooga. Appearing in New York nearly four years ago, a Veterans Court helps detour veterans away from prison sentences.
Returning to the U.S. after the unimaginable stress of war-time tours, veterans often suffer post-war trauma, like some sort of societal hand-grenade exploding on their lives. Stats show the damage:
* The Veterans Administration estimates that 107,000 vets are homeless on any given night.
* The U.S. Interagency Council on the Homeless estimates that vets make up 23 percent of the country's homeless population.
Drug abuse among servicemen and women tripled between 2005 and 2008.
A Veteran's Court takes first-time criminal offenders who are veterans and reroutes them away from prison by offering counseling, substance abuse help, job training and alternative sentencing.
Vets promise to follow guidelines for treatment and rehab instead of jail. The original New York Veterans Court boasts a zero percent recidivism rate. No one appears before the judge more than once.
Why not here?
Second: A story-telling group of veterans needs to emerge. There is a massive gulf between civilian understanding of warfare and the experience of veterans. The flag-waving and ceremonies that come Friday are important, but perhaps a more meaningful experience would be to create a space that allows vets to tell their stories.
"Soldiers have a responsibility to defend their country, and it is our responsibility as citizens to heal those who have put their lives on the line for us, even if they fought a war for the wrong reasons or for lies. And we're not doing that," said Edward Tick, director of the Soldiers Heart program in an interview with The Sun magazine.
"We have a parade and shoot off fireworks, which scare the hell out of many veterans," said Tick, whose program helps heal the physical, emotional and spiritual wounds of war. "A better way to honor them would be to listen to their stories. We should give them new ways to serve and an honorable place in our communities."
Third: We must cutoff our dependency on fossil fuels.
"Climate change and energy are two key issues that will play a significant role in shaping the future security environment," claims the 2010 Department of Defense Quadrennial Report. "Climate change will shape the operating environment, roles, and missions that we undertake.
The more we let the monster of fossil fuel dependency grow, the more likely future wars will occur. The military sees climate change and energy insecurity as two factors that will cause massive instability in the years to come.
To prevent future conflicts and wars, we must transfer to a clean-energy system. Every time I fill up my 15-miles-per-gallon car, waste energy at home and don't demand a cleaner system of energy, I am supporting practices that may one day put our troops in harm's way.
By 2020, the U.S. Navy plans on reducing by 50 percent its reliance on petroleum. The U.S. Army - which cut its water usage by 31 percent since 2004 - plans on securing 25 percent of its energy from clean sources by 2025. The Pentagon has pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions in many of its projects by one-third in 10 years.
If they can do this, so can Chattanooga.
View your energy bill the way folks in World War II viewed Victory Gardens. Demand TVA make a switch to cleaner power in the name of the veteran you know and love. Encourage Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield to make the city's Office of Sustainability a cabinet-level position.
Envision a city with 50 percent fewer gas-powered cars on the roads. Picture a city with roof-top gardens - all named after area vets - as nearby workers retrofit existing buildings to extremely energy efficient ones.
People's lives depend on it. God knows sacrifice goes both ways. We may not be able to end war in our lifetime, but we can at least start the healing.
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A very serious vulnerability in ASP.NET was revealed this past month that allows attackers to completely compromise ASP.NET Forms Authentication, among other things. When things like this happen, as developersit's important to see what lessons can be learned in order to improve the defensibility of our software. Source: 'Padding Oracle' Crypto Attack Affects Millions of … Continue reading ASP.NET Padding Oracle Vulnerability
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In Session Attacks and ASP.NET - Part 1, I introduced one type of attack against the session called Session Fixation as well as ASP.NET's session architecture and authentication architecture. In this post, I'll delve into a couple specific attack scenarios, cover risk reduction, and countermeasures. Attack Scenario: ASP.NET Session with Forms Authentication So understanding the … Continue reading Session Attacks and ASP.NET - Part 2 | <urn:uuid:6c19f2b3-e223-476b-b6d4-20a9fbf92ca7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://software-security.sans.org/blog/category/authentication/page/2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280587.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00564-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91852 | 393 | 1.84375 | 2 |
And Now You Know: A mansion on the river?
Published 12:03 am Saturday, December 19, 2020
I was recently asked who lived in the “big mansion on the river” south of town. Taken somewhat aback, it took me a moment to realize he was asking me about the Spanish Mission style building that was originally the office for the Sawmill Division of the Lutcher and Moore Lumber Company.
After serving as the office for Lutcher and Moore, the building was sold in the 1960s to the Orange County Navigation and Port District for their office.
The building was the third office building built by the lumber company. The first was built in 1877 and appeared, according to an old description, to be little more than two houses joined together. It burned to the ground in about 1900 and was followed by what was described as “a magnificent Victorian wooden structure. This second office buried on December 22, 1912.
After the loss of the second building, it was decided to build a more fireproof building.
Architectural historian Peter Flagg Maxson wrote a description of the building: “The Lutcher-Moore Lumber headquarters is a remarkable building demonstrating Mission Stye influence. The large tile hipped roof is broken on each façade by a central curvilinear parapet referred to by architectural historian Marcus Whiffin as an ‘Alamotif’ for the San Antonio mission gable popularized at the turn of the century. (This gable style was originally constructed by the Army Corps of Engineers in the 1850s.)
When the building was being constructed, W.H. Stark, the owner-manager, was in Europe. Frederick H. Farwell, the general manager, sent him letters updating Stark on the progress of the new office.
Dr. Howard C. Williams while doing research for the historical marker for the building quoted some of the letters.
May 23, 1913— “They are hustling the office, laying tile and marble, and with the roof on, the building looks beautiful. The large copper plate with the name of the Company, sets off the building nicely.
June 7, 1913— “The office is progressing slowly, I had to turn down the marble for corridor, and then Frank Brown was compelled to give up the hardware order. As we are to use it for the next thousand years, however, we better have the marble we ordered, and the hardware also.
June 21, 1913— “Our vault doors are somewhere between Cincinnati and New Orleans. When they arrive, we are going to move into the upstairs and get out of town.”
The last letter dated September 18, 1913 gave a glowing description of the offices and furniture. “The office is beautiful, the furniture likewise, but little odds and ends need to be done to call it a finished job. (Farwell wrote that Stark and his wife, and maybe Mrs. Lutcher needed to see carpet samples and pick carpet) Your room is furnished in mahogany. The couch is green leather, and the walls are painted in fawn. I am disappointed in that we don’t have the office thoroughly complete by the time you come home; but we can’t even do outside work much on account of the incessant rains. However, we will get it finished some time.”
The office was completed and ready for use a few months later and remained in use by the company until the sawmill division closed in the 1930s.
Later the timberlands were sold to Boise-Southern, a large timber conglomerate.
The building was so well designed and constructed that very little repair and improvements have needed to be done over the last century plus of service.
The Star and Crescent logo of the old lumber company remains visible, inlaid in the terrazzo floor at the entrance of the downstairs office. Outside inlaid in the walkways are terrazzo maps of former Lutcher and Moore landholdings in Southwest Louisiana and Southeast Texas.
That the old building is haunted is a possibility since ladies working in the downstairs office have occasionally heard a toilet flush in the small downstairs restroom under the stairs when they are visible to each other at the time.
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Design is just as important as the process
Didi Textiles - crafted out of local textile traditions - are designed for a decentralized production in the villages of Bangladesh where the quality of life and space is both humane and free.
In rural Bangladesh a woman gets one sari per year from her family on occasion of the main Muslim or Hindu festival. A man gets one lungi, which is a piece of cloth wrapped around as skirt. When the saris and lungis are worn out, they are traditionally recycled into blankets: about six layers of those cotton saris are fixed together with hundreds of stitches made by hand.
Over the years with everyday use, the surface layers of the blankets peel off and the hidden layers appear. The vibrant and incredible colourful textured surface is an imprint of its own little family cosmos. These textiles form the basis of this project. In another recycling process through the excellent craftsmanship of many women around the villages of Rudrapur and Birgonj these fabrics are turned into clothes in contemporary design.
Learning from each other
Through the selling of Didi Textiles people will start valuing their own culture even more and continue the extraordinary textile culture in Bangladesh.
For our parts in the world there might be even more to learn: In a way the project can be seen as an attempt to turn the usual trade flow upside-down. Normally the Global North is producing it´s T-shirts in the Global South. Once worn out the clothes are sent back, often with the result of destroying local cultures and markets. With Didi textiles the worn-out clothes are sent in a high quality from the Global South to the North leaving us with the question how to value our everyday culture.
For us in the industrialized countries these textiles can be an inspiration and motivation towards the art of recycling and craftsmanship as well as strengthening the sensibility to discover the beauty in the used and ordinary.
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We need you now to enhance self-empowerment of women and communities and to foster independence in the villages of Bangladesh.
You get a nice shirt or a pillow or a bag. At the same time you contribute to a good life for the women and children in Bangladesh and to a world that is a bit more fair and beautiful.
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VII. Derivation of the Navier-Stokes Equations and Solutions
In this chapter, we will derive the equations governing 2-D, unsteady, compressible viscous flows. These equations (and their 3-D form) are called the Navier-Stokes equations. They were developed by Navier in 1831, and more rigorously be Stokes in 1845. Now, over 150 years later, these equations still stand with no modifications, and form the basis of all simpler forms of equations such as the potential flow equations that were derived in Chapter I.
In two dimensions, we have five flow properties that are unknowns: the two velocity components u,v; densityr, temperature T and pressure p. Therefore, we need 5 equations linking them. One of these 5 equations is the equation of state, given by
At moderate temperatures that arise in subsonic and supersonic flows without chemical reactions, this equation of state may be simplified to the following form:
Here R is a gas constant, given byR/M, where R is the universal gas constant, and M is the molecular weight of the gas (or the gas mixture). For air, the gas constant is given by R= 2817 Joules/kg/° K.
The other four equations are:
a) Conservation of mass, known as continuity,
b) Conservation of u- momentum
c) Conservation of v- momentum, and
d) Conservation of energy.
Conservation of Mass
We consider a small control volume (CV) of heightDy, width Dx, and of depth unity perpendicular to the plane of the paper.
The principle of conservation of mass states that
"The rate at which mass increases within the control volume = The rate at which mass enters the control volume through its four boundaries"
Letr be the average density of the fluid within the control volume. Then,
Next, consider the rate at which mass enters through the four boundaries, one by one. Consider the boundary #1, first.
We can assume that the above flux is computed at the center of face #1.
We can consider the other three boundaries in a similar manner. The rate at which mass enters through faces 2,3 and 4 are, respectively (-ruDy)2 , (+(rvDx)3 and (-rvDx)4. Here the subscripts refer to the face.
Summing up the contributions from the four faces, and equating the result to the time rate of change of mass within the CV, we get
Now, consider the limits of the above equation asDx and Dy goes to zero. From calculus, for any arbitrary function f(x,y),
Applying the above limits, and bringing all the terms to the left hand side, we get
The above equation, in vector form is given by:
The vector form is more useful than it would first appear. If we want to derive the continuity equation in another coordinate system such as the polar, cylindrical or spherical coordinate system, all we need to know is (a) look up the 'Del' operator in that system, (b) look up the rules for the dot product of 'Del' operator and a vector in that system, (c) perform the dot product.
Conservation of u- Momentum Equation
Before we can proceed any further, we need to get a firm understanding of terms such as viscosity, viscous stresses, conductivity, etc.
Consider the left face of the control volume considered earlier. The air molecules to the left of this CV can interact with our CV in one of three ways:
(i) organized motion from left to right. While the molecules are constantly moving about back and forth, over a small period of time, the majority of these molecules either enter the control volume (u >0) or leave the control volume. This "average" over a period of time is called the flow velocity component u, and is measured by probes such as LDVs and hot wires.
(ii) Exchange of u- momentum between the molecules on the left and those on the right by collisions. In this case, there no net gain in mass, but there is a gain (or loss) in momentum. These collision effects may be averaged over a sufficiently small period of time, and may be viewed as a pressure force exerted by the fluid on the left on our CV. Again, only this average effect is felt or measured by pressure probes, and barometers. The individual collisions occur far too rapidly and far too frequently to be sensed by probes or measuring devices.
(iii) _Exchange of u- and v- momentum by random linear motion of molecules jumping in and out of our control volume, across the face 1. In this case, all the molecules that jumped in also jump out over a sufficiently small time period. Thus, this random motion does not add mass to our control volume (and was not considered in our "continuity" equation). They however bring u- and v-momentum in or out (associated with their random motion). The time averages of these rates at which u- and v- momentum is brought into the CV across a face are called viscous forces. The forces per unit area are called viscous stresses. The viscous stresses that bring in/out u- momentum are called normal viscous stresses, while those that bring in v- momentum (by entering the face at an angle) are called tangential viscous stresses.
By convention, pressure forces are considered positive, if they act towards the fluid element, or control volume. The normal viscous stresses (following solid mechanics conventions) are considered positive if they act away from the control volume, producing a tension.
These stresses (normal, and tangential or shear) are given the symbolt. They are identified by two subscripts.
(i) The first subscript indicates the plane on which they act. For example, if a plane is normal to the x- axis, the first subscript will be x.
(ii) The second subscript identifies the direction of the force associated with the force. For example, if a shear force is pointing in the y- direction, the second subscript will be y.
Thus, viscous stress is a tensor quantity, and requires three pieces of information (its magnitude, its direction and the plane on which it acts) to completely specify it. This separates a tensor from a vector (magnitude and direction), and a scalar (magnitude only).
Because our primary unknowns are the flow properties (u,v,p,r,T) there is a need to link the stresses t with these physical variables. In solid mechanics (Hooke's law) stress is set proportional to strain. This works for solids because a solid undergoes only a finite amount of deformation when a force or stress is applied to it. In fluid mechanics, this approach does not work because fluid continuously deforms when a shear stress is applied. It is this characteristic that distinguishes a fluid from a solid.
Newton came up with the idea of requiring the stresst to be linearly proportional to the time rate at which strain occurs. Specifically he studied the following problem. There are two flat plates separated by a distance 'h'. The top plate is moved at a velocity V, while the bottom plate is held fixed. Newton postulated (since then experimentally verified) that the shear force or shear stress needed to deform the fluid was linearly proportional to the velocity gradient:
The proportionality factor turned out to be a constant at moderate temperatures, and was called the coefficient of viscosity,m. Furthermore, for this particular case, the velocity profile is linear, giving V/h = ∂u/∂y. Therefore, Newton postulated:
Fluids that have a linear relationship between stress and strain rate are called Newtonian fluids. This is a property of the fluid, not the flow. Water and air are examples of Newtonian fluids, while blood is a non-Newtonian fluid.
Stokes extended Newton's idea from simple 1-D flows (where only one component of velocity is present) to multidimensional flows. here, the fluid element may experience a strain rate both due to gradients such as ∂u/∂y as well as ∂v/∂x. He developed the following relations, collectively known as Stokes relations.
These expressions hold for 3-D flows. For 2-D flows, somewhat simpler expressions are obtained if we set w, the z- component of velocity, to zero, and if we set all derivatives with respect to z to be zero.
The quantitym is called the molecular viscosity, and is a weak function of temperature. For air viscosity increases with temperature, because viscous effects are associated with random molecular motion. The coefficient l was chosen by Stokes so that the sum of the normal stresses txx, tyy and tzz are zero. Then
The above equation, and the requirement that the three normal stresses add up to zero are called Stokes hypothesis.
Returning Back to u- Momentum Equation....
We now return to the derivation of the u- momentum equation. This equation is a generalization of Newton's second law of motion, and may be verbally stated as:
"The rate of change of u- momentum within a control volume is equal to the net rate at which u- momentum enters the control volume + Forces (pressure, viscous and body) acting on the control volume in the x- direction"
As before we consider the control volume of heightDy and width Dx. We neglect body forces such as gravity, electrical and electromagnetic effects.
Summing up these contributions, dividing throughDxDy and taking the limits as Dx and Dy go to zero, we get:
Derivation of v- Momentum Equation:
The v- momentum equation may be derived using a logic identical to that used above, and is left as an exercise to the student. The final form is:
Derivation of the Energy Equation:
The energy equation is a generalized form of the first law of Thermodynamics (that you studied in ME3322 and AE 3004). The only difference here is that we are studying an open system (i.e. control volume) that can gain and lose mass. The classical form studied in courses on thermodynamics is applicable only for closed systems - i.e. fixed collection of particles.
The first law of Thermodynamics states that
"(A) The rate at which the total (i.e. internal + kinetic) energy increases within a control volume is equal to
(B) the rate at which total energy enters the control volume +
(C) the rate at which work is done on the control volume boundary by surface forces +
(D) the rate at which work is done on the CV by body forces +
(E) the rate at which heat is added to the control volume at the surfaces by heat conduction +
(F) the rate at which heat is released is added within the CV due to chemical reactions."
In our derivation, we will neglect the term (D) which corresponds to the work done by the body forces (such as gravity, electrical and electromagnetic forces) and (F) which corresponds to chemical reactions. In some applications, e.g. modeling of weather, term D is important, while in others (e.g. modeling combustors) term F is important.
We define the specific total energy (i.e. total energy per unit mass) E as
In the above equation 'e' is specific internal energy. The word 'specific' means 'per unit mass'.
Then, term A may be expressed as follows:
Term B involves mass entering and leaving the four boundaries of the CV, carrying with it, the total energy E. This term may be expressed as:
As in the continuity equation, asDx and Dy go to zero, the terms within the square brackets will go to -∂(ruE)/∂x and -∂(rvE)/∂y, respectively.
At the surfaces of the control volume, there are pressure and viscous forces that do work on the fluid, as the fluid particles cross the boundary. For examples, on face #1, the pressure forces and viscous forces may be expressed as . The fluid velocity at this boundary is . The rate at which work is done by the surface forces acting on face #1 is, then,
Summing up contributions from all the four faces, we get ,
The work done by body forces is neglected here.
The heat conduction effects are associated with the random motion of gas molecules across the control volume. As they move in and out, they bring energy into and out of the control volume. When integrated over a small but finite period of time, a net exchange of heat energy occurs at the boundary, without any exchange in mass. Since this process is a random, chaotic process, it must somehow be empirically modeled. We adapt Fourier's law used to model conduction of heat through solids, which states
"The rate at which heat flows across a surface of unit area is proportional to the negative of the temperature gradient normal to this surface".
The constant of proportionality is called conductivityk, a property of the solid (or fluid, in the present context). Note that the heat flux is proportional to the negative of the gradient, because heat flows from hot to cold.
We can sum up the heat conduction effects at all the four boundaries. The result is,
Summing up all the terms A through E, and dropping the common factorDxDy that appears everywhere, we get the energy equation.
Prandtl Number: The coefficient of conductivity k is a property of the fluid, like the molecular viscosity. It is also a weak function of temperature and so is the molecular viscosity. Both these empirical coefficients are associated with transport of energy and momentum by random molecular motion. It follows that these two terms should be, somehow, related. Indeed, the following simple relationship exists.
Here, Cp is the specific heat at constant pressure. The quantity Pr is called the Prandtl number, and is a property of the fluid. For air Pr is around 0.72 (close to unity). It is a measure of the ratio between the viscous effects and conduction effects. In some highly conductive, but only slightly viscous fluids such as mercury, Pr is very small. In other fluids such as honey which is highly viscous, but only slightly conductive, Pr is very high.
For air, the variation of viscosity (and hence conductivity) with temperature may be empirically described y the Sutherland's Law which states:
wherem0 denotes the viscosity at the reference temperature T0, and S1 is a constant. For air, S1 assumes the value 110 degrees kelvin.
The 2-D unsteady Navier-Stokes equations may be written in a number of forms. One common form of these equations is as follows:
r= density; u,v = Cartesian Components of velocity along x,y axes;
p = Pressure ; T = Temperature.
e = Specific Internal Energy = Internal energy per unit mass of the fluid = CvT , where Cv is the specific heat at constant volume.
h0 = Specific Total Enthalpy = Total enthalpy per unit mass of the fluid = CpT+(u2+v2)/2 , where Cp is the specific heat at constant pressure.
Finally, the viscous stresses are related to the velocity field by Stokes relations
The molecular viscositym and conductivity k are properties of the fluid and are functions of temperature. These two quantities are related by the Prandtl number
For air, the Prandtl number is around 0.72 at room temperatures.
Simplified Form for Steady, 2-D Incompressible Flows:
In steady, incompressible flows, we can drop the time derivatives because the flow is steady. The density may be also assumed constant. Then, the first three equations in the full Navier-Stokes equations set become:
wheren is called the kinematic viscosity=m/r
Nondimensionalization of the Viscous Flow Equations
Consider the 2-D viscous flow past an airfoil shown below:
At first glance it appears that such a flow will depend on a large number of parameters such as (a) airfoil shape, including its chord c ,(b) its angle of attack, (c) the freestream temperature T∞ (d) the freestream densityr∞ , (e) the freestream velocity V∞, (f) the freestream viscosity m∞, (g) the freestream conductivity k∞, and so on.
We wish to know if these large number of physical and geometric parameters can be grouped into a handful of parameters that can be systematically varied to study their effect on the flow. There are two common ways of identifying these parameters:
(i) Dimensional analysis: Here we attempt to combine the parameters listed about to arrive at a nondimensional form. For example, after some trial and error, we can show that the quantityr∞Vc/m∞ is a nondimensional quantity. Intuition and experience are needed to realize that this nondimensional parameter, called Reynolds number, is also a useful physical parameter. Dimensional analysis will also produce combinations such as . This parameter, while nondimensional, is not a significant parameter in incompressible flows, as experience shows.
(ii) Nondimensionalization of Governing Equations: This approach provides a formal manner by which nondimensional parameters of physical significance may be uncovered. This approach is usually used in combination with the dimensional analysis shown above. To illustrate how this approach works, let us consider the 2- flow over an airfoil shown above.
Let us introduce nondimensional quantities identified with a prime (') as follows:
When these nondimensional quantities are used to replace the corresponding physical quantities in the continuity equation the following form results:
This form looks identical to the dimensional form given in Handout #1, and no new nondimensional parameter emerges.
If we repeat this process with the u- momentum equation, and replace terms such astxy and p with terms such as
we get, after some minor algebra:
If we repeat this process with the v- momentum equation, again the Reynolds number emerges as the nondimensional parameter.
Consider two different flows over the same airfoil, but of different chord. The present normalization shows that these two flows are governed by the same nondimensional form of the governing equations, and will result in the same nondimensional flow quantities such as u', v' etc. if the flows are geometrically similar (same airfoil shape, samea), and dynamically similar (same Reynolds number).
The parameter Reynolds number may also be interpreted in another way. Consider a typical inviscid term such as p appearing on the left side of the u- momentum equation. This "inertial" force term is roughly of order . Consider a viscous stress term such astxy. This term is of order . Then, Reynolds number is a measure of the ratio between the inertial forces and viscous forces acting on a fluid element. If this number is large, then inertial forces dominate over viscous forces and vice versa.
In practical aeronautical applications, the Reynolds number is invariably large. For example, the airfoil over a helicopter rotor blade operates at a Reynolds number of 3 to 5 Million, while the airfoil in the Root section of a modern transport aircraft operates at a Reynolds number of 30 to 50 Million. In such flows, viscous forces are small and may be neglected over most of the flow, except in very small regions called boundary layers over the airfoil.
Nondimensionalization of the Energy Equation: If we nondimensionalize the energy equation by the same principles, we get, in addition to the Reynolds number, the parameter . This parameter occurs due to the presence of the heat conduction terms and viscous stress work terms in the energy equation. This parameter is called the Prandtl number, and is a property of the fluid. For air, Prandtl number is around 0.72.
In compressible flows, the quantity is a nontrivial quanity and must be prescribed. Using equation of state, the definition of the speed of sound and the definition of Mach number, we can relate this quantity to the Mach number and the ratio of specific heats,g.
Thus, in compressible flows, two flows are identical if they are geometrically similar and if Reynolds number, Mach number, Prandtl number and ratio of specific heats all match.
In incompressible flows, this quantity is not a significant parameter. As hydraulics engineers will attest, raising the static pressure at some point in the flow simply raises the pressure level everywhere by the same constant level, and does not alter the flow behavior.
Some Exact Solutions of the Navier-Stokes Equations
We next turn our attention to the exact solutions of incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. Even though these equations were derived over a century ago, only a handful of exact solutions exist for some highly simplified situations. This is because of the nonlinear nature of these equations.
The governing equations are:
In the above equations, we have assumed the conductivity k and viscositym to be constant. We will further restrict ourselves to steady flows (∂/∂t = 0) , and incompressible flows (r = constant).
The above form of equations apply only to 2-D planar flows. Similar forms of Navier-Stokes equations exist in other coordinate systems such as the cylindrical, polar and spherical coordinate systems.
The first class of flows to be considered is the flow between (or within) infinitely long parallel plates, and infinitely long tubes.
In such flows, it is reasonable to assume that the flow behavior will be independent of the x- location. That is, x-derivatives of all flow properties such as ∂u/∂x, ∂v/∂x, ∂T/∂x etc. vanish. The pressure derivative ∂p/∂x is assumed to be a constant, required to drive the flow.
In such as situation, continuity equation becomes
Setting ∂u/∂x=0 yields ∂v/∂y = 0 or ∂(rv)/∂r=0. The assumption ∂v/∂x=0 implies that the velocity component v is not a function of x.
Thus, continuity yields v = constant, for our flows. Since the boundary condition requires v to be zero at the walls of our parallel plates, and at the walls of the tube, continuity + boundary conditions together yield
In other words, the flow only has a u- component and is parallel to the x- axis. For this reason, the first class of flows we study are called parallel flows.
Exact Solution # 1: Planar Couette Flow:
In 1890 Couette performed experimental studies of flow between two concentric cylinders, where one of the cylinder is fixed, the other is spinning. This situation is similar to what happens in a ball bearing. here we study the 2-D analog of flow between two parallel plates. One of the plate is held fixed, while the other one is moving at a velocity V. The plates are separated by a distance h. A constant pressure gradient dp/dx is applied to this flow.
For this case, the u- momentum equation yields
Setting the x- derivatives to zero, and requiring v to ve zero, the above equation may be simplified to yield
Notice that we have begun to replace partial derivatives with respect to y with ordinary derivatives, because flow properties are only functions of y.
Integrating the above equation twice, we get:
where A and B are constants of integration. These may be evaluated by requiring u=0 at y=0 and u= V at y=h.
Two special situations are of interest. In the first case, the pressure gradient dp/dx=0 is zero, and the flow motion is brought about by the motion of the top plate at the constant velocity V. In that case, the velocity profile is linear, giving
u(y) = V y/h
In the second situation, both the plates are at rest and V=0. the fluid is motion is caused by the application of pressure gradient dp/dx. In this case, the velocity profile is a parabola, given by
The shear stresstxy(i.e. the force per unit area exerted by the fluid on the flat plates, and vice versa) may be computed from Stokes' relations. For example, for the case where dp/dx=0, we get
The non-dimensional "skin friction" coefficient Cf is then computed as
Temperature Distribution for Planar Couette Flow:
The energy equation, which is part of the Navier-Stokes equations is usually not solved in incompressible flow applications, unless we are interested in a heat transfer application. Let us consider the situation where dp/dx=0, the top plate is moving at the velocity V, and the pressure gradient dp/dx=0. Let the bottom and top plates be at two different temperatures T1 and T2 respectively. In this case, we can easily solve for the temperature distribution in the fluid between the plates, and compute the rate at which heat is transferred from the hot plate to the cold plate, as follows.
The energy equation for this case is (Verify for yourself, starting with the form given in Handout #1):
For our parallel flow, we can set ∂/∂x =0 and v = 0. For the case where dp/dx=0, the velocity profile is linear, as derived earlier. Then,
When these expressions are substituted into the energy equation, and when all x-derivatives are set to zero, and when v is set to zero, the following form results.
Integrating the above equation twice, we get
where C and D are constants of integration. These constants may be found by applying the boundary condition T= T1 at y=0, and T = T2 at y= h. The final form is
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System Pushes Better Light Control
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 27, 2014 — More precise control of light could be on the horizon, prompting advances in solar photovoltaics, detectors for telescopes and microscopes, and privacy filters for display screens.
Researchers from MIT have developed the first system that allows light of any wavelength to pass through from a specific direction and that reflects all light coming from other angles.
“It is a very fundamental building block in our ability to control light,” said researcher Marin Soljacic, a professor of physics at MIT.
In this angular-selective sample, a beam of white light passes as if through transparent glass. The red beam comes at a different angle and is reflected away, like a mirror. Courtesy of MIT.
Alternating a stack of about 80 ultrathin layers of two alternating materials, the investigators found that the thickness of each layer could be precisely controlled. The interface between the two materials typically causes reflections. However, at the Brewster angle, which provides appropriate polarization, there is no reflection at all.
Researcher Yichen Shen, a graduate student at MIT, said, “We are able to reflect light at most of the angles, over a very broad band [of colors] — the entire visible range of frequencies.”
The angular selectivity could be made narrower by adding more layers to the stack. Experiments conducted so far have seen the angle of selectivity at about 10°; about 90 percent of the light coming within that angle was allowed to pass through.
The study was performed with layers of glass and tantalum oxide, but the researchers say that any two materials with different refractive indices could be used.
Optical systems, such as microscopes and telescopes, could benefit from the researchers’ findings, allowing for better viewing of faint objects that are close to brighter ones. The filtering also could be applied to display screens on phones or computers, allowing only those viewing from directly in front to see them.
Shen said, “This could have great applications in energy, and especially in solar thermophotovoltaics.”
The work was funded by the Army Research Office, MIT's Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, the US Department of Energy and the MIT S3TEC Energy Research Frontier Center. The research is published in Science (doi: 10.1126/science.1249799).
For more information, visit: www.mit.edu
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This week, the Maryland General Assembly passed a number of bills aimed at addressing long-standing accountability and transparency issues in law enforcement. These bills amend the Maryland Public Information Act to allow the disclosure of police disciplinary records; repeal the Law Enforcement Bill of Rights; establish an advisory board that will issue recommendations on the transfer of control of the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) from the state to the city of Baltimore; and amend the use of force standard for officers.
Governor Larry Hogan vetoed three of the bills, but those vetoes were overridden by the Maryland Assembly and state Senate, officially making them law. The governor let the local control bill become law without his signature.
In response to the passage of these bills, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill issued the following statement:
“The passage of these comprehensive bills will have a significant impact on the lives of Maryland residents, who have long called for accountability and tangible changes to harmful policing practices across the state. With the killings of Freddie Gray, Korryn Gaines, Anton Black, and others, Marylanders have had to grapple with the legacy of police violence and misconduct for far too long.
“Baltimoreans, too, have suffered and been subject to violent policing practices and discrimination that have long engendered mistrust between the community and the BPD. Baltimore advocates and community members have passionately pushed for police accountability measures and highlighted the collective urgency for public safety strategies that build community trust for many years.
“These new laws are a victory steeped in the coordinated efforts of community members and advocates who have worked for police accountability, transparency, and justice. This landmark package of bills required hard-fought advocacy and its removal of a number of impediments to police accountability has come after over a decade of rallying for a just public safety system.
“We are gratified that the hard work so many advocates invested in this process has produced real change. We have always believed that Maryland should be leading in breaking down barriers to accountability for police misconduct. Although we didn’t get all of the changes we hoped for this session, we salute the legislature for its clear and overwhelming support in enacting these transformative measures. LDF will monitor the implementation of these new laws to ensure that Maryland residents benefit from the changes laid out in the legislation.”
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The limited field trial was announced today in San Francisco by Amit Singhal, Google’s search chief, who told The Telegraph that the move was a “baby step towards pre-emptive search” and an example of search engines “getting to know people better”.
He explained the rationale behind the trial on the Google company blog: “Sometimes the best answer to your question isn’t available on the public web--it may be contained somewhere else, such as in your email. We think you shouldn’t have to be your own mini-search engine to find the most useful information--it should just work. A search is a search, and we want our results to be truly universal. So we’re developing a way to find this information for you that’s useful and unobtrusive, and we’d love your feedback.
“So if you’re planning a biking trip to Tahoe, you might see relevant emails from friends about the best bike trails, or great places to eat on the right hand side of the results page. If it looks relevant you can then expand the box to read the emails.”
Gmail results will appear on the right hand side of the search results page and will only be available to the single user whose email account is being included in the results.
Another practical use for the addition of Gmail to search is if a person wants to search for “my flights” – this new tool will allow Google to surface a specific result which says: “upcoming flights from your Gmail” and show the latest timetable.
Singhal said that Google had developed a totally secure and private line which meant there was no risk of a person’s emails from Gmail, ever being seen in anyone else’s search results.
He also defended the option to against the concerns of privacy watchdogs, saying that the addition would enhance the reliability of search.
“Adding Gmail into search goes another step towards search becoming more useful and providing a person with all of the relevant information they need in one place,” Singhal told The Telegraph.
People (including British web users) can sign up to the limited trial, which will be open to one million individuals, via Google.com, from today onwards.
On the Google blog he added: “Larry Page once described the perfect search engine as understanding exactly what you mean and giving you back exactly what you want. It’s very much like the computer I dreamt about as a child growing up in India, glued to our black-and-white TV for every episode of Star Trek. I imagined a future where a starship computer would be able to answer any question I might ask, instantly. Today, we’re closer to that dream than I ever thought possible during my working life.”
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MEN frequently think that the evils in the world are more numerous than the good things; many sayings and songs of the nations dwell on this idea. They say that a good thing is found only exceptionally, whilst evil things are numerous and lasting. Not only common people make this mistake, but even many who believe that they are wise. Al-Razi wrote a well-known book On Metaphysics [or Theology]. Among other mad and foolish things, it contains also the idea, discovered by him, that there exists more evil than good. For if the happiness of man and his pleasure in the times of prosperity be compared with the mishaps that befall him, — such as grief, acute pain, defects, paralysis of the limbs, fears, anxieties, and troubles, — it would seem as if the existence of man is a punishment and a great evil for him. This author commenced to verify his opinion by counting all the evils one by one; by this means he opposed those who hold the correct view of the benefits bestowed by God and His evident kindness, viz., that God is perfect goodness, and that all that comes from Him is absolutely good. The origin of the error is to be found in the circumstance that this ignorant man, and his party among the common people, judge the whole universe by examining one single person. For an ignorant man believes that the whole universe only exists for him; as if nothing else required any consideration. If, therefore, anything happens to him contrary to his expectation, he at once concludes that the whole universe is evil. If, however, he would take into consideration the whole universe, form an idea of it, and comprehend what a small portion he is of the Universe, he will find the truth. For it is clear that persons who have fallen into this widespread error as regards the multitude of evils in the world, do not find the evils among the angels, the spheres and stars, the elements, and that which is formed of them, viz., minerals and plants, or in the various species of living beings, but only in some individual instances of mankind. They wonder that a person, who became leprous in consequence of bad food, should be afflicted with so great an illness and suffer such a misfortune; or that he who indulges so much in sensuality as to weaken his sight, should be struck With blindness! and the like. What we have, in truth, to consider is this: — The whole mankind at present in existence, and a fortiori, every other species of animals, form an infinitesimal portion of the permanent universe. Comp. “Man is like to vanity” (Ps. cxliv. 4); “How much less man, that is a worm; and the son of man, which is a worm” (Job xxv. 6); “How much less in them who dwell in houses of clay” (ibid. iv. 19); “Behold, the nations are as a drop of the bucket” (Isa. xl. 15). There are many other passages in the books of the prophets expressing the same idea. It is of great advantage that man should know his station, and not erroneously imagine that the whole universe exists only for him. We hold that the universe exists because the Creator wills it so; that mankind is low in rank as compared with the uppermost portion of the universe, viz., with the spheres and the stars: but, as regards the angels, there cannot be any real comparison between man and angels, although man is the highest of all beings on earth; i.e., of all beings formed of the four elements. Man’s existence is nevertheless a great boon to him, and his distinction and perfection is a divine gift. The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults: we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them! Comp. “Is destruction his [work]? No. Ye [who call yourselves] wrongly his sons, you who are a perverse and crooked generation” (Deut. xxxii. 5). This is explained by Solomon, who says, “The foolishness of man perverteth his way, and his heart fretteth against the Lord” (Prov. xix. 3).
I explain this theory in the following manner. The evils that befall an are of three kinds: —
(1) The first kind of evil is that which is caused to man by the circumstance that he is subject to genesis and destruction, or that he possesses a body. It is on account of the body that some persons happen to have great deformities or paralysis of some of the organs. This evil may be part of the natural constitution of these persons, or may have developed subsequently in consequence of changes in the elements, e.g., through bad air, or thunderstorms or landslips. We have already shown that, in accordance with the divine wisdom, genesis can only take place through destruction, and without the destruction of the individual members of the species the species themselves would not exist permanently. Thus the true kindness, and beneficence, and goodness of God is clear. He who thinks that he can have flesh and bones without being subject to any external influence, or any of the accidents of matter, unconsciously wishes to reconcile two opposites, viz., to be at the same time subject and not subject to change. If man were never subject to change there could be no generation: there would be one single being, but no individuals forming a species. Galen, in the third section of his book, The Use of the Limbs, says correctly that it would be in vain to expect to see living beings formed of the blood of menstruous women and the semen virile, who will not die, will never feel pain, or will move perpetually, or will shine like the sun. This dictum of Galen is part of the following more general proposition: — Whatever is formed of any matter receives the most perfect form possible in that species of matter; in each individual case the defects are in accordance with the defects of that individual matter. The best and most perfect being that can be formed of the blood and the semen is the species of man, for as far as man’s nature is known, he is living, reasonable, and mortal. It is therefore impossible that man should be free from this species of evil. You will, nevertheless, find that the evils of the above kind which befall man are very few and rare; for you find countries that have not been flooded or burned for thousands of years; there are thousands of men in perfect health, deformed individuals are a strange and exceptional occurrence, or say few in number if you object to the term exceptional, — they are not one-hundredth, not even one-thousandth part of those that are perfectly normal.
(2) The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e.g., some of them use their strength against others. These evils are more numerous than those of the first kind: their causes are numerous and known; they likewise originate in ourselves, though the sufferer himself cannot avert them. This kind of evil is nevertheless not widespread in any country of the whole world. It is of rare occurrence that a man plans to kill his neighbour or to rob him of his property by night. Many persons are, however, afflicted with this kind of evil in great wars: but these are not frequent, if the whole inhabited part of the earth is taken into consideration.
(3) The third class of evils comprises those which every one causes to himself by his own action. This is the largest class, and is far more numerous than the second class. It is especially of these evils that all men complain, — only few men are found that do not sin against themselves by this kind of evil. Those that are afflicted with it are therefore justly blamed in the words of the prophet, “This hath been by your means” (Mal. i. 9); the same is expressed in the following passage, “He that doeth it destroyeth his own soul” (Prov. vi. 32). In reference to this kind of evil, Solomon says, “The foolishness of man perverteth his way” (ibid. xix. 3). In the following passage he explains also that this kind of evil is man’s own work, “Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright, but they have thought out many inventions” (Eccles. vii. 29), and these inventions bring the evils upon him. The same subject is referred to in Job (v. 6), “For affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground.” These words are immediately followed by the explanation that man himself is the author of this class of evils, “But man is born unto trouble.” This class of evils originates in man’s vices, such as excessive desire for eating, drinking, and love; indulgence in these things in undue measure, or in improper manner, or partaking of bad food. This course brings diseases and afflictions upon body and soul alike. The sufferings of the body in consequence of these evils are well known; those of the soul are twofold: — First, such evils of the soul as are the necessary consequence of changes in the body, in so far as the soul is a force residing in the body; it has therefore been said that the properties of the soul depend on the condition of the body. Secondly, the soul, when accustomed to superfluous things, acquires a strong habit of desiring things which are neither necessary for the preservation of the individual nor for that of the species. This desire is without a limit, whilst things which are necessary are few in number and restricted within certain limits; but what is superfluous is without end — e.g., you desire to have your vessels of silver, but golden vessels are still better: others have even vessels of sapphire, or perhaps they can be made of emerald or rubies, or any other substance that could be suggested, Those who are ignorant and perverse in their thought are constantly in trouble and pain, because they cannot get as much of superfluous things as a certain other person possesses. They as a rule expose themselves to great dangers, e.g., by sea-voyage, or service of kings, and all this for the purpose of obtaining that which is superfluous and not necessary. When they thus meet with the consequences of the course which they adopt, they complain of the decrees and judgments of God; they begin to blame the time, and wonder at the want of justice in its changes; that it has not enabled them to acquire great riches, with which they could buy large quantities of wine for the purpose of making themselves drunk, and numerous concubines adorned with various kind of ornaments of gold, embroidery, and jewels, for the purpose of driving themselves to voluptuousness beyond their capacities, as if the whole Universe existed exclusively for the purpose of giving pleasure to these low people. The error of the ignorant goes so far as to say that God’s power is insufficient, because He has given to this Universe the properties which they imagine cause these great evils, and which do not help all evil-disposed persons to obtain the evil which they seek, and to bring their evil souls to the aim of their desires, though these, as we have shown, are really without limit. The virtuous and wise, however, see and comprehend the wisdom of God displayed in the Universe. Thus David says, “All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep His covenant and His testimonies” (Ps. xxv. 10). For those who observe the nature of the Universe and the commandments of the Law, and know their purpose, see clearly God’s mercy and truth in everything; they seek, therefore, that which the Creator intended to be the aim of man, viz., comprehension. Forced by the claims of the body, they seek also that which is necessary for the preservation of the body, “bread to eat and garment to clothe,” and this is very little; but they seek nothing superfluous; with very slight exertion man can obtain it, so long as he is contented with that which is indispensable. All the difficulties and troubles we meet in this respect are due to the desire for superfluous things: when we seek unnecessary things, we have difficulty even in finding that which is indispensable. For the more we desire to have that which is superfluous, the more we meet with difficulties; our strength and possessions are spent in unnecessary things, and are wanting when required for that which is necessary. Observe how Nature proves the correctness of this assertion. The more necessary a thing is for living beings, the more easily it is found and the cheaper it is: the less necessary it is, the rarer and clearer it is. E.g., air, water, and food are indispensable to man: air is most necessary, for if man is without air a short time he dies; whilst he can be without water a day or two. Air is also undoubtedly found more easily and cheaper [than water]. Water is more necessary than food; for some people can be four or five days without food, provided they have water; water also exists in every country in larger quantities than food, and is also cheaper. The same proportion can be noticed in the different kinds of food; that which is more necessary in a certain place exists there in larger quantities and is cheaper than that which is less necessary. No intelligent person, I think, considers musk, amber, rubies, and emerald as very necessary for man except as medicines: and they, as well as other like substances, can be replaced for this purpose by herbs and minerals. This shows the kindness of God to His creatures, even to us weak beings. His righteousness and justice as regards all animals are well known; for in the transient world there is among the various kinds of animals no individual being distinguished from the rest of the same species by a peculiar property or an additional limb. On the contrary, all physical, psychical, and vital forces and organs that are possessed by one individual are found also in the other individuals. If any one is somehow different it is by accident, in consequence of some exception, and not by a natural property; it is also a rare occurrence. There is no difference between individuals of a species in the due course of Nature; the difference originates in the various dispositions of their substances. This is the necessary consequence of the nature of the substance of that species: the nature of the species is not more favourable to one individual than to the other. It is no wrong or injustice that one has many bags of finest myrrh and garments embroidered with gold, while another has not those things, which are not necessary for our maintenance; he who has them has not thereby obtained control over anything that could be an essential addition to his nature, but has only obtained something illusory or deceptive. The other, who does not possess that which is not wanted for his maintenance, does not miss anything indispensable: “He that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack: they gathered every man according to his eating” (Exod. xvi. 18). This is the rule at all times and in all places; no notice should be taken of exceptional cases, as we have explained.
In these two ways you will see the mercy of God toward His creatures, how He has provided that which is required, in proper proportions, and treated all individual beings of the same species with perfect equality. In accordance with this correct reflection the chief of the wise men says, “All his ways are judgment” (Deut. xxxii. 4); David likewise says: “All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth” (Ps. xxv. 10); he also says expressly “The Lord is good to all; and his tender mercies are over all his work” (ibid. cxlv. 9); for it is an act of great and perfect goodness that He gave us existence; and the creation of the controlling faculty in animals is a proof of His mercy towards them, as has been shown by us.
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This chapter examines the nature of emergent trends in methods being used to develop and deliver e-learning programmes by higher educational institutions for a global market. As a starting point global e-learning programmes that have been involved in large scale failure for economic reasons are analysed and the reasons behind their lack of success discussed. An account of the design approaches that are currently helping produce more flexible online courses and ways in which these can be shared among practitioners is provided in order to throw light on the advantages and disadvantages of these approaches. The model used by the Open University in the United Kingdom for distance education in the global arena is also considered in some detail particularly in relation to the insights it offers about dealing with cultural bias in global e-learning programmes. Comparison of approaches to providing online courses that draw on learning objects, learning design, and learning patterns is made and the chapter concludes with reflections on lessons learned and advice that could be offered to those considering the provision of online courses for a global audience.
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A Pakistani man threatened to hang himself on the Greek island of Lesbos on Wednesday, as scores of people locked up in a detention centre continued to protest against their deportation to Turkey.
The young man, held at the overcrowded Moria registration centre, climbed a utility pole and forced himself into a makeshift noose made of a scarf.
Chanting "freedom, freedom", the 18-year-old threatened to end his life before being convinced by his compatriots and police officers to come down, Greek media reported.
|The man was convinced to come down after the intervention by police [Giorgos Moutafis/Reuters]
The threat came as more than 100 people from Pakistan and Bangladesh staged a sit-in at the closed camp, asking not to be sent back to Turkey as part of a deal the EU brokered with Ankara to stem the flow of refugees to Europe.
Under the controversial agreement, all "irregular migrants" arriving in Greece from Turkey since March 20 face being sent back across the Mediterranean.
IN PICTURES: Greece sends refugees back to Turkey
In the first wave of deportations on Monday, about 200 people from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan were sent back to Turkey aboard chartered Turkish ferries sailing from Lesbos and the nearby island of Chios.
Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr, reporting from Lesbos, said the protesters at Moria, who chanted slogans such as "Freedom" and "We are not illegal", are increasingly worried they will be deported from Greece.
"There is a likelihood that that will happen," she said. "They are now applying for asylum but if those asylum claims are rejected they will be sent back."
Wednesday's suicide threat was not the first act of desperation by Pakistani men in Greece in recent months.
In late February, two men believed to be brothers were rushed to a hospital after hanging themselves from a tree in Athens' Victoria square, a gathering point for refugees arriving in the Greek capital.
The young men, who were later released from hospital in good condition, were protesting against border measures that blocked them from continuing their journey towards northern Europe.
Speaking to Al Jazeera at the time, Yiannis Chatzidakis, a psychiatrist with Klimaka, a suicide prevention NGO that runs a helpline in Greece, said the refugee crisis in the country was deteriorating.
"I am not surprised by the fact that people who are under such psychological pressure can commit such desperate acts," Chatzidakis said.
"The situation is increasingly becoming worse ... so I don't find it strange that hopeless people with no home are willing to attempt to cut razor-wire fences or even commit acts - irregardless if they have mental health issues or not."
READ MORE: UNHCR, MSF withdraw from Greece's refugee 'hot spots'
The deal to send people back across the Aegean Sea has been fiercely criticised by rights groups on ethical grounds, with the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), Doctors Without Borders (MSF), and other aid organisations all pulling out staff from facilities on Lesbos and other Greek islands.
"We made the extremely difficult decision to end our activities in Moria because continuing to work inside would make us complicit in a system we consider to be both unfair and inhumane," Marie Elisabeth Ingres, MSF head of mission in Greece, said in late March.
"We will not allow our assistance to be instrumentalised for a mass expulsion operation, and we refuse to be part of a system that has no regard for the humanitarian or protection needs of asylum seekers and migrants."
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When you are obsessed with a specific performer on television and watch every single show and movie he is in, this is an example of a fascination.
- a fascinating or being fascinated
- strong attraction; charm; allure
- The capability of eliciting intense interest or of being very attractive.
- The state of being intensely interested or attracted: listened in fascination.
- An intensely interesting, attractive quality or trait.
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Over the past few years, I have enjoyed taking photos of faces carved in stone. Here are a few of them. Most are in limestone, particularly Salem Limestone, a rock unrivaled in its use in architectural faces. The one red one is in Portland, Connecticut, and carved in the Portland Formation, the 200-million-year old sandstone best known as the face of brownstone buildings in New York City and Boston. The Picassoesque face is in the Treuchtlingen Marble, or German limestone I mentioned the other day. The face is made from fossilized sponges. Hope you enjoy them. | <urn:uuid:729c904a-5eac-4ac7-b94a-c4b4b42a0360> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://geologywriter.com/streetsmartnaturalist/stories-in-stone-blog/faces-in-stone-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.970583 | 129 | 1.835938 | 2 |
In mathematics, specifically in topology, the interior of a subset S of a topological space X is the union of all subsets of S that are open in X. A point that is in the interior of S is an interior point of S.
The exterior of a set S is the complement of the closure of S; it consists of the points that are in neither the set nor its boundary. The interior, boundary, and exterior of a subset together partition the whole space into three blocks (or fewer when one or more of these is empty). The interior and exterior are always open while the boundary is always closed. Sets with empty interior have been called boundary sets.
If S is a subset of a Euclidean space, then x is an interior point of S if there exists an open ball centered at x which is completely contained in S. (This is illustrated in the introductory section to this article.)
This definition generalizes to any subset S of a metric space X with metric d: x is an interior point of S if there exists r > 0, such that y is in S whenever the distance d(x, y) < r.
This definition generalises to topological spaces by replacing "open ball" with "open set". Let S be a subset of a topological space X. Then x is an interior point of S if x is contained in an open subset of X which is completely contained in S. (Equivalently, x is an interior point of S if S is a neighbourhood of x.)
Interior of a set
The interior of a subset S of a topological space X, denoted by Int S or S°, can be defined in any of the following equivalent ways:
- Int S is the largest open subset of X contained (as a subset) in S
- Int S is the union of all open sets of X contained in S
- Int S is the set of all interior points of S
- In any space, the interior of the empty set is the empty set.
- In any space X, if S ⊆ X, then int S ⊆ S.
- If X is the real line (with the standard topology), then int([0, 1]) = (0, 1).
- If X is the real line , then the interior of the set of rational numbers is empty.
- If X is the complex plane , then
- In any Euclidean space, the interior of any finite set is the empty set.
On the set of real numbers, one can put other topologies rather than the standard one:
- If X is the real numbers with the lower limit topology, then int([0, 1]) = [0, 1).
- If one considers on the topology in which every set is open, then int([0, 1]) = [0, 1].
- If one considers on the topology in which the only open sets are the empty set and itself, then int([0, 1]) is the empty set.
These examples show that the interior of a set depends upon the topology of the underlying space. The last two examples are special cases of the following.
- In any discrete space, since every set is open, every set is equal to its interior.
- In any indiscrete space X, since the only open sets are the empty set and X itself, we have X = int X and for every proper subset S of X, int S is the empty set.
Let X be a topological space and let S and T be subset of X.
- Int S is open in X.
- If T is open in X then T ⊆ S if and only if T ⊆ Int S.
- Int S is an open subset of S when S is given the subspace topology.
- S is an open subset of X if and only if S = int S.
- Intensive: Int S ⊆ S.
- Idempotence: Int(Int S) = Int S.
- Preserves/distributes over binary intersection: Int (S ∩ T) = (Int S) ∩ (Int T).
- Monotone/nondecreasing with respect to ⊆: If S ⊆ T then Int S ⊆ Int T.
The above statements will remain true if all instances of the symbols/words
- "interior", "Int", "open", "subset", and "largest"
are respectively replaced by
- "closure", "Cl", "closed", "superset", and "smallest"
and the following symbols are swapped:
- "⊆" swapped with "⊇"
- "∪" swapped with "∩"
Other properties include:
- If S is closed in X and Int T = ∅ then Int (S ∪ T) = Int S.
The interior operator is dual to the closure operator, which is denoted by or by an overline —, in the sense that
In general, the interior operator does not commute with unions. However, in a complete metric space the following result does hold:
- If each is closed in then
- If each is open in then
The result above implies that every complete metric space is a Baire space.
Exterior of a set
The (topological) exterior of a subset of a topological space denoted by or simply is the complement of the closure of :
Alternatively, the interior could instead be defined in terms of the exterior by using the set equality
As a consequence of this relationship between the interior and exterior, many properties of the exterior can be readily deduced directly from those of the interior and elementary set identities. Such properties include the following:
- is an open subset of that is disjoint from
- If then
- is equal to the union of all open subsets of that are disjoint from
- is equal to the largest open subset of that is disjoint from
Unlike the interior operator, is not idempotent, although it does have the property that
Two shapes a and b are called interior-disjoint if the intersection of their interiors is empty. Interior-disjoint shapes may or may not intersect in their boundary.
- Algebraic interior – Generalization of topological interior
- Boundary (topology) – All points not part of the interior of a subset of a topological space
- Closure (topology) – All points and limit points in a subset of a topological space
- Interior algebra
- Jordan curve theorem – Division by a closed curve of the plane into two regions
- Quasi-relative interior – Generalization of algebraic interior
- Relative interior – Generalization of topological interior
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Brian Dettmer’s sculptures are like steampunk versions of data clouds. Treating books as if they were bodies under investigation (the word ‘autopsy’ comes up frequently in discussions of this artist’s work), Dettmer expertly fillets them, foregrounding certain pictures, words, and illustrations while excising others in order to highlight previously unnoticed relationships. The results are densely layered bibliophilic wunderkammer that are truly incredible to behold.
Dettmer’s cuts are surgically precise, but they’re also curatorial in nature. By transforming books into objects of pure contemplation and display, Dettmer destroys their ability to be useful in the manner they once were. At the same time, he invests them with new signifying potential. In this case, bodies of knowledge are made to display their own viscera in a simultaneous rather than sequential manner; it’s not exactly like how we experience the Internet, but it certainly evokes it.
Dettmer’s books can be surprisingly provocative, too, stirring up all kinds of nostalgia, reverence, and even guilt about the fate of printed matter in the age of the iPhone, the Kindle, and the Vook. In the catalogue essay, portions of which have been excerpted in the gallery’s press release, Antonia Pocock argues that Dettmer’s book carvings “represent an impulse to resuscitate the tangible records of information that appear dead when faced with the dynamic, instantly adaptable media of the information era. Under Dettmer’s hand, the rigid rectangle of the book dissolves into a chaos of new data connections.”
Dettmer focus isn’t solely on text, however. It’s equally enamored of illustration, which in Dettmer’s preferred choice of books–mostly of the encyclopedic or instructional kind–take the form of intricate woodcuts, line drawings, and schematics along with various forms of cartography. The Web is filled with images, but it’s not an illustrator’s medium. The three dimensionality of Dettmer’s sculpturalized books reminds us of how the internet and the computer screen tend to flatten images, obliterating shadow and fine detail and making hand-drawn efforts largely irrelevant.
The exhibition also includes a two-channel video downstairs which provides insight into Dettmer’s painstaking working process. Thankfully, the videos leave a lot of the how-to’s unanswered, which keeps the mystery of it all alive. I didn’t want Dettmer’s process to be totally transparent –where’s the fun in that? Instead, they remain, for me at least, Carrollian follies so strange and alluring I wanted to shrink myself down, crawl inside them, and explore.
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NXP MCU-level face recognbition solution is implemented by using i.MX RT106F, which makes the developers add face recognition capabilities to their MCU-based IoT products. This ultra-small size, integrated software algorithm and hardware solution can facilitate developers for rapid evalution and proof of concept development.
This solution minimizes time to market, reduces risk and reduces development work, which can make it easier for many OEMs to add face recogtion functions. It provides advanced user interface and access control functions for smart homes, smart appliances, smart toys and smart industries without the need for Wi-Fi and cloud connectivity, solving the privacy issues of many consumers.
i.MX RT106F is a member of the i.MX RT1060 series. It will be officially mass-produced in April 2020. It is mainly aimed at low-cost face recognition applications. It is based on the Arm Coretx-M7 core and a high-performance real-time processor with a frequency up to 600MHz.
In addition to the face recognition function, the i.MX RT106F also has a large number of available peripherals, which can be used as the main chip for a variety of applications. i.MX RT106F has been licensed to run NXP OASIS runtime for face recognition, including: | <urn:uuid:54be57a6-8caf-4665-adcb-608569e99bbb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://community.nxp.com/t5/i-MX-Solutions-Knowledge-Base/Face-Recognition-Solution-Based-On-i-MX-RT106F/tac-p/1101379/highlight/true | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00671.warc.gz | en | 0.934722 | 272 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Do your parents not understand technology? Do they ask you stupid questions? Do they send you absurd text messages? Do they use words like "MyFace," "SpaceBook," or "The World Wide Web?"
If you've got an example of your Parents Just Don't Understanding, submit it here!
And thank God we'll never be as dumb as they are!
Yesterday my dad tested if his Outlook in the office works by sending an email to his home email address and then driving home to check if it arrived.
E. S. from UBC
You know how sometimes when you make an account on a site you get a temporary password consisting of random numbers and letters? When my mom got an email account she didn't understand you're supposed to change the temporary password so she memorized her password with 20 random digits. When I said I could help her change it she said no because "it's easier this way."
My mom discovered how to add a "signature" to the end of her text messages. I constantly get "Pick up some more milk, Dance Like No One Is Watching" or "I'll be home at six, Dance Like No One Is Watching."
My dad thinks that the amount of time he charges his cellphone battery is the amount of time his battery will last charged; so he, almost religiously, plugs in his cellphone everynight at 9pm and unplugs it everyday at 9am and freaks out so bad when he forgets to do it that he'd wake up at 3am to plug his cellphone or else he "won't be able to get any work done the next day."
My dad knows how to build a computer from scratch but still calls me for instructions every time he needs to use the microwave.
I am applying to colleges right now and my mom refused to let me apply by myself because I might "turn off the internet." So, while looking up a college on Google, my mom accidentally put a colon in the name of the school she was searching for. Google knew what she was looking for and displayed the school anyway. But, instead of just clicking the link, my mom clicked back to the Google home page and retyped the name and hit enter. When I asked her why she did this, she said she didn't want the school to think I couldn't spell.
I have this conversation with my parents every time I use an app on my iPhone: Parents: How much does it cost per minute to be on that? Me: Nothing. I'm using the house's WIFI. Parents: How much do you pay to use the WIFI? Me: Nothing. It comes with the phone! Parents: How come I cant do that with my phone? Me: Because your phone is a million years old. Get your free upgrade already. Parents: How much is that? Me: AAARRRGGGHHH
Nikki T. from MDC
Last year I asked my grandmother about something I had seen on my cousin's facebook. When I got to her house later, she had facebook pulled up and asked what her password was because she wanted to see what I was talking about. She didn't know she had to create an account before being able to simply sign in. I proceeded to make her a facebook account and show her how it worked. My 15 and 21 year old cousins refuse to accept her friend requests so she thinks there is something wrong with her computer.
My mum called up to ask me if she should install Quicktime on her PC. She thought it was used for downloading things quicker than in 'computer time.'
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Kittens Born Without Eyelids To Get Novel Sight-Saving SurgeryMSPCA-Angell is raising money to help two kittens, born without eyelids and rescued from a drainage pipe at a construction site this summer, undergo a sight-saving surgery.
Boston's Best Places To Adopt Puppies And KittensBoston's furry families are ever-growing, and finding the right fit should never be a struggle. With tens of thousands of dogs and cats in shelters every day, adopting rescue pet offers the whole family a chance to save a life while bringing unconditional love into your home. These shelters are the city's best, offering fur babies and every associated service a family could hope for.
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The world today is interconnected than ever before with the combination of digital devices and the software systems that make them operational. The future calls for further interactions through latest phenomena such as the internet of things (IOT). Hence, the need for skilled Software Engineers in a multitude of specializations is on the rise. Our students are trained to meet these multifaceted software engineering needs. They learn programming skills, analytical skills, database design and development, mobile and enterprise application development, gaming software development, computer security and professional practice to name a few areas. The degree programme from UCLan is designed to equip students with technical, analytical and soft skills that are needed to build, operate and manage software systems successfully.
Progression Pathway For Completion Of The Degree
The degree is designed for four (4) years in total1, inclusive of the option of a work placement year. However, students who wish to complete the degree faster may do so in three (3) years, without going through a placement year. The work placement is usually 48 weeks long and offers 120 credits and will be noted in the transcript. The BSc (Hons) Software Engineering degree requires 360 credits, hence, students will do well to utilize the work placement year to gain industry exposure and equip themselves with skills that will make them highly employable following graduation.
BSc (Hons) Software Engineering with Work Placement (4 Years)
BSc (Hons) Software Engineering (3 Years)*
Year 1 (Level 4)
▪ The Computing Challenge
▪ Games Concepts
▪ Introduction to Programming
▪ Introduction to Networking
▪ Computer Systems and Security
▪ Systems Analysis & Database Design
Year 2 (Level 5)
▪ Software Development
▪ Advanced Programming
▪ The Agile Professional
▪ Computational Thinking
▪ Computer Security
▪ Mobile Computing
Year 3 (Level 6)
▪ Advanced Software Engineering Techniques
▪ Object Oriented Methods in Computing
▪ Distributed Enterprise Systems
▪ Honours Degree Project (Double Project)
▪ One module fromt
▪ Wireless and Mobile Networks
▪ Data Science
There are possibilities to transfer to UCLan, Preston Campus in UK, after completing the 1st Year.
*Subjected to completing 360 credits. Subjected to availability
Each module will have its own assessment structure. The assessment guidelines may be collected from lecturers once the student is registered in a particular year. Assessments may vary from identifying user requirements, conceptualizing, designing and developing software and showcasing to an audience to, writing online or paper based exams. Each module may have one or more forms of assessments to match the learning outcomes specified in the module descriptor. Each assessment will have a marking rubric that defines how marks are offered.
The UCLan BSc (Hons) Software Engineering degree programme comes with carefully selected subject areas to match the current needs in the software industry, hence positioning our students with an advantage. Moreover, our students are encouraged to take up the opportunity of working in the industry during the work placement year. While the students themselves may find a position suitable for their work placement, a dedicated career guidance team at UCL will assist in identifying potential employers. Our students are fit to apply for an array of positions in areas such as, but not limited to, Networking, Mobile application development, Gaming software development, Database administration, Enterprise application development and Computer security. The work placement not only allows the students to practice their learnings, but also assists in building the much-needed industry links and acquiring work experience prior to graduation.
This module offers an immersive experience designed to equip students with a foundation of study skills necessary to be successful in Computing. Students will be introduced to a broad range of computing concepts and how to apply them to design and develop a small software concept.
This module presents a broad range of basic games development concepts and provides foundation for further study in the field. Students will develop an understanding of commercial practices in game development and will be introduced to methods and technologies for game development. The module will also cover mathematical concepts needed for computer games development.
In this module students learn how to write simple programs. No prior programming experience is required. Students will develop the ability to analyse a simple problem with a view to implementing a software solution. Students will learn the core skills of programming, debugging and writing readable code using an industry standard programming language such as C# or other.
This module builds directly on the Introduction to Programming module. Students will gain the ability to further analyse, design, implement, test and debug more complex programs using an appropriate programming language. Key skills related for logical thinking, code design and alternative ways to code and debug will be explored in this module.
This module will introduce students to the fundamentals of networking and networked systems and will develop the understanding they need to investigate relevant computer network standards and protocols. Students will learn the necessary about skills to set-up and configure a Local Area Network through lab work, by handling devices and using simulators.
Gradually, we are becoming more and more dependent on computing systems in our daily lives. The services provided by these systems, such as online shopping, social networking, mobile banking and so forth represent the backbone of modern communities. This module will introduce the key security concepts, access control mechanisms and tools to protect the computer systems from harm.
This module introduces student to interact between the stakeholders and analysts to develop requirements to store and manipulate data, techniques of information gathering and representation using appropriate tools and techniques and the role of database design using normalization. Students will learn how to design and implementation a robust database using SQL and related tools.
This module will focus on the software development lifecycle, with students learning how to identify requirements, analyse, design, code and test a software application. Students will also learn alternative styles used in the industry and which ones are suitable for a given context.
This module will enhance the student’s programming competence and ability to use a range of programming techniques necessary for the development of effective and quality software. Students will learn how to select and apply appropriate data structures and algorithms to implement a software solution to a complex problem. Object-oriented and event-driven programming paradigms will also be introduced in this module.
This module will teach students the agile way of designing and developing solutions. Since this is fast becoming an industry recognized way of developing solutions, students will get an opportunity to learn how to apply theory to practice and develop agile software by having regular meetings, monitoring progress and refining the solution as the project moved along.
The module will develop core skills among students to think and develop computational solutions. Since problems may have many alternative solutions, students will learn the pros and cons of each and which type of solutions are most suitable for a given system or application.
In this module, student will learn to examine a range of vulnerabilities and attacks on computer systems and networks. This module will help develop an understanding of advanced methods for protecting communication and computer systems, and the need to have a systematic approach to computer security.
This module aims to develop an understanding of contemporary mobile development platforms and skills required to develop applications for mobile devices (phone and tablets). Students will explore a range of technical problems and solutions inherent in developing software applications for mobile computing: connectivity, security, data storage. Interactive mobile application: gestural input, location awareness, on-board-sensing (e.g. accelerometers) will also be taught.
The module takes a rigorous approach to software development. It examines the use of formal methods for the specification, development and verification of software. It presents a range of techniques for the analysis and implementation of real-time solutions. The student will investigate the theory and problems of concurrent systems.
Object-oriented methods are popular in programming, analysis and design. This module will develop the student’s understanding of the underlying object-oriented concepts and techniques. Students will learn how to apply them to system design and program development using languages such as C# .NET or Java.
This module aims to teach students how systems and applications can be built for distributed environments. Since data and clients using the applications are likely to be spread over geographical and system boundaries, it is important to learn if a centralized or a distributed type of system is more suitable. This module will introduce the theory and key concepts to develop such distributed systems.
The double module project will involve research, independent study and the production of a substantial report, which will be based on the investigation of a problem and the development of a solution. This project will be the culmination of the student's study and will draw substantially on the material and skills developed during the course.
Wireless and mobile networks systems have become an essential part of the modern world. Technologies such as 802.11, GPRS, and Bluetooth are being used in ever increasing numbers of businesses and homes. This module focuses on these technologies in depth, covering both the theory and practical applications of the same.
Large volumes of data, commonly known as ‘big data’ are generated and stored by retail stores, online-shopping websites, or other transaction systems. This big data is now considered a very rich resource for information, especially for the strategic and commercial growth of a company. This module will teach students how to apply formal concepts to extract and analyse meaningful information from such large datasets, find hidden patterns, measure similarity etc. | <urn:uuid:8805ee15-4785-4fa6-bbff-2cd548814005> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ucl.lk/UCLan_BSc(Hons)Software_Engineering.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.906073 | 1,957 | 1.75 | 2 |
Exam revamp goes back to basics
The new GCSEs will prioritise facts over skills, and tests will carry more marks for correct spelling and grammar
MICHAEL GOVE says his GCSE reforms are needed to restore confidence in a public exam system that faces accusations of widespread cheating and in which grades rise every year, writes Sian Griffiths.
The education secretary has not only overhauled what children in England are to learn from 2015 but has also been closely involved in changes to how teenagers will be assessed from 2017. The result: more traditional qualifications that are likely to be more difficult.
Last week Gove unveiled plans for pupils to study for new GCSEs in English, maths, the sciences, geography and history. Facts and traditional subject knowledge rather than skills will be prioritised.
For English literature, pupils will have to study a full Shakespeare play instead of only extracts. Essay writing will be taught: universities complain that students lack this skill. There will be more marks for correct spelling, punctuation and grammar.
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This report analyses various environmental risk assessment practices that are currently in place for food-related substances in both the EU and the USA. Within the EU, REACH requires the systematic review of the toxicity of chemicals, with varying degrees of extensiveness of testing required based on the quantities of the chemicals used in practice. Genetically modified organisms are another example of how the environmental impacts of food-producing crops are assessed. The requirements for the use of substances in organic agriculture imply that these should also be assessed for environmental impact. In the USA, the FDA requires environmental assessments for food substance requiring this agency's action. The EPA has elaborated guidelines for ecological risk assessment that show parallels with the food safety assessment, including the stages of problem formulation, analysis (assessment), and risk characterisation. Also the stakeholder involvement and risk management play an important role in the procedures envisaged by these guidelines. The utility of integrated assessments has been further stressed by WHO/IPCS. It is considered that the new integrated risk-analysis approach recommended by SAFE FOODS can benefit from the integration of environmental issues, including their assessment in the risk-benefit stage of the risk analysis cycle. | <urn:uuid:080423db-33e8-4171-abfa-32ce2e42c19d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pmiscience.com/content/pmiscience/language-master/en/research/publications-library/environmental-risk-assessment-for-food-related-substances.html/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.946706 | 235 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Fuel means materials which can be used to obtain energy for various purpose
fuels are many types..
coal is formed from dead remains of bio organism processed naturally under earth crust(main chemical component consist of carbon)
gas is naturally found earth eg:hydrogen
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Customer care is a crucial element of business success. Every contact your customers have with your business is an opportunity for you to improve your reputation with them and increase the likelihood of further sales.
From your telephone manner to the efficiency of your order-fulfilment systems, almost every aspect of your business affects the way your customers view your business. But there are also specific programs you can put in place to increase your levels of customer care.
This guide outlines what customer care involves. It explains how you can use customer contact, feedback and loyalty schemes to retain existing customers, increase your sales to them and even win new customers. It also covers how to prepare for receiving a customer complaint.
What is customer care?
Customer care involves putting systems in place to maximise your customers' satisfaction with your business. It should be a prime consideration for every business - your sales and profitability depends on keeping your customers happy.
Customer care is more directly important in some roles than others. For receptionists, sales staff and other employees in customer-facing roles, customer care should be a core element of their job description and training, and a core criterion when you're recruiting.
But don't neglect the importance of customer care in other areas of your business. For instance, your warehousing and shipping departments may have minimal contact with your customers - but their performance when fulfilling orders has a major impact on customers' satisfaction with your business.
A huge range of factors can contribute to customer satisfaction, but your customers -both consumers and other businesses - are likely to take into account:
- how well your product or service matches customer needs
- the value for money you offer
- your efficiency and reliability in fulfilling orders
- the professionalism, friendliness and expertise of your employees
- how well you keep your customers informed
- the after-sales service you provide
Training courses may be useful for ensuring the highest possible levels of customer care.
Understand your customers
In business-to-business trading, providing a high level of customer care often requires you to find out what your customers want. Once you have identified your most valuable customers or best potential customers, you can target your highest levels of customer care towards them. Another approach, particularly in the consumer market, is the obligation to treat all consumers to the highest standard.
Collect information about your customers
Information about your customers and what they want is available from many sources, including:
- their order history
- records of their contacts with your business - phone calls, meetings and so on
- direct feedback - if you ask them, customers will usually tell you what they want
- changes in individual customers' order patterns
- changes in the overall success of specific products or services
- feedback about your existing range - what it does and doesn't do
- enquiries about possible new products or services
- feedback from your customers about things they buy from other businesses
- changes in the goods and services your competitors are selling
- feedback and referrals from other, non-competitive suppliers
See our guide Know your customers' needs.
Manage your customer information
It's important that you draw up a plan about how customer information is to be gathered and used in your business. Establish a customer-care policy. Assign a senior manager as the policy's champion but make sure that all your staff are involved - often the lower down the scale you go, the more direct contact with customers there is.
You can manage your customer records using a database system or with customer relationship management software.
You should be aware that collecting and using customer information requires you to comply with Québec’s An Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector.
Measure your customer service levels
Where possible, put systems in place to assess your performance in business areas which significantly affect your customers' satisfaction levels. Identify Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) which reflect how well you're responding to your customers' expectations.
For instance, you might track:
- sales renewal rates
- the number of queries or complaints about your products or services
- the number of complaints about your employees
- the number of damaged or faulty goods returned
- average order-fulfilment times
- the number of contacts with a customer each month
- the volume of marketing material sent out and responses generated
- time taken from order to delivery
Your customers and employees will be useful sources of information about the KPIs which best reflect key customer service areas in your business. Make sure the things you measure are driven not by how your business currently runs, but by how your customers would like to see it run.
There are important areas of customer service which are more difficult to measure. Many of these are human factors such as a receptionist's telephone manner or a salesperson's conduct while visiting clients. In these areas it's crucial that you get feedback from your customers about their perceptions of your customer service.
Customer surveys, feedback programmes and occasional phone calls to key customers can be useful ways of gauging how customer service levels in your business are perceived.
Customer feedback and contact programs
Customer feedback and contact programmes are two ways of increasing communication with your customers. They can represent great opportunities to listen to your customers and to let them know more about what you can offer.
Customer feedback can provide you with detailed information about how your business is perceived. It's a chance for customers to voice objections, suggest changes or endorse your existing processes, and for you to listen to what they say and act upon it. Feedback is most often gathered using questionnaires, in person, over the telephone or by mail.
The purpose of customer contact programs is to help you deliver tailored information to your customers. One example is news of a special offer that is relevant to a past purchase - another is a reminder sent at the time of year when a customer traditionally places an order. Contact programs are particularly useful for reactivating relationships with lapsed customers.
Do your best to make sure that your customers feel the extra contact is relevant and beneficial to them - bombarding customers with unwanted calls or marketing material can be counter-productive. Newsletters and email bulletins allow you to keep in touch with useful information.
Customer loyalty schemes
While good overall service is the best way of generating customer loyalty, sometimes new relationships can be strengthened, or old ones refreshed, using customer loyalty schemes.
These are programs that use fixed or percentage discounts, extra goods or prizes to reward customers for behaviour that benefits your business. They can also be used to persuade customers to give you another try if you feel you have successfully tackled past problems with your customer service.
You can decide to offer rewards on the basis of:
- repeat custom
- cumulative spend
- orders for large quantities or with a high value
- prompt payment
- length of relationship
For example, a car wash might offer free cleaning every tenth visit or a free product if a customer opts for the deluxe service. A mail-order company might seek to revive the interest of lapsed customers by offering a voucher redeemable against purchases -response rates with such vouchers can be improved by setting an expiry date.
You can also provide key customers with loyalty cards that entitle them to a discount on all their purchases.
Employees who deal with customers' orders should be fully aware of current offers and keep customers informed. Sometimes brochures and other marketing materials are the best way of getting word out about a new customer incentive.
Don't forget though that your customers' view of the overall service you provide will influence their loyalty much more than short-term rewards will.
Use customer care to increase sales
Your existing customers are among the most important assets of your business - they have already chosen you instead of your competitors. Keeping their custom costs far less than attracting new business, so it's worth taking steps to make sure that they're satisfied with the service they receive.
There are a number of techniques you can employ, including:
- providing a free customer helpline
- answering frequently asked questions on your website
- following up sales with a courtesy call
- providing free products that will help customers look after or make the most of their purchases
- sending reminders when services or check-ups are due
- offering preferential discounts to existing customers on further purchases
Existing customer relationships are opportunities to increase sales because your customers will already have a degree of trust in your recommendations.
Cross-selling and up-selling are ways of increasing either the range or the value of what you sell by pointing out new purchase possibilities to these customers.
Alerting customers when new, upgraded or complimentary products become available – perhaps through regular emails or newsletters - is one way of increasing sales.
To retain your customers' trust, however, never try to sell them something that clearly doesn't meet their needs. Remember, your aim is to build a solid long-term relationship with your customers rather than to make quick one-off profits.
Satisfied customers will contribute to your business for years, through their purchases and through recommendations and referrals of your business.
How to deal with customer complaints
Every business has to deal with situations in which things go wrong from a customer's point of view.
However you respond if this happens, don't be dismissive of your customer's problem - even if you're convinced you're not at fault. Although it might seem contradictory, a customer with a complaint represents a genuine opportunity for your business:
- if you handle the complaint successfully, your customer is likely to prove more loyal than if nothing had gone wrong
- people willing to complain are rare - your complaining customer may be alerting you to a problem experienced by many others who silently took their custom elsewhere
Complaints should be handled courteously, sympathetically and - above all - swiftly. Make sure that your business has an established procedure for dealing with customer complaints and that it is known to all your employees. At the very least it should involve:
- listening sympathetically to establish the details of the complaint
- recording the details together with relevant material, such as a sales receipt or damaged goods
- offering rectification - whether by repair, replacement or refund
- appropriate follow-up action, such as a letter of apology or a phone call to make sure that the problem has been made good
If you're proud of the way you rectify problems - by offering no-questions refunds, for example - make sure your customers know about it. Your method of dealing with customer problems is one more way to stay ahead of your competitors.
Original document, Manage your customer care, © Crown copyright 2009
Source: Business Link UK (now GOV.UK/Business)
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Today I came with two very simple games, designed for my little daughter.
Of course they are a lot boring for me, but funny for my girl. They has no strategy, only random.
They are intended to force the very little children to count, search matchings and apply a little logic and also serve as an introduction for more complex games.
Step 1: Resources
Months before my daughter's birth, I purchased LOTS of thing for her... and LOTS of thing for make games for her:
14mm Dices, 14mm Ludo tokens and LOTS of sheets with 11 mm round stickers with several pictures on them, all of it in 1€ stores.
I used for the first game
- 48 Fish stickers
- 2 Dices
- 36 Ludo blue tokens
and for the second:
- 90 Bug stickers
- 10 Frog stickers
- 7 Dices
- 59 Ludo red rokens
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Younger children can be difficult to buy gifts for! Children in grades K-6 need some great gifts this year and we have 6 perfect suggestions for you. Elementary school age kids want the newest technology like their older siblings, but parents and relatives often prefer to buy non-technology related gifts. We have spent the past year testing many toys, products and items that are aimed at elementary school aged children. All of these recommendations would be perfect for kids ages 5 and up. This gift guide for elementary school age kids includes some unique suggestions you might not have thought of. We will be covering technology related gifts for kids in a separate post. These old fashioned gifts will make any child very happy!
Gift Guide for Elementary School Age Kids:
1.Janie Bee Nap Mat/ Sleeping Bag: Our mini-blogger is so in love with her Janie Bee Mat. It is the softest most luxurious material you can find. You usually do not think of a sleeping bag as a place you would like to rest your head. Janie Bee makes nap mats, lunchboxes, blankets, and so much more. They take custom orders as well. Your child will fall in love with anything you choose from Janie Bee. Our sleeping bag has a built in pillow and rolls right up for travel. You can even get your child’s name embroidered on it. Each product is handmade and stitched in Georgia and would be the most amazing gift for any child. Many nights the mini-blogger reads on her mat and falls asleep. I really wish they made these in adult sizes!
2.Real Cooking Sets: Real Cooking sets are super fun gifts for kids who want to cook all by themselves. These kits include all the ingredients and tools you would need to make cupcakes, cookies or cake pops. Our mini-blogger loves to cook in the kitchen, but she cannot make recipes completely by herself. When a friend came over they tried the cupcake kit and had the best time! No needing to ask parents for any more help than using the oven. The girls also said the cupcakes were really delicious. The cupcake kit comes with a super fun, egg cracking device that makes cracking eggs easier. It is a very helpful and fun device that helps kids crack eggs without getting eggshells in their recipes. You can find the cupcake kit on Amazon here:Real Cooking Ultimate Baking Starter Set – 37 Pc. Kit Includes Sprinkles, Cake & Frosting Mix if your child likes cookies better, you can also find the cookie making kit here: Real Cooking Deluxe Cookie Baking Set – 25 Pc. Kit Includes Sprinkles, Candy, and Mixes and lastly they also have a cake pop set here: Real Cooking Cake Pops & Cones Baking Set – 15 Pc. Cake Mix, Sprinkles & Candy Included These are all fun options especially if your child wants to have small size utensils for future cooking projects!
3.Animal Atlas: This hardcover animal atlas from Animal Planet is such a great gift for your little animal lover. Your child will learn so much from this book. It is divided into biomes and continents. I learned a lot from reading this book with my daughter. The photographs are gorgeous and you will learn many interesting facts while reading it. We read a few pages every night and we highly recommend it to all other children. You can find this book on Amazon here: Animal Planet Animal Atlas
4.Extraordinaires: This gift is perfect for a creative child who enjoys exploring their imagination and creativity. This kit was created by the same team that designed Rory’s Story Cubes which is a super fun game for kids that uses their imagination to create a story. The Extraordinaires comes packaged in a cute fold up box. This imagination and creativity kit invites your child to choose one person and one utensil that they will need. We have been playing with this kit for months and I think we have done all the cards multiple times. Your child’s imagination helps them come up with new ideas to draw every time. This has been a fun kit to take in the car on road trips since it all neatly packages into one box. You can find it on Amazon here: The Extraordinaires Design Studio Deluxe Edition Game, Aqua Blue
5.Hamster in A House: These hamsters are the newest craze, similar to the old Zhu Zhu pets, but much cuter. These tiny hamsters race around their house and your child can play with them and use their imagination. Every child who comes over to our house falls in love with these cute hamsters. The hamsters can come with accessories and other houses and cars. They are very small and also good for travel. You can find them on Amazon here: Zuru Ultimate Hamster House Playset
6.Little Passports Gift Subscription: Little Passport is one of the best gifts you can give to your child. Your child will learn more about the world in a very special way. Once a month he will receive a package addressed to him, with an in depth focus on two states in the US. In the welcome package he will get a passport and then be transported once a month to learn more about all the wonderful states in the US, sign up for Little Passports here: give the gift of adventure . If geography is not your thing, there is also a monthly science kit here: Science Expeditions
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Today is Valentine’s Day. For many people this means it is a day of flowers, chocolates and greetings cards slushy, humorous or both. We may think this is a recent invention like Fathers’ Day, but that’s far from true. Valentine’s Day dates back many centuries and has its origins in 3rd Century Rome.
St Valentine is thought to have been a priest who conducted marriages against the wishes of the Emperor Claudius who believed married men made poor soldiers. When Claudius found out he sentenced Valentine to death, but even while languishing in gaol Valentine fell in love with the gaoler’s daughter. He wrote her a letter on the day of his execution, February 14th, signed ‘from your Valentine’.
Valentine’s Day celebrations originated from a Roman festival called Lupercalia during which boys picked the names of girls from a box. The chosen would become their girlfriend for the festival. If they got on, they would get married. Later the church adopted Lupercalia as a Christian event in which St Valentine would be commemorated. In the Middle Ages they believed that February 14th was the start of the mating season for birds.
The first known Valentine’s Day message dates from 1415, a poem written by the Duke of Orleans to his wife when he was incarcerated in the Tower of London after the Battle of Agincourt.
Valentine’s Day is now an annual love-fest welcomed and enjoyed by millions. It’s a day of flowers, chocolates, romantic meals and intrigue – tradition has it that cards should be sent anonymously and some people go to enormous lengths to disguise the sender’s identity. Sometimes messages are serious, sometimes just a bit of fun. And maybe that’s the point. Enjoy it, but don’t take it too seriously. It’s the froth on the coffee, not the coffee itself!
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Give an example of Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed research?
- Qualitative - ethnography research
- Quantitative - experimental design
- Mixed - action research
What are three ways of classifying research?
- By paradigms of the types of data and analysis
- By method (qualitative, quantitative, action)
- By purpose (basic, evaluation, action, r&d)
What are the methods of research?
qualitative, quantitative, and action
What are some different types of qualitative research?
Ethnography, historical, case study and grounded theory
What is one reason why educators need to take a research course?
Because much of education is based on research nowadays, and teachers need to know how to find, evaluate and understand quality information
What are two types of reasoning and how do they work?
- Inductive and deductive
- A researcher is either generalizing something, inductive
- Or concluding something, deductive
What is inductive reasoning?
- developing generalizations based on observations of a limited number of related events or experiences
- The arrow goes from the bottom to the top of the upside down triangle. The top represents "generalizations", and the bottom represents "limited events and experiences"
- some shit happens in some circumstance, therefore all shit must happen in that circumstance
- ex: A teacher knows several student athletes who are good students and concludes that all student athletes are good students
- ex: When I drive fast on rain slicked roads, I get in an accident, therefore, driving fast on rain slick roads increases the chance of getting in an accident
What is deductive reasoning?
- arriving at specific conclusions based on general principles, observations, or experiences. The arrow goes from the top downward on the upside down triangle. The top represents "generalizations", and the bottom "limited events or experiences"
- all shit happens in some circumstance, therefore specific shit must happen in the same circumstance
- ex: all student athletes are bad students, therefore there must be many specific athletes who are bad students
- ex: driving fast on rain slicked roads causes more accidents, therefore, if someone drives fast on a rain slicked road, they are more likely to get in an accident
What is the scientific method?
- It is a process:
- recognize and define a problem
- formulate a hypothesis
- collect and analyze data
- confirm or dis-confirm hypothesis
- statement of conclusion
People use experience, authority, deductive and inductive reasoning all the time. What must people also use to make their findings valuable research?
The scientific method
What are five basic scales to measure attitudes?
- They indicate feelings on various objects, persons, and activities
- Likert scales - strongly agree, agree, undecided...
- semantic differential scales - respondent selects on a continuum of attitudes
- rating scales - continuum from high to low
- Thurston scales - pair comparisons algorithm, has difficulty with one and zero values
- Guttman scales - binary, yes or no. Questions are successively more difficult, and so it is assumed that respondents can answer questions correctly before the correct question if answered correctly. Such as in math placement tests
- The first three are the most used
What is the independent variable?
The treatment or cause, it is represented with an X
What is the dependent variable?
The outcome or effect of the independent variable, represented with a Y
What are norm-reference tests?
They compare a respondents (student) results with the results of others (students)
What are some sampling techniques for quantitative research?
- Simple random
- Cluster - simple and two-stage
What is sampling?
- The goal of sampling is to pull a sample of the population that is representative of the whole population
- Another term for a sample is a subset of the population
- sampling is used in both quantitative and qualitative research studies
- There are two types of sampling in quantitative research -
- random sampling which produces representative samples
- nonrandom sampling which does not produce representative samples
Some sampling terms
- Sample - a set of elements taken from a larger population
- Statistic - a numerical characteristic of a sample
- Parameter - a numerical characteristic of population
- Sampling error - the difference between the value of a sample statistic,
- such as the sample mean, and the true value of the population parameter, such as
- the population mean.
- There is always some degree of error in sampling
- Random sampling methods - the error is random rather than systematic
- Response rate - the percentage of people in the sample selected for the study who actually participate in the study
- Sampling frame - a list of all the people that are in the population
What is EPSEM related to sampling?
- Equal probability sampling method. It represents the population from which it was selected, such as in simple random sampling, or systematic sampling for quantitative research
- pull from a hat method, or
- Assign everyone in a population a number, and then use a computer to generate random numbers
What are four types of random sampling in quantitative research?
- Simple Random Sampling
- Systematic Sampling
- Stratified Random Sampling
- Cluster Random Sampling
What are four types of non-random sampling in quantitative research?
- Convenience sampling
- Quota sampling
- Purposive sampling
- Snowball sampling
What are the different types of sampling techniques used in qualitative research?
- Maximum variation sampling
- Homogenous sample selection
- Extreme case sampling
- Typical case sampling
- Critical case sampling
- Negative case sampling
- Opportunistic sampling
- Mixed purposeful sampling
What is a t test?
A statistic that checks if two means are reliably different from each other
What is the difference between descriptive and inferential?
- descriptive describes what is such as the existing sample results
- inferential looks at what could be or what is possible through a hypothesis
What are 5 benefits of qualitative research approach?
- It is personal, research of people, holistic
- studies are conducted in a natural environment
- allows for follow up questions for deeper understanding
What are the benefits of quantitative research?
- More objective and less personal
- control of variables for accuracy of data, and also can therefore prove or disprove a specific hypothesis
- Statistical analysis of data to identify patters and relationships
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State Senator Michael Ranzenhofer is lending his support to a bill designed to limit welfare fraud in New York State.
“We’ve passed one in the Senate which is a common sense program which says if you are receiving cash assistance through the electronic benefit card, you can’t use this to buy booze, you can’t use it to buy cigarettes, you can’t use it to buy lottery tickets,” he said. “You can’t go into a casino or liquor store and take out cash because the likelihood is you’re going to use that cash to then gamble or to buy booze.”
Under a law signed by President Obama last year he says, each state is responsible for creating a fraud prevention program. Ranzehofer says without passing the Public Assistance Integrity Act, the state risks losing 5 percent of its allotment, or $120 million.
Ranzenhofer says it’s about saving taxpayer money but also said that abuse of the system adversely affects people who responsibly depend on it.
“That would be devastating to the people that depend on this program across Batavia and LeRoy and Pembroke – for people in need. People need this money,” he said.
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Historic Bridges: Railroad (Panhandle Railroad and Rail-Trail)
Special Bridge Conditions Legend: R - Former location of relocated bridge.
! - At risk for demolition or destruction.
X - Confirmed demolished or
- Dismantled and/or in storage.
Severe loss of historic integrity due to alteration.
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Total Bridges Found: 1
Seven Hills Road Over Railroad (Panhandle Railroad and Rail-Trail) in Rural: Licking County, Ohio, United States
Metal 10 Panel Pin-Connected Pratt Full-Slope Pony Truss, Fixed
Length: 90 ft.
Main Span: 87 ft.
Roadway: 22.3 ft.
Main Spans: 1
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SOMALI IMMIGRANT BECOMES CANADIAN IMMIGRATION MINISTER
Here is a Canadian immigration success story that you may find inspiring. When Ahmed Hussen was 16 years-old, he was able to immigrate to Canada as a refugee fleeing the conflict in Somalia. After graduating from high school in the Greater Toronto Area, Ahmed worked his way through university, became a lawyer and was elected as a Member of Canada’s Parliament in 2015. These impressive accomplishments alone would have made this an amazing Canadian immigration success story, but on January 10, 2017, Ahmed Hussen, a former Somali refugee, was sworn in as Canada’s new Minister of Immigration. To read the full article, click here!
CANADA NAMED THE WORLD’S #1 COUNTRY TO VISIT DURING 2017
On January 4, 2017, the New York Times published its annual ranking of the top 52 places to travel to and named Canada the #1 country to visit during 2017. Among the reasons given to visit Canada this year include various celebrations taking place across the country. For example, Canada is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the country’s confederation with different events being held in Ottawa and other locations. The Canadian National Park system is also marking this milestone by offering free admission to Canada’s numerous national parks and historical sites during 2017, so this is a great opportunity to enjoy the country’s spectacular scenery. Furthermore, Montreal is celebrating its 375th birthday this year, therefore, this is a fantastic time to experience the French-Canadian culture of Canada’s second largest city. To read more, click here!
STUDENTS IN CANADA AMONG THE BEST IN THE WORLD FOR MATH & SCIENCE
According to a report released in December 2016 by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), students who live in Canada are ranked #4 in the world (tied with Finland) for their knowledge of math and science. The OECD’s Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) evaluated 540,000 15-year-old senior high school students in countries around the globe and only students living in Singapore, Japan and Estonia had a better knowledge of math and science than students who live in Canada. Teenagers living in the Canadian provinces of Quebec, Alberta and British Columbia scored higher in math and science than students residing in the rest of Canada. The Canadian education system is considered one of the best in the world. To read more, click here!
IMMIGRANTS FROM THE PHILIPPINES HAPPY TO BECOME CANADIAN CITIZENS
A family from The Philippines was among 20 immigrants who took the oath to become Canadian citizens at a ceremony held in Regina, Saskatchewan, on November 24, 2016. The family had been living in Canada five years as permanent residents and after they met the criteria, which includes passing the Canadian citizenship test, the last step was to attend a special ceremony, take the oath to become new citizens of Canada and receive their certificates of Canadian citizenship. One member of the family declared, “It’s really a pleasure to be a Canadian citizen and to be getting all these rights and privileges from the country.” To read more, click here!
CANADA’S GOVERNMENT SETS GOAL OF 300,000 CANADIAN VISAS FOR 2017
On October 31, 2016, the Canadian government released its 2017 goals for immigration to Canada. A new annual baseline target of 300,000 Canadian visas for permanent residency was established, which is a substantial increase over the previous baseline of 260,000 Canadian visas per year. Canada’s 2017 immigration plan calls for 172,500 Canadian visas to be issued for skilled foreign workers; 84,000 visas for family members of Canadian citizens or permanent residents; 40,000 Canadian visas for refugees; and 3,500 visas for humanitarian or other reasons. To read the full article, click here!
REPORT URGES SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN CANADIAN IMMIGRATION
A report released by the Conference Board of Canada on October 6, 2016, calls for a significant increase in Canadian immigration in order to address an aging population and keep Canada’s economy growing strong. Approximately 16% of Canada’s population of 36 million is age 65 or older, but that demographic group is forecast to soar to 24% over the next couple decades. Consequently, the Canadian government will need to boost the number of people approved for immigration to Canada to 407,000 per year by 2030 to meet the needs of Canadian employment and maintain an expanding economy, according to the report. To read more, click here!
320,932 PEOPLE IMMIGRATE TO CANADA DURING THE PAST FISCAL YEAR
According to data released in September 2016 by Statistics Canada, 320,932 people were able to immigrate to Canada during the past fiscal year (between June 30, 2015 and June 30, 2016). This was a 33.3% increase over Canadian immigration levels during the previous fiscal year (June 30, 2014 to June 30, 2015) when 240,844 people were able to immigrate to Canada. This is the largest number of people to move to Canada in almost three decades and may be the highest number to immigrate to Canada since the early 20th century. The significant increase in Canadian immigration that occurred during the past fiscal year helped Canada’s population climb to 36.3 million people. Overall, the Canadian population grew by 437,815 during the past fiscal year as a result of immigration to Canada and new births, which was the largest absolute increase in the Canadian population since the 1988-1989 fiscal year. Canada’s government is expected to announce its goals for Canadian immigration in November 2016. To read the full article, click here!
HSBC EXPAT EXPLORER SURVEY RANKS CANADA #3 COUNTRY FOR EXPATS IN 2016
In September 2016, the HSBC Expat Explorer Survey named Canada the #3 best country in the world for expats to live and work abroad in 2016. This large survey of over 27,000 people in 190 countries and territories also discovered that expats consider Canada to be the world’s #1 country for tolerance, #2 for integration and #2 for health. Several factors were grouped into three major categories for the survey (i.e., experience, family and economics) and revealed that Canada is ranked #3 for overall experience, #5 for family and #10 for economics. To read more, click here!
HIGH DEMAND FOR TECH WORKERS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA CAUSES SALARIES TO SOAR
Business is booming in British Columbia’s technology sector and a shortage of high-tech workers is causing salaries to soar. The Canadian province of British Columbia has traditionally been known for employing many people in jobs related to natural resources which are abundant there. Today, there are more high-tech sector workers employed in British Columbia than in the forestry, oil and gas, and mining industries combined. British Columbia’s tech sector has been enjoying strong 3.3% annual growth, but employers in the province have been facing a challenge finding enough qualified skilled workers to meet rising demand. This is good news for high-tech workers in British Columbia, who have seen their salaries increase to an average of $6,320 per month ($75,849 per year). For example, the average salary in British Columbia for a software developer with 2-4 years of work experience is $75,400 per year, but with over four years of experience the average annual salary for this occupation skyrockets to $93,900. To read the full article, click here!
SKILLED FOREIGN WORKERS NEEDED TO FILL JOBS IN CANADA’S ATLANTIC PROVINCES
A Member of the Canadian Parliament from the eastern province of New Brunswick says that more skilled foreign workers are needed to fill many jobs in Canada’s Atlantic provinces. According to MP Alaina Lockhart, the population of the Atlantic provinces is getting older and retiring, but there are not enough people available locally to fill all of the job openings. As an example, the New Brunswick MP declared, “In New Brunswick alone we have over 1,000 jobs that have gone unfilled for over a year.” In order to address the shortage of people available to work in Canada’s Atlantic coastal provinces, MP Lockhart has called on the Canadian Parliament’s Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration to boost immigration to Canada’s Atlantic provinces and also seek ways to retain the immigrants already living and working there. To read the full article, click here!
BILL GATES HAS PRAISE FOR ‘ENLIGHTENED’ CANADIAN IMMIGRATION POLICY
On September 20, 2016, American businessman Bill Gates praised the ‘enlightened’ Canadian immigration policy that welcomes thousands of people from all over the world. Speaking in Vancouver at the Emerging Cascadia Innovation Corridor Conference, the co-founder of Microsoft spoke highly of the Canadian government’s open approach to giving tens of thousands of Syrian refugees the opportunity to live in Canada. The world’s richest man also praised Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for efforts to help refugees of the Syrian Civil War to immigrate to Canada “in an appropriate way.” To read more, click here!
STORE ON SCENIC NOVA SCOTIA ISLAND OFFERS CANADIAN EMPLOYMENT AND FREE LAND
A family-owned general store on beautiful Cape Breton Island in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia wanted to hire more employees, but could not find anyone to hire locally. Their solution was to place an advertisement on Facebook with an offer of Canadian employment plus two free acres of land for new employees. Hundreds of people from across Canada responded to this unique offer of Canadian employment and free land in this picturesque small town of around 854 residents. To read the full article, click here!
MANY PEOPLE WHO IMMIGRATE TO CANADA SETTLE IN SMALL CITIES AND TOWNS
Although the majority of people who immigrate to Canada move to the big cities (such as Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Calgary), an increasing number of immigrants are choosing to settle in smaller Canadian cities and towns or in rural areas. For example, the neighboring small towns of Morden and Winkler in Canada’s province of Manitoba have experienced an influx of immigrants from around the globe. Why would someone move to Canada and then settle in a small town with a population of around 11,000 people? One reason is that many smaller Canadian cities and towns want people who immigrate to Canada to move to their area, primarily due to a shortage of workers. In addition to being welcomed by smaller Canadian communities, many immigrants are also attracted to the quality of life and many job opportunities found in towns and small cities in Canada. The prairie province of Manitoba, where the towns of Morden and Winkler are located, has maintained one of the lowest unemployment rates of any Canadian province or territory for the past several years. The cost of living there is also much lower than in more popular places in Canada, such as Toronto or Vancouver. To read the full article, click here!
CANADA BOASTS THREE OF THE TOP FIVE MOST LIVABLE CITIES IN THE WORLD
In August 2016, Vancouver, Toronto and Calgary were named as three of the top five most livable cities in the world for 2016. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) evaluation of the quality of life in 140 cities around the globe, Vancouver is the #3 best city to live in the world, while Toronto is ranked #4 and Calgary tied with Adelaide (Australia) for 5th place. This was not the first time that the London-based EIU had rated these three Canadian cities among the best places to live on the planet. Vancouver, Toronto and Calgary received the same honors in 2015 due to their high standard of living. To read more, click here!
IMMIGRANT FROM HUNGARY BECOMES THE OLDEST MAN IN CANADA
A Toronto man received birthday greetings from Canada’s Prime Minister, Ontario’s Premier and the Mayor of Toronto as he celebrated his 110th birthday and became the oldest man in Canada. Zoltan Sarosy was born in Hungary on August 23, 1906, attended university in Austria, became a chess master and was approved to immigrate to Canada in 1950. This incredible Canadian with an excellent memory has lived through both world wars, seen many inventions and new technologies and has even learned to use a computer to play chess online. To read the full article and watch the news video, click here!
CANADA’S IMMIGRATION MINISTER WANTS TO ISSUE MORE CANADIAN VISAS
John McCallum, Canada’s Minister of Immigration, announced in August 2016 that he would like to “substantially increase the number of immigrants coming to Canada.” Speaking in The Philippines at a meeting of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce held in Manila on August 12, 2016, Mr. McCallum said that more skilled foreign workers need to immigrate to Canada to meet a growing labor shortage, especially as more Canadians retire from the workforce. He stated that he would like to make it easier for more skilled foreign workers and international students to be issued a Canadian visa. The new Canadian government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has already declared an ambitious goal to approve 280,000-305,000 people for immigration to Canada during 2016, which is a significant increase in the number of people granted a Canadian visa in 2015. To read more, click here!
MORE CANADIAN VISA OFFICES WANTED IN CHINA TO PROMOTE IMMIGRATION TO CANADA
Canada’s government wants to increase the number of visa offices in China so more skilled Chinese workers can be approved for Canadian immigration. John McCallum, the Canadian Minister of Immigration, met with Chinese governmental officials during a visit to China in August 2016 and made a request to double the number of Canadian visa offices in the country. New Canadian visa offices would be opened in Chengdu, Jinan, Nanjin, Shenyang and Wuhan if the proposal is approved. In addition to authorizing more skilled Chinese workers for immigration to Canada, another reason for increasing Canadian visa offices in China is to boost the number of students from China who can study in Canada. Tourism from China is important for the Canadian economy, so increasing the number of Canadian visas for Chinese tourists is also a goal of this plan. To read the full article, click here!
CANADIANS OF UKRAINIAN HERITAGE CELEBRATE IMMIGRATION TO CANADA
On August 7, 2016, Canada’s province of Alberta launched “The Year of the Ukrainian-Canadian” to celebrate 125 years of Ukrainian immigration to Canada. Special events were held in the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village, located 50 kilometers east of Edmonton, where crowds were able to watch Ukrainian traditional folk dancers, eat ethnic Ukrainian foods and learn more about contributions Canadians of Ukrainian ancestry have made to Alberta and Canada for more than a century. Approximately 345,000 people who live in Alberta are of Ukrainian heritage and while they are proud to be Canadians, they also appreciate their Ukrainian roots and maintain their culture. To read more, click here!
MORE JOBS IN CANADA CREATED BY THE HIGH-TECH SECTOR
According to a new report, The State of Canadian Tech Sector, which was released July 25, 2016, the high-technology industry has a much larger impact on Canada’s economy than previously realized. The study was published by Ryerson University’s Brookfield Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and it discovered that 864,000 people work in Canada in the high-tech field. The report also revealed that individuals who have high-tech jobs in Canada tend to be young, university-educated and earn higher salaries than people who work in Canada in most other business sectors. Canadian employment in the high-tech industry accounts for 5.6% of all jobs in Canada, but some places have much higher concentrations of companies and employees associated with the high-technology sector. For example, high-tech workers make up 6.4% of the labor force in Quebec, 6.2% in Ontario and 4.8% in both Alberta and British Columbia. To read the full article, click here!
NEW CANADIAN IMMIGRATION PROGRAM PLANNED FOR CANADA’S ATLANTIC PROVINCES
On July 4, 2016, an announcement was made regarding a new Canadian immigration program being planned to bring more immigrants to four of Canada’s Atlantic provinces: Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.), Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland & Labrador. Plans for the three-year pilot program for immigration to Canada were discussed at a press conference after a meeting held on P.E.I. by several Canadian national and provincial leaders regarding an overall strategy being formulated to boost economic development in the region. According to John McCallum, Canada’s Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, there is a particularly strong need for immigrants to live and work in these Atlantic provinces. Canadian Immigration Minister McCallum further declared that approximately 2,000-4,000 foreign nationals may be permitted to immigrate to Canada and settle in these four Canadian provinces each year through this new program that is being created. To read more, click here!
ROYAL BANK OF CANADA ANNOUNCES 2016 “TOP 25 CANADIAN IMMIGRANT AWARDS”
The winners of the 2016 “Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards” were announced by the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) and Canadian Immigrant Magazine in ceremonies held in Toronto and Vancouver at the end of June 2016. For the past eight years, Canadians have had the opportunity to nominate people who immigrate to Canada and then go on to make a positive impact on this multicultural country. Among these 25 Canadian immigration success stories are immigrants from Bulgaria, Cameroon, China, Cuba, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Ireland, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Syria, The Philippines and Ukraine. One of the 25 Top Canadian Immigrants of 2016 is Harjit Sajjan who was born in India, approved to immigrate to Canada with his family when he was five-years-old, joined the Canadian military and was appointed as Canada’s Minister of Defence at the end of 2015. To read more about these inspiring Canadian immigration success stories, click here!
REPORT BY CANADA’S GOVERNMENT SAYS CANADIAN IMMIGRATION STRONG
According to a new report released by the Canadian government at the end of June 2016, immigration to Canada remains strong. The study, which was published by Statistics Canada, examines the history and trends in Canadian immigration for over 100 years. Among the report’s findings, researchers revealed that an average of 250,000 people immigrate to Canada each year; Canadian immigration levels fluctuate and are heavily influenced by events taking place in the world (such as economic developments); and immigration to Canada is making the country’s population more multicultural – particularly in the large cities, such as Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. In the past, most immigrants came from Europe, but now the majority of people who immigrate to Canada are arriving from Asia and Africa – a trend predicted to continue for the foreseeable future. Statistics Canada further reports that approximately 22-23% of Canada’s 36 million people are foreign-born (2016) and forecasts that immigrants will make up 26-27% of the Canadian population by 2031. To read the full article, click here!
CANADA CELEBRATES ITS DIVERSITY ON MULTICULTURAL DAY
On June 27, 2016, Canada’s diverse population celebrated Multicultural Day. Canadian politicians and others praised the country’s long history of multiculturalism and welcoming people who immigrate to Canada. For example, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared, “As Canadians, we appreciate the immense freedom we have to show pride in our individual identities and ancestries. No matter our religion, where we were born, what color our skin, or what language we speak, we are equal members of this great country.” Forty-five years ago, Canada was the world’s first country to embrace an official policy of multiculturalism. Today, approximately 21% of the 36 million people who live in Canada are foreign born, making the Canadian population the most multicultural of any country in the G-7. Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau also said, “Our national fabric is vibrant and varied, woven together by many cultures and heritages, and underlined by a core value of respect.” To read more, click here!
CANADIAN IMMIGRATION PUSHES NOVA SCOTIA’S POPULATION TO RECORD HIGH
A report released in June 2016 by Statistics Canada revealed that Canadian immigration has helped Nova Scotia’s population to soar to a record high. Between April 1, 2015, and April 1, 2016, the population of Nova Scotia increased by 4,918 people, reaching 947,284. This is the largest number of people to ever live in Canada’s province of Nova Scotia. Canadian immigration has become an important contributor to Nova Scotia’s population growth and the province’s economic well-being, especially as more older Canadian workers retire and leave the labor force. In fact, an earlier economic report released in early 2014 called for tripling the number of people approved for Canadian immigration who will settle in Nova Scotia so as to keep the province’s economy growing at a healthy pace. To read the full article, click here!
GREAT PLACES TO LIVE IN CANADA FOR 2016
For people considering Canadian immigration, finding the right place to live in Canada is one of their top priorities. Locating the perfect spot to settle down will depend on a variety of factors, such as whether a Canadian newcomer is single or married with children; how much money they have; or other personal preferences. A new report published in June 2016 ranks the best places to live in Canada for 2016 for families with children, new immigrants and other categories. Approximately 219 Canadian cities were evaluated based on such indicators as low unemployment, high income, low taxes, affordable housing, low crime and good weather. Ottawa, the Canadian national capital, was considered the top place to live in Canada in the overall rankings. To read more, click here!
TOP 10 COUNTRIES FOR IMMIGRATION TO CANADA
The Canadian population is one of the most multicultural in the world, with around 22% of the 36 million people who live in Canada foreign-born. According to data from the United Nations and the Pew Research Center, a growing number of people who immigrate to Canada were born in Asia. As of 2015, the largest number of immigrants who live in Canada were born in China (710,000), followed by India (620,000), the United Kingdom (610,000), The Philippines (550,000), United States (340,000), Italy (280,000), Hong Kong (230,000), Germany (190,000), Vietnam (180,000), and Pakistan (180,000). There are, of course, millions of immigrants who live in Canada originating from a variety of other countries around the globe. To read the full article, click here!
THE BEST JOBS IN CANADA FOR 2016
There are excellent Canadian employment opportunities available for skilled foreign workers in many high-demand jobs in Canada. Among the best jobs in Canada for 2016 are mining & forestry managers, urban planners, pharmacists, construction managers, aerospace engineers, occupational therapists, health and occupation inspectors, telecommunications managers, registered nurses, psychologists, secondary school teachers, and university professors. Many of the high-demand jobs in Canada pay very well and are also eligible for Express Entry immigration to Canada. To read more about the best jobs in Canada for 2016, click here!
CANADA CONSIDERED ONE OF THE BEST COUNTRIES FOR BUSINESS
An analysis published by KPMG on March 30, 2016, says that Canada is one of the top countries in the world for business. According to KPMG’s Competitive Alternatives report (March 2016), Canada has the 2nd lowest business costs on Earth, after #1 Mexico and ahead of #3 Netherlands, #4 Italy, #5 Australia, #6 France, #7 United Kingdom, #8 Germany, #9 Japan and #10 United States. Among the specific reasons that Canada is a great place to do business, the KMPG report revealed that Canada has the 2nd lowest labor and transportation costs, the 3rd lowest facility costs, and some of the lowest corporate income tax rates of any country. The Canadian cities of Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver were also ranked among the best cities in the world for businesses to be located. To read the full report, click here!
NEW REPORT SAYS 218,000 HIGH-TECH JOBS IN CANADA TO BE CREATED BY 2020
In March 2016, a new report declared that approximately 218,000 high-tech jobs in Canada will be created between 2016 and 2020. The rapid growth of Canada’s high-tech industry, however, has produced a Canadian technology talent shortage. A recent survey found that 53% of Canadian employers are experiencing a challenge finding enough qualified workers to fill high-tech jobs in Canada. This is creating Canadian employment opportunities for workers who have the the high-tech skills needed in Canada’s soaring technology sector. To read more, click here!
UNHCR CHIEF PRAISES CANADIAN EFFORTS TO HELP SYRIAN REFUGEES MOVE TO CANADA
On March 21, 2016, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, praised Canadian efforts to help thousands of Syrian refugees move to Canada. The UNHCR chief said that the Canadian resettlement plan, which has already brought more than 25,000 Syrian refugees to live in Canada, is a “model” that the rest of the world should learn from and try to duplicate. Canada is among a small number of countries that allows refugees to be sponsored for immigration by the government and/or by individuals. The head of the UN agency that helps refugees said that the Canadian immigration system is an effective way to quickly resettle more refugees. The Canadian government has announced its goal to approve 44,800 refugees from various countries for immigration to Canada during 2016. To read the full article, click here!
MORE IMMIGRANTS STARTING OWN BUSINESSES AND CREATING JOBS IN CANADA
A report released in March 2016 by Statistics Canada revealed that people who immigrate to Canada have a higher rate of starting their own businesses than Canadian-born individuals. According to this study, 5.3% of all people who immigrate to Canada have started their own business within nine years of becoming Canadian residents, compared to 4.8% of people born in Canada. An additional 19.6% of people who immigrate to Canada become unincorporated self-employed individuals versus 16.1 of Canadian-born people. To read more, click here!
UN RANKS CANADA #6 HAPPIEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD FOR 2016
In March 2016, the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Solutions Network released its list of the happiest countries in the world for 2016 and ranked Canada as the 6th happiest place on the planet. The UN researchers surveyed 3,000 people in each of the 157 countries evaluated and asked them to rank their lives on a scale of 0-10, with 10 being the highest happiness score and 0 the lowest rating of happiness. To read the full article, click here!
CANADA’S GOVERNMENT WANTS TO ISSUE 300,000 CANADIAN VISAS THIS YEAR
According to the new Canadian immigration plan for 2016, up to 300,000 people from around the globe will be issued a permanent resident visa to Canada this year. The 2016 goals for immigration to Canada were revealed on March 8, 2016, and authorize 160,600 Canadian visas to be granted to skilled foreign workers through economic immigrant programs; 80,000 permanent resident visas to be issued through the Family Class program; and over 60,000 refugees and others in need will receive Canadian permanent residency through Refugee and Humanitarian immigration programs. To read more, click here!
QUEBEC SEEKS MORE HIGHLY-SKILLED FOREIGN WORKERS
Leaders of Quebec want more highly-skilled foreign workers to immigrate to Canada and settle in their predominantly French-speaking Canadian province. Therefore, Quebec’s provincial officials have established a five-year Canadian immigration plan designed to attract “strategic talent” to Quebec. The “Together, We Are Quebec” program, announced on March 7, 2016, will also seek to retain international students and temporary skilled foreign workers who already live in Quebec, rather than lose them to other top immigration destinations, such as the United States. To read the full article and watch the embedded news video, click here!
CITIES IN CANADA WITH THE STRONGEST ECONOMIC GROWTH IN 2016
Vancouver’s economy is predicted to grow by a healthy 3.3 percent in 2016, according to a report published by the Conference Board of Canada on March 3, 2016. Other major Canadian cities forecast to experience strong growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) during 2016 include Halifax, Toronto, Winnipeg, Montreal and Quebec City. Thousands of new jobs in Canada are also expected to be created this year, with over 26,000 new Canadian jobs anticipated to be generated just in Vancouver. For more details, click here!
25,000 SYRIAN REFUGEES IMMIGRATE TO CANADA
On February 29, 2016, the Canadian government announced that it had reached its ambitious goal to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada by the end of February 2016. A plane carrying the 25,000th Syrian refugee to immigrate to Canada as a new Canadian permanent resident landed at the airport in Montreal on February 27, 2016. At a press conference, Canada’s Immigration Minister, John McCallum, declared, “This is a terrific day for us,” as he also encouraged Canadians to continue to welcome these new permanent residents with open arms, help them find jobs in Canada and get settled in their new country. To read more, click here!
VANCOUVER TOP CITY IN NORTH AMERICA FOR QUALITY OF LIFE
Several Canadian cities have received high marks in the 2016 Mercer Quality of Living Survey published in February 2016, with Vancouver ranked #1 in North America and #5 in the world for quality of life. Mercer researchers examined the quality of life in 230 cities around the globe and also listed Toronto 15th, Ottawa 17th, Montreal 23rd and Calgary 32nd on Earth for quality of life. To read more, click here!
THE BEST EMPLOYERS IN CANADA FOR 2016
In February 2016, Forbes released its assessment of the best employers in Canada for 2016. Over 8,000 people who work in Canada were surveyed by Forbes and Statista and asked to rate their employer on a scale of 0-10 (with 10 being the highest score) in terms of whether they would recommend that others work for their employer. Survey participants were also asked for their views concerning other companies that are in their particular business sector. Based upon the results of this research, Forbes published its 2016 list of the 250 best places to work in Canada. According to the report, there is great competition among Canadian employers to attract and retain qualified employees for various high-demand jobs in Canada. To read more, click here!
PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU CONFIDENT AND OPTIMISTIC ABOUT CANADA
On January 20, 2016, recently-elected Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland,
and expressed confidence and optimism about Canada and its future. He also discussed how diversity and the resourcefulness of
the Canadian people are a major strength for Canada. In short, Prime Minister Trudeau declared, “There has never been a better time to look
to Canada.” To read the transcript or watch the video of his Davos speech, click here!
CANADA RANKED #1 FOR QUALITY OF LIFE AND #2 BEST OVERALL COUNTRY IN THE WORLD
In a recent poll, Canada has been ranked as the #1 country in the world for quality of life. This survey of 16,000 people across the planet also
discovered that Canada is considered to be the #2 best country on Earth overall, after top-ranked Germany. To read more, click here!
IMMIGRANT IN QUEBEC HAS SPECIAL REQUEST FOR HER 120TH BIRTHDAY
If you could live to be 120 years old and could make any wish, what would you request for such a special birthday? A 119-year-old women who immigrated to Canada from Haiti and lives in Quebec would like to celebrate her 120th birthday on January 31, 2016, by visiting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. To read this full story, click here!
CHILDREN OF PEOPLE WHO IMMIGRATE TO CANADA MORE LIKELY TO GET HIGHER EDUCATION
According to research conducted by Professor Ross Finnie at the University of Ottawa, the children of people who immigrate to Canada are more likely to obtain a post-secondary education than children born of non-immigrant Canadian citizens. The main reason given is that the children of immigrants see Canada as a land of opportunity and are more motivated to acquire a higher education after high school than children born and raised in Canada from non-immigrant parents. To read more, click here!
BEST PLACES FOR THE MILLENNIAL GENERATION TO WORK IN CANADA DURING 2016
A recent study has revealed the best places to work in Canada during 2016 for young adults from the “Millennial Generation.” This information may be helpful for skilled foreign workers born between around 1980 to about 2000 (i.e., the “Millennial Generation”) who are looking for jobs in Canada. This generation of young adult workers have many opportunities for jobs in Canada, especially is they have the education, work experience and other skills needed by Canadian employers. For the full article, click here!
HARRIS POLL FINDS THAT 91% OF PEOPLE WHO IMMIGRATE TO CANADA THINK “CANADIAN DREAM” IS REALITY
A Harris poll conducted October 5-21, 2015, found that 91% of the people who immigrate to Canada believe that the “Canadian Dream” is a reality. The results of this survey of 735 foreign-born adult residents of Canada was released December 16, 2015, and it also discovered that an overwhelming majority of immigrants believe that Canada has a bright future. To read the entire article, click here!
SYRIAN REFUGEES IMMIGRATE TO CANADA AS CANADIAN PERMANENT RESIDENTS AND RECEIVE WARM WELCOME
On December 10, 2015, a plane carrying 163 Syrian refugees landed at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport to begin their lives as brand new permanent residents of Canada. They were among the first of 25,000 people who will immigrate to Canada between December 2015 and February 2016 as part of the Canadian government’s ambitious humanitarian program to resettle refugees fleeing the Syrian Civil War. These happy Canadian newcomers were greeting by a large crowd of well-wishers that included Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. To read more, click here!
VANCOUVER, TORONTO AND CALGARY AMONG TOP FIVE MOST LIVABLE CITIES IN THE WORLD!
In its annual evaluation of 140 major cities around the globe, researchers with the London-based Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) considered Vancouver, Toronto and Calgary to be among the world’s top five most livable cities for 2015. The Economist ranked Vancouver #3, Toronto #4 and Calgary tied with the Australian city of Adelaide for 5th place for quality of life. To read more, click here! | <urn:uuid:20c8c08e-c70d-4c18-bcf1-fde69b533d3a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.becomeacanadian.org/immigration-news/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00439-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960536 | 7,609 | 1.773438 | 2 |
The Greatest Story Ever Told as a stop motion animated film aimed at kids? What, did Rankin and Bass suddenly get religion? Seriously, it seems odd that two items that you won't normally associate as successfully comingling would attempt to come together to retell the tale of the Bible's most famous face. Yet that's exactly what happened when a group of likeminded British and Russian filmmakers got together to tell the story of Jesus' Passion, crucifixion, and resurrection. The results, five years in the painstaking making, are called The Miracle Maker, and it has to be said that this is one unusual piece of theology. The art and its realization are amazing. The story, sadly, fails to fully live up to the ingenuity of the approach (and, YES, we know we are talking about Christ's last days on Earth). The result is an uneven effort which often dazzles and occasionally underperforms.
We all know the story of how Jesus came to be crucified. Held up as the Son of God and considered the King of Kings by his followers, an angry Rome (and an equally irate Jewish leadership) wanted the simple carpenter punished for such blasphemy. Bribing one of his 12 disciples, Judas, Jesus is outed, beaten, and nailed to a cross. Left for dead, he is buried only to rise after three days. The miracle of his resurrection has long been considered an act of grace so important as to wipe away the sins of Man. Here, we see this entire plotline played out through the tender eyes of Tamar, the daughter of Jarius from the Book of Luke. After witnessing first hand Jesus' miracle working capability, she follows the leader as he earns admirers and enemies.
The Miracle Maker is an interesting approach to the story of Jesus. It wants to be matter of fact, portraying the Son of God as an ordinary man given over to extraordinary circumstances. It also wants to paint him as an amazing Messiah capable of all manner of astonishing feats. It takes a child's perspective while still mimicking much of the actual Gospels. Jesus' Passion is also present, though obviously not as graphic as Mel Gibson's fierce fundamentalist screed, and the entire experience is one of solemnity and seriousness. So there has to be something that differentiates it from all the other Savior stories - and in this case, it's animation. The use of 3D stop motion is excellent, bringing a real "nativity scene come to life" ideal to the proceedings. We get caught up in the invention, letting the novelty fill in the necessary narrative and nuance blanks. By the end, we really are involved in the storyline, sympathize with this carpenter turned scapegoat turned religious cornerstone, and wonder at why more movies don't emply this kind of approach as means of making the old fashioned feel fresh and new.
This doesn't mean that the movie is without flaws, however. The "child's perspective" does dumb things down a little bit, making Jesus less complicated than he probably was. Indeed, we recognize the approach as something of a sales point, and bristle at its intent. Then there is the mixture of 2D pen and ink sequences to accent the 3D models. It works, but it is a bit weird at first. It's very reminiscent of those moments where, due to budgetary reasons, Rankin and Bass would supplement their storylines with cartoon songs and montages. Finally, there is the voice acting. Ralph Fiennes is given the task of bringing Christ to life and he does so with a stilted mannerism that smacks of staying sacred. Jesus doesn't sound like a man as much as a animatronic at a religious revival. It's a powerful performance, but it's also arch and mildly melodramatic. Similarly, other actors such as Miranda Richardson and Richard E. Grant bring a level of theatricality that the limited facial articulation of the characters can't emulate.
But it is familiarity that undoes some of The Miracle Maker. While we are marveling at the skilled stop motion work (again done by a combination of British and Russian animators), we know exactly where this story is going. At least Mel Gibson surprised us with his gore-laden judgments of Jesus. Here, it's matter of fact and to the point. Jesus raises the dead. Jesus gathers his disciples. Jesus is called the King of Kings. Jesus is condemned, betrayed, tortured, and crucified. Now, no one is dare suggesting that the story be changed. That's blasphemy. But because there was so much attention paid to the approach, the narrative elements of The Miracle Maker suffer. Yes, it looks great. No, it doesn't leave more than the same of New Testament taste in one's mouth. Still, there is a nice cinematic quality to the piece, a scope and an epic feel that most big budget Hollywood extravaganza strive for and rarely achieve. Here, without the stunt casting and backlot feel, the story of Christ can unfold. That it doesn't wholly engage is matter of the making, not the material.
Since there are two different types of animation involved here, it's important to point out the strengths and weaknesses in the HD presentation of both. As for the cell work, it's clean and crisp, the 1080p AVC encoded 1.78:1 widescreen offering doing an excellent job in accentuating its artistry. Similarly, the stop motion material is bright and color, giving a nice cinematic effect in both look and feel. There are moments of drag here, as if the print can't keep up with the camera, but these are minor. Similarly, the added detail makes the figures look a little more fake than in their regular digital dynamic. You can occasionally see the hand-manipulation marks in the background and backdrop. Other than that, this is an excellent looking film given a nice format upgrade.
Unlike many Blu-ray mixes which offer immersion but fail to fully deliver, the lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track here is terrific. Voices are easy to understand while other sound elements and F/X fill in around us. We actually get the experience at being in those scenes where Jesus is mobbed by his followers. The musical score is also very good, classical without being bombastic. It can be very moving at times (of note is the fact that the composer, Anne Dudley, was actually a member of the '80s electronica act The Art of Noise. Interesting).
Aside from a DVD version of the film (which contains two Jesus-based 'games' - yes, you read that right), we get the standard Blu-ray content: a commentary with the filmmakers, a storyboard to film comparison, a nice Making-of documentary, and a collection of trailers. All add insight into the production, as well as the desire to be as "realistic" as possible with the character modeling and movement.
The story of Jesus has been told umpteen times, from serious (the silent King of Kings) to the insane (Paul Verhoeven swears that RoboCop is a veiled Christ allegory. Right). The Miracle Maker falls somewhere in the middle, mimicking the allure of '60s and '70s stop motion animation with the sacred nature of the subject matter. Since the artistry wins us over, we forgive the redundant nature of the narrative. Easily earning a Recommended rating, this is the perfect Easter Basket stuffer. It's far healthier than sugary candy treats and, as usual, reminds those outside the bunny loop the true reason for the season. | <urn:uuid:d22a158d-f7c8-48f7-b493-e7250bd0f404> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/print.php?ID=47248 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281151.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00113-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965613 | 1,557 | 1.890625 | 2 |
Preterm birth still causes significant mortality and morbidity in newborns, despite modern advancements in preterm care. The gut microbiota is the most significant microbial colonization in the human body and plays a significant role in supporting a healthy body. Preterm infants are susceptible to gut dysbiosis, which is thought to contribute to the many adverse outcomes of prematurity, such as necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), late-onset sepsis (LOS), and developmental delays. Human breast milk is considered the ideal nutrition source for newborns and can help create ideal microbiota in preterm infants. Breast milk contains human milk oligosaccharides (HMO), prebiotics that promote beneficial bacteria growth, absent in cow’s milk. Supplementation of non-milk oligosaccharides such as long-chain fructo-oligosaccharides (lcFOS) and small-chain galacto-oligosaccharides (scGOS) in formula milk for preterm infants is found to be beneficial with a favourable safety profile. This review discusses gut microbiota in preterm neonates, its role in developing immune systems, growth and development, and the benefits of prebiotic supplementation.
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With a record applicant pool of 27,462, the Class of 2012 will enter Harvard College through the most competitive admissions process in its history. “Members of the Class of 2012 experienced a year of dramatic changes in admission and financial aid policies nationwide that will reshape college access and affordability for many years to come,” said William R. Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions and financial aid.
When Harvard and then Princeton and the University of Virginia eliminated their early admission programs, there was much speculation throughout higher education about what this would mean for selective college admissions. “These three institutions made the change to help level the playing field for students needing financial aid and to reduce the frenzy early admission programs create for all students. These programs can distort the secondary school experience during the junior and senior years and lead to premature college choices,” said Fitzsimmons.
Building on an earlier initiative to help students from low- and moderate-income backgrounds, Harvard announced in December sweeping changes in its financial aid program designed to make college more affordable for middle- and upper-middle-income families who were being squeezed out of higher education. The new Harvard Financial Aid Initiative has three components:
• The “Zero to Ten Percent Standard” by which families with incomes up to $60,000 will not be asked to contribute to college costs; families with incomes from $60,000 to $120,000 will pay on a sliding scale up to 10 percent; and families with incomes of $120,000 to $180,000 will be asked to pay on average 10 percent of their incomes. (As in the past, some families with incomes above $180,000 and even $200,000 will receive need-based grants if they have unusual expenses.)
• Students will no longer need to take out loans, allowing them to pursue graduate and career plans unencumbered by debt.
• Home equity will no longer be used in financial aid calculations.
In the wake of such changes, many colleges responded with a wide array of new financial aid programs of their own. “Harvard’s Financial Aid Office was open 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. weekdays during the month of April to help families sort through a sometimes bewildering assortment of need-based financial aid offers and merit awards,” said Sally Clark Donahue, director of financial aid. “Students and their families benefited greatly from the changes made at Harvard and elsewhere. We hope students currently enrolled in middle schools and high schools will be encouraged to seek a college education now that financial aid is more readily available than in the past,” she said.
With so many unprecedented changes in admissions and financial aid policies, it is very difficult for any given institution to predict its yield — the percentage of admitted students who end up accepting offers of admission. As a result of the uncertainty, many colleges, including Harvard, took slightly fewer students in April, planning to take significant numbers of students from the waiting list.
Harvard was also more cautious than usual, because the undergraduate Houses are at capacity and have no room to accommodate extra students. Current residential space constraints have been a particularly important factor in this year’s enrollment planning. Earlier, the College made the decision to suspend transfer admissions for two years. “So we took a conservative approach and admitted 110 fewer students in April,” said Fitzsimmons. “We wanted to ensure that we continued meeting our allotted target for freshman admissions as we have for several decades.
“It now appears that we will be able to admit more than 200 students from the waiting list,” said Fitzsimmons. Added Marlyn E. McGrath, director of admissions, “We have many outstanding students on the waiting list, and we are delighted that we will be able to respond positively to them.”
Currently the yield is expected to be approximately 76 percent, compared with 78 percent last year (about the average for the past decade) and 74 percent for the decade before. “We are extremely pleased with this result, especially given the unusual nature of this admission year,” said McGrath. Added Fitzsimmons, “We had modeled the effect of eliminating early admission to cost between three and seven points on the yield. We will spend a good deal of time over the summer analyzing this very positive result in the first year without early admission.”
Because so many students are yet to be admitted, it is too early to report with precision the shape of the Class of 2012. About 59 percent of the Class has so far received financial aid, compared with 49 percent at the same time last year, suggesting that the Class of 2012 could become the most economically diverse in Harvard history. The gender and ethnic breakdowns are quite similar to last year’s, as are intended fields of concentration.
Harvard’s April Visiting Program, directed by admissions officer Erin F. Fehn, once again proved why it has set the standard for such programs. Members of the faculty, administrators, and current undergraduates made the weekend a great success, and they also fielded many questions in person, on the telephone, and via e-mail during the month of April. Undergraduates — through the Undergraduate Admissions Council, the Undergraduate Minority Recruiting Program, and the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative — telephoned and e-mailed admitted students and hosted students in Cambridge. Members of the admissions staff, including David L. Evans, director of the Undergraduate Admissions Council, Roger Banks, director of recruitment, and Melanie Brennand Mueller, director of the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative, ensured that admitted students had the opportunity to learn more about Harvard before making their final college choices. Alumni/ae hosted numerous “admit parties” and telephoned admitted students in their local areas, making a critical difference in Harvard’s efforts to enroll the nation’s and the world’s finest students.
“We have already begun waiting list deliberations, having scheduled a series of meetings in anticipation of drawing extensively from the waiting list this year,” said Fitzsimmons. “We will make a large number of decisions before the end of May and will conclude the meetings at the end of June,” he said.
Recruiting for next year’s Class of 2013 has already begun. Before May is over, Harvard will have visited more than 60 cities in conjunction with four other colleges. Thousands of letters will be sent to prospective applicants as well. “Our outreach efforts never cease, including group information sessions and tours right here in Cambridge, even as we meet to conclude admission for the Class of 2012,” said McGrath. | <urn:uuid:6c45c5a0-3df3-4f29-9851-4b5fe37292b2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2008/05/unusual-year-yields-positive-results-for-class-of-2012/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.969536 | 1,381 | 1.765625 | 2 |
TOKYO, Feb. 29 (Kyodo) — The Japan Dairy Industry Association said Wednesday its 116 member companies have detected no radioactive cesium in their 131 milk products in their tests following the March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant accident.
"The safety has been confirmed," it said. "We would like consumers to feel safe to drink milk."
The companies, including such large ones as Meiji Co. and Morinaga Milk Industry Co., tested their milk products at their 124 factories in January and February before the government lowers the allowable cesium level for milk to 50 becquerels per kilogram in April.
No product showed levels above the minimum measurable level of 10 becquerels per kilogram.
The association voluntarily took the lead in conducting the tests in response to consumers' requests for detailed tests, although local governments have regularly tested raw milk.
TEAM Nihonmatsu, a nonprofit organization that independently conducts safety tests on food products, said it detected a maximum cesium level of 14 becquerels per kilogram in a milk product. It plans to maintain surveillance on possible radioactive contamination of food products. | <urn:uuid:9431015c-5a7b-4418-bb3b-266d33340ff4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.foodmanufacturing.com/news/2012/02/no-radiation-detected-japanese-milk | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00203-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95096 | 236 | 2.171875 | 2 |
The mission of the Public Health Program is to provide quality education and leadership in community-based research and practice. Through collaborative efforts with communities, the Program promotes health and seeks to prevent disease and disability, with special emphasis on the underserved and at-risk populations of Mississippi, the nation, and the world.
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Three values drive the School of Health Sciences and the Public Health Program: Quality, collaboration, and social justice. Administrators, faculty, and staff are committed to excellence; collaborate with others, including external communities; and work for fairness and equity for all persons and communities. These carefully articulated values are identified in the Program’s mission statement, goals, and objectives. One of the University’s six core values—accountability–underscores quality and stresses “excellence in scholarly activities.” | <urn:uuid:5f89756f-d230-4c62-b908-360556884f90> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.jsums.edu/health/public-health-program/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281424.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00328-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9258 | 377 | 2.203125 | 2 |
As Noah heads towards theatrical release March 28, religious groups along with entire countries, including Turkey, have objected to filmmaker Darren Aronofsky’s re-envisioning of the world’s most famous flood. But a companion art show, pegged to Paramount Pictures’ $130 million spectacle, celebrates the notion that an event of biblical proportions can inspire multiple variations on a single Old Testament theme.
Fountains of The Deep: Visions of Noah and the Flood, curated by Aronofsky, features paintings, drawings, photographs, and sculptures that filter the ancient catastrophe through the sensibilities of 50 contemporary artists.
Contributors include painter Asad Faulwell, who offered a portrait of a weary post-flood Noah after being invited by Aronofsky via email to take part in the show. “All Darren asked was that we go back and read the story of Noah,” Faulwell recalls. “He was open to any interpretation we had to offer, which is why I think there is such aesthetic diversity in the show.”
Artist Patrick McNeil produced the exhibition’s quilt-inspired Never Before, Never Again collage with Patrick Miller, his Brooklyn-based Faile partner. He observes, “If you think about it on a deeper level, the Bible itself is an interpretation, right? These are not first-hand stories where somebody’s saying ‘I was on the boat and here’s what happened.'”
When Faile started researching Noah’s Ark, McNeil says, “We learned the boat itself is described in different ways. Some people describe it as a round boat, shaped like a disc. Some describe the boat as a box. There’s all sorts of interpretations. I’ve noticed that religious groups say (about the movie) ‘That’s not an accurate description of what happened,’ but who’s to say what’s really accurate?”
In its homage to Noah, the Faile duo conceptualized a two-panel diptych to “incorporate the idea of ‘two by two,'” explains McNeil. “We also took the idea of Noah being a carpenter and decided to use wood material in the piece .”
McNeil pulled from previous work to update what he sees as an underlying theme in the Noah’s Ark story. “There’s an image in the piece of a guy who’s crouched over as if he lost something. That was done during the financial collapse of 2008. It’s about people who place a value on what they’re worth through how many possessions they have. I think the story of Noah has to do with God coming down because of greed and people fighting and all these kinds of things.”
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Not a question, but a comment on the meaning of the phrase "the whole ball of wax". I didn't see this option mentioned on your site. Can't remember where, but I heard it explained this way. Years ago, bookbinders would use gold leaf to stamp the titles into their leather bound books. Being precious, every tiny flake that fell to the worktable was collected by pressing the pieces with a ball of soft wax. When enough had been collected, the wax was melted down and the gold recovered, unless some less than trustworthy apprentice absconded with... "the whole ball of wax." | <urn:uuid:b6175558-eef2-4159-8589-4b2b24f3b389> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/62/messages/4.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00201-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974814 | 125 | 1.992188 | 2 |
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Welcome back for another round up for The Environment This Month. And here comes May fit with an El Niño cool spring. The leaves are out. The flowers are blooming. It’s raining a ton here. Not only does this weather pattern continue to cause greater numbers of insects, predatory kinds included, to bloom along with the flowers, but it totally wacks out the cycle of everything. And, the ice just keeps melting…
Cracking the spine on this edition of the environment round up, I was hit with something that is really quite tragic. The loss of habitat is being felt worldwide by all kinds of species, our own included. We simply don’t have the space to sustain the human population as is, let alone a healthy ecosystem with all of its parts (plants, animals, etc.). We’re drowning in our own filth and making a general mess of things with the help of easy tech (including the computer I am typing this up on. #irony).
Let’s get started with the first article. I’m hoping May won’t bring us to tears by the end of this…
A leopard pauses in Pilanesberg National Park, South Africa, deciding between pursuing impala or warthog. Credit: Rebecca Schoonover
Well that hope about not ending up weeping by the end of this is already threatened. This next post will have your heart in your mouth, as it should. If the Rainforests of South America aren’t protected, we will be in a lot of trouble.
Constitutional amendment would abolish current federal requirements for environmental assessments of public works projects, such as Amazon dams.
Of course, you had to know that poorer countries were going to suffer the worst of all. It’s just economics, and it’s why the wealthier nations are actually despised. You see, we take advantage of them, sending our refuse, and using their resources at great cost to them. They see little profit from the abuse—well, the people don’t, but the oligarchy or dictators do.
Pollution has increased by 8 percent in urban areas, the global health agency said.
WHO: Global air pollution is worsening, and poor countries are being hit the hardest – The Washington Post
Did you know that China stands to outpace the USA for environmental advances and cleanup? Yeah. They do. The USA is no longer the top dawg. Innovation has ground to a halt along with wages and the former Middle Class.
China imposed stiffer punishments on companies that violated environmental laws last year, according to new research that illustrates Beijing’s growing resolve to push through aspects of a greener social agenda. The research, conducted by financial
While we’re talking about competing powers, let’s examine the long contested science behind farming, which is more environmentally friendly. Here’s a hint, they both have their issues.
Economists are working on ways to put a price on the environmental damage of growing food. Take sugar: Half of what we eat comes from beets, half from cane. Each has an impact, in very different ways.
I just don’t know what to say anymore about this, other than time is running out to take it seriously…
More than half of beekeepers suffered unsustainable losses, with deadly mite infestations and harmful land management practices piling on pressure
28% of US bees wiped out this winter, suggesting bigger environmental issues | Environment | The Guardian
Now that I’ve talked about bees as an indication of our environmental woes, did you know there are other animals we can look to to tell us how we’re doing? Check out these little guys…
A migratory bird has shrunk in stature as temperatures warm in its Arctic breeding ground, according to research.
The transfer of disease from animal to man and vice versa is an age old concern, considering we’ve husbanded animals for several millennia. Milkmaids, Herders and even dog people can catch and pass things from the animals they live with. In recent times, our population has reached a tipping point and with it, so has the animal populations of which we rely on. There is no room and therefore the filth created in the mix and the interactions increase…
The rise in diseases transmitted from animals to humans has become a worrying environmental threat to the world.
Corporations like Nestlé are rather concerned over this increasing issue to the point they are trying to convince people that water is not a right. When they’re trying to protect their bottom line, you can bet that their lawyers will win that battle, simply from having enough capital to do so. Find out more about this threat, which can will affect the entire world with starvation and hardship.
“The kinds of problems are recognizable, they’re just happening much more frequently,” said the United Nations environment program’s chief scientist.
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Eighteen gomphocerine genera are redefined or described and Leva I. Bolivar 1909 gen. res. and Stenohippus Uvarov 1926 given full revisionary treatment. Luenia Uvarov 1953 and Aulacobothrus I. Bolivar 1902 are restored from synonymy under Dnopherula. Three genera are newly synonymised-Milleriola Uvarov 1953. Syn. n. and Afrohippus Uvarov 1941. Syn. n. under Rhaphotittha Karsch 1896, Bodenheimerella Uvarov 1933. Syn. n. under Leva Bolivar 1909. Three genera are restored from synonymy and reviewed-Berengueria I. Bolivar 1909, Leva Bolivar 1909 and Pseudoarcyptera Bolivar 1909. Seven genera are described as new-Crucinotacris, Pseudoberengeuria, Melinohippus, Leionotacris, Megafrohippus, Minihippus, and Neoleva. The important genera Eleutherotheca, Faureia, Luenia, Pseudogmothela, Ramburiella and Kraussella are not given full redefinition or review because no taxonomic changes are intended at present. They have, however, been included in the key to genera.
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Relationship of trauma memories to other PTSD symptoms offers early intervention potential.
Advanced neuroimaging can more accurately diagnose traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder than CT or MRI.
The dimensional brain-behavioral associations could potentially serve as an imaging marker to index inter-individual differences in treatment responses.
This suggests that stratified diagnosis and treatment for PTSD patients are necessary in clinics.
The treatment improved electrophysiological measures of autonomic nervous system state and emotionally-modulated startle response.
Researchers used MRI to detect variations in neural connections among earthquake survivors.
New study highlights the importance of re-experiencing symptoms, a major component of PTSD, in predicting cognitive impairment.
Veterans remain understudied in the field of eating disorders, possibly due to the misperception that men are not affected by them.
As the Congress, VA, CDC and the Obama Administration address the issue, recent neuroimaging studies point to effective diagnostic tools available for PTSD and TBI — two common conditions among suicide victims.
Nicola Davies, PhD, suggests that a great deal of research is still required, but apps are certainly showing great promise as a means of enhancing treatment outcomes when used as an adjunct to therapy and medication.
Involvement of Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Fear Memory Overgeneralization Following Exposure to Traumatic Stress
Extreme trauma affects FKBP5 methylation in survivors of the Holocaust as well as in their offspring.
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MAKING. FOR. STUDENT. SUCCESS. “Using clear explanations and numerous examples, the authors present an array of innovative practices shown to improve the educational outcomes for students. Drawing from research in multiple fields, ...
Author: Benjamin L. Castleman
Each year, many students with affordable college options and the academic skills needed to succeed do not enroll at all, enroll at institutions where they are not well-positioned for success, or drop out of college before earning a credential. Efforts to address these challenges have included changes in financial aid policy, increased availability of information, and enhanced academic support. This volume argues that the efficacy of these strategies can be improved by taking account of contemporary research on how students make choices. In Decision Making for Student Success, scholars from the fields of behavioral economics, education, and public policy explore contemporary research on decision-making and highlight behavioral insights that can improve postsecondary access and success. This exciting volume will provide scholars, researchers, and higher education administrators with valuable perspectives and low-cost strategies that they can employ to improve outcomes for underserved populations.
Effective JDM seems to be essential to the excellence evident in highly successful sport organizations (BarEli, ... The process of decision making – considered to be a key element in the life of any organization since the very beginning ...
Author: Michael Bar-Eli
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Category: Sports & Recreation
Judgment, Decision-Making and Success in Sport presents a thorough overview and assessment of the study of Judgment and Decision-Making (JDM) in sports psychology, and represents an important source of information for those interested in the possible causes and reasons for success and failure in sport. The only book to apply the principles of JDM to sport Applies theory to practice by looking at problems of athletes, coaches, and referees and providing recommendations for dealing with them Offers an overview of current JDM research Useful for psychologists, physical education teachers, sports scientists, and researchers in this field
Nothing makes you a more successful, effective teacher than having your students succeed. One of the best esteem builders that students can have is the knowledge that their teacher wants to help them succeed. The teacher's attitude can ...
Author: Robert L. Wyatt
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
You’ve completed the course work, student teaching, and interviewing. The job is yours. Now what? The first weeks and months of a new teaching position can be the most demanding of your entire career. In this new edition of their bestseller, veteran educators Robert L. Wyatt III and J. Elaine White share a combined 50 years of teaching experience as well as insight and advice from hundreds of teachers in the field they have personally trained. Comprehensive yet concise, Making Your First Year a Success is expressly tailored to assist secondary teachers. Updated topics in this thoroughly revised second edition include:? Integrating technology into classroom activities? Connecting lesson planning and standards? Incorporating differentiation into the secondary classroom? Dealing with stress and nurturing yourself emotionally and physicallyWhether starting fresh with your first group of students or revitalizing your commitment to the profession you entered many years ago, this handbook will easily become the well-worn reference you turn to again and again for quick tips, practical applications, and words of encouragement.
God only makes sense to those who study His words. ... He makes the wind blow around before the weatherman tells you. God told us the wind goes to and fro. You can't see it, ... Another approach in 15 Making Success of Our Christian Life.
Author: Sylvester McKinnon
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Making Success of Our Christian Life By: Sylvester McKinnon ISBN: 978‐1‐6386‐7834‐2 eISBN: 978‐1‐6386‐7779‐6
Therefore, I would say that there is a strong possibility that the most successful and profitable organizations in the world also have the happiest employees. The common denominator? Money. So does money make one happy? Yes.
Author: Mary Colak
Publisher: Discourse Books
Category: Business & Economics
This book is a collection of my favorite essays about money-related topics. It will give you a new perspective on profit and prosperity. Perhaps it will encourage you to work harder and make more money. Or maybe it will do the opposite. Either way, the book reflects my experiences in the consulting world and is the first book in my “Beyond Success” series, providing information about different facets of success and money. However, the book is about more than money. It covers productivity, organizational waste, customer relationships, staff motivation, and more, and how all these elements combine in making money. This book may not change your life, but it will make you think about money in ways you probably never thought of before. If you’re a business owner, this book of ideas that never grow old will help you think about ways to revitalize your business for more profit. If you’re not a business owner, this book will help you consider how and where you spend your money and whether your spending should change. Considerations in Making Money provides insights that can help you create an extraordinary approach to money. “High praise for Mary’s first book. Her writing is clear, direct, and informative, with just the right touch of playfulness to make even the hardened reader smile. You’ll find topics here that you may not have ever considered concerning money.” — Dr. Marina Uzelac, Chiropractor, Wholistic Chiropractic & Wellness
answer is " No," then it is not likely that you will go far on the road to Happiness, although you may do so on the road to Success. Friendship makes Success easier and Happiness certain. It is not taught in any college nor in any ...
Author: Herbert N. Casson
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Category: Business & Economics
A disliked man does not go very far. He generally leaves the neighborhood. Now and then, a genius, like Galileo or Whistler, may walk on a lonely path from choice, or from the compulsion of the creative spirit within him; but few of us need to follow such examples. -from "Think More of People and Less of Things" Do your job a little better than expected. Learn all you can from those above you. Waste no time on little things. Back yourself to win. The business advice in this handy little book, first published in 1926, are the bricks that build solid foundations for success, but they're ones that far too many who strive for success forget along the way. Casson, a business journalist, knows wherefrom he speaks: he met and interviewed many of the biggest successes of the early 20th century, and the knowledge and wisdom he gleaned from those meetings is still pertinent today. Also available from Cosimo Classics: Casson's Creative Thinkers. Canadian journalist HERBERT NEWTON CASSON (1869-1951) contributed to numerous New York and London publications, writing mostly about business and technology. He is also the author of The Romance of Steel: The Story of a Thousand Millionaires (1907) and The History of the Telephone (1910).
It makes sense that only one of our degrees of any distinction could happen. “Success” and “Failure” are also collectively exhaustive, meaning that there are no additional possibilities. Because “Success” and “Failure” are mutually ...
Author: Robert A. Powell PhD
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Category: Business & Economics
Make Better Decisions While Managing Projects! Decision-making is critical in project management. Lack of decision-making knowledge, avoidable mistakes, and improper definitions can negatively impact your company's ability to generate profit. The Project Manager's Guide to Making Successful Decisions is a practical handbook that focuses on the significance of project decision-making skills that will all you to reach workable and effective results. This valuable resource highlights numerous decisions necessary to support the project management life cycle, presents various techniques that facilitate the decision-making process, provides an overview of decision analysis as it relates to project management, and much more! + Understand different types of decision-making processes and cycles + Recognize how to frame the decision and gather better information + Define alternatives and assessments to make the right decision + Analyze short case studies demonstrating project decision making success
Those who consider their own goals to be the only correct ones are making the claim that they are in possession of ... It is frequently argued that in practice it is eventual success or failure which retrospectively determines what a ...
Author: Rudolf Grünig
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Category: Business & Economics
Unlike other publications on decision making, the book focuses on discovering the problem, analyzing it and on developing and assessing solution options. One whole chapter describes a case study. It illustrates how the proposed decision making procedure is used in practice. Executives get an approach to systematically and successfully solving complex problems.
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Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
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Publisher: Hachette UK
'Take on January with new-found serenity with this series of self-help books' Stylist Find success in both your professional and your personal life. Success means different things to different people, yet there are essential key skills and knowledge that will help you to achieve your goals, whatever they are - be it progressing in your career, getting a pay rise, setting up your own business or negotiating Christmas dinner arrangements with your in-laws. This Book Will Make You Successful is a straight-talking and practical guide to getting what you want out of life. Using extensive research, plus interviews with professionals across all fields of expertise, Jo Usmar delivers strategies for becoming successful in both your work and your day-to-day life. This little book covers everything from networking, conflict resolution, stress management, productivity and being more persuasive, to not feeling like a fraud and moving on from setbacks. Prepare to feel both motivated and motivational, confident, productive and courageous. So many other books on 'success' confine themselves to target-hitting and positive thinking. This is broader, hugely useful, and entertaining to read. Chapters include: goal-setting exercises, anti-procrastination techniques, stress management, persuasion strategies, negotiation tips, mistake management, productivity tools, creativity boosters, work-life balance, managing difficult conversations (and difficult people). Praise for the This Book Will series: 'Top tips for making your life loads better.' Cosmo 'The answer to all my problems.' Katie Piper
Pride because of the success of children. Pride because of financial wealth. ... Pride because of husband's success. Pride because of husband's position ... A capacity to make promises thoughtlessly. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87.
Author: Zacharias Tanee Fomum
Publisher: ZTF Books Online
What is a successful marriage? How do you get to a successful marriage? What's the role of the wife in ensuring a successful marriage? These questions are, among others, current and recurring questions to which Z.T. Fomum provides answers, based on the Word of God and on his long experience in marriage. Since it was sin that disturbed the first union between Adam and Eve, you should know that the health of a marriage depends on the place that God occupies in that marriage, from the very beginning. It also depends on the wife’s ability to take on the character of Christ, so as to restore the sovereignty of God in the union where man is honoured as the earthly husband. The wife can therefore orchestrate a happy marriage, provided that her heart is free from all forms of idols. Filled with the Holy Spirit, the woman subject to God will be the anchor of a successful marriage on earth. Women are not asked to submit because they are secondary beings. No! They submit because that's their responsibility, and God says so. That's what stabilises the marriage and propels it to success. This book is simply good and true. It is recommended to everyone before and after the marriage celebration.
MEASURING SUCCESS We can guide our children, but ultimately they make their own decisions. One day Joan realized something we all realize about our children that is particularly important in the context of an interfaith marriage.
Author: Kerry M. Olitzky
Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing
Category: Family & Relationships
An interfaith couple will have to confront tough questions, yet sometimes family, friends, clergy or counselors are unable or unwilling to help. From a Jewish perspective, this book offers support and guidance for all stages of an interfaith relationship.
The rules are simple, and they will not only be a road map to make your dreams your reality but will be most helpful when there are challenges or obstacles that are in your way and make life difficult. The principles of inner success ...
Author: Dr. Gene Orlowsky
Are you stuck in the doldrums of life? Do you have the job you want? Do you have the relationships you want? Are you achieving all you deserve in life? Are you happy where you are right now or just living in a comfort zone? Success, health, and happiness can be yours. And it’s easier than you think! Dr. Gene Orlowsky will share with you ten life-changing principles of inner success. He will show you how to change your outer world by mastering your inner environment. By teaching you how to monitor your thoughts, actions, and feelings, you can as an individual change your outer world by simply changing your inner world. Learn how to overcome the two most common roadblocks to success, your limiting beliefs and the failure to take action. Learn simple problem-solving techniques to break through the challenges and barriers to your own personal success. Learn how to motivate yourself to set in motion a chain reaction that will change your attraction value and allow you to attract the naturally right persons, places, situations and things into you beginning immediately.
So is the damsel who makes a practice of undermining by carefully selected gossip the futures of her rival ... The chapters that follow are designed to show you how easy it is to be a successful businesswoman without becoming a Harriet.
The intent of this volume is not to specify a formula for success; this volume does not contain policy prescriptions. Rather, the objective is to provide a resource for decision making. Education is highly value-laden.
Publisher: OECD Publishing
This fourth volume of PISA 2012 results examines how student performance is associated with various characteristics of individual schools and school systems.
Decision-making in the 'real world' is difficult and professional practice makes many cognitive demands of those who provide counselling ... for success (to the best of our knowledge there is no verified formula across all contexts).
Author: Lane, David
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Drawing on both the existing literature and a range of practical exercises, Making Successful Decisions in Counselling and Psychotherapy provides invaluable guidance on how to tackle the task of decision-making in 'real world' counselling and psychotherapeutic settings in order to develop a systematic, effective and creative approach.
This is a necessary precursor to the process of making your business so well known in the locality that it ... Thus, by associating your company with your personal standing and success you can greatly assist the growth of your business.
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Category: Business & Economics
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Of Heaven & Earth: 500 Years of Italian Painting from Glasgow Museums
This catalogue looks at 41 of the key paintings in Glasgow’s Italian art collection, which is one of the finest in Northern Europe. It developed thanks to the generosity of the great industrial and mercantile wealth that Glasgow enjoyed as the Second City of the British Empire.
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Highlights from Glasgow’s British, Italian, Dutch and Flemish and Decorative Art collections.
2004; paperback; 210 x 250mm; 88pp; ISBN 978 1 857593 181; £7.95
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Millet to Matisse: 19th- and 20th-century French painting from Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow
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The answer to this question will depend entirely on your opinion and what you feel is the book's true message. After going through a severe ordeal, being ridiculed, harassed, isolated, and finally beaten, Jerry has proven something about himself and he has had something proven to him as well.
In his last appearance in the book, Jerry attempts to tell Goober to follow along.
When The Goober leans over him, Jerry wants to tell him to play ball, to play by the rules, and not to go out on a limb, not to try and disturb the universe. But Jerry cannot speak.
Having learned the potential price for stubborn individuality, Jerry wants to tell Goober:
"They tell you to do your thing, but they don't mean it. They don't want you to do your thing, not unless it's their thing too."
If you feel that Jerry is justified in advising Goober to fit in and to try not to stand out, then you will agree with Jerry's idea that Goober should play football. That is what is expected of him.
If you feel that Jerry is upset when he conceives of this advice and that it goes against the message of the book, then you will not agree that Goober should follow along. If the book's message is related to ideas of personal strength and positive notions of independence and individuality, Jerry's advice serves as a counterpoint to the novel.
One of the most interesting things about this book is the passage in question here. After so much investment and sacrifice made for the cause of standing up for himself, Jerry expresses the idea that the outcome was not worth the effort; not worth the cost.
Yet, a great majority of the novel seems to side with the validity of Jerry's enterprise. He is, after all, the hero. Though he does not win the fight, he is not beaten into agreement or submission to the will of others. He succeeds beyond everyone's expectations.
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In a school district like the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) with a combined Latino and Black student population of close to 90%, several important questions were brought up when we met last Friday, April 22nd to explore whether Latino and Black students and parents would support a boycott of the school district in an attempt to finally hold corrupt and self-serving LAUSD administration and the politicians and corporate interests that keep them in power accountable to this majority constituency.
One of those who attended the meeting said that he didn't think Latino and Black parents would support a boycott, because they want their children in school learning.
With somewhere around 50% of students quitting school between the 9th and the 12th grade, it is clear that students might presently be in school, but they are definitely not learning under the present system that moves them from grade to grade without ever assuring that they have mastered even basic skills in English, math, and the other courses they need foundational skills in, if they are to have any chance at higher education or the work force.
With no reality to justify it, LAUSD rhetoric constantly talks about "All students going to college," when the reality is that 60% of the students arriving at Los Angeles City College have to do remediation, before they are capable of taking a college level course -- many of these students quit in frustration, because the school district has left them unnecessarily so far behind where they should be. As for the graduation rate of Black students from Santa Monica College, it's about 3%, because by the time these students become aware of just how far behind they are from where they should be, they also become aware that the task they now face is insurmountable.
Even where students in high school have no basic foundational academic schools, LAUSD administrators continue to tell minority parents that their children are going to college, when nothing could be further from the truth.
If parents are educated about this conscious deception by a school district that disrespects minority parents and students by assuming that they are not smart enough to know when they are being ripped off, not only will parents and students support a boycott, they will work to make sure that it is successful in the realization that it is one of the only ways to discredit a corrupt system of public education that has held these parents and their children in contempt for far too long.
With the support of retired teachers and other educators from the college community, parents concerns about their children continuing to be educated can be addressed, if classes are reconstituted in alternative venues like parks and churches. It might be surprising for some to see students and their parents voluntarily showing up for these classes, if they have the feeling that real education for these students might just be a possibility for the first time.
Someone else said that even if Latino and Black parents did support a boycott, they would not do so unless teachers and other certificated and classified staff went along with it.
While parents and teachers can support and lead a boycott of purposefully dumbed down public daycare in lieu of education without reprisals, teachers and other certificated staff and classified staff would be immediately subjected to reprisals from district administration if they ever acted on their knowledge as to the fraud and corruption of LAUSD, where good education hasn't been possible for a very long time.
Already teachers are being summarily removed from their jobs on trumped up charges with no help from their union UTLA. Next academic year, LAUSD has already proposed 12 furlough days that are an effective 6% cut in teachers' salaries.
By staying at school while standing ready to perform their employment function, staff can impose the most financial pressure and promote real change in LAUSD policies by requiring that they be paid, since the district will no longer be able to collect money for physical presence of students that they make no attempt to educate to their potential.
Another doubt raised was what financial effect would such a boycott have on LAUSD?
Since the school district is only paid for physical presence of students at school, the mass exodus of students would have a profound effect on LAUSD's ability to finance its failed and unaccountable public education policies. Some have said that this might not have an immediate effect on their financing this academic year, but is there any reason to believe that things will be any better next year, if parents and students don't start to mobilize for action with their supporters in the community? | <urn:uuid:eaadeb72-bd8a-4d56-8403-def95a30df5c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.laprogressive.com/education-reform/lausd-boycott | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.979918 | 906 | 1.804688 | 2 |
I recently participated in writing a short piece on the question, "Is the Hypervisor a Commodity Nowadays?" on TechTarget. The consensus there was split 50/50.
I would like to explain a little more. What is a commodity?
A good or service whose wide availability typically leads to smaller profit margins and diminishes the importance of factors (as brand name) other than price.
[Source: Webster Dictionary].
So let us give two examples.
- Gasoline. Your car needs gasoline to run. But what qualifies gasoline as a commodity? the fact that you can go to any gas station, be it Shell, BP, Paz, Texco - what ever you want.. and fill in the same gasoline into you car and it will continue to take you to where you want to go. You don't have to worry about if your car will be compatible with the gasoline you just put in - since it is the correct octane - it is guaranteed to go. Now mind you - there are certain requirements that need to be considered (octane is one of them). And of course - each company will have their small "extras" that will make their offering more appealing to the customers.
The main thing here is that you can put in the gas and your car will drive.
- Water. You are thirsty and you go and buy a bottle of water in the store. This helps you wuench your thirst, stops you from dehydrating, and gives the ability to keep on going. Does it make a difference which company the water is from? To serve the purpose of satisfying the need to quench your thirst - no. Will it taste nicer if it is cooled, or has a slight addition of lemon, or peach or bubbles, to each his own preference.
And again the main thing, no matter what kind of water you buy, it quenches your thirst.
So that is how I would define a commodity. So back to the question raised before.
Is the Hypervisor a commodity?
Microsoft has one, VMware has one, Xen has one, Redhat has one and who knows what the future will hold. They each have their benefits and their flaws, their ups and their downs, the good and the bad. But the main thing is that - today - you cannot run a Hyper-V virtual machine on ESX, and you cannot run a Xen VM on Hyper-V. It simply is not possible. What the vendors are starting to do is provide you ways to convert a VM from one hypervisor to another. VMware just release a Fling called XVP that will allow you to connect to a Hyper-V server and if you to control certain parts of the Hypervisor, perform certain tasks on the Hosts and the virtual machines themselves. Microsoft SCVMM has boasted support for vCenter for quite a while now.
The point to note here is that in order to run a VM from one vendor on another vendor's hypervisor is not a done deal. There is a decent amount of tinkering around that needs to get this work.
So what does this have to do with the cloud in few years from now?
Let us play what-if for a second.
What if you there was some magic that could provide a translator and act as a buffer between the hypervisor and the VM? Something like the graphic below.
We all know what the problem is with having a non-standard format for virtual machine. Each vendor has their "tools" and optimizations for their own hypervisors and they are completely not compatible with their competitors.
Now I am not holding my breath for any of the vendors to come up with a industry standard that will allow you to run your VM on any hypervisor. That is actually quite counter-productive to what they are trying to achieve by getting their vendor lock-in for their solution.
If there was an additional layer that you could install on your hypervisor, that knew how to make these translations between the VM and the hypervisor below, allowing you to run a Hyper-V vhd on an ESX hypervisor or a ESX vmx on a Hyper-V Host. Granted this layer will have to be very clever and very fast in order to provide the performance that is close to native to that you would have on the hypervisor itself.
Call it a "hypervisor for hypervisors" if you will.
And what does this have to with cloud though? The way I see cloud vision is having your pool of resources from which you can provision your applications and vApps to your end users. At the moment this is limited to a cloud for each Hypervisor. I cannot have a VMware vCloud that has Hypervisors that are not ESX. I cannot have a Microsoft Cloud with Hypervisors that are not Hyper-V and so on.. Yes, there are some products that will allow you to manage the multiple clouds under one "umbrella" and place the VM in your Hyper-V cluster or ESX Cluster or RHV Cluster according to different criteria. But today they still need to be separate clusters. Utilizing such an idea will make my infrastructure completely vendor agnostic - and I (the customer) could pick and choose whichever hypervisor suits me.
This something which is not available but I do think it is only a matter of time until this technology becomes available. The first one to do this will have a great thing going for them.
Perhaps a good idea for a startup….
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Several years ago the Oral History of Keizer project was going strong. Led by the Keizer Points of Interest Committee, older Keizerites were interviewed on camera about our city.
Interviewed subjects talked about the origins of Keizer’s cherished organizations such as Keizer Little League the Keizer Rotary Club and the Keizer Rural Fire District.
This project should not die; there is more history that can be preserved for future generations. History tells us where we’ve been and who we were.
Some people, especially those who have lived here for 20 years or less, can look around our city and think there is no history here. The Keizer Points of Interest Committe has done a good job of identifying important sites in Keizer dating back to the 1800s. Sure, there is no remnants of Thomas Dove Keizur’s homestead, but there is a sign placed where it was located, at what is now Chemawa and River Roads, in front of Shari’s Restaurant.
Oral history of our city just as important as signs pointing out what was here more than 100 years ago. Those who can remember what live in Keizer was like back in the 1940s and 1950s should be encouraged to take part in the project.
Nothing makes history come alive more than the memories of those who lived it. It is important to commit those memories to film. The Points of Interest Committee along with the Keizer Heritage Museum should re-energize the project and assure that those who lived and made Keizer’s mid-20th century history become part of the record of our times. | <urn:uuid:85055b64-292b-40ab-9cc2-109413f1f2cc> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://keizertimes.com/2014/06/06/bring-history-alive/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00373-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971674 | 336 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Even when you have simply begun to check the features of the substances that compose the skincare merchandise, you’ve most likely heard lots concerning the wrinkle-reducing and acne-battling advantages of retinol. A number of dermatologists verify the spectacular outcomes of merchandise with retinol within the stimulation of collagen manufacturing, enhancing pores and skin texture, and diminishing darkish spots.
So what’s retinol used for in skincare, and the way finest to use it?
Let’s dig deeper and see how works retinol in cosmetics.
What Is The Use Of Retinol In Pores and skin Care?
Our physique produces retinol naturally, however for the skincare business, it’s synthetically constructed from vitamin A. Upon contact with the pores and skin, retinol is transformed into retinoic acid by specialised enzymes, which assist to spice up pores and skin cells turnover. In contrast to the acid merchandise, that are additionally utilized in anti-age routine, it doesn’t take away lifeless pores and skin cells. Going deep beneath the dermis, retinol begins collagen manufacturing.
Who Ought to Use Retinol?
The aim of retinol in skincare is treating or taking preventive measures for:
- high-quality strains
- enlarged pores
- pigment spots
It really works with all pores and skin varieties, however you ought to be further cautious when placing it on delicate, broken, or over-exfoliated pores and skin due to its negative effects – flakiness, redness, dryness, and even some breakouts.
How Can You Add Retinol to The Private Care Routine?
To keep away from negative effects and easily incorporate retinol into your each day routine use these easy guidelines:
- Select the product with a low retinol focus (round 0,2%).
- Begin by making use of the cream with a retinol at evening taking breaks for 2-3 days.
- Apply retinol cream or serum on the cleansed dry pores and skin.
- To maintain pores and skin hydrated use moisturizers.
- As retinol makes pores and skin extra delicate to the solar, don’t overlook to put on a broad-spectrum sunscreen. | <urn:uuid:ddfd9ba2-76d5-40f3-8239-c14fb3fa4e54> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://health.digitpatrox.com/what-is-retinol-benefits-uses-side-effects-and-more/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.882535 | 490 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Heaven’s calendar has seven Sundays a week. God sanctifies each day. He conducts holy business at all hours and in all places. He uncommons the common by turning kitchen sinks into shrines, cafés into convents, and nine-to-five workdays into spiritual adventures.
Workdays? Yes, workdays. He ordained your work as something good. Before he gave Adam a wife or a child, even before he gave Adam britches, God gave Adam a job. “Then the LORD God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it” (Gen. 2:15 NASB). Innocence, not indolence, characterized the first family.
God views work worthy of its own engraved commandment: “You shall work six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest” (Exod. 34:21 NASB). We like the second half of that verse. But emphasis on the day of rest might cause us to miss the command to work: “You shall work six days.” Whether you work at home or in the marketplace, your work matters to God.
And your work matters to society. We need you! Cities need plumbers. Nations need soldiers. Stoplights break. Bones break. We need people to repair the first and set the second. Someone has to raise kids, raise cane, and manage the kids who raise Cain.
Whether you log on or lace up for the day, you imitate God. Jehovah himself worked for the first six days of creation. Jesus said, “My Father never stops working, and so I keep working, too” (John 5:17 NCV). Your career consumes half of your lifetime. Shouldn’t it broadcast God? Don’t those forty to sixty hours a week belong to him as well?
The Bible never promotes workaholism or an addiction to employment as pain medication. But God unilaterally calls all the physically able to till the gardens he gives. God honors work. So honor God in your work. “There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and tell himself that his labor is good” (Eccles. 2:24 NASB).
Here is the big idea:
Use your uniqueness (what you do)
to make a big deal out of God (why you do it)
every day of your life (where you do it).
At the convergence of all three, you’ll find the cure for the common life: your sweet spot.
Cure for the Common Life:
Living in Your Sweet Spot
© (Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2005) Max Lucado
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Reflexology reduces stress (a major contributing factor to disease), enhances the body’s ability to heal itself, and balances both body and soul. Research shows that a single reflexology session can create relaxation, reduce anxiety, diminish pain, improve blood flow and decrease high blood pressure.
Getting reflexology sessions can be a valuable addition to your wellness. But what exactly is reflexology and what are some self-help techniques you can try for yourself?
What is Reflexology?
Reflexology is based on the idea that a map of the body is reflected on the hands and feet, and by applying alternating pressure to specific points on the hands and feet you can affect various organs and parts of the body.
Reflexology balances the nervous system by stimulating the nerve endings of the feet, which connect with the spinal nerves and their corresponding organs. It works with the circulatory system, breaking up congestion and deposits in the feet, which in turn help detoxify the body.
Numerous studies have shown that reflexology is able to help:
- promote balance and normalization of the body’s functions
- reduce stress and bring about relaxation
- improve circulation and delivery of oxygen and nutrients to the cells throughout the body
There are two major factors that set reflexology apart from other therapies. The first is that it’s an all-encompassing treatment. All organs, glands, and the skeletal system can be stimulated through the feet and hands. (In other words, it’s very efficient!)
The second is the personalized self-help reflex exercises that can be done at home between sessions. These exercises only take a minute or two a day, and the results are often impressive.
How Can Reflexology Help Me?
Although as a professional reflexologist I never diagnosed or prescribed, in my experience, clients have found reflexology helpful in dealing with back/shoulder/neck pain, all things reproductive (PMS, fertility, prenatal, menopause), digestive issues, depression/anxiety, and insomnia, to name a few.
In addition to my private practice, I previously worked with patients at the Initiative for Women with Disabilities (IWD) at NYU Medical’s Hospital for Joint Diseases. Many of the patients I saw were dealing with issues such as chronic pain, fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, and rheumatoid arthritis, and found reflexology a beneficial way to incorporate integrative therapies into their treatment.
Is there any evidence, or scientific studies, that support the effectiveness of reflexology?
In 1991, the first U.S. reflexology study published in a scientific peer reviewed medical journal, Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, studied the effects of reflexology on PMS. The double blind study showed a 47% reduction in symptoms, not including placebo effect.
More recently, based on the success of an initial grant, the National Center on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) awarded a second round of funding ($10 million) to Michigan State University to continue studying the impact of reflexology on women undergoing chemotherapy for stage 3 and 4 breast cancer.
While reflexology is much more widespread in other countries, it’s increasingly being used in wellness programs and cancer treatment centers in hospitals and medical facilities throughout the U.S.
Any advice/tips for someone considering reflexology for the first time?
Always make sure the reflexologist you’re considering is certified by The American Reflexology Certification Board (ARCB). They have rigorous testing to become certified, and it’s the gold standard in the field of reflexology in the United States.
I recommend trying more than one session, because reflexology has cumulative benefits. It’s important the client assesses if this is working for them or not. Depending on the issue or health challenge, I often suggest at least three sessions close together (every week or two weeks) and then evaluate initial results. Remember, acute conditions tend to balance faster than chronic ones. In other words, the longer you’ve had the issue, the longer it usually takes to get rid of it.
How can I find a certified reflexologist?
Check with the ARCB or your state reflexology association by researching online or calling.
What self-help reflexology techniques can I use?
Here’s the clip with Dr. Oz:
5 Secrets in the Palm of Your Hand
Here’s a DIY Guide so you can use the reflexology techniques I shared with Dr. Oz:
While the majority of people tend to get professional reflexology sessions for their feet, the hands can be just as effective. In the self-help reflexology segment I did on the show, I explained what to look for on your palms to get to know your own body better. Here’s a recap for you to try for yourself. Of course, this is not a substitute for medical care, always be sure to consult with the appropriate health practitioner in case of any medical condition.
1.Digestion: Intestines Reflex
I see a lot of clients with digestive issues, so this is one of my favorite self-help tips: the Million-Dollar Golf Ball Technique created by leading reflexologists Barbara and Kevin Kunz. This technique helps regulate and support your digestion.
- Interlock fingers.
- Roll the ball around the lower area of the palms, or heels of the hands.
- This corresponds to the digestive reflexes for the small and large intestines.
- You might notice the area feels a little crunchy or bumpy if you have digestive issues.
- Do this daily for a minute once or twice a week for 2 weeks, and then as needed.
2. Insomnia: Pituitary Gland Reflex
This is a great technique if you have trouble sleeping. The pituitary gland is like the master conductor of the orchestra; it oversees the entire endocrine system, so this is a really important point to help the body balance itself.
- Find the middle of the whorl of your thumbprint.
- This is the reflex for the pituitary gland.
- Take the side of the nail of the other thumb, and press it into the center of the whorl of the thumbprint and hold.
- Good metaphors to let you know you found the right spot:
- It might feel like a little metal ball under the skin,
- Or it might feel like you stuck a needle in your thumb.
- It might feel more sensitive if you’ve had trouble sleeping.
- You can do this in the middle of the night if you wake up and have trouble getting back to sleep.
- Do both thumbs holding each for 45 seconds, 2 or 3 times a day.
3. Colds & Flu: Head & Sinuses Reflexes
This is great for any kind of congestion and often helps immediately.
- The fingers are the reflexes for the head and sinuses.
- Press and rub from the base of each finger to the tip.
- If you’re congested, your fingers might feel a little tight or puffy as you get to the tips.
- Do this on each finger on both hands a few times, 3-4 times a day, or as needed.
4. Back Pain: Spine Reflex
With back pain, it’s hard to find things you can do yourself to help alleviate it, so this one is also a favorite. It’s quick and easy.
- The side of the thumb down to the wrist is the spine reflex.
- Press with the flat of the opposite thumb, inching along from the top of the thumb down to the wrist.
- For professional reflexologists we use a special thumb-walking technique, but it works regardless.
- It might feel tender in some areas if you’re experiencing back pain.
- Spend more time on tender areas, but you don’t need to apply a lot of pressure if it hurts.
- It works regardless. No pain no gain doesn’t apply with reflexology!
- Do this on both hands, go down this area 3 or 4 times, 3 or 4 times a day.
5. Low Libido: Ovaries & Uterus Reflexes
This technique is called the Wrist Twist and was created by a reflexologist in the U.K., Lynne Booth.
- The reflexes for the ovaries and uterus are on the sides of the wrist.
- Grasp your wrist with your thumb and forefinger forming a circle.
- Twist the opposite hand.
- This also applies to men—instead of ovaries and the uterus reflexes, you are targeting the prostate and testes.
- Clients often report feeling invigorated and energized immediately.
- Twist your wrist 20 times or so and then do the opposite wrist, 2 or 3 times a day.
I often tell my clients that they can do all of these techniques as a general tune-up between sessions as a way to prolong the effects of their session or to see faster results. Many clients report feeling energized and relaxed with all of these techniques. It’s a quick and easy way to interrupt stress.
Here are the Best DIY Reflexology Gadgets I’ve found.
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High-profile case touches on issues including the politics of crime-fighting, state law – and one family’s journey between poverty and power. Josh Marcus reports
On Monday morning, a カリフォルニア man named Napoleon Brown woke up in a サンフランシスコ jail cell after more than two decades in state prison. He was in the city to seek a reduced sentence for his role in an infamous robbery-carjacking in 2000 that led to the death of his then-girlfriend on the Golden Gate Bridge. He’s already been in prison more than 22 年, and is set to stay another 22 more under a plea deal he reached with prosecutors.
On that same Monday morning, his sister, London Breed, woke up in her home in San Francisco’s Haight neighbourhood, starting another busy day as mayor of San Francisco.
Both siblings grew up in poverty not far from San Francisco City Hall in the Plaza East housing projects. 一緒, they’ve spent the last two decades urging the court system to get Brown out of prison and give him a second chance at the opportunities his sister was able to find, despite the odds. They argue that relevant California law sentencing has changed, and Brown should go free.
「後 22 年, he has served enough time,” Brown’s lawyer Marc J Zilversmit told 独立者.
It’s a long, strange case that has presented ethical challenges for Mayor Breed, and raised questions about how far California is willing to go in its decades-long attempts to reduce its massive prison population.
オン 19 六月, 2000, 茶色, その後 24, and an associate robbed a Johnny Rockets diner around midnight in the Marina neighbourhood, 検察官によると. The pair forced workers, who were preparing to close up shop, to lie facedown on the ground, while the thieves stole $7,000 from the restaurant’s safe, 警察によると.
A police officer named Gary Watts then followed the men as they got into a white Ford driven by Lenties White, Brown’s girlfriend. The officer didn’t turn on his siren, and tailed the car as it crossed the Golden Gate Bridge.
突然, the getaway car stopped in a coned off buffer lane, and White either fell or was pushed from the driver’s seat onto the pavement. One of the men in the car then walked around to take the wheel. At this, the officer said in court he ordered the man to get on the ground and the woman to get off the road.
But it was too late. A drunk driver in the opposing lane struck White. 警察は言った her last words implicated “SB,” thought to be Brown’s nickname “Sonny Boy,” in the crime, and gave officers Brown’s address.
Mayor Breed, 誰だった 25 当時の, told police she had arrived at the home of the grandmother, who raised both siblings, around midnight the morning of the robbery. She said she found her brother asleep on the couch. She added that she wasn’t sure if he was still there when she went off to work later that morning. The family has said Brown didn’t go by SB, また.
The mayor’s office did not respond to a request for comment from 独立者.
Brown was convicted of murder in 2005, but appealed his conviction, arguing his lawyers were incompetent.
に 2012, he worked out a deal with prosecutors to plead no contest to robbery, carjacking, and most controversially, involuntary manslaughter under the so-called “felony-murder rule.” It’s a concept that dates back to English common law, which holds that one can be guilty of murder or manslaughter for a death if it occured during the commission of another serious crime, even if it was an accident.
一緒, the charges carried a 42-year sentence, and an extra two years were tacked on when Brown was found with heroin in prison. The case didn’t end there though.
に 2014, インクルード サンフランシスコクロニクル 報告 that Ms Breed, then on the city Board of Supervisors, called the San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón for help reviewing her brother’s sentence, an offer he ultimately declined.
Mr Gascón declined to comment for this article.
Ms Breed told the paper she had “no recollection” of such a call, and denied using her position to get special treatment for her brother.
“I am absolutely certain that through the long course of my brother’s legal case, I have never asked for any special treatment from the district attorney’s office or anyone else, nor have I received any,」 彼女は言った クロニクル. “Every time I have weighed in on my brother’s case, it has been under the guidance of his defense attorney, at appropriate times and by appropriate means.”
Four years later, に 2018, Ms Breed used her office’s stationary to write a letter along with family members asking then-Governor Jerry Brown for her brother’s early release, conduct which prompted a $23,000 set of fines in 2021 from the San Francisco Ethics Commission, accusing the mayor of “重要” ethics violations.
In the message, Ms Breed and her family wrote, “Napoleon struggled early on with a sense of hopelessness. And like many others, he developed a bad drug problem at an early age. His drug addiction led to a young life of crime.”
“Although I don’t believe the 44-year sentence was fair, I make no excuses for him,” the letter continued. “His decisions, 彼の行動, led him to the place he finds himself now. それでも, I ask that you consider mercy, and rehabilitation.”
While these attempts fell flat, the case changed in 2019, when a law called SB1437 passed, restricting the use of the felony murder statue as part of the state’s wider attempts to reduce its prison population, まだ among the largest in the country. それか, combined with a 2021 law allowing those convicted of manslaughter to seek re-sentencing, gave Brown another shot after 22 刑務所での年.
Brown’s lawyers now argue that even if Brown did push White into the coned off lane on the bridge, the chaos of the scene, with officers yelling a mix of commands to lie down and stand up, suggest what happened wasn’t a clean-cut murder or manslaughter.
“Given the unusual circumstances that led to Lenties White’s death being hit by a drunk driver while the police ordered her to lie down in the safety lane of the bridge, this case no longer meets the definition of murder, so he is entitled to resentencing,” Mr Brown’s lawyers said.
“Brown’s case is one of hundreds of felony murder convictions that no longer meets the definition of murder under the amended statute,」と彼らは付け加えた. “In this way, it is not unique at all. Every week, murder and manslaughter convictions are being set aside by courts across California.”
In court on Monday, Brown was consigned to wait even longer for a chance at freedom. Lawyers for the city asked for a continuance, delaying a decision on his sentencing request, and a judge asked prosecutors to explain in greater detail how they would handle the case, given its thorny ethical complications.
The delay likely won’t stop Mayor Breed or her family from campaigning for Brown’s release.
The mayor has spoken often of her brother’s case, talking about it as part of the larger set of challenges her family faced growing up in poverty in San Francisco’s Western Addition neighbourhood. Her election was seen as a triumph in a city that struggles with deep racial and economic inequality.
Breed and Brown were largely raised by their grandmother, and experienced police harassment, neighbourhood violence, そしてその overdose death of their sister に 2006. それにもかかわらず, Ms Breed managed to obtain a graduate education, rise through city politics, and become San Francisco’s first Black, female mayor in 2018.
“I know the possibilities of what can happen when things go great in the city and what it can mean for someone’s life,」 the mayor told Politico in 2022. “It’s the difference between me going to college and becoming mayor and giving back to the community in the way that I have and, 悲しいことに, 私の兄弟, who is incarcerated.”
Sanda McNeil, the mother of Lenties White says she’s upset by London Breed’s continued efforts to free her daughter’s killer.
“I don’t think it would be justice," 彼女 told NBC Bay Area in 2018. “She’s the mayor, so she’s got a little power, so she thinks she can get her brother out.’’
Even after Monday’s hearing, it’s still unclear where exactly the San Francisco’s DA’s office plans to take Brown’s resentencing bid. A string of DA’s including Mr Gascón and his successor, Suzy Loftus, both declined to get involved in the case.
The resentencing bid, because of its ties to city hall and questions of violent crime more broadly, has become embroiled in local politics.
It passed to the new DA, Brooke Jenkins, who was recently appointed by Mayor Breed to replace justice reform-minded prosecutor Chesa Boudin after a contentious but low turnout recall effort. Some residents, fed up with violent crime, そうだった backed by millions in conservative dollars, and revolted at the ballot box against Mr Boudin’s tactics aimed at reducing mass incarceration.
DA Jenkins asked the California Attorney General in July to take over the case, which the state rejected, と持っています 前記 she’s trying to see if other local agencies can move in instead “to avoid any appearance whatsoever of a conflict.”
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Shark research scientist, Dr Jonathan Werry, has undertaken a four year study tracking the migratory patterns of tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier) across the Southwest Pacific.
The research, in collaboration with the French government, followed the movement of 33 tiger sharks (1.54 to 3.9 m total length) across the Coral Sea between New Caledonia and the Great Barrier Reef.
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One 3.7 m female tiger shark was recorded to a previously unknown depth of 1136m.
"When it comes to traveling long distances adult females are the primary custodians for the 'across Coral Sea' migrations, and this is probably driven by triennial reproductive cycles," Dr Werry said.
"Pre-reproductive females and mature male tiger sharks on the other hand, were observed to demonstrate extraordinary year round residency in the oceanic Chesterfields reef, so this area appears to be a very important habitat for them."
On coastal reefs, all of the monitored tiger sharks were found to be transient.
Dr Werry said understanding the habitat-use and migration patterns of large sharks is extremely important for assessing the effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas, as well as the vulnerability of these predators to fisheries and environmental influences and management of shark-human interactions.
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The importance of oceanic Coral Sea reefs should be a priority for future research."
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Foods Third Graders Like
Lesson 1 of 6
Objective: SWBAT gather simple data, represent it on a bar graph, and answer simple, complex, and open-ended questions about the data. UPDATED JULY 27, 2015.
At the start of the year, students are sometimes shy with one another and this introduction to data collection and graphing provides an easy and safe way for them to get to know each other. All children have opinions about their favorite foods! It also provides an immediate, relevant experience with the engaging aspects of collecting and making meaning of data, which is a skill of lifelong value!
This activity can be introduced in a number of ways, but some interesting openers might be listing some of your favorite foods that the students might either relate to or find unusual. Another way to open this activity is to discuss popular foods in different countries, which can be followed by the open-ended question: Why are people’s preferences in ----- so different from/similar to ours?
Here are a few links if you'd like to explore the angle of what popular/ children's foods are like in other countries:
Students now list their 10 favorite foods. It's my preference to put no restrictions on this because I like to know what they are eating, but of course there are numerous modifications that could be made to this, including asking them to list their 10 favorite fruits and vegetables, their 10 favorite non-junk food treats, and so on.
I have them write these on their whiteboards and then immediately use the data. This is a good time to chat with the students a bit (it's very easy to make conversation about food) and to observe their spelling. I'm always on the lookout for children whose writing doesn't show an understanding of syllables, who don't use vowels, or who aren't yet correctly identifying initial sounds. Then I can immediately start to assist these students with directed phonics micro-lessons and discussions.
Class List and Tally
Next, I pass out the tally chart of favorite foods to each student, directing them to prepare to share the first item on their list. If their first item has already been taken, it's my first opportunity this year to convey an important thought for 3rd graders - that it's okay if several children have the same great idea!
Next, I ask students to name the second item on their list. I model answering in complete sentences. "My name is ____________ and my favorite food is _____________." or "My name is _________ and one of my favorite foods is..." Usually about half of my students do not speak English as their first language. Whether that's the case or not, it's good practice to start of the year expecting answers in complete sentences!
Then I ask students to name the second item on their list. I model answering in complete sentences. "My name is ____________ and my favorite food is _____________." or "My name is _________ and one of my favorite foods is..." Usually about half my class are not native English speakers, but whether that's the case or not, it's good practice to start of the year expecting answers in complete sentences!
As I go around the room, I fill in the list side of the chart and have students fill it in their "Foods We Like" tally chart along with me. I now use a document camera (and love it) but in the past I have done this on chart paper or on the whiteboard. I also like to set handwriting parameters early on, because if students can't read their own writing it will slow down their progress in all subjects. When writing in tables, the way I emphasize neatness at the beginning of the year is by talking aloud about how my letters are sitting on the line and not jumping out of the box. A later focus might be "tall letters tall, short letters short."
There are usually a few children who can't keep up with the pace of filling out the chart, because their motor skills aren't ready for small spaces yet, because they are trying to be perfect, or because after a wonderful summer they aren't yet back in the habit of attending to what is going on in the classroom.
It's important to keep the pace moving along so that children don't become restless while also not unduly stressing them, so I'm constantly taking quick walks around to see where they are. When the majority of the students have finished copying an item, I move on. I let the sweet turtles write just a few letters of a word if they need to and then have them move on to the next line with us or soon they will be in the habit of falling far behind in those instances where all moving along in unison.
After we've recorded the foods, the fun part! (Of course, those of us who like lists - and there are students out there who like them too, are already enjoying the soothing routine of this simple activity.) The children can vote for ANY food they like. I record the votes for each food, but if it helps some students to attend, assign "monitors" to also make a count. Part of recording is modeling the use of tally marks.
Again, this is a great time and circumstance in which to set expectations, in this case for graphs. While they have made them before, it has still been my experience that at least 10% of the class labels the incorrect axis, skips parts of the graph, colors uneven bars, and so on. This is easily remedied with practice, so I do at least the first ten columns on this graph whole group, on the document camera (or chart paper, prepared ahead of time, or sticky graph paper for those of you lucky enough to have it - cool stuff). I used to always add all the x axis labels first, and then color in for the data, but a recent discovery was that if the columns are labeled then colored one at a time. Some students find it helpful to use a strategy in which they mark the quantity for all the columns prior to coloring in anything on the graph.
All of this helps students attend to precision (MP6), not just by representing the correct amount in the correct column, but also by talking about the graph using the words label, x axis, y axis, column and row. On this graph, everything is completed for the students except the food item labels.
I read an item, tilt the paper, write the item, verify the count on the data chart, mark the top line of the square representing that amount, trace along the edge of the column with a colored pencil, and then lightly color it in.
I also watch to see who has a death grip on their pencil. Poor kids - they don't have to be in pain to color in the lines! Taking the time to teach/ review this procedure for graphing now will reap the reward of more instructional time down the road. At the conclusion of this lesson students have accurate, colorful and complete graphs that tell them a bit about their classmates!
Questions About the Data
After we complete the graph I talk to students what we can learn just from glancing at the visuals on the graph. Depending upon their starting point I model attending to precision (MP6) by rephrasing their observations, refining the language in comprehensible stages.
Student: I see that there is more of hamburgers.
Teacher: I see that more students chose hamburgers than several of the other choices.
Teacher: I see that hamburgers are the 4th most popular choice out of 32 foods total.
Student: There is the same amount of two things.
Teacher: I see that the number of students that chose two different foods is the same.
Teacher: Specifically, the same number of students chose (ice cream) and (burritos).
Teacher: 10 students choose both ice cream and burritos. So, 10/30ths of the students in our class chose ice cream and burritos as their favorite foods.
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Our subject was born in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Aug. 1, 1836, and is the oldest child of Frederick and Fredricka (Englebright) Thies, who were natives of the same place as their son, and where they both spent their entire lives, the father dying in 1863, and the mother in 1864. They were the parents of four sons and two daughters, and those beside our subject, are now in Germany. William was reared to manhood in his native Province, and trained to farming pursuits, which he followed there until a man of thirty-two years.
In 1868, Mr. Thies set out for America, accompanied by his wife and one child. They landed in New York, and came directly to this county, locating in Jacksonville, where Mr. Thies engaged as a butcher, and where they remained about three years. He then rented a farm of the late Samuel Wood, for the same length of time, then removed to another in that locality upon which he operated for a period of twelve years. By this time his accumulations enabled him to purchase his present farm, of which he took possession in January, 1886. He has good buildings, and all the conveniences for carrying on agriculture and stock raising in a profitable manner. He has made it the rule of his life to live within his income, and meet his obligations when they became due. He has consequently been enabled to each year lay aside something for a rainy day, and ensure himself against want in his old age.
To Mr. and Mrs. Thies have been born six children, viz: Frederick T., William L., Samuel C., John C., Charles J., and Anna L. The eldest is twenty-seven years of age, and the youngest nine, and they are all at home with their parents, except Frederick. Mr. and Mrs. Thies are members of the Lutheran Church, and our subject, politically, is a decided Republican. He is the friend of education, freedom and equality, and occupies no secondary position among the reliable elements which form the basis of all society.
Mrs. Louisa (Germann) Thies was married to our subject in Germany in January, 1864. Her parents were John and Johanna (Beindchnieder) Germann, who emigrated to America in August, 1868, and settled in township 14, this county. The father was engaged in farming, and departed this life, Jan. 10, 1880. The mother is still living, at an advanced age. They were the parents of eight children, of whom Mrs. Thies was one of the younger. She was born Aug 27, 1840, and remained a member of her father's household until her marriage. | <urn:uuid:92dee708-bf7d-478c-b999-e383263cba79> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ilmaga/morgan/1889/thies_wm.html | 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 | 0.991919 | 569 | 1.851563 | 2 |
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On November 21, 2008, in response to the Morley FOIA case, the CIA released a 75 page declaration in which they acknowledged that they have withheld 1100 assassination records, and may seek to keep them secret after the scheduled 2017 release date.
In the course of the long and drawn out legal document the CIA official, Delores Nelson also noted that among the 1100 documents, 13 of them could be related to Joannides, the subject of Jeff Morley's FOIA case, which is now extending from years into decades.
Those 13 documents alone, says Ms. Nelson, run over 1100 pages, so the rest of the JFK assassination records still being withheld by the CIA must run into the tens of thousands of pages, not including those documents that were released with redactions.
In addition, this legal document also gives an interesting account of the "GLOMAR" response to FOIA requests, which is the now routine "neither confirm nor deny" response, which is what the Israel government and MOSSAD are now doing in response to questions regarding the Dubai assassination hit squad.
The document, which is titled, JFFFERSON MORLEY Plantiff v. CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY Defendant - DECLARATION OF DELORES M. NELSON includes a section:
IV. SEARCH OF RECORDS RELEASED TO NARA
40. The Dorn Declaration describes the JFK Act and the Assassination Records Review Board (“ARRB”) created there under. See Exhibit A PP 26-30. With the exception of approximately 1,100 documents withheld in their entirety until 2017, all of the CIA’s JFK-related documents were released in full or in part to NARA. 7.
7. The approximately 1,100 documents are located in NARA’s protected collection and will be released in 2017 unless the CIA appeals to the President to withhold their disclosure. On such an appeal, the CIA would need to argue, and the President would need to certify, that “(i) continued postponement is made necessary by an identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or conduct of foreign relations; and (ii) the identifiable harm is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in disclosure.” President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, 44 U.S.C. S 2107 note (2000)
page 20 Nelson
page 22 “…The index search yielded thirteen documents that were potentially responsive to Plaintiff’s FOIA request. These thirteen documents totally 1,112 pages…..
59. As noted above, in conjunction with its production of the JFK-related recordspursuant to the JFK Act, the CIA previously acknowledged Joannides’ participationin two specific covert projects, operations, or assignments: JM/WAVE or JMWAVE from 1962 through 1964 and Joannides’ service as a CIA representative to the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations from 1978 through 1979. Joannides had been undercover during both of these assignments.”
B. The CIA’s Failure to Assert a GLOMAR Response Would Damage National Security.
61. In a typical response to a FOIA request, the CIA’s answer, either to provide or not provide records sought, in effect confirms the existence or non-existence of CIA records. Typically, this confirmation neither threatens the national security nor reveals intelligence sources and methods. The response focuses on releasing or withholding specific substantive information and the fact that the CIA possesses or does not possess records is not itself a classified fact. However, when the fact that the CIA possesses or does not possess records is itself classified and reasonably could reveal intelligence sources, methods and activities, the CIA cannot confirm that it possesses such information. On the other hand, the CIA also may not deny the Court or in legal proceedings that it does not have responsive records when it in fact does. Thus, the CIA’s only permissible alternative is to neither confirm nor deny the existence or nonexistence of responsive records. Such a “neither confirm nor deny” response is called a GLOMAR response. 10.
10. The CIA asserted a GLOMAR response over the unacknowledged time periods in this case because Joannides’ participation in covert projects, operations, or assignments during these unacknowledged time periods would itself be classified.
Footnote: 10. The “GLOMAR” term comes from the case Phillippi v. CIA. 546 F.2d 1009(DC Cir. 1976, which upheld the CIA’s use of the “neither confirm nor deny” response to a FOIA request for records concerning the CIA’s reported contacts with the media regarding the Hughes GLOMAR Explorer.
21 November 2008
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The article presents some identitary problems related to the publication of the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus. The document, published the 4th November 2009, opened the way for the creation of personal ordinariates for members of the Anglican community who wish to enter into full communion with the Catholic Church. This document, followed by a Note of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, introduced a canonical structure that allows Anglicans enter the Catholic Church, preserving their spiritual and liturgical heritage. The Pope's decision is a response to inquiries of some Anglican groups. At the same time, it raises many questions related to the Anglican confessional identity. A serious crisis within the Anglican community - which mainly concerns moral teaching and pastoral practice - shows difficulties in expressing the Anglican identity. The source of these difficulties is the identitary problem in the history of the Church of England separated from Rome during the reign of Henry VIII. Because there is no doctrinal cause of this separation, the Anglican community seeks to find its identity in some specific theological ideas (such as via media and comprehensiveness) or in the unity of its liturgical worship. But the recent crisis shows that Anglican identitary factors are often insufficient. The Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus is a proposal made to the Anglicans who wish to preserve their spiritual heritage and liturgy at the same time gaining support for their Anglican identity in the Catholic communion. The unity of the Christian faith is not opposed to acceptable and justified diversity in the Church of Christ. Perhaps, the proposal expressed by the Pope in his Constitution would be a solution of the contemporary ecumenical crisis.
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SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.98 no.1 Cape Town ene. 2008
Consultant in Infectious Diseases and Honorary Professor of Internal Medicine Stellenbosch University Tygerberg, W Cape
In this issue of SAMJ, Mayosi and colleagues1 report the results of an observational study on the mortality rate and its predictors in patients with a presumptive diagnosis of tuberculous pericarditis in sub-Saharan Africa. By enrolling patients with presumed tuberculous pericarditis from 15 referral hospitals in Cameroon, Nigeria and South Africa, and not insisting on gold-standard diagnostic criteria, the investigators have managed to enroll 185 patients within a 6-month period between March and October 2004. Patients were eligible for enrolment if the attending physician felt sufficiently confident with the diagnosis of tuberculous pericarditis to commence antituberculosis treatment, and the management of each patient was at the discretion of the attending physician, in keeping with the observational nature of the study. In the majority of patients, HIV status was based on serological testing for HIV, but due to the fact that, at the time of the study, voluntary and confidential testing for HIV was not always offered at the participating medical institutions, the investigators included the category of suspected HIV infection based on clinical grounds, and classified each patient as either having evidence of 'clinical HIV disease' or 'no clinical HIV disease', without regard to the HIV serological status of the patient. The HIV assessment was left to the discretion of the collaborating physician, and no criteria were specified.
This approach may lack some scientific rigour but it allowed rapid enrolment of all suspected cases and reflects the real-life experience of clinicians across Africa who do not always have access to diagnostic facilities and who do not find it difficult to diagnose tuberculous pericarditis on clinical grounds, however difficult it may be to confirm the diagnosis in the laboratory.2,3 Using Cox regression, they assessed the effect of baseline clinical and therapeutic characteristics on mortality during a 6-month period of follow-up. In a group of 174 patients (median age 33; range 14 - 87 years), the overall mortality rate was 26%, and it was significantly higher in patients who had clinical features of HIV infection than in those who did not (40% v. 17%, p=0.001). Independent predictors of death during follow-up were: (i) a proven non-tuberculosis final diagnosis (hazard ratio (HR) 5.35, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.76 - 16.25), (ii) the presence of clinical signs of HIV infection (HR 2.28, CI 1.14 - 4.56), (iii) coexistent pulmonary tuberculosis (HR 2.33, 1.20 - 4.54), and (iv) older age (HR 1.02, CI 1.01 - 1.05). There was also a trend towards an increase in death rate in patients with haemodynamic instability (HR 1.80, CI 0.90 - 3.58) and a decrease in those who underwent pericardiocentesis (HR 0.34, CI 0.10 - 1.19).
The strength of the study is that it reflects what clinicians experience in the field and what they perceive to be HIV-and tuberculosis-related deaths. This experience may differ substantially from statistics captured by national tuberculosis control programmes. This study by Mayosi and colleagues1 demonstrates that a presumptive diagnosis of tuberculous pericarditis is associated with a high mortality in sub-Saharan Africans, and calls for attention to rapid aetiological diagnosis of pericardial effusion and treatment of concomitant HIV infection as this may reduce the high mortality associated with the disease.
Tuberculosis is an ancient disease, with evidence of spinal TB described in Neolithic man and clear evidence of TB bone lesions found in mummified remains from ancient Egypt. Initial infection is usually via the pulmonary route, following inhalation of an inoculum of organisms within tiny aerosol droplets, predominantly produced by adults with cavitary TB. Extrapulmonary tuberculous disease occurs as the result of contiguous spread of tubercle organisms to adjoining structures such as pleura or pericardium, or by lymphohaematogenous spread during primary or chronic infection. HIV infection increases the dissemination of TB particularly as the CD4 cell count declines below 200 cells/µl. Pericardial effusion is a frequent clinical finding in HIV-seropositive patients coinfected with TB in a variety of global settings.4-6
Tuberculous pericarditis most commonly results from direct extension from contiguous mediastinal and hilar lymph nodes or by lymphohaematogenous spread as part of disseminated TB. The clinical presentation of tuberculous pericarditis is variable and includes acute pericarditis with or without effusion, cardiac tamponade, silent large pericardial effusion with a relapsing course, toxic symptoms with persistent fever, acute constrictive pericarditis, subacute constriction, or effusive-constrictive or chronic constrictive pericarditis.3,7 The mortality rate in untreated acute effusive tuberculous pericarditis approaches 85%.7 The goal of therapy for tuberculous pericarditis is to prevent death due to tamponade, to relieve the acute symptoms of cardiac compression, and to prevent progression from the effusive to the constrictive stage, in which a fibrotic and calcified pericardium entraps the heart.8-10 The management of HIV coinfection is of utmost importance and should include cotrimoxazole preventive therapy and provision of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). Standard management of peri-cardial effusion includes pericardiocentesis either by echocardiographically guided closed pericardiocentesis8,10 or by surgical fenestration.5,11 Recommended antituberculosis chemotherapy for pericardial TB is the same as for pulmonary TB.8,11 The use of adjunctive corticosteroid therapy is controversial.8,10,12
1. Mayosi BM, Wiysonge CS, Ntsekhe M, et al. Mortality in patients treated for tuberculous pericarditis in sub-Saharan Africa. S Afr Med J 2008; 98: 36-40 (this issue). [ Links ]
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Mapping, awareness, and virtualization network administrator training tool virtualization module
Berndt, Erik W.
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Conducting network administration training in an operational tactical network environment introduces a level of risk to the network that is unacceptable to operational commanders. This forces a choice between the readiness of network administrators and the availability of the tactical network as an operational platform. To address this conflict, the Mapping, Awareness, and Virtualization Network Administrator Training Tool (MAVNATT) architecture has been designed to map and enumerate an operational network in order to create a fully partitioned, faithful virtual copy of that network that can be used safely for network administrator training. A capability does not exist to automatically generate a virtual copy of a network based on a graphical model of that network. This work solved this problem by implementing a prototype of the MAVNATT Virtualization Module, which creates a virtual copy of a mapped operational network. We tested the output of the Virtualization Module against the functional requirements of the MAVNATT system. The prototype implementation successfully integrates a virtualization hypervisor, a network simulator, and a WAN emulator to create a virtual network based on a graph model of an operational network, and demonstrates the ultimate attainability of the MAVNATT architecture’s objectives.
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I believe our most impressive moments as humans are the result of quiet decisions made well before our moment. I have seen this repeat itself in my life as well as those around me. The amount of time between decision and moment scales itself to the difficulty of what we aim to achieve.
I discovered the nature of this truth in my youth racing motorcycles. Racing may seem an odd place to find worldly insights. But behind the noise and spectacle of racing there lies intelligence found only if one looks hard enough. Like any other sport, those that excel in motocross spend countless hours practicing to develop a kinesthetic intelligence that only comes with repetition. The obstacle one faces can be difficult and scary to overcome. I always paralleled motocross to what a gymnast must go through when developing skills for the uneven parallel bars. Timing and strength need to be coordinated to overcome the challenges of height and speed. A gymnast can swing up to over 15 feet into the air with no protection. On a motocross bike, the rider can get to heights over 20 feet while moving at very high speeds. Both these tasks require great nerve and determination.
In motocross one of the obstacles most feared is called the ‘double jump’. The nature of the obstacle is as the name implies. Two ramps spaced near each other. You can roll over both jumps or to save time you can hit the first one faster in order to clear the second one. Sounds easy enough and when you watch the professionals on television it looks so. But when one tries it, the complexities of executing on it make the task daunting. As a youth, I would study the more skilled riders as they accomplished what I could not. I looked at what gear they were in, how they sat on the bike, what speed they were going. Somehow when I tried to copy it I would always come up short…which usually meant either an extremely bumpy ride or a broken bike. Then I discovered the trick. If one commits to making the jump 1 or 2 turns before the obstacle, then everything falls into place.
By committing to the jump well before facing it, I would be able to build my speed, position my body and subconsciously do everything I needed to do to make it over. I learned that making up my mind right before the jump only led to hurried decisions and panicked execution. Making my mind up ahead of time allowed me to face my fear with confidence.
Once I discovered this nugget of truth I started applying it everywhere in my life. If I wanted to get through engineering school, I had to make up my mind well before taking classes that I would make it through. Believing ahead of time made the difficult portions of the training seem like bumps in the road. Before getting married, I decided this IS what I am going to do and I will do everything in my power to make it successful. Any day arguments seem laughable when compared to the obstacles my wife and I have overcome. That early decision to believe that I can succeed is what has set the course and subconsciously helped me to make better decisions along the way.
The reality we have is the reality we make. Of course not everything will be perfect. As humans we have the innate ability to adjust to our circumstances. As humans if we all decided to form the reality we want well ahead of our moment of truth, all the demons of indecision and fear would be left aside and we could realize the world we would like to see.
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ICMI Awards Committee calls for proposals
The International Commission on Mathematical Instruction
THE ICMI AWARDS COMMITTEE
Announcement: Call for Nominations
The Executive Committee of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) a number of years ago created two awards, each in the form of a diploma and a medal, to recognise outstanding accomplishments in mathematics education research:
the Hans Freudenthal Award, for a major programme of research on mathematics education,
the Felix Klein Award, for lifelong achievement in mathematics education research.
An ICMI Awards Committee has been appointed for selecting the awardees. The President of ICMI has appointed Professor Carolyn Kieran to chair this committee, the other members of which are anonymous until their terms have come to an end.
The first recipients of these two awards, Professor Guy Brousseau (France) for the Felix Klein Award and Professor Celia Hoyles (UK) for the Hans Freudenthal Award, formally received these at the opening ceremonies of ICME-10 in Copenhagen, in July 2004. The two 2005 awards went to Professors Ubiratan D’Ambrosio (Brazil) (the Klein Award) and Paul Cobb (USA) (the Freudenthal Award), and for 2007, Professors Jeremy Kilpatrick (USA) and Anna Sfard (Israel/UK/USA) received the Klein and the Freudenthal Awards, respectively; these awards were formally presented to the recipients at the opening ceremony of ICME-11 in Monterrey, México, in July 2008. The two 2009 awards went to Professors Gilah Leder (Australia) (the Klein Award) and Yves Chevallard (France) (the Freudenthal Award). The awards for 2009 and for the current 2011 cycle will be formally presented to the recipients at the opening ceremony of ICME-12 in Seoul, Korea, in July 2012.
The ICMI Awards Committee is at this time entering the 2011 cycle of selecting awardees. We acknowledge that the 2011 process is a little behind schedule, and apologise for the delay, but we expect to announce the 2011 awards in February, 2012. As was the case with the previous cycles, the ICMI Awards Committee welcomes suggestions coming from the mathematics education community, hence this call for nominations.
A nomination of a candidate for the Felix Klein Award or the Hans Freudenthal Award has to be accompanied by a summary presenting the vita and the achievements of the person nominated, as well as the reasons for the nomination. Moreover, nominations also have to include the names and coordinates of two or three persons from whom the committee may seek further information.
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Patent application title: METHOD AND REAGENTS FOR DETECTING THE PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS IN A TEST SAMPLE
Stephen C. Edberg (Longboat Key, FL, US)
Stephen C. Edberg (Longboat Key, FL, US)
PILOTS POINT LLC
IPC8 Class: AC12Q114FI
Class name: Involving viable micro-organism determining presence or kind of micro-organism; use of selective media streptococcus; staphylococcus
Publication date: 2011-02-03
Patent application number: 20110027823
Patent application title: METHOD AND REAGENTS FOR DETECTING THE PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS IN A TEST SAMPLE
Stephen C. Edberg
O''Shea Getz P.C.
Origin: SPRINGFIELD, MA US
IPC8 Class: AC12Q114FI
Publication date: 02/03/2011
Patent application number: 20110027823
A presence/absence test for Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) involves
placing a first generation test sample in a solution that will clot in
the presence of S. aureus. The solution contains components that will
selectively grow S. aureus and also contains clotting factors that will
react with S. aureus, if S. aureus is present in the sample, to clot the
solution. Examples of specimen samples that can be tested include nasal
swabs and lesion swabs, among others. The test can also be modified to
detect the presence or absence of methicillin resistant S. Aureus (MRSA).
The addition of micro particles having a size in the range of about 0.1
micron to about 1.0 mm provides localities where the bacteria
agglomerate, thereby significantly decreasing the clotting time, and
providing a significantly stronger clot. The micro particles can be used
in other bacteria tests to accelerate the production of an end result.
Such other tests can include a vancomycin-resistant enterococcus test; a
Group B Streptococcus test; a test for hemolytic E. coli; and a test for
Listeria monocytogenes, to name a few. These tests are all performed in a
liquid broth-type reagent mixture and do not necessarily involve clotting
of the broth.
1. A method for the detection of the presence or absence of Staphylococcus
aureus (S. aureus) in a first generation biological, environmental, or
food sample, said method comprising the steps of:a) hydrating a reagent
test mixture which comprises reacting factors which S. aureus can convert
into a clot, and an effective amount of micro particles to accelerate the
formation of microbial biofilms in the hydrated test mixture;b) adding an
effective amount of the first generation sample to the hydrated test
mixture; andc) incubating the sample and test mixture for a time period
which is sufficient to form a clotted test mixture if S. aureus is
present in the first generation sample.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein said micro particles have a diameter in the range of about 0.1 micron to about 1.0 mm.
3. The method of claim 2 wherein said micro particles are glass beads.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein said first generation sample is in a biological swab.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein said first generation sample is in a food sample swab.
6. The method of claim 1 wherein said first generation sample is in an environmental swab.
7. The method of claim 1 wherein said test mixture includes a metabolizable substrate that enhances test specificity.
This application claims the benefit of U.S. Ser. No. 61/269,588
filed Jun. 27, 2009.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Technical Information
The present method and test mixture relates to the detection of Staphylococcus aureus in a biological, environmental, or food sample, and more particularly to those methods and test mixtures utilizing reacting factors which the target microbe(s) can convert into a clot. Microscopic particles are added to the testing medium to accelerate the formation of microbial biofilms and thus accerate the detection procedure. Preferred particles are microscopic glass beads, but they could be made of some other material. The particles should have a diameter size of from 0.1 micron to 1.0 mm. Generally, they can be classified as micro particles.
2. Background Information
Staphylococcus aureus ("S. aureus") can be a virulent pathogen of animals and humans. Moreover, it can cause severe food poisoning by the production of a toxin. Diseases caused by S. aureus cover a very wide clinical spectrum, from simple skin infections to life threatening infections of the bones, heart, and organs. Of particular concern is the recognition that S. aureus infection is common after surgery. It is also associated with intravenous tubing and other implants.
The bacterium S. aureus may be transmitted between healthy individuals by skin to skin contact, or from a commonly shared item or a surface (e.g., tanning beds, gym equipment, food handling equipment, etc.) where the transfer may be made to a subsequent person who uses the shared item or touches the surface. Of great medical concern is the recognition that healthy people entering hospitals may "carry" S. aureus (e.g., on their skin, or in their noses, etc.) without any signs or symptoms that they do so. In the presence of favorable conditions (often found in but not limited to hospitals), the S. aureus can activate and cause serious infection. In addition, S. aureus can also be a source of food poisoning, often caused by a food handler contaminating the food product (e.g., meat, poultry, eggs, salads containing mayonnaise, bakery products, dairy products, etc.).
There are two categories of S. aureus based on an individual clone's susceptibility to the class of antibiotics that began with methicillin. These are methicillin susceptible S. aureus (MSSA), and methicillin resistant S. aureus (MRSA). Until only a few years ago, MRSA was most commonly found in hospitals. Now, many are also present in the noses, skin, etc. of people in the non-hospital community. Moreover, these MRSA are increasingly causing serious infections in the community. MRSA is particularly serious because very few antibiotics (e.g., vancomycin) have been shown to be uniformly effective against MRSA.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention actively surveys for the development of methicillin resistant S. aureus. In 2000, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America guidelines recommended contact isolation for patients with MRSA. In addition to the morbidity and mortality caused by MRSA, it has been estimated that each case of infection costs at least $23,000. Accordingly, many hospitals and nursing homes proactively sample patients for MRSA [Clany, M., Active Screening in High-Risk units is an effective and cost-avoidant method to reduce the rate of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in the hospital, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 27:1009-1017, 2006].
Meyer et al. (U.S. Pat. No. 4,035,238) describes the use of a broth for the detection of S. aureus that utilized mannitol as a source of carbon and DNA methyl green as an indicator. Neither of these chemicals are coagulase reactive substrates.
Rambach (U.S. Pat. No. 6,548,268) employs at least two chromogenic agents in an agar medium: 5-bromo-6-chloro-indoxyl-phosphate; and 5-bromo-4-chloro-3-indoxyl glucose in the presence of deferoxamine. An individual colony hydrolyzing these substrates will produce colors that will mix with each other and not be independent of one another.
A large number of classical culturing procedures are utilized to detect MSSA and MRSA from human, animal, food, etc. samples. They have in common a basic medium with chemical inhibitors such as 6-8% sodium chloride, potassium tetlurlte, and a variety of antibiotics. For example Stevens and Jones described the use of a trehalose-mannitol-phosphatase agar [Stevens, D L and Jones, C. Use of trehalose-mannitol-phosphatase agar to differentiate Staphylococcus epidermidis and Staphylococcus saprophyticus from other coagulase-negative staphylococci, J. of Clin. Microbiology 20:977-980, 1984]. The use of mannitol as a carbon source and salt as a selective agent into an agar known as mannitol-salt agar has been commonly used in clinical laboratories [Baird, R. M. and W. H. Lee., Media used in the detection and enumeration of Staphylococcus aureus, Int. J. Food Microbiology. 26:209-211, 1995]. Within the prior art of culturing, it is generally accepted procedure to perform coagulase tests utilizing samples of S. aureus that are isolated in a pure culture.
The procedure "S. aureus ID" [Bio Merieux, La Balme Les Grottes, France] uses an alpha-glucosidase substrate in agar to detect S. aureus. A single substrate is utilized. [Perry, J. D. et al., Evaluation of S. aureus ID, a new chromogenic agar medium for detection of Staphylococcus aureus, J. Clin. Microbiology 41: 5695-5698, 2003]. A variant of this medium, which contains added antibiotics and sodium chloride, is designed to detect MRSA [Perry et al., Development and evaluation of a chromogenic agar medium for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, J. of Clin. Micro. 42:4519-4523, 2004].
Selepak and Witebsky disclose a study evaluating the inoculum size and lot-to-lot variability of the tube coagulase test for S. aureus. Specimens were collected and isolates were generated from the bacterial colonies on agar plates. Tubes containing anticoagulated rabbit coagulase plasma were inoculated with a part of, or more than one, staphylococcal colony from the isolates. The tubes were incubated and examined for the presence of clot. According to Selepak and Witebsky, with some isolates and some lots of coagulase plasma, even a single colony [from the isolate] may not provide enough inoculum for a positive coagulase test. Selepak and Witebsky state that: "Expressed more quantitatively, at least 8 log 10 organisms per ml should be used whenever possible for each coagulase tube test. Our data further suggest that S. aureus does not grow in coagulase plasma; therefore, the incubation of coagulase plasma for 18 to 24H does not compensate for the use of small inoculum." Thus, Selepak and Witebsky indicate that it is impractical, if not impossible, to detect the presence or absence of S. aureus in first generation biological specimen samples using a direct coagulase test. [Selepak, S. T. et ai, "Inoculum Size and Lot-to-Lot Variation as Significant Variables in the Tube Coagulase Test for Staphylococcus aureus", Journal of Clin. Microbiology, November 1985, p. 835-837].
It would, therefore, be desirable to provide a test mixture and a method that can rapidly detect S. aureus directly from a sample, one that does not require a skilled technician to perform the method, one that can be performed without the need to develop isolates from the specimen (i.e., one that can be performed on a first generational sample), and one that does not require a large concentration of S. aureus organisms to be accurate.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a method and test mixture for specific detection of S. aureus bacteria in a biological, environmental, or food specimen. In the detection of S. aureus, a test mixture (which mixture may also be referred to as a "medium") is utilized that includes coagulase substrates (sometimes referred to as "coagulase reacting factors") that react specifically with coagulase produced by S. aureus to form a clot, admixed with constituents that facilitate the multiplication of S. aureus (also referred to as "growth promoting constituents"). Hence, the present method and test mixture utilize coagulase substrates that are activated by the coagulase produced by S. aureus, and the enzyme coagulase is specific to pathogenic staphylococci, as is disclosed in the Code of The Federal Register, Title 21, Chapter 1, Sub Part C, Sec. 866.2160 "Coagulase Plasma". Inhibitors and antibiotics may be included to inhibit or otherwise negatively affect competing bacterial growth, but are not required. The untreated sample (e.g., collected from a nasal swab from a person, or off of a surface, etc.) is added to the test mixture, and the inoculated test sample is incubated. If S. aureus is present within the sample, the S. aureus will multiply within the test mixture and will produce coagulase that reacts with the coagulase substrates. The reaction between the coagulase produced by the S. aureus and the coagulase substrates within the test mixture will produce a detectable clot within the test mixture in a time period typically between two and twenty-four hours, positively indicating the presence of S. aureus.
Under the present method, the clot may be dissolved to release viable S. aureus into a liquid, which liquid can then be subjected to further analyses, including but not limited to: antibiotic susceptibility tests, molecular fingerprinting, genetic analysis, etc. As will be described below in greater detail, the antibiotic cefoxitin or an inducer of the mecA gene may be included within the test mixture to enable methicillin resistant S. aureus (MRSA) specific testing within the first generational sample, or the dissolved clot mixture may be tested to ascertain the presence or absence of MRSA therein.
The test mixture is preferably prepared in a form that facilitates handling, packaging, storing, etc., of the test mixture. A dry powder that can be hydrated into liquid form is a particularly preferable form for the test mixture, but the present invention is not limited to a powder form. The test mixture may assume a liquid form, or any other form (e.g., paste, gel, etc.), preferably one that can be hydrated for use. The dry powder will also contain the micro particles referred to above.
The coagulase substrates within the test mixture may be provided within plasma, or may be provided by another substance that is operative to react with the coagulase produced by S. aureus to form a clot. Present testing indicates that rabbit plasma is a favorable source of a coagulase substrate. Other plasmas (e.g., pork plasma) may be used alternatively. Fibrinogen is another example of a source of a coagulase substrate. In those embodiments that utilize plasma as a source of a coagulase substrate, it may be preferable to add a non-plasma source of a coagulase substrate to the test mixture to ensure an adequate source of coagulase substrate within the test mixture. As an example, our testing indicates that combining fibrinogen and rabbit plasma within the test mixture is an effective means for ensuring a consistent, adequate source of coagulase substrates. An advantage of adding a material such as fibrinogen to the test mixture is that it increases the performance consistency of the test mixture, and makes the method less susceptible to variability that may occur with plasma.
The growth promoting constituents within the test mixture that facilitate the multiplication of and sustain S. aureus can be varied to suit the application. Those in the art will recognize that many different combinations of constituents, and varying relative amounts of the same constituents, can be used to provide the same functionality Growth promoting constituents include sources of nitrates and proteins, material operative to assist in the generation of nucleic acid synthesis, sources of energy for the S. aureus, sources of amino acid growth factor, and in some embodiments materials operable to help repair damaged target organisms. This list of growth promoting constituents does not represent all of the materials that can be beneficial within the test mixture, but does illustrate materials that are acceptable (e.g., vitamins, salts, minerals, inorganic moieties, etc.). The test mixture may include other constituents that benefit the performance of the test mixture.
In most applications of the present invention, it will be desirable to utilize a test mixture that includes the following: a) an effective amount of amino acids; b) an effective amount of nitrogen sources; c) an effective amount of salts; d) an effective amount of vitamins; and e) an effective amount of calcium. Those skilled in the art will recognize that natural sources of such amino acids can be used rather than pure sources. The natural sources (e.g. extract of whole organisms, such as yeast) may be in mixture form or in purified form. The natural mixtures can contain varying amounts of such amino acids and vitamins. Those skilled in the art will further recognize that many different combinations of amino acids and vitamins can be used in present invention test mixture. The medium also includes a plurality of micro particles preferably from about 0.1 micron to about 1.0 mm in diameter.
Those in the art will further recognize that carbon, nitrogen, trace elements, vitamins, amino acids and selective agents can be provided in many forms. Generally, it is preferred to have an amount of vitamins and amino acids within a predetermined range, but those in the art will recognize that the actual properties of each ingredient may be varied so that reduction in the amount of one ingredient can be compensated by an increase in the amount of another. This is particularly relevant when the essential amino acids, trace elements or vitamins of the microbes sought to be detected are known. Some ingredients may be provided in reduced amounts or deleted if they may be synthesized endogenously by the microorganism whose presence is to be determined. Salts may be provided as a source of ions upon dissociation.
The test mixture may be packaged in a container (e.g., a test tube, a container with a flat bottom wall, etc.) that facilitates the testing process. If the medium is prepared in a form that can be hydrated, the mixture can be hydrated with sterile water or non-sterile water.
To detect the presence of MSSA or MRSA within a sample, the sample is obtained from a biological, environmental, or food specimen. A sample collected using a nasal swab is an example of a first generation sample that is particularly convenient to collect and test using the present invention. Once collected, the sample is inoculated into the test mixture.
The inoculated sample is incubated under conditions favorable to facilitate the multiplication of any S. aureus that may be present within the inoculated sample. In the case of a powdered test mixture hydrated with water, the incubation may be carried out at temperatures between about 200° C. to 42° C. The combination of sequential enzyme specificity, S. aureus enhancing growth factors, and antibiotic selectivity provides multiple hurdles which prevent the competing non-target bacteria from being detected within the test period; e.g. 24 hours or less.
The present invention test and method can be used in hospital admissions, routinely in intensive care units, in nursing homes, dialysis patients, people receiving home immunosuppressive therapy, and the like. It can also be used in environmental settings (e.g., gyms, tanning salons, restaurants, etc.) where the bacteria S. aureus may be transferred from a human carrier and it can be used to test various different foods for S. aureus contamination. It will be appreciated that a substantial benefit of the present method and mixture is that they may be performed/used without the need for expensive equipment or skilled medical technologists. Another substantial benefit of the present method/mixture is that it is operable with a relatively small amount of S. aureus within the test sample; e.g., the present method/mixture has detected S. aureus in samples having concentrations of S. aureus as low as 100 CFU/ml.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
Details of the invention will become more readily apparent from the following detailed description of several embodiments of the invention when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a side elevational view of a test tube containing a powder culturing mixture which is formulated to detect the presence or absence of S. aureus in a first generation biological sample of a nasal swab;
FIG. 2 is a side elevational view of the test tube of FIG. 1, but showing the culturing mixture having been hydrated by water;
FIG. 3 is a side elevational view of the test tube FIG. 2 and showing a cotton swab inserted into the test tube to deposit a first generation biological specimen nasal swab in the medium;
FIG. 4 is a side elevational view of the test tube of FIG. 3 after the specimen has been deposited and cultured in the medium for a period of time and indicating the absence of S. aureus in the specimen; and
FIG. 5 is a side elevational view similar to FIG. 4 but showing the test tube medium after the culturing period and indicating the presence of S. aureus in the specimen.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
FIG. 1 is a side elevational view of a test tube denoted by the numeral 2 which preferably has a flat bottom 4 and a top closure 3, and which contains a dry powdered test mixture 1 which is formed in accordance with this invention for detecting the presence or absence of S. aureus in a sample; e.g., a first generational biological sample. The tube 2 is also provided with a reference line 5 which indicates the amount of water to be added to the tube 2 in order to properly hydrate the powdered mixture 1 for specimen sample testing. The drawings show the micro particles referred to above as numeral 12 in the sampling tube.
Acceptable hydrated test mixtures can be made using the following constituents in the ranges indicated, to create 15 ml of test mixture:
TABLE-US-00001 Quantity per 15 ml of Test Range per 15 ml of Constituent Mixture Test Mixture Nitrate Broth 7.5 ml 1.0 ml-9.0 ml Water 7.5 ml 1.0 ml-9.0 ml Uracil 10.0 mg 1.0 mg-20.0 mg Sodium Pyruvate 10.0 mg 1.0 mg-20.0 mg L-glutamine 20.0 mg 5.0 mg-40.0 mg Sodium Sulfite 1.0 mg 0.5 mg-2.0 mg Rabbit Plasma 100.0 mg 15.0 mg-500.0 mg Fibrinogen 100.0 mg 15.0 mg-500.0 mg Micro Particles 25.0 mg 1.0 mg-50.0 mg
The specific example of the constituent quantities per 15 ml of test mixture provided above represents a particular test mixture formulation that was tested and found to perform satisfactorily. The micro particles are preferably uncoated glass beads with a diameter in the range of about 0.01-5.0 mm. This specific example does not represent all test mixture formulations, and the present invention is not limited thereto. As stated above, those in the art will recognize that many different combinations of constituents, and varying relative amounts of the same, can be used to provide the same functionality. Hence, the present methods and mixture contemplates that a number of different constituent formulations can be made within the aforesaid ranges.
As noted in FIG. 2, the powdered mixture 1 is properly hydrated by the addition of water, preferably distilled water, to form a hydrated test mixture 6 into which the sample (e.g., carried on a nasal swab) is deposited.
First generational test samples can be collected by a variety of different techniques; e.g., a human sample can be collected by wiping a swab within the nose of a subject. Nasal swabs are a particularly convenient way of collecting a test sample, but they are not the only collection method; e.g., test samples can be collected from throat swabs, skin lesions, undamaged skin, etc. First generational environmental samples can be collected by various known methods; e.g., wiping or swabbing a surface using a dry or wet wipe/swab. Likewise, first generational food samples can be collected form the food itself, or wiping food residue from surfaces in contact with the food, etc. Once the sample is collected, it can be deposited in the hydrated test mixture 6; e.g., using the same cotton swab 8 which has been used to gather the first generation sample from the source thereof. Once the specimen sample is deposited in the test mixture 6, it is incubated within the test mixture for a period of time typically less than twenty-four hours. The incubation may occur at any temperature that is acceptable under the circumstances. After the inoculation period, the container (e.g., test tube 2) holding the inoculated test mixture can be inspected for the presence of a clot; e.g., the test tube 2 can be tilted to one side as shown in FIGS. 4 and 5 to see if the meniscus 10 of the test mixture will move or whether a clot keeps the test mixture below a reference line 5. The presence of a clot indicates that S. aureus is present in the test sample, and the absence of a clot in the inoculated test mixture indicates that S. aureus is not present in the test mixture 6, as shown in FIG. 4. In some instances, the entire inoculated test mixture will clot, and in others some liquid will remain in the container with the clot. Approximately 80% of the present tests performed using first generation nasal samples clotted within six hours when S. aureus is present in the first generation test sample.
To determine the effectiveness of the present method and mixture, a control study was performed involving sixty (60) control samples titred to contain varying amounts of MSSA, and sixty (60) control samples containing varying amounts of MRSA Standard clones of MSSA and MRSA were grown in trypticase soy broth (TSB), and were diluted by log 10 increments. The present invention test mixture was inoculated with a set amount (0.1 ml) of each the control samples. A first set of the inoculated test mixtures were incubated at 35° C., and second set of the inoculated test mixtures were incubated at 23° C. Of the sixty control test samples, all were positive for S. aureus in five hours, forty-nine (49) were positive in four hours; thirty-six (36) were positive in three hours, and twenty-four (24) in two hours. Data detailing the relationship between the concentration of the inoculum, and incubation temperature was as follows:
TABLE-US-00002 S. aureus CFU/ml Clot at 35° C. Clot at 23° C. 7 log 10 2.0 hr 3.0 hr 6 log 10 3.0 hr 3.0 hr 5 log 10 4.0 hr 4.0 hr 4 log 10 6.0 hr 7.0 hr 3 log 10 10.0 hr 11.5 hr 2 log 10 15.0 hr 21.0 hr
The concentration of S. aureus within the clots were all at least 5 log 10.
In addition to the above described control study, a clinical study was performed using fifty samples. The samples were taken from a medical intensive care unit by culturing patient nares. The patients were not identified, nor were the results of any standard culture available (FDA protocol). The samples were plated on mannitol salt agar (MSA) using swabs. After plating the samples on MSA, the swabs were used to inoculate the test mixture. Clotting was observed for each hour for twenty-four hours. There were no false positives.
TABLE-US-00003 Number of Samples Detected Positive Number of Samples Number of Samples for Identified Detected Positive Detected Positive Bacteria by for Identified for Method Both MSA Method Bacteria by Present Identified Bacteria Bacteria and Present Method Method Alone by MSA Alone MSSA 9 2 -- MRSA 13 2 1
When a clot was observed, a portion of the clot was removed and dissolved. A quantitative count of CFU/ml was performed from the dissolved clot material.
In some embodiments, the present method/mixture may include means to distinguish between MSSA and MRSA. For example, cefoxitin in a concentration of about 10-100 mg/ml or another MecA gene inhibitor can be included in the test mixture. Any MSSA present within the test sample will be killed, but MRSA will not. Thus, if a clot does form, the S. aureus in the test sample will have been shown to be MRSA. If a clot forms and conforms the presence of MRSA, the clot can then be dissolved in order to perform further analyses of the S. aureus bacterium detected. In some embodiments, a metabolizable substrate or substrates may be included to enhance the specificity of the test. These may include a hydrolyzable substrate, sugar, or amino acids. When metabolized by the target microbe, a sensible signal is produced that provides an additional indication that the target microbe is present, thus enhancing specificity.
It will be appreciated that the test of this invention is significantly simpler to perform than the standard tests which are currently in use, as typified by the coagulase plasma procedure suggested by Remel Products, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Lenexa, Kans., U.S.A. The Remel procedure, which is approved by the FDA and appears in the Code of the Federal Register as an exempt test, requires a two step test for S. aureus wherein microbe colonies from the specimen are first grown in an agar medium and screened for suspected S. aureus colonies using a gram stain and catalase slide test before proceeding to a second coagulase test step. There are complications relating to the Remel type of coagulase test, namely: 1) colonies for coagulase testing must not be picked from media containing high concentrations of salt as false positive results may occur; 2) in the first step slide test procedure, the organism/saline suspension must be observed for auto-agglutination prior to the addition of the coagulase plasma to prevent a false positive test reading; and 3) false negative coagulase reactions may occur if the test culture is older that 18-24 hours, of if there is scant growth.
The addition within the present invention of micro particles having a size in the range of about 0.1 micron to about 1.0 mm provides localities where the bacteria agglomerate, thereby significantly decreasing the clotting time, and providing a significantly stronger clot. The micro particles can be glass, agar, agarose, plastic or some other similar material. The micro particles can be used in other bacteria tests to accelerate the production of an end result. Such other tests can include a vancomycin-resistant enterococcus test; a Group Streptococcus test; a test for hemolytic E. coli; and a test for Listeria monocytogenes, to name a few. These tests are all preformed in a liquid broth-type reagent mixture and do not necessarily involve clotting of the broth.
The micro particles increase the surface area in the liquid broth and allow microbes that multiply in vitro to establish a biofilm. In effect, the micro particles act in an analogous way as a catalyst does in a chemical reaction. In the microbiology area, the micro particles provide multiple attachment surfaces for the microbes to "establish residence". Microbes prefer surfaces to grow and multiply on rather than being free is a liquid environment. The microbes experience quorum sensing, which accelerates the generation of a biofilm. The biofilm is produced when the microbes multiply, and it yields colonies of microbes which are held together by external capsules of the microbes which, in the broad context, are surface components, such as polysaccharides, proteins and/or mixtures thereof. The micro particles are inert, and may be colloidal, in suspension, or not in suspension. Any materials or structures that encourage the growth of microbes on a biofilm are highly preferred for use in this invention.
While micro particles are a preferred embodiment of the invention, any structure such as a rod or rods, that increases the surface area inside of the sampling vessel so as to stimulate and accelerate the formation of microbial biofilms that will hasten the growth of the target microbes can be used.
While the invention has been described with respect to specific embodiments, those skilled in the art will readily appreciate that various changes and/or modifications can be made to the invention.
Patent applications by Stephen C. Edberg, Longboat Key, FL US
Patent applications by PILOTS POINT LLC
Patent applications in class Streptococcus; staphylococcus
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The great exception to this rule is a solemn and beautiful phrase that has almost passed out of currency: Joined the majority. It came to English from the Latin of Petronius: Abiit ad plures is found in The Satyricon. Whole ages of death are contained in the phrase.
Join the majority avoids die (if that was your aim) whilst meditating on the eternal gluttony of the grave. It takes a miserable fact and clothes it in a greater and more miserable truth.
It is true. There is an utterly erroneous notion that the majority of all humans who have ever existed are alive today. In fact, about six percent are. The majority is 94%. Facts and figures can be found by following this link. The score currently stands at 6 billion living: 100 billion dead; or as Dante/Eliot said in the Inferno/Waste Land,
I had not thought death had undone so many.
si lunga tratta [so long a line]
di gente, ch'io non avrei mai creduto [of people, that I'd never have believed]
che morte tanta n'avesse disfatta. [that death had undone so many]
The only euphemism for death I like (if it is a euphemism) is Shakespeare's "precious friends hid in death's dateless night". Dateless night is wonderful enough (reminds me of Catullus' nox est perpetua, una dormienda) but the enigmatic idea of their having been hidden is what makes the line. As though death were squirreling people away in the dark. Perhaps it has something to do with Cleopatra's running "into the secret house of death."
I once got a Shakespeare concordance and went through every single reference to Death. I discovered that in Shakespeare personified Death is a rotting corpse who tends to eat men and seduce women, which is a trifle freaky.
He is too good and fair for Death and me:
Whom I myself embrace, to set him free.
- Girl in All's Well That Ends Well
O proud Death,
What feast is toward in thine eternal cell
That thou so many princes at a shot
So bloodily hast struck.
- Chap in Hamlet
Falstaff says "swifter than he that gibbets on the brewer's bucket", which doesn't appear to have anything to do with death at all. In fact it's pretty damned obscure to modern eyes because bucket is being used with the old sense of a cross-beam. Butcher's used to tie animals by their feet to a cross-beam and then kill them. The animals would writhe and kick and that's how we get the phrase kick the bucket.
Soldiers wittering on about how when the war's over they'll go back home, buy a little plot of land and raise cattle, is the origin of bought the farm. At last he's out of all this.
Anyway, given the 100 billion to six majority talked of earlier, it's worthwhile remembering G.K. Chesterton's line "Tradition means giving a vote to most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead." So join the unworking majority.
I have rambled too long. I was going to finish on a frightfully witty political joke, but I can't work it out. Something about a hanged parliament.
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Museum Barberini (Potsdam, Germany): The Shape of Freedom: International Abstraction after 1945
- Barnett Newman 1905–1970
- Oil paint on canvas
- Support: 2429 × 2029 mm
- Purchased 1968
Technique and condition
Painted on cotton duck, this painting has a traditional construction. The fabric is tacked to an expandable stretcher. It is sized then primed with white oil paint. The artist laid in a thin wash of crimson oil paint, then, when dry, using masking tape, marked out two crimson stripes, one to the far left and the other a thin strip on the right. Brown paint was brushed evenly over the crimson up to the tape and then clarified with a knife to form a crisp burred edge. The crimson stripe was deepened in a similar manner, by masking off the brown paint with tape. However, the tape did not stick well to the partially dry oil paint and red brush strokes escaped beneath the tape onto the brown, leaving a flickering edge. Taking more brown paint, the artist re-defined the edge by cancelling the renegade strokes.
One year later, Barnett Newman altered the composition by adding a central red stripe. In preparation, the brown paint was rubbed down, in some places down to the cotton canvas, now apparent only through slight differences in texture. A red stripe was painted on top using the same technique as before. The new stripe is slightly glossier than the rest of the painting which exhibits subtle differences in sheen across the surface.
The painting is unvarnished. Originally the edges were probably covered by pale brown tape. The painting is unframed.
The painting is in good condition. Careful handling helps to protect the delicate surface while the use of a storage frame enables the painting to be protected when not on display.
Mary A. Bustin
Barnett Newman 1905-1970
Inscribed 'Barnett Newman | 1951 + 52' b.l. and 'ADAM', '[arrow pointing upwards] TOP | Barnett Newman | 1951 | + 52', '[arrow pointing upwards] TOP | Barnett Newman | 1951 + 52 | "ADAM"' on back of canvas
Oil on canvas, 95 5/8 x 79 7/8 (243 x 203)
Purchased from Mr and Mrs Ben Heller (Grant-in-Aid) with the aid of a donation from S. Herbert Meller through the American Federation of Arts 1968
Prov: Mr and Mrs Ben Heller, New York (purchased from the artist 1957)
Exh: Barnett Newman, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, April-May 1951 (no catalogue); Die neue amerikanische Malerei, Kunsthalle, Basle, April-May 1958 (54, repr.); La Nuova Pittura Americana, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Milan, June 1958 (54, repr.); La Nueva Pintura Americana, Museo Nacional de Arte Contempor neo, Madrid, July-August 1958 (53); Die neue amerikanische Malerei, Hochschule für bildende Kunste, Berlin, September-October 1958 (54, repr.); Jong Amerika Schildert, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, October-November 1958 (54); La Nouvelle Peinture Américaine, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, December 1958-January 1959 (54, repr.); Jackson Pollock et la Nouvelle Peinture Américaine, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, January-February 1959 (53); The New American Painting, Tate Gallery, February-March 1959 (53, repr.); The New American Painting, Museum of Modern Art, New York, May-September 1959 (53, repr. in colour); The Collection of Mr and Mrs Ben Heller, Museum of Modern Art exhibition circulating in the USA, 1961 (works not numbered, repr. in colour); Barnett Newman, Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 1971-January 1972 (35, repr. in accompanying book by Thomas B. Hess, cf. below); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, March-May 1972 (30, repr.); Tate Gallery, June-August 1972 (30, repr.); Grand Palais, Paris, October-December 1972 (30, repr.); Untitled 25.10.73, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, October-December 1973 (no catalogue)
Lit: Thomas B. Hess, Barnett Newman (New York 1969), p.66; Thomas B. Hess, Barnett Newman (New York 1971), pp.48, 52, 56-7, 78, 80, 82-5, 92, repr. p.79
Repr: Art in America, XL, No.2, 1960, p.52 in colour; The Tate Gallery (London 1969), p.182 in colour
The last two paintings that Newman completed before his second one-man exhibition at the Betty Parsons Gallery in April-May 1951 were 'Eve' (coll. E.J. Power, London [subsequently Tate Gallery T03081]) and this picture called 'Adam'. At that time 'Adam' only had two stripes: the soft-edged reddish stripe down the left-hand side and the narrow 'zip' down the right. However in the following year Newman added the broad heavy red stripe down the left centre, which bends slightly towards the bottom. As a result the picture was given the double dating 1951 + 52.
'Eve', which is dated 1950, is a slightly narrower painting 172.5cm wide which has a field of bright red interrupted only by a narrow hard band of purple down the right-hand edge. The two pictures therefore do not have a great deal in common apart from the fact that both have bands at the sides, and Newman does not seem to have thought of them as pendants.
When asked by David Sylvester in a taped interview of 1967 to explain the significance of his titles such as 'Adam', Newman replied that his works were titled after they were completed but that he tried to choose a title which evoked the emotional content, a kind of metaphor which had some correspondence to the feeling of the picture.
'Adam' was one of a number of Old Testament titles that he used from about 1946 onwards. Having started to paint fluently again after an interruption of some five years, and trying to make a fresh start and re-think painting again from the beginning, he tended to choose titles relating to the act of creation ('The Beginning', 'Genetic Moment'), Old Testament prophets ('Abraham', 'Joshua') and so on. Adam as the first man was in keeping with this. At the same time the word 'adam' also means in Hebrew man or mankind and derives from the word 'adamah' meaning earth. The Hebrew word 'adom' means red. Thus there is a connection with the two colours in the painting, earthy brown and red. Annalee Newman confirmed to the compiler in June 1972 that she had heard her husband talk about the word 'adam' and the Hebrew meanings red and earth, but that he had never discussed these with her in relation to the painting. It would appear, as Thomas B. Hess has pointed out, that his titles often had hidden meanings which were intended to hint at mystical religious experiences and Kabbalist thought.
Mrs Newman said that Ben Heller, the first owner of this painting, was introduced to Newman by Jackson Pollock. He bought 'Adam' and 'Queen of the Night I' direct from the studio in 1957. 'Vir Heroicus Sublimis' was bought later.
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The Road to MedTech Innovation: Conception, Valuation and Protection
Physicians with expertise in their field of practice often have plenty of novel ideas, but they are not sure how to evaluate the validity of them or how to develop them into patient care products. Ideas are the start of every innovation.
However, many factors must align for an idea to become a marketable product, including the availability of the technology needed for its development, the interest of the end user and payers, the market size and expected revenue, as well as the spending priorities of the healthcare system.
This article will go over the process of evaluating the novelty of a new idea and protecting the inventor’s rights, while subsequent articles of this series will focus on the other steps needed to develop a novel idea into a marketable healthcare product.
Conduct a General and Intellectual Property Search
First, you should find out if your idea has already been developed by someone else in the past, and if not, whether you can own it. Inventors should start by performing a general internet search to look for similar products in development by others.
The next step is to perform an intellectual property search using a web engine such as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) database, the European Patent Office (Espacenet), or Google Patents. The patent document is quite wordy and complex; however, one can identify the main characteristics of an invention by reading the claims section and reviewing the included drawings.
Another component of the patent search is related to the “freedom to operate,” which is concerned with whether your idea has been conceived in the past and marketed for other purposes.
For example, if you have invented a medical instrument that functions in a way similar to a previously patented aerospace device, then you might have to reach out to the entity that holds that patent and obtain a “freedom to operate” letter after you have filed your patent.
This type of search is labor intensive, costly and usually requires the help of an experienced patent attorney. The good news is that a freedom to operate search is typically not required until the later stages of product development.
Protect Your Rights
Filing a patent claim is the standard process used to protect the legal rights of the inventors and their institution. The USPTO allows an inventor to submit a preliminary version of the patent, called a “provisional patent,” that serves as a placeholder for priority date, with an understanding that a non-provisional patent claim will be filed within a year to keep the initial priority date.
While a provisional patent is a simple document describing the art and can be prepared by the inventors, writing a non-provisional patent application is more complex and should be prepared by a patent attorney.
Many inventors prefer to involve a patent attorney early in the process to prepare a comprehensive provisional patent document that is similar to a non-provisional patent and can be easily converted to one. Inventors may decide to file an international patent to protect their rights in other countries based on their needs and after studying the cost effectiveness.
If the inventors’ institution decides to preserve its rights and file the patent on behalf of the inventors, the institution usually pays for the expenses and will be listed as the “assignee.” Otherwise, the inventors can request a “release of rights” to file the patent independently.
The patent office will evaluate the patentability of the invention based on three main components: novelty, none-obviousness and usefulness. Inventors should consult with their technology transfer office for advice before discussing their invention with other individuals to address the need to have a signed non-disclosure agreement (NDA) in place.
Inventors should refrain from discussing unprotected ideas in any public format (lecture, journal publication, etc.) as this can result in their inability to file a patent claim in the future.
In summary, ideas are valuable assets, but they constitute only one element in the complex process of technology development. It is crucial to establish the novelty of an idea and take the right steps to protect it before spending the time and effort needed to develop it.
Your idea might have been conceived by someone else in the past but failed to make it to an advanced stage due to the lack of interest, inadequate skills and resources or technology shortcomings at that time.
If you think your idea is novel, feasible and fulfills an unmet need to a sizable group of patients, you should proceed with the next step in evaluating your idea as a potential marketable product.
This article was authored by Ahmed M. Selim, MD, an FIT at New York University. Twitter: @DrAhmed_Selim.
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Detection: Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. dieffenbachiae on anthurium.
Matrices: Bacterial culture or plant extracts, symptomatic and asymptomatic leaf.
Other information: kit developed and optimized by Qualiplante according to Robène-Soustrade et al. (2006). Under CIRAD license.
The PCR primers used in this Nested End-Point PCR method were selected from the SCAR sequence of Xad strain LMG695 and complemented some bases of the SCAR sequence.
This method is referred in the Appendix 4 of the PM7/23 (2) Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. dieffenbachiae, European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization Bulletin (2009) 39, 393-402.
The detection threshold obtained with pure cultures or plant extracts (103 CFU ml-1) allowed detection of the pathogen from symptomless contaminated plant. Internal validation data of the method are available on the ANSES/LSV/MA 028 – Version 3, September 2019 realized in 2008 by ANSES. The performance characteristics obtained are:
Kit referred in ANSES/LSV/MA 028.
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The Santa Muerte cult “is the celebration of devastation and of hell.” – Gianfranco Cardinal Ravasi
Veiled by the façade of Catholic imagery, reporter Thomas Williams of the Breitbart.com news portal is citing that the Mexican nation is seeing an alarming spike in “Death Cult, Demonic Possession, Exorcisms.” Popularly known as Santa Muerte (Holy Death), almost one in every ten Mexicans is an adherent to the worship-of-everything-evil death cult.
As reported by Williams;
The incidence of exorcisms and Satanic deliverance rites in Mexico has risen sharply in recent months, reportedly driven by the growth of the cult to Santa Muerte, a personification of death.
One cleric who regularly performs exorcisms, Pastor Hugo Alvarez, attributes the rise of demonic possessions to increased dabbling in the occult, including black magic, santería, witchcraft, sorcery, Satanism and especially the cult of Santa Muerte.
Alvarez, author of Deliverance: A Ministry for the Church, said that “Santa Muerte is one of the trickiest and most dangerous practices, since they present a saint, but there’s a demon behind it.”
“Satan’s greatest deceit is making people believe he doesn’t exist,” he said.
According to José Gil Olmos, journalist for the Mexican magazine El Proceso, “the cult of Santa Muerte is the most important popular devotion in the past half century, with no other devotion growing so fast.”
Estimates of the current number of Santa Muerte devotees “range from 8 to 10 million,” Gil Olmos said.
In his visit to Mexico last February, Pope Francis denounced the devotion to Santa Muerte, telling the Mexican bishops that he was particularly concerned about “those many persons who, seduced by the empty power of the world, praise illusions and embrace their macabre symbols to commercialize death.”
Andrew Chesnut, professor of religious studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, and author of Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint, said that the Pope’s remarks were “an obvious reference to the saint of death.”
As “the fastest growing new religious devotion in the Americas,” Chesnut noted that the Pope “called out Santa Muerte as a dangerous symbol of narco-culture.”
“The Church views veneration of the Bony Lady as tantamount to Satanism since death is the antithesis of the eternal life that Jesus Christ made possible to believers,” Chesnut said.
The President of the Pontifical Council for Culture, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, has also condemned the cult of the skeleton saint as “sinister and infernal” and called for both Church and society to mobilize against devotion to Saint Death.
“It’s not religion just because it’s dressed up like religion; it’s a blasphemy against religion,” he said.
“Everyone is needed to put the brakes on this phenomenon, including families, churches and society in its totality,” Ravasi said, adding that the Santa Muerte cult “is the celebration of devastation and of hell.” | <urn:uuid:4fa69522-d6d7-4db8-acc5-1a70d46bf1ad> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://conservativefiringline.com/santa-muerte-mexico-sees-sharp-rise-satanism-demonic-possessions-excorcisms/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.932219 | 704 | 1.789063 | 2 |
This chapter explores gender differences in Nigerian men and women’s leadership practices and collective entrepreneurial behaviour. The rationale stems from the fact that very little is known about leadership and collective entrepreneurial behaviour of Nigerian entrepreneurs; as such, the chapter adds to the literature on leadership and entrepreneurship in the Nigerian context. The review for the study is drawn from a combination of the entrepreneurship and leadership literature, with particular reference to transactional, transformational leadership styles and collective entrepreneurship. Data for the study were obtained from a face-to-face questionnaire survey with 360 male and female entrepreneurs in Lagos, Nigeria. The findings show remarkable differences and unique similarities in the leadership and entrepreneurial behaviour adopted by men and women. The study has several theoretical implications. It helps fill to gaps in the literature on leadership and entrepreneurship in Nigeria, thereby providing a theoretical perspective on which future research can be developed.
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The unprecedented phenomenon of growing migratory flows towards Europe is expected to last for decades due to various geopolitical dynamics in the neighbourhood and beyond (mainly Middle East and North Africa, Sahel, Horn of Africa): security challenges and regional instability, deterioration of economic and social environment, poverty and unemployment, climate change, etc. The migratory challenge is seriously jeopardising the fundamental pillars of European integration (e.g. integrity of the Schengen area) and solidarity among Member States.
The complexity of such a challenge is linked to the mixed nature of the flows (both refugees and economic migrants). Actions taken in the Eastern route have to deal with mixed flows with a greater component of refugees due to the civil war in Syria. Flows through the Central/Western Mediterranean route are composed mainly by economic migrants and are expected to last in the medium-long term. The EU should be ready to cope with both challenges (the second is expected to last for decades) as well as with the opening of other possible routes (eg. north-east).
At the same time, if well managed, migration may represent an opportunity both for the EU and partner countries, in terms of economic growth and development, and for an ageing Europe in terms of sustainability of social security systems.
- LESSONS LEARNED
Most recently a number of initiatives and legislative proposals have been discussed at EU level to address the challenge, mainly focusing on the EU internal dimension, such as: the establishment of the European Border Guard; the reform of the Common European Asylum System which should feed into ambitious legislative proposals; the Decisions on relocation adopted in 2015; the intention of the Commission to not take into account the costs for the management of the current crisis under the Stability and Growth Pact; the Communication “Back to Schengen” and the recent proposals on “Smart Borders”.
However such measures only constitute components, even though important ones, of the more comprehensive response needed which so far does not yet directly address the external dimension of our migration policy. In order to be effective such internal measures need to be complemented with a stronger joint external action. The outburst of the migratory crisis highlighted the need to overcome fragmentation of available EU external action tools and to upgrade the Global Approach to Migration and Mobility, revise the EU-ACP partnership, and further develop the pathways offered by the Valletta Action Plan, by the EU-Turkey agreement and by the existing Dialogues the EU is promoting at regional level (such as the Khartoum and Rabat Processes).
In order to design a reinforced external action strategy on migration it is urgent to carry out a comprehensive analysis of all existing instruments and actions with the aim to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of the existing framework and consequently reorient the EU programming and planning.
The recent EU/Turkey agreement represents the first attempt to initiate a large-scale cooperation with a third country and has shown that it is possible to use existing tools and budget in an innovative way.
All existing initiatives and instruments in the field of external action should be directed (in a coherent way with the internal ones) to developing an active strategy, focussing first and foremost on African countries of origin and transit.
- THE WAY FORWARD: “THE FAIR GRAND BARGAIN”
The first step of the strategy should concern the identification of key partner countries to cooperate with on migratory issues and the definition of the kind of cooperation to develop with each of them. A matrix should be defined, on the basis of different migratory features of each country (origin, transit, origin and transit) and be adapted according to the characteristics of the country (e.g: economic and social trends, security, climate change, etc.). The Country Fiches prepared by the Commission and the EEAS are a good starting point and an example of interinstitutional cooperation which is much needed to improve our approach. Such a mapping should be accompanied by a thorough needs assessment to be carried out together with the third country, in a genuine spirit of co-ownership, and should become the basis for Country Specific Action Plans for an enhanced Partnership.
The EU should upgrade its commitment on priorities identified by the third country, while the latter should upgrade its commitment on priorities identified by the EU.
3.1 The EU may offer:
* Investment Projects with a high social and infrastructural impact to be identified together with the partner country as a crucial incentive for enhancing cooperation with the EU. To that end, programming of external action financial instruments (EDF, DCI, ENI, etc…) should be reoriented and a new EU Fund for Investments in third countries should be established.
* “EU-Africa bonds” to facilitate the access of African countries to capital markets (with a medium-to-long-term perspective in order to ensure capital availability for growth and sustainable prosperity schemes), as well as other innovative financing initiatives (facilitating remittances and their re-investment and blending mechanisms, etc.), in synergy with the EIB1 and other European and international financial organizations.
* Cooperation on security: mainstreaming migration (border management/control, customs, criminal justice, management of migrants and refugees in line with international standards) in the mandate of existing and future CSDP missions in Africa (Sahel; a reflection could also be conducted for the Horn of Africa). The logical next step in this process would be a regional grouping of missions to better manage a phenomenon that, by definition, has a “cross-border” dimension. Support should also be ensured to existing regional processes aimed at regional cooperation in security and migration domain (e.g. the G5 Sahel). This approach should go alongside the practical implementation of the Capacity Building for Security and Development concept (“CBSD”), coupling training with adequate equipment.
* Legal migration opportunities, building upon the pillars set out at the Tampere European Council in 1999, as an incentive that could include: entry quotas for workers, information on job opportunities in Europe for third countries nationals, pre-departure measures (including language and vocational training) in collaboration with European companies ready to employ manpower from third countries, matching of demand and supply of jobs, professional and social integration in the host Member States, Erasmus Plus programmes for students and researchers. Initiatives on circular migration as well as south-to-south migration opportunities should be further explored.
* Resettlement schemes as compensation for the burden on those countries that engage in establishing national asylum systems in line with international standards.
3.2 The EU may ask:
* Commitment on effective Border Control and reduction of flows towards Europe. The EU should help with “capacity building” initiatives and supply of equipment and technologies. Third countries should also engage in Search and Rescue activities. The European Border Guard, within its new mandate, has to step up the cooperation with third countries and have a coordinating role.
* Cooperation on returns/readmissions, focusing on operational agreements, reciprocal posting of liaison officers in third countries and Member States to speed up identification and issuing of travel documents. The EU should fund these secondments as well as reintegration programmes for returnees. The third country should accept repatriations also via charter flights organized by individual Member States or by the European Border Guard. The EU should provide assistance in the development of biometric databases and IT systems for civil registers. Development of readmission cooperation among third countries should be supported by the EU. The EU should promote a coherent revision of the EU-ACP partnership (post-Cotonou) in line with EU priorities on migration, including the full implementation of obligations under art. 13.5 of the Cotonou agreement.
* Management of migration and refugee flows: third countries should be supported in establishing a system of reception and management of migratory flows (including infrastructures and logistics), which should foresee careful on-site screening of refugees and economic migrants, coupled with resettlement measures to Europe for those in need of international protection and returns for irregular migrants.
* Establishment of asylum systems: the EU should support third countries in establishing national systems, in line with international standards, which offer on-site protection (“safe harbours”) to those in need. The experience of relevant international organizations such as UNHCR and IOM could be used to help third countries to establish reception centres for refugees, financed by the EU.
* To strengthen the fight against trafficking in human beings and smuggling of migrants also through joint police and judicial cooperation.
To implement this approach, the new European Border Guard (in particular the new Office for Returns) should develop a plan (already before the entry into force of the Regulation) for joint EU return operations to be financed with the EU budget and for supporting return operations from third countries of transit to countries of origin (where cooperation on readmission is in place). The possibility for Member States having privileged relations with specific third countries to lead and organize (with the support of the Agency) joint return operations should be explored. The EU should use in an effective way its network of Delegations, the new Border Guard and all Common Security Defense Policy instruments. This effort could be complemented by contributions from Member States.
All EU and MS existing security, foreign and development policy instruments should be strategically combined to maintain a constant European law enforcement presence in the Saharan belt with the objective of formally training, equipping, assisting and cooperating on security with countries in the region (border control, joint patrolling, irregular migration and trafficking, terrorism, drugs, organised crime, etc.), while informally improving our early warning and prevention mechanisms.
3.3 The “Migration Compact” approach should be financed through:
- Reorienting of programming of external action financial instruments (EDF, DCI, ENI, etc…).
- A new financial “Instrument for the external action in the field of migration” (IEAM)2 to be established within the EU budget and operate in synergy with AMIF and ISF. In the meantime, the EU should increase resources available under the Emergency Africa Trust Fund in support of a EU-Africa Program for prosperity, security and migration, building on the Valletta Action Plan and make use of regional migration dialogues (such as the Khartoum and Rabat Processes) to ensure African ownership.
- “Common EU Migration Bonds” to be issued to fund the migration management in Member States and to finance the “Migration Compact” goals.
- A new EU Fund for Investments in third countries to finance sustainable investments in the region and attract European investors, including through blending structures and operations by the Commission and the EIB.
In this context, the stabilization of major transit countries, such as Libya, is a strategic priority of the first order also to cope with migration and refugee flows. At the EU level, we will need to step up our partnership with the Libyan government, while engaging in targeted capacity-building programs aimed at bolstering the Government’s control over its territory and law-enforcement capacity.
The EU should ensure the best possible use of EUNAVFOR MED Sophia and its capacity in contributing to the disruption of the business model of human smuggling and trafficking networks in the Central Mediterranean, thus contributing to Libyan and regional security. When the necessary conditions will be met, different possible options and tasks can be included in the Operation’s mandate, moving it to new phases and tasks, including the training of the Libyan Coastguard.
In addition the EU should offer Libya security sector support, including advice and capacity building in the fields of police and criminal justice, through a civilian CSDP mission, focusing as well on border management and assisting Libyan authorities in their efforts to fight terrorism and improve management of migration flows.
To this end, UN and EU efforts should aim at supporting the management in Libyan territory of migratory flows, also through careful screening of refugees and economic migrants, coupled with resettlement measures for those in need of international protection and return for irregular migrants.
- See European Council Conclusions, 17-18 March 2016, doc. 12/1/16.
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The Heroes or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children
Page: 56Then out and spoke the magic bough which stood upon the Argo’s beak, ‘Because Father Zeus is angry, all this has fallen on you; for a cruel crime has been done on board, and the sacred ship is foul with blood.’
At that some of the heroes cried, ‘Medeia is the murderess. Let the witch-woman bear her sin, and die!’ And they seized Medeia, to hurl her into the sea, and atone for the young boy’s death; but the magic bough spoke again, ‘Let her live till her crimes are full. Vengeance waits for her, slow and sure; but she must live, for you need her still. She must show you the way to her sister Circe, who lives among the islands of the West. To her you must sail, a weary way, and she shall cleanse you from your guilt.’
Then all the heroes wept aloud when they heard the sentence of the oak; for they knew that a dark journey lay before them, and years of bitter toil. And some upbraided the dark witch-woman, and some said, ‘Nay, we are her debtors still; without her we should never have won the fleece.’ But most of them bit their lips in silence, for they feared the witch’s spells.
And now the sea grew calmer, and the sun shone out once more, and the heroes thrust the ship off the sand-bank, and rowed forward on their weary course under the guiding of the dark witch-maiden, into the wastes of the unknown sea.
Whither they went I cannot tell, nor how they came to Circe’s isle. Some say that they went to the westward, and up the Ister [130a] stream, and so came into the Adriatic, dragging their ship over the snowy Alps. And others say that they went southward, into the Red Indian Sea, and past the sunny lands where spices grow, round Æthiopia toward the West; and that at last they came to Libya, and dragged their ship across the burning sands, and over the hills into the Syrtes, where the flats and quicksands spread for many a mile, between rich Cyrene and the Lotus-eaters’ shore. But all these are but dreams and fables, and dim hints of unknown lands.
But all say that they came to a place where they had to drag their ship across the land nine days with ropes and rollers, till they came into an unknown sea. And the best of all the old songs tells us how they went away toward the North, till they came to the slope of Caucasus, where it sinks into the sea; and to the narrow Cimmerian Bosphorus, [130b] where the Titan swam across upon the bull; and thence into the lazy waters of the still Mæotid lake. [130c] And thence they went northward ever, up the Tanais, which we call Don, past the Geloni and Sauromatai, and many a wandering shepherd-tribe, and the one-eyed Arimaspi, of whom old Greek poets tell, who steal the gold from the Griffins, in the cold Riphaian hills. [131a] | <urn:uuid:dd15dd83-ff9b-4b21-b52a-526f2eeb28df> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.greekmythology.com/Books/the_heroes_or_greek_fairy_tales_for_my_children/56/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719646.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00127-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960863 | 719 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Sea Buckthorn plant (Hippophae rhamnoides) is a rare species of fruit. It is in the family Elaeagnaceae and is native to Europe and Asia. The plant is used for soil and wildlife conservation but also produces some tasty, tart (but citrusy) berries high in nutrient value. Also called Seaberry plants, Buckthorn has many species, but they all bear common characteristics. Read on for more Sea Buckthorn information so you can decide if this plant is right for you.
Sea Buckthorn Information
It is always fascinating to go to the farmer’s market and check out new and unique cultivars of fruit that can be found there. Seaberries are occasionally found whole but more often crushed into a jam. They are unusual fruits introduced to the United States in 1923.
Sea Buckthorn is hardy to USDA zone 3 and has remarkable drought and saline tolerance. Growing Sea Buckthorn is relatively easy and the plant has few pest or disease issues.
The majority of Sea Buckthorn plant’s habitat is in northern Europe, China, Mongolia, Russia, and Canada. It is a soil stabilizer, wildlife food and cover, repairs desert areas and is a source of commercial products.
Plants may grow as shrubs of less than 2 feet in height or trees of nearly 20 feet tall. The branches are thorny with silvery green, lance-shaped leaves. You need a separate plant of the opposite sex to produce flowers. These are yellow to brown and on terminal racemes.
The fruit is an orange drupe, round and 1/3 to ¼ inch long. The plant is a major food source for several moths and butterflies. In addition to food, the plant is also used to make face creams and lotions, nutritional supplements and other cosmetic products. As a food, it is commonly used pies and jams. Seaberry plants also contribute to making an excellent wine and liquor.
Growing Sea Buckthorn
Choose a sunny location for planting Sea Buckthorn trees. In low light conditions, the harvest will be scarce. They offer ornamental interest, as the berries will persist through winter.
The plant has an aggressive basal shoot and may sucker, so use caution when planting Sea Buckthorn trees near the home foundation or driveway. The plant is considered invasive in some regions. Check your region and make sure it is not considered an aggressive non-native species before planting.
Prune plants as needed to expose as much terminal area as possible to the sun. Keep the plant evenly moist and feed in spring with a ratio higher in phosphorus than nitrogen.
The only real insect pest is the Japanese beetle. Remove by hand or use an approved organic pesticide.
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Louisville, located on the Kentucky-Ohio border, is Kentucky’s largest city, the home of the Kentucky Derby and home to the Louisville Slugger Museum, which profiles the professional baseball batmaker. The city also used to be a major port on the Ohio River. When it comes to golf, the city has more than 10 public courses, many of which are owned and operated by the city, along with a couple of daily fee courses.
The City of Louisville owns and operates a network of public golf courses throughout the city. There are nine courses in all (six 18-hole courses and three nine-hole courses), and the city’s Web site says that each course has its own pro shop, golf associations, and junior programs. These courses can also help you get your USGA handicap. Through the city’s golf Web site, you can sign up for updates and discounts by e-mail. Plus, each year the city has a Grand Slam Golf Giveaway, which awards prizes such as free rounds, cart passes and lessons.
Daily Fee Courses
Just two daily fee courses are inside the city limits of Louisville, though there are other options outside the city limits and across the border in Indiana. Quail Ridge is a David Pfaff design that opened in 1990. The course features 27 holes that are cut out of forestland, and they use trees as natural defenses. The East nine is the longest, playing at 3,512 yards from the back tees. But each nine features five different tee placements. Indian Springs Golf Course, designed by Kingsley Stratton, opened in 1994. The course features water on several holes and is built to test a player’s accuracy.
The City of Louisville has recently hosted the Ryder Cup, two PGA Championships, one Senior PGA Championship and a PGA Club Professional championship. Louisville is also the hometown of two former PGA Touring pros, Bobby Nichols and Frank Beard. But one of the city’s municipal courses was the home of an auspicious moment in the career of one of golf’s legends. Seneca was the site of Gary Player’s first professional victory in the US, in the 1958 Derby City Open.
Caring for the Environment
Charlie Vettiner Golf Course is the only public course in the city of Louisville certified as an Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary by Audubon International. AI helps golf courses in the US adopt conservation and wildlife protection measures, and certification means that Charlie Vettiner protects habitat, water quality, and the environment while allowing its clients to play the course.
The 17th hole at Indian Springs is a narrow par-4 that features water all the way down the right side, putting players that leave their drive out to the right in jeopardy of a high score. Making things worse is a narrow fairway, trees along both sides and two greenside bunkers. Of the 27 holes at Quail Chase, the ninth hole at the East course is a risk-reward type of hole. It plays only 381 yards, but the hole doglegs right and is guarded by water down the right hand side. A good drive puts you in line for a short second shot to a green guarded by a large greenside bunker. An errant tee shot puts you in trouble. | <urn:uuid:b82553ad-03ba-4f7e-baa5-e7f6ed3701e5> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://traveltips.usatoday.com/public-golf-courses-louisville-kentucky-12923.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719547.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00395-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954967 | 678 | 1.609375 | 2 |
U.S. retail sales weakened modestly in April, but outside the hard-pressed auto sector they were more resilient than many economists had forecast, a government report showed on Tuesday.
The report echoed recent data showing underlying economic durability, including fewer job losses in April than feared and a surprisingly strong pace of first-quarter productivity that buoys hope for corporate profits.
The Commerce Department said overall retail sales declined 0.2 percent but that excluding cars, sales rose 0.5 percent. Economists expected total sales to slip 0.1 percent, but had forecast just a 0.2 percent gain outside of autos.
"I think it's a report that tells you the economy is very weak, but if we are in a recession it's going to be a real short one," said Robert MacIntosh, chief economist at Eaton Vance in Boston.
Analysts hope that consumer spending will at least cushion an economic slowdown and offset the dampening impact of falling housing prices, particularly with an added boost coming from government rebate checks being sent to about 130 million taxpayers under an stimulus plan.
The economy is forecast to grow at a scant 0.2 percent annual rate in the second quarter, slowing from the anemic 0.6 percent growth rate in the previous two quarters, according survey of economists released by the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank on Tuesday.
The retail sales data helped boost the dollarwhile prices for U.S. Treasury debt securities fell as investors bet it reduced chances for more interest-rate cuts.
Stocks were down modestly in early-afternoon trading, although the retail sales report helped ease the losses.
Other data highlighted the squeeze on consumers, who have caught between rising food and energy prices and a crumbling housing market.
The Labor Department said U.S. import prices climbed 1.8 percent in April as prices for both petroleum and non-petroleum products climbed, feeding worries about the potential for inflation.
Import prices have jumped 15.4 percent over the past year, the biggest 12-month gain since the government began publishing the data more than a quarter century ago.
Separately, the National Association of Realtors said median values of existing single-family homes in metropolitan areas fell 7.7 percentfrom levels a year ago.
The Federal Reserve has cut official interest rates 3-1/4 percentage points to 2 percent since September to shield the economy from a credit crunch sparked by the housing crisis, hoping to keep consumers from choking off the spending that fuels two-thirds of U.S. economic activity.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, speaking by teleconference to a Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta conference in Sea Island, Georgia, cautioned that strains remain in the nation's financial markets.
He was one of the Fed officials scheduled to speak on Tuesday, several of whom are expected to warn that inflation pressures are mounting rapidly.
Fed to Pause?
Analysts said the retails sales numbers might increase chances that fed policy-makers will pause their rate-cutting campaign and focus more closely on controlling inflation.
"Overall, this supports the view that the fed will hold interest rates for the next two to three (policy) meetings, said Ron Simpson, director of currency strategy for Action Economics in Tampa, Fla.
In April, sales of building materials gained 1.9 percent, more than reversing March's 1.5 percent fall. General merchandise store sales were up 0.5 percent, well ahead of March's 0.1 percent rise.
Lofty gasoline prices that have pinched consumers' pocketbooks and reduced their interest in new cars.
Auto dealers suffered a 2.8 percent drop in sales during April, adding to the 0.5 percent decline posted in March. Gasoline stations reported a 0.4 percent decline in April sales after a 1.6 percent rise in March.
The new level of cost consciousness turned up in operating results for Wal-Mart Stores, which rose 7 percent in the first quarter ended April 30. The largest U.S. retailer noted its customers were seeking bargains on necessities such as food and were straining from paycheck to paycheck.
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kuon damrey, Banteay Meanchey province – The people have come back to live along the road between Malai and Banteay Meanchey town.
There are few signs of the decade the government troops and the Khmer Rouge spent battering each other from the sharp mountain peaks that break up this wide, hot plain filled with marshes and rice fields.
Nuon Chan Thy remembers feeling exhausted as the 1980s ended, closing two decades of civil war in Cambodia. A government soldier since 1983, he had fought the Khmer Rouge across fields, the names of which—the Elephant Head or the Dead Tiger—remain today a legacy of the brutal years following the 1979 Vietnamese ouster of the Khmer Rouge.
“The war took many forms—in the rice fields or in the jungles,” said the 41-year-old, now deputy commander of the training department for Military Region 5 in Battambang.
“Sometimes we knew where [the enemy] was and we ambushed them. Sometimes they ambushed us. It was very fierce. We didn’t have enough assistance or enough to eat.
“I always thought I would die.”
But during the 1980s the international community and members of Cambodia’s warring factions were taking halting steps toward bringing the country back together. As October 1991 drew to a close, a peace agreement was negotiated and the fighting stopped, at least temporarily.
“I was very happy to hear about the peace,” Nuon Chan Thy said. “No one forced me to join the army so long ago. I wanted to keep the Khmer Rouge from taking over the government again, but every time I went to the field, death was on my mind.”
In the decade since the Paris Peace Accords were signed—the 10th anniversary is this Tuesday—Cambodia has struggled through a UN-sponsored administration that some claim did more harm than good, two widely condemned national elections, and sporadic factional fighting that continued until 1997, when Prime Minister Hun Sen and his CPP used force to cast aside its coalition partner, the Funcinpec Party.
“In the end the implementation of the Accords represented a betrayal of the will of the Cambodian people, who in May 1993 voted massively and enthusiastically to put an end to the rule of the former communist CPP,” said opposition leader Sam Rainsy.
“Unfortunately, through intimidation…the CPP has managed to retain power and to remain the dominant political force in our country.”
But whether one calls it the democratic process or the heavy-handed rule of the CPP, most agree that a fragile political stability has settled over Cambodia.
“The country certainly has been moving forward….This came about only through national reconciliation, through some sort of power-sharing agreement. That is why we have peace,” said Kao Kim Hourn, executive director of the Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace, which will host a three-day conference discussing the Peace Accords beginning Sunday.
Others say Cambodia’s emergence from three decades of tumult is unfinished, and that social reforms have not followed the end of political strife.
“The country has at least made a genuine peace, but the focus on social issues is the more important current challenge,” Kao Kim Hourn said.
“Reform is not always easy. The leaders of the current government are going to have to make some real sacrifices.”
If you go by statistics, Cambodia has improved since the Accords were signed. The number or people who live below the poverty level is down to about 36 percent from a 1992 high of 40 percent, according to Urooj Malik, country representative for the Asian Development Bank.
“Within the last 10 years, the reforms have been considerable,” said Malik, who has lived inCambodia since the early 1990s.
But statistics can’t accurately gauge the desperation felt by the country’s impoverished, or measure how heavily one politician will lean on another as they jockey for position or favors, one senior government official said.
“Even 10 years after the Accords, the poverty is still there, and the political parties are still exerting too much pressure over the government,” said You Hockry, co-Minister of Interior. “In general, we have a much more open society, but security and stability are not 100 percent.”
Cambodia also remains a country largely dependent on donor money, a trend that began with the UN’s unprecedented $2 billion mission in 1992-93.
In June, the international community pledged $615 million for the next year to bolster Cambodia’s ailing economy and try to build its social service sector. The government’s critics accuse its leaders of relying on these annual “handouts” from the donors rather than build an economy that works.
Sam Rainsy, the government’s harshest public critic, said: “Deforestation, drug trafficking, prostitution, gambling and money laundering are the main industries behind ‘economic growth,’ but no sustainable development can be achieved.”
Both Kao Kim Hourn and You Hockry agree that reforms should be taking place faster, but Kao Kim Hourn points out that at least Cambodia is no longer isolated from either the region or the world.
You Hockry said that, despite their flaws, the Accords did ultimately pave the way for Cambodia’s current moves toward democracy.
“We cannot compare to the democracy of the US, but they’ve had 200 years to do this and we’ve had to go step-by-step. In the 10 years since we’ve had nothing, democracy is growing.”
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Monticello Police Officer Forest “Al” Clark was just grabbing a bite to eat last September, but ended up being the right person in the right place at the right time.
And Rick May, who had a piece of steak lodged in his windpipe, benefitted from Clark’s EMT training.
May, 60, was out to eat at the Red Wheel Restaurant with his girlfriend on Sept. 7 when he began choking on a steak. It was serious enough to cause him to nearly pass out.
“It’s a scary thing when you just can’t get a breath,” said May.
Across the restaurant was May and fellow officer (Craig Griswold).
“All of a sudden I heard a chair fall over and someone yelling for help,” said Clark, a former EMT who still teaches CPR and First Aid at the Illinois Police Training Institute. May was flashing the universal choking sign (hands crossed around the neck), and Clark sprung into action, turning him around and providing four abdominal thrusts and freeing the airway.
The seven-year officer of the city was issued a life-saving award last week as a result.
“When I first heard about this, he (Clark) was kind of humble about, and said he was just doing his job,” said Monticello Police Chief Michael Galloway. “Well, I think about it differently,” added the chief, apologizing for the delay in formally issuing the award.
An officer for 14 years at Parkland College, Thomasboro and now Monticello, Clark preferred to talk about the process he used in the Red Wheel that day rather than the heroic effort itself. He emphasized that proper technique is essential when assisting a choking victim.
“You have to be careful. You can go too high” said Clark, which can damage the sternum.
As for May, also of Monticello, the near miss did not make him a vegetarian, but he learned his lesson nonetheless.
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