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- September 2017
- President’s Notes
- AmericanWool.org Launches
- Priority 1: Parasite Resistance
- Lambstock 2017
- Kopanke Earns Scholarship
- Clements Perseveres in South Dakota
- Court Upholds Wyoming Grazing
- Industry Impact Study Available
- Committee Discusses H-2A
- Executive Board Meets in Park City
- Market Report
- The Last Word
Clements Perseveres in South Dakota
ASI Senior Policy & Information Director
On the plains of west-central South Dakota, the Clements Ranch – run by Steve and Pam Clements – has been in the family for three generations.
In the sheep business for 110 years, Steve and Pam have continued the tradition, raising their family and running sheep and cattle. In addition to dealing with the challenges of mother nature, the Clements’ must also contend with predators robbing from the bottom line. As chair of the ASI Predator Management Committee, Steve understands the value of effective predator control.
“The USDA Wildlife Services’ aerial program is the most valuable tool we have left for predator control,” Steve says. “Every year the aerial program and the state trappers in South Dakota, take 8,000 to 10,000 coyotes. The ground programs are a big part of that success, as well.
“The M-44 coyote getter is the most targeted device we have. You lose a lamb or a calf to a coyote, and that’ll get them. Not only is it targeted, but it is effective. Set 100 of them and you’ll get 98 coyotes.”
In addition to sheep, the Clements also graze and feed cattle. A few years back they built a feedlot for 450 head of cattle.
“While cattle feeding has been a challenging business these past few years, the drylot has allowed us to expand our options for profitability and make better use of limited forage.”
Working on dry land has given the family an immense appreciation for what it takes to make a ranch viable in the face of rising input costs. Range improvements, adding protein and tonnage to pastures, are a major topic as they drive across a section interseeded with a handful of alfalfa varietals.
“Over a decade ago, we participated in a pilot program with the local extension service to drill alfalfa into this pasture,” Steve says. “It has worked great and made this one of my most productive pastures, even in the current drought.”
Steve also serves on the Haakon County Commission, where his dedication to range improvement and good land stewardship help guide county policy. While innovation has provided improvements in range and forage usage, there is still a healthy respect for past techniques, especially as it comes back to the perennial topic of predator control.
“The tools we used to have for predator control were much more effective,” he says. “I was probably 14 before I ever saw a coyote on the place. When they got rid of 1080, they took away one of the most effective tools we had for predator control.”
The Clements sell sheep annually at the Newell (S.D.) Sheep Yards and market their cattle through Philip (S.D.) Livestock or Ft. Pierre (S.D.) Livestock. The Clements raise Rambouillet ewes with Hampshire cross lambs.
“We’ve been raising crosses for 20 years or more. They seem to get heavier and grow faster on the grass here.”
As Steve proudly points out, they produce “good quality wool – 22.5 micron – which has gone into the military market.” | <urn:uuid:df4b115c-5fed-446d-b937-561a9fd28e32> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sheepusa.org/blog/newsmedia-sheepindustrynews-pastissues-2017-september2017-clementsperseveresinsouthdakota | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.941604 | 800 | 1.617188 | 2 |
President Obama's $66 billion job stimulus did nothing more than cost the taxpayers more money. Sure, it saved and created 2.4 million jobs, but at the cost of $278 million per job.
Common sense would tell you that if the stimulus money would have been given to the consumer, taxpayers, I believe the economy would have made a significant turnaround.
People would have been spending, thereby creating a demand for more product, which means more jobs. Some people might have saved it, but their savings would be giving banks more capital to lend out. Some might have been able to use their windfall to help with their mortgages and, who knows, perhaps avoided a foreclosure.
I'm not saying I approve of the government spending the money, but if they are going to spend it carelessly, than we the taxpayers should be doing the spending. | <urn:uuid:8a9af628-b0cd-4d04-a87a-0473bb59aeb7> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20110708/discuss/707089843/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719908.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00157-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982913 | 173 | 1.742188 | 2 |
May 01 - 02, 2014
This seminar will teach a systematic and practical approach to designing, optimizing, and troubleshooting single-screw extruders and dies. Attendees will gain a good understanding of practical rheology and how to use it for efficient die design. Explaining why certain extrusion "phenomena" occur is a major theme of this seminar, and a number of industry-relevant case studies will be provided. Topics covered will be applicable to all areas of single-screw extrusion including pipe and tubing, film and sheet, wire and cable coating, blow molding and profile extrusion. Attendees will learn about the most important design criteria that go into good die designs and how to differentiate between good and bad designs.
This course is intended for anyone who is currently responsible for or interested in the design, performance, optimization or purchase of single-screw extruders and/or extrusion dies. Extrusion die designers, process engineers, technical service personnel, research and development personnel and those responsible for specifying and troubleshooting extrusion processes will obtain the most benefit from this course. | <urn:uuid:d7ba6a1c-5db6-40e0-8842-ff506c3bf9fa> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ptonline.com/events/details/2a30dc57-0a93-49ca-9797-8ab9b836935f | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00025-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913027 | 225 | 2.171875 | 2 |
For uni students, staying fit and healthy both physically and mentally can be as challenging as waking up for an 8am lecture! When life gets in the way: particularly during times of increased workloads, assessment due dates, and study breaks, we sometimes forget to take care of our own health and happiness. In this short blog, to mark ‘Mental Health Week’ (9–15 October 2016), I have compiled a list of simple activities that really help in maintaining physical and mental wellbeing, aptly titled ‘The Ultimate Relaxation Guide’.
1. Place a bowl of fruit on your desk while reading/revising. This not only assists in providing your body with a source of natural sugar, but it is a healthy alternative for anyone with a sweet tooth! Strawberries, blueberries, grapes, and raspberries are all examples of fruit that can be easily snacked on while studying.
2. Meditate. Or practise breathing techniques. This can increase concentration, awareness, and decrease stress levels! The Student Guild offers yoga sessions every Tuesday 6.30-7.30pm at the University Club (free for members and $5 for non-members).
3. Go for a walk. Whether it be for ten minutes or thirty minutes, going for a short walk before writing an assignment can help to increase brain activity (and makes you feel much more attentive). This can also help with the infamous ‘mental block’.
4. Climb a mountain. Mountains are like big assignments, hugely intimidating when you haven’t started but so satisfying when you reach the end. Whether you’re a beginner, intermediate, or expert, there are many mountains on the coast to suit your needs! Be sure to read up on all safety precautions before undertaking any climbing.
5. Read… for fun. Sometimes, all you need is a warm bed, a big blanket, and a good book. If you’re not a big reader, then relax by watching a movie with a big bowl of popcorn!
6. Drink a warm beverage. Particularly during those late night study sessions, tea, hot chocolate, warm milk, etc. are all wonderful drinks to elevate your mood.
7. Colour. There’s something incredibly soothing about colouring in. The next time you are feeling overwhelmed or stuck on a piece of assessment, take a break and colour. Mindfulness books can be found at any book shop or stationary store, or can also be printable online. This one sounds so simple but can genuinely be very therapeutic.
8. Socialise. Whether going to the movies, beach, dinner, walking your dog, or staying at home watching Netflix, having some time with other people is the best way to take your mind off of uni work.
9. Set goals. Even setting small goals per day- such as reading a chapter of a textbook, or drinking 8 glasses of water- helps to increase overall mental wellbeing by creating a sense of accomplishment. Plus, it assists in dividing up/prioritising all your tasks for the day!
10. Rest and refresh. We all know that getting enough sleep can sometimes be impossible; so, in these instances, it is even more important to rest your mind while studying. Be sure to follow a routine that works for you (whether it be 30 minutes of work and 10 minutes of relaxation, 40 minutes of work and 15 minutes of relaxation, etc), and you will certainly be able to accomplish both work and rest without burning out.
If at any time this semester you feel overwhelmed, be sure to check out Student Wellbeing. Located at the ground floor of Building E, the staff at Student Wellbeing can assist you Monday-Friday 8.30am-5pm. Alternatively, you can email [email protected].
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4-H Youth Teaching Youth
In an effort to create unique leadership and career exploration opportunities, the 4-H Youth Teaching Youth program trains teens to take an active role in the teaching and leading of healthy living curriculum to their younger counterparts. These teens are not merely supporting an adult educator or tutoring, but taking charge of the session delivery by fully executing the learning experience on their own. Teens are trained by 4-H staff on classroom management and public speaking skills prior to delivering the program.
Why teens as teachers? Through the delivery process, teen teachers and their younger peers build a relationship that holds dual benefits for each party; the teens are mastering new skills and appreciate being viewed as a role model, and the younger youth are observing a peer making positive choices, showing compassion for each student in the session, and acting as a role model. Research indicates that cross-age teaching is an effective delivery method because pre-teens and younger children often respond more enthusiastically to modeling by teens than adults; younger youth look up to teens, so rapport is established very quickly. Some researchers would go as far as to say that it is the most effective way of providing opportunities for positive youth development and encouraging youth to avoid delinquent behaviors.
Training teens to deliver our programming provides an opportunity to expand the 4-H reach far beyond what staff alone could accomplish while building strong relationships between youth, teens, and partner agencies alike.
Are you a school or youth-serving organization? Become a 4-H Youth Teaching Youth partner! Contact Amber Shanahan ([email protected]) to get started.
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Legends of the Saxophone
This session was recorded live in 1979 at a now de-funk night club called Christos in downtown San Francisco. The crowd was treated to an old fashioned jam session featuring Sonny Stitt and Red Holloway with the local rhythm section comprised of the Bay Area's best, Ed Kelly on piano, William "Smiley' Winters on drums and Harley White Sr. on bass. When Stitt was asked why he was touring with another saxophonist he replied; "I have to have something to chew on". While both where playing tenor saxophone Red Holloway was heard to reply; "Every time I cut you, you go to that alto" Everyone was treated to a rare musical opportunity to hear history being played. The CD is the real deal when it comes to bebop classics. "ENJOY" Harley White Sr. Edward 'Sonny' Stitt, born February 2, 1924 in Boston, died July 22, 1982 in Washington, D.C. Played alto, tenor and baritone saxes and recorded, according to most counts, more than 150 albums. Although disparaged early in his career as a mere imitator of Charlie Parker, he outlived Bird by more than 25 years and left a recorded legacy the equivalent of only a handful of saxophonists. He played more tenor saxophone during the '50s to more greatly distance himself from Bird, and his statements on tenor reflect a heavy influence of Lester Young. He influenced musicians as diverse as Frank Foster, Booker Ervin and Ken Peplowski, according to their own accounts. Famous for his participation in major 'cutting' sessions with everyone, he was well known for his ability to play quickly and accurately across the most complicated chord changes. He also knew virtually every popular song and played the blues with authority and feeling. In 1967 "Red Holloway" moved to Los Angeles and in 1969 became the coordinator of talent and member of the house band at the famed Parisian Room. This association lasted for the next fifteen years and saw Red hire virtually everyone who was anyone in the world of jazz and blues. Red quit as talent coordinator for the Parisian Room after his request for a cost-of-living raise was denied. The club closed eight months later. From 1977 to 1982, he and altoist Sonny Stitt became a duo and cut two records on Catalyst: Forecast; Partners - Sonny and Red. In fact, it was Sonny who encouraged Red to take up the alto saxophone, believing that anyone who could also play clarinet, flute, piccolo, piano, bass, drums, and violin could probably master yet another instrument. Sonny was right, and Red is equally proficient on both tenor and alto. In The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Seventies, Leonard Feather wrote that 'Holloway is capable of generating great excitement with his big sound and hard-driving, mainstream-modern style.' | <urn:uuid:86d08759-369a-4905-932b-1416d42e86f0> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.wowhd.co.uk/sonny-stitt-legends-of-the-saxophone/894124002015 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720468.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00488-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982843 | 603 | 1.664063 | 2 |
This policy outlines the responsibilities of the Office of Environment, Health and Safety (EH&S) as the sole communicator with environmental health and safety regulatory agencies on behalf UCSF.
A. Regulatory agencies which impact UCSF operations include the California Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, Bay Area Air Quality Management District, San Francisco Health Department, California State Department of Health Services, California State Fire Marshal's Office, and the Environmental Protection Agency.
B. EH&S, as a liaison to outside agencies, has the responsibility to maintain clear communication with environmental health and safety regulatory agencies and to provide appropriate technical input in decision making and compliance strategies.
1. EH&S shall act on behalf of all UCSF campus sites and medical centers with regulatory agencies regarding matters of environment, health, or safety. This includes both written and verbal communications, scheduling visits of said agencies, and coordination of abatement violations issued by regulatory agencies to any department or administrative unit.
2. All correspondence received from such regulatory agencies must be forwarded to EH&S. When representatives of regulatory agencies conduct unscheduled visits or inspections, EH&S must be notified immediately.
3. Exceptions must be approved by the Executive Vice Chancellor.
Contact Office of Origin (see above) with any questions. | <urn:uuid:4752bf7d-8a4b-4253-b5cd-8ab051fc45cd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://policies.ucsf.edu/policy/550-16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00679.warc.gz | en | 0.928229 | 272 | 1.710938 | 2 |
ACCORDING TO UTE INDIAN LEGEND, the mountains that surround Salt Lake Valley were created by the great spirit Manitou, who took rock and dust from the sky’s floor and swept them through a hole in the sky. With the help of rain, snow and Tavaci (the sun), the mountains became even more beautiful. Manitou was very pleased.
The land, which encompasses 47-acres, was incorporated into Cottonwood Heights in 2005. Due to the uniqueness of the location of the property, a number of hurdles had to be made in order for the development to move forward. This included the design and development of an entrance and approach into the community, along with utility access. The gated community of Tavaci consists of 43, 1 acre+ sized lots. | <urn:uuid:13f1becd-9374-4839-949e-724b3fb90951> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://wordpress.prod.agnovus.com/about/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.984842 | 163 | 1.625 | 2 |
The Medical Council of India has informed the Delhi High Court that disabled or ‘divyang’ candidates with more than 80 percent locomotor disability will be eligible for Postgraduate medical courses.
Locomotor disability means problem in moving from one place to another, that is, disability in legs. But, in general, it is taken as a disability related to bones, joints and muscles. It causes problems in a person’s movements (like walking, picking or holding things in hand, etc.)
The term ‘locomotor’ is derived from the Latin words loco – “from a place” and motivus – “causing motion”. So locomotion means movement from one place to another.
On a petition filed by an MBBS doctor Mohd Shaloo, the MCI informed Delhi High Court that they have amended the “Notification for PG Medical Courses” and made ‘divyang’ with more than 80 per cent locomotor disability as eligible for postgraduate medical courses.
However, the lawyer appearing for the petitioner argued that the amendment was a mere “eye wash” as the amendment did not cover people with all sorts of disabilities.
Lawyer Gaurav Kumar Bansal argued before the court that people with disabilities such as blood disorder and chronic neurological disorder are still considered ineligible for postgraduate medical courses. “This is against Article 21 of the Constitution of India and also violates various provisions of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016,” said the lawyer.
Last year, acid attack had opened up roads for becoming specialist doctors with the Centre, expanding the disability quota for admission in postgraduate medical courses.
The percentage of seats to be filled by persons with disabilities was increased from 3 to 5 percent in accordance with the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, the Union Health Ministry had said in a statement.
People with 21 types of disabilities were eligible to take advantage of the quota. While 20 out of the 21 types of disabilities are some kind of disease, acid attack victims are also considered as disabled under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, that was followed while amending the regulations.
Some of the other common disabilities covered under the new rule are blindness, low-vision, leprosy cured persons, thalassemia patients and people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
“After 20 years the government has taken a historic decision for welfare of divyang (disabled) sisters and brothers in line with the prime minister’s vision of sabka saath, sabka vikaas. Now all 21 benchmark disabilities as per the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 can register for admission to medical courses,” health minister J P Nadda had said.
India currently has a huge shortage of specialist doctors. Heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (lung diseases), brain stroke, diarrhoea, chronic kidney disease, tuberculosis, neo-natal pre-term birth and accidents are among the leading causes of death, most of which can’t be cured by an ordinary MBBS graduate, some of India’s top doctors informed a panel of lawmakers a few months ago. | <urn:uuid:ea5657ad-0dfd-4da8-bcd8-173eec9c5663> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sangati.org/persons-with-more-than-80-locomotor-disability-now-eligible-for-pg-medical-courses/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.966222 | 662 | 2.21875 | 2 |
born in 1960 in Shreveport, LA, United States
John Beasley (musician)
|John Beasley (musician)|
John Beasley (born September 28, 1960) is an American composer, pianist, producer, and arranger who has recorded and performed with musicians such as Miles Davis, Steely Dan, Chaka Khan, James Brown, Spice Girls, Dianne Reeves, Ry Cooder, Chick Corea and Sérgio Mendes, Freddie Hubbard, John Patitucci, Queen Latifah, and Ivan Lins.
Born in Shreveport, Louisiana, Beasley is third-generation musician who was raised in a house filled with music. His grandfather, Rule Oliver, played trombone in territory bands and was a junior high school band director for 50 years in Arkansas. His mother, Lida Beasley, is a brass instrumentalist, who for most of her career taught music at various public schools and colleges, along with being band director and conducting operas.
Growing up around musicians, Beasley learned how to play trumpet, oboe, drums, saxophone, and flute, mostly because of his mother's need for wind instrumentalists for her bands. His father, Rule Curtis Beasley (b. 1931), is a pianist and bassoonist, who played with the Fort Worth Symphony. Rule Beasley also was a professor of music composition at University of North Texas College of Music and at Santa Monica College, where he taught many musicians performing today.
Beasley created a drum set with garbage can lids and kitchen pots and pans when he was around two years old. His grandfather started bringing him drum parts, which he put together, and had a drum set from age four to high school. Beasley began piano lessons at the age of seven and stopped taking formal lessons when he started high school. In sixth grade, he had private lessons with a university oboe teacher that lasted three years. He taught himself to play the sax, flute, and trumpet and began playing for the John Adams Junior School and Santa Monica College orchestras that his mother led. He was also in the state choir but quit because he got bored.
Beasley started writing music in junior high school. After his father bought him a Bobby Timmons record, he wanted to play jazz. In Grade 7, he formed a jazz band with high school-aged friends. Always mesmerized by inner melodies and day-dreaming, on family camping trips he packed his score pad to compose and arrange.
As soon as he graduated from high school, he started 'gigging'; playing in bars when he was too young to get entry as a customer. Fearless about learning and performing, in just a few years he was touring around the U.S. and internationally with Sérgio Mendes and Freddie Hubbard.
At age 14, Beasley wrote a jazz piece for the University of North Texas Jazz Band. Jimmy Lyons, founder of the Monterey Jazz Festival, heard Beasley's piece and recommended him for a scholarship at the Stan Kenton summer jazz camp. The Stan Kenton Orchestra performed Beasley's composition at the camp, and then added it to its repertoire that year.
Declining an oboe scholarship from the Juilliard, Beasley went on to tour and record with Miles Davis, Steely Dan, Carly Simon, Barbra Streisand, Baaba Maal, Queen Latifah, Christian McBride and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Chaka Khan, James Brown, and John Pattituci to name a few. Recognizing Beasley's talent for composing and arranging, major recording artists have added Beasley's original sound and music to their projects.
At 24, Beasley started writing music for Paramount, Disney, and MGMs television shows, including Cheers, Family Ties, Star Trek, and Fame. He also wrote the Touchstone TV logo, which is still used today. His first brush with Hollywood films was as a pianist playing on film scores for film luminaries such as Thomas Newman, Dave Grusin, Alan Silvestri, and Carmine Coppola in box office hits such as WALL-E", "Finding Nemo, Erin Brockovich, The Godfather III, A Bug's Life, and Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. He composes pro bono for films and podcasts for Nobel Peace Prize-winning Doctors Without Borders. Along the way, Beasley has written award-winning commercials for ad agencies in the US and Germany for over 20 years. While touring with Miles Davis, Beasley was inspired to release his first of seven solo recordings.
Beasley, continues to juggle his studio work on hit reality/game shows such as American Idol, Pussycat Dolls Present:, America's Got Talent, and Singing Bee, along with touring as Musical Director for Queen Latifah, conducting workshops, playing on TV/Films, producing other artists, and writing new music.
His eighth album, Letter to Herbie, a tribute to 2008 Grammy-winner Herbie Hancock, featuring Christian McBride, Jeff "Tain" Watts, and Roy Hargrove, was released in April 2008 and has already topped the Jazz Music Charts. In 2009, he released Positootly!, which went on to receive a Grammy nomination for best instrumental jazz album. In 2010 he appeared in a Web-TV simulcast.
In 2012, Beasley has formed a new band, 3 Brave Souls, with other Miles Davis alumni bassist Darryl Jones (with Davis for 1984s Decoy and 85s Youre Under Arrest; and drummer Ndugu Chancler (who played with Davis in the early 1970s) that released their premier self-titled record on the BFM Digital record label. An early review of this old-style '70s funk, jazz and roots music describe the album as "tangy, ass-wiggling funk...a groove so deep you could fall right in". The pianist also acts as Music Director for the ABC hit TV show and singing competition, Duets. He will return to the role of music director for a new ABC singing show "Sing Your Face Off" based off Endemol's "Your Face Sounds Familiar" airing in 2013.
In 2013, Beasley realized a long held dream, forming a 17-piece big band called MONKestra. MONKestra captures the spirit of Monk's unique quirkiness, offbeat accents, punchy dissonances, in fresh arrangements. Veteran jazz critic Don Heckman described Beasleys big band and his talent as extraordinary orchestrating abilities, imaginative soloing from players: a net result of some of the most mesmerizing big band music of recent memory.
|1992||Cauldron||Windham Hill Records|
|1993||A Change of Heart||Windham Hill Records|
|1994||Mose the Fireman||Rabbit Ears|
|2005||One Live Night||Beasley Music|
|2008||Letter to Herbie||Resonance|
|2012||3 Brave Souls||BFM|
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2022: QuranForSoul in Australia!July 21, 2022
QuranforSoul landed in this beautiful multicultural Australia at the end of 2021, with unconditional support from the country's Muslim community actors. The distribution of the 45,000 copies with English translation continues in this vast country.
Australia has a population of 25.7 million at the start of 2021. The majority of Australia's population is descended from immigrants from the 19th and 20th centuries. More than a quarter of the inhabitants were born abroad. The natives, who are called Australian Aborigines, number about half a million.
Australia's population grew from 9.4 million in 1956 to 20.7 million in 2006. The White Australian policy of the 19th century influenced its social life to the benefit of European immigration. This discriminatory policy officially ended in 1973, increasing the Asian population to 5% in 1997. The "Australian diaspora" abroad has almost the same rate of 5% of the general population. .
Australia has no state religion and its Constitution guarantees the principle of separation of church and state, prohibiting the government from enacting any law favouring one religion over another. According to the 2016 census, about 52% of Australians identify as Christian, 30.1% no religion, 2.6% Muslim, and a mixture of other Asian religions such as Buddhism and Hinduism. This figure, however, do not concern 9.6% of the population who did not provide an answer about their religious beliefs.
The presence of Muslims in Australia is very old, dating back to 9th century Muslim explorations and Makasan fishermen who made their regular annual visits to northern Australia to reconnect with the country's indigenous guardians. The small but continuous presence of Muslims from the earliest days of British colonization is also part of an intriguing and still ongoing story, marked by a very attractive multiethnicity and multi doctrines.
In 1952, the number of Muslims in the Australian Commonwealth stood at 65,156 faithful. In 2011, 476,291 people, or 2.2% of Australia's population, declared themselves to be Muslim, over 60% of whom were born overseas (including Lebanon, Turkey, Afghanistan and Bangladesh). They represent the fourth largest religious group in the country. They are even in the majority in the Cocos Islands. They declare themselves mainly Sunni, with a Shiite minority.
Australia is a very openminded country. It is generally respectful of religious values and practices. Even banks, like the country's largest Commonwealth Bank, offer their Muslim employees a uniform that includes a hijab. The Westpac has done the same since April 2017. For the telephone operator Optus, its only concern is to decide between a duck blue veil, or mauve… it is a country of a futuristic world where what truly matters is the pride of everyone in a country made up of different cultures. People feel good at work and in the street with their diversity and thanks to the deep respect.
QuranforSoul landed in this beautiful multicultural Australia at the end of 2021, with unconditional support from the country's Muslim community actors. The distribution of the 45,000 copies with English translation continues in this vast country. Indeed, the centers are scattered in the most distant corners of the country and transport was not as easy as available in the midst of the pandemic. The emphasis of our efforts is to offer the happiness to people, especially toyoung Muslims who have touched their long awaited Holy Quran with a nice English translation. Thanks to your support, we could offer a considerable effort to the local population!
We can't think of a better or easier action to please Creator . A human only needs the word of his Creator to be appeased. This is why Quranforsoul keep on distributing the Holy Quran for the sake of Allah, without any ulterior motives. This is why we highly encourage you to contribute to our efforts!
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In 2021, despite the health crisis, QURANFORSOUL has found an efficient solution in its international distribution program, thanks to the support of local associations. 165'000 copies of the Holy Quran have been distributed in six countries: Guinea Conakry, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nepal, Australia, New Zealand. You will find in the 2021 report the distribution points by country and the number of copies distributed.More | <urn:uuid:156a4afd-2e2d-4efb-acca-bb3b46785111> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.quranforsoul.org/newsroom/36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.954998 | 887 | 2.015625 | 2 |
If you in need of making a construction, there will be certain down comings in the property that should be avoided to make the construction possible. One of the most common things that will get in the way of a construction is tree stumps. If there are tree stumps on the property, you have to make sure that you get them removed as soon as possible.Whether you are interested in cleaning a property off from stumps, removing any dead or fallen trees, or removing any trees, the best thing that you can do is to gain stump removal services. Here are some of the most important things that you have to know about getting the services for removing tree stumps:
Betters the Aesthetical Appeal of the Property and Brings about Better Space
Having tree stumps will lower the quality of the landscaping in the property. You have to make sure that you remove these stumps with stump grinding Perth services. These services are highly affordable and that will avoid all the down comings that come to you with tree stumps. Having the tree stumps removed will also improve the value of the property. Depending on the size of property that you have, tree stumps will affect the space of the trees. Therefore, having the stumps removed will enhance the look and even the space of the property.
Better the Safety of the Property
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It was a professor at the Reformed College Pál Sárvári who established the tradition of drawing in Debrecen. Today painters interpret and transform that tradition rather variously. In the last four decades a good number of artist, János Mata, Kálmán Gáborjáni Szabó, Endre Vadász, Ferenc Medgyessy, László Holló, József Menyhárt, János Józsa and several others with Imre Égerházi among them presented the connoisseurs of the genre with beautiful pen-and-ink sketches, felt-and tin-drawings and monotypes. They did not regard drawing as mere fingerwork, since it was a mode of self-expression for them, their works were either preliminary studies to further paintings, copperplates, woodcuts, lino-cuts, enamels and statues or self-standing works reflecting artistic moods and ideas.
Looking back to his childhood Égerházi avers: „I took up drawing at the age of six. My first instruments of drawing, six fat-chalks were presented to me by the Swiss Red Cross. When I ran out of them I continued to draw with slate-pencils, pieces of wet brick, lead or coal, ink, waterproof ink and a brush.” In the last fourty years he made a number of engravings and drawings, and now he has a rich collection of them. Fourty pieces were published at the Alföldi printing-press in 1989. He also illustrated two volumes of poetry. Some of his drawings and etchings appeared in the Hajdú-Bihari Napló (a daily newspaper in Debrecen), in a local periodical Alföld and in several other Hungarian literary reviews.
Égerházi makes use a number of artistic techniques in creating his world, which is marvellously represented in this album. His versatility is a result of his method of „taking notes” at home, abroad or even at a boring conference, in situations where he cannot use his insrtuments and can only make sketches.
He represents all kind of people and environments in his drawings, portraits, nudes, faces from the Hajdúság, Transylvanian men and women with their joys and troubles from the past or the present and their hopes of a better future. Representing his world realistically, Égerházi displays its versatiliy in one single line. He does not intend to reduce the function of drawing to a mere documentation of life, he wants to elevate the soul high above the monotony of everyday reality that renders life a bit more meaningful and harmonious. The harmony of his forms together with the well-composed imagery of his Transylvanian landscapes conjure up a world of clarity and freshness that successfully conveys the pleasant atmosphere of the rural landscape even for those who are ignorant of its beauty.
Égerházi draws very expressively. He represents only most significant details of his models and preserves the palsticity of natural forms. His formal purity and sense of well-balanced structure suggest tranqulity. Even his small drawings reflect a strong feeling for monumentality. With the help of his energetic tracing he resuscitates faces, natural objects and the landscape and he carefully balances his system of lines that are presented as clear, purposeful and well-ordered in his monotypes. He uses moderate forms and renounces the intention of transcending visual reality, thus he preserves the individuality of his models and their neighbourhood. Égerházi’s method of structuring reflects his own specific conception of emotional values.
His moderate technique conjures up memories of Jugendstil. Cubism too, attracts his strong personality, so he not only represents landscapes, characters and situations, but also displays ideas behind them. He creates his own world of drawing by which he wants to improve his environment aesthetically by working for the future.
Imolay Lenkey István
Égerházi Imre grafikái 1992.
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A friend of mine once said it's hard to take a bad photo in Jackson Hole. That may be true, but with all of the great photographers who live there, or who have passed through, it's hard to take a photo that hasn't been taken better by someone before you. This gallery comprises photos taken over the past decade, in different seasons, with different cameras (mostly Leica M8s and M9s, but also in the earlier shots, Leica M7s shooting Fuji Velvia. And now, some shots have been taken with the Leica Monochrom, and with the new M (typ. 240.)
Sequentially, the first photos have tended to be the more recent, but when adding some photos from the summer of 2013, I decided to work a little harder at bunching different cohorts without regard to the year they were taken. So you will see some images taken at the Jackson Hole Rodeo, or the Teton County Fair, placed next to each other.
That's one thing that has changed in my photography over time. While I will always love taking pictures of the Tetons, or at Oxbow Bend at sunset, I've long since come to believe that the town of Jackson Hole, and the people, are as interesting as the natural environment.
So think of this as a decade-long love letter to my favorite place: Jackson Hole and the greater Yellowstone. If you've ever spent time scrambling up the Teton canyons, or wanted to, think of this as a time-elapsed view of the prettiest valley and ecosystem in America. View this gallery as a slide show if you want to get a sense of what a great corner of the world Northwest Wyoming is. JB, Summer 2013 | <urn:uuid:54ad2f9e-4004-4e73-a200-47253f3d1a06> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://johnbuckley100.zenfolio.com/p598466246 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.961602 | 378 | 1.539063 | 2 |
|Building type||Affordable Housing|
|Cost of work||£30,000|
|Features||Insulation and Glazing|
The site consists of 3 No. semi detached houses built in 1931 in the centre of the village of Kedington and owned by Havebury Housing Partnership. A flat roofed bathroom extension had been added to the back of the property probably in the 1960’s.
- Permarock External Wall Insulation
- 55mm phenolic external wall insulation. A CFC/HCFC free phenolic foam laminate with a thermal conductivity of 0.022 w/mk. Solid walled property with a u-value of 2.1 reducing to 0.35.
- Approx cost £10,000 per unit.
- Gas usage reduced by approx. 30%.
Objective was to reduce the running costs of the dwellings and increase comfort levels. The work has also eliminated damp and mould growth on internal face of external walls by raising the wall temperature. The self coloured render finish has also improved the external appearance.
Small amount of grant funding was sourced from energy suppliers.
Following installation and 12 months of living in their refurbished properties the residents were contacted to gauge their opinion of the work. All were pleased with the end result. The work also included re-roofing and insulating sloping ceilings only easily accessible after stripping off the roof covering.
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Prof Debuts Musical Composition Based on Children's Book
Dr. Robert Xavier Rodríguez's Music Will Be Performed at a One-Time Concert at the Meyerson
Mar. 22, 2012
Robert Xavier Rodríguez, an internationally renowned composer and professor of music at UT Dallas, will debut an original composition based on the children’s book The Dot and the Line at the Meyerson Symphony Center on Sunday, March 25.
The Dot and the Line, A Romance in Lower Mathematics is a musical composition based on a children's story written by Norton Juster. Juster will speak at UT Dallas on March 26.
The book was written by Norton Juster and is about a “sensible straight Line” that is hopelessly in love with a “Dot.” The Dot, meanwhile, only has eyes for a “wild and unkempt Squiggle.” In the end, the Line triumphs when he learns to bend in new and dazzling ways.
The musical piece comes as a part of the program Stories in Music with Jamie Bernstein. Bernstein, daughter of legendary composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, will join the Dallas Symphony Orchestra to bring to life the classic tales by Juster, as well as favorite numbers from West Side Story and Candide.
Dr. Robert X. Rodríguez, composer
Norton Juster, author
Rodríguez’s music in The Dot and the Line represents the three characters: quick, repeated notes for The Dot, scales or glissandos for The Line, and a primitive, repetitive motive accompanied by dissonant clusters for The Squiggle. The percussion writing is colorful, including such non-traditional sounds as ratchet, slide whistle, siren, flexatone, police whistle, whip, cowbells and a lion’s roar.
The concert, a one-time performance beginning at 2:30 p.m., will also feature A Colorful Symphony, another work by Rodríguez, based on Juster's book The Phantom Tollbooth.
“Juster’s wit and vivid imagery make his books ideal for musical settings. I had fun writing both pieces, and I’m delighted to see them performed together for the first time, especially with the author present,” Rodríguez said.
Juster will come to the UT Dallas campus for an interview with Dr. Dennis M. Kratz, dean of the School of Arts & Humanities, on Monday, March 26. The free public event begins at 5 p.m. in the Jonsson Performance Hall.
Rodriguez has composed music inspired by another of Juster's children's books, The Phantom Tollbooth.
“The Phantom Tollbooth is by any reasonable definition a classic – a wondrous story filled with adventure and humor, not to mention a goodly number of outrageous puns. Mr. Juster has the same qualities. It should be a delightful conversation,” Kratz said.
Juster began writing seriously while in the Navy. His first book, The Phantom Tollbooth, was published in 1961. Winner of the George C. Stone Centre for Children's Books Award, it was made into a feature film by MGM in 1969 and, more recently, into a musical. In 2007, it was produced at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
The Dot and the Line was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film by MGM.
Juster, who lives in western Massachusetts, is retired from the practice of architecture and from teaching but continues to write. He is currently adapting a short story he wrote into a ballet and is working on several new books.
Media Contact: Chaz Lilly, UT Dallas, (972) 883-2155, [email protected]
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People on autism spectrum live 18 fewer years
The leading causes of death are suicide and epilepsy, both of which are exceedingly more common among people with autism, researchers say.
Questions of self-worth often start early for people with autism and often are compounded by other conditions including anxiety and depression, which researchers say may be the cause for suicide being the leading cause of death among people with the disorder. Photo by Fresnel/Shutterstock
People with autism spectrum disorder live about 18 fewer years than average, and the leading cause of early death among adults on the spectrum is suicide, according to a recent study in Sweden.
Researchers suspect the shorter lifespan is a combination of health and social factors, but said whether ASD itself is the cause of early death is unknown.
With or without the intellectual disabilities that often accompany ASD, researchers said bullying and questions of self-worth often start early in life for people on the spectrum. Previous research has shown between 30 percent and 50 percent.
"This new research confirms the true scale of the hidden mortality crisis in autism," Jon Spiers, chief executive of Autistica, which published a report on the Swedish study, said in a press release. "The inequality in outcomes for autistic people shown in this data is shameful. We cannot accept a situation where many autistic people will never see their 40th birthday."
For the study, published in the British Journal of Psychology, researchers compared medical data on 27,122 people with an ASD diagnosis and 2,672,185 without a disorder in Sweden collected as part of the National Patient Register and the Cause of Death Register by the country's national health service.
People with ASD had a 2.56-fold increased risk of death compared to those without a diagnosis, in men the odds were worse than women and both low- and high-functioning people were at greater risk, though lower function increased the risk of death.
Compared to an average age of death of 70.20 years for those without ASD, the average age of death among people with ASD and no intellectual disability was 53.87 years, while for people with ASD and intellectual disability it was 39.5 years.
In the study, adults with ASD and no learning disability were nine times more likely than the general population to commit suicide. Part of this, researchers found, is that 70 percent of ASD patients have a mental health disorder, such as anxiety or depression, and as many as 40 percent have two disorders.
The second leading cause of death among ASD patients is epilepsy, which between 20 percent and 40 percent have.
"Across every major cause of death, mortality risk is increased in autism, but early deaths due to epilepsy and suicide are particularly, and unacceptably, high," researchers at Autistica write in their report. "We cannot and should not accept that many people on the autism spectrum will die 30 years before the typical population."
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From James McHenry
Fayetteville, Md., 23 Oct. 1791. The recurrence of an indisposition that might be cured by a sea voyage has interested him in the possibility of a foreign appointment.—The prospect of war between France and other European powers, “and the claims for succours she may bring forward under the 11th article of the treaty of Alliance, in case of being attacked,” makes it necessary for the U.S. to appoint a minister to The Hague. Such a minister would also be in a position to advance U.S. commercial interests and negotiate advantageous loans for the U.S. government. In support of his pretensions to this appointment, he refers TJ to his service in the Continental Army, the public offices he held after the war, and TJ’s knowledge of his personal talents. In addition to the restoration of his health, a foreign appointment would also enable him to pursue “certain literary researches” that would be more difficult to complete in the U.S.—He has not written to the President about this matter, being willing to entrust it to TJ’s care, and wishes it to be understood that “I do not desire an appointment of this kind should Mr. Maddison or any other person of his abilities be disposed to embrace it.”—The day after seeing TJ he met with Mr. Sterett and discussed the ignorance of Murray, Sheridan &c. about U.S. commercial relations with Great Britain. He urged Sterett to apprise these and other members of the Maryland congressional delegation of “the true interest of the commercial part of the State and of the United States,” and is confident that he will act accordingly.
RC (NNSotheby); 2 p.; at head of text: “(private)”; endorsed by TJ as received 25 Oct. 1791 and so recorded in SJL.
McHenry, recently elected to the Maryland Senate, also solicited Alexander Hamilton’s support for his effort to become U.S. minister to The Hague. He decided to serve in the Maryland Senate after receiving no support for his pretensions from the Secretaries of State or Treasury (Syrett, Hamilton description begins Harold C. Syrett and others, eds., The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, New York, 1961–1979, 26 vols. description ends , ix, 386, 454, 510–1). | <urn:uuid:9b6c5aa1-db4e-49ef-9ace-f9915bf4b099> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-22-02-0213 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00374-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970558 | 505 | 1.625 | 2 |
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What is Unschooling?
June 14, 2016
What is Unschooling?
The term 'unschooling' was originally coined in the 1970’s by John Holt, who is regarded by many as the father of unschooling. In the 1970s, it simply meant 'not schooling’, meaning that education was being conducted elsewhere than at a school.
Nowadays, the term 'unschooling' has come to refer to a specific type of home education.
However, since unschooling may take so many varying forms, it is very difficult to define exactly what is and what isn’t unschooling.
Essentially, unschooling is self-education.
There are also many other terms roughly synonymous with the nuances of its meaning, such as child-centred learning, autonomous learning or self-directed learning, delight-directed learning, and development-directed learning.
In adulthood, unless we are compelled to enrol in formal training courses, we generally pursue lifelong learning autonomously. When we wish to or need to learn something, we find a way to do so. Your subscription to this newsletter is an example of you unschooling.
Another picture of unschooling is the life of a toddler at home. Generally, he is naturally curious about the world in which he spends his days playing, amusing himself. He is able to explore his environment in relative freedom. During this stage of life a child learns to walk and talk, with very little help or instruction. These are major life skills that he seems to learn ‘organically’. His learning is very natural and spontaneous; just part of living his daily life.
Unschoolers believe that all children should continue to learn in freedom, just like little ones do and just like many adults do.
Unschooling puts educational choices and control in the hands of the one doing the learning. There is no compulsion or pressure from any external source.
"Each of us is born with a crazy passion to learn. Each of us craves knowledge of our world and our place within it. We learn because we want to learn, because it's important to us, because it's natural, and because it's impossible to live in the world and not learn. Then along comes school to mess up a beautiful thing." — PS Pirro
Antoinette Jurgens, a homeschooling mom made a good point: ‘You are not there to “teach” your children. You are simply there to expose them to as many things as possible, so that they can learn on their own. This is a big mindshift, but it’s absolutely worthwhile to research unschooling or self-directed learning. I don’t believe it is for everyone, and one doesn’t have to follow it 100 percent, but it’s worthwhile knowing about it and keeping it in mind to keep stress away!
My book, Homeschooling the Primary Years has a chapter that covers this topic in greater detail, explaining why families choose this unconventional way of facilitating their children's education.
Fine motor skills
Get your child to try scrunching up large pieces of newspaper using only one hand. This activity strengthens the muscles in the hand.
Gross motor skills
Practice throwing and catching the balls of newspaper that your child created in the activity above.
Play a matching game using construction toys or building blocks. You and your child should each start with identical pieces. You then add another piece and your child must copy you with her piece. Continue adding pieces and then alternate and let your child be the leader in the game. Take turns for as long as your child can concentrate.
Play a board game that requires using dice, like ludo or snakes and ladders. You can use one, two or three
dice, depending on your child’s ability. If you don’t own any children’s board games, then create your own board game on a piece of card. Draw blocks in the form of a race track or create whatever theme would delight your child!
Tell or read your child a short story. Afterwards, ask her to tell you what happened. If she does not tell you everything, prompt her by asking questions about what happened before or after certain events. Also ask other relevant questions about the characters or events of the story. Initially your child may only tell you the parts of the story that were significant to her, like the climax or the ending. However, in time she will learn to narrate back to you with increasing accuracy.
Language and thinking
Talk to your child about how trees change from season to season. Ask her questions about her knowledge of trees at different times of the year. A lovely story to re-inforce this activity is The Little House by Viginia Lee Burton.
The story is about urbanisation and how a house in the countryside becomes surrounded by development and technology before finally being 'rescued', but the theme of the changing seasons and the apple trees can't be missed.
Another heart-warming story that is told through the seasons of the year is A New Coat for Anna by Harriet Ziefert.
Encourage your children to say a prayer of thanks before they eat a meal. They can say it aloud or silently if they prefer. The goal is to train them to remember to be thankful, even when they eat alone or when no one else gives thanks.
Designed for ages 3-6 years, ABC Fun & 1-2-3 is a story-based preschool curriculum with printable alphabet worksheets, weekly lesson plans, easy kids crafts, nursery rhymes and more - all to make learning the ABC fun!
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QUT researchers have highlighted a gap in entrepreneurial activity in Queensland regions not because people fear failure but rather, they do not see opportunities that exist.
Analysis from the latest Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) survey, shows different levels of activity between Australian states and regions based on data collected from 10,000 Australians.
Research Fellow Dr Chad Renando said comparisons in entrepreneurial activity between regional and metro communities demonstrated where more support was needed.
“Entrepreneurs in regions are more likely to believe they have the capabilities and have lower fear of failure but see fewer opportunities,” Dr Renando said.
He also said the report provided insight into how the entrepreneurial ecosystem across cities and regions were prepared for the pandemic.
Cities including Cairns, Ipswich and Townsville ranked highest for potential entrepreneurs, the Queensland outback ranked highest for Intrapreneurship and the Sunshine Coast and Logan ranked highest for informal investors.
Wide Bay and Townsville ranked low in terms of ‘seeing good opportunities’ while Brisbane’s north, south and east ranked low in perceived knowledge, skills and opportunities.
The survey findings were released during an event hosted in Brisbane this week by QUT’s Professor Rowena Barrett, PVC (Entrepreneurship) and attended by Innovation Minister Stirling Hinchliffe, Chief Entrepreneur Wayne Gerard and members from regional councils and QUT researchers.
The difference in entrepreneurial aspirations between men and women was highlighted during a panel discussion involving the Chief Entrepreneur, report author Dr Char-Lee Moyle and regional innovators.
Julia Spicer, Director Engage and Create Consulting in Goondiwindi, said that in the absence of opportunity “necessity kicked in” with regional entrepreneurs, especially females, using entrepreneurship to contribute to the household income and build the local community.
The report recommends a framework to improve regional entrepreneurial support alongside that to boost female entrepreneurship.
Proposed actions include identifying opportunities and capabilities with support networks, greater school-based entrepreneur, and greater capacity in professional services in less populated regions.
Mr Gerard said he was working with ecosystem stakeholders on the Innovation Advisory Council to ensure entrepreneurial services and programs were available for all Queenslanders.
Dr Renando said a collaborative approach was needed.
“Regions can be supported by bringing together industries, universities and government to build regional capacity and support entrepreneurs at the local level,” he said.
To this end, QUT Entrepreneurship will be delivering a one-day capacity building program to inspire and develop young starters in Goondiwindi during the school holidays in partnership with the Goondiwindi Regional Innovation Network.
The GEM Australia study of 10,000 Australian residents aged between 18-64 is the largest of any GEM survey globally.
The survey was led by Dr Char-Lee Moyle and supported by the QUT Business School. The survey aligns to the entrepreneurship research strength in the Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research (ACE) and data analysis capability in the QUT Centre of Data Science.
The report is available here.
CONTACT: Debra Nowland [email protected] or 07 3138 3151.
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Marilyn Milos' acceptance speech for a Nurseweek award for patient advocacy, Los Angeles, May 11, 2001
Marilyn Fayre Milos
I want to especially thank those who find my work worthy because it's not easy to challenge the dominant paradigm, the status quo, or the current medical model and, by recognizing my work, you are really honoring the children, those patients who truly need our advocacy because they are not yet able to protect themselves.
"It was 22 years ago this month that, as a nursing student, I first witnessed a circumcision. I will go to my grave hearing the screams of that tormented baby in my ears. As I watched in disbelief, I began to cry. The doctor looked up at me and said, 'There is no medical reason for doing this.'
"Within a year, I'd done enough research to know that the doctor was right, and I began telling everyone what I had learned only to realize that I was talking about 'down there' to people who didn't want to admit they had a 'down there' much less hear about the harm and horror of circumcision.
"As a nurse, I told parents what I wished someone had told me before my sons were circumcised. I thought every parent had a right and an obligation to be fully informed. I was told to keep my mouth shut. So, I made a video of a circumcision for parents. I was told it was too much for parents to see. I said, 'Perhaps, then, it's too much for a baby to endure!' The video was censored, and, in 1985, I got the ultimate censorship I was fired.
"Actually, I was unmuzzled. As my husband said, 'When they told Marilyn to keep her mouth shut, they told the wrong person!' I founded NOCIRC [the National Organisation of Circumcision Information and Resource Centres], which today has more than 110 centers in 15 different countries and Roster status with the United Nations. So, I'd like to tell you this: when you recognize something that is wrong, you can change it. Bette Reese said, 'If you think you're too small to be effective, you've never been in bed with a mosquito.' And, Winston Churchill said, 'Never, never, never, never give up.'
"My work reflects what Ghandi said about bringing change: 'First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.' I accept this award on behalf of the infants and children who need our protection. Your recognition of their need and my work lets me know that we're closer to winning.
(One aspect that makes this award notable is that it recognises that the baby, not his parents, is the patient - though he's not a patient, since there's nothing the matter with him.)
Sponsors of the event included the Little Company of Mary Hospital, SHARP HealthCare of San Diego, UCLA School of Nursing, Kaiser Permanente, Valley Children's Hospital, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, and Memorial Hospitals Association (A Sutter Health Affiliate).
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When Thorsten Schwabe and Gregor Baer, the founders of German ski company Indigo (www.indigosnow.de), visited the United States a few years ago they noticed a clear distinction between American and European skiing. While in Aspen, they observed that many U.S. skiers were taking to the slopes in wider skis than what a typical European skier would use—almost half an inch wider, in fact. Snow conditions at most North American ski resorts typically yield more powder than in Europe, which is where a wider ski comes in handy. Seeing an untapped niche, Schwabe and Baer returned to Germany and set their sights on building a wider ski, one that would be versatile enough to adapt to off-piste powder and also to the harder, packed snow found at most European ski resorts.
To accomplish that, they reverted to a combination of bamboo and carbon fiber (the bamboo for its strength and durability, the carbon fiber for its lightness). Utilizing a honeycomb-designed core and layers of various types of carbon fiber, Schwabe and Baer created the Concept One—a ski slightly more than three inches wide that was light enough to handle powdery conditions but strong enough to provide a solid grip through the turns on firmer, groomed trails. However, the Indigo team also realized that by layering various types and thicknesses of carbon fiber, they could affect how the ski’s camber would change with the outside temperatures, which further enhanced the ski’s adaptability to mountain conditions. And because Indigo sources its carbon fiber from an independent German supplier, Schwabe and Baer could continue to tinker with those combinations until they maximized this effect and the overall performance of the ski. “We can change the thickness and the type and the combinations of carbon fiber,” says Schwabe. “You have a lot of possibilities if you produce the carbon fiber for yourself.”
Constructed almost entirely by hand, a pair of Concept Ones costs €3,595 (about $4,600) and is the result of two full years of research and design. Though ample time was spent at the workbench to determine the best dimensions and configurations of carbon fiber, in the end, Schwabe and Baer created 10 pairs of the skis, each one slightly different, and took to the slopes to gauge which iteration worked best. “You can think about it a lot and you can measure it a lot,” Schwabe says, “but at the very end, you have to ski it.” | <urn:uuid:9a0773c4-e2ce-4415-8c28-cbeb7ddf5482> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://robbreport.com/lifestyle/sports-leisure/what-concept-224548/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00671.warc.gz | en | 0.970623 | 529 | 1.6875 | 2 |
TenCate Protective Fabrics has won an important order from the British producer FlamePro (UK) Ltd, for the delivery of inherently heat and flame resistant materials for the structural fire fighter clothing for Shropshire Fire & Rescue Service in the U.K. This seven-year contract employs a new lightweight system, the TenCate Tecasystem™ Millenia 450, in the construction for more than 1200 fire service outfits. The first 300 outfits are expected to be handed over in June 2012.
The fire brigade in Shropshire, England, has been looking for new developments in the market in order to improve the current personal protection systems. The specification required a durable fire fighting suit with less maintenance costs and better protection against the risk of heat stress. Heat stress is caused by the body’s inability to maintain its average core temperature in arduous and stressful situations. Heat stress can cause fire fighters to lose consciousness or even worse, suffer a heart attack.
Producer FlamePro has developed a new FlamePro® fire fighting suit based on advanced TenCate materials. TenCate Tecasystem™ Millenia 450 is the lightest, strongest protection system available in the market that meets the strict requirements of the European Norm EN 469/AC: 2005, level 2. It consists of an outer fabric in combination with a thermal and moisture regulating intermediate layer and a thermal liner. Each layer has been developed with its own functionality. As an integrated system, the layers are fully compatible with each other.
Comfortable and durable
Kevan Whitehead, end-use market manager of TenCate Protective Fabrics, explains: ‘Shropshire fire fighters will benefit from a light and comfortable fire fighting suit yet still be protected in the extreme conditions experienced in a raging inferno. In addition to fighting fires, fire fighters also turn out to a wide variety of other emergencies including road traffic collisions, hazardous materials and terrorist incidents. These various situations require multifunctional clothing that is lightweight, comfortable, strong and protective.’
The new fire suit has a unique design wherein any damaged parts – such as the fluorescent visibility stripes – can be easily replaced. Conforming to the requirements of this English fire brigade, the concept suits have been subjected to wearability and washing tests. In addition, some members of the brigade visited TenCate Protective Fabrics in Nijverdal, the Netherlands. In the laboratory they became acquainted with various types of material and their performance, including availability in the market. They were also shown a comparison between the materials of the current fire suit and the new lightweight protection system from TenCate.
Subsequently, Shropshire Fire & Rescue Service carried out a controlled programme of testing designed to measure the amount of energy expended whilst carrying out a series of tests. These tests were performed using five serving fire fighters (two female and three male) and the tests and analysis of results were carried out by an experienced consultant. The tests were carried out over two successive days to allow a comparison to be made between the existing fire suit and the new protection system based on TenCate Tecasystem™ Millenia 450. The research demonstrated that, compared with the existing garments, the new fire suit requires 25 per cent less body energy, offers good protection against the danger of heat, and offers greater comfort and freedom of movement.
TenCate Protective Fabrics EMEA
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Today, 1 in every 6 people in England is affected by the housing crisis - a record total of 8.4m people. According to research published in September by the National Housing Federation, which represents housing associations, 3.4m people live in overcrowded homes, 2.7m are unable to afford their rent or mortgage, 2.6m are forced to live with other households for lack of any other option and 1.4m live in poor-quality homes. And then, there are 400,000 people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless - a figure that has nearly doubled in the past decade!
In July, parliament’s Housing, Communities and Local Government select committee admitted that “the statistics are stark”, and promptly proceeded to grossly underestimate the number of people affected by the housing crisis, claiming that only “half a million households are homeless or living in unsatisfactory housing conditions”! An understatement, comparable only to the one they made regarding the need for socially-rented homes, claiming that “England needs at least 90,000 net additional social rent homes a year”. At that rate, it would take 2 decades to satisfy the housing needs of the 1.6m households (equivalent to 3.8m people!) who are currently on the social housing waiting list!
The charity Shelter has, in fact, estimated that at least 150,000 new social homes need to be built every year. But this would be only a start. Their report, published last year, adds that social housing stock needs to double, as it is short of “1.27 million homes for those in greatest housing need… 1.17 million homes for ‘trapped renters’ - younger families who cannot afford to buy and face a lifetime in expensive and insecure private renting; 690,000 homes for older private renters ... struggling with high housing costs and insecurity beyond retirement”. But instead, the number of newly-built socially-rented homes reached a rock bottom 6,338 in 2018/19!
The lack of social housing has driven an entire section of the working class into the privately rented sector, which a growing section cannot afford. Since the financial crisis of 2007/8, low-paid, non-permanent jobs have become widespread. It was only last February, after 12 years of wage cuts, that real wages finally reached their pre-crisis levels. In the meantime, rents have gone through the roof. The average monthly rent in England has gone up by 67% since 2010, to £987 a month. This means that on average, 40% of wages are eaten up by rent! So, for the 2m workers paid at or below the current minimum wage, paying rent on top of basic necessities, even with a full-time job, is simply impossible: a 40-hour week on full minimum wage would leave just over £100 a week for all bills and food. Even a single person would struggle to survive on that.
Rough sleeping: the tip of the iceberg
Today, the visible tip of the colossal housing crisis iceberg is rough sleeping. According to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, rough sleeping has increased by 141% since 2010, to reach, according to their grossly underestimated figures, 4,266 people in 2019. In fact, figures collected directly from local councils under the Freedom of Information Act show that “nearly 25,000 people were recorded sleeping rough at least once in England during the latest year”.
Of course, Johnson promised during the general election campaign last December, that in 5 years, he would “end rough sleeping once and for all”. But this is not even a new promise. When he was Mayor of London, he claimed he would end rough sleeping in the capital by 2012 - not for the sake of the homeless, of course, but to make sure the streets of London were “clean” for the Olympic games! But never mind, the fact is that the number of rough sleepers doubled under his mayoral watch and a policy of “zero-tolerance” against rough sleeping was introduced. So at the beginning of the year, for instance, Newham council in East London, hired a “Rough Sleepers Taskforce” to remove homeless’ tents, which had been put up around the Stratford Shopping Mall. Notices were put up on the walls showing a crossed-out tent citing the “Highways Act 1980”, which prohibits the obstruction of “public rights of way” - de facto criminalising rough sleepers for not having a roof over their heads!
However, the huge extent of rough sleeping was exposed by the Covid-19 pandemic. It was obvious from the start that any serious attempt at controlling the spread of the virus would have to include giving decent accommodation to the homeless sleeping in the streets and to impose eviction bans on private landlords. But the government’s first Covid-19 guidance, published in March 16, was totally inadequate, offering no material help to those who were providing temporary shelter for street sleepers in facilities which did not allow social distancing.
It was well into April, and when the incidence of Covid-19 was already peaking, before the government finally put in place a plan to house rough sleepers under a so-called “Everyone In” scheme. In just a few days, dormitory-style communal shelters, where the virus could spread like wild fire, were closed. Nearly 15,000 homeless people were put up in single rooms in hotels, hostels and B&Bs. But since the “Everyone In” scheme ended in July, rough sleepers are back in the streets and the government has made no plans to re-shelter them if new restrictions are put in place.
Half-hearted eviction “ban”
In mid-March, the government was also compelled to introduce a complete ban on evictions, to prevent a further rise in homelessness due to the pandemic. But of course, these measures were taken only for public health reasons and as such, were clearly meant to be temporary. The eviction ban, initially for 3 months, was extended to 6 months ending on September 20. But in practice nobody could be evicted until March 2021, because landlords were obliged to give renters 6 months notice. However, this eviction ban has not been renewed despite the fact that Covid restrictions have been reinstated.
The secretary for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Robert Jenrick, issued guidance asking “landlords to show compassion and to allow tenants who are affected by this [pandemic] to remain in their homes wherever possible”. The same landlords who, between January and March before the pandemic outbreak, had served 5,900 eviction orders, 4% more compared to the same quarter a year earlier! What’s more, the government increased Local Housing Allowance for private tenants so that they could continue to pay their rents - a direct subsidy to private landlords - well aware that they could not rely upon landlords’ “compassion”.
In fact, out of the 227,000 private tenants who have fallen into arrears during the pandemic, 170,000 had been threatened with evictions, while the ban was still in place!
The National Residential Landlords’ Association had already signalled its intent, when it threatened in September to “tackle the most serious cases”, including tenants with rent arrears which “have nothing to do with covid-19”. And indeed, there are today nearly half a million private tenants in arrears, twice as many as last year. For the time being, most tenants who fell into arrears before the end of the eviction ban are still being issued with a 6-month notice of eviction, that is a 6-month stay of execution. And during the second lock down, bailiffs were merely being told to “hold off”.
But the many workers who have so far relied on temporary accommodation arrangements have, in fact, not been protected by the eviction ban. A recent report by The Guardian, which approached 204 local councils in October, showed that since the pandemic started, “46,894 [people] came to the council saying they were already homeless”. So the “avalanche” of homelessness predicted by charities has already started. And councils, which have an obligation to shelter people at least in temporary accommodation, are already incapable of coping with the demand!
The cuts in the housing benefits
With falling wages and increasing rents, more and more workers have no option but to rely on Housing Benefit. The Department for Work And Pensions claims that the number of claimants have fallen in recent years. But if there are fewer workers claiming Housing Benefit it is simply because they are being transferred onto Universal Credit (UC) - which replaces and combines 6 different benefits including Housing Benefit. So in fact, the same DWP reported in May last year that, while there were “3.6m recipients of Housing Benefits”, there were in addition “1.1m households with a housing element in their Universal Credit assessment.” A total, therefore, of 4.7m - hardly a decrease in claimants, since after the crisis of 2007/8, their official number was just above 4m.
But what is also never acknowledged is how elements of housing benefit which catered for those who today fall through the net and end up homeless, particularly the youth, were consciously cut by successive governments, beginning in the 1980s with Margaret Thatcher’s removal of the “board and lodgings allowance” which young people under-26 could claim. More recently, in 2011, Tory Chancellor George Osborne’s cuts reduced housing benefits by a third. Then came the notorious “Bedroom Tax” introduced in April 2013, as part of the 2012 Welfare Act: families in social housing who were deemed to be “under-occupying” their homes were meant to lose part of their Housing Benefit. Despite the outcry and some resultant tweaking of this Act, by May 2019, 13% (or 320,000 claimants) were still having their benefits reduced due to the “Bedroom Tax”!
This year in April, in light of the pandemic, Local Housing Allowance (LHA), currently claimed by 1.4m private tenants, was finally increased after a 5-year freeze. But only by a pitiful 1.7%, which meant that 900,000 claimants had just £10 more per month to pay rent! The charity Shelter, responding to the government’s announcement to end the LHA freeze, stated that rates were so low, that in 97% of the country, 2/3 of privately rented homes were unaffordable to LHA claimants. And Shelter added that “one of the reasons the rates are now so out of touch with local rents is that since the government first started restricting LHA rates [in 2012], rents have increased by 15%.”
It was only after the covid outbreak, that finally Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced, in his “workers’ support package”, he would raise the LHA rates further, to match the bottom third of local rents. Of course, the “workers’ support package” was a set of measures to bail out businesses and landlords. After all, an increase in the LHA ensured that private landlords would get their exorbitant rents paid. In fact, a large part of private landlords’ income comes precisely from LHA claims: in 2018/19 they pocketed over £5bn from these alone!
As for the transition to Universal Credit, Housing Benefit claimants have been told that, when they first switch to the new system, their Housing Benefits will be paid for another 2 weeks. The problem, of course, is that UC payments are monthly. So claimants are left with no choice but to ask for an advance in order to pay their rent while they wait for their first UC payment - which de facto forces Housing Benefit claimants into debt.
As the housing charity Shelter has already shown, there is a direct link between the cuts in Housing Benefit starting in 2010 and the growth in the number of homeless people, which has literally skyrocketed.
Selling the council housing stock
So how has it come to this, in one of the richest countries in the world?
It is worth pointing out that the lack of adequate housing for the working class is as old as capitalism itself. The first social housing, if it can be called that, was the infamous Workhouse, whose origins date back to the time of the Black Death - the plague epidemic of the 14th century - and which lasted into the early 20th century. The sick and elderly, as well as able-bodied homeless paupers, had no choice but to enter these “prisons for the poor” while the more “fortunate” workers lived in city slums.
Some 175 years ago, in “The condition of the Working Class in England”, Friedrich Engels wrote: “In London, fifty thousand human beings get up every morning, not knowing where they are to lay their heads at night. The luckiest of this multitude, those who succeed in keeping a penny or two until evening, enter a lodging-house, such as abound in every great city, where they find a bed… And those who cannot pay for such a refuge? They sleep where they find a place, in passages, arcades, in corners... A few individuals find their way to the refuges which are managed, here and there, by private charity, others sleep on the benches in the parks close under the windows of Queen Victoria.”
Indeed, from the very beginning, society has been starved of the housing it needs. Capitalists of the real estate business have tried to extract as much profit from the construction of new dwellings, but the poor working class and the cheaply-rented housing they need was never a profitable enough market. On the other hand, the capitalist class as a whole, has an interest in the existence of adequate cheap housing for its workforce, so that it can pay the lowest possible wages.
In the end, it fell to the state as guarantors of the capitalist class, to provide social housing. During the relatively prosperous decades following World War 2, the post-war Labour Government built 1m social homes - at public expense, of course, but still falling short of what was really needed at the time. In fact, in the 35 years following the end of WW2, local authorities and housing associations built a total of only 4.4 million new social homes.
But when the economic crisis broke out in the 70s, government social housing policy changed. Far less home building was provided for in their constrained budgets and so with nothing else to offer, governments promoted the idea of “owning your own home” hoping to appeal to a section of the working class, who would see the ownership of their own homes as providing future security and a step up on the social ladder.
The 1977 Housing Policy Review published by Callaghan’s Labour government went further, overtly encouraging people to buy their own homes. In fact Labour had already enhanced the tax breaks previously given by the Tories to home owners and mortgagees. It now instigated cheap mortgages at a 2% discount, from building societies and from local councils, financed by taxation, for families on lower incomes, which allowed them to borrow more. And for those housing association tenants who couldn’t afford to buy their homes, there was already a “shared ownership” scheme, which allowed them to take mortgages for 25-75% of the total house price and pay a reduced rent. Not only did social house-building plummet, but part of this mortgage bounty was offered to the banks. In 1975, just 2,700 council homes had been bought by their tenants. By 1978 it was 30,000!
However, when Margaret Thatcher’s Tories came to power in 1979, selling off the country’s council housing stock became Thatcher’s “flagship” policy. Between 1980 and 1992, under her “right-to-buy” scheme, a total of 1.75m council homes were sold! The amount raised by these sales, £28bn, made it the most profitable privatisation the Tories conducted, exceeding the combined value of the sale of British Telecom, British Gas and electricity. And of course, this resulted in a major reduction in public expenditure.
While the scheme was promoted as a great gain for former council tenants, in reality they had to take a mortgage to buy part or the whole of their homes, becoming de facto tenants of the banks! And so, above all, it was the banks who benefited, thanks to the interest they charged.
This policy was a disaster for social tenancy. By 1995, council house building had been almost completely halted. From 145,000 completions by local authorities in 1975, a mere 1,900 council houses were completed in 1995! There were still 38,500 housing association completions, which somehow managed to cushion this collapse. But the overall lack of new homes was a major factor in increasing homelessness, which skyrocketed from around 70,000 in 1979 to 180,000 homeless people in 1992. And when the housing market collapsed after 1989, mortgage interest rates were hugely increased, resulting in repossessions due to mortgage arrears. In fact repossessions rose from around 18,500 in 1988 to 75,540 in 1991! Local authorities, which (still) have an obligation to provide homeless people with accommodation, had to re-house homeless families in B&Bs, hostels, and condemned council flats due for demolition.
In the following years, Conservative governments put in place a string of measures to take the remaining 4m social homes out of the hands of local councils - but with only limited success. One of these measures was the so-called Large Scale Voluntary Transfer (LSVT), put in place in 1988. Since councils were prevented from using their receipts from “right-to-buy” sales to maintain their existing council homes, they were invited to transfer their entire stock to newly created housing associations or to existing ones, now usually referred to as “Registered Social Landlords”. But the scheme met the resistance of tenants and local councillors, opposing what amounted to the privatisation of the remaining social housing stock. So under both Tories and Labour governments during the 90s, fewer than 300,000 properties under the LSVT scheme were actually transferred.
But the dismantling of council housing continued under Labour. So when Blair came to power in 1997, his housing minister Raynsford, introduced the “right-to-acquire” scheme, which allowed tenants of housing association dwellings built with public subsidy after 1997, to buy their homes. And since there was no longer any question about increasing the funds available for social housing, councils couldn’t find the resources to build new homes. The number of council homes completed each year, which was already down to a catastrophic level in 1997 with only 1,543 dwellings, ground to a virtual halt, with just 300 completions by the time Labour left office in 2010! The number of homes completed by housing associations, which were supposed to make up for the shortfall for low-income families, only increased by 1.2% between 1997 and 2010, with only 24,740 completions in 2010. And this, despite the housing waiting list having increased from 1m to 1.74m households during the same period!
More and more families, stuck forever on the housing waiting list, were de facto forced into private renting or, for the slightly better-off, into a mortgage debt even if they couldn’t really afford it. But since private developers had made no plans to cater for this sudden increase in demand, house prices began to increase. According to the building society Nationwide, the average house price increased from £59,000 to £165,000 while Labour was in government. And due to the crisis of 2007/8, many families couldn’t repay their mortgages, so much so, that the number of repossessions increased in Britain from 8,200 in 2004/5 to 47,700 in 2008/9!
Back in 1979, 42% of British people lived in council homes. Today, less than 8% do. After years of decline in social housing, the “socially-rented” sector now comprises only 17% of all homes. Private rentals comprise 20% and “owner occupation”, 63%.
And since in 2015 Cameron’s government extended the “right-to-buy” scheme to tenants in housing associations for the full cost of their home, the overall “socially-rented” sector has been dwindling at an even higher rate. Today, there are only 1.6m council homes left, when there were nearly 6.5m in 1979! There are 2.5m housing association dwellings, which cannot make up for the lack of council homes. As a result, the housing waiting list has increased, according to official figures, by another 13% between 1997 and 2017. So today, 1.6m households are in urgent need of social housing. But never mind! Johnson, following in his predecessors’ footsteps, promised that under his government, “as many people as possible” would be encouraged “into home ownership”!
The juicy mortgage market
In parallel with selling the council housing stock, a string of measures were put in place in the interests of the banking sector. So for instance, up until the mid-1980s, mortgages had been mostly the preserve of mortgage banks, the so-called building societies. But when Thatcher introduced the “right-to-buy” scheme, restrictions on banks’ right to lend were lifted, allowing regular banks to expand their business into the mortgage market.
The government also stepped in to ensure that private landlords and banks would get a growing and stable income from rents and mortgages with the so-called “buy-to-let” business. It was encouraged as far back as the end of the 80s, when Thatcher’s government introduced the “assured shorthold tenancy” in its Housing Act of 1988, which gave landlords the confidence that tenants would only reside in a property for a fixed period of time, and they could thus regularly re-let at an increased rent. It also meant, of course, that buying a property purely to let it, became a juicy business, both for landlords and the banks supplying the mortgages.
But “buy-to-let” mortgages really picked up after 1996, after “buy-to-let” owners were given tax relief on mortgage costs. It meant that the government encouraged people to get indebted in order to become landlords! And since house prices were going through the roof, many small and large real estate investors saw it as an opportunity to make a quick buck. From 1999 to 2007, the number of new “buy-to-let” purchases increased from nearly 50,000 to more than 175,000 per year. And despite a temporary decline during the crisis of 2007/8, when many small investors actually lost their “buy-to-let” properties, this type of mortgage picked up again to reach nearly 120,000 in 2015.
Of course, most banks and building societies have had a finger in the “buy-to-let” mortgage market pie. According to the Council of Mortgage Lenders, more than 1.7m of these loans were advanced between 1999 and 2015. So today, an estimated 4.5m tenants live in privately rented “buy-to-let” properties.
However, a section of the Tory electorate saw in the “buy-to-let” business an obstacle to climbing their own property ladder. So the 2015 Cameron government decided to abolish tax relief on “buy-to-let” mortgages. The “buy-to-let” market has since decreased.
After the crisis of 2007/8, the Tory/LibDem coalition government gave further incentives to expand the mortgage market. In 2013, they introduced the “help-to-buy” scheme. This made it possible for lenders to offer mortgages to prospective buyers of newly built homes, who would normally not have qualified, for instance if they couldn’t raise the 25% deposit normally required. The government lent up to 20% of equity needed immediately, so that the buyer only had to pay a 5% deposit in advance. And in order to increase artificially even further the mortgage market, in 2016 the government increased the upper limit of this equity loan in Greater London from 20% to 40% - in order, as they claim, “to reflect the current property prices in London”!
In other words, the government is doing all of the borrowing and guaranteeing that the banks can wish for! All-in-all, the “help-to-buy” scheme has cost the government £15.5bn. And since it was extended until 2023, it will cost an extra £8.7bn. As for the construction companies, why should they build social homes for local authorities, when they can build homes that sell at sky-high prices?
Increasing social rent and capping social house building
Since councils have been cash-strapped for many decades past, the government had to find a way to help increase their capacity to borrow. And they found it, by allowing councils and housing associations to increase social rents and use their higher rental income as security against bank loans!
Already in 2002, Blair’s Labour introduced a “Rent Convergence Policy” which meant that “local authority and housing association tenants [would] eventually pay similar rents for similar properties in similar areas”. Of course, while the policy was supposed to align council and housing association rents in the country by 2012, it was used by successive governments to increase social rents. The Labour government had allowed social rent to increase by the Retail Prices Index (RPI) + 0.5%. Then the Tory/LibDem coalition government, after cutting the budget for building “affordable” housing from £2.8bn to £1.1bn per year, announced that local authorities and housing associations would make up for this 60% cut by increasing social rent; they extended the “Rent Convergence Policy” until 2015 and the new rent formula was RPI + 0.5% + £2 per week. But since social rents were not increasing rapidly enough, in 2013, the government allowed social housing rents to increase by more than 1% above inflation.
In addition, the coalition government introduced a new “intermediate rent” tenure, as part of their October 2010 Spending Review. Housing associations now could offer tenancies at rents of up to 80% (and in some cases 90%) of the local market rate - which became the definition of “affordable” rent! These policies resulted in social rent almost doubling, from an average £48/week in 2001/2 to £87/week in 2016/17! So that “social” rent for a two-bedroomed flat has reached an average of nearly £110/week today.
Finally, the coalition government introduced the Localism Act 2011, which according to Osborne, would limit “the use of lifetime tenancies in social housing … and ensure the best use is made of the social housing stock”. Under this Act, social tenants were given fixed-term tenancies of a minimum of 2 years. At the end of the fixed tenancy period, the tenant’s circumstances would be reviewed by local authorities and a decision made whether to renew the tenancy or not. If local authorities judged that tenants could afford other housing, councils could serve them 6 months’ notice plus 2 months’ notice of “intention to seek possession”! They proposed to “support” tenants into home ownership or help them access other housing options. In other words, social tenants were not only forced to paying higher rents, but they were also pushed into either buying their homes or, if they couldn’t afford it, to move into private rented accommodation - all under the discretion of local authorities with dwindling social housing stock!
After ensuring that local councils could increase their borrowing power thanks to increasing receipts from social rent, the government also gave them access to low-interest loans through a government body called the Public Works Loan Board, or PWLB. A good idea, one might think, since it would allow councils to borrow to build social housing? Sorry but no! Local authorities were allowed to use the money from the PWLB only to invest in... private commercial properties! And this, simply because investments in commercial properties gave a bigger potential return than investing in social housing.
In fact, the government had already introduced new rules against councils borrowing for social housing. To build new homes or temporary accommodation, the councils need to use their Housing Revenue Account (HRA) budget. But the new rules introduced by Cameron governing HRAs, restricted the amount councils could borrow to fund house-building. And while the borrowing cap on HRA did vary from council to council, depending on how much housing debt councils already had, the overall objective of this policy was to ensure councils would borrow to invest in the private commercial property sector and not in building council homes.
May’s empty promises
It took the fire at Grenfell Tower in June 2017, which killed 72 tenants and exposed the dire conditions of council housing stock, for May’s government to pledge that the “wider questions” related to social housing would be taken forward. She lamented that “many people in society - including too many politicians - continue to look down on social housing and the people who call it their home” and promised “a new generation of social rented homes”.
But what came out of these promises? Did the government abolish the practice of employing private subcontractors to run council housing stock, who used the cheapest possible refurbishment materials, which led to the Grenfell disaster? Indeed, under the government’s Housing (Right to Manage) Regulations 1994, Tenant Management Organisations had been created to take over large numbers of council estates, with the objective of turning the screw on social tenants and cutting the maintenance costs of social housing.
It was the largest of these organisations, the Kensington and Chelsea TMO, which took over the borough’s entire social housing stock, including Grenfell Tower. And it was this same TMO which was involved in the cheap refurbishment of the Grenfell Tower that finally led to the fire.
In fact, over 3 years since the Grenfell fire and May’s promise “to fix the broken housing market”, 2,000 buildings, including social housing blocks and student accommodation, have still not had their dangerous cladding removed. And out of those made homeless by the Grenfell Tower fire, over 3 years ago, 7 families still do not have permanent accommodation!
Instead, May came up with a five-year Affordable Homes Programme - a programme of £9.1bn to build 250,000 homes by 2022. The caveat, of course, is that only 5% of these newly-built homes will be for social rent - less than 1,000 per year! The other 95% of these newly built homes can be sold or rented at the “affordable” 80% of market rents! In fact, the programme is entirely geared towards allowing housing association tenants the right to “shared ownership” of homes built under the programme. In other words, the very small number of homes built, of which an even smaller number are social homes, are already open to the private market.
May also announced the lifting of the Housing Revenue Account (HRA) cap, which she argued would incentivise councils to borrow, in order to build much needed social housing. The results of lifting the HRA cap, however, has been close to nil. Around half of all councils have planned to increase their social housing stock, but usually by cross-subsidising it with building for sale or for market rent, which is so much more profitable for already over-indebted councils. Only a tiny minority of councils (4.5%) have decided to build only for social rent. In other words, nothing close to May’s promise of a “new generation of council homes” for Britain. And it wasn’t May’s announcement, in 2018, of a paltry investment of £2bn in social housing over 10 years (a mere £200m per year!) that would make a difference either. All in all, under May’s government, only 14,516 new social homes were built: not even 3% of what is urgently needed!
Johnson’s government, a bit more of the same... and worse
Boris Johnson, in his electoral manifesto last December, promised to “renew the Affordable Homes Programme” and “support the continued supply of social homes”. On the 17 November this year, a Social Housing White Paper was published.
Commissioned back in 2017, after the Grenfell fire, the White Paper was meant to give social tenants “a much stronger voice” against social landlords. So now, social tenants are promised they will be able to “challenge their landlord when things are not working as they should” - and all sorts of legal channels will allow their complaints to be “dealt with promptly and fairly”. As if Grenfell tenants hadn’t challenged the Kensington and Chelsea TMO years before the fire. But their concerns fell on deaf ears regardless of the many “legal channels” used! As for the subcontracting of cowboy companies, which maintain social housing stock on the cheap and directly led to the fire, this has not been put into question. And neither has the successive governments’ bonfire of fire safety regulations, which also contributed to the Grenfell disaster!
And what about the supply of the urgently needed social housing stock? The White Paper announced an additional £11.5bn fund for the Affordable Homes Programme. But in fact this is not all “new” money, since part of it had already been promised by Theresa May back in 2017. So the “funding commitment” already deflates to a £9bn increase in the already existing Affordable Homes Programme. But anyway, this Programme cannot provide the necessary social housing, given that half of the homes built “will be for affordable home ownership”.
Of course, the White Paper reiterates that the government is “determined to increase the supply of new and beautiful social homes”. As for the specifics of how many and when, the 76-page-long document doesn’t say. It merely restates the inadequate social housing policies already in place, including May’s removal of the Housing Revenue Account borrowing cap!
However, according to an article in Inside Housing, the White Paper is clear about one thing: “ministers’ commitment to the Right to Buy and the new Right to Shared Ownership” which “indicates that they are still happy for these policies to chip away at the country’s limited social housing stock”. Indeed, the much awaited Social Housing White Paper has delivered... absolutely nothing.
Luxury flats, on the other hand, continue to be built by their thousands by private developers. The capitalist class can afford £500m to build the 1,016 ft high London “Shard”. And they’re ready to throw in £1.4bn for a new 900,000 sq ft “Gotham City” project in London. Yet 400,000 people are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless and 8.4m people are in need of better homes! Of course, the capitalist class has no obligation to house the working class. The unprofitable construction of working class dwellings is left in the hands of local authorities. And during the past decade of austerity measures, government cuts have diminished social housing supply even more. The huge demand versus the tiny supply allows prices and rents to skyrocket, which can only please all those who make money out of this market - from developers, to banks, to little landlords.
In 1903, the writer Jack London, who described in his book “The people of the abyss” his own experience living among the working class in East London, wrote at the time: “Not only was one room deemed sufficient for a poor man and his family, but I learned that many families, occupying single rooms, had so much space to spare as to be able to take in a lodger or two.” More than a century later, it seems that hardly anything has changed.
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We know it takes a lot of strength to make life choices that bring change.
Sometimes those choices and changes can be frightening, even if you believe they’re the right ones. When those changes include finding ways to be safe from an abusive partner, you risk facing increased abuse and violence. This makes a hard decision harder, especially if you fear for your safety and your children’s safety.
That’s why we offer support.
We’ll talk with you about what you’re going through, your fears, and concerns about what might happen in the future. Then, we’ll explore different ways you might be able to protect yourself from danger and navigate the legal system. If you need it, we can help you find a safe place to live at an emergency shelter, long-term transitional housing, or other options provided by the social service system.
We will never tell you what to do. We are here to listen and engage in conversation. We offer support and information.
Bilingual advocates are available to provide French-speaking individuals with linguistically and culturally-informed support and advocacy. Hope & Justice Project facilitates connections with the community and institutional resources needed to achieve safety goals and address abuse and violence. We collaborate with local interpreters and translators to help victims of abuse experiencing additional language barriers.
Des défenseuses bilingues avec compétences linguistiques et culturelles sont disponibles aux individus francophones qui ont besoin d’un soutien informé et de plaidoierie. L’organisme Hope & Justice Project facilite les liens avec les ressources communautaires et institutionnelles pour assurer la sécurité et les buts, et pour aider les victimes à confronter leurs expériences d’abus et de violence.
We provide services to anyone affected by abuse and violence. No matter what your physical, emotional, or cognitive abilities or limitations are, we want to help you. We are willing to work with you to provide the accommodations needed to achieve safety.
To learn more, please call our helpline at 1-800-439-2323. If you are hearing impaired, use your preferred relay service to connect with this helpline. Our helpline is available 24 hours a day.
Hope & Justice Project provides a financial intake process for victims and survivors of abuse. In collaboration with New Ventures Maine, we help individuals receive the financial literacy, planning, and support needed to achieve long-term safety and independence. We can also help you achieve your goals for homeownership, self-employment, or higher education.
Feeling isolated or alone? Meet others who share similar experiences. Then, work together to help each other stay strong and move ahead, no matter where on the path of life you happen to be.
We offer support groups in Houlton, Presque Isle, and the St. John Valley. Our support groups offer you a safe space to talk about your experience with others who have gone through similar things. Contact the office nearest you to learn more.
If you’re a victim of abuse and violence, it might seem like you’ll never feel safe again. You may think finding a safe place to stay is an impossible dream. Here’s some good news! There is a safe haven.
We welcome adults and children at our emergency shelters. They are located in confidential locations in Northern, Central, and Southern Aroostook County. At each shelter, we offer emotional support, information, and advocacy.
We help you stay safe as you consider how to handle your situation and think through what’s going on in your life. We help you find the community services you need to stay safe and work toward self-sufficiency. Please contact us if you need shelter.
Transitional Housing and Services
If you’re working to stay safe and free from relationships involving violence, you might consider living in our transitional housing. We welcome survivors of domestic abuse for up to two years. It’s safe, affordable, and includes supportive services to help you succeed.
If you would like some help, the first step is to meet with a Hope & Justice Project advocate. Once they understand your circumstances, the advocate:
- Can help you file complaints or documents that explain your situation and how you would like that situation to be resolved with the court. The most common are:
- Complaint for Protection from Abuse
- Complaint for Protection from Harassment
- Determination of Parental Rights and Responsibilities
- Complaint for Divorce
- May be available to accompany you to court in Houlton, Presque Isle, Caribou, Madawaska, or Fort Kent.
To make an appointment with an advocate, please call our helpline at 1-800-439-2323. We may be able to provide the assistance you need by phone. If not, we’ll work with you to find a way to meet in person.
We understand the challenges of time, transportation, distance, privacy, and the threat your partner may be to your safety. We’ll be as flexible and resourceful as possible. We will work with you to get the support and information you need.
Abuse is abuse regardless of your relationship make-up. Abuse and violence happen at about the same rates in LGBTQ+ relationships as in heterosexual relationships. It’s about one person in the relationship who seeks to have control over the other and believes they are entitled to it.
Abuse in LGBTQ+ relationships can differ from abuse in heterosexual relationships. The abusive person may specifically attack their partner’s sexual orientation or gender identity. They may use homophobic, biphobic, or transphobic messages to justify their actions.
The LGBTQ+ Power & Control Wheel is a helpful tool for understanding the tactics an abusive partner could use in an LGBTQ+ relationship. Still have questions? Hopefully the following information will provide clarity for you.
What is LGBTQ+?
LGBTQ+ is an acronym standing for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer. The “+” signifies that one acronym can’t capture everyone’s experience of their gender identity, expression, or sexual orientation. Sometimes “Q” is associated with Questioning or the idea that not everyone feels comfortable identifying as a specific label.
“Queer” is a word that historically has been used as a slur or insult against gay people. In recent years, it has been reclaimed by the LGBTQ+ community. It is an umbrella term for someone who is not heterosexual or cisgender.
How Can We Help?
Hope & Justice Project advocates are trained to provide services to any victim of abuse or violence. We do not discriminate based on someone’s race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or age in delivering our services. In fact, many of our advocates have received special training in working with LGBTQ+ survivors of abuse. If you would like to talk to or meet with one of these advocates, call the office nearest you.
Wondering where to turn? Here’s a comprehensive list of local, state, and national organizations that you might find very helpful. In addition to using our directory, you may wish to talk with one of our advocates to be sure you are connected with the help you deserve.
Aroostook County Law Enforcement
Aroostook County Food Pantries
Aroostook County District Courts
Aroostook County District Attorney’s Offices
Aroostook County Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Contact Information
Other Aroostook County Resources
Houlton – 207-521-0551
Presque Isle – 207-764-5809
Caribou – 1-800-809-2737
Fort Kent – 1-877-219-1936
Houlton – 207-532-5510
Houlton – 207-532-9660
Presque Isle – 207-764-6825
Fort Kent – 207-834-5430
Caribou – 207-492-1653
Fort Kent – 207-231-2306
Madawaska – 207-231-4542
Mars Hill – 207-425-3880
Caribou – 207-492-2011
Presque Isle – 207-540-1522
Houlton – 207-521-0067
Aroostook County Clothing & Thrift Stores
Presque Isle – 207-768-6200
Caribou – 207-496-0600
Madawaska – 207-728-9080
Houlton – 207-521-5028
Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence & Member Organizations
Wabanaki Women’s Coalition Member Projects
Other Culturally Specific Services
A safety plan includes any steps you can take to increase your safety, whether you live with your partner, are preparing to leave, or have left. If you are struggling with where to start, this template may be helpful to you. Don’t forget to consider the technology you are using to currently access this website in your safety plan.
Here are some suggestions. Everyone’s situation is different. You’ll have to choose the ones that work for you. We’re always available to talk about different ideas and help you think about your options. Just call our helpline at 1-800-439-2323.
If you live with an abusive partner
If you live with an abusive partner, here are some things to think about and do to help you get and stay safe.
- Plan possible exits you can use from your home or apartment if an argument erupts.
- Keep an extra set of keys, money, and a packed bag ready in case you need to leave quickly.
- Learn how to disable your cell phone’s GPS locator if it has one, so your abuser can’t track your movements.
- Create a code word or signal to use with your friends, family, or neighbors to let them know when you need the police or other help.
- Be cautious about what you post on social networking sites.
- Learn how to clear your computer’s browser history.
- Make plans to go to the home of a friend or neighbor, somewhere safe and a place your abuser won’t look for you if you need to leave home.
If you’re preparing to leave
Leaving can increase your danger since many abusers will step up the violence they use to control you. Here are some steps you can take to help you stay safe.
- Pack a bag with things you’ll need to take with you: identification, driver's license, car registration and title, birth certificates for you and your children, money, bank books, keys, medications, social security cards, address book, clothes – or leave money, an extra set of keys, copies of important documents, and extra clothes with someone you trust so that you can leave quickly.
- Open a bank account in your name and rent a post office box so you can receive mail.
- Talk with family, friends, police, or staff at community agencies you can count on for support.
If you’ve left
Starting on your own can be a challenging and difficult time. If you’ve left, here are some steps you can take to stay safe – and keep your children safe – while you create your new life.
If you have a protection from abuse order or family matter judgment, give copies to your child’s schools and childcare. Let them know who has permission to pick up the children and give them your code word.
- If you have to arrange child visits with your abusive partner, exchange children in a public place or through a third party.
- Get support. Talk to one of our advocates and/or attend a support group.
- If you have to communicate with the abuser, talk by phone, or take another person. with you.
- If there’s someone at work you trust, tell him or her about your situation. If you work in a small business, this person may be a co-worker. If you work for a larger company, you might want to alert your office or building security and provide a photo of your abuser if possible. Arrange to have someone screen your calls.
- When you leave work, make plans to be escorted to your car, and then vary your route home. Drive to the nearest police station if you’re being followed – and find out where it is before you need it!
Technology can be very helpful to people, but it can also be misused – especially by someone who is intent on keeping track of where you are, what you are doing, and who you are talking to. Whether you are living with someone who is abusive to you, have left or are making plans to leave, or simply want to minimize the risk of someone stalking you through your phone or internet connections, we can help.
For starters, you may find this Technology Safety Plan helpful. It includes information on disabling the GPS tracking device on your phone, using safe devices, and privacy settings on social media. If you are accessing our website on a computer or device that is shared with others, you may wish to learn more about clearing your internet browser history.
Young Adult Services
Young adults experience the highest rates of abuse than any other age group. Roughly 1 in 3 young adults report experiencing abuse or violence in their dating relationships.
We recognize that if you are a young adult, you may have experienced minimization and a lack of validation from other adults when it comes to your relationship. If you are looking for someone to confide in about what is happening in your relationship, let’s talk! We can help you figure out whether your relationship is healthy or, if you believe what you are experiencing is abuse, we can give you the accurate information you need to move forward.
We are not here to judge or tell you what to do. You know what is best for you and we want to support you in whatever you want your life to look like.
Sometimes a good place to start is taking our quiz to try to determine if you are experiencing abuse. If you are experiencing abuse or you are concerned that a young person in your life might be, check out this brochure we developed to be helpful to victims of dating abuse. And if you are interested in learning more, check out our events during Teen Dating Violence Awareness & Prevention Month in February.
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[Letter, 1840 Mar. 20, London to David Milne] [manuscript]., | Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Letter of Charles Darwin, 20 March 1840, to David Milne (unnamed in the letter) in which Darwin discusses earthquakes, comments on his scientific writings and promises to send his correspondent, referred to him by the geologist Sir Charles Lyell, a copy of a forthcoming essay.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Dated "12 Upper Gower St, Thursday 20th".
Provenance: Purchased from Zeitlin, 27 February 1959.
Former shelfmark: MS Q. B.D228d1l (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library).
Modern transcript (typescript) laid in.
Britchford, M.J. Manuscripts guide to collections at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1976), p. 311
Calendar of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, 1821-1882, with Supplement. Cambridge University Press, 1994, p. 39, no. 560
Correspondence of Charles Darwin. Cambridge University Press, 1985-, v. 2 (1837-1843), p. 258-260. Misattributed to the Mudie Collection (University of Illinois Library); in fact, a separate Darwin letter resides in the Mudie Collection.
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The more often older married individuals engage in sexual activity, the more likely they are to be happy with both their lives and marriages, according to new research presented in Boston at The Gerontological Society of America's (GSA) 64th Annual Scientific Meeting.
This finding is based on the 2004� General Social Surveys, a public opinion poll conducted on a nationally representative sample of non-institutionalized English and Spanish-speaking person 18 years of age or older living in the U.S. The data analysis was conducted by Adrienne Jackson, PT, PhD, MPA, an assistant professor at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University.
"This study will help open the lines of communication and spark interest in developing 'outside the box' approaches to dealing with resolvable issues that limit or prevent older adults from participating in sexual activity," said Jackson. "Highlighting the relationship between sex and happiness will help us in developing and organizing specific sexual health interventions for this growing segment of our population."
Based on the survey responses of 238 arried individuals age 65 years or older, Jackson discovered that frequency of sexual activity was a significant predictor of both general and marital happiness. The association even remained after accounting for factors such as age, gender, health status, and satisfaction with financial situation.
Whereas only 40 percent of individuals who reported no sexual activity in the last 12 months said they were very happy with life in general, almost 60 percent who engaged in sexual activity more than once a month said they were very happy. Similarly, while about 59 percent of individuals who reported no sexual activity in the last 12 months said they were very happy with their marriage, almost 80 percent who had sex more than once a month said they were very happy. To assess frequency of sexual activity, respondents were asked the following question: "About how many times did you have sex during the last 12 months? By 'sex' we mean vaginal, oral, or anal sex." To assess general happiness, respondents were asked the following question: "Taken all together, how would you say things are these days -- would you say that you are very happy, pretty happy, or not too happy?" To assess marital happiness, respondents were asked the following question: "Taking things all together, how would you describe your marriage? Would you say that your marriage is very happy, pretty happy, or not too happy?"
GSA's meeting -- the country's largest interdisciplinary conference in the field of aging -- is taking place at the John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center and Sheraton Boston Hotel from November 18 to 22. An estimated 3,500 professionals are expected to attend and the program schedule contains more than 500 scientific sessions featuring research presented for the first time. Jackson's presentation, "Exploring the Relationship Between Frequency of Sexual Activity and Happiness Among Older Married Americans," is taking place at 1 p.m. on Sunday, November 20, in room 103 of the Convention Center.
The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) is the nation's oldest and largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to research, education, and practice in the field of aging. The principal mission of the Society -- and its 5,400+ members -- is to advance the study of aging and disseminate information among scientists, decision makers, and the general public. GSA's structure also includes a policy institute, the National Academy on an Aging Society, and an educational branch, the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education. | <urn:uuid:12a48040-a0ae-4074-8fe6-5de011ee34fb> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-11/tgso-sfs111711.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718957.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00436-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968534 | 701 | 1.8125 | 2 |
The House Intelligence Committee inserted language in the pending intelligence authorization bill that would bar access by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) to classified information pertaining to covert action.
“Nothing in the statute authorizing the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board should be construed to allow that Board to gain access to information the executive branch deems to be related to covert action,” according to the new Committee report on the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY 2016 (section 306), published yesterday.
To the extent that covert action is employed against terrorism and is therefore within the scope of PCLOB’s charter, the House Committee action would preclude PCLOB oversight of the implications of such covert actions for privacy and civil liberties.
That “unduly restricts” PCLOB’s jurisdiction, according to Rep. James Himes (D-CT), a member of the House Intelligence Committee who unsuccessfully sought to modify the provision.
It is possible that there is some tacit rivalry between PCLOB and the congressional intelligence oversight committees, particularly since the PCLOB found that the Section 215 program for collection of telephone metadata was unlawfully implemented while the oversight committees had approved and embraced it. (The recurring failure of the intelligence oversight committees to accurately represent broader congressional and public perspectives over the past decade is a subject that remains to be addressed.)
By contrast, the same House bill directed that the DNI shall provide the Government Accountability Office with the access to information that it needs to perform its authorized functions. The relevant directive (ICD 114) “shall not prohibit the Comptroller General [i.e., the head of the GAO] from obtaining information necessary to carry out an audit or review at the request of the congressional intelligence and defense committees.”
The new House Committee measure may be gratuitous in any event, since the PCLOB is an executive branch agency and is already subject to the authority of the Director of National Intelligence to protect intelligence sources and methods, and to regulate access accordingly.
The PCLOB has recently posted a plan for its review of two counterterrorism-related activities governed by Executive Order 12333.
“The Board plans to concentrate on activities of the CIA and NSA, and to select activities that involve one or more of the following: (1) bulk collection involving a significant chance of acquiring U.S. person information; (2) use of incidentally collected U.S. person information; (3) targeting of U.S. persons; and (4) collection that occurs within the United States or from U.S. companies,” the PCLOB plan said.
Yesterday, Senators Dianne Feinstein and John McCain introduced an amendment to the 2016 defense authorization act “to reaffirm the prohibition on torture.” The amendment would limit interrogation techniques to those included in the unclassified Army Field Manual 2-22.3 (Appendix M). And it would require regular review of “to ensure that Army Field Manual 2-22.3 complies with the legal obligations of the United States and reflects current, evidence-based, best practices for interrogation that are designed to elicit reliable and voluntary statements and do not involve the use or threat of force.” The amendment had not yet been voted on as of yesterday.
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Not So Simple: Understanding How Hand Sanitiser Works and When You Should Be Using It
Ah, the beloved anti-bac, tiny bottles of magic that linger in the bottom of our bags whenever we go on holiday, out for a picnic or, let’s face it, to the bowling alley. Since early 2020 though, hand sanitiser and anti-bacterial gel have been big business as everyone tries to find a way to keep their coronavirus exposure to a minimum.
And yet, the advice from health departments world over is that ordinary people should be using soap and water as the first line of defence and hand sanitiser when handwashing isn’t available. Can soap and water really be better than formulated sanitiser?
What’s the Deal with Soap and Water?
The reason why good old soap and water is highly recommended for keeping your hands free from unwanted bacteria and other dubious things is simple: it washes them away. Soap breaks down the outer layer of many types of bacteria and water washes it, and any other dirt, down the drain leaving your hands clean.
For soap and water handwashing to be most effective, it needs to be conducted thoroughly and for an appropriate amount of time, with the current recommendation being 20 seconds.
Is Anti-Bacterial Soap Better?
If soap and water handwashing is so effective, doesn’t that mean that anti-bacterial soap is even more effective? Nope.
As it transpires, regular soap already does a fantastic job at killing and washing away unfriendly bacteria. ‘Anti-bacterial’ soap doesn’t do a better job and instead may contain chemicals that are not only unnecessary, but harmful.
What’s the Deal with Hand Sanitiser?
Of course, having access to soap and water isn’t always going to be the case. In this case, it’s essential to use a hand sanitiser that’s up to the job.
Hand sanitiser is a formulation that’s designed to be used without water, instead evaporating to dry your hands. It’s designed to kill bacteria and deactivate some types of virus rather than wash them off your skin as soap and water handwashing does.
There are generally two types of hand sanitiser: Alcohol and alcohol-free.
There is little evidence that alcohol-free hand sanitiser is particularly effective and no evidence that it can be used against COVID-19. As a result, it’s not recommended. Instead, alcohol is the go-to ingredient as it’s safe to use on skin and, in the right dilutions, breaks down the outer lipid layer of certain pathogens.
In order to do this effectively, the alcohol percentage in the sanitiser should be 60% or above. Medical-grade hand sanitisers are more likely to be 70% or above. Most bottles advertise their alcohol percentage clearly, but you should be able to find it on the back regardless. Ethanol and isopropyl alcohol are the most commonly used.
Can You Use Hand Sanitiser All the Time?
Of course, coronavirus isn’t the only thing we need to protect ourselves against. In order to reduce our exposure and the spread of other pathogens from norovirus to the common cold, it’s important to wash our hands whenever we come into contact with contaminated surfaces such as in bathrooms, public spaces and kitchens.
Hand sanitiser can do a good job of killing and deactivating pathogens but it’s not effective against all. In fact, the highly contagious and unpleasant norovirus doesn’t have an outer lipid layer for alcohol to break down, meaning it can survive even the most thorough of hand sanitising sessions. Clostridium difficile, a bacterium commonly responsible for diarrhoea, is also not going to be dissuaded by alcohol hand sanitiser. As sanitiser can’t kill these pathogens and the lack of water means they’re not being washed away, you can feel as though you have clean hands but continue spreading them around.
In contrast, hand washing with soap and water works well to remove these pathogens from your skin.
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Pakistan And The Aaa. Past And Present Relationship Dynamics
No it is not about an AAA credit rating by Standard & Poor's, but the three AAA’s, Allah, Army and America which is the guiding force of Pakistan. When Pakistan was created in 1947 by Mohammad Ali Jinnah, his dream was to create a secular state, where there would be separation of Church and State. But this idea was thrown out of the window the moment he died. Pakistan became an Islamic state or the idea of a state of Islam became a reality and in 1956. Jinnah wanted democracy in Pakistan but the idea never really took roots and the feudalistic ideals steeped in fear of change never really crossed over towards democracy. In all this turmoil the guiding power of Pakistan fell into three categories or most commonly known as AAA. Allah, Army and America. Islam became the bedrock of Pakistan, the Army its protective shield and America its provider of weapons and other aid.
First let us see the role of the Army in the history of Pakistan and why it had to take over from civilian control over and over in the last 6 decades. The army first took control when Iskander Mirza became the first president of Pakistan in 1956 and declared Pakistan an Islamic Republic, but the democratic system was hindered after President Mirza removed four Prime Ministers in two years and imposed the Martial Law in 1958 and appointed General Ayub Khan as its enforcer. Three weeks later, President Mirza was ousted by Ayub Khan and was exiled. The rule of the Army saw a lot of progress especially the economic prosperity and in general supporters dubbed it the “decade of Progress”. However the ill-advised war with India in 1965 saw the decline of Ayub Khan and in 1969 the power was handed over to general Yahya Khan, who again imposed Martial Law for the second time in the young History of Pakistan.
After the 1971 war which saw the separation of East Pakistan and a new nation of Bangladesh was born, democracy made a comeback and Zulfikar Ali Bhotto became the Prime Minister and the long road towards democracy started again. But this came to an macabre end in 1977 when General Zia ul Haq deposed Prime Minister Bhotto and immediately declared Martial law. 1979 the democratically elected Bhotto was Hanged. This period saw the total Islamisation of Pakistan society and it’s Military. After the death of General Zia in a plane crash, election were held and democracy again made a comeback but in 1999 the administration of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was over thrown and General Parvez Musharraf became President and Chief of Staff of the Army for the next ten years. This is a brief description of the role of Pakistan Army, but there is lot more to discuss.
Ever since the inception of Pakistan as a nation on 1947, America has played a pivotal role and has been a major supporter. The most powerful place in Pakistan after the Headquarters of the Army Chief of Staff was the American Embassy and the American who lived there Ambassador. Pakistan received a lot of aid from America in the form of economic stimulus and Military hardware. But the true intent was to keep a close eye on the Soviet Union and China and the only way possible was to give any and every level of assistance to Pakistan. Support for Pakistan was necessitated because of Geo politics and the strategic geography of Pakistan.
This prompted America to ask Pakistan to Join the US-led military alliances South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) and CentralTreaty Organization (CENTO). In 1954 the United States signed a Mutual Defense Assistance Agreement with Pakistan. After signing this agreement, Pakistan enjoyed a strong and close relationship with the United States. Pakistan had aligned itself with the United States during the Cold War, as opposed to the Soviet Union. America also received a secret military base in Pakistan to conduct clandestine activity, mainly U2 spy plane to check the positioning of Soviet ballistic missiles. Further help was given during the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviets in 1979. In the interest of maintaining a relationship with Pakistan, America always turned a blind eye even when democracy was openly challenged and overthrown which only means the blessings from America was there.
Finial and presumably the most important pillar of Pakistan is the dogma of the religion of Islam. Pakistan was created because of a misguided ideology and paranoia to provide a safe haven to Muslims from a Hindu dominated Indian subcontinent. It is understandable to be fearful of an impending domination by a different religion since Islam was the dominant force for nearly thousand years before the advent of the British. The British never failed to use the policy of divide and rule, but this policy took to deep rooted suspicion and paranoia among the Muslim leaders and the Muslim Populace in general and when Pakistan was created, just within few years the Islamisation of Pakistan started taking roots and the rule of Zia ul Haq consolidated it. He radicalized a secular Military and the invasion of Afghanistan by Soviets sealed it.
Whenever a war cry is made in a country in the name of religion, the thinking and the approach of military changes and also it affects the society in general. When the Hudood Ordinance was passed in 1979, suddenly the power came into the hands of the clergy and the fabric of Pakistan was changed forever. Though it was the dream of Mohammad Ali Jinnah for Pakistan to be a secular democratic nation, but when a state adopts a particular religion the very Idea of democracy becomes Null and Void.
The new “A” Abstract
So what role does the Army, America and Allah have in present Pakistan because the relationship between Army and Allah has become very close and the relationship with America is now abstract, existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment. Almost all major domestic policies are signed off by the Army and the civilian leadership has absolutely no say over foreign policy. Plus, it is known facts the civilian government have no control over launch and control of nuclear missiles protocols which became clear during the 1999 Kargil conflict when Nawaz Sharif had to rush to America for help because the Army had fielded operational Nukes. This is a grave matter when the launch code could possibly be with a field commander, which is a sensitive issue for many governments because of lack of checks and balance.
Also the Clergy has now enough power to intimidate any politician which became evident with the killing of Salman Taseer a Liberal politician who opposed the blasphemy laws. The Clergy Practically control many parts of Pakistan, so where does it leave America, because ever since the 9/11 attacks over American soil, Pakistan had no choice but to side and comply with America and kill their own brethren. After the invasion the relationship was never the same as it was few decades back when the American and Pakistani partnership was strong as concrete. But cracks started to appear in the relationship due to Pakistan involvement in Nuclear Proliferation and support of Islamic terrorist organisation like Lashkar-e-Taiba and its political/NGO wing Jamaat-ud-Dawa.
America knows that support for Taliban comes from within Pakistan and Osama Bin Laden was found just 2 miles away from the Pakistani Military Academy and more seriously the Pakistan Inter Service Intelligence, arguably one of the best and well funded intelligence organizations in the world will not miss any chance to support Al Qaeda.
But is Pakistan still in a relationship with America? Yes, but it can be called misogynist relationship, where one partner i.e. America knows that they are suffering abuse and being lied to everyday, but still decide to continue the relationship. What prompts such reaction every time is, whenever America decides to take action against Pakistan by cutting aid and military supply, Pakistan would immediately threaten with suicide, which means the hardliners will take over and everything would implode. But America must also realize that Pakistan can no longer be subject to U.S bullying because China is Pakistan all weather partner and number one supplier of weapons. Pakistani Military no longer has to depend upon American military hardware and alas the American Embassy is no longer the most important building to influence major policy change. The kind of relationship US and Pakistan had changed after the end of Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan and the end of cold war in general. But the new relationship forged after the lifting of sanctions was not of trust but the need for logistical support for NATO.
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So I thought they were deuterostomes, but apparently thats only half the story. Lynn Margulis classified the arrow worms as deuterostomes in her 5-kingdom classfication (after Whittaker). Their deuterostome characteristics include radial, indeterminate cleavage, a posterior position of the blastopore (deuterostomy), enterocoelous coelom formation and a tripartite adult body plan with a post-anal tail. At least this is what I was taught "growing up". Three papers in Current Biology last year showed that while they have developmental patterns like deuterostomes, their genes tell another story!
The first paper by Matus et al. sampled several phyla and used several genes. A consensus tree built from 72 EST genes grouped them within the Lophotrochozoa. They also constructed a tree using tropomyosin genes showing Chaetognaths as the sister taxon to all the Lophotrochozoa. One thing that bugged about the EST tree is that when they included the Priapulida, Chaetognaths grouped with them in the Ecdysozoa. When the data were reanalyzed without the Priapulids, Chaetognaths grouped with the last common ancestor of the molluscs and annelids. The authors argued that
"The association with the Ecdysozoa, therefore, depends on a single taxon and is not likely to reflect a general affinity for the group."But shouldn't you use total evidence? Can you really justify leaving out data because it doesn't fit your expectations? In their supplementary material, they show three trees with three different conclusions.
The first tree:
"Bayesian tree based on the analysis of RY-coded concatenated SSU and LSU rRNA genes shows a relationship between the chaetognaths Paraspadella and Sagitta with priapulids."Conclusion: Chaetognaths are sister-taxon to Priapulids, well situated within the Ecdysozoa.
The second tree:
"Bayseian analysis of Ribosomal SSU and LSU data, excluding priapulids from RY re-coded data... The maximum likelihood bootstrap tree had very low support values."Conclusion: Chaetognaths are sister-taxon to Platyhelminthes, well situated within the Lophotrochozoa.
The third tree:
"Bayesian analysis of Ribosomal SSU and LSU data excluding long branch platyhelminths and priapulids from RY re-coded data."Conclusion: Chaetognaths are sister-taxon to all the Lophotrochozoa, occupying a basal position to the clade. This is the tree they liked and went with for their main article.
Don't get me wrong, I (think) I believe them. Their maximum likelihood studies show best support for Tree #3 and fits nicely into a story, keeps everything monophyletic and stable. For instance they state:
"To eliminate long branch attraction artefacts, we analyzed subsets of taxa to determine the effects of taxon sampling (Supplemental data). Regardless of the taxa removed (nematodes, platyhelminths or tardigrades) the chaetognaths remained as sister to annelids and molluscs with varying degrees of support in Bayesian analyses and as sister to the Ecdysozoa (arthropods, nematodes and tardigrades) with weak bootstrap support in likelihood analyses."I (think) I believe their analysis and conclusions, but I'm just concerned about the structure of the tree. There are profound evolutionary differences between protostomes and deuterostomes or between Lophotrochozoans and Ecdysozoans. One day I will go into detail about the different clades. Either way, the molecular data say Chaetognaths are definitely Protostomes. It disturbs me though that most of the developmental and morphological similarities to deuterostomes, as the authors stated, may be the result of convergent evoluton. In my opinion, convergent evolution tends to destabilize tree topology by decreasing parsimony. Sometimes I feel that when you invoke convergent evolution too much you might as well through up your hands and proclaim the magnificence of the grand designer... | <urn:uuid:b5b281bb-3ba6-47f7-aa19-94308f5cdb5a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://other95.blogspot.com/2007/07/what-hell-is-chaetognath.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284405.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00040-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921556 | 919 | 2.625 | 3 |
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The COVID-19 recession is a severe and ongoing global recession. An economic consequence of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the first major sign of the recession was the 2020 stock market crash on 20 February.
- The economy has collapsed due to this unprecedented challenge of Covid-19. The worst sufferers are the informal sector workers, daily wagers and the poor. We need a complete reboot of our economy and we must ensure that at least now we use this as an opportunity and build an environmentally sustainable model which is human economy, ensuring living wages to all and not perpetuating and furthering inequality.
- Amitabh Behar, as quoted in Covid-19 Exposed India’s Apathy Towards its Migrants. Only Social, Financial Security Will Ensure Their Return (May 17, 2020) by Naushad Khan, News18 India
- Capitalists preach "the market" for the working class – stand on your own two feet, don't rely on the government – but themselves sponge off the public big time. Just look at the billions in subsidies and tax concessions the fossil fuel companies, huge enterprises for the most part, extract from state and federal governments in Australia. The vehicle manufacturers raked in hundreds of millions a year from the Australian government for decades until deciding it wasn't enough and went overseas. This is why big companies and industry groups hire armies of former politicians to lobby on their behalf in the offices of premiers and prime ministers – there's money in government coffers and they want it. And while the capitalists talk about "the market" setting wages for workers, in reality, they don't really allow the market to do the job. They use the whole apparatus of state repression, the industrial tribunals, the police, the courts to suppress workers' rights to organise to pursue their demands. But when a crisis hits all the bullshit about the market is thrown to the winds. And that is just what we are seeing now. Faced with the collapse of the capitalist economy, for the second time in a dozen years, with massive bankruptcies on the table and the stock market plunging by more than 30 percent and more to come, fervent advocates of the free market are now embracing government intervention to save their skins.
- The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry is urging the federal government to provide wage subsidies to workers, equivalent in value to Newstart to all businesses experiencing a sharp downturn. It is also asking the government to provide concessional loans of up to half a million dollars, with 80 percent of the debt guaranteed by government, as well as wage subsidies to cover sick leave entitlements. Nothing but corporate welfare of a kind that they have long decried when applied to workers themselves. In the short term, working class households will get some benefits from this cash splash. In Australia welfare beneficiaries will be getting $750 in their bank accounts. In the United States it is likely that Americans will receiving close to $1,000. But this is just short term relief to get the economy moving. The long term benefits will go to the capitalist class in the form of tax cuts and other financial concessions. The current crisis demonstrates not only that all the ideological nonsense about the virtues of the free market is quickly thrown overboard when capitalist interests are threatened, but also that the idea that governments are essentially powerless in the face of the markets is rubbish. Governments are not helpless victims who cannot do anything in the face of "economic reality". In the normal course of events, when we demand things like better welfare, health care or education, governments tell us that it isn't possible.
- It's not that governments have suddenly discovered a big pot of gold in the basement of the central banks. They say that they are taking these measures to both protect public health and to save the economy. But it's obvious which takes priority. The new measures constitute the largest bailout bonanza in world history, carried out through state-administered transfers of public wealth and current and future debt to billionaires and big business: socialisation of losses, privatisation of profits. The outcome will be to further transfer, consolidate and concentrate wealth, just as has occurred since the GFC. While there is discussion about small handouts, nothing serious is being proposed to halt the mass layoffs now gathering steam.
- In pretty much every spending package, subsidies to business, government loans and tax concessions account for two-thirds or more of the funds outlaid. Things that directly benefit workers – the big majority of the population – account for only one-third of the money.
- It turns out that these things, too, can be done. So, in an economic emergency, few of the usual rules apply. Governments can marshal the resources and can threaten the narrow interests of private businesses. Hardcore libertarians despise these measures as rampant socialism. From their perspective, they're right: the very existence of such programs is condemnation of the free market capitalist model that they promote. But they are best seen only as another approach to the management of the capitalist economy. The fact that governments across the OECD are now prepared to spend trillions of dollar to save the financial system from collapse only confirms that the world economy cannot be left safely in the hands of "the market". And, the situation clearly confirms that when the capitalist class and governments deem it necessary to save their system, lots of measures they once denounced as "unaffordable", not permitted by the condition of "the economy", are actually affordable and permitted. Governments can act when required. The ideological justifications of yesterday are revealed as threadbare. But nor are government interventions of this nature geared towards the interests of the working class, only the interests of the bosses.
- The Tories have proposed a huge economic package to help companies, but their support for working people sacked, laid off, or forced to self-isolate is pitiful. [...] Millions will find themselves with no income. When they try to claim benefits, they will find in place a ruthless regime of cuts, sanctions and suicidal despair — another achievement of Tory austerity. The most that Johnson has said about this so far is that claimants will not need to attend job-centre interviews any more. And what of expenditure? There is vague talk of a "mortgage holiday" and even vaguer talk of renters not being evicted during the crisis. But no talk of all the other payments that should be suspended, including, of course, utilities bills and other fixed household charges. Meanwhile, the profiteers are marking up the prices on goods in short supply — hand sanitiser, paracetemol, toilet roll, etc — and, needless to say, the Tories have done absolutely nothing to control prices. In any case, there is no evidence that the Tories have any intention of doing any of the things they say they will do. The "do everything necessary" rhetoric is bullshit. It’s just a mantra to hide the absence of concrete action and any enforcement mechanism. This can only get much worse, as the entire world economy nosedives, millions more are laid off, and we enter a period of catastrophic social breakdown comparable with the Great Depression. The Tories know this is coming. They are preparing for it.
- In the immediate period, millions in the hospitality industry, in leisure and tourism, in retail and services, and in aviation are being laid off without pay or fired outright. But the entire edifice of global finance is crumbling and we could easily see a generalised economic collapse across the entire system. Talk of the irrationality of capitalism is being posted everywhere. Extensive industrial collapse could create millions of unemployed. A banking collapse would impoverish millions more at a stroke. This is what the government's authoritarian new bill is preparing for — a repetition in Britain and on a global scale of the kind of economic and social collapse that happened in Argentina in 2001–2, when most working-class and middle-class people lost all their savings and millions lost their jobs. Mass social and political anger could shake the system to its foundations, and those in power are preparing for emergency measures against radical "subversives" — left-wing activists, trade unionists, social activists — liable to lead mass resistance. This, it seems, could take the form of mass detention without trial.
- The imminent public health crisis facing poorer countries as a consequence of COVID-19 will be further deepened by an associated global economic downturn that is almost certain to exceed the scale of 2008. It is too early to predict the depth of this slump, but many leading financial institutions are expecting this to be the worst recession in living memory. [...] Closely connected to this are the measures put in place by governments and central banks since 2008, most notably the policies of quantitative easing and repeated interest-rate cuts. These policies aimed at propping up share prices through massively increasing the supply of ultra-cheap money to financial markets. They meant a very significant growth in all forms of debt — corporate, government, and household.
- Adam Hanieh, This is a Global Pandemic – Let’s Treat it as Such, 27 March 2020, Verso Books
- We are entering an alarming situation where many poorer countries will face increasingly burdensome debt repayments while simultaneously attempting to manage an unprecedented public health crisis – all in the context of a very deep global recession. And let us not harbor any illusions that these intersecting crises might bring an end to structural adjustment or the emergence of some kind of "global social democracy." As we have repeatedly seen over the last decade, capital frequently seizes moments of crisis as a moment of opportunity — a chance to implement radical change that was previously blocked or appeared impossible.
- Adam Hanieh, This is a Global Pandemic – Let’s Treat it as Such, 27 March 2020, Verso Books
- Let's be clear: what's happening right now is the economic and financial equivalent of 9/11 and the Financial Crash rolled into one. And what's fast coming down the track could make even the Great Depression look like a stroll through the park. A total and complete shutdown of vast sections of the economy, indefinitely, with mass unemployment possibly around the corner.
- As the coronavirus epidemic stretches on, working people are facing an economic collapse, the likes of which have not been seen since the Great Depression. Organizing to fight for an immediate ban on all layoffs has to be an essential part of any program to protect the working class and to make the capitalist's pay for their crisis.
- Working people are facing what could be the biggest unemployment crisis since the Great Depression. As states and cities across the country continue to shut down schools, libraries, restaurants, bars, and other non-essential services in order to stop the spread of the coronavirus, hundreds of thousands of workers have already lost their jobs, and millions more will soon follow. While restaurant, theatre, hotel and hospitality workers have been some of the first to see massive layoffs, huge losses in travel, retail, and oil drilling and extraction industries are also expected, as more and more people are quarantined. [...] Such job losses would mean dire poverty for huge sections of the working class.
- Unfortunately, despite calls from progressives like Sanders and AOC, the U.S. government has so far done little to address the problem of layoffs and unemployment; and even limited proposals, such as universal paid sick leave and emergency cash payments, have been met with obstruction by Republicans and Democrats. While such government measures are important and necessary, they are clearly not enough. Confronting this crisis ultimately means confronting capitalism, and that means directly resisting these layoffs, since layoffs are always the first weapon used against working people in moments of economic crisis. Big businesses and corporations that have benefited from years of economic growth (not to mention the massive surplus value of workers' labor) owe employees and their families a huge debt and it's time to pay up. In order to make this happen, working people must organize for and demand: 1. An immediate ban on all layoffs. 2. Full wages for all employees, whether they are working during the crisis or not. And 3. A redistribution of working hours among currently unemployed workers (including undocumented and precarious workers) so that no one is denied the essential right to employment. Any company that cannot or will not comply with these demands should be nationalized under workers' control or expropriated directly by the workers themselves. Wherever possible the capital of these companies should also be immediately put to the service of solving the current economic and health crisis and providing for the full needs of the working class. Sitting by and allowing companies to layoff workers, on the other hand, expecting that the crisis can be solved with an expansion of the existing safety net, or direct cash payments, would be a huge mistake and would only weaken the power of the working class and ultimately strengthen the power of capital.
- While capitalists and their paid politicians will scoff at these demands, claiming they are economically infeasible or impossible, this is because they only understand the language of profit and cannot imagine a world run for the benefit of all. Nonetheless, the fact remains that capital has significant resources that could and must be made available to all working people. Most major corporations such as Amazon, Walmart, Disney, Delta, GM, etc., have enough reserves and more than enough credit to continue to pay their employees the full amount of their wages for the length of the health crisis. Therefore, in the case of private corporations, working people must demand that the federal government make any future market aid contingent upon a wholesale indefinite ban on all layoffs, with full wages and continued benefits for all employees, whether they are working or not. States must likewise make all operating licenses for private companies and corporations contingent upon the same demand. Industries that refuse, particularly health, transportation, and manufacturing industries should immediately be subject to nationalization under workers' control.
- Of course, working people ultimately cannot rely upon the federal government or the state governments (whose purpose is to maintain the hegemony of the markets and the rule of capital) to fix this crisis in any equitable way. Only the working class has the power to make this happen through mass strikes and work actions. In order to act swiftly in the case of any layoffs, lockouts, or shutdowns, working people ultimately must organize themselves at their workplaces and in the streets, whether they are in a union or not, and be prepared to use their collective power to demand that all necessary resources be employed for the well being of the whole class with full compensation and benefits, that full back pay be provided to all workers upon returning to work, and that everyone has access to well compensated employment.
- Nanthana Chobcheun, 67, who works at a wet market in the eastern Thai city of Bangsaen, said her income had fallen by half since the coronavirus emerged. But she cannot afford to stop working, she added, even as Thailand’s caseload rises.
“Young people, rich people are enjoying their nightlife, even when there’s a contagious disease, and gathering without a care in the world,” Ms. Nanthana, who has diabetes and high blood pressure, said at an open-air market on Saturday.
“For us little people, and especially old people like me, it’s different,” she added, sitting on a stool amid piles of dried fish.
- Mike Ives, Sameer Yasir and Muktita Suhartono; ”As Covid Death Toll Passes 3 Million, a Weary World Takes Stock”, New York Times, (April 17, 2021)
- The coronavirus pandemic will cost the US alone an estimated $16 trillion over the next 10 years, according to Harvard economists David Cutler and Larry Summers, the former US Treasury Secretary. The IMF estimates that globally, the pandemic will cost $28 trillion in lost output between 2020 and 2025, relative to pre-pandemic projections.
- Sam Kiley, Ingrid Formanek and Ivana Kottasová; ”Hunting for 'Disease X'”, CNN, (12/22/2020; updated 1/5/2021)
- The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented global health, social and economic crisis. [...] The pandemic, in other words, is now testing the capacity of our political and economic systems to cope with a global problem situated at the level of our individual interdependence, which is to say at the very foundation of our social life. [...] We equally depend on the state to help businesses of all sizes endure this trial by providing them with the financial assistance and guaranteed loans they require in order to avoid bankruptcy and retain as much of their workforce as possible. States no longer have any qualms about spending without limits in order to save the economy — "whatever it takes!" — while just weeks ago states opposed any request to increase hospital staff, hospital beds, or emergency services, out of its obsessive concern for budgetary constraint and limiting the public debt. States have since rediscovered the virtues of interventionism, at least when it comes to funding private enterprise and shoring up the financial system. One of the most ambitious stimulus plans to date has been implemented by Germany. Their plan constitutes an abrupt break with the ordoliberal dogmas that have been the norm since the beginning of the Federal Republic of Germany.
- Christian Laval and Pierre Dardot, The pandemic as political trial: the case for a global commons (March 28, 2020), ROAR Magazine
- In China, the epidemic effectively paralyzed the country both politically and economically. Freezing economic production and trade has never been practiced on such a scale, and the outcome has been a very serious economic and financial crisis in China.
- Christian Laval and Pierre Dardot, The pandemic as political trial: the case for a global commons (March 28, 2020), ROAR Magazine
- We are extremely skeptical of Macron's promise to be the first leader to question "our developmental model" after the crisis is over, and there are plenty of reasons to think that the drastic economic measures currently in place will eventually share the same fate as those enacted during the 2008 economic crisis: we will likely see a concerted effort to "return to normal" — i.e., return to our otherwise uninterrupted destruction of the planet amidst increasingly conditions of social inequality. And we fear the enormous stimulus packages designed to "save the economy" will once again be borne on the backs of the lowest-paid workers and taxpayers.
- This is unlike almost any other shock that we have seen in how quickly everything has ground to a halt, not just in the stock market but in everyday lives. And I truly do not believe that there is an action we can consider right now that is too small. I certainly have not seen any proposal that I would say is too large for us to be considering right now...We have to examine why there wasn't political appetite to do more in 2008. And the reason for that was because there was a package that was entirely designed to favor corporations, to bail out Wall Street that was more concerned with stock prices than wages and the health of Wall Street than the actual healthcare system. And that's why there wasn't political appetite to do more because we passed out billions of dollars and then the CEOs came in flying in on their private jets, asking for more... Now is a very different time. If we focus our package on immediate bailouts for everyday people, making sure that we're issuing things like mortgage and rent and student loan debt moratoriums, making sure that we're getting cash into people's hands, ensuring the fact that if they have to go to the hospital, coronavirus related or not because as we know this can trigger a series of other health issues, that you will be financially okay. And that is the number one thing that we need to do right now.
- We need to be introducing stabilizers to working families. And Katie Porter is absolutely right on the point of tax credits. You know, I think sometimes with all due respect to my colleagues, we get into this, you know, there's a lot of like this 90s wonkery going on where if we do a backdoor tax credit, oh, that's a clever way of helping people. But it doesn't address the core issue, which is that people are experiencing a shock right now. We need to get checks into people's hands. If you're concerned about it being means-based, tax it on the other end. Get everyone a check right now. And then if you want to make sure that the millionaire's don't get 1,000 bucks, do an extra, you know, tax them on the other end of that and make sure that they can't wriggle out of that.
- Just as in the 1930s, world capitalism, as it had existed until then, had reached a dead-end, and the need for it to be altered for the sake of preserving the system itself, was emphasised by many perceptive bourgeois thinkers, exactly in a similar manner contemporary world capitalism too has reached a dead-end and cannot continue as before. [...] Any change in capitalism, however, including a revival of the so-called "welfare capitalism" of the post-War period, will entail a loosening of the hegemony of international finance capital and hence will face stiff opposition from it. The fact that the need for such change is clear to bourgeois thinkers, does not mean that finance capital will simply voluntarily make a sacrifice of the hegemony it currently enjoys. Indeed the history of the 1930s itself bears witness to this fact. [...] Any change in capitalism, however, including a revival of the so-called "welfare capitalism" of the post-War period, will entail a loosening of the hegemony of international finance capital and hence will face stiff opposition from it. The fact that the need for such change is clear to bourgeois thinkers, does not mean that finance capital will simply voluntarily make a sacrifice of the hegemony it currently enjoys. Indeed the history of the 1930s itself bears witness to this fact.
- It is real-life class struggle, informed no doubt by ideas, that ultimately determines which way the world will move. Hence even for altering contemporary capitalism in the direction of the so-called “welfare capitalism” of yore, it would be essential to have the working class fighting for such an agenda. But when it does so, and when international finance capital resists such an agenda, we would be in the thick of class struggle. Time alone will tell whether this struggle would remain merely at the level of achieving a revival of “welfare capitalism” or whether it would go beyond capitalism altogether towards a socialist alternative. Once class struggle, for changing the system in its present form, acquires momentum, its outcome would depend on praxis and may not necessarily remain bounded within the system itself.
- The chief fearmonger of the Trump Administration is without a doubt Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health. Fauci is all over the media, serving up outright falsehoods to stir up even more panic. He testified to Congress that the death rate for the coronavirus is ten times that of the seasonal flu, a claim without any scientific basis. On Face the Nation, Fauci did his best to further damage an already tanking economy by stating, "Right now, personally, myself, I wouldn't go to a restaurant." He has pushed for closing the entire country down for 14 days. Over what? A virus that has thus far killed just over 5,000 worldwide and less than 100 in the United States? By contrast, tuberculosis, an old disease not much discussed these days, killed nearly 1.6 million people in 2017. Where's the panic over this? If anything, what people like Fauci and the other fearmongers are demanding will likely make the disease worse. The martial law they dream about will leave people hunkered down inside their homes instead of going outdoors or to the beach where the sunshine and fresh air would help boost immunity. The panic produced by these fearmongers is likely helping spread the disease, as massive crowds rush into Walmart and Costco for that last roll of toilet paper. […] People should ask themselves whether this coronavirus "pandemic" could be a big hoax, with the actual danger of the disease massively exaggerated by those who seek to profit – financially or politically – from the ensuing panic. That is not to say the disease is harmless. Without question people will die from coronavirus. Those in vulnerable categories should take precautions to limit their risk of exposure. But we have seen this movie before. Government over-hypes a threat as an excuse to grab more of our freedoms. When the "threat" is over, however, they never give us our freedoms back.
- There are no shortages of companies that have faced challenges due to Covid-19. Patreon is one of them[.]
- Kerri Pollard, "Patreon chief: IPO “on the table” but not all creators will benefit", Verdict, (October 22, 2021)
- With nearly one-third of all Americans on government-enforced lockdown and the National Guard pouring into the streets, it's a good time to take stock of the coronavirus scare and the real nature of the threat. What is our most important investment as the markets crash?
- Ron Paul, "What's Coronavirus' Greatest Threat? What's The Most Important Investment?" (23 March 2020), Ron Paul Liberty Report
- Donald Trump and his top Republican allies in Congress are fighting a war, and the battle lines have begun to clarify themselves. Their war is not being waged against COVID-19, the pandemic that has killed tens of thousands in this nation alone. Their war is being waged against the nation itself, and specifically against areas of the nation that are heavy on population but light on Trump supporters. In other words, the big-city blue states, whose governors have refused to fawn over Trump's gibberish-flecked "leadership" during this crisis. Trump has been treating the delivery of federal aid to the states like his own personal spoils system: rewarding loyalty, punishing critics, and demanding to be praised for doing his job whenever he actually does it, but especially when he doesn't. The issue has come to a head as governors from both parties are screaming for desperately needed federal aid for their respective states. Congress, particularly the Republican Senate, has been dragging its feet over passing a bill to provide states-specific aid, because doing so would be an example of government working to help the people, and such a thing is ideologically unsound on McConnell's side of the aisle.
- The only reason Florida can claim to be living within its budgetary means is by denying hundreds of thousands of residents, many in the service industry, clear access to the unemployment compensation they desperately need. If you don’t pay your bills, your bank account stays full. It’s a trick Trump learned a long time ago.
- Trump and McConnell know these states are reopening too soon, but they don’t care, because they need to make the money happy. To protect the money, McConnell wants to shoehorn in a provision to the states' aid package that prevents businesses from being sued by employees or customers because they got sick after businesses opened too soon. The blue states need that aid, and McConnell knows he has their congressional representatives over a barrel. The utter cruelty of these tactics, the nihilistic self-destruction of it in the face of more than 55,000 dead and thousands more to follow, has scarce precedent in the annals of U.S. politics. Instead of helping the entire country in this time of grievous crisis, Trump and McConnell are putting their boots to the neck of every state they deem ideologically unfit. It will be a damn miracle if the nation survives this, and them.
- "Omicron is truly everywhere," Dr. Megan Ranney, a professor of emergency medicine at Brown University's School of Public Health, told CNN on Friday night. "What I am so worried about over the next month or so is that our economy is going to shut down, not because of policies from the federal government or from the state governments, but rather because so many of us are ill."
- Megan Ranney as quoted by Christina Maxouris in “The Covid-19 case surge is altering daily life across the US. Things will likely get worse, experts warn”, CNN, (January 1, 2022)
- The dynamics of the economic and financial crisis will strengthen the tendencies toward recession, aggravating the effects of the health crisis. This relationship means that the duration and depth will be dependent on the combination of both crises. The drops in the stock market are bursting a bubble that helped maintain weak economic growth (particularly in the U.S.), without having resolved any of the structural problems that burst forth with the 2008 crisis (low productivity, low investment). Companies today are more indebted than in 2008, so a series of bankruptcies (in airlines, shale oil companies in the U.S., tourism, etc.) could hit the banks. Unlike 2008, the banks appear to be in a better position, but this all depends on the depth of the recession. There are other significant differences compared to the last recession: instead of coordination between the governments of the main powers that was seen in 2009 (when they were obviously terrified by the depth of the crisis), today confrontations are prevailing due to geopolitical tensions and ruthless competition not only between the United States and China, but also between the U.S. and Germany (with strong economic ties to China), and even between the United Kingdom and the European Union. For all these reasons, we call on working people and youth to take the struggle for measures against the crisis into our own hands.
- Why should the people and taxpayers of America be bailing out poorly run states (like Illinois, as example) and cities, in all cases Democrat run and managed, when most of the other states are not looking for bailout help? I am open to discussing anything, but just asking?
- Donald Trump during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, on a Twitter post, 27 April 2020. Quoted in Trump asks why taxpayers should help bail out blue states by Brett Samuels, 27 April 2020, The Hill; and in Trump: Government shouldn't rescue states and cities struggling under pandemic by Adam Edelman, 27 April 2020, NBCNews.com
- The desperate policies of panic-driven governments involve throwing huge amounts of money at the economies collapsed in response to the coronavirus threat. Monetary authorities create money and lend it at extremely low interest rates to the major corporations and especially big banks "to get them through the crisis." Government treasuries borrow vast sums to get the collapsed economy back into what they imagine is "the normal, pre-virus economy." Capitalism's leaders are rushing into policy failures because of their ideological blinders.
- The problem of policies aimed to return the economy to what it was before the virus hit is this: Global capitalism, by 2019, was itself a major cause of the collapse in 2020. Capitalism's scars from the crashes of 2000 and 2008-2009 had not healed. Years of low interest rates had enabled corporations and governments to "solve" all their problems by borrowing limitlessly at almost zero interest rate cost. All the new money pumped into economies by central banks had indeed caused the feared inflation, but chiefly in stock markets whose prices consequently spiraled dangerously far away from underlying economic values and realities. Inequalities of income and wealth reached historic highs. In short, capitalism had built up vulnerabilities to another crash that any number of possible triggers could unleash. The trigger this time was not the dot.com meltdown of 2000 or the sub-prime meltdown of 2008/9; it was a virus. And of course, mainstream ideology requires focusing on the trigger, not the vulnerability. Thus mainstream policies aim to reestablish pre-virus capitalism. Even if they succeed, that will return us to a capitalist system whose accumulated vulnerabilities will soon again collapse from yet another trigger.
- The second reason I focus on capitalism is that the responses to today's economic collapse by Trump, the GOP and most Democrats carefully avoid any criticism of capitalism. They all debate the virus, China, foreigners, other politicians, but never the system they all serve. When Trump and others press people to return to churches and jobs—despite risking their and others' lives—they place reviving a collapsed capitalism ahead of public health.
- As progress in fighting hunger stalls, the COVID-19 pandemic is intensifying the vulnerabilities and inadequacies of global food systems – understood as all the activities and processes affecting the production, distribution and consumption of food. While it is too soon to assess the full impact of the lockdowns and other containment measures, the report estimates that at a minimum, another 83 million people, and possibly as many as 132 million, may go hungry in 2020 as a result of the economic recession triggered by COVID-19. The setback throws into further doubt the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 2 (Zero Hunger).
- "As more go hungry and malnutrition persists, achieving Zero Hunger by 2030 in doubt, UN report warns", World Health Organization, (13 July 2020)
- Mandates for beauty services, especially hair and nails, are going to continue to change. But be sure to reach out to your hairstylists before you go to ensure they're wearing a mask — at the very least. "Clients should be asking if the hairstylists always wear protective gear including gloves and masks, and if everything used in the salon is scrubbed and sanitized after each client," dermatologist, Sapna Palep, founder of Spring Street Dermatology in New York City, tells Allure. "The chairs should also be wiped down thoroughly with antiseptic cloths." She notes that getting your hair done outside is safer, but either way, salons should be taking the temperatures of all staff and clients on a daily basis, and staff and clients should be screened for possible COVID-19 exposure.
- Sapna Palep, as quoted in “Hair Salon Owners Are Making It Work During the Pandemic”, by Elizabeth Denton, Allure, (September 30, 2020)
- As any model will tell you, makeup and grooming are person-to-person professions. A makeup artist's job is to get as close to your face as possible, while a hairstylist might spend hours in close physical contact with a single client. With some states beginning to reopen for beauty services, professionals are developing new systems to stay safe amid the pandemic.
- Leah Prinzivalli, “How Hairstylists and Makeup Artists Are Returning to Work Amid the Pandemic”, Allure, (July 31, 2020)
- The number of new skyscrapers built globally dropped more than 20% in 2020, according to data released this week by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH).
Last year saw the completion of 106 new buildings measuring 200 meters (656 feet) or above, down from 133 in 2019 -- and the lowest total since 2014.
The CTBUH largely attributed the slowdown to Covid-19, as projects around the world "ground to a halt" amid restrictions on assembly, said its annual report. Though the group was only able to find nine projects directly blaming delays on the pandemic, it assumed that "many more" had "encountered difficulties" as a consequence.
- Oscar Holland, “The number of new skyscrapers drops 20% amid pandemic slowdown”, “CNN”, (14th January 2021)
- Looking ahead, the CTBUH said it expected worldwide completions to bounce back next year, predicting between 125 and 150 new 200-meter-plus buildings globally in 2021.
But its report also suggested the long-term impact of Covid-19 may yet to be fully realized. High-rise buildings take years to complete, meaning a drop in investment now may affect completion data further down the line.
"As tall buildings are often lagging economic indicators, any chilling effect that economic conditions or work interruptions may have had on new project starts, or projects that were under construction in 2020 ... remains to be seen," the report reads. "It must be remembered, the economic crisis of 2008 was not reflected on skylines, in terms of lower completion rates, until 2010 and 2011."
- Oscar Holland, “The number of new skyscrapers drops 20% amid pandemic slowdown”, CNN, (14th January 2021)
- We will be together again one day. This is not a goodbye but a brief break from each other.
- Richard Ayvazyan and his wife, Marietta Terabelian; a typewritten note addressed to their children, as quoted in "A California couple vanished after stealing millions in Covid-19 relief funds. They left a goodbye note for their three kids", by Faith Karimi, CNN, (November 18, 2021)
- When our nation was at its most vulnerable, these individuals thought only about lining their own pockets. These sentences reflect the seriousness of these crimes.
- Ryan L. Korner as quoted in "A California couple vanished after stealing millions in Covid-19 relief funds. They left a goodbye note for their three kids", by Faith Karimi, CNN, (November 18, 2021)
- The defendants used the COVID-19 crisis to steal millions of dollars in much-needed government aid intended for people and businesses suffering from the economic effects of the worst pandemic in a century.
- Tracy L. Wilkison as quoted in "A California couple vanished after stealing millions in Covid-19 relief funds. They left a goodbye note for their three kids", by Faith Karimi, CNN, (November 18, 2021)
Film and television
- “We can actually learn a lot about safety guidelines by listening to producers of porn,” said Perry N. Halkitis, dean of the School of Public Health at Rutgers University. “Thinking back to the H.I.V./AIDS crisis, the adult film industry had to learn how to keep their workers safe.”
He recommends fol-lowing its lead by using what he calls the Four Ts: Target, Test, Treat and Trace. The adult film industry uses a nationwide program called PASS, for Performer Availability Screening Services, that requires performers to be tested every 14 days for H.I.V. and other sexually transmitted infections in order to be cleared for work. If a worker tests positive, he’s treated, and his partners are traced.
- Perry N. Halakitis, as quoted in “Lessons on Coronavirus Testing From the Adult Film Industry”, by Michele C. Hollow, New York Times, (June 18, 2020)
- Christian Manz, the special effects supervisor on JK Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts films, the latest of which has delayed filming at Warner Brother’s Leavesden studios due to the virus, says there are limits to replacing actors.
“The big question is what can you get away without physically filming,” he says. “There will definitely be an increase in digital work but none of it can be done at a push of a button. To digitally build a location you still need to capture [the real thing] in some way. If you are making a crowd of digital characters you will still need references such as to costumes and the film’s [real] characters, all of that. It will be about how to shift some of the film work to computer generation.”
- Christian Manz, as quoted in “How coronavirus has animated one section of the film industry”, by Mark Sweney, The Guardian, (19 May 2020)
- Benjamin, an internal medicine specialist and Maryland’s former secretary of health, said, “Just like in a restaurant, you take a mask off to eat popcorn or drink, etc. And of course, when you do that, if you’re infected, you will expel virus.” Especially, he noted, if you laugh or scream at the movie.
De St. Maurice, a physician who specializes in pediatrics and infectious disease and is the co-chief infection prevention officer for UCLA Health, agreed: “How often are they going to pull the mask back up? And movies make you laugh and shout.”
The health experts expressed concern that even proper social distancing might not be enough protection for a long period of exposure (say an average visit of two hours) to people who are not wearing masks.
- Georges Benjamin & Annabelle De St. Maurice; as quoted in “How safe is it to go to indoor movie theaters during the COVID-19 pandemic?”, by Michael Ordono, Los Angeles Times, (Nov 23, 2020)
- “I’m definitely having conversations where people are looking at which films are easier to make if restrictions continue, or if the virus comes back again later,” says Tim Webber, chief creative officer at London-based Framestore, whose credits include Avengers: Endgame and the BBC’s adaptation of His Dark Materials. “People are looking at bringing out films that have a greater computer generated component so productions can keep being developed [if filming stops].”
- Tim Webber, as quoted in “How coronavirus has animated one section of the film industry”, by Mark Sweney, The Guardian, (19 May 2020)
- Cash-strapped and empty hotels across the country are finding ways to keep the lights on by converting themselves into coronavirus wards or temporary housing for the National Guard or exhausted doctors and nurses.
It provides some much needed revenue for an industry that’s been brought to its knees by the COVID-19 outbreak that’s spread to more than 1.4 million people in nearly every country across the globe.
- Will Feuer, Emma Newburger; “Empty hotels ‘keep the lights on’ by converting into coronavirus quarantines, emergency housing for first responders“, CNBC, (Apr 8, 2020)
- The financial toll for hotels is worse than during the 2008 financial crisis, according to industry executives and analysts. Up to 4 million hotel employees, from desk clerks to maintenance workers, already have been laid off or soon will be, according to the American Hotel and Lodging Association, the industry’s largest trade group. The group, the U.S. Travel Association and hotel CEOs met with President Donald Trump and other White House officials on March 17 to lobby for $150 billion in federal aid to help cover some of the devastating economic impact of the pandemic.
- Will Feuer, Emma Newburger; “Empty hotels ‘keep the lights on’ by converting into coronavirus quarantines, emergency housing for first responders“, CNBC, (Apr 8, 2020)
- Pandemics and other forms of epidemic outbreaks are a unique case of manufacturing risk typified by high uncertainty, increasing propagation, and long-term disruption to manufacturers, supply chain actors as well as the end-users and consumers. For manufacturing the COVID-19 disruption scope has been largely twofold; an endogenous disruption of manufacturing processes and systems as well as extreme shifts in demand and supply caused by exogenous supply chain disruption. Existing literature on disruptions in manufacturing suggests that pandemics are qualitatively different from typical disruptions. There is no literature available to manufacturing practitioners that identify the barriers and enablers of manufacturing resilience, especially with regards to pivoting of the manufacturing sector in response to a pandemic.
- Okechukwu Okorie; Ramesh Subramoniam; Fiona Charnley; John Patsavellas; David Widdifield; Konstantinos Salonitis; “Manufacturing in the Time of COVID-19: An Assessment of Barriers and Enablers”, IEEE.org, (27 July 2020), pp.167-175
- Mines remain open in some countries. But in others, such as Peru, mining operations are severely restricted as part of government efforts to control the pandemic. Viral outbreaks at specific mine sites in other locations have also caused those operations to be closed.
Some metals such as nickel (a component of electric vehicle batteries) have lost more than 30 per cent of production, due to reliance on particular countries such as the Phillippines.
This makes predicting future prices no better than a guessing game. Until recently, the idea that copper prices would hardly move in response to a 6.8 per cent fall in Chinese GDP was inconceivable.
Even if demand for many commodities falls, in some cases supplies of that product may fall even faster. That means metal prices could actually rise during this economic downturn.
A case in point here is uranium, an essential material for nuclear power stations. Uranium prices increased 20 per cent in April from a low in March as fears of supply shortage have arisen. Coronavirus has affected an estimated 30-35 per cent of global uranium production, according to the Financial Times, including the one-month closure of the world’s largest uranium mine, Cigar Lake, in northern Saskatchewan.
- John Steen, “How the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the global mining industry”, The Conversation, (April 30, 2020)
- The global economy has entered the current downturn in a weakened state. Most governments have no cash reserves and are heavily indebted. The trillions of dollars in stimulus spending will be financed with unconventional monetary policy. Going beyond fancy technical terms such as quantitative easing, this essentially means governments will have to print more money.
Increasing the supply of money makes currencies less valuable and leads investors to look to precious metals as a way to store value. Gold prices have performed extremely well over the past year, rising to nearly US$1,800 per ounce compared to around US$1,300 per ounce one year ago.
- John Steen, “How the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the global mining industry”, The Conversation, (April 30, 2020)
- First it was just a few displaced shows in Asia and Europe — then came the toppling of global music-tech conference SXSW, desert bacchanal Coachella, and tour dates for everyone from Pearl Jam to the Rolling Stones to Post Malone to Billie Eilish. North America’s largest concert promoters AEG and Live Nation suspended all their shows; major arenas and underground clubs alike were forced to their doors. By mid-March, the coronavirus pandemic had effectively put the multibillion-dollar concert industry on indefinite pause and brought cataclysmic knock-on effects into the rest of the music business as well.
- Rolling Stone, “How Coronavirus Is Wreaking Havoc on Music”, (April 27, 2020)
- The survey results document extreme financial distress in the museum field. One-third (33%) of respondents were not confident they would be able to survive 16 months without additional financial relief, and 16 percent felt their organization was at significant risk of permanent closure. The vast majority (87%) of museums have only 12 months or less of financial operating reserves remaining, with 56% having less than six months left to cover operations. Forty-four percent had furloughed or laid off some portion of their staff, and 41 percent anticipated reopening with reduced staff.
During the pandemic, 75% of museums stepped into their pivotal role as educators providing virtual educational programs, experiences, and curricula to students, parents, and teachers. However, two-thirds (64%) of directors predicted cuts in education, programming or other public services due to significant budget cuts.
- American Alliance of Museums, “A Snapshot of US Museums’ Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic”, (Jul 22, 2020)
- The COVID-19 pandemic, and the economic recession it has fostered, loom large over Live Science’s archaeology predictions for 2021. While the development of vaccines is promising, it will be sometime before they can be distributed to a large proportion of the world’s population.
As such, archaeologists will likely continue to experiment with new ways of doing their work. They will likely rely more than ever on new digging and survey methods that use smaller teams of locally based archaeologists, complimented by many more researchers helping analyze finds virtually. The days of archaeologists holding large conferences in hotels may also be coming to an end, as the pandemic has demonstrated that virtual archaeology conferences are cheaper, more popular and gives a much wider audience the chance to watch and participate.
- Owen Jarus, “What archaeology will look like in 2021”, “Science.com”, (January 04, 2021)
- There are indications that COVID-19, and the accompanying lockdowns and economic crisis, have led to an increase in looting and thefts. The Antiquities Trafficking and Heritage Anthropology Research (ATHAR) project has reported a rise in antiquities trafficking on Facebook during 2020. There are also reports of theft occurring during lockdowns and it’s possible that the rate of theft now is higher than it was pre-Covid. One example is a Van Gogh painting that was stolen from the Singer Laren museum (where it was on loan from the Groninger Museum) in the Netherlands in March 2020 during a COVID lockdown. The perpetrator (or the painting) has yet to be found.
- Owen Jarus, “What archaeology will look like in 2021”, “Science.com”, (January 04, 2021)
- Supergiant oil tankers are floating outside the world’s largest shipping ports with enough oil to meet the world’s daily demand twice over. Only months ago these vessels criss-crossed the globe laden with up to 2 million barrels. Today they stand motionless and bloated with crude that no one will buy.
The record volume of stranded crude cargo illustrates a deepening crisis in the global oil industry. Demand for oil has fallen so severely, and at such pace, that there is little space left on land to store the crude made redundant by the coronavirus crisis. At least 160 million barrels are now stored at sea, outside global shipping ports from Singapore to Suffolk and along the US gulf coast as oil traders brace for storage facilities to reach capacity imminently.
Market forecasts suggest that the world’s conventional oil storage – which can hold about 3.4 billion barrels – will be filled to its limits within the next month. In the meantime, oil traders are turning to alternative storage options: supergiant tankers, rail freight carriages and even underground salt caverns have become sought-after havens to stash millions of barrels of surplus crude.
- Jillian Ambrose, “Oil market faces storage crisis in a world awash with crude”, The Guardian, (25 Apr 2020; modified 1 Jul 2020)
- Labor Day is meant to be a celebration. A day to reflect on and recognize the achievements of American workers.
There's little to celebrate this year, however, for roustabouts, roughnecks and drillers — the hard-working muscle for decades on oil rigs from the wilds of Alaska to high plains of Wyoming. These are jobs that have long helped fuel America. The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has brought it all to a hard stop in many places.
- Jessica Flores, ”Nowhere to labor: The US oil industry, sapped by COVID-19, has lost hundreds of rigs in a 'historic and troubling' year”, USA TODAY, (Published Sep 7, 2020 Updated Sep. 9, 2020)
- For many businesses, coronavirus has been a disaster. Amidst stay-at-home orders and a faltering economy, spending is plummeting and tens of millions of people have lost their jobs. The unprecedented circumstances, however, has led one industry to thrive. A surge in demand for digital sex work means that cam girls are finding that their services are increasingly being sought out as even the most intimate and physical parts of our lives move online.
- Katie Bishop, “Coronavirus Has Scrambled the Sex and Porn Industry. Cam Girls Are Cashing In.”, Observer, (05/11/20)
Restaurants and bars
- In recent years, May was typically the top sales month for restaurants, based on the unadjusted data. On average during the last five years, May sales at eating and drinking places were more than 5% higher than the average monthly sales volume for the entire year. This year, May sales were more than 40% lower than what would have been expected in the absence of the pandemic.
- Restaurant.org, “Restaurant sales remain well below normal levels, despite May uptick”, (June 16, 2020)
- From the early days of the U.S. coronavirus outbreak, states have wrestled with the best course of action for the nation's imperiled bars and nightclubs. Many of these businesses find their economic prospects tied to a virus that preys on their industry's lifeblood — social gatherings in tight quarters.
Public health experts and top health officials, including the Dr. Tony Fauci, say the evidence is abundantly clear: When bars open, infections tend to follow.
- Will Stone, "How Bars Are Fueling COVID-19 Outbreaks”, NPR, (August 18, 2020)
- The coronavirus pandemic is shining a light on U.S. department stores’ dependence on selling fashion and their delay in adapting to today’s retail environment.
Not only are a number filing for bankruptcy, but some, including the oldest in the nation, are liquidating entirely. One by one, the categories that have defined department stores for decades have been seized by other types of retailers. Big-box chains Walmart and Target have acquired the value shopper. Best Buy and Amazon reign in electronics. The likes of Home Goods and Wayfair have become top-of-mind destinations for home furnishings. And Williams-Sonoma has sealed a place for itself in kitchens, for its high-end appliances and cutlery.
Fashion seemed to be the one stronghold department stores had left. For a while, that was enough. But not anymore.
Apparel sales are in a free fall, dropping roughly 20% year over year in July, after suffering a 25% decline in June, according to the latest data from the Commerce Department. Clothing has been one of the hardest-hit categories in retail during the pandemic, with fewer people concerned about refreshing their wardrobes when they hardly ever venture to public places. And some simply aren’t able to spend on a new outfit like they used to, as millions of Americans are unemployed due to the crisis.
- Lauren Thomas, “America’s department stores, cornerstones in fashion, could be in their ‘last stages’“, CNBC, (Sep 1, 2020)
- In the NFL, money driven by in-stadium attendance is estimated to account for about 30 percent of league-wide revenue—somewhere in the area of $4 billion to $5 billion annually. So, as you might expect, the NFL is aggressively trying to figure out how soon it can fill the stands. It has left that decision to the individual teams. Of the league’s 32 franchises, 17 have plans to permit fans or are already doing so, but their approaches vary wildly, with the Dallas Cowboys permitting close to 25,000 fans per game, while the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles have been allowing about 5,500 in recent weeks. Following tumultuous recent weeks, with games being postponed and rescheduled, fan attendance will continue to be a hot topic.
In college football, the numbers change by the day. Already some 30 teams have plans to bring back 10,000 or more fans to their stadiums, and many more will do so in the thousands. Here, too, the financial incentive is powerful; college football teams generate revenue that can range from tens to hundreds of millions of dollars annually, and, in high-powered conferences like the SEC, Big Ten and Big-12, their success often is used to fund other athletic programs at their schools.
- Carolyn Barber, “When Will Football Stadiums Look Normal Again?“, Scientific American, (October 21, 2020)
- The global outbreak of COVID-19 has resulted in closure of gyms, stadiums, pools, dance and fitness studios, physiotherapy centres, parks and playgrounds. Many individuals are therefore not able to actively participate in their regular individual or group sporting or physical activities outside of their homes. Under such conditions, many tend to be less physically active, have longer screen time, irregular sleep patterns as well as worse diets, resulting in weight gain and loss of physical fitness. Low-income families are especially vulnerable to negative effects of stay at home rules as they tend to have sub-standard accommodations and more confined spaces, making it difficult to engage in physical exercise.
- The global value of the sports industry is estimated at US$756 billion annually. In the face of COVID-19, many millions of jobs are therefore at risk globally, not only for sports professionals but also for those in related retail and sporting services industries connected with leagues and events, which include travel, tourism, infrastructure, transportation, catering and media broadcasting, among others. Professional athletes are also under pressure to reschedule their training, while trying to stay fit at home, and they risk losing professional sponsors who may not support them as initially agreed.
In addition to economic repercussions, the cancellation of games also impacts many social benefits of global and regional sport events, which can cement social cohesion, contribute to the social and emotional excitement of fans, as well as their identification with athletes leading to greater physical activity of individuals. Sport has long been considered a valuable tool for fostering communication and building bridges between communities and generations. Through sport, various social groups are able to play a more central role towards social transformation and development, particularly in divided societies. Within this context, sport is used as a tool for creating learning opportunities and accessing often marginal or at-risk populations.
- "My fear has always been that Covid-19 would reduce global trade which lowers growth, increases poverty and joblessness (and then) leads to more sea piracy," he added.
"There is certainly concern that with trade going down there will be fewer sailors on board ships (and therefore) fewer crew monitoring for potential pirates or armed robbers."
- Brandon Prins, as quoted in “Coronavirus: Piracy incidents double across Asia during pandemic”, by Lucy Martin, BBC, (17 July, 2020)
- Global maritime trade will plunge by 4.1% in 2020 due to the unprecedented disruption caused by COVID-19, UNCTAD estimates in its Review of Maritime Transport 2020, released on 12 November.
The report warns that new waves of the pandemic that further disrupt supply chains and economies might cause a steeper decline. The pandemic has sent shockwaves through supply chains, shipping networks and ports, leading to plummeting cargo volumes and foiling growth prospects, it says.
According to the report, the short-term outlook for maritime trade is grim. Predicting the pandemic’s longer-term impact as well as the timing and scale of the industry’s recovery is fraught with uncertainty.
- United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, “COVID-19 cuts global maritime trade, transforms industry”, (12 November 2020)
Transportation and travel
- By the time the MIT report appeared, according to the transportation-data company Transit, ridership on bus and rail systems had already dropped by 74 percent in New York, 79 percent in Washington, D.C., 83 percent in Boston, and 87 percent in the Bay Area from pre-pandemic levels. The assumption that transit was accelerating infections stoked public fears and quickly hardened into conventional wisdom. “Subways, trains and buses are sitting empty around the world,” a Washington Post headline intoned in a May headline, adding, “It’s not clear if riders will return.” When the New York Stock Exchange reopened in May, traders were required to avoid public transportation.
Underlying that rule is an assumption of danger that, so far, research has not borne out. A recent study in Paris found that none of 150 identified coronavirus infection clusters from early May to early June originated on the city’s transit systems. A similar study in Austria found that not one of 355 case clusters in April and May was traceable to riding transit. Though these systems, like their American counterparts, were carrying fewer riders at a lower density than before the pandemic, the results suggest a far less sinister role for transit than the MIT report described.
If transit itself were a global super-spreader, then a large outbreak would have been expected in dense Hong Kong, a city of 7.5 million people dependent on a public transportation system that, before the pandemic, was carrying 12.9 million people a day. Ridership there, according to the Post, fell considerably less than in other transit systems around the world. Yet Hong Kong has recorded only about 1,100 COVID-19 cases, one-tenth the number in Kansas, which has fewer than half as many people. Replicating Hong Kong’s success may involve safety measures, such as mask wearing, that are not yet ingrained in the U.S., but the evidence only underscores that the coronavirus can spread outside of transit and dense urban environments—which are not inherently harmful.
- Janette Sadik-Khan, Seth Solomonow; “Fear of Public Transit Got Ahead of the Evidence”, The Atlantic, (June 14, 2020)
- The cruise industry has been in free fall since the COVID-19 pandemic struck in March. Not only are vessels unable to sail, but the swirl of bad publicity has also left the public believing that cruise ships are deadly incubators of disease.
Will travelers ever want to sail again? Cruise junkies say yes; experts say it might take a long time for the industry to recover.
- Rosemary McClure, “To cruise or not to cruise. Loyalists face a dilemma”, LA Times, (Sep. 10, 2020)
- A day after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged Americans to stay home for Thanksgiving, more than one million people in the United States got on planes, marking the second day that more than a million people have flown since March. Nearly three million additional people have flown in the days since.
The high number of travelers speaks to a sense of pandemic fatigue that many people are experiencing. For some, the desire to see family is worth the risk of potentially getting the coronavirus while traveling.
But it’s important to remember that the current number of people flying, while increasing, pales in comparison to the number who still find the idea of getting on a plane frightening. In the 11-day period around Thanksgiving last year, a record 26 million people flew. This year, fewer than half that number are likely to travel.
- Tariro Mzezewa, “Is It Safe to Fly During the Pandemic? Answers From the Experts”, New York Times, (11/25/2020)
- Between February and April, more than 19,000 British travellers from 59 vessels in 20 different countries had to be repatriated by the government.
It wasn’t just bad news for tourists. In April, Andy Harmer, director of Cruise Lines International Association UK and Ireland (CLIA), said the 90-day cruise suspension would cost the UK economy £888 million, lead to the loss of 5,525 jobs and £287 million in wages. Across the UK, the industry supports 40,517 direct jobs paying £1.35bn in wages. CLIA says the industry generates £10bn annually for the UK economy.
- Liz Sharples, Kokho Jason Sit; “Can the cruise industry really recover from coronavirus?”, The Conversation, (August 19, 2020)
- In a short period, some researches have been conducted examining the tourism effects of COVID-19. The vast majority of these studies focus on regional impact analysis. Dinarto, Wanto, and Sebastian (2020) investigated the impact of the virus on Bintan's (an island in the Riau archipelago of Indonesia) tourism industry; Centeno and Marquez (2020) made their research on the loss of the tourism industry in the Philippines, Correa-Martínez et al. (2020) examined the spread of the virus in a ski area in Austria. Nepal (2020) focused on the impacts on Nepal in his commentary. Also, few studies are focusing on the global impacts of COVID-19 on the tourism industry. Gössling, Scott, and Hall (2020) evaluated the effect of global travel restrictions and stay at home behavior on tourism and projected global change; Niewiadomski (2020) commented on de-globalization and post-COVID-19 tourism industry, where Galvani, Lew, and Perez (2020) evaluated the sustainability of the industry.
To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that aims to reveal the effects of COVID-19 on global tourism, in the light of travelers' comments.
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Cafe scientifique - July 2021
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How the realm of microscopic oceanic algae influences our climate by Professor David Antoine, Curtin University
The microscopic unicellular algae living in the lighted portion of the oceans, which are called phytoplankton, have a photosynthetic activity, like all plants on Earth. Through this process that depends on sunlight impinging the ocean surface, they take up carbon dioxide (CO2) and synthesize organic matter. Although they are small, their numbers and, above all, their capacity to double their biomass roughly every two days, allows generating a staggering amount of ca. 50 billion tons of organic matter.
This is as much as what all terrestrial plants also produce every year. The overall World oceans phytoplankton biomass is however about 500 times smaller than that of terrestrial plants, which testifies of their excellent efficiency in turning CO2 into biomass. The presentation will show how satellite Earth observations have revolutionised knowledge about these processes, and how phytoplankton are part of the global carbon cycle and hence have a role in regulating the climate of our Planet.
Prof. David Antoine currently leads the Remote Sensing and Satellite Research Group at Curtin university, Perth (RSSRG; http://rssrg.org). He is also a senior scientist with the Centre National de La Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France, with which he still has ties. He holds a PhD in oceanography from the University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris. His research over years has encompassed a number of topics from marine optics to satellite remote sensing, all together aiming at better quantifying phytoplankton in the oceans, their productivity, and their long-term changes in response to environmental changes.
Conference delivered in English.
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The U.K. presented a long-awaited plan to EU negotiators Wednesday on how to replace the controversial Northern Ireland backstop, but diplomats briefed on the Brexit talks say the proposals fall short of the reassurance that Dublin and Brussels need.
Under the proposal, presented in Brussels by Boris Johnson's most senior EU adviser, David Frost, the backstop would be removed and replaced with "Ireland-specific" arrangements for checking goods away from the border, according to diplomats briefed on the talks.
In effect, London is offering a commitment to develop alternative custom procedures during the post-Brexit transition period, two EU officials said, although it is unclear if this will satisfy Brussels and Dublin. Leading figures on the EU side have repeated endlessly that they regard the Northern Ireland conundrum as something that must be settled before the U.K. leaves the bloc.
Even though it has been received with some skepticism, the offer marks a significant moment in the U.K. government's evolving Brexit strategy. With other options such as an October snap general election and leaving with no-deal now seemingly closed off to Johnson, his EU negotiating team has come to Brussels with a more substantive position than before — albeit with what EU diplomats described as a vague verbal-only offer with little detail.
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Alternative fixes to the Irish border — such as electronic pre-clearance, pre-border checks and trusted trader schemes — have been publicly discussed during past weeks, but Wednesday was the first time that Frost held a dedicated meeting with EU officials to discuss such customs plans, officials said.
Crucially, the new proposal would allow the U.K., including Northern Ireland, to leave the EU's customs union. That would permit it to adopt different tariffs on goods if it wanted and to conclude its own trade deals — a key priority for Johnson.
The proposal comes in addition to the U.K.’s idea, shared last week, to create an all-Ireland zone for food regulations such as animal welfare, which would further reduce trade frictions for products from milk to beef that pass the Irish border on a daily basis.
EU spokesperson Mina Andreeva confirmed publicly on Thursday that the U.K. had made a new offer on Wednesday without giving any details. "The U.K. presented ideas in the area of customs and manufactured goods," she said.
But Brussels reacted with skepticism to the British plans: “We still haven’t gotten any written proposals,” said an EU official, adding that what had been presented could not replace the legal guarantees provided by the backstop. They would also require the EU to trust that there would be enough time during a post-Brexit transition period to develop the ideas before the U.K. fully diverges from EU rules.
Another EU official cautioned the proposals were only "aspirational ideas" and stressed that the U.K. had been unable to explain how they should work in practice. The official said that the U.K. negotiators conceded that the plan would inevitably lead to more "non-compliance" with customs rules.
A similar warning came from the EU's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier: "At this precise moment ... we have no reason to be optimistic," he told the European Parliament's Conference of Presidents on Thursday.
"We will see in the coming weeks whether the British are able to make concrete written proposals to us that are legally operational," Barnier added.
Away from the border
To avoid lengthy customs checks at the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, which could jeopardize the Good Friday peace agreement, the U.K. plan proposes that authorities conduct checks of customs declarations and exported goods away from the border, two EU officials said.
Those checks would be done directly at the premises of the traders. Moreover, those procedures could be "simplified" for "trusted traders," the officials said.
A U.K. government spokesperson said: “As the prime minister set out on Monday, there are ideas that we’re bringing forward to address the range of complexities involved with the Northern Ireland border.
"He spoke about two broad areas: facilitations, such as trusted trader schemes, and measures relating to what might need to be done on an all-island basis, such as agri-foods and an SPS [sanitary and phytosanitary measures] area," the spokesperson continued.
"Under no circumstances," the spokesperson added, "will we be imposing infrastructure or checks of any kind at the Northern Ireland border."
The plan resembles one that Jonathan Faull, a former senior British EU official, and legal academics put forward last month, which suggested creating a network of trade centers away from the border where goods would be checked and duties paid.
However, Sam Lowe, a trade expert with the Centre for European Reform think tank, warned that moving customs checks was not a magic solution. "You have to police businesses that don’t play by the rules. That’s still quite disruptive and risks to undermine the peace process and disrupt the all-Ireland economy," he said.
In addition to the new customs plan and the previous proposal for an all-Ireland food zone, the U.K. side on Wednesday also proposed an "enhanced market surveillance regime" to the EU that should avoid regulatory divergences on industrial goods.
This regime would be based on an exchange of data; enhanced cooperation between surveillance authorities; and "severe penalties" for breaches, according to the two EU officials. However, they cautioned that there was skepticism on the EU side about whether it was possible to improve on current market surveillance mechanisms.
Despite the cool reception in Brussels, EU diplomats say they have noted a change in mood in recent days from U.K. interlocutors, something one diplomat put down to Johnson’s defeats in the House of Commons.
Downing Street’s strategy, which had apparently been predicated on an autumn general election, has been blown off-course by Johnson's failure to win a two-thirds majority among MPs for an early national poll. With that option closed off, his government is putting more energy into negotiations to find a deal with the EU before October 31.
EU diplomats, though, are concerned that time is running out ahead of the European Council summit on October 17 and 18, by which time they say it will be too late for leaders to digest and decide on new proposals.
The EU will need time before the summit to formalize and coordinate its position among the 27 remaining member countries, the diplomat said: “He cannot just arrive [at the summit] with a card up his sleeve — this is not poker.”
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The Basics of Computer Memory
There are many parts of a computer, including its hardware and software. The parts that run your computer are categorized into two categories: software applications and operating systems. Operating systems manage the hardware of your computer and software applications are programs that run on them. Examples of software applications include word processors, web browsers, database programs, and more. You can learn more about each of these parts by following the links at the bottom of the article.
The operating system is one of the most important parts of a computer, and is comprised of various components. A kernel, also known as the central processing unit, provides the basic level of control over the computer hardware, including memory management. The kernel allocates resources for different programs, determines how much memory each program needs, and manages the order in which it gets access to those resources. Additionally, the kernel coordinates software resources of different users.
Operating systems make all computer parts work together. They enable application software to communicate with hardware and are responsible for managing input/output. They also allow programs to receive input from devices and to generate GUI elements. Several types of operating systems exist, including DOS, Linux, and Windows. Each has its own set of features, including file system mechanisms. Some operating systems are multitasking, which means that they manage the order in which applications run, and how much time they use.
The operating system is the software that handles the hardware and software on a computer. All application programs make use of the operating system to access its hardware resources. An operating system provides a set of services for application programs to make the process easier to write. For example, an operating system will create a process for a program, allocate memory, establish priorities for processes in a multitasking system, and load the program binary code into memory. The application program then executes and interacts with hardware devices and the user.
A computer is a general-purpose electronic counting device that processes data and performs mathematical functions. This device has many physical components, including its central processing unit (CPU) and peripheral equipment. The amount of data in the main memory and the size of its words are both indicators of the computer’s capacity. The speed at which instructions are executed also indicates its performance. Software is a necessary but optional part of a computer, but it is generally not included in the initial purchase.
The hardware that makes up a computer includes the motherboard, the CPU, memory, keyboard and mouse, graphics and sound cards, the hard disk, power supply, RAM, and video display controller. The CPU box contains all of these components, and each component has a role to play in a computer’s performance. There are also several connectors to connect the input and output devices to the CPU. Similarly, the motherboard contains a hard disk and an audio system.
The memory inside a computer is divided into different categories, depending on how it is used. There are two types of RAM (Random Access Memory) and Read-Only Memory (ROM). ROM is a temporary memory that stores application program instructions and data, while RAM is a permanent storage device. Hard disks also feature an electromagnet surface, which can hold trillions of bytes of data. Storage devices are essential components of a computer, as they allow it to perform many important functions.
The first thing that you need to know about the basics of computer memory is how it works. Computers have two types of memory. Main memory and secondary memory. Both are used for different purposes. Main memory is faster and is used for storing data that you might need in the future. Secondary memory is slower and is used for storing archive data and inactive programs. Secondary memory can be either magnetic or optical. It is also known as backup memory because it can retain data even when the computer is turned off.
Among the basic computer components, memory plays a crucial role. As technology improves, so do the memory speeds. Higher memory speeds enable computer systems to perform better. Major programming processes are carried out on computers. As such, computers need good memory to run smoothly. As a result, computer makers need to know the electrical and physical parameters of memory in order to make better computers. The following is a list of basic computer components.
RAM is the primary memory. It is the place where information is processed and accessed by the computer. It can also store a small amount of data. But it is important to note that primary memory is not permanent. When the computer is turned off, this memory is not retained. Therefore, it is very important that you understand how to effectively manage computer memory. When you don’t, you risk making your computer run slowly, and it may even have viruses and bugs.
The processor is a central processing unit that regulates the operations of the computer. It retrieves instructions from the main memory and interprets them, activating other functional elements of the computer. The arithmetic logic unit performs arithmetic operations, including integer and floating-point numbers. The “flags” register indicates the result of various operations. The “compare” instruction evaluates two numbers and sets the bits in the flags register to either a greater or smaller value. When an instruction is received from the control unit, the CPU then evaluates the value and moves on to the arithmetic logic unit. The arithmetic-logic unit performs logic operations, such as addition, subtraction, and multiplication.
The processor is a circuit board inside the computer that interprets computer instructions and executes them. Modern processors can process millions of instructions per second and are considered the central chip of the computer. It controls the logic that performs calculations and runs programs. Processors are critical to a computer’s functionality and can make or break a computing experience. Therefore, it is essential to understand its functions and the role it plays in modern computers.
While the central processing unit is the most important part of a computer, it is not the only component. The hard drive and graphics card are also processors. In addition to the CPU, other computer components also perform processing independently. Moreover, processors are the core of PCs, smartphones, tablets, and smartphones. AMD and Intel are the two major competitors in the market. AMD has been known to produce a higher-end processor for a lower price.
A computer monitor is a primary component of a computer and is a fundamental element for displaying information on a computer screen. Early monitors used CRT technology, which involved firing a beam of electrons through the screen and combining them to create an image. As time passed, the technology has evolved, and the CRT technology has given way to LCD technology. However, both types of monitors have some common differences.
The display of a computer is typically measured in diagonal dimensions. Diagonal measurements measure the distance between two opposite corners of the display. This measurement originated from the first-generation CRT television, which used picture tubes with circular faces. The diameter of a picture tube’s glass envelope described the size, but the diagonal was smaller than the face diameter. Because the glass was thicker and more durable, the diagonal measurement was more appropriate.
In addition to resolution, a computer monitor also includes a number of other important components. For example, a monitor’s refresh rate and response time are essential for the overall performance of the computer. A modern monitor will have two different colors, indicating when it is in power-saving mode and when it’s receiving a video signal. Many monitors are built with other accessories integrated into their design, so they don’t need separate power supplies or USB cables. A computer monitor also has an advanced microprocessor inside, which stores codec information and Windows Interface drivers.
If you want to know what a touchpad is, it is a simple device with several layers of material. The top layer is the actual touchpad itself, while the layers below have horizontal and vertical rows of electrodes and a circuit board. The electrode layers are charged with an alternating current, and when your finger touches one of the electrode grids, this current is interrupted. When the current resumes, the circuit board registers the contact and the movement of your finger. Some touch pads also have two special places for your finger’s fingertips to allow for a second layer to work.
A touchpad is one of the basic elements of a modern computer, and it can help you make the most of your computer experience. You can customize its behavior by setting accessibility options on the ClickPad’s properties page. For example, you can turn off gestures if you prefer the behavior of a conventional notebook mouse. You can also enable or disable gestures on this page. There are many different ways to use a touchpad.
A touchpad is an input device that lets you use your fingers to control a computer. You can move your fingers over the pad’s surface to drag a cursor, but the resolution is limited by the size of the touchpad. Unlike a mouse, the touchpad can also sense two or more fingers, which gives you more input options. In addition, many touchpads have hardware buttons that correspond to standard mouse buttons. | <urn:uuid:39cf51a3-2aae-4bca-86b0-f2a0d7cc3e1f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fbdp.in/what-is-the-basics-of-computer-memory/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.938826 | 1,864 | 3.953125 | 4 |
And for the folks living on the Islands of Haida Gwaii, who often are the first to bear the brunt of many of those intesnse storms, the North Coast Regional District has introduced an alert system for residents to subscribe to, in order to access the latest in emergency information.
It's an initiative that will offer up emergency information should such incidents as severe storms, earthquakes or tsunami situations, as wall as a range of other potential incidents develop and bring an impact to Island communities.
In a notice posted to the Regional District Website, District officials note the importance of information sharing and outline how the ePACT network that serves communities on Haida Gwaii will be used to send alerts and updates by phone, text or email messages to registered contacts in those communities affected by any incident.
Those living in the vicinity of the communities listed can participate in the program simply by adding their name to the contact list, the checklist for the service looks as follows:
Registration for the service is required and there is no cost to those on Haida Gwaii to do so.
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Haida Gwaii and how to access it
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You can learn more about the program from the North Coast Regional District website.
Those interested in registering for the service can do so here.
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Starting in the 2016-2017 school year, TwispWorks will be home to the Independent Learning Center (ILC) of the Methow School District.
The ILC is a program for high school students who have chosen to approach learning through their individual interests and passions using a combination of projects, internships and core coursework and offers a standard Washington State diploma.
TwispWorks is already home to a number of programs supporting young people in our community through educational and vocational programs and support to help them successfully transition to happy, healthy and productive adults. The ILC’s move to the Bunkhouse on the TwispWorks campus provides students a welcoming space on a campus setting and creates greater synergy with The Careers in Construction Academy and The Valley Teen Center.
TwispWorks, in partnership with Liberty Bell High School, delivers the Careers in Construction Academy providing vocational training and mentorship to students considering a profession in the construction trades to help qualify them for local, living wage jobs. The Careers in Construction Academy includes two courses – an Advanced Construction Tech course and a Welding Tech course.
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This week, the Senate will debate its version of the "lockbox" measure intended to put teeth behind Bill Clinton’s rhetorical promise to preserve every penny of the Social Security surplus for Social Security. Congressional leaders believe the lockbox issue will effectively counter Clinton’s demagoguery and clear the way for a tax cut bill this year. While it’s hard to argue with this political calculation, it’s still fair to point out that putting Social Security’s surplus into a lockbox will not improve the long-term health of the system.
However, if the goal is to keep politicians from plundering Social Security, the most secure lockbox Congress could create is a personal retirement account for each and every worker. So rather than play rhetorical games with the president, lawmakers should take an honest step toward reforming the system by rebating every dollar of the Social Security surplus into personal retirement accounts owned and managed by individuals, not politicians.
The Senate lockbox plan, designed by Spencer Abraham (R-MI) and Pete Domenici (R-NM), is essentially a plan to buy down government debt using Social Security’s $1.8 trillion in "off-budget" surpluses over the next ten years. (The House-passed version effectively achieves the same ends albeit through procedural means.)
The plan is supposed to protect the system by assuring that Social Security’s surpluses continue to build up in the trust fund while simultaneously reducing the government’s debt burden in preparation for the baby boomer’s retirement.
But this is simply a paper exercise. (Ironically, it’s similar to the Clinton plan without the double counting.) Allowing more IOUs to build up within the trust fund can make the system look healthier on paper, but it does not create any real assets that can be drawn down to cover the program’s long-term shortfalls. As most everyone knows, Social Security’s long-term cash shortfall – which begins in 2014 – totals $122 trillion through 2075 ($19 trillion after adjusting for inflation).
Likewise, buying down debt can make us feel better, but it does nothing to help us cover Social Security’s long-term liabilities. As the nearby chart shows, the 2014 insolvency date would not change even if Congress were to dedicate every dollar of Social Security’s surplus to debt reduction for the next fifteen years (a total of $2.7 trillion).
Without making any structural reforms to the system, we simply face the prospect of running up $8 trillion in new debt over the next twenty years to pay the system’s bills, unless of course we choose to raise taxes. This makes as much sense as putting an extra $1,000 a year toward your mortgage just so you can take out a second mortgage in fifteen years to finance your kid’s college education.
Moreover, even if we were to "bank" $2.7 trillion in Fort Knox until the baby boomers begin to retire, it would be trivial against the system’s long-term liabilities. In fact, $2.7 trillion would cover just 2.2 percent of the program’s long-term shortfall.
These figures aside, there are still many who argue that buying down debt will at least produce tremendous savings for the budget by eliminating costly interest payments. True. But even if we could capture these savings, they would be insufficient to cover the system’s long-term liabilities.
Let’s assume for a moment that we could eliminate the entire $3.6 trillion public debt today and, thus, save ourselves $230 billion in interest costs each and every year. While these interest savings would total $17 trillion through Social Security’s 75-year actuarial forecast, this is only enough to cover 14 percent of the program’s long-term liability.
The biggest flaw of the lockbox, and the biggest flaw of the Clinton plan, is that both plans do absolutely nothing to fix the system’s most serious problem -- the poor rate of return future retirees will get out of the system. That’s why lawmakers must shift the terms of the debate away from talk of "safeguarding" the system’s surpluses, and instead talk about how to protect workers’ surplus payroll taxes.
The reason Social Security is running surpluses is that workers are paying higher payroll taxes than the system needs to cover current benefits. The $1.8 trillion in Social Security surpluses over the next ten years are the equivalent of $12,500 in excess FICA tax payments for every worker in America.
Lawmakers should argue that instead of using workers’ excess FICA tax payments to buy down debt, Washington has an obligation to allow them to invest those extra taxes in personal retirement accounts that will grow into real assets.
Reimbursing Social Security’s current surplus would finance a payroll tax cut of about 3.5 percentage points; this is a savings of $1,750 for a couple earning $50,000 per year. Multiply these savings by millions of families, and you can begin to see the power of compound interest.
If every worker was allowed to invest their share of Social Security’s surplus into personal retirement accounts, and these accounts earned just 8 percent annually, workers would own $6 trillion in assets by the time Social Security becomes insolvent, and $40 trillion in assets by the time the "trust fund" is expected to become exhausted. It sure beats buying down some low-interest debt.
In fact, the government is currently paying an average interest rate of 6.4 percent on the federal debt – closer to 4 percent after adjusting for inflation. That’s a pretty cheap debt to carry, and a very poor return on an "investment" of $1.8 trillion. Working Americans would be better off with growing assets in personal retirement accounts – even when the cost of public debt in included.
Lawmakers are right to try to beat Bill Clinton at his own rhetorical game by locking up the Social Security surplus. But the most secure "lockbox" they could create is a personal retirement account owned and controlled by each and every worker. They should rebate every dollar of the Social Security surplus into personal retirement accounts, then let Bill Clinton argue why the government is more qualified to "safeguard" taxpayers’ money.
1This article appeared in the Commentary section of The Washington Times on Monday, June 7, 1999.
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No one likes to think of surgeons making mistakes. But there have been a few times when I have been glad to have a boss present to bail me out – when I was operating on an eardrum for instance.
The eardrum (tympanic membrane) lies at the end of the ear canal and separates the outer from the middle ear. It delivers sound waves to the ossicles. The first of these, the malleus, is attached to the back of the eardrum at a point called the umbo, visible when looking down the ear with an otoscope. The majority of the drum is stiff (pars tensa) but there is a small segment at the top which is thin (pars flaccida).
Any number of ear disorders may cause the eardrum to appear abnormal. The most serious is cholesteatoma, where skin finds its way into the middle ear where it does not belong, and proliferates there. Without surgery, this can have terrible consequences including infection, deafness, facial paralysis or even death. The most common operation on the drum is grommet insertion, to relieve glue ear. A minute hole is made in the pars tensa and a tiny tube inserted to maintain ventilation of the middle ear. This corrects a vacuum which can cause fluid to collect around the ossicles, with resulting infections and hearing loss.
I was performing this operation when I blundered. I had put a grommet in one ear and used a tiny knife to make a hole in the second drum. But when I went to lodge the grommet in the eardrum, it dropped through into the middle ear. It took my skilled consultant just a moment to retrieve the errant grommet and slip it into the correct position. | <urn:uuid:1b5aba04-265a-42ec-b45c-9577cbe133fc> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/nov/07/mapping-the-body-eardrum | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721027.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00551-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952721 | 368 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Scientists warn in research published Thursday that the United States is facing imminent “mass death” in the opioid crisis, expecting its most significant spike yet.
In a peer-reviewed study in JAMA Network Open, researchers at Northwestern University say deaths are rising from polydrug abuse, which commonly involves mixing synthetic opioids with stimulants such as cocaine and methamphetamines.
“I’m sounding the alarm because, for the first time, there is a convergence and escalation of acceleration rates for every type of rural and urban county,” study author Lori Post, director of the Buehler Center for Health Policy and Economics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, said in a press release. “Not only is the death rate from an opioid at an all-time high, but the acceleration of that death rate signals explosive exponential growth that is even larger than an already historic high.”
The researchers said the United States has seen as many as three overlapping major waves of opioid overdose deaths in the past two decades.
The first wave began around 2000, “prompted by doctors overprescribing opioid painkillers, which was associated with mass addiction,” the researchers said.
The second wave arose around 2007, as heroin overdoses began to escalate and eventually surpassed those from prescription opioids by 2015.
The third wave was identified around 2013 due to the rise of synthetic opioids such as fentanyl.
The fourth and current wave, which is expected to be the deadliest one yet, was accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers say.
“The opioid overdose crisis continues to worsen and evolve: Fentanyls are spreading westward in the USA and a new wave of stimulant and polydrug use is upon us,” Daniel Ciccarone, an addiction medicine professor at the University of California San Francisco, wrote in a 2021 study about the upcoming fourth wave.
“The COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating the overdose crisis, as well as its racial and economic inequities,” Ciccarone wrote. “Addressing disparities in access to treatment and prevention services, as well as criminal justice reforms are necessary to address this persistent syndemic.”
While the opioid crisis has affected urban and rural areas differently in the past 20 years, this time researchers are saying numbers are spiking in both.
“We have the highest escalation rate for the first time in America, and this fourth wave will be worse than it’s ever been before,” Post said. “It’s going to mean mass death.”
Toxicology reports examined by Post and her team show that the overdoses usually involve the use of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that can be 100 times more potent than morphine — and carfentanil, which can be 100 times more potent than fentanyl.
“The stronger the drugs, the harder it is to revive a person,” said Alexander Lundberg, assistant professor of emergency medicine at Northwestern, who co-authored the study with Post. “The polysubstance use complicates an already dire situation.”
The researchers say the United States needs to invest in medication-assisted, anti-addiction treatments in order to put a dent in the crisis.
“The only path forward is to increase awareness to prevent opioid use disorders and to provide medication-assisted treatment that is culturally appropriate and non-stigmatizing in rural communities,” Post said.
In February, another study said as many as 1.2 million people could die from drug overdoses across North America by the end of the decade.
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Offers a categorized list of online sources for West Virginia genealogy research.
Marshall University's unique collection of original manuscripts, documents and books relating to West Virginia and surrounding states, particularly Ohio, Virginia and Kentucky.
Links to West Virginia family histories and genealogy resources from About.com.
Look ups, societies, society publications, individual publications, lost female andcestor queries and related links for genealogy research in West Virginia.
Providing research and photocopies of historical and genealogical documents at the WV and Regional History Collection in Morgantown.
Research revolving around the family names of Dingess, Mitchem, Vance, Headley, Gillum, Hutchinson, Farley and others. Includes list of surnames, wills, images and contact information.
WVGenWeb Project, part of USGenWeb Project. Online genealogical societies in the state, contacts and web pages for each county, guidelines for volunteers, specialized message boards.
Mailing lists for researchers of WV genealogy.
Lists current owners of medals with biographical information about soldiers, and how to apply for unclaimed medals.
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The present invention is a computer-aided pathological diagnosis method for the classification of cancer cells in a tissue specimen based on a digital cellular image of the tissue specimen. The method of the present invention includes the steps of, extracting the histological characteristic features of the cellular image using preprocessing algorithms having adaptive strategies to enhance the cellular image, declustering the extracted histological characteristic features of the cellular image to isolate the individual cells and the nuclei inside the cells, segmenting the declustered cellular image, labeling the segmented cellular image and classifying the cells in the labeled cellular image as cancer cells or non-cancer cells.
Qian, Wei; Song, Dansheng; and Zhukov, Tatyana A., "Computer-aided pathological diagnosis system" (2011). USF Patents. 454.
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It alters your brain and behavior over the course of time. One of the first things to look at is nicotine, illegal narcotics, or alcohol. This disorder affects approximately 7 million people. Over 1 in 4 of these deaths can be attributed directly to drugs. Other narcotics are not limited to heroin, cocaine, and other drugs. It’s possible to get hooked on alcohol, tobacco, sleep, drugs that are antidepressants and anti-anxiety, as well as cigarettes.
How Does Addiction Start?
Your brain is programmed so that you repeat positive experiences. This is why you continue to do them.
Dopamine and heroin can make you more vulnerable. Cognitive functions are affected by:
Behavior can be affected. Multiple behavioral disorders are:
Rehab is the first step towards a healthier lifestyle. Recognize your problem with substance abuse and address the root causes. It can be painful to withdraw from substances.
These are some strategies to accelerate recovery:
Nutrition is key to healing. Nutrition is a fantastic place to start if you want to recovering health. Drug usage slows your metabolism and impairs organ function.
Not only is exercise important for addiction recovery, but so is nutrition. It benefits both mind and body. Exercise is good for your bones and muscles. It also helps you to reduce stress.
Addiction recovery can prove stressful. They resort to drugs in order to manage stress and prevent relapse. Cortisol, which is the hormone responsible for stress, can be released into your bloodstream.
• Mental Health And A Solid Support System
Recovery from addiction is possible with the help of stable social support. Addicts can be helped by family, friends, and even neighbors. A support network can help reduce stress and loneliness. Recovering addicts can benefit from a support system to avoid isolation, shame, and humiliation.
If you are unable to manage your issues or don’t know what to do, then your family and friends may not be the best people to talk to about your recovery. A skilled psychotherapist can provide emotional support. A therapist can help you, even if it is not something your friends would like to hear.
Meditation teaches self-awareness and laser focus. This simple yet efficient strategy reduces stress and anxiety and improves health.
Because of its properties, it’s used to treat substance dependence. Meditation coordinates the mind and body to improve mental health and quality of life. Meditation can assist with withdrawals. The frontal cortex, amygdala, and anterior cingulate cortex are affected by meditation.
- The frontal cortex controls thinking and planning.
- Amygdala: fight or flight response
- The anterior cingulate cortex controls motor control and motivation.
Meditation can release dopamine, which addicts want. It boosts mood and improves concentration. There are various styles of meditation to select from.
- Mindfulness meditation is one of the most common ways to improve concentration and self-awareness.
- Guided meditation involves generating serene mental images with a guide.
- Zen Meditation focuses on non-reactivity and inner serenity. It fosters being in the moment instead of the past. We’re starting over.
- Transcendental meditation involves silently repeating a mantra to manifest tranquility.
• Finding Yourself
Health throughout addiction rehabilitation goes beyond the sobriety. It’s also about rediscovering oneself before addiction. Because it’s not scientific and varied for everyone, this part of healing is often disregarded.
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A recent article by Kate Wheeling in Pacific Standard magazine highlights four ways that the aviation sector’s carbon market proposals could undermine the Paris Agreement. The article points out that, “as the rest of the world is cutting back, aviation’s climate plan includes increasing emissions.”
On 7 October 2016, the General Assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) announced its plans to set up a mechanism to offset its ever increasing greenhouse gas emissions. The Global Market-Based Measure is planned to start in 2021, but all the details (such as which carbon credits might be elligible) are still to be agreed.
Today, in Montreal, the 39th meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organisation starts. One of the agenda items is ICAO’s response to climate change. The industry’s preferred option is to continue expanding, to continue polluting, and to offset its emissions.
In September 2015, a meeting took place in New York between Per Pharo and Marte Sendstad of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative, and Nigel Purvis from the Washington DC-based consulting firm, Climate Advisers.
Last week, REDD-Monitor looked at the aviation industry’s plans to offset its ever-growing emissions using REDD credits. Kevin Conrad and the Coalition for Rainforest Nations are behind the plan. It’s supported by nine mainly US-based NGOs. And it’s opposed by more than 80 NGOs internationally.
Air travel has increased rapidly in recent decades, resulting in ever more greenhouse gas emissions from flying. Yet the aviation sector was nowhere to been seen the UN’s Paris Agreement agreed at the end of last year. Instead the UN International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) is planning “carbon neutral” growth from 2020. ICAO plans to achieve this largely through carbon offsets. | <urn:uuid:f76ef9cf-55ff-478b-ba01-6730b8f21ef1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.redd-monitor.org/tag/icao/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00055-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927522 | 385 | 2.828125 | 3 |
(Repeats story from Wednesday)
* Kiev wants to assert rights to Crimea's heritage
* Some museums in Crimea hope for more funding under Russia
* New government in Crimea will not pay compensation
By Gabriela Baczynska and Pavel Polityuk
YALTA, Crimea/KIEV, April 2 (Reuters) - From the 16th-century Tatar Khans' palace in Bakhchisaray to the former tsarist residence that hosted the World War Two Yalta conference, Crimea's heritage sites have become a source of bitter contention since Russia seized the region from Ukraine.
For Kiev, which does not recognise Moscow's annexation of Crimea, losing the cultural and historic legacy of the Black Sea peninsula would be another major blow and Ukraine is readying for long legal battles with Russia.
"We will never give up the valuable heritage in Crimea because that is the property of Ukraine," the country's Prosecutor General, Oleh Makhnitsky, told Reuters on Wednesday.
Ukraine's Culture Minister, Yevgen Nishchuk, said Kiev was amending its laws to seek justice internationally should Russia start removing cultural goods from Crimea or take over formal supervision of the region's heritage sites.
One exhibition, put together by five museums - including four in Crimea - and currently on display in Amsterdam, has already fallen hostage to the conflict over the region, the worst stand-off between Russia and the West since the Cold War.
Both Crimea's pro-Russian authorities as well as Kiev claim ownership of the exhibition, titled "Crimea - Gold and secrets of the Black Sea", which features golden artefacts and precious gems dating back to the fourth century BC.
The show is operated by the University of Amsterdam and spokesman Yasha Lange said a legal investigation was going on to determine to whom the collection should be returned after it closes at the end of August.
"The exhibition should return to Crimea," said Valentina Mordvintseva, who works for Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences in Crimea's provincial capital of Simferopol and who helped Amsterdam's Allard Pierson Museum set up the exhibit.
"So it has become a political issue," she told Reuters. "If the things end up held in Kiev, I think it would be bad for Ukraine itself because it would look like vengeance."
She was referring to a March 16 referendum in Crimea, an impoverished region of two million with a narrow ethnic Russian majority, which yielded an overwhelming victory for those advocating a split from Ukraine to join Russia.
Kiev and the West dismissed the hastily arranged vote as a sham but Moscow used it to justify formally incorporating Crimea on March 21.
Crimea has since then introduced the Russian rouble as its currency and switched to Moscow time, while Russian troops have taken over Ukrainian military bases, forcing Kiev to pull out its soldiers with their families.
TATARS, TSARS AND STALIN
Prosecutor Makhnitsky said the Justice Ministry in Kiev was preparing to register lawsuits with international organisations to assert its rights to the historic and cultural sites in Crimea.
The ministry refused immediate comment on what exactly it plans to do, but any such endeavour is likely to be an uphill battle as Russia controls the region.
Underscoring how any efforts from Kiev could face further obstacles, some directors of Crimea museums have welcomed unification with Russia in the hope it will lead to increased budget support from Moscow.
Valery Naumenko, director of a museum housed in the historic residence of the Crimean Khans in Bakhchisaray, complained that Kiev had not allocated any funds for the upkeep of the palace, which is dominated by two slender minarets.
"Ukraine has no resources and no moral right after these two decades to put up a big fight over Crimea's heritage," he told Reuters. "Everybody understands that the decision is taken and we must all get used to living under the new conditions."
"The sooner politicians and culture workers in Kiev understand that, the sooner life in Crimea and Ukraine will improve," he said.
In the elegant Livadia Palace in Yalta, director Larisa Dekusheva said she hoped to see more Russian tourists, now that Moscow has said it is determined to make Crimea a more popular holiday destination.
The white stone palace, sitting on a slope with spectacular views over the Black Sea, was the last residence built for the tsars before the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 and served as a tuberculosis sanatorium afterwards.
In February 1945 the site hosted the seven-day Yalta Conference, when Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt made key decisions on the post-war order.
"It was originally the property of the Romanov family, that is of the tsars of Russia," Dekusheva added, saying Moscow had historic rights to the palace and Kiev should not seek any compensation.
Crimea's new government has angrily dismissed any talk of potential compensation claims for the property it nationalised in separating from Ukraine.
"We will not pay a thing, we will make our case in proper legal proceedings. If such claims are presented, we will come up with counterclaims," Rustam Temirgaliyev, Crimea's First Deputy Prime Minister, told Reuters in late March. (Writing by Gabriela Baczynska; Editing by Giles Elgood) | <urn:uuid:6550064f-3778-4734-a1e3-ee42d94813b6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://news.trust.org/item/20140402151547-m7ahe/?source=hpbreaking | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00391-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961738 | 1,094 | 2.140625 | 2 |
IT Energy Efficiency: Single-Atom Transistor in Gel Electrolyte Reaches the Limit of Miniaturization
High-energy consumption is a well known side effect that comes from digitization. Information Technology (IT) has a share of more than 10 percent in total power consumption. Transistors are at the core of digital data processing in computing centers as well as in consumer electronics such as personal computers, smartphones, or even in embedded systems from household appliances to airplanes.
The imperative need of improving energy efficiency in IT
High-performance computing have had their sights set on Exascale computers, which are supercomputers capable of performing 1 million trillion floating-point operations per second, or 1 exaflops, to be up and running by 2020. The major problem faced by those working on Exascale supercomputers is the amount of energy power they consume.
Until recently, in accordance with Moore’s Law, engineers had only hoped that operating voltages for silicon transistors would continue to fall along with transistor sizes. “We could theoretically lower the operating voltage from where it is now—about 800 millivolts—to a few millivolts,” said Eli Yablonovitch, a computer engineer and director of the National Science Foundation’s Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science at the University of California, Berkeley in 2015. He expected that a “millivolt switch” could be a radical solution to supercomputing’s energy efficiency problem. Fast-forward to 2018.
Single-Atom Transistor: Perspectives for quantum electronics on the atomic-scale
Researchers at Karlsruher Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany under the lead of physicist Professor Thomas Schimmel have developed the world's smallest single-atom transistor that works in a gel electrolyte reaching the limit of miniaturization. Thomas Schimmel is Professor of Physics and Joint Institute Director at the Institute of Applied Physics, University of Karlsruhe, and Head of Reasearch at the Institute of Nanotechnology at the Research Center Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Professor Schimmel is also Scientific Director of the Network of Excellence Functional Nanostructures.
This quantum electronics component developed by Professor Schimmel's team has the capacity to switch electrical current by controlled repositioning of a single atom. Working at room temperature and consuming a minimum amount of energy, this milestone in energy efficiency brings new opportunities to Information Technology (IT).
According to the Abstract, the single-atom transistor represents a quantum electronic device that works at room temperature. This allows the switch of an electric current by the controlled and reversible relocation of one single atom within a metallic quantum point contact.
In the research paper, Quasi-Solid-State Single-Atom Transistors, published in Advanced Materials, the researchers explain that the atomic switch is entirely controlled by an independent third gate electrode which allows to open and close a metallic contact between the source and drain electrodes by the gate-voltage-controlled relocation of one single silver atom. The device operates by applying a small voltage to a control electrode or gate within the aqueous electrolyte.
Atomic transistors show remarkable properties
The development of the single-atom transistor developed by KIT's researchers represents a world's first demonstration of the functionality of a transistor on the atomic scale. This innovation may considerably enhance energy efficiency in information technology. According to Professor Schimmel, "this quantum electronics element enables switching energies smaller than those of conventional silicon technologies by a factor of 10,000."
The nanoscale transistor switches electrical current through the controlled reversible movement of a single atom. In contrast, conventional transistors switch current by locally changing electronic properties. The single-atom transistor works at both extremely low temperatures near absolutely zero (-273ºC) and at room temperature, representing a big advantage for future applications.
These transistors represent quantum switches, the levels between which the switching occurs being given fundamental laws of quantum mechanics. This all-metal transistor does not use any semiconductor, the lack of a band gap allows operation at very low voltages.
Advantages of single-atom transistors
The single-atom transistors possess extremely non-linear current-voltage characteristics which is desirable in many applications. According to the researchers, these transistors can be manufactured using conventional, abundant, inexpensive, and non-toxic materials with great benefits for the electronics supply chain.
At the same time, they open perspectives for electronic switching at ultrafast frequencies. In their report, the researchers say that because the switching process is achieved with very small gate potentials in the millivolt range, the power consumption of such devices is by orders of magnitude lower than that of conventional semiconductor-based electronics.
The future of quantum electronics
The development of the single-atom transistor is just the beginning of actively controlled electronics on the atomic scale. However, it opens fascinating perspectives for the development and manufacture of quantum electronics and logics based on individual atoms. The researchers expect the development of a first, simple integrated circuit and a multilevel quantum transistor as the first encouraging steps in this direction.
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We have only one Earth.
There are billions of galaxies in the universe,
There are billions of planets in our galaxy,
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Humanity on Earth faces a planetary emergency: atmospheric temperatures are rising too fast for humans and nature to adapt, shrinking habitats threaten the loss of about a million species and we continue to pollute the air, soil and water.
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Thousands of Bangladeshi garment workers have demanded justice on the anniversary of one of the world's worst industrial disasters — the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory complex that claimed over 1,100 lives.
- Three years on, no one has been convicted over the disaster
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- Survivors lay flowers to remember dead
Survivors of the disaster, many of whom lost limbs when the nine-storey building came crashing down three years ago, laid flowers at the site and wept as they remembered the dead.
Relatives of those killed, including some whose bodies were never found, recited verses of the Koran and prayed after gathering from early morning at Savar just outside Dhaka.
"Three years have passed and still we don't see any justice. No one has been held to account for one of history's worst man-made disasters," union leader Abul Hossain said as he led the protest.
Police have arrested and charged the owner of the building with murder, along with 40 others — including factory officials and government inspectors who certified the flimsy complex as safe.
But no one has yet been convicted over the disaster, which occurred after thousands of textile workers were forced to enter the building to start their shifts despite cracks appearing in its pillars one day before.
Workers also staged protests in Dhaka on Sunday and outside a state graveyard where hundreds of unidentified victims have been buried, to demand swift trials for those charged.
"Rana must be hanged!" workers shouted, referring to arrested building owner Sohel Rana, who was politically influential in Bangladesh.
Others who gathered at the disaster site, which has been turned into a small lake and was full of hyacinth flowers, called for improved safety at Bangladesh's 4,500 garment factories.
"The Government must shut down all faulty factories to avoid another Rana Plaza. It's unfortunate most factories remain unsafe despite such a huge tragedy," another union leader Touhidul Islam said.
The Rana Plaza tragedy triggered international outrage and put pressure on European and US clothing brands to improve pay and conditions at the factories that supply them.
But only a fraction of Bangladesh's textile factories — which employ a total of 4 million workers, mostly women — have since been certified safe.
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Last year the authorities completed compensation payments for the 3,000 victims, including the injured and families of the dead, but many survivors say it is not enough.
"I got 4,000 taka ($65) a month for two years. But now I don't have anything. My husband has left me, as I've become mentally unstable," said Swapna Bibi, who was trapped in the rubble for four days.
Firefighters were also among those who gathered, recalling how they worked for more than three weeks to pull out the dead and nearly 2,000 injured from under pancaked floors.
"The memories of those who cried for help from under the debris still haunt me and many others," said weeping firefighter Monir Hossain.
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At the site dozens of people held laminated photographs of missing loved ones whose bodies were never found.
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Albert Hurwit is one of the three subjects profiled in LIFECASTERS. The documentary portrait of him, THE GAMBLING MAN, was produced by Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly. We were able to speak with him about his music, being filmed, and his next big goals in life.
What surprised you about the process of documentary filmmaking?
The ratio of the huge amount of footage and photographs taken to the relatively small amount used in the final product was amazing. I was also impressed with Aron’s attention to the visuals and how the natural texture, colors, shapes, or just general aura of what he was viewing would capture his eye and be incorporated into the documentary. We also had a discussion of the editing process when he saw that I could spend many minutes over just the blending, placement and volume of a single note in my composing endeavors. He indicated that he also can spend a great deal of time in splicing the documentary. This is another way of saying than we are both compulsive nut cases.
Can you share more about the history behind your family story and how it relates to the music? Can you talk to us about each of the movements and how it personally impacted you and your creative work?
My family’s Jewish immigration experience is not unique. The hardship, persecution, separation and finding freedom and safety in America is common to millions of people in various religious and ethnic groups. It’s the story of untold families. It is the story of this symphony.
This story begins in Prague in 1735 when a man named Calman was born. My middle name is Calman and he was my maternal great-great grandfather. In 1796 he had a son Yeshea whose picture is seen on the insert of the CD of the symphony and on my website. The reason that we have a picture of a man born so many years before the invention of photography is that Yeshea live to be 106.
Movement I (Origins) interweaves moods and themes that might reflect the changing emotional landscape of my ancestors in their eastward migration from Prague to Russia. In order to seek a better life Calman and his family settled in a little farm village in White Russia called Milkowitz in 1780. Milkowitz is my mother’s maiden name. Obviously the family took the name of the village and not vice versa.
Movement II (Separation) starts in the late 1800’s, when the family suffered under the Russian pogroms. I remember hearing how the family would hide in the attic as the Cossacks would terrorize the little village. In 1900, the family elders told my grandfather that he must flee with his family and find safety in America. My grandfather came alone to New Britain, Ct. and saved enough money after working for 4 years to send for his wife and the rest of his family which included my mother. This movment starts with the Cossacks on horseback and with sabers drawn terrorizing the town. The music suddenly stops and you hear the elders (as represented by the lower instruments of the orchestra) sing out “You must go” and the younger family members counter with “no no no”. The movement continues with the younger family members recalling the village dances and songs, as I would imagine them. Despite the closeness of the family and their attachments to their life in the village, the decision of these elders prevail. This decision is made with full knowledge that the separation will be permanent and they will never see each other again which, in fact was the case.
Movment III (Remembrance) memorializes the agonizing separation. To begin to feel only a part of the wrenching sadness that they felt I simply have to look to my immediate family – my 3 children, their spouses and my 6 grandchildren. How would I feel if I had to say to them you must now go to another part of the world and we will never see each other again.? That was the inspiration for much of the third movement. But in addition to the sadness I wished to also portray a feeling of affirmation which comes from the foresight and sacrifice demonstrated by the elders. And so several minutes into this movement I came up with the second and slightly more hopeful theme. The movement continues and toward its end there are glimpses of a brighter future, ending with a few uplifting notes from a horn solo.
Movement IV (Arrival) begins with the voyage over the ocean from Europe. Upon sight of the Statue of Liberty the triumphant sounds from the orchestra herald the family’s final arrival in American. The music continues to recapitulate many ideas from the earlier movements. In addition to these recapitulations, new material is also introduced including a song I wrote as a teenager and which was entitled Remembrance. Apparently this symphony has been percolating in me for a long time.
The importance of family legacy you allude to in your above discussion of how your own history relates to your music is a subject also touched on in the film. Can you talk about the first time your family saw the film and their reaction?
They were obviously moved and impressed because they know deeply I felt about the hardships involved in my family coming to America. They were also very much aware of how I had given so much effort and emotion to this project.
Are you surprised by the emotional reaction and response to your story and your music? Can you share one of your favorite stories of someone discovering your music and how that impacted you?
I have many poignant favorite stories. I have been so touched and moved by the emotions of those who listen to this music. I will bracket these with one of the earliest and the very latest.
When my music was first played by the Hartford Symphony Orchestra I received a note or phone call from a woman who had been at the concert. She said that her life situation was very difficult. She had a child and her husband had just left her. She was senior in college. After hearing the music and how I had beaten the odds in getting it performed she now realized that she also could confront her difficulties and vowed that in someway she would go law school and take charge of her life.
Just a few weeks ago I received a phone call from an acquaintance with whom I have had almost no contact over 40 or more years. I have had no contact with her husband during that period of time. She called a day after he had died and told me that her husband was a lover of classical music. As he was dying he only wanted to listen to a piece by Mozart and my symphony.
What are you working on now?
I am working on setting a Longfellow poem dealing with the Civil War to music It will be a symphonic work with chorus and be about 8 to 12 minutes in duration. I hope have to completed in about two months.
Finally, many people watching your film have their own personal goals and dreams. But may be struggling to reach them personally. Do you have any words of advice for them?
Dare to be a dreamer and pursue your goals now matter how lofty. But you must also be realistic and get totally objective second opinions from unbiased sources in deciding if those dreams are within the realms of possibility.
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Shauna became fascinated with swamp milkweed a few years ago when vacationing on the French shore of Nova Scotia. Through research she learned the important role our plants and flowers play in the survival of the Monarch Butterfly.
The beautiful Monarch Butterfly is perhaps the most recognizable of the butterflies. They travel 1200-2800 miles or more from the Southeast of Canada to the mountain forests in Central Mexico where they hibernate for the winter. The Monarch Butterfly is known by scientists as Danaus plexippus, which in Greek literally means "sleepy transformation." The name evokes the species' ability to hibernate and metamorphize. Adult Monarch Butterflies possess two pairs of brilliant orange-red wings, featuring black veins and white spots along the edges. Males, who possess distinguishing black dots along the veins of their wings, are slightly bigger than females. Each adult butterfly lives only about four to five weeks.
The Monarch has experienced a 90% decrease since the 1990s due to disruption of unique forested mountain areas in Mexico where most of the global population overwinters and habitat loss in summer breeding areas in Canada and the US. The increased use of industrial herbicides has depleted habitat.
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Automation might scare you because it’s something new, and you’ll need to pay upfront. Digital marketing is one aspect that could be automated.
There are automated systems and companies that will perform this. You will still need to come up with content or have someone else who will.
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Use other tools such as Calendly to schedule meetings. QuickBooks is a common choice for financials.
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Today marks the anniversary of First OPC in Portland, Oregon as a particular congregation. With eleven communicant members, the congregation began its worship under the leadership of Pastor Lawrence Eyres at a storefront building. In developing the core group, Eyres had walked through the neighborhood knocking on doors, talking to people about the Bible and inviting them to worship at First Church.
The group lost the lease at the storefront and started holding worship in members’ homes. It then move to a tent at the corner of 83rd and Fremont, but the tent collapsed in a rainstorm. Finally, in 1947, the congregation moved into a building that was designed by member Frank Smith.
In 1950, Carl Ahfeldt followed Eryes as pastor, and in 1960, Al Edwards became pastor. Edwards helped First Church develop the deserved reputation as a missions-minded congregation determined to help others. First Church assisted new OPC church plants in Eugene, Newberg and Gladstone, Oregon, Glenwood, Washington, and Billings, Montana.
Donald Poundstone served as pastor from 1976–1994, and Jack Smith has served as pastor from 1995 to the present.
Picture: Pastor Al Edwards and family.
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People who have been fully vaccinated no longer need to go into transmission quarantine. When people have received their first dose and 3–12 weeks have elapsed since vaccination, they will also be exempt from transmission quarantine if they are tested between days 3 and 7 after having had close contact with an infected person. The changes will enter into effect on Tuesday 4 May at 12 am.
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This is in accordance with the recommendations that the Norwegian Government has received from the Norwegian Directorate of Health and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.
"More than 1.3 million Norwegians have now received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. An exemption from transmission quarantine for people who have been vaccinated is excellent news, and will improve many people's lives", says Minister of Health and Care Services Bent Høie.
People who are fully vaccinated are thus equated with people who have had COVID-19 during the past 6 months, and will therefore not have to go into transmission quarantine. This means that people who are fully vaccinated do not have to take a test after close contact with an infected person.
It has already been established that people who are vaccinated or have had COVID-19 in the past 6 months no longer have to go into so-called waiting quarantine.
People who have only received their first dose
People who received their first dose of the vaccine within the past 3–12 weeks may be exempt from transmission quarantine as long as they take a PCR test between days 3 and 7 of their last close contact with an infected person. People who do not want to take a test or are unable to do so, must go into transmission quarantine.
"It is important that all people who need two doses take the second dose at the right time in order to achieve full protection and keep their status as vaccinated", states Mr Høie.
No changes are being made to the rules regarding quarantine following arrival from another country for people who are vaccinated. This is a matter that is being reviewed.
Vaccinated people may exit quarantine
When the change enters into effect, people in transmission quarantine who are vaccinated may exit quarantine if over 3 weeks have elapsed since their first dose. People who have only received one dose must take a PCR test between days 3 and 7 after the close contact if they exit quarantine.
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as the root of all human suffering
; deeply ingrained in every human person
, it is said to be almost ineradicable source of humanities’ suffering
. Many people
underscored this problem too much that they failed to see the bigger underlying problem
; a problem where even selfishness is embedded into- pretension
I’d like to discuss pretension in a general perspective and as objective as possible. I strongly believe that pretension is the root of all human suffering. Pretension is the culmination of all the ill feelings of humanity: fear, selfishness, insensitivity, jealousy, depression, pride, etc. Humans are natural born pretenders. We may all have been created equal but we’re not perfect. And that is why we pretend. People try to compensate what they lack in their life; things that may seem unreachable to them. So, what they do is they assume a role or perhaps, a different personality- a personality that is not uniquely identified in us. Things that we don’t commonly do, we now do; attitudes that are odd to us now seem to be ordinary. This leads us to do things that we shouldn’t do- morally unacceptable as identified by the moral and positive laws nor spiritually correct as defined by the eternal laws. These actions make us feel supreme among other people. From pretension, we draw out everything we don’t have. I believe that all the atrocious attitude and behavior that we demonstrate are not the real us because we are all created with the image and likeness of God.
Now, the key to this dilemma is of course, embedded again in ourselves. Acceptance
to pretension. “To know the truth is to know thyself”, so as to say. Being aware of the truth and accommodating it in ourselves is tantamount to deeper and inner learning about our being
. From this acknowledgement and acceptance of truth comes contentment
and everything else opposing the essence of pretention. These things are the key to human suffering. If we were able to enforce these in ourselves then we may have a better chance of living a better life
But the promulgation of this idealism is not easy. All the good things in this world encompass extensive sacrifice for there is no good and free thing in this world. All things in this world have somehow an equivalent sacrifice that we have to undertake. This makes man a flexible and rational being. This is where the depth of knowledge we learn from others becomes wisdom, the applied knowledge.
Just like Maslow
’s humanistic approach
to hierarchy of man’s needs, I have my own way of addressing the changes that happen in a person with regards to the transformation
of his inner self. These are:
1. The need and feeling to do something to improve oneself- everything starts with the feeling of need to change and to improve oneself. This is where we take-off.
2. Self-Discovery- the curiosity that is brought about by the need and feeling to improve oneself leads us to a deeper acquaintance with ourselves. We find out more about ourselves, we start to learn through pondering and thinking about our past experiences, etc.
3. Self-Realization- of course, self-discovery is useless without realizing and accepting the truth about ourselves. In this level, we already gain the knowledge and understanding that will motivate us and give us the drive to put into action what we learned from ourselves and others, just like the relationship of knowledge to wisdom as I’ve mentioned earlier.
4. Self-Actualization- Maslow’s idea of self-actualization is when a person is detached from material things. Persons reaching this level finds their happiness and contentment in helping other people or generally, making other people happy. My idea of self-actualization is where we now enforce in ourselves what we have learned in self-realization. Meaning, we implement and put into action the “knowledge and understanding” we acquire from self-realization. This is a good epitome of knowledge being put into action. We may not necessarily follow Maslow’s ideas of actualization. What is important here in this level is that we practice what we learn, do what we preach. It’s not on the number of things we learned or how we excelled on the subject matter, it is on how we use it and how we made a positive difference because of it.
I find these steps a way to lead us closer to happiness. I mentioned “closer” for I believe that true happiness is unattainable in this earthly existence. All we have now are simulations to the life we are having after this one- the life that the Greek Philosophers and I share the same belief… perfect existence in an ideal world. It is really funny to think that the very same thing that identifies and makes us above all other creation is the very same thing that enslaves us all- our own free will.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
February 14, 2013
Mr. Tester (for himself and Mr. Begich) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
To promote the mapping and development of United States geothermal resources by establishing a direct loan program for high risk geothermal exploration wells, to amend the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to improve geothermal energy technology and demonstrate the use of geothermal energy in large scale thermal applications, and for other purposes.
This Act may be cited as the
Geothermal Exploration and Technology
Act of 2013
Geothermal exploratory drilling loan program
In this section:
The term Fund means the Geothermal Investment Fund established under subsection (h).
The term program means the direct loan program for high risk geothermal exploration wells established under this section.
The term Secretary means the Secretary of Energy.
The Secretary shall establish a direct loan program for high risk geothermal exploration wells.
An applicant that seeks to receive a loan under the program may submit to the Secretary an application for the loan at such time, in such form, and containing such information as the Secretary may prescribe.
In selecting applicants for loans under this section to carry out projects under the program, the Secretary shall consider—
the potential for unproven geothermal resources that would be explored and developed under a project;
the expertise and experience of an applicant in developing geothermal resources; and
the importance of the project in meeting the goals of the Department of Energy.
In selecting applicants for loans under this section to carry out projects under the program, the Secretary shall provide a preference for projects likely to lead to successful new geothermal development leading to electricity production.
Data from all exploratory wells that are carried out under the program shall be provided to the Secretary and the Secretary of the Interior for use in mapping national geothermal resources and other uses, including—
subsurface geologic data;
borehole temperature data; and
inclusion in the National Geothermal Data System of the Department of Energy.
The Secretary shall determine the cost share for a loan made under this section.
The Secretary may base the cost share percentage for loans made under this section on a sliding scale, with higher Federal shares awarded to projects with higher risks.
Number of wells
The Secretary shall determine the number of wells for each selected geothermal project for which a loan may be made under this section.
The Secretary may grant further delays or dispense with the repayment obligation on a demonstration that a selected geothermal project is unproductive.
The recipient of a loan made under this section for a geothermal facility shall commence repayment of the loan beginning on the earlier of—
the date that is 4 years after the date the loan is made; or
the date on which the geothermal facility enters into commercial production.
Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the term of a loan made under this section shall be 4 years beginning on the applicable loan repayment commencement date under paragraph (1).
The Secretary may extend the term of a loan under this section for not more than 4 years.
Use of loan repayments
Amounts repaid on loans made under this section shall be deposited in the Fund.
Geothermal Investment Fund
Establishment of Fund
There is established in the Treasury of the United States
a fund to be known as the
Geothermal Investment Fund, to be
administered by the Secretary, to be available without fiscal year limitation
and not subject to appropriation, to carry out this section.
Transfers to Fund
The Fund shall consist of—
such amounts as are appropriated to the Fund under subsection (j); and
amounts repaid on loans under subsection (g)(3).
Amounts in the Fund may not be made available for any purpose other than a purpose described in paragraph (1).
Not later than 60 days after the end of each fiscal year beginning with fiscal year 2013, the Secretary of Energy shall submit to the the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives a report on the operation of the Fund during the fiscal year.
Each report shall include, for the fiscal year covered by the report, the following:
A statement of the amounts deposited into the Fund.
A description of the expenditures made from the Fund for the fiscal year, including the purpose of the expenditures.
Recommendations for additional authorities to fulfill the purpose of the Fund.
A statement of the balance remaining in the Fund at the end of the fiscal year.
Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall issue guidelines for the implementation of the program.
The guidelines shall—
the terms and conditions that would require a higher or lower level of cost sharing under this section;
the conditions under which the Secretary will allow loan modifications or forgiveness in cases in which a well cannot be used for production or injection; and
the information necessary to provide a loan applicant with certainty about application of subsection (f), including the level of cost and risk that the applicant and the Secretary will assume; and
loans be provided under this section only after the developer has committed the share of the developer for expenditures for drilling costs; and
loans for successful wells shall be repaid by the developer within a 10-year period.
Authorization of appropriations
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section such sums as are necessary for each of fiscal years 2013 through 2022.
Large-Scale Geothermal Energy
Title VI of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 is amended by inserting after section 616 (42 U.S.C. 17195) the following:
Large-Scale Geothermal Energy
Congress finds that—
the Geothermal Technologies Program of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy of the Department has included a focus on direct use of geothermal energy in the low-temperature geothermal energy subprogram (including in the development of a research and development plan for the program);
the Building Technologies Program of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy of the Department—
is focused on the energy demand and energy efficiency of buildings; and
includes geothermal heat pumps as a component technology in the residential and commercial deployment activities of the program; and
geothermal heat pumps and direct use of geothermal energy, especially in large-scale applications, can make a significant contribution to the use of renewable energy but are underrepresented in research, development, demonstration, and commercialization.
The purposes of this section are—
to improve the components, processes, and systems used for geothermal heat pumps and the direct use of geothermal energy; and
to increase the energy efficiency, lower the cost, increase the use, and improve and demonstrate the applicability of geothermal heat pumps to, and the direct use of geothermal energy in, large buildings, commercial districts, residential communities, and large municipal, agricultural, or industrial projects.
In this section:
Direct use of geothermal energy
The term direct use of geothermal energy means systems that use water that is at a temperature between approximately 38 degrees Celsius and 149 degrees Celsius directly or through a heat exchanger to provide—
heating to buildings; or
heat required for industrial processes, agriculture, aquaculture, and other facilities.
Geothermal heat pump
The term geothermal heat pump means a system that provides heating and cooling by exchanging heat from shallow ground or surface water using—
a closed loop system, which transfers heat by way of buried or immersed pipes that contain a mix of water and antifreeze; or
an open loop system, which circulates ground or surface water directly into the building and returns the water to the same aquifer or surface water source.
The term large-scale application means an application for space or process heating or cooling for large entities with a name-plate capacity, expected resource, or rating of 10 or more megawatts, such as a large building, commercial district, residential community, or a large municipal, agricultural, or industrial project.
The term Secretary means Secretary of Energy, acting through the Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
The Secretary shall establish a program of research, development, demonstration, and commercial application for geothermal heat pumps and the direct use of geothermal energy.
The program may include research, development, demonstration, and commercial application of—
geothermal ground loop efficiency improvements through more efficient heat transfer fluids;
geothermal ground loop efficiency improvements through more efficient thermal grouts for wells and trenches;
geothermal ground loop installation cost reduction through—
improved drilling methods;
improvements in drilling equipment;
improvements in design methodology and energy analysis procedures; and
improved methods for determination of ground thermal properties and ground temperatures;
installing geothermal ground loops near the foundation walls of new construction to take advantage of existing structures;
using gray or black wastewater as a method of heat exchange;
improving geothermal heat pump system economics through integration of geothermal systems with other building systems, including providing hot and cold water and rejecting or circulating industrial process heat through refrigeration heat rejection and waste heat recovery;
advanced geothermal systems using variable pumping rates to increase efficiency;
geothermal heat pump efficiency improvements;
use of hot water found in mines and mine shafts and other surface waters as the heat exchange medium;
heating of districts, neighborhoods, communities, large commercial or public buildings (including office, retail, educational, government, and institutional buildings and multifamily residential buildings and campuses), and industrial and manufacturing facilities;
geothermal system integration with solar thermal water heating or cool roofs and solar-regenerated desiccants to balance loads and use building hot water to store geothermal energy;
use of hot water coproduced from oil and gas recovery;
use of water sources at a temperature of less than 150 degrees Celsius for direct use;
system integration of direct use with geothermal electricity production; and
coproduction of heat and power, including on-site use.
In carrying out the program, the Secretary shall identify and mitigate potential environmental impacts in accordance with section 614(c).
The Secretary shall make grants available to State and local governments, institutions of higher education, nonprofit entities, utilities, and for-profit companies (including manufacturers of heat-pump and direct-use components and systems) to promote the development of geothermal heat pumps and the direct use of geothermal energy.
In making grants under this subsection, the Secretary shall give priority to proposals that apply to large buildings (including office, retail, educational, government, institutional, and multifamily residential buildings and campuses and industrial and manufacturing facilities), commercial districts, and residential communities.
Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this section, the Secretary shall conduct a national solicitation for applications for grants under this section.
Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this section and annually thereafter, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Science and Technology of the House of Representatives a report on progress made and results obtained under this section to develop geothermal heat pumps and direct use of geothermal energy.
Each of the reports required under this subsection shall include—
an analysis of progress made in each of the areas described in subsection (d)(2); and
a description of any relevant recommendations made during a review of the program; and
any plans to address the recommendations under clause (i).
Authorization of appropriations
There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary to carry out this section such sums as are necessary for each of fiscal years 2013 through 2017.
Facilitation of coproduction of geothermal energy on oil and gas leases
Section 4(b) of the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 (30 U.S.C. 1003(b)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
Land subject to oil and gas lease
Land under an oil and gas lease issued pursuant to the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.) or the Mineral Leasing Act for Acquired Lands (30 U.S.C. 351 et seq.) that is subject to an approved application for permit to drill and from which oil and gas production is occurring may be available for leasing under subsection (c) by the holder of the oil and gas lease—
on a determination that—
geothermal energy will be produced from a well producing or capable of producing oil and gas; and
the public interest will be served by the issuance of such a lease; and
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If you don’t plan to let students use their mobile devices (constructively!) in class, you’re swimming against the tide. You will spend a lot of time and effort trying to ban or confiscate the devices, when you could be using them to your advantage. So much better to put an implementation plan in place, get your stakeholders on board (admin, school directors, other teachers, parents,…) , and have the devices support the learning aims in your classes through good task design and effective classroom management. Here’s a 10 step implementation plan suggested by my colleague Gavin Dudeney and I in our forthcoming book, Going Mobile:
[download a sample from the book]
Some schools invest in class sets of tablet computers to get around this issue. Some schools use a ‘hybrid’ model, where students can choose to use their own devices or to use a school-owned device if they prefer. Institutions that have tried this out find that students often prefer to use their own devices (such as a feature phone) even if these are less sophisticated than the school devices, because the sense of ownership is so strong with one’s own device. Of course, using a range of devices and operating systems (iOS, Android, Windows, Blackberry…) means ensuring that you use generic or cross-platform apps where necessary, and that task design takes this range of devices into account (see the links at the bottom of this post to activities that work with a range of devices and operating systems at the same time).
This is arguably the area that teachers feel most insecure about. There are a number of things to keep in mind here. There are the purely technical issues such as devices not working or not connecting to the school wifi. And there are also logistical issues involved is having class sets, such as who keeps the school’s class sets of devices charged up, or who chooses and downloads the apps onto the school devices. A few suggestions:
- Your school needs someone tech-savvy enough to deal with things like the wifi routers, or general tech issues.
- Some schools have students themselves acting as digital leaders, even at primary school level. Look at this inspiring example.
- Teachers need to be au fait and confident with the devices themselves. Schools that implement mobile devices well often have ongoing professional development for their teachers. For example, listen to Carla Arena in Brazil talking about how her school started using tablets in classes.
A good question. Probably THE question, in fact. It all depends on what we mean by benefits. And it also depends on what we get students to do with mobile devices and what we understand by mobile learning. For example: there is some solid research (via Paul Nation et al) that shows that the use of vocabulary apps such as flashcards can increase vocabulary retention and acquisition. But this is one very specific use of mobile devices, and most probably takes place outside of the classroom as self-study work. My own experience of using a BYOD (bring your own device) approach with students in the UK showed definite improvements in motivation- and one can argue that this is key to any learning. But given the number of factors involved in learning a language, it’s difficult to ‘prove’ that the use of a specific device improves learning. But benefits in terms of interest, motivation, and the opportunity to improve students’ mobile literacy (such as learning to use QR codes, or understanding geolocation or augmented reality) – yes.
Thanks again to those in the workshop who submitted questions – and if you have any questions yourself about using mobile devices in class, please add them to the Comment box below.
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The holidays are a beautiful time of year when we can gather with our families to celebrate the joy of giving, but with kids' gifts drawing the majority of time during the holidays it's all the more important to help kids understand just how fortunate they are.
Here are some tips from Tykoon.com for parents on how to keep kids grounded and focused on giving rather than getting during this holiday season. Here are some fun activities that support family bonding and mentorship:
1. Charity Learn-A-Thon: Take some time this holiday season to teach your kids about some of the wonderful charities out there, and the important work they do. You can even turn it into a fun family trivia game by making flash cards that list charities' descriptions and getting kids to guess the name of the organization. Then, encourage kids to think about which causes touch their hearts the most. Tykoon.com has over 75 charities listed on the site with descriptions, so it's a good place for kids to start picking up social awareness.
2. Experience the act of giving: Take a family outing during the holidays to volunteer at your kids' favorite charities or at a soup kitchen. This experience can give them a real sense for how important it is to help those in need, and can make lasting impressions and amazing family memories.
3. Pay it forward: It's easy for kids to lose sight of just how lucky we all are during the holidays, especially as family members shower them with gifts. To help kids remember and share some of their joy with those less fortunate, try instituting a pay-it-forward policy for holiday gifts: For every gift your kids receive, encourage them to donate a certain number of minutes of their time to volunteer for or donate a few dollars to the cause of their choice.
4. It takes a village, so get it involved: Inform extended family and friends about your mission and get them involved. Work together to teach and encourage your kids to give.
5. Manage cash gifts responsibly: Helping your kids manage their holiday cash gifts is a fantastic opportunity to start teaching them the basics of money and sets them on the right track to a steady financial future. Help them practice money management skills by setting pre-determined percentages for savings and giving as well as spending.
6. Wish list for others: When crafting holiday wish lists this year, encourage kids to add in items or donations for those in need, not just for themselves. | <urn:uuid:725feaf4-c813-4222-b2b2-fbc882d00909> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.kentucky.com/living/family/article44389794.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00436-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960874 | 502 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Authors: James Meneghello; Kevin Lee
Addresses: School of Engineering and Information Technology, Murdoch University, Perth, Western, Australia ' School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK
Abstract: Maintaining communications across disconnected networks can be a troubling issue, particularly since existing solutions are highly theoretical or have unrealistic hardware requirements. As a result, CANDICE was designed with the aim of allowing extensible accessible facilitation of internet connections in environments not suited to reliable communications - particularly hostile zones. Unfortunately, current web development trends (including a heavier emphasis on user interaction and asynchronous data transfer) ensure that less useful content is accessible without an uninterrupted internet connection. By evaluating the operation of CANDICE in retrieving popular websites, types of content that are well-suited to transmission over disrupted networks can be determined.
Keywords: networking; internet and communications; disconnected networks; Web 2.0; fault tolerance.
International Journal of Humanitarian Technology, 2018 Vol.1 No.1, pp.66 - 82
Received: 04 Jul 2015
Accepted: 14 Sep 2015
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Introduction to Accounting
This course must be taken at a post-secondary institution. To transfer this course as part of the Payroll Compliance Practitioner (PCP) certification program, click here.
The following learning outcomes must be met for it to be a valid transfer credit in the PCP program.
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- Preparing simple financial statements.
- Closing accounts.
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- Trial balance.
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Making Water a Human Right
The time has come for the first ever European Citizens’ Initiative to be heard by the European institutions having surpassed the ambitious one million signature threshold. The inaugural debate on a European Citizens Initiative was held for the “Right2Water” ECI on Monday, February 17th, 2014, at the European Parliament’s premises in Brussels and organised by the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI), in association with the Committee on Petitions, the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection, and the Committee on Development.
“We shall have a reason to celebrate when the European Commission acts to show that the ECI is not something that you can just shrug off” said Jan Willem Goudriaan, Vice-President of the ECI “Right2Water” Citizens’ Committee.
Following the reception of the initiative by the Commission on 20 December 2013 and the validation of 1,680,172 signatures as final number (the minimum of signatures required to submit an ECI was one million, as for all the ongoing ECIs, whereas the number of valid signatures varies between 88% and 95% of the total handed in national authorities in each of the 28 EU countries) collected in more than 7 countries (minimum of countries where a specific threshold must be reached in order to successfully conclude the first phase of the ECI process), the European Parliament hosted the ECI “Right2Water” organisers for this public hearing, which provided them with the opportunity to present their three key goals to all attendees:
- Guaranteed water and sanitation for all in the EU;
- Global access to water and sanitation for all;
- No liberalisation of water services.
Just a few days ago, the PETI committee also unveiled its study on ECI and first lessons of implementation while tackling other issues and voted on two reports such as:
- the successful adoption of the 2013’s EU Citizenship Report;
- the petitions on immigration;
- the petitions on fundamental rights dealing with child custody/protection.
Cora Pfafferott, speaking on behalf of Democracy International, the European Citizen Action Service and the Initiative and Referendum Institute Europe (three pioneering organisations which have joined up for the first ECI support centre, a new initiative aiming to provide independent information and to give first-hand advice on how to organise and implement an ECI), explained that this public hearing could also be considered a “litmus test” for the actual, impacting success of the European Citizens’ Initiative, which is the first agenda-setting instrument for citizens at transnational level in history.
At the same time, is it also important to remember that, in spite of the clear success of “Right2Water”, very few people actually know how exactly, since April 1st, 2012, we as European citizens’ can directly influence European legislation through a “European Citizens’ Initiative” (also known as ECI). This new tool for participatory democracy, introduced as a result of the Treaty of Lisbon with the express purpose of increasing participation and direct democracy at the EU level, allows citizens to collect at least one million signatures (0.2% of the EU population) online or offline to call directly on the European Commission to consider introducing a specific legislative proposals of interest to them in an area of EU competence, thereby changing EU law. If they succeed, as we hope for our very first initiative to reach the public hearing stage, the first ECIs will be truly recognised as a great change in European decision-making process and agenda setting, although there are still so many challenges and barriers that make it difficult, and continue to make it difficult, for organisers to reach the number of one million signatures required to submit the proposal. Problems such as the differing requirements in each Member State (ranging from ID number to full address and father’s name that those who sign must give), the difficulties of successfully, correctly and quickly implementing the online signature collection system, the continuous impediments with backend features of signature collection software (OCS) in working smoothly, and hurdles due to the long time required to mobilise as many supporters in as many countries as possible to get behind the campaign with no specific funds available are still to be overcome. These difficulties were also expressed yesterday with the occasion of the public hearing by some of ECIs pioneers and organisers who launched their own initiatives in 2012 and 2013.
Since April 2012, more than 40 ECIs have been registered with the European Commission: 17 were refused as they dealt with issues outside the competencies of the Commission, 6 were withdrawn by the organisers and 5 failed to reach the required one million signature threshold.
Only seven initiatives are currently gathering statements of support, covering a broad spectrum of issues including the employability of younger generations through investment in education, equal opportunities for education and training, the female entrepreneurship gender equality legislation and the the promotion of pluralism and freedom of the media in Europe, the latter initiated by European Alternatives with many other organisations thorough Europe.
Although three initiatives have reportedly managed to gather enough support so far (apart from “Water is a human right / Right2Water”, we can also mention here the ECIs “Stop Vivisection” and “One of Us” with more than one million signatures each collected in less than 12 months) and the ECI “Water is a human right” success as the first qualifying for a public hearing with 1,680,172 valid signatures (out of total number of 1,884,790 signatures delivered to national authorities between 10 September and 23 September 2013 by the organisers and activists), many challenges and hurdles still lay ahead for all ECI organisers: very few people actually have a clear understanding of the ECI tool, and the procedures for conducting an initiative are still far from being citizen-friendly. Finally, in spite of the success of the public hearing yesterday, we not know until March 20th how a successful ECI will be honoured by the institutions. | <urn:uuid:368dfafe-3e46-410a-aede-9d0ffa6f1797> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://euroalter.com/it/ea-at-the-first-ever-european-citizens-initiative-public-hearing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.953998 | 1,235 | 2.28125 | 2 |
[embedyt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36L34Hf0_U4[/embedyt]Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Teaching Texting and Learning Section, was studying the Facebook guidelines, when he stopped and read To Help Language Skills of Children, a Study Finds, Text Their Parents With Tips. Preschoolers performed better on literacy tests when their parents received text messages with tips on how to help them, a study in San Francisco found. The tips weren’t random fortune cookie standards, like “You will make a friend today,” or even, “Much Money will come your way,” but, instead, filled with practical advice like, “wake up your children and hug them, then tell them you love them.” They also arrive much more frequently than your once or twice a week fortune cookie. These text arrive minute by minute, sometimes several in one minute.
“dress each child head to foot. Be sure to dress warmly for cold weather,”
“cook something hot for breakfast. Eggs, oatmeal, or muffins. No junk food for lunch!”
“NO junk food for lunch! No chips, No candy, nothing fatty or greasy. ONLY fresh fruits like apples, grapes, oranges, or raisins.”
“That’s easy,” said the researcher, “you can’t have literacy if you can’t speak and you can’t speak if you’re left home all day, unclothed, unfed, sick, and ignored.”
“Well it seems pretty obvious that no kid is going to become more literate if we text him the word of the day.” He said
“Actually we can do that with white middle class kids.” He interjected.
“Actually their parents already give them ten words of the day. Those kids don’t have a moment off.” He said.
He pulled out his phone, and said, “there’s one now. It goes several times a day, actually.”
‘Remember, it’s A-S-K-E-D, not AXED!’
“The truth is,” he confessed, “we couldn’t get a grant to increase literacy of impoverished kids. Frankly nobody gives a damn. But our grant is technically to socialize through texting. All the foundations were crazy about that.”
“Ah, they want to get things in the cheap. The idea of getting the underclass socialized through texting is absurd. But you can get middle class kids to learn a new word a day.”
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A new study published by the University of California in the PLOS one journal has revealed vitamin D exposure is linked to an increased risk of developing leukemia. The American Cancer Society estimates that there are 54,270 cases and 24,450 deaths from leukemia in the U.S each year.
The findings are linked to latitude with lower sunlight/ultraviolet B (UVB) exposure and vitamin D deficiency. Vitamin D is produced when sunlight hits the skin and triggers synthesis.
The UC study investigated rates of leukemia in 172 countries, with age related data obtained from GLOBOCAN, an international agency for research on cancer that is part of the World Health Organization. The information was obtained from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project.
“These results suggest that much of the burden of leukemia worldwide is due to the epidemic of vitamin D deficiency we are experiencing in winter in populations distant from the equator,” said Cedric Garland, DrPH, adjunct professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health and member of Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health.
“People who live in areas with low solar ultraviolet B exposure tend to have low levels of vitamin D metabolites in their blood,” Garland said. “These low levels place them at high risk of certain cancers, including leukemia.”
Prior studies have specified that cancers, including breast, colon, pancreas, bladder and multiple myeloma are linked to reduced UVB radiation exposure and lower vitamin D levels.
Leukemia rates were lowest in equatorial countries such as Bolivia, Samoa, Madagascar and Nigeria. They are highest in countries relatively closer to the poles, such as Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Ireland, Canada and the United States.
“These studies do not necessarily provide final evidence,” said Garland, “but they have been helpful in the past in identifying associations that have helped minimize cancer risk.”
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This year, children and teenagers from the Ventura area who have been signed up through The Salvation Army’s Angel Tree program are going to find something special under their tree. For between fifty and sixty of them, they are going to see a gleaming, completely refurbished like-new bike courtesy of the HUB Community Bike Shop in Ventura.
The HUB Bike Shop is a program of VCCool, a local climate change grassroots non-profits with the mission to get as many people riding bikes instead of cars as feasible. This mission, intersected this Christmas season with The Salvation Army in Ventura’s mission to get as many gifts into the hands of as many children as possible.
Taking bikes that had been returned to Target for a variety of reasons such as missing parts, damage, or just a return, the HUB Bike Shop, working in tandem with the Ventura Corps has been donating hundreds of man-hours of donated bike mechanic time to take these bikes from the land of forgotten toys, and through their care and expertise, making them new again and ready them for some deserving boy or girl when the Ventura Corps has its Toy Distributions on December 21 and 22.
“We want to get people out of cars and onto bikes, and if we can start that process early, with kids, then we will be making great progress,” said Toby Smith, a professional bike mechanic and volunteer at VCCool since 2008. “To be able to provide these bikes to kids who would otherwise not be able to afford a bike, is what our organization and The Salvation Army is all about.”
The bike program isn’t just about Christmas time either. Adults who have encountered The Salvation Army in Ventura, especially through its homeless outreach and support program of Homeless 2 Home, are sometimes offered available bikes in order to have some modicum of transportation. These bikes, provided by the HUB Community Bike Shop can make the difference between a person getting to a job interview and beginning a fresh start to their life.
Ventura Corps officer Lt. Fabio Simoes envisions the relationship with HUB Bike Shop growing along with his Ventura Corps as his outreach to the community continues to expand. “Cooperative relationships like the one we enjoy with the HUB Community Bike Shop make it possible for The Salvation Army to serve more people in Ventura,” Lt. Simoes added. “And for that we are truly thankful.” | <urn:uuid:faeea699-85e1-45a6-9ec9-a87f01ab5e2b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sitemap.vccool.org/a-different-kind-of-biker-gang/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.975393 | 501 | 1.617188 | 2 |
FACILITATING CONFLICT RESOLUTION – online workshop
4 July 2023 @ 3:00 pm – 6 July 2023 @ 6:00 pm CEST190,00€ – 250,00€
In this thematic workshop you will get familiar with basic theories and models of conflict analysis and management as well as with the nonviolent communication approach. You will learn how to identify causes and symptoms of conflicts in a group, how to address them in a constructive manner and use them as opportunities for progress. You will also discover how you can support others in developing a peaceful attitude towards themselves in situations of conflict.
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Linnéa Mühlenkamp is passionate about creating educational spaces for young people to become active in society. She is working as a freelance trainer and facilitator in non-formal education projects and programs, mostly in Germany and North Africa. Her topical expertise includes organisational development, community building and civic education. She is the co-founder of TraumWerkStadt e.V., a local association in Ruhr area implementing the program RuhrstadtTRÄUMER that supports young people to find their place in (civil) society. As a facilitator, Linnéa loves creating equal and safe spaces, always working process-oriented and towards positive social and organisational change. | <urn:uuid:340a50a2-0de7-4e73-b87c-163da4b52021> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://horizontal.school/training/facilitating-conflict-resolution-online-workshop/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.940346 | 384 | 1.773438 | 2 |
With the many tasks now staying conducted on a global degree by worldwide organisations associating diverse clubs working in completely different spots and throughout varied countries it could be unsuspecting should be expected the job to be problem-free and work smoothly all the time. With individuals involved via a range of social backgrounds and with inherent language boundaries such global projects will be bound to come across challenges at some stage. In certain tasks ethnical variations may cause continual issues throughout the cycle of the task. Also exactly where teams are employed by the same overseas organisation with the same business culture, the local cultural variations at a level can impact the progress within the project. Global projects could be, and are, successful because they use the most appropriate skills that are offered in the virtually all cost-effective approach. However it is important to be familiar with the areas which might be likely to cause problems above and above the standard concerns been greeted by in all tasks if you are organizing a global job, and/or previously working away at a person. Actively control these types of trouble areas along with your project will be successful.
1 . Different Places & Timezones
Project associates working in precisely the same location can quickly fix tiny issues just before they become big problems because they can easily discuss face-to-face and do not really have to count also very much upon email messages and electric community forums or perhaps forums. They are most at work in the same time and don’t have to program chats nonetheless can easily own an improvised controversy once needed. But rather if your team is usually not co-located then make certain there is usually in least a two hour period every working day when almost all team people can be reached bu mobile phone or email. Depending on the relevant time zones this may mean that one crew need to alter their regular working hard several hours by simply beginning earlier, or perhaps finish down the road, than normal. This kind of straightforward transformation can be quite a critical factor in preventing difficulties with many aspects of a job.
2 ) Ethnic Dissimilarities
Few of us really appreciate a completely different customs and their varied attitudes to work. Meritocratic working surroundings do not are present in every nation so thought patterns to senior management, handling of challenges and quality of job can be completely different. No qualtity of cautious wording of contracts may mitigate entrenched cultural attitudes. Recognise that it is a problem that needs to end up being fixed coming from both equally sides approaching collectively and not by just a single aspect of the ethnic divide changing. We may all master something out of different working practises and attitudes thus try and steer clear of concerns making sure the project almost all parties talk about and file their prospects of every single different.
3 ) Vocabulary Obstacles
In most global tasks the key persons communicating main messages regarding the project will probably be doing and so in the common words. But that language is certainly less likely to be the mother tongue of most those involved and this kind of can lead to misunderstandings. Spoken and developed marketing and sales communications are areas that may cause misconception and an inability to grasp crucial details. Native speakers ought to use clear, simple terminology when conntacting others with regards to whom chinese is a secondary language.
4 . Motivating The Clubs
A global task supervisor at all times wants to issue feedback to teams around the style and quality with their work. Any kind of dis-satisfaction together with the work must be voiced at the beginning so that prospects are obvious and the expected typical can be reached over time. It is crucial that the global task director knows what inspires each group and it is individuals as well as how to offer useful complaint geared towards bettering work somewhat than simply outright critique. Speaking legitimately and freely with team members early on will certainly demonstrate distinctive triggers of inspiration and, since the task progresses do not forget that one of the most methods of motivating people is usually to easily value all of them pertaining to the work they may have done.
5 . Reporting
It is vital not just that function is completed to a passable (or, without a doubt, better than satisfactory) level although also that work progress and status is going to be clearly and accurately reported. Reporting requirements are most likely to range from local to global level but that is important that all accounts actually give you the information expected by the person(s) meant for to whom the report is expected. It is often just through encounter that a task supervisor will develop the understanding and capabilities to take care of the particular strains of global job management. For more info read below www.mascioli.it . | <urn:uuid:649a9c22-b871-44fa-94bd-2bb44fb1b8ac> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.iwrx.nl/five-problems-to-watch-out-for-in-global-projects/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.960574 | 926 | 1.742188 | 2 |
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SAN FRANCISCO - Clorox has apologized for a social media misstep after the household products company sparked outrage by tweeting "where's the bleach" in reference to last week's introduction of new "emoji" cartoons for iPhones that include several faces of people with black and brown skin.
The maker of Clorox bleach and other products says it was attempting a humorous reference to other emoji symbols for objects like toilets and bathtubs that people use bleach to clean.
But the corporate Twitter post hit a nerve when news reports and online discussions were focusing on the new collection of racially diverse faces that have been added to the symbols people can use in emails and text messages.
"I didn't think it was malicious, but impact negates intent. This is someone being thoughtless, and really not focused on what was trending that day," said Jazzmen Knoderer, a 29-year-old program coordinator at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. She joined other Twitter users in posting her dismay about the Clorox tweet after it spread online last week.
Clorox, based in Oakland, California, tried to make amends with another post that said, "Wish we could bleach away our last tweet. Didn't mean to offend."
The company also apologized in a statement Saturday that added, "We did not mean for this to be taken as a specific reference to the diversity emojis -- but we should have been more aware of the news around this. The tweet was meant to be lighthearted -- about having an emoji shaped like a bleach bottle to represent doing laundry or cleaning -- but it fell flat."
The gaffe is only the latest example of companies like AT&T and Kenneth Cole that have sparked controversy or offense on social media. DiGiorno Pizza apologized last fall for a tweet about having pizza, which used a hashtag — #whyistayed — that others had adopted for discussions about the dilemma faced by women in abusive relationships. | <urn:uuid:3679572b-3c9b-4087-9c21-5e1f3011e88b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.newsday.com/business/clorox-comes-clean-on-tweet-that-offended-public-1.10244462 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00182-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96609 | 399 | 1.507813 | 2 |
INTRODUCING THE AMP13 AMP CARD, WHICH GIVES YOU ACCESS TO A WIDE RANGE OF MUSICAL PREFERENCES
iBasso is well known for creating reference-level DAPs that have served as industry standards. The design and aesthetics are a tribute to the engineers at iBasso that bring us products that go through rigorous research and development before being released to consumers. iBasso has released the AMP13 AMP card, which is in its own right a superior AMP card and provides functionality that improves the performance of DX300 and DX320. Three multi-turn potentiometers on the AMP13 board are manually calibrated and matched by engineers with an AP audio analyzer to get the Nutube's best performance. The AMP13 blends a crisp, extended upper frequency with a compelling sound for your musical enjoyment.
ADVANCED CIRCUIT DESIGN FUSED WITH 3CH 6TH GEN KORG NUTUBE DELIVERING AN ENGAGING AND A UNIQUE VACUUM TUBE SOUND
The AMP13 by KORN and Noritake is a work of art in and of itself; the 6th GEN Nutube functions just like a traditional triode vacuum tube and produces rich overtones. By completing voltage amplification through the vacuum Nutube, the AMP13 achieves outstanding linearity and a compelling sound. The Nutube offers significant power savings, compactness, and quality enhancements over a conventional vacuum tube. To achieve an output power, two steps of amplification are necessary; The AMP13 features a dual 3.5mm single-ended output architecture with low noise tube output and maximal output concurrently. This design makes it possible to have a higher output power and a more stable tube signature.
AMP13 DELIVERS A STABLE TUBE SIGNATURE AND HIGHER OUTPUT POWER WITH LOW NOISE TUBE OUTPUT AND MAXIMISED OUTPUT SIMULTANEOUSLY
The AMP13 uses a voltage amplifier called a Nutube 6P1 to produce low noise tube output and maximise output. Digital volume control and current amplification come next. The low noise tube output is the output after the first amplification stage. Although the output power is not high using this design, the Nutube has a more stable tube sound signature; and excellent noise control (2.5Vrms). The AMP13 output passes through a first-stage Nutube amplifier, followed by a secondary amplification. With this, the AMP13 has a higher voltage and current output capability, resulting in better driving capability for headphones and IEMs (4.1Vrms). Because of this design, there is still headroom to power up your headphones and IEMs.
AMP13 PROVIDES EXCEPTIONAL PERFORMANCE WITH ITS THREE-CHANNEL AMPLIFIER TOPOLOGY
The single-ended output of ordinary players generally only has left and right dual-channel amplification. On the AMP13, iBasso uses three-channel amplification with the Nutube 6P1, which has the same characteristics with rich overtones as conventional triode vacuum tubes. The noise floor is minimal, and dynamics are enhanced when the output ground signal is amplified by the OPA1622, bringing Nutube's performance levels to their peak. The AMP section of the DX320/DX300 has its battery power, which is perfect for the AMP13 because it utilises two pieces of high-performance DC-DC chips from Linear Technology, with a total of 4 DC-DC power supplies. One DC-DC is 1.8V for the cathode through a low-noise LDO, one is 21V for the anode of Nutube, one is +8V, and one is -8V, which constitutes the 16V voltage swing that feeds the OPAMPS.
HIGH-PERFORMANCE DC-DC CHIPS TAKES THE PERFORMANCE OF YOUR DAPs TO ALL-NEW LEVELS
The AMP section of the DX320 and DX300 have their battery power, which is the ideal configuration for the AMP13. The AMP13 is an AMP card with strict power supply requirements, which is perfect when you pair it with your DX320 and DX300 DAPs. The AMP 13 utilises two pieces of high-performance DC-DC chips from linear technology, with a total of 4 DC-DC power supplies. One DC-DC is 1.8V for the cathode through a low-noise LDO, and the other is 21V for the anode of Nutube. One is +8V, and the other is -8V, which constitutes the 16V voltage swing that feeds the OPAMPS. The AMP13 inherited from the AMP9 adopts the Toshiba 2SK209 field effect transistor as the Nutube signal output buffer. The signal grounding and shield grounding are separated to prevent noise interference and deliver distortion-free audio. The topology also includes a dedicated JRC ultra-low noise volume control which reduces the noise floor when listening at low volumes or in quieter recordings that enhances transparency.
PS: AMP13 is compatible with the DX320 and DX300. You need to update the firmware to the latest version to have optimised support of the AMP13.
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Impacts of the Global Financial Crisis on Small and Medium Enterprises in the People's Republic of China
This paper conducts an in-depth analysis of the impacts of the global financial crisis on the People's Republic of China's (PRC's) small and medium enterprises (SMEs). It also provides relevant policy suggestions at the end. First, this paper reviews the impacts of the 1997 Asian financial crisis on the PRC's SMEs, evaluating the policy measures for coping with the crisis at that time and summarizing the relevant experiences. Second, it analyzes the impacts of the current global financial crisis on the PRC's SMEs, focusing the discussion on the causes of and resulting problems from SMEs' shrinking export markets via reduced export orders, rising operating costs, decreased efficiency, increased shutdowns, sharply rising unemployment, weakened investment confidence, broken lines of funding, and reduced resources. Third, the paper makes a preliminary analysis of the countermeasures taken by the government of the PRC, focusing on its support policies for SMEs and the problems exhibited in the implementation of those policies. Finally, the author makes policy suggestions for boosting the development of SMEs and puts forward relevant measures in the context of an SME credit guarantee, the expansion of financing institutions and channels, tax reductions, the improvement of service systems, and strengthening SMEs' self-construction mechanisms.
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It’s Time To Schedule Your Checkup
With COVID vaccines rolling out, we may soon be able to start taking our masks off revealing our smiles again! Many of us may have neglected our teeth during this time, but it is nothing to be ashamed of. Don’t let yourself be camera shy behind a less than ideal smile with these dental hygiene tips.
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- Your dental hygienist has the skills and special tools to help clean tough to remove stains that both dull and discolor your teeth.
- Your dentists will be able to identify any early signs of tooth decay or gum disease that will prevent any possibility of oral surgery or tooth removal.
- During professional cleanings it is easy for your dentist to detect any problems such as broken dental fillings or fractures.
- Additional treatments can be combined with your routine care such as a fluoride treatment or teeth whitening which can help prevent cavities and whiten your smile.
- If your dentist finds any serious issues or complications, you can schedule an appointment to address the issue immediately before it has the chance to progress or worsen.
- According to the CDC 47.2% of adults aged 30 years and older have some form of periodontal disease. Meeting with your dentist can help to detect early signs and take preventative measures.
- Since it is early in the new year, many times your insurance benefits have reset or your FSA is replenished. If you have been waiting on dental treatment, now is the best time to get started.
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CARROLLTON, Ga. — In a classroom of a technical college an hour from Atlanta, Kimberly Hinely picks up a welding torch and lowers her face shield. Sparks fly around her as she melts the metal, joining iron to iron.
Three months into an evening welding program where she’s the only woman, the 44-year-old former tattoo artist said she feels like “one of the guys.”
“I don’t like working with women — their drama,” she said. “I’ve always gotten along with guys well. I’m a real smartass.”
When she finishes the certificate program at West Georgia Technical College next year, Hinely will be trained in a field the Bureau of Labor Statistics says pays $40,000 a year, money that will help support her four kids, aged 7 to 25.
During the last academic year, U.S. colleges and trade schools awarded nearly a million certificates, almost 60 percent of them of them to women. Yet just 6 percent of those in welding — the most popular program among men — went to women.
So where are all the female students? They’re in the salon next door, learning about cosmetology, and in the nursing classroom nearby, administering “rag baths” to mannequins. And when they graduate, they’ll earn barely two-thirds of what Hinely stands to make, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
At a time when there is an acute shortage of welders and other tradespeople, hardly any women are being trained for these and other well-paying jobs. This more than 40 years after Congress banned sex discrimination in American education.
Experts offer several reasons for this split, including gender stereotypes and the threat of workplace harassment in male-dominated jobs.
But employers and advocates agree it’s hurting both women and the economy, leaving families stuck in poverty and businesses scrambling for workers in fields, such as IT and advanced manufacturing, where they’re growing troublingly scarce.
So-called middle-skill jobs, such as welding, automotive repair, cosmetology and medical assisting, account for 53 percent of United States’ labor market, but only 43 percent of workers are trained to the middle-skill level, according to 2015 data from the National Skills Coalition, the most recent available. Middle-skill jobs require more than a high school diploma but less than a bachelor’s degree.
Getting more women into nontraditional certificate programs could help lift more families into the middle class and ease a labor shortage that is expected to only grow worse as more baby boomers retire. Yet not much is being done to change the enrollment pattern.
“We’re missing something obvious that would help employers and help the economy,” said Barbara Gault, executive director of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research.
Women make up 55 percent of middle-skill workers, but 83 percent of those in jobs that pay less than $30,000 a year, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. And the median wage for women with a certificate is $27,864, compared to $44,191 for men, the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce reports.
Much of that gap is due to occupational segregation —women clustering in low-paying careers including cosmetology and child care and men in more lucrative professions such as welding and automotive repair.
There’s been some progress. Before the passage of the Title IX gender equity law, in 1972, there were almost no women or girls in vocational programs leading to careers in fields dominated by men.
Today, women and girls make up about a third of students in so-called nontraditional vocational programs — those in which three-quarters or more of the workforce is male.
But many certificate programs are still dominated by one gender to a surprising extent. Ninety-four percent of welding certificates went to men in the last academic year, and 95 percent of cosmetology certificates went to women, an analysis of data provided by the U.S. Department of Education shows.
In some high-growth, high-paying programs, such as information technology and advanced manufacturing, the share of women and girls is smaller than it was a decade ago, according to the National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity.
Title IX made it illegal for schools to steer students into particular fields based on their gender, and required institutions to ensure that disproportionate enrollment was not the result of discrimination.
In the 40 years since it passed, the nation has spent millions encouraging girls and women to pursue degrees in science, technology, engineering and math. Fewer resources have gone into persuading them to trade their blow dryers for welding torches, however.
In the 1980s, and 1990s, Congress required states to set aside a share of their federal job-training funds to eliminate sex bias in career and technical education. But policymakers eliminated most of those rules in 1998, replacing them with a requirement that states increase participation and completion rates for both men and women in programs where they’re underrepresented.
Congress added teeth to that law in 2006, threatening states with the loss of federal funds if they failed to meet specific targets. So far, though, no states have been stripped of their funds despite the fact that only six states have consistently met their targets since the law was enacted.
In addition to recruitment methods that favor one sex, career counseling that channels students into stereotypical fields and fear of sexual harassment, the biggest contributor to the gender divide in certificate programs may be socialization, said Mary Alice McCarthy, director of the Center on Education and Skills at the New America Foundation.
Even today, “men are much more sensitive to salary signals then women,” McCarthy said. “It goes deep into our understanding of our roles as caregivers or providers.”
Over in the cosmetology classroom, Kaylie Hudson, 31, was giving a bob to a brown-haired mannequin with a mullet while other students practiced their skills by giving discounted haircuts to locals. She said she hadn’t given much thought to how much she might earn as a hairdresser. Her dream is to open a salon that would give cut-rate cuts to low-income women “so they feel better going into job interviews.”
In fact, with her certificate in cosmetology, she’s likely to earn less than the average high school grad, according to the Georgetown center. That begs the question of why women would pay for certificate programs — even taking on debt to do it — to end up with little to no earnings boost.
For Lorelei Shipp, 44, who is cutting her friend’s hair in the salon next door, it’s about freedom and flexibility. As a hairstylist, she expects to make half what she earned as a customer service manager in the corporate world, “but the work-life balance will more than make up for it.”
DeeDee Patterson, an instructor in the cosmetology program, can count on one hand the number of men she’s taught in the past eight years. She said male hairdressers are in high demand because “women want to look good for men, and men know what looks good on women” — and often out-earn female colleagues. But just as women are afraid they’ll be perceived negatively by co-workers in male-dominated fields, men considering cosmetology “are afraid they’ll be stereotyped as too feminine.”
The median salary for male cosmetologists is $39,100, according to the Georgetown center; for women, it’s $24,700.
Students who break with gender norms are often following family members into a trade. Brandon Harris, 19, the only man in the nurses’ aide course, has a mother and aunt who are nurses. Channa Cassell, 18, one of three women in the morning welding course, has welding in her blood: her father, uncle and grandfather are all welders. Even so, her family was “a little shocked” when she announced that she would follow in their footsteps.
Parents often discourage their daughters from going into welding, seeing it as “dark, dirty, and dangerous,” said Monica Pfarr, executive director of the American Welding Society Foundation. In an effort to change that image, the foundation has started sending a tractor-trailer truck to state fairs with an exhibit inside promoting the highly technical, well-paying jobs available to welders. The trailer gets 28,000 visitors a year, she says.
In west Georgia, the community college and local employers recently tried another tack, holding an open house for aspiring tradeswomen. Carroll County, where the college is located, will need to produce 4,000 more graduates of all kinds by 2020 to meet employer demand, and it won’t get to that goal without women, said Donna Armstrong-Lackey, senior vice president of the Carroll County Chamber of Commerce.
“We’re trying to take away the element of fear that they’re not qualified, or don’t have the strength,” to do traditionally male jobs, Armstrong-Lackey said, at the open house.
But it can be a tough sell. When Armstrong-Lackey asked one petite young woman if she was considered a career in welding, the woman quickly responded, “I’m too little.”
Armstrong-Lackey told the woman that her own daughter “is your same size and she’s getting a welding certificate.” She urged: “Don’t discount it.”
Across the hall, Nikki Bond, 32, was chatting with West Georgia Technical alumna Andrea Laminack, 39, about what it’s like to be a woman welder. Bond, a mother of three, had already registered for the certificate program in welding, but was nervous and seeking reassurance.
Laminack, who is pregnant and has a 14-year-old daughter, told her there will be challenges, but to focus on her love of the work.
She said she was picked on by male colleagues when she started her job. They’d leave notes on her welds with insults such as “ugly,” and “due in 2020,” a reference to what they considered her slow pace.
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Green Innovators Receive Young Environmental Leader Award Tue, Oct 25, 2011
Four students from Ecuador, Indonesia, Kenya and the Philippines have received the 2011 Young Environmental Leader Award for their innovative sustainable development projects. Nairobi / Leverkusen (Germany), 24 October 2011
- Four students from Ecuador, Indonesia, Kenya and the Philippines have received the 2011 Young Environmental Leader Award for their innovative sustainable development projects.
The award ceremony was held on the final day of the Young Environmental Envoy Programme, co-organised by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Bayer. The week-long programme brought together 47 young environmental leaders from 18 developing countries for an environmental study tour in Germany, which focused on waste management, forests, renewable energy and other issues.
Each Young Environmental Envoy is involved in a sustainable development project in his or her home country. The projects put forward by the four winners of the Young Environmental Leader Award were judged to have the most potential impact.
Co-winner Sara Rudianto from Indonesia has developed a small bioreactor that can be used for cooking in households. The project puts forward an alternative source of fuel to the firewood that is traditionally used in Kidang Pananjung village in West Java province. With the bioreactor, farm and household waste can be processed to make renewable energy. Sarah also holds workshops on biogas in the local community.
María Rose Reyes Acosta from Ecuador received the award for her project to tackle the contamination of water by the toxic element mercury - usually resulting from gold mining. Maria is developing a process to treat contaminated water using the symbiosis of an aquatic fern with algae known as Anabaena Azolla.
Michael Muli from Kenya is implementing a green energy project that produces clean fuel briquettes made from dried foliage and waste paper. The aim is to lower carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, reduce the risks to respiratory health from traditional cooking fuels such as charcoal and to create jobs and income for local residents through the production and sale of the cleaner fuel briquettes.
Mary Jade Gabanes from the Philippines has established an environmental education programmes for children with special needs. Mary Jade organises art therapy sessions and photo exhibitions and has also produced a musical variety show entitled "I Am Special", to provide an insight into environmental issues fopr special needs children.
"I was surprised but very pleased to win the award, given the high standard of the other projects put forward by my fellow Young Environmental Envoys", said co-winner Michael Muli from Kenya.
"The visit to Germany showed me that although we may come from very different backgrounds, the challenges faced by many developing countries are similar, such as waste management or meeting energy needs. I came away from the programme realizing that, when it comes to sustainable development, the time for action is now," he added.
The four winners of the Young Environmental Leader Award receive project support worth a total of EUR 3,000 and further support in their home countries to make their projects environmentally and economically sustainable.
An independent panel of judges from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), an NGO and Bayer selected the four winners.
Launched in 1998, the UNEP-Bayer Young Environmental Envoy Programme aims to improve knowledge of environmental issues among young people and support them in developing and implementing projects on sustainable development, conservation and other aspects of the environment in their own communities.
Since its inception, some 11,200 young people have applied for a place on the programme and around 500 envoys have been selected to travel to Germany. Some 800 applications were received from young people around the work to take part in the 2011 Young Environmental Envoys Programme.
The Young Environmental Envoy Programme now covers 18 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Peru, the Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Thailand, Venezuela and Vietnam.
Through an alumni network on Facebook and UNEP's TUNZA youth programme, envoys past and present can stay connected and exchange ideas on how to develop their individual projects.
For more information, please contact:
Bryan Coll, UNEP Newsdesk on Tel. +254 207623088 or E-mail: [email protected]
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U.S. History/Spanish-American War
I had written previously regarding an interview my son is required to do with an expert on the Spanish-American War for a research paper he is doing on this subject. Here are the questions he would like you to answer:
1. When did the Spanish-American War begin?
2. How many American soldiers died in the Spanish-American War?
3. Why did the Spanish-American War start?
4. How many Spanish soldiers died in the Spanish-American War?
5. Who won the Spanish-American War?
6. How long did the Spanish-American War last?
7. Who do you feel had the better military in the Spanish-American War?
8. Why do you feel their military was better?
9. Who was in command of the American soldiers in the Spanish-American War?
10. Who was in command of the Spanish soldiers in the Spanish-American War?
Thank you for assisting my son with his school assignment.
1. The Spanish American War began in 1898. The event that sparked the outbreak of war was the sinking of the USS Maine, a naval vessel docked in Havana harbor on Feb. 15.
The US sent an ultimatum to Spain which, among other things, demanded Spain pull out of Cuba and threatened US military action if Spain refused. On April 21, Spain severed diplomatic relations with the US and the US began a blockade of Cuba (an act of war). On April 23, Spain declared war on the US. On April 25, the US declared that a state of war had existed between the two countries since April 21.
2. The US military lost on 332 men killed in battle. But as with most wars of that era, many more soldiers and sailors were lost due to disease caused by poor conditions of combat and inability to combat tropical diseases. As a result, US military deaths from disease totaled 2957, for a total death rate of 3289. If you also count the 260 men who died in the sinking of the USS Maine (which happened before the declaration of war) the total would be 3549.
3. As I mentioned above, the flash point for the war was when a USS ship was sunk in the Havana Harbor. The US blamed Spain for the sinking through sabotage, although many suspect the sinking may have been caused by something else. No definitive reason has ever been proven. But the sinking of the Maine aside, the trouble had been brewing for some time. US business interests in Cuba were unhappy with Spanish rule there. Many in the US wanted to bring Cuba under US control. There had been a rebellion or revolution against the Spanish government for many years. Many Americans supported that rebellion.
4. There are not good records of Spanish Casualties from the war, but estimates are that between 55,000 and 60,000 men died. As with the US death,s about 90% died from malaria, dysentery and other diseases. About 10% (550 - 600) died during the battles or later as a result of battle injuries.
5. By pretty much any measure, the US won the war. Spain had control over many colonies at this time, but did not have a military powerful enough to retain control. The US took control of Cuba as a result of the war and allowed it to become an independent country. The US also took possession of Puerto Rico and Guam, which remain US protectorates to this day, and also the Philippines, which remained under US control until it decided to become independent after WWII.
6. Hostilities ended on Aug. 12, 1898 which was a temporary measure. A formal treaty was signed on December 10, 1898 and ratified by the Senate on Feb. 6, 1899. But the actual period of active fighting lasted less than four months.
7. The US military was much better.
8. The US navy had much more modern ships and better trained officers and men. The Spanish military had poor discipline and training. Although it was larger, its ships were not as good and its men were not as well trained or motivated.
9. There were multiple military commanders in different areas. Gen. Nelson Miles was the Commanding General of the US Army at the time of the War. Gen. William Shafter commanded US army forces in Cuba. Admiral William Sampson was in command of US Naval forces it the waters around Cuba. Admiral Thomas Dewey was in charge of the Pacific fleet which took the Philippines.
10. On the Spanish side, Adm. Patricio Montojo was defeated by Dewey in the Philippines. Adm. Pascual Cervera y Topete commanded the Caribbean squadron. Gen. Manuel Macías y Casado commanded forces at Puerto Rico for Spain. Ramón Blanco y Erenas commanded Spanish forces in Cuba.
If you care to learn more about some of the key people and what they did during the War, you may find this site helpful:
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Public Participation at Board Meetings
How you feel about board meetings probably depends on where you’re from. There are many districts in the State for which every single meeting is a stressful event at which legions of supposedly concerned citizens seem to attack even the most benign decision. Believe it or not, there are also plenty of districts where the board and administration quietly go about the business of education and it’s rare for anyone from the public to even show up, unless it’s award night for the kids. Sometimes the administrators and members of these boards actually wish the public were more involved and taking an active part in the meetings. To this we say, be careful what you wish for. Even the quietest communities can suddenly get riled up over a hot button issue (anything that impacts a successful sports program is usually a good candidate). This article will provide guidance and discuss strategies to help keep the stress of dealing with public participation to a manageable level.
The law requires that a portion of each board meeting be set aside for public participation. Actually, the law says public comment and this is an important distinction. During the public participation portion of the meeting, a member of the public has the right to comment on any school district issue that he or she feels may be of concern to the residents of the district. However, there is no requirement that anyone from the board or administration has to respond. Meetings can get heated when someone from the board and a member of the public engage in a debate that degenerates into a shouting match. Sometimes you may want to advise the board that the best strategy is to simply not engage directly with the members of the public. Let them make their comments, thank them for their input, and move on. If the board feels compelled to provide immediate answers, it may helpful to wait until each member of the pubic has had their say and then respond to all of them after the comment period is over. If there is going to be a response, it’s advisable to designate one or two people to do so. For instance, it might make sense for the superintendent to respond on most operational issues and for the board president to make any comments on behalf of the board.
The law also specifically says that it is up to the board to determine the length of the public comment portion of the meeting. This is an important tool that some boards don’t take advantage of. Encourage your board to set a reasonable period of time for comment at each meeting. This can vary from district to district. In some places, twenty minutes may be sufficient, in others it may need to be forty minutes or even an hour. Whatever it is, stick to it. Of course, on some occasions there will be issues that are so big that the board should allow for extra comment. That’s OK, but do it formally. Suggest that the board president announce upfront that, because of the great interest and number of speakers, the comment period will be extended to an hour or an hour and a half, then try to keep to that schedule.
An important corollary to setting limits on the length of the public comment period is limiting the time permitted for each speaker. We’ve seen boards that allot anywhere from two to five minutes per speaker. This is useful to keep the meeting moving, to force the speakers to focus, and to prevent one or two individuals from monopolizing the discussion.
Whatever rules are put in place, it’s best to set them forth in policy and apply them regularly and consistently. A sure way to invite trouble is to allow some speakers to go over their allotted time while holding others strictly to the limit. More importantly, if the rules are applied consistently, the public will eventually adapt to them and even begin to police themselves. It is also helpful to have the board president remind the public what the rules are at the beginning of each public comment period.
One way in which the superintendent can really help the board deal with public comment is by anticipating hot button issues in advance and devising strategies to address them. Don’t just react at the meeting, try to steal the public’s thunder. Some issues can be defused by a well crafted statement at the beginning of the meeting which explains the board’s position or clears up a misunderstanding. If there are going to be issues with the size of the room or crowd control, or if special rules may be needed because of the number of speakers expected, try to address them with the board president as far in advance of the meeting as possible.
Finally, a few words about the content of public comment. This is an area in which your board really can get itself in trouble. As public bodies, boards of education are subject to the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. This means that citizens have wide latitude when it comes to speaking in public. Reasonable restrictions on the time and manner of speech are permitted, but any attempt by a board to censure someone’s speech based on the content of what they are saying is suspect. In this regard, boards have been found liable when they permitted positive comments about the district or staff but refused to allow negative ones. A board cannot restrict someone’s speech just because they don’t like what they’re saying. Of course, some restrictions are permitted. There is no protection for speech that is obscene, abusive, unreasonably loud, racially charged, or that threatens the safety of the listeners, and speech that is truly repetitive or totally unrelated to education or the school district may be restricted as well.
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This blog was prepared and written by Birds Eye and features as a guest blog on the Helping Hands Home Care website.
For individuals with swallowing difficulties, mealtimes can become less enjoyable and over time, this can have a negative impact on quality of life. The medical term for difficulty swallowing is dysphagia (‘dys’ being the Latin root for ‘hard, difficult or bad’, and ‘phagia’ meaning ‘to eat’).
There are a whole range of symptoms which can make eating and drinking challenging for individuals with dysphagia.
Symptoms of dysphagia include:
- Coughing or choking when eating or drinking
- Bringing food back up, sometimes through the nose
- A sensation that food is stuck in the throat or chest
- Persistent drooling of saliva
- Being unable to chew food properly
- A ‘gurgly’ wet sounding voice when eating or drinking
As a result of the challenges these symptoms create at mealtimes, it is unsurprising that weight loss is another symptom, as well as recurring chest infections from food particles accidentally being inhaled. It’s important to note that some people can have dysphagia without displaying symptoms.
There are many reasons as to why someone may develop difficulties with swallowing food.
Causes of dysphagia include:
- Conditions which affect the nervous system. For example: stroke, head injury, multiple sclerosis or dementia.
- Cancer (particularly cancers which affect the mouth and throat)
- Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD). This occurs when acid which normally sits in the stomach to aid digestion leaks back up into the oesophagus.
24% of older people also develop swallowing problems as a natural consequence of the ageing process.1
Treatment of dysphagia
Treatment of dysphagia is dependent on the cause and type of dysphagia the individual is experiencing. Many individuals with dysphagia are referred to a Speech and Language Therapist, who can undertake an assessment and make recommendations to increase the person’s comfort.
Some dietary recommendations for managing dysphagia include:
- Chewing food more thoroughly
- Avoiding tough and stringy foods
- Avoiding alcohol during mealtimes
Dysphagia is a serious medical condition and advice from a healthcare professional should always be sought on treating it appropriately.
Adopting a soft diet
A common intervention in the treatment of dysphagia is introducing a soft diet. Softer meals are easier to swallow and reduce the risk of choking, as well as helping to minimise a range of other dysphagia symptoms. It is crucial that a soft diet is provided without any compromise on nutritional content. Meals provided at the correct consistency, which are also nutritious, as well as tasty, can dramatically improve quality of life and make mealtimes an enjoyable experience once again. It is recommended that anyone having difficulties with swallowing should seek advice from a healthcare professional who will be able to conduct an individualised assessment.
What makes a diet balanced and healthy?
A healthy diet is one which provides the right amount of nutrients required by the body, such as fats, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. Adopting a healthy diet helps to promote daily and long-term health and vitality, as well as enabling individuals to maintain a healthy weight. Weight maintenance is achieved when energy intake (from our food and drink) matches energy expenditure (such as physical activity).
Healthy diets incorporate the right balance of macronutrients and micronutrients. Examples of macronutrients include carbohydrates, fat and protein. Examples of micronutrients include vitamins and minerals. It is also important to avoid excess salt in the diet, as this raises blood pressure and can increase the risk of developing cardiovascular disease.
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- Full Name:
- George Herman Ruth Jr 3
- Also known as:
- Babe, Bambino, Sultan Of Swat 3
- Full Name:
- George Ruth 1
- Also known as:
- Babe Ruth 2
- 06 Feb 1895 1
- Male 2
- 16 Aug 1948 2
- Aug 1948 1
- Cause: Cancer 2
- Physical Description:
- Height: 6' 2" 3
- Weight/Build: 215 / Heavy 3
- Eye Color: Brown 3
- Hair Color: Dark Brown 3
1. His real name was George Herman Ruth, as was his father’s. He is the only player with that last name in major league history.
2. His birth date is now widely accepted as Feb. 6, 1895, but Ruth lived his entire life convinced that he was born on Feb. 7, 1894. The birth certificate with that date was for an unnamed male child in the Ruth family. Ruth’s parents lost six children in infancy, including two pairs of twins, with only George and his sister Mary Margaret, known as Mamie, surviving.
3. Ruth lived for a time on the site of what is now Oriole Park at Camden Yards, above one of his father’s string of saloons.
4. Before he turned eight, Ruth had already chewed tobacco and drank whiskey for the first time. He was sent to live at St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys, a Catholic reform school, and listed as incorrigible.
5. Each boy was supposed to learn a trade for a possible career. Ruth’s was to be a shirt maker.
6. Ruth was still living at St. Mary’s when he signed with the Baltimore Orioles of the International League in Feb. 1914. He would be in the major leagues less than five months later.
Early Years in Baseball
7. He hit his first professional home run on March 7, 1914, in Fayetteville, N.C., during an intrasquad game in which he played shortstop.
8. It was while with the Orioles, a veteran team populated by numerous former major leaguers, that Ruth was given his famous nickname. No one knows who first called him Babe.
9. The Orioles sold Ruth to the Boston Red Sox on July 9, 1914 along with two other players as part of a fire sale by team owner Jack Dunn, who found himself in financial straits when the presence of a Baltimore franchise in the new Federal League obliterated the Orioles’ attendance.
10. Ruth made his major league debut at Fenway Park on July 11, 1914 as a starting pitcher. He pitched seven innings for the win but was 0-for-2 for at the plate, striking out against Cleveland lefty Willie Mitchell in his first major league at-bat.
11. Ruth’s first official professional home run came on Sept. 5, 1914 for the Providence Grays of the International League, where he had been sent by the Red Sox for more seasoning the month before.
12. Ruth’s first major league hit was a double off the Yankees’ Leonard Cole at Fenway Park on Oct. 2, 1914 in a game he started and won.
13. On Oct. 17, 1914, less than two weeks after his rookie season ended, Ruth married Helen Woodford, a 16-year-old coffee shop waitress he had met on his first day in Boston.
14. Ruth was a sidearming power pitcher who made 127 appearances on the mound before appearing at any other position in the field.
15. In Ken Burns’ documentary Baseball, noted journalist and author Dan Okrent said Ruth was “the best lefthanded pitcher of the 1910s, without question, in the American League.” Indeed, among AL lefties with at least 1,000 IP in the decade, Ruth had the lowest ERA (2.19) and highest winning percentage (.659) while ranking fourth in wins, tied for fourth in shutouts and ninth in strikeouts.
16. In 1916, he went 23-12 and led the American League with nine shutouts and a 1.75 ERA in 323 2/3 innings.
17. In 1917, he went 24-13 with a 2.01 ERA in 326 1/3 innings and led the AL with 35 complete games.
18. In six seasons with Ruth, the Red Sox won three World Series titles. In 107 seasons without him they have won four.
19. Ruth’s first World Series appearance came in 1915. He grounded out to first base as a pinch-hitter and did not pitch in Boston’s five-game win over the Phillies.
20. In Game 2 of the 1916 World Series, Ruth pitched 14-inning complete game to beat the Dodgers 2-1. It is still the most innings ever thrown by one pitcher in a single postseason game.
21. Ruth posted a 0.87 ERA in three World Series starts and his record of 29 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings in the Fall Classic stood from 1918 until Whitey Ford broke it in 1961.
22. On June 23, 1917 at Fenway Park, Ruth was ejected by home plate umpire Brick Owens for arguing balls and strikes after walking the first batter of a game against the Senators. Ernie Shore replaced him. The baserunner, Senators second baseman Ray Morgan, was caught stealing, and Shore then retired all 26 men he faced in a 4-0 Red Sox win. Officially, Ruth is credited for participating in a combined no-hitter, but Shore is not credited with pitching a perfect game.
23. Ruth’s first major league home run came against the Yankees at the Polo Grounds on May 6, 1915. Exactly three years later, in the same ballpark, Ruth hit a home run in his first start at a position (1B) other than pitcher.
24. Soon after that first appearance as a position player, Ruth began to refuse to pitch, leading to tension with Red Sox manager Ed Barrow. In early July, Ruth attempted to leave the team and join a shipyard team in Chester, Pa., to avoid a fine from Barrow. Ruth quickly caved to the threat of legal action by Red Sox owner Harry Frazee and rejoined the Red Sox without playing for the shipyard team.
25. Ruth led the American League in home runs for the first time in 1918, tying the A’s Tillie Walker with 11 in the war-shortened season. He also led the league in strikeouts (58), slugging (.555) and OPS (.966).
26. Ruth is the only player since the turn of the 20th century to lead his league in Triple Crown categories as both a hitter and a pitcher and he did it in the span of three years.
27. Ruth held out in spring training in 1919, ultimately landing a three-year contract worth $10,000. He threatened a hold out again after the 1919 season, saying he was worth twice the salary he had agreed to before that season. Frazee, still in debt from his purchase of the Red Sox three years earlier, responded by selling Ruth to the Yankees on Jan. 3, 1920, for $100,000 and a $300,000 loan secured by a mortgage on Fenway Park.
28. Apocrypha, Part I: Contrary to popular belief, Frazee’s successful production of the play No, No Nanette – which featured the song “Tea For Two” – had nothing to do with Ruth or the money the Yankees sent to the Red Sox to acquire him. Frazee sold the Red Sox two years before No, No Nanette hit Broadway in 1925 and always kept his theater and baseball finances separate.
The Yankees Years: 1920s
29. While the phrase “The Curse of the Bambino” did not come into being for more than half a century, it didn’t take long to notice a dramatic change in fortunes between Ruth’s old and new teams. Between 1920 and 1964, the Yankees won 29 American League pennants and 20 World Series. The Red Sox won one pennant and no World Series titles.
30. Ruth was one of 17 players Frazee traded or sold to the Yankees between December 1918 and July 1923, when he finally sold the team. On New York’s first World Series title team of 1923, half the regular players and six of the seven pitchers to throw more than a dozen innings were acquired from Frazee.
31. During his first spring training with the Yankees in 1920, Ruth went into the stands after a heckler who subsequently pulled a knife on him, but Ernie Shore, who preceded Ruth to the Yankees, intervened and any actual violence was avoided.
32. The famous line “I don’t room with Ruth, I room with his suitcase,” a reference to Ruth’s late-night proclivities, has been attributed to two former Yankees: outfielder Ping Bodie, his first roommate with New York, and second baseman Jimmie Reese, who roomed with Ruth a decade later.
33. Ruth broke the single-season home run record in three consecutive seasons, with 29 in 1919, 54 in 1920 and 59 in 1921. Prior to Ruth, the record was 27 and had been set in 1884 by the Chicago White Stockings’ Ned Williamson, who played in a home ballpark in which the rightfield wall was just 196 feet from home plate.
34. Only five teams hit more home runs than Ruth did by himself in 1919 (not counting Ruth’s own Red Sox), and only two teams had more than his total in 1920 (this time including Ruth’s Yankees, who hit 61 in addition to his 54). Ruth also hit more home runs than half of the teams in baseball in 1921.
35. Ruth is often credited with saving baseball in the wake of the Black Sox scandal, though his influence is often overstated. What is certain is that in 1920, Ruth’s first year with the Yankees, they became the first team ever to top 1,000,000 in attendance, and outdrew the majors’ least-attended team, the Boston Braves, by more than 1.1 million fans.
36. Ruth moved into first place on the career home run list in 1921 with No. 139, breaking the record of Hall of Fame first baseman Roger Connor that had stood since 1895. Ruth ultimately expanded that record to 714 home runs, more than five times Connor’s career total. It was broken by Hank Aaron in 1974.
37. Ruth hit 575 home runs after breaking Connor’s record. Only nine players have hit that many in their entire careers since, and four of those nine have been implicated as steroid users.
38. Ruth’s record-setting home run came off Tigers reliever Bert Cole in Detroit on July 18, 1921. Hall of Fame historian Bill Jenkinson once estimated it as the longest home run ever hit. Ruth hit the ball clear out of Navin Field (Tiger Stadium) to center field, a shot Jenkinson estimates would have traveled 575 feet unencumbered. Jenkinson credits Ruth with the three longest home runs ever hit as well as two more tied for fourth place.
39. In 1921, Ruth had what may have been his finest season. He hit .378/.512/.846 with 59 home runs, 171 RBIs and 177 runs scored. The home run and RBI totals were single-season records.
40. Apocrypha, Part II: The Baby Ruth candy bar was introduced in 1921, but the Curtiss Candy Company officially claimed that it was named after Ruth Cleveland, the late daughter of former president Grover Cleveland. There are plenty of reasons to believe that story was merely a legal ploy to allow Curtiss to name the confection after Babe Ruth without requiring his permission. Most notably, Ruth Cleveland died of diphtheria in 1904 at the age of 12, 17 years before the candy bar was introduced at the height of the slugger’s popularity.
41. After signing Ruth for a vaudeville tour after the 1921 World Series, Edward F. Albee II, adoptive grandfather of the famous playwright, wrote Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, author ofPygmalion (the source material for My Fair Lady) and mentioned Ruth. Shaw’s famous response was, “Sorry, never heard of her. Whose baby is Ruth?”
42. In 1921, Ruth and Helen adopted a daughter, Dorothy, who learned in 1980 that she was actually the biological daughter of Ruth and Juanita Jennings, a women she knew as a close family friend and with whom Ruth had one of his many affairs.
43. The Yankees had never been to the World Series before acquiring Ruth from Boston, but they went to seven World Series in his 15 years with the team, winning four of them. Their first pennant came in 1921. Their first championship came in 1923 in the third of three consecutive World Series confrontations with John McGraw’s New York Giants.
44. McGraw and Giants owner Horace Stoneham soured on sharing the Polo Grounds with the ascendant Yankees in the wake of Ruth’s arrival as the major league’s premier gate attraction and attempted to evict them after the 1921 season. The Yankees wrangled one more lease out of Stoneham, but also set about building their own ballpark on a plot of land in the Bronx to be ready in time for the 1923 season.
45. Ruth and teammate Bob Meusel were suspended for the first six weeks of the 1922 season by new baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis for participating in a postseason barnstorming tour in October 1921 in violation of league rules. Ruth missed the Yankees’ first 33 games.
46. Ruth was appointed Yankees captain prior to the 1922 season, but on May 25, just his sixth game after returning from his suspension, he was ejected and responded to the taunts of the home crowd by jumping into the stands in pursuit of a heckler. Ruth didn’t catch his man, but he was suspended for one game, fined and stripped of his captaincy.
47. Ruth incurred two more suspensions in 1922. In late June, he was suspended for three days after charging in from leftfield to dispute a call at second base and calling umpire Bill Dinneen, “one of the vilest names known,” according to AL president Ban Johnson. Furious about his three-game suspension, Ruth got into it with Dinneen during batting practice the next day, resulting in Johnson adding two more days. On Aug. 30, he was ejected after responding to a called third strike with an obscenity and was again suspended for three days.
48. After losing a ball in the sun in the Polo Grounds’ leftfield on July 16, 1922, Ruth refused to ever play the sun field again, and he didn’t. His position thereafter was determined by the geographic orientation of the ballpark in which he was playing. For the rest of his career, Ruth played exclusively in rightfield at the Polo Grounds and Yankee Stadium, as well as in Washington and Cleveland but exclusively in leftfield at the other AL cities (Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia and St. Louis).
49. Yankee Stadium, dubbed “The House That Ruth Built” by sportswriter Fred Lieb, opened on April 18, 1923. Ruth hit the new ballpark’s first home run, a three-run shot in the third inning off the Red Sox’ Howard Ehmke, the key blow in the Yankees’ 4-1 victory.
50. Ruth hit 259 home runs in 12 seasons at Yankee Stadium, second only to Mickey Mantle’s 266, which came in 18 seasons.
51. In July 1923, Ruth began using a new type of bat devised by retired future Hall of Famer Sam Crawford that was composed of four pieces of wood glued together. Ruth’s use of the bat and the publicity it engenderedprompted Ban Johnson to institute a rule change in late August insisting that all bats be made of a single piece of wood. From his reported first use of the bat on July 2 to the institution of the ban on August 28, Ruth hit .457/.586/.882 with 18 home runs in 53 games.
52. In 1923, Ruth hit for his highest single-season average: .393. He came within four hits of batting .400.
53. Ruth won just a single Most Valuable Player award in his career, that coming in 1923. There was no such award from 1915 to 1921 and repeat winners were ineligible until the Baseball Writers Association of America took over the voting in 1931.
54. However, he led the American League, pitchers included, in wins above replacement (Baseball-Reference.com version) 10 times, in OPS+ 12 times, in OPS 13 times and in two of the three Triple Crown categories seven times.
55. On July 5, 1924, Ruth knocked himself unconscious by running head-first into a concrete wall in foul territory at Washington’s Griffith Stadium. He was out for five minutes, but he not only stayed in the game, he went 3-for-3 with two doubles and then played the nightcap of that day’s doubleheader as well.
56. Among players who debuted in the Modern Era (1901-present), Ruth has the seventh highest career batting average (.342) but won just a single batting title: .378 in 1924.
57. Apocrypha, Part III: Ruth missed the first 41 games of the 1925 season with what was termed “the bellyache heard ‘round the world” and has subsequently been rumored to have been a sexually transmitted disease. According to biographer Robert Creamer, however, Ruth had surgery to address an intestinal abscess three days after Opening Day. Ruth spent a month and a half in a Manhattan hospital before rejoining the team.
58. Ruth returned to the lineup on June 1, the day before Lou Gehrig replaced Wally Pipp at first base, but was never fully himself that season. His .290 batting average, .393 on-base percentage, .543 slugging percentage, .936 OPS and 137 OPS+ were all lows for his 15 seasons with New York. That season, the Yankees posted their only losing record between 1919 and 1964.
59. Tired of Ruth’s carousing and insubordination,Yankees manager Miller Huggins suspended Ruth indefinitely and fined him $5,000 after Ruth arrived late the ballpark on Aug. 29, 1925. Huggins made Ruth apologize for his transgressions in front of the rest of the team before finally reinstating him on Sept. 7.
60. Apocrypha, Part IV: Prior to the 1926 World Series, 11-year-old Johnny Sylvester was hospitalized after falling off a horse. A friend of his father brought him autographed baseballs from the Yankees and a promise from Ruth that he would hit a home run for him. Ruth homered four times in the Series against the Cardinals and visited the boy in the hospital after it was over. Sylvester eventually recovered from his injuries. That sequence of events gave birth to a myth in which Ruth visited a dying boy in the hospital and promised he would hit a home run for him that afternoon and the boy experienced a miraculous recovery after Ruth delivered.
61. With the Yankees trailing 3-2 in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 7 of the 1926 World Series, Ruth drew a two-out walk to put the tying run on base against the Cardinals’ Pete Alexander. Ruth was then caught stealing second for the final out of the Series. It remains the only time in World Series history that the final out was recorded on a caught stealing.
62. Ruth hit three home runs in Game 4 of that year’s World Series, a feat he duplicated against the Cardinals two years later, again in Game 4. That record has since been tied three times (by Reggie Jackson, Albert Pujols, and Pablo Sandoval), but never broken, and Ruth is the only man to have hit three home runs in any postseason game twice.
63. Ruth’s 15 World Series home runs were a record until Mickey Mantle broke it in 1964. Ruth hit .326/.467/.744 in 10 Fall Classics.
64. Ruth set the single-season home run record for the final time in 1927 with 60. That mark stood until 1961, when Roger Maris broke it only to have baseball commissioner (and Ruth’s former ghostwriter) Ford Frick insist that Maris’s record be listed separately since he needed more games than Ruth had in ’27 to break the record. To this day, Ruth and Maris are the only players to hit 60 or more home runs in a season who have not been linked to steroid use.
65. In 1927, Ruth and Gehrig became the first pair of teammates in baseball history to each hit 30 home runs. Gehrig walloped 47 to go with Ruth’s record 60.
66. Ruth and Gehrig had a falling out in 1932 over a remark Gehrig’s mother made about how Ruth’s wife dressed his two daughters, to which Gehrig took offense. The two did not speak again outside of the context of a game until Gehrig’s retirement ceremony on July 4, 1939.
67. Ruth was estranged from his first wife by the time she died in a fire in January 1929 at her new home where she was all but officially living as another man’s wife. Three months later Ruth married Claire Hodgson. Ruth adopted Claire’s daughter Julia, who would throw out the first pitch before the final game at Yankee Stadium in 2008.
68. Apocrypha Part V: Ruth first wore his iconic No. 3 – which came from his spot in the batting order – in 1929 but contrary to popular belief, the Yankees were not the first team to wear numbers on their backs. The Indians did so briefly in 1916 and 1917, the Cardinals did so for a short time in 1923, and the Indians made them a permanent addition in 1929, beating the Yankees to the punch when Opening Day in the Bronx was rained out.
The Yankees Years: 1930s
69. Ruth never wore the Yankees’ famous interlocking NY logo on his jersey. It didn’t become a permanent part of the Yankees’ jerseys until 1936, two years after Ruth left the team.
70. Apocrypha, Part VI: Ruth has long been credited with saying, when asked in 1931 why he should make more money than President Herbert Hoover, “Why not? I had a better year than he did,” but there is no record of such a statement.
71. Ruth’s top single-season salary was $80,000, which he made in both 1930 and 1931. He was the first player ever to earn $50,000 in a season when he made $52,000 in 1922. According to a CPI inflation calculator from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, $80,000 in 1930 is the equivalent of a little more than $1.1 million today. (For the record, President Hoover made $75,000 in 1931).
72. On April 2, 1931, Ruth was struck out in an exhibition game with the Double-A Chattanooga Lookouts by a 17-year-old female pitcher named Jackie Mitchell. It has never been determined accurately whether or not it was legitimate or a publicity stunt.
73. Ruth’s famous “Called Shot” home run came in Game 3 of the 1932 World Series against the Cubs. Ruth was being taunted by the Cubs and made a gesture before hitting his second home run of the game, though to whom and in what direction he was pointing have never been accurately determined. Nevertheless, the headline in an afternoon edition of the New York World-Telegramfrom the day of the game read “Ruth Calls Shot As He Puts Homer No. 2 In Side Pocket.” Did he actually call his shot? Judge for yourself:
74. Ruth made just two All-Star teams because the first All-Star Game wasn’t played until 1933, his penultimate season with the Yankees, when he was 38 years old. Nonetheless, Ruth hit the first home run All-Star Game history, a two-run homer off the Cardinals’ Bill Hallahan in the third inning of the 1933 game that made the difference in the AL’s 4-2 victory.
75. Ruth pitched five more times after leaving the Red Sox, first in 1920 and then twice in 1921. He then stayed off the mound for nearly a decade before pitching a complete game victory against Boston in the 1930 regular season finale. He replicated the feat against the Red Sox three years later, beating them on Oct. 1, 1933, one year to the day after his alleged Called Shot home run.
76. Ruth badly wanted to be a major league manager, but his opportunities were limited. The reason why is perhaps best summed up by Yankees GM Ed Barrow, who said, “How can he manage other men when he can’t even manage himself?”
77. After the 1934 season, his last with the Yankees, Ruth went on a barnstorming tour of Japan led by Connie Mack, then proceeded with Claire to circumnavigate the globe, a trip that took a total of four months. Ruth hit 14 home runs in 17 games against the Japanese All-Stars as Mack’s team went undefeated. A bust of Ruth erected during that trip still stands outside of Osaka’s Koshien Stadium.
78. The Yankees released Ruth after the 1934 season with the understanding that the Boston Braves would then sign him.
79. On May 25, 1935, Ruth went 4-for-4 with three home runs in Pittsburgh. His last major league hit was his third home run on that day, a solo shot that was the first ever to clear the roof of the double-decked stands in Forbes Field’s rightfield and considered the longest home run in the history of that ballpark, which was home to Pirates games from 1909 to 1970.
80. Ruth played five more games to honor his commitment to the Braves’ owner that he would play in every city on that road trip. In his final game, on May 30, he struck out against Phillies starter Jim Bivin in the top of the first inning, then hurt his knee chasing a fly ball in leftfield the bottom of the first and came out of the game. He was replaced by Hal Lee. Two days later he officially retired.
81. Ruth retired as the career record-holder in home runs, RBIs, total bases, walks, strikeouts, on-base percentage and slugging percentage as well as the single-season record-holder in home runs, total bases, walks and slugging, and he was briefly the single-season record-holder in RBIs during his career.
82. Ruth set the single-season record for RBIs with 171 in 1921, though future teammate Lou Gehrig broke that record just six years later. Ruth’s career total of 2,220 stood as the record until Hank Aaron broke it in 1975.
83. Ruth set the single season record for walks twice, with 150 in 1920 and 170 in 1923. The latter mark stood until 2001, when Barry Bonds walked 177 times. Ruth held the career mark for bases on balls from 1930-2001 when Rickey Henderson passed him.
84. Ruth never struck out 100 times in a season, though he did retire as the career strikeouts leader with 1,330. He no longer ranks in the top 100 in that category.
85. Ruth set the single-season record for total bases with 457 in 1921 and still holds it today.
86. Ruth set the single-season record for slugging percentage in 1920 at .847. It stood until Bonds broke it in 2001. Ruth’s career slugging percentage of .690 remains the major league record. Ted Williams is second at .634.
87. Ruth’s career on-base percentage of .474 is second behind only Williams’ .482.
88. Ruth’s career OPS of 1.164 remains the record, as does his career OPS+ of 206. The latter stat adjusts OPS for a player’s home ballpark and compares it to his league with 100 being league average. Ruth’s career OPS+ is thus more than twice as good as an average mark. By way of comparison, the last player to have a single-season OPS or OPS+ higher than Ruth’s career was Barry Bonds in 2004.
89. Ruth is the career leader in Baseball-Reference.com’s wins above replacement (183.8, including a record 163.2 as a hitter) and is the owner of the top three single-season bWAR totals of all time: 14.0 in 1923, 12.9 in 1921, and 12.4 in 1927.
90. Ruth led the majors in home runs 11 times, slugging 11 times, walks 11 times, OBP 10 times, runs eight times, RBIs six times, total bases six times, OPS and OPS+ 11 times and bWAR seven times.
91. Ruth was one of the five initial inductees to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936 along with Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, Walter Johnson and Christy Mathewson. Out of that group, only Cobb had a higher percentage of the vote than the 95.1 percent Ruth received just six months after his retirement.
92. Ruth’s last official appearance as a uniformed member of a major league team was as a first base coach for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1938, a job he took mid-season, starting on June 19. He was mainly a gate attraction and would take batting practice and play in exhibition games. Ruth never did get a chance to manage a major league team.
93. Ruth appeared in four feature films as himself or a thinly fictionalized version of himself. The last was The Pride of the Yankees, which was filmed the year after Gehrig’s death in 1942. Ruth lost 40 pounds to play his only slightly-younger self in the film.
94. On Aug. 24, 1942, Ruth hit a home run off Walter Johnson at Yankee Stadium in a charity game for Army-Navy relief in front of a crowd of more than 69,000. The ball actually curved foul, but Ruth rounded the bases and tipped his cap anyway. He appeared in two more charity games in 1943, the latter at Yankee Stadium. They were the last organized game he ever took part in.
95. With Ruth’s health failing, April 27, 1947 was declared Babe Ruth Day around the major leagues by commissioner Happy Chandler. Ruth famously addressed the crowd at Yankee Stadium that day, his voice reduced to a hoarse croak by cancer. You can listen to Ruth’s speech here.
96. Ruth’s final appearance at a ballpark came on June 13, 1948 at Yankee Stadium. Photographer Nat Fein’s famous photograph of Ruth from that day, in full uniform, shot from behind while leaning on a bat, won the Pulitzer Prize.
97. Ruth’s No. 3 was the second Yankee number ever retired, but while Ruth was the first to wear it, he was far from the last. Seven other Yankees wore No. 3, and from 1935 to 1948 it was never unassigned. Outfielder Cliff Mapes was wearing it in 1948 when it was retired. Mapes switched to No. 7 the next year. After he was traded to the Browns in mid-1951, No. 7 went to a rookie named Mickey Mantle.
98. Ruth’s last public appearance came on July 26, 1948, when he attended the premier of The Babe Ruth Story, the film starring Williams Bendix as Ruth. He left before the film was over and returned to the hospital.
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I have seen wild cats abroad: most terrible-looking they are, and more dangerous than many larger animals. Nobody would offer to play any unfeeling tricks with them; a single look from their fierce, fiery eyes, glaring from the branches of a tree, round which they twist their long tails, would send the boldest of you scampering away. They grow larger, and their fur becomes much richer, when in a wild state. The good providence of God supplies them with very warm, thick coat, when they have no longer the benefit of a corner by the fireside. Oh that we would learn lessons of tender mercy by seeing how compassionately the Lord cares for the meanest creature that he has made!
But about young kittens: there are two things, often done through thoughtlessness, which are both very cruel indeed. One is to kill all her little ones, which not only causes great distress, but severe pain too, to the poor mother. God gives her milk to nourish the little creatures, and if one is not left to draw it off, the animal suffers much torment and fever from it. The other thing is one that no kindhearted person could do, or allow to be done, after being once told how exceedingly inhuman it is: I mean, putting the young ones to death in the mother’s sight. The agonies of a bitch, when she sees her puppies drowned, are really a call for divine vengeance on the wretch who could purposely be guilty of such an outrage on the tenderest feelings of nature. The cat, though inferior to the dog in many points, is a most loving mother, and very sagacious in protecting her young. She will often hide them so cunningly, that nobody can reach them; and I have seen a family astonished by the return of a cat which they had supposed was lost, with four or five wild-looking, lean kittens behind her, all their faces being well scratched by the sticks or other rubbish among which they were hidden. The dog never does so: its confiding character leads it to commit its young to its master’s care, little as he sometimes deserves such a trust. | <urn:uuid:045ff8e2-642b-4cf6-b1e1-35c09327860e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.bookrags.com/ebooks/17961/13.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00462-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983064 | 442 | 2.03125 | 2 |
We compared the efficacy and toxicity of busulfan and melphalan (BUMEL) and those of high-dose melphalan (HDMEL) as conditioning regimens for autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) in patients with multiple myeloma (MM) through a propensity score-matched analysis. No significant difference in the complete response and overall response rate after ASCT was observed between BUMEL and HDMEL. After a median follow-up of 37.3 months in the BUMEL group and 50.8 months in the HDMEL group, the median progression-free survival was calculated to be 32.9 months and 25.2 months (p = 0.995). With respect to non-hematologic toxicities, infections were more frequently reported in the BUMEL group (p < 0.001). Three patients who received BUMEL developed veno-occlusive disease (VOD), and all of them recovered without administration of defibrotide. In conclusion, BUMEL is an effective alternative conditioning regimen in terms of efficacy, but attention should be paid to toxicities.
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Bill wraps up his three-part series on building a wireless infrastructure by discussing security protocols.
- By Bill Boswell
This is the final installment of a three-part series on deploying wireless
stations in a Windows network. This part covers the 802.1x dynamic key
exchange protocol and the two primary mechanisms used by Windows to support
802.1x: EAP-TLS and PEAP. These two mechanisms, and nearly all others
designed to protect wireless transactions, depend on setting up a secure
tunnel using Secure Session Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS).
Using 802.1x requires support in the wireless firmware, as well as suitably
configured drivers. If you’ve already invested in equipment that doesn’t
support 802.1x, you don’t need to scrap your hardware. You can use a virtual
private network (VPN) to protect your wireless communications. Figure
1 shows a typical configuration. Note that the access point lies physically
outside the firewall and connects to the VPN concentrator rather than
to the DMZ network.
|Figure 1. In a wireless VPN, the station makes
its initial association to the access point using open authentication,
not WEP. The user then launches a VPN client to establish an encrypted
tunnel to a VPN concentrator.
The wireless stations associate to the access point using open authentication, avoiding any need for configuring Wireless Encryption Privacy (WEP) keys. Once the underlying network connection is in place, the user employs client VPN software to establish a protected tunnel into the DMZ and, from there, to the network. VPN concentrators typically use Remote Access Dial-in User Services (RADIUS) to authenticate users. Windows 2000 Internet Authentication Service (IAS) provides RADIUS services, but you can also install third-party products such as Steel-Belted RADIUS. All data between the client and the network is encrypted inside the VPN tunnel, so it doesn’t matter if someone eavesdrops using AirSnort or AiroPeek or Wireless Sniffer. You should still take the precaution of changing the Extended Service Set Identifier (ESSID) of the access point and disabling ESSID broadcasting. This discourages war drivers (data vandals who cruise around looking for open access points). ESSID was discussed in the first part of this series in the April issue.
Using a VPN to protect wireless connections has two primary disadvantages.
First, the VPN clients exact a performance penalty that gets worse as you
deploy high-speed, 54Mbps 802.11a and 802.11g equipment. The other disadvantage
is flexibility. High-performance VPN concentrators carry a hefty price tag.
If you have a large campus, it can become complex to configure the Ethernet
connections from several access points to lead to the same VPN concentrator.
If you install multiple VPN concentrators, you must deal with mobile stations
that can’t reassociate with new access points as they move.
802.1x Wireless Security
As you may recall from last month’s column, standard WEP uses a 40-bit or
104-bit shared encryption key and a 24-bit dynamic Initialization Vector
(IV) to construct a 64-bit or 128-bit encryption key. The shared portion
of the key is static, and the dynamic IV is exchanged essentially in the
clear. Both the static shared key and the small 24-bit IV represent security
802.1x addresses these vulnerabilities by defining a new Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) mechanism called EAP-over-LAN (EAPOL), which permits a station to authenticate to a network access point using RADIUS, then securely exchanging dynamic encryption keys. The cipher material used to protect this key exchange is generated by the TLS PseudoRandom Function (PRF) described in last month’s article. Here’s how the key exchange works (see Figure 2):
1. When presented with an association request from a wireless station (in 802.1x parlance, a supplicant), an access point repackages the request as a RADIUS Access Request message and passes it to a RADIUS server.
2. The RADIUS server authenticates the wireless station then uses the TLS PRF to generate a set of Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption (MPPE) keys. (The PRF hints used to generate these keys are documented in the 802.1x standard. The MPPE format is documented in RFC 2716.) The RADIUS server generates one MPPE key (the RECV key) for encryption and one (the SEND key) for signing. It then sends the MPPE keys to the access point inside a RADIUS Accept message.
3. The access point generates two random WEP keys and encrypts and signs
them using the MPPE keys it obtained from the RADIUS server. The access
point then sends each encrypted WEP key to the wireless station inside individual
EAPOL-Key messages. Figure 3 shows a packet capture of this transaction.
4. The station uses the same PRF inputs as those used by the RADIUS server
to generate an identical set of MPPE keys that it uses to decrypt the WEP
5. The station then uses one of the WEP keys to encrypt the data stream
and keeps the other in standby to use during key-refresh transactions.
|Figure 2. In a basic 802.1x EAPOL transaction,
an access point generates a dynamic encryption key, then encrypts
the key using cipher material obtained from a RADIUS server. The client
generates the same cipher material and uses it to decrypt the dynamic
|Figure 3. Packet capture of a RADIUS Accept message
that contains the MPPE keys generated by the RADIUS server and sent
to the 802.1x access point. (Click image to view larger version.)
802.1x Security Protocols
The 802.1x standard doesn’t define a specific protocol to use for authentication
or key generation. Several protocols have emerged in the wireless arena,
all of which use SSL/TLS in some fashion. Here is a brief survey of the
most commonly used protocols:
EAP-TLS—RFC 2716 documents a mechanism for encapsulating Transport Layer
Security (TLS) authentication messages into standard EAP messages. EAP-TLS
uses the authentication portion of TLS to generate and exchange dynamic
WEP keys. TLS uses public-key certificates to identify computing entities,
so EAP-TLS requires that the RADIUS server and each wireless station have
a certificate. This involves deploying a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).
EAP-TLS was proposed by Microsoft and has been widely adopted by wireless
Protected EAP (PEAP)—This mechanism was proposed by Microsoft, Cisco and
RSA. Its major advantage over EAP-TLS is that it validates the user’s identity
rather than the station’s identity. This eliminates the need for computer
certificates at each station. It also resolves a security deficiency in
EAP-TLS in which a stolen laptop can still be used to gain wireless access
until the certificate is revoked. As of this writing, only Cisco provides
access points and wireless adapters that support PEAP.
Lightweight EAP (LEAP)—LEAP is a proprietary Cisco protocol similar to the
PEAP mechanism promulgated by Cisco and Microsoft. The authentication protocol
in LEAP relies on Cisco authentication services.
EAP-TTLS (Tunneling TLS)—PEAP (and, to some extent, LEAP) share a disadvantage:
They both have Microsoft’s name in the header of the RFC documents. Tunneling
TLS differs from PEAP and LEAP in that it provides for negotiation of
the authentication protocol used within the TLS tunnel, thus avoiding
reliance on a single vendor’s authentication mechanism.
EAP-TLS uses the TLS Handshake Protocol to authenticate a wireless station.
This is an industry-standard mechanism with a proven track record. A TLS
Handshake transaction has an additional advantage of permitting a client
to validate the identity of the authenticating server to avoid man-in-the-middle
exploits. Figure 4 shows the actors in an EAP-TLS transaction.
|Figure 4. In an EAP-TLS transaction, both the
802.1x supplicant and RADIUS server have computer certificates used
in a TLS Handshake transaction for mutual authentication.
The EAP-TLS transaction begins when the client sends a standard 802.11 authentication request to the access point and gets back an EAP Request/Identity message specifying the EAP-TLS protocol.
1. The station replies with an EAP Response/Identity message containing its own ID.
2. The access point repackages this into a RADIUS Access Request and forwards it to a RADIUS server. From this point forward, the access point acts as a go-between and can be ignored.
3. The RADIUS server returns an EAP Request specifying EAP-TLS as the authentication mechanism.
4.The station returns an EAP Response containing a TLS Client-Hello message. This message contains the encryption algorithms supported by the client (called a cipher suite).
5. The RADIUS server replies with an EAP Request containing a TLS Server-Hello message with a session ID and those elements of the client’s cipher suite the server supports. This message also contains the server’s public key certificate and a request for the client to send its own public key certificate.
6.The station returns an EAP Response containing the following TLS messages: The client’s public key certificate, the client’s verification of the server’s public key certificate (digitally signed by the client), and an agreement to use one of the server’s cipher suite selections.
To use EAP-TLS, or any of the other protocols, you must also install one or more RADIUS servers to act as 802.1x Authentication servers. The RADIUS server must explicitly support EAP-TLS and be configured with the IP address or name of the access points. This prevents rogue servers from obtaining RADIUS credentials. The two machines share a password known as a RADIUS secret. This password should be long, strong and kept secure.
When creating a RADIUS client in Win2K IAS, be sure to select the appropriate Client-Vendor from the drop-down list. This loads a set of specific RADIUS settings supplied by the vendor for its access points. In some cases, you must install additional RADIUS settings using files obtained from the vendor.
RADIUS uses policies to control access. A policy can be applied to selected entities so, to distinguish your wireless policy from other RADIUS policies, configure the NAS-Port-Type attribute to hold “Wireless - IEEE 802.11” and “Wireless – Other.”
A RADIUS server can have multiple policies. Policies act like a set of screens used at a gravel pit. Rocks not stopped by the first screen fall through to the second screen. If your wireless stations refuse to work when configured for EAP-TLS, the RADIUS logs may indicate a policy restriction. Look for other RADIUS policies that might be interfering.
Once you’ve created the RADIUS policy, specify what a client must do to
authenticate. These specifications take the form of a profile. In the case
of wireless policies, the profile defines the required authentication and
encryption methods. Select EAP-TLS.
Now you need to configure your wireless stations. To configure a Windows
XP client, for example, click the Authentication tab and specify Smart Card
or Other Certificate. Click Configure to select the computer certificate
issued by a Certification Authority (CA) trusted by the client. Otherwise,
the client can’t validate the certificate and authentication will fail.
Remember to configure the client to use WEP for data encryption. EAP-TLS doesn’t replace WEP—it simply augments the authentication process. Because EAP-TLS dynamically assigns WEP cipher keys, be sure to check the option “The Key Is Provided For Me Automatically” or a similar option provided by your wireless NIC driver.
In the Advanced configuration, select the Smart Card or Other Certificate option. This adds EAP-TLS to the list of authentication mechanisms recognized by the client.
Once you’ve installed the necessary servers and made the required configurations, you’re ready to test the system. For the sake of diagnostics, it’s a good idea to enable Event Logging at the IAS server. Also for the sake of diagnostics, you should enable event logging at the access point. This often takes the form of a syslog, either stored in volatile memory at the access point or sent to a syslog server. Refer to your vendor’s documentation for details.
The icon representing the wireless connection in Network Connections should be lit up and enabled. You should be able to ping the IP address of the access point. If this doesn’t work, eject and reinsert the card to reinitialize the drivers. You should see syslog entries at the access point saying that the client has authenticated, then associated. The Event Log should have an IAS entry saying that the laptop (the name will end with a dollar sign) has successfully authenticated.
If you don’t get these results, look first for a problem with the configuration
settings, then at the possibility that the certificates haven’t been issued
PEAP is superior to EAP-TLS because it authenticates the user rather than
the station. PEAP uses Microsoft’s Challenge Handshake Authentication
Protocol, version 2 (MS-CHAPv2). The user enters a name and password when
prompted by the wireless NIC driver.
A PEAP client is built into XP Service Pack 1. You can download a PEAP client for Win2K from the Microsoft download site. If you’re a Premier or Volume License client of Microsoft, you can get PEAP clients for Windows 98 and Me.
To protect the MS-CHAPv2 transaction, PEAP first creates a TLS session. This requires the RADIUS server to have a computer certificate but not the client, avoiding the necessity of a full-blown PKI deployment. You can obtain the TLS certificate for the RADIUS server from vendors such as VeriSign or Baltimore. Thawte (a VeriSign subsidiary) provides a 30-day certificate free, which you can use for testing.
A PEAP transaction begins as soon as a wireless station sends a standard 802.11 authentication request to an access point and gets an EAP Request/Identity as a reply. The authentication takes place in two phases.
In phase 1, the station uses the TLS Handshake Protocol to create an encrypted
session with the RADIUS server. (Note that the session goes through the
access point but doesn’t involve it.)
During the TLS establishment phase, the server may request a certificate
from the client, but the client doesn’t need to provide one. If the client
refuses to supply a certificate, the transaction proceeds to phase 2.
At the start of phase 2, the RADIUS server initiates a second EAP authentication
with the station. This second EAP occurs within, and is protected by,
the TLS session. The EAP session begins with a Request/Identity message
that specifies an authentication method desired by the server. In the
case of PEAP with Microsoft IAS, this method would be MS-CHAPv2, so the
RADIUS server returns a random number as a challenge.
The user at the station is prompted to enter domain credentials. In XP,
this occurs in a pop-up balloon from the network icon in the notification
area. In the Win2K client, this occurs with a standard pop-up.
The user enters a name, password and domain. The password is hashed using
MD4, and the password hash is used to encrypt the challenge. The encrypted
challenge is returned to the server. Because the challenge and challenge
response occur within the TLS session, they’re invisible to sniffers.
The RADIUS server uses information from a domain controller to validate
the user’s credentials, then returns a RADIUS Accept message with the
MPPE keys that will be used by the access point to encrypt the WEP keys.
Once the EAP-TLS transaction is complete, all subsequent communications
between the client and the access point are protected by WEP. The dynamic
keys are changed every so often to keep them from becoming stale.
This protocol provides for more general authentication and encryption mechanisms
than EAP-TLS or PEAP. Like PEAP, there’s no requirement for a client-side
certificate. The TLS Handshake Protocol does the authentication, and the
resultant TLS channel is used to encrypt the user authentication.
The difference in TTLS lies in the ability of the wireless station and the
access point to negotiate an authentication protocol by exchanging Attribute-Value
Pairs (AVPs). In PEAP, only MS-CHAPv2 authentication is supported. Using
TTLS, any authentication method with an EAP designator can be used. Other
than the exchange of AVPs, an EAP-TTLS transaction works similarly to PEAP.
Other Wireless Solutions
In addition to the options I’ve listed in this column, several enterprise-ready
wireless solutions have recently hit the market. These products focus
on wireless switching as well as enterprise management of security. Check
out the Mobius line of products from Symbol Technologies, www.symbol.com,
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Mercury is one of The five classical planets and an easy naked eye object. The planets stood out from the other stars to our ancestors because of the way they all moved in regular patterns against the night sky, but Mercury was unique in its rapid motion and the way it never strayed far from the sun. If the planets were to be named for gods, then it was only natural that the flighty mercurial one should be their messenger.
The Romans were great admirers of Greek culture and they assimilated many Greek gods into their own pantheon. Mercury, messenger of the gods, was an almost direct copy of Hermes, the son of Zeus and a nymph named Maia (the eldest and most beautiful of the Pleiades). Mercury served as Zeus’s herald, delivering messages and guiding those under his protection. Mercury was clever, with a darkly mischievous personality and a relaxed moral code. Immediately after being born, he invented the Lyre (out of an old tortoise shell) and stole a herd of cattle from his brother Apollo using guile and trickery. Small wonder then that, on top of his duties as patron of travel and herdsmen, the Romans associated him with business and trade as well! His temple was on the Aventine and his festival of Mercuralia was held on the Ides (15th) of May. On this day, traders and merchants offered prayers to Mercury, for forgiveness for past and future perjuries, for profit, and for the continued ability to cheat customers!
Mercury in the Sky
Mercury, as seen by Mariner 10
But how about the planet itself? Mercury only ever appears in the sky as a bright, pinkish red star shortly after sunset or before sunrise. Because it never ventures more than about 20 degrees from the Sun, It is usually lost in the dull glare of twilight and is easily missed by casual stargazers. This is a pity as it can be a very rewarding naked eye object: Not only does its closeness to the Sun make it challenging to pick out, but it moves very rapidly, changing position dramatically from night to night.
The ancient astrologers tried their best to find methods to predict Mercury’s position, but it wasn’t until the works of Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler were put together to form the modern science of Astronomy that we were able to figure out anything about the planet. Most of what we read today in astronomy textbooks about the planets was deduced in the first few decades of modern astronomy, back in the 17th century. Those early astronomers were able to calculate that it takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the Sun, and that it is very small, with only about an eighteenth of Earth’s mass. As technology advanced and better telescopes became available, they were able to view it as a disc and measure the size: It has a diameter of about a third that of Earth. Once the maths were done to calculate Mercury’s density, it turned out to be an unusually small and heavy planet.
Hundreds of years later, the Space Age began, and we started sending unmanned spacecraft out to explore the Solar System. The first mission to reach Mercury, Mariner 10, arrived in 1974 after getting a gravitational boost from Venus. Mariner revealed a world that looked very much like the Moon, with a crater-pocked surface and vast mountain ranges, and virtually no atmosphere. Unlike the Moon, however, there are no Maria (“oceans” of solidified Lava) and Mercury has a massive core of iron which causes a weak magnetic field. This magnetic field interacts with the solar wind, trapping it to create an exosphere. This exosphere is remarkably thin, close to vacuum, but is able to produce some interesting chemistry on the planets surface. The only other mission so far, Messenger, is currently manoeuvring into orbit around Mercury and has already returned a wealth of information – detailed maps of most of It’s surface, analyses of the magnetic field and exosphere, and more.
Update: Messenger has reached Mercury, and is returning enormous amounts of data, completely revising what we thought we knew about the little world. There is a lot of data, and not much has been analysed yet, but we already know that despite the fact that it looks much like our Moon, the two bodies are about as different as you can get.
Thanks to these missions, we now know a great deal about Mercury. It is the smallest planet (since Pluto was demoted), and a very harsh place indeed. While it’s year is only 88 days long, it takes 176 days to spin around its axis – one Mercury day lasts two Mercury years! This means that if an astronaut stood on Mercury and watched the sunrise, he would have to wait an entire Mercury year before he saw sunset. He would have to wait another Mercury year before the next sunrise. It would be a very strange and disorienting experience.
It would also be extremely uncomfortable — Mercury is more than twice as close to the Sun as Earth is, and has no real atmosphere to shield its surface. Combine this with the long days and the daytime temperature gets higher than 400°C! If our astronaut can hold out for long enough, though, he’ll get a chance to cool down at night, when the temperature drops to -200°C. All in all, it seems that Mercury is staying true to character and making it as difficult as possible for us to pay a visit!
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Why should I take this programme?
With the news that the government intend to regulate Letting Agents in the near future, it has never been more important to ensure that agency staff have a thorough understanding of their legal duties. The Agents Fundamentals course will ensure you understand both the legal obligations of the landlord and agent throughout the lettings process from marketing to possession.
Our Law of Agency course explains the contractual obligations you must uphold in terms of the relationship with both landlord and tenant. With the introduction of general data protection regulations, it is vital that all agency staff have an acute awareness of it's implications to avoid any data breaches with the large volumes of data they have access to. Our GDPR course fully explains the necessary precautions when processing personal information.
The most important obligation for a landlord is to ensure the property is safe. When contracted to complete risk assessments and ensure properties meet standards outlined in the Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS) on behalf of the landlord, agents must have an in-depth knowledge of the law. Our Property Standards course will explain the what is expected in terms of the laws governing health and safety.
Designed specifically for agents, the course covers the full letting process and the legal obligations of the role and also includes practical tips on relationship management and industry best practice.
Law of Agency
Everything you need to know about the concept of fiduciary duty of agent, cultivating and managing relationships with landlord and tenant clients the practical application of the law of agency.
General Data Protection Regulation for Landlord and Agents
Understand how GDPR affects you and your business and learn how to comply with the regulations for the lawful processing of data.
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By Robby MacBain
Nurse, Activist, and Politician: Alumna Brings the Change We Need
If a general referendum was held to determine the most popular buzzword of 2008, chances are that “change” would win by a landslide victory. But for a nurse like Irma Silverstein Rochlin ’45, who has been a first-hand witness to some of the most important events in recent American history, change is the only thing you can rely on over a lifetime.
Rochlin came to Johns Hopkins as a nursing student in the midst of World War II. She recalls the class of 1945 as “idealistic. We all expected to help with the war effort.” After graduating, Rochlin went directly into the Army Nurse Corps. She served in Alabama and North Carolina, caring for returned servicemen too ill to be discharged.
Conservation was a vital part of the war effort and played a central role in clinical nursing practice. “We would wash surgical gloves, powder them, and put them up for autoclaving. All syringes were glass then, and we reused them. We went through the needles after they were sterilized and sharpened them,” recalls Rochlin.
One of Rochlin’s most important acts of political activism occurred in 1969. A resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, Rochlin volunteered as a nurse to care for marchers participating in the People’s Park demonstrations, which came to symbolize the radical political differences that divided the country during the Vietnam War era.
In the 1970s, Rochlin moved to Florida and delved into local politics. She was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 1984, where she was asked to lead the charge on some of the most important health care initiatives of the day. Many proposals brought out to air in Florida during Rochlin’s tenure as a state representative are now being played out in the national political arena. “Florida was a bellwether state, and we came out with the most advanced legislation of the time,” says Rochlin.
She looks back with particular pride on a bill she sponsored that rescinded the licenses of doctors who prescribed steroids to high school athletes, which set the bar for similar legislation around the country. She drove through legislation enabling nurses in public health settings to prescribe medication without a doctor’s visit, saving the state of Florida $900,000 in the first nine months after it was passed. Other accomplishments include improved medical care for prisoners, funding for treatment of HIV and multiple sclerosis, and increased insurance rights of the developmentally disabled.
In 1945, says Rochlin, “I felt like I was seeing the birth pangs of nursing.” Despite all the advancements and improvements in nursing, however, there is something that Rochlin believes should never change-the motivation at the root of all nursing practice. It is the same driving force that led her to become such an effective politician: the simple desire to serve and care for another person.
On the Cutting Edge: Jeff Baldwin Discovers the Impact of Research
Jeff Baldwin ’94 says his initial motivation to enter the field of clinical trials research wasn’t particularly complicated. He wanted to help people – as many as he could. At the time, he was working as a pediatric nurse in Florida, a job he fondly recalls as his “first love.” However, when Baldwin began working as a nurse for clinical pharmaceutical trials, he was struck by the potential benefits that cutting edge research held for patients. “In some cases, we were seeing very dramatic impacts… using treatments that were not yet approved by the FDA.”
Since his first exposure to clinical trials, Baldwin has steadily progressed into more supervisory positions. After several years overseeing Amgen’s clinical trial monitors in the Southeastern US and Western Canada, Jeff was promoted to a position as Supplier Governance Senior Manager with the company last year. While his early work in research consisted largely of one-on-one contact with individuals, Baldwin’s more recent positions have brought increased perspective on the large-scale impact that research can have.
From a managerial standpoint, he is able to watch the progress of new treatments as they move from the experimental stage toward becoming important elements of widespread therapies. Looking back at his early clinical trial days in Florida, Baldwin says that “out of those trials came some of the treatments that are now commonly prescribed as part of HIV therapies. There’s a lot of satisfaction that I’ve derived from my career path. The work I do now is impacting thousands of people every day.”
Working in clinical trials has brought Baldwin into contact with thousands of participants, each with their own unique reasons for involvement. “Some are motivated out of pure altruism,” says Baldwin. “Some have gone through other therapies that weren’t working and are looking for new options. There are some who can’t get health insurance coverage.” What is understood by everyone, though, is that their participation could lead to discoveries which will positively impact the lives of thousands.
Baldwin looks back on his days at Hopkins with pride and a sense of gratitude. “Hopkins,” he says, “gives you insight into the research side of nursing – it shows you that there’s so much more than you think that goes into meeting the challenge of health care every day.” Without this early awareness for the breadth of health care research, Baldwin says his career path could well have been different.
Hopkins Nurse is Flying High
“I just love taking care of patients no matter what’s wrong with them. The more challenges that are presented to me, the more interested I get,” says Sandra MontagueWinfield ’70, who had always dreamed of becoming a nurse. “My first nursing paycheck seemed unreal to me since I was actually doing something I wanted to do!” Whether in her nursing career, hobbies, or her personal life, Winfield seems to have a knack for turning her dreams into a soaring success.
Winfield arrived at Hopkins in 1966, “almost 17 years old and green.” Her first instructor was Martha N. Hill, now the Dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, who guided Winfield through the basics of nursing, from making a bed correctly to taking vital signs. Her first nursing positions were at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, working in a surgical recovery unit and later in a pediatric ICU.
One of her first nursing challenges came in April 1968, following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., when civil order disintegrated in Baltimore as riots swept across the city. The Hopkins medical campus was locked down and Winfield and her classmates were called upon to relieve the exhausted nursing staff in the hospital. Although she was horrified at the spectacle unfolding right below her dorm window, she had little time to reflect on its significance. “We simply responded to the need to staff the hospital for relief without question,” she remembers.
In the 1970s, Winfield relocated to Houston, Texas, where she worked at the Houston Methodist Cardiac Catheterization Research Lab and was introduced to two of the loves of her life. The first was her husband, Jerry, and it was Jerry who introduced her to the second passion, flying. The couple was married in 1973, but Winfield’s love for flying didn’t take off until 1997. She learned to fly in an aerobatic tail-wheel aircraft -a plane that rests on a small rear wheel, meaning that it tilts upward while on the ground. “Steering it is kind of like pushing a backwards shopping cart down the runway,” explains Winfield.
Today, Winfield lives in the Fort Worth area and serves as the chief of her community’s EMS crew. An EMT’s work is very different from a nurse’s, but after many years in hospitals, she says, “I have a much better idea what I’m preparing the patient for.” With her background in nursing, Winfield makes sure that her team’s pre-hospital assessments are as timely and accurate as possible.
Living and working in the busy Forth Worth area, where traffic is often bad, could be stressful for some people, but not for Winfield – she commutes by air. “I go out on ambulance calls during the night and I fly during the day,” she says. “What could be finer?” | <urn:uuid:12d22de7-3031-4c7b-8ce7-6682e94df3c7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://magazine.nursing.jhu.edu/2009/04/alumni-profiles-12/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.98177 | 1,786 | 1.984375 | 2 |
This activity demonstrates multiple ways to animate a cell in Mind Express. You can use it to experiment and learn more about making cells move around the screen. You can create very interesting and engaging games with these techniques.
An accompanying video can be run by pressing the Video tutorial button on the first page. It will explain in detail what you need to do to get you started.
You need at least version 220.127.116.116 of Mind Express to use this activity.
This activity will not work on Zingui and Smart devices!
Muis/Touch Schakelaars Oogsturing
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April 2nd, 2020 by GSC Customer Care
Scammers use every opportunity to trick you out of your money or personal information and that includes situations in which you might feel uncertain or afraid. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is a perfect example.
Some of these criminals are impersonating staff from the World Health Organization (WHO) or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to try and get you to give them your personal information. They do so by sending phishing emails asking you to share sensitive data like usernames and passwords. The emails may also include links that direct you to a phishing website, or an attachment that spreads malware to your computer.
The emails may tell you that providing the information, clicking on the link, or opening the attachment is something you must do for “safety reasons.” However, there’s nothing safe about offering personal information or opening an attachment that can be used against you.
It’s not just the WHO and the CDC that are being impersonated. Scammers will try just about any method to scare you into giving away your personal data. The information you receive might promote COVID-19 awareness, prevention, fake vaccine offers, or other “useful” suggestions.
To guard against this threat, take the following precautions:
- Don’t let the topic of COVID-19 frighten you into acting quickly. Instead, take the time to examine all offers and requests.
- Don’t trust any email claiming to be from the WHO unless the email address includes the “who.int” domain. Even legitimate email addresses can be spoofed, so carefully consider what the message is asking you to do.
- Don’t trust any link claiming to be from the WHO that doesn’t start with www.who.int or any link from the CDC that doesn’t start with www.cdc.gov.
- Never click a link in an email unless you’re very sure who it’s from and where it will lead you.
If you think you’ve been a victim of this hoax, immediately change any credentials you might have given away.
As COVID-19 spreads, it can be easy to fall prey to fear and to latch on to any offer of assistance you think could help you and your family. However, just as you’re taking steps to keep your body healthy, remember to maintain your online health, too.
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Beginning in 1960 and continuing to this day, Guenther Gerisch's work on the social ameba Dictyostelium discoideum has helped to make it the model organism of choice for studies of cellular activities that depend upon the actomyosin cytoskeleton. Gerisch has brought insight and quantitative rigor to cell biology by developing novel assays and by applying advanced genetic, biochemical and microscopic techniques to topics as varied as cell-cell adhesion, chemotaxis, motility, endocytosis and cytokinesis.
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