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Fifth grade transition to Middle School
Middle School will hold a transition activity for all 5th graders on two separate dates next week, Tuesday, May 31, and Thursday, June 2. Fifth graders will be welcomed by Mr. Menendez, Ms. Urrutia, Mr. Rose, Ms. Zuniga, Ms. Vargas, and Mr. Chandler. Fifth-grade students will be invited to visit different classes and share time with 6th-grade students and teachers.
The main purpose of the transition activity is to introduce 5th graders to Middle School classes, students, teachers, and the community in general. Fifth-grade students will be able to ask questions and share time with 6th graders who will welcome them and provide some advice for next year.
Sixth graders will write welcome letters to 5th graders to tell them about what they experienced during their own transition to Middle School, and to provide some advice, expertise, and guidance about what to expect, and how to feel prepared when they arrive at Middle School next school year.
For the semester break, students are allowed to check out books during the last week of school (June 6th, 7th, and 8th).
Books should be returned on Tuesday, August 23rd. Students will not be able to check out new books until all vacation check-out books are returned.
Book week Recap
We are still collecting students’ Read-a-thon pledges. Please ask your child to bring them to the library next week.
Bibiana Solis hosted an interactive read-aloud during Book Week. She also left us with extra copies of her book. If you’d like to buy a copy, please stop by the library or send money with your child. The cost of the book is ¢6,000 colones. | <urn:uuid:ae7e81e6-072e-47f1-9a57-512982e96c52> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nordangliaeducation.com/es/our-schools/costa-rica/alajuela/country-day/article/2022/5/27/words-from-primary | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.967327 | 388 | 1.71875 | 2 |
LONDON — In a 2008 biography he wrote of an antislavery campaigner, Britain’s foreign secretary, William Hague, described the trade in human beings as an indefensible barbarity, “brutal, mercenary and inhumane from its beginning to its end.”
Fourteen Caribbean countries that once sustained that slave economy now want Mr. Hague to put his money where his mouth is.
Spurred by a sense of injustice that has lingered for two centuries, the countries plan to compile an inventory of the lasting damage they believe they suffered and then demand an apology and reparations from the former colonial powers of Britain, France and the Netherlands.
To present their case, they have hired a firm of London lawyers that this year won compensation from Britain for Kenyans who were tortured under British colonial rule in the 1950s.
Britain outlawed the slave trade in 1807, but its legacy remains. In 2006, Tony Blair, then prime minister, expressed his “deep sorrow” over the slave trade; the Dutch social affairs minister, Lodewijk Asscher, made a similar statement in July.
Britain has already paid compensation over the abolition of the slave trade once — but to slave owners, not their victims. Britain transported more than three million Africans across the Atlantic, and the impact of the trade was vast. Historians estimate that, in the Victorian era, between one-fifth and one-sixth of all wealthy Britons derived at least some of their fortunes from the slave economy.
Yet the issue of apologies — let alone reparations — for the actions of long-dead leaders and generals remains a touchy one all over the globe. Turkey refuses to take particular responsibility for the mass deaths of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire, let alone call the event a genocide, as the French Parliament has done. It was not until 1995 that France’s president at the time, Jacques Chirac, apologized for the crimes against the Jews of the Vichy government. The current French president, François Hollande, conceded last year that France’s treatment of Algeria, its former colony, was “brutal and unfair.” But he did not go so far as to apologize.
His predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy, offered an aid and debt-cancellation package to Haiti in 2010 while acknowledging the “wounds of colonization.”
In Britain, in 1997, Mr. Blair described the potato famine in Ireland in the late 1840s as “something that still causes pain as we reflect on it today,” but suffering pain is not the same thing as making a formal apology.
For some, such comments do not go far enough, particularly when some European nations, like postwar Germany, have apologized — the former chancellor Willy Brandt went to his knees at the Warsaw Ghetto in 1970 — and paid reparations for Nazi crimes.
Caribbean nations argue that their brutal past continues, to some extent, to enslave them today.
“Our constant search and struggle for development resources is linked directly to the historical inability of our nations to accumulate wealth from the efforts of our peoples during slavery and colonialism,” said Baldwin Spencer, prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda, in July this year. Reparations, he said, must be directed toward repairing the damage inflicted by slavery and racism.
Martyn Day, the senior partner at Leigh Day, the London law firm acting for the Caribbean countries, said a case could start next year at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, a tribunal that adjudicates legal disputes among states.
“What happened in the Caribbean and West Africa was so egregious we feel that bringing a case in the I.C.J. would have a decent chance of success,” Mr. Day said. “The fact that you were subjugating a whole class of people in a massively discriminatory way has no parallel,” he added.
Some Caribbean nations have already begun assessing the lasting damage they suffered, ranging from stunted educational and economic opportunities to dietary and health problems, Mr. Day said.
Critics contend that it makes no sense to try to redress wrongs that reach back through the centuries, and that Caribbean countries already receive compensation through development aid.
The legal terrain is not encouraging. Though several American and British companies have apologized for links to slavery, efforts by descendants of 19th-century African-American slaves to seek reparations from corporations in American courts have so far come to little. And, unlike the successful case made in Britain by Kenyans tortured during the Mau Mau uprising, there are no victims of slavery to present in court.
Even that case was disputed initially by a British government worried that it would expose itself to claims from numerous former colonies. And when he agreed to pay compensation, Mr. Hague insisted this was not a precedent.
Though Parliament abolished the Atlantic slave trade in 1807, the law took years to put into effect. In 1833, Parliament spent £20 million compensating former slave owners — 40 percent of government expenditure that year, according to estimates by Nick Draper of University College, London, who estimates the present-day value at about $21 billion.
Mr. Draper’s work traced recipients of compensation and showed they included ancestors of the authors Graham Greene and George Orwell, as well as a very distant relative of Prime Minister David Cameron.
But the prospects for a modern-day legal case for reparations by victims are far from clear. Roger O’Keefe, deputy director of the Lauterpacht Center for International Law at Cambridge University, said that “there is not the slightest chance that this case will get anywhere,” describing it as “an international legal fantasy.”
He argues that while the Netherlands and Britain have accepted the court’s jurisdiction in advance, Britain excluded disputes relating to events arising before 1974.
“Reparation may be awarded only for what was internationally unlawful when it was done,” Dr. O’Keefe said, “and slavery and the slave trade were not internationally unlawful at the time the colonial powers engaged in them.”
Even lawyers for the Caribbean countries hint that a negotiated settlement, achieved through public and diplomatic pressure, may be their best hope. “We are saying that, ultimately, historical claims have been resolved politically — although I think we will have a good claim in the I.C.J.,” Mr. Day said.
Mr. Hague’s own views add an intriguing dimension. In his biography of Britain’s most famous abolitionist, William Wilberforce, Mr. Hague highlighted many atrocities of slavery, including a case in 1783 involving a slave ship that ran out of drinking water, prompting its captain to throw 133 slaves overboard so he could claim insurance for lost cargo.
In 2007, on the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the trade, Mr. Hague spoke of his deep regret over “an era in which the sale of men, women and children was carried out lawfully on behalf of this country, and on such a vast scale that it became a large and lucrative commercial enterprise.”
But as foreign secretary, Mr. Hague is opposed to compensation. In a statement, his office said that while Britain “condemns slavery” and is committed to eliminating it where it still exists, “we do not see reparations as the answer.”
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1. When the water is ......... take the bath.
2. Tea is ......... now, drink it.
I think lukewarm and tepid are used to show disapproval but I need some adj.s to show approval.
I think for a normal condition there should be an adjective. Don't you use an adjective and make a sentence always to say it is not hot or not cold?
I think it's acceptable to say:
1. The water/tea is good now, not hot not cold.
At least you could say good or moderate for an informal use and normal for a formal use. Am I right? | <urn:uuid:57935fe7-a6ec-4e76-a2c0-eb82df1dc795> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/threads/166628-not-cold-not-hot | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281424.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00339-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939427 | 134 | 2.078125 | 2 |
No fewer than 80 people lost their lives through road accidents within Enugu State between January and October this year says a top official of Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC).
Ogbonnaya also said that from January to October, 2020; 93 Road Traffic Crashes (RTC) had been recorded out of which 688 people were injured.
According to him, in Enugu State in 2019; there were 171 cases of RTC out of which 646 people were injured and 90 people died.
“On this, it is expedient for the Corps to brace up to puncture this unacceptable trend.
Consequently, aggressive public education is needful at a time like this when road traffic challenges coincide with COVID-19 pandemic,’’ he said.
The sector commander said reduction of RTCs cannot be achieved alone by the FRSC as safety is everybody’s business, adding that the corps needs the collaboration of stakeholders especially drivers and sister security agencies.
He said the Ember Months are unique periods of the year when human activities coupled with some natural occurrences lead to heightened human and vehicular movements.
Speaking, Chief Emeka Odoh, Chairman of Enugu State Internal Revenue Service, lauded the FRSC for keeping its Ember Months campaign running yearly and through it saving a lot of lives.
Odoh, who was represented by the Director of Collections in the Service, Mrs Chinwe Attamah, said that the service and by extension the state government would contribute its quota to the success of the campaign in the state.
Mr Sunday Igwegbe, Safety Manager of Peace (Transport) Group, urged drivers to ensure that they put their vehicles in order and avoid temptation of moving with faulty vehicle.
“In this period, they should exercise patience and ensure they abstain from alcohol and other substances that affect the brain and mind.
“Due to harmattan hazy, the lighting system of any road worth vehicle must be okay in order to avoid blurred vision especially in the evening hours and early morning hours,’’ Igwegbe said.
Highlight of the event was the goodwill message from different sister security agencies and road safety stakeholders.
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Lower motor neuron damage to sacral roots or nerves can result in incontinence and a flaccid urinary bladder. We showed bladder reinnervation after transfer of coccygeal to sacral ventral roots, and genitofemoral nerves (L1, 2 origin) to pelvic nerves. This study assesses the feasibility of urethral and anal sphincter reinnervation using transfer of motor branches of the femoral nerve (L2–4 origin) to pudendal nerves (S1, 2 origin) that innervate the urethral and anal sphincters in a canine model.
Sacral ventral roots were selected by their ability to stimulate bladder, urethral sphincter, and anal sphincter contraction and transected. Bilaterally, branches of the femoral nerve, specifically, nervus saphenous pars muscularis [Evans HE. Miller’s anatomy of the dog. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders; 1993], were transferred and end-to-end anastomosed to transected pudendal nerve branches in the perineum, then enclosed in unipolar nerve cuff electrodes with leads to implanted RF micro-stimulators.
Nerve stimulation induced increased anal and urethral sphincter pressures in five of six transferred nerves. Retrograde neurotracing from the bladder, urethral sphincter, and anal sphincter using fluorogold, fast blue, and fluororuby, demonstrated urethral and anal sphincter labeled neurons in L2–4 cord segments (but not S1–3) in nerve transfer canines, consistent with rein-nervation by the transferred femoral nerve motor branches. Controls had labeled neurons only in S1–3 segments. Postmortem DiI and DiO labeling confirmed axonal regrowth across the nerve repair site.
These results show spinal cord reinnervation of urethral and anal sphincter targets after sacral ventral root transection and femoral nerve transfer (NT) to the denervated pudendal nerve. These surgical procedures may allow patients to regain continence. | <urn:uuid:c8a05a54-8ce6-4157-b564-ab68329fdfab> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://pubmedcentralcanada.ca/pmcc/solr/reg?pageSize=25&term=jtitle_s%3A(%22Adv+Urol%22)&sortby=score+desc&filterAuthor=author%3A(%22Bernal%2C+Raymond+M.%22) | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00293-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.874165 | 456 | 1.546875 | 2 |
The United Farm Workers has achieved historic gains for farm workers. Among them are:
- The first genuine collective bargaining agreement between farm workers and growers in the history of the continental United States, beginning with the union contract signed with Schenley vineyards in 1966.
- The first union contracts requiring rest periods, toilets in the fields, clean drinking water, hand washing facilities, protective clothing against pesticide exposure, banning pesticide straying while workers are in the fields, outlawing DDT and other dangerous pesticides, lengthening pesticide re-entry periods beyond state and federal standards, and requiring the testing of farm workers on a regular basis to monitor for pesticide exposure.
- The first union contracts eliminating farm labor contractors and guaranteeing farm workers seniority rights and job security.
- Establishing the first comprehensive union health benefits for farm workers and their families through the UFW’s Robert F. Kennedy Medical Plan.
- The first and only functioning pension plan for retired farm workers, the Juan de la Cruz Pension Plan.
- The first functioning credit union for farm workers.
- The first union contracts regulating safety and sanitary conditions in farm labor camps, banning discrimination in employment and sexual harassment of women workers.
- The first union contracts providing for profit sharing and parental leave.
- Abolishing the infamous short¡©handled hoe that crippled generations of farm workers and extending to farm workers state coverage under unemployment, disability and workers’ compensation, as well as amnesty rights for immigrants and public assistance for farm workers. | <urn:uuid:8a535655-fd05-400c-bc44-a0afd3c981e9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://2.ufw.org/ufw-successes-years/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.910531 | 310 | 3.40625 | 3 |
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Publication Date: 1995
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Adolescence: Guiding Youth through the Perilous Ordeal. First Edition.
Adolescence is becoming an increasingly dangerous time of life, with increased violent deaths, juvenile delinquency, and sexual activity. Designed for therapists in psychology, social work, school psychology, family therapy, guidance counseling, and other areas, this book outlines current knowledge concerning adolescent development, along with the author's own experience as a therapist. Part 1 outlines normal adolescent neurological, physical, and reproductive development. Part 2 describes developmental tasks in several areas including personal identity, peer relations, and vocational choice. Part 3 focuses on developmental traps such as aggression and substance abuse, and includes proposals for treatment and for changes in social attitudes and policy. The chapters of the book are: (1) "Theories of Adolescence"; (2) "Childhood to Adulthood: A Rite of Passage"; (3) "Neurological and Cognitive Development"; (4) "Pubertal Development"; (5) "Therapeutic Stance"; (6) "Identity," focusing on adolescent self-awareness, self-concept, and the goal of identity development; (7) "Spirituality and Values"; (8) "Sexuality"; (9) "Family," emphasizing that adolescent development takes place within the context of family development, and discussing family conflict, codependency, adoption issues, and substance use; (10) "Social Relations"; (11) "Education and Vocation"; (12) "Violence"; (13) "Suicide"; (14) "Drug and Alcohol Use"; (15) "A Cluster of Risk Behaviors"; (16) "Eating Disorders and Body Image"; (17) "Depression"; and (18) "Chronic Diseases." The "Conclusion" chapter notes that change is possible, and includes suggestions for social change, and a discussion of the "rewards" of guiding youth. Extensive notes for each chapter are included. Contains 82 references. (BGC)
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Alcoholism, Behavior Problems, Childhood Needs, Cognitive Development, Cultural Differences, Depression (Psychology), Eating Disorders, Family Problems, Intimacy, Sex Differences, Sexuality, Substance Abuse, Suicide, Therapeutic Environment, Therapy, Values, Violence
W.W. Norton, c/o National Book Company, 800 Keystone Industrial Parkway, Scranton, PA 18512 ($27).
Publication Type: Books; Guides - Non-Classroom
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Despite a growing demand for green vehicle technologies and increased interest in purchasing hybrid or electric cars, there is still a significant gap between the desire to own a green vehicle and the number of people actually buying hybrid and electric vehicles. According to our recent survey, 38% of respondents are planning to purchase a green vehicle in the next 5 years (either hybrid or electric). Given the clear interest in hybrid and electric vehicles, it would appear that automakers should be making plans to aggressively pursue the expanding market for green vehicles.
However, the perceived interest among consumers in purchasing green technology vehicles is has not translated into actual sales. Despite an interest in hybrid and electric cars, these vehicles still only represented3.8% of all vehicle sales in the United States in 2013 (EVObsession). So the real question is – if over one third of all survey participants stated that they would consider buying a hybrid or electric car over the next five years, why did electric vehicle sales still make up less than 4% of total sales in the United States in 2013?
First, let’s consider the overall perception of green vehicle technology among US drivers. A recent study conducted by the Union of Concerned Scientists and Consumers Union found that 65% of Americans believe electric vehicles will be an integral part of the future of transportation in the US to address oil consumption and pollution. 60% of participants in the survey also said they would consider purchasing an electric vehicle. However, environmental considerations are not the only factors driving interest in green technology vehicles. When surveyed, US consumers also see the economic value in owning a hybrid or electric car, with 72% of respondents in the DMV.com survey stating that they believe these vehicles would save them money over time compared to standard fuel vehicles.
If we can establish that there is a growing interest and perceived need for green technology vehicles, why do they still only represent less than 4% of vehicle sales in the United States in 2013?
One issue that seems persistent is the upfront cost of green technology vehicles. When asked what concerns they had in purchasing a hybrid or electric vehicle, 52% of respondents to the DMV.com survey indicated price was a major concern, with one in four listing it as their number one concern in owning a green technology vehicle.
Concerns other than price are also significant for consumers considering the purchase of a hybrid or electric vehicle. Despite statistics showing that 69% of U.S. motorists travel less than 60 miles per weekday – which is within the capacity of a battery-powered vehicle, 57% of DMV.com survey participants listed range of the vehicle as a concern. There are also crucial perception issues regarding the availability of charging stations. The study by the UCS and Consumers Union found that 56% of U.S. households have the ability to charge a green technology vehicle, but 58% of survey respondents to the DMV.com survey suggested they would struggle to find a charging station – the single biggest concern participants had when considering purchasing a hybrid or electric vehicle.
Understanding the roadblocks that prevent the demand for hybrid and electric vehicles from translating into sales is important; but, questions about what legislators and automakers can do to improve the likelihood that consumers will consider green technology vehicles in the future remain. An issue of increased importance is education. Over a quarter of all respondents to the DMV.com survey admitted that they had never researched or read about alternative fuel sources or green vehicles. Amongst those respondents, 76% stated that they would purchase a standard fuel vehicle as their next car purchase. When respondents had researched or read about alternative fuel sources almost half said they intended to purchase either an electric or hybrid vehicle as their next car.
There is also a need for stronger promotion of the cost-effectiveness of buying a green technology vehicle in the long term. When comparing a popular standard fuel and hybrid option from Toyota and assuming that the driver has a 55/45 city to highway driving ratio, the extra cost of purchasing a hybrid vehicle was negated in six months and the driver would save approximately $7,600 in the ten years following that period. When coupled with tax incentives both federally and at the state-level, the amount of money saved purchasing a green technology vehicle can be well over $10,000 in a ten year period.
Given the gap between desire and purchase, there is clearly a great deal of work that needs to be done by legislators and automakers to accelerate the demand for green technology vehicles. Given that the two biggest concerns are still cost and access to charging stations, focus should be placed on two main pillars: cost-reduction through efficiencies and rebates as well as increased education on the ability to use home chargers. For electric vehicles improving the range from batteries is also critical. Although the government and automakers have worked diligently to reduce costs and offer rebates on green technology vehicles, consumers are still widely unaware of these opportunities and even less aware of the current driving capacity of hybrid and electric cars. By reinforcing these principles, it is likely that the United States will see millions more green technology vehicles on the road by the end of the decade. | <urn:uuid:1797ac9b-91a9-409a-bce8-d1a5b95c42e2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dmv.com/blog/significant-disconnect-between-desire-and-purchase-of-green-vehicles-DMV-study-521164 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.965524 | 1,025 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Our organic yogurt.
The milk produced on the farm is pasteurized (85 ° C), then cooled and inoculated with selected ferments. It is then incubated for 12 hours at a temperature of 40 ° C, at the end of the incubation the product is refrigerated.
Creamy white product
MILK*, latic ferments.
(*) ORIGIN OF MILK:
ITALY, Friuli Venezia Giulia - from Organic Agriculture
Nutritional value for 100g / RI* for 100g
of witch satures
of witch sugar
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This book by prize-winning author Karl Ludvigsen offers auto enthusiasts a time-travelling adventure in its description of the evolution of the V-8 engine. It begins more than a century ago when Rolls-Royce built one of the world’s first V-8 engines. The saga races through decades of engineering experiment and creativity as Bentley, famed for its racing exploits at Le Mans, exploited the exotic potential of supercharging. When the fortunes of Rolls-Royce and Bentley combined in the 1950s, both needed a new engine, and hitherto-secret reports and exclusive interviews take the reader behind the scenes of the new V-8’s creation.
Further evolution came with Bentley’s need for a sporting engine, leading to the development of turbo-supercharging and the introduction of the 300-horsepower Mulsanne Turbo in 1982, the first big high-performance saloon. Here too the reader rides with the engineers as they make this significant advance in car design.
At the end of the twentieth century, after a tug-of-war with BMW, Bentley found itself part of the Volkswagen Group, and the resources of its new owner helped bring Bentley’s new Great Eight to heights of performance and perfection.
Lavishly illustrated, the book portrays some of the world’s greatest cars from the Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud and Corniche to Bentley’s Continental, Azure, Arnage, Brooklands and Mulsanne. It introduces the reader to the engineers and executives whose enthusiasm for the V-8 engine has not only prolonged the half-century lifetime of one of the world’s most accomplished engines but also endowed it with the advanced technologies of the twenty-first century. Bringing its unique perspective to the world of the automobile, Bentley’s Great Eight will appeal to all lovers of the history of technology.
Karl Ludvigsen has been active for over fifty years as a motoring historian. As author, co-author or editor, he has more than four dozen books to his credit. A former editor of Car and Driver, Ludvigsen has worked at senior levels for GM, Fiat and Ford, and was the head of a leading motor industry management consultancy. His Ludvigsen Library is a world-renowned source of car and racing photography and information. For more information or to purchase this book please visit www.daltonwatson.com Dalton Watson Fine Books | <urn:uuid:57cf3295-898f-433a-bccf-fb650adb94b2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.libromotor.com/libros/bentley-s-great-eight-the-astonishing-50-year-saga-of-one-of-historys-greatest-v-8-engines/21130/978-1-85443-241-4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00079.warc.gz | en | 0.925068 | 502 | 1.945313 | 2 |
End-to-End Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Solutions for Manufacturing NFV
The manufacturing industry its breaking the backbone that was traditionally built with network cords and rebuilding it using virtual networks. With network function virtualization (NFV), operators are embracing open source network architecture with flexible commodity servers, routers, and switches. These virtualized networks can be configured by IT operators for programmability and improved management — ushering in the era of software-defined networking (SDN).
SDN’s principle of abstracting hardware and removing the control plane from devices has fundamentally altered how network architecture works. The new SDN architecture allows intelligence to be handled using software, opening a world of opportunities such as:
- Centralized management
- Rules-based controls
- Fine-grained security implementation across the network
Just why SDN is important in manufacturing…
The programmability of networks allows plant operators to configure equipment functions based on production demand and resource availability. This enables manufacturers to cost-effectively manufacture in-demand products and reduce time to market. For instance, if milk-based soaps are preferred over glycerin-based soaps, manufacturers can program the plant for production accordingly. Since SDN ensures visibility into the entire plant, manufacturers can even ensure that procurement is alerted on time if, for instance, ingredients need to be replenished. That way, production continues without any interruption due to ingredient unavailability.
The benefits from SDN are up for grabs…
An end-to-end SDN solution is critical for seamless manufacturing operations and optimum asset utilization. The solution involves an integration of all the legacy networks, computing and storage devices, and data centres. Consolidation enables plant operators to create a well-managed networking environment with complete visibility into all the assets on a single platform.
An end-to-end SDN architecture using standardized open source technologies such as OpenFlow, OpenStack, and OpenDaylight ensures:
- Easy integration and addition of new network components
- Deployment and service without having to touch the equipment
- Opportunity to integrate gateways for cross-data center and cross-domain connectivity
- Ability to control network bandwidth and orchestrate workloads
- Scalability of system components for optimal performance
- Complete independence from different vendors
- Cost-efficiency and sustainability
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You already know napping boosts healthy body and brain development. But new parents need flexibility. Hey, you’ve got things to do, places to go. Who wants to be a slave to a nap routine?
You do. It doesn’t take long to find out that consistency is the key to developing a good baby nap routine. But most moms make these mistakes first—and you don’t have to.
Mistake #1: Waiting for sleep cues
Babies naturally signal when they’re tired: they fuss, cry, rub their eyes or show disinterest in feeding. But by that point, they are often overtired, making it difficult for them to settle at naptime.
Mistake #2: Letting baby nap wherever they are
You’ve heard, ‘never wake a sleeping baby’, But cat-napping in a stroller, swing, or car seat, your baby wont get deep sleep she needs. The American Academy of Pediatrics and Mayo Clinic also recommend napping flat, not sitting up, for optimal oxygen flow.
Mistake #3: Creating sleep crutches
Rocking, nursing, swinging, singing: when baby won’t nap, moms do almost anything to make it happen. But once babies exceed 3 months, they learn to expect all these activities and can’t fall asleep—or soothe themselves through wakeups—without them.
Mistake #4: Making the crib super fun
All the decor may look absolutely adorable, but when it comes to naptime, you want as few distractions as possible—especially as you baby grows older and more alert.
Mistake #5: Skipping the bedtime routine
Bedtime and naptime are a delicate balance; as soon as one gets thrown off kilter, the other follows—and babies get overtired and fussy: even familiar wind-down rituals are a struggle.
Mistake #6: Keeping her up, so she’ll sleep in
Later bedtime, later wake-up: seems logical right? Unfortunately, a baby’s internal clock wakes her up around the same time every morning—even without a good night’s sleep She’ll be overtired the next day. And that means fussiness at naptime.
Mistake #7: Eliminating naps too soon
You’ve heard that as babies get older, they start taking fewer—but longer—naps, and bedtime can be moved a few hours earlier as a result. Maybe she napped twice a day this week—but now seems overtired. How do you know when to start transitioning to fewer naps?
Mistake #8: Expecting quick results
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Aircraft companies are flat out dropping off food and supplies to Northern Territory communities stranded by continuing wet weather.
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From the Sun Telegraph (March 27):
On Saturday, Nebraska parents gathered to learn more about inhalant abuse in their community. Students Making Awesome Choices, a community-based collaborative, received an unexpected turnout from members of the community who were sensitive to and interested in the issue. In this community, inhalant abuse isn't an epidemic and parents plan to keep it that way.
“There have been some isolated incidents with inhaling. Nothing specifically inside the school. It happens at home and gets drug into the the school” one official says.
Eerily, most inhalants are household products. There are more than 1,400 products people can inhale to get high which explains why children as young as 10-years old are using. These cheap, accessible products are typically missed when parents discuss drug use with their children. However, 22 % of inhalant deaths happen on the first use.
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced Friday afternoon that it has modified and expanded the boundaries of the closed fishing area in the Gulf of Mexico to better reflect the current location of the BP oil spill. Also, the agency is extending the fishing restriction until May 17.
According to NOAA, the closed area now represents slightly less than 4.5 percent of Gulf of Mexico federal waters. The original closure boundaries, which took effect last Sunday, encompassed less than three percent. The agency pointed out that the vast majority of Gulf waters has not been affected by the oil spill, leaving many areas available for fishing and tourism activities.
NOAA stated that agency administrator Jane Lubchenco and her staff will continue to meet with fishermen in the oil-affected area to listen to their concerns and share with them what NOAA scientists have learned so far about how the oil might be affecting their potential seafood catch.
"NOAA stands shoulder to shoulder with Gulf coast fishermen and their families during these challenging times," Lubchenco said. "NOAA scientists are on the ground in the area of the oil spill taking water and seafood samples in an effort to ensure the safety of the seafood and fishing activities."
In addition, NOAA offered assurances that the federal and state governments have strong systems in place to test and monitor seafood safety and to prohibit harvesting from affected areas and keep oiled products out of the marketplace. NOAA's Fisheries unit, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and the states are collaborating to ensure seafood safety by assessing whether seafood is tainted or contaminated to levels that pose a risk to human health.
According to NOAA, there are 3.2 million recreational fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico region who took 24 million fishing trips in 2008. Commercial fishermen in the Gulf harvested more than 1 billion pounds of finfish and shellfish in 2008.
NOAA is working with state governors to evaluate the need to declare a fisheries disaster. The states of Louisiana and Mississippi have requested a federal fisheries disaster be declared.
Lubchenco and U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke on Thursday traveled to the Gulf to see cleanup efforts first hand and talk directly with state and local officials and area business leaders. NOAA fisheries representatives in the region will be meeting with fishermen this week. BP will be hiring fishermen to help clean up from the spill and deploy boom in the Gulf of Mexico. Interested fishermen should call 425-745-8017.
NOAA concluded that it will continue to evaluate the need for fisheries closures based on the evolving nature of the spill and will re-open closed areas as appropriate. Also, the agency will re-evaluate the closure areas as new information that would change the boundaries of these closed areas becomes available.
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3 Steps To Auto-Install K8S with Cloud-config
Part-1: Auto-Install, Configure K8S Cluster From scratch “For Beginner”
Me: “Son, can you plz install for me the K8S Cluster 😆 ??”
Son: ”On Prod Env ! 😲”
Me : “Yes Plz !! It’s easy than you think 😉”
Installing a K8S Cluster from scratch was challenging work to do 😫, the k8s official documentation is too big and the pieces of information are dispatched in different sections 😅, so for someone who wants to learn this technology from scratch, it takes much time to search, understand, install and configure.
I started this story with an imaginary conversation with my 3-year-old son to prove that it is too easy than you think to install a K8S cluster in a similar production environment without a complex implementation of the security aspect 😝.
The goal at first is to familiarize beginners with this environment by simplifying the installation and configuration of a K8S Cluster in a Similar Production Environment
You can find the bonus examples here 👌 :
3 Steps To Auto-Install K8S with Cloud-config
Part-2: Deploy Bonus Examples K8S Cluster “For Beginner”
Let get started 😁
For Learning Environments, you can use
kind, all these three installs and configure Kubernetes quickly, and no need for some advanced system configuration.
However, in a Production environment, we have 3 ways to do it :
I will simplify the steps to setting up our PAAS K8S with two Azure VM ( you can choose any other cloud provider VMs) with
kubeadm by using the Cloud-config data on the custom-data (user-data for other cloud providers) of the VMs, and trust me it will help you save time 😇.
→ Azure Account (or Create One)
Step 1: Create a Network Security Group
Before creating VMs, let create the required Network Security Groups (NSG) that will be used for different machines :
- Go to Network security groups and create these two NSG as mentioned in the image below:
medium-k8s-master-nsgwill be attached to the network interface of the control plane node (VM) → The inbound security rules must satisfy the k8s requirement, you should open these ports: 6443, 2379–2380, 10250- 10251
medium-k8s-worker-nsgwill be attached to the network interface of the worker’s node (VM) → The inbound security rules must satisfy the k8s requirement, you should open these ports: 10250, 30000–32767
For both don’t forget to open ssh 😉
Step 2: Create your VMs on Azure :
All VMs will run the latest version of Ubuntu and according to the doc they must have at less: RAM ≥2 GB & CPU≥ 2 CPUs
If you create a new account with Azure you will have 750 hours of Linux VM Free for 12 month and 200$ credit to use for 30 days to test Azure payed services like the VMs that we will used it in this tuto 😉
Go to virtual machines and click on “Create”, “Virtual machine”. try to follow the steps below by configuring each tab of the VM Creation 👌.
1. Basics Tab :
2. Networking tab
Go to the Networking tabs and select the NSG created before:
Now is time to go to “Advanced Tab” and paste the “magic code” on the Custom data
3. Advanced Tab
I commented on each step and command of this file for a better understunding 👌.
- All is done, click on “Review + create” and “Create”
- Download the private key and save it at ~/.ssh folder
- Now repeat the same things to create the worker node machine by attaching the worker’s network security group for this time
- SSH your machine with your downloaded private key :
chmod 400 ~/.ssh/medium-k8s-master_key.pem
ssh -i ~/.ssh/medium-k8s-master_key.pem [email protected] #the ip address of your machine
Step 3: Configure your K8S Cluster
Configure the Master Node:
You must deploy a Container Network Interface (CNI) based Pod network add-on so that your Pods can communicate with each other.
In our case, we will use Flannel as a
CNIadd-on to implements the Kubernetes networking model. so we have to pass that into the
- On the master node, init your cluster by specifying the Pod Network CIDR
sudo kubeadm init --pod-network-cidr=10.244.0.0/16
- Copy and save the generated join command
sudo kubeadm join 10.1.0.4:6443 --token 4tyt9j.uve6tfdb3a7rvb63 --discovery-token-ca-cert-hash sha256:04c3d3f38b3229fe7b8f808b02bbd48ce95d8a973882b281db579ce6734555c5
- Get the configuration in a publically available place for
mkdir -p $HOME/.kube
sudo cp -i /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf $HOME/.kube/config
sudo chown $(id -u):$(id -g) $HOME/.kube/config
- Deploy Flannel Manually
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coreos/flannel/master/Documentation/kube-flannel.yml
Configure the slave node :
Paste the join command on the worker node by adding
Do the same if you have multiple workers 👌.
sudo kubeadm join 10.1.0.4:6443 --token 4tyt9j.uve6tfdb3a7rvb63 --discovery-token-ca-cert-hash sha256:04c3d3f38b3229fe7b8f808b02bbd48ce95d8a973882b281db579ce6734555c5 --node-name worker1
Check your cluster :
- on the Master node run
# to see all resources on all namespace
kubectl get all --all-namespaces# to verify the joined worker nodes
kubectl get nodesNAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION
medium-k8s-master Ready control-plane,master 3d22h v1.21.3
worker2 Ready <none> 3d22h v1.21.3
All is done for the installation and basic configuration of a K8S Cluster, now is time to deploy the Bonus Examples
See you on the next article 🙋
Cloud-init is a great tool to initialize cloud instances(Azure VM), it allows us to automate the packages installations, files creation, and command execution 💪.
This automation limit manual interventions to the configuration of the cluster. So in few minutes, you’ll have your cluster ready and you can start deploying basics examples like k8s dashboard & hello world).
You can now do whatever you want with your cluster: installing a MetalLb to create services of kind LoadBalancer, working with Ingress Controller, mounting volumes, deploying Prometheus and Grafana dashboard…
In the next story, you will have the bonus examples ✌️
If you are interested in AWS Cloud Architecture, please refer to my articles about micro and serverless architectures
AWS S3M Pattern: 5 Steps to marry Serverless & Microservice Securely
“Save your time with this Abstract Pattern to make complex Cloud Architectures”
AWS S3M Pattern: Terraform & DevOps for a 10 Years Child
Part-2: Terraform & DevOps
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Rainer Weiss currently holds the title of Emeritus Professor of Physics at MIT and also works as an adjunct professor at LSU. He previously also held positions at Tufts University and Princeton University. He was also chair of the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) Science Working Group. Weiss completed his bachelor of science degree in 1955 at MIT (after having dropped out briefly), and his PhD in 1962. Native to Berlin, Germany, Weiss’ family emigrated to Prague and then to the U.S. fleeing persecution from the Nazis.
Weiss is known as a leading name in gravitational physics and astrophysics. In particular, Weiss is recognized for his work on LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory experiment. Weiss pioneered the measurement of cosmic microwave background radiation, which have been used to make inferences about the Big Bang and the origins of the universe. Toward this, Weiss led the way in utilizing lasers for measuring gravitational waves.
Weiss won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2017 alongside Kip Thorne and Barry Barish for his work at LIGO on gravitational waves. Additionally, he has received awards and honors including the Gruber Prize in Cosmology, the Einstein Prize, the Shaw Prize, and fellowship with the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
According to Wikipedia,
Rainer "Rai" Weiss is an American physicist, known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. He is a professor of physics emeritus at MIT and an adjunct professor at LSU. He is best known for inventing the laser interferometric technique which is the basic operation of LIGO. He was Chair of the COBE Science Working Group.
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Before Sunday's Angelus prayer, Pope Benedict XVI taught the importance of leading our lives with trust and hope in the coming of the Lord. This hope, he said, should encourage us to "an intense life, rich with good works."
The courtyard at Castel Gandolfo was filled with faithful and pilgrims, some of whom sung the "Ave Maria" as they waited for the Holy Father to appear on the second story balcony of the Apostolic Palace.
After being met with a burst of cheers, the Pope taught about Jesus' words to the disciples from Sunday's Gospel in which He continued to speak on "the value of the person in the eyes of God and on the uselessness of earthly worries."
This discourse, said the Holy Father, is not about "praise for disengagement.” Rather, he explained, our heart is opened to a hope that enlightens our existence when we listen to Jesus’ “reassuring invitation”: “Do not be afraid, little flock; for it has pleased your Father to give you the kingdom.”
Quoting from the Encyclical Spe Salvi, he added that the Gospel is not merely a communication but “makes things happen and is life-changing.”
“The dark door of time, of the future, has been thrown open. The one who has hope lives differently; the one who hopes has been granted the gift of a new life."
He pointed to the example of Abraham, described in the Letter to the Hebrews as one who goes out with "a hopeful heart." Not knowing where he is going, he is "trusting only in God" and His promise of land and numerous descendants.”
Through the three parables in the Gospel, the Pope continued, Jesus illustrates to us how the expectation of his coming, "the blessed hope," should lead us "even further to an intense life, rich with good works."
His invitation to sell our possessions and to give alms to prepare the way to heaven, explained Benedict XVI, is an invitation to “use things without selfishness, thirst for possession or dominance, but according to the logic of God, the logic of the attention to others, the logic of love..."
He concluded by remembering several saints who laid down their lives, whose feast days fall this week. He recalled Sunday's feast of the founder of the Dominicans, St. Dominic of Guzman, whose order "carries out the mission of instructing society on the truth of faith, preparing themselves with study and prayer."
He also named 3rd century deacon and martyr St. Lawrence whose feast is to be celebrated on Aug. 10 and the foundress of the Poor Clares, St. Clare of Assisi (Aug. 11). Before beginning the Marian prayer, he drew attention to two 20th century martyrs, both killed at Auschwitz: St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) and St. Maximilian Kolbe, whose feast days fall on Aug. 9 and Aug. 14, respectively.
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A comparative view on Debt funds v/s P2P Lending
As we move towards a digital economy and increased financial awareness amongst the newer generation, there has been a change in the backdrop of investment patterns and avenues available to us. Certain existing products, like debt funds, have proven to be more reliable and secure. In contrast, certain risky products with greater returns like P2P lending have also been alluring to a growing number of investors.
What is peer-to-peer lending and how can it benefit you?
Peer-to-peer lending (P2P) has emerged as a more efficient and convenient method of investment. NBFCs with a fintech channel or platform provide P2P lending products. It is similar to crowdsourcing funds in that investor funds are parked in a pool account controlled by an RBI-regulated trustee. With average returns of 10-12 percent and monthly payout options, this class of investments has been gaining a significant share of our portfolios. P2P lending has a minimum ticket size of INR 10,000 and a maximum ticket size of INR 50 lacs.
Why are debt funds a great investment option?
Debt funds, a safer asset class, are low-risk, flexible, and stable investments offered by mutual funds across the country. Their returns outperform those of bank savings and fixed deposits. We can redeem them whenever we want because they are very liquid. These funds range from 1-3 months (liquid funds) to 1-5 years (ultra-short and short-term funds). They put the money into Commercial Papers (CP), Certificates of Deposit (CD), Corporate Bonds, T-Bills, government securities, and other money market instruments. All of these are fixed-income securities.
How to spot the risks in P2P lending
Every asset or investment carries an inherent risk associated with it, remember hearing those disclaimers or seeing those fine print texts in the application forms. Risks associated with P2P lending are the majority of the credit risk, unlike stock markets where you have market fears and volatility scares. Usually, the tenure of lending ranges from 6 months to 6 years which is a short-term investment. Another risk here is that the performance by borrowers of the lending platform directly affects your returns. If a greater number of borrowers default, it’s certain to affect your returns.
If we talk about the firms that do the risk management of these products 5-7% of applications are cleared, pass after a thorough check and receive the funds. And their performance gets them classified as low-risk, medium risk and high-risk customers, which are regularly rigorously monitored as they directly affect the investor pay-out. In the case of debt funds, the investment risk is managed by experienced debt fund managers who have a thorough understanding of the markets and macroeconomic factors that influence debt fund performance.
The Benefits of Debt Funds in a Rising Interest Rate Environment
Debt funds perform best when interest rates are high, as they are now as the RBI raises rates, making debt funds more appealing for investment. P2P lending, on the other hand, is unconcerned about interest rate cycles and market volatility. Certain types of debt funds only invest in government securities that have the highest level of assurance and money safety. And P2P lending is riskier because it targets a specific group of creditworthy individuals.
How P2P Lending Wins Over Debt Funds
P2P lending is a type of crowdfunding that allows people to borrow and lend money without the involvement of financial institutions. In P2P lending, investors pool in money which is then lent to borrowers at an agreed-upon interest rate. P2P lending platforms permit borrowers to apply for loans online and get the money deposited into their accounts within a few days.
While both debt funds and P2P lending are similar in many ways, there are some key differences between them. One of the most significant distinctions is that debt funds are managed by professional fund managers, whereas peer-to-peer lending platforms are managed by algorithms, which means that debt fund managers may charge fees for their services, whereas most P2P lending platforms are free to use. Moreover, the interest rates on debt instruments can fluctuate over time, whereas the interest rate on a P2P loan is fixed. Overall, P2P lending offers several advantages over debt funds, making it an attractive option for investors seeking to earn interest income.
When we compare the tax aspects, in P2P lending, the transaction is between two individuals, so TDS plays a role. The interest income is taxable. However, debt funds are tax-efficient too. For example, savings and FD interests are taxed as per the income slab of the customer. Capital gains from debt funds with a holding period of 3 or more years are taxed at 20% whereas the capital gains for holding periods of 3 years or less is 20.90%.
P2P lending in India is at a very early stage, whereas Debt funds have been seen as a matured product category that has gained trust over the years. But with inflation, around the 7-8 % range, the returns from debt funds of the 6-7.5% range are not that great, but in times when bear markets are on, debt funds are a relatively safer haven to put your money. We cannot just start focusing on return while investing, so having a limit check on our percentage allocation to risk classes like P2P lending should be in place. Diversification among our investments has many long-term benefits for sure.
Say if you have a portfolio with components like stocks, fixed deposits, and mutual funds with an average return of 15 percent. P2P lending as an investment can add more value to your portfolio, and debt funds can give you stability. So choose a combination with your risk capacity, but do not have bias restricting you from investing. | <urn:uuid:fd03f7df-d28d-477f-aa34-8d277d6396c6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.creditfair.in/a-comparative-view-on-debt-funds-vs-p2p-lending/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.953394 | 1,213 | 1.726563 | 2 |
1. Yom Kippur finally over, she walks hungry, haggard, dirty, and sore across Cossack Park. 2. Her hunger pangs subside as she enters the thick trees.
3. “Sarah, wait,” she hears from behind her.
4. “It’s Ishmael. I want to ask you more about Yom Kippur.”
“I’m really hungry. I’m on my way home. We can talk tomorrow.”
“Ok. I enjoy our talks,” he says and slows to let her go.
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Here is the recipe for a sweet tea-time snack/dessert from Kerala known as Paal Pidi or Paal Kozhukatta. This dish is also popular in Tamil Nadu. Pidi (Rice Flour Dumpling) is popular in Central Kerala specially among the Syrian Christians. Regular Pidi is not sweet and is usually eaten with Chicken Curry whereas Pal Pidi is sweet and is prepared in Coconut milk. Pal Pidi is the perfect dessert or tea-time snack for all sweet lovers.
I was introduced to this sweet Paal Pidi by my mother-in-law. She had tasted it at her neighbour’s place in Chennai. She was reminded of something similar known as Alli Pidi. The dumplings in Pal Pidi are round in shape but in Alli Pidi, they are cylindrical in shape. I was trying Paal Pidi for the first time though I have had regular Pidi and Chicken Curry ample times. This recipe is pretty simple. You need to try it atleast once to appreciate it. I found it even better than Gulab Jamuns and Rasgullas.
For the Rice Ball
- Roasted Rice Flour – 1 cup
- Thin Coconut Milk – 1/2 cup
- Hot Water – as needed
For the Syrup
- Coconut Milk – 2 to 2.5 cups [I used Canned Coconut Milk]
- Water – 2 cups
- Sugar – 12 tbsp (3/4 cup) [Alter according to your taste buds]
- Powdered Cardamom – 4 to 6 pods
- Combine rice flour, salt and coconut milk in a vessel.
- Bring water to a boil. Add the hot water little by little to the rice flour and mix with a spoon until combined.
- When it is cool enough to touch, knead everything using your hands to form a smooth dough.
- Prepare small cherry sized balls using the dough, dipping your hand in water occasionally to prevent the dough from drying up. You can prepare around 100-120 dumplings using the above proportion.
- In a wide pan, bring coconut milk and water to a slow boil.
- Add powdered cardamom and sugar and stir well.
- Reduce heat and slowly, add the rice balls to the pan. Do not add the balls on top of one another or they will stick. Instead spread it around in the pan.
- Cover and cook for around 8-10 minutes on very low heat.
- Remove from heat and keep it covered until ready to serve.
- Serve it warm or chilled.
- The rice flour should be smooth, without any lumps. You can use commercial Idiyappam or Puttu Flour for this recipe.
- Some people use Regular Milk instead of Coconut Milk though I have never tried it.
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3. Abyaneh – a historic village in the grip of the mountains
This reddish village is one of the most popular places in Iran. Historians believe it was founded more than 2,000 years ago. This unique place is, in fact, a living museum where time has stopped. Every visitor can admire the beauty of the ancient village, where people still live today. The houses are built with red clay with richly carved doors, which are decorated with two different knockers, one for women and the other for men. The picturesque village is surrounded by mountains that are usually covered by snow in winter and so the visitor can enjoy a magnificent view of the red village in the grip of white snow-covered mountains.
It hasn’t been clear yet how long the local people can live in these difficult conditions. Most young Iranians move to big cities where they can work and have an easier life. Yet this place is unique and remains a protected cultural heritage of Iran. | <urn:uuid:b8c13e6c-f45d-4c88-b2c2-b5f6c26cccb8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://etabroad.com/en/iran-top-6-places-you-should-visit/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.96461 | 200 | 2.34375 | 2 |
Why Lesson Planet?
Students use the information they gathered in previous lessons to practice using prepositions in regards to movement, time, location and place. They write a dialogue using all of the elements listed. They complete a preposition quiz to end the instructional activity.
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Thursday, November 3, 2005
News staff writer
Hood River Middle School 8th grader Roberto Nunez returned from the state fair Sept. 3 with a $50 savings bond and a framed certificate naming him as third place winner in the Oregon State Spelling Contest.
Roberto, who has been to the state contest three times before, was one of 23 participants in his division (grades 6-8). They were each given 30 words to spell, then a 5-word tie-breaker.
“They don’t tell you who’s tied with whom,” Roberto said. “So I really didn’t know who I was up against.”
The last word he remembers spelling correctly is “efflux,” one of the five tie-breakers. The one he missed was “cetaceous.”
“I know how to spell it – but for some reason I put a ‘t’ in place of the second ‘c,’” he said.
The Oregon State Spelling Contest has been a part of the Oregon State Fair tradition for 29 years. Winners are chosen at school, district and county levels to participate in the contest. Roberto first entered in the third grade, but didn’t make it past the district level that year.
“But I won in 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th grades,” he said. This was his first win at state.
“He just reads like crazy – he reads a lot, but he didn’t study,” said his dad, Roberto Nunez-Elisea. “I think it would be very boring to study words!”
Roberto favors books “full of science and adventure,” such as those written by Jules Verne, Christopher Paolini and Philip Pullman. But do those books really contain words like “avoirdupois,” “parquetry,” and “quinquagenarian” – the other three tie-breaker words?
This wasn’t part of the national spelling bee program, but Roberto said he’d enter one of those if he had the opportunity.
“I think I would lose, but I think I would enter, to learn some new words,” he said.
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Pensacola Country Club, FL
by Bill McBride
The history of Pensacola Country Club is quite interesting. Founded in 1902, it’s the oldest private golf club in Florida. The first nine was first laid out by two amateur members. A second nine was added in 1925, when the club purchased a large waterfront home built in the 1920’s as the clubhouse.
The second nine, and in fact the entire course, was built much in the style of Donald Ross, with pushed-up, small greens that required delicate chipping skills, and a general ambience reminiscent of Pinehurst with its pine-straw and sand rough and pine-lined fairway corridors.
Over the years, the condition of the course deteriorated due to an aging irrigation system, a tight-fisted membership, and the flat location on Pensacola Bay at just above sea level. Drainage became a serious issue. At times the course was barely playable, and carts had to be kept off the course. In the hot, humid summers on the Gulf Coast, this effectively closes the course! The course was challenging in its way, hosting first round PGA Tour Schools from 1996-2004, but it was beyond its prime and desperately needed at least a facelift.
In September 2004 came the deus ex machina in the form of Hurricane Ivan to solve the dilemma. Over 3,000 trees were downed and the course was submerged in salt water for days. The membership underwent an arduous decision process before electing to proceed with a complete redo of the golf course.
Jerry Pate, who volunteered to do the design work for no fee, grew up as a member of Pensacola Country Club. His design firm is a serious participant in golf architecture these days, with the #1 and #2 public access courses in Alabama (Limestone Springs and Kiva Dunes), highly rated courses in Mississippi (Dancing Rabbit and Old Waverly), and the neighboring Steelwood Country Club, a solid if difficult private club in southern Alabama. Jerry is justifiably proud of the work he has done in designing the new PCC.
The construction was well-planned. Over the years, the flattish course with a very high water table had become mucky with leaky irrigation and bad drainage. The construction plan involved turning all the fairways, getting a layer of sand above the muck, and excavating acres of lakes and placing all the excavated sand on top of the fairways. This enabled the designers to add a lot of contour to the fairways and raise the entire course over 12′. The resulting drainage is very good, even during a typical Gulf Coast downpour.
The new course opened November 9th of 2006 after a year of wrangling and a year of construction, on budget and on time. The course is a modern rendition of the old Ross feel, with greens averaging 30% larger; wider, fast and firm fairways; and flat-bottomed bunkers with grass faces. There are a number of classic design features — a reverse Redan with a Biarritz twist in the green, a cape hole with a punchbowl green, several fall away greens, and in general a lot of strategic decisions to be made.
The proof of any renovation or remodeling project has to be the satisfaction of the members, and to date I have not heard anybody say, “We want the old course back!” The drainage is excellent, the new greens (Tifdwarf) are excellent, and the fairways (419) are firm, fast and make great surrounds with many ground game options.
To me one of the things that makes this an outstanding course is that there are no two holes even slightly similar to the others; every hole is unique and individual.
Hole-by-hole description, yardages are from the blue tees, one forward from the tips:
#1 “ a solid get away, this hole plays 435 yards with a gentle dogleg left, to a deep green set at a 30 degree angle to the right. This one is fun, as the downwind approach can be played on the ground or in the air.
#2 “ a very good dogleg right par 4, 395 yards, a hard dogleg right with the tee shot across a lake with a wide fairway bunker on the far bank of the pond. Two large bunkers in the dogleg require a tee shot to the left, as the carry is 290 yards across the corner. Trees (some of the remaining pines) further block shots played to the right. The green is uphill for half its 30 yard depth, then downhill behind a ridge. A running approach is very effective to the back pins.
#3 “ a straight, short par 4, the cross bunker at 280 yards protects this 340 yard hole very effectively, as any tee shot within 150 yards of the green must be played to a blind green. You can just see the top of the flag, so every approach shot is played with less than 100% confidence, as distance is uncertain, and a deep bunker and lake wait behind the green.
#4 “ a par 3, 175 yards, with a green set at 30 degrees right to left, elevated above a lake to the left. The only bunker stops some pulled shots from going in the water. This hole is best played with a high shot or soft draw, as the green falls away right to left, which is most fun when the pin is set back left and you can watch the ball rolling in that direction.
#5 “ another short par 4, 345 yards, a dogleg left around a pond with no bunkers. The hole plays gently uphill to a volcano green with a steep falloff left toward the water. This tiny green “ maybe 3,000 SF “ is firm and the running approach is sometimes the only way to get close to the hole. This is a real throwback hole, you don’t see many of these anymore.
#6 “ this is the #1 handicap hole, a 535 yard par 5 played into the prevailing wind, with a long lake all the way down the right side, OB left and a series of fairway bunkers on the left side. The landing areas are generous but the water continually beckons to the slicer. The green is another fall away design, with good pin positions in the back right, hidden behind the greenside bunker.
#7 “ the Reverse Redan with Biarritz twist! When I first talked to Jerry Pate about the new layout, I suggested semi-seriously that he build us a Redan. “You know what a Redan is?!” So we got this beauty, which is 245 from the tips, 215 from the blues, with a slight slope on the left side which definitely moves the running tee shot down onto the green. Again, it’s fun to watch. There is a swale in the middle of the green which could invite stronger players to fly the ball onto the green, but I’ve seen very few aerial approaches hold this green.
#8 “ par 5 that replaces the most boring hole on the old course. GCAers who have played the old PCC will remember #8 as the short par 5 with fairway bunkers left and right at 260 yards and a muddy ditch directly in front of the green. The new hole is a bit longer at 500 yards and plays around a large hillside created using spoil from the new lakes and featuring four deep fairway bunkers on that hillside. There is a new pond front and left of the small green which is angled to the left behind the pond. Tee shots that don’t get near the ridge of that hillside leave blind second shots to a small green with water left and a deep bunker right. Second shots bailed to the right leave very difficult pitches, so the members are learning where to place their second shots for the approach pitches. Some haven’t learned the lessons yet and continue to struggle with the hazards left and right.
#9 “ a very straight forward par 4, 390 yards, with OB left, played between fairway bunkers to one of the most interesting greens on the course. This green has a ridge running from 11 o’clock to 5 o’clock that is pretty steep, so that putts across the ridge are very difficult. The ridge also requires a carefully placed tee shot so that the approach angle is from the correct side of the fairway depending on pin location.
#10 “ Another short par 4, 344 yards from the blue tees. The hole plays slightly uphill with a lake on the left and fairway bunkers at the bottom of a slope toward the lake. The green sits below the fairway level so can be somewhat blind, but the major difficulty with scoring birdies here is the firm, steeply falling away green. Sometimes the best approach is with the putter, as the 419 fairway turf is firm and fast.
#11 “ A short par 3 with a forced carry across the lake to a green with another ridge, this one dividing the green’s left and right sides. With the prevailing wind in your face, the 150 yard tee shot can be vexing, as the green is small, there’s a deep pot bunker and the lake in front, and the ridge ready to throw your shot well away from the hole if the shot is off line.
#12 “ Probably the easiest birdie on the course, this par 5 is 515 yards and doglegs slightly to the right around a large and deep fairway bunker. The green sits below a mounded area to the left and a hollow to the right, but the short approaches can be negotiated, and the longer hitters have been home in two quite a bit with the hole playing generally downwind.
#13 “ 410 yard par 4 back into the wind, across a large waste area to a wide fairway leading to a large green with no bunkers but protected by a lake on the immediate left side. This hole replaces one redesigned several years ago by Tom Fazio, but this one plays better, I think, because of the running shots that can be played into the slope from the right. This is one of three difficult par 4s on the back nine.
#14 “ 515 yard par 5, again downwind, with a carry across a lake and bunker to the optimum landing zone. The fairway splits about 150 yards out, requiring a decision to play left of a nasty pot bunker to a more difficult pitch, or right to an upper fairway which yields an approach down the axis of the green. It is helpful to play to the right side, as the green falls off sharply at the rear and is quite difficult to approach from the left fairway. Bunkers directly in front of this green further complicate the decision based on pin location.
#15 “ A strong par 4, 410 yards, played to a flattish green that gently slopes to the back, across a creek directly in front. This creek always reminds me of the Scottish golfer who hits his second to such a green and cries out, “Did ma ball carry over the bonnie wee burn, or is it in that filthy, mucky ditch?” The creek requires a strong tee shot to be comfortably carried, so this is a demanding hole in the finishing stretch.
#16 “ the fourth short par 4 – !! “ plays 295 from the blue tees, 303 from the tips, over a sandy wasteland with a marsh left and deep bunkers right, to a slightly elevated, tiny green that features two tiers with a steep slope between. There are so many different ways to play this hole. One way not to play it is the aggressive draw that finds the junk left; another is to push the tee shot and wind up behind, or worse, in one of the deep bunkers on that side. This is an outstanding little risk-reward hole.
#17 “ 420 yards from the blues, 458 from the tips, a cape tee shot across the long lake that was left of #10. OB right must be considered, so the tee shot into the prevailing wind is of great concern. The green is an excellent rendition of the punchbowl, with a blind shot into a large green of perhaps 7,000 SF, that includes a rear tier and a swale crossways in the green. Hitting a running shot into #17 and walking up to see where it finished is as fun as golf gets.
#18 “ the piece de resistance. PCC didn’t have any holes on the water in its original configuration, but Jerry Pate suggested this hole would be the “signature” hole of the new golf course and be an attraction of the club for many years. The resulting par 3, some 160 yards to an elevated skyline green with Pensacola Bay the backdrop, is stunning, with deep bunkers left and right and a deeper than apparent green. Balls right and/or long have every opportunity to find the bay. Played into the prevailing wind, shots to rear pins must be played at 3 clubs more than the center pin position would seem to require.
I believe Pensacola Country Club’s new course for this new century is an outstanding update, a very good course on what could realistically be called a humdrum piece of land. I look forward to hearing from GCAers who would like to visit and experience the course themselves. | <urn:uuid:9831efb3-b102-4ed6-b8dd-8dd1de66dbfa> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://golfclubatlas.com/in-my-opinion/pensacola-country-club/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283008.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00081-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95006 | 2,865 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York’s African Burial Ground
by Joyce Hansen
Publication Date: Apr 15, 1998
List Price: $22.95
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
Imprint: Henry Holt & Company
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
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How can we learn about the lives of African slaves in Colonial America? Often forbidden to read or write, they left few written records. But in 1991 scientists rediscovered New York’s long-ignored African Burial Ground, which opened an exciting new window into the past.
A woman with filed teeth buried with a girdle of beads; a black soldier buried with his British Navy uniform, his face pointing east; a mother and child, laid to rest side by side: to scientists, each of these burials has much to tell us about African slaves in America.
Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence shows how archaeologists and anthropologists have learned to read life stories in shattered bones, tiny beads, and the faint traces left by coffin lids in ancient soil. At the same time, by blending together the insights found buried in the soil and the results of historians’ careful studies, it gives us a moving, inspiring portrait of the lives Africans created in Colonial New York. | <urn:uuid:9352a971-f4cf-400c-ab1c-e8fec0730ade> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aalbc.com/books/bookinfo.php?isbn13=9780805050127 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.91648 | 302 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Using Litigation Technology Successfully
Until a couple of years ago, the steno machine was the most advanced piece of equipment used regularly in federal and state courts. More than 64 years have passed since stenography machine notes were first used in the Charles Lindbergh/Bruno Hauptmann murder case...the first "trial of the century."
If the legendary Clarence Darrow were still practicing law, he would be carrying a laptop computer from deposition to courtroom, and playing back animated exhibits. Because Darrow's exceptional oratory skills, the electronic information at his fingertips and a big screen TV, would make an unbeatable communications combination.
Senior citizens no longer occupy the majority of seats on our juries. Younger, visual-minded, computer-literate jurors are filling those chairs in most metropolitan areas. These TV-generation jurors don't want attorneys taking hours and days making and proving their points. They want you to get to the point while using a medium they feel comfortable with...the TV screen and computer.
Today's legal communications has to be fast, efficient and powerful. Clients, opposing attorneys, judges and jurors require presentations that maintain interest, support oral arguments, and explain complex ideas.
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Which Joe gave his name to ‘sloppy joes’? We look at five interesting sandwiches and their lexical origins.
1‘all the publicity nearly sent her crazy’
mad, insane, out of one's mind, deranged, demented, not in one's right mind, crazed, lunatic, non compos mentis, unbalanced, unhinged, unstable, disturbed, distracted, mad as a hatter, mad as a March hare, stark mad
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British barmy, crackers, barking, barking mad, round the twist, off one's trolley, as daft as a brush, not the full shilling, one sandwich short of a picnic
North American buggy, nutsy, nutso, out of one's tree, meshuga, squirrelly, wacko, gonzo
NZ Canadian Australian bushed
2‘children get all sorts of crazy ideas’
absurd, preposterous, ridiculous, ludicrous, farcical, laughable, risible
idiotic, stupid, foolish, foolhardy, unwise, imprudent, ill-conceived, silly, inane, puerile, infantile, fatuous, imbecilic, hare-brained, half-baked
unreasonable, irrational, illogical, nonsensical, pointless, senseless, impracticable, unworkable, unrealistic
outrageous, wild, shocking, astonishing, monstrous
unbelievable, incredible, unthinkable, implausible
peculiar, odd, strange, queer, weird, eccentric, bizarre, fantastic, incongruous, grotesque
barmy, daft, potty, cock-eyed
US wackadoo, wackadoodle
North American crazy-ass
3‘people in Barbados are just crazy about cricket’
very enthusiastic, passionate, fanatical, excited
very keen on, enamoured of, infatuated with, smitten with, devoted to, fond of
wild, mad, nutty, nuts, potty, gone on
dated sweet on
1‘we are just working like crazy to make what we have efficient’
energetically, enthusiastically, madly, with a will, for all one is worth, passionately, intensely, ardently, fervently
like mad, hammer and tongs
2‘you were driving like crazy when something punctured one of the tyres’
fast, furiously, as fast as possible, hurriedly, quickly, rapidly, speedily, hastily
like mad, hammer and tongs, at warp speed
We take a look at several popular, though confusing, punctuation marks.
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I do not particularly care what the jury decides on who is or is not a wowser. But I work with and care about the numbers around alcohol policy. And the impression most readers would get from the latest reporting in The Press is a bit at odds with, well, reality.
Let us begin perhaps with Jennie Connor’s citing of “a Canadian study” on the effects of minimum pricing. Can a 10 per cent increase in the minimum price of alcohol really reduce total alcohol consumption by 16 per cent? No. …
Across-the-board increases in the minimum price of alcohol have far smaller effects: a 10 per cent price increase reduces aggregate consumption by only about 3.4 per cent, as is made reasonably clear in Auld’s paper.
But the bigger mis-use of numbers follows:
I was a bit more surprised to read of the new commissioned BERL report on the health costs of alcohol in Canterbury. …
BERL here replicated work done in Australia by Collins and Lapsley (2008). But where Collins and Lapsley added up all the costs imposed by those disorders where alcohol makes things worse and subtracted from that total all the cost savings from those disorders where alcohol reduces costs, BERL simply erased any beneficial effects of alcohol for disorders including ischaemic heart disease, cholelithiasis, heart failure, stroke and hypertension. …
I received the paper Wednesday courtesy of the CDHB. And BERL, at footnote 14, reports they’ve done the same thing again: “The Collins and Lapsley fractions indicate some alcohol use may be beneficial for some conditions. We concentrate on harmful drug use, and assume zero fractions for such conditions.”
So their measure of the costs of alcohol to the Canterbury health system relies on an assumption that there can be no health benefits from alcohol – an assumption that runs contrary to the weight of international evidence. Assuming one’s conclusions is hardly proper method.
To put it more bluntly the BERL paper is useless as a public policy tool. Measuring harm without measuring benefits is something zealots do, but we expect better in scientific papers.
How often do you read that problem drinking among 15-24 year olds was no different in 2006/2007 than in 1996/1997 before the change in the alcohol purchase age?
Or that per capita alcohol consumption is down substantially since 1991? Or that light drinkers have about a 14%reduction in their chance of dying from any cause than people who never drink, correcting for the host of other health-related behaviours that are usually given as reasons for ignoring the health benefits of moderate drinking?
Be skeptical of the moral crisis around alcohol.
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Amazon has announced five new Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) protocols for developers in the US, UK and Germany to control pronunciation, intonation, timing and emotion.
This will give developers the ability to mould Alexa’s speech patterns to create a more natural voice experience.
The new SSML support is employed through the skill’s code and will humanise Alexa, allowing developers to add pauses, change pronunciation, spell out a word, add short audio snippets and insert special words and phrases into their skill.
The five new SSML tags are:
- Expletive beeps
- Sub (to say something other than what’s written)
- Prosody (to control volume, pitch and rate of speech)
For more information about the new SSML features, visit https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/docs/speech-synthesis-markup-language-ssml-reference.
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The Science of Learning Research Centre has produced the Higher Education Learning Framework (HELF); a robust evidence informed model that provides a comprehensive guide to teaching in HE. While planning teaching at this time of year, it can provide some timely reminders on designing engaging and accessible learning. The handbook and the quick overview matrix can be found here.
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United States culture stems primarily from Western influence, including Europe, but different cultures in the United States include traditions and cultures of Native Americans, Latin Americans and Asians, as well as regional cultures throughout the country. For this reason, the United States has been long-described as a "melting pot" in which various cultures have given their own contributions to an eclectic American way of life.Continue Reading
Cultures within the United States are unique in nature for areas such as dialect, music, social habits, religion and food due to large-scale migration from ethnically diverse countries, as well as regional differences. The United States is regionally subdivided into New England, Mid-Atlantic, Southern, Mid-Western and Western cultures, where differences are easily noted, yet meld together to form functional societies. American culture has a variety of known and accepted behaviors and observances due to its geographical scale and demographic diversity. The flexibility of these cultures has lead many researchers to categorize American culture as undefined.
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It's not every day that journalists are presented with a "style guide" to interpret the most enduring international bestseller on the planet. But the Bible is no ordinary book, and these are not conventional times, as religion hits the headlines like never before and the modern media slowly come to terms with it in a post-9/11 world.
The surprisingly punchy Bible Style Guide, released today by the Bible Society, aims to offer useful information to both religious affairs and general reporters. There is much in the Bible that continues to intrigue interest not only among Christians but among atheists and agnostics as well – partly, perhaps, based on people's love of mystery and conspiracy theory, a phenomenon demonstrated by the success of the author Dan Brown and the recently published thrillers by CJ Sansom. The Bible Style Guide attempts to tap into this, pointing out, for example, that "in every age, people have identified specific figures as the antichrist, depending on their particular standpoint. This has included Caesar Nero, various Popes, Martin Luther and Hitler. In our own time, the finger of suspicion has been pointed at Vladimir Putin, Osama bin Laden and even David Hasselhoff."
The "Bible Code", says the guide, is "a hidden code, allegedly found in the Hebrew text of the Bible, which is said to have accurately predicted a series of world events [including] Hitler's role in the Nazi Holocaust, Einstein's role in developing a revolutionary scientific theory and President Kennedy's assassination."
The guide also attempts to "translate" certain extracts. "And lo, the workmen didst walk a Sabbath's day journey", for example, becomes, "The workers hiked half a mile" – though it stresses that there is a limit to how much the Bible should be translated to adapt to the modern world.
It tries to appeal to the journalistic mindset by producing a series of droll "headlines" about the history of the Bible in English, including: "Dying monk writes 'chav' gospel", "Smuggled Bibles 'hidden in bales of wool'", "Asylum-seeker produces 'radical Bible'", and "Welsh language 'saved by the Bible'".
In the guide, the Bible is explained as a collection of poetry, legal documents, eyewitness accounts and advice, written on papyrus and leather scrolls over 1,000 years by a range of scribes, fishermen, kings, prophets and musicians, "as well as the odd doctor or tree surgeon".
There is a serious backdrop to the guide's release, though. In America, presidential candidates court the crucial Evangelical Christian vote. From Iraq to Pakistan to Saudi Arabia, Islam and its relationship with democracy dominates the news. Jerusalem remains the geographical and spiritual centre not just of Christianity and Judaism but of the world's most intractable conflict, between Israel and the Palestinians. In the UK, multiculturalism and the place of religion in society – from Sharia to a barely visible cross worn by a British Airways steward – has emerged as arguably the dominant continuing narrative in the domestic media. From faith schools to gay adoption, from embryos to abortion, a fresh battle between church and state has swept through Westminster. In short, religion is the new politics.
The publication of the guide is a not-so-subtle hint on the part of its authors that religious reporting could use a little expertise. Though the pack of established religious affairs correspondents are expert – one, The Daily Telegraph's George Pitcher, is a practicing priest – religious coverage spills over into so many general news stories that the authors of the guide apparently feel that all journalists might benefit from a flick through it. It is also true – for better or worse – that there are, simply, fewer Christians in the media than there once were, and that media figures – like everyone else – are less likely than they were some years ago to have studied religious affairs, let alone Biblical scripture.
Pitcher says: "The trouble with the Bible is that it's very old and very long – for journos that means 'boring'. Plenty of people say that all human life is here and that it's breathtakingly beautifully written in parts. Fewer say that it's politically controversial – in all the debate over women bishops, for instance, no one seems to have got stuck into the gospels and shown that women were given socially revolutionary roles in the Jesus movement. And today, we have fewer women in Parliament than Iran and Aghanistan. Anything that gives journalists a quick insight and source for this material has to be welcome – and overdue. Especially when the Bible is badly misrepresented by bigots and fundamentalists pursuing their own narrow agenda."
The guide's 80 pages include facts, figures and explanations aimed to "help media professionals report Bible stories with confidence". It does not shy away from the controversial areas of religious coverage, such as how Christians deal with violent texts in the Bible. Its 20-page glossary of biblical terms and ideas goes from Abraham to Zionism, taking in creation, Judgement Day and Satan on the way.
It is produced by the British and Foreign Bible Society, a Christian charity that exists to make the Bible available throughout the world. David Ashford, the group's media development officer and the man who dreamt up the guide, is a 30-year-old Roman Catholic who shares a flat with an atheist. "The idea actually came from a former journalist who told me how useful a good style guide can be in a busy newsroom," he says. "I realised that in a globalised world, reporters needed something that contained well-researched, even-handed information about biblical issues."
Despite its usefulness as a resource, the guide occasionally indulges in the somewhat twee style common to Christians trying to preach in the modern world, and its purpose can sometimes seem unclear compared to other "style guides". It is augmented by the Bible Society's blog, which tracks coverage of the Bible in the media (www.bitemybible.com), running stories in which ancient and modern collide, such as the digitised copy recently made of the Dead Sea Scrolls.Reuse content | <urn:uuid:50edfcb9-7af5-41c0-93b1-fa8631a8928a> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/we-need-to-take-the-bible-back-from-the-bigots-922367.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719416.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00365-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958956 | 1,259 | 2.171875 | 2 |
One side thought it was helping to prevent driver fatigue and improve highway safety. The other side thought the action was overblown and unnecessary. Now, the tension over a government rule changing the hours-of-service regulations for commercial truck drivers may be headed to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration recently published the rule reducing the maximum number of hours in a week a truck driver can work by 12. It also mandates a 30-minute rest period within every eight-hour work period. The impetus behind the rule change was to reduce crashes that occur due to fatigued drivers.
"This final rule is the culmination of the most extensive and transparent public outreach in our agency's history," said FMCSA Administrator Anne S. Ferro. "We carefully crafted a rule acknowledging that when truckers are rested, alert and focused on safety, it makes our roadways safer."
The American Trucking Association, however, believes that the changes are based on faulty assumptions and research and that the rules currently in place are insufficient to reduce crashes.
"The rules that have been in place since 2004 have contributed to unprecedented improvement in highway safety," said ATA President and CEO Bill Graves. "The law is clear about what steps FMCSA must undertake to change the rules and we cannot allow this rulemaking, which was fueled by changed assumptions and analyses that do not meet the required legal standards, to remain unchallenged."
Backing up its words with action, the ATA announced it filed a petition for review with the D.C. Circuit this week.
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Britain’s Prime Minister, leader of the Conservative Party and Senior Partner in the ConDem coalition that leads the country, David Cameron has come out with two statements that will concern members of his party and those that vote Conservative.
First of all he has made it clear he believes that Turkey joining the EU is a good thing. He is, in fact, championing the cause for their membership. The EU has been reluctant to allow the increasingly Islamist state of Turkey to join the EU. It fears that Turkish membership will increase its already troubled relationship with Muslims in the Union.
“When I think about what Turkey has done to defend Europe as a Nato ally... it makes me angry that your progress towards EU membership can be frustrated in the way it has been... My view is clear. I believe it’s just wrong to say Turkey can guard the camp but not be allowed to sit inside the tent.”
As part of that campaign to help Turkey has turned on Britain’s ally in the Middle East and condemned Israel’s actions against the flotilla, which originated in Turkey that was raided, on its way to Gaza. He had this to say in his speech in Ankara.
“But as, hopefully, we move in the coming weeks to direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians so it's Turkey that can make the case for peace and Turkey that can help to press the parties to come together, and point the way to a just and viable solution."
It gets worse, before this he cleared stated he believes that Gaza is a “prison camp”.
“Let me also be clear that the situation in Gaza has to change. Humanitarian goods and people must flow in both directions. Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp.”
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UK plastic waste is being dumped and burnt in Turkey says reports. The process is totally illegal says Greenpeace. According to Greenpeace last year around 210,000 UK’s waste exports were sent.
The waste is not being recycled at all. The investigators said that the waste were dumped by roads, in fields and in waterways. The UK is a “global leader in tackling plastic pollution”, the government said – after Greenpeace called for it to “take control” of the problem.
The Greenpeace report says that Turkey was becoming Europe’s “largest plastic waste dump”. The charity said it had investigated 10 sites across southern Turkey and found plastic bags and packaging from UK supermarkets and retailers at all of them.
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Tom Spurgeon knows how to fix comics, and he’s got a list of 24 things to start with.
10. Institute A Gender/Race Rooney Rule At The Bigger Comics Companies
I know this would be controversial, and maybe not even desirable. Still, I can’t help but think of the National Football League’s Rooney Rule when I think of the lack of female creators and creators of color and the even bigger absence of such individuals in industry positions.
What this would mean is that for every job and for every freelance gig that opens at a participating company, a woman or a cartoonist of color would get to pitch or interview for that gig. This doesn’t mean they’re hired, or doesn’t mean that you can’t have as many folks as you want of whatever gender or racial background pitch or interview if you want. What it does is guarantees that those people that haven’t done well in the comics industry are for the length of the program getting in front of more people with power in the comics industry. They have an opportunity for the duration of the program to make an impression and gain experience at making presentations to comics industry editors and publishers. In return, the industry gets a more frequent look at a group of creators and potential industry members that it has — for whatever reason — not done a very good job of exploiting to maximum effect. If an industry like professional football can matter-of-factly look at its history of hiring and giving assignments and realize that they’re not making the best use of all the talents out there for whatever reason, the comics industry should be able to do the same on a volunteer basis.
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Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip at Balmoral, Scotland, 1972. Photograph: Fox Photos/Getty Images
Prince Philip was the longest-serving consort of a British monarch, described by the Queen as her ‘strength and stay’.
9 Apr 2021 – Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who has died aged 99, was the Queen’s husband for 73 years. He was the longest-serving royal consort in British history, the family’s patriarch and a well-known figure in public life for two-thirds of a century until his final disappearance into seclusion in 2019.
This was a marathon stint on which he had originally embarked with resignation, in the belief that a life of walking several steps behind his wife, curbing his opinions – though not always his tongue – and being an appendage to the institution, without even being able to pass on his surname to his children, would turn him into “nothing but a bloody amoeba”.
Things did not work out that badly. He brought a relaxed, mostly affable, peppery, outspoken – and occasionally brusque – style to a ceremonial monarchy that would have been more hidebound, introverted, insipid and decidedly stuffy without him. He introduced badly needed fresh air into the royal family but, while his longevity ensured that he became an integral part of the family firm, he clearly never forgot his initial, impecunious, foreign and outsider status within the institution.
His dutiful support for his wife and his engagement in public visits, ceremonial occasions and foreign trips continued well into old age. In 2011, he said in a television interview that he was winding down, but it was not until 2017 that he completed his final public engagement and it was only in January 2019, when he gave up driving after causing a car crash near the Sandringham estate, that he disappeared from view. He became the focus of attention again in February 2021, when he went into King Edward VII’s hospital in central London after an infection.
Although he came to loathe the media for their intrusiveness, he played a considerable part in dragging the monarchy into the modern age. The pioneering 1969 television documentary Royal Family, scripted by Antony Jay, which charted the royal family’s year, showing them in off-duty, admittedly somewhat stilted moments, had received his support in the face of the disapproval of palace courtiers and advisers. The film was reportedly seen by two-thirds of the population, and was blamed by some commentators for a breakdown in deference towards the royal family.
The royal family in 1968 at Frogmore, Windsor: the Duke of Edinburgh and the Queen, with Prince Edward, seated, and behind them, from left, Princess Anne, Prince Charles and Prince Andrew. Photograph: PA
If his tally of accomplishments was modest, this was at least partly because the role to which he was confined had been diminished. Although Philip was intelligent, with physical presence, energy and a clipped, ironic way of speaking, he took care to conceal his intellectual interests, which included poetry and theology, behind his bluff exterior. He had a fine private art collection, painted a little himself and had a well-thumbed personal library of more than 11,000 books, with perhaps surprising inclusions such as the works of TS Eliot. “Don’t tell anyone,” he would say. Clerics visiting Balmoral or Sandringham to preach Sunday sermons could be disconcerted by his beady-eyed scrutiny from the front pew and his close questioning over lunch afterwards.
Though frustrated, particularly in the early years of the reign, by his lack of personal scope, he made the most of the role that was open to him. He was a loyal and closely engaged patron of a wide range of organisations and causes, ranging from the postwar national playing fields movement to the Royal National Institute for Deaf People, of which he was patron for 55 years. He was the first UK president of the World Wildlife Fund, from 1961 to 1982, and international president from 1981 to 1996.
After giving up polo in his late 40s, he took up carriage driving, and was instrumental in formalising it as a competitive sport. His book Thirty Years On and Off the Box Seat was published in 2004, and he continued to drive into his 90s. In 1967, he helped set up the Maritime Trust, concerned with the conservation of historic vessels, and as patron of the National Maritime Museum, in Greenwich, he was involved in the work to save the tea clipper Cutty Sark from being dismantled.
Most enduring and significant was his commitment to the Duke of Edinburgh’s award scheme, which he founded in 1956 with the German educationist Kurt Hahn, to create a “do-it-yourself kit in the art of civilised living”. The programme, operating in more than 140 countries, encourages young people to volunteer for community service and stretch themselves in teamwork and outdoor activities. Since the scheme’s beginnings, more than 4 million teenagers have participated, and the duke continued to present gold awards to the highest achievers into his 90s.
At first he had been resistant: “It would never have started but for Hahn, certainly not. I said, ‘Well, I’m not going to stick my neck out and do anything as stupid as that, and everybody saying “Ah! Silly ass,” you know?’” And Philip was perhaps right to think of popular reaction, because he is likely to be remembered most for what the media reported as his public gaffes: sayings, some spoken with naval quarterdeck briskness, some delighting in situational humour, some just – as he himself would have phrased it – “bloody rude”, though these latter were generally directed at members of the officer class rather than ratings.
Quite often they were embellished, even invented, in the telling, and often the outrage they were said to cause was largely synthetic. Usually the barked questions and brusque comments were the ironic if ill-judged remarks of a bored man seeking to spark a conversation, or just elicit a response, beyond the usual anodyne exchanges of a royal visit.
“Do you know they have eating dogs for the anorexic now?” (to a blind Exeter woman with a guide dog during a royal tour); “You’ll be getting slitty eyes” (warning a group of British students not to stay too long in China); “It’s pleasant for once to be in a country which is not ruled by its people” (visiting the Paraguayan dictatorship); “How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?” (to a Scottish driving instructor); “Just take the fucking picture!” (during a lengthy photocall at an event to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain). He was understandably irked when it was reported that he had told some deaf children standing near a steel band, “Of course you’re deaf if you stand there,” pointing out that he was hardly likely to have said it, as a patron of the RNID whose mother had been deaf. But he did not complain.
Philip’s 1971 biographer, Basil Boothroyd, claimed that he inherited an “undisguised contempt for ignorance, stupidity, inefficiency or deviousness in others” from his father, Prince Andrew of Greece, although he could occasionally display negative traits himself when bored or impatient. More likely though, considering how absent his father was for most of his life, they were a carapace to cover the insecurities of childhood.
One of his nicknames was “Phil the Greek”, based on his birth on Corfu into Greece’s royal family, yet he had no Greek blood. He was a sprig of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburgs, the peripatetic and frequently exiled Danish royal family that the Greeks imported after winning independence from Turkey in the 1820s.
His ancestry lay in the interconnected 19th-century royal families of Europe. His paternal grandfather was Danish, his grandmother Russian: the couple’s seven children spoke in Greek to each other but in English to their parents, whose own private conversations were in German.
Philip’s accent was that of a bluff upper-class Englishman, but he was also fluent in German and French and had some Greek. His grandfather Prince William of Denmark – whose sister Alexandra married the British king Edward VII – was invited by the government in Athens to become king of Greece in 1863 when he was 17. William was a disposable younger son, so his family said yes.
He married the Grand Duchess Olga, a granddaughter of Tsar Nicholas I. Yet one of their daughters wrote: “He always drilled into us that we were Greek and nothing else.” One of their disposable younger sons, Andrew, was to become Prince Philip’s father. Andrew trained as a soldier, speaking Greek as his first language. He married Princess Alice of Battenberg, sister of Lord Louis Mountbatten, later Earl Mountbatten of Burma.
Christened Philippos, Philip was his parents’ only son, after four daughters. By then his grandfather, who ruled Greece as George I, had been assassinated by a Greek in 1913, and his successor, Philip’s uncle Constantine, had been deposed four years later for failing to support the allied powers, including Britain and France, in the first world war.
After the three-year reign of his second son, Alexander, Constantine was reinstated by referendum in 1920. Two years later he was again overthrown, in a military upheaval. George V of Britain, son of great-aunt Alexandra, sent a naval cruiser to rescue Andrew, who was facing trial for treason, and his young family. The year-old Philip was placed in an orange box and rowed out to the ship with the rest of the family.
Prince Philip of Greece in traditional costume, c1930. Photograph: AP
Permanent exile was to be the first experience of Philip’s life. He was brought up in St Cloud, on the edge of Paris. His family lived on the charity of relatives: his elder sisters dressed in hand-me-down clothes. Their father, bereft of military command, had no occupation and abandoned the family, retreating to gamble in the casinos of Monte Carlo. Their mother, Princess Alice, who was deaf, suffered from schizophrenia and was confined to an asylum for much of Philip’s childhood, though she recovered, becoming a nun and setting up an Orthodox nursing order. She would eventually go to live at Buckingham Palace, where she died in 1969 at the age of 84.
Philip grew versed in keeping up appearances while “skint”, one of his favourite words, being shuffled between boarding schools, first in Paris, then Germany and latterly Scotland, and spending his holidays with relatives, including his sisters, two of whom had married into the German aristocracy and whose husbands became Nazis. Once asked about his childhood home in an interview, he replied: “What do you mean, ‘home’? You get on with it. You do. One does.”
From early childhood he was taken often to Britain to visit his maternal grandmother, the Marchioness of Milford Haven; her husband (and cousin), Prince Louis of Battenberg, a former first sea lord, had been created marquess in 1917 after anglicising his surname to Mountbatten. When Philip was asked to tea at Buckingham Palace, Queen Mary found him “a nice little boy with very blue eyes”.
He grew up a male tearaway in a female-dominated family. A report from his first school in Paris found him rugged, boisterous, full of energy, polite. After an English preparatory school, Cheam, he went to a secondary school founded in Germany by Hahn. In 1934, he was transferred to Gordonstoun, the Scottish boarding school Hahn established after his exile as a Jew from Germany. It was the nearest thing to an unchanging home for Philip and he was strongly influenced by its values.
Prince Philip of Greece, seated, in costume for a school production of Macbeth at Gordonstoun, 1935. Photograph: Fox Photos/Getty Images
Hahn’s vision was to “build up the imagination of the boy of decision and the willpower of the dreamer … so that in future, wise men will have the nerve to lead the way that they have shown and men of action will have the vision to imagine the consequences of their decisions”. Hahn also spoke of “training soldiers who at the same time are lovers of peace”.
He sought to instil a commitment to public service, self-reliance and self-control in his pupils – only 30 of them in Philip’s day. Hahn’s influence can be seen in the duke’s award scheme, in Philip’s interest in outdoor activities and in his choice of Gordonstoun for his sons’ education. Philip had loved the school – he said it brought him intense happiness and excitement.
Philip stayed with English relatives, family friends and sometimes with the bursar of Gordonstoun. All of them found him cheerfully adaptable, with no aristocratic conceit. His cousin Alexandra, Queen of Yugoslavia, remembered him, on holiday with her family in Venice, as “a huge, hungry dog, perhaps a friendly collie who never had a basket of his own”. His liking for women also stood out. “Blondes, brunettes, red-headed charmers, Philip gallantly and quite impartially squired them all,” according to Alexandra.
He entered the Royal Navy aged 17. His uncle Louis Mountbatten, who had taken over his upbringing and was ever anxious to act as royal fixer-in-chief, claimed this was due to his influence, but Philip disliked being thought of as dependent on him. Philip came 16th out of 34 successful candidates in the navy’s Dartmouth exams after studying at a crammer. While his spelling was atrocious, he got almost full marks in the examination interview. He took care to stress that he had been following his father’s and grandfather’s, rather than his uncle’s, example. Philip said: “I suspect [Mountbatten] tried too hard to make a son of me.”
He was first introduced to the 13-year-old Princess Elizabeth during a royal visit to the college. Maybe she was more smitten with the handsome, blond, blue-eyed youth, five years older than her, than he was with the adolescent princess. Nothing in his copious later utterances hinted at a romantic nature, and the Dartmouth meeting turned out to have been engineered by Mountbatten.
Philip Mountbatten, second from left, with, from left, Princess Elizabeth, Queen Elizabeth, King George VI and Princess Margaret at Buckingham Palace, 1947. hotograph: Popperfoto
Philip won two awards at Dartmouth as best cadet and was enlisted as a midshipman on the eve of the second world war. Kept away from naval action until Greece entered the war, he had his first taste of gunfire off Libya and Sicily, and became one of the navy’s youngest first lieutenants.
As second-in-command of HMS Wallace during the allied landings in Sicily in July 1943, he helped save many lives by launching a wooden raft to burn, give off smoke and act as a decoy to a German bomber. He spent much of the war patrolling for U-boats in the North Sea. In 1942, he saw Elizabeth again, at a dance at the Duke of Kent’s home. Within two years he had become a virtual orphan following his father’s death in occupied France in 1944. He was bequeathed little money but was occasionally asked to stay at Windsor Castle while on leave, where he watched Elizabeth act, tap-dance and sing in a family pantomime. The princess might have been besotted, but the courtiers were not, and the footmen noted gleefully when they unpacked his weekend valise that it contained no spare shoes – his only pair was holed – pyjamas or slippers.
He was thought to be no gentleman and, in immediate postwar days, to be little better than a German: the diplomat Harold Nicolson wrote of him that he was “rough, ill-mannered, uneducated and … probably not faithful”.
The impoverished young serviceman’s name was not in the first XI of the Queen’s list of acceptable suitors, but by 1946 he was being invited to Balmoral, where he became engaged to Elizabeth. “It was sort of fixed up,” he said. “After all, if you spend 10 minutes thinking about it – and a lot of these people spent a great deal more time thinking about it – how many obviously eligible young men, other than people living in this country, were available?”
The Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Elizabeth at Broadlands, Hampshire, during their honeymoon, November 1947. Photograph: Topical Press Agency/Getty Images
The engagement had to be kept secret, but leaked. The palace denied it. In a newspaper poll, 40% disapproved of him because of his foreign background and Germanic relatives. Philip acquired British citizenship, rejecting the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg surname in favour of Mountbatten. In July 1947, the engagement was finally announced. The couple married the following November in the first big public spectacle during postwar austerity. The clothing ration had to be relaxed to provide a wedding dress. Elizabeth took her corgi Susan on the honeymoon. Philip caught a cold.
King George wrote to Elizabeth: “I can see you are sublimely happy with Philip, which is right, but don’t forget us.” Honours unprecedented in his family were showered on him: a seat in the Lords, £10,000 a year – a handsome sum in those days – from public funds, the freedom of London, the dukedom and freedom of Edinburgh and a desk job at the Admiralty. Prince Charles was born a year after the wedding, Princess Anne in 1950. In 1949, Philip went to sea again, based in Malta, where Elizabeth joined him – perhaps the only time in their marriage when they could lead relatively normal lives as a young service couple. It was anyway a period that they remembered as so idyllic that they returned to the island in 2007 after their 60th wedding anniversary.
They had expected their semi-private life to last for a good 20 years. But George VI fell ill in 1949, and in February 1952 died of lung cancer at the age of 56. Philip and Elizabeth were on tour in Kenya, at the start of a lengthy overseas visit, when he broke the news to his young wife. “He looked as if you’d dropped half the world on him,” said his equerry, Mike Parker. There was some truth in this. Just when he and his wife had embarked on their young family-forming years, Philip, at 30, found himself consort to the Queen, head of an empire rapidly becoming the Commonwealth but still monarch of 16 countries.
His diminished status as the sovereign’s consort, pledging his allegiance to his wife at her coronation as her “liege man of life and limb and earthly worship”, without a career of his own, was irksome at first. He rationalised and sublimated the boredom as his duty – something well recognisable to men of his generation – primarily to his wife and then to the institution and the country. He always turned up at the right place and time, well-prepared and on top of his brief. At meetings of the organisations with which he was associated, he could be relied on to ask well-informed questions and not allow platitudes or sloppy thinking to prevail. The Queen remained devoted to him, calling him “my strength and my stay”.
In the early years, he found a refuge and substitute for the naval wardroom in the Thursday Club, an all-male drinking and dining den dedicated to badinage and practical jokes. It met above a Soho restaurant. Members included the Conservative politician Iain Macleod, the film star David Niven, the mouth-organist Larry Adler and the osteopath Stephen Ward, who became a pivotal figure in the 1963 Profumo scandal.
The Ward link inspired a famous Private Eye cartoon cover showing Philip’s coronation robe cast off in the bedroom of Ward’s friend, Christine Keeler. No evidence emerged to support such gossip, although Parker’s estranged wife claimed in a book in 1982 that Philip and Parker habitually slipped out of Buckingham Palace to carouse together under the noms de guerre Murgatroyd and Winterbotham.
Yet the struggle to define a role was earnest and honest. “I do not have a job,” Philip wrote to his 1991 biographer, Tim Heald. “I never set about planning my career. I had two general ideas. I felt that I could use my position to attract attention to certain aspects of life in this country, and that this might help to recognise the good things and expose the bad things. I also believed I might be able to start various initiatives. You might ask whether all this rushing about (on public duties) is to any purpose. Am I just doing it to look as if I’m earning my keep or has it any national value?”
Although he was energetic, industrious and by far the best public speaker in the family, virtually no public discussion took place on how he could be useful. His wife was shy and constitutionally obliged to be non-partisan, which set limits on his public role if he was not to appear a publicity-hog or usurper. Early on, he was dogged by Lord Beaverbrook’s paranoid press campaign over his and his uncle’s German connections, a feud that was resolved between Mountbatten and Beaverbrook’s heir Sir Max Aitken in the 1970s. The equally mass-selling Mirror press under Hugh Cudlipp ran self-consciously “cheeky-chappie” protest editorials whenever he bumped into controversy.
Later, the press would construct a highly partial picture of an insensitive and pugnacious figure, which took no account of his more genial and empathetic private relations. This reached its apogee in accusations after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales that he had harried and bullied her as her marriage broke down, whereas it became clear, as his letters to her were divulged during her belated inquest, that he had been concerned and understanding of her plight.
The Duke of Edinburgh, left, with Prince William, Earl Spencer, Prince Harry and the Prince of Wales at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, 1997. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/AP
At her funeral in 1997, it was Philip who reassured his grandson William, who was nervous about walking behind the coffin. “If you walk, I will walk with you,” he said.
Philip wrote his own speeches, and many of his so-called outbursts had a knack of being prescient. Early in the 1950s, he told the Society of Motor Manufacturers that thanks to traffic congestion, “it will soon be quicker to go on foot”. In 1960, he advocated “forgiving one’s enemies” to the Anglo-German Association. He denounced “crude, industrial philosophies in agriculture” that would do immense social and demographic damage.
In the early 70s, he said Britain was living beyond its means: “Anyone who believes North Sea oil alone is going to get us out of trouble would also believe that social security is available at a pawnbroker’s shop.” In 1977, the year of his wife’s silver jubilee, he compared the British economy to dry rot in a house: “You don’t know when it starts, you don’t know when the crisis is, but gradually the place becomes uninhabitable.”
But, in the absence of intelligent public debate, it grew too easy for those he attacked to dismiss him as a loose cannon. On a visit to Canada, the frustration boiled into his angriest, though still controlled, public remark: “It is a complete misconception to imagine that the monarchy exists in the interests of the monarchy. It does not. It exists in the interests of the people, in the sense that we do not come here for the benefit of our health, so to speak. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves. Judging by some of the programme we are required to do – and how little we get out of it – you can assume that it is done in the interests of the Canadian people and not our own interest.”
The Duke of Edinburgh and members of the royal family watch a fly-past from the balcony of Buckingham Palace following the Trooping of the Colour in 2012. Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images
His sense of resignation about his position was apparent. In 1999, he said in an interview: “What you wish to be remembered for has nothing to do with it. You can wish for all sorts of things. If it doesn’t happen, it doesn’t happen.”
By the time of his 90th birthday, Philip acknowledged the need to step down from some of his public commitments: “It’s better to get out before you reach the sell-by date.” Reviewing the course of his life in television interviews held no fascination for him. As he explained to Fiona Bruce of the BBC, when he had first asked what he was to do, no one could tell him so he proceeded by trial and error. Six decades later, having been involved with more than 800 organisations, he still had a quite uncluttered view of the uses and limitations of being a figurehead. Barely concealing his impatience with Bruce’s questions and making little effort to charm, he did admit to a desire to slow down: “I reckon I’ve done my bit. I want to enjoy myself now with less responsibility, less frantic rushing about, less preparation, less trying to think of something to say … The memory’s going … Yes, I am just sort of winding down.”
Yet he scarcely did so. In 2011, he accompanied his wife on a potentially difficult state visit to Ireland and on an arduous tour of Australia. Although beginning to look more frail and slightly stooping, he remained ever-present and seemingly indestructible at the Queen’s side until the Christmas weekend, when he was rushed to hospital with chest pains for an emergency heart operation – the first significant, publicly acknowledged, illness of his life. A stent was inserted into his coronary artery and he was kept in for four days. Reports suggested he was chafing at the experience and, on his release, he headed straight for the shooting party at Sandringham.
The day after standing with the Queen for four hours in pelting rain onboard the Spirit of Chartwell during the Thames pageant to mark her diamond jubilee in June 2012, he was taken to hospital with a bladder infection. The Queen had to attend a concert at Buckingham Palace and a service of thanksgiving at St Paul’s Cathedral on her own and cast a somewhat forlorn figure. When asked if he was feeling better as he left King Edward VII’s hospital five days later, he replied: “Well, I wouldn’t be coming out if I wasn’t.”
The following summer he had abdominal surgery. It took until May 2017 for him to announce that he would be retiring, by not taking on new engagements from the following autumn. His wedding anniversary that year marked seven decades at his wife’s side.
Beyond his public service and personal relationships, there was one organisation in which Philip had some clout as an executive – the monarchy itself. Among his first acts as consort was to free palace servants of the 18th-century obligation to powder their hair with flour and starch on state occasions, a “ridiculous and unmanly” rule, he called it. He part-modernised the economies of the royal estates, got rid of debutantes at court, was the first royal to master television and the first modern one to write books and articles. He insisted that his children, unlike their royal predecessors, went to school, and backed Prince Charles’s eagerness to go to university.
At the end of it all, as Prince Albert wrote: “The position of a prince consort requires that a husband should entirely sink his own individual interests in that of his wife.” Philip, with a less assertive wife than Victoria but also a weak constitutional position, maintained a stubborn profile. And he ended by printing his own name as well as his own bloodline on some of the generations after him: Mountbatten-Windsor. For an exile who began with so few cards to play, it was no small accomplishment.
He is survived by the Queen, their four children, Prince Charles, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward, eight grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
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The key grievance Microsoft is claiming is patent infringement on synchronization of e-mail, calendars and contacts, scheduling meetings, and the capacity of signal strength, and battery power notifications. Microsoft has gone through the U.S. International Commission in Washington whereby the banning of U.S. imports of the phones could occur if Motorola is proven to be culpable. Also, there has been a case filed with the federal court in Seattle, in which the software giant is attempting to sue for an undisclosed amount of compensation.
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11. Tend to do sth. 倾向去做某事
12. Rely on sb./sth. 依赖某人/某事
13. Take responsibility for sth./sb. 对某人或某事负责
14. Succeed in doing sth. 成功作某事
15. Be aware of 意识到
1. he death rate from the disease has been increasing at an alarming speed for the past thirty years.
2. Die of 死于疾病；die from 死于外因
3. 时态题：Many operations that were considered impossible a few years ago are now performed every day in U.S. hospitals.
4. 时态题：In the recent past， medical researchers have begun to emphasize the fact that heart disease is associated with（与什么相联系） stress， smoking and a lack of（缺少） exercise.
5. Many are paying more attention to reducing stress in their lives.
6. The number of smokers in the United States is now far（副词用来强调） below the level of twenty years ago as many people succeed in breaking the habit and as fewer people take it up.
7. Benefit 受益（n.或v.）； beneficial 受益的（adj.）
8. Increase 增加；decrease 减少
Text B Dieting Your Way to Health
1. Go on 继续
2. Regardless of 不管；无论
3. Have sth. in common 在哪方面有相似之处
4. Lose weight 减肥
5. Do harm to sb./sth.； be harmful to sb./sth. 对某人或某事不利
6. Sth. is supplied to sb. 把某物供应给某人
7. Lose interest in sth. 对什么丧失兴趣
8. Resistance to sth. 对什么的抵制
9. As a result 结果是
10. Suffer from 承受
11. Take the place of 替代
12. Lead to（介词） 导致
13. Result in 导致
14. Lead a happy life 过一个幸福的生活
15. Provide sb. with sth. 给某人提供什么
16. Keep sb./sth. from sth. 事某人或某事免受
17. Take substitutes for sb./sth. 替代
1. Though their common aim may seem basically good， they probably do not realize that misguided dieting can do more harm than good to their health.
a strict diet 试比较 too strict a diet （很严格的饮食）
a great quantity of books 试比较 as great a quantity of books （大量的书）
3. Much less food than usual 此处的much放在比较级less前起到一个强调的作用；less是little的比较级
4. What（what在主语从句中做realize的宾语，指事，所以用what） they do not realize， however， is that carbohydrates are our bodies'main source of energy.
5. As a result， they try to avoid eating（avoid这个动词后如果加动词应该用动词的ing形式） these foods， and consequently， they become weaker and less（less是little的比较级） healthy.
6. They begin to have difficulty sleeping（省略介词in） properly and start to suffer from radical mood changes.
7. In fact，such artificial sweeteners actually increase one's appetite and lead to one's eating even more than usual.
8. Of course， the fact that misguided forms of dieting result in so many problems does not mean that no dieting is safe or all dieting is harmful to the health.
9. Well-balanced 均衡的
10. Skimmed milk 脱脂牛奶
11. Instead of regular milk， one can take skimmed milk， which contains as many proteins and minerals as regular milk but has had the fat removed.（has是完成时态的助动词；had表示使，让；跟在has后面用了have的过去分词形式had；由于脂肪发不出remove的动作，所以用了remove的过去分词形式）
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Surprise your friends with this recipe that produces fizzy purple kefir!
Flavoured with butterfly pea flower and grapefruit, this water kefir will definitively be a hit.
The blue butterfly pea flower gives a magnificent colour to the kefir. This natural plant has been consumed in Asia for hundreds of years.
Its infusion produces a colour that can range from vibrant blue to bright purple, depending on the acidity of the liquid.
In this recipe, the butterfly pea flower, with its high concentration of antioxidants, is mixed with grapefruit juice for a fizzy, colourful, and thirst-quenching kefir!
Grapefruit and Butterfly Pea Flower Kefir Recipe
Surprise your friends with this recipe for sparkling purple kefir! Flavoured with blue pea flowers and grapefruit, this water kefir is sure to be the talk of the town.
- 1 L water
- ¼ cup sugar (cane or brown sugar)
- 30 ml water kefir grains
- 1 dried fig
- 1 organic lemon slice (or without the peel)
- 3 tablespoons butterfly pea flower
- ¾ cup grapefruit juice (approx. 1½ grapefruits)
Fermentation of Water Kefir
In the jar, pour 1L of water. Add the sugar and stir to dissolve.
Add the water kefir grains, the fig, and lemon slice. Cover the jar with a cotton cloth and secure it with a rubber band.
Let it ferment 24 to 48 hours at room temperature, or until the fig has risen to the surface.
Filter the mixture and save the liquid. Put aside the grains for your next recipe. Compost fig and lemon.
Infusion and Flavour
Add the blue pea flowers to the water kefir.
Let it sit in the fridge overnight.
Remove the pea flowers and add the grapefruit juice.
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Writer Alan Klavan calls Hollywood movies liberal propaganda in a provocative opinion piece in the Washington Post.
For the past 30 years or so, Hollywood storytelling has been guided by a liberal mythos in which, for example, blacklisting communist screenwriters during the ’50s was somehow morally worse than fellow-traveling with the Stalinist murderers of tens of millions (“Trumbo”); Che Guevara was a dashing, romantic liberator instead of a charismatic killer (“The Motorcycle Diaries”); and the worldwide violence currently being waged by Islamo-fascists is either a figment of our bigoted imaginations or the product of our evil deeds (“V for Vendetta“).
Hollywood moviemakers, in other words, have been telling lies — loudly, constantly and almost always in support of a left-wing point of view. And these lies are most prolific and tenacious when the Hollywood left is lying about itself.
This seems over the top to me. “The Motorcyle Diaries” was about Che Guevara’s early, idealistic years, as though it was a prequel to “The Godfather” that just focused on the time between the night Michael enlisted and the wedding scene that begins the film. Unless Klavan wants to insist that Guevara was intentionally and inherently evil in his twenties, it seems to me part of what makes the movie so intriguing is our knowledge of what he became when the injustice that troubles him so deeply in this film persuades him that the ends justify the means and he loses his ability to resist the corruption of power. And “V for Vendetta” is an allegory that is intended to be open-ended so that it can be interpreted in several ways. The movie begins with a reference to Guy Fawkes, whose foiled 1605 attempt to bomb Parliament is still celebrated every year. And it specifically raises the questions about whether the main characters can be seen as terrorists or as revolutionaries — or both — and how to respond to fascism without becoming fascistic.
He does make some good points:
But Hollywood supports unions, a stalwart Democratic cause, right? Well, yeah, if you watch “Norma Rae” or “Hoffa.” But in real life, filmmakers routinely outsource their productions to places such as Vancouver and Budapest, where they can avoid paying union premiums. And when the Writers Guild struck last year, we saw studio liberals turn into corporate hard-guys in the blink of an eye.
I would not say that “Hoffa” is a valentine to unions, but Klavan’s accusation of hypocrisy is well-founded, especially when it comes to the writer’s strike, and I am delighted to see someone who is politically conservative speak out on behalf of unions.
However, he makes an enormous mistake by characterizing the new Oliver Stone movie about President Bush, “W.,” without having seen it, based only on the trailers and advance work. A screenwriter should know better.
And his accusation that liberals are not patriotic is hogwash. He says,
The meaning of the word patriotism is “love of country.” If you don’t love your country, you’re not a patriot.
Liberals love America every bit as much as conservatives do, and it is shameful of Klevan to suggest otherwise. Loving America means wanting it to live up to its ideals, ideal of democracy and freedom that transformed the world. The first principle of the founding fathers was their commitment to challenge, even revolution, to keep the country vibrant and constantly renewing itself. In a moment when opposing political candidates are both running on a platform of change, Klavan should realize that we can best show our love for our country by renewing its commitment to the values at its foundation, those same values of freedom of speech that gave him his space in a “liberal” newspaper. | <urn:uuid:d1ece5bb-2c01-4b0d-9c4c-65b5a47bc4bc> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/moviemom/2008/10/five-liberal-myths-in-movies.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00338-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96823 | 833 | 1.632813 | 2 |
This report assesses Japan’s progress since the previous OECD Environmental Performance Review in 2000. It analyses the extent to which the country has met its national objectives and international commitments regarding the management of its environment and natural resources.
By putting a price on pollution, do environmentally related taxes spur innovation? Does the design of the tax play a critical role? What is the effect of this innovation? In analysing these questions, the report draws on case studies that cover Japan, Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Israel and others. It also covers a wide set of environmental issues and technologies, as well as the economic and policy contexts.
This study attempts to clarify what sort of impact was exerted by policy instruments on the development and spread of SOx reduction technology from the 1960s up to the present.
Country case studies of China, Japan, Netherlands, South Africa and the United States in measures that may hamper trade in steel scrap, recovered paper and plastic scrap, and if and how they could be removed without compromising environmental protection.
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This report inventories eco-innovation policies in Japan. Similar reports are available on selected non-EU OECD members: Australia, Canada, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Turkey and the US. They complement national roadmaps developed by EU member states under the Env. Technology Action Plan.
In his speech delivered at the G8 Environment Ministers Meeting 2008, Angel Gurría discussed how promoting resource productivity and the 3Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle) can protect the environment while sustaining growth and prosperity.
OECD member countries, as well as some non-member economies and other stakeholders, are pooling expertise and funding to test the human health and environmental safety effects of a number of nanomaterials.
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This report provides a descriptive overview of the Japanese database on 'firm-level environmental management and public policy', as well as preliminary conclusions from the analysis.
World leaders and water management experts will meet at the Third World Water Forum in Japan from 16-23 March to develop concrete actions to achieve the international water goals of halving the world populations without access to safe drinking water and sanitation.
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Australia's peak recreational fishing body has accused the federal government of locking out thousands of 'mum and dad' fishers by the creation of a huge marine park.
The Australian Recreational Fishing Foundation (ARFF) has asked the Environment Minister, Tony Burke, why his plan is locking recreational fishers out of 1.3 million square kilometres of Australian seas without a reason.
"Australia's five million recreational fishers applaud good science based conservation measures that protects our marine environment for future generations,'' director Allan Hansard said.
"However, the Government's Marine Park Plan lacks scientific reasoning and no explanation why Aussie recreational fishers are banned from marine parks. ''
"What does Mum, Dad and the kids fishing in a tinnie do to the environment that warrants them being locked out of vast areas of Australian waters, whether the marine parks are five or 500 kilometres from a boat ramp. ''
"The government has not differentiated between a family fishing in a tinnie and an industrial scale super trawler.
The government is providing a $100 million compensation package for fishers, but the Opposition and industry say it's not enough.
The new reserves include more than 2.3 million square kilometres of protected ocean along the South Australian, West Australian, New South Wales and Northern Territory coasts.
The area covers the Coral Sea between the Great Barrier Reef and the edge of Australian waters.
Only some of the new reserves - which are in Commonwealth waters starting several kilometres off the coast - will completely ban fishing.
Some will allow just recreational fishing, while others will permit some commercial fishing.
Opposition environment spokesman Greg Hunt welcomed the creation of new marine parks, but claimed there had been a lack of consultation on coastal communities.
Mr Hunt questioned whether the $100 million package would be adequate.
He said the Coalition would review the marine parks if elected.
Queensland's Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Minister John McVeigh says the move will destroy fishing communities and hundreds of family-run small businesses along the Queensland coast.
But Environment Minister Tony Burke said Australia's precious marine environments had been permanently protected with the proclamation of the world's biggest network of marine reserves.
"Australia is a world leader when it comes to protecting our oceans, and so we should be, we've got responsibility for more of the ocean than almost any other country on Earth," Mr Burke said.
"Australia is home to some incredible marine environments including the Perth Canyon in the south-west and the stunning reefs of the Coral Sea and this announcement cements Australia's position as a world leader on environmental protection.
"Australia's oceans support many of the world's endangered marine animals including the Green Turtle, the Blue Whale, the Southern Right Whale, the Australian Sea Lion and the whale shark.
"Following consultation, the Director of National Parks prepared a report on the comments received and I have considered these in making my recommendation to the Governor General that the proposed reserves be declared.
"Of the 80,000 submissions received, the vast majority of submissions were supportive of the Government's plan to create the world's largest network of marine parks.
"The declaration of these new marine reserves delivers on an election commitment and represents a major achievement for the long term conservation and sustainable use of Australia's oceans.
"Even though the new marine reserves have been designed in a way to minimise impacts on industry and recreational users, the Government recognises that there will be impacts on some fishers and we will support those impacted.
"In a separate announcement today, I have also outlined how the Australian Government will be allocating around $100 million in fisheries adjustment assistance to support the creation of the network of marine reserves."
The process of developing the management plans for the new reserves will commence immediately.
"The management plans will set out how the reserves are to be managed and what gear types and activities can and cannot be used and undertaken in the marine reserves,'' Mr Burke said.
"While the management plans for the new reserves are being developed, transitional arrangements will be in place that maintain current arrangements for industry and recreation fishers.
"This means that from 17 November until the new management plans come into effect in July 2014, there will be no 'on the water' changes for users in the new areas added to the Commonwealth reserve estate."
Existing management arrangements for former reserves, or areas subsumed into new reserves, will remain in place until the new management plans come into effect.
New marine reserves have been proclaimed in five of Australia's six large marine regions. The reserves in the South-east region were proclaimed in 2007.
The regions are:
- The Coral Sea Region is the jewel in the crown of the marine parks network and covers an area of more than half the size of Queensland. It supports critical nesting sites for the green turtle and is renowned for its diversity of big predatory fish and sharks. The network includes protection for all reefs in the Coral Sea with the final proposal adding iconic reefs such as top dive site Osprey Reef, Marion Reef, Bougainville Reef, Vema Reef, and Shark Reef as marine national parks.
- The South-west Marine Region which extends from South Australia to Shark Bay in Western Australia is of global significance as a breeding and feeding ground for a number of protected marine species such as southern right whales, blue whales and the Australian Sea Lion. Features in the South-West region include the Perth Canyon - an underwater area bigger than the Grand Canyon - and the Diamantina Fracture Zone - a large underwater mountain chain which includes Australia's deepest water.
- The Temperate East Marine Region which runs from the southern boundary of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park to Bermagui in southern New South Wales, and includes the waters surrounding Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands. It is home to the critically endangered east coast population of grey nurse shark, the vulnerable white shark and has important offshore reef habitat at Elizabeth and Middleton Reefs and Lord Howe Island that support the threatened black cod.
- The North Marine Region which includes the Commonwealth waters of the Gulf of Carpentaria, Arafura Sea and the Timor Sea extending as far west as the Northern Territory-Western Australian border. Globally important foraging and resting areas for threatened marine turtle species including flatback, hawksbill, green and olive ridley turtles will be protected. So too will important foraging areas for breeding colonies of migratory seabirds and large aggregations of dugongs.
- The North-west Marine Region which stretches from the Western Australian-Northern Territory border through to Kalbarri, south of Shark Bay in Western Australia, is home to the whale shark, the world's largest fish, and provides protection to the world's largest population of humpback whales that migrate annually from Antarctica to give birth in the water off the Kimberley.
- The South-east Marine Region which extends from the far south coast of New South Wales, around Tasmania and to South Australia. It includes the Commonwealth waters of Bass Strait and waters surrounding Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean. Significant variations in water depth and sea-floor features found throughout the South-east Marine Region contribute to the high level of species diversity in the region. The threatened southern right whale and other migratory species, such as southern bluefin tuna, great white sharks and the wandering albatross travel through the South-east Marine Region on their long journeys across the ocean. | <urn:uuid:812ad5ff-d18e-4cb3-af42-f8266a322d4b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ioseaturtles.org/headline_detail.php?id=3242 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280266.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00497-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942733 | 1,510 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Indian endocrinologists start debate on diabetes drugBMJ 2015; 351 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h5160 (Published 29 September 2015) Cite this as: BMJ 2015;351:h5160
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- 1New Delhi
Two endocrinologists in India have started a debate over whether an Indian drug company launched and is marketing a drug to treat diabetes and dyslipidaemia without adequate safety and efficacy data.
In a commentary published in the Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology last week, Anoop Misra and Atul Luthra, from the Fortis Centre of Excellence for Diabetes, Metabolic Diseases, and Endocrinology in New Delhi, listed saroglitazar among at least three drugs that were being promoted by drug companies and prescribed by doctors even though “available data are entirely inadequate to show the efficacy and safety of these three drugs.”1
Saroglitazar, marketed as Lipaglyn by Zydus Cadila, was approved after two studies of up to 24 weeks of follow-up with …
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CHRISTIAN JOKES AND RIDDLES
A minister was thrown in jail for preaching without a license. One day, he received a letter from his wife: "I have decided to plant some lettuce in the back garden," she wrote. "When is the best time to plant?"
The minister, knowing that the prison guards read all the mail, replied: "My dear wife, whatever you do, do not touch the back garden. That is where I buried all the gold."
A week or so later, he received another letter from his wife. "You wouldn't believe what happened! Last night some men came to the house with shovels and dug up the entire back garden."
The preacher wrote another letter back. "My dear wife, now is the best time to plant the lettuce."
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It’s all kicking off on the trains Down Under. The start of 2018 has featured mass cancellations as people returned to work, a driver’s strike which the state Fair Work Commission dramatically banned at the last minute, and – as if the metaphorical train wreck weren’t enough – a literal, thankfully non-fatal train crash.
The mess actually started in November 2017. That was when Transport for New South Wales, the government agency responsible for trains in and around Sydney, made a timetable change that was intended to boost capacity, but instead led to months of low-level disruption. Things have only got worse since. So what’s going on in the Harbour City, and whose fault is it?
Let’s start off with the most dramatic incident. On 22 January, a Waratah commuter train hit the buffers at the Richmond terminus in the city’s north-western outskirts. The crash involved dozens of minor injuries, with seven people kept overnight in hospital.
In an interview a few days beforehand, veteran train driver Van Cramer (not involved in the incident) sounded warnings about the new timetable: “They’re giving us very tight margins,” Mr Cramer warned. “It leads to errors like going past signals, overshooting platforms.” His words were prescient: this looks likely to have been the cause of the accident.
Don’t safeguards exist to prevent trains crashing into buffers? Sort of. The UK’s TPWS (train protection & warning) system prevents incidents like this, as do many other ATP (automatic train protection) systems worldwide. Such systems been mooted in Sydney since 2003, when a train overturned killing seven people in an incident which ATP would have prevented. But successive NSW governments have been reluctant to meet the cost of installation, and so nothing has been done so far.
That’s the crash. But why is the timetable making drivers like Mr Cramer worried?
The Sydney rail network. Image: TfNSW.
The timetable recast maximises the use of trains and of rail paths in and around Sydney. Previously, there was heaps of empty space to space trains out, because it took until the mid-2000s for train passenger numbers to get back up to their 1950s peak. But soaring commuter numbers have made a change necessary to deal with overcrowding. The new timetable uses the tracks and trains more efficiently, bringing some mothballed spare carriages back into use.
The only problem? It hasn’t been matched with a rise in the number of train drivers or guards. Instead the system is running entirely on overtime – which, in the context of railway rosters, means doing a full-length extra shift on what would otherwise be your day off.
Railways have always run on overtime: train crew are hard to find and train, and many of them are keen on more pay, so it can be good for staff and management alike. But it’s entirely reliant on goodwill: if you’re feeling underpaid and disrespected, you’re much less inclined to give up your day off. And if things get rough then you can be reliant on a small proportion of crew who are willing to work all the way up to the absolute legal maximum hours.
Unfortunately, Goodwill is in short supply in Sydney right now. The agreement between the RTBU union, who represent all train crew, and TfNSW, their employer, is up for negotiation. The union is seeking a 6 per cent annual pay rise over the next four years, but the NSW government has announced a 2.5 per cent cap on public sector wage increases. And the Liberal (centre-right anti-union, in an Australian context) transport minister, Andrew Constance, has refused to allow TfNSW to make any concessions to the railways, instead delivering blustering speeches about greedy unions.
The union aren’t being unreasonable: their proposed pay rise would just gradually bring Sydney salaries In line with those paid to rail staff elsewhere. My research suggests that a qualified driver in Sydney takes home about A$75,000 per year for regular shifts, compared with A$95,000 in Melbourne or Brisbane. A UK driver gets about £50,000 (A$88,000).
Train crew voted to hold a one-day strike on 29 January, and for an ongoing overtime ban. Sydney Trains had to shift to a weekend timetable on Thursday 25 January, the first day of the overtime ban, and all trains were cancelled for the 29. The dramatic overturning of both the strike and the overtime ban by the Fair Work Commission on Thursday has left everything in the air.
The RTBU says that it won’t break the law, and rostered drivers will work on Monday. But although the formal overtime ban has been cancelled, nobody involved can prevent individual train crew simply turning down the offer to work overtime until the dispute is resolved. If my discussions with railway staff following the ruling are anything to go by, a surge in offers looks rather unlikely.
So what happens next? If it were up to TfNSW, settling with train crew would be less costly than the disruption of a prolonged industrial dispute. But – as in the UK’s Southern Rail dispute – the rail managers aren’t in charge, the politicians are, and they want to send a broader message to unions and voters.
Howard Collins, CEO of TfNSW’s Sydney Trains unit, says that 160 trainee drivers will start work soon, taking a bit of the pressure off overtime numbers. There are also plans to transfer existing rail lines in Northern and Western Sydney to the new, automated Sydney Metro network over coming years, which will eventually reduce staffing pressures as drivers are transferred to other lines.
But with the first of these closures for conversion not due until late 2018, and the second not until 2022, it’s hard to see the misery for train crew and commuters ending any time soon. Well, unless the outcry from commuters over their misery, not to mention the dangers created by an atmosphere of cost-cutting, makes the Transport Minister’s position untenable, that is. | <urn:uuid:78099564-3014-48b0-994a-550d8d429294> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://citymonitor.ai/transport/trains-sydney-are-collapsing-chaos-while-government-yells-about-union-menace-3632 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.95978 | 1,285 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Israel will release 300 to 400 Palestinian prisoners before the Annapolis summit later this month as a good-will gesture to the Palestinian Authority and its chairman, Mahmoud Abbas.
But this number falls far short of the nearly 2,000 Abbas had requested from Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. The list will not include prisoners who were involved in killing Israelis, described as having "blood on their hands."
The release of the prisoners will be the only good-will gesture before Annapolis. Defense Minister Ehud Barak and the security chiefs are adamant in their opposition to lifting any roadblocks or checkpoints along roadways in the West Bank, fearing that this would undermine security and make it easier for terrorists to strike.
The U.S. has made it clear to Israel that while it recognizes its security needs, if Israel cannot dismantle roadblocks and lift restrictions on Palestinian freedom of movement, it must at least try to improve the way Palestinians are treated at checkpoints and shorten the waiting time.
After a delay at a checkpoint, the head of the Palestinian negotiating team, Ahmed Qureia, canceled a meeting with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni in Jerusalem. (Full story, Page 2)
Livni apologized for the incident and asked the IDF to investigate.
Meanwhile, Olmert held a meeting yesterday to discuss the Annapolis summit and the negotiations toward a final-settlement agreement. Livni, Barak, the chief of staff and the heads of the intelligence services attended the meeting.
Olmert told the gathering that immediately at the start of negotiations following the summit, Israel will set a precondition that the Palestinians recognize Israel as "a Jewish state."
"I do not intend to compromise in any way over the issue of the Jewish state," Olmert said. "This will be a condition for our recognition of a Palestinian state."
Olmert said he raised the importance of this issue during his talks with European and American officials, and their response had been positive.
Olmert accepted the position of Livni and Barak, who demanded that the Palestinians recognize Israel "as a Jewish state."
This recognition is meant to bolster Israel's position that rejects the return of Palestinian refugees to areas inside the Green Line - the border before the Six-Day War in 1967.
During talks in recent weeks between the Israeli and Palestinian negotiating teams, the Palestinians refused to recognize Israel as a Jewish state in the shared declaration to be made at Annapolis.
Olmert's stance suggests that Israel does not intend to raise this issue as an obstacle to holding the summit, but intends to raise it after the conference.
Number of conditions
At the meeting with Olmert yesterday, Barak said Israel must insist on a number of conditions in the negotiations toward a final settlement.
Among these are a declaration that the conflict is over; that Israel is a Jewish state; that the Palestinian state is completely disarmed; that Israel has the right to overfly Palestinian territory; that the PA is also responsible for the Gaza Strip; that until there is a solution on the Gaza Strip, Israel will retain full freedom of action there; that a "safe passage" corridor between the West Bank and Gaza would go into effect only after the situation in Gaza changes; and that Israel will promise economic assistance to projects to be created in the territories with the help of foreign donors.
Meanwhile, and despite Palestinian claims that there is a crisis in the talks, Livni and Qureia exchanged drafts of the joint declaration that Israel and the Palestinians are to present at the Annapolis summit.
Government officials did not deny reports in recent days that Israel had surprisingly softened its stance on the core issues - particularly on borders and Jerusalem.
This morning the prime minister is scheduled to appear before the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee to present the principles that will guide Israel in the negotiations with the Palestinians.
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Intrafusal fibers are muscle fibers that comprise the muscle spindle. These fibers are walled off from the rest of the muscle by a collagen sheath. This sheath has a spindle or "fusiform" shape, hence the name "intrafusal." While the intrafusal fibers are wrapped with sensory receptors, their counterpart, extrafusal muscle fibers are the ones responsible for the power-generating component of muscle and are innervated by motor neurons.
It is by the sensory information from these two intrafusal fiber types that one is able to judge the position of their muscle, and the rate at which it is changing.
The first of the two main group of stretch receptors wrapping the intrafusal fibers are the Ia fiber, which are the largest and fastest fibers, and they fire when the muscle is stretching. They are characterized by their rapid adaptation, because as soon as the muscle stops changing length, the Ia stop firing and adapt to the new length. Ia fibers essentially supply proprioceptive information about the rate of change of its respective muscle: the derivative of the muscle's length (or position).
The second of the two main groups of stretch receptors are the II fibers, and they are non-adapting, meaning that they keep responding even when the muscle has stopped changing its length. Their firing rate is directly related to the muscle's instantaneous length, or position. This information would indicate the position of one's leg once it has stopped moving.
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Love in Service of Transformation
Monday, June 17, 2019
Cynthia Bourgeault, an Episcopal priest and one of the Center’s core faculty members, calls Jesus’ teaching and way of life “the path of conscious love.” She writes:
“Conscious love” . . . emphasizes the life-affirming and implicitly relational nature of the path, and the word “conscious” makes clear that the touchstone here is transformation, not simply romance. Conscious love is “love in the service of inner transformation”—or if you prefer, “inner transformation in the service of love.” Either way, this is exactly what Jesus was about.
The words “conscious love” ring true for me (Richard) as a definition for our life’s purpose and the goal of all spirituality. When we’re conscious, we will always do the loving thing, the connecting thing, the intimate thing, the communion thing, the aware thing. To do the unloving thing is always to somehow be unconscious at that moment. Cynthia describes what this means:
The first requirement of conscious love is, of course, that it has to be conscious—or in other words, anchored in a quality of our presence deeper than simply egoic selfhood. Nowadays we would identify this quality of consciousness as unitive, or nondual, awareness. . . .
For Jesus as for all teachers of conscious transformation . . . the work with a partner is in service of this goal. It is not intended simply to fulfill physical or emotional needs, but to accelerate the process of awakening.
The Buddhist psychologist John Welwood (1943–2019) wrote:
Instead of looking to a relationship for shelter, we could welcome its power to wake us up in areas of life where we are asleep and where we avoid naked, direct contact with life. This approach puts us on a path. It commits us to movement and change, providing forward direction by showing us exactly where we most need to grow. Embracing relationship as a path also gives us a practice: learning to use each difficulty along the way as an opportunity to go further, to connect more deeply, not just with our partner, but with our own aliveness as well.
By contrast, dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of love—which is to transform us. For our relationships to flourish, we need to see them in a new way—as a series of opportunities for developing greater awareness, discovering deeper truth, and becoming more fully human.
That’s why I believe deep friendships, family, sexual intimacy, marriage, and even celibacy are not given to us to solve our problem, but actually to reveal the problem. All of these life stances show us that we still don’t know how to love. At the same time, if we are conscious and aware, they give us the daily practice and opportunity to try one more time!
In summary, Welwood wrote:
A conscious relationship is one that calls forth who you really are. . . . Regarding relationship as a vehicle or path that can help two people access the powerful qualities of their true nature provides the new vision our age so urgently needs.
Cynthia Bourgeault, The Meaning of Mary Magdalene: Discovering the Woman at the Heart of Christianity (Shambhala: 2010), 112.
Ibid., 118.
John Welwood, Journey of the Heart: The Path of Conscious Love (HarperPerennial: 1990), 13.
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Solar eclipse: Moon blocks out the sun over Canada
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The study, conducted by the NASA Sea Level Change Team at the University of Hawaii says a regularly occurring change in the Moon’s orbit around the Earth will raise ocean water levels along coasts. Publishing their results in the scientific journal Nature Climate Change, the researchers say the so-called “wobble” in the Moon’s orbit is part of an 18.6-year cycle, recorded as far back as 1728. During half of the cycle, the Moon creates lower high tides and higher low tidesm the other half creates higher high tides and even lower low tides.
That cycle is expected to peak in the mid-2030s and will occur after UN scientist have already forecast record seas levels.
This particularly impacts high tides, adding roughly an extra 50cm to 60cm rise above the daily average high tide.
NASA said: “In half of the Moon’s 18.6-year cycle, Earth’s regular daily tides are suppressed: High tides are lower than normal, and low tides are higher than normal.
““In the other half of the cycle, tides are amplified: High tides get higher, and low tides get lower. Global sea level rise pushes high tides in only one direction – higher.
“So half of the 18.6-year lunar cycle counteracts the effect of sea level rise on high tides, and the other half increases the effect.”
Author on the NASA study William Sweet said the combination of the Moon’s orbit wobble and rising sea levels is “sort of a double-whammy”.
That could means coastal communities are likely to expect even greater flooding than they might otherwise in coming years, unless they adapt and fortify their shorelines.
NASA’s Sea Level Change team leader Ben Hamlington said communities and urban planners need to plan for more extreme flooding in the future.
Commenting on the report, NASA administrator Bill Nelson added: “Low-lying areas near sea level are increasingly at risk and suffering due to the increased flooding, and it will only get worse.
“The combination of the Moon’s gravitational pull, rising sea levels, and climate change will continue to exacerbate coastal flooding on our coastlines and across the world.
“NASA’s Sea Level Change Team is providing crucial information so that we can plan, protect, and prevent damage to the environment and people’s livelihoods affected by flooding.”
The space agency has said that the moon’s wobble will “cause a leap in flood numbers on almost all US mainland coastlines, Hawaii, and Guam”.
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It added: “Only far northern coastlines, including Alaska’s, will be spared for another decade or longer because these land areas are rising due to long-term geological processes.”
NASA has also released a new projection tool which could help “save lives and livelihoods” by showing the threat of rising sea levels anywhere in the world.
An online world map uses new data to show the impact of sea levels on different areas depending on a range of global emissions trajectories.
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3 Things You Should Do if Pulled Over by the Police
Face it, everyone gets pulled over by the cops at some point in their life. It’s just part of life. Maybe you were going a bit too fast, or perhaps you forgot to use a signal before making a turn. Whatever it is, interactions with the police do not need to be complicated. However, it is still very important to understand your rights and know how to respond to the police. Most experienced attorneys would agree that you need to strike a balance between polite and respectful behavior and firmly preserving your rights.
The subject of police authority and Constitutional rights is very complex, but if you can just remember three simple rules, you will go a long way toward protecting yourself during these uncomfortable interactions with the government. If you are arrested and charged with a crime, call the Law Offices of Todd K. Mohink, P.A. right away.
#1 – Attempt to Determine the Officer’s Reason for the Stop
There is a reason why most officers will ask that common question, “Do you know why I pulled you over?” The police must have some reasonable suspicion that a crime has been or is about to be committed in order to stop you. It can be as simple as a busted tail light. But there needs to be a reason. Your race, your nationality, your ethnicity, and similar factors are not legal grounds for pulling you over. Be respectful, but don’t be afraid to ask.
#2 – Do Not Consent to Searches
Believe it or not, police have a right to lie or bluff in order to get you to agree to things that they would otherwise not be allowed to do. For instance, if the officer tells you that he pulled you over for not using a turn signal, fine. You should receive a citation and be on your way. Unless the officer has some probable cause, he cannot just tear apart your vehicle or search your trunk. Officers may threaten you with warrants or tell you that you have to let them open your trunk. This is not necessarily true. Think about it, if the officer had a legal right to open your trunk or search your personal belongings, then why would he or she need to ask?
Just remember that you always have a right to respectfully decline to consent to any police search of your body, your property, or your home. If the officer believes that he or she has a right to do so without your consent (based on probable cause), then the officer can certainly do so. As USA Today aptly reported, the police wield a lot of power on the street, with or without legal authority.
#3 – Do Not Resist or Interfere
This goes to the second point in some ways. While you don’t have to consent, you should NEVER resist or interfere with the officer’s actions. Instead, just remember that once you’ve declined a search, the ball is in the police officer’s court. The officer must decide whether there is sufficient probable cause to warrant performing an intrusive search and invasion of privacy. If the officer finds evidence of a serious crime (drugs, open container, etc.), your attorney will have a strong argument for getting the evidence excluded if the officer did not have a genuine reason for the search. Your refusal to consent to a search is generally not evidence of guilt.
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Whatever Happened To ... The Guy From Niger Who Dreamed Of Being A Leather Maestro?
At 6' 2", wearing a purple tunic and crowned with a sky blue hat, Soumana Saley cut a dramatic figure at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival's "Crafts of African Fashion" program in 2018. He was surrounded by his leatherwork — from wallets to sandals to shoulder bags with etched geometric designs reflecting the art of his homeland, Niger. He now lives in Millersburg, Penn. When we spoke, he had two sources of income: He worked in a factory and he sold his leather goods at festivals — the biggest bags going for hundreds of dollars. And he used his funds to start a school in Niger for leather crafting and tailoring (and literacy and numeracy as well). He personally pays rent and teacher salaries — and charges students $0.00 for the three-year program.
The NPR story about Soumana Saley had an unexpected result.
Kara VanderKamp, director of the American nonprofit group read the article and decided to provide financial help for some of the students at Saley's school, which is called (an acronym for Dispositif d'Initiatives pour les Metiers de l'Artisanat) and is in Niamey, Niger's capital city.
The group donates approximately $5,000 a year. "It's not a huge amount," she says, "but in Niger you can do so much with so little, you can really change lives. Money goes so far." That's a reflection of the economic situation in Niger, one of the world's poorest countries. Per capita income, according to the World Bank, is $420 a year.
VanderKamp, who has visited the school, says, "One of things that draws you in his dedication and passion for what he's doing. Soumana has an awesome vision, he's amazing artist. But you can't do it alone."
The world-renowned Nigerian fashion designer Sidahmed Alphadi Seidnaly is also a fan of Saley's leatherwork.
But Saley is facing a tough year because of the pandemic. Because of the risks posed by his asthma, the 48-year-old has not been able to keep his day job in a plastic pipe factory. And craft fairs have gone on hiatus. He says he's working to develop more affordably priced leather goods and sell them online.
Despite the harder times, Saley is committed to sending money to support his school — about $1,000 a month covers rent and teacher salaries, he says. He reports that there are currently 50 students from Niger along with 26 refugees from Mali, who enrolled six months ago. His first class will graduate in July 2021. One student has already opened a tailoring shop — with two apprentices.
This month, the school is launching a new program that teaches a traditional style of weaving called tera-tera to 10 students. The weavings, with vibrant colors and geometric patterns, are a popular wedding gift — but tera-tera is a vanishing art in Niger, says Saley.
The education of Saley's students, who are in their teens and early 20s, is different from his own life as a young apprentice, when he hid his leather studies from his parents. They were farmers; he thought they wouldn't see a future in leather. When they learned of his plans, they tried to talk him out of his dream.
Saley's students definitely see a career path — and often ask if they can bring friends into the school's program.
"So many of those students either never had the opportunity to go to school or weren't able to continue beyond a couple years beyond primary school," says VanderKamp of the Remember Niger Coalition. "For them getting to go to a school like this is like winning the lottery."
Saley's school doesn't follow the instructional methods he experienced from his early teachers. When his young self made mistakes and cut a hole in the hide while attempting to slice off thin layers to turn into leather goods (see Saley demonstrate the skill in the video below), he recalls, "The boss was very mad. If you make mistakes, they can beat you."
Saley's most recent visit to the school was last fall. "The thing that makes me happy is watching the students play and smile before they start classes," he says. And he refuses to be discouraged by the events of 2020: "I believe things are going to be better. I always have hope."
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PKI Processor (part of BizCrypto software product) includes SQL Server Integration Services Tasks for PKI-based security support in your SSIS activities. The included tasks let you encrypt, decrypt, sign and verify any data using PKCS#7 algorithm and X.509 certificates.
PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) is a set of technologies, that utilize asymmetric cryptography for signing and encryption of sensitive data, and for authentication of various entities, such as web servers, individuals and organizations. One of the most important parts of PKI are X.509 certificates (also incorrectly called SSL certificates) which "certify" authenticity of the person or software, which presents the certificate. The certificates are also used for signing and encryption of data.
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Here's a question for you. What NEC Articles are the most important for proper surge protection? If you answered, “Art. 250, 280, and 285,” then you're correct. But do you know where these apply, and do you know what other areas of the NEC also have bearing on this issue?
The answer to the second part of that question is “Chapters 1-4, and Art. 90.” In Chapter 1, for example, people tend not to pay much attention to Art. 100. This single fact explains the existence of many power quality problems. You understand why, when you read the Art. 100 definitions of grounding and bonding. Mix these up, and your surge protection devices act more like surge recirculation devices.
Now, where do these three Articles apply?
Because of the energy levels involved, Art. 280 generally applies to wiring outside the facility. An example is a spark gap arrester on the service drop. Article 285 nearly always applies to wiring inside the facility. One example is an SPD unit on an internal power distribution panel.
For the purposes of surge protection, think of Art. 250 as having two components:
- Grounding, covered by Parts II and III. These parts are analogous to Art. 280 in some ways, and generally do not apply to the load side of the service connection. If you have ground rods on the load side, then you probably have NEC violations that increase equipment failure and decrease safety.
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Jane Austen is one of Britain's most popular authors, even though she lived in Edwardian times of excess by the upper classes in England. Austen deserves a spot in modern England on the 10-pound note because she still influences novelists and moviemakers today, 300 years after her birth. Austen was the first romance novelist in England and the first of many to come.
I don't believe that someone who was not political should be put on any currency. Those without political connections are remembered in other ways, in the case of Jane Austen, she is remembered by her books. Instead an important political or military figure, who would be otherwise forgotten should be put on the 10-pound note, even if less recognizable. | <urn:uuid:94e603a8-0133-4257-aeeb-3d009183b05d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.debate.org/opinions/should-the-bank-of-england-put-jane-austen-on-its-10-pound-note | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00377-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974277 | 149 | 2.546875 | 3 |
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The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is expected to allocate nearly $1 billion in Bipartisan Infrastructure Act funds to modernize 85 airports across the country, including constructing new air traffic control towers.
"We must increase the capacity of our country's airport terminals, increase energy efficiency, promote competition and provide greater accessibility for people with disabilities," the agency said in a statement.
President Joe Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Act, also known as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, maintains a historic investment in the nation's infrastructure and competitiveness.
"This investment is about building safer, more accessible, and sustainable terminals. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Act also secures the future of jobs and training for our nation's workforce," said Bradley Mims, FAA deputy administrator.
Among the terminals expected to receive more resources is Orlando Airport, which will receive $50 million to build four runways capable of serving four wide-body or eight narrow-body aircraft.
Dallas-Fort Worth Airport will receive $35 million to build a carbon-neutral power plant to help the airport achieve its goal of zero net carbon emissions by 2030.
The Pittsburgh airport will receive $20 million to build a new, much larger terminal adjacent to the existing one.
Huntsville Intl-Carl T Jones Field will receive $10 million to replace outdated elevators, escalators, and mechanical equipment; one elevator and three escalators will be added.
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New Study Suggests Drug May Be Remedy for Diabetic Neuropathy
Medical researchers have shown evidence that a drug can treat diabetic neuropathy, the complication that leads diabetics to lose sensation in the extremities and even lose feet and hands in serious cases. The drug is EMA401, the leading product of Australian drug company Spinifex Pharmaceuticals.
Diabetic neuropathy is a serious complication of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Diabetes involves the failure of the body’s tissues to take up sugar from the bloodstream. This happens either because the bodies is not producing the hormone insulin in sufficient quantities or at all due to damage to the pancreas (type 1) or the cells have lost their ability to respond to insulin (type 2). In either case, the effect of long term high blood sugar is to damage the body’s organs, including nerve cells.
The damaged nerves lead to numbness, “pins and needles”, tingling, swelling, and often severe pain in the feet and hands, and the condition may lead to deformity and even gangrene, resulting in the necessity for amputation of the affected limbs. The condition has also been linked with other conditions of the feet and hands such as ulcers, muscle weakness, and diminished reflexes. People with diabetic neuropathy may notice cuts and bruises on their feet and hands do not hurt as much as they should, and are perhaps slower in healing.
The condition may also cause light-headedness, problems with balance, erectile dysfunction in men and wasting of muscle tissue.
Spinifex is a Victoria–based biotechnology company which specializes in developing compounds for the treatment of pain, particularly neuropathic pain. They acquired the primary work on the drug EMA401 from theUniversityofQueensland, and it is now their lead product.
EMA401 is an angiotensin II type 2 (AT2) receptor antagonist, which Spinifex are currently developing for a number of neuropathic and inflammatory pain conditions. The need for neuropathic pain treatments is increasing and expected to reach $6.2 billion by 2017, with no remedies effective and safe for all patients currently available.
In studies, they found EMA401 reduced pain and heat sensitivity and corrected motor sensory aberrations in diabetic laboratory animal models. The drug also increased blood flow and nutrition to the nerves and showed no side effects in the tests, ordered by Spinifex and carried out by a team from theUniversityofAberdeen. Two professors, Norman Cameron and Mary Cotter presented the report at the 2011 annual meeting of the Diabetic Neuropathy Study Group of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes.
EMA401 will now be the subject of full clinical trials to determine whether it is effective and safe for human patients and Spinifex say the study may lead to the testing of the drug for other related conditions. They believe the studies suggest the compound actually treats the neural deficit that underlies neuropathy, and it shows no side effects to the central nervous system. Other compounds currently available often fail to have an effect on the symptoms of patients with neuropathy or cause unwanted side effects.
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Two Wythe County men are a new breed of farmers. Walter Benda of the Graham's Forge community and Dan Dean of Austinville are harvesting energy from the sun.
"I think solar energy has a very good future," said Benda, founder and owner of Blue Ridge Sun specializing in systems semi-powered by the sun. "Since we're running out of sources of existing energy that doesn't produce harmful effects — coal and gas-based energy generation — solar energy will be the answer. Solar energy is more reliable and efficient than wind energy and it's maintenance free."
Benda described his system as grid-tied since it connects to his utility meter. He and Dean installed such a system at Benda's home and are preparing to add the same system to the next-door residence of Benda's mother.
According to him, his pier solar system is located outside his mobile home. It features two rows of six 20-inch wide solar panels attached to underground rigid pipes embedded in concrete.
"The system is connected through one circuit to my meter," Benda pointed out. "The electricity we produce is directly used by me at my home. The utility meter turns backward from the solar energy and it pulls the power back at night. There are a lot of different solar systems out there and solar panels can be installed in a house or mobile home."
Since his system was newly installed, Benda has not calculated his exact savings in electricity. He expects it to be significant.
The solar panels, Benda said, are expensive, selling for $1,000 each at retail. As a dealer, he can obtain them for $600 each.
To prepare for his new business, Benda completed an extensive five-week online course from the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners. The course included such topics as understanding solar patterns, including the sun's path across the sky; an overview of electrical theory; the theory of solar panels, how they are made and how they work. | <urn:uuid:2c8f9ed6-95ba-4281-8ed7-521e7228b1a5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-xpm-20100425-2010-04-25-dp-local-sun-power-0425apr25-story.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.979214 | 408 | 2.015625 | 2 |
The NQF Measure Incubator™ is an innovative effort that facilitates efficient measure development and testing through collaboration and partnership. It addresses important aspects of care for which quality measures are underdeveloped or non-existent.
Despite the widespread use of healthcare measures in the
past two decades, there are many areas of health and healthcare that still do
not have enough or the right kinds of measures to drive improvement. Examples of “gap areas” include palliative and end-of-life care, diagnostic accuracy, behavioral health, and care of
people with Alzheimer’s disease or multiple chronic conditions. There are also
not enough measures of patient-reported outcomes.
Measure gaps occur for many reasons. A principal cause is
the measure development process itself. The design, testing, and dissemination
of quality measures can be burdensome, costly, and time-consuming. It can take
two to three years to develop a new measure and put it into use.
Similar to incubators that nurture entrepreneurs in
technology environments, the NQF Measure Incubator™ is designed to nurture
development of needed measures. The Measure Incubator connects groups interested in
particular measure concepts with measure development experts, financial and
technical resources, and data. In leading the Measure Incubator™, NQF’s role is
to facilitate the work of others. NQF itself will not develop measures.
NQF is exploring innovative and agile approaches to
incubate and test measures more efficiently, such as early and continuous
access to data. Over the next few years, the Measure Incubator™ will test best
practices with selected, initial measures, with the volume of incubated measure
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Learn more about the NQF Measure Incubator’s™ goals, projects underway, how to engage in the Measure Incubator™, NQF’s leadership role, and the Measure Incubator Advisory Council.
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I am the door by me, If any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture
“I am the door by me, If any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture”
Jesus, the Great I AM, is the entrance into the true church, and the way of access to God Himself.
“He shall be saved”
Noah entered the door of the ark, and was secure.
None can be lost, who take Jesus as the door of faith to their souls.
Entrance through Jesus into peace is the guarantee of entrance by the same door into heaven.
Jesus is the only door, an open door, a wide door, a safe door, and blessed is he who rests, all his hope of admission to glory upon the Crucified Redeemer.
“He shall go in”
He shall go to the King of kings in the power of Holy Spirit and the secret of Lord shall be with Him.
“He shall go out”
This blessing is much forgotten.
We go out into the Lord to labour and suffer.
What a mercy to go in the Name of Power of Jesus.
We are called to bear witness to the truth, to cheer the disconsolate, to warn the careless, to win souls and to glorify God.
“He shall find pasture”
He, who knows Jesus shall never want.
His soul shall be as a watered garden and as a well of water, whose waters fail not.
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The systemic HSE transformations, aiming to create the centers of excellence and to implement their best practices within the whole university, include three stages:
- 1 stage (2010-2013) – establishing international laboratories;
- 2 stage (2014-2015) – establishing mega-faculties;
- 3 stage (2016-2020) – shaping and developing strategic academic units.
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U.S. on dangerous protection path in trade policy, economist says
STANFORD -- America's trade policy would shock Americans if it were possible for them to understand it, Stanford University economist Anne O. Krueger told a Stanford audience on Friday, Jan. 21.
The recent North American Free Trade Agreement is 2,000 pages long. When it is combined with other agreements, administrative rules and regulations, the country's trade policy is "almost inherently unknowable in its aggregate," said the economist who joined the Stanford faculty last June.
Krueger, formerly the chief research economist for the World Bank and most recently a Duke University professor, also said the United States is headed for economic, and possibly political, trouble if it continues to add regional trade agreements that are inconsistent with one another and with worldwide free trade.
Since NAFTA was passed by Congress in late 1993, Krueger said, every action or speech [made by U.S. policymakers] has been bilateral or regional," rather than supportive of multilateral, international free trade.
"We advocated a new international trade organization in the GATT talks," she said. "We fought for it, but there has been no support for it since."
Krueger made her remarks at the annual dinner meeting of the advisory board, steering committee and associates of the Stanford Center for Economic Policy Research.
She said she supports regional trade agreements if they are consistent with multilateral free trade. Regional agreements are not inconsistent if they provide for more economic integration of national economies, she said.
"But we are now on the path of forming separate or side agreements with Chile, Canada and Mexico, and that becomes dangerous," she said.
"We now have a U.S.-Canada commission [to settle trade disputes] and we are going to have a U.S.-Mexico commission," she said. "What happens when they come to different decisions?"
If the U.S. proceeds to a third agreement with Chile, she said, "we will very quickly have [expanded] what is already an incredibly litigious system."
Litigation causes administrative delays that hamper industry, she said.
The U.S. also claims to support international adjudication of trade disputes but insists on bilateral resolution of its disputes with the Japanese.
The countries that the United States has prodded into supporting free trade since World War II are starting to recognize the growing gap between U.S. actions and words, she said. At least four nations are considering anti-dumping laws modeled after the U.S. law, which, she said, is manipulated by U.S. industries to gain a market advantage at the expense of more efficient competitors.
"There is the threat of a trade war," she said. "So far, things have worked out," but other countries are "losing patience when we keep calling the rest of the world unfair."
Krueger predicted American leaders will change their tune after the United States gradually loses relative living standard as a result of its protectionist policies. New Zealand and Australia, she said, learned this lesson the hard way, and now are liberalizing trade.
But currently, she said, protectionism is winning in the United States as trade policy becomes a domestic political issue rather than a matter of foreign policy.
"The United States seems to have forgotten that it is the largest trading nation still and that it has a leadership role," Krueger said.
She attributed the switch in Washington's political winds to four factors:
The latter is still a "drawing-board theory." No economists are willing to say the theory is sound enough to be the basis of policy, she said, but "the fact that economists are no longer quite able to say that under all circumstances free trade is the best policy," she said, means that those seeking protection find it easier to win political support.
"As a result of all these things, there is no doubt that U.S. trade policy is more protectionist than it was," Krueger said.
Much of the protectionism in the law is buried in administrative procedures, she said.
"We have a lot of administrative protection, and it's absolutely bizarre in its details," she said.
Because there is a higher tariff on men's jackets than on vests, for example, "we have caught people doing the following evil thing: they ship in things without sleeves and they ship the sleeves in separately, and that of course is something that should shock every American."
The U.S. protected sugar prices to help pre-Castro Cuba. Now that protection is kept in place by corn syrup manufacturers, she said.
The Washington Post recently reported that the Clinton administration is negotiating with two corn syrup producers in the Everglades to reduce the environmental damage there, she said.
"There's a very easy way to protect the Everglades," she said, "and that would be to stop protection of sugar."
The administrators who must adjudicate disputes on an "item by item" basis are used by companies who know they will lose the case but win a time advantage, Krueger said. And by law, the adjudicators "can't even consider what the impact of their decisions are either on the consumer or American industry as a whole."
The only conclusion she can draw, Krueger said, is that "we are confused about what our policy is."
In the long run, Krueger said she is optimistic that we will reverse our protectionist direction, but "in the short run, I'm somewhat less optimistic."
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In the online game series called “Halo,” CS was exposed to the start of a long running insult to one’s opponent called “tea bagging.” The movement, crouching up and down over a dead enemy, was so infamous that it got its very own name.
This action of crouch spamming over an opponent that the player killed, has since expanded to pretty much all online shooters, but is less often called by the name. Instead, the action is by far the most recognizable part of the gesture.
When playing the online game “Overwatch” with CS, he got killed and “tea bagged” by the enemy team.
Disrespect and crude humor is a common occurrence in online video games, especially when it gets very competitive. The same way that basketball players might taunt each other before and after making shots, online gamers treat the sport with a similar attitude. With more and more humor coming from the internet, on occasion, this emote/crouch spam taunting makes its way even into the material world.
I found one other post about this online taunt/humor in our archive:
In 2009 a videogame called Demon’s Souls was released on the Playstation 3 and its relatively unforgiving difficulty made it a surprise hit with the gaming community worldwide. A sequel was promptly made in 2011, Dark Souls, and it launched the “Souls” series’ popularity skyrocketing, with the game’s difficulty being put front and center for the masses to challenge themselves against the experience. The series still continues to this day, the latest release being Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice in 2019 which went on to win Game of the Year despite many complaints about it being “too hard”.
The important stuff begins here, as difficulty is apparently relative and many people playing these games definitely struggled, but with different parts. Certain boss fights were easy to some, impossible for others, and the differences in these opinions led to many arguments and name-calling online, jeering others for their apparent lack of skill. What was for sure though was that the game was definitely beatable and not impossible as many newcomers to the series would claim. To trivialize entire paragraphs of complaints online, a phrase would become adopted to shut down these walls of text with two simple words: “Git Gud”. A bastardized spelling of “Get Good”, it has become a popular and incredibly simple, rather dismissive command to simply become better at the game, lest they be given another insulting phrase such as “mad because bad”.
The informant, AK, is longtime friend of mine who I bonded with over videogames and other entertainment mediums. He is also incredibly well versed with deck-building in trading card games and particularly loves to be “annoying” type of player who is much more focused on entertaining himself than worrying about winning or losing. The Git Gud phrase as leaked into many other skill-based mediums be it card games, traditional video games, and any other competitive activity requiring strategy and good timing.
When memes were on the table for the project, I pondered with my friend over which were the ones that were most relevant to our own experiences and these were the results of our brainstorming.
The meme is very personal to me and my friend as these games in particular have been becoming less and less common. Difficulty in games is a point that I am heavily opinionated on and I firmly stand on the side that difficulty is an inherent game design choice and part of an experience is overcoming the obstacle and the fun comes from the satisfaction of beating it. While there are some merits to the arguments about unfair design or arbitrary difficulty, there definitely should be more scrutiny under which these sweeping generalizations are made for a given title. I am particularly against the wave of “casualization” that hopes to give accessibility for the sake of catering to the widest audience possible by watering down mechanics and difficulty for the sake of easier digestion. Dedication and investment into self-improvement, even digitally, should not be compromised or derided. While the phrase itself is dismissive, it mostly applies to those who have given up too quickly and are quicker to judge a game’s difficulty as a flaw on the game’s design than any personal shortcoming of their own.
NC: I think it was in 2004 that happened, you know Moment 37
YJ: The Daigo parry?
NC: Yeah and you hear someone in the audience go, “Let’s go Justin!”
YJ: What about it?
NC: I was studying tech on the videos on twitter last week and saw someone shout it during another tournament match.
NC: It was in Japanese, dude. There wasn’t even a guy named Justin playing, they just say that whenever something exciting happens.
The informant is my friend, NC, who I have spent an inordinate amount of time together with playing fighting games and going to tournaments around the country with. The particular bit he heard was from a twitter-video. The Moment 37 and Daigo parry that was mentioned refers to a particular match between two incredibly talented fighting game players Justin Wong, representing America and Daigo Umehara, representing Japan. Both their characters are at incredibly low life and Daigo’s character is a slight breeze from losing the match, even blocking an attack would lose him the round. Justin Wong realizes this and goes in with a super-move, a 15 hit attack that will surely kill Daigo’s character, as someone else in the background shouts “Let’s go Justin!”. Instead of dying however, Daigo’s character performs a frame perfect parry, pressing the buttons at the exact time Justin’s character lands their kicks on his own character. 15 frame perfect parries later, Justin is defeated and the crowd, who at this point were already losing their minds, erupts in an an even louder cheer.
I asked NC if there were any “cultural” phenomena within our preferred entertainment medium and we recalled an exchange we had about this particular incident a couple years ago.
Even when Justin Wong was the one who lost the match in a spectacular fashion and even when there could possibly be no Japanese person traditionally named Justin in Japan, the phrase itself has gained an iconic status even among the Japanese who were in attendance watching the match in 2004. It feels hilarious to me that the name in the phrase was inconsequential to the emotions that were present when the phrase was uttered. Moreso than ever with the proliferation of internet culture and archived footage of old events, new generations of video-game players can see with their own eyes of what happened in years past. However, the expansion of social media and owned content as also made it so that longer videos of events are not often caught on camera and while it is easily shared between others some content or entire accounts with videos become terminated for a variety of reasons such as proper ownership and the likes. Moment 37 has since become a legend on its own where something of its difficulty in a tournament setting has not been replicated since and the rising industry of E-sports has seemingly come to “own” these types of content. Daigo hismelf and his story beyond this single moment has been published into a serialized comic book series.
For anyone curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzS96auqau0
The following is transcribed from a conversation between my friend, identified as SK, and myself, identified as GK.
SK: I want to tell you about a game I have been playing with my buddies at college called “Beerio Kart”. It’s a drinking game that involves the video game “Mario Kart” and is super competitive. So the basic objective of the game is to be the first player to finish the race while at the same time finishing his/her beer. However the catch is that you must completely stop driving and drop your controller while you’re drinking the beer as it is illegal to drink and drive. So the game becomes pretty strategic because of this rule.
GK: So what’s the best strategy for this game?
SK: It really depends. I usually do all the driving first, so I know how much time I have to chug the beer. However, I have friends who will chug at the very beginning so they could play from behind the whole race and get the best items in the game because of it. There are also people who will take stops after each lap to drink the beer at a steady pace while keeping up with the other opponents in the Mario Kart race. I would say my strategy is the best, but to each their own.
Background: The informant knows of this game from college. He says that his roommate during his freshman year taught him the game, and that they would often play with the other guys in his dorm. Due to the fact that the new Mario Kart is on the Nitendo Switch, up to eight people could play at once. The game serves as a fun way for the informant and his friends to compete with one another while drinking.
Context: The informant and I discussed this game over Face Time.
My Thoughts: This game, in my opinion, serves as a great way to compete with friends while at the same time expanding the entertainment of Mario Kart even further. The courses start to get boring after a while, so adding a whole new aspect to the game really spices things up. It also illustrates the rise in popularity that video games have taken amongst the college demographic. For the longest time, I always thought video games were mainly played by children, and when they were played by adults, that those people were weird. However, with the creation of platforms such as Twitch, video games being played by older people have become more acceptable in society. I also believe that the multiplayer aspect that the Nintendo Switch offers makes the game more appealing to college students living in a dorm because they can compete with one another easily.
While discussing familiar folklore in class I sat with a few young white male peers and the conversation of video game folklore came up. It was clear that all of us were familiar with Fortnite and we realized how much slang has been created from the game. One student, Chris , exclaimed that we would all be familiar with the phrase “where we dropping?” but, most people, especially those who do not play the game, would not understand what this means.
A few of us were circled around discussing folklore when Chris said “yeah and ‘where we dropping’, you guys all know what that means! We are going to Tilted Towers hahaha, but if I said that to my mom she would think that I am dropping something from my hands. It’s definitely only something people who play Fortnite would understand.”
This is a commonly used phrase when playing the game Fortnite because everyone playing the game starts out in the sky in a flying bus and, when you play with a team you all want to drop from the bus and land in the same place. Thus, everyone will ask each other “where are we dropping?” It’s a strategic term that millions of people understand because of the mainstream culture of this game but, not everyone in the world knows, and it is certainly not taught in a textbook. | <urn:uuid:a0e34969-7e02-452e-8cf2-8c3bcf5902ed> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://folklore.usc.edu/tag/video-games/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.981012 | 2,425 | 1.859375 | 2 |
The New Hampshire Rental Application Form is the only form on this page that is not a legal document. This is a type of application used by landlords before signing a long term lease, to ensure they are signing with a tenant who is capable of upholding the lease for its entirety. A landlord has the right to charge a nonrefundable fee for this kind of application.
This application will typically look into an applicants rental history, work history and credit score, in order to ensure that a tenant will be financially capable of paying the rent for the entirety of the lease, and to ensure that they have no problems with previous landlords that might force the landlord to evict them. While this is primarily to protect landlords, it can also be useful for certain tenants with exemplary rental history, to help them secure a property they want over less qualified applicants.
In order to prepare for a rental application, an applicant should bring or have easy access to their social security number, pay stubs or similar proof of work and the names and contact information for any previous landlords they wish to use as references. Previous landlords should obviously be as complimentary as possible and easy to contact, as it is doubtful a landlord will try more than once. | <urn:uuid:9e103532-fd05-4fdf-b2fc-b87562e9dfc6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://legalforms.org/rental-lease/nh/new-hampshire-rental-application/?page_number=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00670.warc.gz | en | 0.957576 | 244 | 1.539063 | 2 |
The United Nations Syria aid force said on Thursday that efforts towards delivering humanitarian aid to besieged areas in Syria have lost momentum for the past several weeks, with the delay of aid convoys or the removal of surgical equipment.
"We still have not gotten access, a greenlight to go at all to Douma, Daraya, east Harasta - three areas," Jan Egeland, chairman of the task force on humanitarian aid, told reporters following a weekly meeting organised by major and regional powers in order to assess the aid progress.
However, he was certain that the UN World Food Programme (WFP) would be able to start carrying out their usual air drops of vital needs to the 200,000 people trapped in DAESH-besieged Deir al-Zor in the next two weeks.
International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) spokesman Pawel Krzysiek said last week that aid deliveries to Syrian people in need remains to be difficult because of the continuing siege of regime leader Bashar al Assad’s forces and armed groups including DAESH despite a nearly one month-old ceasefire agreement.
“The cessation of hostilities – honestly I don’t see the difference,” he said.
“The hard to reach areas continue to be hard to reach, for several reasons: humanitarian negotiations, security, coordination on the ground, the procedures," Krzysiek said stressing the importance of providing permanent aid to besieged Syrians.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights released a warning on Tuesday stating that a total number of 530 people were killed in Syria in areas covered by the cessation of hostilities agreement during its first 23 days.
Red Cross made a statement on March 19, titled “Syria: How much longer?” which revealed the urgent need of a more effective solution for the Syrian people.
The statement said, “over 13.5 million people in the country are still in need of urgent humanitarian assistance, five million of them children, many of whom have only known war.”
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W was the sole owner of the matrimonial home. However, when it was remortgaged to fund repairs and renovation, H and W entered into the mortgage as joint mortgagors, on the basis of H’s income, even though H had no interest in the property. The balance of the mortgage monies was paid to W. H was later made bankrupt and his trustee in bankruptcy claimed that the payment of half of the mortgage monies to W was a transaction at an undervalue.
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A country where every citizen is food and nutrition secured.
To mobilize Non-State Actors to advocate, generate evidence, build capacity and stimulate communities to scale up nutrition in Nigeria.
The Civil Society – Scaling Up Nutrition in Nigeria (CS-SUNN) is a non-governmental, non-profit making coalition, made up of organizations with a shared vision to transform Nigeria into a country where every citizen is food and nutrition secured. We pursue this lofty goal by engaging government and non-state actors to raise awareness, sustain commitment and actions to effectively tackle under-nutrition in Nigeria. The coalition was formally launched on the 7th of August 2014.
We have a common vision with clearly defined roles and responsibilities, clear accountability and sustainability framework. The guiding principles of the alliance include; Evidence based decision-making, Gender mainstreaming, Equity, Feed- back, Diversity, Value for money Transparency and Integrity.
- To advocate for effective coordination of all nutrition stakeholders and programs in Nigeria
- To create a platform through which Civil Society Organizations can effectively advocate for improved nutrition in Nigeria
- To advocate and engage government to create nutrition budget lines in some key Federal and state Ministries in Nigeria as well as include CSOs in nutrition interventions as appropriate
- To encourage and strongly advocate for the establishment of an effective and functional nutrition surveillance monitoring and evaluation systems
- To build the capacity of CS-SUNN members to effectively engage in the pursuit of improved nutrition in Nigeria.
Members spread of the coalition
Although the coalition is still mobilizing to grow its membership, we have members who have been mobilized and are listed as members, see list on our website @ www.cs-sunn.org/coalitionmembers .
The coalition’s secretariat is located at Plot 203 Cadastral Zone B02. Off Oladipo Diya Way, Durunmi District, Abuja. This is where all of the coalition’s programs and activities are coordinated from. The Secretariat is headed by the Executive Secretary.
Presently, Nigeria is implementing the SUN Movement Pooled Fund (Window ll) which is a source of funding for catalytic and innovative projects to support Multi-Sector/Stakeholder Platforms in SUN Countries to increase the effectiveness and impact of national efforts to end malnutrition in all its forms. The objective of Window II of the Pooled Fund is to strengthen linkages and joint collaboration within the Multi-sector/Stakeholder Platform at both the national and sub-national level. Grant support will improve the delivery of multi-sectoral nutrition activities that impact nutrition outcomes for nutritionally vulnerable groups including: women, girls and adolescents, and communities at the local level. The Pooled Fund grants will promote engagement of additional relevant actors in the implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder national plans for nutrition, at national and sub-national level.
In Nigeria, five states are currently implementing the project; Enugu, Gombe, Kaduna, Kano and Oyo. This report captures the activities conducted in project state for the month of March.
State Specific Monthly Summaries Report:
NUTRITION EDUCATION DURING ANC AND PNC
The Pooled Fund team in Gombe State, led by the state coordinator, the State Nutrition Officer (SNO) and CS-SUNN Nutrition Champion held nutrition education activity with mothers and caregivers attending post-natal care at one of the primary health care centers located at, Dogon Ruwa in Kaltungo local government area of the state.
The facility which happens to be one of the Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) sites in the state has the highest number of Severely Acute Malnourished children receiving treatment. While educating the mothers on nutrition, the state SNO emphasized on the importance of exclusive breastfeeding, good hygiene and the right combination of food for mother and child. She warned them against selling all their nutritious farm products, which leaves them without food, and appreciated the state and federal governments for providing Ready to Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) for the children suffering from Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM), which had visible impact on the children.
The nutrition champion who also interacted with the health care providers, nursing mothers, care givers and husbands also advice the husbands to support their wives to attend ante natal and postnatal care, and feed their families with good food from the available farm produce, as most of them are farmers.
It was observed that generally malnutrition in Gombe State is always higher during the rainy or farming season also referred to as lean period, because at that time, the farmers most have sold all their farm produce leaving none for the family to feed on.
ADVOCACY ENGAGEMENTS TO COMMUNITY/TRADITIONAL LEADERS
The coalition conducted advocacy visit to some Traditional/Community leaders in some communities in Gombe on EBF. The coordinator, who led the team together with 3 members of the coalition and a partner from ANRiN, visited the palace of the District Head of Pantami in Gombe Local Government; (Alhaji Yakubu Adamu) who had invited other six (6) village heads to be present at the visit, the team was receive and was welcome.
The coordinator went ahead to explain the reason behind the visit and went on to explain the nutrition situation of the state, and equally explained why it is important for mothers to exclusively breastfeed their babies for the first 6 months, and the need for husbands to support their wives. He reiterated the need for mothers to take adequate diet during pregnancy to give birth to a healthy child.
The coalition went on to ask and advocate for the support of the traditional leaders to encourage leaders and members of households on Exclusive Breastfeeding and the danger of malnutrition. The ANRiN partner, Bome Aaron also went on to seek the support of the leaders in advising head of households to allow their wives to attend ANCs and PNCs.
The District Head of Pantami, Alh. Yakubu Adamu, who expressed happiness over the visit, said many children in the community are malnourished and attributed the problem to poverty and lack of awareness, but assured CS-SUNN that he will revert the message to his people especially family heads to support their wives during pregnancy and EBF as preventive measures. The visits ended with presentation of CS-SUNN souvenirs by the state chapter.
CS-SUNN team also went on to pay an Advocacy visit to the District head of Bolari, another community leader in the Local Government, with key messages on EBF and other preventive measures of malnutrition. The District Head in the company of some community heads under his domain described CS-SUNN’s visit as a welcome development ,because according to him his people lack awareness on issues as this, and called on Government to upgrade the Health facility in the community to a CMAM Centre, considering the status of malnutrition in the community.
ACHIEVEMENTS SO FAR
In the 2020 Gombe state budget, nutrition has a budget of close to 500 million naira, with the breakdown as follows;
ACTIVITY 1.1.2 ONE DAY MEDIA ENGAGEMENT ON INFANT AND YOUNG CHILD FEEDING PRACTICE
In line with the Pooled Fund Project, CS-SUNN Oyo state chapter conducted a one-day quarterly media engagement on infant and young child feeding practice. The meeting was held at the state capital with the present of CS-SUNN coalition members in the state, other at the meeting include the state Nutrition Officer (SNO) and media partners.
The state coordinator in his presentation presented the objectives of the meeting with an Overview about CS-SUNN Mission, Vision, and Strategy while the SNO Dr. Alarape presented paper on Infant and young child Feeding practices, with emphasis on breastfeeding.
The role of media was thereafter presented by Oyo state CS-SUNN coordinator and afterward there was discussion on how media can be engaged in passing the right information on nutrition matter to the community and how media can assist in featuring coalition (CS-SUNN) and relevant nutrition stakeholders in their programs.
The media also took some time to ask questions and clarifications on the paper presented by Dr. Alarape and presentation by the Oyo state CS-SUNN coordinator. The meeting also witnessed a break out session where the media personnel that were present held a brief meeting and resolved to collaborate with the CS-SUNN coalition and relevant stakeholder in reporting nutrition activities in the state.
The meeting was brought to a close by 2:00pm with a prayer said by a Mrs. Oduneye; a representative of Nutrition Society of Nigeria.
ACTIVITY 1.3.1: NUTRITION EDUCATION
Improved nutrition, results to progress in health, education, employment, empowerment of women and the reduction of poverty and inequality, and can lay the foundation for peaceful, secure and stable societies. Hence, the involvement of traditional rulers, religious leaders, and community heads in promoting Infant and Young Child Feeding practices will improve Maternal and Child Health Nutrition significantly. Therefore, strengthening linkages among key stakeholders at the community level to achieve an improved nutrition outcome for nutritionally vulnerable groups including: women, girls and adolescents, and communities at the local level is of paramount interest even in the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Four (4) PHCs and communities where identified by the State chapter in its and advocacy visits where conducted accordingly to initiate activities for the first quarter of the 2020 activities. Identified communities include:
CS-SUNN conducted visit to each of the PHC facility in the identified community to deliver Nutrition education to pregnant mothers and ANC attendees the sessions were anchor by members of the coalition. The leads introduced the sessions by enquiring on knowledge of the caregivers (pregnant women) in the clinic based on life cycle of nutrition from conception to delivery of babies.
Barnawa and Makera PHCs
At Barnawa and Makera PHCs the sessions deliberated on breastfeeding, adequate diet and complimentary feeding after which the discussion started by finding out what the women already know about the topics introduced.
The meeting also allowed questions and clarifications to be asked and answered were provided.
At Ungwan Sanusi and Kagoro community
The use of the IYCF counselling cards were also employed. A major challenge identified in this facility was that caregivers are reluctant to attend ANC sessions.
The message passed to the pregnant women in the ANC sessions among others include;
There was active participation during the sessions; there is still a lot of knowledge gap as regards to breastfeeding. E.g.
There is a need to facilitate the setting up of support groups in these communities so that nutritional messages will not only be passed from nutritional focal persons or health workers to caregivers but form caregivers to caregivers. This will go a long way ensuring the sustainability of the project.
ACTIVITY 1.3.5.: FOOD DEMONSTRATION
In line with the Pooled Fund Project activities, CS-SUNN Kaduna embarked on a food demonstration at the PHC at Angwan Sanusi to orient and educate breastfeeding mothers especially those with babies of 6months and above on food diversification.
The objectives were to increase awareness and relevance of food diversification to caregiver through Nutrition education and food demonstration. Appropriate complementary feeding practices from 6months to 2yearsa and Proper hygiene practices.
The activity was led by member of the CS-SUNN Coalition Hadiza Abdulsalam, the activity was held at the CMAM Corner located within the PHC, the message passed to the caregiver among others include;
The session then went on to introduce preparation for complimentary feeding as the child approaches the age of 6months of age, which will prevent malnutrition of the baby.
The session was so interesting. Both caregivers and the health workers in the facility really liked the meals; moi moi and the kunun geda.
The activity was successful. CS-SUNN Kaduna should develop strategy to monitor improvement on nutrition of the participants.
ADVOCACY ENGAGEMENTS TO TRADITIONAL RULERS, RELIGIOUS LEADERS, COMMUNITY HEADS ON INFANT AND YOUNG CHILD FEEDING PRACTICES
Advocacy to the four communities within the Kaduna South LGA were successful conducted as facilitated by the nutrition focal person of the LGA. Hajia Fatima. Communities visited include Barnawa, Makera, Ungwan Sanusi and Kagoro communities’ accordingly. In each of the visit, the team introduced CS-SUNN and the pooled fund project, which focuses on improving maternal and child health outcomes. The visit further aims at:
The team was led to the district head through his secretary and were accorded a warm reception. The district head appreciated the visit by the CSSUNN Kaduna State chapter while listening keenly to the purpose of their visit. The team informed him the coalition of Civil Society Organization working on Nutrition in the State (CS-SUNN), stating that our target is to reach out to pregnant women, children and even fathers as the case may be on the importance of Exclusive Breastfeeding for a period of six month and a complimentary feeding afterward.
Brief presentation and discussion to sensitize the community leaders
The team discussed on the important of proper nutrition to mother and child and the need to promote infant and young child feeding practices at the community level. Furthermore, the importance of the first 1000, the need for mother to Exclusively Breastfeed for six month and appropriate complimentary feeding when the baby is above six month and hygiene practices were all deliberated on.
In response, the community leaders jointly agreed that there is need to sensitize the community members. The community leaders also were thankful appreciate CS-SUNN and its partners for identifying their communities for the project activities and they promised their maximum support for all the activities in the communities. In addition, promise to provide relevant supports towards the project and the upcoming town hall meeting.
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Copernicus is said to be the founder of modern astronomy. He was born in Poland,1 and eventually was sent off to Cracow University, there to study mathematics and optics; at Bologna, canon law. Returning from his studies in Italy, Copernicus, through the influence of his uncle, was appointed as a canon in the cathedral of Frauenburg where he spent a sheltered and academic life for the rest of his days. Because of his clerical position, Copernicus moved in the highest circles of power; but a student he remained. For relaxation Copernicus painted and translated Greek poetry into Latin. His interest in astronomy gradually grew to be one in which he had a primary interest. His investigations were carried on quietly and alone, without help or consultation. He made his celestial observations from a turret situated on the protective wall around the cathedral, observations were made "bare eyeball," so to speak, as a hundred more years were to pass before the invention of the telescope. In 1530, Copernicus completed and gave to the world his great work De Revolutionibus, which asserted that the earth rotated on its axis once daily and traveled around the sun once yearly: a fantastic concept for the times. Up to the time of Copernicus the thinkers of the western world believed in the Ptolemiac theory that the universe was a closed space bounded by a spherical envelope beyond which there was nothing. Claudius Ptolemy, an Egyptian living in Alexandria, at about 150 A.D., gathered and organized the thoughts of the earlier thinkers. (It is to be noted that one of the ancient Greek astronomers, Aristarchus, did have ideas similar to those more fully developed by Copernicus but they were rejected in favour of the geocentric or earth-centered scheme as was espoused by Aristotle.) Ptolemy's findings were that the earth was a fixed, inert, immovable mass, located at the center of the universe, and all celestial bodies, including the sun and the fixed stars, revolved around it. It was a theory that appealed to human nature. It fit with the casual observations that a person might want to make in the field; and second, it fed man's ego.
Copernicus was in no hurry to publish his theory, though parts of his work were circulated among a few of the astronomers that were giving the matter some thought; indeed, Copernicus' work might not have ever reached the printing press if it had not been for a young man who sought out the master in 1539. George Rheticus was a 25 year old German mathematics professor who was attracted to the 66 year old cleric, having read one of his papers. Intending to spend a few weeks with Copernicus, Rheticus ended up staying as a house guest for two years, so fascinated was he with Copernicus and his theories. Now, up to this time, Copernicus was reluctant to publish, -- not so much that he was concerned with what the church might say about his novel theory (De Revolutionibus was placed on the Index in 1616 and only removed in 1835), but rather because he was a perfectionist and he never thought, even after working on it for thirty years, that his complete work was ready, -- there were, as far as Copernicus was concerned, observations to be checked and rechecked.
(Interestingly, Copernicus' original manuscript, lost to the world for 300 years, was located in Prague in the middle of the 19th century; it shows Copernicus' pen was, it would appear, continually in motion with revision after revision; all in Latin as was the vogue for scholarly writings in those days.)
Copernicus died in 1543 and was never to know what a stir his work had caused. It went against the philosophical and religious beliefs that had been held during the medieval times. Man, it was believed (and still believed by some) was made by God in His image, man was the next thing to God, and, as such, superior, especially in his best part, his soul, to all creatures, indeed this part was not even part of the natural world (a philosophy which has proved disastrous to the earth's environment as any casual observer of the 20th century might confirm by simply looking about). Copernicus' theories might well lead men to think that they are simply part of nature and not superior to it and that ran counter to the theories of the politically powerful churchmen of the time.
Two other Italian scientists of the time, Galileo and Bruno, embraced the Copernican theory unreservedly and as a result suffered much personal injury at the hands of the powerful church inquisitors. Giordano Bruno had the audacity to even go beyond Copernicus, and, dared to suggest, that space was boundless and that the sun was and its planets were but one of any number of similar systems: Why! -- there even might be other inhabited worlds with rational beings equal or possibly superior to ourselves. For such blasphemy, Bruno was tried before the Inquisition, condemned and burned at the stake in 1600. Galileo was brought forward in 1633, and, there, in front of his "betters," he was, under the threat of torture and death, forced to his knees to renounce all belief in Copernican theories, and was thereafter sentenced to imprisonment for the remainder of his days.
The most important aspect of Copernicus' work is that it forever changed the place of man in the cosmos; no longer could man legitimately think his significance greater than his fellow creatures; with Copernicus' work, man could now take his place among that which exists all about him, and not of necessity take that premier position which had been assigned immodestly to him by the theologians.
"Of all discoveries and opinions, none may have exerted a greater effect on the human spirit than the doctrine of Copernicus. The world had scarcely become known as round and complete in itself when it was asked to waive the tremendous privilege of being the center of the universe. Never, perhaps, was a greater demand made on mankind - for by this admission so many things vanished in mist and smoke! What became of our Eden, our world of innocence, piety and poetry; the testimony of the senses; the conviction of a poetic - religious faith? No wonder his contemporaries did not wish to let all this go and offered every possible resistance to a doctrine which in its converts authorized and demanded a freedom of view and greatness of thought so far unknown, indeed not even dreamed of." [Goethe.]
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By Don Heckman
Bela Bartok was an ethnomusicologist before the term was invented. His early 20th century recordings of Magyar folk music are among the first actual documentation of the Asian origins of Eastern European folk music. Equally important, the material he heard and gathered had a profound impact upon his own compositions, transforming his style from late Romanticism to a unique synthesis of folk elements – especially rhythmically – and the rapidly emerging modernism of the 20th century.
All these factors were on full display Friday night in the UCLA Live presentation of the Takács String Quartet, the Muzsikás folk music ensemble and singer Márta Sebestyén at Royce Hall. The highly imaginative goal of the program was to illustrate — in living, full color fashion — the manner in which Bartok found common cause with Magyar folk music. And the results were as entertaining as they were informative.
The program’s first half began with several traditional pieces from Muzsikás – including a Transylvanian dance and a Transdanubian ugros and fast csardas. Sebestyén made her first appearance singing a flute melody with long flute player Peter Eri, displaying the penetrating, emotionally-edged sound that is at the heart of her singing.
But the centerpiece of the opening section was a shimmering rendering of Bartok’s String Quartet No. 4, a piece whose folk-derived elements provide a constant subtext to confident, sometimes aggressively dissonant modernism. Along with the String Quartet No. 3, it is among his most technically adventurous works, demanding that the players explore every aspect of their instruments, with movement No. 4’s Allegretto Pizzicato a stunning combination of digital virtuosity at the service of an irresistible musical flow.
The second half of the program dealt more directly with Bartok’s folk music associations by actually blending traditional pieces from Muzsikás and Sebestyén with Bartok’s Violin Duos, Sonatina on Themes From Transylvania and Rumanian Folk Dances. The Sonatina and the Violin Duos were introduced with transcriptions of folk music recorded by Bartok.
The synchronicity was fascinating, especially in passages such as the Violin Duo No. 44, in which the Takács Quartet’s violinist Károly Schranz performed with Mihály Sipos, one of Muzsikás’ violinists. Sebestyén’s solo vocal version of bagpipes – intriguing on its own – provided a fascinating contrast to the Takács Quartet’s reading of Bartok’s Bagpipers (from the Sonatina). And the frequent interplay between the ensembles – in which one or another player from the Takács Quartet would suddenly turn up with Muzsicás (and vice versa) was a constant highlight of the set. The final, buoyant individual segments of the Rumanian Folk Dances added a convincing coda to the evening’s compelling account of Bartok’s creative romance with his homeland’s ethnic musical roots. UCLA Live’s productions are always beguiling, but Artistic Director David Sefton outdid himself with this extraordinary program. | <urn:uuid:3c1a4b8e-e899-4c92-a351-d97496a3c84d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://irom.wordpress.com/2008/11/23/livetakacs-muzsikas-sebestyen-and-bartok/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00443-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938068 | 703 | 1.828125 | 2 |
The FDA granted approval Tuesday for tofacitinib (Xeljanz) to be used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), in a move that has been highly anticipated by clinicians and patients alike.
The drug is approved for use in patients with moderately to severely active RA who have had inadequate responses to one or more disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs).
Tofacitinib, made by Pfizer, is an oral inhibitor of the Janus kinase (JAK) pathway, and is the first new orally administered drug for RA in more than a decade.
"Xeljanz provides a new treatment option for adults suffering from the debilitating disease of RA who have had a poor response to methotrexate," Badrul Chowdhury, MD, PhD, of the FDA said in a statement.
Most of the new RA treatments in recent years have been biologics, such as tumor necrosis factor inhibitors, that are administered subcutaneously or by infusion.
Experts have agreed that patients are likely to welcome the convenience of another oral option.
In May, an FDA advisory committee panel voted 8 to 2 in favor of recommending tofacitinib, agreeing unanimously that the drug is effective, although they had some concerns about safety.
In two large studies published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine, 51.5% to 65.7% of patients receiving the active treatment met the American College of Rheumatology criteria of 20% improvement endpoint compared with 26.7% to 28.3% of those given placebo.
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Efficacy and safety have been assessed in a total of seven trials of patients with active RA.
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Cases of lymphoma and other cancers also were reported, and the drug's labeling will carry a boxed warning about risks.
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Our dear friend and mentor Zerbanoo Gifford pays tribute to the great humanitarian of our times, Bishop Desmond Tutu, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his work fighting the inhuman apartheid regime. This iconic figure dedicated his life to the fearless and relentless fight against all forms of injustice…
The death of Bishop Desmond Tutu at the age of 90 was received with great sorrow by Zerbanoo Gifford and her team at the ASHA Cen- tre, the interfaith, intercul- tural educational centre in the Forest of Dean, Glouc- estershire, England.
The Bishop received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his work fighting apart- heid but this iconic figure also dedicated his life to the relentless fight against all forms of injustice. He will be remembered for the peace and reconcilia- tion committee initiated by Mandela in South Africa, which Tutu chaired with such compassion.
But he will also be re- membered for the way he challenged Mugabe, an- other African, for the un- told horrors in Zimbabwe and those involved in the bloodshed in Northern Ire- land and Israel and the cru- elty against the Muslims in Myanmar. Tutu said it as it was, he was brave and a man of integrity.
Bishop Tutu was one of ASHA Centre’s most loved and admired patrons and a wise friend for Zerbanoo Gifford, the founder of the ASHA Centre, who admired his pure goodness and courage.
Zerbanoo first met Bishop Tutu at Saint Mar- tin’s in the Field church in Trafalgar Square, where many had found comfort before standing outside South Africa House, also in Trafalgar Square, where at least one person stood in vigil until the day Mandela was released and the world saw the end of the barbaric apartheid days.
Zerbanoo was very ac- tive in the anti-apartheid movement back then. She was inspired by Desmond Tutu, Govan Mbeki and Frene Ginwalla (the indomitable feminist and one of the leaders of the anti-apartheid movement who ran the ANC office in London). Frene went on to be the first speaker of the South African Parliament. She was a great woman and someone Zerbanoo had written about in her first book, ‘The Golden Thread, Asian experience in post Raj Britain’. Zerbanoo recalls being given the honour to speak at Trafalgar Square to hundreds of thousands of anti-apartheid protesters and then being chosen with the late Bishop Trevor Huddlestone, a close friend of Bishop Tutu, to present the People’s Petition to Margaret Thatcher at No. 10 Downing Street, calling for fully mandatory sanctions against the apartheid regime in South Africa and the release of Mandela. It was one of the pivotal moments of Zerbanoo’s life as she knew that apartheid would come to an end, as all evil eventually does, when there is a ground swell to stop such indignities against innocent people.
The Rainbow People
Bishop Desmond Tutu said it as it was. He was brave and a man of integrity. He will also be remembered for the way he challenged Robert Mugabe, another African, for the untold horrors in Zimbabwe and those involved in the bloodshed in Northern Ireland and Israel and the cruelty against the Muslims in Myanmar
The next time Tutu and Zerbanoo met she said a prayer with Bishop Tutu to celebrate the work of the South African Memorial Trust, which both were patrons of — a charity work- ing for the education of black South Africans deprived of education during the apartheid years. The mood was very different. “Tutu’s distinctive giggle and sheer magnetic person- ality made the event memorable. He danced around the church, which was filled with the good and the great. His sheer vitality and joy of living was infectious,” re- calls Zerbanoo.
Zerbanoo also recalls trying to keep up with Bishop Tutu dancing around the church and telling him of her dream of starting the ASHA Centre, although she had no idea where it would be or when it would happen. Tutu told her to have faith, as God made miracles hap- pen. Some years back, al- though ill with cancer, Tutu graciously wrote some beau- tiful words about Zerbanoo at the back of her biography written by New Zealand editor Farida Master titled ‘An Uncensored Life’.
He stated that Zerbanoo’s commitment to peace, to young people and to creating a better world is evident from her track record. “As the first Asian woman in modern British politics elected as a Liberal councillor, her vision led to alternative ways to make a real difference and she trod that path regardless of the challenges. Today we can see that journey has borne fruit and give thanks for all she stands for” wrote Bishop Tutu of Zerbanoo.
Besides being a great soul who loved people, Tutu was known for calling South Africans “the rainbow peo- ple”. He sent his book, ‘The Rainbow People of God’, to Zerbanoo and wrote inside a short thank you for Zerbanoo’s solidarity and cam- paigning against apartheid during those terrible years. Zerbanoo, known for her work across communities and faiths, admits to always having a fascination with rainbows since a young girl when her father, Bailey Irani, convinced her that there was something wonderful at the end of the rainbow. Maybe a pot of gold!
She recalls that when the ASHA Centre was finally opened, her friends from the UK Zoroastrian community and other communities came to bless the centre and have a wonderful Parsi meal. Zerbanoo said to the invited guests that if her father, Bailey Irani, who many knew as the big-hearted founder president of the World Zoroastrian Organisation and a trustee and President of ZTFE was happy with what she had done with her life, they would see a rainbow. No rainbow appeared.
But as the group left in their bus back to London, one of the guests, the European member of Parliament from the West of England, Glyn Ford, rang from his car and said look up there are two rainbows over the ASHA Centre. Zerbanoo said she felt that one was for her Dad and the other for Tutu, who had inspired so much of her humanitarian work. | <urn:uuid:71a75b5f-4171-4073-82fb-212dd1aacac0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://parsikhabar.net/news/zerrbanoo-gifford-remembering-bishop-desmond-tutu/25968/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.977503 | 1,347 | 2.375 | 2 |
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As one of the leading provider of services to people who are blind or have low vision, employment services are a big part of who we are and what we do. We offer a number of services to help people who are blind or have low vision be job ready.
Across Australia, we know youth unemployment is high, and this is reflected in the blindness and low vision community as well.
A big part of learning about work and developing a career path, is to have that first job, whether it is part time, on the weekends or a full time job after completing a degree or certification. We know that with the financial and physical independence from work leads to better career outcomes and more inclusion in society as a whole.
As an added way to help young people with blindness or low vision to be job ready, we commenced a new pre-employment program in 2017 for people aged 15-24.
The Building Stronger Futures Program was developed in collaboration with the Empowering Youth Initiative (EYI) with the aim of equipping young people with the skills to support them in finding employment.
It’s a really exciting program that’s quite innovative and we think it’s going to be something that has a significant benefit for young people who are blind or have low vision.
Each round of the program will run for a little over six months – starting with a three-week period of face-to-face skills development, followed by a job placement assistance.
In the three week face-to-face component, participants focus on developing skills such as:
Advice on career pathways and job seeking techniques
Cover letter and resume writing advice
Addressing employment issues specific to vision impairment
Interview skills development and coaching
Networking and matching your skills to an employer’s needs.
Following that there is job placement assistance for six months, where we work with the participants to develop and implement the strategies to overcome challenges they might face in the workplace.
Last year we had two cohorts complete the first part of the program including Lachlan Martin (24) who has Retinitis Pigmentosa.
Lachlan is a massive fan of American style low and slow BBQ and has grand ambition to be Australia’s first blind Pitmaster and to compete in BBQ competitions!
After working with Vision Australia as his Disability Employment Services provider to help him advance computer knowledge and customer service skills, Lachlan decided to undertake the Building Stronger Futures Program.
Lachlan said, “Approaching potential employers as a vision impaired worker is a big obstacle, and when the opportunity of learning how to tackle that came up, I decided I’d give it a shot, and see if I could use what I learned to find more work.”
Already employed by a small catering company specialising in American BBQ, Lachlan has secured further work at a BBQ café by the beach, running the kitchen and making meals to order.
“I think the biggest thing I learned was the importance of networking in your field of work.
“Forming contacts with people in the industry, especially those who are popular among the right people, is a great way to find work. I found my new job thanks to a restaurant owner in Melbourne who knew I was looking for work down my way, and he had a friend who was advertising. It’s all about who you know.”
Some of the other things Lachlan took away from the program included talking to a small panel of people who are blind and have successful careers.
“It was such a valuable opportunity to question them about what they did, how they were able to do it and how they overcame the obvious barriers of vision impairment.
“We also engaged in practice interviews, which were a great chance to build on interpersonal skills, research skills and learn how to handle myself in an interview appropriately.
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FDA Announces Discontinued Marketing of GI Drug, Zelnorm, for Safety ReasonsMar 30, 2007 | www.fda.gov
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has requested that Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation of East Hanover, New Jersey, voluntarily discontinue marketing of Zelnorm (tegaserod) based on the recently identified finding of an increased risk of serious cardiovascular adverse events (heart problems) associated with use of the drug. Novartis has agreed to voluntarily suspend marketing of the drug in the United States.
Zelnorm is a prescription medicine approved in July 2002 for short-term treatment of women with irritable bowel syndrome whose primary symptom is constipation. It was subsequently approved in August 2004 for treatment of chronic constipation for men and women under age 65. Zelnorm is marketed in 55 countries.
FDA is currently advising patients who are using Zelnorm to contact their health care providers to discuss treatment alternatives. Patients who are taking Zelnorm should seek emergency medical care if they experience severe chest pain, shortness of breath, dizziness, sudden onset of weakness or difficulty walking or talking, or other symptoms of a heart attack or stroke.
"This decision reflects the FDA's commitment to continuously monitor approved drugs throughout their marketing life, and take action when we believe the risks exceed the benefits," said Dr. Douglas Throckmorton, Deputy Director for the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. "Here, a potential risk of very serious harm to patients who have this non-life-threatening condition was recently identified, making this action necessary."
Throughout February and March 2007, Novartis reported to FDA the results of a new analysis of 29 short-term (1 - 3 months) randomized, controlled clinical trials of Zelnorm. FDA has concluded, based on these data that for most patients the benefits of this drug no longer outweigh the risks.
The analysis included more than 11,600 patients treated with Zelnorm and over 7000 patients treated with placebo. The data showed that the risk of serious cardiovascular adverse events (e.g., angina, heart attacks, and strokes) associated with use of Zelnorm is higher than with placebo treatment. Thirteen Zelnorm-treated patients (or 0.1%) had confirmed cardiovascular ischemic events, and only 1 placebo-treated patient (or 0.01%) with an event.
FDA will work with Novartis to allow access to Zelnorm as an investigational drug for patients with no other treatment options where the benefits may outweigh the risks. FDA has also indicated to Novartis the possibility of considering limited re-introduction of Zelnorm at a later date if a population of patients can be identified in which the benefits of the drug outweigh the risks. Any such proposal would be the subject of a public advisory committee meeting before an FDA decision.
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Apes can recognise bits of movies and anticipate them, according to Japanese researchers who filmed themselves wearing King Kong costumes and carrying out attacks on people to prove it.
Fumihiro Kano and Satoshi Hirata recorded a pair of short movies. In the first, a character in an ape costume terrorises humans. In the second, a human uses a tool to attack someone in an ape costume. Here's the first movie, the second is embedded a little lower down.
The researchers used laser eye-tracking technology to see if the animals noticed and remembered key moments when the same film was shown on two consecutive days. In tests involving six chimpanzees and six bonobos, the apes looked at the doorway where the ape character was about to enter around three seconds before it appeared.
In the second movie, however, the pair tweaked the film slightly before re-showing it to the apes - the positions of the two weapons were swapped. The apes looked at the weapon used in the first showing, not the place it had been in the first showing, indicating that they knew what would happen next.
"The fact they remembered such details from the previous video was really impressive," Kano told (opens in new tab) New Scientist, adding that the skill could have developed either in social situations with other apes or to help them recognise impending danger.
The next step, he says, is to see whether the apes can understand the plot of a movie. Probably best we don't show them Planet Of The Apes, though, yeah?
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My faithful pair of basketball shoes was wearing a little thin so I reluctantly decided it was time to replace them. Being concerned about what outsourcing has been doing to the US economy I resolved that I would replace my old Reeboks (which were made in Korea) with a pair of real and 100% genuine "Made in USA" basketball shoes. During the process I wanted to stay out of the clutches of the scammers and spammers who were selling fake replica shoes.
First I went online and looked at the dazzling array of beautiful new court shoes available, but there was no indication of where these might have been made so off I went to Google. There I soon found out that all of big brand shoes such as Big N ( you know who I mean the king of shoes which made over a billion dollars profit last year) were made overseas, that the labor practices in their overseas plants appeared to be less than desirable, and that the foreign operations of a number of U.S. shoe companies left a lot to be desired.
From there I decided to try the Mall and started looking at the labels of all the brand name basketball shoes - "Made in VietNam", "Made in Korea", Made in China", "Made in Thailand", "Made in Indonesia" and "Made in Brazil". Not a single pair "Made in USA". This didn't seem to help much so I turned to the hovering clerk and asked if she had any Made in USA shoes. That question seemed to bewilder her, so I asked clerks in other stores and those who were not stunned by this question told me that there was no such thing as an American made basketball shoe, with the possible exception of Chuck Taylors. I was soon to find out that even manufacture of these stalwarts was moved overseas when Nike bought out Converse in 2003.
I went back home perplexed and a bit disappointed but resolved to go straight to the horse's mouth, so I started calling the corporate headquarters of some of the major US shoe manufacturers to get the real story.
Nike told me that they were still manufacturing in Indonesia "and lots of other countries in that region", and that "it was not economically feasible to manufacture in the United States". This is the same company that made a profit of over 0 million in the third quarter of 2007 alone?
The nice lady at L.A. Gear seemed a bit surprised when I asked if their shoes were made in USA but told me that their shoes were made in Brazil and several countries in Asia.
Being nothing if not stubborn, I kept the phone warm and called Reebok but all I was told was that "All of our shoes are made somewhere outside of the United States". When I told this lady that I was concerned with shoes being manufactured in deplorable conditions overseas she sent me a very nice brochure which assured me that their shoes were manufactured under circumstances "appropriate in light of national practices and conditions". Several calls later I found that these countries were China, Thailand, Indonesia, Korea, and the Philippines.
Sigh! K-Swiss shoes would only say that they manufactured "offshore" but when I called New Balance I was told that 70% of their shoes are made in the United States, with the remaining 30% made in Europe and Asia. Sadly none of their shoes seemed to fit my needs.
Somewhat discouraged I sat down and thought about it for a bit. How much does it matter I wondered? How easily do principles give way to the need for better ankle support, brand loyalty, fashion or for better pricing? What's all this flap about foreign made replica shoes? Are all the shoes sold online fakes since they are all made overseas? How can I tell if an online shoe site is selling fake replicas or the genuine real thing? Does it really matter so long as the shoes are good? What exactly is a fake and what is real or genuine?
So I decided to join the crowd and went back online and found a nice pair of basketball shoes from a company called kicksbay.com. They probably were not made in USA but the price was right, the shoes were delivered on time, they fit well and seem to be just as good as my old Reeboks on the court. Their customer service was helpful and I will probably buy from them next time, even if I wish I could find a pair of Made in USA basketball shoes.
And now I am having a hard rethink about all the fuss the big manufactures are making over "fake or replica" shoes. Is a pair of shoes that came out of the same factory that produces Nikes or Addidas' shoes just as good as the "genuine real thing" or are the high prices we are paying only to support the billion dollar profits some of these companies are making? It is food for thought and maybe more articles. | <urn:uuid:246d9551-2469-436e-bd5f-1022d4a4602b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://chaseconley.blogspot.com/2012/12/real-us-made-basketball-shoes-you-got.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280791.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00355-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.989487 | 987 | 1.546875 | 2 |
A Closer Look at Ron Artest’s Decision to Change His Name to Metta World Peace
It was a lot easier to play the Name Game back in the days when people were named Shirley, Lincoln, and Tony. Now that celebrities have set the bar at a level as far away from common sense as humanly possible, names have spiraled out of control. Everything from hand fruit to descriptions of places and types of pickled vegetables to things you might find on a matchbook have been used to name the next generation of misfits who will grow up to be on the receiving end of countless beatings, swirlies, and wedgies. Athletes have taken the practice a step further. Seemingly dissatisfied with their given names, they have decided to change their names, presumably using some name-generator website on the Internet, creating an amalgam of foolishness and craziness before brandishing their “choice” as some kind of homage or political statement.
It’s fully understandable when you come across cases like Hakeem Olajuwon, who decided to add add the ‘H’ to his name early in his career or Dan Gadzuric- once gad-ZER-ik, later gad-ZOO-reech. Joe Theisman changed the pronunciation of his last name from “TEES-man” to rhyme with “Heisman” in an ill-fated attempt to win the trophy given to the top college player. Horrible irony, considering that it was the thigh that ended his career. There was even a time when the Nuggets’ J.R. Smith spent a day-and-a-half as Earl Smith just to avoid detection after a bad shooting night. In addition to the legion of spelling and pronunciation changers, there are plenty of athletes who were brought up in broken spelling homes. Chone? Andruw? Dwyane? It’s enough to cause my spell-check to take an early retirement.
For some, a name change might have been a recommended course of action. God Shammgod? A 20-game unmemorable stint in the NBA would suggest someone other than a divine messenger. Dick Pole? Come on, Richard is always available. Either way, the man must have had thick skin (pun not exactly intended). Ben Gay? If you couldn’t hear the footsteps, the thick smell of mentholatum might have been a cue. Dick Trickle? Ron Tugnutt? Haven’t these guys heard of briefs?
This past week, however, the spotlight has been thrust upon a different type of crazy. Who else would be the perfect person to tell us about it than Metta World Peace (nee Ron Artest, nee Ron Ron, and NAY!)? A mid-game jaunt through the stands in Detroit, auctioning off his championship ring, and spending last summer playing dodge ball at the L.A. Jewish Community Center — who said sports and kreplach don’t mix? — apparently didn’t feed his eccentric Jones.
Some players possess jaw-dropping talent. Others have great showmanship. Apparently, a growing number have too much time on their hands. While orange jump suits seem to be the rage in courthouse attire of late, there is a trend in some sports figures showing up to court voluntarily. Chad Ochocinco demonstrated to the world his lack of linguistic abilities when he changed his last name from Johnson, in 2006. He was trying to harbor appreciation for his foreign fan base while altering his name to match his jersey number in Spanish. Rumor has it that he successfully failed to do both. Five years of school-enforced Spanish and the only word I retained is “Tapatío,” but I do believe Ochocinco is not the proper word for “eighty-five.” Chad [insert name here] has decided that he will be changing his name back to Johnson in the near future, though, since his treads are starting to wear out; perhaps he could have taken a cue from that mechanic down the street and altered his moniker to “Llantas Usadas.”
What I am still not certain of is, is World Peace the entire last name for Ron Ron’s newest creation? Should there not be hyphens, then? They certainly work for Ben-Jarvis Green-Ellis, which sounds like the name of the firm handling Ron’s — sorry — Metta’s name change. Based on in-depth research (translated: copying and pasting from another website), Metta is a Buddhist term meaning “kindliness and friendliness toward others.” Word is that this was chosen because there is no idiomatic Buddhist expression for “completely lost his mind.” The NBA will still have the final word on how much of the name will go on the jersey, so Metta’s plan could quite possibly go to… pieces. While a host of athletes have changed their names for religious reasons, it appears that this might just be a case of MWP trying to draw attention to a worthy cause or, simply, that David Stern wouldn’t let Ron change his appellation to “Save the Whales” or “McLovin.’”
If this name-changing fandango catches on, imagine the possibilities. Advertisers would be lining up. They’ve already replaced the names on the fronts of WNBA jerseys, but how about paying athletes to change their names for endorsement purposes. You can just imagine a coach yelling from the sideline, “Give up the ball underneath, State Farm is there.”
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"With All Beings And All Things We Should Be As Relatives..."
One-name study for the surname ENGLISH
The English Plantation has been redesigned but the goal remains the same...to collect and post ENGLISH surname data and records, along with stories & family bios, genealogy reports, genetic analysis, and all-things relating to the surname ENGLISH.
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Discovering Orff: A Curriculum for Music Teachers is intended for those who want detailed, practical assistance in how and why to use Orff techniques and materials in the classroom. Goals are o... Click To Read More About This Product
Discovering Orff: A Curriculum for Music Teachers is intended for those who want detailed, practical assistance in how and why to use Orff techniques and materials in the classroom. Goals are outlined and the best ways to achieve them are explored, but the principal focus is on the arrangement of the curriculum in a logical sequence. Such a structure provides a reasonable progression from simple to more complex objectives not only from day to day but from year to year. Structured learning need not be the enemy of improvisation but rather the best way to provide students with the tools they need to improvise.
The book contains an introduction to the development of Orff-Schulwerk and a discussion of the distinguishing features of this approach. Chapter Two introduces the activities children use in their music-making. The teaching procedure that structures those activities is taken up in Chapter Three while Chapter Four explains the vocabulary and accompaniment theory essential to the Orff teacher. Part Two applies these elements in a sequential curriculum designed for Grades One through Five.
Especially important in each chapter is the inclusion of supporting activities designed to aid in teaching the various skills and concepts.
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If you’re a seasoned bass player, the diversity of bass sounds in the “Bass Sounds” videos here will hardly surprise you. Most other people — including many musicians — have little understanding of the range of the bass, an instrument thought to just hold down the low end. Yes, it does do that, but it doesn’t always do it with bass frequencies. Bass tones and overtones fall anywhere in the range of 40hz — a low rumble more felt than heard — to a snappy 4000hz, the high-midrange frequency of snare drums and guitars.
That’s a lot of sonic territory for an instrument to explore. It includes the sound of Paul McCartney’s Hofner Violin Bass on “Penny Lane,” a “bass-heavy tone with almost no mids or treble,” Joel McIver writes at MusicRader; the smooth top end of Jaco Pastorious’ homemade fretless Fender Jazz bass; and the buzzsaw power chords of Lemmy Kilmister’s Rickenbacker 4001, which he played with midrange turned to 11 and bass controls completely off.
Of course, amplifiers and effects make all the difference in famous bassists’ tones, but it starts at the fingers, the body, the pickups, and the frets, as bass player Bart Soeters demonstrates with a series of classic, modern, and obscure bass guitars, accompanied by the music of Joris Holtackers. Basses here include such recognizable shapes as the Hofner, with its chambered body and f-holes, the Fender Jazz and Precision basses, and the Gibson SG. They also include unusual or unique instruments like the NS Design Basscello and Soeters’ own Adamovic FBC signature bass.
Boomy, woody, even reedy — bass guitars can rumble and they can croon. They can be imitated by an electric cello — as Soeters demonstrates in the follow-up Bass Sounds II video at the top — make lovely acoustic thumps, and generally sound as percussive or melodic as you like. Will educating others about the range of bass guitar tones change unfortunate stereotypes about bass players (demonstrated below via interpretive dance and spoken word by The Kids in the Hall’s Kevin McDonald and Bruce McCulloch)? Only time will tell. But it can certainly sharpen the music appreciation skills of musicians and non-musicians alike. See all the different basses listed on the Bass Sounds YouTube pages here and here.
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“In every earthly city, there are two cities vying for control
- the City of Man and the City of God.” - Augustine
RESOURCES ON CITIES
Center Church, Tim Keller
A Theology as Big as a City, Ray Bakke
Urban Christians, Ray Bakke
To Change the World, James Davison Hunter
Generous Justice, Tim Keller
Sidewalks in the Kingdom, Eric Jacobsen
The First Urban Christians, Wayne Meeks
Urban Ministry in a New Millennium, David Claerbaut
RECENT #CITY POSTS
Cities are strategic centers of spiritual, social and cultural influence. As the city goes, so goes the world. In fact, the entire trajectory of human history will culminate in an urban environment (see Rev 21-22). Nowhere else on the planet is such diversity of people found in one place; young and old, black and white, rich and poor, known and unknown. As a church, we should embrace cities, learn from cities and seek the welfare of our cities.
“Cities should not be seen as monsters...but communities of people with need.”
- J.N. Manokaran, Christ and Citie
WHAT IS A CITY?
A city is not merely a geography, but a collection of people. In fact, it is the dynamics of people in a given location that make up a city. Five dynamics of cities are normally cited: civic politics (government), commercial business (economy), cultural leaders (art, press, education), class (lower, middle, upper), and color (racial diversity). At times these are summarized as density, diversity and cultural energy.
WHY ARE CITIES IMPORTANT?
Cities are culturally important. Cities serve as important cultural centers of the arts, education, entertainment, music, law and government. Cities are hubs of commerce and ideas. As the cities go, so goes the culture. A recent article in Foreign Policy magazine articulates the importance of cities this way:
“The 21st century will not be dominated by America or China, Brazil or India, but by the city. In an age that appears increasingly unmanageable, cities rather than states are becoming the islands of governance on which the future world order will be built. This new world is not -- and will not be -- one global village, so much as a network of different ones. Time, technology, and population growth have massively accelerated the advent of this new urbanized era. Already, more than half the world lives in cities, and the percentage is growing rapidly. But just 100 cities account for 30 percent of the world's economy, and almost all its innovation.”
- Foreign Policy, “Beyond City Limits” Sept/Oct 2010
Cities are missiologically important. First, there are more human beings per square inch than anywhere else in the world. God loves people. There are a lot of people in cities. Therefore it is safe to assume that God loves cities. 300 years ago less than 3% of the world lived in cities. Today it is over 50% and growing rapidly. The United Nations reports that 70% of the world population will be living in urban contexts by 2050. It is estimated that 8 million people move into the cities of the world every two months (i.e. a new Lima every two months). To give you some perspective, the US only has one city in the top 10 biggest cities in the world and only four in top 50. We often loose sight of how urban the world is becoming. So, if we ask the question, “How do get the good news of the gospel to people?” we will increasingly have to deal with the city.
“Christianity began primarily as an urban movement.”
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Thomas Sheridan — The Druid Code: Part One
“In Ireland this world and the world we go to after death are not far apart.” W.B. Yeats, The Celtic Twilight
Ideas about lost civilizations and ancient wisdom, and the core concept of the Perennial philosophy, are constant threads running throughout humanity’s history. From Atlantis to the Anunnaki, and from the Vedas to the Epic of Gilgamesh, a constellation of ancient and antediluvian myths and legends lives on. However, despite the fact that as a species we often have a strong subjective sense of the veracity of such things, in our post-Enlightenment, postmodern age, these notions are widely dismissed as an affront to reason and rationality. In a scientific era in which (mostly) men in lab coats pursuing a soon-to-be-revealed theory of everything have boiled reality down to only that which our five senses perceive, the myth and magic of our inner lives have been almost entirely stripped of meaning. And yet the irresistible impulse to identify with the ineffable, something more than an iPhone, simply will not go away.
One of the foremost figures currently exploring this teleological terrain is Irish writer, researcher, and artist Thomas Sheridan. In his latest book The Druid Code: Magic, Megaliths and Mythology he probes a host of issues including the true meaning and purpose of mythology, our pathological tendency to regard our ancient ancestors as inferior, and the power of symbolism to preserve and transmit archetypal ideas down the ages. Crucially, he does so from a pan-disciplinary perspective, disregarding the all-too-often arbitrary delineations between and within history, the sciences, literature, and the arts. In keeping with the book’s title, much of the meta-narrative is seen through the eyes of the Druids, the order of religious leaders, legal authorities, adjudicators, lore-keepers, healers, and political advisors of ancient Celtic cultures. Although possessed of a lifelong passion for all manner of esoterica, the genesis of The Druid Code lies in Thomas’ rediscovery of the wonders of his local landscape.
MEGALITHS EVERYWHERE IN IRELAND
“One of the reasons I moved back to Ireland was because I missed the history here, and specifically where I live in County Sligo, there’s 5,000 megaliths in this county alone. One of my hobbies has always been to go to these what they call ‘sacred sites’ like some people would go to see steam trains. I found that the more I visited these sites, the more they intrigued me on — and I hate to use this word — a spiritual level, because I’m still not quite sure what that term means. It’s thrown around very loosely I think. But I found that there was an element of, shall we say, unspoken forces about a lot of megalithic sites. Not all of them. In fact, a lot of the Irish ones, I would call them energetically dead, and we can go into the reasons for that later. Then it struck me that, well, how come no-one’s ever spoken about this in terms of the occult? Well, what can you say about a bunch of dead stones, really? If the experts just don’t know anything about them, where do you start? One place you can start is in rock art, from the artwork on them, but the real catalyst for me was mythology, because I started to study, and anyone who has read my books, even on psychopathology, in all my books, I’ve often mentioned the importance that I place upon mythology. I also mention specific individuals like Carl Jung and his work on analytical psychology, and Joseph Campbell, and the two of them have been a constant in all my work. They gave me almost like a pair of 3D glasses to see things on the subconscious level. Then suddenly I was looking at these megaliths and thinking to myself ‘How come this has never been applied to this?’ I started to think this about 2009 after a visit to Carrowmore in Sligo — instead of a pile of stones and a bunch of graves, what can the mythology tell us about this place? I started to dig deeper and found that it was determined to be far older than most megalithic sites in Ireland. Some of the dating put it at near 10,000 years old, but that would make it among the oldest structures on Earth. What would the oldest structures on earth be doing on the far fringes of Europe when they tell us that civilisation came out of Babylon, the Middle East, and Sumer? It defies that story to begin with. So why doesn’t that area have mythology, yet all the mountains around it — Knocknarea, Knocknashee — all contain megaliths that have names and stories connected to them, regarding mythical people, mythical individuals, and that became The Druid Code. What is it, why did this exist, why do the lower areas near sea level not have a mythology, and the ones that are above sea level do? And then I started thinking ‘two different cultures’ and what caused that? Was there some kind of catastrophe in the past? So I started to look at Irish mythology, and other mythologies around Europe, right up as far as Norse mythology, and started to see that there was a story here, the code that unravelled, and that’s what I set out in this book.”
PERMITTING MYTHS AND AGE-OLD TALES TO ‘SPEAK’ TO US
The mistaken belief that any account of the past labelled ‘myth’ is necessarily false undoubtedly hinders our understanding of history. Aside from the likelihood that many of our ancient ancestors may have had a consciousness quite different from our own, there’s no reason to suppose that each and every person, place, or event contained in the lore and legend of high antiquity is simply ‘made up’ or the result of misunderstanding and misinterpretation on the part of those who came later. The concept of ‘myth’ wasn’t always synonymous with untruth and if, in fact, we allow certain so-called myths to speak to us — even as a thought experiment — yawning chasms in Earth’s timeline suddenly start to fill up.
“I came to the conclusion that the Atlantis myth, whatever you want to call it, something did happen. This is a turn around for me, because I used to think the Plato story was some kind of allegory. I believe that the Atlantis myth, whatever that was, took place. There was a catastrophe that sterilised particularly Ireland about 6,000 years ago and a series of megaliths were taken out. A second wave of people came in with different megaliths, and from that an early proto-shamanic culture rose that gave birth to the Druids who probably became the psychoanalysts of their day and healed the society. From that point on, it dawned on me that we were looking at a very sophisticated ancient ancestry in these islands, in what they call ‘the megalithic arc of Europe’. Far more, shall we say, diverse and eclectic and deep and profound than looking for Pi in Stonehenge or anything like that. That is de-humanising these people. I always felt very annoyed about the idea that aliens built the megaliths and all these kinds of things. No, our ancestors built them, and our ancestors were extremely sophisticated people. So The Druid Code was a combination of giving our ancient ancestors back their due respect and throwing in my own piece of the Atlantis mystery.”
Compounding our collective tendency to deride and disregard the age-old tales of ancestors, our current consciousness is mediated in the main through language — the spoken and written word. The drives, desires, and deeds of the ancients, therefore, steeped as they are in symbolism and that which speaks to the subconscious, can appear illogical if not entirely impenetrable. And yet symbols such as those manifested in Sheridan’s beloved megaliths may hold profound meaning, secrets which can only be unlocked when one cracks the code, a task which may yet prove beyond the bounds of rational reductionism and modern materialism.
SYMBOLS, MAGIC AND MEANING
“In the introduction to Carl Jung’s Man And His Symbols you have a chapter called Approaching the Unconscious and it gives the best description of what the difference between a symbol and a sign is. The sign just tells you where something is, like a speed limit or direction, or men’s room. A symbol is something else, a shape, marking or glyph of some kind and only those who are aware of its conventions understand what it means. For instance, you go around the world and you see public toilets, a picture of a man and a female in a skirt, and you know one is men and one is women. Now if humans didn’t have clothes, we wouldn’t know which was which. You see the yellow McDonald’s ‘M’ with the two arches — you know right away a certain type of food is available in that location, if you want to call it food, and that’s the understanding of a symbol. The awareness of the conventions of its meaning. But that’s also a very powerful tool if you know how to use it in such a way that you can create a lexicon that’s only known to a certain type of individual. Now, where did this come from? Where did these ideas arise? In terms of the early Paleolithic people and their cave art, these people were very accomplished, creating beautiful imagery, but very descriptive, very straightforward imagery of bison and other animals that lived at the time. The Neolithic — something interesting seemed to happen. Suddenly that all stopped, and we started getting almost like the Neolithic library — things such as the cross symbol, circles, dots, spirals, wavy lines… Now, what it suggests is there was some kind of cognitive growth in humans, where they didn’t need such a pictorial literal transmission of information, the symbol was enough, and the conventions of symbology had developed to the point where some were using it. This became very apparent for me in some of the megalithic structures in Ireland where on certain days the sun actually lights up a specific symbol on the wall. Now you’re looking at something quite different. First you have the symbol that means something. It has a convention that only someone who’s familiar with that symbol knows what it means, then sanctified in a kind of cosmic sense by sunlight striking that symbol. What you have then is magic because this is more than just a symbol. This is a symbol that has a specific meaning, but it’s also related to the cosmic cycles of the Earth, and that was brought about through study of astronomy and the seasons through science, which is basically what magic is. You then have a quantum leap in human cognition towards understanding and from this you build things such as imagination. The subconscious becomes developed much more deeply. The collective unconscious becomes a much more powerful idea and then you have the development of a priest class within society who may have awareness of certain types of symbols that others don’t, and that lead on through history, right to Monotheism and the Freemasons.”
HONOURING THE ANCESTORS
While investigating — or perhaps more accurately experiencing — megalithic sites like Stonehenge or Carrowmore, and other archaic enigmas such as the pyramids of Egypt or Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, laymen and professionals alike frequently report strange extra-sensory perceptions — instinctive, intuitive feelings regarding the purpose, properties and still-latent potential of these places. In fleeting moments of insight, the official narratives which tell us that, often as not, the spell-binding creations of the ancients were little more than tombs, sacrificial altars or — cutting our ancestors at least a little slack — astronomical observatories, ring decidedly hollow.
“That was one of the reasons I wrote this book. I’m sick and tired of my ancestors and your ancestors and their ancestors in this part of the world being portrayed as sub-human troglodytes who needed help, if not from God, then from aliens, and that they weren’t capable of ingenious engineering on their own. It’s amazing — there’s an awful lack of bodies at these sites. Now granted, a lot of bodies have been found at Stonehenge, so that definitely has been a place of burial, but that doesn’t mean it was a place of the dead or sacrifice. It would probably be just like people today, mad sports fans want to be buried in soccer stadiums, they have their ashes scattered in soccer stadiums. It could have been a symbolic reason like that. The psychological aspect is to impose upon your own psychology hearing about these people and these civilisations is that they’re dead, they’re gone, they no longer exist, forget about them. Don’t think too deeply about them, they’re just old bones in the ground. The Roman civilisation came along, the Enlightenment came along, and that’s what matters. This is what’s in charge now, don’t be thinking about these dead people, these dead societies.
“Further to your point about the special qualities of these places, the only thing that was retained from Newgrange, whether it was overgrown with trees and covered in sods, and nobody knew what was underneath that hill, was the magic of the place. There was magic that was kept inside that mythology. Now I’m going to get a bit woo-woo here, but one of the reasons I can tell when a megalithic site has an energetic feel to it, an emotional quality to it, is when it’s loved. I know that sounds weird, but it’s true. I remember going to Avebury, and twenty years ago seeing all the Neopagans and hippies and New Agers there. I would have kind of laughed at that, thinking it was cute, it was twee. Now I understand that their emotional and psychic engagement with places like Avebury is the reason why Avebury sings and, say, Newgrange is dead. It’s because it doesn’t get the right attention. There is something in those stones, it’s more than just an aesthetic archaeological artistic thing, and the more time I’ve spent with them, the more I’ve become aware of it. Some of the stones seem charged, some don’t. Is it the properties, the qualities of the stone? Maybe. There seems to be a high propensity of quartz in a lot of the stones at megalithic sites. But not always, and some sites just have regular granite or limestone. Monoliths seem to have a certain energy as well.
THE STANDING STONE WITH AN ELECTRIC CHARGE!
“There’s a standing stone in County Mayo here and while I was measuring it and doing my little geeky analytical study, I was reaching around it to grab a measuring tape and I noticed a distinct sensation of an electrical charge on my arms and I felt it charging up and down the stone, and that became an amazing moment for me because I started to realise that these things are some kind of accumulators. Maybe something like Wilhelm Reich was on about with Orgone energy. Did our ancient ancestors know this? I know it’s not scientific, but it’s like tuning a musical instrument. There’s people who can tune musical instruments to perfect pitch, without having to rely on knowing the initial note, and I’m noticing that certain sites do have these energies, and it seems that they respond to human consciousness. As out there as that sounds, there’s something about many of these stones where they’re positioned, and generally how they’re treated. It sounds like people love them, there’s a respectfulness towards them. They seem to have a higher version of this charge, and this ties into things like fairy forts and how in Ireland and other countries like in Iceland, The Isle of Man, and Scotland, that you never, ever damage an ancient megalithic site because it will bring horrific bad luck upon you.
“These megalithic sites are almost like temples, and they may be places of astronomical observation, but on top of all that, they’re also a form of magical technology that is very, very real, and even after 5,000 or 6,000 years, many of them still have it. I can only imagine what it was like back in their day. I can’t explain in scientific terms, and part of me as an artist doesn’t want to explain it. But what I will tell you is that there’s no way you’re going to go around with a slide rule and a scientific calculator, looking for Pi and all these classical ideas and all these ridiculous science ideas. That’s a mistake. We have to go back to the basic idea of what our ancient ancestors were interested in. Perhaps, just like in Babylon and ancient Egypt, they built phenomenal irrigation systems and huge farms. That’s one technology, that’s one way of producing vast agricultural output. That may be the crude way. Perhaps our ancient Neolithic ancestors had a more beautiful and subtle way, and they were doing it with these stones, actually plugging them into the earth like accumulators or batteries.”
PSYCHOMETRY — ENERGY OF PAST EVENTS IMPRINTED ON STONES
Yours truly rarely explores any topic without at least some recourse to popular culture, and indeed it is through the medium of pop culture that many ancient esoteric and archetypal ideas are preserved and transmitted across time, sometimes deliberately, but more commonly I would contend, sub-consciously. As a little light diversion, let’s briefly mention two examples, both personal favourites, and both pertinent to our discussion.
The Stone Tape is a television play first broadcast by the BBC in 1972. Devised by Quatermass writer Nigel Kneale, its fusion of science fiction and horror follows a team of scientists holed-up in a haunted mansion investigating strange phenomena which suggest that the stones of the building have somehow acted as a recording medium for past events. Probing the boundaries between science and the supernatural, it posits that, resulting from instances of extreme trauma or other intense emotion, ‘ghosts’ are essentially recordings of past events captured by the natural environment, an idea previously articulated by English archaeologist, parapsychologist, and explorer T.C. Lethbridge.
Taking a megalithic turn, the 1982 movie Halloween III: Season of the Witch (of which Nigel Kneale wrote an early draft) involves a plot by mysterious business magnate Conal Cochran (Irish, of course) to reawaken an ancient age of witchcraft on Halloween night using fragments of a bluestone stolen from Stonehenge. Detailing his fiendish masterplan during the film’s denouement, as all good screen villains do, Cochran explains that his factory runs on a arcane combination of “advanced and ancient technology”. Of Stonehenge itself he says with palpable awe and reverence, “It has a power in it. A force.”
Meditated upon, such melding of myth and magic, science and technology, ancient and modern may assume a mantle amounting to much, much more than mere mental candy floss.
“The thing you mentioned about the stones and the building recording events in the past, that’s basically a process called psychometry, and I’m actually working on another book at the moment about a Scottish aristocrat named John Foster Forbes who developed this psychotronic version of the megalithic map of Britain. But why wouldn’t stones have a memory? This was personally brought home to me. There’s one place, Carrowkeel, up in the mountains here in Sligo, the first cairn, I cannot go into it, it frightens me. I’m not claustrophobic, I can climb into the deepest tunnels underground where there’s barely any light. I’m not afraid of that, but this one cairn, I cannot go into because it terrifies me. Don’t ask me why, there’s just something about it. I immediately thought ‘Do not enter!’ Maybe that’s my memory, reincarnation, and ancestral biological memory of something that happened to one of my ancestors, I don’t know. But these stones are living, as Druids used to believe, that stones and rivers and everything had souls and spirits.
“I’ve been in places like Avebury. When I was sitting and the sun had gone down, it would be nice and quiet and no-one around, and the sunlight would catch the stone a certain way. It would illuminate the simulacra upon the surface, and certainly you would see a personality in what seemed like an inert piece of rock. I’d been to Stonehenge early in the morning and when I stood inside that circle I was not prepared for the dazzling array of colours that moved across the stones, caused by the rising sun. These are things that are never stressed. There’s multiple colours in those stones illuminated by the sunrise. Yet, how many people talk about this with Stonehenge? And suddenly you don’t see a stone, you see something that has an energy force to it. And what’s the next thing from that? A consciousness, or our consciousness has connected with that energy force. It’s definitely real, it’s perceptible, it’s there for anyone. If you can read the conventions, you can engage with it. You’ve just got to go there. I bring people to these megalithic sites and I give them a little spiel on the way in, and then I won’t say anything while I’m in there. I will let the stones talk to them, and they do, talk to your subconscious mind. Yes, they may be ancient observatories, yes they may be ancient temples, whatever, but there’s something to those stones, they’re not just architecture.”
PORTALS INTO OTHER REALITIES
With a lifelong interest in the built environment, I long ago came to the conclusion that modern architecture — homes, shops, schools, offices, and all the rest — is also not just architecture. (As an aside, I recommend Last Futures: Nature, Technology and the End of Architecture by Douglas Murphy, a tour de force treatise on the tragedies and occasional triumphs of modern construction). Far from being energetically moribund, the cookie-cutter boxes in which billions of us languish for much of our lives are in fact energetically active to the point of being toxic. If certain cosmological constants appear to pre-date life-as-we-know-it, then why wouldn’t the unseen forces which sculpted the psyche of the ancients still be at play today, for good or ill? Might these energies be Earthbound, or even within us? Or perhaps they emanate from some place — or some thing — else…
“Why wouldn’t a building have an energetic charge? Why is that any different than let’s say, an old TV antenna, an array of prongs and pieces of wire? That connects with energy from the air. Just apply that shape to stone, glass, or buildings that are full of wiring, and so on. There’s no reason why a building wouldn’t have — back to the quartz thing as well — an energetic footprint. It makes perfect sense. We’ve all been in buildings where they felt shit. It’s just human nature. We do feel them. And yet it could be often down to something as simple as the shape of the building. We’re put in boxes today, because boxes are highly efficient for urban planners, and they maximise the income potential of a space, in the same way a circle doesn’t. Our ancestors mainly lived in round houses, so there’s a lot of things like that we have to consider. I think that’s why, when people saw The Lord of the Rings movie and the Hobbit houses, they were instantly charmed by them. They instantly had this feeling ‘I want to live in Bilbo Baggins’ house’. It felt naturally right, and I think that has a lot to do with the fact that we’re living in boxes and cubes, and they’re naturally wrong.
“When I was in West Kennet Long Barrow near Avebury, an amazing thing happened. It has two kind of ante-chambers off the side when you go in. I, just as a joke, took out my guitar tuner, and it produced an ‘A’ tone. This thing is digital, it’s solid state, there’s no kind of modulation or anything, but as I moved it around the stones the thing went bonkers. I had to actually shut the power off and stop it. So yes, there’s something to it.
“Now we know for a fact that when you put electromagnetic devices near humans’ heads, they will start seeing things like they call aliens, have endogenic experiences. This is something that the US military have surprisingly worked on, but also stopped because they were trying to make psychopathic military helmets for US Navy SEALs that would switch off their compassion while in battle. And what they found is that they were having these amazing trips and saying ‘I saw aliens and fairies and angels and everything!’ So we’ve known this for a long time, that there’s something to this. Yes, I’m glad you brought that up, and we’ll end on this point. I absolutely believe 100% that these megalithic sites were portals into other realities, amongst other things, and they were not called Portal Dolmens for no reason. Our ancestors knew it, the Druids knew it, the Christians knew it, and they built churches in the same way. The Abrahamic religions crudely did it, but they were still after the same technology. That’s why they built their church spires so high, it’s why they applied secret auras of Freemasons regarding archaeology, such as simulating the inside of the groves of trees, inside Gothic cathedrals. They were after an effect that our ancient ancestors achieved, and that is something that’s so powerful to me. I’ll leave you with this one point — did we even come through those portals into this reality?”
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I did not think DR wrote IBM PC-DOS. I thought PC-DOS, as packaged with IBM PCs, was written by Microsoft, who also sold it separately (with some embellishments) as MS-DOS. Even then MS marketing had created a perception that they were the Gold Standard and I remember at work some guys wingeing bitterly that their corporate PCs came with PC-DOS and not MS-DOS.
In those days many PCs were sold with no operating system and DR stepped into this market (after some shaky starts) with DR-DOS, the "third way". DR-DOS was probably superior to the other two but MS deliberately put spoiler code in Windows 3.1 to prevent it being installed on DR-DOS [Look up "AARD Code" in Wikipedia].
DR-DOS was bought by Novell and then Caldera. I have Caldera DOS 7.01 on three floppies on my desk right now and I used to use it at home. It was free to non-commercial users.
If Windows 98 was the first OS you saw crashing you cannot have used Windows v3. Windows 3.0 was the first OS I used and it was truly awful - it would crash about once per hour with the dreaded UAE (Unrecoverable application error). It could not withstand an application crashing, but I think it always blamed the application anyway, | <urn:uuid:9117e9e3-f6ba-4d6b-8dd5-1e4ba62f44e7> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://linuxformat.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=102370 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988722951.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183842-00211-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986234 | 283 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Therapeutic writing sits somewhere between between a creative writing course and a group hug. Write yourself right with Dubai's newest therapy craze
I feel vaguely nervous. Sitting in a circle in a bare room at Dubai International Art Centre (DIAC), I have just completed an exercise in therapeutic writing (‘Write the letters of your name lengthways down the page,’ we were instructed. ‘Then next to each letter write a word that describes you – the first one that comes to mind.’). This is fine. A little too psychology. 101 for my tastes, maybe (perhaps tellingly, I have put ‘cynical’ after ‘C’), but essentially fine.
What isn’t so fine is that our session leader is now asking for us to read our personality round-ups out loud. I don’t really do out loud. Not to a roomful of strangers and especially not when it’s supposed to reveal something from deep within my soul.
Writing as a method of releasing the unconscious is hardly new – the stream of consciousness novel has been kicking around since the early 20th century (the phrase itself is a product of early psychology texts from around the same time) – and as someone who was a sporadic, express-it-like-you-think-it journal writer throughout some ‘difficult’ teenage years, I can attest to the power of the pen as a form of DIY therapy par excellence.
Less common is the therapeutic writing group, at least out here in the so-called real world. Writing, like art therapy, has long been employed by psychologists and their ilk as a tool for exposing and understanding problems in everything from addiction to bereavement counselling. But to uncover a group in one of Jumeirah’s sandy lanes is a little more curious.
Which, in true doh-re-me style, brings us back to DIAC (‘curious’ being the second word I’ve written after ‘C’). Sitting with me in this bare room are 15 other women, all of us curious to learn more about therapeutic writing in this one-off taster class, the brainchild of Femida Hirji, UK-trained creative therapist and life coach.
Hirji explains the principle of the group as ‘an opportunity to self-explore using the medium of writing’. As the accompanying leaflet elucidates, ‘This group is NOT [her emphasis] designed to “teach” how to write creatively; rather how to express oneself using words, images and writing.’
Hence the warm-up exercise in letter/personality association. Turns out that you only have to read your list if you want to (on the actual course, people will be expected to share but, in true group therapy fashion, will promise to respect one another’s privacy – what’s said in the room, stays in the room, Vegas-style). Today, about half of the group is happy to share. More than once (in fact, three or four times) ‘A’ is linked to ‘ambitious’ and ‘L’ to ‘lonely’. ‘It seems that we already have some themes developing,’ notes Hirji sagely.
We move on to exercise number two. ‘I have come to this therapeutic writing workshop because…’ writes Hirji on her whiteboard, instructing us to finish the sentence (‘I thought it would make a good story’, I duly reply, staying firmly in journalistic mode).
This response then becomes the jump-off for the next one (‘I thought it would make a good story because…’ etc.), a process we repeat a total of six times. The theory is that each time the response becomes more personal, more self-revelatory.
I am prepared, I think, for a little light delving into my psyche. I spend a lot of (too much?) time in my head and think I have a pretty good idea of what goes on in there. But when my sixth and final sentence fires into the heart of an issue I immediately recognise as one I’ve been trying to avoid for months, I’m stunned and not a little bit chastened. And I’m not alone.
‘I don’t want to go there,’ replies one of the members of our group when asked why she thought the exercise was ‘a little scary’. ‘It peels away the layers; forces you to really examine what spurs you on and why you do what you do,’ replies another.
Crikey. Outside the August sun is still shining, the traffic still thrumming on nearby Jumeriah Beach Road; but in here the world has suddenly become very small, confined to these four walls. It’s clear that for some of us this is too much – two people immediately cry off signing up to the course for exactly that reason (‘I don’t want to go there’ is one of these), while a few more murmur something about not necessarily being able to commit to the full eight weeks. About half of us would like to go on.
For my part, an inherent wariness about what I see as the confidentiality/group therapy paradox means I’m unlikely to ever want to sit in a room exchanging my innermost thoughts with relative strangers. Even so, the hour has far from been wasted. Walking away, I am impressed all over again by the power of the written word. I vow to dust off that diary again.
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Jill Redford (ed.): The Cartulary of Alvingham Priory (= Kathleen Major Series of Medieval Records), Woodbridge / Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer 2018, L + 580 S., 11 s/w-Abb., ISBN 978-1-910653-04-3, GBP 60,00
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Established sometime between the foundation of the order's mother house at Sempringham in 1131 and January 1155 (the latest possible date for the earliest documents in the cartulary), the Gilbertine priory at Alvingham was situated in Lincolnshire, its holdings scattered across north-east Lincolnshire, from Conesby to Boston and from Lincoln to Saltfleetby.
The priory's cartulary is, of course, a very interesting and valuable source of information about the priory itself. As its most substantial documentary record known to us, it provides the researchers with information about land transactions and meanwhile it also gives us the names of the priors and allows to draw many conclusions about men and women who have entered the community, and, more generally, about social relations in medieval Lincolnshire. It provides, for example, the names of the representatives of the local gentry whose daughters had entered the priory with their gifts of land, and allows us to conclude that the priory's founders belonged to this group. Thanks to the cartulary we can establish the list of the priors. Other names mentioned in the charters are those of donors and their relatives. All this information enrich our knowledge of the medieval prosopography.
It was therefore a commendable initiative on the part of Jill Elisabeth Redford to make this monument available for a larger public. Her book is divided into two main parts: the commentary (contained in the Introduction and in the Editorial Method) and the cartulary itself. It is followed by a glossary, an appendix and an index.
All the conclusions mentioned above have been summarized by the author in the introduction and in the appendix containing genealogical tables referred to in the text (there are 11 of them). The final Index contains the names of all the persons the cartulary is referring to.
It should be emphasized that the volume by Jill Redford is undoubtedly valuable (especially if combined with the online edition of the PhD thesis by the same author) and a prime example of very thorough and competent work. The editorial decisions concerning the transcription of the texts are sound and very well exposed. The conclusions drawn from the cartulary content are convincing and useful. The calendaring has been done in a very professional and reliable manner.
Here we come however to the only feature of the book that may raise some questions. Its title is in fact somehow misleading. Seeing the mention "edited by Jill Redford" one can believe that it is, in fact, an edition of the cartulary. But the main part of the volume, the chapter called "the cartulary" does not contain the transcription of all the documents. For the total of 1310 entries present in the manuscript, transcriptions of only 127 have been provided. It contradicts the statement found in the chapter on the Editorial Method that "all documents have been transcribed and remain in the order in which they appear in the cartulary". The solution of this puzzle is to be found in the Preface. Unfortunately, this part of the book contains mostly acknowledgments (which is another misleading feature of the book). Among those the Author placed one paragraph that is in fact crucial to the understanding of the book. The reader learns there, that the edition of the cartulary was in fact the PhD thesis and that the complete Latin text can be viewed online. The address of the website contains however a typographical error: http://www.etheses.com/whiterose.ac.uk instead of www.etheses.whiterose.ac.uk. In this short paragraph we also find the essential remark: "In the present edition I have calendared most of these documents". So, what we have in fact, is a calendared document, not an edition, and it would be preferable to have this information more emphasised. Another problem is the lack of any explanation concerning the choice of the documents that have been presented in full, not only calendared.
Of course, seeing that the book containing the transcription of merely 10% of the cartulary counts already some 600 pages, the decision to provide only a partial transcription seems totally justified, especially since the complete edition is available online. It is also understandable that those of the documents that had already been published somewhere else (like the first entry that has been printed in W. Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum), have not been selected for this edition. But it is not the case of most of the entries that have been calendared only.
One would therefore expect some explanation. The calendaring method means that the most important or most interesting documents can be edited in full. But what exactly were the criteria of this selection? The author unfortunately does not provide any such information. | <urn:uuid:ace0623d-239b-4690-89e0-024ae97a51a4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.sehepunkte.de/2018/11/31992.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.936734 | 1,105 | 2 | 2 |
American Nurses Association. (2017). A call to action: Exploring moral resilience towards a culture of ethical practice [online].Denier, Y., Dhaene, L. & Gastmans, C. (2019). ‘You can give them wings to fly’: a qualitative study on values-based leadership in health care. BMC Med Ethics, 20(35). (2019). doi.org/10.1186/s12910-019-0374-x
Ens, B., Bazylewski, S., & Duchscher, J. Chapter 16. Emerging nursing leadership issues. In Wagner, J., et al. (2018). Leadership and influencing change in nursing [online]. Regina, SK: University of Regina.
Franczukowska, A. A., Krczal, E., Knapp, C., & Baumgartner, M. (2021). Examining ethical leadership in health care organizations and its impacts on employee work attitudes: An empirical analysis from Austria. Leadership in Health Services, 34(3), 229-247. doi.org/10.2147/PRBM.S311856
Fox, E., Crigger, BJ., Botterell, M., & Bauck, P. (undated). Ethical leadership, fostering an ethical environment & culture. National Center for Ethics in Health Care. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Pages 13-39.
James, A. H., Bennett, C. L., Blanchard, D., & Stanley, D. (2021). Nursing and values‐based leadership: A literature review. Journal of Nursing Management, 29(5), 916-930. doi.org/10.1111/jonm.13273
Kantek, F., & Kaya, A. (2017). Professional values, job satisfaction, and intent to leave among nursing managers. Journal of Nursing Research, 25(4), 319-325. doi.org/10.1097/JNR.0000000000000164
Oh, J., Cho, D. and Lim, D. H. (2018). Authentic leadership and work engagement: the mediating effect of practicing core values. Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 39(2). 276-290. doi.org/10.1108/LODJ-02-2016-0030.
Pajakoski, E., Rannikko, S., Leino-Kilpi, H., & Numminen, O. (2021). Moral courage in nursing – An integrative literature review. Nursing & Health Sciences, 23, 570-585. https://doi.org/10.1111/nhs.12805.
Pavlish, C., Brown-Saltzman, K., So, L., & Wong, J. (2016). SUPPORT: An evidence-based model for leaders addressing moral distress. The Journal of Nursing Administration, 46(6), 313–320. doi.org/10.1097/NNA.0000000000000351.
Wagner, J., et al. (2018). Leadership and influencing change in nursing [online]. Regina, SK: University of Regina.
Case studies from Wagner et al. in Sub-topic 3:
Rodney, P., d’Agincourt Canning, L., McPherson, G., Anderson, J., McDonald, M., Pauly, B., Burgess, M., & Phillips, J. C. Chapter 13. Working within the landscape: Ethics in practice. p.257
- “Mr. Johansen”
Rodney, P., d’Agincourt Canning, L., McPherson, G., Anderson, J., McDonald, M., Pauly, B., Burgess, M., & Phillips, J. C. Chapter 13. Working within the landscape: Ethics in practice p.260.
- “Narrative – A New Graduate’s Journey”
Rodney, P., Kadschuk, S., Liaschenko, J., Brown, H., Musto, L., & Snyder, N. Chapter 9. Moral agency: Relational connections and support. p.176-177.
Additional Reading and Resources
Andrews, J. (2020). Perspectives: Courage in nursing leadership and innovation. Journal of Research in Nursing, 23(3), 308-311. doi.org/10.1177%2F1744987120920742 .
Barkhordari-Sharifabad, M., Ashktorab, T., & Atashzadeh-Shoorideh, F. (2018). Ethical leadership outcomes in nursing: A qualitative study. Nursing Ethics, 25(8), 1051-1063. doi.org/10.1177/0969733016687157
Brene Brown, author of Dare to Lead (2018), has a website with many resources including a Dare to Lead TM Hub, self-assessment tools, certification courses, and links to many resources including blogs, articles, podcasts, and more! Check it out here: https://daretolead.brenebrown.com
Lee, S., Robinson, E. M., Grace, P. J., Zollfrank, A., & Jurchak, M. (2020). Developing a moral compass: Themes from the clinical ethics residency for nurses’ final essays. Nursing Ethics, 27(1), 28–39. doi.org/10.1177/0969733019833125
Huang, N., Qiu, S., Yang, S., & Deng, R. (2021). Ethical leadership and organizational citizenship behavior: Mediation of trust and psychological well-being. Psychology Research and Behavior Management, 14, 655–664. https://doi.org/10.2147/PRBM.S311856
Raso, R., Fitzpatrick, J., & Masick, K. (2020). Clinical nurses’ perception of nursing leadership and healthy work environment. Journal of Nursing Administration, 50(9), 489-494. doi.org/10.1097/NNA.0000000000000921.
Rushton, C. H. (2016). Building moral resilience to neutralize moral distress [online]. American Nurse. Available at: https://www.myamericannurse.com/building-moral-resilience-neutralize-moral-distress/
The National Center for Ethics in Health Care provides many resources and tools for nursing leaders. As noted throughout the resources, the Center is part of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Although the resources target a different health care system, in a different country, the concepts can be applied within the Canadian system.
- The resources include the Centre’s IntegratedEthics® Resources, found here:
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Winter break is great for spending time with your family, but it’s not long before kids start getting restless with the lack of a routine. Once you’ve exhausted board games and trips to local museums and zoos, try some of these creative ideas to spend time with your kids and keep them entertained.
Hot cocoa bar and movie night
The holiday season can be exhausting, making it the perfect time to end your days with a movie night. Get your kids a little more excited about the occasion with a hot cocoa bar. Pair hot cocoa mix with a variety of toppings and sweet sauces for a delicious and cozy treat.
Put on a play or make a movie
First, let your kids create a plot to let their imaginations run wild. Letting them choose costumes turns it into a great game of dress-up as well. They can either put on a play at a holiday gathering, or film scenes on your phone to create a short movie. After, they can help you edit the movie and add music and titles.
Fort Day and/or competition
Dig up every available blanket and sheet and let the kids (and/or adults) build to their heart’s content. If your kids already make them pretty often, change things up and turn it into a competition. Give awards for creativity, number of rooms, or to the tallest (and to keep the fun going, make each one of these categories its own event!). Pro tip: kids love new spaces to build, so if they’re usually not allowed to take over a room, giving them permission could add to the fun.
Try a new recipe, and let your kids help.
Inspire your children to try to cook an entire meal with you and allow them to do as much as possible. Start with helping them to create the menu and finish up with them learning to set a table. Turn it into a learning experience by letting them measure ingredients and explaining some cooking processes. They’ll finish up with a sense of accomplishment and enjoy every bite.
Pamper yourself and your kids with an at-home spa day. Start with a bubble bath with colorful bath bombs for the kids, then make one of these DIY face masks. Make some tea or lemonade to sip on while you do manicures and pedicures.
We generally associate s’mores with summer, but who says you can’t make them in winter? Go old school and use a fire pit if the weather allows, or do them indoors with some careful use of some Sterno. Hint: if you’re tired of traditional s’mores, buy some different candy to try. Caramellos and Peanut Butter Cups, for example, work well – but your kids might enjoy giving some other things a try.
Paint Nite or Plant Nite
Evenings where adults gather to paint a picture or plant a terrarium while sipping some wine are super popular—why wouldn’t kids enjoy something similar? Change the wine to some sparkling wine or fruit smoothies, make an example or set up a still life, give the kids supplies, and let them go to town.
Get a head start on your New Year’s resolution
Even if it’s not quite the New Year, it’s never a bad idea to get started on your New Year’s resolution. Change up cookie recipes to have healthier ingredients (check out these 67 healthy substitutions) when you bake together. Be active with your kids by playing outside or having a dance party, or volunteer your time as a family.
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So what do we mean by 'odd ball' block? You've probably realised by now (since we've been hitting you over the head with it!) that most quilt blocks can fit on a grid of equal sized squares. Well, there are several blocks that don't fit into a grid, or aren't square blocks, so that's what we'll be talking about today. Some examples are flying geese, improv blocks, my beloved snail trail block and log cabins. Leanne will also be talking about QSTs in addition to some of the block types I'll be talking about today.
Let's start by looking at log cabin blocks, one of my favorite blocks and (in my opinion) one of the most versatile quilt blocks out there. This type of log cabin is what first comes to mind for me, the traditional style with light value in one corner of the block, and darker value in the opposite corner (or contrasting colours placed in the opposite corners).
When placed in a quilt, you can create some fantastic designs using log cabins - and it is quite easy to identify the blocks within a quilt like this.
Another really common variation on this is the Courthouse Steps block. Again, it uses light and dark to create the design within the block, but the construction is slightly different to the classic log cabin.
You can create some really interesting designs using this block as well - and again it is quite easy to identify the blocks within the quilt.
Log cabin blocks can also be made with the starting square in a corner of the block rather than the centre, and the logs don't have to be the same width throughout the whole block.
Log cabin blocks are one of my favorite improv blocks too - where the logs can be slightly wonky and/or value placement is random. One example of an improv log cabin quilt is my Full Moon Lagoon quilt I made last year. It is a little harder to see the blocks within this quilt, because I added a lot of extra logs while I was piecing the blocks together. There was no standard size when I made the blocks, so to make them fit within a quilt top, there was a lot of trimming and adding extra strips as I went along. It is a really fun way to make a quilt :o)
One of my other absolute favorite blocks is the Snail Trail (or Monkey Wrench) block. This block is an odd ball, in that it doesn't fit on any sort of grid.
I personally think the Snail Trail block is one of the most interesting blocks out there - there is SO much you can do with this block in terms of colour and value placement, and the secondary patterns you can create with it. I have made several projects using these blocks - a rainbow mini quilt
And Outfoxed on the High Seas.
As you can see, it is quite easy to identify the blocks within the quilt, and to create an interesting design using them. If you're interested, I do have a tutorial for this block :o)
The flying geese (goose? not sure if there is a singular with this one or not?) block is another one that is a classic and incredibly versatile block.
One of my current favorite reinventions of flying geese is this amazing block, 'Migration' designed by Charlotte. I have my Ausmod bee girls making these for me at the moment :o)
This is by no means an exhaustive list of blocks that don't fit on a grid, but they are some of my favorites - if you have any others that I've missed and think should be here, please let me know and I will update this post :o)
That's it from me today - but please make sure you head over and see what Leanne has to say about the maths behind some of these odd ball blocks. | <urn:uuid:b6f2d7bf-f4aa-400f-a518-38d6ac6b7508> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theelvengarden.blogspot.com/2014/05/decipher-your-quilt-identifying-odd.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.966707 | 801 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Iowa Falls has a population of 5,193 and is located in Hardin county.
The average in-state tuition for full time undergraduate students in fashion schools in Iowa Falls during the 2009 - 2010 school year was $3,048.00. The average tuition was $3,816.00 for non-residents studying in Iowa.
The cost, on average, for books and supplies needed for fashion schools in Iowa Falls is $1,100.00. The average cost for room and board for students living on campus at fashion schools in Iowa Falls was $6,000.00. The average cost for students living at home was $4,100.00 for the 2009 - 2010 school year. Students have a choice of one fashion college in Iowa Falls to attend. 0 students were reported to have graduated from fashion programs in Iowa Falls in the 2008 - 2009 school year.
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|Merchandise Displayers and Window Trimmers||$22,140.00||50|
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A Promise Fulfilled
March 20th, 2015
This plaque at the College of Staten Island, dated September 17, 1987, reads:
A PROMISE FULFILLED
The institution once known as the Willowbrook State School, which occupied this site for thirty-six years, was closed in 1987.
The end of this institution symbolizes the success and appropriateness of New York State's commitment to provide an extensive and comprehensive program of community living opportunities for its citizens with mental retardation and developmental disabilities.
What was the Willowbrook State School? As we learned a few months ago
The Willowbrook State School was the country's largest state-run institution for the mentally disabled. By the 1960s, it had over 6,000 residents, 2,000 more than it was designed to accommodate. Underfunded and understaffed, it "offered a mean, often desperate existence" to the people who lived there. After a visit in 1965, Bobby Kennedy described the place as "border[ing] on a snake pit".
But it wasn't until 1972 that the wretched conditions at Willowbrook were brought into the national spotlight, when a TV reporter named Geraldo Rivera snuck into one of the wards with a handheld camera and documented the awful scene: "children lying naked on the floor, their bodies contorted, their feces spread on walls".
This prompted a lawsuit that led to the eventual closing of the institution in 1987. Many of the buildings were taken over and renovated by the College of Staten Island, which opened a new campus — the largest college campus in the city — on the site in 1993.
So that makes two plaques here at CSI that acknowledge Willowbrook's existence. One, half-hidden behind a rose bush at the back corner of a building, does at least pay tribute, albeit in very vague and euphemistic terms
, to all the helpless people who suffered abuse and neglect at this state-run institution. The other plaque, above, located in a little treed area near the middle of campus, makes no mention of the poor souls who lived here but instead just offers the state government a nice pat on the back for finally shutting the place down (after being sued into submission). | <urn:uuid:6ae03a36-4bd8-49a3-ac86-8138d1205233> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://imjustwalkin.com/2015/03/20/a-promise-fulfilled/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.972274 | 461 | 2.578125 | 3 |
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