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by Jerome Grossman & Daniel J Grossman
Fair Share Taxation means that those who benefit the most from the generation of wealth at home and abroad should pay their fair share of the costs and sharing the benefits accruing from the profits of the unparalleled American Empire
The vast gap in income and taxes between the haves and have-nots is no longer a rallying cry to incite anti-capitalist advocates. It has become a mainstream issue debated openly, often with both sides calling for equality.
Absolute inequality or the elimination of inequality will never be a feature of our economy as long as rewards are based on the undoubted significant differences in skills and attitudes that justify differences in rewards. Our capitalist economy assigns special benefits to entrepreneurs and aggressive business behavior often without adequate regulation by the government.
The practical way of balancing the different rewards is to make sure that the basic principle ensures that everyone gets a fair share of our national production, sufficient to cover the basic necessities of food, clothing, shelter, education and health. This fair share principle should be considered a national right of citizenship apart from inequality or aggressive behavior. It would foster better citizenship and a more placid society. The wealthier would pay higher taxes, not for biblical morality or the search for equality but because they use national and local facilities much more than the average citizen. A significant portion of the cost of our government results from the maintenance of the tools of the wealthy, as well as protection of their assets and opportunities: highways to ship their goods, airports for executive travel, ocean shipping routes, ports for unloading the goods, and protection for their facilities, communications systems, contracts, home and real estate.
Furthermore, our government and our entrepreneurs are entangled in the affairs of virtually every oil-producing country. We have committed our military to assure an even flow of commodities for business and trading. We maintain 900 military bases in 140 countries and enhancing the clout of the thousands of US corporations doing business in those nations | <urn:uuid:b4bc1b8d-bb61-412b-9b25-47c040301ffc> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://relentlessliberal.blogspot.com/2012_02_05_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00387-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959816 | 396 | 3.15625 | 3 |
Student or Learner
could you please tell me what the expressions "balance claims" and "retained goods" mean in the following sentence (the whole paragraph is entitled "title retention"):
The purchaser is entitled to resell the goods only within the framework of orderly business practice and insofar as his pecuniary circumstances are not affected last-ingly. In the latter case the purchaser will concede to the supplier the claims with all accessory rights from the resale of the retained goods, including any balance claims.
Thank you very much.
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iodide, organic iodine, potassium iodide, sodium iodide
In 1922, experts learned that the thyroid gland needs iodine. The gland needs it to make thyroid hormones and prevent enlarged thyroid glands (goiter). Thyroid hormones control metabolism. They also affect reproductive processes, nerves, muscles, skin, and hair. Iodine also helps with the synthesis of protein and utilization of oxygen.
Iodine is in two main hormones made by the thyroid gland. Together, these hormones control the metabolic rate of the body. They’re important in growth and development, especially in the fetus and newborn. Not having enough iodine and thyroid hormones can cause intellectual issues and developmental delays.
Iodine is used to prevent and treat goiters and over-active thyroid gland (hyperthyroidism). It’s also used to prevent and treat iodine deficiency and thyrotoxic crisis.
Consuming table salt fortified with potassium iodide can help prevent goiters. Other sources of iodine include eggs, dairy products, and seaweed.
If you get goiter during pregnancy, you’ll need treatment. This can keep your baby healthy.
Please note that this section reports on claims that have not yet been substantiated through studies.
Iodine is said to reduce the risk of breast cancer, decrease fatigue, and stave off weight gain. It may also help treat hardening of the arteries (arteriosclerosis).
People living in the Great Lakes states need iodine supplements. This area is even called the "goiter belt". People living in other areas without enough iodine in the soil also need supplements. Before iodine was added to table salt, it’s thought that 50–70% of people living in the Lake Michigan area had goiters.
Adults who don’t get enough iodine in their diet can get goiters. In severe cases, this may lead to an underactive thyroid gland (hypothyroidism). Symptoms can include:
Memory and cognitive issues
Dry skin and hair
People who consume large amounts of "goitrogenic" vegetables also need more iodine. These include cabbage, kale, Brussels sprouts, and rutabagas. These substances keep the digestive tract from absorbing iodine. Cooking deactivates goitrogenic substances.
Newborns that didn’t get enough iodine during pregnancy are often born with enlarged thyroids. They may also have signs of hypothyroidism. If a fetus’s thyroid doesn’t work during development, he or she can get cretinism. These problems can lead to intellectual issues. They can also cause growth problems.
Iodine is measured in micrograms. The Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) is as follows:
Infants (0 to 6 months)
Infants (7 months to 1 year)
Children (1–3 years)
Children (4–8 years)
Children (9–13 years)
Males (14 years and older)
Females (14 years and older)
*Adequate Intake (AI)
Nutrient content per 100 grams
Cod liver oil
Seafood, fish (depending on type of fish)
Seafood, shellfish (depending on type of shellfish)
Elemental iodine is poisonous. This type is found in "tincture of iodine". It’s used to disinfect cuts. Ingesting even a small amount can cause death.
Taking in too much iodine may cause a goiter. It may also keep your thyroid from working well. This is more likely if you take doses close to 1,000 mcg per day.
Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding shouldn’t take iodine supplements without talking to their healthcare providers. Too much iodine during pregnancy may cause hypothyroidism and a goiter in a newborn.
People who take lithium shouldn’t take iodine supplements. Using these two substances together can cause hypothyroidism. You also shouldn’t take iodine supplements if you’re taking amiodarone.
Many areas of the country have very little iodine in the soil. As a result, crops in these areas and animals raised on these crops are exposed to little iodine. Before iodine was added to table salt, many people in these areas had goiters. This problem has mostly gone away now. This is likely due to iodized salt and the widespread consumption of ocean fish and shellfish.
Iodized salt contains potassium iodide. It’s often in a ratio of one part iodine to 10,000–100,000 parts salt. This means there’s very little iodine in the salt. But it’s enough to prevent goiter. Iodized salt made in the U.S. contains 76–100 mcg of iodine per gram of salt.
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By Donna Westfall
In a world of good intentions, more fruit often comes from unintended consequences. There is an emerging awareness and recognition of disruptive forces as a source of good and innovation.
In today’s political climate around the world, many systems are failing. The movement of Anonymous, Wiki-leaks, Julian Assange and Edward Snowden are only symptoms of a much larger mechanism.
On the surface, they all may seem harmful and destructive and unrelated. Below the surface there is a rising consciousness that change is inevitable and healthy.
The systems that control our lives are just as dark as the Dark Web. 90% of what you see on the internet is hidden to the typical user. What’s sometimes called the “Dark Web”, or more technically, ‘s
The group called Anonymous seeks to uncover or shed light on the Dark Web because it is used by governments to hide their actions. Anonymous is trying to be a disruptive force by exposing the Dark Web.
Looking back to the 1600’s. After Queen Elizabeth I died in 1603, English Catholics who had been persecuted under her rule had hoped that her successor, James I, would be more tolerant of their religion. James I had, after all, had a Catholic mother. Unfortunately, James did not turn out to be more tolerant than Elizabeth and a number of young men, 13 to be exact, decided that violent action was the answer.
To carry out their plan, the conspirators got hold of 36 barrels of gunpowder – and stored them in a cellar, just under the House of Lords. The date was set, November 5, 1605. But some became leery and worried that innocent people would be killed. The King received an anonymous letter and in a sting-type operation, Guy Fawkes, who was in the cellar of the parliament with the 36 barrels of gunpowder when the authorities stormed it in the early hours of November 5th, was caught, tortured and executed.
It was called the failed Gunpowder Plot.
The people who were fearful of the government began to understand after Guy Fawkes death, that they outnumbered the government.
Every year on November 5th in England, there are bonfires (some in favor of the safety of the king and some making a point about a tyrannical government). The MASK is a stylized version of Guy Fawkes and has been made famous by the Group Anonymous after the movie, V for Vendetta, made in 2005.
Questions for the Crescent City/Del Norte County Guy Fawkes representative:
1. Why are you out here?
I’m here representing the reality of what happened in 1605 is still happening all around us. Quoting from the movie V for Vendetta, “Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, think, and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission.”
2. Don’t you believe in the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution?
Of course I do. But they’ve been perverted.
3. Do you think your single voice will matter?
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Back in December I reviewed Siobhan Dowd's middle grade novel The London Eye Mystery. The book was previously published in the UK, and is now available in the US. In my review I called it: "... a locked room mystery for kids, one with a more intriguing setting than most". In addition to an intriguing setting (a boy disappears from the London Eye, a huge ferris wheel), The London Eye also features a narrator with (apparently) Asperger's Syndrome. I concluded:
"I recommend The London Eye Mystery for elementary school age mystery buffs, boys and girls, as well as for kids who have any kind of learning difference. The message that Siobhan Dowd conveys, with a very light hand, is that being different isn't necessarily bad. Differences in thinking can even turn into assets, depending upon the circumstances. Being able to get this across while keeping kids engrossed in the mystery took real talent on Dowd's part."
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The Justice Department opened an antitrust investigation of the online music business, focusing on two new joint ventures backed by five major record labels, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition on Monday.
The probe, which is in a preliminary stage, is looking into possible anti-competitive problems posed by the joint ventures, lawyers close to the case said Friday, according to the report.
The government is also expected to examine the major record companies’ use of copyright rules and licensing practices to control online distribution of their music, according to these people, the report said.
The rival joint ventures, Pressplay and MusicNet, have said they will begin operating in the fall, and each is aligned with one of the two warring camps in the online world, the Wall Street Journal said.
Pressplay is working with Microsoft Corp. and is jointly owned by Sony Corp. and Vivendi Universal. MusicNet is based on RealNetworks Inc. technology and is owned by AOL Time Warner Inc., EMI Group Plc and Bertelsmann AG and RealNetworks.
The labels have been criticized for moving slowly into online music and failing to license music to smaller competitors; they respond that they have been trying to work out how to protect – and be paid for – online music and to negotiate terms with music publishers, the newspaper said.
According to the report, a lawyer familiar with the Justice Department investigation said that it isn’t unusual for joint ventures among competitors to attract antitrust scrutiny and that many such ventures have been permitted to continue operating.
The newspaper said both joint ventures declined to comment, as did all five major record labels.
The two ventures expect to charge consumers a monthly fee to get access to “streamed” music – which consumers listen to online, but can’t copy – and downloaded, or copied, songs from the labels’ catalogs, the report said. Both have said that their licenses from their label backers are nonexclusive and that they hope to cross-license so each service will have a broad range of music, according to the newspaper.
The newspaper said MusicNet will be available through AOL and RealNetworks, as well as Napster Inc., though the status of the music-swapping company remains uncertain due to its legal struggles. Pressplay has announced affiliate relationships with Web portal Yahoo Inc., as well as Microsoft’s MSN service and MP3.com Inc., which is being bought by Vivendi Universal, according to the report. | <urn:uuid:862cbbcf-8f2c-4eaa-a99c-f7c96ed4374e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://idobi.com/news/us-justice-dept-probes-online-music-ventures/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.970551 | 508 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Psychology is focused on the scientific study of human behavior and mental processes. Although we are inherently diverse in our expertise within the discipline of psychology, we share the common goal of optimizing teaching and learning.
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Some winemakers are adding seawater to fermenting grapes in order to improve the wine’s longevity and amplify its flavors.
As most wine drinkers know, wine can taste pleasantly salty—even when there’s no actual sodium chloride in it. Certain grape varieties, for example, can taste a bit salty (sangiovese is one), and wines made from grapes growing near a sea coast can, too. So maybe it was only a matter of time, but several winemakers in France and Portugal are now experimenting with adding salt to their wines, a practice that was described in ancient Roman texts. In particular, adding seawater was typical since it helped preserve the perishable beverage, in the same way that salt was used to preserve meat. Contemporary vintner Hervé Durand’s family estate, Mas des Tourelles, in the southern Rhône Valley, stands atop the remains of a Gallo-Roman winery. Known for his “Archeological Roman Wines,” Durand makes a version of Turriculae, a wine made from an ancient recipe that includes seawater as well as ground fenugreek and iris flowers. In Portugal, Port producer Dirk Niepoort learned of the practice from a traditional wine producer in the Azores and convinced fellow vintners Anna Jorgensen and Anselmo Mendes to join him in experimenting with salt. Filling their fermentation vessels to 1% seawater, they found the results had a tangy, saline flavor that gave “more life” to the wine without overly diluting it. “As it is common with food, a pinch of salt is important to ‘awaken’ other flavors,” says Mendes. He has a point. | <urn:uuid:5c33c0d7-3c17-47e8-82a2-a9aa7bfc8808> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://winespeed.com/quiz/true-false/adding-seawater-to-wine-improves-its-longevity/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.970967 | 379 | 2.6875 | 3 |
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This F02 error means that the washer doesn't think it's draining properly so it will not unlock the door and it will refuse to spin. Unfortunately these washers are not easy at all to access and fix a drain problem. There is a drain catch inside the washer that you will want to access and clean if you're getting this drain error. To access the drain catch, it's very difficult. The top panel, the control panel, and the entire front panel all need to be removed so that you can access the pump below the tub. It's really a bad design and it was never this difficult in the past, but now there is quite a bit of work involved to clear the drain so unless you're really handy, this is not something you'll want to tackle yourself.To access the drain pump, you need to pull the washer forward and unplug it. Pull the dispenser drawer completely off the washer. Next, remove the 2 bolts coming in from the back of the top panel. The top panel will pull straight back, up, and off. Remove the screws coming in through the dispenser opening and the screws coming from the inside of the washer going into the control panel. The control panel will then pull up and out of the way. At this point, you just have a few screws going across the top of the front panel to remove. Tip the wash back a bit and there are 2 screws in the bottom right and left corner you need to remove. Open the door and you need to disconnect the rubber door gasket. There is a wire ring around the front lip of the rubber door gasket. Use a flat head screwdriver and pry the wire ring off the gasket. Now you can remove the front panel to access the drain pump located under the drum attached to the drain pump mounted to the floor.
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1、Misusing i.e. and e.g. Do not confuse these two. They do not mean the same thing!
i.e. = that is
e.g. = for example
(Many people think that ‘i.e’ stands for ‘in example.’ That is false. Both are abbreviations for two different latin phrases.)
2、Using ‘if’ when you should use ‘whether’.
Incorrect: I do not know if this is true.
Correct: I do not know whether this is true.
Correct: If this is true, then you are wrong.
3、Confusing ‘there’ with ‘their.’ ‘Their’ indicates possession, ‘there’ does not.
Incorrect: There problem was a lack of courage.
Correct: Their problem was a lack of courage.
Incorrect: Their are a lot of problems here.
Correct: There are a lot of problems here.
Incorrect: We should try and change the law.
Correct: We should try to change the law.
5、Letting your accent get in the way of things.
Incorrect: Mind and brain are one in the same thing.
Correct: Mind and brain are one and the same thing.
Incorrect: Socrates should of fought.
Correct: Socrates should have fought.
6、Improper form of the plural possessive of names.
Incorrect: Descarte’s problem was ….
Incorrect: Descartes problem was….
Correct: Descartes’ problem was….
Correct: Descartes’s problem was….
(Note: Either of the last two is acceptable only for names ending in ‘s’ like ‘Descartes’ or ‘Jesus.’ Otherwise, always go with the last example–i.e., add an apostrophe and an ‘s.’ The convention is usaully to not add an extra ‘s’ for old names, such as ‘Descartes’ and ‘Jesus.’ So, to say that this is the book that Rawls owns, people often write: “This is Rawls’s book.”)
7、Improper use of semi-colons.
Incorrect: The following will be on the test; Locke, Hume, Parfit.
Incorrect: Although there is no right answer; there are many wrong answers.
Correct: There is no right answer; there are many wrong answers.
(The Rule: Use a semi-colon only where you could use a period instead. In other words, a semi-colon must join two clauses that could stand by themselves as complete sentences. The semi-colin is just used to indicate that the two sentences are connected or intimately related.)
8、Confusing ‘then’ and ‘than’.
Incorrect: If this is true, than I’m a fool.
Incorrect: I am more of a fool then you are.
Correct: If this is true, then I’m a fool.
Correct: I am more of a fool than you are.
9、Its versus it’s.
Incorrect: Its easy to make this mistake.
Incorrect: It’s pages are crumbling.
Correct: It’s easy to make this mistake.
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'The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole' by Sue Townsend
Based on her hugely popular novel series of the Eighties, 'The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole' was Sue Townsend's more recent dramatic recreation of the initial novel in which the eponymous hero and diarist is famously 'aged thirteen and a quarter'. In the play, as in the novel, Adrian Mole is an unrecognized intellectual and poet suffering the traumas of first love, the threat of parental divorce and spots erupting on his face. As if these problems were not enough, Adrian is experiencing the bitter pangs of first love for his classmate Pandora. If only he could have his Mum back home, a date with the desirable Pandora and his own poetry programme on the BBC, all might turn out for the best after all! The original diary version is conceived as a subsequent reflection on these events, whereas the play adaptation stages the events themselves, together with some reflective narrative commentary from Adrian. Not quite Harry Potter-esque, but a sympathetic, if to some extent annoyingly precocious character, Adrian Mole and his suburban adventures became compulsive reading in the Eighties for a whole generation that grew up with its misunderstood but well-meaning young hero. | <urn:uuid:5982f50d-7f0d-40f7-ad63-db3ec09ec46e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.hkfringeclub.com/cn/whatson/199-%E5%8A%87%E6%9C%AC%E9%96%B1%E8%AE%80.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.958111 | 313 | 2.28125 | 2 |
The chickpea or chick pea (Cicer arietinum) is a legume of the family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae. Its different types are variously known as gram or Bengal gram, garbanzo or garbanzo bean, or Egyptian pea. Its seeds are high in protein. It is one of the earliest cultivated legumes: 7,500-year-old remains have been found in the Middle East. In 2016, India produced 64% of the world total of chickpeas. | <urn:uuid:5159306b-8d78-429e-a760-43fcf6cf2fff> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://samiantrade.com/index.php?mod=website&part=%D9%86%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B4%20%D9%85%D8%B7%D9%84%D8%A8&id=24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.940123 | 109 | 3.109375 | 3 |
On Tuesday morning, a firefighter from Keokuk County was driving his wife to an Iowa City Hospital to give birth. But, making it to the hospital wasn’t in the cards for Ashley and Jeremiah Hoylman. Jeremiah, the father, called 911 and asked for an ambulance, but there wasn’t time for that either. Ashley was going to give birth before any help could arrive. But luckily for the family, Pam Johnson, the Iowa County dispatcher who received their call, was there to walk them through the process of giving birth. Jeremiah used his shirt to wrap the baby, and a pants drawstring to tie off the umbilical cord. The baby was born healthy, and according to the parents, quickly and easily. Johnson says, although nerve wracking, it was easy for her too. She guided the parents through the birth process with cards that laid out the steps. Here the full story firsthand from Pam Johnson during an In Touch with Southeast Iowa program next week, celebrating Telecommunicators Appreciation Week. | <urn:uuid:c817fa79-c002-4f44-9629-cbe80eb3ca69> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://kciiradio.com/2012/04/keokuk-county-baby-born-on-roadside/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00070-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984856 | 209 | 1.539063 | 2 |
What are the 7 most amazing African Capitals of Islamic Culture? Learn their names now!
Annually Islamic Cultural Capitals are picked from among the cities of Asia and Africa. People in these places get celebrations and many educational seminars or Muslim culture. Unique buildings erected by this culture become protected. What are the 7 such capitals on the Black Continent?
7 African capitals of Muslim culture:
These cities are special. If you are a Muslim, you may want to visit each of them to get enriched by their awesome culture and history.
This city is located in the Republic of Senegal. It has become one of the Muslim Culture Capitals of Africa back in 2007. Despite the fact that it is inhabited by many Muslims, you can find here people from many religions and backgrounds. It facilitates a unique Grand Mosque built in 1964.
This city is found in Republic of Chad. It has a huge Islamic legacy to share including the long history of conflicts and the ways of solving them. It has become the Islamic Culture Capital in 2009. It also houses a mosque, built back in 1901 and called Hamoudi Mosque.
This city has become the first ISESCO capital back in 2006. Back in the 15th century it has become one of the bases for Muslims to spread Islam in Africa. Some people call the place “African Paris”. It has rich history and amazing architecture.
You can find it in Nigeria. It has become the capital in 2013. It is located in the midst of the major trading roads in Africa. Islamic scholars settled here in the past and spread the teaching throughout the region.
IN 2015 it was proclaimed to be the Islamic capital in Africa and it is found in the Republic of Benin. It’s Central Mosque is amazing; in fact, it is one of the most outstanding religious facilities in the whole Africa.
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This city is located in the Republic of Niger. It won the title in 20112. It has two major communities: Muslims and Roman Catholics, who live comparably peacefully there.
Union of Comoros is its home land. It has become the capital in 2010. It has the Old Friday Mosque, built in 1427 and many other ancient buildings, old and narrow streets and other attractions.
As you see, these 7 places are amazing and they have preserved their Islamic heritage well.
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Khaled Sharrouf and Mohamed Elomar have been landed with arrest warrants by Australian Federal Police for "terrorism-related activity".
The search was sparked last week when Elomar posted a picture to Twitter of Sharrouf smiling and holding the severed heads of two Syrian soldiers.
Other online posts from the former Sydney residents included threats to kill Australian soldiers and all non-Muslims, as well as other bloody pictures of them holding guns and standing over the bodies of fallen soldiers.
According to the Australian government, 150 Australians left to fight with ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), with the fear that there may be a terrorist threat in their own country if they return home.
“The number of Australians who are participating in this war fighting in Syria and Iraq shows that this is a problem that exists and germinates within our suburbs”Attorney-General George Brandis
Attorney-General George Brandis warned Australians not to think of terrorism as a problem that only exists on the other side of the world.
Speaking to ABC TV, he added: "The number of Australians who are participating in this war fighting in Syria and Iraq shows that this is a problem that exists and germinates within our suburbs."
Mr Brandis is currently trying to introduce legislation that will make encouraging terrorism an offence.
Previously, Sharrouf was among nine Muslim men accused in 2007 of stockpiling bomb-making chemicals and plotting terrorist attacks in Australia's largest cities, Sydney and Melbourne.
He pleaded guilty to terrorism offences and was sentenced in 2009 to four years in prison.
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Beth Noveck is deputy chief technology officer for open government and leads President Obama’s Open Government Initiative. She is giving a talk at Harvard. She begins by pointing to the citizenry’s lack of faith in government. Without participation, citizens become increasingly alienated, she says. For example: the rise of Tea Parties. A new study says that a civic spirit reduces crime. Another article, in Social Science and Medicine, correlates civic structures and health. She wants to create more opportunities for citizens to engage and for government to engage in civic structures — a “DoSomething.gov,” as she lightly calls it. [NOTE: Liveblogging. Getting things wrong. Missing things. Substituting inelegant partial phrases for Beth’s well-formed complete sentences. This is not a reliable report.]
Beth points to the peer to patent project she initiated before she joined the government. It enlists volunteer scientists and engineers to research patent applications, to help a system that is seriously backlogged, and that uses examiners who are not necessarily expert in the areas they’re examining. This crowd-sources patent applications. The Patent Office is studying how to adopt peer to patent. Beth wants to see more of this, to connect scientists and others to the people who make policy decisions. How do we adapt peer to patent more broadly, she asks. How do we do this in a culture that prizes consistency of procedures?
This is not about increasing direct democracy or deliberative democracy, she says. The admin hasn’t used more polls, etc., because the admin is trying to focus on action, not talk. The aim is to figuring out ways to increase collaborative work. Next week there’s a White House on conf on gov’t innovation, focusing on open grant making and prize-based innovation.
The President’s first executive action was to issue a memorandum on transparency and open gov’t. This was very important, Beth says, because it let the open gov folks in the administration say, “The President says…” President Obama is very committed to this agenda, she says; after all, he is a community organizer in his roots. Simple things like setting up a blog with comments were big steps. It’s about changing the culture. Now, there’s a culture of “leaning forward,” i.e., making commitments to being innovative about how they work. In Dec., every agency was told to come up with its own open govt plan. A directive set a road map: How and when you’re going to inventory all the data in your agency and put it online in raw, machine-readable form? How are you going to engage people in meaningful policy work? How are you going to engage in collaboration within govt and with citizens? On Tuesday, the White House collected self-evaluations, which are then evaluated by Beth’s office and by citizen groups.
How to get there. First, through people. Every agency has someone responsible for open govt. The DoT has 200+ on their open govt committee. Second, through platforms (which, as she says, is Tim O’Reilly’s mantra). E.g., data.gov is a platform.
Transparency is going well, she thinks: White House visitor logs, streaming the health care summit, publishing White House employee salaries. More important is data.gov. 64M hits in under a year. Pew says 40% of respondents have been there. 89M hits on the IT dashboard that puts a user-friendlier interface to govt spending. Agencies are required to put up “high value” data that helps them achieve their core mission. E.g., Dept. of Labor has released 15 yrs of data about workplace exposure to toxic chemicals, advancing its goal of saving workers’ lives. Medicare data helps us understand health care. USDA nutrition data + a campaign to create video games to change the eating habits of the young. Agencies are supposed to ask the public which data they want to see first, in part as a way of spurring participation.
To spur participation, the GSA now has been procuring govt-friendly terms of service for social media platforms; they’re available at apps.gov. It’s now trying to acquire innovation prize platforms, etc.
Participation and collaboration are different things, she says. Participation is a known term that has to do with citizens talking with govt. But the exciting new frontier, she says, is about putting problems out to the public for collaborative solving. E.g., Veterans Benefits Admin asked its 19,000 employees how to shorten wait times; within the first week of a brainstorming competition, 7,000 employees signed up and generated 3,000 ideas, the top ten of which are being implemented. E.g., the Army wikified the Army operations manual.
It’s also about connecting the public and private. E.g., the National Archives is making the Federal Registry available for free (instead of for $17K/yr), and the Princeton Internet center has made an annotatable. Carl Malamud also. The private sector has announced National Lab Day, to get scientists out into the schools. Two million people signed up.
She says they know they have a lot to do. E.g., agencies are sitting on exebytes of info, some of which is on paper. Expert networking: We have got to learn how to improve upon the model of federal advisory commissions, the same group of 20 people. It’s not as effective as a peer to patent model, volunteers pooled from millions of people. And we don’t have much experience using collaboration tools in govt. There is a recognition spreading throughout the govt that we are not the only experts, that there are networks of experts across the country and outside of govt. But ultimately, she says, this is about restoring trust in govt.
Q: Any strategies for developing tools for collaborative development of policy?
A: Brainstorming techniques have been taken up quickly. Thirty agencies are involved in thinking about this. It’s not about the tools, but thinking about the practices. On the other hand, we used this tool with the public to develop open govt plans, but it wasn’t promoted enough; it’s not the tools but the processes. Beth’s office acts as an internal consultancy, but people are learning from one another. This started with the President making a statement, modeling it in the White House, making the tools available…It’s a process of creating a culture and then the vehicles for sharing.
Q: Who winnowed the Veterans agency’s 3,000 suggestions?
A: The VA ideas were generated in local offices and got passed up. In more open processes, they require registration. They’ve used public thumbs up and down, with a flag for “off topic” that would shrink the posting just to one link; the White House lawyers decided that that was acceptable so long as the public was doing the rating. So the UFO and “birther” comments got rated down. They used a wiki tool (MixedInk) so the public could write policy drafts; that wiki let users vote on changes. When there are projects with millions of responses, it will be very hard; it makes more sense to proliferate opportunities for smaller levels of participation.
A: We’re crowd-sourcing expertise. In peer to patent, we’re not asking people if they like the patent or think it should be patented; we’re asking if they have info that is relevant. We are looking for factual info, recognizing that even that info is value-laden. We’re not asking about what people feel, at least initially. It’s not about fostering contentious debate, but about informed conversation.
A: What do you learn from countries that are ahead of the curve on e-democ, e.g., Estonia? Estonia learned 8 yrs ago that you have to ask people to register in online conversations…
A: Great point. We’re now getting up from our desks for the first time. We’re meeting with the Dutch, Norway, Estonia, etc. And a lot of what we do is based on Al Gore’s reinventing govt work. There’s a movement spreading particularly on transparency and data.gov.
Q: Is transparency always a good approach? Are there fields where you want to keep the public out so you can talk without being criticized?
A: Yes. We have to be careful of personal privacy and national security. Data sets are reviewed for both before they go up on data.gov. I’d rather err on the side of transparency and openness to get usover the hump of sharing what they should be sharing. There’s value in closed-door brainstorm so you can float dumb ideas. We’re trying to foster a culture of experimentation and fearlessness.
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In looking for resources for this year’s Lent program, I came across what I think is the one of the first Lent programs that Pax Christi USA undertook, or at least put on paper. It is a small pamphlet entitled, “Prayer and Lent” from 1982. This is from the introduction:
Lent is about becoming this baptized people; it is about initiating new Christians which can only be done face-to-face with our gospel and our failure, face-to-face with ourselves, the church. We do not make up a special Lent about peace and justice then. We just read the scriptures one more time, sing the psalms more by heart, kneel more often with the ancient words, Kyrie eleison…
The scriptures, song, kneeling and praying must be done by us, must bring us with all that baggage we carry toward the font. With prayer, Lent has its ancient disciplines: fasting and almsgiving. They will be there when we finally discover that we need them, for we have no other way to journey toward our passover. In fasting from much that ties us to riches and war, in making alms even of the best gifts, we get closer to what the font’s waters ever hide and yet proclaim: the battle with evil is lifelong, exhausting, immensely confusing.
We hope that what follows will make us more conscious of the prayer of the tradition and the prayer within us, aware too of our groaning world, so that we may keep Lent and so come to the paschal three days and to Eastertime.
So it has been at least 35 years by my count that Pax Christi USA has offered a Lenten program. We hope the resources below inspire and assist you in your own journey of prayer, fasting and almsgiving this season.
Our Common Lenten Prayer
This is the fast that pleases me:
to break unjust fetters,
to let the oppressed go free,
to share your bread with the hungry
and shelter the homeless poor.
If you do away with the yoke,
the clenched fist, the wicked word,
if you give your bread to the hungry
and relief to the oppressed,
your light will rise in the darkness. (Isaiah 58:6-7, 10)
All praise be yours, God our Creator,
as we wait in joyful hope
for the flowering of justice
and the fullness of peace.
All praise for this day, this season.
By our weekly fasting and prayer
cast out the spirit of war, of fear and mistrust,
and make us grow hungry for human kindness, thirsty for solidarity
with all the people of your dear earth.
May all our prayer, our fasting and our deeds
be done in the name of Jesus. Amen.
(Source: Archdiocese of Chicago, 1983)
REFLECTIONS FOR SUNDAYS AND HOLY DAYS
On this page throughout the season, we’ll be featuring reflections from a variety of authors of past Lenten booklets. We’ll also be sending our weekly Lenten emails directly to your inbox if you’re subscribed to our free email service. (Click here to sign up if you are not already subscribed to our free email service.)
- Ash Wednesday, Feb. 18, by Joan Chittister, osb
- First Sunday of Lent, Feb. 22, by Mitch Finley
- Second Sunday of Lent, Mar. 1, by Joyce Hollyday
- Third Sunday of Lent, Mar. 8, by Joe Nangle, ofm
- Fourth Sunday of Lent, Mar. 15, by Mary Schneiders, OP
- Fifth Sunday of Lent, Mar. 22, by Dorothy Stoner, osb
- Palm Sunday, Mar. 29, by M. Shawn Copeland, Ph.D.
- Holy Thursday, Apr. 2, by Megan McKenna, Ph.D.
- Good Friday, Apr. 3, by Colleen Kelly and Bronagh Kelly Jones
- Holy Saturday, Apr. 4, by Tom Cordaro
- Easter Sunday, April 5, by Sheila Cassidy
PRAY-STUDY-ACT EACH WEEK OF LENT
Each week, we’ll be crafting a special Pray-Study-Act e-bulletin (PSA) with resources for us all to use and to act on in common.
- First Week of Lent, Feb. 22-28
- Second Week of Lent, Mar. 1-7
- Third Week of Lent, Mar. 8-14
- Fourth Week of Lent, Mar. 15-21
- Fifth Week of Lent, Mar. 22-28
- Holy Week, Mar. 29-Apr. 5
- Lenten resources available in the Pax Christi USA Store
- Lenten Reflection Leaflet from Pax Christi Metro New York in MSWord and PDF
- Lead Us from War to Peace: A Service of Repentance (free download, MSWord)
- Litany for Peace: A prayer from Pax Christi USA to use daily throughout Lent (pdf)
- Litany of Repentance from the Fruits of War (pdf)
- An Examination of Conscience (pdf)
- Lent resources from EcoSpirituality Resources
- Resources from the USCCB for Lent
- For all posts related to Lent 2015, click here
SPECIAL EVENTS AND DAYS OF OBSERVANCE
Good Friday Observances
Traditionally, many Pax Christi USA local groups plan and stage a “Way of the Cross” event on Good Friday, connecting the sufferings of Christ during his passion with the suffering of our brothers and sisters at the hands of violence, greed, poverty, sickness and war. Below are resources for groups interested in undertaking a Way of the Cross in their community on Good Friday. Also please let us know if you have a Way of the Cross planned in your community. We will list below the names of groups, with contact information, which will be staging a Way of the Cross this year. | <urn:uuid:18b731d8-d7e5-4c2d-a3b5-2bd3c49f5f0a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://paxchristiusa.org/programs/lent-2016/lent-2015/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282935.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00240-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.906749 | 1,263 | 1.90625 | 2 |
OECD Secretary-General Jose Ángel Gurría warmly accepted the Ben-Gurion Leadership Award from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev President Prof. Rivka Carmi on Monday, praising BGU’s leading role in the development of the Negev.
“Shimon Peres would tell me about David Ben-Gurion’s vision to turn the Negev into a garden. I am much more impressed by the fact that the Negev is being planted with education, knowledge, ideas, innovation, and the seeds of the future by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. It is a pleasure to be here to receive this award and see how you have transformed the desert, the promised land, for the future of Israel and the future of the world,” Gurría declared in the presence of National Infrastructures, Energy and Water Resources Minister Dr. Yuval Steinitz. Permanent Representative of Israel to the OECD
Ambassador Carmel Shama Hacohen was also in attendance.
“I know that I am joining a small, and exceptionally distinguished circle, including President Shimon Peres, whom I have welcomed personally to the OECD in Paris. A giant of international diplomacy, a fighter for peace and prosperity. To be invited to follow in his footsteps, in his own country, is an honour that will stay with me for many years to come,” Gurría continued.
He said he considered Israel’s inclusion in the OECD as a major achievement of his first term as secretary-general.
“I am also touched because it is the year that we celebrate the fifth anniversary of Israel’s membership of the OECD. The accession of Israel to the OECD was a very important achievement of my first mandate. This award constitutes a symbol of our enduring friendship, and our shared commitment to a prosperous and inclusive Israel.
“In these short five years, Israel has become an important contributor to the OECD’s work. Its expertise on key areas of our economies, like water management, “clean tech”, innovation and entrepreneurship, has become a source of best practices. We have even worked together on “Clean-Tech Clustering” here in the Negev Region, underpinned by the research capacity and quality at Ben-Gurion University,” he noted.
Steinitz pointed to two “miracles” that Gurría had accomplished as OECD Secretary-General so far. The first was transforming the OECD into “one of the most appreciated and respected global organizations.” The second was Israel’s accession to the OECD, which had to garner support from at least 31 member countries some of which had strained relations with Israel in 2010.
The Ben-Gurion Leadership Award honors forward-looking visionaries who not only possess vision but work to make their vision a reality, Prof. Dan Blumberg, VP and Dean, R&D said at the opening of the ceremony in the W.A. Minkoff Senate Hall on the Marcus Family Campus in Beer-Sheva.
“The local population is quite diverse and the University is taking that into account as it helps the Negev take the unavoidable leap into the global arena,” Blumberg said.
Prof. Carmi called Gurría a “role model” who “embodies the values of the award” especially his emphasis on green growth and gender issues.
On Sunday, Gurría presented two reports that would act as a “mirror” to the Israeli Cabinet showing the strengths and difficulties of Israel’s economy and society as an encouragement to make change.
Referring to those reports, Carmi added, “Development of the Negev has the potential to address the issues raised by the OECD.”
Turning to the nature of leadership, Gurría expounded, “Leadership is what this award recognises. I am deeply gratified and touched by this honour because I see it as an endorsement of [my] vision for a more global, more relevant, more far-reaching OECD; one that can learn the lessons of the crisis and redefine the growth narrative, reverse the growing inequality and put the well-being of people at the centre of our efforts.
“Leadership is also key to upholding one of the most precious assets that a country can have: trust. Trust is the cornerstone of effective governance, the main ingredient to promote economic growth and social progress. But like never before, our countries are running dry of this precious asset. Like never before, our citizens have doubts about their government’s capacities to make the right decisions, to address MY problems! And like never before, we need effective, tireless, committed leadership to recover that confidence. And to do that we also need our leaders to promote progress through more inclusive growth. Inequalities are undermining our economic systems and our social fabric,” he argued.
Gurría offered some numbers to bolster his argument.
“In OECD countries the average income of the richest 10% is now almost 10 times that of the poorest 10%. 25 years ago, it was 7 times: that’s a 40% increase in one generation. Here in Israel the latest figure stands at almost 15 times. And, here, like in my own country, Mexico, around 20% of the population was classified as ‘income poor’. This is not only a human tragedy, it’s also increasingly evident that it’s bad for economic growth. Armed with this insight, the OECD has been leading the way to understand, measure and promote better quality growth, more inclusive growth.
“Skills are the currency of the 21st Century,” he said highlighting the need to include the Arab-Israeli and haredi sectors in the workforce and to level the playing field to achieve social cohesion and well-being.
“This recognition from Ben-Gurion University gives me the encouragement and determination to continue taking the OECD in new directions, to continue growing our membership, to continue going beyond GDP, to continue empowering people with education and skills, to continue tackling inequality, to continue recovering the trust of our citizens. I accept this award on behalf of all my colleagues in the OECD who work day in and day out to drive this vision forward. We will keep working with Israel, to ensure that this aspiration for a more inclusive society can become a reality,” he concluded.
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A lot of people want to be famous singers. However, they don't always know how to catch the audience attention. Here is a four steps method how to become a famous singer and how to become a better singer to boost your career.
1. Hire a vocal coach to help you hone your singing skills
Locate a teacher using a local newspaper, the Internet or school programs. read more how to become a famous singer by hire a vocal coast or learning at school program here.
2. Record a demo of four songs that showcase your personal style and talent
Get those demo tapes to major record executives in any way possible. Like promo with you tube. YouTube is the most popular and famous video website on the planet. Do some covers of your favourite songs to gain some subscribers.
3. Sing anywhere you can
Local fairs are particularly good. Join a band and sing at as many regular gigs as possible.
4. Consider signing with a talent agency.
A good talent agency will find you work as a singer. Before you do this, you must have many preparation, such as you must have good voice, have talent, it is means you must know everything about singing. If you do not know about it, you can read the instruction at singorama
5. Try to convey a message through your song
When you sing, your voice and expression should be such that people listening to you can interpret the song closest to your interpretation.
6. Always have a smile on your face whether on stage or off stage
When a singer walks up to the stage to perform, the audience always has a pre-conceived notion in the minds.
7. You can also try to work for a local music festival
Music festival organizers are always working for volunteers.
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Voice lessons are essential and are best taught by a professional coach. The voice coach will help to train your voice and will also be able to identify your strengths and weaknesses so you can improve. You can learn voice lesson here (by click the link below)
To answer the question How can I become a famous singer? you must first learn how to sing. Practice and sing at every opportunity you get so you become comfortable with your singing voice.
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The Bald Eagle once ranged throughout every state in the Union except Hawaii. When America adopted the bird as the national symbol in 1782, as many as 100,000 nesting Bald Eagles lived in the continental United States, excluding Alaska. By 1963 only 417 nesting pairs were found in the lower 48 States. In the late 1800's the Bald Eagle was a common breeding bird along the States, but wintering population varied, as they do today, depending on the severity of the winter and availability of food.
In the 19th century, it gradually became obvious that the nesting populations were being seriously reduced across the country. Land developed destroyed habitat as settlers moved into the wild, remote realm of the Bald Eagle, and the suitability of both breeding and wintering areas were seriously degraded. Mortality from trapping and shooting (especially as firearms became more numerous and efficient) accelerated the decline of the bird.
In the 20th century a new, more serious threat appeared. Decimation of the Bald Eagle populations by pesticides and other environmental contaminants were far more insidious than anything biologists had yet witnessed.
In the mid 1960's the decline in breeding Bald Eagles exceeded 50% in some areas and approached 100% in extreme cases. In addition, nesting failures of 55% to 96% were found for the remaining nesting pairs.
Protection for the Bald Eagle came very slowly. Not until 1940, when the Bald Eagle act was signed, which was the killing of Bald Eagles in the lower 48 States was prohibited. In Alaska, a bounty was in effect from 1917 to 1945 and again from 1949 to 1953. More then 100,000 Eagles were killed, each pair of feet bringing from 50 cents to 52cents. Finally, in 1953 the Territorial Bald Eagle Bounty Law was replaced in Alaska, making... | <urn:uuid:6aad6ec4-adb2-43f7-8b38-3443de665cbd> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.writework.com/essay/endangered-bald-eagle | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00438-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98133 | 359 | 3.65625 | 4 |
Dragonflies are beneficial predators that seek smaller insects, and also possess interesting mechanisms that allow them to fly, breathe, and live. Here are five little-known facts about dragonflies, as well as some tips on how to increase the dragonfly population in your area, since these remarkable creatures can be very helpful in the yard and garden.
- They are beneficial insects. Dragonflies are natural predator insects that eat pesky mosquitoes, flies, wasps, and other small and potentially annoying insects. Homemade ponds can attract dragonflies into your yard, as dragonflies constantly seek sources of water to breed. If you live in an area heavily populated with mosquitoes, however, you may want to avoid this method of attracting dragonflies.
- They have unique ways of propelling themselves. Dragonflies breathe through gills located on the sides of their bodies, mainly in the rectum. The water they breathe in can be expelled quickly through the anus, thus helping them to propel themselves quickly and easily at various speeds. Although not the most attractive way of getting from place to place, it is an interesting method of transportation that many entomologists find fascinating.
- They are fast fliers. Some claim that dragonflies can reach speeds of up to 60 miles per hour; however, research suggests that most travel at an average of 20-35 miles per hour. These quick speeds help dragonflies attack other small insects, including wasps, bees, and houseflies.
- They have long life spans. Although smaller species live for only 6 months, larger dragonfly species can live for much longer. In fact, some species of dragonflies can survive five years or more, making them relatively long-lived insects.
- They have selective attention. New research suggests that dragonflies have brain cells that allow them to be very selective when it comes to their attention. They can screen out useless information so that they can focus solely on their prey. This type of selective attention, usually found only in primates, can also be helpful to the insects when they are fleeing from larger insects or animals. Not only is this a hunter-mechanism, but it is also a defense mechanism. | <urn:uuid:ab1203d6-d7e8-40ed-a895-bb42c3574a31> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://allsafepestprevention.com/2013/five-little-known-facts-about-dragonflies/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718278.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00241-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966969 | 438 | 3.109375 | 3 |
2 edition of When teenage girls have been sexually abused found in the catalog.
When teenage girls have been sexually abused
|Other titles||Les adolescentes victimes de violence sexuelle.|
|Statement||[writer, Louise Doyle ; editors, Joanne Broatch, English, Johanne Raynault, French].|
|Series||Sexual abuse information series II|
|Contributions||Broatch, Joanne., Raynault, Johanne., Canada. Family Violence Prevention Division., Family Services of Greater Vancouver.|
|The Physical Object|
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Sexual Abuse. Some adolescents have themselves been sexually abused. The abuse might have been recent, might be ongoing, or could be something that happened when they were much younger. The majority of teens with illegal sexual behavior, however, have not been sexually abused. Problems with Sexual Attraction to Children. The Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal consisted of the organised child sexual abuse that occurred in the town of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, Northern England from the late s until the s and the failure of local authorities to act on reports of the abuse throughout most of that period. Researcher Angie Heal, who was hired by local officials and warned them about child.
Osmond’s sexually abused story. Over the years, Marie Osmond has publicly discussed being abused as a child and a teen several times. She has even included it in her book, ‘Behind the Smile: My Journey Out of Postpartum Depression.’ However, she has . The man and his wife have been found guilty of 73 child sex offences Young girl was sexually abused for 14 years by her father who locked her in a shed. e-mail; k. shares.
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and we’re committed to helping keep the conversation going all month long. We find that books can often help us talk about difficult topics – so here are 7 books to help you start a conversation. SHOUT by Laurie Halse Anderson Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for Continued. Here are teen sexual abuse reporting and prosecution statistics: When sexual abuse is reported, the probability that an arrest will be made is %. When teen sexual abuse does occur, the overall probability that the perpetrator will be sent to prison is %. – The average sentence for the perpetrator of a teen sexual abuse crime is
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This book is aimed at girls and young women who have experienced sexual abuse. The author does individual and group therapy with abused girls. Much of the book is the girls' stories and the author's commentary on them.
Just a couple of decades ago, resources like this did not exist, and abused girls were much more invisible/5. I bought this book even though I don't usually buy things that haven't been previously reviewed by customers.
It is a nice book, I read through it abit and it looks pretty good, I would recommend it for teenage girls who are survivors of sexual abuse and maybe professionals who could have their young clients use by: 3. 2 WHEN GIRLS HAVE BEEN SEXUALLY ABUSED A Guide for Young Girls 3 A foreword for parents This booklet is written for girls who have been sexually abused.
Most nine-to twelve-year-olds will be able to read it easily but some will need an adult’s help. Younger children might need help with some of the words and ideas. When teenage girls have been sexually abused: a guide for teenagers.
Get this from a library. When teenage girls have been sexually abused: a guide for teenagers. [Louise Doyle; Joanne Broatch; Johanne Raynault; Family Services of Greater Vancouver.]. About the Book The Sexual Trauma Workbook for Teen Girls offers healing, real-life stories from survivors and powerful, evidence-based tools to help you reclaim your life after sexual abuse or trauma.
If you’ve been sexually abused or experienced sexual trauma, you may feel confused, angry, ashamed, and unable to move forward emotionally. Forty-four percent of sexual assault victims are under the age of 18, so we need to carefully assess the unique needs of young men and women who have endured this trauma.
Invisible Girls: the Truth about Sexual Abuse. Patti Feuereisen, $ (ages ) It's My Body: a Book to Teach Young Children How to Resist Uncomfortable Touch. Linda Freeman, $ (ages ) Keep Yourself Safe: Being Safe with People.
Honor Head, $ (ages ) Kelly Bear Teaches About Secret Touching. In our workbook, Coping with Sexual Abuse, the term ‘survivor’ identifies someone who has been sexually abused. To honor and empower that person to heal, the authors present a process for healing regardless of when or how the person was abused, the amount of work the person has completed related to the abuse issues, or the person’s present lifestyle.
This booklet is written for teenage girls who have been sexually abused. You are not alone. One in four girls and one in six boys has been sexually abused by the time they are eighteen. One way of looking at these numbers is to imagine a classroom of twenty teenagers.
Approximately 95% of teenage prostitutes (girls and boys) have been sexually abused (CCPCA, ). Sex Offenders Statistics: The typical child sex offender molests an average of children, most of whom do not report the offense (National Institute of Mental Health, ).
If you are involved in the lives of adolescents, you can learn to recognize warning signs that a teen has been sexually assaulted or abused.
Studies show that ages are the highest risk years for crimes of sexual violence, and that females ages are four times more likely than the general population to be victims of these crimes. 1 If you can learn how to spot sexual assault or abuse.
"This is one of the worst cases of sexual abuse I have come across in 17 years of working for the Home Office, and with some of the most prolific sex offenders in the country," he said.
behaviors of abuse is critical. Children who have been sexually abused also may act out—that is, express feelings or sexual impulses that are odd, excessive, aggressive, or explicit.
Although no one specific sign or behavior proves that sexual abuse has occurred, the following table provides examples of potential warning signs of abuse.
sexual abuse know the person who hurt them. It’s often a family member, friend or date. This book will tell you how to: • Get help, if you’re a victim of sexual abuse • Help a friend who is a victim of sexual abuse • Help a friend who has become sexually violent • Keep safe from sexual abuse.
The following rape stories contain scenes of abuse, sexual assault, incest and violence. The people in these rape victim stories have been badly wounded by these events and yet have the courage to stand up and say what has happened to them.
Each of these rape stories speaks to the courage of the person who has shared it. Rape Stories from Real. This booklet is for those who suffered abuse as children. Abuse may have been physical, emotional, sexual, or any combination of the above. When a vulnerable child is abused instead of protected, the emotional damage done needs healing.
Everyone works through their hurt emotions at different rates. In Recovering From Child Abuse, experienced counselor David Powlson shows you how to pour out. Many children do not show any signs of child sexual abuse. Many of the children I see in my practice never gave any indication of sexual abuse prior to it being discovered.
Here are signs that would make a therapist concerned. Please note – these behaviors aren’t necessarily an indicator of sexual abuse, but are concerning behaviors none. This book is ideal for men who have been sexually abused as children and for their partners as well.
Lexington, ISBN Johnson, Anthony Godby, A Rock and a Hard Place, physical and sexual abuse survivor, Signet, OOP. Studies have shown that children who experience sexual abuse tend to recover quicker and with better results if they have a supportive, caring adult (ideally a parent) consistently in their life.
Corey Feldman to reveal names of Hollywood players who allegedly molested him as a teen. Actor Corey Feldman joins 'Watters' World' to discuss his new documentary 'My Truth: The Rape of 2 Coreys.'.If you are the mother of a sexually abused child, this site is for you.
The MOSAC site is designed specifically for mothers who have experienced the sexual abuse of one of their children. Life is difficult for mothers following the disclosure of a child's abuse, and they often have few, if any, resources available to them.Naming Our Abuse: God's Pathways to Healing for Male Sexual Abuse Survivors Andrew A.
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A little about '4-Wheelin'
When off-highway driving, 4-wheelers still drive on
roads, but we look on public lands, for the worst roads we can find. We love
a challenge, and that challenge is to 'build' a rig (ie - modify a stock 4x4) that will overcome
seemingly impossible obstacles in very bad roads. Mountain climbers have the same attitude.
'Off-road' is a misnomer that, thankfully, is gradually going out of favor in the sport.
It implies actually driving 'off' the road and among the trees. This is not
Responsible 4-wheelers stay on the road, and go by the hiker's motto :
'Pack it in ... pack it out '. The proper term is 'off-highway'. There is a world-wide
non-profit organization called Tread Lightly
that exists solely to encourage and
support environmentally and socially responsible 4-wheeling. They have a set of rules to
follow and provide educational materials to promote the image of the sport.
4 wheelers have many different makes and styles of 4x4's to choose from, not just Jeeps.
There is no right or wrong choice, just whatever suits the 4-wheeling style of the hobbyist.
My vehicle of choice is a 1984 Toyota 4Runner
. It is NOT a competition
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All about child abuse (kids – start here)
First off you must understand that if you’re a kid, you shouldn’t be abused. Nobody should be hitting you, touching you in the wrong places, or making you feel bad. Most adults know better than to do that. If the grown up does it anyway then they have a problem that needs to be fixed before they hurt you any more or hurt somebody else. It’s a bad place to be in but there are things you can do to fix it. Below is a general overview of the child abuse problem.
About one third of all kids are abused. That means if you look around you and count six people that are close by, about two of those people have been abused or are being abused. You are not alone. If you are abused, you have to do something about it. Kids that don’t do something about the abuse may grow up and have other problems – sometimes lots of other problems. The good news is that kids that do tell someone about the abuse, and get help for it, turn out just fine.
Things you may have heard that are not true
It’s tough to tell a child abuser by what they look like. Most people think adults that abuse are always men. That’s not true. Sometimes women abuse kids too. It’s also sometimes thought that grown up that abuse kids are always strangers. That’s not true either. Most of the time the grown up that is abusing a kid is someone the kid knows, a aunt or uncle, a mother or father, a neighbor, or a brother or sister. And finally, some kids believe that the adult that is hurting the kid is always hated by the kid. That’s not true either. Many times the grown up that is hurting the kid is someone the kid loves very much. For instance, a mom or dad. Regardless, what they are doing is wrong and they need help (and so do you).
Is child abuse common?
As we said above, many times the grown up that is abusing the kid is someone the kid knows like a father or step father. The effects of their abuse are shattering and may cause you a lifetime of hurt and pain. Studies have shown that 1 out of 4 girls are abused and 1 out of 6 boys are abused. That’s a lot of kids being hurt.
What is sexual abuse?
Sexual abuse doesn’t always involve sex. If you don’t know what “sex” is then this is a little tougher to explain. Basically, sex is what grownups do to have kids. And as you may know, sex should be between grownups, not between grownups and kids. But there are other ways a grownup can sexually abuse a kid. Here are some examples of sexual abuse. If you can think of other examples, post your comment below and we’ll add them to this list.
- A person shows you pictures of naked kids or naked grownups or anyone naked doing things that just don’t seem right to you.
- A person touches you between the legs. Only in really rare cases should a doctor or parent touch you there and generally it’s only when you’ve been hurt and they are trying to see if you are ok.
- A person asks (or makes you) touch them between the legs. This should never happen.
- A person asks you to take off your clothes so they can look at you. Sometimes they might want to take pictures which is really, really bad.
How to tell someone that you are being abused
This might be hard to make yourself do but you HAVE to do it. You must tell someone if you are being abused. Call 911 on your phone and tell the police. Or you can call 1-800-422-4453, the National Child Abuse Hotline and someone there will help you (they are really nice people). You can also tell a teacher at school and they will help.
How to tell a kid is being abused
There are some signs that a kid is being abused. You might notice these in some of your friends or you might be having some of these same problems yourself. The kid that is being abused usually does these things.
- Does not trust adults
- Has sleep problems and cannot sleep at night or has bad dreams
- Comes to school with strange bruises or cuts. Sometimes they will wear long sleeves even when it is hot outside to cover up the bruises.
- Is very scared of being touched. They might flinch or duck when you make a fast move.
- May have trouble walking or sitting down. Sometimes being sexually abused can make you hurt.
- And there are many other signs such as mental problems, that are harder to spot.
Here are some more things about child abuse that might help you. And of course, you can always contact us and we’ll do our best to help you.
- Signs of sexual abuse – how to tell someone is being abused
- I’m a kid being abused – what should I do?
- How grownup child abusers trick kids
- What does a child abuser look like?
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Due to an historic perversion and expert mind programming labeled as, Babylonian Slave Driving Techniques, which has been adopted and employed by the United States Government, few citizens realize that America is notwhat they perceived it to be:
‘Elephants are gray but not all gray things are elephants!’
This expose’ hopes to reveal to you the Great Adventure and some Secrets of America but not all because there are too many, such as: America is not a free or constitutional country. Factually, it isn’t even a country! America is a privately owned French corporation and its motive of operation, known as politics; government; courts; laws; currency and commerce are merely the bi-products of several greedy, vivid and intellectual imaginations belonging to the Royal and Elite of Europe and controlled with the aid of their foreign agents and slave drivers who act in America under the protection of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
The success of this private corporation relies heavily upon the ability of its slave drivers identified as the chiefs of staff, politicians, bankers, judges, priests and lawyers to convince teachers, policemen, soldiers and the general public of its authenticity. Two major problems exist for this private corporation because everything that the corporate Board of Directors [the European Royal, Elite and Sabbatean Jewish Bankers] decide is always recorded somewhere and is accessible with the advent of new technological advances! Even some of those files marked Top Secret are accessible with a little help from your friends. Ironically, the only secrets’ being concealed within those files is their treason; rogues history and new technological advances being withheld from public view!
“History is a fable agreed upon.”
Would it interest you to know that historically, every documented skirmish, global catastrophe and war that ever occurred on Earth since ancient Babylon has been a well planned and staged event, orchestrated by the Royal and Elite classes of the World with a focus on mind; crowd; population control and the stimulation of commerce? After all, the European Board of Directors makes their money off of commerce and unfortunately wars and catastrophes generate more income and spending than tranquility and peace! Do they care that people might die? Like all sociopaths, they actually plan on it!
What would be your first reaction, if I were to prove to you that two elected Presidents of the United States were never American citizens and were elected under an alias or assumed name? The first man was a German National; an atheist and former Nazi SS Naval Officer and the former Director of the Nazi Intelligence Agency called: ODESSA. The second man was a South African National and is a Marxist, a racists and anti-Christian. This is a disparaging fact to hear or read about especially since colonial America was founded by Christian people seeking freedom from religious persecution. People who just wanted to be left alone, which made them an easy mark for unscrupulous men!
Would it interest you to know that the first CIA Agency for the United States was completely staffed with former Nazi SS and OSA Officers, with the blessings of President Harry S. Truman and the United States Congress and they placed WWII flying ACE, “Wild Bill Donovan,” in a figurehead position as Director, in order to sell the CIA to the American public? Would it shock or even concern you to learn that the Patriot Act is a carbon copy of the Nazi Constitution of the 1940’s?
History suggests that the Allies defeated the Nazi War Machine when in fact Churchill and Hitler were close friends and Masonic brothers. Queen Elizabeth called Adolph Hitler, “Uncle” and Adolph’s real name was Baron Rothschild and he was a member of the European Royal Family. Didn’t you ever wonder why the Queen’s Royal Palace was never touched during the Nazi Ariel bombing of England? Two investigative journalists uncovered these facts and when they attempted to expose Churchill and Elizabeth, they were arrested and imprisoned for 33 years without formal charges or a trial.
Shortly after the WWII German surrender, the government of the United States secretly repatriated 155,000 Nazi SS and OSA Officers into the United States in 1945 under, “Operation Paperclip” and the average immigrant to America today is forced to suffer all kinds of hurdles; pitfalls; prejudices and propaganda to finally be accepted under US Immigration Laws! Immigration laws that countermand the basic principles and guarantees of the Declaration of Independence!
How would you feel about President George W. Bush, if you knew that he issued two Executive Orders as President, which 1] made all American Presidents the official Dictator of America and 2] permits Pharmaceutical Companies to release new drugs and vaccines to the public without performing the usual battery of safety tests? This same Executive Order also releases the FDA [Food and Drug Administration] of any liability for approving such new pharmaceuticals and vaccines for distribution and sale to the general public?
Would it interest you to know that all but four US Presidents and 98% of all of our US Congressmen have been serving as political decoys and official slave drivers for the European Royal and Elite Masters? The cost of campaigning for election to the Office of President or for a seat in Congress has intentionally been made untouchable and exorbitant in cost, except for millionaires! The purpose and intent is to discourage the average American citizen from overstepping his class boundaries in an attempt to secure one of these political posts! There is a huge disparaging class difference in America!
Would you feel just a little bit ignorant to learn that the Republican and Democratic Party is another political fraud and that these political parties are actually the product of one large political conspiracy? All of the candidates chosen for the highest positions in government, are not chosen by party members or the public but are pre-selected by the Royal and Elite and each approved candidate must swear an allegiance too and render a pledge to adhere to the demands of these Corporate Directors and Masters.
Your so-called right to vote in America is actually about slave registration. Every applicant is asked if they are a United States Citizen or other. A US Citizen is defined in all law dictionaries as a corporate entity. Your vote really means nothing during an election because the electronic voting machines are rigged; the manual tabulation process was eliminated via the BUSH v. GORE elections as unreliable and besides the Electoral College actually chooses the candidates regardless of the vote count! This was the real reason behind the creation of the Electoral College! The whole BUSH v. GORE event that occurred in Florida was a well planned and staged event to eliminate the paper ballot cards and manual tabulation.
The use of racist remarks and displays of racism is also planned by the Royal and Elite to divert attention away from their true purpose! Racism is used heavily and well in America to divert the attention of the masses because most of us are very easily distracted! The real truth is that there is no difference between the masses but as a collective group, the Slave Drivers couldn’t control us and so racism is used to, “divide and conquer” the slaves!
The Federal Government’s usual motive of operation is to cause a problem; blow it out of proportion in the media and then provide for and adopt a remedy that only they can control! This is never the “Exception” but rather the “Rule” and each time a little more of our humanity and liberty is subtly stolen by government without the public ever taking notice of it! Most people are easily entertained and distracted, which is the same reason why people are so fascinated with Magicians and Hypnotists!
America’s judiciary are smaller corporate branches called courts. The judges are actually business administrators called judges and all of America’s laws are civil corporate regulations called statutes. People are treated as corporations in these courts and these so-called bastions of justice are all about commerce and fraud! Everyone needs to be on the same page and so precedents become their safety benchmark!
This next question doesn’t constitute any proof but think about this: If American judges truly are the “Good Guys,” why don’t they all wear white robes instead of black? The answer is: Because black is the pagan traditional color for Illuminati Priests, which will make more sense to you as you read on through this expose.
The local police and prosecutors are not in place to, “serve and protect” the American public but to the contrary, they are structured to protect the Slave Drivers and the private United States Corporation, by enforcing its corporate statutes against the corporate enemy, “The American citizen.” Most of these police officers haven’t a clue about how they have been indoctrinated and manipulated! They are so naïve and well-meaning that they actually believe they are preserving and protecting the public! The politicians, prosecutors, judges, priests and clerks know the truth and many of them increase their personal spoils with every conviction! Yes, the Vatican, judges, prosecutors and clerks make money off of every conviction and lawsuit and their clearing house for all of these private spoils is located in the Texas Federal Reserve, under an account titled: “THE CHRIS FUND!”
If our police officers would simply invest a little energy and time, to research and read something other than PLAYBOY or POPULAR MECHANICS or to hoist a few at the local police pub, they would discover that the amended version of the: “Trading with the Enemy Act of 1933,” by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, specifically identifies the American citizen as the enemy of the Federal Government! The fraud and deception perpetrated by these Slave Drivers works well, as long as they can maintain their deception and manipulation over the masses!
In fact and in reality, the historic civilian government promised by: “The Constitution of the United States of America,” never existed nor did it ever have a chance of succeeding, courtesy of President George Washington and the Continental Congress! President George Washington, “the reputed father of our country,” cleverly overthrew the organic Constitution of the United States of America, using the Articles of Confederation and then reinstated the privately owned colonial corporation of: “The Virginia Colony.”
He then installed a military government, which is concealed in plain site. [e.g.] COMMANDER in CHIEF; Attorney GENERAL; Secretary GENERAL; Auditor GENERAL; Surgeon GENERAL; Postmaster GENERAL, etc. The Constitution was a well written document, which was copied from the Iroquois Federation Government! Many of the safeguards found in the organic Constitution were added by the Founding Fathers to bind the hands of the other Delegates because none of them trusted each other, which proves the old Proverb that:
“There is no honor among thieves!”
I bet you never knew that the American Indians were governed by an Emperor named MOY TOY and enjoyed a Federation Government? We were all falsely taught that the Red Race were just savages! The Iroquois Indians are the architects of the Universal Postal System of the World! And I bet you never knew that the Red Race of America are the only known living descendants of the Continent of Atlantis, which sunk into the Atlantic Ocean around 9600 BC?
The overthrow of the Constitution by President Washington was NO real loss to America because the Constitution had actually been converted into a business plan, designed to benefit the Founding Fathers and not the American people! This information may not correspond with the material that was pounded into our brains during our forced public school education but it is a fact none-the-less!
America factually continued to operate under the privately owned corporation of: “The Virginia Colony,” until March 9, 1933, and then that corporation was dissolved by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, upon the passage of: “The Emergency Banking Act,” and at which time he instituted a new privately owned corporation called: “The United States, Inc.,” which is registered in France and recorded under the Vatican Corporation of Rome! Now isn’t that a perplexing situation?
The term: “The United States of America,” never got off the ground and is a fictitious name fraudulently used by the Masters and Slave drivers because it conforms to the same educational material that society has been indoctrinated with and because it appeases the ears and minds of the patriotic public but it is all just another corporate prevarication! America was guaranteed a public education but never guaranteed a truthful education and as Shakespeare once wrote:
“and therein lies the rub!”
Factually, the concept or government institution known as: “The United States of America,” has not existed since the passage of: “The Declaration of Independence” however the [elite slave drivers] have cleverly convinced the American public that this is all real by: Creating and celebrating National Holidays; by erecting monuments; by adopting a National Anthem and flag; by fictionalizing history; by propagating a false freedom and by forcing this indoctrination upon society through mandatory public education!
According to the Articles of Confederation, the phrase: “We the People” is defined to mean, “We the Delegates,” which refers only to the politicians and not the public, which proves again that: “The Constitution of the United States of America,” was never intended to protect or serve the American public. There are several early administrative court rulings, which confirm this same conclusion, for those of you who require something more than common sense and my educated opinion or observations.
Everything in America is about CONTRACTS and it is our burden as Americans to make government perform honorably; to be specific and too prohibit them from changing the meaning of common words, which is referred to in their circle of friends as: “legalese!”
The American B.A.R. Association is a ‘Foreign Union’ and its members are all working in collusion with Israel; the British Empire; the Vatican; the Rothschild and Rockefeller Banking Empires; Congress and the Elite to undermine America. All attorneys are ‘Agents of a Foreign Power’ who swear allegiance to that Foreign Power [i.e.] The Queen of England.
This is why all lawyers must file a written, ‘Notice of Appearance,’ in every court case they represent. By that Notice, the lawyer is admitting to the Court that he is a ‘Foreign Agent’ and he is requesting permission to represent you in that Corporate Court. Your contract with the lawyer gives him “your sovereign power of attorney” to represent your best interests and he immediately uses it against you by admitting to the Judge that you will accept the jurisdiction and decisions of the corporate court! So much for winning your case or any appeal!
When a prosecutor loses a trial, he is obligated by the court to pay the costs of prosecution, out of pocket! Your attorney always divulges your defense strategy to the prosecutor to avert this embarrassment and penalty from being assigned to him. This group is a brotherhood and these corporate courts are a business and everything is about commerce! People are regarded as nothing more than corporate property!
The American B.A.R. Association is actually a branch of the, National Lawyers Guild Communist Party, which can only be located in the hard copy printing of 28 USC 3002, section 15a. The on-line version of Title 28 USC has been altered by the Attorney General to read something entirely different, apparently because this fact has recently shown up in too many private court petitions and memorandums of law.
To become a member of the American B.A.R Association, applicants must have obtained a Doctorate in Law or the equivalent thereof and passed an examination designed to test the depth of their indoctrination. If they pass, they are required to surrender their American citizenship and swear allegiance to the Queen of England and not the Constitution! This means that all card carrying American lawyers are foreign agents, liars, traitors and communists!
No wonder Jesus warned us about, “lawyers!”
The privately owned corporate Federal Reserve Systems debt has cleverly been renamed: “The National Debt,” to suggest that this is the American public debt however it is not America’s debt but rather Israel’s Debt and the private Federal Reserves corporate debt and yet we have been deceived into thinking and believing the complete opposite by the [corporate slave drivers] through their use of patriotic slogans like:
“This is the cost of freedom!”
If you want more proof, examine the fine print of your Savings or Checking account contract. You will discover that each time you opened one of these accounts; you agree to be responsible for the repayment of the National Debt! Now why would that language ever be included in an application for a checking or savings account if the National Debt already was our responsibility? The answer is: So that the Banks may confiscate your assets without further permission! Pretty clever on their part, if I do say so!
Would it interest you to know that the FCC, CIA, FBI, IMF, NSA, IRS, OPM, ATF, DEA, NASA, INTERPOL, HS [Homeland Security] and all the other members of the alphabet gang are all privately owned corporations and none of them are or ever has been an agency of: “United States, Inc.” The United States government always held some stock in these corporations but never outright owned or controlled any of them? Their employees receive their paychecks from OPM, which belongs to the IMF, which is the property of the United Nations, which belongs to Israel and the Royal and Elite Class of Europe! All of the alphabet gangs are now the registered property of the: “United Nations.” Is it no wonder that President Wilson’s League of Nations never got off the ground and that out of 267 Nations on the Earth only 71 are members of the United Nations?
All of this deception is compounded by the refusal of ordinary Americans to realize, know or understand that it is this secrecy and duplicity of privately owned corporations, being surreptitiously portrayed as American agencies and government, coupled with the deceit and endless greed of Israel; European Bankers and the Royal and Elite families of the World, that have come together to fleece the American people like the sheep they truly are and unfortunately, Americas’ public apathy and ignorance only serves to reinforce the lie!
This paper hopes to expose many of these Secrets of America but unfortunately not all of them! A few references have been suggested or offered for you to investigate on your own, if you are so inclined. If you strongly disagree with anything I have written, GREAT, now prove that I am wrong but be careful how you react because we patriotic Americans’ have all been taught from an early age, too just simply deny without proof, anything that contradicts that imaginary template defined as:
“The American way of life!”
I happen to know that everything that will be discussed herein is factual and I grant you that these Secrets of America will not be easy to digest because deception never is an easy pill for anyone to swallow! If ignorance truly is bliss, you certainly can choose to remain apathetic and ignorant [or] you can decide to grow up and begin to digest some hard core reality! Some of your best friends may be lawyers, judges and politicians and unfortunately they are all apart of the lie and they all have sworn an oath to propagate the lie and deny the truth, so you may need to do some soul searching and investigation of your own! It was hard for me to accept too!
“Those who do not know their past are condemned to repeat it.”
Offered as a Prologue: The most objective and original information I have discovered, concerning the ORIGIN of an ancient system of crowd and mind control called: [Babylonian Slave Driving Techniques] and its historic application and effects upon the European and American culture was researched by a group of Asian historians. All of what they discovered is extremely germane in understanding the Secrets of America and this information helps to set the stage for: The Great American Adventure.
The following is a brief synopsis of their research, which I have condensed, utilizing my knowledge, experience and comprehension of their systematic investigation and I have included several small details in that synopsis, which I uncovered during my many years of research. I warn you that most Asian people believe in a deep spirituality more so than in religious dogma; miracles or human Gods and that such Christian beliefs will be treated by them with complete indifference.
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Microsoft si sta interessando alle penne, digitali. Un articolo di WIRED racconta alcuni dei progetti e esperimenti in corso, fra cui una ricerca per disegni: disegni una mela, e Bing ti risponde con immagini di mele (dubito funzionerebbe con me):
The possibilities are kind of incredible, actually. For instance, the Microsoft team has been experimenting with a search tool that lets you draw your search query. Bathiche sketches a crude Eiffel Tower, and Bing-powered image results populate. OK, what about at night? He scribbles a dark sky, and quickly switches the pen’s digital ink to yellow—lights! The search results change instantly. In another demo, he sketches arrows, shapes, and symbols. Rather than scroll through lists or try to figure out whether he wants “Medium Left Arrow” or “Medium Left Arrow with Big Head,” he just draws what we wants. The app recognizes what he’s making, smoothing out lines and sharpening corners so it looks like an actual arrow. | <urn:uuid:26f40ac4-d41c-4ac3-9376-8ea3731bbaf3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bicyclemind.com/tag/penne/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.740872 | 250 | 1.585938 | 2 |
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The German language (Deutsch, for the purists) has apt compounds for awful things: You may know schadenfreude, joy from others’ suffering; weltschmerz, sadness arising from realizing that the world can never match your ideals; or doppelgänger, a thing eerily like another thing. But you may have not yet encountered another, more nefararious portmanteau: Burolandschaft, or office landscaping.
As this superb BBC thinkpiece sketches out, Burolandschaft was actually a revolt against Nazism. Burolandschaft was an office design movement in 1960s Germany that hoped to make office space mimic ebbs and flows of social interactions–it was “somehow organic,” with lots of plants, and, strikingly, a carpet, like the paradigm-dismantling feng shui that the futurists over at Steelcase meditate on.
But where did the damned rows upon rows of open office desks come from in the first place? BBC writer William Kremer has the word:
(Open offices) had arrived about a century earlier, when architects had started to use cast-iron girders to open up larger spaces within a building. In the American industrial boom of the late 19th century, bosses jumped at the chance to replicate their beloved factory lines with ranks of pen-pushers. Clerical workers sat at small desks in straight rows, often facing the same way–a classroom without a teacher.
And so the new open office–the “organic” Burolandschaft–led to greater worker flexbility, and encouraged “disclosure, discussion, and debate.”
Which is another issue.
“Nobody can understand two people talking at the same time,” Julian Treasure, chairman of the Sound Agency and TED talker, tells the BBC. That includes, he says, the voice of your coworkers competing with the voice in your own head. Distracting.
So if your fellow office denizens are talking Game of Thrones while you’re writing email, you may end up telling your boss about why winter keeps coming.
And then there’s the opposite: Many open offices are laden with a morgue-like quiet as stress addicts toil away at their computers in un-companionable silence, making any confidential conversation excruciatingly public. And on top of that, there’s all the sharing is caring bullshittery of co-habitating an office: squabbles about what to do about air conditioning, the blinds, food at the desk, or the telephone ringtone.
Is there a solution other than grinning and bearing it?
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Low-Loss Waveguide Developed for Terahertz Radiation
Inner surface of hollow glass waveguide is coated with silver and dielectric.
Many investigators around the globe are exploring terahertz radiation for applications in remote sensing and imaging, and a good low-loss waveguide in this spectral range likely would facilitate many of these applications. Several approaches are being pursued, one of the more promising of which is hollow waveguides. These are particularly attractive for analyzing air or other gases for contaminants because the sample can be placed inside the waveguide where the terahertz fields are strongest.
Recently, James A. Harrington and his colleagues at Rutgers University in Piscataway, and at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, both in New Jersey, developed what they believe are the lowest-loss terahertz waveguides. With a propagation loss of 0.95 dB/m, the waveguides are apparently the first to break the 1-dB/m barrier.
The investigators previously reported fabricating a hollow glass waveguide for terahertz radiation by depositing copper or silver on the inside of hollow glass tubes. Although these waveguides were functional, their loss — 3.9 dB/m — was too high for many practical applications. The recently achieved 0.95-dB/m result came from adding a dielectric overcoat to the metal coating inside the waveguides.
The physics behind the improved result with the dielectric overcoat lies in the reflectance of electromagnetic radiation from a metal surface. The reflectance of metals at near-glancing angles of incidence is high for the s-polarization but low for the p-polarization. Thus, the transverse-electric (TE01) mode — whose electric field is parallel to the walls of the waveguide (i.e., always in the s-polarization at the walls) — experiences relatively low loss in a plain-metal hollow waveguide, even without the dielectric overcoat. But it’s difficult to convert the output of a linearly polarized (or unpolarized) laser into an azimuthally polarized TE01 mode in a hollow waveguide. What’s easy to excite with a linearly polarized input beam is the linearly polarized HE11 hollow-waveguide mode.
Figure 1. Propagation loss in the hollow glass waveguide decreased with increasing thickness of the dielectric overcoat on the metal film on the inner surface of the waveguide. These experimental data (points) and theoretical values (solid lines) are for three core diameters: 1.6, 1.7 and 2.2 mm. Images reprinted with permission of Optics Letters.
The addition of a dielectric overcoat creates an interference effect that significantly increases the reflectivity of the p-polarization and, therefore, reduces the loss experienced by the HE11 mode. In their experiment, the scientists added a polystyrene film over the silver coating. They propagated radiation from a Coherent Deos terahertz laser into the waveguide and calibrated its loss by measuring the power transmitted through the guide, repeatedly cutting the waveguide to a shorter length and remeasuring the transmitted power.
They found that the loss diminished fairly rapidly with increasing thickness of the dielectric overcoat, up to a thickness of about 5 μm (Figure 1). Although the experimental losses are higher than predicted by theory, they nonetheless show the predicted dependence on dielectric thickness. The scientists believe that the lowest measured loss, 0.95 dB/m, is lower than has been measured previously in a hollow glass waveguide.
Figure 2. These photos show the mode pattern that emerged from the hollow glass waveguides under various conditions. The numbers under each image are the waveguide’s core diameter, the thickness of the dielectric overcoat and the polarization of the radiation imaged, respectively. HP = horizontal polarization; VP = vertical polarization; NP = no polarizer used.
They also used a Spiricon pyroelectric camera to record the mode profiles of the terahertz (119 μm) radiation emerging from the end of a 90-cm waveguide with a 1.6-mm core (Figure 2). The Deos laser launched horizontally polarized radiation into the fiber, evenly divided between TE and TM modes at the input. The scientists used wire-grid polarizers to image the vertical and horizontal components of the transmitted radiation separately.
In the top row of Figure 2 (showing no dielectric overcoat on the waveguide), light emerged in a doughnut shape, characteristic of the TE mode favored in a plain-metal waveguide. When a 10-μm-thick dielectric overcoat was added to the waveguide (second row), the light that emerged was a combination of TE and TM modes because the TM mode experienced lower loss as a result of the dielectric overcoat.
In a larger-core waveguide (bottom two rows), higher-order modes are clearly visible, although the TE prevailed in the absence of a dielectric overcoat, and the mixed TE and TM modes when the overcoat was added were still present.
Optics Letters, Oct. 15, 2007, pp. 2945-2947.
- remote sensing
- Technique that utilizes electromagnetic energy to detect and quantify information about an object that is not in contact with the sensing apparatus.
- terahertz radiation
- Electromagnetic radiation with frequencies between 300 GHz and 10 THz, and existing between regions of the electromagnetic spectrum that are typically classified as the far-infrared and microwave regions. Because terahertz waves have the ability to penetrate some solid materials, they have the potential for applications in medicine and surveillance.
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|Other names||Puerperal fever, childbed fever, maternal sepsis, maternal infection, puerperal infections|
|Streptococcus pyogenes (red-stained spheres) is responsible for many cases of severe puerperal fever. (900× magnification)|
|Symptoms||Fever, lower abdominal pain, bad-smelling vaginal discharge|
|Causes||Typically multiple types of bacteria|
|Risk factors||Cesarean section, premature rupture of membranes, prolonged labour, malnutrition, diabetes|
Postpartum infections, also known as childbed fever and puerperal fever, are any bacterial infections of the female reproductive tract following childbirth or miscarriage. Signs and symptoms usually include a fever greater than 38.0 °C (100.4 °F), chills, lower abdominal pain, and possibly bad-smelling vaginal discharge. It usually occurs after the first 24 hours and within the first ten days following delivery.
The most common infection is that of the uterus and surrounding tissues known as puerperal sepsis, postpartum metritis, or postpartum endometritis. Risk factors include Caesarean section (C-section), the presence of certain bacteria such as group B streptococcus in the vagina, premature rupture of membranes, multiple vaginal exams, manual removal of the placenta, and prolonged labour among others. Most infections involve a number of types of bacteria. Diagnosis is rarely helped by culturing of the vagina or blood. In those who do not improve, medical imaging may be required. Other causes of fever following delivery include breast engorgement, urinary tract infections, infections of an abdominal incision or an episiotomy, and atelectasis.
Due to the risks following Caesarean section, it is recommended that all women receive a preventive dose of antibiotics such as ampicillin around the time of surgery. Treatment of established infections is with antibiotics, with most people improving in two to three days. In those with mild disease, oral antibiotics may be used; otherwise intravenous antibiotics are recommended. Common antibiotics include a combination of ampicillin and gentamicin following vaginal delivery or clindamycin and gentamicin in those who have had a C-section. In those who are not improving with appropriate treatment, other complications such as an abscess should be considered.
In 2015, about 11.8 million maternal infections occurred. In the developed world about 1% to 2% develop uterine infections following vaginal delivery. This increases to 5% to 13% among those who have more difficult deliveries and 50% with C-sections before the use of preventive antibiotics. In 2015, these infections resulted in 17,900 deaths down from 34,000 deaths in 1990. They are the cause of about 10% of deaths around the time of pregnancy. The first known descriptions of the condition date back to at least the 5th century BCE in the writings of Hippocrates. These infections were a very common cause of death around the time of childbirth starting in at least the 18th century until the 1930s when antibiotics were introduced. In 1847, Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweiss decreased death from the disease in the First Obstetrical Clinic of Vienna from nearly 20% to 2% through the use of handwashing with calcium hypochlorite.
Signs and symptoms
Signs and symptoms usually include a fever greater than 38.0 °C (100.4 °F), chills, low abdominal pain, and possibly bad-smelling vaginal discharge. It usually occurs after the first 24 hours and within the first ten days following delivery.
After childbirth, a woman's genital tract has a large bare surface, which is prone to infection. Infection may be limited to the cavity and wall of her uterus, or it may spread beyond to cause septicaemia (blood poisoning) or other illnesses, especially when her resistance has been lowered by long labour or severe bleeding. Puerperal infection is most common on the raw surface of the interior of the uterus after separation of the placenta (afterbirth), but pathogenic organisms may also affect lacerations of any part of the genital tract. By whatever portal, they can invade the bloodstream and lymph system to cause sepsis, cellulitis (inflammation of connective tissue), and pelvic or generalized peritonitis (inflammation of the abdominal lining). The severity of the illness depends on the virulence of the infecting organism, the resistance of the invaded tissues, and the general health of the woman. Organisms commonly producing this infection are Streptococcus pyogenes; staphylococci (inhabitants of the skin and of pimples, carbuncles, and many other pustular eruptions); the anaerobic streptococci, which flourish in devitalized tissues such as may be present after long and injurious labour and unskilled instrumental delivery; Escherichia coli and Clostridium perfringens (inhabitants of the lower bowel); and Clostridium tetani.
Causes (listed in order of decreasing frequency) include endometritis, urinary tract infection, pneumonia/atelectasis, wound infection, and septic pelvic thrombophlebitis. Septic risk factors for each condition are listed in order of the postpartum day (PPD) on which the condition generally occurs.
- PPD 0: atelectasis risk factors include general anesthesia, cigarette smoking, and obstructive lung disease.
- PPD 1–2: urinary tract infections risk factors include multiple catheterization during labor, multiple vaginal examinations during labor, and untreated bacteriuria.
- PPD 2–3: endometritis ( the most common cause ) risk factors include emergency cesarean section, prolonged membrane rupture, prolonged labor, and multiple vaginal examinations during labor.
- PPD 4–5: wound infection risk factors include emergency cesarean section, prolonged membrane rupture, prolonged labor, and multiple vaginal examinations during labor.
- PPD 5–6: septic pelvic thrombophlebitis risk factors include emergency cesarean section, prolonged membrane rupture, prolonged labor, and diffuse difficult vaginal childbirth.
- PPD 7–21: mastitis risk factors include nipple trauma from breastfeeding.
Puerperal fever is diagnosed with:
- A temperature rise above 38 °C (100.4 °F) maintained over 24 hours or recurring during the period from the end of the first to the end of the 10th day after childbirth or abortion. (ICD-10)
- Oral temperature of 38 °C (100.4 °F) or more on any two of the first ten days postpartum. (USJCMW)
Puerperal fever (from the Latin puer, male child (boy)), is no longer favored as a diagnostic category. Instead, contemporary terminology specifies:
- the specific target of infection: endometritis (inflammation of the inner lining of the uterus), metrophlebitis (inflammation of the veins of the uterus), and peritonitis (inflammation of the membrane lining of the abdomen).
- the severity of the infection: less serious infection (contained multiplication of microbes) or possibly life-threatening sepsis (uncontrolled and uncontained multiplication of microbes throughout the blood stream).
Endometritis is a polymicrobial infection. It frequently includes organisms such as Ureaplasma, Streptococcus, Mycoplasma, and Bacteroides, and may also include organisms such as Gardnerella, Chlamydia, Lactobacillus, Escherichia, and Staphylococcus.
Antibiotics have been used to prevent and treat these infections—however, the misuse of antibiotics is a serious problem for global health. It is recommended that guidelines be followed that outline when it is appropriate to give antibiotics and which antibiotics are most effective.
Management: pulmonary exercises, ambulation (deep breathing and walking).
Management: antibiotics as per culture sensitivity (cephalosporine).
Management: multiple agent IV antibiotics to cover polymicrobial organisms: clindamycin, gentamicin, addition of ampicillin if no response, no cultures are necessary.
Management: antibiotics for cellulitis, open and drain wound, saline-soaked packing twice a day, secondary closure.
Management: IV heparin for 7–10 days at rates sufficient to prolong the PTT to double the baseline values.
Management: antibiotics for cellulitis, open and drain abscess if present.
The number of cases of puerperal sepsis per year shows wide variations among published literature—this may be related to different definitions, recordings etc. Globally, bacterial infections are the cause of 10% of maternal deaths—this is more common in low income countries but is also a direct cause of maternal deaths in high-income countries.
In the United States, puerperal infections are believed to occur in between 1% and 8% of all births. About three die from puerperal sepsis for every 100,000 births. The single most important risk factor is Caesarean section. The number of maternal deaths in the United States is about 13 in 100,000. They make up about 11% of pregnancy-related deaths in the United States.
In the United Kingdom from 1985–2005, the number of direct deaths associated with genital tract sepsis per 100,000 pregnancies was 0.40–0.85. In 2003–2005, genital tract sepsis accounted for 14% of direct causes of maternal death.
Puerperal infections in the 18th and 19th centuries affected, on average, 6 to 9 women in every 1,000 births, killing two to three of them with peritonitis or sepsis. It was the single most common cause of maternal mortality, accounting for about half of all deaths related to childbirth, and was second only to tuberculosis in killing women of childbearing age. A rough estimate is that about 250,000–500,000 died from puerperal fever in the 18th and 19th centuries in England and Wales alone.
Although it had been recognized from as early as the time of the Hippocratic corpus that women in childbed were prone to fevers, the distinct name, "puerperal fever" appears in historical records only from the early 18th century.
The death rate for women giving birth decreased in the 20th century in developed countries. The decline may be partly attributed to improved environmental conditions, better obstetrical care, and the use of antibiotics. Another reason appears to be a lessening of the virulence or invasiveness of Streptococcus pyogenes. This organism is also the cause of scarlet fever, which over the same period had declined but has seen a rise in last decade worldwide especially in Asia with smaller outbreaks in US and Canada. UK had reported 12,906 cases between September 2015 and April 2016 which is the largest outbreak since 1969.
"The Doctor's Plague"
From the 1600s through the mid-to-late 1800s, the majority of childbed fever cases were caused by the doctors themselves. With no knowledge of germs, doctors did not believe hand washing was needed.
Hospitals for childbirth became common in the 17th century in many European cities. These "lying-in" hospitals were established at a time when there was no knowledge of antisepsis or epidemiology, and women were subjected to crowding, frequent vaginal examinations, and the use of contaminated instruments, dressings, and bedding. It was common for a doctor to deliver one baby after another, without washing his hands or changing clothes between patients.
The first recorded epidemic of puerperal fever occurred at the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris in 1646. Hospitals throughout Europe and America consistently reported death rates between 20% to 25% of all women giving birth, punctuated by intermittent epidemics with up to 100% fatalities of women giving birth in childbirth wards.
In the 1800s Ignaz Semmelweis noticed that women giving birth at home had a much lower incidence of childbed fever than those giving birth in the doctor's maternity ward. His investigation discovered that washing hands with an antiseptic, in this case a calcium hypochlorite solution, before a delivery reduced childbed fever fatalities by 90%. Publication of his findings was not well received by the medical profession. The idea conflicted both with the existing medical concepts and with the image doctors had of themselves. The scorn and ridicule of doctors was so extreme that Semmelweis moved from Vienna and, following a breakdown, was eventually committed to a mental asylum where he died.
Semmelweis was not the only doctor ignored after sounding a warning about this issue: in Treatise on the Epidemic of Puerperal Fever (1795), ex-naval surgeon and Aberdonian obstetrician Alexander Gordon (1752–1799) warned that the disease was transmitted from one case to another by midwives and doctors. Gordon wrote, "It is a disagreeable declaration for me to mention, that I myself was the means of carrying the infection to a great number of women."
Thomas Watson (1792–1882), Professor of Medicine at King's College Hospital, London, wrote in 1842: "Wherever puerperal fever is rife, or when a practitioner has attended any one instance of it, he should use most diligent ablution." Watson recommended handwashing with chlorine solution and changes of clothing for obstetric attendants "to prevent the practitioner becoming a vehicle of contagion and death between one patient and another."
In 1843, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. published The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever and controversially concluded that puerperal fever was frequently carried from patient to patient by physicians and nurses; he suggested that clean clothing and avoidance of autopsies by those aiding birth would prevent the spread of puerperal fever. Holmes quoted Dr. James Blundell as stating, "... in my own family, I had rather that those I esteemed the most should be delivered unaided, in a stable, by the mangerside, than that they should receive the best help, in the fairest apartment, but exposed to the vapors of this pitiless disease."
Holmes' conclusions were ridiculed by many contemporaries, including Charles Delucena Meigs, a well-known obstetrician, who stated, "Doctors are gentlemen, and gentlemen's hands are clean." Richard Gordon states that Holmes' exhortations "outraged obstetricians, particularly in Philadelphia". In those days, "surgeons operated in blood-stiffened frock coats—the stiffer the coat, the prouder the busy surgeon", "pus was as inseparable from surgery as blood", and "Cleanliness was next to prudishness". He quotes Sir Frederick Treves on that era: "There was no object in being clean. Indeed, cleanliness was out of place. It was considered to be finicking and affected. An executioner might as well manicure his nails before chopping off a head".
In 1844, Ignaz Semmelweis was appointed assistant lecturer in the First Obstetric Division of the Vienna General Hospital (Allgemeines Krankenhaus), where medical students received their training. Working without knowledge of Holmes' essay, Semmelweis noticed his ward's 16% mortality rate from fever was substantially higher than the 2% mortality rate in the Second Division, where midwifery students were trained. Semmelweis also noticed that puerperal fever was rare in women who gave birth before arriving at the hospital. Semmelweis noted that doctors in First Division performed autopsies each morning on women who had died the previous day, but the midwives were not required or allowed to perform such autopsies. He made the connection between autopsies and puerperal fever after a colleague, Jakob Kolletschka, died of sepsis after accidentally cutting his hand while performing an autopsy.
Semmelweis began experimenting with various cleansing agents and, from May 1847, ordered all doctors and students working in the First Division wash their hands in chlorinated lime solution before starting ward work, and later before each vaginal examination. The mortality rate from puerperal fever in the division fell from 18% in May 1847 to less than 3% in June–November of the same year. While his results were extraordinary, he was treated with skepticism and ridicule (see Response to Semmelweis).
Elite status was no protection against postpartum infections, as the deaths of several English queens attest. Elizabeth of York, queen consort of Henry VII, died of puerperal fever one week after giving birth to a daughter, who also died. Her son Henry VIII had two wives who died this way, Jane Seymour and Catherine Parr.
Suzanne Barnard, mother of philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, contracted childbed fever after giving birth to him and died nine days later. Her infant son was also in perilous health following the birth; the adult Rousseau later wrote that "I came into the world with so few signs of life that little hope was entertained of preserving me". He was nursed back to health by an aunt. French natural philosopher Émilie du Châtelet died in 1749. Mary Wollstonecraft, author of Vindication of the Rights of Woman, died ten days after giving birth to her second daughter, who grew up to write Frankenstein. Other notables include African-American poet Phillis Wheatley (1784), British housekeeping authority Isabella Beeton, and American author Jean Webster in 1916 died of puerperal fever.
In Charles Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol, it is implied that both Scrooge's mother and younger sister perished from this condition, explaining the character's animosity towards his nephew Fred and also his poor relationship with his own father.
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How to know how much RAM your PC supports
To know the maximum amount of RAM that can be installed on your computer, you can use one of the free programs illustrated below, which show the number of slots available on the motherboard, without the need to physically disassemble anything.
Stai using a PC Windows, you can get information about the RAM modules currently present in the computer and the slots made available by the motherboard by relying on the software CPU-Z e RAMExpert.
CPU-Z is a completely free program, downloadable from its official website in portable version (which does not require installation and is ready to use), which allows you to obtain valuable information about the hardware of the computer on which it is run.
To get it, go to the site I linked to you earlier, click on the item ZIP -English resident under the box Download, click on the button Download now!.
Once you have obtained the zip archive that contains the program (eg. cpu-z_X.XX-en.zip), extract it in a folder of your choice (following the steps illustrated in this guide, if you do not know how to do it), go to the latter, then start the executable cpuz_x64.exe, if your computer has a 64 bit, or the executable cpuz_x32.exe, if your version of Windows is a 32 bit.
Once the program has started, click on the tab SPD resident at the top and click on the drop-down menu next to the item Slot: From here, you should be able to see the number of slots available on your motherboard.
To see if a slot is already occupied, select it from the aforementioned menu and carefully look at the screen that is proposed to you: if the slot is occupied, the various boxes will be filled with information relating to the bank of RAM installed in it, otherwise they will be empty .
For each unoccupied slot, it is possible to install a new RAM module with a capacity at least equal to that of a module in another slot: if, for example, you find a 4 GB module installed on the motherboard and an empty slot, in the latter you can certainly install another 4 GB RAM module.
another program you can use to figure out how much RAM you can install in your computer is RAMExpert, which you can download for free from its official website. After connecting to the page in question, identify the program tab, then click the package button .zip, so as to download the portable version of RAMExpert (which does not require installation in order to function).
When the download is complete, open the package obtained (eg. ramexpert.zip) and extract the contents into a folder of your choice, then enter it and start the file RAMExpert.exe.
Immediately after starting the software, you should see information about the RAM slots already occupied. For your current purpose, just check the items Number of slots e Maximum memory (present at the top left, in the section System Info.), in order to obtain information on the number of slots present and the maximum amount of memory supported by the motherboard.
It was arranged di Mac Prepared for RAM memory upgrade, you can check the maximum amount of memory supported using the Mactracker software, available for free in the Mac App Store.
To get it, connected to the Web page I provided you just now, click on the button View in the Mac App Store and, having reached the store window, click on the button Ottieni / Installa. Then, if requested, provide the Password of your Apple ID or use the touch ID of the Mac, to identify you.
Once the installation is complete, start Mactracker by calling it from the Launchpad (l'icona a forma di rocket located on the Dock bar), click on your voice This Mac resident in the left column and then double-click on your name Mac (on the right), to open the relevant data sheet.
Next, move to the section Memory and Graphics and take a look at the items Maximum Memory e Memory Slots: there you should see the maximum amount of RAM supported by the device and the total number of slots, with the RAM model already present attached.
Online services to find out how much RAM your PC supports
Did the solutions shown above fail to provide you with the information you need? Then you can give web portals a chance Kingston e Everymac, through which you can obtain specific information about the technical data sheet of the PC, Mac or motherboard in your possession.
To use the Kingston and understand how much RAM your computer supports, connect to this web page, then type the manufacturer and model of PC (or motherboard) in your possession in the field Enter make / model. If you don't know this information and you have a pre-assembled laptop or desktop computer, all you have to do is check the label on the bottom of the body, which usually contains this information.
If, on the other hand, you have a "manually" assembled desktop computer, install and start CPU-Z, as I showed you earlier, and use the tab mainboard to retrieve the motherboard manufacturer and model.
At this point, select the right model from the drop-down menu that appears next to the search field and identify the computer / motherboard data sheet from the section that appears on the right side of the screen: you can find the information you are looking for in the fields Memory amount max ed Expansions.
If you own a Mac, you can instead use the Everymac portal, dedicated exclusively to Apple-branded computers. After connecting to the site in question, scroll down the page until you find the cards of the Macs you are interested in. If needed, you can sort the devices by model (By Series), year of production (by Year), to the processor (By Processor) and the form factor (By Case), using the tabs shown above.
Once you have located your Mac model, click on its name, then search for the section RAM Type inside the card that is shown to you: from there you can find out how much RAM the Mac of your choice has (Standard RAM) and how much RAM it can support (Maximum RAM).
Other ways to find out how much RAM your PC supports
Have you still not been able to answer your question, despite having slavishly followed the steps indicated above? Don't give up: you can try to get the information you need by looking at the motherboard specifications, or by visually checking the number of slots available on it.
To figure out the motherboard model and manufacturer, you can use the card mainboard of the program CPU-Z, already mentioned in the previous bars of this guide.
Get this information, enter it on Google and start a search: with a little luck, you should be able to retrieve the presentation page of the motherboard, accompanied by the product data sheet (indicated with the term Specifications, Technical Data o Specifications). In it, you will find information about the number of slots available (With art. Maximum slots) and the maximum amount of RAM that can be installed (With art. Maximum Memory).
Open the PC
As a last resort, you can "visually" check the number of RAM slots on the computer motherboard, taking it apart. If you have a PC fixed, you must remove the side panel of the case by unscrewing any protective screws (or by intervening on the interlocking hooks). Once this is done, using the RAM bank already installed (it is a small rectangular "board", narrow and long, clearly visible), locate the slots dedicated to the memory. Typically, these are located to the right of the CPU heatsink assembly.
Be, invent, possiedi a notebook, identify the door dedicated to the RAM memory, remove the screw that protects it and gently slide it upwards: you should see very small banks of RAM (in the so-called SO-DIMM format) and, if available, any empty slots. For more information, you can read my guide on how to take apart a laptop.
To understand what type of memory the motherboard supports, remove one of the modules present by intervening on the side hooks, check the label on them and, once you have identified the manufacturer and model, do a Google search to find the model of RAM in use (DDR3 o DDR4) and all other memory details (e.g. frequency).
As a rule, if the memory is of type DDR3, each memory slot can hold at most a 16GB module, while for the memories DDR4 the maximum size per module rises to 64 GB. Much, however, also depends on the type of processor, chipset and technological evolution, so I always recommend that you also check the specifications of the motherboard to be on the safe side.
Now that you have discovered how much RAM you can install on your computer, it is time to move on to buying it: in this regard, I invite you to read my guide on which RAM to buy, in which I have provided you with a series of useful tips about purchasing new memory modules (and installing them in your computer).How to know how much RAM your PC supports | <urn:uuid:0e536269-f11d-4072-974d-eb9cb3f8a3c6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.knowingkings.com/en/how-to-know-how-much-ram-your-pc-supports | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.911221 | 1,916 | 2.296875 | 2 |
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The early days of Edge Computing will influence how developers and enterprises adapt to new ways of designing applications and services. There are several use cases we've discussed throughout the paper, but we'll highlight a few in additional detail to offer you a way of the performance gains from Edge Computing and why it matters. In this section will highlight three important areas of imaging, website content delivery, and autonomous operations.
It is accepted wisdom that responsiveness of applications and services features a direct correlation to improvement in consumer behavior, increase in commerce, and a stepchange in revenues. As history of the tech industry of the last twenty years indicates, even slight upgrades can have a big impact on user engagement. Edge computing will play a central role in providing significant uplift in improving end-to-end latency for not only current set of applications and services but more importantly the upcoming new breed of services and applications which will define them like computer game, Multiplayer gaming, face recognition, Enhanced Video Streaming, Automotive, Robotics, etc.
Measurement of response times for AR, face recognition , and Video across cloudlets (Edge Computing cloud) vs. traditional cloud (Amazon Web Services) indicates there's a significant advantage of using near-edge cloud services compared to the cloud that's geographically dispersed. Data clearly shows a marked improvement in reaction time employing a cloudlet approach. Edge isn't only great for response times but also battery operation on the devices as indicated in Figure 6 across two applications. face recognition is an application that performs well if the comparison of the facial vectors is completed at the sting vs. the cloud. Similarly, the Augmented Reality applications and services need lower latency for optimal user experience. If the video frames aren’t formed in time, the user can get dizzy and it'll leave a nasty taste.
Web has become the central pillar of commerce. The revenue created are often directly correlated to the response times of internet sites and applications especially during busy holiday season and at some point commerce events like Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The science behind website performance and conversions, abandonment rates, consumer sales, repeat traffic, and eventually revenue is well studied over the last decade. Enterprises have deployed different techniques to hurry up the response times, be it the location design, data centers, or CDNs (content delivery networks). Over 74% of the mobile users will abandon a site after waiting 5 seconds for a page to load. Each second shaved features a direct impact on user experience and therefore the life value of that customer.
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Living with war-induced hearing loss
Hearing Australia client David talks about how he lives with the second most common medical condition affecting Australian veterans, hearing loss.
As we commemorate Anzac Day, we spend time with Vietnam veteran David Keating. David talks about how getting his hearing aid has made a big difference to his life.
Hearing Australia was originally founded to provide services for those returning from World War II in 1947. Over seventy years later, we continue to provide hearing services to veterans across our national network. Unfortunately, hearing loss is one of the legacies of war and the second most common medical condition affecting Australian veterans and war widows.
Hearing Australia client David Keating survived the Vietnam War as well as a serious health issue some years ago which saw him on life support for several days. David and his wife Helen recently moved into a retirement community, where the couple is making new connections with local church and social groups and enjoying an extremely active life.
He thinks life’s looking great and now he's hearing great too!
David has noticed a tremendous difference in his hearing, after being fitted with a hearing aid by Hearing Australia.
“I’ve fallen back in love with music again. I felt like something was missing from my life. I realised I couldn’t hear the upper end of the scale. I also have a new appreciation for classical music, which I didn’t have before. When I returned home after getting my hearing aid fitted, I suddenly realised that I could hear my great-grandmother’s pendulum-clock ticking away. I hadn’t been able to hear it for many decades, unless I held my ear close, but this time I was on the other side of the room. All of these memories of my early childhood came flooding back to me. I just stood there and started weeping. My wife asked me why I was upset and I could only say “The clock!” | <urn:uuid:ac79e2e7-4527-4ef9-b87b-ae7a9e3d83ab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hearing.com.au/Hearing-loss/Inspiring-stories/Living-with-war-induced-hearing-loss | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.979163 | 403 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Over 2000 students and duat trained at IPCI.
Sheikh Ahmed Deedat conducted the first Dawah Training course for Du’at at the IPCI in 1988. Thirty Duat from around the world were trained for two months with all expenses paid. Alhamdullillah, these graduates have since established Islamic Da’wah and Propagation Centres in their respective Cities and countries. The IPCI continues to conduct training programmes on a regular basis to support the work of da’wah in many communities globally. Four Dawah training courses are conducted per year, with a two-month duration for each training course. The courses are highly structured in terms of content, training notes as well as the use of suitably qualified and experienced lecturers.
Participants who attend the CR course at IPCI are generally made up of Imam’s from Masaajid, workers at Dawah Centres and Islamic organizations as well as teachers from Islamic Schools. The popularity of the course has drawn students from as far afield as Sweden, Germany, Malaysia, Kenya, Congo, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Ireland and Nigeria. The IPCI also receives many requests from Islamic workers and organizations to conduct training programmes within their communities in Africa and elsewhere. This would allow for training of a critical mass of the Islamic workers in different countries who are unable to travel to the IPCI Headquarters in South Africa.
- Due to the Modules of the course relate to a specialized field of Comparative Religion, full-time qualified lecturers have to be employed by IPCI.
- The classes generally consist of twenty to twenty-five students.
- The IPCI provides meals and accommodation, subsidized transport, as well as the lecturers’ salaries.
- A detailed breakdown of the costs can be forwarded to you, should this be requested.
- Donors are requested to sponsor R4000 per student for two months’ tuition (all expenses inclusive).
- Kindly note Zakaat Funds are used for this purpose as well.
Due to the IPCI being a busy da’wah centre, all students training at the Centre are also involved in the Centre’s daily dawah activities. Students are therefore taken on dawah outreach programmes to get practical training in public dialogues and engaging Christian Missionaries. They are also taken on Mosque tours with non-Muslims often enough until they are in a position to conduct Mosque Tours themselves. Over 40 years of grassroots Dawah work has made the Centre a leader in the specialized field of comparative religion and the testimonies of hundreds of students will attest to the life-changing experience they had had through the training at the IPCI Centre.
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My work Geochemistry oj organic matter in the ocean first appeared in Russian in 1978. Since then much progress has been made in the exploration of various forms of organic matter in the ocean: dissolved, colloidal, organic matter sus pended in particles and that contained in bottom sediments and in interstitial waters. The appropriate evidence is found in hundreds of articles and several re view works, such as Andersen (1977), Biogeochimie de [a matiere organique a ['interjace eau-sedimentmarine (1980), Duursma and Dawson (1981). A great amount of new information has been obtained in the Soviet Union's scientific institutions on the composition and distribution in natural waters and bottom sediments of organic matter and its separate components playing a crucial role in the formation of the chemical and biological structure of the ocean and its productivity, in the biogeochemistry of the elements and geochemistry of organic matter in the Earth's sedimentary cover. The areas of exploration have expanded over the past four-and-a-half years to embrace many new, little-known regions, including the Arctic seas. In contrast to the three preceeding decades, the research has been focused on investigating the existing forms, the distribution and accumulation of organic matter in near continental oceanic zones between land and sea, and in river estuaries. | <urn:uuid:2035222c-47a8-41fb-a033-65cd46da7f65> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.buchhandel.de/buch/Geochemistry-of-Organic-Matter-in-the-Ocean-9783642499661 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00337-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922236 | 273 | 1.820313 | 2 |
A legal representative is an expert who encourages people, companies, and government companies on lawful issues. They also represent their clients in court. They enlighten their clients on legal rights and also procedures, and also assist them with the intricacies of the regulation. Legal representatives advocate for their clients by providing evidence in court, decriminalizing arguments, as well as preparing lawful files. Lawyers additionally manage legal assistants and also lawful secretaries. This article explains the various types of legal representatives and also the different tasks that they do.
The primary step in hiring a legal representative is to discover one that you feel comfy collaborating with. Throughout your appointment with the lawyer, you need to pay attention to just how they talk and exactly how promptly they reply to your questions. You can learn about their personality and also the kind of interaction that they choose to have with their customers. Besides, you’ll be managing he or she for the rest of your life, so getting along with them will make the experience much easier.
While it holds true that legal representatives are professionals, legal representatives are not instantly professionals once they are certified. A legal representative should demonstrate standard legal understanding and also honest principles before they can practice law. Additionally, legal representatives must show their abilities through meetings with clients, fundamental data analytics, as well as partnership. Whether they are practicing regulation in a brand-new jurisdiction or in an old one, an attorney has to have the capacity to work successfully with various other professionals. It is necessary to remember that lawyers are not experts at birth; they need to discover the fundamentals of lawful method as well as perform research study on appropriate instances.
In nations with a very first regulation degree, a legal representative is commonly resolved as a medical professional. In countries like Portugal, Macau, as well as Peru, this is customary, and also some lawyers use this title to separate themselves from other attorneys. In the USA, the title for an attorney is Juris Doctor, an expert doctorate. However, it is also common for male attorneys with an English-language degree to utilize the honorific suffix “Esq.”, which represents “Esquire.”.
If you can not pay for to pay the total at the start of the case, you can consider a payment plan. Several lawyers use this type of arrangement after obtaining a front money. If you can not manage to pay completely each month, you may need to borrow from a buddy or utilize your credit card. Or else, you might want to take into consideration hiring a legal representative for a minimal range of legal work. Nonetheless, it is important to ask about charge terms and conditions when hiring an attorney.
To come to be a legal representative in the USA, one have to be admitted to the bar. The rules for admission are regulated by the state’s highest possible court. Many states call for a created bar exam, in addition to an assessment on ethics. However, attorneys can exercise legislation in multiple states, if they want to take the required examinations. A variety of lawyers are utilized outside their specializeds, while numerous find short-term jobs with staffing firms. These temporary jobs allow brand-new lawyers to obtain experience as well as gain useful knowledge.
The majority of attorneys will function as salaried attorneys. Government companies and companies will certainly hire these experts as team attorneys. Salaried positions are typically located in big cities, law office, and government agencies. Although the variety of attorneys beginning their own practices is expected to raise, it will continue to be reasonably little. This is because it is tough to produce a lucrative technique. In contrast, huge firms have extra resources to employ specific attorneys who are much more skilled. An excellent attorney should take pleasure in a work-life balance as well as a solid wage.
In addition to private practice, an attorney can work in government or in private service. As an in-house attorney, he or she would give legal and company guidance to a specific company. They would additionally negotiate business deals, create company opportunities, as well as deal with investor relationships. Internal advise settings do not generally begin for recent legislation institution graduates. The task needs significant experience in both regulation and service. But, it’s feasible to breakthrough in this job.
Along with securing the rights of their customers, attorneys should likewise uphold the reasons for justice. Because of this, legal representatives have to value as well as maintain human rights as well as the basic liberties recognized by national law. Inevitably, legal representatives must constantly act in the very best rate of interests of their customers. They must promote the self-respect of the career and also represent their clients prior to the suitable authorities. However this does not indicate that lawyers are the only professionals who can assist their customers. They can additionally be discovered in other areas of legislation, such as criminal defense, as well as are very focused on a particular location.
A Legal representative must be a good audience and have the ability to communicate effectively. Throughout their job, they may move from associate to companion in a law firm. Experienced lawyers may additionally end up being courts or educate at regulation colleges. Nonetheless, the role of an attorney is exceptionally diverse and also a lawyer’s task is one that calls for flexibility and a capacity for problem-solving. If a legal representative wants a specific location of law, this can make the difference in between an excellent job and one that does not.
Throughout a situation, the attorney may not reply to your demands as promptly or as frequently as you would certainly like. During the training course of litigation, you’ll be active and they might remain in trial. In any event, the lawyer’s office team must describe how their routine works and also just how you can interact with them as required. A lawyer’s online reputation must be high as well as you must always consider his/her passions when employing an attorney. Yet even if an attorney’s track record is excellent, it does not guarantee that she or he will certainly do a great work.
Despite the title, an attorney is an individual who has actually studied and also passed a bar exam. The majority of legal representatives are attorneys. There are mild differences between these 2 terms, yet these are not significant adequate to prevent you from taking into consideration a career in law. If you are a trainee as well as want to exercise legislation, consider coming to be a legal representative. You will not regret it. If you don’t feel that you have what it requires an attorney, take into consideration going to law school.
The path to ending up being a legal representative is extensive and needs numerous years of academic prep work. To become an attorney, you need to gain a Juris Physician level from a recognized law college. Applicants need to additionally have at least a bachelor’s level, and any previous coursework in English, background, and speech is usually handy. Candidates have to likewise pass a state-approved law college admission test and also undertake a character analysis. A regulation level, if gotten, is required by most states. immigration lawyer
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Vets Who Get Opioids From VA, Medicare at Higher Overdose Risk
Many military veterans can get prescription opioid painkillers from both the VA and Medicare, putting them at nearly triple the risk for an overdose, new research warns.
The finding could have implications for a huge number of vets: Roughly eight in 10 VA-covered patients have additional private or public health insurance coverage. About 51 percent have Medicare, and about one-third of those receive Medicare Part D drug benefits.
But the problem may be more about poor oversight than addicted patients trying to game the system, noted study author Dr. Walid Gellad, a researcher with the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System.
"Only in some limited circumstances -- and we don't know how many -- is this purposeful behavior by a patient to try and get additional opioids," he explained.
"I would not think of this as 'double-dipping' or 'being caught,'" Gellad added. "In some cases, receiving opioids from both systems could have happened at different times, as veterans got care in one system first, and then in another system later, or they go back and forth between VA and the private sector. In some cases, the opioids are prescribed at the same time, sometimes unintentionally, and sometimes intentionally."
Gellad and his team found that more than 3 million veterans filled at least one opioid prescription (either through the VA or another insurer) during the time period from July 2011 through December 2013.
To see how dual health insurance coverage might influence overdose risk, the team first examined the records of 215 veterans who died from an overdose between 2012 and 2013.
Their average age was 57, most (90 percent) were male and most (84 percent) were white. All had both VA and Medicare Part D health care coverage for at least six months prior to their deaths.
For comparison, the investigators also assessed opioid prescription patterns among a "control group" of more than 800 living vets of a similar age, race, health status and gender.
About 28 percent of those who had died due to an opioid overdose had obtained their meds from both the VA and through Medicare Part D. This compared with just 14 percent of the control group, the researchers found.
Still, Gellad stressed that systemic changes that curtail getting opioids from multiple sources have been implemented by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs since the study ended in 2013.
For example, he noted that "the VA has instituted requirements to check prescription drug monitoring programs, which should alert physicians to instances when opioids are prescribed in different systems."
But, "for this to work to reduce the risk of overdose, clinicians have to actually check, and they have to do something with the information when they find it," Gellad added.
"Ultimately, I think we will see automated alerts that will alert clinicians to a medication prescribed in one system if it, or an interacting medication, is also being prescribed in another system," Gellad said. "But for that to have an impact, it has to alert at the point of prescribing, which is not possible yet within [the] VA or outside [the] VA."
The report was published online March 12 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Dr. Carolyn Clancy, Deputy Under Secretary for Discovery, Education and Affiliate Networks with the VA in Washington, D.C., co-authored an accompanying journal editorial.
Clancy pointed out that "because of VA's existing robust and extensive patient record system, the department has had significant success in reducing opioid use and overdose risk."
The VA has been tracking problems related to dual access to medications "for some time," she said.
"That's why the department is constantly working to improve coordination with community providers," Clancy noted. "Especially through the implementation of electronic health record modernization."
And going forward, she said, the VA hopes to augment the current screening process afforded by state prescription drug monitoring programs, by "seeking to develop [its own] electronic system to automatically check all state prescription drug monitoring programs for each veteran to further improve care coordination."
There's more on opioid abuse among veterans at Providers Clinical Support System.
SOURCES: Walid Gellad, M.D., MPH, associate professor, medicine, University of Pittsburgh, and researcher, Pittsburgh VA; Carolyn Clancy, M.D., Deputy Under Secretary for Discovery, Education and Affiliate Networks, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, D.C.; March 12, 2019, Annals of Internal Medicine, online | <urn:uuid:520277f7-d9dc-4b57-b715-447d8c7b36aa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://medshoppehhs.com/marion/patient-resources/article/743695/vets-who-get-opioids-from-va-medicare-at-higher-overdose-risk | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.966289 | 936 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Most people believe that Zeus, the Great Greek God is still alive. They say that he is still alive and well, and we are still worshipping him. Zeus is still standing on the clouds in the sky that he rules watching us. Let's hope we don't get hit by his main symbol and weapon: the thunderbolt.
However, other people say that Zeus is dead. There are many theories to how he died. Some say he was murdered by someone. Others say that at one point Zeus disappeared and that he was dead and never to be seen again.
So, the fact to whether Zeus is actually alive or not today is still a mystery, but whatever you think about this mighty god of the sky, he was and maybe still is a great god that controlled (or is still controlling) the weather and Mount Olympus. | <urn:uuid:8f2f9f0b-2b1f-432c-9a7b-f42efc9b0c1f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://thegreatzeus.weebly.com/is-zeus-still-alive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00140-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.992998 | 169 | 1.898438 | 2 |
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Back in June, the Supreme Court decided Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, 569 U.S. ___, 133 S. Ct. 2107 (2013) (which we previously wrote about here). Myriad was a unanimous decision in which the Court ruled that naturally occurring isolated DNA cannot be patented, but that complementary DNA (or ‘cDNA,’ an edited form of a gene) can be. Some hailed this as the end of gene patenting, but others noted that it might just change how companies patent their gene technology. But more importantly, this holding brings up a natural and much more important question: how will this affect the development of biorobotic androids?
A working biological android, the kind of terrifying entity you might see in science fiction movies like Blade Runner, is closer than you might think. Neurons grown in a lab can already interact with a robotic body. Artificial eyes will soon restore sight to the blind. Prosthetic limbs will be controlled by thoughts. These particular technological advances are amazing, and should be protected by patents. But what about the other small steps on the way to a fully functional android? Surely, at some point, someone is going to have to study human DNA to make an android realistic (for example, to make their humanlike skin compatible with a metal frame).
Luckily, the ruling may have been narrow enough to apply only to the specific science that Myriad Genetics was actually doing. That is, patenting naturally occurring genes for the purposes of cancer testing. The cDNA sequence, because the “lab technician had unquestionably create[d] something new,” is still patentable. So, while naturally occurring DNA may be off the table, simply doing something to change that DNA may be enough to get around the technicalities. This could be a method of isolating genes, or a new application of knowledge. Indeed, Myriad has already asserted many of its remaining patents on the same BRCA gene sequence at issue in Myriad.
So, our awesome robot future will be protected as long as two things happen during development: (1) genetic research companies expend the time and effort necessary to make innovative new molecular structures from DNA and (2) they’re careful to patent the genes they use to construct these androids in a way that makes clear that the DNA was not found in nature. As to the first point, developers of humanlike robots are going to have to modify DNA heavily in order to attain the strength and speed the public expects. Further, the fusion of organic and inorganic material (for the durable-yet-skin-covered frame, perfect for punching through walls, or the computer chips installed with the lab-grown brain), is going to involve modified DNA as well. Much of this can probably be protected by patents.
As to the second point, well, you’ll need to find a clever patent lawyer for that.
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Anderson, Dame Judith, 1898–1992, British actress, b. Adelaide, S. Australia, originally named Frances Margaret Anderson. She made her debut in Sydney in 1915 and by 1924 had become celebrated for her portrayals of classical and modern roles. In 1937 she made her London debut in Macbeth with Laurence Olivier. The title role in Medea by Robinson Jeffers, which she played in 1947 and 1982, was a personal triumph. Anderson's notable films were Rebecca (1940), Laura (1944), and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958). Her later films include A Man Called Horse (1970) and Star Trek III (1984). She was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1960.
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Apple enjoys a good deal of praise for its iPad and the impact it has had on tablet computing, but veteran Silicon Valley insiders know that the first real look we had at an iPad-style commercial tablet was envisioned by Microsoft almost a decade before the iOS device.
Nevertheless, Apple's ability to reinvent, sand off the rough edges, and mainstream cutting-edge technology seems to consistently trump "who did it first" considerations. So when Apple was granted a patent on Tuesday for a head-mounted display device, it immediately signaled to fans of Google Glass that the battle for wearable computing device supremacy has only just begun.
While the recent sky diving stunt at the Google I/O conference showed us that Google Glass is indeed an exciting peek at the future of wearable computers, Apple's patent for such a device was actually filed way back in 2006. Apple called its device "Peripheral treatment for head-mounted displays." However, the actual language of the patent is quite broad, encompassing a myriad of head-mounted computing possibilities in the future.
Apple describes its tech as "Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for projecting a source image in a head-mounted display apparatus for a user. A first display projects an image viewable by a first eye of the user...an enhanced viewing experience is created for the user." The patent description goes on like that for many paragraphs describing a wide range of computing applications for the head-mounted device.
Of course, Apple holds the rights to a number of seemingly outlandish patents (like cloning your online identity). But as wearable computers continue to gain traction as the next phase of mainstream computing, it's more likely than not that Apple will find a use for its prescient patent filing.
But, given the recent contentious patent fights between the likes of Apple, Samsung, Google, and Nokia, we should probably prepare ourselves for a fair amount of legal wrangling around patents when these wearable computers do become mainstream. Until then, the notion that—as slick and minimalist as Google Glass looks today—Apple might already be secretly applying its Jonathan Ive-powered design inspiration and its "it just works" brand of software elegance to such a device is a fascinating prospect.
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Barry McCaffrey, a retired four-star general, was director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy under President Clinton from 1996 to 2001.
He was in that role when methamphetamine use began to spread rapidly in the United States.
He knows the extent of the problem and the ways the government and law enforcement are combating it.
On a recent visit to Columbus, Georgia, McCaffrey sat down with the Ledger-Enquirer to discuss meth, its use and its growth as a recreational drug.
The following are excepts from that interview:
How bad is the drug problem in the United States?
We need to remind ourselves that there are 5 million of us who have chronic drug abuse problems. You can make that 15 million if you throw in alcohol. There are 307 million of us. So, most of us don’t have a problem.
How do you assess the extent of the problem?
You can go to any municipal court judge, hospital emergency room doctor or nurse and social worker. If you poll all of them, they can damn near give you the name of every chronic substance abuser in your community. They are certainly aware of all of the acute cases.
Where does meth fall in the drug problem?
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Nine economic statistics (Gross State Product, employment growth,
manufacturing and construction employment, the unemployment rate, per-capita
disposable income, unit labor costs, poverty rate, and income inequality)
provide the yardstick for comparing economic development between RTW and non-RTW
states. These statistics represent a diverse cross-section of economic data,
providing a multifaceted comparison of economic development between the states.
Contingent upon data availability, results are presented over three decades,
1970 through 2000.2
To show key inflection points for each of the nine statistics, the results are presented for each decade in Appendix I. In addition to comparing key differences between RTW and non-RTW states, Michigan's results are presented separately.
The time series methodology will account for the status change of Louisiana and Idaho, which became RTW states in 1977 and 1985, respectively. Oklahoma is classified as a non-RTW state for purposes of this study, since its change to RTW status is too recent (2001) for the effects to be reflected in the statistics. | <urn:uuid:04a932d2-3809-4d50-9e0e-e71e3d6d160f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://mackinac.org/4300 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00170-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926612 | 228 | 2.5 | 2 |
Evacuation and medication of wounded U.S. Marines in North Korea during the Korean War.
North Korea Date:1952 Duration:4 min 9 sec Sound:Yes
Wounded U.S. Marines are treated at a marine battalion aid station in North Korea during the Korean War. Wounded men are carried on stretchers. Wounded Marines being treated by doctors. A doctor bandages the leg of a wounded marine. Wounded men are taken to the aid station in jeeps. Wounded Marine carried out of an ambulance. Air evacuation of the wounded marines. They are transported by aircraft and helicopters. A litter case loaded aboard a helicopter. Wounded marines are hoisted aboard a ship from an LCM (Landing Craft Mechanized) alongside the ship. Captured PRC (People's Republic of China) soldiers affected with diseases due to lack of proper medication.
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Nov 13, 2018
On this episode of the Life in the Carolinas podcast, our guest is R.G. Absher, Executive Director of the Yadkin River Greenway. R.G. “retired” from his career as Assistant Park Ranger at W. Kerr Scott Reservoir, where he managed the creation of over 35 miles of sustainable and erosion-proof trails for recreational use. A hearty team of engineers and volunteers pulled this project together, and the model they set up has now been replicated in regions across the country.
R.G. is striving to spotlight the Yadkin Valley, which is known as the gateway to the high country, so that locals and visitors alike will recognize the “crown jewel of natural resources” that exists right here in Wilkes County. The Yadkin Valley Heritage Corridor includes Wilkes, Surry, Yadkin, and Caldwell counties and is home to outdoor adventure opportunities, rich history, significant agritourism, and the Yadkin Valley Greenway, which hopes to bring together the community to appreciate nature and strengthen the bonds between one another. In addition to the Yadkin Valley Greenway, the Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail runs straight through Wilkes county and commemorates the route used during the Revolutionary War during the Kings Mountain campaign of 1780. R.G. encourages listeners to take advantage of the cultural and recreational resources in your area to connect to your heritage and truly experience the richness of life in your area.
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Wake County Schools To Get A Cash Infusion
Posted June 9, 2001
RALEIGH — Wake County schools are getting a much needed infusion of money. The Wake Education Partnership raised 1 million for classrooms.
The partnership has a long history of spending this privately raised cash directly on instruction to create stronger teachers, and also gives them more materials to work with.
The school system pays for books and teachers and buildings, but that is only part of what makes a quality education for Wake County students.
The Wake Education Partnership raises money to offer principals and teachers more training, and it gives grants to teachers for specific projects.
Lacy Elementary has recieved both types of help. Principal Marcia Alford is a graduate of the Leadership Academy.
"The administrators in Wake County have been able to attend several of these conferences by these nationally known experts on areas and topics such as continuous improvement, quality of eduacation, teacher effectiveness, change, and those sessions have helped us become better administrators," Alford says.
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THOSE of us, who think, speak and act against corruption in Papua New Guinea, must condemn those who are implicated but continue to plunder and steal from public coffers.
It will not happen overnight but if we were to educate our folks on where PNG is heading, they will open their eyes.
Many of our illiterate folks in the villages have kaukau and water, so they do not care what is going on in PNG.
It frustrates me when we fail to act against any form of corruption.
As an educated person, the future of PNG looks gloomy to me.
Eradicating corruption is easier said than done.
The point is we need to change ourselves and then change the people’s mentality.
It is time to take the first step to be a model citizen for others to follow. -David Ulg Ketepa Detroit, Michigan | <urn:uuid:36992f6f-3d97-4725-8556-cb058074eaf4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thenational.com.pg/what-are-we-doing-to-rid-corruption/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.967426 | 180 | 1.765625 | 2 |
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We know some people who believe that altering water’s pH levels can provide them with all kinds of health benefits. We are not doctors so we can’t really weigh in, but we’re sceptical. But that doesn’t stop some companies from selling equipment that allows you to do just that, and the Tyent UCE-9000 Turbo Water Ionizer is one of these, although the water dispensed by this system is intended for cleaning and disinfecting, and not to be consumed. The faucet with the touchscreen is really only the visible part of this device, which is able to produce water with pH levels ranging from 2.0 (roughly like lemon juice) to 12.0 (roughly like soapy water) at the touch of a button. It can use up to 375W of power pumped through nine electrodes made of platinum and holed titanium to produce this water. Here are some features:
– Automatic water outflow
– Touch screen with color backlight
– Automatic cleaning function
– Electrolytic antibacterial system
– Adjustable pH levels
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Corning showed off Gorilla Glass 3 at CES 2013. Gorilla Glass 2 is currently in over 30 million brands, 1 billion different products and 975 models. It is 20 percent thinner than previous glass without sacrificing performance. It is treated to the highest chemical strengthening level available. To improve on Gorilla Glass 2 Corning’s scientist worked at the atomic level, changing the glass’s very structure. They created a glass with an improved native damage resistance. Gorilla Glass 3 has improved scratch resistance, reduce scratch visibility and improved retained strength. Gorilla Glass 3 has just been launched and is being evaluated by various partners. It should be used in products that are being sold in the market by the end of the year.
If you are a “don’t tell me, show me” person then you will appreciate the demonstration at the end of the video. First they take a 135 gram steel ball and send it down a plank at a 10 degree angle at a piece of glass that was chemically strengthen and the glass cracked. Then the same thing is done replacing chemically strengthen glass with Gorilla Glass 3 and the glass did not crack. They also place the Gorilla Glass 3 under a 100 lb. press and the glass did not crack. Just watch the video, the experiments are illuminating. A list of manufactures that use Gorilla Glass are listed on the Corning Site
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Shadow face. A little boy out on the stage.
Oh his daddy sings and plays 'em another song.
Shadow face. Now his daddy's gone away,
And his mother says, son you must carry on.
Shadow face, you're much too young to take his place.
You'll be walkin' in his shadow for so long, for so long.
Shadow face, Oh they say you're of his (grace)?,
With your hair and beard and singin' strange new songs.
Shadow face, son you and your friends better slow down the pace,
Or you're gonna burn yourselves out before long.
Who ever told you, what you could and could not do.
Oh you get so tired of bein' told you're wrong,
But some of my friends are gone.
Better days, hear your songs on the hit parade,
Now they tell you we were behind you all the way. Yeah.
Shadow face, boy don't you let it all go to waste,
You've seen so many fall who thought they had it made.
Shadow face, you're much happier these days,
Does a smile really look so out of place,
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There is a lot of confusion surrounding electric fireplaces. Some of that comes from lifestyle bloggers who put out information in an attempt to draw a crowd through relevant content. Though, many of them lack actual experience in the field they are talking about. Other misconceptions come from a general lack of understanding in the public.
Fireplaces are a tricky appliance to master. EPA standards continue to change and improvements in technology have birthed hearth appliances with more visual appeal than actual heat. So, it's no wonder the average person doesn't know what to expect when buying a fireplace of any type, much less an electric one. So, we thought it would be helpful to discuss a few misconceptions about electric fireplaces and help you manage your expectations before making a purchase.
While electric fireplaces can put off up to 10,000 BTU's of heat, each model is different and sometimes, manufacturers can overstate the power of their products. Many things factor into how effective an electric heater is. For example, the insulation in your home can make a difference in how much heat stays indoors and is absorbed in the room you actually want it to be in.
Also, the height of your ceilings will make a huge difference in how you experience heat from your fireplace.High ceilings tend to suck heat to the top of the room, so it is encouraged to use a ceiling fan or buy a fireplace blower to make sure the heat your fireplace puts out actually ends up in your direction and not congregating around the ceiling or in a corner
Be aware that many electric fireplace models may say they can heat up to a certain square footage. However, the maximum square footage it is able to heat would only be possible in ideal conditions. If you live in a home with poor insulation, high ceilings and intense temperatures outside, your fireplace may only heat half of the square footage suggested because of all the things playing against it.
This BTU calculator is a handy tool to help you figure out what fireplace will work best in your home based on your living conditions.
If you want a good general rule of thumb, electric fireplace heaters should be used for zone heating. They are fantastic for heating smaller rooms or zones as opposed to heating an entire house. Don't buy one expecting it to warm a living space with many sectioned off rooms or multiple floors.
One interesting thing to be aware of with electric fireplaces is that all of them don't put off heat. Yes, there are a select few that are made for people who live in warm climates and want to enjoy the ambiance of flames without the actual heat. Those units draw very little power and easily connect to a standard wall outlet.
- blue flame electric fireplace
Though you may save on your utilities when you buy an electric fireplace heater, you will also miss out on the realistic flame patterns our wood burning and gas fireplaces bring to life. For the adventurous people out there, you might enjoy unique flame colors, like red and blue, that electric fireplaces offer.
Some people prefer that over a traditional wood burning fireplace look. If you do, you might also want to consider customizing your electric fireplace with glass or rock mixed media. Mixed media is a great way to personalize your electric heater and bring a new sense of style to your room.
While some electric fireplaces don't put off heat or cost you extra in utilities, others that do heat have to run consistently to keep a decent level of heat flowing. So, this can lead to a higher utility bill, especially in areas where utilities already come at a premium.
Electric fireplace heaters are best suited to be used as zone or space heaters, like we mentioned before. If your HVAC unit struggles to heat your entire living space, adding an electric fireplace may be just the trick to warm up a smaller room that normally stays chilly.
One of the greatest benefits of having an electric fireplace is its portability. Because these units are typically not installed into a wall, moving them from room to room or adjusting their position in one space is very simple. Their ability to be relocated is also due in part to their limited heat output.
Many gas or wood burning fireplaces have regulations on where they can be installed due to the intense heat they put off. So, like everything else in life, there are always pros and cons. But thankfully you have this article to help you weigh out all the details and make the best decision for your home.
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Since electric fireplaces typically need help to move their heat beyond the small space they are mounted in, it's great to consider installing them in an area that has a ceiling fan. Fans give them a much better chance of balancing heat and give you the most bang for your buck.
As mentioned in the last section, electric fireplaces don't have the same restrictions on their installation as gas and wood burning fireplaces do. Many models are approved for bathrooms, bedrooms, and even use in mobile homes.
- electric kitchen fireplace
While the units that do not radiate heat are easily connected to and do not draw much power, the ones that do can become taxing on older electrical work in your home. A manufacturer might say your unit plugs into a 120-volt electrical outlet, which is true, but only for some electric fireplaces. While for others, you may have to dig into the user's manual to realize you need a dedicated 15 amp electrical circuit so you don't overload the room circuit.
For older homes, or homes with lots of high amp devices, this is very important. If you don't know this information up front, it could lead to tripping your circuit breakers repeatedly. That will get old real quick. So, the cost of adding an additional circuit, if your fireplace needs it, should be considered up front.
Now that we have covered expectations for heat output, placement, installation and more, this brings us to the end of this article. We hope you have learned enough here to take the next step towards purchasing the fireplace of your dreams. If you have more questions, please reach out to us at 800.203.1642 or email us by clicking this link. | <urn:uuid:a2b4b195-6839-4ebe-8ef6-550bedc8dee5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.efireplacestore.com/what-to-expect-when-buying-an-electric-fireplace.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.946144 | 1,277 | 1.898438 | 2 |
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How do nurses promote patient safety and improve quality at your workplace (or previous clinical setting)? What changes would you suggest be made on your unit or facility to improve a nonpunitive culture of safety?
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Nigel took a high degree and obtained first-class honours. He was ordained by the bishop of the diocese as soon after as possible. His companions, who looked up to him with every expectation of his eminence and influence, were disappointed, however, in the course of life on which he decided. It was different from that which he had led them to suppose it would be. They had counted on his becoming a resident light of the University, filling its highest offices, and ultimately reaching the loftiest stations in the Church. Instead of that he announced that he had resolved to become a curate to his father, and that he was about to bury himself in the solitude of Hurstley.
It was in the early summer following the death of Mrs. Ferrars that he settled there. He was frequently at the hall, and became intimate with Mr. Ferrars. Notwithstanding the difference of age, there was between them a sympathy of knowledge and thought. In spite of his decided mind, Nigel listened to Mr. Ferrars with deference, soliciting his judgment, and hanging, as it were, on his accents of wise experience and refined taste. So Nigel became a favourite with Mr. Ferrars; for there are few things more flattering than the graceful submission of an accomplished intellect, and, when accompanied by youth, the spell is sometimes fascinating.
The death of his wife seemed to have been a great blow to Mr. Ferrars. The expression of his careworn, yet still handsome, countenance became, if possible, more saddened. It was with difficulty that his daughter could induce him to take exercise, and he had lost altogether that seeming interest in their outer world which once at least he affected to feel. Myra, though ever content to be alone, had given up herself much to her father since his great sorrow; but she felt that her efforts to distract him from his broodings were not eminently successful, and she hailed with a feeling of relief the establishment of Nigel in the parish, and the consequent intimacy that arose between him and her father.
Nigel and Myra were necessarily under these circumstances thrown much together. As time advanced he passed his evenings generally at the hall, for he was a proficient in the only game which interested Mr. Ferrars, and that was chess. Reading and writing all day, Mr. Ferrars required some remission of attention, and his relaxation was chess. Before the games, and between the games, and during delightful tea-time, and for the happy quarter of an hour which ensued when the chief employment of the evening ceased, Nigel appealed much to Myra, and endeavoured to draw out her mind and feelings. He lent her books, and books that favoured, indirectly at least, his own peculiar views — volumes of divine poesy that had none of the twang of psalmody, tales of tender and sometimes wild and brilliant fancy, but ever full of symbolic truth.
Chess-playing requires complete abstraction, and Nigel, though he was a double first, occasionally lost a game from a lapse in that condensed attention that secures triumph. The fact is, he was too frequently thinking of something else besides the moves on the board, and his ear was engaged while his eye wandered, if Myra chanced to rise from her seat or make the slightest observation.
The woods were beginning to assume the first fair livery of autumn, when it is beautiful without decay. The lime and the larch had not yet dropped a golden leaf, and the burnished beeches flamed in the sun. Every now and then an occasional oak or elm rose, still as full of deep green foliage as if it were midsummer; while the dark verdure of the pines sprang up with effective contrast amid the gleaming and resplendent chestnuts.
There was a glade at Hurstley, bounded on each side with masses of yew, their dark green forms now studded with crimson berries. Myra was walking one morning in this glade when she met Nigel, who was on one of his daily pilgrimages, and he turned round and walked by her side.
“I am sure I cannot give you news of your brother,” he said, “but I have had a letter this morning from Endymion. He seems to take great interest in his debating club.”
“I am so glad he has become a member of it,” said Myra. “That kind Mr. Trenchard, whom I shall never see to thank him for all his goodness to Endymion, proposed him. It occupies his evenings twice a week, and then it gives him subjects to think of and read up in the interval.”
“Yes; it is a good thing,” said Nigel moodily; “and if he is destined for public life, which perhaps he may be, no contemptible discipline.”
“Dear boy!” said Myra, with a sigh. “I do not see what public life he is destined to, except slaving at a desk. But sometimes one has dreams.”
“Yes; we all have dreams,” said Nigel, with an air of abstraction.
“It is impossible to resist the fascination of a fine autumnal morn,” said Myra; “but give me the long days of summer and its rich leafy joys. I like to wander about, and dine at nine o’clock.”
“Delightful, doubtless, with a sympathising companion.”
“Endymion was such a charming companion,” said Myra.
“But he has left us,” said Nigel; “and you are alone.”
“I am alone,” said Myra; “but I am used to solitude, and I can think of him.”
“Would I were Endymion,” said Nigel, “to be thought of by you!”
Myra looked at him with something of a stare; but he continued —
“All seasons would be to me fascination, were I only by your side. Yes; I can no longer repress the irresistible confusion of my love. I am here, and I am here only, because I love you. I quitted Oxford and all its pride that I might have the occasional delight of being your companion. I was not presumptuous in my thoughts, and believed that would content me; but I can no longer resist the consummate spell, and I offer you my heart and my life.”
“I am amazed; I am a little overwhelmed,” said Myra. “Pardon me, dear Mr. Penruddock — dear Nigel — you speak of things of which I have not thought.”
“Think of them! I implore you to think of them, and now!”
“We are a fallen family,” said Myra, “perhaps a doomed one. We are not people to connect yourself with. You have witnessed some of our sorrows, and soothed them. I shall be ever grateful to you for the past. But I sometimes feel our cup is not yet full, and I have long resolved to bear my cross alone. But, irrespective of all other considerations, I can never leave my father.”
“I have spoken to your father,” said Nigel, “and he approved my suit.”
“While my father lives I shall not quit him,” said Myra; “but, let me not mislead you, I do not live for my father — I live for another.”
“For another?” inquired Nigel, with anxiety.
“For one you know. My life is devoted to Endymion. There is a mystic bond between us, originating, perhaps, in the circumstance of our birth; for we are twins. I never mean to embarrass him with a sister’s love, and perhaps hereafter may see less of him even than I see now; but I shall be in the world, whatever be my lot, high or low — the active, stirring world — working for him, thinking only of him. Yes; moulding events and circumstances in his favour;” and she spoke with fiery animation. “I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will that will stake even existence for its fulfilment.”
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In a six-part series, FiveThirtyEight travels the country to understand the effects of gerrymandering and what's being done to try to reform the process.
What Is Gerrymandering?
What is gerrymandering? This is the first episode in a six-part series exploring the effects of gerrymandering and how reformers hope to change the system.
Partisan Gerrymandering In Wisconsin
Is partisan gerrymandering illegal? In the second installment of our gerrymandering series we look at a Supreme Court case that could reshape how we draw political boundaries.
Black Representation In North Carolina
A decades long debate has raged over how to ensure minorities have a voice in America. In the third installment of our series, we look at racial gerrymandering.
Competitive Elections In Arizona
The number of competitive congressional elections has fallen dramatically in recent decades. Arizona tried to combat that trend.
Ditching The Politics In California
California took significant steps to try to rid redistricting of partisan politics. Politicians still sought to influence the process. Did they succeed?
An End To Gerrymandering?
In the final episode of our gerrymandering series we consider some more radical electoral reforms and look back on the lessons we've learned.
wi gerrymeanderin epi
wi is my State. these people fighting for us to end or stabilize gerrymandering in WI need to get the word out on a regular basis. i realize that was an old podcast epi i just listened to but that is a huge problem n WI. no dissemination of info to all of the State. no change is ever going to come if those fighting don’t get the word out to not just large cities which i am n madison and hear very little about the fight actually but you have to get those small towns involved. republicans cheat to win. democrats need to push the truth out there be it via social media, email campaigns, hard copy mailers, dems are bad at this. we are the worst fighters ever.
I enjoy it a lot. Educational and interesting at the same time.
Great episode on Gerrymandering
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Kick off each Monday with the best news and ideas in social media.
Schmidt: Hard To Beat Facebook, If Playing Exactly The Same Game
Schmidt’s comments on Facebook, search rankings and a possible joke about a teenager civil rights act to protect them from social media discrimination came during an interview this week with PBS correspondent Gwen Ifill.
Change The Social Game To Beat Facebook
Ifill asked Schmidt if Google could “beat Facebook at its own game,” getting this response:
It’s very hard to beat a fast-moving incumbent in exactly same game in technology because it changes so quickly.
What you have to do is you have to find a new problem and do that much better than they are, and that’s what we’re trying to do. And if you do that, you can ultimately win very large.
Google’s repeatedly suggested that its Google+ social networking system isn’t directly aimed at Facebook as a rival social network but rather a “layer” to help make Google products themselves more socially-enabled.
Joke? Teenager Civil Rights Act Will Protect From Social Media Blunders
Earlier in the talk, Schmidt suggests laws will protect people from being discriminated from oversharing when minors.
One of the questions is what are we going to do as a society with all those 16-year-olds’ posts when all those people are 36?
It’s pretty clear to me there’s going to be a law which says you can’t discriminate against people based on their pictures below age 18. There will be additional sort of civil rights sort of acts around teenagers.
Is he serious? It’s hard to tell, even after watching the video. But I have a feeling he’s joking about the specifics while serious about the challenge. Here’s the video, jumped to the part above (and covers the beating Facebook question, as well):
Back in August 2010, Schmidt made similar serious sounding comments to the Wall Street Journal, suggesting that every teenager would have the right to change their name, to distance themselves from social media sharing mistakes. Wrote the WSJ:
He predicts, apparently seriously, that every young person one day will be entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in order to disown youthful hijinks stored on their friends’ social media sites.
Schmidt later said the comment was a joke, causing laughter for those in the room, even if it was reported seriously. Even during Schmidt’s apearance on the Colbert Show last year, he said it was a joke — “and it just wasn’t any good.”
Google Doesn’t Cook Results
Schmidt also pushed back on the idea that Google cooks its results, something Utah Senator Mike Lee said during Schmidt’s testimony during a US Senate hearing last month.
Well, we, of course, said we had not. I assure you, we have not cooked anything, was my response.
I think in many ways it’s been good, at least so far, because it’s made the company clear — more clearly articulate how we make our decisions and in particular publicly describe that, which is to focus on consumers. So, so far, I think it’s overall been positive.
And I should say, by the way, that the government has a role here. This is their job to do, and so we have to respect that.
Winners & Losers
As for the idea that Google “scares” members of Congress, Schmidt seemed to suggest that because ranking changes produce winners and losers, you especially have losers who get worried about Google:
We make decisions based on what our testing indicates consumers want in terms of a global search engine.
I do understand that Google ranks information, and there’s winners and losers. And those decisions have significant impact on people. So the word scares is their word, not mine. On the other hand, we provide a free and important service to an awful lot of people, and we take great pride in doing it right.
Here’s the video of his talk:
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Big Rapids has 10,849 residents. It is located in Mecosta county.
International Business schools in Big Rapids charged students an average tuition of $9,480.00 if they were Michigan residents, and $16,770.00 if they were non-residents, during the 2009 - 2010 school year.
The average cost of books and supplies for international business schools in Big Rapids is $1,100.00. There is one international business college in Big Rapids. International Business programs in Big Rapids reportedly graduated 2 students in the 2008 - 2009 school year.
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|Business and Financial Operations Occupations||$56,580.00||8,020|
|Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Except Farm Products||$41,670.00||80|
|Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products||$50,650.00||680|
|Claims Adjusters, Examiners, and Investigators||$60,040.00||80|
|Compliance Officers, Except Agriculture, Construction, Health and Safety, and Transportation||$49,510.00||80|
|Emergency Management Specialists||$44,380.00||40|
|Employment, Recruitment, and Placement Specialists||$45,020.00||110|
|Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists||$61,820.00||120|
|Training and Development Specialists||$41,520.00||200|
|Human Resources, Training, and Labor Relations Specialists, All Other||$40,660.00||680|
|Meeting and Convention Planners||$27,430.00||Not available|
|Business Operations Specialists, All Other||$70,330.00||1,750|
|Accountants and Auditors||$60,970.00||1,630|
|Appraisers and Assessors of Real Estate||$38,770.00||160|
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These four pages are devoted to one of the most legendary, elusive, and enigmatic quadrupeds of western North America, the Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep. The theme and framework of the story rest on the science of taxonomy, a system for naming, ranking, and classifying living organisms, as formalized by the eighteenth-century Swedish physician Carl Linneus. The substance of it is the 100-year-long effort by scientists to decide where the bighorn belonged in the Linnaean system, and to get the animal pictured correctly.
First, we consider the history of European relatives of the North American species, from fossil and petroglyph to Medieval Christian icon. Spanish explorers and missionaries came upon the new species first in the sixteenth century and again in the eighteenth, but left us mainly their expressions of astonishment. In 1800 a Scottish explorer shot several specimens in the Canadian Rockies and brought back hides, heads and horns for study by American and British zoologists, including Dr. George Kearsley Shaw of the British Museum, whose study was published in 1804. Neither Lewis nor Clark could have read it before their expedition began.
Next we confront the paradox that Elliott Coues pointed out in 1893—that Lewis and Clark had mistaken goats with wool . . . for sheep, and sheep without wool . . . for ibexes. Succeeding naturalists heightened the misunderstanding with invidious comparisons.
Thirdly, Lewis and Clark reveal but do not admit their confusion between the bighorn sheep and the mountain goat. We read naturalist John Godman's interpretations of the captains' descriptions of the two species (as edited by Nicholas Biddle), and the engravings of both that Godman published in 1826.
Finally, we view two of the earliest still images of bighorns taken by the pioneer wildlife photographer Allen G. Wallihan in 1898. We then briefly summarize the turbid history of the bighorn's various official names, which, more than a century after Lewis and Clark puzzled over the question, boiled down to just one. We wind up with a sequence of video glimpses of six living specimens of Ovis canadensis Shaw. | <urn:uuid:27b0437c-a42b-431e-a49f-4e1f46bc4101> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.lewis-clark.org/channel/383?ChannelID=383 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720845.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00087-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94288 | 445 | 3.875 | 4 |
The Effects of Modern Technology on Human Interaction
Join us for a free screening of Small, Beautifully Moving Parts with guest presenter and digital media expert, Molly Wright Steenson, Professor of Journalism at the University of Wisconsin. Also join us for a conversation and Q&A with co-director and OU Film Professor Annie J. Howell.
About the film
When technophile Sarah Sparks (Anna Margaret Hollyman) becomes pregnant, her uncertainties about motherhood trigger an impulsive road trip to the source of her anxiety: her long-estranged mother living far away and off-the-grid. A SXSW premiere and winner of the Sloan Feature Film Prize, Annie J. Howell and Lisa Robinson co-direct this comic coming-of-parenthood tale for the internet age.
About the speakers
Annie J. Howell is a screenwriter and director. Her first film, co-written and co-directed with Lisa Robinson, SMALL, BEAUTIFULLY MOVING PARTS (starring Anna Margaret Hollyman), premiered at SXSW in 2011 and went on to play over thirty festivals, including the Hamptons, Mill Valley, Denver, and RiverRun. The film received the Sloan Feature Film Prize, presented at the Hamptons, and the Audience Award at RiverRun, and went on to play in art house theaters across the nation to positive reviews from Variety, Huffington Post and NPR.
Biography provided by Steenson’s official website:
“I’m Molly Wright Steenson and I’m a designer, writer, speaker, and professor whose work focuses on the intersection and implications of design, architecture, and artificial intelligence. I’m the author of Architectural Intelligence: How Designers and Architects Created the Digital Landscape (MIT Press, 2017), which examines architecture’s interactions with computation, cybernetics, and artificial intelligence.
My book Architectural Intelligence is an architectural history of digital design and a digital history of architecture, with deep case studies on the work of Christopher Alexander, Richard Saul Wurman, Nicholas Negroponte, and Cedric Price, and the ways that their work influenced the development of contemporary digital design practices, including information architecture and interaction design. My second book Bauhaus Futures, co-edited with Laura Forlano and Mike Ananny, is a collection about what would keep the Bauhaus up at night if it were around today, and will appear in 2019. Both books are on MIT Press.”
Science on Screen® is an initiative of the Coolidge Corner Theatre, with major support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Science on Screen program pairs films with a short talk with a scientist or technology expert. The free Science on Screen events are fun and engaging, offering dynamic speakers an unexpected jumping point to teach their field of expertise in a way that is accessible to a diverse audience.
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About SSL Certificates
Secure Socket Layer (SSL) is a protocol formulated by Netscape in 1996 which quickly became the preferred method for securing data transmissions across the Internet. SSL is a fundamental part of most Web browsers and Web servers and utilises the public-and-private key encryption system created by Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman.
For an SSL connection to be made, the SSL protocol requires that a server ought to have a digital certificate installed. A digital certificate is an electronic file that distinctively identifies servers and individuals. Digital certificates serve as a sort of digital passport or credentials which authenticate the server before the SSL session is established.
Generally, digital certificates are signed by an independent and trustworthy third party to ensure their validity. The “signer” of a certificate is recognised as a Certification Authority (CA), such as VeriSign and thawte.
- Domain Validation (DV) is the lowest level of validation, and verifies that whoever requests the certificate controls the domain that it protects.
- Organization Validation (OV) verifies the identity of the organization (e.g. a business, nonprofit, or government organization) of the certificate applicant.
- Extended Validation (EV), like OV, verifies the identity of an organization. However, EV represents a higher standard of trust than OV and requires more rigorous validation checks to meet the standard of the CA/Browser Forum’s Extend. | <urn:uuid:90318023-72fa-43ed-a307-5458a52b7e21> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://europeid.com/hosting/ssl-certificates/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.904455 | 308 | 3.5 | 4 |
Oman: Activist arrests threaten freedom of expression
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|Cite as||Amnesty International, Oman: Activist arrests threaten freedom of expression, 15 June 2012, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/4fe01fce2.html [accessed 20 January 2017]|
|Disclaimer||This is not a UNHCR publication. UNHCR is not responsible for, nor does it necessarily endorse, its content. Any views expressed are solely those of the author or publisher and do not necessarily reflect those of UNHCR, the United Nations or its Member States.|
A string of arrests of activists, writers, lawyers, and bloggers mainly in the Omani capital Muscat constitutes an attack on freedom of expression and assembly that must be halted, Amnesty International said.
On 11 June alone, the authorities arrested at least 22 people protesting peacefully outside the police headquarters in Muscat, bringing to at least 33 the number of protest-related arrests in recent weeks.
Just a week prior to this on 4 June, Oman's Public Prosecution issued a statement saying legal action would be taken against anyone who publishes "offensive writing" in the media or online that is deemed to be "inciting" others to action "under the "the pretext of freedom of expression".
"This constitutes a blatant attempt to stamp out freedom of expression, by effectively criminalizing dissenting opinions in Oman," said Philip Luther, Middle East and North Africa Director at Amnesty International.
"Anyone detained solely for peacefully exercising their right to freedom of expression and assembly would be a prisoner of conscience and must be released immediately and unconditionally."
Protests in Oman in early 2011 sparked by popular unrest across the Middle East and North Africa led to a number of political and social reforms, but tight restrictions on freedom of expression and assembly remain in place. Scores were arrested and many brought to trial in 2011 with at least one man reported to have died when police forcibly dispersed protesters in the town of Sohar.
The recent series of protest-related arrests began on 31 May 2012, when the Special Division of Omani Police detained three activists who attempted to travel to Fohoud oil field, some 250 km south-west of Muscat, to document an oil workers' strike that started a week earlier.
The three detainees lawyer Yaqoub al-Kharousi and activists Habeeba al-Hina'i and Ismail al-Muqbali from the newly formed Omani Group for Human Rights were held incommunicado for five days before being allowed to contact their families.
When Habeeba al-Hina'i's lawyer sought to meet her on 2 June, the Public Prosecutor's office denied his request on the basis that his client had not been referred to the prosecution.
The three activists reportedly have been charged in connection with inciting a protest, with Habeeba al-Hina'i and Yaqoub al-Kharousi later released on bail on 4 June.
Since then, more activists have been arrested, but the exact number of detainees is unknown.
On 2 June activists Khalfan al-Badwawi and Ishaq al-Aghbari were arrested.
On 8 June alone, around six more activists were arrested, including writer Hamoud al-Rashidi and poet Hamad al-Kharousi.
On 10 June a public prosecutor confirmed the arrests in the Times of Oman stating "we are keeping a watch on the bloggers who use such platforms".
Then came the arrests on 11 June of at least 22 people including activists, writers, lawyers, and bloggers who were held over their protest at the police headquarters calling for the release of those previously arrested and still detained.
Two of those at least 22 detainees were released, but it is not known whether they were charged with a crime.
The remainder are still being held at Sumail Central Prison 90 km north of Muscat and have been reportedly charged with inciting or taking part in a protest.
A day after their arrest, they were allowed to call their families and have had been in touch about every four days since.
Among them is prominent female lawyer Basma al-Kiyumi, who was previously arrested on 14 May 2011 during a peaceful protest in front of the Shura Council in Muscat along with 14 others. She was released on bail two days later and charged with participating in an unlawful gathering.
At least one of the men, 35-year-old Saeed al-Hashimi, went on hunger strike in protest against the group's ongoing detention. He was admitted to Sumail Hospital on 14 June after he was believed to have lost consciousness.
He has since been returned to prison. It is believed he is continuing his hunger strike, and his family has still not been allowed to visit him yet.
Recent reports emerged that the female detainees have begun refusing to drink water.
"By all accounts, those still being held at Sumail Central Prison appear to be there on the basis of charges linked solely to their participation in peaceful protests they must be released without delay or condition and all charges related to the peaceful exercise of their right to freedom of expression and assembly must be quashed," said Philip Luther.
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Scroll down to find out more about how The Royal Family have celebrated Christmas over the last 1000 years.
1066 25th December
King Stephen is bornBorn Stephen of Blois in c.1095, the future King Stephen was named after St. Stephen, the first martyr of Christianity. St Stephen's day is celebrated on 26 December, known as 'Boxing Day' in the United Kingdom. St Stephen is also mentioned in the English Christmas Carol 'Good King Wenceslas.'
King John's Christmas - a poem by AA MilneCrowned in 1199, King John's reign is infamous; heavy taxation, disputes with the Church (John was excommunicated by the Pope in 1209) and unsuccessful attempts to recover his French possessions made him unpopular. Many of his barons rebelled, and in June 1215 they forced King John to sign a peace treaty accepting their reforms. This treaty, later known as Magna Carta, limited royal powers, defined feudal obligations between the King and the barons, and guaranteed a number of rights.
1264 25th December
Henry VIII bans 'Boy Bishops'Another English Christmas Tradition was to elect a 'Boy Bishop' on 6 December (the Feast of Saint Nicholas) whose authority as a Bishop would last until Holy Innocents Day (28 December). The elected boy would dress in full Bishop's regalia and perform Church services. In 1542 King Henry VIII outlawed the practice.
Christmas is reinstated!After living in exile for nine years, Charles II (eldest surviving son of executed Charles I) returned to London in 1660 and was restored to the throne. Charles II set about restoring The Monarchy and created a new set of Crown Jewels. He also reversed the legislation that prohibited religious festivals.
1714 25th December
The first Christmas Tree!Queen Charlotte, consort of King George III, is credited for introducing the Christmas tree to Britain. Christmas trees were originally a German custom and Charlotte was from the German Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. However, these eighteenth century trees used branches of yew tree rather than the traditional fir trees that are popular today.
1832 24th December
1850 25th December
A Christmas theftIn 1296, King Edward I deposed the Scottish King John Balliol and removed the 'Stone of Scone' from Scotland. It was taken to Westminster Abbey where it was placed below the Coronation Chair where it remained until Christmas Day in 1950, when it mysteriously vanished. In 1951 the Stone appeared at the high altar of Arbroath Abbey in Scotland and on St Andrew's Day in 1996, it was placed at Edinburgh Castle where it remains to this day.
Queen Mary's Dolls House gets a Christmas additionQueen Mary's dolls house was designed and built between 1921 and 1924. As gift from the nation to Queen Mary, the doll house is now on display at Windsor Castle. Built on a scale of 1 inch to 1 foot, everything in the house works (even the plumbing) and items were made by the leading companies of the day. The library is no exception, filled with tiny books written by 170 eminent authors including, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling and Arthur Conan Doyle. In 1924 a 5cm high edition of Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol' was given to the library.
A Royal Christmas CardThe first Christmas cards were sent in 1923 after the introduction of the penny post. This card dates from 1929 and shows The Duke and Duchess of York (the future King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother) and their three-year-old daughter, Princess Elizabeth of York (now The Queen).
1932 25th December
Pantomime's at Windsor CastleDuring World War II, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, while living at The Royal Lodge, hosted pantomimes at Windsor Castle. The traditional festive performances included local children, evacuees, friends and service personnel based in the Windsor area and raised money for the Wool Fund, which which bought wool to be made into military clothing. This costume was worn by Princess Elizabeth in the 1943 performance of 'Aladdin' which was staged in the Waterloo Chamber of Windsor Castle.
1957 25th December
The Queen's Christmas Broadcast is televised for the first timeAfter the death of George VI in February 1952, The Queen broadcast her first Christmas message. She spoke of carrying on the tradition passed on to her by her father and even addressed the nation at the same desk and chair used by her father and his father before him. But five years later, the first televised message was broadcast live.
2015 25th December
The Queen's Speech 2015The advent of television during The Queen's reign has given an added dimension to her broadcasts, allowing viewers to see The Queen in her own residences, decorated for Christmas like many homes across the world. The location is usually Buckingham Palace, but recordings have also been made at Windsor and Sandringham. In 2003 the message was filmed at Combermere Barracks in Windsor - the first time the address had been shot entirely on location. Footage from the year's Royal events is often shown, enabling the public to see the highlights of the Royal year. In 2015, Her Majesty reflects on the year’s events, and encourages us to be grateful ‘for all that brings light to our lives.'
The Not Forgotten Christmas PartyThe Princess Royal attended the annual Not Forgotten Christmas Party at St James's Palace. The tradition dates back to 1921. The Not Forgotten Association is a tri-service charity that provides entertainment, leisure and recreation for the serving wounded, injured or sick and ex-service men and women with disabilities. | <urn:uuid:a21258b0-9126-4d15-a095-e8100c260cb8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.royal.uk/history-royal-christmases?page=23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.964189 | 1,213 | 3.375 | 3 |
Coloring Dinos For Kids
Coloring Dinos For Kids is a great dinosaur coloring book in which kids can color 92 different types of Jurassic monsters. To enter the game, press the arrow. The first coloring page will open immediately. You can start from there and color the pictures in order. Or click the green arrow on the right and select an image. In the drawings you will see pterodactyls, tyrannosaurs and other types of dinosaurs. And at the end there are children's drawings with cartoon dinosaurs. Choose the color of the pencil on the left and carefully paint over the coloring area. Use the buttons (x1, 2, 3) in the right corner to set the thickness of the rod. | <urn:uuid:9e958b2a-d13c-4523-87c4-6920a965b3a6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.miniplay.net/coloring-dinos-for-kids/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.858754 | 147 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Just think of how much better your life would be and the world would work if you were truly committed to 100% excellence? Maybe you don’t think it would make a difference, or may be the difference is just not clear to you. You see one of the key habits of people who are always lean, fit and healthy is that they hold themselves to a certain standard. It is seen in their level of 100% commitment to; what they will eat, how much they will eat and daily exercise. They are completely unwilling to compromise on that pact they made with themselves. Ever meet someone like that?
There is no partial commitment, no forgetting about it because of rain, busy day, social event or any other thing that might try to de-rail their plans. No person, situation or event will stop them from holding to the 100% commitment they made within themselves! They know that a moment of question, even a 99.9% commitment, will open the door to rationalize, make excuses or de-prioritize their health priorities.
Here is an example of what can happen when you soften your commitment even a drop. Did you know that if doctors only held themselves to a 99.9% commitment to excellence then; 500 incorrect surgical operations would be performed each week and 50 newborn babies would be dropped at birth each day…just for starters?
Think about it, what if your heart took on a less than total commitment and worked only 99.9% of the time? Your heart would fail to beat 32,000 times a year!
Does this sound hard?
Is it unreasonable to be 100% committed to something? Let me ask you, are you anything less than 100% committed to being faithful to your spouse or significant other, less than 100% committed to protecting your kids? When you think about it, you are that committed to a lot of things aren’t you? Remember 100% commitment is easy, 99% commitment is a bitch!
If you give yourself even a moment of wiggle room then it can lead to an increase in excuses and rationalization. You will talk yourself out of it more and more, especially if this is a new habit for you.
What if every day you had to decide if you were going to be faithful to your spouse, or whether or not you were going to protect your kids. Imagine weighing the options, the pros and cons, imagine the internal struggle. It would be a bitch wouldn’t it?
That is why committing 100% is easy; there are no questions, no decisions, no room for excuses…you just do it.
When it comes to your weight and health, being 100% commitment does not mean 100% abstinence from foods you enjoy. It means that you hold yourself to your rules and standard. It might be..
• Exercise daily for 1 hours...or
• Exercise 3 times a week for 30 minutes…or
• Ice cream one time a month.
• Pizza once every two weeks
• Healthy breakfast every day
• Lean protein and vegetables every lunch mon-Friday.
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Might as well get used to it: A state tries to protect its minority voters' rights, its state Supreme Court upholds that effort, then the US Supreme Court, led by judicial activist Antonin Scalia, steps up to preserve the white, conservative status quo. The only difference is that this time, the GOP has its own Justice Department to bolster its scheme.
States' rights issues are starting to look mighty different under the new Bush federalism. A Bush-Scalia-Pickering axis has just won a battle to ensure that black voting strength continues to be diluted here in Mississippi, where African American population is growing &emdash; up to 36.3% in the 2000 census &emdash; while white population is down to 61.4% from 63.5% in 1990. From where I sit near downtown Jackson, this population shift is a positive development. Progressive Mississippians have long joked that we just have to wait until more of those old evil racist coots die off and then we can mothball that Dixie swastika and do a better job at redemption.
But the status quo is hedging against those population shifts. Last week, Scalia joined the Bush Justice Department to help Rep. Chip Pickering, the son of the besieged Judge Charles Pickering Sr., keep his congressional seat and oust Democratic Rep. Ronnie Shows, who currently represents part of majority black Jackson. We're losing one of our congressional districts because we're not growing fast enough &emdash; seems people aren't tripping over themselves to live under our flag. The road to this lynching of states' rights is so Mississippi: all puff and no huff. Our Legislature punted &emdash; as they did with the flag &emdash; and didn't come up with a redistricting plan like the other Southern states managed to. Thus, the responsibility moved to state court, with Chancery Judge Patricia Wise, a black Democrat, getting the case through random assignment (as state columnist and political watcher Bill Minor reminded her foaming-mouth critics in January).
Wise had two redrawn districts to choose from. The Democratic version included 37% minority voters, the GOP plan only 30%. But that's not all: the Republican's plan would preserve 73% of incumbent Pickering's voting base and only 23% of incumbent Shows' voters. The Democrats' version kept 47% of Pickering's base and 45% of Shows'. Wise chose the Democrats' plan and sent it to the Justice Department for approval as required by the 1965 Votings Rights Act.
The Justice Department, in turn, dragged its feet on approval, meaning that it just might have missed the March 1 deadline for new district approval. So a federal three-judge panel (all Republican appointees) last month stepped in and chose the GOP plan. Democrats charged politics and appealed to the US Supreme Court. Then in an all-too-familiar move, Scalia &emdash; who visits the Magnolia state to hunt with Pickering I and presided over Pickering II's 1996 swearing-in &emdash; dismissed the appeal.
The Jackson Clarion-Ledger charged conflict of interest, saying Scalia should have recused himself. Of course he should have, but why would he? The post-Goldwater Republican Party is so arrogant about maintaining the white, rich power base that it doesn't even bother to cover up its conflicts of interest. The Bushs, the Cheneys, the Scalias, the Lays, the Pickerings, Clarence Thomas and wife, Colin Powell and son: the incestuous Republican family values couldn't be more blatant either here or nationally.
Meantime, though, Mississippi blacks &emdash; not to mention white progressives &emdash; get screwed. I'm sitting in the most liberal city in the state, the capital, which is about 75% African American and has scores of black city officials, including the mayor. It's the city where the state flag rejected by its voters ends up flying most often. Minority population is growing in the state, with African Americans even contributing to the explosive growth in the Jackson suburbs. But when I vote this November, I will apparently be voting in the state's majority-black Delta district. Under the old districts, my fairly progressive neighborhood had a shot at keeping another seat away from the GOP and was succeeding. Now our crowd has been herded into a token district, important as it is, to dilute the non-GOP vote. After Scalia polished his palm last week, Chip Pickering said: "The district lines may have changed, but Mississippi's conservative values have not, and people know they can count on me to fight for their values." Of course, he meant his base of conservative white folk. And I shudder to think when the clock first started ticking on those values that he says haven't changed. Hopefully, it was sometime after his father transformed his own segregationist values.
If Chip Pickering truly represented the values of Mississippians, not just that of white Mississippians, couldn't he handle a district that was 37% African American, the same as the state's population's percentage? And truth be told, the Democratic alternative, Ronnie Shows, isn't exactly a progressive icon: He only received a 7 out of a possible 100 on an American Civil Liberties Union scorecard, but that beat Pickering's 0. You've got to start somewhere.
Voting records aside, though, this Republican power grab is about diluting voting rights, just as it was in Florida in 2000. Mississippi is still a long way from its black citizens' accomplishments of Reconstruction &emdash; that lasted until state bigots (then Democrats) instituted the Mississippi Plan to intimidate and oust its black elected officials. John Roy Lynch served as US congressman, Blanche K. Bruce became the first black man to serve a full term in the US Senate, and Alexander Davis was lieutenant governor of the state &emdash; until white Democrats impeached him. Today, Mississippians like to brag that we have the largest number of black elected officials of any state. True &emdash; but we have not elected a black official to a statewide office since Reconstruction.
Beyond racism and gerrymandering, part of the reason Mississippi as a whole hasn't elected a black official is low black voter turnout and confidence in much of the state. Lack of political strength breeds apathy. Minority voting dilution is at the heart of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the reason the Justice Department is supposed to be involved in the first place. As the ACLU likes to say, "Race-based problems require race-based solutions." Did then, and do now. Thus, I fully support efforts by my new congressman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, and the rest of the Congressional Black Caucus to hold hearings on the Justice Department's role in this cabal and try to get more representative districts for future elections. Mississippians and outsiders must work together to stop this blatant election theft.
In Mississippi, the battleground has changed slightly, if not the battle. Jackson resident Medgar Evers said in 1963 that "when a black Jacksonian looks about his home community, he sees a city of over 150,000, of which 40% is Negro, in which there is not a single Negro policeman or policewoman, school crossing guard, or fireman." Thanks to former federal governments, we now have black city workers and elected officials and a lot more equality than in 1963. But we have acres to plow before true racial voting equality is achieved in the state of Mississippi. And, thanks to the Bush-Scalia-Pickering triumvirate, we just fell back a few rows.
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So you finally got up the courage to schedule your family balancing consult and now you need to know what you need to know! We can help you with your consult questions. IVF for fertile women is not that different than IVF for infertility patients. What is different is the PGD testing since the majority of IVF patients do not use PGD yet. You need to be informed about the entire procedure, what kind of testing your doctor or clinic uses and how much biopsy experience your clinic has. SART.org does show the PGD % but you shouldn’t necessarily rule out a clinic because the don’t do a lot of PGD. What you should do is ask questions about the embryologists- specifically his or her skill level with day 3 or day 5 biopsies and find out what you can about that individual.
The type of PGD testing is critical. What day do they biopsy and what kind of PGD- aCGH, Natera, FISH, etc. are they seeing the most success using? There are no industry standards and it is still NEW to the IVF world, especially 24-chromosome testing. CCS- Comprehensive Chromosome Testing is the latest buzzword being used right now and refers to testing all 23 pairs of the embryo’s chromosomes and the sex chromosomes are identified too. That is what we are seeing the most success with on www.GenderDreaming.com and there is a complete shift away from FISH testing.
A list of questions to consider-
– What pretests are necessary for both the egg and sperm supplier
– Success rates depending on your age, medical history, BMI
– How many embryos do they recommend transferring
– What is their typical protocol and how does a cycle go from day one to transfer
– What are your risks(OHSS, No Transfer, etc)
– Extra embryos- what are your options
– Recommended supplements for egg quality and sperm quality
– How to arrange appointments
– Medication – approximate cost and where to purchase
– If traveling, is local monitoring possible
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Health Benefits of Juicing and Smoothies For Weight Loss
Healthy fruit juices and smoothies are a great way to lose weight. Many people swear by them. Juicing involves extracting the juice from fruits and separating the pulp, which is full of fiber. Blending fruit with liquid is what smoothies are made of. It can be water, ice, oat, almond milk, or water. These beverages can also be used as meal replacements and as a preworkout snack.
Juicing with fruit
Juicing and smoothies, which are great ways to get your daily serving of fruits and vegetables, can be healthy alternatives to liquid. Before you start incorporating them into your daily diet, make sure to read the labels and understand the ingredients. Juice is typically made from fruit, although other sugar sources, such as honey or corn syrup, can be present. Juicing and smoothies high in fruits and vegetables are great ways to lose weight quickly.
There are many benefits to juicing or making smoothies. Juices are high in fiber and other nutrients that can be beneficial for the body. Juices can help boost your immune system, improve your energy levels, and keep your gut microbiome healthy. Juices are also high in fiber, which keeps your blood sugar stable and helps you feel fuller for longer. This helps you lose weight naturally.
Add soluble fiber to smoothies
Smoothies can be made with soluble fiber. This will improve your overall health and increase your fiber intake. Fiber supports digestive health and helps you feel full for longer. Smoothies are a great way to get fiber because they come in a variety flavors and have filling ingredients. However, if your digestive system is sensitive, you should increase your fiber intake slowly and seek a health care provider’s advice before taking any supplements.
Soluble fiber slows down the emptying of the stomach and increases absorption and digestion times. It can also increase your feeling of fullness, which can help curb your appetite. The gels are particularly effective for targeting belly fat, which is associated with metabolic diseases. However, isolated fibers may not have an effect on any of these factors. While some studies have shown that fibers have some health benefits, it is unclear whether they can help you lose weight.
Increasing blood sugar levels
Many people are concerned about their health and wonder if smoothies and juicing can help them lose weight. They may have negative effects upon blood sugar levels. When fruits and vegetables are crushed and blended into a smoothie, they lose a significant portion of their fiber and other nutrients. Fiber helps to stabilize blood sugar levels, and slows the absorption of calories. Fiber promotes weight loss naturally.
Juices and smoothies are high in sugar when they are made into drinks. Juices can be light and easy-to-drink. As a result, it’s easy to drink more than you intend to. The more you drink, the higher your blood sugar levels will be. The digestive process is also helped by blending fruits and vegetables. Juicing and smoothies are a great way to get a pre-workout snack, or a meal replacement.
Helping with digestion
Juicing and smoothies for weight reduction are a great way to lose weight. Fruits and vegetables contain fiber which slows down the digestion process, giving your body a steady release of nutrients. This is especially helpful for people who have low fiber levels. Smoothies not only make you feel fuller for longer, but they also aid in digestion.
Both juices as well as smoothies are rich in fiber which aids digestion. Your body absorbs the nutrients easily by removing the pulp and fiber of fruits and vegetables. The fiber in smoothies and juices also plays an important role in modulating your blood sugar response to natural sugars. Therefore, if you want to lose weight, smoothies and juicing are a great way to start a weight loss program. | <urn:uuid:3ffbad34-fa17-4469-a91e-df9830193b94> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://juicingdelights.com/smoothies-lubbock/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.957357 | 794 | 1.929688 | 2 |
Find resources here for themes such as Advent & Christmas, Lent & Easter, Hiroshima & Nagasaki commemorations, summer activities, Remembrance time and the Pax Christi Icon of Peace.
Resources are available for you to download freely. We are glad to provide this gathering place for the materials. If you would like to make a donation to support us in our work, click here
Advent & Christmas
Take a look at our Advent to Peace Sunday blog. Pax Christi members reflect in their own words and suggest quotes and images that have inspired them.
The prayers and readings from this year’s Advent Peace Service are available to download as a PowerPoint.
Here are ideas to Remember Palestine at Christmas
Check our online shop for Christmas cards and goods that modestly support Pax Christi’s work for peace.
ALTERnativity resource by Action of Churches Together in Scotland (ACTS), the Church of Scotland World Mission Council and the Church of Scotland Guild
Online Prayer and Reflection During the restrictions, we are meeting together online for times of prayer and reflection. Here are some of the slides we used to inspire our discussion, action and prayer:
Vigil with Extinction Rebellion Faith
Drawing NonvioLent to a close, looking ahead to Easter
Reflecting on challenging military spending
Prayer and reflection in advance of VE Day
Reflection and discussion on proposed annexation of Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Ideas for Hiroshima and Nagasaki Commemorations 6 & 9 August
- Zoom Pax Christi liturgy presentations: Thursday 6th August, Friday 7th, Saturday 8th, Sunday 9th
- The Light and the Terror. A poem by Pax Christi member, Kate Holmstrom
- 2019: Briefing from ICAN on the Catholic Church and the Ban Treaty, includes recent quotes from Pope Francis
- Statement from Pax Christi’s National President Archbishop Malcolm McMahon on the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
- Message for our partners in Japan on the 75th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
- Service resources for Hiroshima or Nagasaki prepared by the Network of Christian Peace Organisations
- Poem by Pax Christi member, Kate Holstrom
- Images for placard ideas or sharing electronically: black background, lighter background, blue background, white background for easier printing
- Quote and image of Pope Francis ‘The use of atomic energy for purposes of war is immoral’.
- A poster that could be printed off and put in the window
- Readings from survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Excellent range of statements from Churches produced by CCND
- Chaplain who blessed the bombers repents
- For ideas: Prayer Service used at AWE Burghfield, June 2016
Pax Christi Icon of Peace
Supporting materials – Reconciliation: the Heart of Peace – Study- guide based on the Pax Christi ICON of Peace. Contents include: full colour Icon poster and prayer card, information on the Icon and the people pictured, activities for children,bible drama on reconciliation,ready-to-use peace service and 5 meditation outlines,reconciliation stories for group discussion,quotes and questions about forgiveness and reconciliation. £6.00 Also available as prayer card. Size 9 cm x 15 cm in sets of 50. Contact us to discuss orders: [email protected]
- Approaches to Remembrance and First World War commemorations: ideas to help you plan, from Pax Christi
- Two Poems on Remembrance- from Fr Rob Esdaile
- Record of Catholic COs, taken from data-base created by Cyril Pearce
- Homily Reflection from Fr Andy Graydon August 2014 anniversary of start of First World War
- How do we respond? From Mission Committee of the URC. Especially helpful reflection from David Tatem
- Reimagining Remembrance : booklet written by Kate Guthrie,produced by Ekklesia
- Wounded Innocence , talk given by Fr Rob Esdaile at Pax Christi seminar on Remembrance and Commemoration, July 2014
- Opposing World War One – an information briefing about conscientious objection and peace activism in the First World War. Produced by First World War Peace Forum
Lent & Easter Resources
- Ash Wednesday Liturgy 2018 and 2019
- Follow me: Way of the Cross with reflections from Blessed Franz Jagerstatter. Booklet. £2.00
- The Way of the Cross: reflections drawn from the experiences of FWW Conscientious Objectors. Booklet. £3.00
- Reading from our Online Shop
- Choosing Peace: The Catholic Church Returns to Gospel Nonviolence – by Marie Dennis
- Jesus Christ peace maker: A new theology of peace that renders the just war theory near mute
- The things that make for Peace: Exploring what it means to respond to the biblical call to ‘seek peace and pursue it’
- Radical Prayers: A collection of prayers which challenge, inspire and encourage the journey for peace, justice and a nonviolent world
.……….. Archive of older materials which still might spark ideas…………………….
- Lenten and Easter resources from our shop 2019
- Peace Trails through London offers City and Central London peace trails
- Cambridge Peace Trail takes the walker to 19 sites, connected with peace and social justice
- Sow Peace greeting card : Greeting card inspired by Pope Francis encylical ‘Laudato Si’
- Our world and you is a summary of the ‘Justice in the World’ document from the International Bishops’ Synod
- Making peace in the post Christian Era is a thought-provoking series of reflections on Thomas Merton’s challenge to the ‘war on terror’
- Mohandas Gandhi & lifelong peacemaking from Pax Christi USA
- Previous ADVENT & CHRISTMAS Resources for downloading
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Our 200th Episode!
It’s Episode 200 of the Class Dismissed Podcast! Over the past four years, we’ve shared stories of inspiring educators around the country, and today we’re reflecting on some of our favorites.
Using Restorative Practices in the Classroom
Back in episode 109, we spoke with Nathan Maynard. Maynard is the co-author of “Hacking School Discipline, and he talked to us about using restorative practices.
Maynard gives a digestible look at the benefits of restorative practices and how we can start implementing them in our classroom.
Power to the “Late Bloomer”
I know I’ve been guilty of being in awe and applauding kids that can do things way ahead of their age. You know, the kids that amaze us with their music abilities on America’s Got Talent. Or those amazing students at the national “Spelling B.”
In Episode 129, Rich Karlgaard explains why it’s essential to recognize that some people’s prime comes a little later than others.
For example, Karlgaard highlights a 53-year-old woman named Joanne. When Joanne was in school, she was described as a “high-mediocre” student. Many professors do not remember Joanne, but one professor described her as a student that would often stare off into space while in class.
After attending school, Joanne got into a bad marriage, worked as a receptionist for a bit, and went into a spiral of depression after her divorce. For a time, she was even on public assistance.
But Karlgaard says Joanne is an excellent example of a late bloomer.
“At age 35, while taking a train, Joanne, otherwise known as J.K. Rowling, dreamed up Harry Potter,” says Karlgaard.
It’s a great perspective that we should all consider.
Leading with love – The secret weapon of this tattooed principal
In Episodes 54 and 55, Hammish teaches us how he turns around struggling schools. But most importantly, how he leads with love.
On the morning announcements, Brewer says over the loudspeaker, “If somebody today didn’t tell you they love you. Mr. Brewer’s telling you today that he loves you.”
“We forgot to tell kids that we love them,” says Brewer. “So many of our kids don’t hear that word enough.”
Brewer says if students are in “hot water” with him, he tells them that he doesn’t like what they did, but he still loves them.
“If you build a culture and expectation around love, hard conversations can be had.”
Brewer says he tells his kids that he loves them every day, and they have his back.
Taking the fuzziness out of reading comprehension
Jennifer Serravallo is the author of the Writing Strategies book and the Reading strategies book. In episode 72, she gives us tips about working with students on reading comprehension.
Serravallo says her goal is to make sense of something that is sometimes hard to make sense of. There are many different viewpoints on what it even means to understand comprehension. Ranging from the Rosenblatt Reader-Response Theory to a Proficient Reader Research, it can get murky for educators.
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Snow Friends Mixed media product
Illustrated by Tina MacNaughton
When Little Bear wakes early from his winter sleep, he has the most wonderful surprise SNOW!
Little Bear tumbles and skids and stomps and dances.
But snow would be much more fun if he had a friend to play with.
So he decides to build a snowman...The Little Tiger Press picture book and CD sets are a great aid to improving reading skills and are perfect for bedtime, for journeys or for listening together.
Each picture book is accompanied by a CD featuring a fantastic telling of the story, complete with music and sound effects.
- Format: Mixed media product
- Pages: 32 pages, full colour illustrations
- Publisher: Little Tiger Press Group
- Publication Date: 01/09/2011
- Category: Picture storybooks
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Okay y'all, I'm really struggling with teaching addition this year. We usually don't teach this skill until later on after we've talked about number value and ordering numbers and counting. I've discovered two main problems that we've encountered this past week
1. The lessons in our new series are LONG. By the time we get to the end of the lesson, my kids are getting antsy. I plan on revamping these and adding some fun things to get the kids moving. That's the plan anyways :)
2. My kids are understanding the concept of adding, but we need some drill and practice. I think it's wonderful to know how to draw a picture or use manipulatives to figure out 7+3=10, but sooner or later a child just needs to automatically know this addition fact. So I decided to download some flash cards online (I can't remember where, but a simple google search will give lots of options) and I plan to start keeping these in our daily binders that traveled to and from school each day. To make it a little more exciting and special for my kids, I made each of them a Math Monster out of a manilla folder to help with the adding.
It's super simple to make these!
1. Get a manilla envelope. The small size...I can't remember the exact measurements but it's not the full sheet size.
2. Make some fun monster pieces.
3. Laminate the envelope
4. Cut out the slit to hold the flash cards.
The kids saw them today and loved them! I may do some for our sight words too.
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You have been searching tirelessly for the right historical house to make your new home, and you finally found the perfect one to buy. However, when you get the report from the Level 2 professional chimney inspection you need before you can make an offer on the home, you discover that the chimney is missing a liner. Since chimney liners were not mandated by most local building codes before the 1940’s, it is not uncommon to see unlined chimneys in historic homes, and because of this, All Seasons Chimney is very familiar and experienced with bringing these chimneys up to modern safety codes and standards. For over 25 years, we have been providing professional chimney lining services to the residents of the Poughkeepsie area, and we can help you make the historical home of your dreams a reality by installing the best type of liner for the chimney. We are often asked why chimney liners are so important, and we would like to tell you more about the point of this essential chimney component.
PROTECT YOUR HOME FROM HEAT TRANSFER
The reason why most local cities and municipalities began mandating chimney liners in the 1940’s has to do with the results of tests given by the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) concerning the safety of masonry chimneys. According to the Chimney Safety Institute of America (CSIA), the NBS found that heat moved so quickly through an unlined chimney that it ignited the adjacent woodwork in less than three and a half hours. This is why the NBS stated that building a chimney without a liner was so unsafe that it was “little less than criminal.” All Seasons Chimney can protect your home from the risk of an accidental fire by installing a durable stainless steel liner inside your chimney to stop heat transfer from occurring.
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Stories about Australia from November, 2008
This year marks the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day, which takes place every year on December 1. Though the impact of HIV and AIDS is felt by millions of people globally every day, this particular day can help bring much-needed attention to the disease. The theme for this year's...
New Mandala writes of the case of an Australian writer in detention for lese majeste. The case was also reported by ABC TV's 7:30 Report.
The three Bali bombers were executed in Indonesia. Invig advises Australians: “It is not only hypocritical and racist to support the death penalty for the citizens of another culture, but also makes us appear vengeful and callous.” Majority of those who died in the 2002 Bali Bombing were Australians.
Rubenerd writes “It is just such a great feeling to finally have someone in charge of the Western world who is intelligent and who I can talk about in positive tones for the first time. That is really a great thing!”
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Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1984-Aug-31
Reference Count: N/A
Options & Opportunities: A Project to Develop and Evaluate Strategies of a Social, Informational and Remedial Nature Which Would Assist Individuals in Achieving Nontraditional Career Goals. Final Report from July 1, 1983 to August 31, 1984.
Abdo, Carol A.
The Nontraditional Career Opportunities Project was originally developed to recruit, retain, and place students into vocational programs considered nontraditional for their gender. Primary concerns were delivery of printed materials giving information on nontraditional careers and project services; community relations activities and products, including a portable display unit, news articles, the Partners in Excellence program, and a South Bell equity seminar for Broward and Dade Counties; targeted enrollment increases; and institutional commitment to equity concerns. The aims of the project expanded beyond the original concerns. Other areas included methods for working with business and industry, monitoring of computerized enrollment databases, and inservice training. Findings were that activities or programs for students to encourage recruitment or to provide support for those already enrolled were very well received and that stereotyping conditions of the past still discourage entry into programs. The project sought to extend its influence to bring increased awareness of discrimination. Positive trends were identified in virtually every program area. (Appendixes contain statistics and graphs, course outlines, course materials, project public information, and newsletters.) (YLB)
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Education Level: N/A
Sponsor: Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Div. of Vocational Education.
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An ambitious and interesting project aimed at discovering the patterns at successful internet startups was announced on Saturday and is called Startup Genome. Over 650 businesses have been surveyed in quite some detail, so the results should be telling. The concluding reports will, I predict, turn out to be some of most influential pieces of research ever done on internet startups.
It’s important to state that this study is about internet startups specifically. There are lessons that other businesses can take from the report but one needs to be careful not to generalise. Also it’s important to remember that, as far as I know, the results are largely based on startups in Silicon Valley. As we all know, things don’t happen the same elsewhere: Availability of risk capital is much scarcer, for one thing. Also much of the initial report relates to companies that raised investment funding in seed and VC rounds. We can learn as much, if not more, from failures, of course. Some interesting findings, about that, have now been published here.
Six stages of company evolution are proposed as follows (personally I like this model), which I’ve paired with my personal take as shown in italics :
1) Discovery: Create something useful and listen or die
2) Validation: Find ways to get customers to part with cash
3) Efficiency: Get more customers whilst burning cash effectively
4) Scale: Growing pains of every type
5) Profit Maximization: Milk your customers, oops sorry: Reward your shareholders
6) Renewal: Start your next venture
The authors propose four classes of startups, as follows, with some well known examples:
- Automizer: Google, Dropbox, Hipmunk
- Social Transformer: Ebay, Skype, Airbnb
- Integrator: PBworks, Uservoice, Flowtown
- Challenger: Oracle, Salesforce, Yammer
These classes are provided without a clear explanation of what they constitute, although helpfully, they have provided a list of example companies and typical characteristics. So, what the hell, let’s have a go at trying to clarify this thinking.
OK, I contend that all the classes of startups are aiming to provide:
- More efficient & effective ways….
- to do stuff….
- for different classes of users
I would then propose to define the four classes as being focussed, on different users, as follows:
- Automizer: Individuals and small groups
- Social Transformer: Individuals, in a network, who interact and transact
- Integrator: SMEs
- Challenger: Enterprises in complex & rigid markets
OK, I’ve over simplified. But I think their classification of startups is interesting and insightful. I find it helps when thinking about my past experience and current activities.
At Century Dynamics (sold to NASDAQ: ANSS) where I was a co-founding technical director then managing director, we were definitely a “Challenger”. OK, we were largely pre-interweb but we were a software company selling globally, so the model still works. Also we were never funded by anybody outside the company. That’s one of the reasons it was a long road of bootstrapping and 14 years from startup to exit. It did not seem much of an achievement at the time but reading this post makes me question whether we actually did extremely well, particularly since we were selling to some glacially slow engineering sectors.
With the current startups that I am closely involved in, we are an “Automizer” (Pitchie) and a “Social transformer” (Tripbod).
Actually with Pitchie we are in our first month, at the Discovery stage, so it’s quite possible we will end up positioning differently: But to talk about that further would be revealing our plans for world domination, which we are keeping quiet about for now 😉
Tripbod is very much a social transformer. We are driven by our desire to cut out economic leakage in the tourism industry, where much of the money is taken by middlemen. We are all about connecting travellers directly with local travel providers making us a bona fide network business.
Part of the report findings were that Automizers and Social transformers have as their primary motivation a desire to change the world. Similarly the desire to build a great product was found to be the main drive for Integrators and Challengers. Tellingly only 8% of entrepreneurs surveyed said they care more about money than impact (68%) or experience (27%).
One of the main hypotheses, that the authors set out to test, is that success correlates with founders who are open to learning. Their initial findings are, they say, strongly suggestive of that and cite the following evidence, which is interesting but hardly conclusive:
- Companies that track metrics effectively, and thus learn, achieved 3 to 4 times better growth rates of users
- They considered that following thought leaders was a proxy for willingness to learn. Those companies that did so were 80% more likely the raise funding
- Companies with helpful mentors were significantly more successful and raised around 7 times as much investment capital
The average funding received by company stage is shown below:
- Discovery = $150,000
- Validation = $600,000
- Efficiency = $900,000
- Scale = $3,000,000
The authors recommendations on what they think should be raised are $10,000 to $50,000 at Discovery and $100,000 to $1,500,000 at Validation. They further propose that nothing more is raised at the Efficiency stage. They suggest that the stark differences in the funding raised and what the authors recommend is due to angels over investing in startups. But remember this is in Silicon Valley: I don’t see that problem in the UK and neither does Scott Allison of Teamly.
Surely a difference today is that it costs a lot less to build an internet business than it did even two years ago. Many of the companies surveyed must have started out before that time.
Apparently there was no difference in whether investors were helpful or not on a daily basis. They conclude “We think this may be because investors’ main value add is their ability to increase the valuation in future rounds, and get larger exit sizes. Their help on a daily basis, which consists mostly of introductions and help with recruiting is not that significant because great entrepreneurs will find a way to get introduced to the people they want to hire and build a great team even if their investors don’t help.”
The most telling finding, in my opinion, is buried in the Miscellaneous section. They found a dramatic difference in the market size estimates made by the companies for their target markets, as shown here.
For companies that did not raise funding:
- Discovery: $200Bn
- Validation: $120Bn
- Efficiency: $50Bn
- Scale: $8Bn
For companies that did raise funding:
- Discovery: $0.16Bn
- Validation: $1.3Bn
- Efficiency: $20Bn
- Scale: $9Bn
Enormous differences you will agree at the first two stages! One is tempted to conclude that if you have failed to raise early funding then it’s very likely you are deluded.
Finally here is an interesting statistic that is reported without explanation or context: 81% of entrepreneurs don’t care about rules.
What do you think, fellow troublemakers?
- How would you classify your startup? Do you like the classification used? Is it helpful?
- Are mentors important for your learning? Or are they just good for contacts, so raising funding becomes easier?
- What are you going to do differently having read this blog post or the report?
For the last 3 years I have been helping start-ups and early stage companies raise investment finance in the equity gap.
Having been through a successful trade exit (Century Dynamics, sold in 2005 to ANSYS (NASDAQ: ANSS)), I am often asked: “Why have you not made investments in the companies that your are helping?”. The short answer, for most cases, is that I cannot: As a Portfolio Director, with the Innovation & Growth Teams, I am paid to be a impartial supporter to companies and to sit on their side of the table.
Now, I have helped in my spare time, other entrepreneurs and companies who fall outside the remit of my day job with the Innovation & Growth Team which has a geographical boundary. So there is a longer answer and angel investing was something I considered. However back in 2006 my personal enquiries into angel investing led me to the apparent collective wisdom that:
- You need to make at least 10 investments to hedge your bets
- One should expect only one of those 10 investments to do very well and compensate for complete losses on 6 or more of the others
- Investing as part of a syndicate (group of angels) is likely to be more successful
- Only invest money which you would not lose sleep over losing
So on balance the priorities of investing in my young kids or making 10 investments and not worrying about losing all the money were clear.
More recent research in a report “Siding with the Angels” by NESTA backs up what I learnt a few years before: “In the UK, 9 per cent of the exits produced 80 per cent of the cash returned. In the US, 10 per cent of the exits produced 90 per cent of all the cash returned”. Other conclusions from that report are:
- Angels with entrepreneurial expertise outperformed those without it, especially in earlier-stage opportunities
- Those who invested in opportunities where they have specific industry expertise failed significantly less
- Those who perform at least some due diligence, even just 20 hours, experienced fewer failed investments
- Post investment some involvement with the venture was related to improved investment outcomes
Over time, I have come to regard the “collective wisdom” in numbered points 1 to 3 above as being rather pessimistic in outlook. Wise perhaps but it rather comes across to me as being all about risk management rather than opportunity creation. After all, there are other ways to balance your investment portfolio which I won’t go into here. Some other aspects of some angel investor behaviour also irritate me:
- Lack of interest in meeting with the entrepreneurs face-to-face early on. Why assess a business plan when the business is run by people. Business models and plans can and do change. People don’t change much! If I want to hear about an investment proposition I would rather hear a pitch by a CEO than receive a business plan.
- Lack of politeness: Many angels do not even bother to send any response to propositions unless they are interested and currently investing. Nobody is too busy to write a short email of response simply saying: “Thanks for sharing this short investment proposition with me. It’s not really for me this time but I wish you well in your efforts”. I can understand sending no response to unsolicited, dreadfully prepared and presented, propositions. But is this wise, on the part of the angel, to a well prepared solicited proposition?
- Middle men: Those who will take an upfront fee to introduce you to their network of investors and then take a success fee (typically 5%) of the money raised. If you are good enough at this why do you need an upfront fee? Some of these people are great but many are a waste of space. I could do a whole rant on this topic alone but it’s been done by others notably Jason Calacanis here.
So what would interest me enough to invest? You may ask, and my answer is, in rough order of importance:
- A great CEO and/or founding team
- An idea , technology or business model with disruptive potential
- A business where I can contribute with much more than money
- A business that through success makes the world a better place
- A new interesting challenge where there is an opportunity to learn and grow
And, of course, since it’s an investment a big potential upside and good return.
Well after four years of mentoring entrepreneurs, working closely with around 100 early stage businesses and interacting with angel investors, I have now made an investment for an exceptional case.
Three months ago at a TWiST (This Week in Startups) London event I saw 4 great pitches by @Teamly, @opentwit, @campingninja and @Tripbod. You can read more about this great little event organised by all action Steve Schofield of @Fidgetstick here. The video for the winning pitch by Sally Broom, founder and CEO of Tripbod is here. To say, I was impressed would be an understatement and afterwards in conversation with Sally she enquired as to whether I was an investor and I replied that I wasn’t, explaining some of the reasons why. Shortly afterwards she asked me if I could provide some advice. Naturally, I was delighted to be of help to enthusiastic entrepreneur with a interesting business. In short, this led onto much interaction over several weeks. It was clear that advice and guidance was helpful to them but some financial support was required too. I really did want to help and by this time had got to know Sally and the business well. It just goes to show that the old adage “If you need money, ask for advice” does work!
This whole process has reinforced my contention that you should invest in people first. Sally has many great attributes but perhaps most of all she is relentlessly resourceful. The same applies to her co-founder Liz. So what is Tripbod?
- A Tripbod is a trusted local person, with local knowledge, who can help you plan your trip before you go
- Tripbod provides on-line personalised bespoke trip planning across the globe
- The one-to-one service includes unlimited on-line contact with your Tripbod through a private trip planning page and personal calendar before you go
Some of you may be wondering whether I have any relevant industry experience to contribute to Tripbod. Well, I don’t. I can certainly claim to have a lot of experience of international travel both as an independent tourist and businessman. However, no worries there, as I am being delighted to be joining as an investor and active board member with Martin Dunford, who was a co-founder of Rough Guides, and who stayed with them through acquisitions by Penguin and Pearson until last year.
No doubt, I’ll be blogging about progress with Tripbod in future posts, so I’ll leave it there. If you’ve read this far, thank you for your interest. We would love your feedback on what you think of Tripbod. Would you use it? Do you think a local travel expert can enhance your next trip? Let us know here.Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 16 so far )
CEOs, entrepreneurs & boards all struggle with how to satisfy 1) shareholders, 2) staff and 3) customers.
It’s hard to do that really well. Indeed most companies, with some lifespan, probably make a reasonable first of keeping two, of those three, stakeholders happy. Now I reckon striking a balance and keeping all three stakeholders happy, and importantly maintaining that balance, is nigh impossible.
I could bore you with a long post trying to prove this via examples.
Rather I’m going to can explain it conceptually, as a three-sided hill, looking like this from above.
Companies that gravitate to satisfying investors/shareholders and users/customers tend to expand (very fast in the case of VC fuelled growth), get well-known, achieve success for a (relatively) short while then, so often, fade from view: Let’s call them supernovae. Think MySpace or Boo.com, one of 10 failures you never heard of or forgot about. OK, the analogy is imperfect (supernovae are the death knell of stars) but you get the drift.
Companies that look after their staff and customers well are more like stars: They often have a much longer life (like companies with a sustainable business) and have a more gradual start and end, when they burn out.
Indeed some stars turn into black holes and others get wiped about by supernovae.
You know it’s hard to keep a ball on top of a hill.
What do you think? Got some good examples? Perhaps you disagree with my broad thesis and can cite an example that disproves it.
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2.4 An inclusive teacher helps pupils to gain self-confidence and self-esteem
A major barrier in the learning and participation of children in classroom activities is the lack of self-esteem and self-confidence. You have probably noticed that this is the case for Flores.
In supporting learners, the inclusive teacher has a crucial role to play in encouraging all children’s social and emotional learning. Atmosphere and dynamics in the classroom and school can be managed in order to encourage self-confidence and participation.
Activity 6: How to help pupils appreciate and respect their similarities and differences
This activity will provide teachers with examples of activities conducive to creating a positive atmosphere in the classroom.
- Download Section 1 of Module 1 of ‘Life Skills (Primary)’ in the Subject resources area of the TESSA website. It shows how one teacher encouraged her class to include an albino child.
- Read this section and make notes of the techniques used to help pupils to explore who they are, help them to recognise their similarities and differences, and to show mutual respect.
- How will these activities help the teachers in training develop their pupils’ self-confidence and self-esteem?
- Add other similar activities that could be used for the same purpose with pupils.
Children need to understand and talk about their differences and similarities and must consider them as a natural part of society. As a teacher you have an important role to play in helping children to realise that their opinions, perceptions and emotions can be different but that they all are important parts of society. Diversity in society is enriching. As a teacher you must model this by adopting a fair attitude towards all children and organise activities that allow them to work together, interact and build their learning together. You need to encourage inclusive social behaviours such as mutual appreciation and respect, listening, tolerance and empathy. | <urn:uuid:c4031963-569a-4601-94c5-6cc57a7abadf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=153822§ion=3.4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.962969 | 378 | 4.28125 | 4 |
After nearly two months, Royal Dutch Shell has lifted the force majeure on one of Nigeria’s largest and most popular grades, Bonny Light, after a pipeline carrying the oil to the export terminal has finally been repaired.
In the middle of May, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), the Nigerian subsidiary of Shell, declared force majeure on Bonny Light exports because of the shutdown of the Nembe Creek pipeline. This led to the accumulation of lots of unsold crude. The Nembe Creek Trunkline transports 150,000 bpd of Bonny Light to the terminal that Shell operates and is one of two main pipelines that carry the Bonny Light oil grade to the export terminal.
After almost two months under force majeure, Shell has now confirmed that it “lifted the force majeure on Bonny Light exports following the repair and reopening of the Nembe Creek Trunkline by the operator, Aiteo Eastern E&P Company Limited.”
Bonny Light, with production of between 200,000 bpd and 250,000 bpd, is one of the main export grades for Nigeria and is very popular among refiners globally. The two-month force majeure on exports has benefited the pricing of other key Nigerian grades such as Forcados and Qua Iboe.
Nigeria’s oil exports were expected to drop to their 2018 low in July—to just 1.43 million bpd, compared to 1.796 million bpd in June, partly due to the force majeure on Bonny Light cargoes.
In June, there were disruptions to Bonny Light, Forcados, and Qua Iboe flows, but loading schedules showed that Nigeria’s August crude oil exports would likely rise from July. Exports of the Forcados grade were planned to increase to around 259,000 bpd next month, up from 195,000 bpd originally planned for July, according to loading programs seen by traders who spoke to Reuters.
Early in July, supply outages in Libya, Venezuela, Canada, and Nigeria itself boosted the price premiums of Nigerian grades to dated Brent, but traders were not rushing to bookWest African cargoes at what looked like high premiums amidst ample prompt loading oil supply. By Tsvetana Paraskova for Oilprice.com | <urn:uuid:e8f29f75-f183-4c1a-8283-7443274cc340> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mozambiqueminingpost.com/2018/07/18/africa-oil-gas-shell-lifts-force-majeure-on-nigerias-bonny-light-oil-exports/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.949891 | 486 | 1.570313 | 2 |
UN Enable: Promoting the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
The convention is intended to ensure that people with disabilities are able to enjoy human rights in the same way as everyone else. Countries that choose to sign, ratify, and then implement the convention will then become obligated to abolish laws that discriminate against disabled people and write laws that protect their rights instead. The convention includes provision for protecting disabled people from torture, loss of liberty, and other abuses; and for ensuring that disabled people have equal access to justice (including court systems), transportation, and public services.
In particular, don’t miss the new UN handbook (3.2 Mb) for parliamentarians on the CRPD. Although targeted at members of country parliaments, it may also be a useful tool for disability advocates who wish to work with or pressure their governments to sign, ratify, and implement the convention. It explains the convention and the process for ratifying it in greath depth. We Can Do posted an announcement about the handbook in a prior post.
In yet another earlier post, We Can Do announced a pair of ratification and implementation toolkits from Disabled People International targeted at advocates. These toolkits explain the convention and the ratification process at a more basic level and advises organizations in ways they can become involved.
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|Directed by||Shinichirō Sawai|
|Music by||Joe Hisaishi|
|Distributed by||Toei Company|
|December 15, 1984|
W's Tragedy (Wの悲劇, Daburyū no Higeki) is an oul' 1984 Japanese film directed by Shinichirō Sawai, based on the novel by Shizuko Natsuki (published in English under the oul' title Murder at Mt, bejaysus. Fuji). At the 9th Japan Academy Prize it won three awards and received three other nominations.
Natsuki's original book W no Higeki, the bleedin' story of a bleedin' rich family torn apart by the feckin' murder of their patriarch, and their heiress bein' accused of the bleedin' crime, becomes a play and is acted out by a feckin' troupe of actors in Osaka. Jaykers! The role of the oul' heroine is contended for by young Shizuka Mita (Yakushimaru), who dreams of fame and fortune. Shizuka is taken under the oul' win' of famous actress Sho Hatori (Y, bejaysus. Mita), whose rich patron died in her arms one night, and who agrees to let Shizuka stand in for her. As the bleedin' play is acted out, Shizuka realizes that many scenes in the bleedin' play begin to have parallels with real life...
The film takes the feckin' form of a feckin' story within a story, in which the oul' original book's characters are acted out by the film's characters.
- Hiroko Yakushimaru as Shizuka Mita, who plays rich heiress Mako Watsuji on stage
- Yoshiko Mita as Sho Hatori
- Masanori Sera as Akio Morita
- Kunihiko Mitamura as Jun Godai
- Miho Takagi
- Ken Nishida
- Kōjirō Kusanagi
- "Woman (W no Higeki) Yori", original lyrics by Takashi Matsumoto, vocals by Hiroko Yakushimaru.
This song has also been covered by Yumi Matsutoya, Yūko Andō, Akina Nakamori and Ken Hirai, the oul' latter version bein' used for the bleedin' 2012 iteration of the bleedin' book's story into a bleedin' TV drama.
Awards and nominations
- Won: Best Director - Shinichirō Sawai
- Won: Best Actress in a Supportin' Role - Yoshiko Mita
- Won: Best Sound Recordin' - Fumio Hashimoto
- Nominated: Best Picture
- Nominated: Best Screenplay - Haruhiko Arai and Shinichirō Sawai
- Nominated: Best Actress - Hiroko Yakushimaru
- Won: Best Actress - Hiroko Yakushimaru
- Won: Best Supportin' Actress - Yoshiko Mita
- 3rd Best Film
- W's Tragedy (1984) - Full cast and crew[permanent dead link]
- 第9回 日本アカデミー賞 (in Japanese), the hoor. Japan Academy Prize. G'wan now. Retrieved 2009-11-10.
- ブルーリボン賞ヒストリー (in Japanese). Cinema Hochi, what? Archived from the original on 2009-02-07. Retrieved 2010-03-29.
- 報知映画賞ヒストリー (in Japanese), bejaysus. Cinema Hochi. I hope yiz are all ears now. Archived from the original on 2012-03-06, what? Retrieved 2009-11-10.
- １９８５年度 日本映画ベストテン (in Japanese). Yokohama Film Festival. Sufferin' Jaysus listen to this. Archived from the original on 2010-03-06, the shitehawk. Retrieved 2009-11-10. | <urn:uuid:d437b0d7-105d-4c50-8347-5545ff7691bf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://mickopedia.org/mickify?topic=W%27s_Tragedy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.860844 | 990 | 1.640625 | 2 |
The state’s highest court will soon hear a case that for the first time challenges a law Ohio legislators passed in 2004 giving the Ohio Department of Natural Resources sole authority to permit and regulate oil and gas drilling.
The preemptive state law — passed with House Bill 278 — almost entirely limits both local government’s authority and ability to restrict oil and gas drilling. Only within the past three years have opponents stepped up their attack on the law as drilling has increased dramatically in the state with the arrival of horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
Those who back ODNR’s preemptive authority, including the industry itself, business groups and many others, say sole authority and centralized regulation is crucial to the steady development of the state’s oil and gas resources and the economic benefits that are generated by such activity.
The case originated at the trial-court level in 2011 in Summit County after the city of Munroe Falls filed a complaint against Ravenna-based Beck Energy. In its initial complaint, Munroe Falls alleged that after the company had started to drill on private property there, it failed to file for local drilling permits and did not comply with zoning and right-of-way ordinances.
As the case has slowly made its way through the state’s court system, those on both sides of the fracking debate have paid close attention.
Munroe Falls officials did not returns calls seeking comment for this story.
In places such as Youngstown, Broadview Heights, Mansfield, Athens, Bowling Green, Kent and Brunswick, where bans on oil and gas drilling or other aspects of the industry have been considered, the case has become a rallying cry against what opponents deem to be a license for oil and gas companies to operate independently of local control.
Opponents of ODNR’s regulatory reach believe the 2004 law directly violates Ohio’s constitution under its “home-rule” provision, which extends to municipalities a limited “authority to exercise all powers of local self-government.”
“Historically, communities have some say over what happens with their towns,” said Kari Matsko, of the People’s Oil & Gas Collaborative, in a statement issued in September after the group helped five cities across the state file a friend-of-the-court brief in the case.
“The unfettered access given to oil and gas companies after 2004 in Ohio are coming at a very real cost — not just the environmental concerns — but presumptions that they need not abide by zoning as do all other businesses in the state present many risks,” Matsko added.
When the trial court ruled in favor of Munroe Falls, Beck Energy appealed to the 9th District Court of Appeals, which said the city’s drilling ordinances conflict with state law and overturned the lower court’s ruling.
Munroe Falls appealed, and the case is now taking aim at ODNR’s ability to regulate without local intervention.
“There’s been various home-rule issues of all kinds in the state’s history — that’s not unusual,” said Alan Wenger, chairman of the oil and gas law group at Harrington, Hoppe & Mitchell in Youngstown. “But this case is the first of its kind to deal with H.B. 278. That’s never been directly reviewed by the Ohio Supreme Court.”
Briefs are due in the case later this fall, and the high court is expected to hear the case sometime next year.
A slew of unusual parties have come forward to stake their claim in the case and show support for their position. Among those opposing ODNR’s authority, for instance, are businesses such as Herbal Sage, High Bottom Farm and Hyacinth Bean Florist, all of which have filed a friend-of-the-court brief.
On the other side is the American Petroleum Institute and the Ohio Chamber of Commerce, among others.
Wenger said it is unlikely the Supreme Court will deviate from the appellate court’s ruling, saying there is plenty of precedent supporting preemptive law and centralized regulation in other sectors that deal with energy utilities, for example.
“Trustees, city councils and mayors do an awful lot of good things,” said Thomas Stewart, executive vice president of the Ohio Oil and Gas Association. “But they have no expertise in regulating a diverse and complex industry. The question here is, do you really want a township trustee to have regulatory authority over a 9,000-foot well?” | <urn:uuid:ee03764a-e1a5-4ec3-9fa5-825544e3a391> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.vindy.com/news/2013/oct/04/oil-gas-case-heading-to-ohio-top-court-w/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00536-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957202 | 947 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Paras Healthcare to leverage AI to up the accuracy in diagnosis and faster decisions
Paras Healthcare is planning to use AI based solution to improve image scanning accuracy for patient’s diagnosis along with faster decision making for radiologists and consultants: Group CIO Shuvankar Pramanick
Bangalore: The Gurgaon based Paras Healthcare, which runs Paras Hospitals across eight locations in the northern parts of India is planning to take the help of cognitive technologies like AI (artificial intelligence) to improve accuracy of image scanning during patient’s diagnosis and also speed up decision making for its radiologists and consultants.
This move is part of Paras Healthcare’s overall expansion strategy entering into 2018 that also includes IT or technology led initiatives over the next six months.
“Our strategy in the next six months basically is that we are in an expansion mode and definitely we will have much more nodes to our existing systems and that’s our priority. Besides, on the B2C (business to consumer) aspects, we are going for online services for the patients like online appointments, online lab reports, etc.,” Paras Healthcare Group CIO Shuvankar Pramanick told ETCIO.com
“And next we will definitely look for artificial intelligence (AI) in some areas like knitting part. We have already done some kind of PoCs and going through some companies, which are dealing with AI and this kind of technologies. This would make decision making easy for our radiologists and consultants also. This is the major task for the next six months,” added Pramanick.
In the first stage, the idea is to create a knitting process around image scanning of patients that includes different scans like CT (computed tomography), MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), X-rays (X-radiation, a form of electromagnetic radiation) and ultrasounds and then to build an image scanning template with a pre-defined diagnosis system that would enable fast decision making.
In the second stage, use this newly created image scanning template along with a pre-defined diagnosis system for examination of patients suffering from cancer and different tumours. And provide then the system would help the doctors and consultants to make decisions faster.
“And in the next stage, we move into the tumour ward, from medical records point, where we can have some pre-defined diagnostic systems. And this would help the consultants working with the patients to take decisions very fast. So we are focusing on these two areas,” he explained.
In terms of executing this new initiative, Pramanick informed Paras Healthcare is already in talks with vendors like IBM Watson, AURA and has also done some PoCs (proof-of-concepts). Aura – is an Australian BI (business intelligence) company that largely focused into image management in the areas of robotics and analytics.
Paras Healthcare is looking to deploy this new AI based solution in the first quarter of the next financial year. It will be getting deployed first at its Gurgaon based hospital and corporate office and then probably will be rolled out in other hospitals.
With this Paras Healthcare will be among the very healthcare providers in India, including Bangalore based Manipal Healthcare and Delhi based Max Healthcare that have tried to leverage the cognitive platform like IBM Watson.
Although, IBM Watson has been around for more than a decade now it hasn’t seen much of adoption in India due to various reasons including cost. “I agree IBM Watson has been around for quite a while now,” said Pramanick.
Earlier they (IBM) were selling their product as a whole like the entire hospital specialisation (module) but now they have broken their product into different modules wise, so they can sell it separately like imaging, pulmonary, oncology and others part, according to him.
“We are only looking at the imaging part and in that we definitely have some competency in our system. Some of our doctors have worked also on those technologies and definitely will be looking for some good resource also,” informed Pramanick.
Given cognitive technologies like AI or Watson are being considered as a new area in the IT world today, so does it pose any challenge for Paras Healthcare? “Challenge not in the IT systems, but it can come out in our clinical systems,” he replied.
Further, he said that this IBM Watson or any other AI system is built for research data, so doctors need to trust that data and believe in diagnosis that matches the output of the system.
“So in that case there’s a challenge and we still need to work on that and make it work simple,” concluded Pramanick.
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I can tell you, it was not easy, but I finally succeeded at securing funds from British Council to organise a Researcher Links workshop. This was a resubmission of an application that received good reviews in a previous round, but didn’t get funded. The feedback helped identifying where improvements were needed and we decided to submit it again. It also helped that I have already being to South Africa delivering workshops to public sector practitioners on a similar subject – so I had a good idea about South Africa needs in terms of capacity building in this area. Researcher Links workshop grants are a great way of developing links with colleagues from selected partner countries and, at the same time, stimulating early career researchers to engage in international collaboration. Funds are available to support the attendance of early-career researchers based in South Africa and the UK and workshops aim to stimulate long-lasting partnerships and research collaboration between the two countries.
I’m very pleased to be able to organise one of these workshops in collaboration with colleagues from the UK (Hull and Ulster) and South Africa (University of KwaZulu-Natal and Oceanographic Research Institute). The workshop will be held on 19-21 June 2018 at the uShaka Marine World in Durban. The call for participants is now out and we invite early-career researchers from the social and natural sciences with research interests in the sustainable management of coasts and estuaries. You can find out more about the workshop and how to submit your application here.
Coastal and estuarine ecosystems worldwide are under pressure from population growth, urbanisation and other land-based and marine activities. In the UK and South Africa, coastal areas greatly contribute to the local and national economy by supporting key urban centres and industries. Climate change tends to exacerbate existing problems, including but not limited to flooding, erosion, water quality and resource availability, which can have implications on environmental quality, food production, water supply and human health. Ecosystem-based management (EBM) has emerged as an integrated approach for the sustainable management of the trade-offs between socioeconomic development and nature conservation. EBM requires a transdisciplinary understanding of the natural system, nature-human interactions, and how they change through time. The workshop will bring together researchers from South Africa and the UK to discuss how they can collaborate to support EBM through the development of long-lasting UK-SA collaboration and government-research partnerships. The workshop aims to attract researchers from the social and natural sciences to create the required combination of expertise to co-construct, advance and share knowledge to support estuarine and coastal EBM. The integration of scientific and practical knowledge will be facilitated by the participation of NGOs and government practitioners. | <urn:uuid:6c35275c-4f90-466c-8c7e-1a9fb8cffcab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blogs.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/2018/01/29/bu-coordinating-researcher-links-workshop-in-south-africa-on-sustainable-management-of-estuaries-and-coasts/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.948765 | 548 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Click for a PDF (printable document format) printable version of Hunt the Fact Monster Hunt November #2.
This is the Hunt the Fact Monster hunt for use in the primary grades (grades 2 to 4). If you are looking for intermediate-grade Hunt the Fact Monster hunts, see the Hunt the Fact Monster Archive.
Scroll down or click for an answer key to this hunt.
Thanks to the kind folks at Fact Monster for partnering with EducationWorld.com to bring you this fun and educational activity.
Answer Key for This Hunt
1. the Wampanoag; 2. "trail of tears"; 3. more than 3,000,000 (three million) square miles; 4. Mark Twain; 5. as many as 50 or more babies.
This Hunt's Questions
1. The Pilgrims and Indians celebrated Thanksgiving together in 1621. To which Native American group did those Indians belong?
2. In 1838, John Ross led thousands of Cherokee people when they were forced to move from Georgia to Oklahoma. By what name is that trip known?
3. The world's largest desert is the Sahara desert. How large is the Sahara?
4. Who was the author of such famous books as Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn?
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Heading A Football 'Affects Brain Function'
24 October 2016, 11:19
New research into heading a football has identified ''significant'' changes in brain function from routine practice.
The study by the University of Stirling is the first to detect direct changes after players are exposed to everyday head impacts, as opposed to clinical brain injuries like concussion.
The findings come after concerns that players' brains are damaged by repeated head impacts.
World Cup winner George Cohen has called for the game to tackle the issue of head injuries, saying old-style leather footballs are ''nasty''.
Former England and West Brom striker Jeff Astle died in 2002 at the age of 59 having suffered from early on-set dementia, which a coroner found was caused by heading footballs and gave the cause of death as ''industrial disease''.
A subsequent re-examination of Astle's brain found he was suffering from the neuro-degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
CTE can only be established following death and it has also been found in deceased American footballers, boxers and rugby players.
Astle's daughter Dawn has been campaigning for more research into the matter and was told by the Football Association and the Professional Footballers' Association in late 2014 that they were talking to Fifa.
Now, researchers have tested a group of 19 footballers by making them head a ball 20 times.
The ball was fired from a machine designed to simulate the pace and power of a corner and scientists tested players' brain function and memory before and immediately after the heading sessions. They were also tested after 24 hours, 48 hours and two weeks.
Increased inhibition in the brain was detected after just a single session of heading. Memory test performance was also reduced between 41 and 67%, with effects normalising within 24 hours.
Whether the changes to the brain remain temporary after repeated exposure to a football and the long-term consequences of heading on brain health, are yet to be investigated.
Cognitive neuroscientist Dr Magdalena Ietswaart said: ''In light of growing concern about the effects of contact sport on brain health, we wanted to see if our brain reacts instantly to heading a football.
''Using a drill most amateur and professional teams would be familiar with, we found there was in fact increased inhibition in the brain immediately after heading and that performance on memory tests was reduced significantly.
''Although the changes were temporary, we believe they are significant to brain health, particularly if they happen over and over again as they do in football heading.
''With large numbers of people around the world participating in this sport, it is important that they are aware of what is happening inside the brain and the lasting effect this may have.''
Dr Angus Hunter, from the university's Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport, added: ''For the first time, sporting bodies and members of the public can see clear evidence of the risks associated with repetitive impact caused by heading a football.
''We hope these findings will open up new approaches for detecting, monitoring and preventing cumulative brain injuries in sport.
''We need to safeguard the long term health of football players at all levels, as well as individuals involved in other contact sports.''
Cohen told the Daily Telegraph in June: ''You felt sick sometimes when it hit you. They started out at 14 to 16 ounces but, with rain, they were two or three pounds.
''Even if it hit you on the side of the head, a graze, it was really uncomfortable. Those early balls were really rather nasty." | <urn:uuid:fafd1976-f241-436d-98d0-6d27d60ad377> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.capitalfm.com/scotland/radio/news/local/heading-a-football-affects-brain-function/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00126-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973655 | 729 | 3.265625 | 3 |
What caused the obesity epidemic? As I've noted in my writing and talks, the obesity epidemic was paralleled by an increase in daily calorie intake that was sufficiently large to fully account for it. There are two main sources of data for US calorie intake. The first is NHANES surveys conducted by the Centers for Disease Control. They periodically collect data on food intake using questionnaires, and these surveys confirm that calorie intake has increased. The problem with the NHANES food intake data is that they're self-reported and therefore subject to major reporting errors. However, NHANES surveys provide the best quality (objectively measured) data on obesity prevalence since 1960, which we'll be using in this post.
The second source of data on calorie intake is the USDA Economic Research Service (1). The ERS estimates food consumption based on production. The data are freely available and some of them go all the way back to 1909. Despite the limitations of this method, I've come to believe that the ERS database is the most accurate and complete record of US food intake available. After appropriate adjustments*, ERS data show that on average, US adults consumed 363 more calories per day in 2009 than we did in 1960.
If we plot calorie intake and obesity prevalence on the same graph, the correspondence is striking, but it only occurred to me recently to try to put them both into a scatterplot. Scatterplots directly plot one variable vs. another (i.e., one on the horizontal axis and one on the vertical axis), and they are useful for determining how tightly two variables are correlated. The more tightly the two variables are correlated, the better the points approximate a diagonal line. When I plot calorie intake vs. obesity prevalence between 1961 and 2006, the correlation is striking:
The R-squared value quantifies the strength of the correlation, with a value ranging between 0 and 1. The R-squared value of 0.93 indicates an extremely strong correlation between calorie intake and the prevalence of obesity, and this correlation is highly statistically significant. The slope of the "best fit line" also allows us to draw another conclusion: each 100-calorie increment corresponds to a 4.2 percent increase in the prevalence of obesity.
When we consider extreme obesity (BMI greater than 40), we see a similar correlation:
The ERS data also allow us to look at the macronutrients carbohydrate, fat, and protein. Let's see how they correlate with the prevalence of obesity, starting with carbohydrate:
The correlation with carbohydrate isn't quite as strong as with calories, but it's still extremely strong. How about fat?
Again, the correlation is slightly weaker than with total calories, but still extremely strong. How about protein?
Surprisingly, this was the strongest correlation of all-- at an R-squared value of 0.94, it slightly surpasses the correlation strength of total calories.
Here's what the graphs show:
- We're eating more calories than we used to.
- There is a very strong relationship between the number of calories we eat and the prevalence of obesity in the US.
- The extra calories are coming from carbohydrate, fat, and protein, and increased intake of all three tightly correlate with increased obesity prevalence.
In other words, we're eating more of everything than we did 50 years ago.
This begs the question, why are we eating more of everything? There are multiple reasons for it, but I described some of the most compelling explanations in my talk Why Do We Overeat? These same concepts form the basis of the Ideal Weight Program.
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HSPVA senior to perform at Grammy events and attend annual awards ceremony
High School for the Performing and Visual Arts student Alexandria DeWalt’s dream to make music that the world will hear is coming true sooner than she imagined.
DeWalt is among 32 talented high school students from across the country selected by the Grammy Foundation for the 2017 Grammy Camp – Jazz Session where young musicians are provided the opportunity to record an album together, perform for some of music’s biggest names, and attend the Grammy Awards ceremony as guests of The Recording Academy.
The program encourages high school students to pursue professional careers in the music industry and makes them eligible for more than $2 million in college scholarships made possible through the Grammy Foundation’s college partners.
“I am overjoyed,” DeWalt said. “It is mind-blowing that I will be surrounded by some of the most extremely talented musicians. I am looking forward to making music with them, recording in the same studio as Nat King Cole, and of course going to the Grammys.”
The HSPVA senior, who sings jazz and plays the saxophone and flute, will head to Los Angeles next month for the 10-day experience. The group will record the “GRAMMY Jazz 25” album at Capitol Studios, and the album will later be featured on iTunes, Amazon, and Rhapsody. They also will perform at the Grammy Celebration after-party on Feb. 12.
DeWalt, who started playing jazz at Parker Elementary School and continued her music studies at Meyerland Middle School, comes from a musically gifted family. Her older brother, Adam DeWalt, an HSPVA graduate and Loyola University jazz student, inspired her to delve deeper into music. She also fell in love with jazz after listening to Sarah Vaughan’s classic 1950s song, “Lullaby of Birdland.”
“Alexandria is an amazing young lady,” said HSPVA Principal Scott Allen. “She came to us as an instrumentalist, but she has blossomed in the area of vocal jazz. Watching her mature and grow over the last four years has been a joy – one of the great things about being the principal of HSPVA. The Grammy folks are lucky to have Ms. DeWalt making music with them this year.”
After graduation, DeWalt plans to study vocal jazz and political science in college and has goals of performing on a worldwide music tour with her own music group. She says her sound is most influenced by artists Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ella Fitzgerald, Erykah Badu, and Christian Scott.
“HSPVA has taught me how much work goes into being a musician and has given me a head start in my musical career,” DeWalt said. “I have been given the opportunity to be involved in many different aspects of music such as singing in rock shows, indie music, and playing the sax and flute in musicals. All of this has shaped me into an overall better musician.” | <urn:uuid:0533c93f-8ea6-4a4a-a2f3-142828d04db6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blogs.houstonisd.org/news/2017/01/26/grammy-foundation-selects-hisd-student-to-record-album-with-young-musicians/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.967731 | 645 | 1.523438 | 2 |
The Gifts of Trauma
When it comes to trauma, the best medicine is love. Psychological wounds, knots, and contractions—even the psyche itself—respond much more effectively to love than they do to force or judgement. In this regard, self-love is not frivolous or indulgent, but actually necessary to heal trauma. Incredible healing comes when we combine mindfulness with self-compassion, and when we practice yoga well, it is a direct, embodied form of self love. Self-soothing is one way we can use love as a remedy to fear. Kind words, embracing our own body, a gentle voice, a warm bath, a walk in nature—opportunities to engage in soothing thoughts and actions are all around us. For years I wore soft fabrics and velvet shirts just so that I’d be more inclined to rub my arms and embrace myself.
When I teach psychologically informed asana classes, I begin with different versions of the Mountain pose that yoga classes often start with. Instead of holding hands in prayer in front of their chest, I have people explore the pose with their arms in a self-hugging position or with their hands resting gently on their belly. Even simple changes like this can create a stable, loving, and self-soothing atmosphere in relationship to our body.
Most people who have been traumatized are surprised to learn that their trauma can also be an asset. To be specific, the more we face our trauma, the more wisdom, transformation, and opening we gain. If we pay attention to trauma and the gifts it brings, the gifts have a chance to flourish in us. Here are four such gifts that yoga and psychotherapy can help to transform:
If we can keep our hearts open even as they are breaking, we become better able to feel and connect with others and their suffering. People who have suffered from trauma can often access great empathy for the suffering of others. With the requisite training and inner work, psychotherapists and yoga teachers who have experienced trauma can learn to establish and maintain healthy boundaries with clients, which will actually allow them to activate their empathy and become more permeable without getting overwhelmed by others’ suffering. This balance is crucial to prevent overwhelm and additional wounding.
Understandably, people who have experienced sympathetic/hyperarousal symptoms for much of their lives tend to be hypersensitive. With yoga and psychological inquiry, hypersensitivity transforms into energetic awareness. This can feel psychic at times, but it’s actually quite natural, like the phenomenon of receiving a phone call from a friend you were just thinking about. Someone with heightened sensitivity has the ability to attune to the energy of others and the physical space they share. Like empathy, this level of sensitivity empowers our ability to connect. Working through trauma allows us to harness this unique gift and benefit anyone we choose to encounter.
Trauma often breaks people open at an early age. It leaves them with fundamental questions about love, connection, suffering, the meaning of life, healing, and service. In this way, trauma opens our hearts to spiritual longing. My teacher Lee Lozowick wrote a wonderful prayer: “Please give me a wound of love that only God can heal.” Trauma can leave us feeling overly porous, but this permeability can offer us more doorways into our own embodiment as well as the mystical states offered in yoga and meditation. Again, committing to the necessary inner work enables us to access this profound gift of trauma without succumbing to the popular pitfall of spiritual bypassing.
So many of our greatest teachers and leaders have experienced some type of trauma in their lives. It actually seems rare to me that people enter the path of yoga or psychological inquiry with a healthy, intact, and supportive childhood. According, the commitment to our own healing allows us to offer the same to others. Countless people come to yoga through extreme circumstances—chronic illness, accidents, severe injuries, and addictions. Yoga can be incredibly powerful medicine in this way, and it enables these people to communicate yoga’s potential when they themselves become teachers. The wounded healer is such an important archetype for our time, and it’s paramount that those who suffer trauma understand that recovery and empowerment are possible. As Peter Levine writes, “Trauma is a fact of life. It does not, however, have to be a life sentence.”
Excerpted from YOGA & PSYCHE: Integrating the Paths of Yoga and Psychology for Healing, Transformation, and Joy, by Mariana Caplan. Sounds True, February 2018. Reprinted with permission.
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Silver Spring Foods, Inc., is the world's largest grower and producer of horseradish. Founded in 1929, the company is based in Eau Claire, Wisconsin and also produces an assortment of sauces and mustards. The company was incorporated in 1949 as Silver Spring Gardens.
In 1929, Ellis Huntsinger started growing horseradish and other crops in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. In the early days, he prepared and bottled horseradish by hand. In 1941, Huntsinger discovered that the addition of dairy cream helped further enhance the flavor, heat, and longevity of prepared horseradish. This discovery helped him expand his horseradish sales to markets throughout the United States.
The company has been family-owned since it began. It is currently owned by Ellis Huntsinger’s granddaughter, Nancy Bartusch and her two sons. Around 2000, the company started producing specialty mustards with horseradish as a key ingredient.
Employees of Huntsinger Farm plant horseradish in both the spring and fall using custom-built equipment similar to potato planters. Short sections of root trimmed from the previous year’s crop are placed in the soil, where they will sprout in the spring and grow into a new crop.
Harvesting also takes place in both the spring and fall. Modified potato-diggers reach deep into the soil to remove as much of the root complex as possible. Conveyers fitted with steel bars work to shake off the soil before the roots are loaded into trucks for transport to cold storage. They remain in cold storage until they are used to create prepared horseradish products.
Farm Manager Ken Traaseth continually works to improve horseradish yield and quality at Huntsinger Farms. He routinely inspects the horseradish fields during the summer growing season.
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In what is a recurring theme for him, President Barack Obama called on fathers to be more active in their children’s lives in a Father’s Day message released Saturday.
“I know how important it is to have a dad in your life, because I grew up without my father around. I felt the weight of his absence,” he said in the message delivered as his weekly address the day before the observance of Father’s Day. “So, for Michelle and our girls, I try every day to be the husband and father my family didn’t have when I was young. And every chance I get, I encourage fathers to get more involved in their children’s lives, because what makes you a man isn’t the ability to have a child—it’s the courage to raise one.”
“And while there’s nothing that can replace a parent, any of us can do our part to be a mentor, a sounding board, a role model for a kid who needs one,” he said. “Earlier this year, I launched an initiative called My Brother’s Keeper—an all-hands-on-deck effort to help more of our young men reach their full potential.
As previously reported by NewsOne, the Presidential Task Force for My Brother’s Keeper unveiled a report last month compiled by suggestions and input from a variety of community leaders, government officials, and other individuals.
The initiative has not been without its fair share of criticism.
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If you are one of many real estate owners and developers negotiating with their lenders to modify existing debt on your properties, the recently enacted American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Stimulus Act) provides you with some beneficial tax relief.
With the tight credit markets, rising vacancies and stagnating or decreasing rents, owners are looking for ways to ease their debt burden. The move to negotiate with lenders for debt relief, including forgiveness, has become a more prevalent means of capital preservation and, in some cases, a survival tool for investors.
Modifying debt will often result in cancellation of debt (COD) income for tax purposes, particularly where the loan is reduced or the owner pays off the loan at a discount. Generally, COD is income taxed at ordinary rates to the borrower.
Assume an owner owes $100,000 on a mortgage and the lender agrees to reduce the principal to $60,000. Unless an exception applies, the owner will recognize $40,000 of ordinary income.
For partnerships, the COD income is recognized at the partner level. Insolvent or bankrupt debtors do not have to recognize COD income, but a solvent partner will still be subject to tax on his share of the partnership's COD.
Prior to passage of the 2009 Stimulus Act, the tax rules provided most real estate owners and investors with only one practical way to avoid immediately paying tax on COD. Under this exception, if a lender reduced the principal on a mortgage secured by a troubled property, the owner or investor could elect to reduce the tax basis of depreciable real property used in its trade or business.
But this exception is available only under limited conditions. An owner electing this exception thereafter will have smaller depreciation deductions on his property and will recognize more gain as ordinary income when he sells the affected property. In partnerships, each partner may choose whether to make the election.
Flexibility on existing debt
The 2009 Stimulus Act gives owners another alternative. The new provision adds substantial flexibility for taxpayers renegotiating existing debt because it allows them to defer COD resulting from 2009 and 2010 transactions until 2014. The owner must recognize 20% of the COD in 2014, and in each of the next four years.
The new alternative is simpler and has far fewer restrictions than the basis reduction rule, and, unless the debtor anticipates owning the real estate substantially beyond 2018, deferral provides greater tax benefits.
Applying this new rule to our prior example, if a lender in 2009 agrees to reduce the principal of a $100,000 mortgage to $60,000, instead of immediately paying tax on $40,000 of income, the owner can now defer the income until 2014 and recognize $8,000 in each year from 2014 until 2018.
Secured and unsecured debts are eligible. Property value isn't considered. The basis of an owner's property isn't reduced, and he continues to depreciate 100% of his original cost. The property must be used in the owner's “trade or business”. In the case of partnerships, the election must be made by the partnership and is binding on all of the partners.
Other key provisions
If the owner dies, sells substantially all of his property, or an owning entity liquidates prior to the end of the deferral period, any unrecognized COD will be accelerated into income.
If a partnership that owns only one property makes this election and sells the property in 2013, all of the deferred COD will be recognized. If, prior to the sale, the partnership acquired other property, it may be possible to avoid this result.
Deferred COD is allocated to the partners at the time that the debt is reduced. Any partner selling or redeeming his partnership interest prior to the end of the deferral period will trigger his portion of any unrecognized COD.
The lender often will allow the owner to defer some or all of the interest on the modified debt. The new deferral provision generally limits the ability of an owner to deduct accrued, but unpaid interest during the deferral period.
Literally thousands of commercial property owners are now asking their lenders for debt relief. The 2009 Stimulus Act alternative will allow them to restructure debt on their troubled properties without an immediate tax burden.
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NIJ also has a follow-up inspection and testing requirement to ensure that the body armor worn by officers is safe and reliable. Each body armor manufacturer with a model that meets the standard is subject to six follow-up inspections and testing over a five-year period, consisting of:
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October 2, 2013 by Speakers' Spotlight
How Scott Harrison Wins Over a Crowd
Scott Harrison is the founder and CEO of charity: water, a non-profit organization bringing clean, safe drinking water to people in developing nations. In seven years, with the help of more than 400,000 donors worldwide, charity: water has raised over $100 million and funded over 8,000 water projects in 20 countries. When completed, those projects will provide over three million people with clean, safe drinking water. Inc.com takes a look at how Scott inspires people to support his cause:
Be forewarned: In any Scott Harrison speech, there will be a moment when you will cry. The moments vary for different people, of course, but one bout of weeping seems to be the minimum.
Most can’t make it all the way through the Rachel Beckwith story: The little girl gives up her birthday presents to raise $300 for clean water in Ethiopia, but falls short. A month later, she loses her life in an auto wreck. Her family rallies her community and people everywhere–and they raise $1.2 million. Then, Harrison plays the video of Rachel’s mother being welcomed by singing, happy Ethiopian villagers, the ones Rachel saved, and then the crew starts the drilling and the clear water splashes over everyone, and then, oh, boy; here we go; I’m crying watching this speech in this stupid auditorium.
Scott Harrison runs charity: water, a nonprofit organization that provides money to local charities that drill wells and install water-filtration systems in the developing world. Harrison’s business is telling stories that pull at people’s heartstrings and then their purse strings. He is very good at it: Since he founded charity: water in 2007, he has raised more than $100 million for the cause.
Among entrepreneurs, Harrison is a role model for how to make people believe in you. “He’s completely rethought several pieces of the marketing puzzle,” says Brian Halligan, CEO of HubSpot, a marketing software company that invited Harrison to tell his organization’s story before 5,000 people at a conference in August. “There wasn’t a dry eye in there.” Charity: water raised more than $60,000 at the event. How does Harrison do it? Here are his tips for winning over an audience.
In every charity: water talk, Harrison begins by recounting his early life: how he grew up in a loving family but then lost his way when he moved to New York City, found booze and drugs, and became a nightclub promoter. Sitting in charity: water’s New York City office, which is bustling at 8 o’clock on a summer evening, Harrison acknowledges that, as much as he regrets those years, promoting parties taught him a valuable skill. Because he paid attention to what got people having fun, he says, “I knew how to get people excited about a story.”
Another key to Harrison’s success is visual storytelling, something he learned about after he quit the nightlife business and spent a year volunteering on a hospital ship bound for Liberia, where he took pictures of patients before and after dramatic facial surgeries. When he returned to New York City, he put together a gallery exhibit and raised money for Mercy Ships, the charity that ran the boat. These days, when he’s onstage promoting charity: water, he uses pictures and videos to illustrate the story, making it feel immediate and real. Later, he provides major donors and fundraisers with photos and GPS coordinates of wells they helped fund.
Make It Easy to Say Yes
Harrison emphasizes that small donations can have a big impact. In 2007, the first charity: water fundraiser was for his 31st birthday. (He raised $17,000.) The next year, for his 32nd birthday, he asked people to stay home and donate $32. (He raised $59,000.) Now, this simple call to action–give up your birthday and ask people to donate your age in dollars–is one he proposes at the end of most speeches. “It’s a great jujitsu marketing trick,” Halligan says. “He doesn’t say, ‘We need to raise $100,000 for this campaign.’ Instead, he explains how a small amount will make a huge, specific change in a few people’s lives.”
Know Your Audience
Raising money for water projects was the easy part. For a while, Harrison wasn’t raising enough money to cover operations. At one point, he was five weeks away from missing payroll. Then, Michael Birch, co-founder of the social network Bebo, donated $1 million to fund operations. That’s when Harrison realized that wealthier private donors liked the idea of funding the charity’s business side. “People are open to a lot of value propositions. They just want to know where their money is going,” he says. PopCap co-founder John Vechey, who has agreed to donate $3 million to charity: water’s operations, says it felt almost like a venture capital investment. “I felt like I spent money to hire smart people, who will do exciting new things and reach way more people,” Vechey says. That’s a story wealthy donors, especially entrepreneurs, love to get behind. | <urn:uuid:f767014f-7df5-4811-87cc-a70644c15548> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.speakers.ca/2013/10/how-scott-harrison-wins-over-a-crowd/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.960283 | 1,141 | 1.601563 | 2 |
The FBI is working to find missing children. But we need the public's help.
The information shown above on the map's pinpoints is also available in text form at the bottom of this page.
The children featured here may have been located since this information was posted. Please check our Kidnappings & Missing Persons webpage for up-to-date information.
Anthonette Cayedito disappeared from her family home in New Mexico more than 35 years ago.
Although decades have passed, the FBI continues to search for Cayedito, who was 9 years old when she vanished. Anthonette’s Missing Person poster is one of many that have been translated into Navajo recently in an effort to generate more information from the public.
“The FBI and our partners have checked out numerous tips as we continue to investigate this disappearance,” said FBI Albuquerque Acting Special Agent in Charge Eric S. Brown, Sr. “We are asking anyone who might have information about this case to come forward now and help us find Anthonette.”
Anthonette is one of dozens of missing children the FBI continues to search for—and that search continues no matter how long the child has been missing. On this Missing Children’s Day, look at the missing children on the map above. If you recognize any of them, contact the FBI or local law enforcement, or submit a tip online if you have any information.
Additionally, our Child ID app allows you to store photos and physical descriptions of your child on your smartphone. If your child ever goes missing, you can use the app to quickly send information to the authorities. (The FBI does not store or collect the photos or information you enter into the app. The data lives on your device unless you choose to send it to police in an emergency.)
Learn more about the FBI’s mission to safely return missing children home in the Missing Children's Day episode of the Inside the FBI podcast, which talks about the work of our Child Abduction Rapid Deployment Teams.
Map Pinpoint Information
The children listed here are featured on the maps above and may have been located since this information was posted. Please check our Kidnappings & Missing Persons webpage for up-to-date information.
Anthonette Christine Cayedito
Anthonette was last seen in Gallup, New Mexico, on April 6, 1986, when she was 9 years old.
Tara Leigh Calico
Tara was last seen in Belen, New Mexico, on September 20, 1988, when she was 19 years old.
Asha Jaquilla Degree
Asha was last seen in Shelby, North Carolina, on February 14, 2000, when she was 9 years old.
Sara Nicole Graham
Sara was last seen in Fairmont, North Carolina, on February 4, 2015, when she was 18 years old.
Diamond Yvette Bradley
Diamond was last seen in Chicago, Illinois, on July 6, 2001, when she was 3 years old.
Tionda Z. Bradley
Tionda was last seen in Chicago, Illinois, on July 6, 2001, when she was 10 years old.
Ashley was last seen in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 7, 2007, when she was 14 years old.
Lashaya was last seen in Aurora, Colorado, on July 15, 2016, when she was 16 years old.
Kaylah Hunter and Kristian Justice
Kaylah and Kristian were last seen in Detroit, Michigan, on May 24, 2014, when Kaylah was 9 years old and Kristian was 7 months old.
Steven Earl Kraft, Jr.
Steven was last seen in Benton Township, Michigan, on February 15, 2001, when he was 12 years old.
Myra was last seen in Camden, Mississippi, on March 1, 2014, when she was 2 years old.
Karla was last seen in Las Vegas, Nevada, on October 20, 1999, when she was 7 years old.
Crystal Ann Tymich
Crystal was last seen in Los Angeles, California, on June 30, 1994, when she was 6 years old.
Christine Marie Eastin
Christine was last seen in Hayward, California, on January 18, 1971, when she was 19 years old.
Kristin Denise Smart
Kristin was last seen in San Luis Obispo, California, on May 25, 1996, when she was 19 years old.
Joshua Keshaba Sierra Garcia
Joshua was last seen in Mexico City, Mexico, on August 12, 2003, when he was 1 year old.
Tabitha Danielle Tuders
Tabitha was last seen in Nashville, Tennessee, on April 29, 2003, when she was 13 years old.
Amber Elizabeth Cates
Amber was last seen in Columbia, Tennessee, on April 11, 2004, when she was 16 years old.
Bethany Leanne Markowski
Bethany was last seen in Jackson, Tennessee, on March 4, 2001, when she was 11 years old.
Cayce Lynn McDaniel
Cayce was last seen in Milan, Tennessee, on April 16, 1996, when she was 14 years old.
Alexis S. Patterson
Alexis was last seen in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on May 3, 2002, when she was 7 years old.
Shanna Genelle Peoples
Shanna was last seen in Geneva, Alabama, on September 8, 2011, when she was 19 years old.
Daniel was last seen in Baldwin County, Alabama, on June 18, 1959, when he was 4 years old.
Keiosha Marie Felix
Keiosha was last seen in Duson, Louisiana, on April 30, 2012, when she was 15 years old.
Wesley Dale Morgan
Wesley was last seen in Clinton, Louisiana, on May 15, 2001, when he was 2 years old.
David was last seen in New Lisbon, Burlington County, New Jersey, on April 7, 1975, when he was 12 years old.
Mark was last seen in Del Haven, New Jersey, on November 25, 1991, when he was 11 years old.
Margaret Ellen Fox
Margaret was last seen in Burlington, New Jersey, on June 24, 1974, when she was 14 years old.
Suzanne G. Lyall
Suzanne was last seen in Guilderland, New York, on March 2, 1998, when she was 19 years old.
William Ebeneezer Jones, Jr.
William was last seen in Vineland, New Jersey, on December 17, 1962, when he was 3 years old.
Steven was last seen in New Lisbon, Burlington County, New Jersey, on April 7, 1975, when he was 17 years old.
Amina Kandil and Belel Kandil
Amina and Belel were last seen in James City County, Virginia, on August 29, 2014, when Amina was 10 years old and Belel was 8 years old.
Sunny was last seen in Trenton, Nebraska, on April 20, 2019, when she was 18 years old.
Kyron Richard Horman
Kyron was last seen in Portland, Oregon, on June 4, 2010, when he was 7 years old.
Shausha Latine Henson
Shausha was last seen in Portland, Oregon, on April 4, 2001, when she was 2 months old.
Shaina Ashley Kirkpatrick
Shaina was last seen in Portland, Oregon, on April 4, 2001, when she was 3 years old.
Karlie Lain Gusé
Karlie was last seen in Mono County, California, on October 13, 2018, when she was 16 years old.
Rachel Louise Cooke
Rachel was last seen in Georgetown, Texas, on January 10, 2002, when she was 19 years old.
Arianna was last seen in Oakland, California, in February 2016, when she was 2 years old.
Kristen was last seen in San Francisco, California, on June 23, 1997, when she was 18 years old.
Ilene Beth Misheloff
Ilene was last seen in Dublin, California, on January 30, 1989, when she was 13 years old.
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Designed to assist TerraSpec® 4 mineral analyzer users to quickly and accurately identify key minerals in a deposit, The Spectral Geologist (TSG®) Pro mineral analysis software uses the high quality spectral data captured using the TerraSpec 4 mineral analyzer to easily sort and analyze mineral data. In addition to the software’s intuitive flow and visual presentation of complex data, it offers
- Highly visual interpretation of spectral data, with a variety of visualization options
- The ability to turn thousands of spectra into mineralogical indices for plotting mineral characteristics (such as composition)
- Tools to assist with automatic mineral interpretation, such as The Spectral Assistant® (TSA™) and the Aux Match function
- The capacity to analyze and visualize the mineralogy of large core-logging data sets
- The capability to see and plot your results down hole, or as sections, maps and scatterplots
- Simple export of critical data which can be used in other software programs for further processing
Below: The TSG Scatter Screen. Here we have a spatial Easting vs. Depth plot showing about 40 drill holes together with a scatter plot of two spectral indices calculated from the spectral data. Each circle represents a sample point. The Lasso function is illustrated here, where a cluster of sample points have been lassoed in the scatter plot and their spatial positions in the Easting vs. Depth plot are highlighted.
Developed by the Commonwealth Scientific Industry Research Organization (CSIRO) in Australia, the TSG Pro™ software interface has been designed specifically for geological applications. The analysis techniques available in TSG Pro focus on the applications of using spectral reflectance data for mineral analysis of outcrops, hand samples, drill cores, chips and pulps. Project data sets can be combined and organized together to easily analyze using methods such as mapping mineral assemblages, applications of spectral parameters for automated logging/mapping, deposit characterization and developing vectors to mineralization.
Below: The TSG Log Screen. In this plot, the spectral analysis results (Grp1 TSAS, Grp2 TSAS, CompChlorite, CompWtMica and dAlOH/dMgOH) are compared with imported data on each sample (Hole ID, from-to depths, and mineralisation percentage). The spectral data provide useful data on the key minerals which compared with the imported mineralisation data indicate a distinct change in both the chlorite and white mica chemistries which appears to be directly associated with proximity to mineralization.
Enhance your experience with the TSG Pro Starter Package and the Spectral Analysis Processing Program.
TerraSpec/TSG Pro Starter Package
- TSG Pro™ license with USB dongle
- Book: “ Spectral Interpretation Field Manual” - a spectral library of a wide range of common minerals
- Book: “A Practical Applications Guide to using the TerraSpec in Exploration and Mining”
- Full technical support
- Introductory Spectral analysis and TSG training (monthly webinars/training videos by AusSpec experts).
- Introduction to the principles of spectral analysis, the identifying features of mineral spectra and the information gained from them.
- Practical aspects of sampling and measurement issues, including QA/QC.
- TSG functionality.
- Introduction to data handling.
- The TerraSpec/TSG Pro Starter Package is designed so that it can be presented to the client at point of delivery.
Learn more about AusSpec and its approach to helping customers improve their mining exploration data processing skills.
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The Attorney General has cleared the way for a new inquest in the case of a nine-year-old girl whose death has been linked to illegal levels of air pollution.
Ella Kissi-Debrah (pictured), who lived 25 metres from the South Circular Road in London, died in 2013 after three years of seizures and 27 visits to hospital for asthma attacks.
An inquest in September 2014 concluded Ella’s death was caused by acute respiratory failure and severe asthma. Although that inquest did not consider the impact of air pollution on her death, last year an expert linked it to dangerously high levels of pollution that breached legal limits.
Following a campaign by Ella’s mother, Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, attorney general Geoffrey Cox has allowed her to apply to the High Court to quash the first inquest and have a new one heard.
An application will now be lodged and a High Court judge will decide whether a new inquest will take place.
Mr Cox said: ‘I have received several representations about Ella’s case, and acknowledge the wider interest that has been taken in it. However, I must assess the application based only on the facts of the case, and on whether there is enough new evidence available to merit reopening the inquest process.
‘I have concluded that there is new evidence which may alter the substantial truth of Ella’s death.’
Ms Adoo-Kissi-Debrah said: ‘Words cannot express how happy I am that the attorney general has taken this decision and I would like to thank him for reaching his conclusion. Nothing will bring my beautiful, bright, bubbly child back, but now at least I may get answers about how she died and whether it was air pollution, which snatched her away from us.
‘Now I hope a new inquest will make those in power realise that our children are dying as a result of the air that they breathe. This cannot go on. Why is this not being taken more seriously by the Government? What do we need to do, to make them prioritise our children’s lives over convenience and the rights of people to pollute?’
Jocelyn Cockburn, partner at Hodge Jones & Allen, who represents Ms Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, said: ‘Air pollution is costing people’s lives and those most vulnerable are children. There is a need for more urgency into how air pollution is dealt with in urban areas to bring it within lawful limits as soon as possible.’ | <urn:uuid:61b8db32-35d1-4856-b60a-9041fea95b97> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.transport-network.co.uk/Attorney-General-backs-mother-over-girls-pollution-linked-death/15577 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.975136 | 532 | 1.945313 | 2 |
I think we have all heard this claim for years (That CO2 causes our planet to change drastically) but here I show logically why this is claim is based on false premises. The scientific method explains why it is necessary to first disprove the null hypothesis. The short explanation is that this ensures continuity of ideas and logic. If you do not keep this continuity, you double down on your original mistake and thusly anything you publish or explain within this frame of reference is always going to be wrong. In other words, climate science is not doomed because it is wrong per se, but it is doomed because it is based on a premise that is unproven.
Science at Oregon State University is no longer being applied honestly or even in any resemblance to the scientific method. Instead of measuring statistics properly and coming to a good conclusion based off of solid data, we have incidents such as the recent Marcott paper where the data says one thing, and the scientist says another.
The story in this case seems to be that after they performed wrong calculations to get the data they wanted, they put a tiny disclaimer in after the fact that their conclusions in the paper are not based on proper methods. Basically, in the actual paper’s abstract they make several “opinions of the author” and yet they imply strongly that their conclusions come from actual data. What is even worse is that Dr. Marcott admits to it and yet the paper still remains and the news articles remain the same as well. This is easy to see how this could be construed as outright fraud since the brand new PHD Dr. Marcott is performing incorrect methods and yet after admitting it does not change any of the conclusions he made in the abstract. He was caught in the act of lying and instead of apologizing and changing the incorrect lines, he double downs on dishonesty and says that its OK to lie in his conclusions because he put a disclaimer at a separate website that explains that his methods are “not robust.” This does not answer the questions of why he is being dishonest in the first place however. Perhaps we need to start posing the questions for Oregon State University. If we can not expect your scientists to ever tell the truth, how in the world can we the people trust you with our money? And if you can not even apply the scientific method correctly, why should we trust our children in your hands when you obviously just teach them to lie, cheat, and steal instead of following proper science? | <urn:uuid:be40d9b7-9757-4a77-a483-10ec1c63fc51> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://benfrommo.wordpress.com/category/universities/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.969125 | 502 | 2.59375 | 3 |
For successful athletes, academics and sports merge
By Dave Geringer and Jamie Schanback
Jonas Tetlie • Cross Country Skiing
Tetlie is a junior from Kabelvaag, Norway. He's working on a bachelor of business
administration degree in finance, and, like Johanna
began skiing as a youngster.
"In Norway, everyone learns to ski," said Turunen. "In elementary school, you
have to ski once a week."
UAF's schedule this year included the United States Collegiate Cup and the NorAm Super
Tour. Those meets came at the beginning of the second semester, and forced members of the ski
team to miss the first week of class.
"When we get back, we try to catch up," said Tetlie. "You are behind at the
beginning of the semester, and you just have to do the homework and talk to your professors.
The professors here are usually very good about giving you the syllabus in advance, so we can
start the assignments early and do the readings. We take textbooks when we go on the road,
and try to keep up with the reading. It's easier to go to class when you get back if
you don't have to spend too much time on what you need to know."
Tetlie said that if you can manage your time well, you can be successful in
college. "During the semester, there isn't much free time," said Tetlie. "It's
all about structure and discipline. If you have the structure and discipline, you can do well in
school. You have to use your time effectively rather than just sitting in front of the TV."
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