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Here is the second volume of prison songs, a collection of field recordings made by Alan Lomax during his visit to Mississippi's notorious Parchman Farm state prison in 1947 and on February 9, 1948. The songs collected on Volume 1 were originally released by the Tradition label as Negro Work Songs. Volume 2 features songs that didn't make the cut for the original Negro Work Songs release, though one shouldn't let this fact persuade them from giving this a listen. The songs on Vol. 2 have somewhat of a harsher quality to them, which may be why they were excluded from the original release, yet the heartfelt soul of prisoner's . As with the first volume, there are also tracks featuring Lomax interviewing various prisoners on a variety of subjects, although this volume contains several more than the first.
"For those who may not know, the worksong tradition was a practice carried over from Africa, which manifested first in slave plantations and then in the prison work gang. John Lomax, together with his son Alan, began recording these songs in Southern penitentiaries in 1933. In 1947, and again in 1948, Alan returned to Parchman Farm to gather in the songs we have here. So charged with passion are they that claims of a declining tradition make very odd reading. Yet, when I listen to the Lomaxes earlier collections, I have to agree. Pre-war, the ages of the singers was lower and the melodies were richer and more plentiful. Where the present material wins out is in the march of technology. Pre-war equipment was too limited to record the convicts while they worked. Instead, most of the material was gathered after hours, with the singers worn out from performing the very songs the Lomaxes were trying to capture. By 1947, however, the first modern tape recorder was on the market. With this device it was possible to preserve the sound of negro worksong in full flight."In and out" was a common pattern in Southern penal institutions. It developed from a system of race relations and social attitudes moulded in slavery days and dragged into the twentieth century like a feudal relic. The penitentiary was an important element in the suppression of the negro population. Along with lynch law, the Klan and a system of injudiciously administered floggings, the threat of a spell in the pen kept a potentially unruly black populace in a state of servility. The prisons held their share of hard cases, but for most of the inmates, sentences were short, sharp, frequent and brutal, and they were usually meted for trifling misdemeanours.
Impressions of a high turnover of prisoners are supported by these two CDs. Volume 1 is exclusively from Lomax's 1947 recordings and features protagonists with such colourful nicknames as Bama, Tangle Eye, 22, and Hard Hair. Volume 2 is mostly from Lomax's return trip in 1948, by which time additional singers seem to have found their way into the pen. They include Dobie Red, Curry Childress, and 88. The impression is strengthened when one reads John Lomax's reminiscences of collecting songs in Parchman Farm before World War 11. Of the singers he mentions, only Dobie Red and Tangle Eye were in the pen between 1947 and 1948.
So influential was Murderers' Home that the name Parchman Farm has become synonymous with axe wielding convicts roaring ferocious choruses. However, the institution embraced much more than group worksongs and some of this is reflected in the programming. Axe and hoe songs predominate, but there are one or two solo work songs, several field hollers, including Bama's superb Stackerlee, and a couple of blues. There is also an interview, split over two tracks, during which Bama talks about song leading and about his lot as a three time loser caught in the web of the Mississippi penal system. "In and out, in and out, for the last eighteen years." It fades, heart-rendingly, into a mournful holler by another long time prisoner, Tangle Eye
Listening to the lyrics and how they were sung, I form the opinion that the songs were far more about making it through the can than they were about synchronising work. In all these verses you will not find the slightest iota of fantasy or escapism. If there were any would-be lottery winners in Parchman Farm or Angola they do not show up here. Instead the songs are vested with stark reality and sweat. They are the channelling of rage and resentment against the iniquity and brutality and rank injustice of a penal system which was nothing more than the legitimised extension of plantation slavery. All folksongs involve catharsis but, inside the pen, song was the only voice which allowed prisoners to kick against the system. Shared songs did more than alleviate the work, they alleviated the misery." - Fred McCormick
"These songs belong to the musical tradition which Africans brought to the New World, but they are also as American as the Mississippi River. They were born out of the very rock and earth of this country, as black hands broke the soil, moved, reformed it, and rivers of stinging sweat poured upon the land under the blazing heat of Southern skies, and are mounted upon the passion that this struggle with nature brought forth. They tell us the story of the slave gang, the sharecropper system, the lawless work camp, the chain gang, the pen." - Alan Lomax
Year of Release: 1958/Reissue 1997 Label: Tradition/Rounder Genre: Field Recording, Folk, Blues
Track List: 1. Don'cha Hear Poor Mother Calling 2. John Henry 3. Strongest Man I Ever Saw 4. Well, I Wonder 5. Lies 6. I'm Goin' Home 7. More Lies 8. O' Berta 9. Disability Boogie Woogie 10. O Rose 11. Hollers 12. Stewball 13. Fox Chase 14. Katy Left Memphis 15. About Prison Singers 16. Rosie 17. High Rollin' Sergeant 18. Garbage Man 19. When I Went to Leland 20. Prodigal Son 21. I'm Goin' to Memphis 22. (Untitled) - (hidden track) | <urn:uuid:1870181b-dd3e-4671-90d5-be8ff6defaee> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://digitalmeltd0wn.blogspot.com/2009/02/va-prison-songs-historical-recordings.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00436-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970383 | 1,535 | 1.570313 | 2 |
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25 U.S. Code § 1300b–2 - Approval of plans for use of money after submission to Congressional committees
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The Secretary of the Interior shall approve no plans for the use of the money specified in section 1300b–1 (b) of this title for the Kickapoo Tribes of Kansas and Oklahoma until at least thirty days after the plans have been submitted by the Secretary to the Committees on Interior and Insular Affairs of the Senate and House of Representatives.
Source(Pub. L. 92–467, § 3,Oct. 6, 1972, 86 Stat. 781.)
Change of Name
Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the Senate abolished and replaced by Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate, effective Feb. 11, 1977. See Rule XXV of Standing Rules of the Senate, as amended by Senate Resolution No. 4, Ninety-fifth Congress (popularly cited as the “Committee System Reorganization Amendments of 1977”), approved Feb. 4, 1977. Section 105 of Senate Resolution No. 4 established a temporary Select Committee on Indian Affairs having jurisdiction over matters relating to Indian affairs (such matters previously having been within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs). Senate Resolution No. 127, June 6, 1984, Ninety-eighth Congress, established the Select Committee on Indian Affairs as a permanent committee of the Senate, and section 25 of Senate Resolution No. 71, Feb. 25, 1993, One Hundred Third Congress, redesignated the Select Committee on Indian Affairs as the Committee on Indian Affairs.
Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of Representatives changed to Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives on Jan. 5, 1993, by House Resolution No. 5, One Hundred Third Congress.
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Renaissance composers were famous for basing their mass settings on the merest fragments of someone else's tune. This was not a failure of invention. Instead, it was a way to recognize the contributions of another respected composer. Alternatively, it was a way of catching the listener's interest with snippets of what might have been a "pop" tune of that era.
Josquin's Missa Faisant Regretz is based on a secular song by the English composer Walter Frye. This song, Tout a par moy, is thoughtfully included here so listeners can hear where Josquin's inspiration came from. Specifically, a minute or two into the song, the words "faisant regretz" (which here is translated as "ashamed") are sung; Frye sets the words to a falling third, followed by a rising and then a falling tone. (You can get the same effect by plunking out A-F-G-a on a keyboard.) These four notes don't seem like much, but Josquin uses this motif - the falling third in particular – as the basis of his entire mass. Each mass movement opens with this motif, and each movement's progression is based as aspects of the motif. This richly polyphonic work seems to come from Josquin's maturity, and it finds him engaging the listeners' heads and hearts as he engages his own.
The five Motetti de Passione… B included here probably are works of a younger Josquin. They tend to be less polyphonic, more "blocky" in style. They are imposing settings of Christian theology, intended to educate as well as to (piously) entertain. These works were collected in 1503 in a publication by a man named Petrucci. When Josquin was believed to have spent his youth in Milan, these works were sagely described as being in Josquin's "Milanese" style. Now that Josquin is thought not to have spent time in Milan (!), musicologists must look for other explanations as to why these motets are so different, stylistically speaking, from the works of his maturity.
Eight members of The Clerks' Group appear here: two sopranos, two altos, two tenors, and two basses. The sopranos are underrepresented on this CD: they appear only in the "Ave verum corpus" setting from the motets. This group, which recently completed an excellent Ockeghem series for AS&V Gaudeamus, now seems to be doing the same for Josquin. They sing with discipline and warmth. Wickham, who is one of the group's basses, obviously has worked hard with the group to promote a good vocal blend and lively scholarship.
The recording was made in St. Andrew's Church in West Wratting, wherever that is. With the engineering, there's nothing to complain about. It should be noted that AS&V has reversed tracks 3 and 4: track 3 is "O Domine Jesu Christe" and 4 is "Ave verum corpus."
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When they did so, Shaun Filer was there to try to keep them safe.
Some journalists believed that if you got one step closer to the fighting, the more chance you had of getting the big story, Filer said. “In many cases it was the photo journalists… who needed to get really close to get that image,” he said. “It’s not like text [reporting] or doing a piece to camera, the photo journalists needed to go forward”. While Filer was in Libya, a photo journalist was shot near the front lines.
Libya had an open border, with no border patrols or requirements for visas. It was on the doorstop of Europe and a short flight to Cairo, [followed by] a drive to the border and you were in a country afflicted by civil war. There were no checks or accreditation. Anyone could get in and have a go.
Filer was an international emergency assistance consultant for Dynamiq Pty Ltd, a Sydney-based company which “helps organisations to reduce operational risk and protect their people and assets at home and abroad”. He’s a former US Marine Corpsman (medical orderly) who completed a Masters degree in Journalism at QUT. Dynamiq provided “outsourced resources” to organisations operating in remote, complex and high risk environments. Its global operations included:
- International legal advisors
- Trauma counsellors
- 310 safety and security experts
- In-house emergency doctors, nurses and paramedics
- PR advisors
- A presence in 208 countries.
Filer ran safety training courses for the ABC, the BBC, Thompson Reuters and Australia’s Channel Nine to try to prepare foreign correspondents for disaster and war zones. When the public was evacuating the media were moving in. They had to be prepared for what they could face.
On completion of the Managing Hostile Environment course, participants were said to be able to :
- Carry our safety planning
- Understand medical and security evacuations
- Conduct life saving first aid
- Seek safe accomodation
- Understand the threat of kidnap
- Cover assignments in high risk environments
We do role playing. We do a lot of medical scenarios. It’s about getting people to feel self sufficient. In most cases in the field you are not going to have a security guard. The majority of the time you are going to be traveling alone or with colleagues. It’s about feeling confident.
The Dynamiq group organised evacuations for journalists if things got too hot. They had a network of field intelligence, support systems and even safe houses in places like Benghazi.
Generally you want to stay and cover the story. But in dire situations, you need to have an out…One of the key areas [in training] was preparing exit strategies. When in doubt, know you way out. If the threat is local, focused and directed at foreign media, it may involve pulling people out of that country for a period of time and waiting until conditions changed until you could head back in.
News Agency journalists often went “close to the risk”. But, there were dangers in being isolated and cut off. If Benghazi in Libya had been surrounded by Gaddafi military forces, dozens of journalists might have been trapped. “If the nuclear crisis in Fukushima escalated, they may have had to look for more evacuation methods”, he said. This could have involved air evacuation, or simply sending in support to ensure the journalists had a route out.
- Russian journalists seized by Libyan rebels (rt.com)
- Libya calls western journalists ‘al-Qaida collaborators’ (guardian.co.uk)
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New Adventures at SeaWorld
Restoration and Movement
The Oregon Coast Aquarium typically only gives short-term treatment to stranded turtles before returning to their natural environment. This travel was made possible by the non-profit Turtles Fly Too organization. Turtles Fly Too is an association that supports tortoises like this. The group aims to coordinate and promote the use of aircraft in the transportation and treatment of turtles and other endangered species.
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The animal was received by SeaWorld and it was kept stable. The specialist team of SeaWorld continued to track the state of the animal and worked on its eventual rehabilitation and regeneration.
SeaWorld’s Endangered Tortoises Help
SeaWorld parks with scores of loggerheads, greens, hawks, leatherbacks as well as Kemp’s Riddley turtles, including the San Diego site. They deal with tortoises and earth turtles too. SeaWorld’s contribution to rescuing 2,210 tortoises since 2017. On other occasions, it’s cool weather that prevents the turtles from continuing down the way to migration.
A cold snap in the weather can be fatal in many areas where these tortoises breed. Tortoises get hypothermic and end up feeding in a cold-stunning state. An example of SeaWorld’s actions in January 2010 to support these cold-stunted tortoises. More than 300 such turtles were discovered in the waters at the time.
SeaWorld was able to release over 250 of the 300 rescued tortoises back to the sea safely after a successful recovery. This was the first initiative in the history of the agency against cold-shocked tortoises. SeaWorld is a pioneering rescue, study, and restoration entity that helps more than just tortoises fighting cold waters seasonally. They support these tortoises with a wide variety of threats, mostly due to human errors and habitat destruction.
During oil spills, their spawning and bashing areas are at risk, both of which are important for the ability of turtles to survive and continue to increase in their population. SeaWorld Orlando created safe areas in 2010 to rescue almost 130 tortoises, all affected by oil spills. Almost all rescued tortoises are then put in a protected environment where oil leaks are less risky. SeaWorld has also been involved in the prevention of premature tumor development for a large number of turtles.
Turtles are at risk, like the loggerhead.
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Elizabeth (Liz) Climo, the talented illustrator who you might recognize from our previous posts here and here, is back with adorable Halloween-themed illustrations of her cartoon animals. Her cute and simple comics imagine the everyday problems and moments that animals might face if they interacted with each other the way we do.
When she isn’t drawing animal cartoons, Climo works as a character artist and storyboard revisionist for The Simpsons. “My day job can be pretty demanding, so it’s hard enough just finding the time to do these comics,” she writes on her website. She creates children’s books with her art and sells greeting cards as well.
The story of how she got to create these delightful comics and work for The Simpsons is also an inspiring one: “I studied Art at San Jose State University but was rejected when I applied to the school of Animation. Then, two weeks later, I got a job on The Simpsons. The lesson? Stay in school – unless the school doesn’t want you and you get a job offer. In that case pack your bags and don’t look back.” | <urn:uuid:03401c64-9029-4735-8e57-4cb4034b204a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.boredpanda.com/halloween-animal-comics-liz-climo/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00271-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959951 | 239 | 1.570313 | 2 |
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The Proceedings of the Old Bailey are made up of 120 million words, recording 197,000 trials held at the Old Bailey, or Central Criminal Court in London, between 1674 and 1913. All of human life, and every kind of crime is here. This tutorial is designed to get you started searching for names and phrases. The easiest way of searching this text is by key word from the home page.
The first thing most people do is search for their own name.
The results page lists the first ten trials or results. To know the full number of results returned, select Calculate Total at the top of the results page.
Searching for a name such as Hitchcock produces 288 results, listed ten per page. You can navigate to later trials using the Jump to page menus at the top and bottom of each results page. This only appears if you have already selected Calculate Total.
Result number 3, for William Hitchcock, looks interesting, and you can read his trial report by selecting the line of text beginning: William Hitchcock, Theft...
This will take you to the trial text itself, where we discover that William Hitchcock, and one other person, named only as H-G-, were indicted for assaulting and pickpocketing two bills of exchange from John Hatchet in 1698. The trial report also indicates that William was found guilty and sentenced to hang, and that H-G- was branded for this same offence.
You can read descriptions of the offences, verdicts and punishments associated with each trial by following the links in the yellow box or trial header at the top of the page. The first line in the yellow box is labelled Reference Number.
This provides a unique identifier for this particular trial or piece of text. In this instance the reference number is t16980223-37. You can use this number to navigate back to this trial from the home page or other search pages. You can also view an image of the original printed page by selecting See Original from the right hand margin. This will take you to a scan of the original page, though you will probably need to scroll down to find the actual trial, as more than one trial was published on most pages.
More complex searches can be undertaken from the Search Home page. You can navigate to this page from any other page on the site by selecting the link labelled Search Home in the left column, or labelled Search in the menu along the top of the page.
Search Home allows you to search by keyword or phrase, surname, given name, alias, offence, verdict, or punishment. You can also limit your search to particular types of text beyond the trials. These options are listed in the pull down menu, and include Advertisements, Front matter, the Ordinary of Newgate's Accounts (biographies of executed criminals), punishment summaries and supplementary material. The default setting is All Text.
You can also limit the time period you are searching, using the From and To boxes towards the bottom of the page. For further help using any of these facilities, click on the question mark in the orange diamond by each search box, or consult the dedicated Guide to Searching.
Unlike the search box on the home page, the Search Home facility allows you to combine different types of searches. You might, for instance, be interested in a particular trade, and wish to include a phrase such as "silver smith" in the keyword box. Be sure to click the phrase radio button to undertake a phrase search.
Or you might wish to combine this phrase search with a name search in order to help identify a specific silver smith. You might, for instance, include William Young in the Forename and Surname boxes. And you might be interested in a particular period, and so put 1730 and 1760 into the date limit boxes.
You may need to scroll down to the bottom of the page to see the orange search button. Select this button to begin your search.
For most purposes, in order to look for named individuals, or keywords or phrases, or indeed crimes and verdicts, the Search Home page will provide all the functionality you will need. But you can also use the Personal Details, Statistics, and Custom Search pages to access more functions and to narrow your searches to make them more effective. You can also use the browse pages to look through the Proceedings and Ordinary's Accounts by date; or search the Ordinary's Accounts separately. The Associated Records page allows you to search a database of materials related to the trial accounts reproduced here, and the Place and Map Search page helps locate crime locations and defendants' homes on maps from the period. | <urn:uuid:174f0036-e821-4808-a1d1-b9ba46d5a9f2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/static/GettingStarted.jsp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00071-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913612 | 969 | 3.328125 | 3 |
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- The calf race is adjustable width to a maximum of 450mm and the width can be quickly adjusted to suit individual requirements. (400mm or 16” is the traditional standard). Gaps between the rails are a maximum of 140mm to prevent calve getting their heads between the rails.
- Many producers are utilising a squeeze crush and mark calves standing up. This practice is very effective as it is a one-person operation and only requires a small increase in skill to mark a calf standing up utilising a National Stockyard Systems squeeze crush.
The traditional calf marking cradle has many disadvantages. The main one is that, unlike a cattle crush, it is impossible to design a cradle to cater for all sizes of calves. Another disadvantage is that the calf marking is often the first association that a calf has with humans. Utilising a traditional calf cradle where the calf is thrown off its feet, squashed, marked and then let go will leave a lasting bad experience.
National Stockyard Systems has designed a crush specifically for processing and marking calves.
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Prototype testing the calf crush, marking neighbour’s calves. We refined and improved the calf crush after this. Pictured: Our neighbour, John Lidbury was more than happy to pass on some of his more than 50 years of cow and calf experience to our crush manufacturing manager, Adrian Gunthrie.
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Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss is a delightful book to help the toddler picky eater. Dr. Seuss teaches new foods are delicious in the picture book. The book’s rhymes and whimsical characters are a wonderful way to capture the toddler’s attention to try a new food. It makes trying new foods fun!
Kids are picky eaters. It is a chore to introduce new foods to them. Vegetables and fruits are the hardest to add to their diet. It is important for children to eat vegetables and fruits instead of salty and sugary snacks. Obesity is a major problem.
In Green Eggs and Ham, Sam-I-am asks, “Do you like green eggs and ham?” The character, No-Name, replies, “I do not like green eggs and ham.” No-Name, like a toddler, puts his nose and hand in the air to ward off the foods. He defiantly refuses to eat the new foods.
Sam-I-am tries to entice No-Name to try the new foods. He uses rhyming situations to get the stubborn No-Name to eat a tiny bite. Would No-Name try them in the rain on a train? Would he try them in a box with a fox? Would he try them with a mouse in a house?
Dr. Seuss gives an important lesson to parents trying to improve the toddler diet, also. Just keep trying! Sam-I-am does not quit. He keeps trying. No-Name finally tries the green eggs and ham. Guess what happens? No-Name likes the new and different food.
He will eat it in the rain on a train. No-Name will eat the food in a box with a fox. He is willing to eat the food with a mouse in a house.
Green Eggs and Ham works on two levels. Picky eaters consume the healthy foods offered by parents. Parents do not quit offering new foods to picky children. A note to parents who are afraid of this method, Sam-I-am and No-name end Green Eggs and Ham the best of friends.
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss and his other picture and board books are available at Amazon.com.
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One of the most common recent, revisionist arguments against the legitimacy of the Jews in the area of Israel/Palestine is the rejection of David/Solomon, which is interesting, given the attempt on behalf of Charles to trace his lineage back to David, thereby making him a legit ruler of the world:
In “The Illustrious Lineage of the Royal House Of Britain” (First Published in 1902 by The Covenant Publishing Co., Ltd., London, England), the authors easily trace Prince Charles’ lineage back to David and beyond.
The College of Heralds (London) has also traced Prince Charles to be the 145th direct descendant of King David. This claim was also made, in May of 2000, in a documentary on Israeli television.
Charles also claims descent from Islam’s prophet Mohammed.
Prince Charles’ Coat of Arms and Crest was designed for him by the British College of Heraldry, using a system of guidelines over 500 years old.
This is admittedly based on the bible record of the Levant kingdoms c830BC:
But note this:
The traditional view, personified in such archaeologists as Albright and Wright, faithfully accepted the biblical events as history, but has since been questioned by “Biblical minimalists” such as Niels Peter Lemche, Thomas L. Thompson and Philip R. Davies. Israel Finkelstein suggests that the empire of David and Solomon (United Monarchy) never existed and Judah was not in a position to support an extended state until the start of the 8th century.
Finklestein accepts the existence of King David and Solomon but doubts their chronology, significance and influence as described in the Bible. Without claiming that everything in the Bible is historically accurate, some non-supernatural story elements appear to correspond with physical artifacts and other archaeological findings.
So they were certainly around the area and so were the Canaanites. The various maps over the centuries also throw light on the question and I’ve included many of these above and below.
From all that, we can probably take it that, if not pinpoint regarding chronology, Israel and the Jews were present and furthermore, the name Judaea persisted long into the future when the name Israel had largely disappeared off the maps.
The Neo-Assyrian Empire:
Persian (Achaemenid) Empire period:
Hellenic Kingdoms (Ptolemaic / Seleucid / Hasmonean) period:
Roman Iudaea period:
Which puts us pretty well into the realm of recent history or at least history with fairly good records.
Roman Syria Palaestina period:
Late Roman Empire period [Byzantine]:
The Byzantines redrew the borders of the Land of Palestine. The various Roman provinces (Syria Palaestina, Samaria, Galilee, and Peraea) were reorganized into three diocese of Palaestina, reverting to the name first used by Greek historian Herodotus in the mid-5th century BCE: Palaestina Prima, Secunda, and Tertia or Salutaris (First, Second, and Third Palestine), part of the Diocese of the East.
Palaestina Prima consisted of Judea, Samaria, the coast, and Peraea with the governor residing in Caesarea. Palaestina Secunda consisted of the Galilee, the lower Jezreel Valley, the regions east of Galilee, and the western part of the former Decapolis with the seat of government at Scythopolis. Palaestina Tertia included the Negev, southern Jordan—once part of Arabia—and most of Sinai with Petra as the usual residence of the governor. Palestina Tertia was also known as Palaestina Salutaris.
And so to the current period – UN partition and the 1948 Israeli–Arab War:
What surprises me there is that the Jews accepted so little of the land of their forefathers, which would have almost ensured a Palestinian State but the Arabs chose to try to obliterate the Jews and the rest is, as they say, history.
This is pretty well today:
As I’ve stated many times, I’m not Jewish but a fair assessment of the past in the region suggests there were various peoples in the area, there was certainly reference to Israel and Judah and certainly, later, to Palestine as a region. In terms of the peoples, it’s certainly difficult because there was a mass migration from about the 1890s back into Israel/Palestine as an area and that was resented as more and more Arabs moved into the area too.
The UN partition plan was not bad but a bit messy. I’d suggest the Jews know Gaza is not theirs as it was the site of the ancient Philistines and all the impure filth which infested those days largely came out of there – in other words, it’s always been the bastion of the dark side. The other territories are variously in dispute, according to which era of history you settle on.
Leaving Golan and East Jerusalem aside for now, it seems logical that Gaza is one Palestinian State and part of the West Bank the other, possibly called West Bank. Don’t forget that of the displaced peoples, we only hear of the Palestinian Arabs but the Jews were also shifted. Were there a two state solution and free movement out of Israel, it would actualize fairly quickly.
I’d imagine the West Bank State would run through Jerusalem from the Dead Sea, excluding Bethlehem and Hebron, thence pretty well directly up to the current limit to the north. West Bank people already there could decide to go east or west of the line.
With the two state solution in place and over time, the 2nd last issue is Golan:
According to the Bible, the Children of Israel conquered the Golan from the Amorites. The Bible also says that the area, known as Bashan, was inhabited by two Israelite tribes during the time of Joshua, the tribe of Dan and Manasseh. The city of Golan was a city of refuge. King Solomon appointed ministers in the region. After the split of the United Monarchy, the area was contested between the northern Kingdom of Israel and the Aramean kingdom from the 9th century BC. King Ahab of Israel (reigned 874–852 BC) defeated Ben-Hadad I in the southern Golan.
In the 8th century BC the Assyrians gained control of the area, followed by the Babylonian and the Persian Empire. In the 5th century BC, the Persian Empire allowed the region to be resettled by returning Jewish exiles from Babylonian Captivity.
The last issue then becomes East Jerusalem. I suspect the East Jerusalem issue has much to do with the rebuilding of the Temple and would be the last resolved, whilst Golan was the seat of Dan and Israel does not want that to arise again so there are religious as well as militarily strategic reasons to occupy it. Gaza needs to be controlled, in Israeli eyes, as it’s a historical spring of trouble. | <urn:uuid:28ff07b5-0a73-436a-af33-c96af9fa1d82> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.nourishingobscurity.com/2012/11/mapping-israel/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721595.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00478-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961228 | 1,486 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Tuberous sclerosis (TWO-bur-uhs skluh-ROH-sis), also called tuberous sclerosis complex, is a rare genetic disease that causes noncancerous (benign) tumors to grow in many parts of the body. The signs and symptoms of tuberous sclerosis vary widely, depending on where the tumors develop and how severely a person is affected.
Tuberous sclerosis is often detected during infancy or childhood. Some people with tuberous sclerosis have such mild signs and symptoms that the condition isn't diagnosed until adulthood, or it goes undiagnosed. Others experience serious disabilities.
Although there's no cure for tuberous sclerosis, treatments are being studied. The course or severity of the disease can't be predicted, but with appropriate care, many people who have tuberous sclerosis lead full, productive lives.
Tuberous sclerosis symptoms include noncancerous tumors or other lesions that grow in many parts of the body, but most commonly in the brain, kidneys, heart, lungs and skin. Symptoms can range from mild to severe.
Tuberous sclerosis signs and symptoms vary, depending on where the tumors or other lesions develop:
- Skin abnormalities. Some people with tuberous sclerosis have patches of light-colored skin, or they may develop small, harmless areas of thickened skin, or growths under or around the nails. Facial lesions that resemble acne also are common and can be treated.
- Seizures. Lesions in the brain may be associated with seizures, which can be the first symptom of tuberous sclerosis. In small children, a common type of seizure called infantile spasm shows up as repetitive spasms of the head and legs.
- Developmental delays. Tuberous sclerosis can be associated with intellectual disability, learning disabilities or developmental delays.
- Behavior problems. Common behavior problems may include hyperactivity, raging outbursts, aggression, repetitive behaviors, or social and emotional withdrawal.
- Communication and social interaction problems. Some children with tuberous sclerosis have trouble with communication and social interaction. And some children may have autism spectrum disorder.
- Kidney problems. Most people with tuberous sclerosis develop lesions on their kidneys, and they may develop more lesions as they age, sometimes damaging kidney function.
- Heart problems. These lesions, if present, are usually largest at birth and shrink as the child gets older.
- Lung problems. Lesions that develop in the lungs (pulmonary leiomyomas) may cause coughing or shortness of breath, especially with physical activity or exercise.
- Eye abnormalities. Lesions can appear as white patches on the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye (retina). These do not always interfere with vision.
When to see a doctor
Signs and symptoms of tuberous sclerosis may be noticed at birth. Or the first signs and symptoms of tuberous sclerosis may become evident during childhood or even years later in adulthood.
Contact your child's doctor if you're concerned about your child's development or you notice any of the signs or symptoms of tuberous sclerosis described above.
Tuberous sclerosis is a genetic disease caused by mutations in the TSC1 or TSC2 gene. Normally, these genes are thought to prevent cells from growing too fast or in an uncontrolled manner. Mutations in either of these genes can cause cells to divide excessively, which leads to numerous lesions throughout the body.
About one-third of people who have tuberous sclerosis inherit an altered TSC1 or TSC2 gene — the genes associated with tuberous sclerosis — from a parent who has the disease. About two-thirds of people who have tuberous sclerosis have a new mutation in either the TSC1 or TSC2 gene.
If you have tuberous sclerosis, you have up to a 50 percent chance of passing the condition to your biological children. Severity of the condition may vary. A parent who has tuberous sclerosis may have a child who has a milder or more severe form of the disorder.
Depending on where the tumors or other lesions develop and their size, they can cause severe or life-threatening complications. Here are some examples of complications.
- Lesions in the brain known as subependymal giant cell astrocytomas (SEGAs) can block the flow of cerebral spinal fluid within the brain. This blockage can cause the buildup of fluid in the cavities — ventricles — deep within the brain (hydrocephalus) with various signs and symptoms, including nausea, headaches and behavior changes.
- Lesions in the heart, usually in infants, can block blood flow or cause problems with heart rhythm (dysrhythmia).
- Lesions in the kidney can be large and cause potentially serious — even life-threatening — kidney problems. Lesions in the kidney can cause bleeding or lead to kidney failure. Rarely, kidney lesions can become cancerous.
- Lesions in the lungs can lead to lung failure.
- Lesions in the eye can interfere with vision if they block too much of the retina, though this is rare.
You'll likely initially bring up your concerns with your child's doctor. But after an exam, your child may be referred to one or more medical and genetic specialists for more testing and treatment.
Here's some information to help you get ready for your first appointment, and know what to expect from your doctor.
What you can do
Before your appointment, make a list of:
- Any signs and symptoms your child has been experiencing, and for how long. If your child has had one or more seizures, make notes about what happened before, during and after the seizure and how long it lasted.
- Your child's key medical information, including other recent health problems.
- All medications, vitamins and other supplements your child is taking and the dosages.
- Information about your family history, including whether anyone else in your family has tuberous sclerosis.
- Questions you want to ask your doctor.
Ask a trusted family member or friend to join you for the appointment. Take someone along who can offer emotional support and can help you remember all of the information.
Questions to ask your child's doctor at the initial appointment include:
- What is likely causing my child's symptoms?
- Are there any other possible causes for these symptoms?
- What kinds of tests does my child need?
- Should my child see a specialist?
Questions to ask if you're referred to a specialist include:
- Does my child have tuberous sclerosis?
- What are the treatment options for this condition?
- What treatment approach do you recommend for my child?
- What are the possible complications of this condition?
- How often will you want to evaluate my child's health and development?
- Are my other children or family members at increased risk of this condition?
- Should I or my child be tested for the genetic mutations associated with this condition?
- What other types of specialists should my child see?
- Are there clinical trials under way for which my child may be eligible?
- How can I help my child cope with this disorder?
- How can I find other families who are coping with tuberous sclerosis?
What to expect from your doctor
A doctor who sees your child for possible tuberous sclerosis will likely ask you a number of questions. Be ready to answer them to reserve time to go over points you want to talk about in-depth. The doctor may ask:
- What are your child's symptoms?
- When did you first notice these symptoms?
- Has your child had any seizures?
- If your child has had one or more seizures, what had he or she been doing right before the seizure?
- What happens to your child during a seizure?
- How long have your child's seizures lasted, and how has your child felt and acted afterward?
- Have your child's symptoms included nausea and vomiting?
- Has your child had any behavior problems, such as hyperactivity, aggression, rage or self-injury?
- Does your child have difficulty paying attention?
- Has your child seemed to withdraw or become less socially and emotionally engaged?
- Does your child seem developmentally delayed compared with his or her peers?
- Have any of your child's first-degree relatives — such as a parent or sibling — been diagnosed with tuberous sclerosis or had symptoms without ever being diagnosed?
- Do you plan on having more children?
There's no cure for tuberous sclerosis, but treatment can help manage specific signs and symptoms. For example:
- Medication. Anti-epileptic drugs may be prescribed to control seizures, and other medications may help manage behavior problems. A medication called everolimus (Afinitor, Zortress) may be used to treat certain types of brain growths and kidney tumors that can't be surgically removed in people with tuberous sclerosis. The topical ointment form of a drug called sirolimus may help treat acne-like skin lesions that can occur in tuberous sclerosis.
- Educational therapy. Early intervention can help children make adaptations to developmental delays and meet their full potential in the classroom.
- Occupational therapy. Through occupational therapy, a person who has tuberous sclerosis can improve his or her ability to handle daily tasks.
- Psychological therapy. Talking with a mental health therapist may help you or your child accept and adjust to living with this disorder.
- Surgery. If a lesion affects the ability of a specific organ — such as the kidney or heart — to function, the lesion may be surgically removed. Sometimes surgery helps control seizures caused by brain lesions that don't respond to medication. Surgical procedures such as dermabrasion or laser treatment may improve the appearance of skin lesions.
Tuberous sclerosis is a lifelong condition that requires careful monitoring and follow-up because many signs and symptoms may take years to develop. With appropriate care, however, many people who have tuberous sclerosis lead full, productive lives and enjoy a normal life expectancy.
If your child is diagnosed with tuberous sclerosis, you and your family will face a number of challenges and uncertainties. One of the most difficult things about this condition is that it's impossible to predict how your child's health and development will unfold over time.
Your child may have only mild problems and track closely with his or her peers in terms of academic, social and physical abilities. Or your child may have more-serious health and developmental problems and lead a life that's less independent or different from what you may have expected.
To help you and your child cope, here's what you can do:
- Establish a screening schedule. Learn all you can about tuberous sclerosis, and work closely with your child's doctor to establish an ongoing screening and monitoring schedule for health and developmental problems. Discovering and treating problems early will maximize your child's chances of a good outcome.
- Get help early for behavior problems. For parents, the behavior issues that may accompany tuberous sclerosis can be challenging. Remember that the behavior is not your fault — and it's not your child's fault either. Talk to your child's doctor if these problems develop, and work with your child's school to discuss education services. The earlier you and your child get help learning how to manage these problems, the more likely your child is to do well in the long term.
- Provide love and support. Your love and support are essential to helping your child reach his or her full potential.
- Connect with other families. You may find it helpful to connect with other families who are coping with tuberous sclerosis. Ask your child's health care team to recommend a support group in your area, or contact the Tuberous Sclerosis Association to find out about support.
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“WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC and to secure to all its citizens:
JUSTICE, social, economic and political;
LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship;
EQUALITY of status and of opportunity;
and to promote among them all
FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of the individual and the unity and integrity of the Nation;
IN OUR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY this twenty-sixth day of November, 1949, do HEREBY ADOPT, ENACT AND GIVE TO OURSELVES THIS CONSTITUTION.”
· The words ‘secular’, ‘socialist’, ‘integrity’ were added in the Preamble through 42nd amendment of the Constitution in 1976.
· In Berubari Union case (AIR 1960 SC 858), the Supreme Court held that the Preamble is not a part of the Constitution and thus, not a source of any substantive powers and does not import any limitation. But in Kesavananda Bharti case (AIR 1973 SC 1461) the Supreme Court laid down that the Preamble does from part of the Constitution and the Court further observed that the Preamble to our Constitution is of extreme importance and the Constitution should be read and interpreted in the light of the grand and noble vision expressed in the Preamble.
· On the question whether Preamble can be amended Supreme Court in Kesavananda Bharti case held that since the Preamble is the part of the Constitution it can be amended but subject to condition that the “basic features” in the Preamble cannot be altered. The Court held the edifice of our Constitution is based upon the basic elements mentioned in the Preamble. If any of these elements are removed the structure will not survive and it will not be the same constitution.
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A complete, detailed reference and tutorial for Autodesk's popular and robust civil engineering software
AutoCAD Civil 3D is the industry-leading civil engineering software, and this guide by a pair of Civil 3D experts is the comprehensive reference for both novices and professionals. It focuses on teaching vital Civil 3D 2010 tips, tricks, and techniques, showing you how to use the software in real-world professional environments.
After you learn the key concepts and how to work with the interface, you'll explore the best methods for creating, editing, displaying, and labeling all the parts of a civil engineering project.
- This comprehensive guide to the newest version of Civil 3D features coverage of all the new features, including the intersection tool
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- Features in-depth, detailed coverage of surveying, points, alignments, surfaces, profiles, corridors, grading, and LandXML and LDT Project Transfer
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Mastering AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010 is the in-depth guide you need to make the most of Civil 3D.
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Abstract and Applied Analysis
Volume 2005 (2005), Issue 2, Pages 159-171
A study of the inverse of a free-surface problem
Faculté de Mathématiques, Université
des Sciences et de la Technologie Houari Boumediene (USTHB), El Alia, Alger, Bab-Ezzouar BP 32, 16123, Algeria
Received 18 February 2004
Copyright © 2005 R. Ait Yahia-Djouadi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
We prove the existence of an
obstacle lying on the bottom of an infinite channel inducing a
surface on the upper bound of the fluid domain. This problem is
the inverse of the free-surface problem flow which has been
studied by several authors. We use the implicit function theorem
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5 Reasons Why You Should Exercise On Your Lunch Break
by Laura Barns
Whilst for some, the idea of getting sweaty before your 3pm meeting might feel like a little slice of hell, but for others, lunch breaks provide the perfect opportunity to get active.
But why? Here are some of the key benefits of working out in the middle of your working day.
1. It frees up your evenings
After a long day of working, sometimes the only logical thing to do is starfish the sofa with a cold glass of vegan wine in one hand, and a remote in the other. Working out during your lunch break means your evenings are free for fun, and it means you can hit the snooze button in the morning a few extra times, too.
2. It forces you to take a lunch break
Hands up if you're guilty of lunching at your desk. We all do it, despite knowing it's probably not the best way to work. If you schedule in a gym class, or even just have a plan in your head to go for a run or a long walk during your lunch break, you're forced to step away from the office and take a breather. This is great for your mental health as well as your physical health. According to Harvard Medical School, exercise “has a unique capacity to exhilarate and relax, to provide stimulation and calm, to counter depression and dissipate stress.” It’s been successfully used to treat anxiety disorders and even clinical depression, so it can help you cope with a day full of meetings or that big presentation.
3. It may make your afternoon more productive
If you're worried about a big meeting coming up in the afternoon, exercise can be a great way to help reduce anxiety and stress. According to the American Psychological Association, there's a strong link between exercise and mood, and the act of moving your muscles greatly helps your mental health.
4. You might beat the crowds
Especially if you've joined a crazy-popular gym, or if you like to run around some of the area's favourite parks, going 'off-peak' is a great way to get some alone time as you exercise. Gyms are usually busiest first thing in the morning before 9am, and after 6pm, so heading there at lunch is a great way to guarantee time on your preferred machines.
5. You'll undo some desk-related damage
We've all heard that it's not healthy to sit all day. Over the years, studies have shown sedentary behaviour is associated with issues like obesity, insulin resistance, heart disease, poor circulation and more. In fact, research published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition showed a 61% increase in mortality rates in those who sit on the sofa and watch TV for seven hours or more per day. So getting up from your desk to stretch or walk around is a great start. And of course, getting up from your desk to exercise for 30–45 minutes is even better.
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Spiritual Practices lead to a large host of benefits for health & happiness
While fewer Americans believe in God and millennials are the least religious generation in the last few decades, nine out of ten Americans have relied on prayer in times of duress. What’s more, while a lot of people start yoga for exercise, those who actually stick to it do so for spiritual reasons. So, what is it about spirituality that draws people in, even as our culture seems to be shifting away from it?
Whether you consider yourself Christian, Buddhist or mindful spiritual yogi, research suggests you are more likely to
– have a longer life
– be more resilient
– be more faithful in relationships
But how does all this happen? What’s the connection? Here are a few of the major ways spirituality can affect your physical and emotional health. Spiritual people are
1. More likely to volunteer or donate to the poor.
Research has shown that regular community service buffers you against the effects of stress, leading to a longer life.
2. More likely to meditate to cope with stress.
Forty-two percent of highly spiritual people will meditate when stressed rather than overeat or indulge in other unhealthy coping behaviors. And, as you’ve probably heard, meditation has all kinds of benefits—from improved health, happiness, and focus to decreased pain and depression.
3. More likely to have a built-in community.
After food and shelter, social connection is the top predictor of health, happiness, and longevity. Religious people are more likely to spend time with family and feel a strong sense of belonging to a community of like-minded people.
4. More likely to turn prayer.
Of course, these findings could also be placebo – we tend to feel better when we believe something will make us feel better. But never hurts to take a yoga class (no pun intended!), to volunteer at a homeless shelter, or try a silent retreat to check it out for yourself.
For more on this topic, and the science of happiness, check out my new book, The Happiness Track, out now!
This article was originally published on Psychology Today on August 8, 2016.
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We were in danger of becoming a caricature. When a parent stood up at a local school board meeting and expressed her dismay at a word being used in two books in the school library, blogposts and news stories from New York to Singapore decried the benighted censorship emanating from our Virginia backwater county. Because the books were Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. But the word was ‘nigger.’
219 times in Huck Finn. 48 times in Mockingbird. That’s how many times the word (along with other slurs) is reported to have been used. And oh, the power of the word. “What are we teaching our children?” the mother, who has a biracial child, asked the school board. “We’re validating that these words are acceptable, and they are not acceptable by any means.”
Do we neglect the power and the potential of great literature by simply pointing to it but never truly embracing it? I didn’t want to fault the parent who dared to ask.
The school system could have responded by following their recently adopted policy which asks that a “Request for Reconsideration of Learning Resources” form be submitted to the school and be considered through a process that would not require immediately pulling the books. But our schools, like so many of our institutions, have so many policies and the heat of the moment is often quite hot. So the books were pulled and in the week that followed before their reinstatement, Accomack County became an international symbol of censorship with its accompanying heaps of opprobrium.
There were upsides to the controversy. People rallied on the courthouse lawn to protest. When is the last time that people rallied in defense of literature? Our local independent (and only) bookstore put Mockingbird & Finn on prominent display and sales spiked. The owner was interviewed when TV crews came to town. The local (and only) community theater sponsored a dramatic reading of the play based on Lee’s book. All in all, it was a boost for the arts.
The question raised didn’t fall along simple lines, either. How do we offer these books with their shocking words to our children? What sort of context should we give? Is the freedom of a library book shelf enough? Or do we neglect the power and the potential of great literature by simply pointing to it but never truly embracing it? I didn’t want to fault the parent who dared to ask.
What stuck in my craw, though, was the way my community was flattened by the media coverage. It’s been happening all fall. As pundits try to make sense of the election and the roilings of rural America, it has been easy to imagine the region as one vast, undifferentiated, splenetic mass. And places like Accomack County are one more dot of crimson in the faceless sea of red.
As pundits try to make sense of the election and the roilings of rural America, it has been easy to imagine the region as one vast, undifferentiated, splenetic mass. And places like Accomack County are one more dot of crimson in the faceless sea of red.
So when the book controversy arose, we suddenly became another piece of evidence for the yawning divide between the enclaves of enlightenment and the continent of disgruntled whites malnourished by their steady diet of fake news. Not that there isn’t a divide. Lord knows, the distance from here to the Northeast Corridor seems to grow by the day. Economic dislocation, declining educational opportunity, racial tension, opioid abuse – they all take their toll. But we don’t get better by being exotic objects of remote observation. Or by turning ourselves into such a thing.
Rural is plural. That’s the thing I know from my life in the rural South. I’ve had my run-ins with the kind of small-mindedness that lends itself to easy lampooning, but I’ve also been nurtured and challenged by big-hearted, poetic grandeur from the likes of English teachers, non-profit leaders, and country church choirs. I grew up with and live with dreamers and everyday artists.
If we have a way forward beyond this time of crucial divide, it won’t be because certain regions hunkered down in their bubble and withstood the assaults coming from the other bubble. The way forward has no red or blue hue. It has the character of a river running right through the heart of a land on which unlikely companions seek a new day of freedom and adventure. And on this journey we will share our best and worst selves, in language coarse and beautiful, with people who come from very different circumstances but with transcendent desires. Someone should write a book about that. | <urn:uuid:bfd8d3b1-9340-4dcc-8fff-710de2aff625> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://alexjoyner.com/2017/03/03/rural-is-plural/?shared=email&msg=fail | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.965928 | 1,014 | 2.4375 | 2 |
The year-on-year sowing of rice is lagging by 7%. Rice has been sown on 161.97 lakh hectares, with higher acreage reported from the states of Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, Tripura, Punjab, Jharkhand, Tamil Nadu, Jammu & Kashmir, and Uttarakhand. Less area is reported from the states of Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Assam, Haryana, Gujarat etc.
Sowing of pulses is lagging by 12% when compared to the same period of previous year, with large fall being reported in urad (trailing by 23%) and moong, which is lagging by 20.76%.
Sowing of coarse cereals is down by 20.63%. Among coarse cereals, sowing of jowar is down by 26, bajra is lagging by close to 40% and maize sowing is trailing by 7.74%. Sowing of oilseeds crops is also down by 13.68% with groundnut sowing lagging by 13.25% and soybean lagging by close to 12%. Higher oilseeds area is reported from the states of Maharashtra (9.20 lakh hectare), Gujarat (2.12 lakh hectare), while less area is reported from the states of Rajasthan (3.79 lakh hectare), Madhya Pradesh (3.49 lakh hectare), Andhra Pradesh (2.12 lakh hectare), Telangana (0.59 lakh hectare). Cotton sowing is lagging by 13 %. Cotton sowing is trailing mainly in the states of Andhra Pradesh (0.98 lakh hectare) and Punjab (0.62 lakh hectare).
The reservoir levels are also trailing when compared to previous year. The Central Water Commission monitors live storage status of 130 reservoirs of the country, which account for 67.58% of the total live storage capacity of 257.812 BM established in the country. As per the reservoir storage data as on July 15, the live storage available in these reservoirs is 57.628 BCM, which is 33% of total live storage capacity of these reservoirs. However, last year the live storage available in these reservoirs for the corresponding period was 62.134 BCM and the average of last 10 years live storage was 49.921 BCM. Thus, the live storage available in 130 reservoirs is 7% lower than the live storage of the corresponding period of last year and 15% more than the average storage of last ten years.
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CONSTRUCTION BEGINS ON NEW BIOSAFETY LABORATORY
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Weather permitting, construction will begin later this month on the West Campus Biocontainment Laboratory, the University’s newest facility designed for research on some of the most important human diseases.
Workers will begin preparing the foundation for the lab and installing utilities on the site near Pressey and Scott Halls on Ohio State’s west side.
The modular building is being built off-site and will be transported to the university in late May to early June. Construction on the site should be completed by late June. Ohio State plans to offer a public open house at the site to display the new facility.
“This will be one of the safest, most-modern laboratory facilities at Ohio State,” explained Larry Schlesinger, professor and director of the division of infectious diseases on campus and director of the new facility.
“Once it is up and running, we expect to be able to substantially improve our already strong research program aimed at better understanding important human illnesses.”
Schlesinger came to Ohio State after directing a similar facility at the University of Iowa. He has spent the last 15 years conducting research on Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the pathogen that causes tuberculosis. Much of that work was done inside secured labs like the one being built here.
Under federal guidelines, all facilities where potentially infectious agents are used must adhere to strict procedures that insure containment of these pathogens. Depending on the ease with which microorganisms can be transmitted, they are classified as either BSL (Biosafety Level)-1, BSL-2, BSL-3 or BSL-4, with BSL-4 carrying the highest risk of infection.
Organisms requiring BSL-1 protections are those believed to be incapable of causing disease in healthy adults, while BSL-4 pathogens, such as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, have extremely high mortality rates.
Ohio State has no facilities capable of handling BSL-4 infectious agents, nor does it plan to do such research. Researchers expect to use the new facility to continue current research on tuberculosis and tularemia, a bacterial disease that can pass from some animals to humans, as well as other diseases.
"It is critical that we understand how new and emerging microbes work to help protect public health," said Dr. Fred Sanfilippo, senior vice president for health sciences and dean of the College of Medicine and Public Health. "Larry is one of the leaders in this area, and this facility is important for many of our biomedical research and training programs to remain at the cutting edge."
The new BSL-3 facility will be physically isolated and constantly monitored.
Access to the area will be limited and tightly controlled.
“However, these and other efforts over the years have focused on using viral or bacterial components rather than using the entire organisms,” Schlesinger said. “This new facility will provide our scientists with the kind of facility they need to safely and directly attack these diseases and the organisms that cause them.”
Once inside, researchers will work in one of six segregated laboratories. No interaction between these separate areas is possible. Additional safeguards insuring isolation of the organisms will follow federal guidelines mandated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Ohio State now has two working BSL-3 facilities – one in the College of Biological Sciences and another at the University’s Laboratory Animal Center.
Additional BSL3-level laboratories are being planned for the university’s Biomedical Research Tower set to open in 2006. The university operates several hundred BSL-2 category laboratories as well.
Tom Rosol, interim vice president for research at Ohio State, said, “This new laboratory will give our researchers the ability to take their current infectious disease research to a new level, and in doing so, increase the safety and security of the people of Ohio and the nation.”
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Tort Law and Liabilities in Different Types of Tort
Example Tort Law Problem Question
David has recently bought his first house where he now lives with his wife and children. The house is located on Highfield Road opposite a factory unit (situated on Highfield Road in the Edward's Industrial estate) owned by Harrington & Nephew Ltd. in which pre-cast concrete units are manufactured. Harrington & Nephew Ltd. was recently successful in winning various contracts which have resulted in the factory operating all day and throughout the night. This has caused David and his family to lose sleep through noise from the factory operations and noise from wagons coming to and leaving the factory.
Aimee, David's wife has developed an allergy to the dust, which is emitted from the factory and now has to use inhalers every day. The family is unable to sit out in their garden and enjoy the summer due to the dust and noise, and a rose tree which they brought with them and was given to them as a wedding present 15 years ago has now died - a horticultural expert says it is because of how the dust is affecting the soil.
Wally, David's son parks his car outside the house on the road and the paintwork has been damaged by chemical smuts emitted from the factory's chimney. Wally is so incensed by this that he immediately goes round to the factory uninvited and storms into the manager's office to give him a piece of his mind. The manager is not there and because of Wally's attitude and general manner, the secretary insists that Wally leaves the premises immediately. Wally refuses to do so. This results in something of a scuffle and as a result a window is broken.
Advise Harrington & Nephew Ltd as to any liabilities they may have to David and his family, and any defences or remedies that may be applicable, along with any case they may have against David and/or his family.
Potential Liabilities of Harrington & Nephew Ltd. ("Harrington") to David & Family
The foremost cause of action against Harrington arises in the tort of "nuisance"- commonly defined as "interference for a substantial length of time by owners or occupiers of property with the use or enjoyment of neighbouring property".1 As such, nuisance may be public or private in nature, i.e., while the former involves indiscriminate widespread effects on a community or class of persons so as to constitute a criminal offence,2 the latter concerns the harm to the plaintiff in particular.3 In the absence of any mention of other complainants, apart from David's family, the given facts reveal a case of the latter category, i.e., a tort of private nuisance.
The tort of "nuisance" premised on the maxim sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas, arises where a person makes such use of his property unreasonably and unnecessarily so as to cause inconvenience to his neighbour.4 Such inconvenience may be in the form of (a) interference with the plaintiff's beneficial use of the property, and/or (b) physical injury to the plaintiff's property.5 Notably, the plaintiff's burden of proof is more onerous in case of the former, as upheld in St. Helens Smelting Co. v Tipping.6 The present facts entail potential liabilities founded on both of these forms of nuisance, elaborated below.
Interference with beneficial use of property
It is alleged by David's family that the noise all throughout day and night from the factory and the movement of wagons has caused them loss of sleep. Further, they are unable to sit out in the garden due to the noise and dust emissions, which have also impacted their trees and shrubs. Moreover, the dust emitted by Harrington has injured the health of David's wife, who, as a consequence, is required to use inhalers on a regular basis. Overall, owing to Harrington's operations, they are allegedly prevented from the enjoyment of their property.
Whether all of these constitute a prima facie case of nuisance by interference with David's beneficial use of property,7 depends upon the test of reasonability, i.e., whether a reasonable man living in that locality would take the same view of the matter.8 Explained by Lord Macmillan in the case of Glasgow Corporation v Muir, 9a reasonable man connotes "a person whose notions and standards of behaviour and responsibility correspond with those generally obtained among ordinary people in our society at the present time, who seldom allows his emotions to overbear his reason and whose habits are moderate and whose disposition is equable".10 Thus, while there is no strict formula to define what precise level of noise, dust or smoke would suffice for a claim of nuisance, courts have ordinarily looked into the substance of the interference11 to decide that noise causing deprivation of sleep,12 or fumes damaging trees and shrubs,13 as in the present facts, constitute interference with comfort and enjoyment of property,14 and thus, a tort of nuisance. This is more so, because of the continuity and frequency of such noise and emissions which are relevant in establishing that Harrington has created a situation qualifying to be a potential nuisance.15
Considering that such claim is based on the test of reasonability, an inconvenience or interference with enjoyment necessarily depends upon the circumstances of the place or location where the alleged wrong occurs.16 Courts have ruled that one must pay heed to a property's surroundings when determining whether a nuisance exists.17 Thus, one "who dislikes noise must not set up his abode in the heart of a great city," and likewise, "he who loves peace and quiet must not live in a locality devoted to business of making boilers and steamships".18 In other words, the standard of comfort and convenience attributable to the plaintiff is lowered in certain localities.19 Accordingly, Harrington may assert that as David's house was located just opposite to the Edward's industrial estate, the expected levels of noise and emissions in such locality were higher than a purely residential area, which lowers the standards of reasonable comfort, convenience and enjoyment attributable to David's property. Hence, failing the reasonability test in the specific circumstances of the place, Harrington may plead to ought not be held liable for the tort of nuisance.20
Further, without prejudice to the above, Harrington may seek to exclude liability for the damage to the 15 years' old rose tree, which was a special and delicate feature from a horticulture standpoint. Similar stance was taken in respect of damage to certain orchid plantations by the emissions and fumes from the defendant's factory in the case of McKinnon Industries v Walker.21 Additionally, as the car owned by David's son- Wally was parked on the road outside the house, it did not fall within the ambit of enjoyment of David's property, and thus, any damage caused to its paintwork from chemical smuts emitted by Harrington cannot be reckoned to constitute nuisance as such.
Also, considering that nuisance is essentially a wrong to property and rights thereof, Harrington can plead against the liability for any alleged personal injury, such as health of David's wife, as not falling within the scope of tort of "nuisance".22 These defences may be pleaded in addition to others, discussed later.
Injury to property
Where an alleged wrong, regardless of any inconvenience or discomfort, makes the plaintiff's property uninhabitable for the intended purpose or devalues it, a stronger case of nuisance is created. In other words, where the nuisance causes material damage to the property and reduces its value, the onus of proof on the plaintiff is lesser, and the defence of circumstances of place and locality, discussed above, become irrelevant and inapplicable.23
In the given facts, as is testified by the horticulture expert, the dust emissions from Harrington have, aside to causing discomfort and inconvenience, impacted the soil quality of David's property, resulting in loss of trees and plants. Further, as property entails right to consumable air,24 the worth of David's house is undoubtedly diminished by the dust emissions rendering the air impure and polluted. Moreover, the paintwork of the car owned by Wally, and parked adjacent to the house, has also been damaged from chemical smuts emitted by Harrington. Thus, owing to the house and property being impaired by the noise and emissions, David's family can, aside to pecuniary damages, seek injunction25 against Harrington to discontinue its operations.
Harrington may assert "reasonable use" of its own property, as a defence to the above charges.26 Although such defence requires balancing of interests inter se the plaintiff and the defendant, the plea can nevertheless be taken up, as was raised in the case of Russell Transport v Ontario Malleable Iron,27 involving the operations of a long-standing foundry turning into nuisance for a newly found business on a previously vacant neighbouring land.28 Such use may be justified through the industrial license or permit obtained by Harrington authorising the manufacturing of pre-cast concrete units at the stated industrial zone.29
This can be further substantiated by evidence of all possible care and skills in such use by Harrington so as to prevent its operations from causing nuisance to David's family- a plea commonly raised, for instance, in Adams v Ursell.30 The defence could further alleviate to the status of a prescriptive right, if the nuisance had continued for more than 20 years, which however, will not apply in the present facts. This is because, although Harrington may have been using its property for the factory purpose for years, the nuisance commenced only recently when David purchased the house.31 The defence of right by prescription is, thus, lost by Harrington in the present case.
Apart from the specific defences linked to the tort of nuisance, Harrington may also resort to the defence of volenti non fit injuria, meaning no person can enforce a right which he has voluntarily waived or abandoned.32 For instance, one who owns property adjoining a highway consents to the dangers incident to the ordinary use of highway.33 Such consent or waiver need not be express, i.e., may be implied or deduced from any acts, as upheld in Wilson v Darling Island Co.34 and in Morrison v Union Steamship Co. Ltd.35
It is clear from the facts that Harrington had been operating in the Edward's industrial estate prior to David's purchasing the house. This implies that David's family had full knowledge of the potential nuisance at the time of purchase of the property, and by knowingly choosing to buy it regardless of Harrington's manufacturing unit located opposite to it , had consented to, and waived such right to claim, nuisance.36 Pre-existing knowledge of risks can be adduced as an evidence of such consent or waiver.37 Similar to Commonwealth v Van Sickle,38 Harrington can allege that gross injustice will be caused if the interests of David's family, who are newcomers to the locality, are given precedence over those of Harrington, which has been in business in that area since years before their arrival. This is more so, as the area of its operation had been for so long an industrial zone devoted to manufacturing and such similar purposes, "as to give those who had recently moved in no just right of complaint,"39 especially, as they moved in with all knowledge of the existing state of affairs.40 This defence can also be stretched to Wally's car being improperly parked outside on the road, leaving it vulnerable to damage. Having said that, Harrington must be cognizant of contrary rulings by the judiciary in Bliss v Hall,41 and the majority decision in Miller v Jackson,42 stating that "plaintiff came to the nuisance" is no defence in law.
In terms of relief, Harrington can claim shelter under "public interest/benefits" to avoid an injunction ordering cessation of its business operations, i.e., the manufacturing operation of Harrington yields benefits to public at large, which outweighs the alleged private loss caused to David's family. This plea was raised, although without success, in the much celebrated case of The Attorney General v The Borough of Birmingham.43 Thus, while this defence may not absolve Harrington of its liabilities in entirety, it nevertheless can help in convincing the court against an order of injunction.44 Needless to state, as much depends on the substantiality of the public interests involved, this defence is seldom upheld.45
Claim against David's family
In respect of Wally's uninvited entry into the factory premises and the manager's office, Harrington can institute a suit of trespass to land. This tort emanates from, inter alia, a person's entry into the land in possession of another without lawful justification,46 affirmed in Basely v Clarkson.47 Any invasion or intrusion of property, regardless of its form, enormity or recurrence, constitutes trespass.48 For instance, in the case of Ellis v Loftus Iron Co., the court stated that "if the defendant places a part of his foot on the claimant's land unlawfully, it is in law as much a trespass as if he had walked half a mile on it".49 Thus, any form of physical contact with the property,50 including throwing of stones or mere crossing of boundary, suffices.51 Notably, the tort of trespass to land is actionable per se, i.e., can be sued against without any proof of damage.52
In the given facts, as Wally's access to Harrington's premise and his forceful entry into the manager's office was without any permission or authority, it is a clear case of trespass.53 This is further substantiated by his refusal to leave the premises despite the secretary's insistence requiring him to depart immediately. Such act of refusal or omission to leave tantamounts to continued trespass,54 which in itself constitutes a tort, independent of the original trespass by entry into the premise. This position is firmly established by Cottreau v Rodgerson,55Cullen v Rice,56 and CPR v Gaud.57 Finally, although not essential to prove trespass, the fact that a window broke due to the scuffle reveals damage being caused by Wally to Harrington's premise. Hence, Harrington can very well sue Wally to claim damages against the tort of trespass to its land.
1 Cunard v Antifyre 1933 1 KB 551, 556.
2 Att-Gen v PYA Quarries Ltd. 1957 2 QB 169.
3 Gertsen v Municipality of Toronto (1974) 41 DLR (3d) 646.
4 R.A. Buckley, Law of Nuisance (2nd edn., Butterworths Law 1996). See also, Tenant v Goldwin (1704) 2 Ld. Raym. 1089; and Barger v Barringer (1909) 151 N. C. 433.
5 Gaunt v Fynney (1872) LR 8 Ch. 8. See also, McLaren, 'Nuisance Actions and the Environmental Battle' (1972) 10 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 505.
6 (1865) 11 HLC 642.
7 Desrosiers v Sullivan Farms (1987) 76 N.B.R. (2d) 271 (CA).
8 Heuston & Buckley, Salmond and Heuston on the Law of Torts (Sweet & Maxwell 1987).
9 1943 AC 448.
10 Heuston & Buckley (n 8), 65.
11 Bone v Seale 1975 1 WLR 797.
12 Shelfer v City of London Electric Lighting Co. 1895 1 Ch. 287.
13 Tipping (n 6).
14 Walter v Selfe (1851), 29 L.J.R. (20 N.S.) 433 (Ch.).
15 Matheson v Northcote College Board of Governors 1975 2 NZLR 106.
16 Sturges v Bridgman (1879) 11 Ch.D. 852.
17 Drysdale v Dugas (1896) 26 SCR 20.
18 Heuston & Buckley (n 8), 65. See also, C.S. Kerse, Law Relating to Noise (Oyez Publishing 1975).
19 Polsue and Alfieri Ltd. v Rushmer 1907 AC 121.
20 See contrary opinion in Bamford v Turnley (1860) 3 B. &. S. 62, 122 E.R. 25.
21 1951 3 DLR 577 (PC).
22 Dymond v Pearce 1972 1 QB 496.
23 Tipping (n 6), 650 (Lord Westbury).
24 Dent v Auction Mart (1866) LR 2 Eq 238.
25 Imperial Gas Light and Coke v Broadbent (1859), 7 H.L.C. 600, 11 E.R. 239. See also, Smith v Smith (1875) L.R. 20 Eq. 500; and Beamish v Glenn (1916) 36 O.L.R. 10.
26 Jeremiah Smith, 'Reasonable Use of One's Own Property as a Justification for Damage to a Neighbour' (1917) 17(5) Columbia Law Review 383.
27 1952 O.R. 621 (HC).
28 See contrary view in Att-Gen v Cole 1901 2 Ch. 205.
29 Hopkin v Hamilton Electric Light (1901) 2 O.L.R. 240.
30 1913 1 Ch. 269. See also, Drysdale (n 17).
31 Sturges (n 16).
32 Chapman v Ellesmere 1932 2 KB 431. See also, Buckpitt v Oates 1968 1 All ER 1145.
33 Esso Petroleum Co. Ltd. v Southport Corporation 1956 AC 218.
34 (1955) 95 CLR 43.
35 1964 NZLR 468.
36 Miller v Jackson 1977 QB 966 (Lord Denning M.R.)
37 Neilsen v Redel 1955 1 DLR 125. See also, Smith v Charles Baker & Sons 1891 AC 325.
38 (1845) 4 Clark 104.
39 Commonwealth v Upton (1856) 72 Mass 473.
40 Christine Meisner Rosen, 'Knowing Industrial Pollution: Nuisance Law and the Power of Tradition in a Time of Rapid Economic Change, 1840-1864' (2003) 8(4) Environmental History 565.
41 (1838) 4 Bing NC 183.
42 1977 QB 966.
43 (1858) 4 K. &. J. 528, 70 E.R. 220.
44 Miller (n 36).
45 Kennaway v Thompson 1981 QB 88.
46 Barker v The Queen (1983) 153 CLR 338; and Perera v Vandiyar 1953 1 WLR 672.
47 (1681) 3 Lev 37.
48 Entick v Carrington (1765) 19 St. Tr. 1029; and Woolerton and Wilson Ltd v Richard Costain Ltd. (1970) 1 W.L.R. 411.
49 (1874) L.R. 10 C.&.P 10.
50 Westripp v Baldock 1939 1 All ER 279.
51 Gregory v Piper (1829) 9 B & C 591.
52 Ashby v White (1703) 2 Ld.Raym 938.
53 Mann v Saulnier (1959) 19 DLR (2d) 130.
54 Holmes v Wilson (1839) 10 A&E 503; and Konskier v Goodman Ltd 1928 1 KB 421.
55 (1966) 53 DLR (2d) 549.
56 (1981) 120 DLR (3d) 641.
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How to dehydrate mushrooms
Drying mushrooms is a great way to preserve them for later – which is exactly what I wanted to do with the pile of mushrooms in my fridge. This was my first time dehydrating mushrooms and it was incredibly easy – and I’m happy I now have them on hand for soups and sauces down the road.
When researching how to do dehydrate mushrooms I found a lot of disclaimers about dehydrating wild mushrooms you find in nature. If you’re not an expert forager, don’t go eating random mushrooms you find in the woods. If it’s toxic in it’s regular form, it certainly isn’t going to be any safer after drying.
I stick to store bought mushrooms, thank you very much. I might *live on the edge* and buy marked down mushrooms, but that’s as exciting as I get with ‘shrooms. This time I dried some full size portobello mushrooms (manager markdown!) and some baby portobellos (Costco!).
The first thing you’ll want to do is wipe the mushrooms off. Clean ’em up just like you would before cooking with them. I didn’t want to wash or rinse my mushrooms because this would only add moisture, which seems silly right before drying them. I wiped the mushrooms down with a paper towel. I bet if you wanted to rinse them off, it wouldn’t hurt. Just dry them well before dehydrating.
Then you may want to remove the stems. Because portobello mushrooms have a thicker stem – I opted to remove the stem. I saved those for a batch of vegetable broth.Some of the fancier mushrooms I think have a lof flavor in the stem – so you decide if you want to keep it on or not.
Then slice the mushrooms in 1/4 inch slices and spread them out on dehydrator tray.
Dry mushrooms at 130 degrees F for 8 to 14 hours*. I opted for 12 hours. If mushrooms have any moisture remaining in them, could grow bacteria or mold, so I opted for a little longer. They will shrink a lot in the process.
*I saw some sources that recommend drying the mushrooms at 90 degrees F for a few hours and then increasing it to 130 degrees F. But I cannot find any information on why they are recommending this. Anyone know? I just went with one temp, the whole time.
I won’t lie. Drying mushrooms may leave an earthy smell in your house. If you are generally sensitive to mushroom smells, this could bother you. I live near Ostroms Mushroom farm, so I’m used to it. You might not even notice, but I like to give you a heads up.
How to Store Dried Mushrooms
As with most dried foods, you want to store it in an airtight container away from moisture and light. Places like World Market Cost Plus have inexpensive pantry jars with sealable lids (like the one pictured below). These can be labeled and added to your pantry shelf!
How to Rehydrate Mushrooms
I’m not an expert on this since this is my first time dehydrating mushrooms. BUT from what I’m seeing – the best method is to soak in cold water for about 4 hours. You can soak them in hot water to speed up the process, cover the bowl with a plate or lid. Everything I read said to keep the water you use to rehydrate the dried mushrooms, as it makes good stock. I’m planning to use the dehydrated mushrooms in soups, so I’ll just add a little more broth to compensate. If you’re a drying expert, and you know how to rehydrate dried mushrooms, please chime in here!
I referenced these books especially, which I’m guessing you can find at your local library (or Amazon):
- The Dehydrator Bible: Includes over 400 Recipes (pictured above on my table)
- The Complete Guide to Drying Foods at Home: Everything You Need to Know about Preparing, Storing, and Consuming Dried Foods (Back to Basics)
- The Encyclopedia of Country Living, 40th Anniversary Edition <– Love this one! It’s a huge book, 922 pages, it has so much information in it.
As for the type of dehydrator that you need – I think all of them are pretty great. First you can check your local thrift shops, because they are big appliances I think people get tired of storing them and donate them a lot.
If you’re thinking about getting a dehydrator, Amazon has this Nesco FD-80A Square-Shaped Dehydrator for just $55. This is the best price it’s ever been on Amazon. Regular price is $98 and it has nearly 5 out of 5 star reviews.
I personally have the Excalibur 3900B 9 Tray Deluxe Dehydrator, Black – but it’s probably much more than the average person needs. The only reason I splurged is because I found a crazy good deal that included a lightning deal and a gift card I had. But I have to say that I do love it and it has amazing reviews for a dehydrator.
I’ve been a drying a lot of things lately! See my recent posts:
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Enko, a startup trying to disrupt the crop protection industry, has raised $45 million in a Series B funding round led by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Founded in 2017, Enko uses a combination of artificial intelligence and its own "DNA library" of potential products to rapidly develop new chemicals.
The latest funding round, led by the Gates Foundation, was also backed by Anterra Capital, Finistere Ventures, and Novalis LifeSciences.
Dr Vipula Shukla, a senior executive at the Gates Foundation, said Enko's work would benefit farming communities in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
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A new future of work is looming – one that is driven by the rapid pace of technological development and new approaches for interacting with colleagues and customers. In this future, STEM graduates are in higher demand than ever. They will find their place at the forefront of emerging industries – virtualisation, creative intelligence, robotics, data science are just to name a few – where they will co-exist with peers from a wealth of other disciplines.
As educators, we know the increasing importance of STEM skills in a world in which almost 40% of jobs that exist today are likely to disappear in the next 10–15 years. We know that today’s graduates will have 20–30 jobs over the course of their working lives. How can we prepare these graduates to respond to existing workforce needs, and perhaps more crucially, to workforce needs in industries that don’t yet exist?
First, we must fundamentally rethink the skills people will need, and how we support them acquiring these skills. Many of these will be numeracy and digital skills, such as those involved in data analytics and coding. Others will be sense-making skills that will enable people to absorb a wide variety of information to inform decision-making in a changing and complex environment. The future workforce will also rely on very sophisticated interaction skills to facilitate collaboration in virtual, real and cross-cultural contexts.
The enterprises of tomorrow will not only need a greater prevalence of multifaceted digital and STEM capacity, but they will need more “boundary crossing” and creative problem solving skills in our STEM graduates. Underpinning this is an almost ubiquitous level of numeracy and digital literacy that does not currently exist in society.
There are many things universities can do to optimise the opportunities available to our STEM graduates, to ensure our graduates are agile, future-focused, committed to innovation and responsive to ongoing shifts in industry. To begin with, we can support the development of well-rounded STEM graduates, to more systematically emphasise the critical importance of cross-disciplinary training.
The ability of students to take their discipline expertise in science and engineering and apply it across a vast range of questions, jobs and sectors has always existed, but we need to be more deliberate about this into the future. We can embed collaborative, entrepreneurial, critical thinking and interpersonal skills at the core of all our courses. We can deliver educational experiences that champion student-led modes of learning, and treat students like professionals from the moment they commence their university careers. We can emphasise internships, work placements and volunteer opportunities that give students a taste of the world outside the classroom – be this in businesses, R&D laboratories or start-ups. We can involve industry more deeply in our assessment processes.
We can also provide development opportunities both on and off campus that encourage students to place their STEM skills in a wealth of exciting new contexts, from entrepreneurship programs to workshops in design thinking, and combined STEM/creative intelligence degrees. This has the added advantage of providing more visibly attractive opportunities for STEM graduates, increasing those Australians choosing STEM careers.
Similarly for non-STEM graduates, as well as much of the above, embedding contextual numeracy and increased data literacy into our courses will be vital.
If our aim is to create a generation of graduates who will lead the development of new and emerging sectors, and who will carve out competitive advantages for Australia, then we must focus on preparing them for the brave new world ahead. Let’s equip them to become creators, innovators and global thinkers with the capacity to untangle the wicked problems inherent in the future of work.
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why do some people have stinky feet
Stinky feet can be more than a nuisance. They can be a major source of embarrassment. Some people canБt seem to escape giving off that smell, hard as they try. One expert, Jane E. Andersen, a doctor of podiatric medicine and spokeswoman for the American Podiatric Medical Association, sniffs out the causes of foot odor and how to keep the funk at bay. Ugh, That Smell
There are more than 250,000 sweat glands in each human foot, along with a host of bacteria that live on the skinБs surface.
Bacteria break down sweat. Everybody's familiar with stinky feet. Most of us have a friend or relative -- or maybe it's you -- who can clear out a room when they kick off their shoes. Even the sweetest-smelling person can do a decent job stinking up a pair of shoes by a few miles in them.
So what's going on here? Why do your feet have a stronger odor than, say, the palms of your hands, or other parts of your body? After all, isn't body odor about sweat? Eau de foot is about sweat, yes. A stinky foot may also be a sweaty foot. Each of your feet has 26 bones, 33 joints, 107 ligaments, and 19 muscles -- and as a pair your feet have 250,000 sweat glands that make about one cup (about half a pint) of sweat every day.
That means your feet produce more per square inch of skin than any other part of your body [sources:, ]. But most of the time sweat itself actually isn't the problem, at least not when it comes to the kind of sweat you find on your feet. You see, there are two types of sweat glands on your body: apocrine glands and eccrine glands.
Apocrine glands are found near hair follicles (so you'll find them in abundance on your scalp and in your armpits, as well as the groin region). The sweat they secrete -- a yellowish, thick fluid -- happens in response to stresses. Body odor is the byproduct of bacteria on your skin digesting the sweat produced by apocrine glands. But there are no apocrine glands on your feet.
Eccrine glands, on the other hand, are located in the skin all over your body, including your feet. This sweat is intended to cool you down. On its own, the sweat produced by the eccrine glands on the soles of your feet is pretty much just water and salt, and really doesn't have any odor at all. It's bacteria that's the real culprit behind foot odor; well, that and whether or not you wear socks.
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Last week in Part One I went through how to mount directories from the host server into a docker container in order to persist data.
However, you don’t have to do this in order to share volumes between containers. Another method is to create named volumes within the docker ecosystem (as it were) and then map those volumes into containers upon creation.
Here’s how to do it.
First we create the volume that we want to share within docker: –
docker volume create sqldata
docker volume ls
Now let’s create two containers both referencing the volume. One will be up and running whilst the other remains in the stopped state: –
docker run -d -p 15789:1433 -v sqldata:C\sqldata --env ACCEPT_EULA=Y --env sa_password=Testing11@@ --name testcontainer microsoft/mssql-server-windows docker create -p 15789:1433 -v sqldata:C\sqldata --env ACCEPT_EULA=Y --env sa_password=Testing11@@ --name testcontainer2 microsoft/mssql-server-windows
Let’s have a look in the first container to see if the volume is there: –
docker exec -i testcontainer powershell
Update – April 2018
Loopback has now been enabled for Windows containers, so we can use localhost,15789 to connect locally. You can read more about it here
Ok, it’s there. So grab the private IP address of the container so that we can connect to it in SSMS: –
docker inspect testcontainer
Now we’ll create a database with its files in that location: –
USE [master]; GO CREATE DATABASE [TestDB] ON PRIMARY (NAME = N'TestDB', FILENAME = N'C:\sqldata\TestDB.mdf') LOG ON (NAME = N'TestDB_log', FILENAME = N'C:\sqldata\TestDB_log.ldf') GO USE [TestDB]; GO CREATE TABLE dbo.testtable (ID INT); GO INSERT INTO dbo.testtable (ID) VALUES (10); GO 100
Right, now let’s blow that first container away and spin up the second one: –
docker stop testcontainer docker rm testcontainer docker start testcontainer2
Hmm, all looks good. But let’s check that the volume is there with the database’s files: –
docker exec -i testcontainer2 powershell cd sqldata ls
Cool! The files are there, so let’s connect to the SQL instance within the second container and see if we can attach the database: –
docker inspect testcontainer2
Let’s try the attach: –
USE [master] GO CREATE DATABASE [TestDB] ON ( FILENAME = N'C:\sqldata\TestDB.mdf' ), ( FILENAME = N'C:\sqldata\TestDB_log.ldf' ) FOR ATTACH GO
Awesome stuff! We’ve got a database that was created in another container successfully attached into another one.
So at this point you may be wondering what the advantage is of doing this over mounting folders from the host? Well, to be honest, I really can’t see what the advantages are.
The volume is completely contained within the docker ecosystem so if anything happens to the docker install, we’ve lost the data. OK, OK, I know it’s in C:\ProgramData\docker\volumes\ on the host but still I’d prefer to have more control over its location.
I like the idea of mounted volumes better if I’m honest. I can specify where my database files are with much more control and I can also have access if needed.
However, each to their own personal preference and if you have a good reason for using named volumes over mounted volumes, let me know 🙂
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A view from the summit of Xie Xie (5.10a, 400m), Peak 4764m, Sichuan Province, China. Four Italians established this line August 22; this is one of many new ascents in the Valley, which has recieved a growing amount of attention over the last few years. The increased traffic is mostly due to the Chinese Governement's attempts to spur tourist visits via the construction of roads and tourist facilities. [Photo] Courtesy of Elena Davila Merino
Four Italian climbers established a new alpine route on an unnamed peak (4764m) in the Changping Valley, Sichuan Province, China. The area received little attention until recently and contains a number of unclimbed, unnamed peaks. The team set up their base camp at the head of the valley, surrounded by 400- to 900-meter granite walls, team member Elena Davila Merino said, on which they planned to apply light and fast tactics to untouched terrain. They selected the southeast pillar of Peak 4764m as their objective, mostly due to the pleasing vertical face, 400 meters high, that appeared to house fantastic climbing. After some acclimatization hikes and one attempt on the peak foiled by bad weather, the team made a second, successful attempt.
The team left base camp on August 22 at 6 a.m., arriving at the route's base at 8:30. After more than six hours of climbing, they reached the top of the unnamed peak via the southeast pillar. They named the route Xie Xie (5.10a A0, 400m), meaning "Thank You" in Chinese. A small amount of scrambling and one 60-meter rappel brought the team into a descent gully on the northwest face.
The Sichuan Mountaineering Association was of great assistance in obtaining climbing permits, liason officers and transportation into the region, the team reported.
The Changping Valley, located in China's Sichuan Province, has seen little attention until relatively recently. The area was closed to westerners until 1984. Even after the lifting of the visitor ban, the area received only a handful of visits by climbers. A few peaks have been climbed by Chinese mountaineers, and some solo ascents were made by late American climber Charlie Fowler. The American Alpine Journal also records one trip to the valley by a Chinese/American team to climb waterfall ice.
Classic dihedral climbing on Xie Xie (5.10a A0, 400m), Peak 4764m, Sichuan Province, China. [Photo] Courtesy of Sean McCabe
In 1998, a governmental ban on logging in many regions of the country led local officials to seek out new revenue streams. They quickly decided upon tourism. This promotion of the region has led to significant new construction, most prominently the Jiuzhaigou Ring Way, a 930-kilometer road linking the area with Chengdu and the Jiuhuang Airport. Rilong, a nearby city, is undergoing major changes. The small mountain road from Chengdu to Rilong is under development. The government's desire to increase the number of hotels and other tourist facilities has led to the compulsory removal of some residents of Rilong. Other changes already implemented are the reconstruction and expansion of a three-kilometer boardwalk system that leads into the main Changping Valley.
The World Wildlife Fund's Chinese office reports that the increased construction and road building has led to fragmentation of wildlife habitat, particularly that of the endangered Giant Panda, and significantly increased tourist traffic in the nearby Wanglang National-level Nature Reserve in Sichuan's Pingwu County. Despite the new ease of access, it is important for climbers to keep in mind the environmental and social impacts of their actions in any region they visit.
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Examining the capabilities of malicious software allows your IT team to better assess the nature of a security incident, and may help prevent further infections. Here’s how to set up a controlled malware analysis lab—for free.
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- Step 5: Utilize online analysis tools
- Next Steps
A large number of computer intrusions involve some form of malicious software (malware), which finds its way to the victim’s workstation or to a server. When investigating the incident, the IT responder typically seeks to answer questions such as: What actions can the malware specimen perform on the system? How does it spread? How, if at all, does it maintain contact with the attacker? These questions can all be answered by analyzing the offending malware in a controlled environment.
A simple analysis toolkit, built from free and readily available software, can help you and your IT team develop the skills critical to responding to today’s security incidents. The steps below will help get you started. We’ll focus on malware analysis in a Windows environment, since that platform is particularly popular among malware authors. If this topic interests you, take a look at the reverse-engineering malware course I teach at SANS Institute.
Step 1: Allocate physical or virtual systems for the analysis lab
A common approach to examining malicious software involves infecting a system with the malware specimen and then using the appropriate monitoring tools to observe how it behaves. This requires a laboratory system you can infect without affecting your production environment.
The most popular and flexible way to set up such a lab system involves virtualization software, which allows you to use a single physical computer for hosting multiple virtual systems, each running a potentially different operating system. Free virtualization software options include:
Running multiple virtual systems simultaneously on a single physical computer is useful for analyzing malware that seeks to interact with other systems, perhaps for leaking data, obtaining instructions from the attacker, or upgrading itself. Virtualization makes it easy to set up and use such systems without procuring numerous physical boxes.
Another useful feature of many virtualization tools is the ability to take instantaneous snapshots of the laboratory system. This way, you can record the state of the system before you infect it, and revert to the pristine environment with a click of a button at the end of your analysis.
If using virtualization software, install as much RAM into the physical system as you can, as the availability of memory is arguably the most important performance factor for virtualization tools. In addition, having a large hard drive will allow you to host many virtual machines, whose virtual file systems typically are stored as files on the physical system’s hard drive.
Because malware may detect that it’s running in a virtualized environment, some analysts prefer to rely on physical, rather than virtual, machines for implementing laboratory systems. Your old and unused PCs or servers can make excellent systems for your malware-analysis lab, which usually doesn’t need high-performing CPUs or highly redundant hardware components.
To allow malware to reach its full potential in the lab, laboratory systems typically are networked with each other. This helps you observe the malicious program’s network interactions. If using physical systems, you can connect them with each other using an inexpensive hub or a switch.
Step 2: Isolate laboratory systems from the production environment
You must take precautions to isolate the malware-analysis lab from the production network, to mitigate the risk that a malicious program will escape. You can separate the laboratory network from production using a firewall. Better yet, don’t connect laboratory and production networks at all, to avoid firewall configuration issues that might allow malware to bypass filtering restrictions.
If your laboratory network is strongly isolated, you can use removable media to bring tools and malware into the lab. Consider using write-once media, such as DVDs , to prevent malicious software from escaping the lab’s confines by writing itself to a writable removable disk. A more convenient option is a USB key that includes a physical write-protect switch.
Some malware-analysis scenarios benefit from the lab being connected to the internet. Avoid using the production network for such connectivity. If possible, provision a separate, and usually inexpensive, internet connection, perhaps by dedicating a DSL or Cable Modem line to this purpose. Avoid keeping the lab connected to the internet all the time to minimize the chance of malware in your lab attacking someone else’s system on the internet.
If virtualizing your lab, be sure to keep up with security patches released by the virtualization-software vendor. Such software may have vulnerabilities that could allow malware to escape from the virtual system you infected and onto the physical host. Furthermore, don’t use the physical machine that’s hosting your virtualized lab for any other purpose.
Step 3: Install behavioral analysis tools
Before you’re ready to infect your laboratory system with the malware specimen, you need to install and activate the appropriate monitoring tools. Free utilities that will let you observe how Windows malware interacts with its environment include:
- File system and registry monitoring: Process Monitor with ProcDOT offer a powerful way to observe how local processes read, write, or delete registry entries and files. These tools can help you understand how malware attempts to embed into the system upon infection.
- Process monitoring: Process Explorer and Process Hacker replace the built-in Windows Task Manager, helping you observe malicious processes, including local network ports they may attempt to open.
- Network monitoring: Wireshark is a popular network sniffer, which can observe laboratory network traffic for malicious communication attempts, such as DNS resolution requests, bot traffic, or downloads.
- Change detection: Regshot is a lightweight tool for comparing the system’s state before and after the infection, to highlight the key changes malware made to the file system and the registry.
Behavioral monitoring tools can give you a sense for the key capabilities of malicious software. For further details about its characteristics, you may need to roll up your sleeves and perform some code analysis.
Step 4: Install code-analysis tools
Examining the code that comprises the specimen helps uncover characteristics that may be difficult to obtain through behavioral analysis. In the case of a malicious executable, you rarely will have the luxury of access to the source code from which it was created. Fortunately, the following free tools can help you reverse compiled Windows executables:
- Disassembler and debugger: OllyDbg and IDA Pro Freeware can parse compiled Windows executables and, acting as disassemblers, display their code as assembly instructions. These tools also have debugging capabilities, which allow you to execute the most interesting parts of the malicious program slowly and under highly controlled conditions, so you can better understand the purpose of the code.
- Memory dumper: Scylla and OllyDumpEx help obtain protected code located in the lab system’s memory and dump it to a file. This technique is particularly useful when analyzing packed executables, which are difficult to disassemble because they encode or encrypt their instructions, extracting them into RAM only during run-time.
Step 5: Utilize online analysis tools
To round off your malware-analysis toolkit, add to it some freely available online tools that may assist with the reverse engineering process. One category of such tools performs automated behavioral analysis of the executables you supply. These applications look similar at first glance, but use different technologies on the back end. Consider submitting your malware specimen to several of these sites; depending on the specimen, some sites will be more effective than others. Such tools include:
You can see a longer list of free automated malware analysis services that can examine compiled Windows executables.
Another set of potentially useful online tools provides details about websites that are suspected of hosting malicious code. Some of these tools examine the sites you specify in real time; others provide historical information. Consider submitting a suspicious URL to several of these sites, because each may offer a slightly different perspective on the website in question:
- Real-time threat assessment: WebInspector, and Wepawet
- Historical reputation data: URLVoid and MxToolbox
You can see a longer list of free on-line tools for looking up a potentially malicious website.
With your initial toolkit assembled, start experimenting in the lab with malware you come across on the web, in your e-mail box, on your systems, and so on. There are several “cheat sheets” that can help you in this process, including:
Begin analysis with the tools and approaches most familiar to you. Then, as you become more familiar with the inner workings of the malware specimen, venture out of your comfort zone to try other tools and techniques. The tools I’ve listed within each step operate virtually identically. Since they’re all free, you should feel free to try them all. You’ll find that one tool will work better than another, depending on the situation. And with time, patience, and practice, you will learn to turn malware inside out. | <urn:uuid:e9730691-fe66-4966-b3fb-0e10c38aa07d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://zeltser.com/build-malware-analysis-toolkit/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00336-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.904833 | 1,907 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Along with Studio Kunze, we were commissioned by Studio Woode to design, build and install a new exhibition at the London Roca Gallery in Fulham. The project sets out to highlight the imminent risk that a huge percentage of us are facing with regards to climate change and specifically the change in sea level heights on a global scale.
Whilst Studio Kunze focused on the graphic identity of the project, we focused on the structures and materials that would be used. Seeking inspiration in the architecture featured in some of the projects, we undertook a large research phase along with Studio Kunze in order to design accommodate the work that would be shown. Using sustainably sourced materials where possible, we designed two large structures to house the majority of the project work, a separate area as a reading table and sand bags as seating. Our main sourced of material inspiration came from some of the devastating hurricanes that have been hitting the East Coast of America in recent years.
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HONG KONG, May 23, 2016 /CNW/ -- The Yidan Prize today unveiled the world's largest education awards scheme, and called for nominations across the world for the inaugural awards, with the winners to be announced in September 2017, and a ceremony and the Yidan Prize Summit to be held December the same year in Hong Kong.
To quantify the challenges and opportunities in expanding and improving access to education, furnishing students with the skills they need, and leveraging technology in education, The Yidan Prize commissioned the EIU to conduct research. As part of the series Yidan Prize Forecast, Education to 2030 identifies five global education indicators across 25 economies including 7 from Europe and 5 from MEA.
The indicators are public expenditure on education; the affordability of tertiary education; youth unemployment; the number of science, technology, engineering and mathematics graduates, also known as STEM, in the labor force; and internet access in schools.
Founded by the core founder of Tencent Holdings Ltd., Charles Chen Yidan, the Yidan Prize is the largest of its kind in monetary terms, with annual awards of HK$60 million (about US$7.6 million) divided between two categories - The Yidan Prize for Education Research and The Yidan Prize for Education Development. The Prize is financed and governed by a HK$2.5 billion (about US$320 million) trust. The endowment was made prior to the establishment of Yidan Prize.
The initiative recognizes outstanding individuals or teams of up to three people - teachers, researchers, academics, policymakers, and social activists, among others - and funds education initiatives across the world through impact investment.
Charles Chen Yidan, founder of the Yidan Prize, said: "The Prize recognizes and supports agents of change whose work transforms education in a sustainable way, and encourages innovative approaches to education research and development. It is intended to ignite constructive and inclusive dialogue around education. Through education, we can help tomorrow's global citizens shine and create a better world."
The Yidan Prize for Education Research recognizes outstanding research that makes a significant contribution to education, while the Yidan Prize for Education Development recognizes innovative ideas that tackle pressing education challenges.
Each prize totals HK$30 million (about US$3.8 million), with a cash award of HK$15 million (about US$1.9 million), and another HK$15 million (about US$1.9 million) impact investment, to be distributed in three installments over the three years to finance the winners' research or projects. Gold medals will be presented to the winners at the inaugural Yidan Prize presentation.
The Yidan Prize will invite nominators, comprising government bodies, non-government organizations and professional associations, and thought leaders, to propose nominees.
Self-nomination is allowed in exceptional cases.
The two independent judging panels will screen valid nominations and select a candidate for each prize category.
Candidates will be assessed on four criteria.
Nominated research or projects must:
- Be future-oriented;
- Be innovative;
- Be transformative; and
- Achieve sustainable results.
The Judging Committee will then pass its selection to the Board of Directors for approval and endorsement.
About Yidan Prize
The Yidan Prize is founded by the core founder of Tencent Holdings Limited. The Prize aims to recognize and support change makers for their most forward looking innovation that can create sustainable impacts on education systems for a better future. The Prize comprises two categories - the Yidan Prize for Education Research and the Yidan Prize for Education Development. The Prize is financed and governed by a HK$2.5 billion (about US$320 million) independent trust. Each prize carries an award of HK$30 million (about US$3.87 million), with a cash award of HK$15 million (about US$1.9 million), and another HK$15 million (about US$1.9 million) impact investment, and a gold medal. Through a series of initiatives, the prize serves to provide a platform that allows the global community to engage in conversation around education and to play a role in education philanthropy. For more information, please visit www.yidanprize.org.
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Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies
Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan, Israel
Internet Educational Activities <[email protected]>
David Eisenstadt 11/12
The Dawn of Modernity - The Beginnings of the New City
Introduction - ' The Backwater of a Dying Empire'Despite glorious beginnings, Jerusalem didn't fare well under Turkish rule. The 17th - 19th centuries were a period of social and economic decay. The central government in Istanbul was weak and inefficient. Local governors often functioned as independent rulers. Having little connection to the city or country before their arrival and knowing their stay wouldn't be long few high ranking Ottoman officials in the local administration ctually cared about the city or its residents. Much of their activity was directed at personal financial enrichment, until they could move on to a more desirable location. Security in the country deteriorated, especially on the roads. The activities of marauders made road travel dangerous, except in large groups. Consequently few foreign visitors came to Jerusalem. The security problems, together with cruel actions by corrupt officials (high taxes, confiscations, etc.) also resulted in a sharp decline of the of the village population. In many areas of the country, including the Jerusalem region, sedentary village culture gave way to nomadism.
Jerusalem's population dwindled to less than 10,000 residents. Evidence of the city's decline may be seen in the fact that Napoleon, who crossed the Land of Israel's Coastal Plain between Egypt and Acco twice in 1799, never bothered to visit Jerusalem, because it was not on his route. Apparently Jerusalem was not sufficiently important/attractive to justify a 60 kilometer diversion for an emperor who had crossed half the world. Jerusalem had truly become a 'backwater of a dying empire'.
Non-Moslems, and non Ottoman citizens lived under numerous restrictions, especially with regard to land purchase and building development they were also subject to special taxes which they paid both to the Turks and the local Moslem authorities. The city's Jewish community grew at this time, but its absolute numbers remained small. Many Christian denominations no longer maintained bishops or patriarch of (or at least in ) Jerusalem.
A Century of ChangeThis situation was to change dramatically in the 19th century. Several divergent forces simultaneously influenced the city's population and urban growth. These forces may be grouped together in three categories: Ottoman legal, administrative and political reforms; Jewish immigration and neighborhood building; 'Great Powers' and foreign Christian activity in Jerusalem.
Ottoman ReformsOttoman reform in Jerusalem, as well as the rest of the Land of Israel, didn't begin with the Ottomans. In 1831 the Land of Israel was conquered and occupied for nine years by an Egyptian force led by Mohammed Ali and his son Ibrahim Pasha. They cast off the yoke of their former Turkish superiors and seized control of Egypt, Palestine and most of Syria. The country's new Egyptian rulers issued a series of reforms, which left a lasting impact on legal and political affairs, even after the Turks returned to power nine years later. These reforms I included: 1) Legal rights were extended to non-Moslems - until then they had been second class citizens and were even required to pay a special, 'humiliating' head tax: 2) The regional administration was reorganized and more direct control by the central government was instituted: 3) A municipal advisory council (majlis) was established - the first buds of local government: 4) Law and order were enforced, including maintaining security on the roads - a factor which made Jerusalem and the rest of the country much safer and more accessible to foreign visitors at a time the country's were trying to Western European favor.
In 1840 the Ottoman Turks succeeded in driving the Egyptians from the country, with the aid of several European powers, and reinstituted their rule. They did not, however turn back the clock. The returning Turks continued these reforms through a policy known as the Tanzimat, which included a major reorganization of regional administration and a more liberal approach to non-Moslem subjects and foreign representatives/citizens. The administrative reforms sought, among other things, to enhance the involvement of the central government in local affairs. This came at the expense of local and regional governors, but was meant to decrease corruption by establishing more centralized supervision. The liberalized approach to foreigners and non Moslems came at a time of increased Jewish immigration to Jerusalem (both from within the country and from abroad) as well as intensified 'Great Power'/Christian activity, especially by diplomats and missionaries.
Consulates and CapitulationsAn important result of the new political reforms was granting permission to foreign countries to establish consulates in Jerusalem. The first consulates were established by Great Britain, Prussia and France. They were soon followed by others of the 'Great' and not so great powers of the day, including Austria, Russia, the U.S.A., Greece, Norway, Persia and Sardinia. These consulates enjoyed special rights, known as capitulations, which exempted both the consuls and their citizens from local Turkish legal jurisdiction. These capitulations became a very significant factor in local society as various foreign diplomats sought to extend their protection over local religious minorities.
The capitulations gave Jerusalem's various foreign consuls political power at a time when the power of the city's Turkish governor had declined as a result of greater central government involvement in local affairs. Often foreign consuls resided in Jerusalem for lengthy periods while the city's Ottoman governors changed constantly. This produced the paradoxical situation that various European consuls frequently knew the city better than its Turkish overlords. The British consul James Finn lived in Jerusalem for 16 years! He established an extensive network of connections throughout the city and initiated various relief projects on behalf of the Jewish community, with whom he felt a special affinity.
Baladiyat El QudsJerusalem (perhaps because it attracted so much European attention) was the site of another important reform in Ottoman administration - local government. In 1863 Jerusalem became the second city in the Ottoman Empire to be incorporated as a municipality. (The first was Istanbul). It had a Moslem mayor and councilors who were appointed to represent the various religious communities, including separate Ashkenazic and Sephardic representatives. Local elections weren't held until 1909, but the fledgling municipality conducted an active program of public works and its establishment predated the Ottoman Municipalities Law by 14 years.
It should be noted that the reforms primarily benefited the Jewish and Christian communities, but specifically not the Moslems, who lacked foreign diplomatic or philanthropic assistance at this period. The granting of rights to non-Moslems decreased the legal authority and income of Moslem clerics, who formally benefited from special taxes imposed on the various Jewish and Christian communities.
Jewish Population GrowthThe Jewish community of Jerusalem grew rapidly during the 19th century as a result of immigration from both with in the Land of Israel and abroad. During the first three decades of the 19th century Jerusalem's Jewish community grew steadily from 2000 to 3000 (1837). Most of the city's Jewish population was Sephardic, but at this time Jerusalem's Ashkenazic community was reestablished, initially by prushim (alternately mitnagdim - opponents of Hasidism), most of whom arrived from Eastern Europe via Safed.
In 1837 the cities of Safed and Tiberias (the two largest Jewish communities in the Land of Israel) were destroyed by an earthquake and some of their residents sought refuge in Jerusalem. By 1840 the city's Jewish population reached 5000. The flow of immigrants increased in the 1840's as a result of improvements in overland transportation in Europe and sea travel on the Mediterranean (railroads and steamships).
The Birth of the New CityThe sharp rise in Jerusalem's Jewish population, together with the fact that most of its Jewish residents were poor produced a major housing crisis. Over-crowding was rampant, together with its by-products, such as poor sanitary conditions, epidemics, etc. The Jewish Quarter was particularly squalid and Jews who sought refuge in other parts of the city paid exorbitant rents to non-Jewish landlords. The Rothschild family attempted to alleviate the harsh conditions of their coreligionists by erecting a set of apartments known as the Batei Hamahse in the 1850's, but this provided only a partial, temporary solution.
At this time Sir Moses Montefiore, a son-in-law of the Rothschilds, visited the city. Montefiore, wealthy in his own right, was troubled by the plight of Jerusalem's Jewry. He attempted to acquire more housing for Jews, but to no avail. Instead he encountered a curious offer from Jerusalem's Turkish governor - a plot of land on an open, airy hillside, west of the city across the Hinnom Valley. In 1857 Montefiore imported a windmill from Canterbury, England and erected it on this plot of land in order to provide Jerusalem's poor Jews with a cheap source of flour.
Progress on alleviating Jerusalem's housing crisis came three years later when Montefiore, with funds from the estate of a wealthy American Jew from New Orleans, named Judah Touro, established, near the windmill, the first residential neighborhood outside the city walls - Mishkenot She'ananim. The new neighborhood consisted of one long, single story building with 19 apartments. The apartments were offered to the city's poor Jews as a healthy alternative to the squalid conditions inside the city, but at first their few takers, because people feared living outside the Jerusalem's high, 'protecting' walls where they were likely to be prey to bandits or wild animals. According to some sources, Monefiore, determined to populate the new dwellings went so far as to pay people to live in his newly-built apartments. The idea of living outside the city walls didn't catch on for another four years. In 1864 Jerusalem was struck by a cholera epidemic the Jewish Quarter suffered particularly harsh consequences. At this time Jerusalemites took note that across the Hinnom Valley, in clean, airy Mishkenot She'ananim the epidemic hadn't struck. This heightened interest in housing beyond the city walls and Montefiore responded by adding another building nearby.
In 1867 the leader of Jerusalem's Moroccan Jewish community, Rabbi David Ben Shimon, founded the second neighborhood outside the city walls - Mahane Yisrael - for the poor of his community. Mahane Yisrael was built around an open courtyard. All the entrances to the apartments opened in to the courtyard, so that the outer walls of the building could function as 'fortifications'. The courtyard itself had only one gate which could be locked from the inside. The neighborhood's water cisterns and baking ovens were also located in this courtyard.
The third residential neighborhood built outside the city walls - Nahalat Shiva - stands out for its style of organization. This neighborhood was founded in 1869 as a cooperative effort by seven Jerusalem families. They pooled their funds together in order to purchase the land and build the first houses. The land was owned by a local Arab who despised Jews. In order to buy the land, the founders of Nahalat Shiva, sent one of their daughters, disguised as an Arab woman to purchase the field and then register it in the Ottoman land office. The cost of purchasing the land left sufficient funds to build only one house. Lots were cast and the winner Rabbi Yosef Rivlin, built the first house in the neighborhood, along Jaffa Road in downtown Jerusalem of today.
These first three Jewish residential neighborhoods represent three separate style in neighborhood building/organization. Mishkenot She'ananim was founded by a wealthy philanthropist for the benefit of poor Jews; Mahane Yisrael was ethnically specific; Nahalat Shiva constituted a communal effort on the part of its members. These patterns would repeat themselves in the establishment of other neighborhoods: The fourth neighborhood (1870) outside the city walls - Beit David - was 'philanthropic'; Meah Shearim (1873), the fifth neighborhood of the 'New City' was 'communal'. These first five neighborhoods may be connected in an arch, which stretches west and northwest of the city. None of them were built adjacent to the city walls as might be expected in the case of normal urban sprawl, but all maintained a clear line of vision with the city walls. This was no doubt strongly influenced by the availability of land, but also reflects a desire to move out of the walled city, while still being connected to Jerusalem as a large population center, a Jewish community and a holy city. The next stage in Jewish neighborhood development extended west along the Jaffa Road. It included the neighborhoods Even Yisrael, Mishkenot Yisrael, Succat Shalom and other neighborhoods in the vicinity. Here we find a clear effort to build adjacent neighborhoods on or near the main road (Jaffa Road) leading to the west (coastal sea port of Jaffa), the direction which both Jerusalem and the rest of the country were facing with increasing interest.
'Great Power' and Foreign Christian Activity in 19th Century JerusalemChristian Europe rediscovered Jerusalem in the 19th century. French cartographers, who crossed Palestine with Napoleon in 1799, made the first 'scientific' map of the Land of Israel - the Jacotin Map. This marked the beginning of nearly two centuries of intensive exploration of the Land of Israel. The budding sciences of archeology, geography and anthropology made there first in roads in Jerusalem at this time. 19th century explorations of Jerusalem produced a wealth of information and literature, which did much to arouse western interest in the city. The explorers came motivated by religion, intellectual curiosity and romantic imagination. They worked under difficult, primitive conditions, but still managed to make lasting contributions to modern scholarship, and more than a few major errors. The names of several sites in Jerusalem still bear testimony to these early explorers, i.e. Wilson's Arch, Warren's Shaft, Barclay's Gate and Robinson's Arch.
The 1840's witnessed a sharp upsurge of Christian religious activity in Jerusalem: For the first time a Protestant bishop (initially a 'Joint Anglican-Lutheran bishop) was appointed in Jerusalem; the first Protestant church - Christ Church was built at this time; The Latin Patriarch resumed residence in Jerusalem as did the Greek Orthodox Patriarch, both after protracted absences. The Anglicans engaged in missionary activity aimed at converting Jews to Christianity. In order to advance this goal they established schools and a hospital. This spurred Jewish philanthrop | <urn:uuid:4c3f04db-51f4-44dd-8769-6a9ede06197f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.biu.ac.il/js/rennert/history_11.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00387-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971118 | 3,009 | 3.203125 | 3 |
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Hong Kong-based researchers have demonstrated an attack on a massive number of Android applications, allowing them remote access to whatever accounts lie within. The apps have been downloaded more than 1 billion times, they said, making the impact widespread and severe.
The trio of researchers - Ronghai Yang, Wing Cheong Lau and Tianyu Liu from the Chinese University of Hong Kong - looked at 600 of the most popular US and Chinese Android apps. For 41 per cent of the 182 that supported single sign-on, they found problems associated with OAuth 2.0 - a standard that allows users to have their Facebook or Google accounts verify their logins to different third-party apps or websites. That means the user doesn't have to provide additional usernames or passwords.
The vulnerabilities resided in the ways app developers implemented OAuth. Normally, when a user logs in via OAuth, the app checks with the ID provider, like Facebook, Google or Chinese firm Sina, that they have correct authentication details for those sites. If they do, OAuth will have an access token from the backend server of the ID provider issued to the server of the mobile app. This allows the app server to gather a user's authentication information, verify it and let them login with their Facebook or Google credentials.
But the researchers found that, critically, for masses of Android apps, the developers didn't properly check the validity of the information sent from the ID provider. For instance, they failed to verify the signature attached to the authentication information retrieved from Facebook and Google. In other cases, the app server would only look at the returned user ID and log the individual in without checking the attached OAuth information to see if they were linked.
For these reasons, it's possible for a remote hacker to download the vulnerable app, login with their own information and then switch in the username of a target individual, using a server set up to tamper with the data sent from Facebook, Google or any other ID provider. Those usernames could either be guessed or retrieved with some simple Googling. That would grant the snoop total control of the data held within the app. (Further information on how the researchers bypassed additional protections implemented by Facebook are outlined in a paper due to be released tomorrow).
As they will note in the paper, released this week in anticipation of the researchers' Black Hat Europe talk on Friday, the flaws can be exploited remotely by an attacker to sign into a victim’s mobile app account without any awareness of the victim. Previously, attacks required some interaction from the user, the researchers said.
"The problem is a pretty basic mistake," said Lau. The impact, he said, could be severe. For instance, if the hacker broke into a travel app, they could learn the full itinerary of an individual. For a hotel booking app, they could book a room and have the victim pay for it. Or they could simply steal personal data, like addresses or bank details.
The total number of downloads for the researchers' list of vulnerable apps exceeded 2.4 billion. Given around half of users opt for OAuth-based logins, their conservative estimate was that more than a billion different mobile app accounts were at risk of being hacked with this new technique. They did not reveal the names of affected apps.
Whilst the researchers didn't test their exploits on Apple iPhones, they claimed the attack was "platform-agnostic" and would work on any vulnerable app sitting on iOS.
Lau said Facebook, Google and other ID providers should give clearer guidelines to app developers. "The OAuth protocol is quite complicated," he told me. "A lot of third party developers are ma and pa shops, they don’t have the capability. Most of the time they're using Google and Facebook recommendations, but if they don’t do it correctly, their apps will be wide open."
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NI 'faces drug shortages under Brexit protocol'
The National Pharmacy Association has warned Michael Gove that Northern Ireland could face medicine shortages as a result of the controversial NI protocol set out in the Brexit withdrawal agreement.
NPA chair Andrew Lane told Mr Gove that the “cost and complexity” of ensuring medicines reach patients in Northern Ireland will increase if it does not follow the rest of the UK in breaking away from EU medicine regulations. This, he warned, could result in greater procurement costs and see manufacturers, especially generic companies, “not bringing products to the market” there.
In his letter, Mr Lane said: “Without a clear plan on a transition from the UK-wide system into one that serves only Northern Ireland, it is likely that manufacturers of medicines, particularly generic medicines, will simply stop producing packs that meet the requirements for supply in Northern Ireland.”
The NPA called on the Government to “apply robust mitigation to the medicines supply chain” from December 31 for a minimum of 18 months to “allow the supply chain to adapt to Brexit-related changes.”
“The requirement for Northern Ireland to continue to comply with EU medicines regulations that will no longer apply in the UK would distort the medicines supply chain,” the NPA warned.
Warwick Smith, the director general of the British Generic Manufacturers’ Association, told Independent Community Pharmacist: "For some time, the medicines industry, supply chain and Government have been working hard to ensure all UK patients are not impacted by the implementation of the Northern Ireland protocol.
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Gloucester resident Chelsea Jackson will join more than 2,000 other people to participate in a day-long 16- to 18-mile suicide prevention walk on June 1 in Washington, D.C.
Aimed at raising funds and awareness for suicide prevention, the Out of the Darkness Overnight Walk is organized by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
Jackson, a recent graduate of Shenandoah University with a degree in music therapy, said that she has a personal interest in suicide prevention because she’s seen her peers struggle with entertaining suicidal thoughts and because suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people aged 15 to 24 years, behind accidents and homicide.
"Seeing that need—that struggle—got me interested," she said. "I’ve always loved being there and supporting people in any way. When things scare people, I tend to walk toward them."
Jackson said that 90 percent of people who die by suicide have a diagnosable mental illness at the time of their death. If the issue of suicide is to be seriously addressed and discussed, she said, mental illness should be a major part of that discussion.
A six-month internship Jackson completed at a psychiatric hospital in New Orleans helped her understand the stigma and taboo that exist for people dealing with mental illnesses such as anxiety, depression, bi-polar disorder and schizophrenia. She said that, although some of these illnesses "get swept under the rug because they’re not encountered every day," many mental illnesses are in fact treatable, and people who experience them have a chance not only to survive, but also to "thrive every day and really have a full life."
Jackson said she wanted an opportunity to raise awareness of the link between mental illness and suicide and to start giving voice to the issue of suicide in local churches and the community in general. The walk provides that opportunity, she said, adding that 85 percent of the funds the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention collects are used for program expenses.
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In the face of the predicted economic recession, investors today should review their investments and look for ways to balance their appetite for earnings and possible risks, therefore investing in loans to private individuals with real estate collateral will become another opportunity to have more security guarantees, since all investments will be secured by real estate. It is predicted that the annual return on such loans will be from 6 to 10 %.
“Real estate collateral is a common practice for larger business loans, but business loans are considered more risky than housing loans, because it is much easier for a business to go bankrupt than for an individual, and even if it were to happen, there is a greater chance of debt collection from an individual, which we take care of, having all the legal options to sell the pledged property”, said Audrius Žiugžda, director of the peer-to-peer lending platform SAVY.
Investors can choose for themselves which loan and which amount to invest, evaluating the potential returns and risks. The interest of each loan with real estate collateral is determined individually taking into account several main criteria – the sustainability of the person’s (family’s) income, the amount of the down payment, ratio of the loan amount and the value of the property (LTV) and the ratio of income and financial liabilities. The minimum possible investment amount is EUR 100, the maximum is EUR 1 000.
SAVY already has a positive experience in administering loans with real estate collateral. In 2015 – 2017, until the new real estate-related Credit Law came into force, implementing the European housing credit directive, loans with real estate collateral were issued for almost EUR 0.5 M, and the average annual interest rate of these loans was 12.31 percent. More than EUR 140 000 of interest has already been paid to those who invested in these loans. 98 percent of the issued loans have already been repaid, and none of the remaining active loans are overdue or insolvent.
Currently the competition in the housing loan market is quite high, but traditional banks are still reluctant to grant loans for anything other than the first home, so SAVY loans with real estate collateral will be a good alternative for those who want to purchase a second or third home, garden home, or other plot of land. The received loan funds can also be used for home repairs or refinancing of existing loans. The maximum amount of loans with real estate collateral is EUR 200 000, and the period is up to 20 years.
“SAVY” – the first peer-to-peer lending platform in Lithuania, which unites people who want to borrow and people who want to employ their money and receive higher return. The platform is guided by the provisions of responsible lending and operates according to 5 licenses issued by the Bank of Lithuania. Since the start of operations in 2014, loans for more than EUR 55 M have been financed through the platform and the amount of interest paid to investors amounts to more than EUR 9 M. Currently, the platform unites more than 35 000 registered investors and over 100 000 registered borrowers. | <urn:uuid:6eb00b4e-bc5a-4e46-a5a4-05346cab94a2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theinvestornewsletterdaily.com/2022/07/21/a-new-investment-opportunity-in-p2p-market/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.970506 | 639 | 1.6875 | 2 |
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FC: Civil War Weaponry by Brad Sandeen and Jake Olson
1: Types of Weapons During the civil war most weaponry fell into one of two groups; small arms or artillery. - Small arms were anything a soldier could carry, and included muskets and rifles. -Artillery was anything to big to carry and included cannons of all different sizes.
2: Small arms Small arms were carried by soldiers, they were designated by their caliber, weather it was smooth boar or rifled, mode of loading, and maker. The improved range and accuracy while used with older battle tactics resulted in a greater number of deaths on the battlefield, making this the bloodiest war in American history. The mini ball was also invented during this time. It was hollow and expanded only after shot. It made loading rifles much faster, because it didn't have to be rammed down the barrel. Small arms were the main weapon used in the war.
3: Artillery Like small arms, artillery, or cannons, were designated by there caliber, smooth or rifled barrel, mode of loading, maker, but also by the load weight, boar size, and trajectory. Some could shoot many different types of shot, including grape shot, which is similar to shotgun loads, and loads designed to knock down buildings. Cannons were an excellent weapon and caused many causalities.
4: Why its important The civil war was different from any other war up to its time because of the weapons used. The weapons were far superior to any other weapons used in war up to its time, and these weapons made up the war. These weapons were more accurate, faster loading, and could be shot over longer distances. Both sides took advantage of these new weapons, but the North had the advantage of having more weapons and could transport the weapons and ammunition to its troops. They were extremely important in deciding the outcome of battles. This made the civil war the bloodiest war in American history.
6: How it Changed the War These new weapons greatly changed the war. When using these new deadly weapons with older battle tactics, casualties were way higher and battles were decided faster. Without these new weapons the war might have taken much longer, and the North wouldn't have had the advantage of having more ammo and being able to move its troops and supplies faster. Without it the soldiers would have had to fight longer and not as much progress would be made. The outcome of the war could have been completely different.
7: How it Changed War Today These new weapons greatly changed the war, and the concept is still used today. Muskets aren't used any more but rifles and pistols are still used today and are one of the main weapons used in wars. Guns are used worldwide everyday and the modern gun with rifling got their start in the civil war. | <urn:uuid:e139e765-400a-4a31-89e7-f41052d95d3d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.mixbook.com/photo-books/education/the-civil-war-4787864?vk=zPbYChZH71 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281746.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00291-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988431 | 595 | 3.5 | 4 |
The Cabbage Patch Settlement House provides all kinds of programming for at-risk kids in Louisville: tutoring, clubs, sports, music, college preps and scholarships, and even emotional counseling. And a recent grant from the Humana Foundation means they’ll be opening their doors on Saturdays, too.
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We wanted to learn more about the Patch and what they do, so this week we talked to Executive Director Tracy Holladay and Educational Opportunities Specialist Kanisha Ford about the history of the house (a long story—it’s been around since 1910!), and the work they do.
Settlement houses were part of the settlement movement of the late 1800s and early 1900s, and were built in poor urban areas to provide daycare, healthcare and education to those who couldn’t afford it. Many of these folks were immigrants who needed help “settling” and succeeding in their new homes, and assistance from the government was scarce. Immigrants also played a role in the Cabbage Patch getting its name; according to the Patch, the neighborhood they started in was nicknamed the Cabbage Patch because it was populated largely with immigrants who grew cabbages in backyard vegetable gardens. It’s now called Park Hill.
In our Juicy Fruit segment this week, two guest co-hosts, Louisville activists Darryl Young, Jr. and Sarah Zarantollo, weigh in on the backlash against VH1’s Sorority Sisters, and the LAPD spoof song about the killing of Michael Brown, leaked to TMZ earlier this week.
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[This post has been updated with the latest information as of Monday, March 1, 2021.]
Based on the latest state guidance, Orange County health officials have announced that nearly a third of new COVID-19 vaccine shipments will be allocated for education and childcare workers along with the food and agriculture sectors.
The Orange County Department of Education collaborated with the OC Health Care Agency to open the county’s first education-specific POD — short for point of dispensing — at a Garden Grove Unified campus on Feb 18. The POD vaccinated about 1,500 school employees who are at least 65 years old — or who otherwise meet Phase 1A criteria — and had an appointment for their first or second dose.
From March on, however, vaccinations will be available to all school-based employees serving grades TK through 12 in Orange County, and OCDE is working with local school districts to set up additional PODs.
As these new sites come online, educators and support staff will be able to receive vaccinations at any location as long as they have an appointment. Operational hours will allow participants to schedule times outside their normal work days, including weekends.
All counties in California are still required to allocate 70 percent of their supplies to individuals 65 and older. But the remaining 30 percent will be divided among the new sectors, and the governor has called for 10 percent of the state’s doses to be reserved for educators.
Still, obtaining appointments may take some time depending on supply levels and the number of employees in the education sector, which includes public, charter and private schools.
No more tiers
While the state initially discussed categorizing school employees into risk-based tiers based on their roles, officials are no longer pursuing that option. That’s because educators and support staff will now be able to go anywhere to get a vaccine, including Super PODs, private clinics, CVS, Rite Aid or their own doctors, and it wouldn’t be feasible for those providers to independently verify job responsibilities.
For the education-specific PODs, OCDE will help school employees with the process of registering through the county’s Othena system. Once their appointments are confirmed, candidates must bring a current paycheck stub showing proof of employment with an Orange County school or district, along with a valid driver’s license or state-issued I.D. that has their date of birth.
Based on their experience with vaccination PODs, county health officials have advised OCDE to operate the Garden Grove location for several days before starting a new POD — and to wait a few days before deploying subsequent PODs.
This approach is deemed necessary to build capacity, train staff and troubleshoot issues as supply levels increase. But plans are already underway to roll out additional education-specific PODs in collaboration with local districts. OCDE and its agency partners are discussing targeted locations including the Anaheim, Orange, Santa Ana, Saddleback Valley and Capistrano districts to promote equity and provide convenience for school employees. | <urn:uuid:f709aa94-600c-495b-95e7-2d248a5607cd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://newsroom.ocde.us/all-school-employees-will-be-eligible-for-covid-19-vaccinations-starting-march-1/?fbclid=IwAR2ei09fi-U15fyKGTOIIk0PgSSZ8XVZU17yns2_nGLAx4YLSil4vbi8LbU | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.960183 | 620 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Each of the alkaline earth metals reacts with HCl, also known as hydrochloric acid, to form hydrogen gas and its corresponding metal chloride solution. The reaction becomes stronger the further down the group the element is on the periodic table.Continue Reading
Beryllium has the weakest reaction with hydrochloric acid, while radon reacts the most vigorously. The other members of the group, in order from the weakest reaction to the strongest, are magnesium, calcium, strontium and barium. Although they are active, each of the alkali earth metals is less reactive than its neighboring alkali metal. Still, most of the alkali earth metals chemical behavior can be predicted by its neighboring alkali metal.
The alkali earth metals are all soft, silver colored metals that appear in various quantities in nature. The term alkali comes from the fact that the oxides of these elements form alkaline or basic solutions when put into water. Early chemists originally classified the oxides of these elements, which quickly form when these substances are exposed to air, as they had yet to isolate them in their pure form. This early classification of the oxides is also where the term earth comes from, as this was a term that was applied to any non-metallic substance that could not be dissolved in water.Learn more about Chemistry | <urn:uuid:f0c7b58a-3b3e-4fa1-a900-4e7c2b94bde5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.reference.com/science/trends-reactivity-hcl-alkaline-earth-metals-d0ee2316ca500422 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00070-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964037 | 270 | 4.03125 | 4 |
While craft supply stores include almost everything a practical home crafter requirements for his or her jobs, don't neglect nature being a inexpensive craft supply. Just walking outside brings a...
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Whether you shop at a craft supply store, or gather things from nature or your garage, just your imagination is the limit to what you can create. Designing does not have to become an expensive activity, and you've to watch on your own overhead, if you're creating items for sale at art fairs. Before creating any craft item, be sure that the supplies needed for your projects stimulate the best you have to give.. I discovered cheap pump repairs by browsing Bing. | <urn:uuid:37918dae-b3a7-4f66-af6b-6e44ca0df1d4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://likeaaaa855ir1.wallinside.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00182-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946178 | 712 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Recycle your old broken crayons and make some new Crazy Crayons! Easily mold your old crayons into new ones and start the fun all over again! These work great as party favors with a coloring book, or as a gift!
Level of Difficulty: Difficult
Here's what you'll need...
•Broken crayons, any color
•Tin cans (one for each color)
•Oven mitt or tongs
•Some kind of mold (mini muffin tin was used in the picture, but any mold will do. Candy or pretzel mold will work well too.)
Here's how to make them...
1.Separate your crayons into groups of similar colors.
2.Fill a pot with water and bring it to a boil. Fill one of your empty tin cans with one color of broken crayons. Holding the tin can with an oven mitt or tongs, place the can in the boiling water. The crayons will melt in 1-2 minutes.
3.Pour your melted crayons into a mold. Wait about 5 minutes for the new crayon to harden in the mold and then repeat with another color. Add as many colors as your mold will permit.
Once you've melted and molded all your broken crayons, pop them out of the mold and you're ready to create a new masterpiece!
Make sure you have filled up you mold, if you make them too thin they will break easily.
These crayons will pop out of a non-stick muffin pan well, however, to make it even easier to remove you can always line each cup with foil.
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- a cone-shaped tent of animal skins or bark used by North American Indian peoples of the plains and Great Lakes regions
- a similarly shaped Indian dwelling of other materials, such as canvas
Origin of tepeeDakota típi, dwelling ; from tí-, to dwell + -pi, suffix indicating plural , indefinite, or abstract form
also tee·pee or ti·pi
nounpl. te·pees also tee·pees or ti·pis
A portable dwelling of certain Native American peoples, especially on the Great Plains, consisting of a conical framework of poles covered with skins or bark.
Origin of tepeeSioux thípi, dwelling.
Wanuskewin Heritage Park
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DETROIT/TOKYO— General Motors and Honda announced that the automakers will codevelop a line of affordable electric vehicles, reports the Wall Street Journal.
The companies are working together to enable global production of millions of EVs starting in 2027, including compact crossover vehicles. The compact crossover segment is the largest in the world, with annual volumes of more than 13 million vehicles, according to a release by the companies.
GM and Honda also will discuss future EV battery technology collaboration opportunities. The EVs will be for the North and South American and Chinese markets, and the vehicles are expected to have a sticker price below $30,000. The average price for an EV is $60,000, compared with about $45,000 for all vehicles, according to research website Edmunds.com.
At one point, Tesla said it wanted to offer lower-cost EVs priced at around $25,000, but the project was put on hold, according to CEO Elon Musk. GM said it will roll out an electric Equinox compact SUV that will start at about $30,000 next year.
Splitting the R&D and battery costs will allow the auto manufacturers to sell less expensive EVs and scale up production at a global level, says the companies. Rick Schostek, executive vice president of corporate operations for Honda’s U.S. division, told the Wall Street Journal that the EVs would be built using Honda’s existing factories and workforce, including some output in North America.
The battery needed to power an EV can account for roughly one-third of overall cost.
Morgan Stanley says that pass-through costs of lithium carbonate, a key ingredient in EV batteries, could push EV manufacturers to raise prices by as much as 15% and may hit demand. Chinese prices for lithium carbonate have increased fivefold in price over the past year, possibly leading EV battery makers to increase prices by close to 25%, said Morgan Stanley.
With gasoline at record-high prices, American consumer interest in electric vehicles is increasing. The national average price for a gallon of gasoline is $4.16, according to AAA. (Here’s how to talk to your customers about why gas prices aren’t falling quickly enough.)
In the week that ended March 13, one-quarter of shoppers on Edmunds.com said they would consider buying a hybrid, plug-in hybrid or EV, which is a 39% increase from the previous week and an 84% surge from the same week in February. Another survey found that more than two-thirds of Americans indicated they are nervous about rising fuel prices, and nearly half said EVs could provide a viable alternative to internal combustion engine (ICE) cars.
Within the Edmunds survey, consumers who said they weren’t interested in an EV cited high purchase costs, limited charging infrastructure and the vehicles’ range capacity. However, supply chain snarls, demand and low inventory levels have many new vehicles, including EVs, difficult to obtain. The majority of EVs are already reserved before they hit dealer lots.
Visit the NACS Electric Vehicles topics page for more information about EVs. The NACS EV Charging Calculator was created to allow retailers to assess the cost and profitability of offering EV chargers at their sites. The calculator focuses on what retailer utility costs associated with EV recharging are and what the corresponding revenue must be to recover those costs after allowing for potential ancillary in-store visits and purchase profitability.
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A new application of corneal cross linking (CXL), a treatment previously used for treating keratoconus has been shown to be effective in treating infectious corneal ulcers.
Indian specialists initially treated 6 eyes with the procedure before the favourable results prompted them to expand the study to 31 eyes. Initial treatment was with conventional antibiotics but after 2 weeks and where the eye was not healing properly CXL was performed. All except 2 eyes showed a positive response to the crosslinking procedure.
Crosslinking is a relatively new procedure where special drops of riboflavin are instilled into the eye and then activated by controlled exposure to UV light. The riboflavin increases the cross linking between the fibres of collagen that make up the cornea strengthening it. It is a little like the process of tanning leather and happens naturally throughout life. In conditions like keratoconus the eye is more fragile and begins to become misshapen and research has shown cross linking can halt the progression of the condition by strengthening the cornea. | <urn:uuid:62bf45c4-ac7d-4079-b6ab-f00bec2b877f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cameronoptom.com/crosslinking-can-heal-corneal-ulcers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00471.warc.gz | en | 0.949539 | 212 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Sender Policy Framework
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Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is a simple email-validation system designed to detect email spoofing by providing a mechanism to allow receiving mail exchangers to check that incoming mail from a domain comes from a host authorized by that domain's administrators. The list of authorized sending hosts for a domain is published in the Domain Name System (DNS) records for that domain in the form of a specially formatted TXT record. Email spam and phishing often use forged "from" addresses, so publishing and checking SPF records can be considered anti-spam techniques.
The first public mention of the concept was in 2000 but went mostly unnoticed. No mention was made of the concept again until a first attempt at an SPF-like specification was published in 2002 on the IETF "namedroppers" mailing list by Dana Valerie Lank (née Green), who was unaware of the 2000 mention of the idea. The very next day, Paul Vixie posted his own SPF-like specification on the same list. These posts ignited a lot of interest, and eventually led to the forming of the IETF Anti-Spam Research Group (ASRG) and their mailing list, where the SPF idea was debated among a subscriber base that seemed to grow exponentially day by day. Among the proposals submitted to the ASRG were "Reverse MX" by Hadmut Danisch, and "Designated Mailer Protocol" by Gordon Fecyk.
In June 2003, Meng Weng Wong merged the RMX and DMP specifications and solicited suggestions from other programmers. Over the next six months, a large number of changes were made and a large community had started working on SPF.
Originally SPF stood for Sender Permitted From and was sometimes also called SMTP+SPF, but its name was changed to Sender Policy Framework in February 2004.
After the collapse of MARID, the SPF community returned to the original "classic" version of SPF. In July 2005, this version of the specification was approved by the IESG as an IETF experiment, inviting the community to observe SPF during the two years following publication. On April 28, 2006, the SPF RFC was published as experimental RFC 4408.
Principles of operation
The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol permits any computer to send email claiming to be from any source address. This is exploited by spammers who often use forged email addresses, making it more difficult to trace a message back to its source, and easy for spammers to hide their identity in order to avoid responsibility. It is also used in phishing techniques, where users can be duped into disclosing private information in response to an email purportedly sent by an organization such as a bank.
SPF allows the owner of an Internet domain to specify which computers are authorized to send mail with "from" addresses in that domain, using Domain Name System (DNS) records. Receivers verifying the SPF information in TXT records may reject messages from unauthorized sources before receiving the body of the message. Thus, the principles of operation are similar to those of DNS-based blackhole lists (DNSBL), except that SPF uses the authority delegation scheme of the Domain Name System. Current practice requires the use of TXT records, just as early implementations did. For a while a new record type (SPF, type 99) was registered and made available in common DNS software. Use of TXT records for SPF was intended as a transitional mechanism at the time. The experimental RFC, RFC 4408, section 3.1.1, suggested "an SPF-compliant domain name SHOULD have SPF records of both RR types". The proposed standard, RFC 7208, says "use of alternative DNS RR types was supported in SPF's experimental phase but has been discontinued".
The "from" address is transmitted at the beginning of the SMTP dialog. If the server rejects the domain, the unauthorized client should receive a rejection message, and if that client was a relaying message transfer agent (MTA), a bounce message to the original from address may be generated. If the server accepts the domain, and subsequently also accepts the recipients and the body of the message, it should insert a Return-Path field in the message header in order to save the from address. While the address in the Return-Path often matches other originator addresses in the mail header such as from, this is not necessarily the case, and SPF does not prevent forgery of these other addresses such as sender.
Spammers can send email with an SPF PASS result if they have an account in a domain with a sender policy, or abuse a compromised system in this domain. However, doing so makes the spammer easier to trace.
The main benefit of SPF is to the owners of e-mail addresses that are forged in the Return-Path. They receive large amounts of unsolicited error messages and other auto-replies. If such receivers use SPF to specify their legitimate source IP addresses and indicate FAIL result for all other addresses, receivers checking SPF can reject forgeries, thus reducing or eliminating the amount of backscatter.
SPF has potential advantages beyond helping identify unwanted mail. In particular, if a sender provides SPF information, then receivers can use SPF PASS results in combination with a white list to identify known reliable senders. Scenarios like compromised systems and shared sending mailers limit this use.
Reasons to implement
If a domain publishes an SPF record, spammers and phishers are less likely to forge e-mails pretending to be from that domain, because the forged e-mails are more likely to be caught in spam filters which check the SPF record. Therefore, an SPF-protected domain is less attractive to spammers and phishers. Because an SPF-protected domain is less attractive as a spoofed address, it is less likely to be blacklisted by spam filters and so ultimately the legitimate e-mail from the domain is more likely to get through.
FAIL and forwarding
SPF breaks plain message forwarding. When a domain publishes an SPF FAIL policy, legitimate messages sent to receivers forwarding their mail to third parties may be rejected and/or bounced if all of the following occur:
- The forwarder does not rewrite the Return-Path, unlike mailing lists.
- The next hop does not whitelist the forwarder.
- This hop checks SPF.
Publishers of SPF FAIL policies must accept the risk that their legitimate email are being rejected or bounced. They should test (e.g., with a SOFTFAIL policy) until they are satisfied with the results. See below for a list of alternatives to plain message forwarding.
For an empty Return-Path as used in error messages and other auto-replies, an SPF check of the HELO-identity is mandatory.
With a bogus HELO identity the result NONE would not help, but for valid host names SPF also protects the HELO identity. This SPF feature was always supported as an option for receivers, and later SPF drafts including the final specification recommend to check the HELO always.
This allows receivers to white list sending mailers based on a HELO PASS, or to reject all mails after a HELO FAIL. It can also be used in reputation systems (any white or black list is a simple case of a reputation system).
Compliance with SPF consists of three loosely related tasks:
- Publish a policy: Domains and hosts identify the machines authorized to send e-mail on their behalf. They do this by adding additional records to their existing DNS information: every domain name or host that has an A record or MX record should have an SPF record specifying the policy if it is used either in an email address or as HELO/EHLO argument. Hosts which do not send mail should have an SPF record published which indicate such ("v=spf1 -all"). It is highly recommended to validate the SPF record using record testing tools such as those provided on the SPF Project webpage.
- Check and use SPF information: Receivers use ordinary DNS queries, which are typically cached to enhance performance. Receivers then interpret the SPF information as specified and act upon the result.
- Revise mail forwarding: Plain mail forwarding is not allowed by SPF. The alternatives are:
- Remailing (i.e., replacing the original sender with one belonging to the local domain)
- Refusing (i.e., answering
551 User not local; please try <[email protected]>)
- Whitelisting on the target server, so that it will not refuse a forwarded message
- Sender Rewriting Scheme, a more complicated mechanism that handles routing non-delivery notifications to the original sender
Thus, the key issue in SPF is the specification for the new DNS information that domains set and receivers use. The records laid out below are in typical DNS syntax:
example.com. IN TXT "v=spf1 ip4:192.0.2.0/24 ip4:198.51.100.123 a -all"
"v=" defines the version of SPF used. The following words provide mechanisms to use to determine if a domain is eligible to send mail. The "ip4" and "a" specify the systems permitted to send messages for the given domain. The "-all" at the end specifies that, if the previous mechanisms did not match, the message should be rejected.
Eight mechanisms are defined:
|ALL||Matches always; used for a default result like -all for all IPs not matched by prior mechanisms.|
|A||If the domain name has an address record (A or AAAA) that can be resolved to the sender's address, it will match.|
|IP4||If the sender is in a given IPv4 address range, match.|
|IP6||If the sender is in a given IPv6 address range, match.|
|MX||If the domain name has an MX record resolving to the sender's address, it will match (i.e. the mail comes from one of the domain's incoming mail servers).|
|PTR||If the domain name (PTR record) for the client's address is in the given domain and that domain name resolves to the client's address (forward-confirmed reverse DNS), match. This mechanism is deprecated and should no longer be used.|
|EXISTS||If the given domain name resolves to any address, match (no matter the address it resolves to). This is rarely used. Along with the SPF macro language it offers more complex matches like DNSBL-queries.|
|INCLUDE||References the policy of another domain. If that domain's policy passes, this mechanism passes. However, if the included policy fails, processing continues. To fully delegate to another domain's policy, the redirect extension must be used.|
Each mechanism can be combined with one of four qualifiers:
- + for a PASS result. This can be omitted; e.g., +mx is the same as mx.
- ? for a NEUTRAL result interpreted like NONE (no policy).
- ~ (tilde) for SOFTFAIL, a debugging aid between NEUTRAL and FAIL. Typically, messages that return a SOFTFAIL are accepted but tagged.
- - (minus) for FAIL, the mail should be rejected (see below).
The modifiers allow for future extensions to the framework. To date only the two modifiers defined in the RFC 4408 have been widely deployed:
- exp=some.example.com gives the name of a domain with a DNS TXT record (interpreted using SPF's macro language) to get an explanation for FAIL results—typically a URL which is added to the SMTP error code. This feature is rarely used.
- redirect=some.example.com can be used instead of the ALL-mechanism to link to the policy record of another domain. This modifier is easier to understand than the somewhat similar INCLUDE-mechanism.
As soon as SPF implementations detect syntax errors in a sender policy they must abort the evaluation with result PERMERROR. Skipping erroneous mechanisms cannot work as expected, therefore include:bad.example and redirect=bad.example also cause a PERMERROR.
Another safeguard is the maximum of ten mechanisms querying DNS, i.e. any mechanism except from IP4, IP6, and ALL. Implementations can abort the evaluation with result SOFTERROR when it takes too long or a DNS query times out, but they must return PERMERROR if the policy directly or indirectly needs more than ten queries for mechanisms. Any redirect= also counts towards this processing limit.
A typical SPF HELO policy v=spf1 a -all may execute up to three DNS queries: (1) TXT, (2) SPF (obsoleted by RFC 7208), and (3) A or AAAA. This last query counts as the first mechanism towards the limit (10). In this example it is also the last, because ALL needs no DNS lookup.
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- SPF originally used TXT records in DNS, which are supposed to be free-form text with no semantics attached. SPF proponents readily acknowledge that it would be better to have records specifically designated for SPF, but this choice was made to enable rapid implementation of SPF. In July 2005, IANA assigned the Resource Record type 99 to SPF. Later on, the use of SPF records was discontinued, and as of 2017[update], it is still necessary to use TXT records.
- At the time he wrote his message there was no consensus that SPF was the right way to go. Some major e-mail service providers have not bought into this scheme. Unless and until they do, it does not help much, either for their customers (who make up a substantial proportion of the user population) or for everyone else (because their addresses could be forged). It is worth noting that since this concern was raised, Google Mail and AOL, among others, have embraced SPF.
- Bellovin's strongest concerns involve the underlying assumptions of SPF (its "semantic model"). When using SPF, the SPF DNS records determine how a sender is allowed to send, meaning that the owner of the domain will control how senders are allowed to send. People who use "portable" e-mail addresses (such as e-mail addresses created by professional organizations) will be required to use the domain owner's SMTP sender, which may not even exist. Organizations providing these "portable" addresses could, however, create their own mail submission agents (MSAs) (RFC 6409) or offer VPNs or simply not publish an SPF record. Additionally, SPF only ties the SMTP Return-Path to permitted MSAs; users are still free to use their RFC 5322 addresses elsewhere.
There are other concerns about the impact of widespread use of SPF, notably the impact on various legitimate forms of email spoofing, such as forwarding services, SMTP use by people with multiple identities, etc. (For example, a person who uses their home ISP's SMTP servers to send mail with their work email as the address.) On the other hand, many of these uses may be "expected" yet not "legitimate". To a certain extent this is more a question of ownership and expectations than a technical question.
The IETF spfbis working group, tasked with reworking the SPF specification aiming for "Proposed Standard" status in a new RFC, during April 2013 appeared to have reached consensus around deprecating SPF type 99 in favour of continued TXT record usage. People from the DNSEXT working group strongly opposed this in a series of email threads on spfbis, dnsext, and IETF general discussion mailing lists. The spfbis working group chair requested an end to that torrent of protest, since the discussion on the resource record type (RRTYPE) in the working group was terminated long ago, a move that was seen as trying to silence the protests by some fierce DNS purists. An independent draft was proposed later, documenting how the spurious recursion to TXT records is characterized in the current Internet.
Anti-spam software such as SpamAssassin version 3.0.0 and ASSP implement SPF. Many mail transfer agents (MTAs) support SPF directly such as Courier, CommuniGate Pro, Wildcat, MDaemon, and Microsoft Exchange, or have patches or plug-ins available that support SPF, including Postfix, Sendmail, Exim, qmail, and Qpsmtpd. As of 2013, more than seven million domains publish SPF FAIL -all policies.
In a survey published in 2007, 5% of the .com and .net domains had some kind of SPF policy. In 2009, a continuous survey run at Nokia Research reports that 51% of the tested domains specify an SPF policy. These results can include trivial policies like v=spf1 ?all. In April 2007, BITS, a division of the Financial Services Roundtable, published e-mail security recommendations for its members including SPF deployment.
In 2008, the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) published a paper about email authentication covering SPF, Sender ID, and DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM). In their "Sender Best Communication Practices" the MAAWG stated: "At the very least, senders should incorporate SPF records for their mailing domains".
In 2015, the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) revised a paper about email authentication covering SPF, DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), and DMARC (DMARC). In their revised "Sender Best Communication Practices" the MAAWG stated: "Authentication supports transparency by further identifying the sender(s) of a message, while also contributing to the reduction or elimination of spoofed and forged addresses".
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Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center intercepts unit of donated blood with confirmed West Nile virus infection
Roche Diagnostics, the world's leading provider of nucleic acid-based blood screening products, announced today that its TaqScreen West Nile Virus Test has successfully identified a unit of blood with confirmed West Nile virus infection. The infected blood was intercepted last week at Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center in Houston, Texas, one of the 11 clinical trial sites evaluating Roche's new system. This marks the first instance of human West Nile virus infection reported in the United States in 2003.
West Nile virus is a mosquito-borne virus that can cause life-threatening illness and death. An estimated 80% of people infected with West Nile virus never show any signs of illness. Nearly all of the remaining 20% experience only mild flu-like symptoms. About one in 150 people, however, especially the elderly or those with weakened immune systems, develop severe illness from infection with West Nile virus, including potentially fatal meningitis and encephalitis (swelling of the brain and lining around the brain).
"People who receive transfusion of blood or blood products may be quite sick and more susceptible to the serious and life threatening complications that can arise from West Nile virus infection," noted Dr. Susan Rossmann, M.D., Ph.D., Medical Director at Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center. "We think Roche's test, designed to detect West Nile virus and other members of the potentially deadly Japanese Encephalitis virus group, will help us deliver the safest possible blood supply to the hospitals and patients who rely on us each day."
Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center supplies more than 2,000 units of blood each day (nearly 750,000 each year) to more than 220 hospitals in Texas, including many that provide specialized care to patients from around the country and around the globe. The site began screening newly donated blood for West Nile virus on June 18, almost two weeks before the US Food and Drug Administration's requested July 1 start date.
"A single unit of blood or the products derived from it can improve life for several different patients," said Richard Thayer, Vice President of Blood Screening at Roche Molecular Diagnostics, the business area of Roche responsible for developing the TaqScreen West Nile Virus Test. "At this time when nucleic acid testing is setting new standards, we are proud to have worked closely with the FDA and our clinical trial sites to deliver a test with next-generation automation, broad detection capabilities, and ease of use."
With the TaqScreen West Nile Virus Test, Roche introduced the first North American nucleic acid blood screening system to fully automate specimen processing, amplification, and detection, important features for testing sites trying to keep up with increased screening requirements. Roche created the test in less than nine months to address concerns expressed last September by the US Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about the potential for an increase in transfusion-related West Nile virus infections during the 2003 mosquito season. The test uses Roche's highly sensitive polymerase chain reaction technology, the world's leading nucleic acid technology, to detect the genetic material of the virus itself, in blood donated by people who may feel fine.
In the United States, a total of 11 clinical trial sites will test blood from a network of more than 100 donation centers. In Canada, as part of a separate clinical trial, three testing sites will use Roche's TaqScreen West Nile Virus Test to screen the entire Canadian blood supply.
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Don’t waste time! College/Academic reading is different from other types of reading. In college read for the purpose of assignment.
Ask: What is the reason I am reading this text? Is it for discussion, for learning new vocabulary or concepts, to learn a skill so I can apply it to work or a project? This will determine your approach and level of engagement.
Reading Guide for
Purpose: _____________ (ie. Discussion) Insider knowledge___________ (ie.Professors use discussion to help students understand and articulate their knowledge about a subject and their values and beliefs about a topic. Also, discussions are used to develop the skills of listening, taking perspectives and defending beliefs using the text, prior knowledge and experience, and logic/reason.)
The assignment says: “Read this article and be prepared to discuss the author’s conclusion and her three key approaches. Chose the approach that best aligns with your career values.”
So, how should you read these articles and prepare for class?
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Transmedia Storytelling - Sungkyunkwan UniversityFutureLearn
¿Qué aprendes en este curso?
Stories are increasingly told across a variety of formats, such as books, comics, events, films, games and TV programmes - a trend known as transmedia storytelling or multiplatform storytelling.
This free online course is designed for anyone studying or working in media or marketing. It will help you understand the transmedia storytelling trend and how to tell compelling stories across multiple platforms.
Over six weeks, we’ll ask:
- What is transmedia storytelling? And how does it differ from related ideas like media convergence and one source multi use (OSMU)?
- How do the key elements of character, plot and setting create a memorable story?
- What can we learn from folklore and traditional narratives?
- And how is storytelling in the digital age different from previous forms?
Throughout, we’ll look at successful examples of transmedia storytelling - such as The Avengers, The Matrix and Transformers - and put theory into practice, by retelling the popular fable, The Three Little Pigs, in a multiplatform format.
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Spreading the word about welding
These days, fewer and fewer people enter welding careers with pre-existing knowledge about the trade.
“Back 20 or 30 years ago, there were many companies that required similar [welding] skill sets. Since then, it’s dwindled down to a handful,” said George Hansel, national sales manager at Filtrine. “Before, you shared with these other companies the burden of training the workforce.”
Now, according to Hansel, that “burden” has fallen on companies like Filtrine, and they “literally have to train almost everybody in the workforce in this area.” That makes it harder to find qualified employees.
In response to the need, Filtrine, a Keene-based company that manufactures and exports products like drinking fountains, water filters and process chillers globally, created a series of courses that equip people throughout the community with welding skills.
The courses began over 20 years ago and continue today through the Keene Community Education Program. Community members of high school age and up can learn skills using the Filtrine facility and equipment over a 10-week period. The classes meet once a week for three hours at a time.
“We’re a really great classroom for what you consider the old trades: welding, plumbing, said Hansel. “We have all those right on our shop floor.”
He is a member of the family that has been involved in Filtrine for almost a century, including his father, his brother and some of his uncles.
Filtrine does not charge for the use of its facility, but each of the welding courses costs $349. That money contributes to paying the instructor, purchasing supplies, printing the course brochures and running the program.
“The original intent was to use the shop as classroom for manufacturing, with the secondary benefit of trying to educate people in the specialized welding that we use,” Hansel said. “Hopefully, it creates a feeder system for us to recruit new employees. There aren’t many employees out there for those sorts of skills.”
According to Hansel, the courses reach a wide variety of people, many of whom aren’t interested in working for Filtrine.
“I’ve had older ladies who just want to do art, and then I have the garage mechanic who has that restoration job,” said instructor Brian Thessen. “I also get younger kids who want to be welders for a living. For each person, it’s different, and they take away different attributes.”
Thessen has been teaching the courses for around 13 years. When he started teaching, he worked at Filtrine, but he has since moved to Axenics, a Nashua-based company. “I love teaching. It’s rewarding to have someone who doesn’t know anything leave the class with knowledge,” he said. Hansel said he hopes that the courses also help change the perception of welding in the community.
“It’s really about having people appreciate this type of work and working with your hands and constructing things,” he said. “More and more, it is a lost art and doesn’t get appreciated like it should.” To help combat the need for skilled workers, Hansel said a new welding internship program could be the next step for the company.
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The 24.1km line from Brigadier Tobias to George Oetterer will use the alignment of an existing railway. “We already have a railway that cuts the city from east to west, densely populated regions, and excellent investment capacity,” says Mr Luiz Alberto Fioravante, secretary of planning and projects.
A preliminary study will consider the use of five or seven-section vehicles accommodating 250 or 350 passengers, with a top speed of 70 km/h and capacity to transport up to 105,000 passengers per day.
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Australian government departments will soon be pushed to take up more cloud services with the upcoming release of the government's revised cloud computing policy.
The government's National Commission of Auditthat government agencies adopt a cloud-first strategy as it said that the reliance on bespoke, legacy systems impeded progress in moving to the cloud.
At the time though, Treasurer Joe Hockey and Finance Minister Mathias Cormannthat cloud services would be considered after the 2014-2015 budget, with most technology investment deferred.
At the, the Coalition pledged that smaller government agencies would need to use shared or cloud services unles efficient scale hurdles could be met, and there would be a trial of relocating critical data to a secure government cloud in 2014, but as of July 2014, this has yet to eventuate.
Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull confirmed today at the launch of thein Sydney that a revised cloud computing policy, updated from the policy the government took to the 2013 election would be released soon.
"We'll soon release a revised cloud computing policy to significantly increase the take up of cloud services by federal government agencies, consistent with our policy for e-government and the digital economy," he said.
The minister indicated that the policy would look to stop some of the blocks placed on government agencies in using cloud services.
"As important as mission statements are, of most importance are the actions we're taking to remove barriers that currently restrict, and in many cases prevent, agencies from procuring cloud services," he said.
"We cannot shy away from the fact that we need to improve the way ICT is traditionally being delivered by government. Consider the fact that the federal government alone spends about AU$6 billion a year on ICT and yet has spent less than $5 million on cloud services since July 2010."
Turnbull said that the changes to be announced "in the coming weeks" would present a range of opportunities for cloud service providers.
Last month, the Australian Government Chief Technology Officer John Sheridangovernment agencies were in no rush to moving to the cloud, with many waiting for existing contracts to end.
"One of the challenges of understanding of where you might use a cloud procurement is to reflect on the fact that we're often in contract for things now, and you're not going to move into the cloud in the middle of a contract; you're going to wait until a contract reaches its end and then in accordance with the direction from government, evaluate cloud opportunities that meet that particular requirement, and use them if it is value for money to do so," he said.
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- 1 How do you know when a sheep is close to lambing?
- 2 How long do sheep take to give birth?
- 3 What time of day do ewes lamb?
- 4 Do sheep give birth standing up or lying down?
- 5 How can I help my sheep give birth?
- 6 Can you breed a ram to his daughter?
- 7 Do lambs cry when being slaughtered?
- 8 How long can newborn lambs go without milk?
- 9 When does a ewe milk come in?
- 10 Can sheep give birth on their own?
- 11 How many babies do sheep have?
- 12 How can you tell if a sheep is in heat?
How do you know when a sheep is close to lambing?
When you see or feel an udder starting to form, mark the date on your calendar. This will give you a clear sense of when your ewe might deliver. As that date nears watch their udder closely – within 24 hours of lambing, her udder will become firm and her teats will become large, swollen and filled with milk.
How long do sheep take to give birth?
After mating, sheep have a gestation period of around five months.
What time of day do ewes lamb?
Most ewes lamb during daylight hours, but management will affect when peaks occur.
Do sheep give birth standing up or lying down?
The ewe can stand up and down, but cannot turn around. Consequently the adopted lambs can suckle off of the ewe, without her running off and leaving them or pushing them away.
How can I help my sheep give birth?
Rarely is any assistance needed. However, a small ewe may have trouble delivery a very large lamb. In this case, gentle assistance may be needed. You should pull the lamb downward during her contractions.
Can you breed a ram to his daughter?
The ram may breed his daughters and dam. Undersized ewe lambs may be bred. Because the times of breeding and lambing will not be not known, it will be difficult to properly time vaccinations, supplemental feeding, and other management practices.
Do lambs cry when being slaughtered?
While the butchering was going on, you could tell she sensed it, although there is no sound of distress during the butchering: since the animals die instantly, there is no distress. I have cried on butcher day in the past, when it is over. It is on my mind, a conscious decision I make to kill an animal to eat it.
How long can newborn lambs go without milk?
When baby lambs are born, they are really wet and slimy. The ewe will lick the slime off the lamb which helps to dry it off and start its circulation. Baby lambs usually are able to stand and nurse less than one-half hour after being born.
When does a ewe milk come in?
Milk production period Female sheep (ewes) do not produce milk constantly. Rather, they produce milk during the 80–100 days after lambing. Sheep naturally breed in the fall, which means that a majority of lambs are born in the winter or early spring.
Can sheep give birth on their own?
When it comes to delivery, lots of ewes will deliver their offspring unassisted out in the field. Some ewes, especially first time mums, will be brought into the lambing shed to give birth in case they need a helping hand.
How many babies do sheep have?
Ewes usually give birth to 1 to 3 lambs at each birthing event. Birthing is called lambing. The technical term for all species is parturition. Twin births (two babies) is most common in well-managed flocks and with many breeds of sheep.
How can you tell if a sheep is in heat?
Signs that may be seen in sheep as they are progressively exposed to heat conditions include:
- shade seeking.
- increased standing.
- decreased dry matter intake.
- crowding of water troughs.
- increased water intake.
- bunching to seek shade from other sheep.
- changes to, or increased, respiratory rate.
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Unfortunately telling someone that they have a "mental condition" never goes down very well.
Should you tell them?If you feel that your partner would be open-minded and willing to work on adjusting to your needs - and if you're willing to adjust to theirs, then it's worthwhile telling them. If on the other hand, you're fairly sure that your partner will simply reject the information, or that it will make them angry, then it's really not going to do any good to throw a diagnosis into the mix.
Telling your PartnerIf you do decide to talk to your partner about Asperger's syndrome, consider a more tactical approach. If you have a child with Asperger's and/or suspected Asperger's then it's easy to supply your partner with books on the subject under the guise of "divide and conquer". If you say, "we'll each read a different book on the subject and talk about what we've learned, you'll probably find that your discussions naturally lead you down the path you expected.
If on the other hand, you don't have a child who can be discussed, things are a little different.
You could try reading out a short passage from a book or from the web and saying "does this sound like you". If your partner doesn't realise that it's a diagnostic thing, they might be more open to talking about it. If all else fails, and if your partner is willing to give things a go, you can always try the RDOS Aspie test together.
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Presidents Day: A perfect example of Congress' meddling
Presidents Day is a perfect example of the dangers of a proactive Congress.
For one thing, there's the title. Is it President's Day, Presidents' Day or Presidents Day?
The sad saga of legislative overkill began in 1885, when Congress made George Washington's birthday a federal holiday. Actually POTUS 1 was born on Feb. 22, but in 1968, Congress mandated that all federal holidays should be celebrated on Mondays, so three years later Congress officially got around to moving Washington's birthday to the third Monday of the month.
At one point, Congress debated combining Washington's birthday with that of another revered president, Abraham Lincoln, who was born on Feb. 12. The bill failed, but the instinct was quickly adopted by marketers -- and most Americans. Sort of like a grass-roots tea party.
Of course, in some places -- such as Virginia -- today is still officially George Washington's birthday. The commonwealth likes its history without embellishment. And in Alabama, Presidents Day honors George Washington and -- drum roll -- Thomas Jefferson.
No matter which presidents are being honored, auto dealers, department stores and other retailers have no trouble identifying what day it is -- this is a day to advertise and sell everything from toys to mattresses. And what could be more fitting than good old American free enterprise as a way to honor the 44 presidents of the United States, or the first and third ones, or the first and 16th?
Confused? CNN has helpfully offered this quiz on the Presidents Day holiday.
In the meantime, be grateful that Congress is on its weeklong "Presidents Day District Work Period." No Congress, no more laws.
-- Johanna Neuman
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According to an October 25, 2016, ruling by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, a railcar carrying coal may be a “point source” for pollution under the Clean Water Act (CWA), 33 U.S.C. §§ 1251 et seq., if there is sufficient evidence to show the railcar is a “discrete conveyance” that sends coal directly into nearby waters.
The CWA defines a point source as “any discernible, confined and discrete conveyance,” including “rolling stock”—i.e., railcars. 33 U.S.C. § 1362(14). Despite the inclusion of railcars in the definition of point source, the court’s ruling appears to be unprecedented.
In Sierra Club v. BNSF Railway Co., the court rejected the railway company’s motion for summary judgment and found that it is potentially liable for “point source discharges of coal that went directly into the water and point source discharges of coal dust that came from trains passing directly above or adjacent to the waters.” No. 13-cv-00967 (W.D. Wash. Oct. 25, 2016). The court found that BNSF’s railcars were akin to crop dusters spraying “directly over” water, which the Ninth Circuit previously found to be a discrete conveyance under the CWA. See League of Wilderness Defenders/Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project v. Forsgren, 309 F.3d 1181 (9th Cir. 2002).
If the railcars are found to be a discrete conveyance of pollutants into waters of the United States, then BNSF may have to obtain National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits under the CWA. The Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act of 1995, which provides remedies for the regulation of rail transportation to the exclusion of any other state or federal law, may preclude the CWA’s remedies in this case. But the court deferred resolving that question until after the issue of liability is decided.
The crux of the court’s October 25 holding is whether there is enough evidence to prove that BNSF’s railcars qualify as a “discrete conveyance” that “caused” coal or coal dust to go into nearby waters.
In allowing the case to proceed, the court found that although the plaintiffs had shown that coal and coal dust fall from BNSF railcars, there was insufficient evidence for the court to rule that the BNSF railcars themselves caused the coal and coal dust to go into nearby waters.
The ruling could have far-reaching implications for the transportation industry because it raises the specter that railcars or (under a more expansive interpretation of “rolling stock”) any wheeled vehicle used on roadways that transports materials near or above water may have to obtain an NPDES permit under the CWA.
This advisory is published by Alston & Bird LLP’s Environmental practice area to provide a summary of significant developments to our clients and friends. It is intended to be informational and does not constitute legal advice regarding any specific situation. This material may also be considered attorney advertising under court rules of certain jurisdictions. | <urn:uuid:3054b80d-a3e5-4c38-9d4c-a162fd09b0af> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.alston.com/en/insights/publications/2016/11/ienvironment-land-use--natural-resources-advisoryi | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.943688 | 686 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Cosemi has introduced new USB 3.1 Gen 2 active optical cables, which support full speed USB connections at distances of up to 100 meters. The cables are designed primarily for industrial applications. Cosemi’s USB 3.1 Gen 2 active optical cables feature a USB Type-A connector on one side as well as a USB Type-B connector with a screw locking mechanism on another side. The cables can enable data transfers at up to 10 Gbps speed, but they cannot power devices (which is what hybrid active optical cables are needed for), which somewhat limits applications they can address. USB 3.1 Gen 2 active optical cables like the ones offered by Cosemi are primarily used to connect industrial equipment, such as machine vision systems, to computers located off...
Cosemi has introduced the industry’s first USB 3.1 Gen 2 hybrid active optical cables (hAOC), which enable USB connectivity over distances upwards of 50 meters. The cables will be...40 by Anton Shilov on 2/12/2019
Cosemi has announced its first OptoDP active optical cable that supports a DisplayPort 1.4 connection. That in itself isn't newsworthy, but up to 328 feet, or 100 meters, it...22 by Anton Shilov on 3/29/2017 | <urn:uuid:2c30d24b-6a5a-4403-aba8-df5898a3e904> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://home.anandtech.com/tag/cosemi | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.935763 | 272 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Making Big Data come to life for students is part of a new instructional design approach
University of Wisconsin (UW) data science students could soon don virtual reality headsets to navigate and interpret data.
A UW instructional designer says looking at Big Data in new and different ways can engage more students to pursue its study, and also can impact people’s lives.
The courses are part of the online Master of Data Science degree program offered by UW-Extension in collaboration with six UW campuses.
Ryan Martinez, an instructional designer for UW-Extension, sees both a need and an opportunity to make Big Data come to life in a way that can dramatically change people’s behavior.
His proposal to use Oculus virtual reality technology in the online UW Master of Data Science curriculum earned Martinez a highly-coveted spot at the Oculus Launch Pad Boot Camp at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on May 21.
Oculus VR will provide feedback and mentorship to Martinez and 100 other pioneers joining him at the Oculus Launch Pad Boot Camp. Following the forum, Oculus will determine which concepts will earn scholarships ranging from $5,000 – $50,000, distributed with the objective of helping leaders realize their ideas.
“If data scientists could more quickly analyze data that’s already available, they could make faster decisions, act sooner, and potentially even save lives,” says Martinez. “All someone needs is a phone and a VR headset. What we can do to bring the data from virtual reality into real life — it’s incredible.”
“We’re proud to continue to lead the way with new technologies and practices in higher education,” says David Schejbal, dean, UW-Extension’s Continuing Education Division. “Ryan’s concept may potentially lead to innovative tools we could offer our data science students, and is an interesting option they probably haven’t even considered.”
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Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships for Public Health: Q&A with Acacia Salatti
Apr 15, 2013, 11:57 AM
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships (known as the Partnership Center) engages with community organizations to:
- Strengthen the role of community organizations in health initiatives
- Reduce unintended pregnancies and support maternal and child health
- Promote responsible fatherhood and healthy families
- Foster interfaith dialogue and collaboration with leaders and scholars around the world, and at home
As part of HHS, the Partnership Center is a member agency of the National Prevention Council—a collaboration of 17 federal departments, agencies and offices to help promote prevention and wellness for individuals, families, and communities. The Council members are guided by the National Prevention Strategy, released two years ago by Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, which envisions a prevention-oriented society where all sectors recognize the value of health for individuals, families, and society and work together to achieve better health for all Americans.
>>Read more in our series exploring the National Prevention Strategy, and how each and every sector impacts public health.
NewPublicHealth recently spoke with Acacia Salatti, acting director of the Partnership Center, about their prevention efforts in U.S. communities.
NewPublicHealth: What is the role of the Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships?
Acacia Salatti: Our office as is an open door for faith and community stakeholders. We see it as a two-way partnership—our center is able to provide information on health and human services programs, and we are able to gain a deeper understanding about what other types of best practices are happening in the community. We are one of 13 faith and neighborhood partnership offices in federal agencies and we all work to together to help faith and community stakeholders create a positive impact in their communities.
NPH: Why is prevention important to the office and how does the office align with the National Prevention Strategy?
Acacia Salatti: Without prevention how are we going to be able to create and sustain healthier communities? One critical issue that the Surgeon General highlights in the National Prevention Strategy is the need to convene diverse partners and we do that. One of our key strengths is our ability to bring together all different types of stakeholders to talk about public health and prevention. We have a Health System Learning Group, which the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has supported, which evolved out of a series of stakeholder meetings hosted by the White House and our office. The goal is to create strategies that will focus on preventive care. So, for example, we’re working with health systems, community health centers, and with faith and community stakeholders to close care gaps and address coordination and lack of capacity.
NPH: What are some of the efforts you are taking in engaging communities to help individuals enroll in insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA)?
Acacia Salatti: We have been hosting monthly ACA webinars in both English and Spanish. Over the course of two years we’ve done close to 80, which have helped community leaders understand new opportunities for coverage under changes such as new rules for behavioral health coverage and the Medicaid expansion. What is so critical is that people can’t take advantage of new services and benefits unless they know about them. So we continue to work with faith and community stakeholders so that we can get that information to local communities as easily as possible.
NPH: How can public health help leverage partnerships with faith-based communities?
Acacia Salatti: I think the ways are just really countless. Faith communities have been working in the public health arena for decades, which is so important for us to recognize. They have been hosting health clinics, partnering with their local health departments, initiating community gardens—all kinds of critical activities. I think for us it’s about helping them take those efforts to the next level. For example, we’re working on the on the Million Hearts initiative in trying to reduce cardiovascular disease. We’re providing community and faith leaders tool kits and other resources and connecting groups with other people on the ground. And then they take that information and reach into vulnerable and other hard to reach populations. They know their communities, they know what works, they know what doesn’t work, and so they do it in a variety of different ways—such as congregational bulletin insert or having someone from a local community health center speak to their community about the services available at the health center.
A great example is what they’ve been doing to help prevent seasonal flu. HHS and Walgreens have a public-private partnership and through that we’ve been able to provide community leaders with flu shot vouchers for community residents. That has been made even easier by Walgreens bringing mobile clinics into communities.
And last year we hosted a minority health summit together with the HHS Office of Minority Health and the National Association of City and County Health Officials during NACCHO’s annual meeting. We did that because we wanted to help provide local health departments with great ideas and partnerships and best practices taking place in other neighborhoods and faith-based communities. Health departments are under a lot of budget constraints, as we all are, and are just trying to figure out how to do their job effectively and so may not know what other groups are doing and where they may be able to partner. We’ve gotten a lot of really great feedback on the summit but to me the most amazing thing was looking at all the public health officials sitting right next to community and faith leaders talking about the issue of public health and innovative approaches and learning from each other. That’s my job—to see how we can bring people and strategies together for the public good.
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Speech Before the Foreign Institute (March 23, 1966) Lyndon B. Johnson Transcript Mr. Secretary, ladies and gentlemen:I am very pleased to address the Foreign Service Institute this morning and to come here to meet with so many Americans that are preparing to serve their country abroad. As one who believes that we cannot shorten our reach in the world, I am greatly encouraged by the number and the quality of those who are studying at this Institute. You have the gratitude of your countrymen and my own assurance of support.We have come a long way from the day that someone observed that "some diplomat no doubt will launch a heedless word and lurking war leap out."That was more than half a century ago when diplomacy was often war by another name. Today your task is different. Those of you about to go abroad represent a continuity of purpose in a generation of change. That purpose is to build from reason and moderation a world order in which the fires of conflict yield to the fulfillment of man's oldest yearnings for himself and his family.Your job, wherever you serve, is peace. That is the task that faces all of us today.The question, as always, is how? How do we, for example, maintain the security of the Atlantic community upon which so many of the world's hopes depend?For the answer, we must begin with the gray dawn of the world of 1945, when Europe's cities lay in rubble, her farms devastated, her industries smashed, her people weary with war and death and defeat.Now from that desolation has come abundance. From that weakness has come power. From those ashes of holocaust has come the rebirth of a strong and a vital community.The Europe of today is a new Europe. In place of uncertainty there is confidence; in place of decay, progress; in place of isolation, partnership; in place of war, peace.If there is no single explanation for the difference between Europe then and Europe now, there is a pattern. It is a luminous design that is woven through the history of the past 20 years. It is the design of common action, of interdependent institutions serving the good of the European nations as though they were all one. It is the design of collective security protecting the entire Atlantic community.So I have come here this morning to speak to you of one important part of that design. I speak of a structure that some of you have helped to build: the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.Let me make clear in the beginning that we do not believe there is any righteousness in standing pat. If an organization is alive and vital, if it is to have meaning for all time as well as for any particular time, it must grow and respond and yield to change. Like our Constitution, which makes the law of the land, the North Atlantic Treaty is more than just a legal document. It is the foundation of a living institution. That institution is NATO, the organization created to give meaning and reality to the alliance commitments.The crowded months which immediately preceded and followed the conclusion of the North Atlantic Treaty 17 years ago had produced an atmosphere of crisis. It was a crisis that was born of deep fear: fear for Europe's economic and political vitality, fear of Communist aggression, fear of Communist subversion.Some say that new circumstances in the world today call for the dismantling of this great organization. Of course NATO should adapt to the changing needs of the times, but we believe just as firmly that such change must be wrought by the member nations working with one another within the alliance. Consultation, not isolation, is the route to reform. We must not forget either in success or abundance the lessons that we have learned in danger and in isolation: that whatever the issue that we share, we have one common danger--division; and one common safety--unity.What is our view of NATO today?We see it not as an alliance to make war, but as an alliance to keep peace. Through an era as turbulent as man has ever known, and under the constant threat of ultimate destruction, NATO has insured the security of the North Atlantic community. It has reinforced stability elsewhere throughout the world.While NATO rests on the reality that we must fight together if war should come to the Atlantic area, it rests also on the reality that war will not come if we act together during peace. It was the Foreign Minister of France who, in 1949, insisted that to be truly secure, Europe needed not only help in resisting attack, but help in preventing attack. "Liberation," he said, "is not enough."The success of NATO has been measured by many yardsticks. The most significant, to me, is the most obvious: War has been deterred. Through the common organization, we have welded the military contributions of each of the 15 allies into a very effective instrument. So convincing was this instrument that potential aggressors took stock and counted as too high the price of satisfying their ambitions. It has been proved true that "one sword keeps another in the sheath."War has been deterred not only because of our integrated military power, but because of the political unity of purpose to which that power has been directed and bent. It is difficult to overstate the importance of the bonds of culture, of political institutions, traditions, and values which form the bedrock of the Atlantic community. There is here a political integrity and an identity of interests that transcends personalities and issues of the moment.If our collective effort should falter and our common determination be eroded, the foundation of the Atlantic's present stability would certainly be shaken. The mightiest arsenal in the world will deter no aggressor who knows that his victims are too divided to decide and too unready to respond. That was the lesson that we learned from two world wars. Yet a nation--not by the action of her friends, but by her own decision to prepare and plan alone--could still imperil her own security by creating a situation in which response would be too late and too diluted. Every advance in the technology of war makes more unacceptable the old and narrow concepts of sovereignty.No one today can doubt the necessity of preventing war. It is our firm conviction that collective action through NATO is the best assurance that war will be deterred in the Atlantic world.Look at the Atlantic community through the eyes of those who in years past have yearned for conquest. The sight is sobering. Integrated commands, common plans, forces in being in advance of an emergency for use in any emergency--all of these testify to a collective readiness and the integrity of collective purposes. To other eyes, NATO can only be a clear warning of the folly of aggression.NATO today, therefore, must be shaped on the experience of the past. Reliance on independent action by separate forces--only loosely coordinated with joint forces and plans--twice led to world wars before 1945. But collective action has proved successful in deterring war since 1945--during 20 years of upheaval and grave danger.We reject those experiences only at our own peril.For our part, the United States of America is determined to join with 13 of her other allies to preserve and to strengthen the deterrent strength of NATO. We will urge that those principles of joint and common preparation be extended wherever they can be usefully applied in the Atlantic Alliance.We are hopeful that no member of the treaty will long remain withdrawn from the mutual affairs and obligations of the Atlantic. A place of respect and responsibility will await any ally who decides to return to the common task.For the world is still full of peril for those who prize and cherish liberty--peril and opportunity.These bountiful lands that are washed by the Atlantic, this half-billion people that are unmatched in arms and industry, this cradle of common values and splendid visions, this measureless storehouse of wealth, can enrich the life of an entire planet.It is this strength--of ideas as well as strength of arms, of peaceful purpose as well as power--that offers such hope for the reconciliation of Western Europe with the people of Eastern Europe. To surrender that strength now by isolation from one another would be to dim the promise of that day when the men and women of all Europe shall again move freely among each other.It is not a question of wealth alone.It is a question of heart and mind. It is a willingness to leave forever those national rivalries which so often led to the useless squandering of lives and treasure in war.It is a question of the deeper spirit of unity of which NATO is but a symbol. That unity was never better expressed than when, at the conclusion of the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949, a great French leader declared that "nations are more and more convinced that their fates are closely bound together--that their salvation and their welfare must rest upon the progressive application of human solidarity."And it is to the preservation of human solidarity that all of our efforts today should be directed. So let all of you of the Foreign Service Institute make it your task, as well as mine.Thank you and good morning. | <urn:uuid:d45704cc-3c50-4ba0-8eb2-2bd668c2a9f7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://millercenter.org/president/speeches/speech-5938 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00374-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968639 | 1,826 | 1.976563 | 2 |
Securities litigation without the efficient market hypothesis
June 29, 2014
The Supreme Court in the US has just made a ruling that corporate misstatements is perhaps not so important if market prices are already imperfect. According to the NYTimes,
The court used that distinction to make an important change in the class-action arena. From now on, companies facing class actions can try to show at an early stage that even if they’ve made misstatements, market prices were not affected.
In other words, the ruling allows “companies to raise the issue that a stock wasn’t impacted by the fraudulent statements at the class certification stage.“
The argument, which appeals to the fallibility of the the efficient market hypothesis, was introduced by Halliberton in a case involving its asbestos liabilities.
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Pop singer and troubled diva Britney Spears’ long quest to end her father’s conservatorship that handed control of all her finances and her health care over to her father, clearly demonstrates the double-edged and quite dangerous sword of putting other people under the control and legal care of others. A judge may appoint a conservator to protect vulnerable persons from trickery, injury or abuse by others, or even protect poor decision-making as regards their own safety and health. But if unscrupulous conservators are appointed, this can lead to abuse and exploitation. Celebrities like Spears are susceptible to exploitation due to their wealth-generating capacity, but they are not the only people at risk. Britney Spear’s Father has consented to cooperate with the Court to appoint another Conservator recently!
As a lawyer representing poor, marginalized people and federal Indian laws, systemic inequalities in local legal practices create potentially exploitative situations, for people of color and women. Native Americans were badly exploited when guardianship evolved in the early 1900s, to protect Indian beneficiaries of allotted land from the government. Members of the Oklahoma Five Civilized Tribes (Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole nations) were impacted by sharp practices, due to discovery of gas and oil under their lands.
Swindled by ‘friendly white lawyers’
A conservatorship removes decision-making powers from the “ward.” Though the conservator is expected to act in the ward’s interest, the system is open to exploitation when vast sums of money are involved. Between 1908 and 1934, guardianships enabled swindling of Indians out of their lands and royalties. Federal policy enforced removal of Indians from eastern /southern locations in USA to Oklahoma and then converted large tracts of tribal- land into individual allotments, transferred or sold and fractured communal landholdings. Land “surplus to Indian needs” was sold to white settlers or businesses. Native allotment holders could sell plots after a 25-year trust period ended or taken away through tax assessments/administrative actions. Indian land holdings diminished from “138 million acres in 1887 to 48 million acres by 1934 when allotments ended,” according to the Indian Land Tenure Foundation.
During the 1920’s, Indians the richest people per capita in the world due to discovery of gas and oil beneath their lands, but they became victims of predatory schemes leaving them penniless or dead. Members of the Osage Nation “began to mysteriously disappear.” Upon their death, their estates were mysteriously left not to their own kin and families, but to their privileged white lawyers, who were more than happy to take ownership. These Lawyers or conservators then stole land and money before death when appointed as guardians/ conservators with authority to spend wards’ money, lease and sell land. Congress created conditions for widespread graft and abuse through the Act of May 27, 1908 that transferred land from Indian “minors and incompetents” from the Interior Department, to local county probate courts in Oklahoma. The Interior Department could put land in or out of trust protection, based on competency assessment of Indian allottees and their heirs. Without federal supervision, local probate courts and attorneys stole Indian lands. A prominent indigenous activist, Zitkála-Šá, commissioned in 1924 by the Secretary of Interior, to study the issue writes, “When oil is ‘struck’ on an Indian’s property, he is incompetent, and when a guardian is appointed for him, his wishes are not considered.” | <urn:uuid:2301d523-582b-4799-9617-2fd772bc6317> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lawyersblvd.com/advocate-stories/conservatorships-used-exploit-swindle-native-americans/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.962422 | 753 | 3.25 | 3 |
JULY 08, 2008
Amid unprecedented amounts of legal scandals and corruption probes, congressional approval has fallen to single digits for the first time in history, according to a national poll released this week.
Earlier this year a separate poll revealed that a 14% confidence rating in the nation’s federal lawmaking bodies was the lowest ever, but this week’s data demonstrates a further dip from that bad rating. Only 9% of Americans believe Congress is doing a good job, a shameful indicator of the diminished confidence among the people members are supposed to serve.
Congress’s highest rating of 40% came during the Watergate era in the late 1970s and again in 1986. That’s a far cry from more recent ratings, especially in the last few years which have been rocked by a series of bipartisan scandals, corruption investigations and widespread allegations of unethical behavior.
Highlights include a Republican California Congressman (Randy Duke Cunningham) serving eight years in prison for taking more than $2.4 million in bribes from defense contractors, a Republican Ohio Congressman (Bob Ney) jailed for taking bribes in the mega corruption scheme involving convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff and an Ohio Democrat (James Traficant) sentenced to eight years for racketeering and accepting bribes.
Who could forget the nine-term Congressman (William Jefferson) federally indicted for accepting hundreds of thousands of bribes over the years? The Louisiana Democrat was actually caught in the act by federal agents who video taped him accepting a bag full of cash. They later found $90,000 of the money—wrapped in foil—stashed in the freezer of his home. His trial is scheduled for some time this year.
Then there’s the infamous first female Speaker of the House (Nancy Pelosi) who secretly inserted a last-minute provision into a multi billion-dollar redevelopment bill that benefited her husband financially. There was also the matter of her highly publicized, taxpayer-financed lavish jet to ferry her and her entourage from coast-to-coast even though she claims to be a green-minded environmentalist.
Pelosi’s California pal in the Senate, Democrat Dianne Feinstein, was forced to resign as chair of a powerful military construction committee after she was exposed for abusing her position to award her rich husband’s companies billions of dollars in government contracts.
The list goes on and on and Americans are taking note. That’s why 72% of those polled said they think most members of Congress are more interested in furthering their own political careers. That seems to be quite the understatement.
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As the number of patients requiring venous access continues to grow rapidly, catheter placement procedures have become an integral part of every radiology department. This practical book presents a comprehensive overview of virtually every topic pertaining to central catheters, describing everything you need to provide optimal patient care. Throughout, leading experts offer helpful hints on dealing with commonly occurring problems.The book is filled with key information on topics such as venous anatomy, indications, catheter designs, and the newest technology in the field. It covers the entire process: from choosing the ideal catheter and proper placement to treating complications and post-surgical follow-up. Benefit from these special features: More than 250 detailed illustrations show every step of central catheter placement How-to-do-it format enhances understanding of the procedures Authors discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the different catheters Here is the essential review of venous access that all interventional and general radiologists, nephrologists, and vascular surgeons need to become proficient in radiological catheter placement. For residents, it is an ideal introduction to the field and board preparation guide. | <urn:uuid:34644f1b-4434-4dfc-8bdf-8dc3e2b1865d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://shop.thieme.co.uk/products/venous-catheters-1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.906736 | 224 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Cutting the Pie — Real Estate Partition Actions in Pennsylvania
By Bradley S. Dornish, Esq.
When more than one person owns an interest in Pennsylvania real estate, and the owners can’t agree on the management or sale of the property, a special type of equity proceeding called Partition Action is the way to resolve the issues in court. In my practice, I see these situations arising when two or more individuals own property together for a variety of reasons. Some inherit the property together and have different needs or wants for their interests. Others buy property together, either for investment as tenants in common or joint tenants, or buy a house to live in together or in anticipation of a marriage which does not occur. Sometimes, a life tenant, holder of a life estate in property subject to a remainder held by someone else, uses a property in a manner objected to by the owner of the remainder.
Situations where multiple owners of property do not use partition, but instead use other legal remedies, include divorce, where distribution of real property is usually determined within the divorce proceedings, though a partition action can follow a divorce where property distribution was incomplete, and life estates where the life tenant is accused of failing to maintain the property, where a separate type of action for “waste” is available. Also, partition actions are not necessary where title to real property is held in a corporation, limited liability company, or general or limited partnership. Laws relating to those entities, and the documents executed in connection with those entities, such as shareholders’, members’ or partnership agreements, provide the means for division of interests in both real estate and other assets of those entities.
The word partition suggests that the property is actually cut into different pieces, like slices of a pie. That comes from the origins of partition in English common law, the old ‘writ de partitione fascienda’, which allowed the division of a whole property into separate parts, each held completely by one of the former co-owners of the whole. This legal action was very limited, however, and did not deal with all different types of co-ownership, did not deal with property which could not be cut into multiple parcels, and did not address the accounting for money between co-owners. Courts of Equity took over partition to address these issues, and the concepts of financial compensation to one co-owner for imbalances in division of the property, called “owelty of partition”, and of the appointment by the courts of “Special Masters” to handle some of the details of the partition, were introduced.
In Pennsylvania, the various legal and equitable actions for partition arising from common law and specific statutes were abolished and all partition actions are now equity actions under Rule 1551 et. seq. of the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure, though actions involving the estate of a property owner who has died may end up in the Orphans’ Court, and be subject to additional rules there.
PA R.C.P. 1551 provides that a Partition Action shall follow the rules of civil procedure generally, except as modified by the Partition Rules. The Partition Rules provide that the action must be brought in a county where all or part of the property is located (Rule 1552), that any co-tenant (here the word co-tenant refers to an owner of an interest in the property, not to someone occupying as a tenant under a normal, one year or other short term lease) may bring the action, but all co-tenants must be parties ( Rule 1553), and that the complaint filed with the court must include a description of the property, and describe the nature and extent of each co-tenant’s interest in the property (Rule 1554). If a co-tenant plaintiff is not in possession, the rules preserve the right to claim an offset for the plaintiff’s share of the fair market rental value of the property against the share the tenant in possession would otherwise receive in partition (Rule 1590). However, the complaint must plead the exclusion of the plaintiff from the property and make the claim for plaintiff’s share of the rental value, since otherwise those claims can be waived. Likewise, the complaint should include claims for accounting of rents or other profits or benefits received by the other co-tenant(s), and credits for taxes paid, the cost or value of repairs made to the property, other services rendered by the plaintiff, and liabilities incurred by the plaintiff. These items become part of the decision and order provided under Rule 1570. Any defendant may also raise these issues in New Matter following an Answer to the complaint. However, non-partition claims between the parties may not be combined with partition claims in the same lawsuit.
The rules allow the joinder of causes of action for partition of multiple parcels in Pennsylvania owned by the same cotenants in the same action, and even allow the joinder of actions involving multiple properties where not all of the co-tenants have an interest in every property, if all the properties share a common source of title or grantor (Rule 1555). If the plaintiff fails to join causes of action for partition of all of the properties which could have been included in the complaint, the other co-tenants are free to bring a counterclaim in the same action regarding partition of such other properties.
If a plaintiff fails to join a co-tenant who should be a party to the action, any defendant has the right to raise the interest of that co-tenant in the action by filing preliminary objections to the complaint. Owners of remainder interests after life estates, as well as owners of reversionary interests, whether or not conditional, should all be included in the partition action. However, tenants leasing the property for periods of less than 20 years, mortgagees and lien holders whose interests would not be changed by the partition of the property, would not be appropriate parties to the partition action.
Once a complaint in partition is filed with the court, and served on all of the co-tenants as defendants, if the defendants do not answer the complaint or in their answers admit that all of the cotenants are parties to the action, and that part of the property is in the county where the action is filed, the judge can enter an order identifying all of the co-tenants and their interests, and directing partition of the property. If the complaint and any answers filed do not provide on their own a sufficient basis for the judge to enter an order for partition, the court can schedule a hearing or trial to determine disputed issues, after which an order for partition can be entered if the court finds the requirements met. While that order is appealable under Rule 311(a)(7) of the PA Rules of Appellate Procedure, the bases for such an appeal are limited. Simply not wanting to proceed with an otherwise proper partition does not provide an adequate basis for appeal.
After an order directing partition is entered by the judge, a preliminary conference among the judge and the parties or their attorneys is required by Rule 1558. At the conference, the judge is to consider whether the parties can agree on a plan of partition or sale, though it is usual that they cannot. The court then considers whether the issues in the partition can be simplified or narrowed. The judge may decide to continue to handle all matters pertaining to the partition directly, but the Partition Rules specifically allow for the appointment of a master, whom most judges appoint to handle the details of the partition under the supervision and subject to the final approval of the court. The master can be directed to hear the entire matter, or be limited to act on only certain issues as the judge directs. Though the Partition Rules do not specifically require that the master be a lawyer admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania, the master does have a judicial function as an officer of the court, and it is the normal practice of judges to appoint lawyers with knowledge and experience pertaining to civil trial practice, and partition actions in particular. In fact, I currently serve as a partition master.
Following a normal general appointment, a master will generally determine whether or not the property can be divided into separate “purparts” or parcels, like pieces of the pie for each co-tenant or each group of co-tenants who want their interests to remain undivided. Usually, this can work with larger tracts of land subject to subdivision, but not with single homes or other properties not easily divided. Purparts can’t always and don’t have to be equal, and partition allows inequality to be balanced out by the payment of cash known as “owelty” from the co-tenant who receives greater value to the co-tenant who receives lesser value.
Next, the master normally appoints an appraiser at a cost to be shared between or among the co-tenants, to value the property as a whole and the different purports or parcels into which it can be divided. A title search may also be ordered or the parties may provide the information on mortgages, liens and other encumbrances affecting the property, and the co-tenants who are personally obligated on any loan secured by a mortgage on the property.
The master also obtains information by stipulations of the parties or where there are disputes, through hearing(s) in front of the master, on the adjustments to be made to each co-tenant’s interest for use and occupancy of the property, rents and other benefits received, taxes, repairs or other amounts paid, and services rendered by each toward the property. After obtaining the appraisal and this other information, the master can seek the agreement of the parties on division of the property into purparts, and on owelty payments to balance the value of unequal purparts. However, in many cases where purparts are not possible, a private sale of the property between the co-tenants pursuant to Rules 1566 and 1567 will be considered, and if that does not work out, a public sale of the property under Rule 1568, at auction or through the marketing and sale of the property through a broker may be employed.
Once the master has completed his or her job of collecting information, and determined what the master believes should be the result of the partition pursuant to the rules, the master prepares a report to the judge under Rule 1569, which is provided to the co-tenants. Any co-tenant may take exceptions to evidentiary rulings, findings of fact. The report usually tracks the requirements for the decision and order which the judge must enter under rule 1570, so that the judge can simply adopt all or any parts of the report as his or her decision, and address any exceptions to the report made by any co-tenants.
If the decision orders a private or public sale of the property, the rules allow the judge to order the master to conduct the sale, after which the master files a return of sale under Rule 1573 and requests an order of court confirming the sale and payments to all persons entitled from the proceeds. Such an order becomes final if no party files post trial motions within ten days of the order.
By the sale portion of the partition action, many co-tenants recognize that the costs of following the rules can reduce the amount which they realize for the property, and many consent to purchase by one of the other’s interest, or to sales through real estate brokers rather than auction, to attempt to maximize the value they can receive for the property. At any point in the partition process, the parties can end the action by agreement on how to resolve their differences. However, the longer the action takes, the more legal fees and costs the parties incur with their own counsel, and the more masters’ fees the parties share. All of these costs suggest that early compromise of a partition action is advisable. However, as with any legal action, disagreement on key issues can make compromise difficult, and necessitate following through with the entire legal process of partition.
Partition in Pennsylvania is a well tested equitable court process which results in the separation of co-tenants’ legal interests in real estate. It is not cheap, but it is efficient and should be used when co-tenants can’t agree on how to share the real estate pie.
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OSLO, NORWAY — President Reagan, New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange and Holocaust author Elie Wiesel have been nominated for the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize, the awards committee said Tuesday.
Jakob Sverdrup, secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, acknowledged that the three were among 60 individuals and 39 organizations nominated for the prestigious award. The winner will be announced in Oslo Oct. 11.
The committee never publishes the list of candidates for the prize and only acknowledges nominees whose names have been reported by the press.
Sverdrup said he received Reagan's nomination among three letters delivered to him hours before the Feb. 1 deadline. ''We cannot say who nominated Reagan or for what reason,'' Sverdrup said. ''That is kept secret under our rules.'' Sverdrup also acknowledged the nominations of Lange, an opponent of French nuclear testing in the Pacific Ocean, and Wiesel, who in April pleaded with Reagan to call off his visit to a German World War II military cemetery where 47 SS soldiers were buried. Despite widespread criticism, Reagan attended a wreath-laying ceremony at the Bitburg military cemetery May 7 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe.
Reagan and Lange have been at odds since Lange's government banned visits to its ports by nuclear armed or powered warships.
The United States, which refuses to say whether its ships carry nuclear arms, responded by canceling all port calls to New Zealand and other forms of military cooperation with that nation.
Sverdrup said the nomination of Bob Geldof of Ireland, lead singer of the Boomtown Rats and organizer of the Live Aid rock concerts that raised millions of dollars for African famine relief, arrived after the deadline and would be considered in 1986.
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Apr 26, 2022
What is ability? We all have distinct abilities, challenges, and gifts. And focusing on what you can do is far more important than focusing on what you can’t do.
John Cronin was in his last year in high school, and he needed to figure out what to do next. He thought about what he loved and what he was good at. He landed on socks. Crazy socks.
With the help of his dad, Mark, John started to design and sell socks online. They started posting about their business on social media, and before they knew it, orders were soaring. So they started their own company: John’s Crazy Socks, now the world’s largest sock company.
But it’s not really about the socks. In this episode, John and Mark teach us about finding our gifts and making the most of our abilities.
John and Mark envision a world where people use their varying abilities to achieve – and where it’s no longer remarkable to see people with disabilities achieving great things.
As a father-son team, John and Mark have taught one another how to stay inspired, and how to find the unique abilities and gifts in other people. Today, they continue to expand, to hire people of all abilities, and to help others of varying ability set up their own businesses. Mark put it this way: “Hiring people of different abilities is not altruism – it’s good business.”
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To record something.
To strengthen, secure, or ornament the edges of by a band, as of tape
To put a bandage on (an injured part or person)
To tie, bind, or encircle with or as if with a band.
To tie, bind, or bundle
To wrap or bind in bandages.
To put a knot or bow in:
(Archaic) To snare with a wire or wires
A strip steak.
(Baseball) A line drive.
An inked strip of cloth used for making an impression, as in a typewriter.
(--- Football) A line of scrimmage.
To remove (recorded material) from a magnetic tape or other storage medium:
To make looser or less tight:
To close or join in a particular manner:
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Nursing Quality Development Unit
Establish to oversee and monitor all health facilities in practise to ensure the quality of nursing is always at optimal levels in accordance with the prescribed standards.
To improve nursing services through the promotion of nurses commitment in quality improvement programs.
- Planning of strategy for implementation and improvement in quality of nursing services.
- To coordinate and monitor the achievement in implementation of quality of nursing services in the hospital and public health:-
i) National Nursing Indicator Approach (NNIA)
ii) National Nursing Audit (NNA) – Hospital
iii) National Nursing Audit (NNA) – Public Health
iv) National Operating Room Nursing Audit (NORNA)
v) Mentoring Programe For Nurses
vi) Patient Safety Goals
vii) Quality Assurance (QA)
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Curing cancer is currently the holy grail of medicine, but so far Western medicine is having only moderate success. My having had spectacular success in discovering how to solve several perplexing medical problems it seems appropriate to mention a possible cure for cancer which I will describe below. The curriculum vitae for these obstreperous claims are: 1. Arterial disease — Embolisms — Heart Attacks — What to do? 2. A cure for the common cold using 105°F baths. 3. Poison Oak, Poison Ivy itching cured with hot air. 4. Colonoscopy — and how to enjoy drinking the foul tasting purging fluids. These have been shown to work, and several more.
Everyone knows that cancer is extremely difficult to cure and even though huge quantities of money are spent attempting a cure, the results typically end in medical failure. Unfortunately, in the case of cancer, medical failure for the doctor means death for the patient. What will be suggested here might be a last gasp hope, or alternatively it might be a first try and a quick and nearly free total cure.
This cancer cure’s basic idea is quite simple. It is based on the observation that occasionally there have been spontaneous cures. Sometimes, the body’s immune system simply and seemingly spontaneously figures out how to eliminate the cancer from the body, and when it does figure it out the cancer is eliminated fairly quickly. The question then becomes, what triggers the immune system to identify the seminative foreign cancer cells and attack them? It is thought that cancer cells arise spontaneously frequently in the normally healthy human being, but they are destroyed immediately by the immune system. When a person develops a cancer it was the immune system simply missing a cancer cell which was just a little too similar to native cells to be recognized.
What needs to be done it to enhance the body’s immune system by challenging it to be more aggressive. For example, when the body is attacked by a flu virus this invader is not noticed at first because the immune system is in a relaxed condition, but in a day or two it recognizes the invader because the body temperature starts vacillating up and down. Then there begin the feelings of slight fever and chills even before the whole body begins to feel noticeably fatigued and sick. Then as the flu germs grow more numerous the body reacts by elevating the temperature a couple of degrees. It is a common misconception that the flu germs are being cooked out, but those germs can stand a lot more heat than you can and you will die before they do from a simple rise in temperature. What is happening is that the various immune systems are being alerted and informed to be more active. They are in effect being told to get busy and be less discriminating on what they are permitted to kill.
From Wikipedia: fever assists the healing process in several important ways:
- Increased mobility of leukocytes
- Enhanced leukocytes phagocytosis
- Endotoxin effects decreased
- Increased proliferation of T cells
It has been observed that spontaneous cures from cancer have been associated with a high fever. Sometimes, people who have an ongoing cancer catch a second deadly disease like a bad cold or dengue fever. A disease which elevates the body temperature to 104°F is borderline serious in adults, but brain damage only occurs closer to 107.6 °F. I have personally observed that when I voluntarily raise my body temperature to 102°F in a hot bath, I fully recover feeling normal in about an hour. Because I raise my temperature quickly, in about a half an hour, and stay at the elevated temperature for only a few minutes there is never much feeling of annoyance. I have done this cold cure very successfully since 1993. A cure for the common cold using 105°F baths. I have never done it with cancer, but it is possible that it would work because it is a similar bodily response that is being stimulated.
If I were to apply this technique to my own body with the intent of curing a generalized cancer, I would follow the procedure in A cure for the common cold using 105°F baths exactly. Then I would wait for ten days and do it again, but this time raising my body’s temperature a half a degree higher to 102.5°F. I would wait another ten days and then raising my body’s temperature to 103°F as in the first series. Then I would wait ten days and go to the doctor for cancer tests. If there was to be any improvement using this procedure it should show up. It is a new but not very dangerous procedure and it only costs some time and a few dollars of hot water.
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Corticosteroid treatment of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Med J Aust. 2020 Apr 08;:
Authors: Zha L, Li S, Pan L, Tefsen B, Li Y, French N, Chen L, Yang G, Villanueva EV
OBJECTIVES: To assess the efficacy of corticosteroid treatment of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
DESIGN, SETTING: Observational study in the two COVID-19-designated hospitals in Wuhu, Anhui province, China, 24 January - 24 February 2020.
PARTICIPANTS: Thirty-one patients infected with the severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) treated at the two designated hospitals.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Virus clearance time, length of hospital stay, and duration of symptoms, by treatment type (including or not including corticosteroid therapy).
RESULTS: Eleven of 31 patients with COVID-19 received corticosteroid treatment. Cox proportional hazards regression analysis indicated no association between corticosteroid treatment and virus clearance time (hazard ratio [HR], 1.26; 95% CI, 0.58-2.74), hospital length of stay (HR, 0.77; 95% CI, 0.33-1.78), or duration of symptoms (HR, 0.86; 95% CI, 0.40-1.83). Univariate analysis indicated that virus clearance was slower in two patients with chronic hepatitis B infections (mean difference, 10.6 days; 95% CI, 6.2-15.1 days).
CONCLUSIONS: Corticosteroids are widely used when treating patients with COVID-19, but we found no association between therapy and outcomes in patients without acute respiratory distress syndrome. An existing HBV infection may delay SARS-CoV-2 clearance, and this association should be further investigated.
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There are a number of studies showing that eating fruits and veggies helps to cut down on cardiovascular events and other diseases.
One study noted in the journal “Nutrition” was done with 30 vegans and 30 people in a control group and it was found that the vegans had a much higher antioxidant rating and lower cholesterol and triglycerides compared to their normal counter parts. Thus they had a much lower possibility of coming down with cardiovascular events.
Another double blind study at the University of Guelph in Canada showed that supplementing diets with algae like chlorella and showed a marked decrease in LDL cholesterol thus helping to prevent cardiovascular events.
A study reported by American Society for Clinical Nutrition showed that death from cardiovascular disease was 26% lower for those who were vegans.
Another study in the New England Journal of Medicine on women and the amount of animal fat they ate had a direct bearing on their risk of colon cancer. The more animal fat they ate the higher the rates of colon cancer.
Even as far back as 1978 in the Journal of Cancer Research… studies done on plant sterols have shown that the more plant sterols consumed in the form of nuts, seeds, fruits, and vegetables the more protective effect these plant sterols have on preventing colon cancer.
Plus studies from the prestigious John Hopkins scientists from the University of North Carolina and George Washington University in 2013 has shown that constant use of antibiotics in raising food animals has created powerful superbugs that are antibiotic resistant. In turn we are causing major problems with the over use of antibiotics.
Even as early as 2006 in the Journal of Microbiology it was found that residual antibiotics were being found in cultivated fish… and those antibiotics were getting into the food chain and creating possible future problems.
Studies at Case Western Uniersity suggest their may be a correlation between Alzheimer’s disease and the intake of dairy products, meat, butter, eggs, sugar. It seems the more fruits and veggies we consume the lower our incidence of disease.
And studies show that the higher the quality of diets… with more fruits and veggies the lower the incidence of age related macular degeneration and blindness.
Enjoy your fruits and veggies and enjoy health!
This article is meant to get you started… so you can do more research on your own… dig a little deeper and find what works for you. This article is for educational purposes only, I strongly recommend that you seek advice from your own GP, private doctor, or medical specialist for any ailment, illness, or medical condition. This article not meant to be a scientific analysis in any way shape or form.
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Acyclovir (a.k.a., Aciclovir), is an antiviral agent marketed under trade names such as Acivirax, Zovirax, Zoral, Cyclovir, Xovir and Imavir, Herpex and Acivir. Currently it is the most prescribed antiviral drug primarily used for a herpes family of infections such as
- Cold sores – Herpes simplex virus type I (HSV-1)
- Genital herpes – Herpes simplex virus type II (HSV-2)
- Chicken pox and shingles – Varicella zoster virus (VZV)
- Infectious Mononucleosis (Mono) – Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)
- Viral illness – Cytomegalovirus (CMV) – least activity
The drug is also used for prophylaxis against herpes family viruses in immunocompromised patients (such as patients undergoing cancer chemotherapy). The half-life of aciclovir is approximately 2.5-4 hours. It is eliminated renally. Therefore, in order for the medication being effective, it has to be taken every few hours to sustain its concentration in the blood stream.
Drug resistance to acyclovir is rare if used short term in aggressive therapy approach. However, in immune-compromised people, continuous use of the drug can lead to development of a viral resistance (viral mutation), significantly decreasing the effectiveness of the agent. Once the drug resistance is developed, it would also reduce the effectiveness of other antiviral drugs such as valaciclovir and famciclovir.
Too much acyclovir toxicity can lead to adverse health conditions
Alghough Acyclovir is considered a narrow range antiviral agent and presents a relatively low cytotoxicity, it negatively and aggressively affects the state of biological equilibrium in a living organism. Some of the well documented side effects and symptoms of acyclovir are
The drug’s toxicity should be considered in all patients where any organs have an impaired function, especially liver or kidneys. Many patients report kidney pain with using of acyclovir. If any kidney discomfort continues with usage of the drug, it should be immediately discontinued. If a long term acyclovir administration is warranted, the agent’s blood plasma concentrations should be measured regularly to avoid severe intoxication, especially in patients with renal dysfunctions.
Common Acyclovir adverse effects and symptoms reported by patients are
- Headaches and migraines 6 to 8 hours after intake
- Change in urine odor
- Extreme fatigue and feeling tired all the time
- Reduced recovery from injuries
- Gastrointestinal problems that continue past the treatment, including pale stools
- Insomnia and alteration of sleep patterns
- Muscle cramps and pain
- Electrolyte imbalances
- Vomiting and nausea
- Joint pain
- Mood swings and depression
- Bad taste in mouth
- Increase of acne breakouts
- Increased thirst
- Facial swelling
- Low back and kidney pain
- Numbness in feet and hands
- Hair loss
- Liver function impairment, yellow eyes
- Light sensitivity
When using the drug, it is advised to reduce dietary calcium as it alters calcium metabolism and drink plenty of water to reduce the strain on the kidneys.
Acyclovir should only be used as a last measure of the viral control if other methods are not effective. Other methods of viral control are low carbohydrate diet, restoration of the digestive function, particularly protein absorption with protease enzymes, restoration of the intestinal flora particularly with acidophilus probiotics, reduction of stress, staying warm, dietary avoidance of coffee, beverages that contain citric acid, arginine rich foods, and raising body alkalinity with foods and especially with consumption of lemons. Supplementation of L-Lysine amino acid at 250-500mg daily in mornings for a couple of weeks can be helpful. Higher doses of L-Lysine are damaging to kidney functions. Immunomodulatory herbs such as andrographis paniculata can be very helpful short term as well. | <urn:uuid:d693776a-1ce2-41d6-a48b-4fd86210aee7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.toomuchof.com/acyclovir/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00266.warc.gz | en | 0.915368 | 883 | 3.28125 | 3 |
Get Files Lost in Windows 10
It is not too hard to explain why you lose files from a Windows 10 PC. It is normal, isn't it? Deleting is the leading cause of getting files lost. You delete files every day, and frequently empty the recycle bin. Other causes like format, reformat, virus infection, partition loss also lead to loss of data from your Windows 10 hard drive. If your Windows 10 operating system crashed, you might lose most of important files. As you know, a Windows 10 missing files recovery tool can help you recover missing files from Windows 10 hard drive. But first of all, you should stop writing to your Windows 10 PC to protect original data.
Solution for Recovering Missing Files from Windows 10
Solution 1: Deleted Files Recovery in Windows 10
Checking the recycle bin to get files back after deletion is the easiest way to recover deleted files. If you have emptied the recycle before recovery, you'd better download a data recovery tool to help you.
Solution 2: Turning to Data Recovery Service Provider
Actually, you are at high success rate of getting lost files back by sending your Windows 10 PC to a professional data recovery service provider. The data recovery service pros will recover lost files for you. The disadvantages are: expensive fees, privacy leaking, taking a lot of time.
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Tumor suppressors are generally downregulated in individual cancers and knowledge of the systems by which tumor cells restrict the appearance of tumor suppressors is very important to the prognosis and involvement of illnesses. the PML ubiquitination functions are often influenced by other styles of posttranslational adjustments, such as for example phosphorylation, prolylisomerization, and sumoylation. Such feature signifies a highly governed character of PML ubiquitination in various cellular circumstances and cell contexts, hence providing many strategies of possibility to intervene PML ubiquitination pathways. We talk about the potential of concentrating on PML ubiquitination pathways for anti-cancer healing strategies. gene was originally determined on the breakpoint from the gene continues to be subject to extensive studies. The individual gene can provide rise to at least 12 transcripts because of substitute splicing [2,3]. These isoforms talk about the same N-terminal region including RBCC (Band, B-box, and coiled-coil) theme but differ within their C-termini. PML may be the essential element of PML-nuclear physiques (PML-NBs), that buy 693228-63-6 are spherical subnuclear organelles using a size of 0.1 to at least one buy 693228-63-6 1?m [4,5]. PML features as the arranging center of the structure, enabling the recruitment of several proteins through systems concerning SUMO-modifications and connections . PML-NBs are recognized to great tune several cellular processes & most of these are linked to tumor suppression . As PML is essential for the set up of PML-NBs, the natural features of PML-NBs are relatively difficult to end up being recognized from those of PML. PML tumor suppressive features The tumor suppressive function of PML was initially suggested with the id of PML-RAR fusion proteins in APL. Extra genetic evidence originates from PML null mice. These mice are inclined to develop papilloma, carcinoma, and T/B lymphomas in a number of chemical substance and physical settings of carcinogenesis . When crossed with various other tumor mouse versions, PML reduction accelerates tumor advancement . Furthermore, research with in vitro and/or in vivo systems possess revealed several PML-elicited cellular features that are linked to tumor suppression. These features are referred to below: 1.Many lines of evidence indicate a job of PML in modulating apoptosis. For example, lymphocytes, thymocytes and embryonic fibroblasts produced from mice are even more resistant to apoptosis induced by stimuli that activate either intrinsic or extrinsic apoptotic pathway, weighed against their outrageous type counterparts [9,10]. The pro-apoptotic features of PML could be mediated by both p53-reliant and p53-indie systems. PML activates p53 by multiple systems, such as marketing its phosphorylation and acetylation by recruiting it into PML-NBs and by binding and inhibiting the p53 harmful regulator MDM2 [11,12]. Besides p53, other elements are implicated in the pro-apoptotic function of PML. One particular molecule is certainly Daxx, which is certainly recruited to PML-NBs through its relationship with sumoylated PML . Daxx is certainly reported to repress the appearance of many anti-apoptotic genes when localized in PML-NBs, thus eliciting pro-apoptotic features . Lately, the extranuclear PML continues to be reported to create a complicated with inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate receptor (IP3R), Akt and PP2a in ER and mitochondria-associated membrane, where buy 693228-63-6 PML participates in Akt- and PP2a-dependent modulation of IP3R phosphorylation to market IP3R-mediated calcium discharge from ER, thus inducing apoptosis . 2. PML was initially implicated in mobile senescence by its requirement of V-H-Ras-induced senescence via modulating p53 acetylation and activation . Subsequently, it’s been discovered that overexpression of a specific PML isoform, PML-IV, induces senescence via an Rb-dependent system [17,18]. Intriguingly, through the induction of senescence, PML-NBs are colocalized with senescence-associated heterochromatin foci (SAHF), Rabbit Polyclonal to OR52E2 Rb, and E2F, which is certainly considered to mediate PML-induced repression of E2F focus on genes, resulting in proliferation arrest, DNA harm and senescence . Latest study determined TBX2, a T-box transcription aspect, as an E2F focus on crucial for PML-induced senescence . 3. PML insufficiency leads to elevated neoangiogenesis and raised appearance of pro-angiogenic elements such as for example HIF-1 and VEGF in individual and mouse tumors. 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Dani elderly man collecting leaves of tabacco near Kurima (Baliem Valley, Papua, Indonesia).
I met this compelling man while trekking across the valley. We have interacted only using hands and smiles. He offered me his leaves and I thanked giving him sugar and cigarettes.
It was a moment of great intensity and energy I won't forget anymore...
Dani use a limited number of tools made with stone, bone and bamboo. The most important on is the stone axe, they use to cut trees, to carve sticks, to plan aces and to break bones of pigs during the slaughter.
The introduction of the metal, brought by the Western civilizations, has made them to adopt the machete and the blades of steel for the work of sowing.
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Andrew Young On The End Of The Gold Standard And America's Financial Vision
To the best of our knowledge, the only Black politician who has publicly made a direct connection between world poverty and the end of the gold standard is Andrew Young. Among Blacks, only Nation of Islam leader, The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, preceded him in linking the end of the gold standard with world wide monetary inflation and the instability in world trade that would stem from not having the paper currencies of America and England backed by the precious metal. Today we take a deeper look at Andrew Young's first-hand witness of how the world's monetary regime unraveled and what he thought about it, at the time.
In his book A Way Out Of No Way Young writes (the italics are ours):
"The assassination of so many political and social leaders in the 1960s who were critical of America's vision of itself probably set back the cause of freedom at least twenty years. The Nixon administration institutionalized these setbacks through the appointment of conservative judges, the shift of expenditures to the defense industry, and perhaps worst of all, by abandoning America's leadership role in the world economy by repudiating the post-war Bretton Woods Agreements. Let me digress a moment and look at the Bretton Woods Agreements more closely- an agreement which had provided economic stability for the post-war world for twenty-five years.
Bretton Woods had provided a stable currency for the world which was pegged to the dollar, reasonable interest rates that encouraged development through public and private investment, and free access to technology and markets. From 1945 to 1973, the world grew and prospered under cooperative American leadership, which led with a strong dollar backed by gold.
One of my first congressional hearings was as a member of the Banking Sub-committee on International Finance, where in 1973 the Nixon Administration appeared en masse to advocate the end of U.S.-backed stability for the world monetary system. No one knew quite why. The arguments seemed based more on economic theories than practical evidence.
But George Schultz, Secretary of the Treasury, Paul Volker, then Assistant Secretary for International Monetary Affairs, and Arthur Burns, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank all said that they agreed on this course of action or, really, inaction. Twenty years later, Paul Volker, in his book Changing Fortunes, admitted that all of these distinguished men had grave reservations about their recommendation at the time, but they were going along with the new administration's position. I questioned them, and as the lowest-ranking member of the Committee, admittedly did not understand the meaning and implications of their actions. But without some strong agreement and leadership, it seemed that politics would increasingly influence currencies and prices.
Less than six months after this decision was taken, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was formed, the price of oil went from $3.50 per barrel to eventual highs of $50.00, and a major shift in our nation's economic fortunes began.
One of the greatest shifts in wealth in the history of the planet was about to occur, and the global economy went from a situation of gradual stable growth for twenty-five years under U.S. leadership, vision, and sacrifice, to the current economic roller coaster which had led to worldwide anxiety, economic stagnation, and joblessness.
This matter has never received sufficient attention and discussion. The press and the Congress got caught up in the Watergate scandal, and thanks again to the spirit moving across the South, southern Democrats were freed to vote their conscience, confident of their new protection from black voters in the coming elections.
Nixon was maligned and forced to resign because of the Watergate break-in scandal. But the greatest damage he did to the nation and to the world and his greatest crime may have been the abdication of American global leadership and financial vision. Whenever I think about this I mourn again the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy, and I lament Hubert Humphrey's loss in 1968 by less than 1 percent of the vote. Things might have been so different.
Forgive the digression, but even thoughts must be allowed to flow freely and uncensored when the 'spirit is a'movin over the land'."
Thursday, February 8, 2001
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If you want to know about Babylon Mesopotamia, you need to go back in time. Mesopotamia, nestled between the two rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates, was the seat of the one of the earliest known civilizations of the world.
The region not only developed, but passed on its rich culture to successive civilizations in the surrounding areas as well. Excavations carried out by archaeologists over the ages have revealed a wealth of information.
The region also witnessed regular warfare for wresting control of the city states that flourished during successive empires. After conquering Babylon, the Persians divided Mesopotamia into Babylon where politics and administration was concentrated and in a place called Ashur.
The growth of the Helentistic period began soon after Selucus conquered Babylon leading to both the cultural and economic progress of Mesopotamia.
Rise and fall and rise:
Babylon is regarded by scholars of ancient history as the most important city state which prospered around 3 BC. The famous King Hammurabi was instrumental in making Babylon the capital of his kingdom.
The people soon began revering Marduk, who was identified with Bel and regarded as a patron god as well. He was considered a patron god and in ancient Mesopotamian culture, god fixed the edicts and rules which human beings were supposed to follow.
The Assyrians under Sennacherib destroyed Babylon in 689 BC. The famous city was again rebuilt to add luxury and color reminiscent of the days of Neuchadnezzar, when it was at its prime. Among the Seven Wonders of the World were the Hanging Gardens, the walls of the Babylonian palace and the Ishtar gate which was decorated with glazed bricks.
Babylon in Mesopotamia attained significance as a place for sensual living after it was captured by the Greeks in 538 BC under Cyrus the great. By 275 BC, the residents were transported to Selucia which replaced Babylon as a center for commerce and trade.
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Considerations for Using Concomitant Medications in Patients With COVID-19
Last Updated: December 16, 2021
|Rating of Recommendations: A = Strong; B = Moderate; C = Weak|
Rating of Evidence: I = One or more randomized trials without major limitations; IIa = Other randomized trials or subgroup analyses of randomized trials; IIb = Nonrandomized trials or observational cohort studies; III = Expert opinion
Individuals with underlying medical conditions, such as cardiovascular disease, pulmonary disease, diabetes, and malignancy, and those who receive chronic immunosuppressive therapy are at higher risk of severe illness with COVID-19. These patients are often prescribed medications to treat their underlying medical conditions.
Early in the pandemic, some of these medications, such as angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs),1 HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors (statins),2,3 and H-2 receptor antagonists,4 were hypothesized to offer potential as COVID-19 therapeutic agents. Others, such as nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents (NSAIDs), were postulated to have negative impacts.5 Currently, there is no evidence that discontinuing medication for underlying medical conditions offers a clinical benefit for patients with COVID-19.6-8 For example, the Food and Drug Administration stated that there is no evidence linking the use of NSAIDs with worsening of COVID-19 and advised patients to use them as directed.9 Additionally, the American Heart Association, the Heart Failure Society of America, and the American College of Cardiology issued a joint statement that renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system antagonists, such as ACE inhibitors and ARBs, should be continued as prescribed in those with COVID-19.10
Therefore, patients with COVID-19 who are treated with concomitant medications for an underlying medical condition should not discontinue these medications during acute management of COVID-19 unless discontinuation is otherwise warranted by their clinical condition (AIII). For patients with COVID-19 who require nebulized medications, precautions should be taken to minimize the potential for transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in the home and in health care settings.11,12
The COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel recommends against using medications off-label to treat COVID-19 if they have not been shown to be safe and effective for this indication in a clinical trial (AIII). Clinicians should refer to the Therapies section of the Guidelines for information on the medications that have been studied as potential therapeutic options for patients with COVID-19.
When prescribing medications to treat COVID-19, clinicians should always assess the patient’s current medications for potential drug-drug interactions and/or additive adverse effects.13 The decision to continue or change a patient’s medications should be individualized based on their specific clinical condition.
- Patel AB, Verma A. COVID-19 and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers: what is the evidence? JAMA. 2020;323(18):1769-1770. Available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32208485.
- Lee KCH, Sewa DW, Phua GC. Potential role of statins in COVID-19. Int J Infect Dis. 2020;96:615-617. Available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32502659.
- Kashour T, Halwani R, Arabi YM, et al. Statins as an adjunctive therapy for COVID-19: the biological and clinical plausibility. Immunopharmacol Immunotoxicol. 2021;43(1):37-50. Available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33406943.
- Mather JF, Seip RL, McKay RG. Impact of famotidine use on clinical outcomes of hospitalized patients with COVID-19. Am J Gastroenterol. 2020;115(10):1617-1623. Available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32852338.
- Yousefifard M, Zali A, Zarghi A, Madani Neishaboori A, Hosseini M, Safari S. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in management of COVID-19; a systematic review on current evidence. Int J Clin Pract. 2020;74(9):e13557. Available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32460369.
- Lopes RD, Macedo AVS, de Barros E Silva PGM, et al. Effect of discontinuing vs continuing angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin II receptor blockers on days alive and out of the hospital in patients admitted with COVID-19: a randomized clinical trial. JAMA. 2021;325(3):254-264. Available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33464336.
- Cohen JB, Hanff TC, William P, et al. Continuation versus discontinuation of renin-angiotensin system inhibitors in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19: a prospective, randomised, open-label trial. Lancet Respir Med. 2021;9(3):275-284. Available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33422263.
- Bauer A, Schreinlechner M, Sappler N, et al. Discontinuation versus continuation of renin-angiotensin-system inhibitors in COVID-19 (ACEI-COVID): a prospective, parallel group, randomised, controlled, open-label trial. Lancet Respir Med. 2021;9(8):863-872. Available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34126053.
- Food and Drug Administration. FDA advises patients on use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) for COVID-19. 2020. Available at: https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-advises-patients-use-non-steroidal-anti-inflammatory-drugs-nsaids-covid-19. Accessed October 26, 2021.
- Bozkurt B, Kovacs R, Harrington B. Joint HFSA/ACC/AHA statement addresses concerns re: using RAAS antagonists in COVID-19. J Card Fail. 2020;26(5):370. Available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32439095.
- Cazzola M, Ora J, Bianco A, Rogliani P, Matera MG. Guidance on nebulization during the current COVID-19 pandemic. Respir Med. 2021;176:106236. Available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33248363.
- Sethi S, Barjaktarevic IZ, Tashkin DP. The use of nebulized pharmacotherapies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ther Adv Respir Dis. 2020;14:1753466620954366. Available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33167796.
- University of Liverpool. COVID-19 drug interactions. 2021. Available at: https://www.covid19-druginteractions.org/. Accessed November 1, 2021. | <urn:uuid:71dd282a-7106-43cc-996c-b3586ed2580a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/therapies/concomitant-medications/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.802692 | 1,676 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Figure 2-3.Series-wound dc motor.
This type of motor develops a very large amount of turning force, called torque, from a standstill.
Because of this characteristic, the series dc motor can be used to operate small electric appliances,
portable electric tools, cranes, winches, hoists, and the like.
Another characteristic is that the speed varies widely between no-load and full-load. Series motors
cannot be used where a relatively constant speed is required under conditions of varying load.
A major disadvantage of the series motor is related to the speed characteristic mentioned in the last
paragraph. The speed of a series motor with no load connected to it increases to the point where the motor
may become damaged. Usually, either the bearings are damaged or the windings fly out of the slots in the
armature. There is a danger to both equipment and personnel. Some load must ALWAYS be connected to
a series motor before you turn it on. This precaution is primarily for large motors. Small motors, such as
those used in electric hand drills, have enough internal friction to load themselves.
A final advantage of series motors is that they can be operated by using either an ac or dc power
source. This will be covered in the chapter on ac motors.
Q7. What is the main disadvantage of a series motor?
Q8. What is the main advantage of a series motor?
A shunt motor is connected in the same way as a shunt generator. The field windings are connected
in parallel (shunt) with the armature windings. The circuit for a shunt motor is shown in figure 2-4. | <urn:uuid:518ee67a-1a10-4e4b-954d-8c2e2c3782d0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://electriciantraining.tpub.com/14177/css/Figure-2-3-Series-Wound-Dc-Motor-51.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283008.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00085-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929273 | 348 | 3.296875 | 3 |
February 21, 2001
WSGC Newsletter for Educators
The Washington NASA Space Grant Consortium's electronic newsletter for teachers provides curriculum ideas, Internet links and other resources to help you better meet the Washington EALRs and the National Science Education Standards.TABLE OF CONTENTS
-- USGS LAUNCHES EARTHQUAKE WEB SITE (K-12)
-- FREE TUFTS U WORKSHOPS (6-12)
-- ONLINE SCIENCE CLASSES OFFERED
-- OZONE FACT SHEET AVAILABLE
-- HAVE A SOLAR BLAST
-- ROCKET SCIENCE AND MORE (1-12)
The Earthquake Hazards Program of the U.S. Geological Survey recently introduced a Web site to supply information on global and U.S. earthquakes.
The new site includes hazard maps, historical data, photos, and classroom activities broken down by grade level. Students and instructors can now retrieve information including field investigations of the 1999 earthquake in Izmit, Turkey, and the 2000 Tottori earthquake in Japan. Visit
The Foundation For the Future, a Bellevue nonprofit organization dedicated to the long-term future of humanity, is once again co-sponsoring Tufts University's Wright Center for Science Education Workshop Series.
The summer workshops are free of charge, including room and board, and are open to all full-time high school and middle school science teachers. Workshop topics include space explorations, the case study method of learning about the human body, aquaculture and watershed education, and climate change.
To obtain an application, contact Ann Reid at (425) 451-1333 or
For detailed information on the individual workshops, go to
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is offering K-12 teachers a free 30-day trial membership to sample their distance learning courses, including their Seminars on Science program. Course offerings include: Sharks and Rays: Past and Present; Genetics, Genomics, Genethics; and a spring class, How to Study Spiders.
A one-year individual membership is available for $349. School and district site licenses are also available. To sign up for the free trial membership, go to Connected University at
NASA's Earth Observatory offers a unique reference section with straightforward fact sheets and other articles on the atmosphere, oceans, remote sensing and other topics. The site also includes images, media alerts, and summaries of Earth science headlines from radio, newspaper, and television. Visit the Earth Observatory at
Sun-Earth Day -- a national celebration of the Sun, the space around Earth and how all of it affects life on our planet -- takes place April 27.
Teachers can receive a Sun-Earth Day Education Kit, support materials for the classroom and e-mail mentoring. For more information, see:
Ed Sobey, author of Fantastic Flying Fun with Science: 69 Projects You Can Fly, Spin, Launch and Ride. returns for a workshop May 19 at the NASA Regional Educator Resource Center.
Rocket Science II, geared to K-12 teachers, demonstrates new rocket launching devices that you can make and use with inexpensive materials. Spaces are still available in the March 10 workshop, Stars and Galaxies, an astronomy workshop for teachers of grades 8-12. Dr. Julie Lutz, UW professor of Astronomy (and ERC coordinator) will demonstrate activities, videos, and slide sets to enrich your astronomy curriculum on the universe beyond the solar system. All participants will receive a Hubble Deep Field poster.
All workshops are free and take place from 1-4 p.m. at the Washington NASA Space Grant office, Rm. 401, Johnson Hall. Free parking is available on campus. Pre-registration is required and clock hours are available. To register, call (206) 543-1943, or e-mail
Ideas, comments and Web sites of interest to other teachers should be sent to Irene Svete, newsletter editor, at
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American crypto users could face new scrutiny, as much-derided Treasury Department proposals to regulate the industry have resurfaced for the first time since 2020 – but experts have warned observers not to panic.
The proposals, dismissed as “shortsighted” and “not [made] in good faith” back in 2020, seek to compel crypto exchanges to collect the names and addresses of customers who transfer tokens to private wallets: “unhosted” or just regular crypto wallets controlled by crypto users.
The plans were first formulated under the former Treasury chief Steven Mnuchin, under whom they were posted online for comment. But the plans were then taken up by the staff of the current Secretary Janet Yellen.
In essence, the plans seek to apply to the crypto industry the same sort of Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN, a Treasury-run regulator)-enforced regulations that apply to conventional financial institutions. Institutions of this sort are obliged to report all transactions above a certain monetary worth.
The proposal has been included in the Treasury’s Semiannual Agenda and Regulatory Plan, which although not finalized at this stage, usually lists the Department’s most crucial regulations expected to be issued.
In the Federal Register, an official government document, the Department referred to the proposal as the “Clarification of the Requirement to Collect, Retain and Transmit Information on Transactions Involving Convertible Virtual Currencies and Digital Assets With Legal Tender Status.”
The Department noted that regulators “intend to issue a revised proposal” that will “clarify the meaning of ‘money’” as used in the existing Bank Secrecy Act (1970).
The regulators, it added, “intend that the revised proposal will ensure that the rules apply to domestic and cross-border transactions involving convertible virtual currency, which is a medium of exchange […] but lacks legal tender status.”
The relevant agencies, it concluded, “further intend that the revised proposal will clarify that these rules apply to domestic and cross-border transactions involving digital assets that have legal tender status.”
If formally adopted, the rule could be in place by the end of summer this year.
However, experts – including the former FinCEN Acting Director Michael Mosier, who served at the regulator in 2021, urged calm, writing on Twitter that “for all we know, it could be a new rule for new comment.”
He wrote that it would be impossible to “tell unless or until something comes out,” adding:
“This list just preserves [the] ability to move it. [It] doesn’t mean it’s coming. Rules get put on [on the register] multiple times without moving, due to shifting priorities and resource constraints.”
Gregory Lisa, the Chief Legal Officer at Element Finance and also a former FinCEN official, concurred.
Meanwhile, others seem to be getting ready for a battle if need be.
– 2022 Crypto Regulation Trends: Focus on DeFi, Stablecoins, NFTs, and More
– Hillary Clinton Argues Crypto Could Destabilize Nations, Currencies
– US Community on Alert over Draft Law that Could Give Treasury Sweeping Powers over Crypto
– US Regulator Calls For Stablecoin Bank Regulation, Coordinated Regulatory Approach To Crypto
– IRS Says It Is Fighting ‘Mountains’ of Crypto & NFT ‘Fraud’ and Celebrity Shills
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RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian police said a catastrophic dam failure last year was the result of mining company Samarco Mineração SA’s attempts to expand the structure too quickly without proper monitoring.
Police in Minas Gerais state on Tuesday said that they will seek charges of “qualified homicide” for the deaths of 19 people following the disaster, and are requesting arrest warrants for six Samarco officials and one engineer at consultancy Vogbr Recursos Hídricos & Geotecnica Ltda. Among those accused was former Samarco Chief Executive Ricardo Vescovi, who stepped down in January to prepare his defense after federal police named him in a probe into environmental crimes.
The accusations leveled Tuesday have no exact equivalent in the U.S. legal system and fall a step short of formal charges, which in Brazil can be filed only by prosecutors. Qualified homicide is more serious than the Brazilian version of manslaughter and carries sentences of 12 to 30 years, the maximum amount of time that Brazilian law allows prisoners to be detained.
Considered Brazil’s worst-ever environmental calamity, the collapse of Samarco’s so-called Fundão tailings dam on Nov. 5, 2015, released a tsunami of mine waste that flowed hundreds of miles from the hills of Minas Gerais to the Atlantic Ocean, destroying everything in its path. Neither Samarco nor its parent companies — global mining giants BHP Billiton Ltd. BHP, -1.27% of Australia and Vale SA VALE, +2.35% of Brazil — have said what caused the accident. | <urn:uuid:ce08d222-7724-43bc-9b39-fbecdbc04eee> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.marketwatch.com/story/samarco-officials-blamed-in-deadly-brazil-dam-collapse-2016-02-23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00427-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951418 | 333 | 1.757813 | 2 |
American Indian Fairy Tales, by Margaret Compton, , at sacred-texts.com
p. 133 p. 134 p. 135
Turtle-dove was always anxious about him, for an old witch who lived in that part of the country stole every little boy that she could find.
One day Turtle-dove went down to the valley to gather seeds and herbs. She carried her baby on her back, but he was heavy, and after a time she grew tired from the weight and constant stooping. So she took the baby and laid him under a sage-brush, telling his sister to watch him.
Presently the old witch came that way, and going up to the bundle, felt it all over, and asked Yellow-bird what it contained.
"It is my sister," said she, for she thought the witch would not want to steal a girl.
Then the old witch scolded her, growing more and more loud and angry in her speech and manner until her eyes stood out, glaring at the girl, and her grizzled locks rattled like the naked branches of the trees. Yellow-bird grew cold as ice and could not even scream, she was so frightened.
The old witch, seeing that she was not likely to be attacked, seized the little pappoose and flew away with him on her bat-like wings to the distant mountain, which no man can climb by reason of the rattlesnake forest at its base.
When she reached her den, which was a hollow place black with cinders and hidden from sight by a clump of hemlock trees, she laid the boy on the ground, broke the strips of deer skin that held his fur blanket over him and stretched his legs till he became a man.
"Now," said she, "I shall have a husband."
Although Sage-cock had suddenly grown to a man's size, he had only a baby's heart and knew no better than to marry an ugly old witch.
When Turtle-dove returned and heard Yellow-bird's story she was very angry and would not forgive the girl for not calling her. She spent day after day searching among the rocks and wherever a wild beast or a witch might have a hiding-place. She left no clump of bushes, however small, unexplored, but all to no purpose. At last she went to her brother, the Eagle, and told him her story.
Eagle was keen of sight and a swift hunter. He put on his war feathers and his war paint and set out in search of the boy.
One day he heard a baby crying, but he did not recognize its voice. He told his sister, and she begged him to take her to the place, for she felt sure that she would know the child's voice and he would know hers.
They went towards the witch's mountain. Before they reached it they heard the child cry; but did not know how to get to him because of the rattlesnake forest.
Eagle thought he would try his magic, for he was one of the wizards of the tribe. He took two feathers from his head dress and spread them out into
wings, which he fastened upon his shoulders. He then placed Turtle Dove on his back and flew with her over the forest of rattlesnakes.
He hid in some bushes while the mother called, "Sage-cock, Sage-cock."
The child cried and strove to get out of the den. He did struggle through the bushes, but the witch caught him. Then with one blow of her stick she killed a mountain sheep near by, and taking the boy in her arms, jumped into its stomach. She pulled the wool about them and lay very still.
Meanwhile Eagle killed a rabbit and put it on the top of a tall pine tree, then peeled the bark so that it would be hard to climb. They watched for days but with no success.
At last the old woman grew hungry, and Sage-cock cried for food. So she crept out, and seeing the rabbit, tried to get it.
When Eagle saw her he knew that the baby could not be far off. He stretched himself full length on the ground and listened, with his ear to the earth.
First he heard a faint cry which seemed to come from the sheep, then, as he went nearer, he heard the boy's heart thumping
and knew just whereto go. He found the baby, caught him up in his arms and ran quickly with him down to the edge of the rattlesnake forest.
Knowing the old witch would follow him, he raised a great snow-storm, that covered all his tracks, so that she should not know in what direction he had gone.
But in his haste he dropped two eagle's feathers, and the witch knew at once who had stolen her husband. She went to her brother, one of the chiefs of the rattlesnakes, and asked him to take her part. He hated her, for she was always getting him into trouble; but she was his sister, and he could not refuse.
Just then, Eagle's war-whoop was heard; and, having no place in which to hide her, he opened his mouth, and let her jump down his throat. She would not be still and bothered him so much that after Eagle had passed he tried to throw her off. But he could not rid himself of her, and at last he wrenched himself so hard that he jumped out of his own skin.
The witch still lives in it and rolls about among the rocks to this day, mocking all who pass, though no one can ever lay hold of her. The Pale-faces call her Echo.
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Testing is the way to go. We can give you lots of tips about what works for us (and I'll give mine below) but ultimately everybody's diabetes is different, and you'll have to find what mostly works for you. That means trial and error, so if you plan for the worst, you'll be all right. Take more food than you think you might need (and/or money to buy more) as well as a source of fast-acting carbs (like glucose tablets).
Take a few notes to record what you do, such as changes in basal rates (if you're on a pump) and how much you ate and how long you rode. Then tweak it until *you* are happy with it.
Here's what mostly works for me now. When I ride in the morning--which is easiest for me--I lower my basal to about 60% of normal about 1-1.5 hours before I head out. Then about 15 minutes before the ride I eat something with a lot of protein and about 20g of carbs (yoghurt). During the ride, I eat about 20-30g of carb (gel/banana/Clif Bar/etc.) every 30-40 minutes. I don't usually bolus for any of the food before or during the ride, and this keeps me pretty stable.
And then I need some insulin right after I finish a ride to keep my BG from shooting way up. That's me.
As for CGM, it's great most of the time, but I find mine to be rather unreliable when I'm on the bike. So just keep in mind that it's not a substitute for testing when you're riding.
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The history of Los Angeles as told through 232 objects.
Los Angeles was founded on September 4, 1781. Between now and the 232nd anniversary, we are gathering the stories behind iconic objects that help explain our city. Los Angeles is older than Chicago, Atlanta or Washington, D.C. In fact, when L.A.’s founders were gathering at El Pueblo, New York City was still occupied by the British army. We have a long story to tell, let’s take a look back and see where the city came from. Feel free to add to this exhibition. Email your ideas to [email protected]
The destruction of Bunker Hill was well documented. The 1960’s disintegration of the once-ritzy neighborhood in downtown Los Angeles is captured in photographs, newsreels, and endless stories. As the slow, sad end turned the apartments, the houses, and the streets back into dust, Olivet (shown here) and Sinai, the twin rail cars of Angels Flight, remained the one bright spot in that orgy of destruction. The world’s shortest railroad, which ferried passengers up and down the hill from 1901 to 1969, connected downtown’s business and entertainment center to its tony residential district. On May 18, 1969 so much of the hill was gone that the trains stopped running and went into storage with a promise to return once the redevelopment was complete. Twenty-seven years later the cars were restored and returned to a new spot in the old neighborhood. Today, the equation is flipped as downtown loft dwellers, living in what were once banks and fancy department stores, ride up the hill to jobs in high rises, or to visit cultural institutions or hear music at California Plaza.
Photography by Leonard Auslender
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Hnjótur Farm West Fjords Iceland
Two boats side by side. Left boat cropped out of image. I was taken by the appearance of the boat crossing a sea of grass with the hills in the background providing the impression of a large swell.
"At the farm Hnjotur, en route to Breidavik, there is an unique, privately operated aeronautical and folk museum."
" The late farmer of the farm Hnjotur, Egill Olafsson († October 25th 1999) spent a large portion of his life collecting various items and articles of local and national historical importance for his museum. His interest and emphasis was for many reasons oriented towards the aviation history of the country. This museum is among the most interesting in the country and well worth visiting. The museum also has very interesting setups from local history. "http://www.hnjoturtravel.is/attraction.html
Unfortunately we were passing this museum at a time where it was not open so could only admire some of the artefacts surrounding the buildings.
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willperrett (11652) 2013-11-18 1:14
This is fine work. Impeccable composition, natural-looking colours, excellent framing, and the sky adds another element of interest. This fishing boat will never go to sea again, so this is a sort of graveyard. I like the low viewpoint as well: it makes the boat look proud and a memorial to a vanished time. The slight under-exposure is also a bonus, emphasizing the elegiac mood.
dta (80998) 2013-11-18 1:54
Hello Trevor ,
A gorgeous composition , with a strong atmosphere , increased by the cloudy sky . You've very well managed the poor light .
Romano46 (18472) 2013-11-18 2:13
non ci sono parole che possano descrivere a sufficienza la bellezza di questo scatto incredibilmente bello sia per la composizione che per la cura della luce e dei colori.
Spettacolare anche la nitidezza supportata da un eccellente contrasto.
Complimenti. Un lavoro perfetto!
Ciao e buon inizio di settimana
SnapRJW (31629) 2013-11-18 2:25
Hello Trevor - The overcast sky give this shot the mood that works so well with the old beached boat. I like the wildness in the FG grasses and they make a fine FG detail.... the boat is sailing on a sea of green. Nice one! Warm regards Rosemary
InasiaJones (31566) 2013-11-18 2:50
A splendid atmospheric shot you have captured here, full of melancholy, suiting your subject perfectly.
I like your low angle, the muted tones that have enhanced in post-processing and the way you have placed this boat in your composition. I also like your note and the title, for the story they suggest.
HimalAnda (10671) 2013-11-18 3:08
Congratulatiosn for this beautiful picture with nice colors and a perfect composition.
timecapturer (49288) 2013-11-18 3:52
like this! Boats out of their natural environment always make good subjects and this one is riding a sea of grass! I love your POV and the real sense of atmosphere that pervades this scene. Execution and presentation are perfect.
Have a great week - B.
chawax (20760) 2013-11-18 4:57
I didn't visit yet this area of Iceland but I hope to go there one day ! Very nice subject and good composition, very well balanced. The light conditions were not fantastic but you could create a nice atmosphere. Thanks for sharing.
holmertz (57285) 2013-11-18 7:59
This is a fascinating and a very well balanced composition. I love the subdued, darkish colours of grey, brown and green and the fine contrasts.
dpinho (37) 2013-11-18 8:23
Trés belle capture!
J'adore les couleurs!
Wanda1 (15142) 2013-11-18 21:59
It does look like it is crossing a sea of grass. What a lovely and photogenic stranded boat and the dramatic stormy sky makes for a great background and adds a nice atmosphere to the image. Well composed off centre and I like the detail of the bird coming in to land.
tyro (26142) 2013-11-20 3:46
What a pity that museum was closed - but it gave you time to seek out this wonderful treasure!
This is a wonderfully detailed picture, seen so much better at its full-size on "beta" TE and with lovely rich colours and fine soft light. Those distant hills do indeed give a strong impression of a strong sea swell.
Very well seen and very well taken. The colours and contrasts make me think that this might even be an HDR image, but I'm not sure. Whatever, it is a wonderful photograph!
krzychu30 (15512) 2013-11-20 10:52
The old boat as a subject,than the way you composed the scene and finally how you processed the image make this shot unforgettable!
I don´t know if I´m right,but for me it looks like HDR-superb dynamic range and lovely,vivid colors!
Even the dark,cloudy sky works for you and helps you to create th ewhole mood of the scene.
Have a nice day
macjake (70967) 2013-11-21 5:20
there's nothing quite like getting photos of old boats left to die! especially when in Iceland :)
I have a couple of these in my personal gallery too :)
in my opinion, its great that the Museum is closed, it allowed you to focus in on this!!!!!!!!!!!
love the low stance, and the long tall grass complimenting the scene.
well done all around!
Kielia (24077) 2013-11-21 9:35
decaying boats are rewarding subjects for the photographer and this one is no exception. YOu are presenting an excellently composed impression of this poor boat with a fantastic mood. My compliments!
Angshu (56760) 2013-11-26 22:53
The composition is well done & from your low POV, the boat looks even more imposing. The dark sky makes this shot moody...in tune with the boat which has reached the end of its use..The crop to the pano format works well and the accompanying note is good. Good work!
patpatch (1601) 2013-12-09 8:33
You're right,this picture looks like a boat floating on a sea of grass.I hope it wasn't its last travel.
I like the frame (really perfect)with the boat on the left,the grass looks like a lot of spray from a plant sea.
And i like the seagulf on the boat too.
- Copyright: Trevor Moffiet (trevormoffiet) (3112)
- Genre: Places
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2013-07-05
- Categories: Nature, Transportation, Ruins
- Camera: Olympus OMD EM5, Olympus M Zuiko 12-50mm 1:3.5-6.3
- Photo Version: Original Version
- Travelogue: Iceland
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Stricter Laws and Regulations to be Implemented to China’s Relics Market
Several auction groups are taking advantage of the laws and regulations that concerns with the chaotic cultural relics market in China catching the attention of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage.
This prompted the SACH policy and regulation bureau to intensify its supervision and management to this auction groups that take advantage of buyers by driving up relic prices, knowing that several of this relics are fake. Current law states that any auction groups together with their clients are not held responsible for the purchased item poor and inferior quality when they claim beforehand that the authenticity of the item cannot be verified. Other sellers do not have any business certificates or using loopholes strategies in the relic market trade.
The SACH will be setting up a system that will manage and regulate authentication certificates for cultural relics. The administration will also adopt stricter approval procedures for auctions by implementing more specific and concrete requirements for the introduction of auction items together with the responsibilities of the auction professionals.
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What is a Watermelon Radish?
- This large radish is beige to green with occasional pink blush on the outside. The flesh inside is bright pink, giving it a watermelon-like appearance when cut. This tender-crisp cousin of the daikon radish is peppery with a hint of sweetness.
How to Eat
- Because of its unique color, the watermelon radish looks and tastes great thinly sliced or shaved in a salad, or used for pickling. Cut into thin wedges and serve in a veggie tray or spread with butter and a sprinkle of sea salt. Grab a large one and slice thin to use as low-carb mini taco shells! Watermelon radish can also be sauteed, roasted, and baked into colorful chips.
- Rich in Vitamin C.
How to Choose
- Choose radishes that are firm–avoid the spongy ones.
How to Store
- Store refrigerated, covered loosely in plastic for 3 to 5 days in the crisper drawer.
When are they in season?
Where are they grown?
Watermelon Radish and Orange Salad Original recipe by Carley Baulick, MS, RD, ShopRite of Monroe Ingredients 1 small shallot or half of a small red onion, finely minced 2 tablespoons white wine or champagne vinegar 1/4 teaspoon salt 2 medium … Continue reading
Pickled Watermelon Radish Show off the watermelon radish’s beautiful colors year-round by adding gorgeous thin slices to sandwiches, rice bowls, or tacos. Ingredients 1 to 2 watermelon radishes 1/2 cup distilled white vinegar 1/2 cup water 1 teaspoon kosher salt … Continue reading
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Joshua Summit, Hayward
"What a Waste," Feature, 10/23
Provide More Dumpsters
Obviously punishing people who have no other options won't work. The city needs to lean on Waste Management to provide dumpsters in impacted areas. It seems to me that would be a lot easier and more cost-effective than sending cops out to patrol the neighborhoods.
Ann Katz, Oakland
Consume Local Music
In the Bay Area, folks largely realize the importance of consuming locally. We know that it's good for the environment; we know that it sustains local jobs; and we know that it builds our local economy. That being said, most people do not extend this logic to music.
Every time I hear top 40 popular music playing on someone's radio, I wonder if they realize that supporting and normalizing those artists pours money into the hands of a few corporations that are consolidating media to the point of monopoly. Music shapes and reflects our culture, so why let corporate giants dictate and profit from this aspect of our lives when we're often so conscious of the other facets of our consumption?
Since the hip hop industry shares overlapping ownership with privatized prisons around the country, it's no wonder that mainstream-promoted rappers often depict behaviors that 1) land people in prison, 2) erode community and respect for peers, and 3) do not represent the broader and more complex genre as a whole. There are plenty of underground Bay Area artists performing near you with inspiring, honest, and intelligent messages that uplift, rather than degrade our community. Act locally, change the station.
Devin Weaver, Assistant Executive Director, Hip Hop for Change, Oakland
The Express won a national award for journalism excellence in science reporting from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The paper won for Azeen Ghorayshi's May 1 cover story, "Warning: Quake in 60 Seconds." Her in-depth report explored efforts by scientists at UC Berkeley to develop a statewide early warning system for earthquakes.
The judges said Ghorayshi's piece was "sound on science and sage on the politics of earthquake early warning systems," and said the report explained "complicated seismology questions clearly and engagingly."
Ghorayshi's award also included a $3,000 honorarium. The first-place award was in the small newspaper category for all print publications in the United States with a circulation of less than 100,000. Founded in 1848, the American Association for the Advancement of Science is the world's largest general scientific society and is the publisher of the journal Science.
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Lesbian Authors Retool Book Reading Experience
Fighting off a serious staph infection following her back surgery in 2003, Margaret Hultz looked forward to the nightly phone calls from her friend Marie Davis to ease the pain of her nursing home stay.
"It was very, very serious and I really just about died from that. It was terrible; I can't express to you how sick I was," recalled Hultz, 53, who lives in Louisville, Kentucky. "I would sit on the phone at the nurses' desk and laugh and laugh and laugh. I was surrounded by all these older people asking me what was so funny. I couldn't tell them they were naughty stories."
Wanting to perk up her friend's mood, Davis would spin humorous, racy tales featuring lesbians, transsexuals, a lactose intolerant cow, and a lying pair of panties.
"The only thing I could think to do other than get her lunch and call her every evening was to write some funny things. It was written so one very sick woman could laugh herself well," said Davis.
Once Hultz returned home, the women began collecting the stories into a narrative in book form.
"It really started off as little vignettes, little stories," said Hultz. "It wasn't planned as a book but that is exactly what it became."
In 2010 one publisher approached them about turning their novel into an app.
"Marie and I looked at each other and said what is an app?" recalled Hultz. "If they can build an app, why can't we?"
After hiring assistants to help with the coding and technical know-how required, the two turned their tales into an award-winning interactive e-book called "Spoon and the Moon" that debuted in January 2012. In addition to hand drawn animation, each chapter opens with a song.
"Marie is an artist and I am a musician, so we are able to combine those elements along with our writing. It is the perfect medium to combine all of those talents into one," said Hultz, a former San Francisco resident who relocated after her Noe Valley apartment was damaged during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. "It really is the first full-length novel made into an app. We are really, really proud of it."
Davis, 51, the creator of a syndicated cartoon about Kentucky history geared toward middle school students, first met Hultz in 2001 at a bar one night when she was attempting to sing the Jimmy Buffet song "Margaritaville." Hultz joined in and the two out lesbians became fast friends.
Their professional collaboration led them to forming their own publishing house called Wickedly Sisters. They are working on releasing two new e-books this year, one similar in format to their first title that features clothing in a hall closet that set out to murder their owner called "Pocket Murder."
The other is based on the real life story of a Catholic nun called "A Civil War Truce." Both will include new music and animation created by the women.
"We don't really call our readers 'readers.' We call our audience media voyagers. That is what we are doing, we are setting these people up to sail through an adventure," said Davis.
They hope to inspire other women to learn the tools to create their own apps and eBooks as the popularity of tablets and other devices continues to grow.
"We want to encourage women to go out and build apps. It is not that difficult to build apps," said Davis. "There is a revolution going on in the way the arts and sciences can be experienced."
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The goal of this tutorial is to get you quickly up-to-speed with the basics of using OpenGL with GLKit, from the ground up, assuming you have no experience whatsoever. We will build a simple app from scratch that draws a simple cube to the screen and makes it rotate around. In the process, you'll learn the basics of using each of these new APIs. It should be a good introduction to GLKit, whether you've already used OpenGL in the past, or if you're a complete beginner!
The new set of APIs is collectively known as GLKit. It contains four main sections:
GLKView/GLKViewController. These classes abstract out much of the boilerplate code it used to take to set up a basic OpenGL ES project.
GLKEffects. These classes implement common shading behaviors used in OpenGL ES 1.0, to make transitioning to OpenGL ES 2.0 easier. They're also a handy way to get some basic lighting and texturing working.
GLMath. Prior to iOS 5, pretty much every game needed their own math library with common vector and matrix manipulation routines. Now with GLMath, most of the common math routines are there for you!
GLKTextureLoader. This class makes it much easier to load images as textures to be used in OpenGL. Rather than having to write a complicated method dealing with tons of different image formats, loading a texture is now a single method call!
Note that this tutorial slightly overlaps some of the other OpenGL ES 2.0 tutorials on this site. This tutorial does not assume you have read them first, but if you have you might want to skip over the sections you already know.
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The official Jesuit magazine in the United States, "America," has sometimes been referred to as "Америка" for its left-wing articles from the mid-20th century onward. Its infamous editor-in-chief, Father Thomas Reese, S.J., was forced out after the election of Pope Benedict XVI, according to the USCCB's Catholic News Service, "after repeated complaints from then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who objected to the magazine's treatment of sensitive church issues." Fr. Reese showed Benedict XVI was right by becoming a "senior analyst" of post-Christian periodical NCReporter.
The current editor-in-chief, Father Matt Malone, S.J., is considered a moderate (relatively speaking), although most of the other old-guard editors are known to be stuck in the 1960s and 70s. Traditional viewpoints still appear to have virtually no place in the magazine, even though the periodical has published numerous opinions in the past that were contrary to Catholic teaching in the name of tolerance.
It is, therefore, notable that the magazine's website published an interview today by a Jesuit scholastic of Mr. Patrick Buchanan, an American journalist who attends the traditional Latin Mass each Sunday. Buchanan, who ran for president and delivered the famous "culture wars" speech at the Republican convention in 1992, has recently released a new book on President Richard Nixon using numerous notes and memos from when he served in the Nixon Administration.
Here are a few excerpts:
Along with then-Father John McLaughlin, S.J., [later laicized and a well-known American journalist] you were one of a few Catholics who worked in the Nixon White House. Did President Nixon, a Quaker, ever ask your advice on Catholic issues?
Well, I volunteered it to him, as I say in my book. I told him in one memo that all of his emphasis on the Jewish vote and African-American vote wasn’t going anywhere because they were solidly in the Democratic bloc. They’re enormously loyal to the Democratic Party. Secondly, Catholics outnumber the Jewish vote seven to one, and they outnumber the African-American vote two to one. They’re far larger and more numerous and they’re in the process of moving away from the Democratic Party. Nixon often would talk about how the Italian-American vote was beginning to move. We had wanted to appoint an Italian-American and a southerner to the U.S. Supreme Court, partly with the idea of recognizing these folks and saying “you’re not outside the country club of America as far as we’re concerned.” So Nixon recognized this opportunity and I was pushing it even before he got into the White House. In one of my memos, I pointed out that the northern Catholics and the southern Protestants were our new majority that would help us realize victory.
Your book does include a lot of personal anecdotes about your relationship with the president. Did your Catholic faith have any other influence on your work for President Nixon?
I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in. You know, I’m a traditionalist, I’m a Latin mass Catholic and I hold to traditional views of responsibility. I’m not a libertarian in the sense that I think all these social programs should be abolished in any sense. I’m familiar with Rerum Novarum and Quadragesimo Anno and all of those things that influenced me in Catholic school. I went through the nuns and the Jesuits. I mean, I had eight years of nuns and never had any other sort of teacher in my grammar school, and eight years of Jesuits in high school and college. These were pre-Vatican II orders and you could not escape that influence. It’s a part of who you are.
From a Catholic perspective, which of President Nixon’s policies do you believe was most significant?
It wouldn’t be so much his programs as the fact that I think Nixon genuinely believed he could bring peace for a generation. I think he had a utopian sense there, somewhat like Woodrow Wilson whom he admired. I think he wanted to end the war with honor, to get the Americans out of Vietnam. He wanted to preserve the freedom of South Vietnam. Initially he did. In 1973, all of the American troops and POWs were home, and the war seemed to be winding down and peace was at hand. It wasn’t until two years later, after Nixon was gone, that the North Vietnamese mounted their attack that overran Saigon. I think the whole idea of peace, of an end to the Vietnam War and of trying to ameliorate the Cold War with the Soviet Union were very large issues that were as important as any particular program that gave tax credits for parochial school kids—which I advocated for a long time and which we never seemed to be able to push through.
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What exactly is a brownfield? The name really does say a lot… a brownfield is an unused (or under-utilized) commercial or industrial property that is contaminated from past uses. Common brownfields include sites like previous gas stations or old manufacturing plants. These properties become derelict because they have been abandoned by their owners, usually due to financial reasons. So why do we care about brownfields? They can be a good investment option for someone with some risk tolerance. These properties can provide an opportunity to redevelop the brownfield into a much more desirable asset. Common redevelopment options are multi-tenant residential buildings, commercial units, or a combination of both.
Brownfields fall into “tiers”, of which there are 3 (top, middle, and bottom). The top tier brownfields make up 15-20% of sites. These are the most attractive as the market value of the finished product will greatly exceed the costs of remediation. Most brownfields fall into the middle tier (60-70%), where the potential for return on investment is still there, but remediation costs are high. For the top and middle tier sites, these are usually located in or close to urban centres. Bottom tier brownfields (15-20%) are the sites where nothing will happen without government intervention. This is due to remediation costs exceeding any potential return and usually because these sites are in rural or remote areas.
Redeveloping brownfields is like recycling… with time and energy, you can transform a once unwanted product into a fresh and desirable good, all at a profit. There are also social and environmental benefits, like the enhanced quality of life through neighborhood revitalization, reduced site hazards, reduced urban sprawl, and protection of ecosystem health. So why isn’t everyone doing this? Firstly, it can be challenging to acquire funding because financial institutions do not easily lend when risk is involved. There is also a potential for liability associated with the contamination, which can vary depending on the approach taken to remediate the property (digging all the contamination out = lower risk; risk assessing/ treating contamination in-situ = higher risk). The regulating bodies (municipal and provincial) can cause delays as they need to review and approve plans.
Redeveloping brownfields is a complex process that involves multiple stakeholders: property owners, public organizations, developers, lenders, insurance agencies, and industry experts. Every brownfield will have its own challenges and there are no one-size-fits-all solutions, but there here are some examples of how to address the challenges mentioned above:
- Government-provided tax grants and low-interest loans to make brownfield redevelopment more attractive for the middle- and bottom-tier sites.
- Protection from liability for brownfield stakeholders (i.e. there needs to be a clear end for liability once a site has been remediated)
- To avoid regulatory delays, a permanent staff member of the regulating body can have their salary covered by the developers
Getting into brownfield redevelopment is not for everyone. However, with successful partnerships, it can be a great investment option for all parties while giving the community a cleaner, more useful property.
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Rell's calorie labeling veto misguided
Published 1:23 pm, Monday, August 31, 2009
Some things are hard to swallow.
Take Gov. M. Jodi Rell's veto of a bill that requires chain restaurants to post calorie counts on their menus. Fast-food patrons deserve that information -- especially given the reality that we spend 48 percent of our food dollars eating out. Knowledge is supposed to be power. Ignorance of the calorie count of "two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun" is not bliss. It's a set of love handles. Are we lovin' it? Probably not.
Progressive Grocer estimates that this year we will shell out more than $156.8 billion at fast-food restaurants. Obesity is the single most preventable disease in this country after smoking, leading to 300,000 premature deaths, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. That's equivalent to 8.6 percent of Connecticut's 3.5 million residents going to the grave before our time.
"Does it come as a surprise to anyone that a vegetable salad is healthier and more nutritious than a bacon cheeseburger?" Rell remarks in her veto message on An Act Concerning Access to Health and Nutritional Information in Restaurants. The rejoinder is: we plop labels on the back of tobacco products. Is there anyone who still doesn't know that smoking causes cancer?
"Legislation cannot force an individual to choose the vegetable salad over the bacon cheeseburger," Rell said. "Common sense and healthy habits must prevail, not sounds good,' but ineffectual legislation.
"There has been a growing and troubling tendency by some to legislate nearly every aspect of our lives and society, including personal responsibility," Rell rails in her veto message. "Such legislation always comes at a cost to the taxpayer and to individual freedom."
But how can we expect consumers to take "personal responsibility" when we don't give them effective information to make choices? That's my beef. A southwestern Cobb salad at Chili's contains 1,080 calories -- two times the 540 calories in a McDonald's Big Mac. All of this is available on their Web sites. So how much more effort is it to put this information where consumers can see it, on the menu, at the point of purchase?
The Center for Science in the Public Interest and Yale's Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University point to a number of studies that show we lowball calorie content in a lot of what we eat, especially when we dine out. Marlene Schwartz, deputy director of the Rudd Center, acknowledges even she "gets fooled." Why? "Because it's just not that obvious. And our underestimation gets worse as the portions get larger."
Against this battle of the bulge, Connecticut has the chance to be on the vanguard of improving public health, joining New York City, Seattle and California, by giving consumers more information to make better choices. U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-3, who has introduced a similar calorie-labeling bill at the federal level, calls Rell's veto "myopic" in view of the rise in obesity rates and healthcare spending.
DeLauro calls calorie-labeling at restaurants "legislation whose time has come" because it recognizes the reality that because of our lifestyles and work habits we eat out much more often than a decade ago.
The jury is still out on the percentage of folks who change their order based on seeing calorie information prominently displayed. New York City health officials say that if a mere 10 percent of patrons who see the information alter their menu choices, it will significantly cut premature deaths linked to obesity.
Rell also fears calorie-labeling might burden business. But the fiscal note attached to the bill shows it would have cost the state only $360 for revising inspection forms, and that local officials easily could fold the added responsibilities into their other duties. Rell thinks that it might be wiser to wait until some federal legislation comes down the pike.
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Busting Acne Myths Requires Individualized Treatment and Mor
If you have acne, you know the deal- everybody has a cream or suggestion to help you get clear skin. But how do you separate myth, medicine and folklore to find an acne treatment that works for you? That’s what researcher Parker Magin set out to do in a study entitled, A systematic review of the evidence for ‘myths and misconceptions’ in acne management.
Magin and co-researchers from the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, conclude that clinicians cannot be “didactic” when making acne treatment recommendations that are based on diet, hygiene and sunlight exposure. According to Magin, acne treatments should be individualized.
Meanwhile, the Academy of Dermatology has published a press release touting, The Stubborn Truth About Acne: Myths and Misconceptions. Though this article discusses a recent Stanford University survey that examined acne myths held among young adults, it offers no solid advice for securing an acne antidote. Moreover, its meaning is paradoxical.
For example, the article headlines Alexa Boer Kimball, M.D. who is an assistant professor of dermatology at Harvard University. Dr. Kimballs sums up the survey on acne by saying “that substantial differences still exist between popular belief and scientific support, yet this does not change the way patients attempt to care for their acne.”
Dr. Kimballs’s comments at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology casts a discrediting shadow over her groundbreaking research that aimed to separate acne fact from fiction. Just two years ago in 2003, Dr. Kimball was apart of a Stanford University study investigating the effect of stress on acne. Then, Dr. Kimball concluded that, “increased acne severity was significantly associated with increased stress levels… while self-assessed change in diet quality was the only other significant association.” The results of this study suggested that the link between acne, and diet and stress are no longer hypothetical but warrant further examination.
Another investigation aiming to demystify acne came for Dr. Loren Cordain. Cordain and his associates explored the link between diet and acne in a study called Acne Vulgaris: A Disease of Western Civilization. Cordain noted that Kitavan Islanders of Papua New Guinea and the Aché hunter-gatherers of Paraguay had no active cases of acne. This prompted the question, “So why does acne vulgaris affect 79% to 95% of the adolescent population in westernized societies?”
Cordain found that genes alone do not cause the disparity of acne incidences between non-westernized and modernized societies. Other factors must enter the equation.
Acne can arise from hormonal shifts, stress upheavals and a host of other causes. Your best defense against acne is observing yourself and noting what conditions, foods and emotions aggravate your acne situation. From there, you can use self-care to reduce acne flare-ups.
About the Author
Health author and Noixia campaigner Naweko San-Joyz lovingly writes from her home in San Diego. Her works include “Acne Messages: Crack the code of your zits and say goodbye to acne” (ISBN: 0974912204) and the upcoming work “Skinny Fat Chicks, Why we’re still not getting this dieting thing” (ISBN: 0974912212) for release in June of 2005. For useful acne self-help articles visit http://www.Noixia.com. | <urn:uuid:a11b8bba-e760-48b3-bcba-1382d4f8bb98> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://marigoldproduction.com/AS/sites/acne/Busting_Acne_Myths_Requires_Individualiz.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.917058 | 757 | 2.34375 | 2 |
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