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If you've been paying attention to news on various pipeline projects in the region, then you've heard about cutting sugar maples for a pipeline that may or may not ever happen, and the eminent domain fights happening in PA and other states. Or you've heard about the Keystone pipeline leaking, and others blowing up.
What does this have to do with FERC? The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has a role to play in deciding who has rights to put in pipelines and where - and therefore, who really has a "right" to the land in question.
Learn more about FERC and land rights at a forum later this week in Elmira:
“Are You Being FERCed?,” sponsored by People for Healthy Environment, Food and Water Watch, We Are Seneca Lake and the Finger Lakes Sierra Club, is a public forum set for April 21 to discuss land rights and the role of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in deciding who has rights to the land.
The forum will be held at 6 p.m. Trinity Episcopal Church, 304 N. Main Street, Elmira.
Topics for discussion will include riparian rights, eminent domain, the expansion of gas industry infrastructure, and FERC.
A discussion will follow with panelists Rachel Treichler, Yvonne Taylor, Joseph Campbell, and Keith Schue. Refreshments will be served. | <urn:uuid:c57341bf-b4d6-4b92-b918-d624a4e9deba> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://marcelluseffect.blogspot.com/2016/04/public-forum-on-ferc-this-coming.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00463-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951649 | 278 | 2.328125 | 2 |
King: A Reflection on the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is a spoken word piece by playwright/librettist Sandra Seaton accompanied by spirituals performed a cappella by tenor George Shirley. King, a mixture of poetry and brief reflections, remembers Rev. King as an individual with human limitations who nevertheless answered the call to leadership. His life serves as a model for those, especially the young, who might feel that any imperfection disqualifies them from leadership. The work, divided into four sections, “Nobel-man,” “Chicago,” “Bottles and Rocks,” and "Memphis 1968,” takes us on the journey of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as he struggled to bring civil rights to the United States.
For tickets, visit Eventbrite or purchase at The Carr Center.
George Shirley (tenor) is in demand nationally and internationally as performer, teacher and lecturer. He has won international acclaim for his performances in the world's great opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera (New York), Royal Opera (Covent Garden, London), Deutsche Oper (Berlin), Téatro Colón (Buenos Aires), Netherlands Opera (Amsterdam), L'Opéra de Monte Carlo, New York City Opera, Scottish Opera (Glasgow), Chicago Lyric Opera, San Francisco Opera, Washington Opera (Kennedy Center), Michigan Opera Theater, Glyndebourne Festival, and Santa Fe Opera.
Professor Shirley was the first African-American to be appointed to a high school teaching post in music in Detroit, the first African-American member of the United States Army Chorus in Washington, D.C., and the first African-American tenor and second African-American male to sing leading roles with the Metropolitan Opera, where he remained for eleven years.
Sandra Seaton is a playwright and librettist. She wrote the libretto for the song cycle From the Diary of Sally Hemings in collaboration with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer William Bolcom. The song cycle, now available as a cd from White Pine Music, has been performed at such venues as Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center. Her recent plays include The Will, a drama about a black Tennessee family during Reconstruction, Music History, which dramatizes the struggle for civil rights in the sixties, and A Chance Meeting, whose first production starred acclaimed Met tenor George Shirley.
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Finding Influencers to Amplify Social Reach
According to a study by BzzAgent, brand advocates are 83 percent more likely to share information about products with others. Moreover, brand advocates are also twice as likely to be driven by the need to contribute to the pool of information online. Since the birth of social media, brands have been searching for an effective way to leverage the power of influencers, given their significant followings and powerful voices in their respective industries. Obtaining a mere mention by the right influencer could boost even the most niche business to the forefront of social buzz. In this class, you will learn how marketers can captivate social influencers and convert them into brand advocates for their business.
What You'll Learn:
- How to choose which free and/or paid tools to use
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- How to engage and encourage employees to share content to further amplify reach.
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Bring back drugs, say music experts
RECORD lows in UK drug consumption explain the current music scene, say experts.
Use of narcotics is at its lowest since 1996 when, musicologists have pointed out, The Lighthouse Family’s Ocean Drive was released.
Professor Henry Brubaker of the Institute For Studies said: “Being totally munted doesn’t always equate to good music – Dave Gahan was 87% smack at one point and Depeche Mode sound like a Casio keyboard having a midlife crisis.
“But think of clean living, yoga-bothering pop stars. You just thought of Chris Martin, didn’t you?
“A healthy level of drug use ensures the batshit insane can give free reign to their artistic expression, as well as overdosing-off musicians that are starting to get a bit dull.”
An advisory board composed of drug-addled old rock stars has been recommended for artists to use that are struggling with the creative process and want to know what chemicals to start injecting into their groin.
The board could also give production notes for band demos such as ‘needs more ketamine’ or ‘chorus could use freebasing’.
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Integrity Tone Scale
Vern Black’s Integrity Tone Scale
A Developmental Tool To See How Far You Have Come and What is the Leading Edge For Growth Today
Presented with Introduction by Will Joel Friedman, Ph.D.
© 2009 by Will Joel Friedman, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved Worldwide.
Psychologist Vern Black has developed an Integrity Tone Scale showing a stage model for how to recognize the integrity stage present as well as how to change your integrity experience for enhanced freedom of choice. 1
Black’s model is important as a key tool and means to know how you can appropriately place trust in a part of yourself and in others to do precisely what their state of integrity demands. Someone’s Native State of Integrity is the one the person lives in most of the time and is able to maintain with full comprehension, understanding and integrity. Black estimates that 80% of the world’s population is operating in the state of Disloyalty across six bands as their native state. Conceivably, we exist in all the states of integrity simultaneously.
By accurately detecting the level of integrity functioning for your self and other people, you can know exactly how much they trust themselves, how much you can trust them, and how to relate with them to maximize the optimal living and integrity for all related. Psychologist Gary Emery writes: “Real freedom is freedom to be non-reactive to others’ levels of consciousness.”
Black describes the scale as “a road map to the mind” and a means to develop your own self-worth. He recommends beginning with the column Point of View, literally the point from which you view something, to help notice and locate someone. Your point of view is deciding who you are with regard to what you observe. Observing isn’t criticism, condemning, or trying to change; it’s simply noticing and observing “what is.”
The following “INTEGRITY TONE SCALE” by psychologist Vern Black, Ph.D. can be helpful in noticing the present level of integrity for yourself and others, without any negative judgment toward anyone. You can use the “Commendment to expand” column to be aware and practice expanding to the next level of integrity on your path of personal growth. 3
|Expand||Empower / Source||Serenity of Beingness
Study for Even More Results
Strengthen the Abundance
|Opportunity||Enhancement||MAKE EVERYTHING AN OPPORTUNITY TO ENHANCE
Strengthen Positive Results
Adjust for any Diminished Results
|Challenge||Cooperation||BE ON PURPOSE
Focus on Details
Prepare for Expanded Activity
Demonstrate Full Integrity
Recognize Important Communications
and Deliver Immediately
Demonstrate Behavioral Integrity
Make a Goal
Locate Channels of Communications
Communicate to Make Yourself Known
Find Out What is Needed or Wanted
Start Doing It
|Guilty||Detriment / Responsible||Disinterest
|Obligation||Aggreement||KEEP YOUR AGREEMENTS
Clean Up Damage from Broken
Reestablish Trust —Make Amenment
List Your Valuablenesses —Begin to Serve Others
|MAINTAIN FREEDOM OF CHOICE
|Attack||Suppression||GO FOR RESULTS
Recognize its You Opposing Results
Stop Having to be Right
Produce the Result
|Conspiracy||Stealth||TELL THE TRUTH
Decide to Stop Pretcnding
Tell the Truth
Imagine a Result
Integrity Tone Scale
Take the example of an unwanted situation, like being in a traffic jam. A person operating from the point of view of infringement (state of Uncertainty) would perceive the experience as annoyance and violation. Another one operating from the point of view of challenge (state of Emergency) would perceive the experience as a neat challenge to effectively get the task done. It’s not the circumstances or conditions in life that determine one’s point of view; the individual does by revealing who they think they are in any given set of circumstances relative to the stage the person is operating in, thus expressing their developmental stage of perception, experience, and understanding.
Philosopher Ken Wilber provides a developmental underpinning for understanding how we perceive and interpret the world. He boldly declares that anyone will interpret the experience of a state in life according to the developmental stage they are living inside. He offers the illustration of a subtle state experience of intense luminosity coupled with universal love when seen and interpreted by a Western Christian as an encounter with the Holy Spirit or Jesus Christ, and this experience can occur at numerous stages of development (Wilber uses the five developmental stages proposed by Jean Gebser).
So at the developmental stage of magic, the experience is seen and interpreted with Jesus being a magician doing miracles to satisfy my desires. At the developmental stage of the mythic, this same experience is perceived and interpreted as Jesus Christ being the bringer of Eternal Truth and this is absolutistic in terms of a belief. At the next stage of the mental-rational, the identical experience is given the meaning of Jesus being both human and Divine and is a teacher of universal love of God. The same experiential state at the pluralistic stage sees Jesus as one of thousands of such profound spiritual encounters of the Christ experience. And the same experience at the integral stage (which Wilber expands into at least 4 higher stages) is perceived as integrating this experience of Christ-consciousness with numerous expressions of the Holy Spirit worldwide. Thus, how one sees and interprets any experience comes directly out of their stage of growth. 4
As you become familiar with the Integrity Tone chart you can also use the first column called Key Word to notice the overall quality of the person’s integrity state. Thus, the integrity state of uncertainty has the key word of confused, while the integrity state of emergency has the key word of urgent. You can also spot in the column Emotion what is the characteristic emotional gradient at that state of integrity. There is greater freedom of expression for creating health, love and happiness toward the upper end of the scale and less freedom toward the lower end. Again, emotions are neither good nor bad.
The column Attitude stands for the mental position we have about some state of affairs. While we don’t have the ability to directly change our emotions, we can change our attitudes. The column Apparent Resultant depicts what typically will result or be the ‘knee jerk reaction’ given the associated emotions, attitudes and point of view. For example, given the emotions of empathy and strong interest in the Emergency integrity state, an attitude of amusement and expectation, and the point of view of challenge, this would convince you that the only behavior is cooperation. While this is an illusion, it’s what your mind sees as the only option to that set of conditions.
Probably the most intriguing column is Commendment To Expand that alerts you to the necessary steps to expand to the next level on the integrity scale. Consider ‘commendment’ to be a positive game plan or formula to move to the next higher level of integrity functioning. At the Emergency state, the commendment is to be on purpose through the ability to promote, focus on details, prepare for expanded activity and demonstrate full integrity. Only when all ten commendments are operating for them will they actually be committed. Black noticed one rule: anytime the formula in the commendment is omitted or dropped, the person will drop two states of integrity. For example, omit the focus on details at Emergency, then drop to Non-existence.
By checking and double-checking the various columns against the self’s or person’s behavior, you can notice the congruency of the various columns, producing a bingo according to Black. At this point you can see a fuller picture and know their trust of themselves and to what degree you can invest your trust in them. This is of immeasurable value in knowing precisely how to relate for maximal well being and integrity for both parties.
The principle that everyone is doing their best at all times given their own state of consciousness and awareness is highly relevant here. Certainly from our perspective, another’s actions, attitudes, thoughts and feelings may make little sense, yet make perfect logical or practical or emotional sense to them. Similarly, moral judgments of right and wrong are inappropriate, not in terms of intention or what results actually occur, but in terms of the person’s model of how life works. Author Neal Donald Walsch underscores this point: “No one does anything that is “wrong,” given their model of the world.” 5
1. Vern Black, Handbook for the Integrity Tone Scale, Third Edition (San Francisco, California: Vern Black and Associates, 1984a); Love Me? Love Yourself. (San Francisco, California: Vern Black and Associates, 1984b); See also Ron Smothermon, Transforming #1. San Francisco, California: Context Publications, 1982, pages 29-63.
2. Gary Emery, “States of Mind: The Interior Map,” Emery News, 3 (8), November 1995, pages 1-4, quote: page 4.
3. Integrity Tone Scale and discussion: Vern Black, Love Me? Love Yourself. (San Francisco, California: Vern Black and Associates, 1984b, scale reference: page 5.
4. Ken Wilber, Integral Spirituality: A Startling New Role for Religion in the Modern and Postmodern World. Boston & London: Integral Books, 2006, pages 54-57, 88-93.
5. Neal Donald Walsch, Conversations With God: An Uncommon Dialogue Book 2. Charlottesville, Virginia: Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc., 1997, quote: page 56.
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Science is simply a process for examining the world, and anyone can do it, even if you don't have a lab coat. If something has an effect or influence, you can try to examine it using the tools of science — so when someone announces that gods cannot be detected by observation or experiment, they are saying they don't matter and don't do anything, which is exactly what this atheist has been saying all along.
So I visited Pharyngula hoping to read something incisive and clever like that. Alas, 'twas not to be. Instead, he has a post ranting again about feminism, mocking Michael Shermer and erecting massive straw men in order to belittle anyone who disagrees with him.
The crux of the rub, and I suspect a big part of what triggers any women's issues post into a mine field, are statements like this:
Most importantly, if you think feminism, that is equality for men and women and opposition to cultural institutions that perpetuate inequities, is irrational, let’s see you explain your opposition rationally.See, I think that the vast majority of rational people, particularly those in the nontheist community, fully support legal equality between men and women. And we acknowledge that there are cultural expectations – gender roles, if you will – that women and men may or may not choose to embrace, and we should be tolerant of and celebrate those differences.
The thorny part comes in just to what degree this is all really relevant in our modern day. Some women, like Rebecca Watson, are utterly convinced that our society is a "patriarchy" that perpetuates the sexual objectification of women, and that such things aren't really a significant issue for men because, well, men are in control since it's their patriarchy. Or something. Other women, like Maria Maltseva, have considerably more moderate views on such issues.
The thing is, we don't all agree on the severity or relevance of this sort of thing. We don't all agree that there actually is a "patriarchy" in modern America. We don't all agree whether ads featuring scantily-clad men or women, in an attempt to appeal to our biology to drive the free market, are indicative of any kind of broad social problem. We don't all agree that, at least in modern America, the areas where women still experience inequality deserve more attention than the areas where men experience inequality – areas such as life expectancy, medical research funding, homelessness, widespread acceptance of male genital mutilation, suicide rates, victims of violence, workplace deaths, domestic violence and family court biases. Some of us have a hard time caring when the Rebecca Watsons of the world complain about sexy women in commercials and being awkwardly invited on a date when in other countries, women are treated like cattle (some of us like, I dunno, Richard Dawkins).
The problem is, though, that in the mind of PZ Myers, Watson, and the those of that ilk, there is no room for measures of disagreement. If you're not totally on board their train, then you are the enemy. You are, as PZ describes it, an "anti-feminist". No – you are not allowed to broadly support women's legal equality and support their right to accept or reject certain normative gender roles while disagreeing about the extent and/or severity of these issues in modern Western civilization. You either swallow the whole doctrine, or you are part of the problem.
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Meet Walk-Man, The Emergency Response Robot
This is Walk-Man – he’s a robot designed to fit in a world built for humans.
Walk-Man can operate tools and interact with his environment in the same way that a person does.
He was built by roboticists from the Italian Institute of Technology and University of Pisa.
They say his anthropomorphic design is better-suited for replacing humans in hazardous environments than wheeled or four-legged robots.
“There’s one factor that everyone agrees, that actually our world, our environment it was designed for our body basically. So, we have tools that are designed to be grasped by humanoid, human hands. You have also areas or access paths that are actually appropriate for our body forms. So it means that if you build a robot that has a very similar form, you need to adapt less the environment in order to have this robot operational within such a space,” Nikos Tsagarakis, IIT senior researcher and Walk-Man project coordinator and scientific coordinator, said.
Standing more than six feet tall, Walk-Man’s head is fitted with a stereo vision system and a rotating 3D laser scanner to help decipher his environment.
His dexterity and strength means he performs tasks with man-like movement.
The team is working on algorithms that will give him the cognitive ability to reach out to support himself while walking over rough terrain.
“We believe that – as humans also do – that legs are not only enough. You have to use also the arms, you have to be able to grasp the environment and actually assist your locomotion by creating additional contacts with the environmental balance. And this will make a big difference in humanoids where currently the technology is limited to the solutions that provide the balance basically only using the lower body. Upper body is also important; especially if you want to pass through —> Read More | <urn:uuid:b944bc15-57ff-479e-97c9-dd7574918c0e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.phenomenica.com/meet-walk-man-the-emergency-response-robot/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00555-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969846 | 393 | 3.296875 | 3 |
Major in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
The major in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology is a traditional program of study in the discipline. The major prepares students for a wide variety of careers as well as further, professional education. It offers the widest variety of options for study at the undergraduate level and later at the graduate or professional level. Students interested in pursuing advanced study in ecology and evolutionary biology, human medicine, veterinary medicine or dentistry will especially want to complete this major.
The major in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology is one of two majors offered by the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department to undergraduate students. The Department also offers a major in Environmental Biology.
- EBIO 1010 – Diversity of Life
- EBIO 1015 – Diversity of Life Laboratory
- CELL 1010 – General Biology
- EBIO 2020 – Theory and Methods in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- EBIO 2070 – Molecular & Evolutionary Genetics
- EBIO 3080 – Processes of Evolution
- EBIO 3040 – General Ecology
- EBIO 3045 – General Ecology Laboratory
- Five courses (three-four credits each) in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, one of which may be from an approved list of courses from other departments.
- Two of the elective courses will be approved laboratory or field-oriented courses.
- Maximum of one three- or four-credit course from EBIO 2910, 2920, 4660, 4910, 4920, 4950, 4960, 4990, or 5000 as one of the lecture electives. (Note: courses in this group taken for fewer than three credits do not count as an elective.)
- Internship studies and seminars cannot count as electives.
Capstone in the EEB Major
- The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology requires the completion of one capstone course.
- Two courses are offered (EBIO 5970, 5971), one in fall and one in the spring. Each one carries two graded credits. Students are required to complete one course, but up to two may be taken for credit.
EBIO 5970, 5971 - Capstone Research Seminars
Pre-requisites: Senior Standing and major in EEBI, ENVB, or ENSB.
Students attend departmental research seminars and meet separately to discuss them as contemporary topics in ecology and evolutionary biology. Career development is also considered in the course. Completion of EBIO 5970 or 5971 satisfies the capstone requirement in the major. Students may, however, earn credit in both courses.
Required Courses from Other Departments
- Two semesters of Mathematics
- A minimum of 6 credits of mathematics is required for the Bachelor's degree. Any two Mathematics courses numbered 1210 and above may be used to satisfy this requirement. However, the combination of MATH 1150 and MATH 1160 (Long Calculus) may count as one course towards this requirement.
- Two semesters of General Chemistry with labs (CHEM 1070/1075, 1080/1085 or H1090/H1095, H1100/H1105)
- Two semesters of Organic Chemistry with labs (CHEM 2410/2430, 2420/2440)
- Courses in Statistics and Physics are highly recommended but not required
Courses Outside EEB that May Count Towards the Major in EEB
Only one course from this list may count toward the major in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEBI). These courses may not be used to satisfy requirements of the major in Environmental Biology (ENVB).
- ANTH 3140 – Primate Behavior and Ecology
- ANTH 3720 – Adaptation and Human Variability
- ANTH 6500 – Human Evolution
Cell and Molecular Biology
- CELL 3750 – Cell Biology
- CELL 3755 – Cell Biology Laboratory
- CELL 3030 – Molecular Biology
- CELL 3035 – Molecular Biology Laboratory
- CELL 4010 – Cellular Biochemistry
- CELL 4110 – Cells and Tissues
- CELL 4160 – Developmental Biology
- CELL 4220 – Microbiology
- CELL 4225 – Microbiology Laboratory
- CHEM 2500 – Environmental Chemistry
- CHEM 3830 – Introduction to Biochemistry
- CHEM 3835 – Introduction to Biochemistry Laboratory
- SCEN 4110/GBCH 6110 - Basic Medical Biochemistry
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Why Shinyakushiji Temple is special ?
Shin-Yakushi-ji was built in 747 by Empress Komyo, who was the wife of Emperor Shomu, so that she would be able to pray for a cure of the Emperors eye ailment. Along with Todai-ji, Shin-Yakushi-ji was one of the biggest temples of that time. According to records, this temple consisted of a large number of buildings, and had 1,000 priests. Soon after this, the temple was destroyed by fire, perhaps as a result of being struck by lightning, so all that remains is the present main hall. The building is designated a National Treasure. The To-mon ("East Gate") and Jizo-do have subsequently been rebuilt.Yakushi-Nyorai-zazo, a seated statue that measures nearly 2 m, is the focus of worship at the temple. This image is carved out of a single block of wood. Other than the eyes, eyebrows and lips, which are colored, nothing has been used to alter the wood. The figure is a leading example of Buddhist sculpture of the 9th century. Also noteworthy are the twelve Shinsho-ritsuzo statues that stand around the image of the Yakushi-Nyorai-zazo. These are believed to have been produced in the 8th century. The oldest of their kind in Japan, they are collectively designated a National Treasure.'
What to explore at Shinyakushiji Temple?
Inside the main hall there are life size statues of 12 guardian deities surrounding a two meter tall statue of a seated Yakushi Buddha, which are the temple's main objects of worship. The Yakushi statue is made of wood while the guardians are made of clay. Each guardian has a different character and possesses a different weapon, and visitors can spend quite a while admiring them. There are also a few small paths around the temple grounds.
How to get to Shinyakushiji Temple?
Shin-Yakushiji Temple is about five minutes by foot south of Nara Park. The temple is also a ten minute walk from the Warishicho bus stop, which can be reached on frequently departing Nara City Loop Buses and other buses from both JR Nara Station (10 minutes, 190 yen, platform 1) and Kintetsu Nara Station (5 minutes, 190 yen, platform 1).
- A small jewel
- Worth the walk
- A large complex of buildings
- Beautiful small paths
- One of the gods of Buddhism
Japan 〒630-8301 奈良県奈良市 高畑町１３５２
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Shin Yakushiji is a small jewel. The Hon-dō, the principal image of Yakushi Nyorai and eleven statues of the Twelve Heavenly Generals have been designated by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of the government of Japan as National Treasures. What is different here in this small quiet compound is at least two things -- the approachability of the statues and the ability to see the artfulness of their expressions close up. Especially if you are tired of very large temples and the inability to feel close up and personal with the statuary inside your usual shrine or temple, this is a fun place. One way to see this is to start your (half) day at Todaiji (the big Buddha), then turn up the hill to Nigatsu-do. Leave Nigatsu-do and walk south along the brow of the hill to Kasuga Shrine. Continue to walk along the brow of the hill until you reach a street on the south side of the Kasuga park. Turn right down the street and look for signs on the left to Shin Yakushiji, which will be up the hill to your left about a quarter mile. Closes at 17:00 so pace the hike so you are not late. I've been here on three different trips to the Kanto sightseeing, and will visit again on my next trip! | <urn:uuid:375f704e-f6f2-4f6b-8cba-2bd9150a41ab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://m.justgola.com/a/shinyakushiji-temple-1978050262 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.955116 | 998 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Signed, lower right: Grosz (in German script); lower right: Berliner Strasse
German Club, Winter 2019
20th Century Masters from the Permanent Collection, Barrows Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 3-March 5, 1978.
Curator's Choice: Dartmouth College Permanent Collection, Jaffe-Friede, Strauss, and Barrows Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 29, 1976-January 16, 1977.
On the Road, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 11-February 8, 1984.
Rococo to Modernism: European Drawings and Watercolors from the Permanent Collection and Dartmouth's Alumni, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 30-May 30, 2004.
Collection of Galerien Flechtheim, Berlin and Dusseldorf, Germany [dates unknown]; Sanford Ross, Woodstock, Vermont; given to present collection, 1951.
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Target: President Barack Obama
Goal: Force major supermarkets to donate their leftover food to homeless shelters instead of throwing it away.
Supermarkets are throwing away perfectly good food instead of donating unsold groceries to the homeless. France recently passed legislation forcing supermarkets to donate their leftover food to homeless shelters rather than throwing it away. The new law states that French supermarkets must sign deals with charities by next year or face major penalties. However, supermarkets here in the United States and abroad have taken immense measures to ensure hungry people cannot go through their trash bins to get food. Some supermarkets even pour bleach over their trashcans or hide it from the public. We must use this food to combat the hunger crisis instead of throwing it in the trash.
In 2014, 48 million Americans lived in households without food security. Meanwhile, perfectly edible food was thrown away and wasted by major grocers. In 2010, 133 billion pounds of food was wasted in America, equaling about 161 billion dollars of wasted food. That is enough food to feed millions of families instead of being wasted in a landfill. We should be using this food to combat these two major issues in America, homelessness and environmental waste.
One man lost his job after taking food from a trash bin to feed his family. Others face public embarrassment by having to dig through dumpsters to feed their families when their minimum wage jobs do not give them enough money to afford groceries. We cannot allow hungry people to suffer when viable solutions are available. Sign this petition and demand that the United States follow in France’s footsteps and force supermarkets to donate their leftover food to shelters or feeding banks.
Dear President Obama,
The United States is facing a major food crisis. In 2014, 48 million Americans could not guarantee food security for their families and faced the fear of not being able to put food on the table for their children. Families have resorted to going through dumpsters of grocery stores to find food. One man even lost his job after being reported for taking food out of a garbage bin to feed his family.
In 2010, 31 percent of America’s food was thrown out while being perfectly edible. That equals 133 billion pounds of food and 161 billion dollars of usable food thrown away. Considering our waste epidemic as well as our hunger crisis, we should not be so wasteful with usable resources. France recently passed legislation to combat their similar issues, making it illegal for supermarkets to throw out usable food. All major supermarkets must sign contracts with charities to donate their food and failure to do so will result in major penalties.
I urge you to pass legislation for the United States that force supermarkets to make deals with homeless shelters and food banks to donate their unsold food. Donating unsold food will keep American citizens from going hungry as well as cut down on waste pollution.
[Your Name Here]
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Knesset Members, Aliyah groups and officials from the Absorption and Finance Ministries gathered at the Knesset Tuesday to establish the Knesset Lobby for Western Aliyah (immigration to Israel).
The lobby was launched by MK Gilad Erdan (Likud) and MK Yoel Hasson (Kadima).
“There are more than eight million Jews in Western nations that we hope will make Aliyah to Israel,” Erdan said, opening the discussion. “This hope does not differ inside or outside the coalition – whether on the right or the left. But there are obstacles and specific issues that we as Knesset Members hear about from individual olim and Aliyah organizations alike. The purpose of this lobby is to identify where new legislation is needed to rectify those obstacles.”
Former Israeli Ambassador to the US Danny Ayalon, now the Chairman of the Nefesh B’Nefesh Aliyah organization said that Israel was founded on two principles, both necessitating establishing facts on the ground: “Ingathering the exiles and redeeming the land,” he said. “The vision is to recognize and differentiate between Aliyah from the West and past waves of Aliyah. What we have here is the recognition that the Zionist spirit is not passé. Jewish communities in America, Canada and UK are showing that if you thought that Jews only make Aliyah when they are in crisis – you are incorrect. Here are Jews from the fleshpots choosing to move to Israel.”
Ayalon said that the lobby must deal with the pressing issues faced by the Western olim, many arriving with one or two degrees at least. “We must adjust and streamline the process of registering and converting their licenses – be they lawyers, doctors, psychologists or others - so they can join the job market. Tax laws must be adjusted to encourage the moving of businesses here.”
Ayalon is optimistic. “If Nefesh B’Nefesh has brought 14,000 olim until today, with 20,000 people on waiting lists – we expect to realistically reach the number 100,000 in the coming years.”
MK Uri Ariel (National Union) called for the government to put all its resources at the disposal of the organizations like Nefesh B’Nefesh, who are working to increase Aliyah from the West. “The motor that powers all aspects of Israel to move forward is Aliyah,” he said. “What are they waiting for? I think the organizations have moved forward and they now have the right to set certain demands before us to stand up and prove we are willing to help. Of course these must be conveyed in an organized work plan, but the end result must be legislation.”
Ethiopian Jewish oleh (immigrant to Israel) MK Shlomo Mula (Kadima) said that Aliyah is “the challenge of this generation’s Zionism.”
Fellow Kadima MK Ronit Tirosh said she does not think it is clear to Jews across the world that Israel is the place for them. “For this we need PR. I don’t think this is being done now. We must not wait until there is Anti-Semitism – because that kind of Aliyah comes from a lower place – they don’t have another choice. Western Aliyah is a different story altogether.” Tirosh said the new lobby should include Director Generals of the Finance, Aliyah, Employment and Tax Authorities.
Absorption Ministry Director-General Erez Halfon said that one of the serious issues is that communities in the US would prefer that the Jews remain in their communities there. “The task is much harder – to bring olim from the West – than we have ever faced. There is a question of how to convince the communities to encourage their members to move to Israel? We in the ministry have launched a campaign to convince Israelis, concentrated in North America to return home. That involved conflicts as well with our consulates, who allot resources to making life comfortable for Israelis there on a certain level.”
Halfon also lamented that there are sources overseas offering Israelis incentives to leave the Jewish homeland. “There is a competition today among institutions paying Israeli students to do their degrees overseas,” he said.
The Jewish Agency’s Secretary-General Moshe Vigdor spoke about the quasi-governmental agency’s new push for low-pressure trial Aliyah. “Today is not like the old Aliyah where the olim arrive and tear up their passports. People today commute, people make Aliyah in stages. Families come one by one.”
The mayors of Ariel, in Samaria, and Modi’in, located between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv also addressed the lobby. “With all due respect, at the end of the day it is the local authorities who provide the absorption: the ulpan, the warm hug, all the multiple needs,” said Ariel Mayor Ron Nachman. I recommend that in order for this to succeed a decision must be made as to the role of local government in these matters.” Nachman suggested a government task force that would meet regularly with representatives of the various Aliyah organizations and local governments to inform them of issues facing olim and address them head on.
Avi Mantel of the French version of Nefesh B’Nefesh – AMI – warned that the momentum of immigration from France should not be taken for granted. “[Newly elected French President Nicholas] Sarkozy’s embrace has not been a good thing for Aliyah from France,” he said.
Erdan acknowledged the request for help in removing the obstacles placed in the paths of olim seeking to convert their professional licenses. “There are certain guilds that are acting to create obstacles for foreign olim,” he said. “We seek to act to help out in this regard. We need specific recommendations from your experience where we are needed to act.”
Yishai Fleisher, co-founder of the Kumah Aliyah movement, asked lobby members to differentiate between two issues: “There are two things here that we often mix: one is the absorption, and one is the call from Israel for Jews to come. The latter is what this lobby must focus on. I am suggesting ideas like Aliyah Day – Oleh Day – where the state can broadcast that we appreciate our olim.” Fleisher mentioned other ideas such as dispatching Israeli musicians and delegations to inspire Diaspora Jews and invite them “home” on behalf of the State of Israel.
MK Stas Misezhnikov (Yisrael Beiteinu), Chairman of the Knesset Finance Committee, said he “connected” with Fleisher’s approach: “I remember that before I was in the Knesset I worked in marketing for a natural health products company. And I remember we used to send invitations out to the Jewish communities. Israel must behave as a business that seeks to market itself as a place to live. I am willing to hold a meeting in this regard to deal with financing these initiatives.”
MK Erdan thanked the nine MKs from across the political spectrum for attending the launch of the lobby and said the next step is to formulate a national plan to encourage Aliyah from the West. He invited the mayors, MKs, organizations and officials present to all submit position papers on the subject that will be compiled, distributed to the Prime Minister and all government ministries and discussed at the next meeting, where a united list of priorities will begin to take shape.
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Whether you’ve recently discovered a passion for another industry or you’re returning to work, there are a wide range of courses available that have minimum entry requirements to help you achieve your career change goals. These can provide the perfect introduction to that industry, and open doors to new career ideas.
Primary School Teacher
Looking at a career change after having children, or seeking a change of scenery from the business world?
A role as a primary school teacher could offer the work-life balance and career satisfaction you’re looking for if:
- You’re young at heart and enjoy spending time with children
- You’re extremely organised, patient, and creative
- Your DVD collection includes a handful of Disney classics
Teaching involves the use of many transferable skills you may have learned in the past, such as planning, administration, communication and negotiation.
Begin your career transition into full-time teaching with a Bachelor of Education (Primary), which will qualify you to teach in primary schools and early childhood settings across Australia.
Community Services Case Worker
Do you have your sights set on a rewarding role where you’ll work with families, children, and people in need of additional support?
If you’re a skilled communicator and want to make a difference, you could find your true calling as a community services caseworker, health education officer, or welfare support worker. This could be the ideal career change for you, if:
- You’re naturally empathetic, and the first person your friends go to for advice
- You have an interest in making a positive impact in your community
- You’re passionate about advocacy and family support
Any existing skills you have in communication, priority management, and planning could also lend themselves to a new career in community services. Make the change by studying a Diploma of Community Services (CHC52015) and get your foot in the door.
If you’re an analytical thinker and you have an interest in human behaviour, crime and the justice system, a career as a criminologist may be right up your alley.
Criminologists study and analyse crimes and the people who commit them, and play an important role in contributing to policy-making relating to the judicial system.
You may be interested in adjusting your career trajectory towards criminology if:
- You’ve been personally impacted by crime and want to make a positive difference
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- Your Foxtel DVR is packed with true crime documentaries, and you’ve just finished binge-watching How to Make a Murderer
Begin your career change with a Bachelor of Social Science With a Major in Criminology, which will qualify graduates to work as as a crime prevention officer, forensic analyst, criminal profiler, or criminal support officer.
If you are passionate about the form and function of residential and commercial buildings, it’s never too late to change to career in building design or architectural drafting.
This could be the perfect career for you, if:
- You spent hours sketching your dream home as a kid (and still do as an adult)
- You’re fascinated by architecture, and love looking at buildings whenever you travel
- You never miss an episode of Grand Designs
Though a natural flair for sketching and an analytic mind can certainly lend themselves to this industry, you’ll also need to use transferable skills such as communicating with clients, and developing concepts through research to completion.
A Diploma of Building Design (CPP50911) requires no previous experience to get started, and graduates will be qualified to work as a building designer or draftsperson.
Interested in working within the healthcare sector or want to put your existing skills in administration=and team management to good use?
A career as a practice manager may be your calling if:
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Scrabble word: AUTOMAKERS
In which Scrabble dictionary does AUTOMAKERS exist?
Definitions of AUTOMAKERS in dictionaries:
- noun - a business engaged in the manufacture of automobiles
There are 10 letters in AUTOMAKERS: A A E K M O R S T U
All anagrams that could be made from letters of word AUTOMAKERS plus a wildcard: AUTOMAKERS?
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Korean cooking forum topics
Can anyone give me a
,daily korean diet, like what a week would look like? I know it is very healthy and want to learn what and how to ,eat korean!, Thankyou,
Daily korean diet is like a daily american diet. It changes from day to day, but there are staples. Morning is rice and fish with condiments on the side. kimchi, veggies, kim, soup. often times, families will have juk in the morning. it depends on how busy the day is and what the season is. Lunch is also variable. evening meal again varies, but centers again around a table with a variety of condiments on the table with a center dish of some kind of fish and or soup with everyone having a bowl of rice and sharing the condiments.
While I was in Korea, our dinner varied daily. Sometimes we would have a noodle dish like jajangmyeon and maybe a couple fried mandu. Or we would have mandu guk and some condiments. Or we would have daenjang soup with rice or kimchi soup or with rice or sundubu soup for dinner. Sometimes it was a treat to have Chinese fried chicken or pork or sushi or sometimes just some Dakgalbi.
During the summer we had cold noodle dishes. The level of healthy cooking is dependent on the cook. But Korean foods tend to have more vegetables and fiber and some Koreans eat less fried foods as a mainstay and far fewer desserts.
There is much salt and Fat in some Korean food depending on the cooking method. However, if you go to Korea, you will find fried fatty food EVERYWHERE!
There are a variety of dishes in Korean cuisine, and your question is not a simple one to answer, but I will try to give you a simple answer anyway!
Home meals usually consist of rice, side dishes, soup and a main dish.
The side dishes are kimchis, prepared vegetables, fried vegetables, marinated vegetables, beans and anchovies.
Soups are simple broths with a few ingredients, like bean sprout soup or beef broth with radish.
Main dishes are fried fish, grilled meats, or stews.
Breakfast and lunch are commonly a simple soup with rice and a couple of side dishes.
Dinner is the same, but with a main dish and more side dishes.
Lunch is rarely eaten at home because everyone is working or at school!
Other popular foods that are eaten at home include curries (for kids), Chinese-style foods like Jja-jang-myun and jjampong (often ordered-in), ddokbokki, noodle dishes of all kinds, and western-style foods like sandwiches.
Side dishes are very important – people have their favorites, but the mark of a great housewife is one who makes all side-dishes from scratch and includes many side-dishes in her families meals. No pressure or anything!
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Tuesday, October 09, 2012
Employment stopped growing quickly some time ago...
Yet job vacancies remain high:
Today the RBA's Philip Lowe came up with an explanation:
"There is some evidence that the changes taking place have led to a higher rate of job turnover in recent times than has been the case for the past two decades. The number of people who left a job over the year to February 2012, as a share of those employed some time during the year, was the highest in two decades, with fairly high rates of both voluntary and involuntary separations.
This high rate of turnover, with relatively modest aggregate employment growth, is consistent with a lot of new job opportunities opening up in various parts of the economy and, at the same time, other jobs ceasing to exist. Another indication of this is that the official measure of job vacancies has remained relatively high, yet employment growth has been relatively subdued."
There's much, much more in the speech -- including this unsettling graph:
The Labour Market and Structural Change
. Switching jobs. The turbulence beneath the smooth job market surface
. It's getting easier to find a job in NSW, harder in Victoria
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By Antonia von Alten
NEW YORK—Six months after extremist Muslims attacked Christians and burned down a number of churches, the local faithful remain fearful—but a local bishop reported that Catholic life in Niger continues to flourish.
In an interview with international Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need, Bishop Ambroise Ouédraogo of Maradi recalled the events of Jan. 7, 2015, when Muslims—goaded on by the deadly attack on the Paris-based satirical magazine “Charlie Hebdo”—rioted in the capital city of Niger and the town of Zinder. In the end, save for the cathedral in Niamey and a single church outside the city, every single church in the country was attacked, looted and set on fire.
The violence came as a big shock in a country where Muslims and Christians had lived together in relative harmony. “Why did they attack us, especially since we have had such a good mutual understanding,” the bishop asked, while speculating that “they mixed up ‘Charlie Hebdo’ with Christianity,” as if Christians had drawn the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that the Paris weekly was known for.
The bishop said: “Freedom of the press in Europe is fine. But you have to handle this freedom with caution and be aware of the impact it will have in other countries. The sensibilities in Africa are different from those in Europe.”
Fearing further attacks, some 200 Christians from Zinder fled to the neighboring countries of Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin and even Nigeria. Most have since returned. The local community now celebrates Mass in the open or in halls decorated for the occasion. Yet, the people’s faith is strong, said the bishop: “Living communities have emerged and I believe that is a blessing.”
Still today, Muslims don’t know how they should conduct themselves towards Christians after the attacks. “They’re out of their depth,” said Bishop Ouédraogo; “they are sorry for what happened, but they can’t say it officially.” So far, no one has been charged in the violence.
Many Muslims were amazed that Niger’s Catholic bishops quickly proclaimed forgiveness of the perpetrators. “They set fire to our churches, but our hearts are still ablaze with love for them. Christian or Muslim—God wishes good fortune for all people,” the prelate said.
Through an interreligious commission, Niger’s Catholics and Muslims collaborate in the area of education and charitable work, as both communities help build up one of the poorest countries in the world, which is regularly plagued by drought and famine. Of the population of 17 million, 98 percent are Muslims; there are just 21,000 Catholics in Niger, comprising the Archdiocese of Niamey and the Diocese of Maradi. | <urn:uuid:e34b001a-a059-4625-886f-ac5d7141c3d4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.catholiclane.com/niger-they-set-fire-to-our-churches-but-we-still-love-them/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00557-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965322 | 597 | 1.882813 | 2 |
Medicare in New York
Whether you are living in the Big Apple, Rochester, Albany, or any of the smaller cities and towns around the state, health insurance is critical to have in the state of New York. The state has fantastic natural beauty, and the city of New York is known for its performance art. There are many other things to do and see in New York, and in order to be able to enjoy them, you will want to have a health insurance plan. This is especially true for people over the age of 65.
People over the age of 65 can qualify for Medicare insurance, and there are other ways that people can be eligible as well. Here, you can learn about the eligibility for health insurance plans through Medicare in the state, as well as whether or not you qualify. Keep reading to find general Medicare information for the state as well.
If you are approaching the age of 65, it is time to start making sure you are well situated with an insurance policy that works for you. After reading this article, utilize the tools on this website to get free quotes for health insurance policies and select the best plan for your unique situation.
General Medicare Information In New York
Over one-third of Medicare beneficiaries in 2020 will be enrolled in Medicare Advantage Plans. These plans can go through changes from one year to the next, so make sure to evaluate differences in your policy and check to see if another policy is more suitable. New policies can also be introduced, having an impact on people’s insurance decisions. Make sure to consider your total out-of-pocket spending, regardless of the plans you are looking at. This includes more than just your premiums.
Some professionals recommend ignoring that you already have a plan that works for you and simply reevaluating everything. You will want to take a look at changes to your premiums, deductibles, co-pays, covered services, as well as which doctors, pharmacies, hospitals, and providers are now covered. If you have doctors or specialists you prefer, check and make sure that they will still be accepted under the plan.
Also, keep in mind that your health may change or may have changed over the last year. Do not assume it will not get worse over the course of the year you are purchasing insurance for. With people over the age of 65, more than 80% take at least two prescription drugs, and over 50% take four or more. Even if you have great health, you might not in a number of months.
Medicare Insurance Plan Types In New York
Numerous plan types are available to you if you live in New York. This includes plans like Medicare Part A, Medicare Part B, Medicare Part C, and Medicare Part D. Each of these plans provide coverage for different things, and knowing what each covers can help you decide which is best for you.
Original Medicare includes both Medicare Parts A and B. Most people in Medicare will purchase these plans, and all Medicare Part A and Medicare Part B plans include the same things. This means that you will want to be comparing customer service, price, and other variables of the plans when making your decision.
Medicare Part A provides financial protection for several types of care. Beneficiaries of this plan can go to a doctor, specialist, or hospital that accepts Medicare. Inpatient care at hospitals, in addition to hospice care, inpatient care at skilled nursing facilities, and skilled nursing facility care are covered. These things are covered when medically necessary, as are the services in Medicare Part B.
Medicare Part B covers services that are deemed to be medically necessary, including preventative services. Some services under this plan are only covered in specific circumstances. Things like ambulance services, durable medical equipment, mental health services, and more are covered under this plan. Outpatient services can also be covered.
Medicare Advantage, also called Medicare Part C, is another option that people have. These plans cover everything in Medicare Part A and Medicare Part B, but also provide additional coverages. Each of these plans can be different, so comparing and getting free quotes for health insurance here on this site is essential.
Medicare Part D covers prescription drug costs. There are also Medigap plans that provide supplemental insurance to cover other out-of-pocket expenses you would normally be having to pay without a Medigap plan.
Who Is Eligible For Medicare In New York?
People who have turned 65 are eligible for Medicare in New York. There are specific circumstances where people under the age of 65 are also eligible, including those with certain disabilities. | <urn:uuid:2a000c9d-5f97-4024-a634-bd3fdc48cc64> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.procarept.org/states/medicare-in-new-york | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.958546 | 933 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Bolting sentence example
She hesitated only a moment longer before bolting and disappearing up a set of stairs.
But all other complicated forms have to be united by other means - as welding, soldering, riveting or bolting.
The two first-named are trustworthy, but are evidently unsuitable for the greater portion of engineers' work, for which .riveting and bolting are the methods adopted.
Or, I can cancel, and we can live out the—" "No, thanks," she said, standing and all but bolting out of his suite.
The bolting machine is also very impressive (it makes tapping away with a bolting kit seem really hard work ).Advertisement
As you do this, you may find it helpful to hold the ends of the towel together at her neck to prevent your cat from bolting.
You may have an easier time putting the tank on the bowl of the toilet and bolting it down when it's in the center of the room, than once it's on the pipe if you are using a two piece toilet.
After that, it's a matter of bolting the track and connecting it to the canopy to illuminate your home room.
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Guests will be piling snacks onto paper plates and venturing through your house, mingling and then bolting toward the TV at every touchdown.
This was stopped almost entirely by the Prussian artillery fire; but the news of its coming spread through the stragglers in the ravine south of the great road, and a wave of panic again swept through the mass, many thousands bolting right upon the front of their own batteries, thus masking their fire at the most critical moment, and something like a crisis in the battle arose.
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OBJECT OF SKITGUBBE: The object of Skitgubbe is to not be the last player holding cards.
NUMBER OF PLAYERS: 2 to 4 players
MATERIALS: A standard 52 card deck, a way to keep score, and a flat surface.
TYPE OF GAME: Trick-Taking Card Game
OVERVIEW OF SKITGUBBE
Skitgubbe is a trick-taking card game playable by 2 to 4 players. The goal of the game is to collect cards in phase one and then empty your hand as quickly as possible in phase two. The last player with cards in hand is the loser.
The game is played in two phases, and there is not a winner, only the loser.
The dealer is chosen at random. They will shuffle the deck and deal each player a hand of 3 cards. the remaining cards form a face-down stockpile.
The ranking is traditional with Ace (high), King, Queen, Jack, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, and 2 (low).
The game has two phases. After the first phase is completed the second phase starts immediately. You will be using the first round to collects cards for your hand, and the second round to empty your hand as quickly as possible.
The first phase involves playing two card tricks. Suit does not matter, and players are not required to follow suit or try to win tricks. the player to the dealer’s left starts the first trick by playing any card. The player to their left will finish the trick by playing a card from their hand. the player to play the higher-ranked card regardless of suit wins the trick. After the trick, both players draw from the stock so that you always have 3 cards in hand. The cards from the trick are collected into a pile next to the winner’s facedown and the winner must start the next trick.
If two cards of the same rank are played to a trick, then the trick is not won by either player. the cards remain on the table and the same player leads again. Once the trick is won by a player, they collect all the cards in the trick.
A player may choose instead of playing from their hand to reveal the top card of the discard and use that for the trick. This can only be done if there is more than 1 card remaining in the stock. Once a card is revealed this way it must be played and cannot be taken into the player’s hand.
The player who would draw the last card 토토사이트추천 the stock instead reveals it to all players. It is their card to play but it must stay revealed until the end of the first phase. This card’s suit determined the trump suit for the second phase.
Once the stock is emptied the play continues until the player who must play for turn has no cards in hand. Any players with remaining cards in hand must reveal these and keep them for phase two. Also, if the final trick could not be completed the players who played cards to it must take back all their cards.
The full deck is now dealt to each player. the hands will be uneven as some players will have won more cards in phase one than others. In the unlikely circumstance that a player has no cards going into phase two, they are out of the game and have not lost.
The goal now is to empty your hand as quickly as possible by playing tricks.
The first trick is lead by the last player to win a trick in phase one. To play to the trick the following players must either beat the card with one of higher rank of the same suit or a trump. Any trump beats a regular card.
If a player cannot or wishes not to play a card to the trick, they must draw the highest (or last played) card of the current trick. then their turn is over, and the next player plays. A trick is finished either when a number of cards equal to the number of players when the trick started are played, or all the cards from the trick have been drawn by players.
If the trick is finished by number of cards, then the last player to play to the trick has won and will set aside all of the cards used in this trick and start the next trick. if all cards are drawn then the player left of the player who drew the last card starts the next trick.
Once a player has played out their last card they are out of the game and can no longer be the loser.
END OF GAME
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“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names (slurs) will never hurt me…”
That may be true, but it shouldn’t be a precursor to murder.
The discussion over the beating death of Marcellus Andrews of Waterloo has brought up a litany of angles and different perspectives over whether or not Andrews was gay (his sister said he wasn’t, per the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier) to the ever-ending list of violence among youths, particularly on the east side of Waterloo.
As a native of Waterloo, I didn’t feel comfortable coming out right away and offering any opinion or comment. Stuff like needs several days to simmer before knowing what the details are and writing an opinion. This I can be sure of: something did happened between Andrews and his murderers that provoke the deadly beating. That is a fact.
Was it a hate crime? Andrews’ family sides with the Waterloo police by saying it wasn’t a hate crime. Others will beg to disagree.
But, to disagree with the family’s, and the police department’s, assertion that it was not a hate crime, would imply that others think they know more about Marcellus than Marcellus’ family does. Is it fair for me, or anyone else, to make an assertion that Andrews was gay and that his family is covering up the fact or are in denial of that notion?
That’s about as reckless of an assertion to make, and a terrible one at that. His family knows Marcellus more than Des Moines Human Rights commissioner Rudy Simms, One Iowa, and I combined. Even if they were to ever admit that Marcellus was gay or exude behavior that would be type-casted as gay, his family isn’t going to tell you. That’s their right and their privacy.
So, what about the words that were used towards Andrews when he was confronted and then was beaten up? Were they just words, or was there an intent to say something about him prior to beating him, causing his death? Today, insensitive and derogatory words to describe an individual have become a flash-point of discussion and debate. Do these words define a person is a hate-monger, racist, misogynist? The easy answer is yes. But, is it as clear-cut as we want to make it out to be?
That depends on who you ask. The African-American clergy and their parishioners are not going to come out and support gays and lesbians in public. Some of them won’t admit in private either. Which is why individuals who have never lived in Waterloo are having a difficult time understanding why the black community have refuse to accept it was a hate crime, with respects to the LGBT community and culture.
That is what makes the Andrews beating death a conundrum: was it a hate crime or another sad case of black-on-black street crime?
The African-American community is religiously conservative when it comes to gays and lesbians. Progression has been made for the LGBT to gain acceptance, but the wall that has been constructed by the black church and black community is one that will take so much more significant time to tear down the brick facade, chip by chip. | <urn:uuid:218f080d-7c53-45e7-ba03-54a618c6c0e6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://civilityisnotdead.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/just-a-senseless-beating-death/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00266.warc.gz | en | 0.98105 | 679 | 2.03125 | 2 |
What Are Unsaturated Hydrocarbons?
Hydrocarbons are compounds that contain only carbon and hydrogen. The carbon atoms in hydrocarbons may share single, double, or triple covalent bonds. Unsaturated hydrocarbons contain at least one double or triple bond between carbon atoms. They are classified on the basis of their bonds as alkenes, aromatic hydrocarbons, or alkynes.
Q: Why do you suppose hydrocarbons with double or triple bonds are called unsaturated?
A: A carbon atom always forms four covalent bonds. Carbon atoms with double or triple bonds are unable to bond with as many hydrogen atoms as they could if they were joined only by single bonds. This makes them unsaturated with hydrogen atoms.
Unsaturated hydrocarbons that contain one or more double bonds are called alkenes. The name of a specific alkene always ends in –ene and has a prefix indicating the number of carbon atoms. The structural formula in the Figure below represents the smallest alkene, named ethene, which has two carbon atoms and four hydrogen atoms (C2H4). Ethene is produced by most fruits and vegetables. It speeds up ripening. The Figure below show the effects of ethene on bananas.
The bananas on the left were stored in a special bag that absorbs ethene. The bananas on the right were stored without a bag.
Alkenes can have different shapes. They can form straight chains, branched chains, or rings. Alkenes with the same atoms but different shapes are called isomers. Smaller alkenes have relatively high boiling and melting points, so they are gases at room temperature. Larger alkenes have lower boiling and melting points, so they are liquids or waxy solids at room temperature.
Unsaturated hydrocarbons called aromatic hydrocarbons are cyclic hydrocarbons that have double bonds. These compounds have six carbon atoms in a ring with alternating single and double bonds. The smallest aromatic hydrocarbon is benzene, which has just one ring. Its structural formula is shown in the Figure below. Larger aromatic hydrocarbons consist of two or more rings, which are joined together by bonds between their carbon atoms. The name of aromatic hydrocarbons comes from their strong aroma, or scent. That’s why they are used in air fresheners and mothballs.
Q: How many bonds does each carbon atom in benzene form?
A: Each carbon atom forms four covalent bonds. Carbon atoms always form four covalent bonds, regardless of the atoms to which it bonds.
Unsaturated hydrocarbons that contain one or more triple bonds are called alkynes. The names of specific alkynes always end in –yne and have a prefix for the number of carbon atoms. The structural formula in the Figure below represents the smallest alkyne, named ethyne, which has two carbon atoms and two hydrogen atoms (C2H2). Ethyne is also called acetylene. It is burned in acetylene torches, like the one pictured in the Figure below. The flame of an acetylene torch is so hot that it can melt metal.
Cutting metal with an acetylene (ethyne) torch.
Alkynes may form straight or branched chains. They rarely occur in ring shapes. In fact, alkynes of all shapes are relatively rare in nature.
- Unsaturated hydrocarbons are hydrocarbons with at least one double or triple bond between carbon atoms.
- Alkenes are unsaturated hydrocarbons with at least one double bond between carbon atoms.
- Aromatic hydrocarbons are unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbons with alternating single and double bonds between carbon atoms.
- Alkynes are unsaturated hydrocarbons with at least one triple bond between carbon atoms.
- What does it mean for a hydrocarbon to be unsaturated?
- Which chemical formula could represent an unsaturated hydrocarbon?
- Which of the following hydrocarbons has a double bond between carbon atoms?
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In the lounge of Cristina Belgioioso
The Princess Cristina Belgioioso was a woman of a thousand faces: writer and patriot impatient fighter against the foreign oppression. Aa woman of “ beauty thirsting for truth” as her friend the German poet Heinrich Heine used to call her.
The tale of the adventurous and exciting life of Princess Cristina Belgioioso is settled in a contemporary living room. During the years of her exile in Paris she opened her home to artists and actors in the Italian fight for the Risorgimento. Her lounge became one of the most important in Paris and was attended by artists such as Stendhal, Dumas, Heine, Liszt, Bellini. Rich, intelligent and eccentric, Cristina Belgioioso lived a full and rich life out of the traditional schemes of the time to which she belonged and unfortunately sank into oblivion after her death.
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Huggies DryNites are pyjama pants for girls aged 8-15 years to help manage bedwetting.
Huggies DryNites come with a Leak Lock System for overnight absorbency and leakage protection.
Bedwetting is quite common and can be just a stage that children go through. DryNites can make this difficult and embarrassing problem a little easier by providing discrete and absorbent protection. DryNites not only protects your child’s self-esteem by providing them with the tool to manage this stage themselves, but they also help your child get a good night’s sleep.
Features of Huggies DryNites:
- Each pant has underwear like designs so they look like regular underwear which is more comfortable and discrete
- Prints in colours and designs tailored to boys and girls
- Leak guards for protection against leakage. DryNites unique Leak Lock system has an exclusive protection layer that quickly draws and locks away moisture into the super absorbent core
- Have a comfortable, snug and secure fit in any sleeping position
- Internal elastic waistband for a more close fit
- Soft stretchy sides to fit just like underwear
Disposal Instructions: Remove the pant using the tear-open sides. Discard soiled pyjama pants into waste bin. DO NOT FLUSH PANTS DOWN TOILET.
Caution: Choking may result from anything children put in their mouths. To avoid the risk of choking, do not allow your child to tear the pants. Discard any torn or unsealed pants. Like most articles of clothing, pyjama pants will burn if exposed to flame. Always keep your child away from any source of flame. To avoid suffocation, please keep plastic bags away from children. | <urn:uuid:377b5be5-9ab2-44d6-88ed-ce85c4c57589> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.yourchemistshop.com.au/huggies-dry-nite-girl-9-8-15yrs.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00233-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913243 | 363 | 1.617188 | 2 |
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Making it? Or faking it?
The ancient Japanese art of raku pottery is highly dramatic -- the colorful one-of-a-kind pots are pulled from the kiln, glowing and red-hot. But when Nancy and her friends visit a local crafts village, Bess is the one who nearly goes up in flames when she's showered with sparks! And that's only the beginning.
Nancy's been alerted by Theresa Kim, a rising young artist at the village, that someone is producing brilliantly made fakes and selling them as antiques -- for lots of money. Now the pressure is on for others to join the illegal operation. When Nancy starts to investigate, she discovers that amid the beautiful treasures lurks a very clever -- and dangerous -- counterfeiter. If Nancy doesn't watch her step, she may be the one going up in smoke! | <urn:uuid:777646f9-81d8-482f-b8cc-55ca21f2bf4f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://search.overdrive.com/media/20950/the-secret-of-the-fiery-chamber | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00073.warc.gz | en | 0.952111 | 198 | 1.820313 | 2 |
VANCOUVER — The sight of homeowners setting their drinking water on fire is pretty dramatic.
But scientists say the controversial and fast-growing energy sector practice of "fracking" to get at natural gas pockets underground has been unfairly blamed for the contamination.
It is more likely the flammable water, reported by some people living near some U.S. fracking operations, is linked to ground spills and problems that are not unique to the process also known as hydraulic fracturing, says Chip Groat of the University of Texas.
He led a study, released here Thursday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, that found "no direct connection" between groundwater contamination and fracking.
The process, used in many parts of the U.S. and Western Canada, pumps millions of litres of water and chemicals deep underground to fracture rock and extract natural gas.
It has fuelled widespread concern about groundwater contamination, with some landowners pointing to their flammable tap water as evidence.
"They were able to set the water on fire, so something in going on," says Groat.
But he and his colleagues could find no link between the flammable tap water and the fracking process going on thousands of metres underground.
Their study, which looked at areas where fracking has taken place in Texas, Pennsylvania and New York, found that the groundwater contamination often can be traced to above-ground spills or mishandling of wastewater associated with the gas extraction process.
"These problems are not unique to hydraulic fracturing," says Groat, who undertook the study to try separate "fact from fiction." It was funded by the Energy Institute at University of Texas.
Hydraulic fracturing been described as a "game-changer" since it could provide enough clean and affordable natural gas to meet North America's energy needs for decades to come.
"I think it is, in fact, a revolution," says Groat.
Given the enormous potential he and his colleagues say it is important to better understand and monitor the impacts. Along with groundwater contamination, there are concerns fracking operations are producing huge amounts of waste water and releasing methane, a potent greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere. It also has been linked to seismic activity.
Fracking has been associated with many small earthquakes in northeastern British Columbia. The earthquakes ranged from 2.5 to 3.5 on the Richter scale, which is not enough to cause damage.
"Small to potentially moderate-size earthquakes have been triggered by the re-injection of waste water during the fracking process," says geologist John Claque, from Simon Fraser University, who will discuss the issue at the conference Friday.
"Large earthquakes are unlikely, but one cannot completely rule them out," he said by email.
Clague sees "possible water contamination" as the larger issue.
"My advice is to focus to the risks to drinking water and the greenhouse gas implications of fracking," he says.
Environmental concerns have slowed fracking in some areas and have led to moratoriums in Quebec and New Jersey.
Groat says groundwater contamination in some areas probably can be traced to natural sources that were present before the onset of shale gas operations.
But the lack of data on what the groundwater was like before fracking operations started "hobbles" efforts to evaluate the impacts.
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Geraille National Park
Gerale National Park (also called Gerale National Park) is a new park and it lies in Liben Zone in the Southwest part of the Somali National Regional State. In Liben Zone, it is located in the eastern part of Moyale Woreda. It is about 900 km southeast of Addis Ababa and 120 km northeast of Moyale. The park cover around 38,580 ha of the total 104,230 ha of area of the Dawa ecosystem. The area encompasses what used to be previously known as the Borana Controlled Hunting Area in Southern Ethiopia. The Park was proposed to conserve various savannah wildlife including rare animals like, Giraffe, African Elephant and even the Black Rhinoceros. Although local people claim to have seen the latter visits to the area have proved otherwise.
Gerale has low human population density but is relatively rich in wildlife resources. Altitude ranges from 800 meter above sea level on the banks if the Dawa River to 1380 masl on top of the escarpments. The Dawa River forms important surface water feature for this arid site. The Dawa forms its boundary on the eastern and northeastern side while the Day escarpment is found on the west. The villages of Karaya, Sororo, Gelgelu are located to the south and south east of the park. The whole area is found within a semi-arizd zone and is characterized by prolonged dry season lasting up to seven months. A bimodal rain pattern is apparent with peaks from September to November and from April To June. The mean annual rainfall for Moyale is 503 mm. The area is typically Somali-Masai and the dominant vegetation type is Acacia-Commiphora. Major woody plants include Acacia mellifera, A. brevispica, A. oerfata and various Commiphora spp. Habitats include grasslands, wodded grasslands, open shrubland, thickets, riparian woodlands and exposed sand/soils. At least 36 species of larger mammals have been identified including bats. Major wildlife conserved includes Beisa Oryx, Grant’s Gazelle, Gerenuk, Lesser Kudu, and Guenther’s Dikdik, Avifauna is rich as well and a provisional list for the area has 164 recorded species.
Vegetation - Mostly the vegetation composition is made up of small trees and shrubs, which are 3-4 m in height. The dominant species include Acacia mellifera, Acacia oerfata, Acacia brevispica and several species of Comifora species. The area is also characterized by grassland, open shrub land, dense shrub land, dense bush land, wooded grassland and riparian woodland/bush land. The dominant grass species include Ischamum species and Chrysopogon species. The area is generally rich in floral diversity as in the case of other parts of the Somali-Massai biome-East African evergreen vegetation type.
Unique features - This park was proposed by the Somali National Regional state, although it is now under the supervision of EWCA, to conserve unique assemblage of wildlife in the Somali-Massai Biome. This Biome covers large tracts of land in Ethiopia and the park is known to harbor few Elephants, Hunting Dog, Cheetah and Giraffe. It provides haven for several antelope species. The most prolific antelopes are Guenther’s Dikdik, Beisa Oryx, Grant’s Gazelles, Gerenuk and Lesser Kudu. Amongst birds, the endemic white-tailed Swallow has been recorded here. The site is found wholly within the Juba/Shebelle Endemic Bird Area. Restricted range species including the White-winged Dove and juba Weaver are residents. The area conserves not less than 50% of birds listed in the Somali-Masai Biome Assemblage. | <urn:uuid:da8a56f9-7ade-4fa6-80f8-17feab08270f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ethiovisit.com/geraille-national-park/80/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00393-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941741 | 834 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Shutdown brings winery business to standstill
Government shutdown closes office approving bottle labels
The government shutdown is affecting breweries and wineries across the nation, already costing some hundreds of thousands of dollars.
In Oklahoma, one of the state's largest wineries said they can't do business until the government is back in business.
The Canadian River Vineyard and Winery in Lexington is one of the oldest and possibly the largest. On Thursday, a new high-producing machine arrived.
Winery owner Gene Clifton said the massive machine puts the wine in the bottle, puts the capsule on, puts the cork in and even puts the label on, but until the government shutdown ends it will sit unused. The government shutdown has brought his business to a standstill.
"Everything is held up right now,” said Clifton. “We have 5,000 gallons right now ready to go overseas and we can’t get those certificates because all I get is an answering machine.”
The Tax and Trade Bureau, the federal agency, responsible for approving labels for wine and export of wine is shut down. Clifton told KOCO 5, “Without those certificates we can't do anything.”
More than a quarter of a million dollars’ worth of wine sales will have to wait. Clifton said, “It makes it hard to sleep.”
According to Jill Stichler of the Oklahoma Grape Industry Council, “It’s only going to get worse the longer it goes.”
According to the OGIC, there are now 60 wineries in the state. Stichler said, “A few have contacted us and want know what you can do. There's nothing you can do -- if you can’t get labels for your wine you can’t sell it.”
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Filed under: Capitalism, Domestic Policy, Economy, Election 2012, Humor | Tags: American Business Needs, Private Enterprise, Roads and Bridges
Mr. Obama ignited a firestorm with his remark on small business —”If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that, somebody else made that happen.” It has become a major controversy. Small businessmen are indignantly telling their own stories. There have been rallies, billboards, cartoons, late-night jokes and all sorts of marvelous campaign commercials.
Mr. Obama is now claiming that his words were taken out of context. “Of course Americans build their own businesses” he said in a campaign video. He meant that government prepares the way for business creation. It’s the old “roads and bridges” thing, that he has clung to for three-and-a-half long years.
That’s how he was going to rescue the economy, if you remember; the roads and bridges the government built would create all sorts of jobs. And all we heard about was guard rails on the road around a dry lake, and an addition to an airport in Pennsylvania that seldom received an airplane. And there was a bridge that only got about 3 cars a week. That ended with the grudging admission that there weren’t any “shovel-ready” jobs after all.
That’s not right either.. The roads and bridges of the nation have been built in response to business need. When Henry Ford developed the production line and began turning out Model Ts in quantity, some roads were already there. They had been created often in the first place as game trails or Indian trails. The pioneers cut down trees and made crude roads with pick and shovel. Increased travel, more wagons, herds of stock widened and improved them.
Business and their growing needs called forth roads. Private turnpike companies built thousands of miles of toll roads across the states. Henry Ford built the Model T to handle bad roads, because there were many of them. It was the growing automobile business that created roads and bridges, not the other way around.
Federal aid to highway building didn’t begin until 1916, and the Interstate highway system was built under the Eisenhower administration in the 1950s. Before that it was the business of state and local governments.
It’s only in modern times that developers will build an industrial park with the needed roads and facilities, hoping to attract tenants. That is usually private developers, not government built infrastructure. Of course there is the example of Solyndra, but the less said about that, the better. Has that place sold yet?
The Cato Institute suggests that federal financing has become an increasingly inefficient way to modernize America’s highways. Federal spending is often misallocated to low-value activities, and the regulations that go hand-in-hand with federal aid stifle innovation and boost highway costs.
This is not an administration that is responsive to the needs of business, small or large. Their thinking about business and jobs and the economy begins with the federal government, and deals with control and regulation and taxes. They are basically hostile. There’s nothing about what business might need in their approach.
Obama not only doesn’t understand how business works, he’s got it all backwards.
Filed under: Capitalism, Democrat Corruption, Economy, Health Care | Tags: Encouraging Overusage, Obamacare, Shortage of Physicians
ObamaCare is much misunderstood. Its advocates talk about the free care they will receive, and fear that they might have a “pre-existing condition.” But ObamaCare is not about medical care or treatment. It is only about insurance. It is designed to gradually funnel everyone into single-payer, government-run, insurance because that is the earnest intent of the liberals who designed the system. Government will control the entire financial end of the whole system — what you pay and what you get.
What the left is not good at, are the unintended consequences. They’re not good at thinking things through; at least that’s what the evidence seems to show. The costs of insurance will be far higher than estimated. Current estimates expect costs to be much higher than originally set out, and the program hasn’t even been put into effect yet. The only government program in history that has come in under the original estimates, is the Medicare Drug benefit, and Liberals removed the incentives that made thrift possible.
When the government says we’ll just pay for whatever you need, people don’t pay attention to how much something costs, and they go to the doctor for things they might well have treated at home. Result: soaring costs.
Great attention has been paid to rules and regulations, but physicians have been totally ignored, except for plans to hold down payments for their services. There aren’t enough doctors. There is a current shortage of thousands of physicians. Doctors hate ObamaCare and very large numbers plan to find some other occupation, or to retire. Medical schools and teaching hospitals, as they exist today, are incapable of turning out the numbers of doctors needed.
When all those folks who were uninsured are forced to buy insurance or pay a big fine, then the young healthy people won’t use medical care much, and will pay for the older folks who require more care. And you won’t have all those people with no insurance running up the costs for the nation’s emergency rooms. The uninsured are not signing up in droves. But the organization of emergency room physicians has pointed out that the greatest emergency room use is not by the uninsured, but by insured people who cannot find a doctor to care for them.
ObamaCare has taken $716 billion out of Medicare between 2013 and 2022, to pay for ObamaCare. That means a $260 billion payment cut for hospital services. A $39 billion payment cut for skilled nursing services. A $17 billion payment cut for hospice services. A $66 billion payment cut for home health services. A $33 billion payment cut for all other services. A $156 billion cut in payment rates for Medicare Advantage programs. $56 billion in cuts for DSH Payments for low-income patients, and $114 billion in cuts in other provisions in Medicare,Medicaid and CHIP. What this means is that fewer doctors will be willing to treat Medicare and Medicaid patients. This is already a growing problem, and ObamaCare hasn’t even kicked in yet.
Should ObamaCare not be repealed, these problems will grow and fester. The government will have no option but to federalize the medical profession so doctors work for the government for a fixed salary. Otherwise there will simply be no doctors to serve patients. Where will they get those doctors? Medicine will no longer be an attractive profession, nor a rewarding one. Standards will necessarily decline, and the best students will no longer go into medicine. Where will the doctors come from?
Filed under: Freedom, Humor, Politics | Tags: A Joy to Watch, Nigerian Dwarf Goat, Sheer Energy
This little bundle of pure energy is a five-week old Nigerian dwarf goat from a farm in Maine. Doesn’t that make you feel like a sluggard? You could be up and …zzz-zz
Filed under: Europe, Freedom, History, Israel | Tags: Britain/ Israel/ Poland, Governor Mitt Romney, Longstanding Friends
Mitt Romney has just returned from a triumphal tour from England to Israel, to Poland and home. The leftist media has tried to portray it as gaffe-filled, but the press has not often so exposed their bias. In England, NBC’s Brian Williams asked Mitt Romney—as someone who really understood the problems involved in putting an Olympics together — how he thought the British Olympics were stacking up. Mitt said that the reports that they had not been able to find enough security personnel was ‘disconcerting.’
This was what the British press had been reporting, but it was regarded as an insult and a terrible gaffe. The Economist hauled out a quote from Romney’s book in which he described England as a small island, with small houses and small roads… OMG. Another gaffe. Turns out Mitt was talking about the England of the late 16th and early 17th centuries and went on to describe how with the most powerful Navy in the world they came to dominate the earth and build the far-flung British Empire. So Britain was just one great error on the part of Romney.
Mr. Romney was warmly welcomed in Israel. He and Bibi Netanyahu are old friends, but his speech was warm, thoughtful, and well received. He spoke passionately about the special relationship between the U.S and Israel. He supported Israel’s right to defend itself against the threat of a nuclear attack from Iran, and said that Iran must be kept from the capability of deploying a nuclear weapon. He noted that Israelis are more prosperous than Palestinians which he attributed to a culture of freedom. The Palestinians were furious that someone should mention the obvious, and called it racism. Israelis’ seven Nobel Prizes in science weren’t mentioned, nor their high-tech industries.
In Poland, Governor Romney delivered a barnburner of a speech, the full text is available here. He said:
“Free men and women everywhere, whether they have been here or not, already know this about Poland: In some desperate hours of the last century, your people were the witnesses to hope, led onward by strength of heart and faith in God. Not only by force of arms, but by the power of truth, in villages and parishes across this land, you shamed the oppressor and gave light to the darkness….
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Mazzola, Michael Lee
M.A. (Master of Arts)
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Second language acquisition--Psychological aspects||Adolescent psychology||Teenagers--Language--Psychological aspects
How second languages are acquired is a matter of intense debate within the world of linguistics. Among the most hotly contested issues on this topic is the question of when to begin instruction in order to achieve optimal results for the learner. Too often those involved in the field, whether it be researchers, teachers, administrators, parents, or even the learners themselves, have been misled into believing that those who do not begin to acquire a second language until adolescence are destined to failure or less than optimal success in their endeavor. This thesis examines adolescent second-language acquisition in terms of Piaget's theory of cognitive development, Ausubel's theory of meaningful learning, the relationship between thought, culture, and language by means of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, the Critical Period Hypothesis and adolescent identity formation with the aim of dispelling this myth that younger is necessarily better when it comes to the age of onset for second-language acquisition. Through the integration of these above listed theories and concepts, a psychological developmental perspective of adolescent secondlanguage acquisition is presented.
Zemil, Marianne Levin, "Adolescent second-language acquisition from cognitive development to identity formation : a pathway to a psychological developmental perspective" (1997). Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations. 1012.
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Northern Illinois University
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- Therapy is sometimes referred to as the talking cure, but that only highlights that conversations are the primary medium.
- The primary maladaptive processes that drive people into psychotherapy are negative situations.
- These negative situations trigger negative feelings and reactions.
Co-authored with Waldemar Schmidt1
What is psychotherapy, and what does it do? A satisfying answer is not easy to find. Conventional definitions do not help much in clarifying the matter. There are basic descriptions of who provides therapy and the formats and schools of thought. But here we attempt to give a clearer picture of what psychotherapy is and how it works. Therapy is sometimes referred to as “the talking cure,” but that only highlights that conversations are the primary medium.
One key distinction that we believe will be helpful to readers who are trying to get a better grip on exactly what psychotherapy is is to separate process from content. Content refers to the “what” of therapy. Specifically, the kinds of problems the client brings to the therapist (relationship problems or problems with depression and anxiety), what the therapist asks about, and the kinds of interventions developed to make changes. The process refers to the "how" of therapy. And it is here that we can focus on helping readers deepen their understanding of what the core of therapy is about.
First, some definitions are focused on “dysfunctional emotional reactions, ways of thinking and behavior patterns.” What are dysfunctional ways of feeling, thinking, and acting? This can be framed in process terms. Usually, a negative situation (or set of situations) triggers strong negative feelings over time. In addition, there is a set of secondary negative reactions that the individual or group engages in as they try to deal with the negative situation and negative feelings.
This is called a triple-negative neurotic loop—negative situations that trigger negative feelings that trigger negative reactions. The final negative here refers to negatives in the maladaptive sense. Usually, people respond and try to cope via avoidance, blame, or control, and these reactions make things worse and make the client feel worse. This creates a loop because they try harder to avoid, control, or blame.
This triple negative neurotic loop is a dysfunctional process because, like bringing water to a grease fire, the negative reaction generates more trouble than it solves and thus becomes self-perpetuating.
This describes the process of thinking, feeling, and acting rather than content—the specific problems, feelings, and actions in context. From this, we can proceed to frame the psychotherapy process as attempting to engage in cultivating a new way of relating to the world and one’s thoughts, feelings, and actions.
The general way psychotherapy tries to cultivate a shift in process in a way that can be framed by what we call the six M’s:
- Mindfulness–to explore what is going on in their life with awareness and acceptance, in contrast to operating mindlessly on “autopilot."
- Meditation–to contemplate what is going on, its significance, and how it is affecting their life and the lives of others.
- Metacognition–to carefully consider what it is they think about and what they think about what they think.
- Meta-affect–to carefully consider what they feel and what they feel about their feelings.
- Metanoia–to recognize that change is warranted, consideration of their options in amending their modus operandi, and how to bring about the needed and selected changes.
- Motivation–to recognize the need for continued observation and alterations and how to maintain that approach. Psychotherapy is not a “one and done,” but it provides access to a more resilient way of life.
These six Ms describe the way psychotherapy shifts one’s perspective on the processes of living. Specifically, people get trapped into neurotic loops that engender much suffering. There is a process of relating to people in those positions and helping them shift from living mindlessly within them to becoming psychologically mindful of them. This, in turn, opens shifts from maladaptive to more adaptive patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting, as well as relating to others.
We believe that clarity can be achieved via shifting the focus from trying to describe therapy via the content of disorders, approaches of schools of thought, or primary formats to an emphasis on how therapy cultivates a shift in processes that enable more reflective awareness of what is happening. It should also focus on what has happened, how one can be more accepting of negative situations and negative feelings, and how one can learn to avoid maladaptive reactions and cultivate more adaptive reactions systematically.
As such, the six M’s of psychotherapy might help the public better understand the core of therapy.
To find a therapist near you, visit the Psychology Today Therapy Directory.
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New to Bounty?
According to new research by scientists at The Royal Society, what you eat for breakfast before getting pregnant could affect the sex of your baby, and eating more bananas leads to the birth of a baby boy!
The study, which looked at 740 British women who were pregnant with their first child found that eating more potassium and having a more nutritious pre-pregnancy diet led to the birth of a baby boy.
On average, women who conceived a baby boy had a higher calorie diet, with more protein and carbohydrates that women who conceived baby girls.
The study also showed that women who ate more breakfast cereals before conception were more likely to be painting the nursery blue.
In fact, research leader Fiona Matthews, a specialist in mammalian biology at Exeter University told the New Scientist: ‘If you want a boy, eat a healthy diet with a high calorie intake, including breakfast. Of women eating cereals daily, 59% had boys, compared with only 43% who bore boys in the group eating less than a bowlful per week.’
So it turns out breakfast really is the most important meal of the day when it comes to conceiving a boy! Matthews also addressed another old wives’ tale that suggests drinking more milk pre-conception leads to the birth of a girl, telling the Guardian newspaper: "the old tale about drinking a lot of milk to have a girl doesn’t seem to hold up."
"More calcium [in this study] meant they were again more likely to have a boy."
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Lesson 1: Zeroes & Ones
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Lesson 1 is the first and only lesson using the Rule Strategy. The Multiplication facts in this group are typically very simple for students to master. The commutative property of Multiplication is emphasized in this and all successive lessons. Once students understand the Zero and Identity properties, all Zeroes and Ones facts can be easily mastered.
Lesson 2: Terrific Twos
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Lesson 2 is the first lesson in the Trick Group. Fluency with Addition Doubles facts ensures near-instant automaticity with all Multiplication facts in this group. The other “trick” presented is skip-counting by Twos. Once students understand the strategies (Double the Other Number or Count by Twos), all Twos Multiplication facts can be easily mastered.
Lesson 3: Fantastic Fives
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Lesson 3 offers two “tricks” for the Fives facts: Count by Fives and Fives Product Pattern. Skip-counting is practiced and students are also taught the concept of half, a necessary foundation for utilizing the Product Pattern trick. Students can apply the trick learned in this lesson to ALL Fives facts.
Lesson 4: Noteworthy Nines
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Lesson 4 uses the trick strategy. Two tricks are presented: Finger Factor and Nines Product Pattern. The focus facts above are the only remaining Nines facts for students to master. This is the last lesson to contain six focus facts. Future lessons contain only three focus facts each.
Lesson 5: Special Sixes
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Lesson 5 is the last lesson using the trick strategy and the first lesson to include only THREE focus facts (rather than six). The “Half-Whole Trick” taught in this lesson can be applied anytime the number 6 is multiplied by an even number. It has amazed even the most experienced educators! Once students understand the Half-Whole Trick, the products of these Sixes facts are simple for students to recall.
Lesson 6: Fun Facts 1
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Lesson 6 is the first lesson using the chant strategy. Without a strong strategy, Multiplication facts in this group are very challenging for some students to retain. However, the chants applied to each of these facts make them simple for students to recall and are among students’ favorite facts to practice!
Lesson 7: Fun Facts 2
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Lesson 7 is the second lesson using the chant strategy. Students realize that even some of the “harder” facts- 6×3, 7×3, and 8×4 are actually simple when using a strategy that makes the facts meaningful. The Lesson 7 chants are simple to remember and fun to recite. The 6×3 chant uses a familiar beat (We will, we will ROCK YOU!)
Lesson 8: Simple Squares
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Lesson 8 is the last lesson using the chant strategy. As with Lessons 5-7, there are only three focus facts in this group, so students are never intimidated or overwhelmed. Students enjoy the Lesson 8 chants. Students have no trouble remembering these chants, leading to rapid recall. All remaining “Squares” facts have been or will be covered in other lessons.
Lesson 9: Final Facts
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Nearly 1,000 volunteers will have distributed about 660,000 pounds of feed for wild deer by this weekend under Minnesota’s first emergency deer feeding program in 18 years.
The feed is reaching about 15,000 to 16,000 deer at nearly 1,000 sites in 13 permit areas of northern Minnesota, where the Department of Natural Resources allowed the program, said Mark Johnson, executive director of the Minnesota Deer Hunters Association. The group is handling the distribution.
He said about $118,000 of the $170,000 allocated has been spent, and he’s hopeful there will be enough feed to distribute until snow begins to disappear and deer can find browse. The money comes from a DNR account funded by 50 cents from every deer license sold.
“It really depends on what the next two weeks of weather looks like,’’ Johnson said. “It will be real close.’’ He said his group will decide next week whether to ask the DNR for more money.
Meanwhile, Johnson said that beginning this weekend the group will only distribute feed to volunteers who already have been getting feed weekly at the distribution sites in Esko, Moose Lake, Hibbing, Grand Rapids, International Falls, Cook, Wright and Virginia, and won’t give any to others seeking to begin feeding deer.
“Some people probably won’t be happy with that, but we want to have enough feed to take care of the deer we’ve already been feeding,’’ Johnson said.
He said people are reporting finding dead and stressed deer in the region, but that deer that have been coming to the feeding sites appear to be in better condition.
Northwest deer numbers
The Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge recently conducted its annual aerial large mammal survey to get population estimates for deer and moose. And the numbers for deer weren’t good.
The deer population estimate for the refuge and adjacent state lands declined dramatically from last year. Officials counted 600 deer — a density of 5.6 deer per square mile, well below the goal of 15 to 20 deer per square mile and likely the result of a tough winter last year. Officials said the 2014 hunting season framework for the local permit area will reflect the need to increase the deer population.
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Three-legged dogs are not uncommon. Pets can end up with three legs for many different reasons, and sometimes we may not know the original reason why rescue cats and dogs have lost a limb.
Three-legged pets are still wonderful companions and can have a great quality of life – but they do need a little extra time and care when compared to other pets.
So, if you are facing a pet’s amputation, or considering adopting a dog or cat with three legs, here’s what you need to know!
Can three-legged pets walk?
Yes! Almost all pets with three legs will be able to move around well after an amputation, as long as their other three legs are still healthy. For example, they should be able to:
- Get up by themselves
- Walk or even run around
- Go to the toilet by themselves
- Get up and down steps
- Play with toys
Some three-legged cats and dogs will be able to run around more or less as normal, especially if they are young, lean, and fit.
How long will it take my pet to adjust to 3 legs?
It will take some time for your cat or dog to adjust to moving around on three legs, so don’t be discouraged if they are not running around right away.
First, they will have to recover from the surgery itself, which may take several weeks, especially if they are older or were unwell for another reason. Their body needs to get rid of the anaesthetic drugs, and their skin and muscle need to heal from the surgery. They should also be on painkillers immediately after the surgery, which may make them drowsy or wobbly, meaning they look less steady than they are.
Then, they will need to build up some muscle to adjust to holding their body in a different way. This is more challenging if your cat or dog has lost a front leg, as more of the body’s weight goes through the front legs than the back legs.
It can take several weeks or even months to build this muscle up, especially if your pet is older or overweight. However, you should be able to see a slow but steady improvement over this time.
What is the life expectancy of a three-legged pet?
If a dog or cat has a leg amputated because of injury, then their life expectancy should be relatively normal. However, you will need to be sure to monitor and treat them for any arthritis in their other three limbs, as this can be more severe and even end up requiring euthanasia.
Sometimes a dog or cat will have a limb amputated for another medical reason, such as a tumour. In that case, their life expectancy will depend on what sort of tumour they had. If you are in this situation, you should speak to your veterinarian about your pet’s prognosis before the surgery.
What to expect if your pet needs an amputation
Amputation surgery is quite a common procedure for veterinarians. Your regular veterinarian may be able to perform it at your local clinic, or you may need to be referred to a specialist for this.
After the surgery, your pet will need strong painkillers for the next few days. They may need to stay in the clinic to receive these, or you may be able to administer them at home – ask your local veterinarian in advance so you are prepared.
Your pet will have a surgical wound that you will need to take care of after the surgery. These wounds are usually around the width of the shoulder in a forelimb, or around the length of a pelvis in the hindlimb.
These are often covered by a dressing initially, which you may need to change at home. After it is uncovered, you will need to monitor it for any signs of redness, swelling or discharge that might suggest infection.
It will take your pet some time to adjust to having three legs (see earlier) and initially they will need to rest at home. After a while, you can start taking them out on short walks to get them used to moving around – speak to your veterinarian to find out when the right time for this is for your dog.
What to expect when adopting a three-legged pet
Three-legged cats and dogs are much the same as other pets in many respects, but they may need a little extra help and support. For example, they might find stairs more difficult than other pets, so you should make sure they have everything they need on one level of your home.
You should be aware that three-legged pets will be more prone to develop arthritis in their remaining limbs, due to the extra weight that they are taking. You should be sure to keep three-legged dogs and cats at a healthy weight, as obesity can make arthritis worse.
Regular exercise is important, and some pets may benefit from hydrotherapy, too. There are also some supplements that may help with arthritis in pets – ask your veterinarian for a recommendation.
Some of the questions to ask before adopting a three-legged pet might include:
- Why was the pet’s leg amputated?
- If it was amputated due to trauma, do they have any other injuries that you need to be aware of?
- If it was not amputated due to trauma, what was the reason for the surgery? Is it likely to cause any long-term issues (e.g. cancer such as sarcoma or osteosarcoma that might spread to other parts of the body)
- How mobile is the pet? Can they cope with steps or stairs?
- Does the pet have any existing signs of arthritis that might need treatment? If so, what are the expected costs of this treatment?
How to prepare your home for a three-legged pet
There are a few changes that you may want to make at home if your pet is having an amputation, or if you are adopting a three-legged pet.
- Providing food, water, and bedding on the same level, so your pet does not have to go up and down steps.
- Using a ramp to help them get in or out of the car, or up any steps between your home and your yard.
- Offering them deep bedding that is comfortable to lie in, but not too soft to cause difficulties getting out of. Memory foam mattresses are ideal for this.
How to provide long-term care for a three-legged pet
Long-term, there are some things that you can do to help your tripawd stay as comfortable as possible:
- Keep your pet at a slim (but healthy) weight, to minimise the strain on their joints.
- Exercise them regularly, but gently, to help maintain muscle mass.
- Consider hydrotherapy or physiotherapy with a qualified professional to keep their joints comfortable and mobile.
- Learn to spot the early signs of arthritis and see your veterinarian regularly for check-ups to help with this.
- Treat any arthritis early to keep them as active as possible as they get older.
Caring for a three-legged dog or cat can take a little extra time and energy, and you need to be prepared for them to develop some arthritis as they get older. However, with the right care, tripawds can live long, happy lives, and are just as loving and affectionate as other pets.
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Recycle by Mail
There are now more recycling options than ever for conscious consumers looking to responsibly dispose of unwanted stuff. Many of us have access to curbside recycling for the basics and several retailers offer convenient take-back programs.
Still, it can be hard to figure out what to do with often overlooked things like plastic hotel key cards, wine corks, and CDs. Luckily, a simple trip to the post office can accomplish a lot.
Plastics and Packaging
- Earthworks recycles PVC plastic cards (hotel keys, gift cards, etc.) and turns them into sheets that new cards can be made of. Drop cards in the mail if your retailer doesn’t already take them back. Address is: Earthworks, c/o Halprin Industries, 25840 Miles Road, Bedford, OH 44146. Magnetic strips are okay. Don’t send credit cards or those that contain paper backing.
- Recycline’s Preserve Gimme 5 program collects clean plastic containers that have a #5 stamped on the bottom (yogurt cups, ketchup bottles, sour cream containers, and more). Recycled plastic is transformed into razors, bowls, and many other cool products (that you can also send back when you’re done with them). To maximize eco-benefits, the company suggests using ground shipping.
- TerraCycle creates shower curtains, totes, and funky fashion accesssories out of old energy bar wrappers, drink pouches, and other packaging. It recyles wine corks too. In some cases, you need to mail in large quantities so look for a drop-off location or send in your neighbors’ stuff too.
Apparel and Shoes
- Nike’s Reuse-A-Shoe program has collected almost 22 million worn out athletic shoes since 1990. The shoes are ground up and turned into athletic fields. Nike’s prefers that you drop off shoes at participating stores, but you can also mail them.
- Patagonia’s Common Threads Garment Recycling Program turns your old Patagonia clothing into new garments. Visit it website for specifics on what they take back and where you can send it.
- Battery Solutions sells boxes that you can fill up with batteries (both rechargeable and non-rechargeable), cell phones, PDAs, iPods, and others. The $24 fee includes a pre-paid FedEx shipping label.
- GreenDisc recycles CDs, DVDs, video and audio tapes, and their cases. You can also send in most computer related waste-anything from printer cartridges to mice to laptops. It costs $6.95 to process up to 20lbs of waste.
- Waste Management’s Think Green program sells recycling kits for batteries, CFLs, fluorescent tubes, and electronics. Prices vary depending on item. Fill the box they send you and mail it in.Source: Lori Bongiorno | <urn:uuid:fb157670-ccde-4798-a67d-b264c4579de4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.gbb.org/blog/recycle-by-mail-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279169.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00218-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91423 | 619 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Walk 3 feet back on the soil side of the retaining wall and dig a trench parallel to the wall that is equal to the width and height of the landscape timbers. If you want to lay the timbers down the length of the wall, you need to drill holes in the timbers every foot.
Hammers can be used to hit the holes and into the soil. If you have a large area to cover, you may want to use a larger trench. If you are using a smaller trench, be sure to drill holes at least twice as deep as the size of your landscape timber.
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Does a 2 foot retaining wall need drainage?
If the wall is at least four feet high, a drainage pipe might be needed. The wall has a hole in it. If the hole is large enough to allow water to drain through it, it’s a good idea to install a drain pipe.
The hole should be about 1/2 to 3/4 inch in diameter and 3 to 4 inches deep, depending on the type of wall and the size of the drain hole. You can also use a 1-inch-diameter hole saw to cut the drainage hole, but you’ll need to be careful not to damage the retaining walls with the saw blade.
How do you anchor landscape timbers?
Rebar should be used to secure the timber border to the ground. The holes should be drilled through the center of the timbers, spacing them about 4 feet apart. The timbers should be pinned to the soil with 12-inch lengths of #3 rebar driven with a 1/2-horsepower drill bit into the center of each timber. The holes should be spaced at least 3 feet from each other.
If you plan to build a fence around your property, you will need to make sure that the fence is strong enough to withstand the weight of your home. To do this, measure the distance between your house and the nearest fence. If you have a house that is 6 feet tall, then your fence will have to be 8 feet high. For example, a 2,000-square-foot house will require a 3,500-pound fence to protect it from deer and other animals.
What is the cheapest retaining wall to build?
The most economical type of wall is poured concrete. Prices start at $4.30 per square foot for poured concrete, $5.65 for interlocking concrete block, $6.15 for pressure-treated pine, and $11 for concrete-concrete mix.
The most expensive retaining walls are poured steel, which can cost as much as $1,000 per foot, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The cost of steel varies depending on the type and size of the wall, as well as the amount of reinforcing steel used.
How far apart should posts be for a retaining wall?
We’ve done the research and found the best answer for you. Retaining wall posts must be at least three feet apart. If it works better with your measurement, the distance can be slightly longer. You should not go more than seven feet apart to make sure your wall is secure.
How deep should the footing be for a retaining wall?
The general rule of thumb is to bury about one-eighth of the height of the wall. The first course of blocks should start five inches below the soil level if your wall is three feet tall. Three inches from the top of your foundation is what the gravel base should start at.
If you don’t have a concrete foundation, you can use a mixture of sand, gravel, and pebbles to fill in the space between the foundation and the walls. This is called a “fill-in-the-dots” method. You can also add a layer of gravel or sand to the base of a wall to make it more resistant to erosion.
Do I need a French drain behind a retaining wall?
If you’re building a retaining wall, add a French drain behind the first course of stones or blocks. Water moving down the hill will build up behind the wall and undermine it. The stone or block should be supported by the gravel base or concrete footing.
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Growing herbs and vegetables in planters allows you to enjoy gardening in small spaces. Planters come in such a wide variety of shapes, designs, materials and colors that having them on the patio can make your outdoor space more visually appealing. Because the planters are up off the ground, you don't have to bend down as far or kneel to care for the plants. Container gardening, like planting in raised beds in the garden, is a method of coping with poor soil conditions. You begin with nutrient-rich soil and avoid having to till hard or compacted earth.
Choose planters with enough depth so the roots of the herbs and vegetables have sufficient room to grow down through the soil. The soil in shallow containers dries out too rapidly for proper growth of plants. Use planters that have a hole in the bottom so water will not be trapped.
Select vegetables and herbs that your family enjoys cultivating, eating and cooking with. Take into account the relatively small square footage of the planters and choose plants that do not spread out widely. Choose vegetables that produce a lot of fruit for a given plant size. Even zucchini could be grown in a planter because the fruit is particularly tasty when harvested before maturity. Select varieties that do well in planters, such as carrots, lettuce, sweet peppers, peas and beans.
Consider companion planting with herbs and vegetables, choosing varieties that can help each other with pest control or hasten growth when planted next to each other. Use the fragrant herb rosemary to keep insect pests from harming beans and carrots. Plant borage to keep hornworms away from tomatoes. This herb can also help enhance the flavor of strawberries.
Fill the planters with commercial soil mix that has fertilizer added, or mix in a slow-release fertilizer. Add enough soil so it is within 2 inches of the top of the planter. Carefully remove the seedlings from their trays so you don't damage their roots. Plant them deep enough so the top of the root ball is covered.
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Ncluding providing cash to a needy stranger. While these findings surprisingly suggest that good impact might market charitable giving greater than damaging impact does,they do not clarify no matter whether impact can also influence the good results of loan requests. Additional,even when psychological mechanisms alter the behavior of people in the laboratory,their influence might not generalize to larger market place settings that involve significant financial incentives (Levitt List. Inside the current research,therefore,we particularly aimed to establish regardless of whether affective mechanisms could account for microlending inside a big Net information set involving important monetary incentives,and much more frequently aimed to identify whether neural and affective responses could predict microlending not only at the person level,but in addition at the marketplace level.Genevsky,Knutson the lending rate (i.e dollars raised per hour). Parallel analyses carried out on a second index of loanrequest success (i.e binary “funded” vs. “not funded” loan outcomes) yielded comparable benefits (see the Supplemental Material available online). Two options in the loan requests had been identified as possessing the possible for affective effect: (a) the text description introducing and describing every borrower’s individual circumstances and requires and (b) the photograph from the borrower prominently displayed at the prime of each and every loan request. Offered our assumption that microloan requests and charitablegiving appeals most likely recruit related mechanisms,we predicted that the photographs’ good affective impact (as indexed by valence and arousal ratings) would market loanrequest good results (Genevsky et al,but we also tested the option possibility that adverse affective influence may possibly boost loanrequest success. We acquired in depth information on microloan outcomes from Kiva Microfunds (www.kiva.org),an Internetbased international microfinance organization. Kiva’s Internet website permits users to PubMed ID:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23675775 offer modest financial loans to folks in want. Loans are funded in increments but are by the borrower only when the requested quantity is successfully raised inside days on the initial loan request. We initially applied the Kiva application programming interface to sample ,loan requests from those posted through the calendar year,the most recent period that could assure complete loanoutcome outcomes in the time of initial analyses. We then excluded loan requests with numerous borrowers (remaining n ,),to lessen heterogeneity in photograph Hesperetin 7-rutinoside cost ratings arising from variations in the size on the borrower group; loan requests without having text (remaining n ,),because they could not be scored with respect to affective words inside the text; (c) loan requests that were fully funded within the last days of eligibility (remaining n ,),to limit prospective confounds as a consequence of shifts in lender’s motivations and behavior because the deadline for loan expiration approached; and (d) loan requests with more missing data points (remaining n ,). In the remaining ,loan requests,,had been randomly sampled for evaluation (i.e ,funded and ,not funded). Given the massive size on the out there information set,we sampled as a great deal information as possible to accurately estimate underlying impact sizes within the constraints of available computational sources. The ,chosen loan requests conservatively achieved a energy of . for an impact size of . at an alpha level of Affective content with the loan text was assessed together with the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) method (Pennebaker,Francis, Booth,an. | <urn:uuid:21cc65dd-5a85-43d4-ac00-277469149c0b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pkcinhibitor.com/2018/11/02/7976/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.917472 | 738 | 1.984375 | 2 |
05/26/2015 Liebherr tower crane enables a completely pre-assembled rotor to be installed
- Precise lift of a pre-assembled rotor weighing 70t to a height of 142.5 m
- Crane integrated in the system's foundation
- Logistic benefit for transporting and erecting the large crane
World premiere - The largest Liebherr tower crane model the 1000 EC-B 125 Litronic made it possible to lift a completely pre-assembled rotor, with a diameter of 113m, for a new wind turbine in Deining, Bavaria. The flat-top crane with a hook height of 155.5 m hoisted the assembly weighing almost 70 tonnes to a height of 142.5 m.
The wind farm in Deining in the Rural District of Neumarkt in Upper Palatinate is one of the leading producers of wind energy in Bavaria. In March of 2015, the hybrid tower at the Deining wind farm was fitted with a new turbine wheel. The job was carried out using a Liebherr 1000 EC-B 125 Litronic tower crane (load capacity: 125 tonnes) the most powerful tower crane that Liebherr has in its portfolio. The 1000 EC-B 125 Litronic, was specially designed for the erection of wind turbines. Even with strong winds the performance of the Liebherr crane allowed for the safe, fast and precise installation of the pre-assembled rotor. One of the advantages was that the Liebherr EC-B 125 Litronic with its variable crane drive and with the MICROMOVE function allowed for the precise and pin point positioning of the heavy load.
To minimise the required crane surface at the construction site, the flat-top crane was integrated in the foundation of the wind turbine. As a result less forest area had to be cleared.
To achieve the required maximum lifting height of 155.5 meters, simple bracing of the crane to the tower of the wind turbine was all that was required. The installed foundation can also be used for future service and maintenance work by smaller cranes. As the machine does not require oversize hauling equipment, transport is comparatively easy, which represents an additional key advantage of this huge crane. In project discussions this advantage played a key role in the decision, as the Deining wind farm is located in a difficult-to-access section of the forest.
The area required to erect the Liebherr 1000 EC-B 125 Litronic is also only approximately half the size of the area required to erect conventional crane systems. “The wind energy experts at Max Bögl Wind AG worked closely with our expert 'Tower Crane Solutions' team on this project", said Thorsten Hesselbein, Manager of Tower Crane Solutions at Liebherr-Werk Biberach GmbH. "It is particularly important for new challenges like this unique installation job that customers can rely on the wide-ranging expertise at Liebherr”. | <urn:uuid:6c3b1154-e226-4691-ad6e-bde7e98900b5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.liebherr.com/en/tur/latest-news/news-press-releases/detail/liebherr-tower-crane-enables-a-completely-pre-assembled-rotor-to-be-installed.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00484-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934729 | 611 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Books focused on it, blogs became dedicated to it, chefs advocated for it, and supporters even coined their own term -- "locavore," subsequently named the New Oxford American Dictionary Word of the Year in 2007.
Behind all the fuss, I learned, lies the fact that today's food travels an average of 1,500 miles to get from farm to table. By eating locally, we could cut our carbon footprint (no long-haul trucking or air travel required), potentially support sustainable growing practices, and help out our own farming community. On a more basic level, food simply tastes better freshly picked.
Of course, we knew that local producers may or may not use pesticides. But since the cost of organic certification remains a prohibitive challenge for many small farms, at least by shopping locally, we would be close enough to the source to ask the right questions in person.
Finally won over by the evidence, Dave agreed to ditch the Popsicles and give it a try. To keep things easy for our first attempt, I suggested we pick the month of August, since it's the most bountiful time of year for the region's fruits and vegetables. With that decided, I jumped on the local bandwagon -- and embarked on a mission to fully commit my Boston kitchen (and my husband) to a diet of foods grown or produced only in New England for a month.
The Game Plan
As it turned out, we were already off to a strong start. I shopped at farmers' markets regularly, and we're also members of a meat CSA, or farm share, which brings us 10 pounds of locally raised beef, pork, lamb, or poultry every month. (You can find similar programs at localharvest.org.) A quick Google search of locally sourced foods led us to a nearby family-run market that sells homegrown butter, salt, honey, and produce, as well as a free-range poultry farm 15 miles away.
But before we could even take a bite out of our first local tomato, we hit a stumbling block. How could we live without olive oil? Or coffee, for that matter? So we made a few exceptions to the rules, keeping oil, spices, and our morning brew in our repertoire. I'd look for coffee brands roasted in Massachusetts. We'd swap out sugar for local honey -- and for everything else, we'd either find it, figure out how to live without it (goodbye, lemons), or cut way back on it, as in the case of Dave's morning Dunkin' Donuts fixation and our restaurant outings (once a week for both).
To make up for the occasional bags of vending-machine potato chips I'm sure he snuck in at work, I planted a few cucumber and tomato plants in a container out back and basil, mint, and rosemary in pots indoors.
Our first forays into all-local shopping left me with a loaded fridge -- and a sense of frustration. We had made four stops and traveled 40 miles, whereas my big-box grocery store is less than five miles away. Plus, we'd spent 50 percent more on our weekly groceries than usual. After tallying up the numbers, though, I realized I could easily justify both: We'd canceled out thousands of food miles by sacrificing bananas from Costa Rica, and spent a chunk of that week's budget restocking pantry staples with ones that would last well beyond our designated month.
The realization did prompt us to shop smarter. To keep miles from adding up, I stopped by the farmers' market on my way home from business appointments. The strategy helped our budget, too. I only bought things I needed for the next few days, and, in a lot of cases, items from the farmers' market cost less than their grocery store counterparts.
As the month moved along, we discovered that eating local wasn't as hard as we thought it was going be. I found plenty of eggs, greens, root veggies, herbs, handmade cheeses, and fruit at the farmers' market. Each week, I'd stop by a few stalls and chat with the farmers, who would tell me about the squash they'd grown and offer serving suggestions for their homemade goat cheese. By my third visit, one of the farmers I had befriended set aside a couple of his best heirloom tomatoes just for me.
With September around the corner, we assessed our progress. Our grocery budget was in good shape, since we'd taken smaller, more frequent shopping trips and cut out boxes of unnecessary snack foods. Overall, we both felt healthier (I'd even lost a pound or two in the process). So the thought of stopping just because the month was up seemed silly -- at least, it did until we remembered that a Boston winter can last from November until June. Very little grows outside of greenhouses during that time of year, which left us facing only three local prospects: dairy, eggs, and meat.
We didn't completely give up, though. We spent a few days roasting and freezing a huge bag of tomatoes I picked up at the market. We bought a long stem of garlic, which would keep for a few months in a cool, dry storage space. Of course, my husband did go back to eating Popsicles and potato chips, and I occasionally caved in to the lure of blueberries in the middle of winter. But at least we had trained ourselves to think twice about our decisions. Now we'll always look for local, pesticide-free options before buying anything else.
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Yangquan''s Shangshe coal mine has a 4.9kilometer closedtrough conveyor belt system in operation. At the Anyang coal mine in Chenghe (Shaanxi province) and the Hongyuan coal mine in Puxian (Shanxi province), there are also fourpipe conveyors with a total conveying length of 8.7 km. Further projects are already being planned.
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Conveyor belts represent a high risk, because they have the ability to spread a fire over long distances. Fires on belt conveyors are mostly ignited by mechanical failures like frozen idlers, which is even more dangerous in combination with coal dust. The fire safety requirements are similar for the most hard coal mining countries.
The Cross Hollow conveyor belt is an inclined conveyor belt loed at the surface of the underground mine. The conveyor belt carries the raw, or unprocessed, coal from the underground coal mine conveyor belt (#1 conveyor) to a stacking tube loed at the raw coal stockpile. The Cross Hollow conveyor belt is approximately 310 feet in length.
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Conveyor systems can be used to transport material in underground and open pit operations, and are especially common in coal mines (Betz, 1998). The simplicity and increased reliability of conveyor systems make it an attractive alternative to conventional truck haulage.
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Used Conveyor belt rubber is much stronger than other rubber materials of similar thickness. Remember, this conveyor belt is designed to carry tons of sharp, pointed items like rock and ore over thousands of feet in mines that dig for things such as copper, gold, and coal.
They minimize dust emissions and the conveyor belt is well protected against environmental influences. This also impressed the operator of the coal mine in Yangquan, YanKan Coal. It is estimated that coal dust emissions caused by gusts of wind, snow and rain amount to 0.12 percent of transported materials when open conveyor systems are used.
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Closedtrough conveyor belts enable clean material transport through rough terrain at one of China''s largest coal mining sites. In Yangquan, northern China''s Shanxi province, Continental is using a closedtrough conveyor belt system to ensure the smooth and environmentally friendly extraction of pit coal.
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Dec 05, 2017 · Overland Conveyor Systems – Hard Rock Handling. This long span overland conveyor system requires a durable, low stretch conveyor belt. Belterra offers all nylon, polyester nylon, or steel cord alternatives, depending on design criteria. Handling coal, copper, iron ore, or taconite, we offer the best product available for your mining appliion.
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Since January 26, 2017, there have been four miners fatally injured when performing work around conveyor belts in underground coal mines. Two fatalities involved miners crossing the belt and the third fatal occurred when a miner contacted a moving drive roller for the section belt. Most recently, a miner, part of the mine''s maintenance crew, was preparing to make a belt splice
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Canada is a country located in North America, whereas South Africa is located in the Southern part of Africa. Today in this article, we will discuss the comparison between Canada and South Africa regarding various aspects.
Is Canada bigger than South Africa?
The total area of Canada is 9,984,670 sq km, and the total area of South Africa is 1,221,037 sq km. Canada is bigger than South Africa by 8,763,633 sq km. Canada is around 8.18 times bigger than South Africa.
Area of Canada: 3,855,100 sq mi ( 9,984,670 km2 )
Area of South Africa: 471,445 sq mi ( 1,221,037 km2 )
According to the Worldometer data, the total population of Canada as of 29th June 2021 was estimated to be around 38,075,122.
Based on the Worldometer elaboration of the latest United Nations data, the total population of South Africa as of 30th June 2021, is 60,064,912.
Here is some more data comparison between Canada and South Africa.
The capital city of Canada is Ottawa, and the capital city of South Africa is Cape Town.
Canada: English, French
South Africa: There are 11 official languages of South Africa.(Source: Wikipedia)
Human Development Index
HDI of Canada as of 2019: 0.929
HDI of South Africa as of 2018: 0.709
UTC−3.5 to −8
UTC−2.5 to −7
South Africa Timezone:
UTC + 2 (South African Standard Time)
Coordinates of Canada:
60° 0′ 0″ N, 110° 0′ 0″ W
Coordinates of South Africa:
30° 0′ 0″ S, 25° 0′ 0″ E
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KUIU Conservation Direct Nevada - KCD 3
KUIU’s Conservation Direct teams up with Nevada Department of Wildlife and Fraternity of the Desert Bighorn.
“Nevada is suitable for all wildlife, the only limited factor is water” – Sam Hughes (Nevada, Southern Region Wildlife Biologist)
A project years in the making, KUIU was able to partner with these top-notch organizations to complete a project that will last for generations. Named in honor of the father, mentor, and hunter who lived life to the fullest on the mountains of Nevada, Robert W. Perchetti.
The goal of this specific project was to complete a 11,500-gallon artificial water catchment system in a remote location in the San Antonio Mountains to benefit the wildlife of the area, focused on desert bighorns.
30+ volunteers were flown into the area early in the morning and began working in multiple teams to accomplish one large goal.
To collect the water, the rain and snow must be able to land and be contained. The 80’x40’ sheet metal “apron” serves as the water catch. As the water hits the apron, it then flows down to the large gutter, which is connected through a pipeline down to the containers.
11,500 gallons of water can be held in the 5 large containers. All the containers are connected through a pipeline and hold water at the same level. Since all containers are filled to the same level, it allows the drinker to be full no matter each individual tank level.
This metal structure must be level and placed at a slightly different elevation than the containment tanks. With bars providing footing for the wildlife, animals can remain stable while using the drinker, and rocks give a natural feel to the sturdy drinker.
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September clay classes offered at SCCWritten by Admin
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Southwestern Community College will offer three clay classes beginning in September.
• Hand building: 2-6 p.m., Mondays from Sept. 10-Nov. 26, in room 123. This course provides a focus on hand building a variety of forms. Students will experiment with a slab construction, coil and pinch methods, as well as slump molds and stamping. Students will also work on surface decorations, glazing and firing. Prerequisites: None. Cost: $125.
• Holiday Decorations: 1-5 p.m., Wednesdays from Sept. 12-Dec. 5, in room 123. Students will learn how to use clay to create a variety of holiday-themed decorations. Projects in the class will be hand building based and focus on upcoming holidays during the semester. Prerequisites: None. Cost: $125
• Lidded Forms: 2-5 p.m., Wednesdays from Sept. 12-Nov. 7, in room 125. Students will concentrate on lidded vessels, such as butter dishes and teapots. The use of the extruder and slab roller will be incorporated into the design. Students will have enhanced their glazing techniques. Prerequisites: Beginning wheel or instructor’s permission. Cost: $65
The SCC Swain Center located at 60 Almond School Road in Bryson City. Space is limited. Supplies not included for classes.
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Police in an old Arizona mining town that gets 1 million tourists annually warn residents to stop yelling at visitors, or they could face harassment charges.
Jerome, with a population of about 450, was once home to one of Arizona’s largest copper mines and is now an artist hub. Tourists take in its scenic views and visit stores and bars along the winding mountain road that passes through it.
But Jerome police said on Facebook this week that it “has come to our attention that some people visiting our town on short visits and using lawful short term parking passes are being yelled at or having notes left on their cars by local residents.”
And it warned: “Yelling at, or leaving notes could, in some cases, constitute harassment under Arizona Revised Statutes.”
Jerome is about 110 miles (177 kilometers) north of Phoenix and was designated a National Historic District in 1967.
Residents who think people may have violated parking regulations were asked to contact the police.
Allen L. Muma, the police chief, posted an update on July 15, writing, “[the] primary concern was that we not have a physical altercation over a simple parking issue. I say this because often, there seems to be a lack of respect for one another in society today, and that can lead to violence. Please understand that you never know the state of mind of the person you may confront. Leave the confrontations to the police, that is our job.
We have clearly posted signage advising visitors of places they are not to park, and we issue citations to violators. We ask that visitors understand that the residents who live here have a right to park where they live, so when they return home after getting off work, or return home with groceries, they have a place to park.
Visitors, there is a large paved and patrolled free parking area just past the fire station with a shuttle that routinely provides transportation if you don’t want to walk the short walk to the main part of town.
Please, do not confront others over disputes you may have. Give the police department a call 24/7 at 928-634-2245 or if the situation is an emergency call 911. We ask everybody to work with us to get through these problems.” | <urn:uuid:41b3d06f-cba8-489b-93b2-cc74c1951415> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://coppercourier.com/story/arizona-tourist-yell-stop/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.969629 | 471 | 1.9375 | 2 |
By Haleh Rabizadeh Resnick, Esq.
You’d figure we know ourselves better than anyone else. After all, we’ve lived with our selves since before we were born. So why is it that we don’t trust ourselves?
Look, I get it when we don’t trust ourselves not to reach for the next piece of luscious chocolate cake. I get it when we don’t trust ourselves to actually keep that promise to organize the closet. But what’s our excuse for not trusting ourselves on how we feel?
If you know something’s not right because your head’s been hurting lately or your stomach’s off or you’re just not yourself- TRUST YOURSELF. Did I just shout that? I meant it. So often we go to the doctor with a complaint and we walk out thinking we’re just imagining it or it’s just stress. Look, I’m not saying that it’s not because of stress but whatever you have, it’s there. It’s legit. Speak up.
Many times women walk into doctors’ offices knowing that something just isn’t right and we walk out demoralized. What’s happening is that our sense of instinct is being overwhelmed with science and pure logic. Not that I’m against science and logic it’s just that instinct is beyond logic and we’ve all been trained that logic must rule the day.
Women have a sixth sense. We have instinct. Trust it.
I just spoke to a mom who went to a doctor’s office with the feeling that her daughter just wasn’t right. Her doctor told her that her daugther was spoiled- that’s why she cried. The mom left that doctor and found another. Turned out her baby had a urinary track infection.
A friend of mine went to different doctors for years because she kept gaining weight. They told her to go on a diet and exercise. She was doing both. She finally found a doctor who belived her that something wasn’t quite right. He ordered some blood work and found that her thyroid was underactive.
So, how do you trust yourself when you’re at the doctor?
Be clear on what your issue is before you make your appointment.
Write down some questions.
Make sure you ask your questions.
Once the doctor walks out, think about what he said.
If it doesn’t make sense call back the nurse. She may have the answer or may get the doctor for you.
Good Luck and let me know how it goes.
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Covering post mortem examinations and pesticide analysis
Post Mortem Examination
Post mortem examinations are undertaken by SAC Consulting Veterinary Services, a division of Scotland's Rural College (SRUC), and are an essential element of the investigation. Other causes of death that may be unrelated to possible exposure to a pesticide can be identified, eliminating the requirement for analysis. Alternatively evidence consistent with poisoning being the cause of death may be gained, and appropriate tissue samples taken for analysis
Field information is used together with the findings of the post mortem examination to determine the extent of any analytical investigation. Analytical techniques and equipment capable of identifying low levels of pesticides considered to present possible hazards to vertebrates or beneficial insects are employed. Multi-residue methods are employed where possible. Three methods are routinely used: covering a range of insecticides, fungicides and herbicides; anticoagulant rodenticides; chloralose, metaldehyde and strychnine. These are supplemented by compound-specific analytical methods as necessary. Residues identified are subject to rigorous confirmation criteria for acceptance. The laboratory operates to an internal quality system accredited to the ISO 17025 standard for testing laboratories by UKAS, with some of the above methods included in the scope of accreditation. | <urn:uuid:91c4ba2d-4acd-4847-a516-11913723a674> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.sasa.gov.uk/wildlife-environment/wildlife-incident-investigation-scheme-wiis/laboratory-investigations | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280718.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00407-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.895726 | 254 | 2.375 | 2 |
He fought it tooth and nail and 5 of the US population died in the civil war. 10th 11th 12th Prerequisite.
Lewis and founded the Afro-American Life Insurance Company in Jacksonville.
What highschool did abraham lincoln go to. You did this competition for fun and the prize money was just the cherry on top for you. I became a Cdl driver at 22 no highschool diploma doing honest work making 50000 my first year. You can say thank you to her with a gift.
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It is important to remember that there are some things that we do for reasons that are based on logic and logical reasoning. We do them because they are right (logically) and because we are trying to do what is right even if it’s wrong (logically). This is a lesson that is taught to all students, but also to those who are not so logical and don’t always understand why they do things.
And while for most of us, it isn’t that important what we do for reasons, it is very important that we do it because we believe it is right. Most of us are born with the ability to think for ourselves and to think logically. When we do things that seem to be logical, but aren’t, it shows that we are on the right path. What makes us think that we are on the right path is when we are doing things because they are good for us.
Well, yes and no. We are not on a path that everyone else is butting out of. Yes, we are not on a path to hell. But we are on a path that most people are on.
We don’t know the real reason why we’re here. There are many reasons why we are here but one of the biggest is the fact that we are here as a community in general. It’s very easy to put us in the middle of a story because we don’t know our whole lives and we don’t know our world. We are not on the road to hell. The only thing we can do is walk back our way.
We will. If we know our world we will know it for the rest of our lives. We may never be able to put the pieces together and we may never even think about the pieces to come together. We know that we are here but we know that we will never be there. We wont be here for the rest of our lives.
If we dont know our world, then we wont be here. If we dont know our world, then we won’t be here. We wont even be here. If we look at our world we will almost certainly remember the way it is.
So what’s our conclusion? We have a lot of trouble knowing our world, but we know that we are here, and we know that we will never be there.
We know we are here. Our worlds are our worlds. We know our world, but we dont know our worlds. It’s a hard concept to grasp and we have no idea what is going on. We are here, and we will always be here.Our worlds are our worlds, and this is our world, and we will never be here. We dont know whats going on, but we are here.
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The Connection Between Vitamin D and Sleep
What is Vitamin D? According to medicinenet.com, Vitamin D is defined as, “A steroid vitamin which promotes the intestinal absorption and metabolism of calcium and phosphorus”. In layman's terms, Vitamin D helps your body to absorb calcium and promotes bone growth.
The body produces its own Vitamin D when exposed to sunlight, and it’s for this reason that it isn’t actually considered a vitamin (who knew?). Instead, it’s classified as a hormone – a fat-soluble one. Other than exposure to sunlight, you can also get Vitamin D through foods, like fatty fish and fish oils, egg yolks, and even foods such as dairy and juice, so long as they’re fortified. Don’t like those foods? Try supplements.
On the flip side, too little vitamin D can result in softer bones in children (known as rickets) and fragile, even misshapen bones, in adults (known as osteomalacia). Additionally, a deficiency in vitamin D has been linked to breast cancer, colon cancer, prostate cancer, heart disease, depression, and weight gain, as well as other conditions. Unfortunately, most people don’t maintain proper levels of Vitamin D – which can lead to some rather serious complications regarding your health. In fact, approximately 50% or more adults and children are deficient in Vitamin D, and is now recognized as a public health concern.
Vitamin D is essential to your body’s mental and physical health and may also be important for maintaining healthy sleep. Ironically, Vitamin D is inversely related to melatonin (otherwise known as the sleep hormone), so it's believed that nighttime is the best time to take it (preferably with a large meal). Research indicates that Vitamin D may influence both the quality and quantity of sleep and is associated with daytime sleepiness. A study done at Louisiana State University analyzed the relationship between Vitamin D and daytime sleepiness with two specific goals in mind. Primarily, they wanted to ascertain whether Vitamin D levels in the body contribute to excessive daytime sleepiness. Secondly, they wanted to assess the role ethnicity may play.
In an earlier study, researchers at LSU observed that more than half of the patients studied who had trouble sleeping along with experiencing chronic pain were also deficient in Vitamin D. They also noted that the symptoms were more prevalent in patients who were of African descent.
The primary – and most effective – way the body acquires Vitamin D is through exposure to sunlight. The exposure prompts our skin to manufacture Vitamin D. Increased skin pigmentation, however, can lower the rate of this happening - ergo, greater levels of skin pigmentation are considered a risk factor and can make you more susceptible to a deficiency.
The study completed by LSU included 81 patients, all of whom either had sleep issues or musculoskeletal pain either during the day or the evening, and sometimes both. Sixty-five percent of those studied were white, and thirty-five percent were African-American. All of the patients were diagnosed with a sleep disorder, with nearly three-quarters of the group having obstructive sleep apnea, and others suffered from either insomnia or restless leg syndrome (RLS). All subjects were assessed for excessive daytime sleepiness using the Epworth Sleep Scale, a standard measurement, and their levels of Vitamin D were measured using blood tests.
The results of the study found an distinct correlation between excessive daytime sleepiness and a Vitamin D deficiency. They also proved that race is a factor in the relationship between the two. The results, though, were surprising and indicated a rather convoluted relationship, especially where race is concerned.
The most important findings from the study are:
- The subjects with greater skin pigmentation were found to have higher levels of daytime sleepiness and lower levels of Vitamin D, when compared to those with less skin pigmentation.
- Just six percent of those studied without a Vitamin D deficiency were African-American.
- Sixty-five percent of the subjects were found to have an inadequate amount of Vitamin D.
- African-American patients made up thirty-five percent of those evaluated, and fifty-five percent of that thirty-five percent were deficient in Vitamin D.
- Among those who were Vitamin D deficient – under 20mg as measured by a blood test – there was no connection between Vitamin D levels and daytime sleepiness. This is the opposite of what was expected when compared to earlier research.
- An exception to the above was found among those of African descent who were Vitamin D deficient: There was a direct connection between the levels of Vitamin D and daytime sleepiness. Among these patients, higher levels of Vitamin D were associated with higher levels of daytime sleepiness – again, the opposite of what was expected.
Another study which included 3,048 men aged 68 and older measured sleep using wrist actigraphy, recording measurements of sleep time overall, wake time after the onset of sleep, and sleep efficiency – a measurement that resulted from comparing time spent in bed to the actual time spent sleeping. Among those studied, sixteen percent had insufficient levels of Vitamin D. To determine the influence of Vitamin D over sleep, the researchers considered several other factors, including: age, time (season) of year, additional health conditions, body-mass index (BMI), and both cognitive and physical functions. It was determined that low levels of Vitamin D were associated with several sleep issues:
- Low levels of Vitamin D increased the chances that participants experienced inadequate sleep (less than 5 hours per night).
- Low levels of Vitamin D were associated with lower sleep efficiency scores and a greater chance of scoring below seventy percent. (A healthy sleep efficiency score is typically considered to be eighty-five percent or higher.)
A lower sleep efficiency score is indicative of difficulties with the quality of sleep, as well as, potentially, the quality of sleep. A low score may also mean that it takes longer for you to fall asleep or may indicate that you’re an early riser. A low score can also mean that your sleep is fragmented and restless, with several awakenings throughout the night.
Other studies have demonstrated the correlation between low levels of Vitamin D and sleep issues. Though these studies have measured sleep subjectively, using survey data and reports from patients who have assessed their own sleep, in terms of quality and quantity.
Truthfully, there hasn’t been enough research on the relationship between Vitamin D and sleep. Though these studies may encourage further research and the potential influence on long-term health.
Again, there is no better source of Vitamin D than the sun - though there are numerous factors that can affect the amount of exposure you’re receiving, like the time of day or season, amount of cloud cover, and even air pollution. Of course, sunscreen and clothing can also obstruct your exposure of Vitamin D. Keep in mind that protecting your skin from overexposure is imperative, but some limited time in the sun without protection such as sunscreen may be good for your health, and your sleep. (The recommended amount for sun exposure to boost your Vitamin D intake typically falls between 5-10 minutes, from a few times a week to every day.)
Think you may be Vitamin D deficient? Here are some signs and symptoms to look for:
- Feeling moody: The brain hormone, serotonin, increases with sun exposure. Studies show that low levels of Vitamin D in the body affect the amount of serotonin, AKA the “feel-good hormone”, in your brain causing you to feel moody and irritable.
- Chronic pain: If you experience regular aches, muscle weakness and joint pains, you may be Vitamin D deficient.
- Constant fatigue: You feel tired and lethargic often, despite being well rested, and may also feel anxious. An adequate amount of Vitamin D in the body is known to boost energy levels and increase muscular function.
- Daytime sleepiness: Numerous studies show that people with low levels of Vitamin D are more inclined to experience daytime sleepiness and other sleep disorders.
- Sweaty head: One of the most common indicators of a Vitamin D deficiency is head sweating.
- Frequent flu sickness and/or respiratory infections: You may be more susceptible to allergies and infections. Vitamin D reduces inflammation and regulates your immune system.
- Gum disease: Bleeding, reddening and swelling of the gums may also be indicative of a Vitamin D deficiency.
Still not sure if you’re getting enough Vitamin D? Have your doctor perform a blood test, or check out wellnessfx.com. If you’re like countless other people and your Vitamin D levels are low, then you and he/she can come up with a plan that may include some dietary changes, controlled exposure to sun, and/or supplements, to bring your levels up and maintain them. Making the necessary changes to ensure your Vitamin D levels are healthy is good for your overall health and is also likely to be better for your sleep.
Thanks for reading!
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Tuochao Chen gapes. Then he sneers. Then he grimaces. As he makes faces, he wears a device that looks like a pair of headphones. But instead of playing sound, it points cameras toward his cheeks. The cameras only see the sides of his face. Surprisingly, that’s enough facial real estate to tell a sneer from a smile, or a laugh from a frown. A computer system connected to the headphones can figure out what Chen’s eyes and mouth look like without seeing them directly.
It works even if Chen wears a face mask. The system can tell if he’s smiling or frowning behind it.
Chen studies computer science in the lab of Cheng Zhang at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. Zhang came up with the idea for this system. He calls it C-face. That “C” stands for contour. It’s also a pun because the device can “see” your face.
His team’s goal is to create technology that can better understand people. Right now, our devices are mostly clueless about how we’re feeling or what we need. But over time, more devices will understand us. Zhang hopes that “everything will be smart in the future.” For example, your phone might recognize when your face looks upset and suggest calming music. For your phone to know you’re upset, however, it has to somehow capture that information from you. Such as from a camera.
But it’s not convenient to always have a camera in front of your face. What if you’re exercising, cooking or shopping? “People are more open to wearing devices on the ears or on the wrists,” notes Zhang. His team has already shown it is possible to figure out entire hand gestures from a device worn on the wrist. That made him wonder if he could pick up entire facial expressions from cameras worn on the ears.
The sides — or contours — of someone’s cheeks change as they make different faces. So a certain-shaped contour might match a specific expression. Deep learning, an artificial-intelligence technique, can detect patterns like this. It just needs lots of practice, known as training.
To train C-face, Chen and other team members made funny faces. Meanwhile, headphone cameras captured how the contours of their cheeks changed with each expression. And a camera in front of the face captured the locations of important landmarks around the eyebrows, eyes and mouth. The system learned to match changes in the contours to changes in these landmarks. Once training was complete, the device could look at cheek contours and predict the position of landmarks around the eyes and mouth that corresponded to particular facial expressions.
The researchers then fed those landmark positions into a program that created a matching virtual version of the face that looked happy, sad, puzzled, surprised or something else entirely.
Zhang’s group unveiled its new system in October 2020. The researchers shared details about it at a virtual conference of the Association for Computing Machinery Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology.
Science shaped by roomies and the pandemic
Everyone’s face is unique. So each person who uses the C-face device has to train and test it on their own expressions. To do this, Zhang’s team had to recruit volunteers. But it was spring 2020 at the time. The coronavirus pandemic had sent most of the world into lockdown. It wasn’t safe to bring anyone to a laboratory. So the team got creative.
“We got approval to conduct the study with our roommates,” says Benjamin Steeper, another Cornell student. The situation wasn’t ideal. Steeper converted one room of his apartment into “the science room,” complete with a desk, chair, cameras and everything else he needed.
Meanwhile, Chen set up his bedroom to also use for the study. Chen stars in the video that the team used for training and testing C-face. He makes dozens of different expressions, one after another, for an hour. The volunteers had to watch the video and copy each expression. They thought it was funny to have to stare at Chen making funny faces for so long. One of Chen’s roommates told him afterwards, “I will see you in my dreams tonight!”
The pandemic had another important impact on the team’s research. Face masks suddenly became part of daily life. Other software designed to recognize people’s faces — like FaceID on an iPhone — doesn’t work when someone wears a mask. “I keep seeing everyone opening their mask for iPhone unlock,” says Ilke Demir. “Looking at the contours is a very nice solution.” Demir, who wasn’t involved in the research, is a research scientist at Intel in Los Angeles, Calif.
The team showed that C-face could reveal people’s expressions even when wearing masks. This device could help you communicate more easily with friends while you wear a mask. It would do this by mapping your hidden expression onto the face of a virtual avatar. This digital version of you would match your expressions as you talk, smile or perhaps gasp.
With training, C-face also can turn someone’s real expressions into emojis. It just needs to learn what expression should match which emoji. Then, instead of scrolling through emojis to find the one you want, you just make the face at your device and it will appear on your screen, ready to post or text.
You can’t buy C-face, at least not yet. It uses too much energy and computing power right now. Demir points out that it also “needs more user studies.” The nine volunteers who took part were all researchers and their roommates. That small group does not represent the entire population. Demir points out that the researchers must make sure this device works with all hair types, skin colors, head sizes and more.
Yet Steeper is among those who looks forward to someday using C-face or something like it daily. Right now, when he’s cooking and talking to family at the same time, he puts the phone down on a table. “All they see is my ceiling,” he says. If he were wearing C-face, his family could see an engaging virtual avatar, or digital version, instead. If only they could smell the food virtually, too.
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The Calgary Zoo gorilla troop is growing.
Kioja, who turns 15 years old this month, is pregnant and showing.
"Gorillas do have a bit of a pot-belly. But if you know Kioja, you would be able to tell she's expecting," said Malu Celli, a curator at the Calgary Zoo.
The sixth member of the gorilla family is expected to arrive in early March.
Celli says Kioja was trained to stand still for ultrasounds even before she got pregnant so they could monitor the health of her baby.
"She won't stay for as long as a human mom would but it's enough for us to know everything is OK."
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Celli say the zoo's veterinarians won't be able to determine the gorilla's sex before birth, but say it's growing strong and has a healthy heartbeat.
This will be the first offspring for Kioja, who was born in captivity at the Bronx Zoo in 2001.
"She wasn't raised by her mother," said Celli.
"We are hoping that she would know what to do once the little one comes but we're not taking any chances and we're really getting ready if we need to step in."
The anticipated gorilla baby was sired by the troop's silverback, 37-year-old Kakinga. He has fathered nine offspring born at the Calgary Zoo — seven of them are still alive.
"He's actually quite gentle and very interested in the kids," said Celli.
The zoo is unsure when the public will be able to view the new addition.
"It depends on how Kioja does. If she delivers in front of the public, and looks after the baby — technically everybody can be there and see this."
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Tesla Gigafactory on track to get Nevada approval for increased emissions
Nevada environmental agency set to approve a class change for Tesla’s facility, allowing the Gigafactory to increase its annual emissions for pollutants.
Tesla’s Gigafactory 1 just east of Reno-Sparks is set to gain approval from the state for a change in classification that will allow it to increase the amount of emissions it releases annually.
The Nevada Division of Environmental Protection concluded that Tesla’s application satisfies the requirements set by federal and state law. The agency is now seeking public comment through Aug. 17 before it issues a new permit for the Gigafactory for its new class designation.
The change in class and increase in emissions allowed does not mean the standards that Tesla must follow will be less strict, according to NDEP.
“The proposed permit still requires Tesla, Inc. to maintain compliance with state and federal regulations and ambient air quality standards, and also requires the facility to conduct regular monitoring and reporting,” NDEP said in an e-mail response to questions from the Reno Gazette Journal. “While overall emissions at the facility are expected to increase, the permit sets emission limits to ensure that public health is protected.”
Tesla’s Nevada Gigafactory currently operates under a Class II air quality permit.
The Class II designation applies to facilities that emit less than 100 tons of any one regulated pollutant annually and less than 25 tons of hazardous air pollutants. The latter involves toxic air pollutants that can cause cancer, birth defects and serious environmental impacts.
Changing to a Class I designation means the Gigafactory will be allowed to emit more than 100 tons of a regulated pollutant and more than 25 tons of a hazardous air pollutant per year.
Tesla’s Gigfactory partner, Panasonic, has steadily expanded the facility over the years as demand for electric cars and, consequently, its batteries have continued to grow. The latest involves an expansion of the Gigafactory that was slated for early 2022.
Tesla is also seeing increased sales and production of its electric vehicles, just barely missing the million-unit mark last year. Tesla delivered more than 936,000 vehicles in 2021, up significantly from just under 500,000 vehicles in 2020. The company also reported nearly 255,000 vehicle deliveries for the second quarter of 2022. More sales mean more batteries are needed, leading to increased activity at the Gigafactory.
The impact of the expansion was confirmed by NDEP.
“This new permit is required due to the facility’s continued expansion and its increasing potential to emit,” NDEP said.
Just recently, Tesla reached a settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency over violations of the Clean Air Act by its car manufacturing facility in Fremont, California. Tesla paid a $275,000 penalty under the settlement agreement with the EPA.
Pollutants emitted at the Nevada facility, meanwhile, include volatile organic compounds, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide and particulate matter, according to NDEP. The agency assured, however, that the increased emissions will be within safe levels.
“Air dispersion modeling shows all pollutants emitted from the facility will remain below established air quality thresholds and other limits for major air pollution sources established by the federal Clean Air Act,” NDEP said.
NDEP added that it will post a copy of its review and the draft operating permit for public review at https://ndep.nv.gov/posts once they are available.
Members of the public who want to comment on Tesla’s Nevada application prior to final approval can submit a comment in person to NDEP’s Carson City office or mail them to:
Jaimie Mara, Nevada Division of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Air Pollution Control, 901 South Stewart Street, Suite 4001, Carson City, Nevada 89701.
Mara can also be reached by phone at 775-687-9343.
The Reno Gazette Journal has reached out to Tesla for comment.
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There are many things that can cause garden problems while not all of them can be fixed prevention by the garden is the best course of action. I am talking about controlling disease in the garden some of them may be beyond your control but there are many ways in which you can work to prevent them.
Diseases are usually either fungal, bacterial, or viral and there are a lot of different ways in which these diseases can get into your garden and cause havoc. It is very difficult sometimes to determine just what it is that is ailing a plant insect damage can sometimes emulate a disease and a disease can sometimes emulate insect damage. So the best methods of dealing with these kinds of problems are prevention.
Preventing diseases in your garden may not always be possible but to be sure you are doing all that you can here are some handy guidelines you should follow. While these guides will not protect against all the problems you nay encounter they will help to lessen the opportunity for them.
First be sure that you are giving your plants a great environment to grow in. Be sure the soil is loamy and full of good organic matter and that the area that you plant in is well loosened o promote vigorous root growth. Be sure that you are planting them in the right location the right amount of light and air circulation are important. The healthier the plants the better they are able to resist attacks.
An important area to concern yourself with is sanitation in the garden. The first thing to do is ti inspect any new plants before you add them to the garden.Buying disease resistant plants such as hybrids will also be very beneficial. Checking for signs of problems beforehand will save you trouble. Discard and remove any plants right away when you find ones that are not healthy but do not add diseased plants to the compost pile as this will almost certainly compound your problems. Another key component of sanitation is weed control. Weeds not only rob vital nutrients and moisture from the soil they attract insects they maybe harboring disease. So remove them and any plant debris as quickly as possible.
People sometimes unwittingly spread the disease themselves when using cultivation tools in the garden. This is known as mechanical method. As pruners are used disease can get on the blade from am infected plant that will be transferred to the next plant you will prune. Wiping or spraying clippers or cultivators with a 10% bleach solution will help to reduce this hazard.
Along with these guides be careful not to work around plants when the leaves are wet water can spread diseases real quickly. Always water early in the day to allow time for the plants to dry . Mulch will help to prevent soil from splashing on the leaves reducing the risk of soil born disease. Be sure also to provide good air circulation to help keep diseases from reproducing too quickly. | <urn:uuid:ae73866f-3d2f-494f-aa3d-29b714c4fb00> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.glenns-garden.com/reducing-disease-in-the-vegetable-garden/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00012-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961629 | 569 | 2.796875 | 3 |
7 ways to improve leadership skills
A leader of a team is like a captain of this ship. The team’s success or failure depends on the effectiveness and expertise of its leader. When given a chance to lead a team, how do you ensure that you do a good job of it? You can follow these 7 simple tips in our daily lives to hone your leadership skills.
It is very important to do a self-analysis and take stock of your strengths and weaknesses to perform your leadership roles to perfection. If you are good at number crunching, you can train your team to understand the numbers more and infer important points from them. If you lack listening skills or people management skills, you can work on them to consciously to ensure that you create a comfortable atmosphere for your team to work in.
2. Setting smart goals
If you want to improve your leadership skills, you have to set SMART goals for your team members. The term SMART stands for specific, measurable, acceptable, realistic and time-bound. This way, you assign reasonable goals to your team and give them a considerable amount of time to complete them. Your team will respect you for not pressurizing them too much and by giving them goals that are in line with their skill sets.
3. Constant guidance throughout the process
A good leader is not one who calls for a team meeting, assigns tasks and pressurizes his team about the delivery dates. In the course of the project, your team may have lots of challenges and problems to complete the task within deadlines. This is where you have to be there for them and guide them to combat these challenges successfully. You should assure them that they can fall back on you for support if there is a problem.
4. Giving freedom to work for your team
Leadership doesn’t involve your growth alone; you are considered an excellent leader if you are able to guide your team members to grow as well. How can you do that? By giving them the freedom to work and allowing them to explore their creativity to the maximum extent possible, of course! Encourage them to come up with innovative ideas and give them responsibility as well, to do their jobs well.
5. Assume accountability
While you make your team members responsible for their individual tasks, you should assume accountability for the overall project. You should never give up on your team before your senior management, clients and other stakeholders.
6. Help your team to keep going
As a leader, you will face lots of challenges in your project. It is natural for your team to feel dejected and demotivated when things don’t go their way. To improve your leadership skills, one of the first things that you should do is to motivate your team and keep them as positive and confident as possible. When you sound confident, it will certainly rub on them as well and lift their spirits.
7. Be a good listener
You should be available for your team at all times. That’s the mark of a good leader. Your team should feel confident and comfortable enough to approach you when they have an issue. You should never be too busy to hear them out, and you should come up with practical and long-lasting solutions for their problems, at all times. | <urn:uuid:abc94772-d644-4d16-aa2a-576458c60a1a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://webdesign-imagineers.co.uk/1778-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.96649 | 677 | 2 | 2 |
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Gene Simmons: Rock star says music can save children's lives
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Kiss frontman Gene Simmons made a surprise appearance at a Sioux Falls benefit concert Saturday, where he spoke of music's power to positively shape children's lives.
Simmons's appearance came on the final day of a week of concerts to benefit the music academy for Sioux Falls Boys & Girls Clubs members.
"This is about kids. We've had our chance. We've got to give them a chance. Anything that gets them off the street is a good thing," Simmons said.
Music, Simmons said, is self-empowering.
"It doesn't matter if you become a star. If you don't believe in yourself and get up on stage, everybody is watching. You can feel the power ... and it helps you get through life, especially when you're impressionable."
He said getting involved in music -- whether it's learning to play an instrument or sing karaoke -- improves social skills, too.
Motley Crue singer Vince Neil was also at Saturday's show, and he, too, expounded on the positive benefits of music.
"Say you finish your first song, it could be ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb,' it doesn't matter, but at least it's something you've played," Neil said. "And I think for kids, they could go into a whole other direction because they accomplished something."
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We all know Pepper Mint loves to investigate and explore, so it’s no wonder that when she hears of the mysterious Hidden Island, she immediately sets off to find it. But once she discovers it, she must use her ingenuity and scientific reasoning to get back home. In this story-based STEM kit, you can join our curious young scientist on her quest. First, you’ll use colorfully printed wooden panels to build an island experiment-and-play station. Then, it’s time to follow along with the storybook-style manual to conduct the experiments Pepper Mint performs. Explore the topic of solar energy and its useful applications as you build a solar panel with a photovoltaic cell and test it with different light sources. Use solar radiation to operate a solar thermal tower with a spinning pinwheel. Learn how to tell the time with a sundial and how to turn salt water into fresh water by growing salt crystals with solar-powered evaporation. Finally, use a solar cell to power a small boat with a vibrating motor — Pepper Mint’s ticket to escaping the island! Just as with the other kits in the award-winning Pepper Mint series, your models can be used long after the fun of experimenting alongside this curious young engineer is complete. These models become the setting for infinite adventures and storylines--limited only by your imagination! Combine models from other Pepper Mint kits to embark on a truly extensive, fun (and educational!) playtime adventure. Scale Pepper Mint figurine included.Included: Wooden building pieces, solar panel, petri dish, die-cut cardboard building pieces, sandpaper, black paper, wooden stick, needle, rivet, Pepper Mint figurine, experiment manual
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Eventually, liberals/progressives/Democrats might stop using the “women make 77 cents for every dollar a man makes” factoid. This is a two “Pinocchio” claim, according to the Washington Post, by the way. I also recommend this critical note from my AEI colleagues Andrew Bigg and Mark Perry, which concludes, “Once education, marital status and occupations are considered, the ‘gender wage gap’ all but disappears.” And now we have this new study from the New York Fed, which also finds a relatively tiny gap:
Among recent college graduates as a whole, women earn about 97 cents on the dollar compared with men. That said, within this group, women tend to out-earn men in a number of college majors, sometimes by a substantial margin. We find these early career patterns fascinating, in part because they seem to present counter examples to the well-established male wage premium, but mostly because it is not entirely clear why we observe these patterns. To the extent that a wage premium for one gender represents discrimination, it may be that discrimination can occur in favor of either men or women, depending on college major, at least among recent college graduates. By mid-career, however, any wage premium earned by women completely disappears. As we grapple with the issue of gender pay equity, it is vital that we continue to examine these trends in more detail so that we can better understand their sources.
And why does that small gap apparently grow to 15 points by mid-career, in favor of men? Again, from the study:
There are a number of possible explanations as to why the gender pay gap is fairly small for recent college graduates, but grows for mid-career workers. First, to the extent that male earnings premiums represent discrimination against women, it is possible that such discrimination becomes more widespread as men and women approach mid-career. Another possibility is that pay differences arise for reasons related to raising a family. When we look at the outcomes of young college graduates, this group primarily contains single people without children, while the mid-career group includes a significant number of men and women with children. Women are more likely than men to spend time out of the labor force to bear and raise children. This interruption in a working career reduces the accumulation of work experience and human capital, which has been shown to have a negative influence on earnings. In addition, some jobs tend to reward long hours and fixed schedules—think surgeons or lawyers. Because raising a family often requires more flexible schedules, those with family responsibilities who have difficulty satisfying time sensitive work demands may face lower wages in these types of jobs. In fact, in jobs where such time demands are largely absent, and more flexibility is possible, the pay gap has been found to be much smaller. | <urn:uuid:17c048d7-9186-4df4-8ec1-47f49a302b36> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ricochet.com/273376/womens-wages-and-the-77-cents-myth-again-and-again-and-again/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00073.warc.gz | en | 0.967799 | 639 | 2.4375 | 2 |
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Germany s health minister Jens Spahn hinted that covid-19 vaccines from China and Russia could be used in Europe to compensate for the shortfall of doses supplied by Pfizer and its partner BioNTech, and by Oxford AstraZeneca.
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We are grateful for the seriousness with which most of our students take the virus threat, but we will continue to hold accountable those students who threaten our community by violating our clearly stated expectations, said Damon Sims, vice president for student affairs.
We are participating in contact tracing, and I encourage our campus community to use the campus monitoring program.
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Marvel Studios has finally decided on a name for Ironman’s successor – Ironheart. In the comic book series, Tony Stark, the genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist steps out of the armour and an MIT graduate, Riri Williams, takes his place with her own self-made suit.
Following the events in Civil War Two, Williams builds her own suit and upgrades it later with the help of Stark himself. The creators did mention that this is not a spoiler to what happens in Civil War Two.
Writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Stefano Caselli have created Ironheart not just as a new character but a replacement of Ironman himself.
(Photo Courtesy: Wired/Marvel Studio)
Williams, apparently a genius like Stark, is only 15 when she enrolls in MIT. She reverse engineers an Ironman suit to make her own armor, in her dorm room! She first comes to Tony Stark’s attention when James Rhodes spots her doing a test flight and Stark decides to help her with her armor suit. Although he won’t be seen in his armor anymore, to keep Tony Stark a part of future stories, Ironheart’s AI companion will be based on Tony Stark’s personallity.
Her being an Afro-American young women did cause a little turmoil in the fan community but that is no big surprise, fans generally don’t like changes especially not such drastic ones, from billionaire playboy to teenage female geek.
There were discussions on how to name the new hero(ine) and naturally Ironwoman was an option but then not really, too old fashioned. When asked about how the name came into existence, Bendis told Wired:
Tony (Stark) first put on the armor to save his heart. Riri puts it on for different reasons altogether but still heart-related.
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In my regular daily life, I so rarely get lost. I have my iPhone always with me, speaking directions to me as I drive or walk somewhere, and the directions are usually precisely accurate, down to which lane I should be in when I take a freeway exit.
When I ride my bike, I have my bike computer on, and I may have downloaded routes with one of several apps on my phone that have ready-made routes for me. I may occasionally miss a turn, but I get back on track in a few minutes.
Hiking (or “walking” as it is known in Scotland and England) is often different from hiking in the US, where most of us walk on trails maintained by the US Forest Service, trails that are marked with names on signs and reminders to stay on the trail. While there are marked trails in the UK, especially for famous walks such as the Coast Trail, one often needs to consult a walking guidebook with instructions such as, “Go around the farmhouse, cross the wheat field, and bear left at the five-bar gate.”
When I hiked in England before, my friend accompanied me and interpreted the guidebook instructions for me. If I had read that instruction above, I would have asked, “Do I go through the gate and then turn left, or do I turn left before the gate? Also, there are two farmhouses in view, so which farmhouse do I go around?”
But when my friend got blisters, I was left to my own devices on a much anticipated hike through part of the New Forest in Hampshire. She picked out a pretty easy walk of 8 miles that would include both dense forest and the heath, as well as guaranteed views of ponies, donkeys, and deer. You’ll be fine, she said. Text me if you get lost.
I admit I was a little intimidated by the guidebook. I had also brought my trusty iPhone with me, with my AllTrails app and two mapping apps. To my surprise, I made it through the first half of the walk on a rainy morning, doing my best to interpret the directions. Unfortunately, these books do not say, “You will find a footbridge in a mile.” They will simply say “You will find a footbridge,” and you have to keep hoping you’re walking in the right direction until at last you see a footbridge. I learned to wait for the instruction to become clear.
I even gave some assistance to four English teenagers doing the “Duke of Edinburgh” three-day backpacking challenge in which teenagers practice finding their way through the outdoors and being self-reliant. They asked me where we were, and I showed them on their big map. “Follow the fence on your left and keep the river to your right,” I told them. I was getting the hang of this.
I stopped at the pub at the midpoint of the walk, thrilled that I had found it, and looked at the directions for the way back, where I assumed I would see those wild ponies and donkeys. The instructions for the way back seemed even clearer. There were the cottages. There was the gate just past the cattle grid. There was the wide gravel path. It was all so clear.
Until it wasn’t. I was told to look for a T-junction in the gravel path and to take the gravel path to the left. I got to a T-junction, but there really wasn’t a gravel path to the left. It had a sprinkling of gravel and then a lot of mud. I thought I still needed to go forward. So I did for about a half mile, but then the next direction didn’t make sense. So I doubled back to the apparent junction and followed that path for about a half mile, but then the next direction didn’t make sense.
I was lost. I knew vaguely where I was, and I knew which direction to walk to get to the car park where my friend would pick me up. By this time, I had added at least a mile to my walk. So I pulled out my hiking app and decided to return to the obvious gravel path because it was going in the right direction and would take me past a large deer park.
I encountered a few cyclists on the large gravel path, but no deer, not even in the large deer park. Not even one. And I certainly didn’t see any donkeys or ponies, though my friend and her husband had told me repeatedly, “They walk right up to you! They sniff your hand! They’re all over the place!”
Finally, after realizing I was not going to find the path I had intended to take, I simply enjoyed the path I was on. I decided to stop thinking that I was lost or had failed to navigate properly. I was in a beautiful forest, the ground was soft, my feet were happy, the rain had stopped, and Apple Maps was going to get me to that car park.
Eventually, I returned to the trail I had walked in the morning, but now I was walking in the opposite direction. I recognized the landmarks and made turns confidently, figuring there were no more surprises.
And then suddenly, there they were: a large herd of deer grazing in a vast expanse on my left. Most were on the other side of a fence, but four very young ones were on my side of the fence, just ahead of me. My boots were crunching on the gravel beneath me, and I didn’t want to startle them, so I stopped.
But one deer did hear or smell me, and he turned to the rest of them, probably saying, “There’s a lost American. Let’s beat it.” Suddenly, a whole herd of deer turned and stared at me. Then the four young ones were startled and started running. One of them leapt over the fence back into the herd, but the others couldn’t figure out how to get over the fence. They all ran away from me. Unfortunately, they were running in the same direction I was going, and I couldn’t stand there all day, so I kept walking, startling them every few seconds despite my attempts to move away from them.
They finally peeled off into a distant patch of forest, and I found my way back to the car park. I realized that what we often call “getting lost” is better framed as “finding another way.” I suspect it ended up being the more excellent way, the one that took me past a herd of deer, the one that encouraged me to relax and trust that God is with me and these deer and the lost teenagers on their “Duke of Edinburgh,” and we all are going to find our way back to our herd. | <urn:uuid:28976c44-819c-4da5-861f-1be7126cf3ca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://janineschenone.net/2022/07/01/sabbatical-post-7-on-getting-lost/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.988314 | 1,440 | 1.796875 | 2 |
She made three different shapes from shrinky dink plastic and a white Sharpie paint pen. I think they are just adorable.
Wanna make them recycled? How about making your own fused plastic from plastic shopping bags. It's so ridiculously easy - I've even done it with my 10-year old son (the fusing, not the earrings). Here's a really easy-to-follow video from the Etsy lab for making your own fused plastic.
Now think of all the possibilities! Bags, pouches, funky wall art - are the cogwheels on the right side of your brain churning yet?
Make sure to hop over to Alisa's blog to see how quick and simple it was to put together those earrings so you can make a pair for yourself.
And if you are still feeling the love of a good chevron pattern, I've got a Pinterest board with nearly 100 inspiring chevron DIY examples showing you how to pump in some of this graphic goodness - including bold as well as subtle examples. Personally I'm a subtle chevron enthusiast - but I sure do appreciate those that go bold!
What's your take on the chevron design? Still going? Or has the trend fizzled?
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According to research from the Interactive Media in Retail Group, three quarters of a million quid was spent in the UK at nine minutes past one this afternoon.
This is all to do with the pre-Christmas online shopping frenzy, triggering what is expected to £370 million in sales just today - almost double the average online shopping day.
IMRG, understandably, claims today will the biggest single day in the history of shopping on the web in the UK.
Which is nice...
Some more online Christmas shopping facts:
* The biggest hour ever will be between 11-12am that day, with sales worth £32.400,000, two hours earlier than the peak hour last year, on Monday 4th December 2006.
* 40% of the sales that day, worth £148,000,000 will take place outside of traditional shopping hours, either before 9am or after 6pm (i.e. when most high street shops are shut), up from 38% last year.
* Monday 10 to Sunday 16 December will be the biggest e-sales week of the year, with online sales worth £2.359 billion, almost three times the £0.885 billion average for the year.
* Total Christmas e-retail sales (i.e. Q4 2007) are expected to reach £17.6 billion, an 82% increase of the £9.6 billion recorded for the same period in 2006.
* Full year 2007 e-retail sales will be £53.3 billion, 76% higher than the £30.2 billion recorded for 2006, and considerably exceeding the £42 billion IMRG estimated at the beginning of this year.
* The UK's 27 million online shoppers will generate 860 million parcel deliveries in 2007.
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Music trainer Brianna Barhorst instructs a pupil who is studying remotely Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021 at Park Brook Elementary School in Brooklyn Park. While some college students are phasing in in-particular person studying, others are a part of the Distance Learning Academy and can learn remotely for the rest of the varsity yr. Then, in February of 2014, she was declared legally blind, and she or he mentioned at first, her goals of pursuing music appeared far much less achievable. “I went in completely terrified and labored as exhausting as I may,” she remembers. Her exhausting work earned her a Soldier of the Cycle designation, which acknowledges the top soldier of the essential coaching cycle and which rewards impressive efficiency in every thing from shooting to bodily fitness.
Evolutionary scientists say human beings may have developed a dependence on music as a communication device as a result of our ancestors descended from arboreal species — tree-dwellers who referred to as to one another across the canopy. Researchers think some of the necessary capabilities of music is to create a feeling of cohesion or social connectedness. Although we will’t be sure exactly when human beings began listening to music, scientists do know something about why we do.
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In elementary schools, youngsters usually be taught to play instruments such because the recorder, sing in small choirs, and study in regards to the historical past of Western artwork music and conventional music. Some elementary school youngsters also study well-liked music kinds. In non secular schools, kids sing hymns and different non secular music. In secondary faculties , students may have the chance to carry out in some forms of musical ensembles, similar to choirs , marching bands, live performance bands, jazz bands, or orchestras. In some college systems, music lessons on the way to play devices may be offered.
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The West Country city with a fiercely impartial spirit that sees music and art come collectively. Massive Attack, Portishead, Heavy Lungs, Phox Jaw and BIMM alumni George Ezra all name this numerous and inventive metropolis residence. The capital metropolis that needs little introduction – music is part of its DNA. Stormzy, Mercury Prize winner Dave, Black Midi, The Clash, Queen, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd in addition to countless venues, labels, promoters, brokers, managers and publishers call this legendary city home.
A efficiency can both be deliberate out and rehearsed —which is the norm in classical music, with jazz massive bands and plenty of popular music styles–or improvised over a chord development , which is the norm in small jazz and blues groups. Rehearsals of orchestras, live performance bands and choirs are led by a conductor. A rehearsal is a structured repetition of a music or piece by the performers till it may be sung or performed accurately and, if it’s a music or piece for multiple musician, till the parts are collectively from a rhythmic and tuning perspective.
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Earthly music, however, is suspect; Plato distrusted its emotional power. Music should therefore be of the right type; the sensuous qualities of sure modes are harmful, and a strong Music News censorship must be imposed. Music and gymnastics within the right steadiness would constitute the desirable curriculum in training.
At Universal, that takes the form of a counselling service run by a BACP-registered counsellor. All emerging artists are provided an initial wellbeing check-in to search out out what assist they might require, with any help wanted then funded by the label. For artists in disaster, the programme additionally promises to assist them on the point of want. Artists leaving the label are supplied a session to speak about their experience and plan what’s subsequent, whereas staff get information and signposting on specific points concerning artists’ wellbeing. The label has a confidential e mail address that artists can use to get in contact with the counselling team, and Universal Music UK EVP Selina Webb confirms that, as is the case for all accredited therapy, anything stated to the registered counsellors is confidential. Historically, some labels and administration firms have funded therapy like therapy and rehab for artists who’ve been struggling and are keen to simply accept help.
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Europe's Parallels With The 1920s
Stephen Fidler: Policy makers are worried what dismal economic prospects will mean for politics in continental Europe—and whether it will foster political extremism which followed economic hardship in Europe in the 1920s.
The financial markets are signaling that the acute phase of the euro-zone financial crisis may be over and the crisis may be shifting into a chronic phase—or more precisely, a chronic phase with likely acute interludes in which panic escalates.
If this is right, what does it imply? Most economic forecasters are expecting anemic growth, with recession taking root in important economies such as France, and continued low interest rates. Public and private sectors in many euro-zone economies need to further reduce their debts—in the jargon, "deleverage"—so prospects for any real recovery seem a long way off.
This environment is less stressful than the recent past. But economic prospects for many people will be pinched, possibly for years to come, and some will feel hopeless of ever finding a better life.
Unsurprisingly, policy makers are worried what this will mean for politics in continental Europe—and whether it will foster political extremism such as that which followed economic hardship in Europe in the 1920s.
There is no way of knowing whether such concerns are well founded.
But some academics have been looking back at the 1920s to make comparisons with the present day—and they find similarities both in the nature of the economic problems and the adjustment efforts designed to alleviate them.
There are almost uncanny parallels even with the spectacle of the so-called troika of foreign officials from the European Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund that have been poring over the books in Greece's finance ministry.
In 1922, the League of Nations appointed a commissioner-general—Alfred Zimmerman of the Netherlands—to oversee in minute detail Austrian government policies and spending as the price for the financial support it was receiving from other governments (including Spain and Italy).
Patricia Clavin, a historian at Oxford University, says these creditors assumed "extraordinary powers" over the new government, forcing cuts in food subsidies and slashing the payroll of civil servants by 50,000. Austrian officials would have to take their government ledgers to Mr. Zimmerman to receive permission, frequently denied, to make payments.
The Austrian program was a model for later programs in Hungary, Bulgaria and, yes, Greece, and was used as a "background model" for dealing with the crisis in Germany's Weimar Republic, she told an audience at St. Antony's College last year.
Austria returned to the gold standard in 1924. In fact, Ms. Clavin says a total of 45 countries returned to the gold standard. Of the four great economic powers, Britain and Germany went in at exchange rates subsequently shown to be too high; and the U.S. and France at levels that proved to be much more competitive.
David Vines, an economics professor at Oxford, told the same audience of other parallels with the present day. In both, a crisis of excess debt developed, in the 1920s created by war and today by a decade in which the new common currency generated huge financial flows from Germany and other surplus countries to deficit countries of the euro-zone periphery.
Adjustment in the 1920s was the responsibility of the deficit countries (Germany and the U.K.) and not of the surplus countries (the U.S. and France.) That one-sided adjustment prolonged the period over which it could be made, and therefore extended the economic pain—as did the unwillingness or inability of governments to devalue their national currencies.
This is, more or less, the world of adjustment in the euro zone. The ECB can, unlike in the gold-standard world, ease the symptoms but the adjustment is unavoidable. And the parallels are never complete: Unlike in the 1930s, governments haven't reacted with aggressive economic nationalism and trade protectionism to the current crisis—yet.
So what can we say about political extremism? A paper published last year from three academics, Alan de Bromhead, Barry Eichengreen and Kevin O'Rourke, studied the rise of right-wing political parties in the Great Depression—right-wing because it was they, rather than the parties of the left, that made progress electorally in the 1930s.
Their conclusions are that political institutions and political culture mattered. Those countries in greatest danger of political extremism were those with relatively recent histories of democracy, those with existing extreme right-wing parties, and those with low hurdles for new parties to enter parliament.
Above all, they found, the risk was greatest where the economic depression lasted the longest.
Even Greece, one of the weakest crisis countries by these measures, is coming up to four decades of unbroken democracy. And as damaging and prolonged as its downturn has been, it has lasted nowhere near as long as the turmoil that afflicted Europe in the interwar years.
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3.6 magnitude earthquake hits Srinagar, tremors felt in adjoining areas
Srinagar/IBNS: A 3.6 magnitude earthquake hit Srinagar and nearby districts of Jammu and Kashmir including Ganderbal and Budgam, on late Tuesday night, the National Centre for Seismology (NCS) said.
According to the NCS, the quake struck at 9.40 PM at a depth of around five km.
The epicentre of the earthquake was 11 km North-West of Srinagar.
Earthquake of Magnitude:3.6, Occurred on 22-09-2020, 21:40:29 IST, Lat: 34.15 & Long: 74.70, Depth: 5 Km ,Location: 11km NW of Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, Indiafor more information https://t.co/lmHNlA9Ogw pic.twitter.com/s8hoDX68BH— National Centre for Seismology (@NCS_Earthquake) September 22, 2020
Panicked residents of the area rushed out of their houses as the tremors were felt.
There have been no reports of casualties or damages so far.
People took to Twitter to share their experiences of prolonged shaking of the ground.
This was scary. Hope everyone is safe. #EARTHQUAKE— Shahid Choudhary (@listenshahid) September 22, 2020
Sit down people. It was an earthquake and guess what this time srinagar was the centre .— ہ. (@Humaira_Imtiyaz) September 22, 2020
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ROCKINGHAM – FirstHealth Richmond Memorial Hospital has been awarded a three-year term of accreditation in digital mammography as the result of a recent review by the American College of Radiology (ACR).
Digital mammography is a specific type of imaging test that uses a low-dose X-ray system to examine breasts. A mammography exam, called a mammogram, is used to aid in the early detection and diagnosis of breast diseases in women.
“Our mammography accreditation demonstrates Richmond Memorial Hospital’s commitment to providing the highest quality patient care and diagnostic imaging services,” says Scott Hees, D.O., board certified radiologist and medical director of diagnostic services at Richmond Memorial.
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This building became the Lyric Theater in 1913. Vitagraph movies were shown at the theater as well as live performances. Although during the 1940s and 1950s it was exclusively used as a movie theater, the building was restored to its full stage glory by Utah State University in 1960-1961. It became the Caine Lyric Theatre at that time. It was again refurbished in 2001.
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Okun's Law is a relationship between the rate of unemployment and real output. It can take several forms one of which is: change in the employment rate = a + b*(real output growth).
The variables a and b in the equation have to be determined from historical data. Okun's Law is a statistical relationship rather than a structural feature of the economy. It has to be revised regularly with the coefficients altered to reflect the macro economic scenario. The Law can be used as a tool for forecasting change in real output based on the change in unemployment.
Even if we have the increase in unemployment rates from 4.6 to 5.8, it is not possible to plug in the values into the law and arrive at the decrease in the real output growth as we need the values of a and b from empirical data.
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The rings surround a young giant gas planet or brown dwarf star denoted as J1407b. “This planet is much larger than Jupiter or Saturn, and its ring system is roughly 200 times larger than Saturn’s rings are today,” says Eric Mamajek, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester.
Matthew Kenworthy from Leiden who led the study, says J1407b is too far away to observe directly. “We could make a detailed model based on the rapid brightness variations in the star light passing through the ring system,” he says. “If we could replace Saturn’s rings with the rings around J1407b they would be easily visible at night and many times larger than the full moon.”
The astronomers have calculated that the diameter of the ring system is almost 120 million kilometres and that their mass is roughly equal to the Earth.
“The planetary science community has theorised for decades that planets like Jupiter and Saturn would have had, at an early stage, disks around them that then led to the formation of satellites,” says Mamajek. “However until we discovered this object in 2012, no one had seen such a ring system. This is the first snapshot of satellite formation on million-kilometre scales around a sub-stellar object.”
Astronomers believe the rings will become thinner over the next several million years, and may eventually disappear as satellites form out of the disks.
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Boy Capel and Coco Chanel.
L’Amour l’amour! The temperament of artistic souls, poets, artists and the like, provide unrivaled fodder for epic romance. Fashion is no exception. If anything, the commercial pressures of the craft, the dizzying fashion calendar and unrelenting bottom line, pile on additional complexity to a romantic partnership – either an outlet for strain or a vehicle for devotion, and surely, in many cases, a bit of both. The management of a fashion label is particularly suited to a division of labor; an arrangement that necessitates a degree of trust that pushes partnerships to weather life’s incessant uncertainties. In honor of the month that celebrate love, we look back at fashion’s love affairs for the ages, from the ardent passion of a new flame to the tender consistency of a lifelong companion.
Paul and Denise Poiret
In September 1913, at the very height of his dominance as the self-proclaimed King of Fashion, Paul Poiret set sail for the United States. In anticipation of his arrival, the American press lauded the astonishing trousseau of his wife, a dazzling collection of 100 exquisite custom-made gowns. Denise Poiret was more than a pretty mannequin; her slender, boyish figure and dark exotic beauty anticipated the brazen charms of the following decade’s “la garçonne”. By the end of the month-long lecture tour, she was as big a hit as he, “a living example of his artistic experimenting. She wears amazing clothes that suit her style, devoid of ornament, but brilliant in color.” (NYT Sept 21 1913). Poiret would boast to Vogue, “My wife is the inspiration for all my creations, she is the expression of all my ideals.”
The nineteen-year-old daughter of a provincial textile retailer from Elbeuf married the flamboyant showman in 1905. Side-by-side, they grew a business, reared a family of five and cultivated an aesthetic that shook the basis of western dress by infusing it with orientalism and modernity. Surviving photos paint a life of stylish domesticity amongst silken threads, leafy wallpaper and misty gardens. After twenty years, they parted ways. But their synchronous bond lives on. To her he owes the bulk of his legacy, the meticulous trove of costumes, inventories, and photographs she safeguarded for posterity.
(L) Paul and Denise, 1911. (R) Paul and Denise, 1925.
The Poiret Family
(L) Paul and Denise, 1911. (R) In Costume.
Coco Chanel & Boy Capel
The details of Coco Chanel’s life are purposely hazy. As fiercely independent as she was successful, she relished any opportunity to rewrite her own story. She never married, choosing instead a revolving list of luxurious lovers to mine for patronage and inspiration. But if there was one who came close to fully capturing her heart, surely it was Boy Capel, the dashing and brilliant polo-playing bon vivant.
The two met as the young Chanel had taken up with Etienne Balsan. They fell quickly and deeply in love. Capel financed her first shop in Deauville and continued onto Paris. She quickly assumed his sporty style as her own, developing the Chanel look along the way. Moreover, he opened her eyes to the larger world, literature, the orient and the esoteric. They spent nine years together, and even after his marriage to Lady Diane Wyndham, remained devoted to each other. In December 1919, Capel died tragically in an automobile accident en route to a Christmas rendezvous with Chanel. She mourned his death soulfully, crying publically for the first and last time. Ever the fighter, the loss of her great love spurred her to greater heights. “Either I die as well, or I finish what we started together.”
Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel and Boy Capel in front of Chanel’s Deauville Boutique.
(L) Gabrielle Coco Chanel & Arthur Edward Capel, 1913. (R) One of Chanel's many lovers Serge Lifar, 1937.
Pierre Cardin & Jeanne Moreau
Pierre Cardin has worked diligently over seven decades to singlehandedly amass one of France’s most vast fortunes. The candid provocateur has boasted proudly of his singular achievements and unfettered dedication to his career above all else. Except, perhaps, for one exception. In 1966, he offered to dress actress Jeanne Moreau of Jules et Jim fame. The spark was instant, and within months they were living together (as a result, her friendship with arch rival Coco Chanel came to an abrupt halt). As decreed by the laws of celebrity, the coupling of two stars equals a super nova of fame. For the next five years, the handsome pair was chased all over France by the paparazzi. And truly they posed a striking picture: fashion’s gallant enfant terrible with the blonde bombshell on his arm. She remained his muse after the split, dressed on his dime and to his taste for years. He was by her side in 2001, when she was the first woman inducted to France’s Academy of Fine Arts. (To the audience that night he shared, “In Venice, at the Hotel Danieli, in that large room where Musset and George Sands lived, we made love. Is there any more beautiful reason to exist?”). After a lifetime of radical innovation and daredevil promotion Cardin lives with only one regret, not having children with Jeanne Moreau.
Pierre and Jeanne, Photo by Douglas Kirkwood, 1965.
Yves Saint Laurent & Pierre Bergé
To witness the tenderness of a principled partnership, one need look no further than the life of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé. To the good fortune of the world’s movie going audience, the essence of their storied love is captured with heartrending nuance in 2010’s L’Amour Fou. The film chronicles the historic sale of the extraordinary art the men amassed over a lifetime of collecting. Watching the habitually reticent Bergé through the process is a moving glimpse of the final stages of grief.
The two met on February 3, 1958 at a dinner organized by Marie-Louise Bousquet to celebrate the young designer’s first collection at Christian Dior. Within six months, they were living together. When YSL conscribed for mandatory military service, the job was given away. Upon his return, the two men struck out on their own. Saint Laurent was a sensitive soul, tending toward manic-depressive, and Bergé functioned as his benefactor in every sense of the word: economic, emotional, mental and physical. And he remains so even after the famed designer’s passing. The primary recipient of the sale’s funds was the foundation, aimed at preserving YSL’s legacy as one of the foremost designers of the 20th century. From Bergé’s eulogy, “I remember your first collection under your name and the tears at the end. Then the years passed. Oh, how they passed quickly. The divorce was inevitable, but the love never stopped.”
(L) Yves Saint Laurent and PIerre Bergé, Photo by PIerre Boulat, 1962. (R) Pierre Bergé and Yves Saint Laurent, Photo by Derek Hudson, Paris, 1998.
Pierre Bergé & Yves Saint Laurent, Marrakesh, 1982.
(L) L'Amour Fou Movie Poster. (R) Pierre Bergé and Yves Saint Laurent, Dar El-Hansh, The House of the Snake, Marrakesh.
Vivienne Westwood & Malcolm McLaren
In 1971, a young Vivienne Westwood was determined to leave her first husband, Derek Westwood. Her brother Gordon offered her his flat, a refuge that came with one condition, roommate Malcolm McLaren. Little did the wispy youths know that their fateful meeting would lead to the birth of the throbbing Punk subculture. McLaren would go on to manage the Sex Pistols, while Westwood would develop the signature subversive style of the rockers, all out of their 430 King’s Road boutique.
Their initial meeting was anticlimactic. McLaren paid little heed to the provocative Westwood, who would saunter around the place in little or no clothing to get a rise out him. Then one day he appeared ashen, complaining of stomach pains. She put him to bed, and, after a quick run to the pharmacy, slipped of her clothes and in beside him. The rest was music (and fashion) history.
Diane Von Furstenberg and Barry Diller
Entertainment executive Barry Diller met Diane von Furstenburg when she was 28 to his 33, all cheekbones and fiery determination. The fledging designer had just separated from her first husband, and was taken aback by the intensity of the new affair. Five years later, the passion dissipated and the two agreed to go their separate ways. Except they never did. Despite numerous dalliances, each found a way back to the other’s loving arms. Twenty-six years later, they wed at an intimate ceremony at City Hall. Diller presented DVF with 26 bands for every year they were not married. Today, they travel the world by boat, as lovingly constant as they were once violently passionate.
(L) Diane von Furstenberg and Barry Diller at Studio 54, New York, 1977. (R)Von Furstenberg and Diller at Studio 54, 1970s.
(L) Von Furstenberg and Diller, March 1976. (R) Von Furstenberg and Diller's Wedding.
Domenico Dolce & Stefano Gabbana
If any duo exemplifies the yin and yang of a fashion partnership, surely it is Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana. The men met in 1980 while working for the same fashion atelier in Milan. Two years later, they established a design-consulting firm together. By the early 90s, their sultry, Sicilian inspired designs won acclaim the world over. In 2005 the two ended their romantic entanglement and flirted with the idea of embarking solo professionally as well. Could Dolce exist without Gabbana? In the end, the idea was as preposterous to them as to the rest of the world. So closely have the two forged a career that even their names have become one. Void of any sexual imbroglios, they coexist with emotional acumen, “We are each other’s minds”.
Marpesso with Dolce & Gabbana.
Tom Ford and Richard Buckley
Twenty-five year Tom Ford had an exacting ten-year plan for his meteoric rise to fame. What he had not accounted for was the enthralling eyes of Richard Buckley. “They’re not blue, they’re not gray, they’re a color you’ve never seen before – they approach silver. They give away absolutely nothing, yet they are completely mesmerizing.” They spotted each other from across the room at a fashion show in New York in 1996. Ford shied away and Buckley was left wondering about the debonair stranger. Two days later, Ford was sent by then boss Cathy Hardwick to Women’s Wear Daily’s offices to pick up garments and ran into Buckley. They shared an elevator and were both instantly smitten. “It wasn’t a physical thing as much as a psychic wave.” Three years after they started dating, Buckley was diagnosed with cancer; the crisis brought forth a mutually scrupulous devotion. Together they have grown the Tom Ford Empire from his glory days at Gucci. This is one love story best told in each man’s own words. (Out Magazine)
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Poland should take the initiative in summoning an international conference of governments interested in mass emigration of Jews from their respective countries, it was asserted today by Vladimir Jabotinsky, leader of the New Zionist Organization.
Poland, which has given Palestine most of its Jewish settlers has a right to intervene with Britain and the League of Nations to accelerate the settlement of Jews in the Holy Land, he declared.
Mr. Jabotinsky’s remarks have received wide discussion in the Polish press. The conservative Krakow daily, Czas, is publishing a series of articles by Mr. Jabotinsky in which he outlines his views on Zionism and its political future which he regards as having grown more serious in the last few days.
Commenting on the British government’s statement on the Palestine emergency which was issued earlier this week, he said that it did not insure continuance of Jewish immigration into the Holy Land.
If England is unable or unwilling to aid Jews in building a Palestine National Home, said Jabotinsky, it should surrender the League mandate. The question would then naturally arise, according to Mr. Jabotinsky, of handing over the mandate to a group of governments for collective administration.
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The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Monday halted an execution set for this week due to the new coronavirus.
The state’s high criminal court ordered that Wednesday’s execution, set for 44-year-old John Hummel, should be delayed “in light of the current health crisis and the enormous resources needed to address that emergency.” The stay is in place for 60 days, after which the county can move to set a new execution date.
Hummel’s lawyer requested a stay of execution in a unique court filing Friday because of the spread of COVID-19 and the state's disaster declaration, arguing that the disease has impacted his ability to carry out last-minute investigations. He also said the execution procedure, which crowds family members, the media and officials into small viewing rooms, puts vulnerable prisons at risk of exposure.
But Tarrant County officials opposed the request, claiming it was speculative and should not prevent Hummel’s execution for the “heinous, brutal, and calculated murders of his family members.”
Hummel was sentenced to death by a Tarrant County jury in 2011 after the 2009 murders of his pregnant wife, his 5-year-old daughter and his father-in-law. Police found their burned, beaten bodies after responding to a fire at their home in the early morning, according to court records. Officials determined that they died by blunt-force injuries in or near their beds before the fire was set.
In his first interview with police, Hummel said he had gone to the store and was not home at the time of the crime, but he later confessed to stabbing and beating his wife before beating the other two and setting fire to his house, records show.
The court’s decision Monday was not the first time an execution has been stopped because of state or national emergencies. In Hummel’s filing, his attorney pointed to former Gov. Rick Perry granting a 30-day reprieve for an execution scheduled on Sept. 11, 2001. A Bexar County court also withdrew an execution date shortly after Hurricane Harvey in 2017 because the defense attorney lived in Harris County.
There are seven other executions scheduled in Texas through June, including one more in March and two in April, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's website. It was not immediately clear if more executions would be delayed. Scott Smith, the attorney for Tracy Beatty, whose execution is set for March 25, said Monday after the ruling that he planned to file his own motion to the Court of Criminal Appeals asking to stop Beatty's execution, too.
This article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune at https://www.texastribune.org/2020/03/16/coronavirus-results-texas-court-stop-john-hummels-execution/.
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Mapping West Africa's Migration and Land-Management Crisis
Mapping West Africa's Migration and Land-Management Crisis
Environmental changes — both natural and manmade — have long been a primary driver of migration in West Africa, one of the world's most mobile regions. Short- and long-term migrants cope with cyclical drought and desertification by settling areas with a more favorable climate and exploitable or arable land. Migration-driven population growth in these limited areas — including along the periphery of what is known as the "W" Region Transboundary Biosphere Reserve, a protected international park in West Africa — has produced a land-management crisis with important social, ecological, and economic implications both locally and regionally.
Seasonal drought in the northern region of the park, known as WTBR or the W Transborder Park, continually pushes local populations southward along its periphery, impacting land-use practices and threatening environmental conservation and biodiversity throughout the region. The first internationally recognized transboundary biosphere reserve in Africa, the WTBR spans about 12,000 square miles in Benin, Burkina Faso, and Niger. Its name refers to the double meander, similar to a "W," created by the Niger River in the northeast area of the reserve (see Figure 1).
Land is the most important resource in the region as it is the basis for all productive activities — from subsistence farming using traditional techniques (to grow crops such as grains and vegetables) and small-scale livestock raising to financial speculation on cotton production. There are also numerous local, national, and international actors with overlapping and competing interests with regard to the WTBR. Traditional farmers who exploit small fields for family production in certain zones compete with animal breeders and seasonal migrants looking for pastures for their cattle. Financial speculators invest in large strips of land for cotton production toward the exterior of the park — a practice which, despite government support in Benin and Burkina Faso, can have devastating environmental and economic impacts well beyond the cotton fields themselves. International and regional actors also have taken an interest in the WTBR for a variety of environmental and economic reasons.
This article examines migration and land-management challenges in the WTBR through the use of reflexive maps, which capture data not only about migrants' paths, long- or short-term projects, and ethnic groups, but also about the social values and knowledge that they carry with them. It argues that reflexive maps provide information that is useful for adequate land management in West Africa as well as rural contexts worldwide. The article is based on field research conducted by the Diathesis Cartographic Lab team of the University of Bergamo in a European Union-led (EU) conservation and local development project called the Regional "W" Park Program/ECOPAS (Protected Areas of Sahelian Africa).
The "W" Region Transboundary Biosphere Reserve
The WTBR began as a smaller territory comprised of inhabited forests designated by the French government in the mid-1920s as the first refuge park in West Africa. French colonialists later expanded and territorially delineated the area as a national park in 1954.
After a long period of abandonment, the area gained renewed international attention in 1996 when United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) designated the "W" Region Park of Niger (part of the modern-day WTBR) as a biosphere reserve. Revitalization began in the early 2000s through an EU-led project and international agreement (under the Lomé Convention, a trade and aid agreement concluded in 1975) between the European Union and Benin, Burkina Faso, and Niger. The initiative to revive the park aimed to reinforce regional and international cooperation on conservation and local development with the participation of local communities.
Because of the area's rich biodiversity, UNESCO in 2002 recognized a larger stretch of land encompassing the "W" Region Park of Niger, as well as parts of neighboring Benin and Burkina Faso, as the modern-day "W" Region Transboundary Biosphere Reserve. Although there were already five transboundary biosphere reserves in Europe at the time, the WTBR was the first in Africa; today, there are 13 worldwide.
As is often the case with other territories recognized as biosphere reserves, funds began pouring into the WTBR from the European Union, the World Bank, and other international bodies interested in heading up projects for sustainable development in the region. The WTBR has also been referred to as a "peace park" which carries significant political importance because it spans countries that have been or are in conflict (e.g. the ongoing Tuareg conflict and national border disputes).
Today one of West Africa's largest protected areas, the WTBR has a densely inhabited periphery, especially in the south and along the highly fertile northeastern border area between Benin and Niger created by the Niger River (see Figure 2). The WTBR is comprised of three different zones: the core area, the buffer zone, and the transition area. Each zone has a different level of protection, although boundaries between them are sometimes unclear.
In the core area, productive activities such as farming, hunting, or cattle herding are prohibited, but there are small roads to allow for tourism (limited to animal watching from a distance). Although in theory no one may reside in the core area, there have been reports of conflict between park rangers and people attempting to settle or practice productive activities there. In the buffer zone, some controlled agricultural practices are allowed such as small-scale farming. Cotton fields in this zone often stretch into — and cause damage in — what is considered to be the core area, as well as into peripheral areas. There are mixed levels of protection in the outermost transition zone, and permanent settlement as well as productive activities are allowed in many areas.
Colonialism and the Complexities of Land Claims
The 1884 Berlin conference — which brought together officials of several European colonial powers and the United States to redesign the geopolitical borders of Africa — is one of the main sources of complexity in West African society today. Niger, Burkina Faso (formerly French Upper Volta), and Benin (formerly French Dahomey), whose territories are part of the WTBR, were all French colonies within West Africa from roughly the end of the 19th century to 1960.
During the colonial era, France exploited the region's bountiful natural resources, designating many "classified forests" (protected areas). The political campaign of territorial domination was supplemented by a large presence of settlers from metropolitan France as well as a variety of political, educational, and religious initiatives driven by the French colonial rationale of mission civilisatrice, or mission to "civilize" the local populations. These efforts permeated nearly every sector of West Africans' daily lives, forever altering socioeconomic development, cultural traditions, religious convictions, language, and local and national economy and governance. In addition, French colonial leaders often resorted to divide-and-conquer strategies to weaken resistance from local ethnic groups, treating some favorably while undermining others.
Most importantly, the international borders that were drawn at the onset of the colonial era — without regard for pre-existing ethnic boundaries and migration dynamics — remained in place. Today, these boundaries coexist with much difficulty alongside a traditional political system based on ethnicity dating back many centuries ago. As a result, two different sets of "borders" exist: one that is clearly delineated according to international norms, and the other which is implicit and substantiated by everyday dealings on the ground.
This duality on land claims has produced coexisting yet contradictory sets of land-management regulations. The first set of rules exists in written form (in administrative records) and is based on individual registration of land property. The second one, which exists only orally, collectively organizes access to land based on internal affairs involving traditional networks and land loans. Land is not traditionally viewed as an individual property that can be bought and sold between individuals. Instead, it is a collective asset that a land chief manages, balancing the needs of new short- and long-term migrants with the will of the village at large.
Migration and the Land-Management Crisis in West Africa
Societal Impacts of Migration in the WTBR Periphery
International migration substantially impacts the everyday lives of inhabitants of the WTBR periphery, their land-use practices, and the local and national economy. Long-term migration flows increase in volume when agricultural and environmental crises persist, forcing residents (usually entire families) to abandon their villages and settle for long periods in another area. Experienced migrants often choose areas with which they are already familiar from a previous migration.
Among the approximately 650,000 inhabitants along the WTBR periphery, there are ten main ethnic groups: the Batonou, Mokollé, Gando, and Dendi in Benin; the Gourmantché in Burkina Faso; the Djerma, Hausa, Foulmangani, and Bella in Niger; and the Peul in all three countries. Until recently, all were well known for their strong territoriality. Some ethnic groups are migratory, such as the Hausa and Djerma from northern areas of the park, while others play the role of receiving society, including the Batonou, Mokollé, Dendi, and Gourmantché (see Figure 2). Djerma and Hausa engage in both long- and short-term migration.
As in the example of the village of Fiafounfoun, located in the northern region of Benin, migrants settle in decentralized areas, creating settlements and choosing a chief from among their group through whom they will address their requests for land loans (see Figure 3). The chief is also a religious referent, usually a Muslim imam since migrants often come from the more Islamized northern regions (especially in Niger).
Some areas of land in the WTBR periphery become saturated when the inflow of new settlers is sustained for long periods of time. According to traditional norms of hospitality throughout the region, residents must welcome all new migrants and, if needed, share their land with them for subsistence. Because land is a limited natural resource, land chiefs have less and less land to loan to newcomers as the population increases. Land loans provide the basis of new migrants' integration into the host community, but can also lead to tensions with local residents and other migrants.
The movement of people also alters villages' geographies, sometimes creating whole new villages or causing them to disappear when abandoned. Migrants introduce new land-use practices and experiment with new agricultural or commercial crops and activities where they settle.
Reliant on a large local workforce to remain competitive despite fluctuations in the world market, cotton production has expanded in many areas where migrant inflows are significant. International recognition of the WTBR has prompted greater regional efforts to protect its natural resources, but the governments of Benin and Burkina Faso — while simultaneously expressing concern about environmental conservation — have shown interest in expanding cotton production. In addition to causing pollution, cotton production compels farmers to cultivate their crops individually, thus undermining centuries-old land-use practices. Traditional and collective knowledge and values are dominated by individual interests, modern chemical farming techniques, and the logic of profit maximization.
Increasing settlement along the periphery places a strain on the WTBR's already limited natural resources. Migration has also often destabilized the traditional socioterritorial organization of periphery villages — new actors are introduced into the land-management system, and access to land becomes increasingly rare.
While the WTBR may serve as a context for reinforcing regional cooperation on sustainable development and regional political stability, migration in the WTBR periphery creates local and regional territorial dynamics that are inadequately managed. A shared project among the three countries to improve and harmonize land management could be pursued to strike a better balance between countering environmental changes, preserving natural resources, and meeting the needs of local populations.
For more information, see: Ghisalberti, Alessandra. Le migrazioni in Africa Occidentale tra ambiente e politica. La periferia del Parco Regionale W (Benin, Burkina Faso, Niger). Turin: L'Harmattan Italia.
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Casti, Emanuela and S. Yonkeu S. 2009. Le Parc National d'Arly et la falaise du Gobangou. Paris: L'Harmattan.
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Onwuka, R. I. 1982. The ECOWAS Protocol on the Free Movement of Persons: A Threat to Nigerian Security? in African Affairs 81 (323): 193-206.
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United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). 2002. Biosphere Reserves: Special Places for People and Nature. Paris: UNESCO. Available online.
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The Upanishads, Part 2 (SBE15), by Max Müller, , at sacred-texts.com
'He who knows the bliss of that Brahman, from whence all speech, with the mind, turns away unable to reach it, he never fears! The embodied Self of this (consisting of mind) is the same as that of the former (consisting of breath).
Different from this, which consists of mind, is the other, the inner Self, which consists of understanding. The former is filled by this. It also has the shape of man. Like the human shape of the former is the human shape of the latter. Faith is its head. What is right is its right arm. What is true is its left arm.
Absorption (yoga) is its trunk. The great (intellect?) is the seat (the support).
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Lazarus's Second Chance - Adopted January 2016
In October of 2015 an adorable 3 year old boy arrived at the West Suburban Humane Society all the way from Tennessee and we lovingly named him Lazarus. Lazarus, an American bull dog mix, was found as a stray and was believed to be a bait dog used for dog fighting.
During his health and temperament evaluation it sadly became clear to us that Lazarus had sustained some serious injuries in his past. He was missing part of one of his ears and had scars from being bitten all over his body. Despite a rough past, Lazarus amazingly had the most affectionate and sweet disposition with the animal care staff and our volunteers.
As everyone at the shelter got to know him, he instantly became a favorite. Lazarus was always willing and ready to show his affection with lots of kisses and cuddles. We discovered that he already knew basic commands and he listened well to anyone who interacted with him. This was a dog who wanted to please people. He loved playing with Frisbees and tennis balls and just enjoyed being with the volunteers and visitors at the shelter.
He was also given a full medical work up of vaccines and the tests that all animals receive when they come into WSHS. Unfortunately, the result from his heartworm test came back positive. After everything Lazarus had been through, it was heartbreaking to find out that he would have to endure the slow and painful heartworm treatment that would rid him of dangerous parasites that could have been easily prevented with prophylactic medicine.
Throughout the weeks of treatment, Lazarus continued to provide the staff and volunteers with cuddles and affection. He had come so far and nothing was going to stop him from loving every minute of this new life.
By early December, Lazarus was medically cleared and ready for adoption. A wonderful gentleman named Ed discovered what we already knew – Lazarus was a gem and would make a great best friend.
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The first race between humans flying real planes and computer pilots in virtual aircraft has resulted in a narrow victory for meat-based aviators.
The human pilots were flying in the skies above Spain, while their virtual opponents were piloted by land-based PCs.
The stunt pilots could see the digital aircraft on cockpit screens, while the position and speed of the real planes were fed into the aerial simulation on the ground.
At speeds of up 250mph, the fleshy fliers trounced their digital rivals by a margin of just 1.5 seconds.
The race was organised by the Geospatial Research Centre (GRC), a joint venture between universities in Nottingham and Canterbury, New Zealand.
They merged an electronically-generated environment with the real world using a combination of GPS sat nav and inertial navigation technologies.
Dr David Park of GRC, said: "The high G-forces and extreme manoeuvres of the aerobatic aircraft make this a very challenging technical problem. Inertial navigation constantly tracks the aircraft, while GPS signals are used to correct the INS errors — although getting a GPS signal isn't always easy as the aircraft twists through the sky."
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"I gave birth three weeks ago to a bouncing, 9kg baby boy. I went to Hypnobirthing classes and it was my dream to have a drug-free water birth, but unfortunately things didn't go to plan. I couldn't take the pain the way I thought I would be able to and I ended up opting for an epidural, despite all my preparations. The drugs worked well and I was able to give birth without any other interventions - however, although I know you can never really plan for these things, I still feel I've let myself and my little boy down, and I can't help wishing I had been stronger. I also worry about the potential side effects both for my baby and for me."
Shani Dean, midwife and parenting educator, responds: "You are absolutely not a failure. My outlook as a midwife and support for women will always be ‘pro-choice’.
"When we start to ask what is better; a normal delivery versus C-Section, a normal delivery with pain relief or a normal delivery without pain relief, a normal delivery without pain relief where the mother ate organic foods and drank no caffeine, etc, it can start to get a little out of control. What is better? The simple answer is: whatever is best for that family.
"Yes, we know that medication given in labour does tend to travel to the placenta and, of course, to the baby. Depending on the medication, some side effects for the baby can mean that he or she is drowsy after delivery and may need help with breathing and assistance with ‘waking up’. However, in most of these cases, this episode is short-lived.
"In labour, the body tends to be more efficient when the woman is mobile, using gravity, and this is normally best achieved without medication, which restricts these efforts. “However, the body is also more efficient when a woman is relaxed, and empowered and this is sometimes achieved with appropriate pain-relief choices made in consultation with her midwife or doctor.
"If a woman is well informed and supported, I believe she has the right to choose what is best for her family. When we celebrate the baby’s first birthday, we celebrate this wonderful little cherub - not the way he or she was delivered. If you had a medication-free labour, I salute you, and if you had a wonderful birth experience with an epidural, my salute remains firmly in place for you too."
Obstetrician and Gynaecologist Dr Elsa De Menezes of New Concept Clinic Dubai agrees, adding: “A stressful labour is not good for the mother or for the baby. Pain relief medication from the opiate group, such as pethidine, whilst effective, does cross the placenta into the baby and causes some heart rate changes meaning that babies can be born with respiratory depression, which requires further medication to reverse it. Epidurals, however, are regional blocks that, at low doses, are amazing as they dull the sensory pain fibres without affecting the motor nerve fibres. They do not dope mum or baby and allow mums to have great, safe, pain-relief without sedation and therefore without the risk of missing or losing enjoyment of one of the most precious experiences of her life – giving birth.”
What pain relief is available during childbirth in the UAE?
As with everything to do with your body and your family, whether or not to have pain relief during labour is a purely personal decision - however, the problem arises when mothers feel pressure either to have pain relief, or not to have any pain relief at all, due to external influences; perhaps your doctor pressing you to take an epidural, or you feel you 'should' have "all-natural", drug-free birth because of what you were told in antenatal class.
There are several different forms of pain relief available to mothers in the UAE during labour, and it's important for you to be informed of the different options so that you can make the choice that's right for you.
Some of the non-drug pain-relief options include:
Warm water - Being in warm water can help the body relax and quell the impact of your contractions. In many of the private hospitals in Dubai it is possible to labour in a warm water bath, and at Al Zahra hospital, Medicilinic City Hospital and Mediclinic Parkview Hospital Dubai it is possible to give birth in a birthing pool once again if you meet the criteria (waterbirth had previously been paused due to the pandemic).
Hypnobirthing - this is a system of meditation, visualisation and relaxation, which many women find helps them to manage their 'surges' and to stay focused and relaxed during labour. There are various different types of hypnobirthing methods, all of which use very similar techniques. You can download hypnobirthing apps, buy books about it, or take classes in the lead up to your birth.
Tens machine - This machine is attached to your back and stimulates your nerves with small amounts of current through the electrodes. Tens is believed to work by stimulating the body to produce more of its own natural painkillers, called endorphins. It also reduces the number of pain signals sent to the brain by the spinal cord. There may be a Tens machine available at your hospital, but you can also rent one from Health Bay Polyclinic in Al Wasl.
Gas and air - This is a mixture of oxygen and nitrous oxide gas, which you breathe in just as a contraction begins through a mouthpiece that you hold yourself. It won't remove all the pain from your contractions, but it can help make it more bearable. Many women like it because it's easy to use and they control it themselves.
Pethidine injections - The drug pethidine is injected into your thigh or buttock to relieve pain, the effects of which last between two and four hours. If given too close to the time of delivery, it can affect the baby's breathing – if this happens, another drug to reverse the effect will be given.
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**March 19, 21, 26, and 28, 2013**
Held over four sessions, this new online workshop will guide students step-by-step through the construction of a development pro forma for a mid-size hotel property. Beginning with a blank spreadsheet, the program will take students through the entire project from development through sale. Students will be instructed in the basic differences between a hotel pro forma model and other asset classes such as office or multifamily and the corresponding inputs and structure. At the end of the last session, participants will have completed their own hotel pro forma that will actively link to a cash flow page, allowing students to understand the basic valuation of a hotel and how investment decisions are made.
Each session of the workshop is designed to build on the previous one with each participant having a completed pro forma model at the conclusion. Participants will use learned skills to independently build individual sections and maintain the pace of the workshop. However, to avoid the possibility of anyone falling behind, the completed stages will be distributed the evening of each completed workshop. At the conclusion of the workshop, the instructor’s copy will be distributed, which will provide, at a minimum, a working hotel pro forma model for each participant.
The program is designed to be interactive. The instructor will be available by e-mail between sessions to assist participants. Registrants will have access to the recordings of each of the four sessions.
Session 1: March 19, 2013 1:30-3:30 p.m. ET
The class will begin with a blank spreadsheet. Students will assign cell colors and design borders to separate areas, and create sections for the inputs for the basic hotel model. The amortization page will be provided and reviewed as part of this session.
- Understanding the basic hotel model to be developed
- Understanding of the basic difference between a hotel model and other asset classes, e.g. multifamily and office
- Understanding of the pro forma overview (structural overview) with the development piece
- Understanding for developing input and amortization page
- Major sections for inputs –sources/uses, revenue per available room (RevPAR), expenses, financing structure, operating/finance concerns
- Structure of the Pro Forma, Construction Draw, and Cash Flow pages
Session 2: March 21, 2013 1:30-3:30 p.m. ET
Starting with the completed structure from the first session, participants will develop the Construction Draw Page and Development Budget. Participants will understand the general structure of a development budget and how to spread/allocate costs.
- Structuring development budget
- Components of development and methodology of how to model development timing, i.e. draw page
- Basic functions, “sum”, “subtotal”, “product”, and the use of arrays
- Cost allocation and distribution by percentage
- Ability to identify critical path items which impact budget and schedule
Session 3: March 26, 2013 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. ET
In this session participants will develop the pro forma income page for the hotel project down to net income. Participants will understand how to link assumptions and escalate costs over time, and understand basic functions and functionality, such as linking, adding/subtracting, and the subtotal function.
- Linking cells directly and through naming convention
- Structuring cash flow for a project, e.g. revenue, expense
- Understanding how cash flows enter and exit hotel model, i.e. inflow/outflow understanding
- Determining cash flow before debt service
- Determining cash position at points in time throughout the project
- Development, lease-up and operations
Session 4: March 28, 2013
In the final session participants will create a cash flow page for the entire project, i.e. development through sale. Pulling it all together, participants will be valuing the cash flows for investment decisions. Linking the pro forma page to the bottom of the input/summary page and valuing cash flows, students will understanding basic valuation of a hotel and how investment decisions are made.
- Valuation (Debt Service Coverage Ratio; Cash-on-Cash; Debt Yield)
- Cash Uses (Draw down and recovery)
- Net Present Value (NPV function)
- Internal Rate of Return (IRR function)
- Levered and Unlevered
- Modified Internal Rate of Return (MIRR function)
- Advanced Valuation functions (XIRR, XNPV)
- Bifurcation of cash flows (Operations versus Reversion)
- How to present the data to a lender and/or equity partner
- Analyze hotel economics and how RevPar is key component
Roger Staiger is managing director for Stage Capital LLC, an international real estate advisory firm providing expertise to clients in areas of global portfolio management and asset repositioning. Staiger, through Stage Capital, has successfully repositioned over $500 million in distressed and inefficient real estate projects globally.
During his 20-year career, Staiger has worked in a number of industries at senior levels. He was managing director for Constellation Energy’s retail commodity division, CFO for Caruso Homes, and a portfolio manager for a large commingled pension fund in New York.
Staiger holds multiple degrees, including a BS in electrical engineering, an MBA in investments, an MA in international transactions, and an MS in finance. Currently, he holds faculty positions in the real estate departments at Georgetown University and Johns Hopkins University.
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You must include the taxable part of a lump-sum (retroactive)
payment of benefits received in 2001 in your 2001 income, even if the
payment includes benefits for an earlier year.
This type of lump-sum benefit payment should not be confused with
the lump-sum death benefit that both the SSA and RRB pay to many of
their beneficiaries. No part of the lump-sum death benefit is subject
Generally, you use your 2001 income to figure the taxable part of
the total benefits received in 2001. However, you may be able to
figure the taxable part of a lump-sum payment for an earlier year
separately, using your income for the earlier year. You can elect this
method if it lowers your taxable benefits.
Under the lump-sum election method, you refigure the taxable part
of all your benefits for the earlier year (including the lump-sum
payment) using that year's income. Then, you subtract any taxable
benefits for that year that you previously reported. The remainder is
the taxable part of the lump-sum payment. Add it to the taxable part
of your benefits for 2001 (figured without the lump-sum payment for
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Will the lump-sum election method lower your taxable
To find out, take the following steps.
- Complete Worksheet 1 in this publication.
- Complete Worksheet 2 and Worksheet 3
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Jane Jackson is single. In 2000 she applied for social security
disability benefits but was told she was ineligible. She appealed the
decision and won. In 2001, she received a lump-sum payment of $6,000,
of which $2,000 was for 2000 and $4,000 was for 2001. Jane also
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|Fully taxable pension
To see if the lump-sum election method results in lower taxable
benefits, she completes Worksheets 1, 2, and 4
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Jane completes Worksheet 1 to find the amount of her
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Hot summer days can be a fantastic excuse to hop in the car and take the family to a local beauty spot.
But you might find you need to stop on the way to pick up some essentials.
While you do, it's important to remember never to leave your dog in a car on a hot day. But sadly, some owners take the risk, which could be potentially fatal for their poor dogs, according to TeamDogs.
And with the weather hotting up and summer on its way, warning owners about leaving their pooch in the car is a must.
It’s only natural that we’d want to get out and about to enjoy the sunshine, especially as we’ve spent so much of the last year inside, but we need to consider how this affects our dogs.
And while we can do all we can to protect our own four-legged friends, as huge animal lovers, seeing dogs left in cars can be extremely distressing. And it’s only right that we’d want to act.
So, what should we do if we see a dog left in a car on a hot day? Are we legally allowed to break them out?
The facts: Within 10 minutes a car temperature can increase by 10°C
The inside of cars can heat up at an alarming rate, even if you only leave the car for a short amount of time:
Nationwide Vehicle Contracts had some pretty startling facts about just how hot they can really get.
- 10 minutes can see a 10°C increase in temperature.
- 20 minutes can see a 16°C increase in temperature.
- 30 minutes can see a 19°C increase in temperature
- One hour can see a 23°C increase in temperature
- Over one hour can see a 24 to 29°C increase in temperature.
Even cracking open the window slightly is not enough to keep your dog cool.
Peggie Temple, pet expert at My Pet Needs That, said: “Leaving a window cracked open does not serve as the antidote to keeping your pet cool.”
“Cars are metal so when left in heat, they can replicate the heat of an oven. A window that is left open just slightly is never going to provide enough ventilation for a beloved pet.
“I am always a little confused by this idea anyway as if a human was kept stationary in a car, they would deem it essential to open a window fully rather than by just a few inches in order to stay cool - the same logic should be applied to pets.”
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Am I allowed to break into the car?
How you tackle this situation will depend on the state of the dog.
If they seem fine but you are still concerned, report it to the RSPCA. If you suspect the dog is in danger, you may be tempted to break in, but this is a bit of a grey area. One that could potentially get you in a lot of trouble. But not acting could also prove fatal for the dog.
The first thing you should do is check to see if the car is open, and if in a shop car park, try to locate the owner by asking staff to put out a tannoy message.
“Smashing a car window is essentially criminal damage”, says Peggie.
“However, if you have broken the window in order to rescue an animal in distress you do in fact have a lawful reason that will stand up in court.
“A good thought process to adopt in what is sure to be a difficult situation is, if I was the dog owner would I be fine with a broken window if I was met with this situation? If the answer is yes, then you can use this rationale as defence within a court of law.”
The RSPCA advises that In an emergency (if an animal is displaying any sign of heatstroke such as panting heavily, drooling excessively, is lethargic, collapsed or vomiting) dial 999 and report a dog in a hot car to police.
But it also warns the public to exercise caution and be aware of the possible repercussions.
It suggests telling the police of your intentions and taking photos or footage of the dog as well as names and numbers of witnesses.
The law states that you have a lawful excuse to commit damage if you believe that the owner of the property would consent if they knew the circumstances.
A spokesperson for Suffolk Constabulary commented: “We do not advise that members of the public take action themselves, but if they have concerns for the welfare of a dog (or other animal) left in a car on a hot day, then they should contact the RSPCA 24-hour cruelty line for advice on 0300 1234 999 in the first instance.
“However, if they believe the animal is in immediate danger and the RSPCA cannot respond quickly enough, then contact police on 101 or 999.”
How can I help the dog if it has heatstroke?
The RSPCA advises: “Once removed from the car, move the dog to a shaded/cool area and pour small amounts of cool water over their body.
“Don’t use cold water as this could put them into shock. Allow the dog to drink small amounts of cool water and take him to the nearest vet as a matter of urgency.
“If the dog isn’t displaying signs of heatstroke, establish how long the dog has been in the car and make a note of the registration.
“Ask a member of staff to make an announcement of the situation over the tannoy, if possible, and get someone to stay with the dog to monitor its condition.”
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Story Writing Centers include 3 centers to help generate or spark some creativity in writing for students. The three centers include:
Center 1: List Writing- Use all the words on the notebook to write a story. There are 16 Lists included. Center 2:Story Element Cards- Each card includes two characters, a setting, and the plot. There are 18 Lists included. Center 3: Mix and Match Stories- Pick 1 character, 1 setting, and 1 plot. Use the three story elements to write a story. This pack also includes graphic organizers to help students get started. Use these centers and ideas for your writing centers or for early finishers.
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Abstract—Sustaining of nation’s economic growth for better footing and outlook is very crucial for the globe of recent, most especially for developing countries like Nigeria. The country as a vivid example of a developing nation is oil based economy, which adopts export promotion policy as the essentialtactic for growth. Yet the nation has not maximized her abundance of resources to aids growth, despite notable economic growth being experienced. In this view, there is an attempt to examine the relationship among agricultural export, oil export and output growth in Nigeria. The causal relationship among the variables was investigated by using times series data for the period between 1981 and 2014. All the macroeconomic variables were found to be stationary. The study revealed that there is significant relationship between economic growth and the agricultural export and oil export. Based on the findings, government of the country is being advised to initiate new and re-defined old policies that will diversify the export base. Likewise, policies that will improveand aid the nation’s domestic production is being encouraged, since long run relationship has been established among the macroeconomic variables.
Keywords—Agriculture Export, Oil Export, Economic Growth, Co-integration.
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Virgin Galactic takes on satellite launch market
BY STEPHEN CLARK
Posted: July 11, 2012
FARNBOROUGH, England -- Virgin Galactic announced Wednesday it is offering commercial launch services for small satellites with an air-launched rocket named LauncherOne, and four companies have placed deposits as future customers.
Virgin Galactic unveiled the initiative here at the Farnborough International Airshow.
LauncherOne would be able to place up to 500 pounds of payload into low Earth orbit, and Richard Branson, founder of Virgin, said its first flight would occur by 2016. The price of a LauncherOne mission would be less than $10 million, according to Virgin Galactic.
"Virgin Galactic's goal is to revolutionize the way we get to space," Branson said. "I'm immensely proud of what we have already achieved as we draw near to regular suborbital flights on SpaceShipTwo. Now, LauncherOne is bringing the price of satellite launch into the realm of affordability for innovators everywhere, from start-ups and schools to established companies and national space agencies. It will be a critical new tool for the global research community, enabling us all to learn about our home planet more quickly and affordably."
Private funding from aabar Investments PJS of Abu Dhabi is already going toward LauncherOne development.
WhiteKnightTwo was built to haul Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo suborbital space plane to an altitude of up to 50,000 feet. SpaceShipTwo's own hybrid rocket motor will fire to propel the craft over 62 miles high, the internationally-recognized boundary between the atmosphere and space.
According to Branson, Virgin Galactic has booked deposits from 529 SpaceShipTwo passengers. SpaceShipTwo is currently in a test campaign demonstrating its ability to glide back to a runway landing following a mission.
The first rocket-powered SpaceShipTwo test flight is expected to occur before the end of 2012, according to Virgin Galactic.
George Whitesides, Virgin Galactic's CEO, highlighted the plight of small businesses, universities and space agencies with lightweight satellite programs. Few low-cost launchers exist to match the tight budgets of many small satellite owners.
"Small satellite launch is an area ripe for disruption," Whitesides said. "Miniaturized satellite components and constrained budgets are driving commercial clients, academic users and government agencies all to clamor for an affordable, dedicated launch vehicle. Now, thanks to aabar's investment, our existing capabilities, and the expert team we’ve already assembled, we're prepared to fill that void by bringing LauncherOne to market."
Virgin Galactic officials said LauncherOne could be based from a number of sites, although missions will at first be limited to U.S. bases. A company promotional video demonstrated the wide variety of orbits LauncherOne could reach from launch ranges including Cape Canaveral, Fla., Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., and sites in Virginia and Alaska.
Stratolaunch Systems in December unveiled plans to mount a heavier rocket developed by SpaceX underneath a massive carrier airplane. The Stratolaunch concept is tailored for larger payloads than LauncherOne.
Orbital Sciences Corp.'s Pegasus rocket is dropped from beneath an L-1011 carrier airplane. The solid-fueled Pegasus launcher can deliver more than 1,000 pounds to low Earth orbit and has flown 41 times.
Planetary Resources Inc., a U.S.-based firm promising to launch mining expeditions to near-Earth asteroids, said Wednesday it has an agreement with Virgin Galactic to enable the launch of multiple commercial space telescopes aboard LauncherOne.
The constellation of Arkyd 100 telescopes will fly in low Earth orbit to study nearby asteroids, gauging which objects merit a visit based on the economic value of their metals and the propulsive energy needed to reach them.
California-based Skybox Imaging, which has raised $91 million to launch at least two Earth imaging microsatellites, was also named as a LauncherOne customer. GeoOptics Inc. of Pasadena, Calif., will use LauncherOne to help loft a constellation of environmental monitoring satellites.
Spaceflight Inc. of Seattle also has an agreement with LauncherOne. Spaceflight is dedicated to supporting access to space for small satellite and manifests secondary payloads on other launch vehicles.
The U.S. subsidiary of Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. and Sierra Nevada Corp., both builders of small satellites, will develop spacecraft platforms optimized for the LauncherOne vehicle, according to Virgin Galactic.
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Propylene glycol (PPG) is an alcohol from the group two-hydroxyl alcohols, means diols. Under normal conditions, glycol takes the form of odourless, viscous liquid. In the industry the widest application of glycol is using as suitable component to makes desired consistency and a components which moisturize the skin.
This substance is considered to be very harmful in the case of consumption. It can damage the liver, kidneys, and also affect the nervous system. In the production process, glycols are often contaminated by ether which exhibits carcinogenic, and genetic damage in cells structure.
The general use of propylene glycol as an ingredient in cosmetic products is observed degradation of the hair structure, as well as skin irritations. A common complaint is the occurrence of allergic reaction, manifesting as itching and rash. Another aspect of glycols negative impact on the skin which is - in combination with tallow - the ability of pore plugging and therefore cause skin inflammation. In turn, accidental contact with eyes, may cause inflammation of the eyeball and conjunctiva, resulting in tearing, burning and swelling of the eyelids. Propylene glycol may also damage the structure of the lipid-protein membranes.
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Common Sense, Rights of Man, and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine (original 1969; edition 2003)
by Thomas Paine
Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine [Signet/Signet Classics] by Thomas Paine (1969)
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Paine's daring prose paved the way for the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War. This volume also includes "The Crisis," "The Age of Reason," and "Agrarian Justice."
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In January 1776, Thomas Paine published a pamphlet called Common Sense, which electrified the American colonies. Paine demanded freedom from Britain when even fervent patriots were revolting only against excessive taxation. His daring prose spurred passage of the Declaration of Independence. The Crisis, written when Paine was a soldier during the Continental Army's bleakest days, begins with the world-famous line "These are the times that try men's souls." His call for perseverance and fortitude prevented Washington's army from disintegrating. Later, Paine's impassioned defense of the French Revolution, Rights of Man, caused an immediate sensation, but got him into deep trouble with the French ruling classes. Together in one volume, Common Sense, Rights of Man, and major selections from The Crisis, The Age of Reason, and Agrarian Justice represent the key works of one of the world's most eloquent proponents of democracy -- the man who has been justly hailed as the "English Voltaire."
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I had no prior experience with Japanese before coming here (save a few Japanese CDs a month or two in advance). I came knowing absolutely nothing about how the language worked. But, once here, I went to my local bookstore and got my hands on a few books that taught me the basic rules. This allowed me to do some very rough communication. My Japanese skills are still quite rough around the edges, and I know just enough Japanese to get me into trouble. I try my best to be realistic about studying, though. I don’t expect to wake up tomorrow and instantly know how to speak fluently, or know all my kanji, it’s a process.
When I study Japanese, I just try to be thorough. I know that grammar, listening, speaking, reading, vocabulary and writing are all important factors for good Japanese. I have a textbook that teaches me the essential grammatical basics that I need to create basic Japanese sentences. Without understanding general grammar (subject object verb vs. subject verb object) the other factors become markedly more difficult for me. If your grammar is sound, I believe you can learn the other elements far more quickly. Though grammar is the foundation of Japanese study, I try not to neglect the other aspects.
When I study, I start by warming up: I review my kana (hiragana & katakana) and as many kanji as I can think of. This helps to switch my brain to Japanese mode. My personal study then begins with learning new grammar structures using a well-respected, beginner’s textbook. This usually takes between 10 and 30 minutes depending on how challenging the grammar concept is. From here I like to move on to move on to some workbook/writing practice for 10 to 20 minutes. Next it’s time for the listening. I’ve got loads of Japanese to choose from, but usually I used the Genki CDs because I think they get progressively more challenging. I finish up the study session by trying to learn 2-3 new kanji and their respective meanings. As far as speaking goes…I’m in Japan, so I try to make sure that I engage in at least one conversation (even if it’s short) per day. I try to make sure I use some of the more difficult concepts that I’ve practiced. If I screw up, I screw up. The alternative, not practicing because I’m to scared to make mistakes, won’t help me to become any better at speaking.
This is my method for studying. Sometimes it’s effective and sometimes it’s not. But I know if I’m consistent, I will get better.
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While a CV is a professional representation of yourself on paper, an interview is even beyond that. An interview goes beyond what’s written on that paper; it’s about how you conduct and present yourself.
Unfortunately, not many know how to conduct and present themselves favourably for an interview. Many job seekers are often faced with making silly mistakes, and below are some of them:
1. A SHABBY APPEARANCE
Whether you know this or not, a shabby appearance will make you lose the job, no matter how well-written your CV is. How you present yourself (i.e. your appearance) matters a lot.
2. BEING LATE
One thing your interviewer expects from you is punctuality. If you can’t be punctual for an interview, what attitude will you show when given the job?
3. MOBILE PHONES
People take their mobile phones in for an interview and forget to turn it off. Having your phone ring or meddling with it when with your interviewer is a big offence that shows nonchalance. You’d definitely lose the job when you do this.
4. INTERRUPTING YOUR INTERVIEWER
Cutting your interviewer short during an interview is impolite, rude and offensive. Some job interviewers do this to show their zest and intelligence, but you score zero in many interviewer’s eye when you do this.
5. SPEAKING IN A FAKE ACCENT
Your interviewer wants you to communicate properly and be original as well. Speaking in a fake accent damages your authenticity as well as communication.
6. TALKING BAD ABOUT YOUR FORMER JOB
Talking bad about your former employer in front of a prospective employer might limit your chances of getting that job. In the employer’s eyes, you’ll do the same about him/her in the nearest future.
7. NOT DOING YOUR RESEARCH ABOUT THE COMPANY
Your employer expects you to do some background research about the company; it shows you’re interested in the company and it speaks so much about your preparedness for the job. Having no clue about the company is plain silly.
8. TELLING LIES
Your interviewer expects a certain level of honesty and professionalism from you, and some job seekers tend to tell cheap lies that are just too obvious.
These interview mistakes are silly to make, and you’ll end up losing the job if you’re caught up in these mistakes.
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