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No Cost Screening Trials: The Micrex Solution
Trials are at the core of The Micrex Process. Every day materials arrive from around the world for Screening Trials – and every successful Microcreped product started out as small, hard-to-run hand sheets.
Equipment: The Micrex Microcreper
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The Micrex Lab
Innovation is all about speed. At Micrex, we know that success comes from the ability to quickly try things and fail – fast.
We’ve been around a long time: Micrex has been creating solutions using our patented Micrex/Microcreper technology for almost 50 years.
Many successful commercial Microcreped products have resulted when characteristics of the incoming substrate were also optimized for Microcreping. Optimization may initially seem daunting; however, often very small changes (“de-tuning”) reduce both the incoming substrate cost and the processing costs.
A seemingly insignificant variation in the base web can potentially have a huge impact on how the material processes on the Micrex/Microcreper. While indeed The Micrex Process is complex, because it is mechanical, when carried out properly with the same inputs, the resulting creped product will be the same from run to run. Unexplained variations in the creped product can often be traced to a variation in the base material that existed before creping and which went unidentified by the customer.
Two techniques illustrate how this can work:
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Our best thinking on this topic is available in the following Technical Note.
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106 CHARLES STEWART PARNELL [1877 CHAPTEE VII WAR THE Queen's Speech in opening the parliamentary session of 1877 contained the following paragraph about Ireland: 'You will be asked to constitute one Supreme Court of Judicature for Ireland, and to confer an equitable jurisdiction in the county courts of that country.' Every question that stirred the nation was calmly ignored — land, education, parliamentary franchise, Home Eule. The people had asked for bread in the shape of legislative freedom; they were offered a stone in the shape of a Judicature Bill. Yet Butt showed no disposition to harass the Government. He was resolved to bring forward his Irish measures, to fight them through the House of Commons in accordance with the ordinary rules of the game, and to abide the result. But Parnell and Biggar were now practically in revolt and on the war track. ' If we are to have parliamentary action/ said the former in one of those short, sharp, and decisive sentences which always meant business, 'it must not be the action of conciliation, but of retaliation/ and on the policy of retaliation he was now more than ever inexorably bent. | <urn:uuid:488b1725-5f70-4951-9d0d-e859ed8435e8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.archive.org/stream/TheLifeOfCharlesStewartParnellVolI/TXT/00000111.txt | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00383-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973294 | 239 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Women didn’t have many rights until later in the early 1800s. In conclusion I think that it was wrong of them to blatantly ignore what the women in society had to say and to treat them the way that they did. I think that they should have at least given women a chance to prove themselves, because we all know that women are just as capable as
Jane Addams The Progressive Era, 1890-1920, accomplished great change in the Unites States of America. Many reformers and activits demanded for change in education, food and drug policies, and most importantly the govermenet. The goal for the movement was the purify the nation. One of the main activits during this time was Jane Addams. Jane Addams is often refered to as a social and political pioneer.
Especially due to the fact that at this time women who were unmarried were unable to obtain bank loans and credits cards. Even in terms of employment, jobs that were aimed at women would request for specific physically attractive appearances. Greater opportunities for women began in the early 1960s, due to significant changes taking place on a political level. Eleanor Roosevelt headed The Commission on the Status of Women issued a report in 1963, which found that in America discrimination against women did exist and laws needed to be introduced in order to achieve better gender equality. Introducing The Equal Pay Act in 1964 which saw both men and women entitled to receive the same amount of pay for the same work.
Women’s rights and the way they live has changed greatly over the course of time. Back in the day, women did not have equal rights to men and they had to face many challenges in order to receive the jobs they wanted. Nowadays, women can get the same jobs as men and their power is much more appreciated. The 1930’s affected women in a positive way over time as they tried to work their way up in government positions, obtain more profitable jobs, and help provide for their families; but they still had a long ways to go getting equal rights to men.
With the help of the League of Women, labor movement law for women, women was able to get influenced in the public sphere. They challenged the Supreme Court, as a result women were able to get shorter hours in the workplace. According to Lipschultz, even if women had a suffrage movement and the passing of women’s right, government did not agree that women should still have an equal wage as men, even if they, the women had rights to vote. (Lipschultz, 142-153)
The government of the United States indirectly suppressed women almost as much as African Americans and other minorities. Throughout the 1700’s and early 1800’s, a woman’s place was in the household and not in the work force. Women remained innocent in the mind of the public, but eventually they used this consensus to their advantage. During the Civil War, as a result of the split in the nation, women were overlooked when it came to their opinion. Women used this alienation to seek information that they wished to give to the side in which they supported.
she was able to regain control of one aspect of women’s personal lives. The birth rate in America steadily declined after this movement, because now women have the freedom of choosing when they want to have children. These social movements continued through the 20th century, and both ideas of being careful with alcohol and domestic abuse, and also the acceptance of birth control are still aspects of women's lives
6). The reform that women worked on expanded the opportunity of the federal government of fixing the issue of education,health,wages, and working conditions. In document 6,Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s point of view was that women are just as smart and powerful as men. Women do not always have to be protected by men just because they think that they are “ weak and ignorant and defenseless”. American women are capable of protecting
For some, life after the war offered new opportunities. The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919 made it illegal to exclude women from jobs because of their gender. Educated, middle class women found that doors to the professions previously closed to them were suddenly opening and i was all for that i went into a work system taking care of the injured, and sick. And i have been able to vote.
as they did not gain or keep the access to the professionals nor did they come close to earning equal pay for the same type of work if they continued to hold their jobs after the men returned. Because of the frustrations held by these women, it the led to the start of feminist movements. The late 1950s and 60s became years of change for women with people becoming more vocal about equal rights for women. This led to President Kennedy, in 1961, establishing the Commission on the Status of Women which examined issues relating to women because of the growing interest in women’s rights (Sink).
The progressive era, a period in American history between the 1890s and 1920s, was a time of widespread social activism and political reform. This period saw the formation of labor unions and the implementation of antitrust laws. Most importantly, this time saw a rise in activists who fought for the extension of equal rights for women. Notable advocates at the time were Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Margaret Higgins Sanger; both lobbied on the liberty of married woman and the freedom womanhood. These women, among others, saw this era as an opportune time to demand their rights. | <urn:uuid:4abcb357-253b-4f68-a357-a5a38acaaafb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ipl.org/essay/Women-During-The-Progressive-Era-FKS3CFMENDTT | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.985777 | 1,136 | 4.28125 | 4 |
Coping in Crisis
It is an honor and privilege to be part of another ministry that helps women in crisis called Pampering & Hope. It is wonderful resource for women who are experiencing diseases and other major struggles. For their website www.pamperingandhope.org I wrote the following:
What is a crisis? It means different things to different people. I crisis for me won't be a crisis for you and vice versa. The way we view life and the way we conceptualize the situations in our life in large part is related to the struggles, successes, failures and events of our past. Therefore, how we deal with a crisis today might reflect how our parents coped with crisis, the values we were taught, or the lessons of life learned. There are many factors and variables that will affect how you cope with the struggles your are facing.
A silly example we can all relate to is, running late to work and low and behold the gas gage is on empty. The first thoughts are "Can I make it? Where is the next gas station? How much time do I have?" Others might think, "Oh no, my husband will kill me if I have to call him again to come put gas in my car." Or others might add, Oh No, I just spent my last $5.00 to feed my kids last night. Lord help me make it to work." Much of these thought process will be based on past experiences, life lessons, examples of parents etc.
The most beautiful thing to me as a counselor is when I get to help someone deal with the present struggle in a new and different way. In a way that honors God. In a way that gives Him glory, In a way that solidifies their faith and comittment to Him and in ways that lead them deeper in their relationship with God.
Over the course of the next several weeks and months, while I am still highlighting resources I will be sharing ideas, suggestions, and tools to use to help you deal with your crisis. Using an example of Job in the Bible, let me first point out that Job did not sin nor charge God with wrong. God says Job "Held fast his integrity". (Job 2:2) What a beautiful and wonderful thing to be said of a person. As the story unfolds further we will see and learn many other things. But, let me first say that holding fast one's integrity is no the absence of emotion, pain, struggle, hurt. Job did not deny his circumstance. Earlier in chapter one, Job arose tore his robe, shaved his head and fell to the ground and worshipped. I am certain that Job did not jump, dance and leap with thanksgiving that he had just suffered so much loss. He didn't pretend everything was "fine". He didn't ignore his loss, minimize it, justify it or even exaggerate it. He acknowledged it all the while he still worshipped God. This is evidenced in shaving his head, tearing his robe. (Cultural/visible signs used to show mourning). Job did not hide his pain. In fact, later in the story you will see that his friends did not even recognize him because he looked so pitiful.
There are so many unhealthy, maladaptive ways of coping with emotional and physical pain. We will talk and highlight those. But the first therapeutic tool I would like to suggest is to write your story and then share your story.
Acknowledge and share your pain, while worshiping God at the same time!
Facing Depression In the Midst of Grief
Stages of Grief
Coping in Crisis
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Dakota Datebook: Brynhild Haugland
August 1, 2022
Dakota Datebook written by Lane Sunwall.
Brynhild Haugland, former member of the North Dakota House of Representatives, was born on July 28, 1905, to Norwegian immigrants on a farm near Minot, North Dakota. Haugland received her elementary certificate from Minot State Normal School, now Minot State University, in 1924, and taught in Ward County for two years before returning to the family farm... | <urn:uuid:a6cd5258-0e27-428f-a44f-d1768b511fbf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fosterconews.com/story/2022/08/01/features/dakota-datebook-brynhild-haugland/1210.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.975305 | 108 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Though the country of Afghanistan as a whole meets many criteria as a "failed state," local livelihoods, like those in the Northern Badakhshan region pictured here, are often vibrant and successful.
Afghanistan is known to the world as a failed state. Who decides what a failed state is, and the extent to which one has failed? Max Weber describes a failed state as one which is unable to maintain a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force within its borders.1 Noam Chomsky includes in the definition a state which fails to provide security for the population, to guarantee the population’s rights at home or abroad, or to maintain the function of a democratic state.2 The Fund for Peace & Foreign Policy has created an index system that quantifies a dozen aspects of state failure, including: physical control of its territory and erosion of legitimate state authority to make collective decisions, inability to provide reasonable public services, extensive corruption and criminal behavior, inability to collect taxes or otherwise draw on citizen support, and environmental decay.3 Contrast this list to indicators of successful societies, which include measures of education, literacy, health, and well-being, and it becomes clear that visions and indicators of success and failure have become disconnected.
This apparent disconnect between the symptoms of a failed state and the remedies suggested by what is seen to constitute its healthy counterpart makes it difficult to imagine a way out of failed-statehood. We contend that it is necessary to rethink what a failed state is, to understand, at a rather more practical, grassroots level, the drivers of failed or successful societies.
The impracticality of the blurry failed-successful state dichotomy, and the potential of rethinking its criteria, can be illustrated by looking at the region of Badakhshan in Tajikistan and Afghanistan. The provinces of Afghan and Tajik Badakshan share a watershed that is inhabited by Pamiri people with a common language, religion, and culture; these provinces are separated only by the Amu Darya River and 70 years of divergent development paths. Tajik Badakhshan benefited from Soviet development of infrastructure, education (99.5 percent overall literacy rate), a health care system, and access to markets. In stark contrast, 30 meters across the river, many Afghans still walk up to 12 days along donkey trails to the nearest commercial center and have severely limited access to healthcare (maternal mortality is the highest in the world at 6,507 deaths per 100,000 births)4 and education (18 percent and 36 percent literacy rates for women and men, respectively). Yet despite these stark contrasts in development and traditional indicators of "success", many Tajiks will say that Afghans are better off because their livelihoods are more autonomous, independent of external inputs, and their economy is much less affected by global price fluctuations. One farmer in the Tajik district of Rushan said,
Now, life on the Afghan side of the river is better because they are able to feed themselves from their own land. They have money because they are not dependent on the global economy. Their clothes are much better because there is a tailor in every village. There are no tailors in Tajikistan.
Success or failure, then, depend on scale of analysis: success at the level of everyday livelihoods may or may not coincide with whether a state is deemed to have failed or not. In fact, often it doesn’t, since the criteria of failed statehood are quite disconnected from the lives of normal people. Part of the reason for this is that people fail to see a causal connection between how people lead their lives and how states fail or succeed, yet it is precisely in this connection, between the local and higher national, even global levels, that it becomes possible to look for solutions to the failed state.
In other words, identifying the systemic role of state failure requires a break away from the indicators mentioned above, and asks us to question the processes that create resilient communities in a system ridden with political rigidity, corruption, and violence. Given the uncertain future stability of a country subjected to complex, intertwined cycles of violence and despair, it can seem ridiculous to talk about solutions. Yet many Afghans in the north of the country have lived through, and even thrived, during 30 years of war.
In this paper we draw on cases from the province of Badakhshan, in Northern Afghanistan, to present three local solutions that all have some potential to break, from the bottom-up, the self-reinforcing loop that characterizes the trap of failed states. While all deal with local-level solutions to food production and diversification, they work at very different levels of human activity: the first describes an agricultural research station’s attempt at improving agricultural production, through an innovative approach to governance. The second example is a bold and innovative experiment to teach women the skills to grow and process vegetables in the high Pamir Mountains. It succeeded in introducing greens and beans to seminomadic communities who had never eaten vegetables before. The third works at the level of identity and imagination: using food culture to rekindle people’s sense of pride in who they are, it helps to offer a different basis from which to re-imagine a future that is their own, free of war.
Farmers measure the yield of different wheat varieties at Ganjabad research station. Through agricultural experimentation, Ganjabad is trying to bolster food security and establish a meaningful local partnership with the national government.
Case 1: Community Organizations and Research Stations Respond to Low Agricultural Yields
Development organizations often consider environmental resource management separate from economic development and conflict reduction. In Afghanistan, these are intimately related. Scarcity of natural resources can drive environmental degradation, perpetuating a positive feedback cycle in which scarcity leads to conflict, and conflict leads to scarcity.5 The irreversible loss of forests and top soil in many parts of Afghanistan decreases the availability of already scarce water resources in lower catchment areas and deepens economic hardship, spawning migration and social strife. The eastern region of Afghanistan lost between 50 and 80 percent of its forest cover between 1977 and 2002.6 Moreover, particularly in the northern mountainous region where the case studies in this paper are located, climate change is influencing glacial runoff, inducing flash floods and rendering downstream water availability erratic. Land is subdivided into smaller portions with each generation. Eventually, the plots cannot properly support their cultivation, fallow periods are neglected, and greater poverty prevents investment in conservation.
Pressured to produce more wealth with less land, farmers increasingly resort to opium production. From 2010 to 2011, opium production in Afghanistan increased by 61 percent, or 15 percent of total GDP.7 The trend was fuelled by falling wheat prices, making opium cultivation 11 times more profitable than growing wheat. Consequences are felt both at the state level, with increased income for the insurgents, and by farmers and traders, further increasing violence and stressing an already limited social infrastructure. Not only does the opium trade increase intracommunity violence, it also brings violent norms to the north of the country.
While the northern region of Badakhshan Province has been less plagued by physical conflict, it has also remained largely isolated from the infrastructural development in the rest of the country. Local systems of trade, development, and culture have not only managed to persist, but diversified over the decades of war. The people of Badakhshan have proven to be extremely resilient amid constant social, economic, and environmental shocks. The current government of Afghanistan and its implementing partners are working to build on these successful traditional management systems in order to adapt to pervasive changes. Development organizations have been active in Badakhshan, working closely with regional government authorities to implement community-based approaches to development, namely the National Solidarity Programme, under which Community Development Councils (CDCs) are established. CDCs have been established in two-thirds of the country, and while their place among local existing institutions remains disputed, their role in managing community-driven development activities has established them as primary governance actors at the subnational level.8 Compared with most international aid initiatives, which invariably run into the complexities of customary law and Afghan norms and customs, CDCs have been relatively successful in achieving equitable election processes, women’s inclusion in decision making, and overcoming entrenched power establishments.8
In response to the interacting environmental and social threats in the region, various successful interventions have improved agricultural productivity. Market accessibility and the promotion of “alternative licit livelihood strategies” have been successful in transforming opium fields to orchards or other staple crops.9 These successes can be attributed in part to support by physical infrastructure (canal systems and storage), but primarily to the community organizations around natural resources in the form of pasture management committees and water use associations. The Ganjabad research station outside Sultan-Ishkashim has spearheaded the rebuilding of legitimate government authority in the region by testing local and improved varieties of wheat and potato varieties. The station sowed 1.75 metric tons of true potato seed, imported from Peru in 2009, resulting in 15 metric tons of seed potato harvested this year.10 Farmers were able to sell this seed at local markets for further multiplication, thereby improving their food security and establishing a meaningful partnership with the national government. Positive impacts of this partnership have crossed the boundary with Tajikistan, as Afghan and Tajik researchers have begun sharing results and seeds.
A woman cooks over an open fire in Northern Afghanistan, where food is integral to culture and can offer pathways out of poverty.
The experiment could be improved by paying more attention to local customs and landscape. While true potato seed has obvious technical benefits (less chemical input, reduced risk of infection, reduced transport and storage costs), their long-term yield capacity and adaptation and the demand of farmers for true potato seed in the Pamir Mountains is unknown. These interventions are largely based on developing value chains for current market conditions, which for many Afghans are inconsistent with their traditional values. In many cases, the growth-based market paradigm undermines local ingenuity and survival. Several years ago, the agricultural office in Afghan Shugnan handed farmers a package with an improved European wheat variety and the corresponding necessary fertilizers. Local wheat, of which 153 varieties have been identified in the Pamirs, is grown without chemical fertilizers, which are prohibitively expensive; animal manure is used instead. Not surprisingly, the new fertilized wheat grew beautifully tall and provided a good harvest. Equally unsurprising, the extra demands posed on the soil meant that yields dropped after two years, and the taste of the flour poorly suited the dishes traditionally prepared with it.11
Case 2: High-Altitude Vegetables in the Wakhan and Little Pamir?
Extending beyond the idea of increasing production and economic growth, a rather daring initiative has managed to increase crop diversity and improve women’s health in the extraordinarily harsh environment of the Little Pamir of the Wakhan corridor in northeast Afghanistan. This area is inhabited primarily by semi-pastoralists, the Wakhi, and nomads, the Kirghiz, who mostly live off fresh milk products and meat from the summer pastures. Yet as isolated as the region is from the rest of the country, it has not been immune to change, and over the past 10 years communities have become more sedentary and are increasingly dependent on imported products from the expanding trade routes with China, Pakistan, and Iran. Traditional agricultural and pastoral practices and products are abandoned for third-grade, but "easy," market goods, most of which are the world’s “left-over” products and seem to have negative impacts on regional health.
To improve health and increase nutritional diversity, development organizations have worked with women to establish small vegetable gardens. Through participatory technology development, plastic film technology was introduced, with which Kirghiz herders in the region managed to grow vegetables at an altitude of 4,000 meters for the first time this year.10
While the vegetable patches have been largely successful, few women knew what to do with the vegetables themselves. As the coordinator of the project explained:
The cucumbers grew to such a size, I was sure they would explode. Yet, the women did not use them. I asked them why they had not harvested the cucumbers and they told me they did not know how to eat them.12
Training was then given to the women on how to prepare salads, which they had never done before, and on preservation techniques to keep the vegetables for the long winter, when there are precious few sources of vitamins available. As with the improved wheat variety mentioned above, integrating new crops into livelihood strategies must be done with an understanding of local knowledge and traditions.
Case 3: Food to Imagine the Future
The past three decades of conflict have brought farmers in northern Afghanistan more than their share of hardship. The resilience they have shown in the face of these challenges has been remarkable. The source of this resilience must, for an important part, be sought in the autonomy they have managed to maintain vis-à-vis external influences, most notably with regards to their food and agricultural systems.
In recent years, development projects have begun to address some of the major physical and social challenges faced by farmers, with varying degrees of success. Unfortunately, growth-driven interventions, such as the example of the improved wheat variety above, are all too common, and sociopolitical pressures from drug traders and the Afghan military compound these misguided efforts.
A young boy thrashes wheat in Northern Afghanistan, where 153 local varietals have been identified, each cultivated without chemical fertilizers.
Ensuring that all Afghans maintain a strong voice in the development process, for example, in the form of the CDCs mentioned above, may seem like an obvious solution. It isn’t. For most Afghani farmers, thinking about the future, imagining things they would like the future to bring, is not something they dare to do. When asked about their ideas, the response is often little more than a weak reflection of the discourse of markets and growth that has been promoted by development organizations for a long time.
In our work in the region over the past four years (2008–2011), we found food to be one way in which people, particularly women, are able to reflect on their ancestral history and rich culture, much of which revolves around agriculture and food. It appeared to be a powerful tool for farmers to make sense of the present, to explain drastic changes in landscape, trade, and social relations, and so to imagine solutions that could inspire development trajectories which are their own, unmarred by the unyielding presence of corruption, violence, and foreign markets.
A hint of the beauty with which local food culture could imbue development practice, if given the space, is offered by the story of the formation of the famous Lake Shewa, told by a farmer in the Afghan district of Shugnan:
At the bottom of what is now Lake Shewa, there was once a village. One evening, an old man came to the village and asked for food. His clothes were torn and people laughed at him, threw stones at him. But there was one woman who treated him kindly. She was poor and had only shiroghan to offer him – a warm cream made of milk, fresh butter and some salt. Thanking her, he told her to take her son and belongings and to seek refuge in a place high up on the mountain. That night there was a strong earthquake. Water appeared and flooded the village and its inhabitants. Later, the woman understood that the old man had been the holy Nasir Khusraw. Since that day, shiroghan is considered a holy food.
Food provides a common ground for discussion, invokes memories of the past, establishes identity in a turbulent world, and allows for an empowering vision of the future. Such narratives are deeply powerful metaphors in the local context and could, if married with the type of meaningful initiatives described above, inspire real solutions in a country whose future is looking increasingly uncertain.
We thank the many Pamiri families and colleagues who have helped us develop the thoughts presented in this paper. Financial and logistical support for this work were generously provided by the Christensen Fund, the Indigenous Partnership for Agrobiodiversity and Food Sovereignty, the Swiss Cooperation Office Tajikistan, the Aga Khan Foundation Afghanistan, and the Mountain Societies Development and Support Programme. We also thank the photographer Judith Quax for allowing us to use her material in this publication.
Weber, M. Politics as a Vocation. In (H.H. Garth and C. Wright Mills, eds.) Essays in Sociology, 26-45. (Macmillian, New York, 1946).
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Translation of the “Blachernae” Icon of the Mother of God to Russia
The Blachernae Icon of the Mother of God was discovered at Jerusalem in the fourth century by Empress Eudokia during the time of St. Juvenal, Patriarch of Jerusalem, and St. Euthymius the Great. The holy icon was sent to Constantinople, where Empress Pulcheria placed it in the Blacernae Church, where the Venerable Robe of the Mother of God was also preserved.
This holy icon is also called the Hodigitria, or “She who leads the way.” It was with this icon that Patriarch Sergius made the rounds of the walls of Constantinople in 626 with Moliebens during the siege of the capital by the Avars. In memory of this and other victories, which were won thanks to the intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos, an annual celebration was established on Saturday of the Fifth Week of the Great Fast to offer Praises to the Most Holy Theotokos (Saturday of the Akathist). At first the celebration took place only at the Blachernae Church in Constantinople. However, in the ninth century, the Feast was included in the Typikon of St. Sava the Sanctified, and in the Studite Rule. Later, it was included in the Lenten Triodion and made universal for all the Orthodox faithful.
After the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, the Blachernae Icon was transferred to Mt. Athos. In 1654, it was sent to Moscow by the Athonite monks as a gift to Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich.
The Blachernae Icon is celebrated on July 2, and in the Fifth Week of Great Lent (Saturday of the Akathist).
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2 Samuel 1
Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from
the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag;||
"David ... returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites"
How could David find any Amalekites to slaughter? Saul already killed them all (except Agag,
who was killed by Samuel).
Kills the Messenger
It came even to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man came out of the
camp from Saul with his clothes rent, and earth upon his head: and so it
was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did obeisance.
And David said unto him, From whence comest thou? And he said unto him,
Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped.
And David said unto him, How went the matter? I pray thee, tell me. And he
answered, That the people are fled from the battle, and many of the people
also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.
And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest thou that
Saul and Jonathan his son be dead?||
And the young man that told him said, As I happened by chance upon mount
Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear; and, lo, the chariots and
horsemen followed hard after him.||
And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called unto me. And I
answered, Here am I.||
And he said unto me, Who art thou? And I answered him, I am an
(1:8-10) "I am an Amalekite."|
How did Saul die?
"I am an Amalekite. ... So I stood upon him, and slew him."
But Saul killed all the Amalekites (except for Agag who Samuel hacked to death) as God commanded in 1 Sam.15:3,
so how could he later be killed by one?
Did Saul and Samuel kill all the Amalekites?
(1:11) "Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the
men that were with him."
They rent their clothes.
He said unto me again, Stand, I pray thee, upon me, and slay me: for
anguish is come upon me, because my life is yet whole in me.
So I stood upon him,
and slew him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he
was fallen: and I took the crown that was upon his head, and the bracelet
that was on his arm, and have brought them hither unto my lord.
Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the
men that were with him:
And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for
Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of
Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.
And David said unto the young man that told him, Whence art thou? And he
answered, I am the son of a stranger, an Amalekite.||
And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine
hand to destroy the LORD's anointed?||
And David called one of
the young men, and said, Go near, and fall upon him. And he smote him that
(1:15) "David called one of the young men,
and said, Go near, and fall upon him. And he smote him that he died."|
David tells one of his "young men" to kill the Amalekite messenger who
claimed to have mercifully killed Saul at Saul's own request.
God's 74th Killing
And David said unto him, Thy blood be upon thy head; for thy mouth hath
testified against thee, saying, I have slain the LORD's anointed.
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his
(Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the
book of Jasher.)||
"Behold, it is written in the book of Jasher."|
-The Book of Jasher
The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty
Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the
daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the
Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain,
upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is
vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed
From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of
Jonathan turned not back, and the sword of Saul returned not empty.||
Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their
death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were
stronger than lions.||
Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with
other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.||
(1:26) "Very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love
to me was wonderful, passing the love of women."|
David loved Jonathan more than women.
(And he loved a lot of women!)
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou
wast slain in thine high places.
I am distressed for
thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love
to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
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TROY — The Maine Historic Preservation Commission board of directors, at its quarterly meeting on July 22 in Rockland, voted to approve the nominations of the Troy Union Church (Troy Union Meeting House 1840) and Troy’s Seven Star Grange (State Grange 73, built in 1876), as well as other properties in Maine for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places, administered by the National Park Service.
These nominations are forwarded to the National Park Service in Washington, D.C. Within 45 days of receiving the nominations, National Park Service staff makes the final determination and notifies the state commission which then notifies the property owners and local elected officials. Rarely is the nomination revoked, as the determination made by the State Historic Preservation Commission is considered the final determination. Anyone who disagrees with a property’s listing on the National Register has had an opportunity to comment before the meeting of the State Commission.
The National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 established the register to acknowledge “properties of local and state significance in American history, architecture, archeology, engineering and culture, and worthy of preservation.”
For the Troy Union Church, this National Register listing recognizes the historic significance of the building’s architecture and construction. It also means members of the church may apply for a restoration grant from the Maine Steeples Project, a partnership between Maine Preservation and Maine Community Foundation.
Norma and Greg Rossel of Troy were among the interested public attending the meeting. Norma was pleased with the vote of the commission, as she has been working on the National Register nomination since November. Margaret Henderson, master of the Troy Seven Star Grange, was not able to attend the commission meeting, but said she is hopeful that the national recognition of the Grange hall, where the community has gathered for all sorts of occasions for 135 years, will assist in getting help with maintenance of the big, timber-framed, two-story hall.
Norma said the National Register nomination is one more step toward restoration of the historic church building. The steeple has been stabilized, but more funds must be raised to complete the truss repairs before the belfry and roof repairs can be completed, and a grant such as the ones offered through the Maine Steeples Project would help a great deal. Donations for Troy Union Church Restoration may be sent to Treasurer, 230 Bangor Road, Troy 04987.
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After leaving AHI in the morning, we are off to go rhinoceros tracking and then to Murchison Falls National Park. In 1984, rhinos were considered extinct in Uganda. Poaching and encroaching on their territory, exacerbated by the Ugandan Bush War from 1981-1986, were some of the driving factors leading to their decline. However, starting in 2005, rhinos have slowly been re-introduced in Uganda. This effort has been led by the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary, located in between the Ranch and Murchison Falls national park. There are now 48 rhinoceros at the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary. They are all white rhinos. One of the incredible things about the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary is that you track them on foot.
It was an ideal day with overcast skies, occasional light rain and a pleasant temperature. The sanctuary is a mix of brush and grassland, which is ideal for Rhinos. As we walked, our guide explained to us that rhinos are matriarchal and have a gestation period of 16 months. We found a group of at least 10 Rhinos and even though I have seen the Rhinos before, I am always amazed by their size and power. In the group was the youngest of the current rhino calves at the sanctuary, which was just under one year of age. Our guide explained that when the baby rhino need to eat, they let out a large squeak that signals to the mother it’s time to eat.
After watching and learning about the Rhinos, it was time to continue on to Murchison Falls National Park. This park is the largest national parks in Uganda, and it is a truly incredible place. Our first stop was the top of Murchison Falls. This is where the mighty Nile River goes over a waterfall into a ravine less than 10 meters wide, where the water crashes from one wall to the next fall a total of 141 feet. It is an awe-inspiring sight, full of so much raw power. The amount of water in the Nile has been increased over the past 2 to 3 years because of changes in rainfall brought on by climate change. The river is several feet higher than we’ve ever seen it before. Further downstream, this has created problems for some of the Lodges and people living along the Nile.
During our time in Murchison Falls National Park, we are staying at Twiga Safari Lodge. The lodge is gorgeous and located right next to the Nile. Every night Hippos walk past your room. Tomorrow, we are looking forward to sharing our adventures in Murchison Falls National Park, including lions and lion cubs. | <urn:uuid:41914ac3-5581-462b-b59e-2c8dce03b463> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://acctuganda.org/2022/07/06/ziwa-rhino-sanctuary-and-murchison-falls-6-29/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.974194 | 546 | 2.171875 | 2 |
This is an older blog post, you will find one on more recent data here
These interactive presentations contain the latest oil & gas production data from all 15,394 horizontal wells in North Dakota that started production from 2005 onward, through October.
North Dakota produced almost 1.5 million bo/d in October (horizontal wells only), a m-o-m increase of 5%. Bad weather in the previous month clearly had an impact on operations. It is one of the few states that almost has not seen a drop in rig activity since the start of the year (from 52 to 50 last week). Gas output was a record as well, at 3 Bcf/d (Toggle product to “Gas”).
Initial well productivity is basically unchanged from last year, as you can see in the “Well quality” tab. New wells are on a path to recover about 250 thousand barrels of oil after 2 years on production, on average.
The two largest producers in the state, Continental Resources and Hess, were at record output in October (“Top operators”).
The ‘Advanced Insights’ presentation is displayed below:
This “Ultimate recovery” overview shows how all these horizontal wells are heading towards their ultimate recovery, with wells grouped by the year in which production started.
The impact of refrac’ing of older wells is visible in the graph above (especially in the 2008 vintage). Filtering on refracs is a subscription only feature.
The gas-oil ratio is rising quicker in more recent wells, as is revealed in the 9th tab (“Gas oil ratio”) of this interactive presentation.
The following screenshot, taken from our ShaleProfile Analytics service (Professional), shows the decline behavior of older wells in this basin, which began production between 2007 and 2014. Wells that were refrac’ed have been removed. The charts on the right side show the average production rate and annual decline rates, by years on production.
Here you can find that annual decline rates in this basin seem to settle at around 10%, after 7 years on production.
Early next week, we will have a post on gas production in Pennsylvania.
For these presentations, I used data gathered from the following sources:
- DMR of North Dakota. These presentations only show the production from horizontal wells; a small amount (about 40 kbo/d) is produced from conventional vertical wells.
The above presentations have many interactive features:
- You can click through the blocks on the top to see the slides.
- Each slide has filters that can be set, e.g. to select individual or groups of operators. You can first click “all” to deselect all items. You have to click the “apply” button at the bottom to enforce the changes. After that, click anywhere on the presentation.
- Tooltips are shown by just hovering the mouse over parts of the presentation.
- You can move the map around, and zoom in/out.
- By clicking on the legend you can highlight selected items.
- Note that filters have to be set for each tab separately.
- The operator who currently owns the well is designated by “operator (current)”. The operator who operated a well in a past month is designated by “operator (actual)”. This distinction is useful when the ownership of a well changed over time.
- If you have any questions on how to use the interactivity, or how to analyze specific questions, please don’t hesitate to ask. | <urn:uuid:edbdc58b-97df-4bb0-b98a-89a4311b4fea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://novilabs.com/blog/north-dakota-update-through-october-2019/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.93945 | 763 | 1.632813 | 2 |
A number of years ago, I had the opportunity to be in attendance for a talk by Juliet Funt, who is the founder and owner of WhiteSpace® at Work. She was inspiring! Recently, as I was speaking with a client about the current challenges he is facing in the workplace, Juliet’s talk came back to mind. In a completely engaging and amusing way, she made the case for whitespace in our days. What exactly is whitespace? As described by Juliet, it is a purposeful, freedom experience for the mind; an opportunity for the mind to dance, play and end up at unexpected junctures that serve us. It is setting aside time and thought for which you have no specific plans.
Our typical workdays are comprised of “reactive busyness”. This brings to mind notions of fire-fighting and problem fixing that, while giving us the illusion of getting things done, are really lots of activity without necessarily true productivity. Juliet indicated that “we have no relationship with thoughtfulness as a key to success in the workplace”. What is missing, she indicated, is whitespace. Pointing to benefits such as, developing more game changing ideas; increasing productivity, creativity and engagement; being more calm and present; connecting interpersonally; she suggests that we must “redistribute effort and excellence” to allow whitespace in our days.
To redistribute effort, consider letting go of some things. We often hold on too hard for a variety of reasons. Ask yourself: What can I let go of in my life – both personal and professional?
- What baby steps can you take to stop responding as if each email and text is urgent?
- Do you really need to attend every meeting you’re invited to?
- Can you truly get your work done if you are in back-to-back meetings all day?
To redistribute excellence, it’s time to curb your perfectionistic tendencies. Perfectionism is a real talent and we must make choices on where we will spend that talent. Ask yourself: Where could good enough, be good enough?
So, where to begin? Start small – manage your calendar to create whitespace; appreciate the forced whitespace that comes when stuck in a traffic jam. According to Juliet, if you’re aspiring to whitespace and give it value, you are ahead of 90% of others in the workplace. Be creative and design a little whitespace that works for you and watch your success grow!
About the Author: Sherry Dutra is a Talent Development, Career and Retirement Coach and Facilitator who works with corporate leaders in small to mid-size businesses, across the span of their careers. She helps them to accelerate business outcomes and team performance, navigate their own career path, and transition to retirement with ease using proven methodologies and strategies that get results. If you would like to uncover and address hidden challenges that may be sabotaging your success, leverage your strengths, and accelerate your progress toward the results you desire, contact Sherry for a complimentary consultation. | <urn:uuid:59f28726-d097-4891-a9b3-43425317a5ef> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dutraassociates.com/in-search-of-whitespace/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00670.warc.gz | en | 0.958281 | 633 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Jul 30, 2014 How to Make Graphics in Dev C on Windows 10 - Duration: 3:31. Virtualoops 28,518 views. Dec 12, 2018 Move Circle to Forward Direction using C Graphics in C - Duration: 8:13. Reecry 3,245 views. Jul 09, 2016 C/C Graphics Tutorial 1 Downloading graphics.h Header File for Code Blocks - Duration: 6:05. VCR Games 265,100 views.
Nov 10, 2016 Dev-C is an integrated development environment (IDE) for the C programming language. It presents a feature-rich environment, tools for writing and debugging, as well as a compiler to provide you with all the tools necessary to program software in C.The program is a fork of the Bloodshed Dev-C environment, designed for advanced programmers looking to create applications. These are the steps I followed: 1) Download the setup file for Dev C 5.11 from Sourceforge and install it. 2) Download the following folder and extract it's contents. 3) Copy and paste the files graphics and winbgim into C:Program Files. 4) Copy and paste the file libbgi.a into C:Program.
I am a Newbie in C++ Programming field. I plan to add graphics.h header class in
Dev -C++ Version 22.214.171.124 from Bloodshed which is come along with Borland Compiler.
I follow the Steps in URL : http://www.uniqueness-template.com/devcpp/#step2
But I Got Error in the Sample code which test the Working , Please Help me
to get away from this problem . I am waiting to hear from you.
If you don't install a language pack,.NET Framework error messages and other text are displayed in English. Note that the web installer automatically installs the language pack that matches your operating system, but you can download additional language packs to your computer. Studio one 4.5 reference manual.
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What are the best combinations of A-level subjects for a Chemistry degree?
Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics, or Chemistry, Biology and Mathematics are the two best combinations of three A-level subjects to take if you plan to study Chemistry at degree level; however, the minimum requirement is that you are studying Chemistry and we consider applicants who are taking a wide range of subjects at A-level.
Do I need A-level Maths?
No; however Mathematics at A-level will stand you in excellent stead for starting a Chemistry degree. All students at Birmingham Chemistry take a Maths module in Year 1, with those without A-level Maths taking a second Introductory Maths module in the first semester. Importantly, both of these modules are taught by staff from Chemistry and cover those aspects of Maths which you will need to understand the more physical and theoretical aspects of our courses.
What are the typical A-level entry requirements?
Our standard A-level entry requirements for students applying in 2013/14 are:
MSci programmes: AAB
BSc programmes: ABB.
We treat each application individually, making sure we make an offer that is tailored to you. To this end, all promising applicants within the UK are invited in attend an Applicant Visit Day. Following this, our offer will usually be based on three subjects, one of which must be Chemistry and the offer decision will be based on
- The subjects you are taking at A-level (most important)
- Your past examination results (GCSEs and AS results)
- Your personal statement
- Your school/college reference
Do you accept other qualifications besides A-levels?
Yes, we welcome applications from students studying other courses, such as the International Baccalaureate, European Bacc., Scottish Highers etc. Please refer to the specific course details for our typical IB offer ranges; for all other qualifications, please contact a member of the Admissions Team.
Will I be invited to an Applicant Visit Day?
Yes, all promising applicants who are based in the UK will be invited to attend an Applicant Visit Day.
What happens on an Applicant Visit Day?
If, after having reviewed your UCAS application, we are keen to make you an offer, we shall invite you to attend one of our Applicant Visit Days, which we hold weekly from November through to March.
Attending one of these Days will not only provide us with an opportunity discuss your application with you, but will also provide you with a valuable opportunity to see the School, our beautiful campus and the halls of residence, as well as chat to members of staff, and perhaps more importantly, to some of our current students. Importantly, the Applicant Visit Day will also provide you with an opportunity to experience our teaching methods at first-hand, including a lecture, lab work and a problem-based learning activity.
We want these days to provide you with the information you need in order to make an informed decision as to whether or not to choose Birmingham when you make your firm and insurance decisions. Obviously you can contact us at any time, before or after attending an Applicant Visit Day, for more information.
What if I am unable to attend an Applicant Visit Day?
We generally do not make offers to home applicants whom we have not met. However, we acknowledge that there are also reasons why you may be unable to attend one of our Applicant Visit Days, in which case, please let us know and we will arrange to conduct a telephone interview.
When do you make offers?
We make offers throughout the admissions cycle and generally very soon after we have met an applicant on one of our Applicant Visit Days.
What happens when we make you an offer?
If we make you an offer, we will take into account the qualifications you already have and then set out clearly in writing any subjects and grades that are the conditions of our offer. Our letter from Birmingham Chemistry is followed up soon after with the official offer, which is made by the University based upon our recommendations.
Is there any advantage to applying early?
No, we recognise that schools and colleges deal with UCAS applications in different ways; some encourage their students to submit their applications early, others do not. We therefore make offers throughout the cycle and generally after we have met an applicant on one of our Applicant Visit Days.
Should I do an MSci or a BSc degree?
Many students worry about this question when making their UCAS application. To allay these concerns, a major benefit of our degree structure is its flexibility: students enrolled on BSc programmes can transfer on to the MSci programme and vice versa. The first two years of both degree types are the same; thus the decision can be delayed until the end of Year 2. It is for this reason that our entry requirements for both BSc and MSci degree programmes are the same.
As a very rough guide, students who are considering a scientific career usually take an MSci degree, whilst those who are considering other directions, such as teaching, accountancy or law, usually take a BSc degree.
What is the difference between an MSci and MChem programme?
Nothing, different universities use different terms to describe their four-year taught undergraduate masters degree programmes and both are equally recognised by potential employers.
Should I be considering the Foundation Year programme?
Our Chemistry Foundation Year programme (F103) is specially designed for students who are motivated to study chemistry at degree level but have been away from education for some time and/or whose qualifications do not allow their direct entry on to one of our honours programmes.
We also offer the Birmingham Foundation Academy, which is specially designed for candidates who are motivated to study chemistry at degree level but whose qualifications do not allow their direct entry on to one of our honours programmes and whose first language is not English.
Both of these programmes are also attractive to mature students who may need a period of retraining before beginning a degree.
Do you offer scholarships?
Yes, we are proud to offer a range of high-value scholarships that reward academic excellence and potential. Scholarships are available for home students, ranging from: Excellence Scholarships worth £5000 p.a. and Haworth Scholarships worth £5000 on entry, to Achievement Scholarships guaranteed for all applicants who place Birmingham Chemistry as their firm choice and achieve A*AA. . We also offer scholarships to international students. View full details and eligibility criteria. In addition, the University offers a range of other scholarships including Music and Sports Scholarships.
Can I take a gap year?
Yes, if you wish to defer starting your degree and take a year out so you can travel or work, then all you need to do is complete the UCAS application as normal ensuring you have the appropriate start-date. We will treat your application in the same way as all the others we receive. | <urn:uuid:f2990d43-3acb-4c14-88fd-751723533bb3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/chemistry/undergraduate/faq.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283008.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00086-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954968 | 1,407 | 2.046875 | 2 |
WOMEN are being urged to donate their unwanted bras to help keep the air ambulance flying and saving lives.
For the second year, the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance is running its Bag up Your Bras campaign to help raise funds.
Secondhand bras can be recycled and then distributed and sold on to women in West Africa who often cannot afford new ones.
John Perry, the chief executive of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance, said: ‘This is a fantastic initiative which is so worthwhile, and has advantages for us all.
‘Our recycling partners Bag It Up have arranged for these bras to be sent out to Africa, and we are very pleased to be able to do something for others, whilst raising funds to help keep your air ambulance flying.
‘Please help by bagging up all unwanted bras.’
If you want to make a bra donation you can bag them up and put them in Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance’s yellow recycling banks.
They can be found at community spots and supermarkets around the area.
To find your nearest bank call the charity on (023) 8033 3377 or visit the charity’s website at hiow-airambulance.org.uk.
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The link between terrorism and global poverty isn’t as clear as many initially thought and may not exist at all, panelists said at a two-day conference (May 3-4) at the John F. Kennedy School of Government that sought real-world suggestions on how to cut terrorism off at the roots.
“Undermining Terrorism: New Concepts and Policies for an Interdependent World” brought together Harvard experts on terrorism, government, and international affairs and put their ideas before about 200 invited guests. The Harvard experts and attendees worked together in smaller sessions to hash out several practical suggestions.
The suggestions ranged from promoting women in leadership positions around the world to increasing security around weapons-grade nuclear material to making software manufacturers liable for security gaps in their products.
The conference came as Congress worked on homeland security legislation that would create a new Department of Homeland Security, which would incorporate the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Customs Service, the Coast Guard, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service. The legislation would also create a White House director of the National Office for Combating Terrorism.
The recommendations were presented on Saturday (May 4) to Adm. Steve Abbott, deputy director of the Office of Homeland Security, who delivered the conference’s closing address.
Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers delivered the lunchtime keynote speech on the conference’s opening day. He posed a series of questions to attendees that he hoped would steer discussion in a fruitful direction and stimulate further discussion both at the conference and in the broader University community. Summers urged attendees to focus on causes of terrorism, specifically those that can be changed, and to address the ethnic stereotyping and prejudice that can lead to ethnic violence. He also said he thought the influence of poverty on terrorist organizations may be less significant than many believe and suggested that the true roots might be a feeling of alienation from the global community.
“We need to understand the roots of [terrorist hostility]: disaffection, a failure to feel included. I suspect that thinking about fostering a broader sense of community, though difficult, is more important than increasing material [wealth],” Summers said.
Summers urged the group to evaluate the vulnerable points of terrorist organizations – its leadership, for example – which, if removed or changed, could render them harmless.
The conference sessions featured a variety of Kennedy School faculty and included smaller group gatherings where specific ideas and proposals could be discussed. Kennedy School Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. kicked the conference off Friday morning (May 3), by challenging those attending to get some work done, not just sit back and listen.
Nye said he was concerned that the nation might already be beginning to relax and forget the lessons of Sept. 11. He said it is important that reforms begun after Sept. 11 continue if future attacks are to be prevented.
Reiterating themes in his recent book, “The Paradox of American Power,” Nye said it is important for the United States to consider the implications of acting unilaterally in a world where the nation may appear to be dominant but where the Internet, the communications revolution, and globalization has diffused power.
One of the results of modern technology, Nye said, is the “privatization of war,” which puts the ability to cause violence on the scale of Sept. 11 – which used to be reserved for national governments – in the hands of terrorists.
“In the 20th century, if you wanted to kill lots of people, you needed a government apparatus to do it. In the 21st century, that power is in the hands of deviant groups of individuals,” Nye said. “The lesson of Sept. 11 is that events in poor, weak countries halfway around the globe mean very much to us.”
The opening panel discussion highlighted the complexity of the problem. Different panelists talked about the mindset of the terrorists, economic considerations, and political issues.
Jessica Stern, lecturer in public policy, said the driving force behind terrorism isn’t so much economic deprivation as perceived economic deprivation, coupled with perceived humiliation and hopelessness. While those negative factors might influence some to join terrorist ranks, the groups themselves often project a certain allure. The societies where terrorist groups arise view them as prestigious, giving members and their families added stature in the community.
Though religion is sometimes a founding cause for terrorist groups, over time, it becomes just another tool leaders use in recruiting. Because different people are motivated by different things, savvy leaders use a variety of inducements, Stern said, from financial incentives to posthumous fame to the emotional security of being part of a group.
Robert Lawrence, the Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment at the Kennedy School, said he had no simple answers to the question as to whether poverty is linked to terrorism. While terrorist leaders tend to come from professional classes and money is important to the groups’ operations, the foot soldiers are often poor and the organizations need failing or failed states – which are often poor – in which to set up shop.
Still, Lawrence said, relatively wealthy nations, such as Britain and France, have terrorist organizations, and some very poor countries do not. Lawrence said we may actually find that terrorism will increase as poorer nations develop economically and its citizens are freed from the daily struggle to survive.
“I don’t believe we ought to try to keep people poor, but we need to keep in mind that this is a complex relationship and policies we pursue are as likely to foster periods of disruption as they are to solve the problem,” Lawrence said.
But talk of economics may be misdirected, according to Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government and director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, who said he believes terrorists are, at their root, politically driven organizations fighting national separatist wars, civil wars, and colonialism. Allison pointed to Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s vision of a greater Islamic state incorporating several current nations and his desire to get U.S. troops out of Saudi Arabia as evidence that Al Qaeda is no different.
With terrorist organizations dependent on failed states for their home bases, Michael Ignatieff, director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and professor of the practice of human rights policy, said creating a network of strong, capable governments around the world that can crush major groups that set up shop on their home turf might be the best answer.
He said the end of the Cold War was accompanied by a burst of nationalist movements that created several new nations, only a few of which have been viable.
“We came into the ’90s with an acceleration of globalization, accompanied by an epidemic of state failures … of which Afghanistan was the poster child,” Ignatieff said. “The only control we have on terror is more global networks of capable, legitimate states that can crush illegitimate organizations of violence.”
As Israel is finding out now, Ignatieff said, the best guarantee for security is to have neighbors that are strong nations. The Palestinian Authority, he said, is a failed state.
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There was much more to Max Planck than his work and research as an influential physicist. For example, Planck was an avid musician, and endured many personal hardships under the Nazi regime in his home country of Germany. Throughout much of his life, Planck maintained a strong relationship with Albert Einstein–both as a mentor and professional colleague and as a valued friend. More about the life of Max Planck and his relationship with Albert Einstein is detailed in the following slideshow.
Max Planck and music
Max Planck was an adept musician in addition to being a skilled scientist. As a kid, he demonstrated great talent as a singer, pianist, and organist—playing organ during church and singing in both his Lutheran church’s choir and his school’s choir as a soprano. Later in life, when he would frequently host parties with his first wife Marie, Planck was known to perform with his house guests. A favorite trio formed between Planck, his son Erwin, and Albert Einstein—who played the violin. Image credit: Max Planck 1878. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Max Planck discovers Albert Einstein
Today, Max Planck is recognized for “discovering” Albert Einstein and his radical theories. In 1905, Einstein lacked both a PhD and a university teaching position. However, Planck almost instantly supported Einstein’s relativity theory, and in part through Planck’s backing, Einstein became a key figure among the scientific community. Image credit: From left to right: Nernst, Einstein, Planck, Millikan, and von Laue in 1931. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Max Planck lectures
Planck gave many lectures over the course of his life, though interestingly, one of his favorite topics of discussion on the relationship between science and religion. Planck enjoyed arguing that science and religion support one another in that the premise for both is that “there exists a rational world order independent from man” and “that the character of the world order can never be directly known but can only be indirectly recognized or suspected” (“Religion and Natural Science” in Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers). The Nazi party disliked these talks because Planck failed to emphasize religion through a specifically Christian lens, and instead treated religion more openly. Planck’s broad-minded views on religion were similar to the religious convictions of Albert Einstein. Image credit: Eugen Fischer (left) and Max Planck (right) by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories’ DNA Learning Center. CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikipedia.
Max Planck and black body radiation
Some of Planck’s most influential work revolved around his study of black-body radiation. Planck sought to uncover fundamental truths about the universe by exploring why all objects—regardless of size, shape, or composition—when at the same temperature would emit light at the same wavelengths. Einstein came to refer to Planck’s work in this area as “previously unimagined thought, the atomist structure of energy” (J. Heilbron, Dilemmas, p. 25). Image credit: Max Planck in 1918 by AB Lagrelius & Westphal. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Max Planck and Nazi Germany
By the winter of 1943, it was dangerous for German scientists, Max Planck included, to make any references to Albert Einstein in front of Nazi personnel—who believed Einstein to be a Jewish traitor. In 1933, Einstein became one of the first scientists to voice warnings about the terrors of the forthcoming Nazi regime. Though Planck remained driven with fierce loyalty to his German homeland, he did continue to commend Einstein’s work from time to time in his lectures. Image credit: 1927 Solvay Conference on Quantum Mechanics by Benjamin Couprie, Institut International de Physique Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Einstein's Relativity Theory
Einstein’s presentation of relativity theory inspired a decent amount of confusion—among the scientific community and general public, alike. This discomfort in Einstein’s theories mostly stemmed from their complexity, as they describe perception of motion from different vantage points that would require movement at rather unfathomable speeds in order to be detected. With Planck’s unwavering support, however, understanding of the brilliance of Einstein’s theories slowly spread. Planck was one of the first scientist following Einstein to publish a paper on general relativity, and he encouraged the publication of all five of Einstein’s radical papers in Annalen der Physik—a journal in which Planck served on the editorial board in 1906, and later would go on to operate as a chief editor. Image credit: Max Planck in 1933. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Planck and Einstein's friendship
In many ways, Einstein and Planck were opposites. Planck’s conservative politics, stern organization, and devotion to a professorial role in academia were countered by Einstein’s liberal beliefs, light-hearted disorganization, and distaste for university culture. However, the two maintained a deeply rooted friendship stemming from their shared devotion to a search for fundamental truths. Image credit: Max Planck by Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-R0116-504. CC BY-SA 3.0 de via Wikimedia Commons.
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Converting organic wastes to oil. A replenishable energy source.
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The Bureau of Mines is experimentally converting cellulose, the chief constituent of organic solid waste, to a low-sulfur oil. All types of cellulosic wastes, including urban refuse, agricultural wastes, sewage sludge, wood, lignin, and bovine manure, have been converted to oil by reaction with carbon monoxide and water at temperatures of 350 deg to 400 deg c and pressures near 4,000 psig, and in the presence of various catalysts and solvents. Cellulose conversions of 90 percent and better (corresponding to oil yields of 40 to 50 percent) have been obtained. A continuous reactor for use at maximum conditions up to 500 deg c and 5,000 psig has been operated successfully. Using sucrose as a feedstock, operation in this system has permitted a simplified and preliminary chemical study of the conversion process. Oil yields of over 30 percent have been obtained with this unit.
Synthetic oils; Cellulose; Waste disposal; Materials recovery; Production engineering; Hydrolysis; Carbon monoxide; Catalysts; Chemical engineering; Water; Alkaline earth compounds; Spectroscopic analysis; Solid waste disposal; Waste recycling
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Records seem to indicate that the White Pine District, covering White Pine, Lincoln, Nye and Esmeralda Counties, was formed in the late 1950's. An Eastern District was formed in Elko County in 1959. Its name was changed to the Northeast District in 1961. Sometime between 1967 and 1973, the two districts merged under the name of the Northeast District. In 1973, the district gained representation on the NLA board of trustees with the transition to the new bylaws.
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NORTHEAST DISTRICT RULES OF PROCEDURE
ARTICLE I. GOAL.
Section 1. The goal of the Northeast District of the Nevada Library Association shall be to achieve the highest level of understanding and cooperation through expanded communications among the members of the Northeast District. This shall be achieved by a district organization.
ARTICLE II. MEMBERSHIP.
Section 1. All paid members of the Nevada Library Association living in the area encompassed by the Northeast District (Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander and White Pine Counties) are automatically eligible as members of the Northeast District.
Section 2. Membership will be for one year from the payment of dues. Only members shall be eligible to vote and to hold elected or appointed office in the Northeast District.
ARTICLE III. OFFICERS AND DUTIES.
Section 1. The officers who shall comprise the executive board of the Northeast District shall consist of an elected Chairperson and Secretary-Treasurer appointed by the Chairperson.
Section 2. The District shall elect one member to serve on the Nevada Library Association Nominating Committee.
Section 3. The Chairperson shall call and preside at all meetings, appoint such committees as are necessary to carry on the functions of the Northeast District and prepare an annual report to the district membership by December 31st of each year, to be published by the Nevada Library Association in the spring of the same year.
Section 4. The Chairperson shall attend all meetings of the Board of Trustees of the Nevada Library Association and shall act as liaison between the Northeast District and the Board of Trustees of the Nevada Library Association, and be responsible for the annual budget request and program justification to be presented to the Finance Committee of the Nevada Library Association by December 31st of each year.
Section 5. The Secretary-Treasurer shall record the minutes of the meetings, of which one copy shall be sent to the Executive Secretary of the Nevada Library Association, send notice of information to the membership, maintain financial records, and pay all bills incurred by the Northeast District.
Section 6. When applicable, officers and other elected members shall be elected at the last meeting of the calendar year. Nominations shall be made from the floor and election shall be made by oral vote or by ballot on request of any members. Officials shall take office on the first day of January following election. The District Chairperson and the elected member to the Nevada Library Association Nominating Committee shall each serve a term of one year. The term of the Secretary-Treasurer shall expire on December 31st of each year. No officer or other elected member or appointed committee chairperson shall hold more than one office or committee chairmanship at a time; nor shall an elected officer be a committee chairperson. No officer of the Northeast District shall succeed oneself in the same office, provided he/she has fulfilled a full term in the office.
Section 7. In the event of a vacancy in elected offices, an election for the duration of the term shall be held at the next meeting of the membership.
ARTICLE IV. MEETINGS.
Section 1. District meetings shall be held at least three times a year at such times and places as are designated at the previous meeting, or at the call of the Chairperson.
ARTICLE VI. CHANGE OF PROCEDURE.
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Section 2. Approved changes in rules of procedure shall be sent to the Board of Trustees of the Nevada Library Association for approval.
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Happiness is Freedom ~ Peace to All
On behalf of us at Dolphin Project, THANK YOU for your continued support. From signing a petition to wearing your support in the form of our authentic gear; from volunteering as a Cove Monitor to not buying a ticket to a dolphin show; from reading a blog to donating hard-earned dollars so we can continue the good fight – speaking of which, there are only 48 hours left to make a tax-deductible donation for 2016 — every action matters.
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- Anatomy of a Slaughter: In Photos - January 17, 2017
- Breaking: Tilikum, the Blackfish Whale is Dead - January 6, 2017
- SeaWorld Says: No to Show, Yes to Captivity - January 4, 2017
- Breaking: Nets Allegedly Cut at Captive Dolphin Facility in Taiji - January 4, 2017
- Happiness is Freedom ~ Peace to All - December 29, 2016
- Breaking: Barcelona Zoo Dolphinarium to Close - December 24, 2016
- Counting the Dead: Taiji’s Expendable Dolphins - December 21, 2016
- One Dolphin’s Story: Pantropical Spotted Dolphin Capture - December 12, 2016
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- Like Children Awaiting Their Mothers – 30 Hours of Terror - December 8, 2016
It might be true that we don't recall many moments from our early years. However, Cara's first memory of a dolphin had her begging her parents to ask the trainer to let the dolphin go! The problem with captivity was evident to her, even as a 4 year-old child.
A writer by trade, Cara has researched, investigated and documented dolphins suffering in captivity. From documenting dolphins incarcerated in buildings, cut-off from fresh air, sunlight and normal socialization to researching cases of animals imprisoned in solitary confinement, Cara is a dedicated dolphin welfare advocate.
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"The use of animals for entertainment is nothing more than an abuse of dominance. Some of the most sentient species on the planet have been exploited to incomprehensible levels, all due to their inherent benevolence. Ironic, considering that we turn to the abused themselves for displays of humanity."
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- Anatomy of a Slaughter: In Photos
- Paradise Lost: Dolphin Cruelty Issues Growing in Indonesia
- Tilikum and Granny: Two Lost Orcas, Two Different Lives
- Dear Dolphinaris: We Don’t Need Dolphins in the Desert!
- Breaking: Tilikum, the Blackfish Whale is Dead
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Two hundred and seventy-seven serum chloramphenicol concentrations in 90 patients with Haemophilus influenzae type b meningitis were analysed retrospectively- Most patients were given chloramphenicol 25 mg/kg 6 hourly initially. Chloramphenicol concentrations were categorized as pre-dose ('trough') or post-dose ('peak'). Twenty-six per cent of the results were in the potentially toxic range (above 30 mg/L), and 18% were below 10 mg/L. Analysis of 46 pre- and post-dose measurements showed that for the intravenous (i.v.) route of administration, 23% of the pre-dose concentrations were higher than the corresponding post-dose levels and, for the oral route, 42% of the pre-dose levels were higher. Multivariate analysis of covariance demonstrated that chloramphenicol concentrations decreased significantly with increasing number of days of treatment and that the decline was steeper with i.v. administration. The results of this study emphasize the need for therapeutic monitoring of chloramphenicol concentrations, and suggest that chloramphenicol should be given as a loading dose of 40 mg/kg, followed by 25 mg/kg per dose 8 hourly for 3-4 days and then 6 hourly.
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which statement best summarizes what happens during transcription || The right answer is A DNA template is used to create an mRNA strand.In molecular biology, transcription is a mechanism for
Which statement best summarizes what happens during transcription
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A DNA template is used to create an mRNA strand.
An mRNA template is used to create a DNA strand.
A DNA template is used to create a ribosome.
An mRNA template is used to create a tRNA strand.
ANSWERED BY WIKI @ 16/06/2021The right answer is A DNA template is used to create an mRNA strand.
In molecular biology, transcription is a mechanism for "copying" gene data, which allows their use to create biological material by assembling amino acids into proteins according to the genetic code.
It takes place in the nucleus of cells (in eukaryotes) and consists in copying so-called coding regions of DNA to transcribe them into RNA molecules. Indeed, if the DNA molecule is the universal carrier of genetic information, it is the messenger RNA molecules that are recognized by the protein sequence translation machinery. Through messenger RNA, the cell will be able to express the genetic information contained in its genes and to make the necessary proteins for its functioning.
The enzyme that catalyzes this transcription reaction is called RNA polymerase.
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From DNA to RNA
Transcription and translation are the means by which cells read out, or express, the genetic instructions in their genes. Because many identical RNA copies can be made from the same gene, and each RNA molecule can direct the synthesis of many identical protein molecules, cells can synthesize a large amount of protein rapidly when necessary. But each gene can also be transcribed and translated with a different efficiency, allowing the cell to make vast quantities of some proteins and tiny quantities of others (Figure 6-3). Moreover, as we see in the next chapter, a cell can change (or regulate) the expression of each of its genes according to the needs of the moment—most obviously by controlling the production of its RNA.Figure 6-3Genes can be expressed with different efficienciesGene A is transcribed and translated much more efficiently than gene B. This allows the amount of protein A in the cell to be much greater than that of protein B.
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From DNA to RNA
Transcription and translation are the means by which cells read out, or express, the genetic instructions in their genes. Because many identical RNA copies can be made from the same gene, and each RNA molecule can direct the synthesis of many identical protein molecules, cells can synthesize a large amount of protein rapidly when necessary. But each gene can also be transcribed and translated with a different efficiency, allowing the cell to make vast quantities of some proteins and tiny quantities of others (Figure 6-3). Moreover, as we see in the next chapter, a cell can change (or regulate) the expression of each of its genes according to the needs of the moment—most obviously by controlling the production of its RNA.
Genes can be expressed with different efficiencies. Gene A is transcribed and translated much more efficiently than gene B. This allows the amount of protein A in the cell to be much greater than that of protein B.
Portions of DNA Sequence Are Transcribed into RNA
The first step a cell takes in reading out a needed part of its genetic instructions is to copy a particular portion of its DNA nucleotide sequence—a gene—into an RNA nucleotide sequence. The information in RNA, although copied into another chemical form, is still written in essentially the same language as it is in DNA—the language of a nucleotide sequence. Hence the name transcription.
Like DNA, RNA is a linear polymer made of four different types of nucleotide subunits linked together by phosphodiester bonds (Figure 6-4). It differs from DNA chemically in two respects: (1) the nucleotides in RNA are —that is, they contain the sugar ribose (hence the name nucleic acid) rather than deoxyribose; (2) although, like DNA, RNA contains the bases adenine (A), guanine (G), and cytosine (C), it contains the base uracil (U) instead of the thymine (T) in DNA. Since U, like T, can base-pair by hydrogen-bonding with A (Figure 6-5), the complementary base-pairing properties described for DNA in Chapters 4 and 5 apply also to RNA (in RNA, G pairs with C, and A pairs with U). It is not uncommon, however, to find other types of base pairs in RNA: for example, G pairing with U occasionally.
The chemical structure of RNA. (A) RNA contains the sugar ribose, which differs from deoxyribose, the sugar used in DNA, by the presence of an additional -OH group. (B) RNA contains the base uracil, which differs from thymine, the equivalent base in DNA, (more...)
Uracil forms base pairs with adenine. The absence of a methyl group in U has no effect on base-pairing; thus, U-A base pairs closely resemble T-A base pairs (see Figure 4-4).
Despite these small chemical differences, DNA and RNA differ quite dramatically in overall structure. Whereas DNA always occurs in cells as a double-stranded helix, RNA is single-stranded. RNA chains therefore fold up into a variety of shapes, just as a polypeptide chain folds up to form the final shape of a protein (Figure 6-6). As we see later in this chapter, the ability to fold into complex three-dimensional shapes allows some RNA molecules to have structural and catalytic functions.
RNA can fold into specific structures. RNA is largely single-stranded, but it often contains short stretches of nucleotides that can form conventional base-pairs with complementary sequences found elsewhere on the same molecule. These interactions, along (more...)
Transcription Produces RNA Complementary to One Strand of DNA
All of the RNA in a cell is made by DNA transcription, a process that has certain similarities to the process of DNA replication discussed in Chapter 5. Transcription begins with the opening and unwinding of a small portion of the DNA double helix to expose the bases on each DNA strand. One of the two strands of the DNA double helix then acts as a template for the synthesis of an RNA molecule. As in DNA replication, the nucleotide sequence of the RNA chain is determined by the complementary base-pairing between incoming nucleotides and the DNA template. When a good match is made, the incoming ribonucleotide is covalently linked to the growing RNA chain in an enzymatically catalyzed reaction. The RNA chain produced by transcription—the —is therefore elongated one nucleotide at a time, and it has a nucleotide sequence that is exactly complementary to the strand of DNA used as the template (Figure 6-7).
DNA transcription produces a single-stranded RNA molecule that is complementary to one strand of DNA.
Transcription, however, differs from DNA replication in several crucial ways. Unlike a newly formed DNA strand, the RNA strand does not remain hydrogen-bonded to the DNA template strand. Instead, just behind the region where the ribonucleotides are being added, the RNA chain is displaced and the DNA helix re-forms. Thus, the RNA molecules produced by transcription are released from the DNA template as single strands. In addition, because they are copied from only a limited region of the DNA, RNA molecules are much shorter than DNA molecules. A DNA molecule in a human chromosome can be up to 250 million nucleotide-pairs long; in contrast, most RNAs are no more than a few thousand nucleotides long, and many are considerably shorter.
6.4: Protein Synthesis
Your DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, contains the genes that determine who you are. How can this organic molecule control your characteristics? DNA contains instructions for all the proteins your body …
6.4: Protein Synthesis
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6.3: Chromosomes and Genes
6.5: Genetic Code
Suzanne Wakim & Mandeep Grewal
The Central Dogma of Biology
Your DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, contains the genes that determine who you are. How can this organic molecule control your characteristics? DNA contains instructions for all the proteins your body makes. Proteins, in turn, determine the structure and function of all your cells. What determines a protein’s structure? It begins with the sequence of amino acids that make up the protein. Instructions for making proteins with the correct sequence of amino acids are encoded in DNA.
Figure 6.4.1 6.4.1
: Transcription and translation (Protein synthesis) in a cell.
DNA is found in chromosomes. In eukaryotic cells, chromosomes always remain in the nucleus, but proteins are made at ribosomes in the cytoplasm or on the rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER). How do the instructions in DNA get to the site of protein synthesis outside the nucleus? Another type of nucleic acid is responsible. This nucleic acid is RNA or ribonucleic acid. RNA is a small molecule that can squeeze through pores in the nuclear membrane. It carries the information from DNA in the nucleus to a ribosome in the cytoplasm and then helps assemble the protein. In short:DNA → RNA → Protein
Discovering this sequence of events was a major milestone in molecular biology. It is called the central dogma of biology. The two processes involved in the central dogma are transcription and translation.
Figure 6.4.2 6.4.2
: An overview of transcription and translation. The top panel shows a gene. A gene is composed of the open reading frame (aka coding sequence) that is flanked by regulatory sequences. At the beginning of the gene, the regulatory sequence contains a promoter where RNA polymerase attaches and starts transcription. At the end of the open reading frame, the regulatory sequence contains a terminator (not shown.)The middle panel shows a pre mRNA which is modified by excising introns and keeping exons. This is called post transcription modification. A mature mRNA contains a 5' cap and poly-A tail. The bottom panel shows a synthesis of protein via translation.
TranscriptionTranscription is the first part of the central dogma of molecular biology: DNA → RNA. It is the transfer of genetic instructions in DNA to mRNA. Transcription happens in the nucleus of the cell. During transcription, a strand of mRNA is made that is complementary to a strand of DNA called a gene. A gene can easily be identified from the DNA sequence. A gene contains the basic three regions, promoter, coding sequence (reading frame), and terminator. There are more parts of a gene which are illustrated in Figure
6.4.3 6.4.3 .
Figure 6.4.3 6.4.3
: The major components of a gene. 1. promoter, 2. transcription initiation, 3. 5' upstream untranslated region, 4. translation start codon site, 5. protein-coding sequence, 6. translation stop codon region, 7. 3' downstream untranslated region, and 8. terminator.
Steps of Transcription
Transcription takes place in three steps, called initiation, elongation, and termination. The steps are illustrated in Figure
6.4.4 6.4.4 .
Initiation is the beginning of transcription. It occurs when the enzyme RNA polymerase binds to a region of a gene called the promoter. This signals the DNA to unwind so the enzyme can “read” the bases in one of the DNA strands. The enzyme is ready to make a strand of mRNA with a complementary sequence of bases. The promoter is not part of the resulting mRNA
Elongation is the addition of nucleotides to the mRNA strand.
Termination is the ending of transcription. As RNA polymerase transcribes the terminator, it detaches from DNA. The mRNA strand is complete after this step.
Figure 6.4.4 6.4.4
: Transcription occurs in the three steps - initiation, elongation, and termination
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Call for an enzyme genomics initiative
© Karp.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2004
Published: 30 July 2004
I propose an Enzyme Genomics Initiative, the goal of which is to obtain at least one protein sequence for each enzyme that has previously been characterized biochemically. There are 1,437 enzyme activities for which Enzyme Commission (EC) numbers have been assigned but no sequence can be found in public protein-sequence databases.
A recent essay by Roberts called for an effort by the scientific community to experimentally determine functions for unidentified genes in microbial genomes. Put another way, the essay focused on sequences with no associated function. Here, I explore the inverse problem: functions with no associated sequence. I propose an Enzyme Genomics project whose goal is to find at least one amino-acid sequence for every biochemically characterized enzyme activity for which there is currently no known sequence.
Roberts identifies three classes of genes whose functions would be most valuable to obtain: hypothetical genes with homologs in multiple organisms (conserved hypothetical), non-conserved hypothetical genes, and misannotated genes. Roberts proposes that a consortium of bioinformaticians post functional predictions for these genes to a central website. Biologists would then choose candidates and test the predicted functions in the lab, with results - both positive and negative - added to the same website. Roberts also proposes that the initial list of target genes be chosen from an experimentally tractable organism such as Escherichia coli, with the recognition that some experiments might be performed on homologs from other organisms.
My proposal for an Enzyme Genomics Initiative is based on a different part of the gap between genomics and biochemical function, and I suggest it as a fourth priority area in addition to the three suggested by Roberts. Elucidation of protein sequences corresponding to enzyme activities is important because of the many applications of metabolic enzymes in areas ranging from metabolic engineering to antimicrobial drug discovery to metabolic diseases. Finding enzyme sequences may also be easier than the projects listed by Roberts, because in many cases significant biochemical knowledge about these enzymes (such as purification procedures and assays) is already in hand.
Consider two implications of the many characterized enzymes for which no sequence exists. We cannot identify in a newly sequenced genome any of the enzyme activities for which no sequence exists, because to identify these enzyme functions in a new genome we require at least one sequence in a public sequence database to match against in the newly sequenced genome. This consideration limits both the completeness of genome annotations and our ability to infer the metabolic pathway complement of an organism from its genome using methods such as the PathoLogic program . A second implication is that we cannot genetically engineer any of these enzymes into a new organism to accomplish a metabolic engineering goal, because we do not know which gene(s) to insert to provide the needed enzyme activity.
No sequence has been determined for many known enzymes
Consider the enzyme D-mannitol oxidase, which was isolated from the snail digestive gland and assigned the EC number 188.8.131.52. Although the activity of this enzyme was characterized biochemically and published in 1986 , no amino-acid or nucleotide sequences are available for this enzyme in the public sequence databases.
As shown by the following analysis, for 38% of the enzyme activities that have been characterized biochemically, no corresponding amino-acid sequence is known. Consider the Enzyme Nomenclature System of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (commonly called the EC system), which is a catalog of many (but not all) biochemically characterized enzyme activities. For what fraction of those enzyme activities is at least one sequence known in a public protein sequence database? Unless otherwise stated, all of the following statistics refer to database versions available as of December 2003, and were calculated with the help of SRI's BioWarehouse system for integration of bioinformatics databases.
The ENZYME database is an electronic version of the EC system . Version 33.0 of ENZYME contains 4,208 distinct EC numbers, of which 472 have been deleted or transferred to new numbers; it therefore lists 3,736 different biochemically characterized enzyme activities. I wrote programs to query BioWarehouse in such a way as to determine how many of those EC numbers are referenced in different protein sequence databases, as a way of determining for how many of those enzymes at least one sequence is known. The results are as follows.
The SWISS-PROT database (version 42.6) [5, 6] references 1,899 distinct EC numbers. The TrEMBL database (version 25.4) references 239 EC numbers beyond those referenced in SWISS-PROT. The PIR database (PIR-PSD version 78.03) references 100 EC numbers beyond those referenced in SWISS-PROT and TrEMBL (which is curious, given that version 42.6 of SWISS-PROT is the first UniProt release, which integrates SWISS-PROT and PIR). The CMR (Comprehensive Microbial Resource, version April-2003) database references an additional 19 EC numbers beyond those referenced in SWISS-PROT, TrEMBL, and PIR. The BioCyc (version 7.6) database collection references an additional 42 EC numbers beyond those referenced in SWISS-PROT, TrEMBL, PIR, and CMR. In total, therefore, these databases reference 2,299 distinct EC numbers, or 62% of all known EC numbers. And, for 1,437 (3,736 - 2,299) EC numbers (38% of the 3,736 total), no protein sequence for that enzyme activity is known. A list of these 1,437 EC numbers is included as an additional data file.
There are two qualifications to the preceding analysis. First, the EC system is incomplete in that it does not yet include a number of enzymes whose biochemical activities have been characterized. The MetaCyc database [10, 11] alone describes 890 enzyme activities that have no associated EC number. The true number of biochemically characterized enzymes is therefore probably 5,000 to 6,000, and the preceding analysis based on EC numbers is a lower bound on the number of unsequenced enzymes. The proposed initiative should include all enzymes, whether they have been assigned EC numbers or not. Second, there might be incompletely annotated entries in PIR and SWISS-PROT [5, 6] that have not been assigned EC numbers, but which, if fully annotated, would provide sequences for some of these enzymes. When I searched the protein names and synonyms for 1.1 million proteins in UniProt that lack EC numbers against the enzyme name synonyms stored in MetaCyc [10, 11], I found fewer than 110 sequences for any EC number that previously lacked a sequence.
Enzyme genomics: sequence an enzyme for each enzyme activity
I propose a project to systematically isolate and sequence at least one enzyme for each enzyme activity that lacks any known sequence. The knowledge gained from each newly sequenced enzyme will immediately ricochet across previously sequenced genomes, as sequence similarity is used to identify its homologs in multiple genomes. This project should be considerably easier than the one proposed by Roberts, who advocates choosing a sequenced gene and attempting to assign a function to it, because biochemical assays already exist for the enzyme functions in question, and purification procedures for many of these proteins have already been published.
As in Roberts' proposal, my project calls for close collaboration between bioinformaticians and wet-lab biologists. One can expect that, in some cases, the genes encoding the relevant enzymes have already been sequenced by genome projects, but we simply do not know which sequences correspond to the enzyme functions we seek. Bioinformatic analyses can suggest which sequenced gene corresponds to a given enzyme function. For example, 124 of the unsequenced enzymes identified here participate in known metabolic pathways defined in MetaCyc [10, 11]. Computational techniques are available that will postulate other genes whose products act within the same pathway as a set of input genes; these techniques could be used to generate candidates for wet-lab investigation [12–14].
I envisage that a number of possible experimental strategies will be used concurrently to pursue this project, and I hope that high-throughput strategies will be devised. One possible strategy to approach this task would be as follows. Consider an enzyme activity E that was reported in the biochemical literature 20 years ago. Imagine that the enzyme was isolated from an organism whose genome has now been completely sequenced, such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Imagine further that the 20-year-old paper reported a molecular weight for the protein as a whole, and molecular weights for three trypsin-cleaved fragments of the protein. An investigator searching for this enzyme activity would search the S. cerevisiae genome computationally for all proteins of that molecular weight, and for those that contained three trypsin cleavage sites that would yield fragments of approximately the observed sizes. All such proteins would be cloned, over-expressed, and assayed for the enzyme activity E.
I support many of the procedures proposed by Roberts, which should be equally applicable to the Enzyme Genomics project, such as low-overhead proposals for wet-lab funding, prioritization of targets, and project-status tracking through a central database and website. For that matter, the same bioinformatics consortium should be able to provide analysis services and coordination for both projects. Future developments in this project will be available at .
Additional data file
A table (Additional data file 1) listing EC numbers for which no sequence was found in SWISS-PROT, TrEMBL, PIR, CMR, or BioCyc as of December 2003 is provided.
Richard J Roberts responds:
Peter Karp proposes a project that would greatly aid the annotation of sequenced genomes. It is both complementary to and would be synergistic with the project I proposed to assign function to unidentified genes in microbial genomes . I support it heartily. One interesting question that arises is how many different ways are there to provide any given biological function? For instance, if we can identify a gene encoding a particular enzyme activity, will that automatically lead us to all of the homologs or merely to one of many families of homologs? Just how diverse is protein space?
At New England Biolabs we have already embarked on a project of this sort. There are more than 240 different discrete recognition sequences for restriction endonucleases. We now have sequences for enzymes able to recognize more than two thirds of these specificities. In many cases we have sequences for more than one example of each recognition sequence. For restriction enzymes that recognize GATC, we find that there are at least four different families of protein sequences that can recognize and cleave this sequence. Because we do not currently have three dimensional structures for any of these GATC enzymes, our estimate of the number of families is based strictly on sequence similarity - or rather the lack thereof. We cannot at this stage exclude the possibility that the families are all very similar structurally, but even that would not help unless we become much more proficient at the de novo prediction of protein structures from sequence.
Thus, we face the distinct possibility that for the 1,437 enzyme activities noted by Karp, for which no gene sequence is available, there might be four or more times that number of distinct gene families encoding enzymes with those activities. This combined with the large numbers of enzyme activities that are not presently represented by EC numbers means that the task ahead is daunting. As always biology is wonderfully complex and poses great challenges to both the bioinformaticians and the biochemists. But here at least is an area where small science carried out in parallel in many experimental and computational laboratories will lead to big results - and the costs could be remarkably modest!
Richard J Roberts
New England Biolabs, 32 Tozer Road, Beverly, MA 01915, USA. E-mail:[email protected]
This work was partly supported by grant GM70065 from the NIH National Institute for General Medical Sciences.
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Magnolia Behavior Therapy provides Board-Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBAs) who supervises each child’s program. Our BCBA’s supervise our Behavior Technicians and collaborate with other professionals such as; Doctors, Speech Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Teachers, paraprofessionals and other school district personnel. From supervising an ABA therapy program to training school district personnel on implementing a customized positive behavior support plan, all of our BCBAs are experts in the field of Human Behavior. The methods we use include: detailed assessments, programmed intervention, daily data collection and data-based decision-making in order to achieve the desired results. Magnolia Behavior Therapy also provides Registered Behavior Technicians (RBT’s) to treat autism. While each Behavior Technician possesses his or her own unique qualities and level of experience, each of our Behavior Technicians have met criteria that exceeds the minimum. Each our Behavior Technicians have completed at least 40 hours of training in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) techniques in accordance with the BACB Guidelines for Responsible Conduct for Behavior Analysts, undergone a criminal background check, and completed a minimum of 48 semester hours of college courses in an accredited college or university. Most of our ABA therapists in Seattle, Dupont, Snohomish and other areas hold a degree in the Behavioral Sciences, Psychology or a related field such as; Education, Human development, or Social Work/Behavioral Health. Magnolia Behavior Therapy serves Dupont, Seattle, Bremerton, Oak Harbor, Spokane, Snohomish and surrounding areas. | <urn:uuid:4d7647f4-5327-4155-a97a-893c45bb67ed> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.parentmap.com/directory/7569-magnolia-behavior-therapy-aba | 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 | 0.880256 | 344 | 1.53125 | 2 |
On Sunday, Nov. 3, right at the 2 a.m. hour, your clocks need to "fall back" one hour due to the end of daylight saving time.
But why, in a world of electric lights and global business, do we still follow the daylight saving time (DST) practice?
As far back as the Roman times, societies have adjusted their clocks based on the amount of daylight during the day. Since the Earth spins on an axis as well as revolves around the sun, different parts of the planet get different amounts of sunlight throughout the year. Certain cities close to the poles, for instance, can have up to a month of darkness due to this effect.
For most locations, however, the difference is more subtle. You may notice the sun rising later in the day as it gets closer to winter. Due to this effect, it would seem that the daylight comes at a later hour in the day (rising at 7:30 a.m. instead of 6:30 a.m., for example) and lasts longer in the day, (setting at 7:30 p.m. instead of 6:30 p.m.). Adjusting the clocks to match, by either adding or subtracting an hour twice per year, helps make the time in hours consistent with daylight during the day.
The history of organized DST dates back to 1905 when English builder William Willet observed many Londoners sleeping through a beautiful summer morning. He campaigned to get the practice into effect until his death in 1915, yet it wasn’t until 1916 that German forces actually used the practice. The US starting their DST practices in 1918, even though it was heavily debated.
The controversy over DST continues even today. Many farmers and evening entertainment interests, like drive-in movies, have historically opposed the practice, while other industries, especially tourism and sports have been especially supportive due to increased profits. In fact, some reports believe businesses like golf courses add nearly $100 million dollars due to DST.
Besides the economic effects on businesses, DST has also been pushed as having an effect on reducing energy costs. During his time in France, Benjamin Franklin wrote an anonymous letter suggesting Parisians rise early to make use of the earlier sunlight, thereby saving candles. Though most modern societies have moved on from candle light, the idea is similar: by having people wake up earlier during daylight hours (by adjusting their clocks), they’ll also use less electricity because the end of their work day will be closer to the time of darkness.
The energy argument for DST was so respected that the latest change to the practice was direct attempt to try to reduce energy usage. In the Energy Policy Act of 2005, this year’s DST was adjusted to run from March to November. With this new range, clocks should be set one hour ahead in March, and will be set back one hour in November. Both changes are set for 2 a.m. local time. | <urn:uuid:ce3bd3fe-ea70-46ef-9e54-d3d4bf1ff011> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/TheQ-When-Do-I-Turn-My-Clock-Back-133251488.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00384-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970504 | 607 | 3.375 | 3 |
by Fin Wheeler
Having a social media presence is essential to getting noticed, so how can an aspiring screenwriter get the best investment?
There are a million ways to network on the internet. The more time you spend creating and maintaining an online presence, the more time you take from your life, your family and your writing, so prioritizing is vital.
If a producer likes the tone of your query letter, but knows nothing about you, they may check out your online presence before they decide whether to ask you to submit a full script. If they do like your full script, they’re likely to further scrutinize your online profiles and presence before they decide whether to ask you in for a meeting.
Your online profiles need to give producers an accurate and full idea of the type of professional they are dealing with.
The most popular and influential social media platforms are where entertainment companies advertise, so it’s a good idea to focus on those, but there are still too many. Companies have social media teams to maintain their image and brand online, you just have a few hours a week at most. Look at all the social media networking sites, and focus your efforts on a few that best suit your brand and your goals.
Phone or Computer
While researching this article, I came across a startling fact; only 60% of Americans who use mobile phones have a smartphone.
You need a smartphone. Producers, directors and agents will check out your online profiles on their phones as well as their desktops. To create effective pages and feeds, you need to understand their viewing experience, so get a smartphone and download those apps.
Producers don’t want to wait hours or days for a writer to respond to a standard request. If you don’t respond right away, they’ll move on to the next submission and yours could go back to the bottom of the pile. Make sure you get your emails on your phone.
Skype or WhatsApp
Many meetings you have will be by phone or internet (Skype or similar).
WhatsApp has one billion monthly active users and is hugely popular outside America, particularly in Latin America with 42 billion messages sent daily. But in the US there is a strong preference for Skype, so make sure you have a Skype account if you are querying LA producers.
Social Media Networks
Facebook – 1.6 billion users, no growth
Even when you take out all the catfish, the trolls, the con artists, and the fake profiles created by parents trying to get friended by their kids, that’s still an awful lot of users. Even if you’re not a fan of Facebook, you need to have a presence there.
Remember that producers are looking for a mature professional; someone who is skilled, competent, and won’t disclose confidential information. (You will have to sign an NDA for every project you work on.) So don’t constantly overshare every last detail of your life with everyone.
Like most writers, my privacy is important to me. You don’t need to share personal information; you just need to let them get a glimpse of your work ethic and personality. Post links to interesting articles. Post each time you get shortlisted for an award or win one. Producers need to know that you’re a real person who has been developing and nurturing your writing for a few years. Your online profiles can help them form an opinion about you.
Producers don’t just consider the content of your page, but also how much time you spend on it. So, if you spend more time on Facebook than writing, you might want to wean yourself off it.
YouTube – 1 billion users, usage decreasing
YouTube and Vimeo are a great way for aspiring directors to showcase their clips and reels, and that includes writer/directors.
If your focus is solely on writing, a link to a director’s channel of the short film you wrote shows that you’re actively working toward getting your projects made. It also shows that the collaboration between you, the director, and the producer of that short film was a constructive one.
Google+ – 440 million users and growing
If you have a Gmail account, with just one click you can start setting up your Google+ page.
I personally don’t follow other people on Google+, but my page has had 19,000 views. So, it’s well worth creating a page that is easy to read and has just enough interesting content to get people clicking over onto your other sites.
Instagram – 430 million users and growing
I only started using Instagram late last year. Many industry professionals I would meet with early on in my career dismissed Instagram as a breeding ground for aspiring models, actors, and reality stars. The inference was that Instagram was only for those who want a career on camera. If you were serious about being a professional in scripted TV and features, then you didn’t throw up a dozen selfies a day.
I still agree that posting pictures of yourself anywhere on the internet isn’t a good idea for an aspiring screenwriter. The directors and the actors are the face of each project. A screenwriter’s focus is on creating and improving content, not looking for the next photo op. Producers need to see that you understand and respect the way the industry works. But I do think that having an Instagram account can be beneficial for an early career screenwriter.
Producers get to see what kind of audience is interested in you and your content. And because of the layout of the Instagram feed, producers and directors can click on your link, scroll down your page for a minute or two and learn an awful lot about you.
Are high production values important to you? What’s your aesthetic? Do you have a dark, quirky sense of humor, or are you mostly humorless? Whether you post regularly can help form their opinion of your work ethic. And the sort of comments you and your followers leave can help them get a feel for what working with you would be like.
I’ve been surprised by the number of people in the industry who use my Instagram to gain a better idea of me and my work. While it did take a lot of time, effort, and research to decide what type of content would best represent my brand and style of writing, I think it’s turned out to be well worth it.
Only about 20% of screenwriters have an Instagram account, so if you don’t know where to start, who to follow, or what you want to achieve with your feed and profile, I’d recommend you check out the account of Oscar-winning actor Lupita Nyong’o – @LupitaNyongo. You get an excellent idea of her projects, her interests, who she respects and who she wants to work with (the 73 people she follows). As a screenwriter, your focus will obviously be slightly different, but at least you’ll have an idea of where to start.
Another great thing about Instagram is that a lot of very, very rich people use it: investors, family members of people who invest in film, actors, directors, agents, managers, stylists, designers, and any number of people who work in the industry. If you post on a topic you’re passionate about (for me, high-end fashion), other people will find your passion infectious. You never know who will stumble across your feed and love it.
There are a huge number of writers who post about writing. Given that screenwriters aren’t supposed to disclose information about projects, I think it’s a lot less boring to just pick a non-writing topic and post on that.
Check back in for the second half of this article next week!
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Since transformational generative phonology is a specialized area of study that some here may not be familiar with, could you provide some specific examples that serve to illustrate your problem / question?
According to Transformational-Generative phonologists, stress rules are cyclic. They are applied once then twice then three times and so on. The problem is, that I seem not to be able to follow the cycle after the first rule is applied. That is when it comes to the compound rule and other further rules, any ideas?
I'm reading 'An Introduction to Linguistics' by L. Ben Crane and others. So I came across this sentence: John's baseball cap on which four rules of stress were applied. The primary rule, the secondary rule, a third rule'I don't know waht's called' and finally the neuclear rule. I may say that I understand the primary rule. Then things started to get fuzzy. | <urn:uuid:980984ce-1eb5-4fb4-9199-e0a0f9c2ea88> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/threads/95021-an-exam?goto=nextnewest | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988717783.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183837-00075-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964432 | 192 | 1.882813 | 2 |
The number of state workers in Alabama has declined both years of Gov. Bob Riley's administration.
Now for the first time, the average state salary has dropped. In fiscal 2004, the average annual salary for state workers was $34, 581 dollars -- down from $34, 612 the year before.
State workers haven't received any merit or cost-of-living
raises in two years, and many of the state employees who retired
last year were at or near the top of the pay ranges for their jobs.
The people hired to replace them often began at lower salaries.
In Riley's "State of the State" speech Tuesday night, the
governor talked proudly about the changes during his
Annual reports compiled by the state Personnel Department show
the state had 34-thousand-506 employees at the end of fiscal 2002,
which was the last full year in Gov. Don Siegelman's
administration. By the end of fiscal 2003, the number had dropped
to 34-thousand-414, and then it fell again to 33-thousand-191 at
the end of fiscal 2004.
That's the lowest number since the state had 32-thousand-155 in
State Personnel Director Tommy Flowers says the decline is due
to many state agencies coping with budget cuts and the Department
of Mental Health and Mental Retardation consolidating regional
centers as part of its shift to community-based treatment programs,
such as group homes.
The numbers collected by the Personnel Department include all
major state departments, such as transportation, corrections and
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In this election year, as we debate what kind of leaders we want to represent us, as well as what differing visions we’d like to see carried out, famous astrophysist and speaker Neil deGrasse Tyson just stirred the pot by tweeting his thoughts on an ideal form of government:
Earth needs a virtual country: #Rationalia, with a one-line Constitution: All policy shall be based on the weight of evidence— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) June 29, 2016
Tyson’s viral tweet has generally been received with mixed emotions as people aren’t sure how “Rationalia” would work and are immediately seeing some kind of fascist regime with eugenics on its mind. Or maybe something with communist underpinnings. Much of the doubt stems from the lack of confidence in the basic rationality of our species.
Presumably, Tyson does not see it that way and simply wants a government that is based on scientific evidence and reason.
In Tyson’s videos for BigThink, he touches upon several topics relevant to this discussion. Here he talks about the intersection of science and faith:
If you dissect the tweet further, you can notice that he’s calling for Earth to have a “virtual country” with an evidence-based directive in its constitution. Perhaps, he’s not saying this should be the only country in existence but it may be a sort of affiliation for all rational people (whatever physical country they might actually inhabit). This could lead to an interesting, internet-based experiment.
To further bolster the case for Rationalia, Tyson already recruited some of its first citizens. Namely, a host of famous "rational" people like Richard Dawkins and Brian Greene.
What, in particular, does Tyson like about rationality?
He goes into more detail in the video below. As he says towards its end (around 8:28) - it is unstable to build a government on a belief system. Religion or matters of belief or disbelief in provable issues (like the mountain of data suggesting climate change), do not have a place in government.
“what you want is objectively verifiable truths, that we can all agree - that’s what you build your economic system on, your government system.”
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World Bank President on IHP+ at the World Health Assembly
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim reconfirms shared commitment to IHP+
In his plenary speech entitled "Poverty, Health and the Human Future," World Bank President Jim Yong Kim reminded the audience about the perils of fragmentation and encouraged all stakeholders to take immediate action to address it. He stated:
"The fragmentation of global health action has led to inefficiencies that many ministers here know all too well: parallel delivery structures; multiplication of monitoring systems and reporting demands; ministry officials who spend a quarter of their time managing requests from a parade of well-meaning international partners.
This fragmentation is literally killing people. Together we must take action to fix it, now.
Aligning for better results is the approach of the International Health Partnership, or IHP+. And it’s gaining momentum. Earlier today, Director-General Margaret Chan and I took part in an IHP+ meeting. It’s inspiring to see more and more countries taking charge, setting the agenda based on strong national plans, and making development partners follow the lead of governments.
We are reconfirming our shared commitment to IHP+ as the best vehicle to implement development effectiveness principles and support countries driving for results. But, honorable ministers, we must hold each other accountable. We all have to be ready to pound the table and demand that we stop the deadly fragmentation that has hindered the development of your health systems for far too long. The stakes are high and the path will be difficult, but I know we can do it."
Click here to read the entire speech.
- IHP+ monitoring results: Comoros and Pakistan
How effective is development cooperation in health?
- Health Policy Action Fund projects completed
CSO health policy engagement projects for 2016.
- Thailand, South Africa and the Rockefeller Foundation give fresh support to UHC2030
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With more than 700 tournaments in 50 markets, players learn how to compete without having to travel far. Local Tours are designed for the beginning competitive golfer, as each event provides a fun environment at which kids can develop their skills. Two-day tournaments, such as Regional Championships, are ranked by Junior Golf Scoreboard and are the natural next step for competitive junior golfers. At each level, players may earn Priority Status in hopes of qualifying for the World Championship, held annually in Pinehurst, N.C. In 2013, more than 1,200 players from 40 countries vied for the title of World Champion in 13 age divisions. U.S. Kids Golf also conducts the Teen World Championship for players 13-18 years old, as well as the European Championship in Scotland.
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In last year's Passports with Purpose fundraising drive, I bid $10 on a trip and another $10 on a stroller. I won neither, but for a mere $20 I helped build a school in Cambodia currently serving about 400 kids, with books, teachers, a school nurse, a food garden and a drinking water well (check out some photos of the school here). Best $20 I ever spent. This year I'll be bidding on a few prizes again and I'm putting up a prize of my own as well, the aforementioned iPad (see details below).
So who are these Passports with Purpose folks and how does it all work? PwP was started in 2008 by four travel bloggers (Debbie Dubrow, Pam Mandel, Beth Whitman and Michelle Duffy) as a way to build community among travel bloggers and to give back to the places we, as travelers, visit.
The concept has proven wonderful in its simplicity and effectiveness: travel bloggers procure prizes for people to bid on, they spread the word through their social networks, people bid on prizes at $10 per bid (tax deductible), and the money goes straight to the charity of the year. Last year, over $30,000 was raised through PwP and some school kids are enjoying the results right now.
This year, PwP is supporting LAFTI, an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of the Dalit (untouchable) population in India. The fundraising goal this year is even higher: $50,000, money that will go toward building a village in India, providing homes to people who have never had a roof over their heads. See more details about the project on the Passports with Purpose website.
I know some of the PwP founders personally and can vouch for them being sincere, passionate, cupcake-loving and all-around excellent people. They also write some fantastic blogs that you should check out. Don't just take it from me, check out the PwP website and the sites of the dozens of travel bloggers involved this year and in previous years.
If you have an iPad already, or simply don't want one, there are dozens of other great items to bid on and support Passports with Purpose.
A shiny new Apple iPad 16 GB Wi-Fi + 3G
About the prize, plus BONUS prizes*:
This lovely iPad comes all the way from Australia, where they not only have large bouncy marsupials, but nifty tablet computers made by Apple as well. I won this iPad recently in a staff writing contest at Lonely Planet, and, while I love how pretty and fun it is, and identify with the early adopter crowd, I know for a fact that it could be doing more good raising money for charity than it ever could do in my hands.
Because the Australian version did not include the free Winnie the Pooh ebook that seems to come with US models – an exclusion that is morally wrong – I have added this in order to not deprive the winner of great literature involving heffalumps. I have removed the mp3 of "Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport" that comes standard on all Australian electronic devices.** Being an Australian model, it came with a plug that only works in Australia, Argentina, New Zealand, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Tokelau. Whoever wins, I'll throw in a power adapter for your country (if they happen to be from Tokelau, so much the better).
Sound good? If so, click here to bid on the iPad and any other PwP prize!
You can bid more than once, and bid on as many items as you like. It all goes to support this year's charity, and every bid makes it more likely that you'll win a prize!
Thanks to this year's generous sponsors of PwP: BootsnAll, LiveMocha, Round the World with Us, HomeAway, Traveller’s Point, Hostelling International, Quintess, Raveable, TravelPost, and Uptake. Thanks as well to Lonely Planet for quite unintentionally providing the prize that I'm putting up this year.
* Bonus prizes include a Winnie the Pooh ebook and a regional power adapter.
**This might be a rumor.
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Bartholomew I, 1940–, Orthodox patriarch of Constantinople, b. Imvros, Turkey, as Dimitrios Archondonis. He attended theological seminary in İstanbul and later studied in Rome, Switzerland, and Germany. Chief adviser and administrator for Patriarch Dimitrios I, he was elected patriarch after his predecessor's death (1991). Prior to his election, he was metropolitan of Chalcedon from 1990 to 1991. Bartholomew has advocated contacts with other Christian churches, while strongly opposing efforts of some of them to win converts in traditional Orthodox lands in E Europe; he also has attempted to aid Orthodox Eastern churches in E Europe.
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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it says:"When pushed, love digs in its heels."
could anyone tell me what does this mean?
Thanks a lot.
"Dig in your heels" is a idiom that means you refuse to do what someone else is trying to convince you to to do.
In your sentence, push basically means force or pressure.
So, basically your sentence says that if you try to force someone to love you, that person will refuse to love you. | <urn:uuid:bb457c94-2496-4daa-8241-ddf8f34535fd> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/threads/26043-a-fortune-from-my-fortune-cookie | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00187-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967807 | 94 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Though uncommon and very localized here in SoCal, I have known over the years that the Yellow-breasted Chat migrates to our area in the spring. But, they are very secretive and skittish, so they are hard find and observe. Over the years, I have known their chatty vocals, so have heard them in the dense willows and thickets, even at our local Guajome Park, here in Vista, CA...
On the Trail & ‘Round the Campfire
Welcome to my little diversion from the daily grind. Pull up a log or, just sit on yer’ fist and lean back on yer’ thumb (put a smiley face here) and let’s share a moment. I’ll throw another blog in the fire every now and then and, we’ll chew the fat about such mundane things as birds, nature, cowboys and the southwest, USA. I may even wax poetic or philosophical occasionally, but always honoring our creator. If you like something you read, please leave yer’ tracks.
The Lost Pot of Gold Featured
As they say, "gold is where you find it," but with equal pithiness a miners proverb says: "Gold is where you lost it." That generally means, the one not finding the gold was lost, not the gold. The following tale ain't no Pot 'O Gold at the end of the rainbow story, but, with my propensity for Dutch ovens you might know that this story was inevitable. If ever there was a pot of gold waiting to be found, it's gotta' be, "The Lost Dutch Oven Mine"... a Pot 'O Gold at the end of the trail...
The Rain Maker and The 1916 Flood Featured
Being a native of San Diego County, CA, particularly a native of the arid cow country of East County, I know the rigors of dry weather, Santa Ana winds and the erratic rainy seasons. I grew up during the early forties and fifties not far from Moreno Lake, near Campo. That is just a stone's throw from the Mexican border town of Tecate, Mexico.
It's funny how a single weather event can define your whole life, even if you did not personally experience it. Maybe one grows up only seeing evidence of the devastating aftermath. Like the floods of hurricanes or, the Great Flood of Noah's day. Those folks never forget so they never quit telling the tale of the great flood to the next generation.
So it is that all my life I had heard of the 1916 flood that followed a severe period of drought. Nothing has changed since then, there have been other notable periods of drought and very wet winters. As I grew up, each one of those rainy seasons were measured and defined by one historical benchmark—the 1916 flood. The old timers told many tales of that memorable year of severe drought followed by catastrophic flooding in San Diego County.
Long before the so called "greenhouse effect," southern California, and the west in general, suffered extended periods of, "bone dry," global warming followed by periods of unusual cooling and "soaking wet" winters. History records that the western pioneers and cattle ranchers coped with the erratic wet/dry cycles as a way of life.
For example, the drought of 1862-65 was a major devastation to the state of California—as the 'ol timers put it, "it was so dry you'd have to prime yourself to spit." Fueled by hot Santa Ana winds, all the range and pasture grasses dried up to a crisp during that four-year drought. It was that one extended period of drought that ruined the cattle industry in southern California. After that, cattle ranching never really recovered.
When the drought eased up in November of 1864, it was followed by unusually heavy rains and flooding of biblical proportions. Rain fell for almost a month inundating rivers, valleys, farmlands and communities. Nearly 18 inches of rain fell in just over three months! Compare that with an average of 12 inches for a whole year, It washed away soil, timberlands, hillsides and grassy pastures. It is said that an estimated 200,000 head of cattle were lost in California during the torrential rains of 1864-65. However, that was back then.
During the 1940's when I was a kid, the drought that I heard so much about was the one preceding 1916 flood. That was about thirty years before my time. So, that was also back then, but it was still fresh in the minds of the old timers who lived through that memorable weather event. This fascinating weather tale also ends with a flood... but it ends with whole different twist.
Who was responsible for the great San Diego flood of 1916 anyway—Mother Nature or Charles Hatfield, "The Rainmaker?" Those who remembered that inundation had their own opinion. The question prompted a lot of discussion, even when I was a kid—it is a question that has never really been answered. Here is the historical tale of why...
During the period of 1913-15, the severe drought hit San Diego County was much the same as had happened some sixty years earlier. In 1915 San Diego County was "drier than a popcorn fart", as the saying was. Water for the city was becoming critically short.
During that time the City of San Diego was solely dependent on water pumped from wells and from runoff of winter rains collected in a few county reservoirs like Moreno Lake, Otay Lake and Old Mission Dam. Moreno Lake was a main water storage reservoir. A flume system carried water from the mountainous back country to thirsty San Diego. (During the 1940's my Dad was employed as "flume walker" on the Barrett-Dulzura flume.)
At issue was the fact that from the time Moreno reservoir was built in 1897 it had never been full. Many critics said that it was overbuilt and thus a wasted investment by the City of San Diego. Now, it was fast drying up to little more than a cattle pond. Everyone was getting extremely nervous and talked a lot about the critical water shortage but could do little about it. Then, one very dry morning in early December, a gentleman of slight build visited the City Council. He stood up and announced his profession as a "moisture accelerator." For a fee, Charles Hatfield boldly offered to fill the big Moreno Reservoir to the brim, using his method of "moisture acceleration."
Desperate, half-hopeful and skeptical, the city council listened to his pitch and examined newspaper clippings of his rainmaking triumphs from Los Angeles to Alaska and Texas, from 1904 to the present.
After a lengthy negotiation the city council voted four to one to pay Hatfield $10,000.00 if he could fill Moreno reservoir to overflowing by December 20, 1916—or they would pay him nothing at all. That's like $100,000.00 in today's money! It was agreed that he would not have to reveal his trade secrets if he was successful. After the deal was made, the city council boasted, "it's heads we win, tails he loses!" Hatfield responded by saying, "be careful what you're asking for."
So, forthwith, he took his rainmaking apparatus and his trade secrets out to the mountains of Moreno reservoir, sixty miles to the east of San Diego. He built a 40-foot tower on top of which he assembled large galvanized vats on a platform. Then in a tent below he began mixing and preparing his secret concoction of some twenty-three different chemicals for causing rain, or "moisture acceleration" as he preferred to call it. (Some say it was of hydrogen and powdered zinc.)
The locals came to see his unique operation. He told them "this was no Indian rain dance, so scat or you'll 'git no rain." And so they scatted. He mixed his chemicals and stirred his brew and the vaporous fumes went wafting into a cloudless sky. His detractors and believers alike were abuzz with wisecracks, bets, hopes, doubts and snickers.
Night fell. Lo and behold (unbelievably) the next morning it was raining! The ranchers and cowmen were delighted as the water began to flow into the creeks and valleys and into Moreno Lake. The heavy rains came and kept coming and coming—heavier and heavier. Mission Valley, which to this day, still floods with just a couple inches of rain, began to run bank to bank as the San Diego River received all the mountain runoff. Downtown San Diego was quickly awash in slosh. Hatfield called city hall and bragged that he was only just beginning and that he was doubling his "moisture acceleration" formula. He said: "You better start building an Ark!"
In a few days an irate rancher contacted city hall and told them to "Stop the damn Rainmaker, and pay him off—it's raining like a cow on a flat rock—my ranch is floating downstream!" But Hatfield was ecstatic with his success and was not about to let up on his "moisture accelerator." He put the pedal to the metal and fumed the clouds like a madman! It is said that he worked all night and the next day without letup, and kept pumping out his witch's brew for more than a week.
No question about it, in a dramatic way the drought was suddenly over and Moreno Lake was soon full to the brim and so was Otay Lake. The Sweetwater Dam and Lower Otay Lake filled to overflowing. But the Otay Dam was old and feeble and on January 27th, it burst and dumped a forty-foot wall of water down the canyon, sweeping away cattle, horses, farms, bridges, homes and some people.
Located just north of Old Town, the bridge that crossed the normally dry San Diego River bed was wiped out and that cut San Diego off from the north for more than a week. The same happened at the San Luis Rey River crossing in Oceanside. So, the Coast Highway was washed out and impassable in numerous places. The Santa Fe and San Diego Arizona trains were marooned both north and east and all the main roads were closed. They were impassable or washed out. All telegraph cable service was cut off. South of San Diego on the Mexican border, the Tijuana River Valley was inundated and the river overflowed its banks and carved a new channel, one that is present to this day. The county saw more than 200 bridges washed out. The 1916 flood was truly of monumental proportions—a deluge like nothing ever experienced!
Where I grew up as a kid on the Dulzura summit, old timers would point out various topographical effects of the flood that changed the landscape forever. Such evidence as ancient scars of landslides where huge sections of the mountains had gotten waterlogged and slid away, leaving the mountain with a new shape or a new canyon. Piles of humungous boulders the size of houses that tumbled down the mountainsides still remain as a witness to Hatfield's 1916 flood. In the lingo of the locals, it was "a real gully-washer", "a pine-knot-floater!"
The main thing though was this: at long last big Moreno Dam, which sat nearly empty for about 20 years, was full to the brim for the first time ever. Charles Hatfield unquestionably fulfilled his end of the bargain—or was it an act of nature? Hatfield took credit for soaking the City for $10,000.00 and claimed that the downpour was the direct result of his "moisture acceleration" efforts.
A posse of ranchers madder than a wet hen, with rain in their faces and blood in their eyes, headed for his tower. But Hatfield was nowhere to be found. He had dismantled his tower and high-tailed it for San Diego to collect on his contract.
But as soon as the rains subsided the fair-weather skeptics swamped City Hall. They rose up like the floodwaters to discredit him as a snake oil salesman! The city attorney denied his claim on the grounds that "the whole thing was an act of God!" They refused to pay the money unless Hatfield would accept liability for flood damages to the city. By using that argument, in essence the city council acknowledged his success while denying him payment. Lawsuits against the city soon totaled more than 3.5 million dollars!
Interestingly, Hatfield never claimed that he was a "rainmaker" or that he caused it to rain. Even though he took credit for filling Moreno reservoir to the brim by the date agreed, he could not enforce his poorly written contract that claimed he was only a "moisture accelerator." Hatfield had dug himself a watery mud hole. Refusing to pay for his San Diego flood of 1916, the city left him high and dry.
It is likely that he finally did get some remuneration and personal satisfaction forty years later, when he became the subject of a movie— "The Rainmaker." In the 1956 movie, The Rainmaker, Burt Lancaster played a character resembling Charles Hatfield's exploits. On the bone-dry evening of the movie premiere, Charles Hatfield showed up, conspicuously holding up an umbrella. Shortly thereafter, his secret brew for rainmaking and/or "moisture acceleration" died with him in 1958. He was 82. Yes, during my day, Charles Hatfield was a notable character.
But, was the 1916 flood "an act of God" or Hatfield? His strange achievement prompted many country arguments and tales of the 1916 flood. Ask the country folks in eastern San Diego County around Dulzura, Campo and Moreno Lake. It's still a question open to debate. Some say, "Give the devil his due." Others say, "Let the devil take the hindmost." As for me, I grew up my whole life believing that Hatfield caused the flood of 1916—or else it would not have been called the Hatfield flood—right? Greenhouse effect or not, why should I change my opinion now? Then again, I've heard it said: "Timing has a lot to do with rain at a rain dance."
Funny how a single weather event can define a part of your life, maybe even your whole life. How about the Flood of Noah's day?
© Ed Keenan
October Trails—Afoot or Horseback Featured
Whether horseback or afoot, cowboys enjoy their outdoor surroundins. I've known a few cowhands who enjoy birdin' (bird watching) as they ride their spread and work their cattle, spring and fall. I knew one that even tended some bluebird nest boxes he'd attached to bobwire fence posts, way out on the open range He told me of both Western and Mountain Bluebirds that had nested in his boxes. Since he's carryin' binoculars anyway, he may even carry a Peterson's Bird Guide in his saddlebag. But, modern cowpokes carry Sibley's Field Guide. The diversion of birdin' gives him another reason to appreciate the seasons and notice his grand surroundins'
Well, I leave the warmth of the old wood stove this late October morning. The trail to the fence line is carpeted with the faded discards of summer, like frosted flakes for breakfast. The breeze is holding her breath lightly and among the russets and rufous-reds are hints of yellow green, and my horse is feelin' her oats on the first frosty mornin'. My old stoved-up hip from earlier days aches less in the rising sun and azure sky and scattered puffs of cotton vapor. Carrying a pocket full of blessings and following my breath past rail fences, dark-eyed juncos twitter and flash their tails just ahead of me—and I covet the solitude of ridin' the fence line past these woods.
Before reaching the feeding grounds of corn fields and walnut groves, somewhere on the other side of the north pasture, a flock of crows stir up a riot and shout obscenities at a day-sleeper, a poor horned owl trying to settle in for a day's rest. He was snuggled up against a scaly trunk in perfect camouflage, at least so he thought, until being persecuted by those of dark temperament.
And then, there they are again—hanging upside down—a half a dozen indecisive goldfinches, now fading to winter tans. They do the dipsy-doodle in front of my horse, from clumps of fuzzy milkweed to fluffy cottontails of parched thistle. And past the nettles on the other side of the willows, song sparrows volley occasional fall notes like crystal bells, then dash in erratic flight, diving for cover in the bramble-berries near the creek.
Riding on beneath the sycamores, there is a tasting room of claret poke berries hanging heavy with purple clusters, inviting waxwings and thrushes and the occasional mockingbird. Nearby, puffed up lark sparrows with hatpin breasts, and white crowned sparrows, seek the morning sun on the tangle of a big old elderberry —a feeding magnet for mockers and phainopeplas in the spring.
Last spring I had spied out the edge of the woods and two most unusual aerial shows were in progress. One consisted of micro-filaments drifting in the morning sun. Buoyant spider webs drifting like minute cable-crossings, hemstitching sunrays to shadows with silken strands of opaque silver threads; migrating to any destination or twig... truly a unique sight. And, the woods were filled with emerging subterranean or dry-wood termites. They erupt seasonally, spring and fall, and fill the air with glittering propellers, like tiny helicopters, seeking more dead wood to ingest and recycle into methane gas. Yellow-rumped warblers had an acrobatic heyday and the air was filled with their 'cheet, cheet! They acted like kids in a candy store and I somehow sensed their joy and satisfaction!
Crossing the creek, the marsh is busy near the tulles, a conservatory for mallard voice training; they yak and laugh at soprano mockingbirds sounding like hand-carved ducks calls. Annoyed, a great blue heron rises languid and hang-glides to the silent distant shore. Soon he is pointing his proboscis in a steely stare at some unseen movement in the muddy shallows.
I quietly dismount in the shadows, but no matter how sneaky or quiet I am, those sharp-eyed painted wood ducks catch my silhouette in the brushy woods and fly up whining like 4th-of-July rockets, warning every creature of my presence. Ah... but, two northern shovelers stay and feed, allowing me to focus my binocs on their beauty; they put on a real show by spinning around each other like tops.
Well... I left the old wood stove cracklin' and it beckons my return to stir the coals and heat up another cup of coffee. Funny how October days and tawny leaves of frosted flakes, migrating warblers and heron tracks in the mud always seem new—evoking another encore. So, I'll ride this trail again and again before the muted light of winter, or my gimpy 'ol hip can't sit in the saddle no more.
© Ed Keenan
Nothing fires the imagination of a desert enthusiast like bandits, gold and ghost towns. Here in the American southwest, the strange and colorful history associated with the Vallecito Stage Station is one of those southwest desert places that stir the imagination. Numerous murders, robberies and other wicked tales are part of the interesting history of the "little valley." Also woven into this history are some legendary ghosts stories. All these tales fire the imagination of treasure hunters and campfire storytellers alike.
Ed Keenan's new edition of "Cow chip Poetry---Lies, Lingo & Lore" is 207 pages. It contains a total of 57 original cowboy poems, an extensive lingo glossary and many cowboy illustrations.
Cowboy poetry and story tellin' date back to the earliest cowboys, the earliest of which were black. Around the campfire, after chuck, cowhands would naturally talk and brag about themselves, and entertain each other with poems and songs and tall tales known as "windies". They bragged about their exploits and work and would often reminisce about back home, or times past.
"Windies" in the form of story tellin', braggin' and tall tales developed in to an art form. (Some hifalutin' folks might question that.) Generally there was an element of humor or drama to their stories. Over time some of these stories were told by means of poetry, the more unbelievable the tale or poem, the more enjoyable. Poetic lines could make a story more interesting and often added another dimension to the humor or drama.
Remember my August post about a "Feathered UFO?
I shared my field notes of a spectacular exotic bird, of orange color, that I have never identified. I said it still bugs the heck out of me not knowing what I saw.
I'm sure someone can ID this beauty from the description. (If so, please send me a note). Till then, or until I get the right "bird book," I've reverted back to my childhood—to my personal identification system––what we have here is a "Flame-collared-feathered UFO!"
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Sure enough, from my field notes a reader named Spencer sent me a nice note and some photos about the bird I had seen and never identified:
Your mysteries are resolved and you got a great shot of the Nutmeg Mannikin...
From your notes, it seems what you saw is an exotic finch called an Orange Bishop. You can clearly see how appropriate that name is. Or as one might say: "it's easy to see why it is called a Bishop; it definitely looks like ecclesiastical regalia. The Pope would love it.
The very last place I'd expect to find one was at the grounds of the Huntington Beach Library but, there were several in the tulles, behind the library. The unique Nutmeg Mannikin that you saw in Vista, is also established there.
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In many ways birding is about anticipation and surprise—the first-time experience of seeing a new species. Nothing quite explains it like the first-time experience.
So, here I was on this exciting birding escapade and saw this particular bird for the very first time. In my excitement I exclaimed: Look! A Wood Thrush! The person next to me said: So? She strung out the 'o' in 'so' with a long inflection that made it sound singsong, sliding upward at the end like a Swainson's Thrush instead of a Veery. I got her point immediately, and my spirit dove for cover with this feeling of embarrassment. She finished off her 'so-oo' by remarking, "that's a junk bird".
Imagine being nearly destitute and finding silver nuggets in chunk sizes, up to a weight of fifty pounds, and not be able to carry them out or cash them in! Yes, slabs and chunks of silver scattered up and down a volcanic ravine, clear up on the sides of the banks—all that wealth and you're nearly starving to death! Yes! Like a bee drownin' golden in honey! So begins this tale of "The Lost Black Rock Silver Lode".
It seems no matter how often I observe the locally common birds, as common as they are they are still just as enjoyable today as they were seventy years ago. That was before I could identify any one of them by their proper name. Yes, before the acronym UFO, we were observing many unidentified feathered objects.
Since Dad was an avid prospector, legends and lore of lost gold mines and hidden treasure abounded in our house as I grew up. Legendary tales like that of Peg-Leg Pete and his crusty gold nuggets and three desert buttes. Dad absolutely believed some of the historical tales. To him, it was just a matter of finding what was lost.
More than sixty five years ago when I was kid about 12 years old, I lived in the remote mountainous country of east San Diego County—a little known place called Dulzura.
During that time of growing up, an unusual find by my brother and I started us on a saga about spirits, ghosts and tales of strange humanoid type creatures; creatures like the famous "Big Foot," sometimes termed "Sasquatch".
Bonding with nature in my own backyard? —Nah, not possible. To bond with nature, I need to get away and go where nature is, where all the wildlife roam free in the wild. I need to get away from this grimy asphalt and paved-over world, corralling me with chain-link fences! I need to get out where the creeks and rivers and canyons of green are teaming with birds and other interesting creatures.
"...absence makes the heart grow fonder"
Growing up as a boy in the 1940's, in the remote backcountry of southern California, I always had an interest in the wild birds. But, a "bird book" as we know today, was nonexistent. By "bird book" I mean a "field guide", an identification guide to wild birds.
Until the publication of such an identification guide by Roger Tory Peterson, in the 1930's, there was no such thing as a, pocket-size, bird book— that is, a field guide for birders. Besides his crisp, colorful, drawings of each bird, Peterson used his now famous method of ID pointers to help amateurs identify wild birds in the field. His unique method became world-renowned.
Peterson's original "Field Guide to The Birds" covered only the eastern United States. It was not until the 1940's that he eventually turned his attention to the birds of the western United States—"A Field Guide to Western Birds". My interest in wild birds began during this same time, when I was about eight years old.
Probably no other tale of lost gold fires the imagination more than the famous “Lost Pegleg.” It is a tale believed by many a treasure hunter, would-be prospector and desert enthusiast. Much believable detail, and even (so-called) proof of finding his gold nuggets, has been added to the 150-year-old pile of sincere mendacities—enough to make many more believers out of honest agnostics.
My dad was a serious prospector during the 1940s and 50’s. So, growin’ up as a kid, I heard this yarn told by him and other country folks many times. No matter how many times the story of Pegleg was told, it never failed to inspire the imagination of us kids, and those who listened to it.
So it’s only natural that in my soon-to-be-released second edition of CowChip Poetry —Lies & Lingo and Lore,” I have written a narrative poem of this historical character, Pegleg Pete, a.k.a. Pegleg Smith. This is my version of the Pegleg tale, as I remember it being told. If yer’ interested, you’ll find a fascinating, in-depth history of Pegleg at: www.desertusa.com
Legend of The Lost Peg-Leg
An historical narrative
There's all sorts of wild desert tales
Surroundin' Peg-leg Pete,
How he found black gold and lost it
Blazin' a trail in desert heat.
I have made short trips and long distance trips just to catch a glimpse of a bird that I had never seen. I have studied and researched the habits and whereabouts of a bird in another county, state and country. I have flown hours to a distant place, gotten up early, drove for miles, wandered in the woods, and stayed late to hear and see a single Bachman's Sparrow in east Texas. So, after all that birding and searching, how is it that I can still pursue a live bird right in my own backyard?
Nothing inspires the southwest imagination like ghost towns, outlaws and stage robbers.
A lost gold mine is actually a misnomer. Any gold strike (discovery) or diggins' that has been worked and improved upon to the point of being called a "mine" is not easily lost. It might be purposely covered over or hidden so as to make it difficult to find, but not usually lost, at least not to begin with.
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If I were remaking this scene for the 21st century I would use someone well known. Someone who would interpret the poem the way I have. Brad Pitt I would use him simply because he's a very good actor and seems as if he easily gets into the role of things. I think he could portray this into a way people in the 21st century could understand.
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PARIS, France ― Airbus and Boeing have always dominated airplane manufacturing. Now the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac) wants a piece of the pie, ending the transatlantic duopoly.
Comac grabbed the world’s attention at the Paris Air Show when it signed an agreement with Ryanair to develop a mid-size airplane that could supplement the low-cost European carrier’s all-Boeing fleet.
“Now we have A, Airbus; and B, Boeing. And then we will have C, Comac,” said a spokesman for the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), a parent company of Comac, at the International Paris Air Show on Thursday. “The market is a big market. Everyone can have a piece of the cake.”
That cake is worth $4 trillion, according to Boeing’s forecasts through 2030.
If Ryanair, one of Boeing’s biggest European clients, does buy airplanes from Comac, the Chinese state-run manufacturer would have a foot in the door of one of the most lucrative and enviable markets in the aviation industry, the mid-size single aisle ― a market that Boeing says will account for almost half of all new airplanes in the next 20 years. Airbus estimates that 70 percent of new airplane deliveries in the next 20 years will be in the mid-size single-aisle market.
Airbus and Boeing both acknowledged during the air show that they face new competition.
“We know that new manufacturers will come,” said James Rocca, an Airbus spokesman. “Air traffic is growing around 5 percent a year, so we know that there will be no more a duopoly situation.”
During a press conference in Le Bourget, Paris, Boeing’s CEO of Commercial Airplanes, Jim Albaugh also acknowledged the end of the duopoly, saying Boeing and Airbus will face competition from emerging manufacturers in Canada, Brazil, Russia and China.
In light of changes in the market, smaller manufacturers have been forming deals and alliances to ensure they’ll have a slice of the pie in the future.
Canadian manufacturer Bombardier, for one, has already teamed up with Comac to share resources and expertise.
With Comac’s C919 to be released in 2019, the Chinese single-aisle airplane, “would be a direct competitor to the Airbus A320 and the Boeing 737,” said Mirianella de la Barrera, a Bombardier spokeswoman. “It’s very realistic that they would want to produce their own aircraft and their own industry, and that’s why we are partnering with them on portions of it.”
While Bombardier is already established in the smaller aircraft market, Comac’s announcement of the Ryanair deal makes it a possible competitor as well if it can meet Ryanair’s requests.
“We are pleased that there is now a real alternative to Boeing and Airbus,” said Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary in a statement in Paris. “We are seriously interested in the development of a 200 seat variant of the C919 aircraft.”
O’Leary explained that Ryanair could operate Boeing and Comac planes, as long as Ryanair could save money in operating costs. Despite the established reputation of Airbus and Boeing, the lure of working with Comac is its cost.
Although there’s no price tag yet for the C919, lower prices would be Comac’s ticket into the European market. The Chinese company also has its eye on the Asia Pacific region, which is the fastest-growing market in the world.
At the moment, Boeing and Airbus are the largest suppliers in Asia ― but without a doubt Comac will be challenging them on its home turf.
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Built to LEED platinum certification by Westbank and Allied, 70,000-m2 (750,000-sf) TELUS Sky features an innovative recycling system for water conservation, as well as specialized air ventilation and glazed windows for reduced energy use.
The 60-storey, mixed-use TELUS Sky, which recently officially opened in downtown Calgary for public use carries a storm water management system that recycles rainwater for use in washroom toilets and urinals, reducing the building’s municipal water demand by 70 per cent.
It also has a thermal energy system designed to efficiently transport hot water through an underground network of insulated pipes across the city, resulting in a 30 per cent reduction in heating energy demand.
Hundred per cent fresh air ventilation with operable windows and exterior terraces also aim to reduce air-conditioning reliance for lessened energy consumption.
Windows set into a robust envelope with triple-pane glazing follow a design intent to decrease solar transmission and promote greater shade within the building. This contributes to a 35 per cent reduction in the building’s energy use compared to similar size developments.
The building also features Canada’s largest public art display, ‘Northern Lights’ by Douglas Coupland which is integrated into the building’s façade for the enjoyment of all residents and visitors.
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California Moped Laws
California Moped Laws
(a) A "motorized bicycle" or "moped" is any two-wheeled or
three-wheeled device having fully operative pedals for propulsion by
human power, or having no pedals if powered solely by electrical
energy, and an automatic transmission and a motor which produces less
than 4 gross brake horsepower and is capable of propelling the
device at a maximum speed of not more than 30 miles per hour on level
(b) A "motorized bicycle" is also a device that has fully
operative pedals for propulsion by human power and has an electric
motor that meets all of the following requirements:
(1) Has a power output of not more than 1,000 watts.
(2) Is incapable of propelling the device at a speed of more than
20 miles per hour on ground level.
(3) Is incapable of further increasing the speed of the device
when human power is used to propel the motorized bicycle faster than
20 miles per hour.
(4) Every manufacturer of motorized bicycles, as defined in this
subdivision, shall provide a disclosure to buyers that advises buyers
that their existing insurance policies may not provide coverage for
these bicycles and that they should contact their insurance company
or insurance agent to determine if coverage is provided.
(c) The disclosure required under paragraph (4) of subdivision (b)
shall meet both of the following requirements:
(1) The disclosure shall be printed in not less than 14-point
boldface type on a single sheet of paper that contains no information
other than the disclosure.
(2) The disclosure shall include the following language in capital
"YOUR INSURANCE POLICIES MAY NOT PROVIDE COVERAGE FOR ACCIDENTS
INVOLVING THE USE OF THIS BICYCLE. TO DETERMINE IF COVERAGE IS
PROVIDED YOU SHOULD CONTACT YOUR INSURANCE COMPANY OR AGENT."
It is unlawful for a driver of a motorcycle or a motorized
bicycle to carry any other person thereon, except on a seat securely
fastened to the machine at the rear of the driver and provided with
footrests, or in a sidecar attached to a motorcycle and designed for
the purpose of carrying a passenger. Every passenger on a motorcycle
or a motorized bicycle shall keep his feet on the footrests while
such vehicle is in motion.
A person shall not drive a two-wheel motorcycle that is
equipped with either of the following:
(a) A seat so positioned that the driver, when sitting astride the
seat, cannot reach the ground with his or her feet.
(b) Handlebars so positioned that the hands of the driver, when
upon the grips, are more than six inches above his or her shoulder
height when sitting astride the seat.
(a) The department may adopt reasonable regulations
establishing specifications and standards for safety helmets offered
for sale, or sold, for use by drivers and passengers of motorcycles
and motorized bicycles as it determines are necessary for the safety
of those drivers and passengers. The regulations shall include, but
are not limited to, the requirements imposed by Federal Motor Vehicle
Safety Standard No. 218
(49 C.F.R. Sec. 571.218) and may include
compliance with that federal standard by incorporation of its
requirements by reference. Each helmet sold or offered for sale for
use by drivers and passengers of motorcycles and motorized bicycles
shall be conspicuously labeled in accordance with the federal
standard which shall constitute the manufacturer's certification that
the helmet conforms to the applicable federal motor vehicle safety
(b) No person shall sell, or offer for sale, for use by a driver
or passenger of a motorcycle or motorized bicycle any safety helmet
which is not of a type meeting requirements established by the
(a) A driver and any passenger shall wear a safety helmet
meeting requirements established pursuant to Section 27802 when
riding on a motorcycle, motor-driven cycle, or motorized bicycle.
(b) It is unlawful to operate a motorcycle, motor-driven cycle, or
motorized bicycle if the driver or any passenger is not wearing a
safety helmet as required by subdivision
(c) It is unlawful to ride as a passenger on a motorcycle,
motor-driven cycles, or motorized bicycle if the driver or any
passenger is not wearing a safety helmet as required by subdivision (a).
(d) This section applies to persons who are riding on motorcycles,
motor-driven cycles, or motorized bicycles operated on the highways.
(e) For the purposes of this section, "wear a safety helmet" or
"wearing a safety helmet" means having a safety helmet meeting the
requirements of Section 27802 on the person's head that is fastened
with the helmet straps and that is of a size that fits the wearing
person's head securely without excessive lateral or vertical
(f) This section does not apply to a person operating, or riding
as a passenger in, a fully enclosed three-wheeled motor vehicle that
is not less than seven feet in length and not less than four feet in
width, and has an unladen weight of 900 pounds or more, if the
vehicle meets or exceeds all of the requirements of this code, the
Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards, and the rules and regulations
adopted by the United States Department of Transportation and the
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
(g) In enacting this section, it is the intent of the Legislature
to ensure that all persons are provided with an additional safety
benefit while operating or riding a motorcycle, motor-driven cycle,
or motorized bicycle.
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Server management includes all the maintenance and monitoring for servers so they can work and perform without any disturbance. Managing the software, hardware security, and backup of the system. There are two types of servers found in networks.
- Physical servers- physical server is the hardware of the server like the CPU, Motherboard, memory, etc.
- Virtual servers- Virtual server is basically the function of a physical server. Virtual servers are used for remote access, web hosting, or software development and testing.
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Outsourcing allows you to hire some experts from outside the company to perform the task and handle the management, just like outsourcing Windows Server Management Services is hiring server management from the outside and maintaining the problems that occur in servers from time to time.
Outsource server management
There are also some benefits of outsourcing server management. Web Hosting Services provides outsources because they are more beneficial for the company.
- Cost reduction-it is one of the main reasons behind outsourcing. Because outsourcing from time to time for a server is more affordable than hiring the whole sector for server management.
- Server monitoring for 24X7- If you are doing server management on your own then you can’t monitor your server all time. But outsourcing server management provides you experts to keep watch over your server.
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- Increases the server security- Outsource management companies give you experts for monitoring your server who protects your server from getting hacked. That increases your server’s security.
- Increase your focus- outsourcing Server Security Management Services you to focus on the work that helps you to increase your productivity. You can focus on building your website and achieving your goal.
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Windows Server Management Services
Windows has its personal server management service as SEO Services Company London. it is a tool for windows user to view and manage server roles and make a change in their configuration. SEO Services Company Birmingham uses these services most because they have a higher risk of getting server hacked. SEO Services Company Manchester provide the best outsourcing in server management. Digital Marketing Company Staines helps you to manage and implant strategies of marketing for your products.
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There are real tools that can help, and it means wanting to help ourselves, even if we can’t focus long enough to get the help we need. But when it is taking over one’s life (which with the right tools it doesn’t have to be that way) you must decide to do real hishtadlus in order to not lose what is dear to you and learn to repair relationships in the process of acquiring these skills. But it is always best if our families realize that they can be on board through the healing process. torahparentcoach.com is a very helpful place.
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Ethical Engagement Rings
As consumers, the wider community is increasingly making more educated and conscious choices about how much we spend, what we are getting in return for our money and whether our money is funding ethical causes. How sustainable and economical products are have never been such important issues, across all industries. And there is certainly no exception when it comes to engagement rings. With awareness growing, consumers are making more conscious and considered choices.
So what does it mean when we talk about ethical engagement rings?
The most important thing is traceability. Where did your diamond / gemstone come from? Where did your metal come from? Since the movie Blood Diamond there has been a shift in industry standards and protocol as well as a greater understanding of the dangers of the diamond industry across the wider community. The Kimberly Process was established in 2003 by the United Nations as an initiative to prevent conflict diamond sales from entering the market and being sold, funding violence. This initiative also works as a measure to protect individuals from unknowingly purchasing conflict diamonds.
As a consumer it is important to check with your jeweller that they support ethical diamond and gemstone trade practices and that they only sell conflict free diamonds. Choosing a jeweller that belongs to a known jewellers association that has a strong code of ethics offers peace of mind. In Australia, the two major associations are the Jewellers Association of Australia (JAA) and the Gold and Silversmiths Guild of Australia (GSGA).
Although the origins of your diamond are one of, or the, most important factor when purchasing your diamond there are several other factors that are important to consider especially when working towards a budget. Chances are if you are starting your search for an engagement ring you would have heard of the 4c’s – carat, colour, cut and clarity. This is the grading system that is used to determine a diamonds quality and is reflected by the price. When working towards a budget, what should your top priority be? Firstly, we always recommend quality over size. You might be able to afford a larger size diamond, but if the quality is poor it will appear dull and lifeless, missing the brilliance that is so desirable. It is widely agreed that the most important of the 4c’s is the ‘Cut’. How a diamond is cut, the proportions, symmetry and polish determines how a diamond will reflect and refract light. In a diamond that is well-cut, light enters through the table and travels through the stone where it is reflected from one side to another before the light is returned back to the viewer’s eye creating that sparkle that we all love! Your diamond might have a high colour and clarity grading, but it is the cut that gives your diamond its beautiful sparkle.
The biggest tip when purchasing a diamond, no matter if you are buying in store or online is that if it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is. With diamonds it is a case of you get what you pay for. Remember, you don’t have to spend tens of thousands to afford a beautiful stone. Set a budget that is realistic to you. Your jeweller will be able to help you design and find the perfect ring to suit you. | <urn:uuid:fac8eccb-c3a4-4017-8aad-fa3183de75a8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.larsenjewellery.com.au/blog/ethical-engagement-rings | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.956048 | 662 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Pure honey is the natural sweetener the bees produce and has always been a favorite of many people. It contains a rich amount of nutrients, minerals, and other beneficial compounds and thus, has been used as a natural folk remedy since ancient times. It is a wonderful alternative to regular table sugar, which is just a source of unwanted calories. The therapeutic & medicinal properties of honey make it an essential research subject.
A "pure honey" mark implies that you are getting 100 percent honey, with practically no other added ingredients (for example, corn syrup, which is sometimes added to commercial honey to diminish costs). However, "pure" honey alone doesn't necessarily tell you much regarding the varietal or how the honey is produced, so it's great to search for more data to ensure you're getting every one of the advantages you can from honey when it's delivered in the most honey bee and environment-friendly way.
Honey is classified into many types based on the source of flower nectar, flowering season, environmental conditions, and processing techniques. All honey, thus, comes with a distinct taste, aroma, and color. A heightened awareness of the qualms of a sugary diet has led many people to opt for such natural sweeteners. But do you know how this super syrupy food benefits our health? Daily consumption of honey helps boost physical health and is very advantageous for mental health.
(i) Rich Source of Antioxidants –
High-quality & 100% pure honey contains an array of plant chemicals that acts as antioxidants. Being a rich source of antioxidants, it helps in protecting the body from cell damage. As a result, consuming honey regularly reduces the risk of heart attacks, strokes, and cancer.
(ii) Proven Remedy for Bacterial & Fungal Infections –
Honey naturally contains hydrogen peroxide, antiseptic, and a folk remedy for bacterial & fungal infections. Its unique ability to nourish surrounding tissue can help treat diabetic foot ulcers, wounds, cuts and burns, psoriasis, and herpes lesions.
(iii) Treats Digestive Tissues –
Honey is a potent prebiotic that nourishes the good bacteria present in our intestines. These bacteria assist in strengthening the digestive system and overall health as well. Consuming a teaspoon of raw honey every day or mixing it with warm water or milk is an excellent way to treat mild diarrhea.
(iv) Protects The Brain –
The antioxidant & anti-inflammatory powers of pure honey also benefit the brain. A study has also confirmed that pure honey has ingredients that help fight off the hippocampus's inflammation, which is a part of the brain involved in memory.
(v) Lowers Triglycerides Levels –
According to a study published in the journal Nutrition Research, another key risk factor for heart diseases and type 2 diabetes is high blood triglycerides. Consuming pure honey can be highly beneficial in lowering triglycerides, mostly when consumed as a sugar substitute in food items.
(vi) Enhances Skin & Hair Health –
Honey is full of healing components and is used in many cosmetic skin and hair preparations. Honey lubricates the skin and holds the moisture effectively, thus becoming an ideal ingredient for a range of beauty & hair care products.
(vii) Cures Cough, Cold & Sore Throat -
Honey proves to be more effective than some over-the-counter cough medicines. Being rich in natural antibacterial properties, it immediately offers relief for pain while working to reduce inflammation. In addition, it kills bacteria and helps fight off viral infections. If you're affected by a nasty cough additionally, honey can also act as an efficient cough suppressant.
Though pure honey is loaded with numerous benefits, like other food commodities, adulteration of honey has become common. Impure & adulterated honey is widely available in the market today. Because of the numerous varieties of honey & sugar syrups, it has become pretty difficult to differentiate between pure & impure honey. Here comes the question of whether the honey we are consuming is pure or not? To make it a little easier, we have come up with some of the best tips that will assist you in buying authentic & pure honey -
(1) Understand Local Honey Purity Laws –
Many regional governments issue honey standards that mention all the ingredients contained in the honey jar. This certainly offers an idea about what is included in the honey you will buy.
(2) Checking The Labels Is Must –
Checking the labels is extremely necessary for the honey buying process. Look at the additives or added flavors written on the label. If the honey you buy is pure, it will have only one ingredient written on the label.
(3) Taste The Sample If Possible –
Tasting is not an exact method to check for added substances; however, it will help you get an idea about the taste &; will give you a small idea about the rich taste that pure honey gives. Numerous honey varieties are produced using the nectar of various blossoms, saps, or even the discharges of sap-eating insects. Each of these produces various flavors, and even the honey of one beehive can change from year to year as they gather nectar from various sources.
(4) Mix A Spoonful Of Honey In Warm Water –
Stir a spoonful of honey in a glass of warm water to see whether it is mixing gradually or not. Impure honey dissolves in the water while the pure honey settles down at the bottom, forming lumps.
Although beneficial prebiotics and nutrients are beneficial, pure honey can also contain harmful bacteria that are particularly dangerous for babies. Thus, it is suggested to never give honey to babies under one year of age as it can cause botulism in infants. The symptoms of this rare but serious condition in infants include –
1. Poor feeding
2. Loss of head control
3. Slow breathing
5. Sagging eyelids
6. Weak cry
Honey doesn't expire effectively, yet it can become contaminated in specific conditions. Therefore, it is a must to store honey in an air-tight container away from light and extreme temperatures.
Sooner or later, natural honey might begin to crystallize. This is totally safe however it can make it look grainy and sweet. Honey can be returned to its original shape by warming it slightly to melt the crystals. However, ensure never to heat honey at a higher temperature as it can remove its natural properties causing it to become dark in color. If in case, the honey in your pantry has definitely changed its color or smells off, it is good to throw it out.
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So you’ve just purchased a new iPad? Congratulations! Now you may be wondering, "how do I set up my device?" particularly if you’ve never owned an iPad before or it’s been a long time since you upgraded. If this isn’t your first iPad, you may be wondering, "how do I transfer my data?" Don’t worry, we’ll cover how to set up an iPad, as well as how to make sure your data, apps, and settings transfer. Let’s get started.
Related: How to Set Up iCloud Drive
How To Set Up Your New iPad if You’ve Never Owned One Before
If you’ve just purchased your very first tablet, setup is fairly straightforward. If you have a cellular-enabled iPad, you’ll need to have a SIM card inserted in your iPad, then:
- Turn on your iPad; whether you have the newest iPad Pro or an older iPad, press the On/Off, Sleep/Wake button on the upper-right edge of your iPad until the Apple logo appears. If the screen stays black, you may need to charge your device and try again in a few minutes.
- Once your iPad is turned on for the first time, it will begin walking you through the setup process. When you see "Hello" in several different languages, just press your iPad’s Home button or tap anywhere on the screen for the new iPad Pros without a Home button.
- Tap the language you’d like to use on your iPad, then tap the country or region you’re in.
- Next, you’ll arrive at the Quick Start page, where you can choose to transfer content and data from an old device to your new iPad, or tap Set Up Manually to continue through the process as directed by your iPad. We’ll cover the Quick Start method in another section below.
- If you chose Set Up Manually, your next step will be to select a Wi-Fi network and enter the password to join or, if your iPad has cellular capabilities, tap Use Cellular Connection if you’d rather use your cellular data plan.
- Once you’re connected to a Wi-Fi or cellular network, your setup will proceed.
- Depending on which iPad you have, you’ll be asked to set up Touch ID or Face ID, and to create a six-digit password.
- Next, you’ll be given the option to move and restore data from a backup or to set up your device as a new iPad without transferring data. If you don’t have any data to transfer from an older iPad or non-Apple tablet, tap on Set Up as New iPad.
- Now, sign in with your Apple ID and password. If you can’t remember your password or don’t have an Apple ID yet, tap Forgot password or don’t have an Apple ID?
- After signing in, you’ll be walked through the setup of various features and services including Siri, Screen Time, Automatic Updates, and more.
- Once you’re finished setting up, tap Get Started, and begin using your new iPad!
Content Transfer from a Previous iPad to a New iPad
If you’ve owned an iPad before and would like to transfer your data to your new device, you have up to three options for accomplishing this. Let’s jump into those choices below:
You can use the Quick Start method if you have any of the iPads in the table below with software updated to iOS 11.
- If you haven’t backed up your device recently, back up your old iPad to iCloud first.
- Hold your old iPad (turned on and with Bluetooth turned on) over your new iPad. The Quick Start screen will pop up on your old iPad and offer you the option to use the Apple ID associated with your old iPad to set up your new one.
- Keep holding your old iPad over the new one, framing the display of your new iPad in the viewfinder of your old one. A message will pop up on your old iPad that says Finish on New; tap this, or tap Authenticate Manually if the Finish on New option doesn’t appear or if your old iPad’s camera isn’t working.
- Now you’ll be prompted through entering your old iPad’s passcode on your new iPad, as well as setting up Touch or Face ID, then uploading apps, data, and Settings to your new iPad from your old iPad’s iCloud backup.
- Keep your two iPads close to each other, and keep your new iPad charging and connected to Wi-Fi to make sure all your content uploads to your new iPad from iCloud.
iPad Setup with Data Transfer from iCloud or iTunes
If you have an iPad that’s too old to update to iOS 11, you can still transfer your data, settings, and apps to your new iPad using an iCloud or iTunes backup. To begin:
- Make sure you’ve recently backed up your old iPad to iCloud or iTunes.
- Follow the steps for setting up your new iPad outlined at the beginning of this article until you come to the following screen:
Set Up Your iPad from an iCloud Backup
To set up your iPad from an iCloud backup, tap Restore from iCloud Backup on the Apps & Data screen.
- Make sure your new iPad is plugged in and charging, and also has Wi-Fi turned on and is connected to a network (if you didn’t already do this, go back to the Wi-Fi and Network page).
- Sign in to iCloud on your new iPad with your Apple ID and password.
- You’ll be directed to choose a backup; select your most recent one.
- If you’ve used more than one Apple ID to purchase content that you’d like to transfer to your new iPad, you’ll need to sign in to all of those accounts.
- Your iPad will direct you through the rest of the setup; be sure to keep your iPad charging and logged in to your Wi-Fi network to make sure all your content downloads from iCloud.
Set Up Your iPad from an iTunes Backup
If you usually back up your iPad to iTunes rather than iCloud (I recommend doing both), you can set up your new iPad from an iTunes backup, instead. Begin by tapping Restore from iTunes Backup on the Apps & Data screen.
- Connect your new iPad to the computer that you used to back up your old iPad.
- Open iTunes on your computer and click on your new iPad.
- Now, click on Restore Backup and choose the backup you just made from your old iPad by finding it in your list of options, clicking it, then clicking Continue.
- Once iTunes finishes restoring your data, apps, and settings, you can complete the setup process on your new iPad and start using it!
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Cybersecurity is not a destination, it’s an ongoing journey. Organizations were reminded of the relevance of this industry aphorism recently in new guidance from UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). The security agency is concerned that an extended period of elevated cyberthreat posed by war in Eastern Europe may take its toll on systems, processes, and security teams.
Its document offers plenty of advice for IT security leaders in organizations of all sizes. Most importantly, it emphasizes the importance not just of best practice security controls and cyber-hygiene processes, but of attending more carefully to the human element of cybersecurity. With a “whole of organization” approach founded on effective user awareness training, organizations can not only support their security teams but also build a formidable first line of defense against threats.
Taking its toll
As the conflict in Ukraine enters its fifth month, the NCSC is right to be concerned. A protracted period of heightened tension could take its toll on staff and require a recalibration of risk decisions made months ago, when it seemed like the war would last just a matter of weeks. The agency differentiates between two distinct phases of geopolitical tension:
- An acute phase — when organizations must strengthen defenses and address vulnerabilities
- A protracted phase — when that stronger posture must be maintained to manage residual risk
Among those classic best practices recommended by the NCSC to get defenses up to par are:
- Vulnerability management and patching
- Enhanced access controls
- Up-to-date anti-malware and correctly configured firewalls
- Logging and monitoring
- Regular backups
- Incident response tooling and planning
- Vulnerability scans
- Anti-phishing tools
- Reviews of third-party access
Looking after your people
However, best practices aside, the NCSC is particularly concerned about the impact of a protracted phase of tension on security staff wellbeing. Increased workload and pressure over time could lead to lower productivity, unsafe behaviors, and an increased risk of human error, it said. All of this is especially true given severe skills shortages in the industry, which have left a shortfall of over 2.7 million workers globally, including 402,000 in North America and 199,000 in Europe.
The NCSC recommends several steps to tackle this, including:
- Empowering more security staff to make decisions, in order to enhance agility and free leaders to focus on medium-term priorities
- Spreading workloads more evenly across a wider pool of staff to reduce the risk of burnout and enable less experienced employees to benefit from development opportunities
- Providing opportunities for staff to recharge through more frequent breaks and time away from the office, as well as work on less high-pressure tasks
- Looking after each other by watching for signs colleagues are struggling and ensuring they always have the right resources at hand
A “whole of organization” approach
However, arguably the most important tip is the final one: engaging the entire workforce to strengthen the organization’s defenses. This echoes best practice “security-by-design” approaches — requiring companies to build a corporate culture where each and every staff member understands the importance of cybersecurity to the company’s mission and what they can do personally to reduce risk.
The first step on this road is undoubtedly improved user awareness training. Organizations can find a huge range of tools on the market to help with this. The best ones will allow them to run phishing and BEC simulation exercises that mimic real-world threat campaigns, collect and analyze data on how each staff member performed, and then adapt the program going forward. The best chance of effecting genuine behavioral change is to run courses little and often, say 10-15 minutes in length. And it goes without saying that everyone must attend — from the CEO down to part-timers and contractors.
As the hybrid workplace becomes a reality and more people work from home more regularly, such training has never been more important — especially as many say they feel more distracted when working away from the office.
To this advice, the NCSC makes an important additional point: Organizations must also have the right internal communications processes in place to join-up everyone involved in the security mission.
The new normal
In many ways, this conflict and the extended period of heightened cyberthreat it represents is the new reality of cybersecurity in the 2020s. In the same week as the NCSC’s announcement, the leaders of MI5 and the FBI gave an unprecedented joint press conference to warn of the “massive” threat to businesses, academics, and Western political systems from China. In many ways, this is a threat without end.
Understanding the acute and protracted phases of what could be a cyclical raising and downgrading of tensions is going to be an increasingly important discipline for corporate cybersecurity bosses. Better start planning now.
Phil Muncaster is a technology writer and editor with over 12 years’ experience working on some of the biggest technology titles around, including Computing, The Register, V3 and MIT Technology Review. He spent over two years in Hong Kong immersed in the Asian tech scene and is now back in London where information security has become a major focus for his work. | <urn:uuid:e53af472-16b6-4407-a2f7-ba4dc73d7e99> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.barracuda.com/2022/07/15/security-for-the-long-haul-means-enhancing-best-practices-and-staff-training/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.953062 | 1,066 | 2.046875 | 2 |
The Stones photographs not only capture the original hierarchy with Watts and Jones being more prominent in the foreground than Jagger, but act as a historical record of the time. London may be swinging, but the fabric still showed the signs of Second World War ravage and austerity of the 1950s. The images are not only a record of the emerging rock phenomena but a commentary on the times.
The seminal photographs of the 1960s are a far cry from Philip's inauspicious beginnings in Hampshire. Philip afflicted by dyslexia made school a tough place; he did not read until 15 years old. He attended over 27 schools. Attendance at art school suffered one setback, namely Philip could not draw, whilst interior design was hampered by an innate inability to measure. However, his mother undeterred was determined to find a milieu for her son, and the answer came via an advertisement in The Times whereby portrait photographer Pamela Chandler required an apprentice. She was the pearl and twinset equivalent of Annie Liebowitz.
Philip was taken on after payment of a £500 indenture paid by Philip's mother's Trustees who provided £1000 so that Philip could start his new career, and also his mother could settle into late 1950s London life. Philip's mother was a socialite and gambled at the bespoke gambling houses of London frequented by the aristocracy and the rich. Her career guidance for Philip was more successful than her times at the card table.
Once Philip flew Chandler's nest he established his first studio with Lord Christopher Thynne, son to the last Marquis of Bath. Philip regularly worked for Tatler but then became freelance and headed for the South of France to photograph the great and the good of the time including Churchill, Rex Harrison, Maria Callas and Aristotle Onassis. It was in France Philip met Andrew Loog Oldham...
Philip continued to amass an amazing eclectic array of images of the 1960s from cars to politicians to many beautiful women such as Charlotte Rampling and Twiggy. Philip's work reminds us that natural beauty does exist and need not be air brushed or the subject having to be enhanced by silicon implants equivalent to Camber Sands.
However, Philip decided to give up photography in 1969 astutely realising that the unique times of the 1960s were coming to an end to be replaced by the 'hangover' of the 1970s. Philip's legacy is an amazing collection of natural and witty photographs telling their own story. Philip was and remains 'Mr Sixties' his work is of its time but remains a captivating historical beacon for generations to come.
When I asked the effervescent Philip what is his contribution from the 1960s his retort was 'Knowledge!'. Mr Sixties indeed.
Philip Townsend and Rupert Murdoch.
Apart from his role as a leading 1960s photographer, Philip Townsend's other significant claim to fame is that he acted as butler for News International (News Corp being its parent company) mogul, Rupert Murdoch. Philip appeared last year in a Channel 4 TV documentary about Rupert Murdoch, and during the interview Philip Townsend indicated that Mr Murdoch had told his newspaper editors to target TV presenter Anne Diamond who had been critical of Murdoch. Philip Townsend comments formed part of Anne Diamond's evidence to the current Leveson Inquiry which is reviewing press and media standards in the United Kingdom. When Rupert Murdoch recently gave evidence to the Leveson Inquiry, he was asked about Philip Townsend, and the response was, 'I know who made that claim, and it was my housekeeper, a very strange bird indeed. Though he did keep it (the house) clean.'
Since appearing before the Leveson Enquiry, the House of Commons Culture, Media, and Sport Select Committee has produced their contentious report which by a majority decision has stated Mr Rupert Murdoch is 'not a fit person' to exercise stewardship of a major international company. The United Kingdom's regulator of media and communication Ofcom is completing its enquiry as to whether News Corp is a fit and proper body to own a broadcast licence. News Corp has a 39% shareholding in the successful TV company BSkyB.
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Should children get “vaccinated” for the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19)? Not according to the Wall Street Journal‘s (WSJ) Allysia Finley.
An opinion piece she wrote echoes what Natural News is saying for quite some time now: that young people with healthy immune systems should not be shot up with dangerous and experimental pharmaceutical concoctions just because Big Pharma demands it.
Citing Florida’s recent decision to not recommend Fauci Flu shots for children, Finley makes a strong argument for why the injections do not belong in the arms of little ones.
Abundant scientific evidence shows that the Wuhan Flu poses a nearly zero risk to young people. The shots, on the other hand, pose a substantial risk.
A recent paper published in The Lancet estimates that the infection fatality rate for children under age 18 is somewhere between 0.0023 percent and 0.0085 percent.
This means that 2.3 to 8.5 out of every 100,000 children who get infected will die, with the lowest rates being among those aged 5 to 11.
Between Oct. 3, 2020, and Oct. 2, 2021, according to the CDC, only 66 children aged 5-11 died after testing “positive” for COVID. This is the exact same number that died from suicide, which is exceedingly rare in this age group.
“By comparison, there were 969 deaths in this age group from unintentional injury and 207 from homicide in 2019,” Finley writes.
Another recent study out of New York State found that jabs do pretty much nothing to prevent hospitalization, which is already extremely low, to begin with.
Not only that, but the efficacy of the jabs wanes and turns negative over time. This is why many are now referring to the aftereffects of the injections as vaccine-induced AIDS, or VAIDS.
“This means vaccinated children were significantly more likely to catch COVID than the unvaccinated,” Finley explains.
“One possible explanation is that the unvaccinated may have been more likely to have been previously infected, and natural immunity is more protective than vaccines.”
This fact alone makes it both foolish and senseless to inject children for something that will not make them sick, but that exposure will produce lasting natural immunity. Why not just let nature run its course?
There is no profit to be made from nature, of course, which is why the establishment stands opposed to this approach. But there are healing and protection to be derived from it for those brave enough to take that route.
Finley further admits that Pfizer’s vaccine trials for children were inadequate because too few children were included in them. This makes it impossible to identify rarer adverse events, which she says “could exceed the risks from the virus.”
“Some 40% of children 5 to 11 reported systemic reactions after their second shot (e.g., fatigue, headache, fever),” she writes. “About 10% missed school, and 1% needed medical care.”
For this reason and many others, Germany, Norway, and Sweden have all decided not to recommend the jabs for healthy children under age 12. The Danish Pediatric Society has urged its government to do the same.
“Vaccinating children is a great idea,” wrote a commenter at the WSJ. “More doses = more money. Isn’t that what this has always been about?”
“The idea that we should substitute a child’s robust, healthy immune system with vaccinations for a harmless disease is idiotic,” wrote another, pointing out what one would think is an obvious fact.
“Stop it. You’ll ruin the narrative,” said someone else. “Albert Bourla and his little friends at Pfizer have vaccines to sell and stock options to exercise.”
More of the latest news about covid injections can be found at ChemicalViolence.com.
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We are pleased to offer to Members and the wider community of interested guests a variety of events. Currently these are all held on Zoom.
We offer a range of events – Discussion Group meetings every other month, on a range of topics and issues of relevance to the Second and Third Generations; Talks and Presentations followed by a Q&A, Panel Discussions and Workshops. We also hold joint events with the Wiener Holocaust Library and other relevant organisations. Periodically we arrange or co-arrange conferences. We are very much open to suggestions; please email us at [email protected] if you have any recommendations or ideas.
Discussion Group meetings are informal meetings primarily for Members, on a specific theme or personal experience. The meetings are an opportunity for Members to share their thoughts, feelings and experiences in relation to a particular topic – relating to the legacy of growing up with a parent/s, grandparent/s affected by the Holocaust. A Member may provide a short introduction to the topic before we open up to a more general discussion. We endeavour to keep the group small in number, fewer than 25 people, in order to provide an opportunity for everyone to engage and be heard. All contributions are respected in what is a ‘safe space’ for all. The meetings are not recorded. Examples of previous discussion group topics can be seen below and in the Archived Posts.
The Talks and Presentations are open to non-Members but where numbers are limited and events oversubscribed, priority will be given to Members. Our speakers are mainly Members of the Second and Third Generations who have particular knowledge, expertise or experience, speaking either individually or as part of a panel. Their presentations are followed by Q&A sessions where attendees have the chance to share their own experience and knowledge. Registration for these events is via Eventbrite and a link is provided before each event. These events are recorded and at a later date the recordings are made available for Members only to view. Examples of past presentations can be seen below and in the Archived Posts.
We have also been involved in arranging and supporting a number of Conferences, including the Kindertransport Conference at UCL, London University, the Holocaust Generations Conference at the Institute of Education, London, and the Working Groups on Descendants of Survivors Conference in Cologne. Our plans for a conference on internment were put on hold due to the pandemic, but we hope to be involved in arranging conferences again in the future, once it is safe to do so.
Zoom programming has enabled us to create a series of highly popular writing Workshops with Nick Barlay, Second Generation author of Scattered Ghosts.
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Advocates Push for More Expanded Medi-Cal Sign-Ups to Access Dental and Mental Care
LOS ANGELES -- Nearly all of the 120,000 or so undocumented children in California who were previously enrolled in restricted Medi-Cal (California’s name for Medicaid, the insurance program for low-income people) are now enrolled in full-scope Medi-Cal, giving them access to a wide range of services, including dental and mental health care.
Now, six months after expanded Medi-Cal for all children launched, health care advocates are trying to reach the deportation-wary parents of an estimated 80,000 to 100,000 undocumented minors who have yet to enroll.
“Your children are eligible for dental care,” said panelist Maritza C. Cabezas, dental director at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. “Dental disease is 100 percent preventable.”
Cabezas, one of five panelists at the Nov. 3 New America Media ethnic media briefing, co-hosted by Maternal and Child Access (MCHA), said that dental care needs are great in Los Angeles County, which has a large low-income immigrant population.
“More than seven out of ten third-graders in Los Angeles County have some kind of dental disease,” she said. “This is heart-breaking … It’s hard to focus on your studies when you’re in pain.”
Panelists at the session said untreated dental disease could result in medical crises. One mother of two undocumented children – Sukey Ramirez – said her young son had the reverse experience. The medications the 6-year-old boy has been taking to treat a heart condition has ruined his teeth, she said.
Now, “we need dental services to keep him healthy,” she said, noting: “My two children have benefitted from expanded Medi-Cal.”
Under that six-month-old law made possible by Senate Bill 75, undocumented youths who are 19 or younger are eligible for full coverage that will pay for preventive care and routine medical, dental and mental visits, in addition to emergency care. Information on applications for coverage is not shared with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, panelists said.
Olivet León, an 18-year-old Los Angeles County resident, had been suffering from abdominal pain for some time. When Medi-Cal expanded to undocumented children last May, she went to a physician who discovered gallstones. Leon was scheduled to speak at the briefing but was unable to attend because she was scheduled for surgery on the day of the event.
“Before the expansion of Medi-Cal, she didn’t how she would pay for any diagnosis or treatment,” said Ama Leiva, a staff member at Maternal and Child Health Access.
While parents are attentive to physical medical issues, many do not recognize – or are slow to respond to – mental health problems, said panelist Tania Benacerraf, a clinical social worker at the Hope Street Family Center in Los Angeles.
“If a child demonstrates emotional distress or behavioral problems, some parents think, ‘This is going to pass,’ or ‘the child needs to buck up,’” she said. “People don’t seem to realize the brain is part of our body. (It) is an organ that deserves attention.”
Benacerraf said that some mental illnesses are hereditary but pointed out that some conditions are the result of trauma. Trauma-related mental problems are more common in low-income homes with stressful environments, she said.
“If the mother is depressed, an infant will often be depressed,” said Benacerraf. “Home violence, community violence or stress related to immigration can also be factors.”
Health advocates are encouraging parents to sign up their children in full-scope Medi-Cal. Those eligible can enroll any time because because there is no Open Enrollment for the program, said Mayra Alvarez, president of The Children’s Partnership, a Los Angeles-based organization that advocates policies to improve the health of underserved children.
Alvarez said health coverage also improves the life prospects of children.
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Remote Volunteering has helped us emerge stronger, with further reach for higher impact. The format has developed drastically but our vision stays unchanged. Here are some volunteering opportunities that await you if you are a computer savvy kindred soul, with time on hand.
Email us at [email protected] for more details.
If you are great at communicating, volunteer online for young children who are confined in a small space, with no school, no visitors and no recreation.
All sessions are for an hour and it is best to do this as a small group. The sessions take place in the mornings or afternoons depending on the schedules of the students. This is a long term volunteering option and will need your commitment for at least 2 hours a week for 6 months.
Hold a workshop for college students and senior school students from less fortunate backgrounds, explaining how career options will be different in post-covid times.
A programme for women in rural parts of Tamil Nadu. If you are a trainer, reach out to women in deserving communities to teach them more on
Have a penchant for personal finance? Reach out to the women who could use your advice.
Virtual learning and teaching means that our teachers and students need to acquire the skill set to do so effectively.
If you are a graphic designer and want to share your passion, help small NGOs that have to create their presence online completely.
If you are a professional writer, you can help many NGOs across our city:
Record an audio book for visually challenged college students so they can study well.
Work to help those who need it the most care for their mental health as well. If you are a psychiatrist or even a mature volunteer, help by reaching out to people who need counselling over the phone.
Help NGOs close their books for the year, or draft their legal documents. Whether you’re a lawyer, accountant or business expert, there’s definitely an NGO out there that could benefit from your advice!
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Materials exposed to plasmas in magnetic confinement nuclear reactors will accumulate radiation-induced defects and energetically implanted gas atoms (from the plasma and transmutations), of which insoluble helium (He) is likely to be the most problematic. The large surface-area-to-volume ratio exhibited by nanoporous materials provides an unsaturable sink with the potential to continuously remove both point defects and He. This property enhances the possibilities for these materials to be tailored for high radiation-damage resistance. In order to explore the potential effect of this on the individual ligaments of nanoporous materials, we present results on the response of tungsten (W) nanoparticles (NPs) to 15 keV He ion irradiation. Tungsten foils and various sizes of NPs were ion irradiated concurrently and imaged in-situ via transmission electron microscopy at 750 °C. Helium bubbles were not observed in NPs with diameters less than 20 nm but did form in larger NPs and the foils. No dislocation loops or black spot damage were observed in any NPs up to 100 nm in diameter but were found to accumulate in the W foils. These results indicate that a nanoporous material, particularly one made up of ligaments with characteristic dimensions of 30 nm or less, is likely to exhibit significant resistance to He accumulation and structural damage and, therefore, be highly tolerant to radiation. | <urn:uuid:1367f86c-ef7a-46da-93f9-1089e094d5a3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pure.hud.ac.uk/en/publications/enhanced-radiation-tolerance-of-tungsten-nanoparticles-to-he-ion- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.949276 | 287 | 1.882813 | 2 |
Clement was the undoubted owner of Vale Leston, and the John Harewoods had decided on leaving the Priory. Just at the same time, when the acceptance of Clement’s resignation of St. Matthew’s had arrived, William Harewood was offered a canonry at Minsterham, with the headship of the theological college. The canonry had been the summit of his ambition when a boy, and there was no one fitter than he for the care of a theological college. He was pre-eminently a scholar, and his fifteen years of parish experience made good preparation for training young clergy.
So Clement could decide on presenting himself to the living of Vale Leston, with a staff of curates, and Geraldine to be his home sister, making the Priory a resting-place for overworked people, whether clergy, governesses, or poor, or mission-folk at home. It was a trust to be kept for Lancelot and his boy, who would make the summer home of the family there, to Dr. May’s great content. It was a peaceful home, and to every one’s surprise, Alda decided to remain at hand, chiefly to keep her boy under his uncle’s influence, which thus far was keeping him well in hand, and as he would go to a public school with little Felix, might be prolonged.
It was a comfort and encouragement to feel that hereditary dangers and temperament could be subdued and conquered in Gerald; and if the sins of parents had their consequence in the children, the scourge might become a palm. When the commemorative brass in the cloister was to be put up, Geraldine said-
“I should like to put ’Rejoice with me, for I have found the piece that was lost.’”
“He never was lost.”
“Oh no, no, my dear boy. But his work was so like the finding the stained, tarnished piece of silver, cast aside, defaced, dust-marked, and by simple duty and affection bringing her back.”
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Teaching ESOL Through Popular Education*
Education for Liberation
Urban College, located in downtown Boston, is a two-year college offering programs towards degrees in early childhood education and human services. An English instructor is teaching English-as-a-second-language to immigrants/refugees from China, Morocco, El Salvador, Colombia, Haiti, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. Her method is that of Popular Education. She is a devotee of education for liberation.
As such, she has studied the U.S. military and corporate dependence on the production of cocaine in Columbia, and the ruinous effects this forced one-crop economy has had over decades on the poor peasants of that country. She has participated in campaigns in her neighborhood in Boston’s African America to expose and put a stop to the importation of cocaine into her community.
She is aware of the cultural and spiritual traditions tying many African Americans to the peoples of Northern Africa, including Morocco. The homework and research assignments she gives out include directing her Moroccan students to uncover these cultural and spiritual ties, and to impart their discoveries to the rest of the class.
In fact, in accordance with the teaching method of education for liberation, each of the students is given assignments which connect their experiences from their country of origin to their present life, and the issues associated with emigration to the United States. The instructor had her Popular Education teeth cut in her teenage years during the nation-wide uprising of the Black American population, known today as the Civil Rights Movement, but known to her and her extended family of the time as the Black Liberation Movement (BLM). At the time of this movement — 1960’s-1970’s — social upheaval world-wide was the rule. In the People’s Republic of China (PRC) there was a revolution taking place within that country’s socialist revolution which was called the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The spirit of that revolution led to a foreign policy of the PRC which supported nationalist/anti-imperialist and socialist uprisings around the world. It was in this context that the PRC openly supported, with propaganda and material resources, the Black Liberation Movement. At the apex of the BLM, 1968, Mao Tse-tung, then Chairman of the Communist Party of China, and Head of State said,
Some days ago, Martin Luther King, the Afro-American clergyman, was suddenly assassinated by the U.S. imperialists. Martin Luther King was an exponent of nonviolence. Nevertheless, the U.S. imperialists did not on that account show any tolerance toward him, but used counter-revolutionary violence and killed him in cold blood. This has taught the broad masses of the Black people in the United States a profound lesson. It has touched off a new storm in their struggle against violent repression sweeping well over a hundred cities in the United States, a storm such as has never taken place before in the history of that country. It shows that an extremely powerful revolutionary force is latent in the more than twenty million Black Americans.
This English instructor (now in her ‘50’s), deeply moved by this show of support for her people, could not but undertake, as a young activist, an in-depth study of socialism and of the Chinese revolution.
The instructor lived in a Boston neighborhood for 40 years, which was variously named Boston’s Black community, Boston’s Puerto Rican community, Boston’s Haitian community, and Boston’s Dominican community. As a revolutionary and political activist, she understood it as her responsibility to be aware of, in depth, the struggles of the Puerto Rican people, the Haitian people, and those of the Dominican people, particularly with regard to the U.S. invasions of each country, the U.S. sponsored assassinations of elected officials of each country, as preludes to the outright military occupation of these nations, turning them into full-fledged colonies.
It is in connection with this history — and particularly the English instructor being authoritative about the history of the countries of every student in the class — that the instructor gave out her assignments: The Salvadoran student was enjoined to study the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, the FMLN (the guerrilla army which represented the workers and peasants of El Salvador in their fight against the U.S.-backed military dictatorship), its origins, the role of the United States in creating a country of refugees, and the present status of the movement for freedom and justice in their country of origin. This study was to be developed to the level of a presentation made to the entire class. One Haitian student was enjoined to study and present on the immense countenance of Toussaint L’Ouveture and the Haitian slave revolution. Another was assigned the task of teaching her classmates about the Lavalas Movement in Haiti. Her instructor loaned her the text, In the Parish of the Poor, by President-elect Jean Bertrand Aristide.
In like manner, the Dominican students were given the assignment of telling the story of the election to President of the DR of Juan Bosch, socialist and close comrade-in-arms of Fidel Castro, his subsequent assassination by the U.S. military, and following this, the invasion of the country by U.S. marines, and the installation by the U.S. overlords of the cannibalist Trujillo military dictatorship which ate the Dominican people for over 30 years.
Some of the students had little systematic knowledge of the events here described. The Salvadoran Sister explained, in her presentation to the class regarding the FMLN:
When I was eleven years old the FMLN came into my town. My parents were told by town leaders that we had to flee. Many people from my extended family found ourselves hiding in a barn, cramped together, body to body, with no food or water, for over three days. When we “escaped” we never looked back. War was raging all over my country. At that age I did not really know what it was about. Ten years later we fled to the United States. As I said, we never looked back… — until three weeks ago when my instructor gave me this assignment. Now I know who the FMLN is. Now I know why they were fighting against the U.S.-backed military dictatorship of my country. I am very proud to find out that the FMLN is now the government of my country, trying to serve the real needs of the people of my country, and to turn a place that has been “a nation of refugees” into a haven of independence, sovereignty and freedom…
In the original presentation, the English was not as good as the above version. The class took her presentation and collectively edited it for grammar.
Four of the students were Chinese, three of them were teenagers during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and two of these three did not share the reverence which their instructor (African American) had for this movement/episode in the history of the Chinese revolution (1966–1976). One of them voluntarily wrote (in other words, she was not given this as an assignment) a paper denouncing Yao Wen-Yuan, one of the paramount leaders of the Cultural Revolution. Knowing that her instructor revered this leader, nevertheless the student identified him as responsible for all manner of crimes against the people, including the crime of pushing her beloved Chou En-Lai (then Secretary of State of the Peoples Republic of China) to his death due to over-stress.
The method of the instructor, Liberation Pedagogy, is responsible for creating the space for these students to be moved to voluntarily write essays in English, their hoped-to-be second language, even essays which openly contradicted the views of their professor.
The Puerto Rican students who investigated the history of the Puerto Rican Independentista movement were amazed to discover how well known were the Puerto Rican leaders to freedom-loving people world-wide. They had never heard of Lolita Lebron or of “El Maestro” Don Pedro Albizu Campos (who Fidel Castro himself cites as his mentor and credits with being one of his foremost inspirations to political activism). While one of the Haitian students was well aware of the U.S. role in the presence of successive, vicious, inhuman military dictatorships in her country over the course of the last five decades, and the responsibility of U.S. corporate interests in the maintenance of a half-starved, poverty-stricken people in this island nation, the other two Haitians were less so. Therefore, the need to make this the subject of their English study was all the more impending.
Towards the end of the semester the instructor, who brought in guest speakers regularly, had the student activist group called SIM come to present. The Student Immigrant Movement was made up of young political activists who were fighting for the rights of immigrant students. These students had different class and social backgrounds from the students taking the course. Some of the SIM presenters were attending Harvard; some were already engaged in professions such as psychology and art. The students taking the course were working as orderlies in hospitals, day care workers, and nannies.
The class studied a promotional leaflet of SIM a week before the presentation. The leaflet was semi-intelligible for the class — not principally because of a lack of good grammar, and not principally because of the low English skills of the students in the class. The leaflet was hard to understand because it was grandiose: It made six points in each sentence, had manifest run-ons, and was endeavoring to solve all the world’s problems inside one paragraph.
The SIM presentation was very enthusiastically received by the students in the class, as the content of the presentation was the rights of the students. Specifically, they were mobilizing public support for the DREAM Act, a bill before the U.S. Congress which would grant the same public assistance which is afforded low income citizens to undocumented immigrant students. The information was of direct practical need to the students in the class.
This presentation lasted half of the session. The second half of the session was devoted to the students teaching the presenters how to write a leaflet that could be understood by, and be a benefit to, their readers. They went over the grammatical errors and the grandiose phraseology and came to common ground on reformulations.
This is the method of Popular Education. The agents of literacy are the students, not a book, or a professor. Learning oral presentation in English, and how to write grammatically correct English sentences, are the bi-product of a process which undertakes the social, economic and political needs of the students as the subject of study.
At least half of the students had stories about other professors whose teaching style consisted largely of punishing them for their lack of proficiency in English. If you, the reader, can at this moment abstract this image from that of a personal experience, and look at it from the point of view of systemic patterns, it must be readily obvious that this is the way of education in the United States: Students compete with each other for grades. If the student does not do well, she is penalized with a lower grade. In the case of refugees fleeing their countries of origin, coming to the United States, and taking English classes; they are doing so in order that they may take care of their most rudimentary business of life: to gain employment, pay bills, feed their families, enroll their children in school, each of these tasks being at once basic needs, and at the same time human rights. In the education industry in the United States, these students are “evaluated” as to whether or not they deserve to be able to feed their children, make a living wage, or pay their rent without getting ripped off by a vulturistic landlord.
One of the Chinese students made it a habit to print out, from her home computer, articles which she thought her instructor would be interested in. To the extent that she presented them as if she had written them, this is called plagiarism. Two issues arose from this series of exchanges: (1) One of the Moroccan students complained that this Chinese student was voluntarily going above and beyond the call of duty, and that she should not be given a higher grade than others in the class who failed to go to these lengths to impress the instructor. This complaint came mid-way through the semester, and these students, while being aware of the ways of the U.S. in competition and grading, had not yet accustomed themselves to the instructor’s complete rejection of the standards of competition and grading in the learning process.
(2) The issue of plagiarism was one which most of the students had trouble with. The law regarding plagiarism protects the private property of ideas. In the U.S. today, and especially with the advent of cyberspace and internet, presenting one’s ideas as one’s own private property is a very complicated and intricate endeavor. Students told horror stories of having been expelled from classes for the crime of not understanding the law regarding plagiarism. In this class, under the way of this practitioner of Popular Education, the students studied and learned together, they helped each other, they took their “tests” together, and they developed their ideas in community.
The class practiced each-one-teach-one, and in the course of the semester the English oratory and writing skills greatly improved for each student. The instructor recorded a grade of “A” into the transcripts of each one of them.
This rendering of the way of teaching ESOL is a snapshot of the method, theory and practice of Liberation Pedagogy.
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Born to the Persian noblity. He converted to Christianity in his youth. He later refused to apostacize, was stripped of his rank and title by King Varannes, and busted to army camel-driver. When he continued to cling to his faith, he was executed. Martyr.
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Today is Valentine’s Day. In the States men feel obligated to buy flowers, candy, jewelry, and cards for the women in their lives. But Valentine’s Day has a different meaning to the Japanese. In Japan, women are the gift givers.
Standard procedure in Japan is for women to buy chocolate for men. The Japanese refer to these goodies as “giri choco.” “Giri” is Japanese slang for “obligatory,” and Japanese society is big on obligation. It’s not considered a romantic gesture by women; it’s merely a way of thanking their male co-workers and friends for their help during the year, thereby fulfilling their obligation to them.
This practice has been a boon to those who sell chocolate. Japanese chocolate companies reportedly make more than half of their yearly profits during the week leading up to Valentine’s Day. It’s led to all sorts of gimmicks in the name of selling chocolate. One Japanese confectionery company set up giri choco vending machines at a subway station in Tokyo, and a Tokyo cafe will make a chocolate version of your face.
That’s fun stuff, but the chocolate itself is the main selling point. As in the States, the variety and price range of chocolate is vast. The closer the relationship, the more Japanese women spend on chocolate.
That’s not to say that Japanese women give chocolate only to men with whom they have business or casual relationships. They give “honmei choco” to their true loves or crushes. Traditionally Japanese women aren’t forward, but Valentine’s Day gives them the opportunity to send a message to a potential boyfriend.
The men won’t glide through this unscathed. They have their chance to reciprocate on March 14, called “White Day” in Japan. On this day, men who received honmei choco or giri choco return the favor, at two to three times the cost of their Valentine’s Day gift. | <urn:uuid:13344400-c3f2-41b9-8900-cabc674d8395> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.japanculture-nyc.com/2013/02/14/valentines-day-japan-style/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00219-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962419 | 432 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Are you looking for free patterns to use recycled plastic bags? Maybe you already know that you can make plarn by cutting plastic bags into strips to create yarn that you can craft with. Whether you are new to crafting with recycled materials or a veteran who has made recycled tote bags, plarn purses, plastic bag rugs, or any of the other many items that can be made from recycled plastic, I hope you will enjoy seeing this roundup of plastic creations.
These different plarn-making tutorials have picture tutorials on how to make plarn from plastic including retail bags to newspaper sacks. You can use all kinds of plastic trash to make plarn. You can recycle bread bags, retails bags, hamburger and hotdog bun packages, toilet paper and paper towel packaging, just to mention a few of the many plastic sources you can use to craft with.
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Numerous lines of evidence support the hypothesis that targeting A[342 is an ideal therapeutic strategy to prevent and/or treat Alzheimer's disease (AD), the major cause of dementia among the elderly. Chemicals called y-secretase modulators (GSMs), are being developed as AD therapeutics because they are able to selectively decrease Ap42. The first GSMs to be discovered were non-steroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), which lower Ap42 without inhibition of APP processing. As a whole GSMs minimally alter total Abeta production and instead shift where gamma-secretase cleaves Abeta. The mechanism of GSMs is still unknown although different explanations for their activity have been proposed including: 1) allosteric binding to y-secretase 2) inhibition of the Rho-ROCK signaling pathway 3) conformational changes in presenilin or 4) decreased dimerization of APP. We have recently discovered using novel GSM photoaffinity probes that these drugs do not label the y-secretase enzyme but instead modulate cleavage by binding to the substrate, APP. We hypothesize that binding of APP by GSMs shifts the position of APP-CTF in the membrane resulting in altered gamma-secretase cleavage. This hypothesis will be tested through the following specific aims: 1) investigate how substrate targeting by GSMs produces a shift in the cleavage pattern of Ap using a combination of molecular biology and protein biochemistry 2) determine the specificity of GSMs for affecting APP proteolysis by y-secretase in comparison to other substrates and 3) incorporate unnatural amino acids to study proteolysis of APPCTF by y-secretase. These studies will provide additional insight into how NSAIDs and other GSMs shift A(3 cleavage and how they exert their protective effects in vivo. This work will also guide future efforts to design more potent GSMs which will be useful as chemical probes for understanding the biology of ysecretase and as potential therapeutics for Alzheimer's disease.
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia afflicting the elderly with no known cure, ysecretase modulators (GSMs) are a promising class of drugs under investigation to treat AD. The proposed research will provide critical insight into how GSMs work and may ultimately lead to improved AD therapeutics.
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US blocks its export of cotton from Xinjiang, will Vietnam be affected?
|US Secretary of State: The world increasingly regards China as a threat|
|US provides 100 brand-new ventilators to Vietnam to support COVID-19 response|
|Vietnam, US explore ways to raise export and import turnover of farm produce|
|Xinjiang farmers harvesting cotton. (Photo: Reuters)|
According to CNN, U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued "Withhold Release Orders" for all six Chinese entities, which are intended to prevent goods suspected to have been made with forced labor from entering the US.
The cotton and tomato bans, and those on five other imports, over alleged Xinjiang forced-labor abuses, would be an unprecedented move by the agency, likely to stoke tension between the world’s two largest economies.
What does "Withhold Release Orders" imply?
According to the Customs and Border Protection, goods classified as WRO are at risk of seizure and destruction if their origin cannot be proven as not being produced by forced labor.
Five companies or industrial parks in Xinjiang and one company in eastern Anhui province, which make apparel, cotton, computer and hair products, have been named in the new order by United States Customs and Border Protection.
One of Xinjiang's "vocational skills education and training centers" is also named in the order, a name used euphemistically by Beijing to refer to the large re-education camps where inmates from Muslim minorities are allegedly detained, made to pledge loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party, and work as free or low-cost forced labor in factories and nearby facilities.
"This is not a vocational center, it is a concentration camp," said Ken Cuccinelli, the senior official performing the duties of the deputy secretary for the Department of Homeland, CNN reported.
At a daily news conference in Beijing on September 15, Wang Wenbin, China foreign ministry spokesman claimed: "The so-called forced labor issue is entirely fabricated by some organizations and people in the U.S. and the West," he said, adding that China will take all necessary measures to protect its companies' legitimate rights and interests.
|The U.S. announced import curbs against five Chinese organiations, including textile and electronic parts makers, accusing them of using forced labor by Uighur Muslims. (Photo: Reuters)|
Will the international supply chain affected?
According to Reuters, CBP official Brenda Smith told Reuters the effective import bans would cover the entire supply chains for cotton, from yarn to textiles and apparel, as well as tomatoes, tomato paste and other regional exports.
An article on The New York Times stated that any move to block cotton imports could have huge implications for global apparel makers. Xinjiang is a major source of cotton, textiles, petrochemicals and other goods that feed into Chinese factories. Many of the world’s largest and best-known clothing brands rely on supply chains that extend into China, including using cotton and textiles produced in Xinjiang, in the country’s far west. About 85% of China's cotton is produced in Xinjiang.
A report published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in July this year stated that if the United States imposed a ban on Xinjiang cotton and apparel because of forced labor, Southeast Asian countries would be affected first. Among the 7 countries importing the most cotton yarn from China in 2018, there are 3 in Southeast Asia.
Amy Lehr, director and a senior member of the CSIS Human Rights Initiative, said issuing up to 5 WROs in a day is a remarkable event, indicating even stronger moves in the coming times.
How will US WRO on cotton affect Vietnam's economy?
Currently, Vietnam is the second-largest importer of cotton in the world, with 65% of the output imported from the US, 15% from India, and 10% from Africa without being imported from China. However, this country is an exporter of yarn with 65% to China, the remaining 35% for domestic consumption, but recently, up to 50% of exports have decreased due to trade war as well as the COVID-19 pandemic.
Each year, Vietnam needs 10 billion m3 of fabric, but the country can only self-produce 3.5 billion m3 of fabric, the remaining 6.5 billion m3 is imported, of which 65% comes from China. Therefore, in the immediate future, textile and garment enterprises investing in Vietnam will be affected.
Enterprises can get out of this situation by sourcing fabrics from Korea, Thailand, and Japan ... but those exporters cannot be completely replaced China because of its too large supply, Tuoi Tre quoted Mr. Nguyen Van Tuan, Head of VCOSA.
|US arms sales allegedly surge for Taiwan but it just "media speculation" |
Industry sources reveals that Taiwan sets to receive as many as seven major weapon systems from the US, in the context of the Trump administration ...
|US unveils extensive plans to provide free COVID-19 vaccine for all Americans |
The Trump administration on September 16 has announced a strategy to provide safe, effective, and free COVID-19 vaccines for all Americans as soon as possible.
|US$ 133,000 to help 3,500 vulnerable people stricken by COVID-19 and drought in Vietnam |
The UN Women Vietnam, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recently delivered a total grant VND 3.1 billion (USD 133,000) in cash ... | <urn:uuid:459fee0f-0a25-467f-8775-73eb7b35b907> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cms.vietnamtimes.org.vn/us-blocks-its-export-of-cotton-from-xinjiang-will-vietnam-be-affected-24471.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.950487 | 1,150 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Since this class is centered on the practice of working with the ideas of others and synthesizing those ideas into our own writing, it stands to reason that we should spend some time practicing the art of summary. This summary exercise will help you to improve your academic writing in several ways: First, this excercise will help you to find meaning within a given text and provide you with a better way of interpreting what the author is trying to say; secondly, this exercise will give you further practice in summarizing, paraphrasing, using quotations, and condensing ideas—skills that are essential to academic writing.
Remember that the purpose of this summary is not to relate your reaction to the reading; your role in this process is to simply convey the information in the reading in condensed form. Do not include personal opinion, personal judgments of the material, or personal narrative. Be brief, be as accurate as you can, and try to capture the complete sense of the reading in your summary.
Read and Summarize
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- Friedman, T. L., & Mandelbaum, M. (2011). America really was that great (but that doesn’t mean we are now). Foreign Policy, (189), 76-78.
Your summary should meet the following guidelines:
- is between 150 and 250 words(no longer);
- includes direct quotations and paraphrased passages from the text;
- uses attributive tags that not only work to convey the mood of the writer, but establish him or her as an authority in the field of study;
- avoids personal opinion;
- is written clearly, concisely, and accurately;
- is written solely in third-person;
- includes a References page;
- has been closely edited so that it contains few or no mechanical errors.
As you work on your summary, it is a good idea to keep the following questions in mind:
- How does this summary meet the assignment criteria?
- How close do you feel your summary came to capturing the information in the original article?
- Does this summary use effective transitions as it progresses from paragraph to paragraph?
- Does this summary avoid personal opinion, casual language, or first or second person language?
- Is there anything in this summary that could have been left out without losing its effect?
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|Authors: ||Massa, M.*|
|Title: ||What can we learn from the January 2012 Northern Italy earthquakes?|
|Title of journal: ||Annals of Geophysics|
|Series/Report no.: ||1/55(2012)|
|Issue Date: ||2012|
|Keywords: ||ground motion data|
|Abstract: ||This note focuses on the ground motion recorded during the recent moderate earthquakes
occurred in the central part of Northern Italy (panel 1), a region characterized by low seismicity.
For this area the Italian seismic hazard map (Stucchi et al., 2011) assigns a maximum horizontal
acceleration (rock site) up to 0.2 g (10% probability of exceedance in 50 yrs). In the last 4 years,
the region was struck by 9 earthquakes in the magnitude range 4≤Mw≤5.0, with the three largest
located in the Northern Apennines (Mw 4.9 and 5.0 Parma events, December 2008 and January
2012) and in the Po plain (Mw 4.9 Reggio Emila event of January 2012). We analyze the strongmotion
data (distance < 300 km) from these events recorded by stations belonging to the INGV
(RAIS, http://rais.mi.ingv.it; RSNC http://iside.rm.ingv.it) and DPC (RAN, www.protezionecivile.it;
The 2008 and 2012 Parma events, both characterized by reverse focal mechanisms
(http://cnt.rm.ingv.it/), have depths of 27 and 60 km respectively. The deep event produced a
maximum peak ground acceleration (PGA) of 97 cm/s2 at Novellara (NVL, EC8 C class) station (70
km from the epicenter). The 25th January 2012 event (depth of 34 km) produced a maximum PGA
of 114 cm/s2 at Sorbolo (SRP) station (7 km from the epicenter).
Preliminary analyses show:
1) a peculiar ground-motion attenuation of the deep Parma event with respect to the shallow one.
In panel 2, the PGAs for the two Parma events are plotted as a function of hypocentral distance
and compared to the global ground motion prediction equation (GMPE) calibrated by Cauzzi and
Faccioli (2008) using events with depth < 30 km. The different distance-decay of PGA for the deep
event (blue for A class of EC8 and red for B and C classes, CEN 2003) is evident, in particular for
distance up to 100 km. On the other hand, the PGAs of the 2008 Parma crustal event (grey) are
well explained by this GMPE.
In panel 3, the PGAs for the deep 2012 event, grouped for EC8 classes, are compared to the
national GMPE calibrated by Bindi et al. (2011) using crustal events and epicentral distance. Also
in this case, the GMPE underestimates the PGAs up to 200 km. Although most of the class C sites
(red) show the largest PGAs, the underestimation cannot be completely ascribed to site effects.
The large PGAs from the Parma deep event, with respect to the shallow one, could be explained in
terms of source effects (e.g. large stress drop values enhancing the high-frequency radiation). In
addition, as explained by Castro et al. (2008), the different attenuation in the lower and upper crust
could explain the large PGAs recorded for the 2012 deep event.
2) seismic amplification at Po Plain sites:
In panel 4, the PGAs of the January 25th, Mw 4.9, Reggio Emilia event are plotted as a function of
the epicentral distance, together with the Bindi et al. (2011) GMPE. In general, the largest
amplitudes occur at the Po plain sites (red), suggesting possible peculiar site response. An overall
increase of the PGAs is observed around 100km, in agreement with the results of Bragato et al.
(2011) that studied the regional influence of Moho S-wave reflections in the area.
An example of site response is shown in panel 5, considering TREG (class C) and ZEN8 (class A)
stations (panel 5a), located at 88 km from the Reggio Emila epicentre. The rotational standard
spectral ratio (panel 5b) for 10 s of S wave shows polarized amplifications around 2 Hz, detected
also at others Po plain sites (not reported), as well as amplification on the vertical component.
The points discussed above should to be interpreted as a warning for future applications dealing
with ground motion estimation in the aftermath of an earthquake in this area (e.g. ShakeMap
calculation): currently used GMPEs, based on different events and sites characteristics could lead
to significant bias in the final results.|
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The name of the popular American singer Taylor Swift is now known to almost everyone who is fond of music in one way or another. The pop and country singer-songwriter has repeatedly won the prestigious Grammy International Music Award and other world-class music awards.
The full name of the singer is Taylor Alison Swift. She is a native of West Reading, Pennsylvania. The inhabitants of this small, by American standards, city today are very proud of their popular countrywoman.
Taylor Swift was born on December 13, 1989. From an early age, the future pop star showed a special interest in music. Her first public performance can be considered the performance with the song “Star-Spangled Banner”, which took place before the start of a basketball game between two very famous basketball teams in the United States. Then Taylor Swift was only 11 years old.
But the very next year, the gifted girl seriously declared herself, picking up a guitar and starting to compose songs. Moreover, she independently wrote words and music, becoming their author in the full sense.
Taylor was 13 years old when her parents sold their farm and moved to Nashville, Tennessee. The girl spent a lot of time writing and performing her songs. The following year, when she was only 14 years old, she became the owner of a contract with the Sony ATV record company. And this contract opened the door to the world of great music for the young performer.
Taylor Swift went platinum in 2007, selling over one million copies in the United States. Her albums came out one after another, invariably gaining popularity with the public.
The singer writes songs in the country style, which in itself is very popular in the United States of America and most English-speaking countries, which today are based on descendants of immigrants from Great Britain. These songs remind listeners of the life of their ancestors, these are the motives of the first settlers, this is the style of the Wild West and the Great American Plains.
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Eyeglasses are vital for billions of people around the world, yet millions can’t afford or get access to this essential need. The ability to see is necessary to read, learn, work, and generally function in society.
Even for those who have vision insurance, the typical markups on prescription glasses can mean paying hundreds of dollars for a single pair. The fear of losing or breaking a pair of glasses is real, especially for parents who have kids that wear glasses—because, let’s face it, kids can be rough on glasses.
The belief that everyone deserves access to quality, affordable prescription eyewear led Tibor Laczay and Julia Zhen to create Zenni.com in 2003. From their garage in Northern California, the two entrepreneurs created Zenni from the ground up, with Tibor coding and designing Zenni’s first website. By owning the entire process from manufacturing to online sales, Zenni was able to keep prices low. Zenni’s signature $6.95 starting price has remained unchanged for nearly 20 years.
Today, Zenni offers thousands of affordable frames in every style, size, and color, as well as high-quality lens options for one-tenth of the price of traditional retail, including progressives, Trivex®, Blokz® blue-light-blocking lenses, ANSI Z87.1 safety glasses, and more. With award-winning customer service and a team of licensed eyecare providers and opticians, Zenni is dedicated to meeting the eyewear needs of all customers, from function to fashion.
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Portugal’s renewable electricity generation has been reported to have exceeded demand for the first time in four decades. In fact, for the month of March, renewables supplied 103.6 percent of the country’s electricity consumption.
It wasn’t a clean run, so to speak: On some days, fossil fuels were required to meet the demand for Portugal’s electricity grid, but overall, clean energy won out.
This is all according to a report by the Portuguese Renewable Energy Association and sustainability group ZERO, emailed to IFLScience. They cited data from REN, the nation’s transmission system operator, although the raw data isn’t available at present.
At a minimum, 86 percent of the electricity demand was supplied by renewables (March 7), reaching a maximum of 143 percent (on March 11). Hydroelectric power (55 percent) and wind (42 percent) provided most of the monthly consumption of renewables.
Portugal has set itself ambitious targets to become a carbon-neutral country by 2050 – so with data like that, you’d bet that officials are pleased. Sadly, however, there are some necessary caveats for those hoping that a clean energy revolution is about to take hold of the world overnight.
This situation is Portugal-specific, which itself has a relatively tiny carbon footprint and a unique energy supply situation.
The coastal nation is home to just over 10.3 million people, which is roughly the size of a major, global metropolis. Although this new record is impressive, providing electricity to that many people in a fairly well-developed nation isn’t comparable to what providing up to 10 times as many people entails. This doesn't even take into account the complex political, infrastructural and economic variables either.
In addition, hydroelectricity, which is used heavily by the Portuguese state, is an incredibly useful source of clean energy – if you’ve got it, that is. Not every nation aiming for low-carbon electrical grids have access to the topographic features or engineering funds and abilities required for hydroelectricity.
Costa Rica, for example, does have it; plenty of green-focused nations in Europe, however, do not. It’s also worth pointing out that extremely heavy rainfall hit Portugal in March, which indubitably filled its hydroelectric reservoirs up to optimum levels.
The other thing worth mentioning is that electricity demands fluctuate, on a seasonal basis – typically, demand is higher in the winter months than the summer months – and a monthly/weekly/daily one. Indeed, REN does note that March experienced a “sharp temperature deviation from the usual values” which would have affected demand.
The real test of Portugal’s renewable electricity sector, then, will be when the cold revisits the Iberian Peninsula toward the end of the year. If renewables still outpace fossil fuels, then we know we’re far more likely to be onto a winner.
Nevertheless, it’s clear that renewable energy sources are proliferating in Portugal, and that’s certainly laudable. The same clean energy campaigners suggested in the report that by 2040, the nation’s electrical grid will rely on nothing but renewables and a smidgen of natural gas. This is perhaps possible, but the future of the sector remains somewhat unpredictable.
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TRADITIONAL JAZZ HISTORY
Dixieland is a popular name that refers to the earliest
styles of jazz originated in New Orleans during the late
1910s and Chicago during the 1920s. Dixieland or
Traditional jazz is collectively improvised small group
music where the players simultaneously improvise over
a song’s structure. It is often considered to be the first
true style of jazz. Dixieland music is a mixture of music
that incorporates work songs, brass band marches, folk, blues, gospel, popular music and ragtime. Famous
Dixieland tunes include: "Muskrat Ramble,” "Struttin' With Some Barbecue,” "Tiger Rag,”"Dippermouth Blues,”
"Basin Street Blues,” "Just A Closer Walk With Thee,”
and many others. "Bill Bailey" is the second most
requested tune in Dixieland music, the first being
"When the Saints Go Marching In.”
New Orleans style bands are fronted by trumpet or
cornet, clarinet and trombone. The rhythm section typically includes banjo, tuba and drums. The Chicago Style
augments the front line with the addition of a saxophone.
The Chicago style also differs from the New Orleans style
by replacing the tuba with string bass, the banjo with
guitar and adding piano.
There is a distinct difference with how the New Orleans and Chicago style rhythm sections accompany the frontline players. In the New Orleans style the rhythm section plays
in a flat-four style. That is, all four beats within a measure
are played with equal emphasis. The Chicago style is
played with a two beat feel where beats two and four
receive more emphasis. The Chicago style is also
performed more aggressively than that of New Orleans.
Among the great innovators that contributed to the development of this music are Louis Armstrong, Joe
“King” Oliver, Buddy Bolden, Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney
Bechet, Kid Ory, Johnny Dodds, Baby Dodds,
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12-26-2012 01:49 AM
How to establish or Implemented TLS Connection with Post and Get method?
There are any option for SetRequestProperty into TLS?
How to get RequestCode into TLS?
Solved! Go to Solution.
12-27-2012 01:04 AM
For security purpose means ?
You were calling any web service or what ?
If you told your proper idea that what you want to do then I can try to help you.
01-06-2013 02:30 PM - edited 01-06-2013 02:32 PM
Going by this, and your other post on this Thread:
I think you are confused about what is going on here.
I'm not an expert, but as I understand it, the various TCP/IP protocols are layered.
At the bottom is the socket connection, which if course you can open using a URL that starts
Now if the other end of your communication is a socket server, this is what you need.
(Actually I say socket connections are at the bottom, conveniently forgetting UDP connections. In fact I think a socket connection is built on top of a UDP connection, but we can ignore this for this discussion)
Above that is http:\\. And if you open an HTTP connection, you will open it with an HTTP server. But an HTTP connection is actually a socket connection with some helpful methods. You could actually open a socket connection to a HTTP server and as long as you send the right things on the socket and understand what the HTTP server is sending back to you, then you could communicate quite happily. A while ago, I think I did this in one application where I needed to send a request header that I couldn't generate any other way.
The trouble with both these approaches is that the data is sent insecurely. So to provide securely, the appropriate internet bodies decided to invent a secure socket layer - SSL - as the secure form of socket, and HTTPS which was the secure form of HTTP and would be transmitted over SSL. So if you opened a connection with HTTPS, instead of creating a socket connection to the HTTP server, the processing will create a secure socket (SSL) connection.
And then they decided SSL could be improved and created TSL.
But you don't actually care. All you do is open an https:\\ connection to the appropriate server and it will sort out the correct secure socket layer protocol. If you want to find out what is actually being used, you can - see the
of your HTTPS connection.
So if you need to call a web service that is secure, then just use https:\\ and the correct port (usually 443) and the rest will take care of itself.
Does this clarify the problem?
01-06-2013 02:37 PM
Thanks for reply me.
But actully i need below infomation
-> Into Https we call webserivce into GET and POST.And also set some methode like setReqeustProperty and SetRequestMethod.
So into TLS how to do?
01-06-2013 06:33 PM
As noted, not an area of expertise, but this is what I understand. You don't use TLS. You use HTTPS. The Web Server implements this with TLS..
So you do an HTTPS connection to the Web Server. Under the covers, it will use the TLS socket level security. But because you have established an HTTPS Connection, which is like an HTTP Connection, you use the HTTP GET and POST methods, and you can setRequestProperty.
01-07-2013 12:10 AM
Please check attachement.
There are difference to pass parameter into Https and TLS.But there are not mention that how to setRequestProperty and method into TLS.
01-07-2013 04:51 AM
I'm sorry, you are asking the same question a different way - it appears I am not able to explain this to you.
Possibly this is because in fact I am wrong in what I think - as I keep noting, this is not an area of expertise. But what I am telling you is what I believe to be correct and I have researched this.
The code sample provided by Mark Sohm, does NOT use HTTPS. It provides 3 different socket level connections. None of the connections support setRequestProperty().
HTTPS and HTTP are protocols that exist on top of socket level connections. They support setRequestMethod.
You seem to have the idea stuck in your head that you should be able do a use the setRequestMethod() on a TLS Connection. You can't. You can only do this to a connection established using the HTTP or HTTPS protocol.
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Marie from Rochester, NY has turned her father’s house upside down and can’t find the Will.
“My dad who ironically was an attorney, died and we can’t find his Will. We have no reason to believe that he wrote a Will other than the fact that he was an attorney and we find it hard to believe he didn’t prepare one. I, my biological sister and my adopted brother are the only beneficiaries. We’ve turned the house upside down and we just can’t find it! What happens in Florida probate if we can’t find the Will?”
For some reason, I’m hearing more of these stories about attorneys who didn’t leave Wills. It is strange, but not uncommon. First, check out my other post with tips for finding the will. Failing that, here’s the quick answer:
If the Will can’t be found, the decedent is presumed to have died “intestate” which means “without a Will.” It happens all the time and is not a problem so long as the the intestate heirs (heirs of the decedent pursuant to Florida Statutes) don’t quarrel over the statutory distribution of the estate and no one else tries to “prove” up what they believe to be the Last Will and Testament.
One of the other major disadvantages of not having the Will is that a judge may decide to require the petitioner or personal representative to post bond before administering the estate (bond – probate administration insurance).
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Edgar first says that there has never been an easy time to defend the faith: “doing effective apologetics was no easier in former times than today. There has never been a golden age when commending the faith was free from considerable obstacles.” (23) So in this concise treatment, Edgar aims to appeal for an authentic apologetic: “Doing apologetics in an authentic fashion always involves two concerns. One is that the message has integrity. […] The other is that the message must be credible to those who hear it.” (27) The believer must be ready, as 1 Peter 3:15 commands. Edgar elaborates on what this involves: “…readiness involves two things: knowledge of the answers and sensitivity to the needs.” (37) In short, we as Christians “…not only must we have the right words, we need to speak the right way.” (40)
Edgar offers a definition of apologetics:
Apologetics, then, is about argument, which means developing a persuasive sequence of words to answer the challenges from an unbelieving culture. There is thus an affinity, but not direct similarity, between apologetics and evangelism. Evangelism is a missionary endeavor, proclaiming the gospel in every circumstance. Apologetics is part of this missionary thrust, specializing in argument as it focuses on issues and methods that ‘demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God’ (2 Corinthians 10:5). So apologetics is a kind of science, a discipline that develops sound ways of presenting the gospel. (41)Part one of the two-part book deals with the foundations of apologetics. This explores the biblical mandate as well as strategies that help with methodology. However, Edgar opts for flexibility over any particular methodological approach: “The best apologetics is not a series of dry methods, but is rather a wise discernment ensuring the kind of flexibility appropriate to working with a person’s multidimensional spiritual life.” (55)
Part two has to do with the actual conversations the Christian engages in. Edgar looks at barriers to belief, the challenges of pluralism, the problem of evil, and the assurance of faith. He spends a brief chapter on each, outlining key issues and an ideal approach. Along the way the reader will gain insights and practical advice.
If the Christian faith is true, then however consistently an unbeliever may appear to be living out his or her position, it cannot hold together. Somewhere there is a flaw, because we do in fact live in God’s world. It may be a flaw of logic, emotion, or simply the irony of unsuccessful pride. The work of the apologist is to uncover the tension between unbelief and the knowledge of God that everyone has. (56)Although Edgar focuses on Christian persuasion, he notes that “…it cannot be stressed too much that the final persuader is not our argument, however well-constructed, but God’s Holy Spirit.” (60) The author also notes that all engagements are not the same; we must be sensitive to the person while keeping our goals realistic.
Faith […] is progressive and varies by person. With Christian apologetics what matters more than establishing once-for-all certainty is the ground we are gaining. Although we have the task of persuading unbelievers of the truth of the gospel, we need to remember that every assertion does not necessarily have equal authority. (107)
In summary, Reasons of the Heart: Recovering Christian Persuasion can serve as a non-technical primer for person-centered apologetics. It emphasizes a humble and practical approach, appealing not just to the mind, but to the heart.
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The best learning is in school not streets -Dr. Arop
By: Bullen Bala Alexander
The national Minister of Youth, Culture and Social Welfare, Dr. Nadia Arop is encouraging parents to enroll their children in school, saying children could best learn in class, not the streets.
“We must encourage our children to go to school and the best learning is in schools not in the streets, not with bad groups and not even at home,” Arop said.
“We know we are operating in difficult situation because of the senseless conflict in the country, but our struggle for education cannot stop and we hope after ten years ahead South Sudan will be in another level in terms of education,” she said.
She made the remark during the launch of “Back to Learning Campaign 2020” at Juba Say Secondary school last week in Juba.
She said South Sudanese should not always depend on the foreigners to come and plan for the development of the country but rather educate their own people so that the young generation takes over.
Arop added that for the country to move forward in terms of development, there was need for the government to improve the education system.
“We must improve our education so that we move ahead because when you do not have the literate and skilled people in the country that can plan for the development of that country than you will not move forward,” Arop said.
She said that there was need to have good and qualified teachers in the country.
She encourages the partners that are sporting education in South Sudan to continue supporting education in the country saying it was the only way for sustainable peace in the country.
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This week, House Republicans will hold a vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act. The bill is expected to pass the House, where the GOP holds a majority, but stall in the Democratic-controlled Senate. In the meantime, the symbolic vote is giving both Republicans and Democrats a pretext to publicly rehash their views on the legislation.
At AlterNet, Faiz Shakir and colleagues point out that repealing health care reform would cost the federal government an additional $320 billion over the next decade, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office. The authors also note that despite Republican campaign promises to “repeal and replace” the law, their bill contains no replacement plan. Health care reform protects Americans with preexisting conditions from some forms discrimination by insurers. At least half of all Americans under the age of 65 could be construed as having a preexisting condition. No wonder only 1 in 4 Americans support repeal, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll released on Monday.
Perhaps that explains, as Paul Waldman reports at TAPPED, why the White House is vigorously defending health care reform. The Obama administration is making full use of the aforementioned statistics from The Department Health and Human Services on the percentage of Americans who have preexisting conditions:
As the House prepares to vote on the “Repeal the Puppy-Strangling Job-Vivisecting O-Commie-Care Act,” or whatever they’re now calling it, the White House and its allies actually seem to have their act together when it comes to fighting this war for public opinion. The latest is an analysis from the Department of Health and Human Services on just how many people have pre-existing conditions, and thus will be protected from denials of health insurance when the Affordable Care Act goes fully into effect in 2014
Republicans are fuming that Democrats are “politicizing” a policy debate by bringing up the uncomfortable fact that, if the GOP’s repeal plan became law, millions of people could lose their health insurance. As Waldman points out, the high incidence of preexisting conditions is an argument for a universal mandate. It’s impossible to insure people with known health problems at an affordable cost unless they share the risk with healthier policy-holders. Hence the need for a mandate.
Anti-choice at the end of life
In The Nation, Ann Neumann explains how anti-choice leaders fought to re-eliminate free end-of-life counseling for seniors under Medicare. The provision was taken out of the health care reform bill but briefly reinstated by Department of Health and Social Services before being rescinded again by HHS amid false allegations by anti-choice groups, including The Family Research Council, that the government was promulgating euthanasia for the elderly.
As seen on TV
The Kansas-based anti-choice group Operation Rescue is lashing out at the Iowa Board of Medicine for dismissing their complaint against Dr. Linda Haskell, Lynda Waddington reports in The Iowa Independent. Dr. Haskell attracted the ire of anti-choicers for using telemedicine to help doctors provide abortion care. The board investigated Operation Rescue’s allegations, which it cannot discuss or even acknowledge, but found no basis for sanctions against Haskell. Iowa medical authorities said they were still deliberating about the rules for telemedicine in general.
Salon retracts RFK vaccine story
Online news magazine Salon.com has retracted a 2005 article by Robert Kennedy, Jr. alleging a link between childhood vaccines and autism, Kristina Chew reports at Care2. The article leaned heavily on now discredited research by Dr. Andrew Wakefield. His research had been discredited for some time, but only recently did an investigative journalist reveal that Wakefield skewed his data as part of an elaborate scam to profit from a lawsuit against vaccine makers.
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The purpose of this paper is to highlight state-of-the-art digital human modeling applications in aviation and aerospace industry, generate research interest and promote application of digital human modeling technology among audience of diverse background including researchers, students, trainees, etc. in academia and industry; designers; engineers; and ergonomists associated with aviation and aerospace sectors.
Comprehensive literature search was performed and, subsequently, all publications identified were studied thoroughly at least by abstracts. Available information has been segregated under different headings and depicted systematically for easy understanding by readers.
Virtual human modeling technology has been used in assessing reach and accessibility in aircraft cockpits, creating accurate posture libraries, performing vision analysis for pilots, determining design modifications to accommodate female users, predicting probable pilot behavior in proposed cockpit design, simulating air flow and heat transfer in fighter plane’s cockpit, assessing comfort of airplane passenger seats, maintenance studies, human spaceflight training, verifying component accessibility, investigating impact of space suit parts and harnesses, etc. Traditional approach for ergonomic investigations (involving costly physical mockups and trials with real humans) can be effectively replaced by evaluations facilitated by digital mockups and digital humans.
Being a review paper, the present manuscript is purely academic in nature.
The present paper represents critical review (with up to date references), leading to a comprehensive knowledge body about application of digital human modeling in aviation and aerospace industry. Avenues still to be explored have been identified and future research directions have been given aiming at aviation and aerospace completely human centric.
Sanjog, J., Karmakar, S., Patel, T. and Chowdhury, A. (2015), "Towards virtual ergonomics: aviation and aerospace", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 87 No. 3, pp. 266-273. https://doi.org/10.1108/AEAT-05-2013-0094
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|Session Name||An Innovative Math Course for Undergraduate Game Programming Majors|
|Company Name(s)||Champlain College|
|Track / Format||GDC Education Summit|
Striking a balance of industry-relevant coursework and general education requirements is a difficult task for any institution granting undergraduate degrees in Game Programming. At Champlain College we have developed a math course that helps attain this balance. Matrices, Vectors and 3D Math presents standard topics of Calculus III and Linear Algebra within the context of Game Programming applications and projects. This carefully constructed 3-credit course can have a game programming major performing moderately sophisticated mathematics by the end of the first year of classes. Scott Stevens, Associate Professor of Mathematics, will present the content/structure of the course, some student projects, and solicit suggestions from attendees. | <urn:uuid:dd3e482f-ce37-4198-8926-76722035a5d8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://gdcvault.com/play/1015712/An-Innovative-Math-Course-for | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00180-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.877346 | 174 | 2.015625 | 2 |
A Spark of Genius
This scale model of an automated drawbridge is one of many impressive projects with real-world applications developed by MDC students.
In just a few short years, the new computing research lab at MDC’s School of Engineering + Technology has become a sought-after research incubator where students are encouraged to dream big and are given the tools to bring their cutting-edge ideas to life.
From Concept to Consumer
“It’s important to shape students into well-rounded scholars who can defend their ideas and theories,” said Dr. Miguel Alonso, the School’s chair. “I never say no to an idea, and I hold them to a very high standard.”
Student innovations to date include a mobile phone app that helps detect skin cancer and an automated drawbridge system that has the potential to improve safety and reduce costs. Students also have developed prototypes for Android-powered cellphone apps that amplify sound for the hearing impaired and decode colors for color-blind technicians. Another project in the works is a real-time, solar-powered traffic monitoring system that has caught the attention of the Miami-Dade Expressway Authority (MDX) for potential future use.
Located at Kendall Campus, the lab has become a place where students engage in peer-led learning and are challenged to be disciplined, self-motivated and innovative. Using the latest technology, including cutting-edge Catia software and 3-D modeling equipment, these exceptional students have developed award-winning projects, which they have presented at competitions and conferences around the country.
“The goal of engineering is to solve problems and help humanity progress,” said Alonso, who started the research lab in 2010 with a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to recruit, retain and help ensure the progress of underrepresented students in engineering and computing careers.
“I definitely feel like I’ve accomplished a lot,” said student Robert Glazebrook, who constructed the automated drawbridge model as part of a group project and hopes to obtain a patent. After earning two associate degrees at MDC, Glazebrook decided to pursue a bachelor’s in electronics engineering here as well because of the outstanding learning environment. “With the opportunities that MDC provided and my desire to do my best, I am set up for the future and prepared for any job.”
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In Spain it's customary to have a home insurance with household effects insurance in one.
The rules for taking out a home insurance are different from what you are probably used to.
“Spain has many burglaries! Extra security is often required, especially with remote homes. "
Walk into any Spanish residential area and everywhere you'll see the "We have an Alarm" warnings. You also often see bars for the doors and windows or they use shutters.
Of course, this is not for no reason! Firstly, the burglars are becoming more daring and, secondly, there is no coverage without traces or camera images.
All walls, windows, floors and ceilings are covered by a standard home insurance.
But also, for example, a fixed fitted kitchen (without separate equipment) will be covered by the home insurance. All wiring and water pipes within the wall will also be part of the home insurance. (Note! For example, a radiator will be included in the household effects insurance).
Pretty simple! First, everything you can pick up and move is covered by a household effects insurance. In addition, heating equipment (Stoves, boilers, air conditioning, etc.) is covered by the household insurance. In the bathroom, for example, the built-in bathtub is covered by the home insurance, but the toilet under the household effects insurance.
An apartment is often part of a community building.
For the shared areas (Ex .: Central hall, stairs or elevator, etc.) and walls, the Association of Owners (AoO) will be responsible for the building insurance. And this also applies to the building's facades.
But be aware! It is common in Spain that the AoO chairman changes every 2 years.
For that reason, the community building insurance also changes (often due to personal interest).
To avoid surprises, we always advise to insure your own outside walls. That way you keep it under your own control and for relatively low (extra) costs.
Imagine you have bought a nice house with vineyard in "The middle of nowhere".
Which of course is beautiful, but to insure this house there are many conditions.
Consider, for example, good anti-theft protection to prevent exclusion from theft coverage. The insurance will also look at the type of roads that go to your house. (In relation to access for emergency services).
You can insure valuable collectibles such as art, jewelry, etc. above € 2,000 per item separately. There are of course conditions attached to this with regard to the correct security.
This can for example be a good camera installation, alarm and / or safe.
In the case of a valuables insurance, a valuation report (or bill of purchase) per product is required. In the case of damage you are in most cases covered for restoration or replacement (when possible) or the insured amount will be paid.
We at IFAR specialize in advising on home and household insurance.
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Why don't we recommend them? The easy answer is longevity, freedom and security, more below:
A website builder is a content management system designed to make it easy for people with limited programming skills to build effective websites.
You can create great results with the likes of SquareSpace, Wix, Weebly and others. For some this is an easy and often affordable way to get a website up and running.
A website built this way is integrated into the website hosting provider’s system. So, although a user friendly interface is available for you to build your website, the website you create cannot be extracted or downloaded and moved elsewhere (SquareSpace seem to be the only exception to this currently where you can download and export your website as a WordPress website). So if you have a Wix website and want to move it to a new hosting provider, you simply won’t be able to. Unlikely as it seems, but what if your website provider goes down or goes out of business? Which is why we prefer to use WordPress and Drupal.
What is a content management system or CMS?
CMS stands for Content Management System. A long time ago, we built websites a page at a time, line by line of html code, these are now called Static websites. Large static websites have gone the way of the dinosaur, but for small websites, one-pagers these can be the simplest way to get a site up and running, rather than a sledgehammer to crack a nut with a fully fledged CMS system.
The solution to creating more complex websites efficiently, even for programmers to manage content, (especially with ecommerce websites where there can be thousands of products and categories). Plus a way for non programmers; people that run companies and their staff could update their content without having to pay a developer, meant cheaper website overheads if the website is easy to update by all.
The first CMS systems were created by developers many years ago. Each was individually created for each site, these are often referred to as Custom CMSs. One issue with custom built CMS websites is support. If a new website developer takes on a site there can be a thousand ways it was built, so in the event there is an issue it can be like looking for a needle in a haystack to resolve, which is a big worry if the website has been compromised or is just plain broke.
Eventually the first open source CMSs appeared in the early 2000s.
WordPress and Drupal are what we specialise in but there are many more. The beauty of an open source CMS is worldwide support. If a large community of people are using them then there are a large number of people with a vested interest in support and security. So there are a large number of website developers specialising in building and supporting those systems. WordPress and Drupal are two of the most popular website CMS which is why we use these platforms for our customers.
You can also download and move open source CMS systems and move your site to a new hosting provider to get a better deal or better features.
You own the content of Drupal and WordPress. They come under the GPU licence, which means even if the code is changed by a website developer they cannot claim ownership. Why is this good? Well, if another developer takes on your website site, the original developer can’t claim it’s theirs or prevent changes being made to the code. Giving you the website owner or website developer’s client the freedom to move from one developer to another or hosting provider to get the better deal.
Drupal and WordPress puts you in control of your website.
If you’d like to read more about how we get you empowered with an effective website have a look at ours at polyspiral.com
Here’s are some testimonials from clients we've worked with using our supportive and friendly approach with these powerful platforms:
‘I would strongly recommend Polyspiral. We have worked together on a couple of website projects, and Polyspiral is always friendly, positive, helpful and has the happy knack of being able to translate technical issues into language that even the most IT-challenged can understand’
Graham Anderson who works with Route One on Maas-market.com
‘Thanks to Polyspiral we have set up our new website for our new business wholesaling honey and beeswax cosmetics. Polyspiral are regularly in contact to check if we need any help as our business grows and making suggestions to help us raise our profile. Lovely having someone knowledgeable and friendly so local. Thank you Polyspiral'
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Dietary choices are a certain method to cut down on the amount of time you spend recuperating and increase your performance. Here are some items that every แทงบอลออนไลน์ player should include in their diet to maximize performance gains and reduce recuperation durations.
- Fresh fish
Fish like salmon are packed with beneficial fats like Omega 3. Omega 3 cans particularly assist you to recuperate and work out harder and more often to reduce your inflammation. Other health advantages of oily fish include reducing anxiety and stress, improving cardiac risk factors, improving your immune system, and enhancing your bone and joint dullnesses. It also contains protein that is necessary for muscle repair and recovery after exercise.
One of the first superfoods was spinach. Spinach has (rightfully) earned its spot as one of the three meals to consume for sports performance, thanks to its impact on everyone’s favorite comic strip sailor Popeye (which may or may not be exactly accurate). Spinach has a variety of beneficial benefits on the quality of your blood due to its iron content. As a result, spinach will have a major impact on restoring energy levels and boosting vitality, both of which are critical aspects in sports recovery.
Milk! It’s what famous Liverpool footballer Ian Rush drinks, according to a young child (YouTube it if you don’t know what I’m talking about there) – and with good cause. Milk may be an important component of your rehabilitation because of its high protein content, which aids muscle repair and strengthening. Calcium is a necessary component of healthy, strong bones and teeth in other places (not necessarily a sporting bonus…but we all like good teeth). Milk may also become a part of your energy-storing pre-match ritual due to its high carbohydrate content.
Rocky didn’t just drink a tumbler of nutritious raw eggs because he like the flavor. Eggs should be on the top of every footballer’s to-eat list, much like Hollywood’s most renowned boxer. Eggs are primarily a good source of protein, which aids in muscle recovery after a game. A healthy supply of essential amino acids, particularly high amounts of leucine, which has been proven to be a dominating amino acid in muscle regeneration, helps to promote this. Egg fats have also been found to decrease blood cholesterol levels. They also include the vitamins choline and Bethany, which are beneficial to brain growth and function, as well as pleasure.
This miracle vegetable not only adds flavor to most bistro salads, but it also has health advantages such as reducing inflammation, speeding up the healing process, and energizing performance, speed, and mental concentration (just watch out for their staining qualities on your clothes). It might also give you an extra surge of stamina. How? Nitrates. In the body, these natural molecules convert to nitric oxide, which lowers the cost of oxygen for low-intensity workouts while boosting tolerance for high-intensity activity. Pickled or roasted from raw form, they can be eaten like chips. | <urn:uuid:f6bebc6c-ecc8-4d8f-ad0d-7346a74e374e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://biggyslickspoker.com/foods-that-should-be-consumed-by-every-football-player/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.951406 | 663 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Christians under global attack
“It’s a dangerous time to be a person of faith. We are at a critical moment. We can and must do more.” Those are the words of U.S Ambassador Callista Gingrich addressing a Rome symposium earlier this week on ‘Defending International Religious Freedom: Partnership and Action.’
The meeting bore special significance as the 20th anniversary of the International Religious Freedom Act approaches, while religious liberty around the globe has reached a critical point. According to recent reports, 75 percent of victims of religious persecution are Christians, a disturbing fact of which many are unaware or unconcerned.
Archbishop Joseph Coutts of Karachi, Pakistan, soon to be named a cardinal by Pope Francis later this week, added his voice to the chorus, saying that the initial promise of religious freedom in his country after independence in 1947 is being “eroded.”
“There are forces at work within society, Islamic groups and others, with the idea that Pakistan should be an Islamic state with Islamic laws, a theocratic state like Saudi Arabia,” Coutts said.
He recalled how a Pakistani Christian mother has been facing a death sentence under the country’s blasphemy law since 2010 because of an argument with Muslim women. He said the government is “even afraid to take the case forward” because it is concerned about an “emotional reaction” by extremists.
Pakistani blasphemy laws prescribe execution or life imprisonment for anyone accused of offences against the prophet Muhammad or the Quran, Islam’s holy book.
By every measure, Christian persecution – and even more fundamentally, fear and loathing of biblical Christianity – is growing worldwide, even in the once-Christian West, including Europe, the United Kingdom and North America.
The most recent manifestation within the U.S. has been the appalling church shooting massacres, including September’s church shooting in Tennessee and November’s mass-murder in rural Texas when a militant atheist, calling believers “stupid,” slaughtered 26 churchgoers and injured dozens more.
In many parts of the globe, the reasons Christian believers are targets is very clear: Christians are considered “infidels” by millions of Muslims taught from the moment of birth that such are deserving of death or forced conversion to Islam, or else dhimmitude (subservient second-class status including a punitive tax).
The tyrannical elites in communist societies indoctrinate their population with the notion that there is no God – or, as in North Korea, that their leader is a god himself.
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Germany and France reject eurobond plan
Both Germany and France have ruled out common eurozone bonds as a solution to the bloc’s debt crisis, the FT has reported.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Nicholas Sarkozy are set to meet in Paris tomorrow to discuss potential solutions to the crisis.
But German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble told Der Spiegel that Berlin has eliminated the policy as an option.
“I rule out eurobonds for as long as member states conduct their own financial policies and we need different rates of interest in order that there are possible incentives and sanctions to enforce fiscal solidity,” said Schauble.
According to the FT, senior French officials said it was unlikely a concrete announcement on a eurobond plan would emerge from the Merkel-Sarkozy meeting.
Over the weekend, Italy’s finance minister Giulio Tremonti championed jointly issued bonds as a “master solution” to the eurozone debt crisis.
UK Chancellor George Osborne also backed the idea, and said it would substantially lower nations’ borrowing costs.
In addition, billionaire investor George Soros warned the euro “could implode” if eurozone leaders failed to accept the principle of mutualising debt.
However, despite pushes toward the eurobond solution, most agree it is unlikely Merkel and Sarkozy will implement such a plan. Instead they are expected to reassure markets by stressing the need for greater fiscal and economic co-operation before a eurobond can even be considered.
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In the early stages of a difficult second pregnancy, Charlotte Loubser had been sick, nauseous and found herself unable get out of bed.
The birth of her first child had been troubled and her second pregnancy was considered high risk, so the doctor signed her off work in the early months.
However, after she passed the 12-week stage in the pregnancy, Charlotte felt ready to go back to work at a hairdressing salon where she was a receptionist.
But on the afternoon she was supposed to return, in January last year, she received a phone call saying she was no longer needed.
"I was obviously extremely upset, my husband was angry," Charlotte said.
When she didn't receive her wages, Malcolm, her husband, wrote an email to the salon owner. But after receiving no reply the couple joined a growing number of people who are bringing claims against their former employers.
It wasn't easy. "It's a lot of work, it's really emotional and it's very, very draining," said Malcolm who did a lot of the legal work on the case, even though he's not a lawyer.
And it worked. Charlotte was awarded about £2,000 in wages that had been withheld and £15,000 in compensation, although the couple have only seen a fraction of the cash.
Charlotte would warn anyone considering bringing a claim to "take it seriously".
"It was so much hard work and it was so emotional."
The Loubsers did not have the money to pay for a lawyer but even if they had, it may not have paid off. In almost all cases, claimants are left to pay their own costs and that leaves many with no choice but to go it alone. That can leave them at a huge disadvantage, according to employment barrister Bruce Carr.
He's seen an increase in the number of people representing themselves in employment tribunal cases. But he says the complexity of the process is a "huge disincentive" for those considering bringing a claim. "It's quite intimidating," he says.
In the past year, the number of people making a claim to an employment tribunal has increased by 10%. The courts accepted a total of 121,075 claims last year, according to figures from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ).
The number of claims soared in 2017 when tribunal fees were scrapped after the Supreme Court ruled that it was unlawful to charge people to bring a case. That has left the tribunal system understaffed.
"There are more delays than there used to be because there just aren't enough people to handle those claims at the moment," says Daniel Cotton, an employment lawyer at law firm DWF.
Whereas claims used to be dealt with in a matter of months, Mr Cotton says it's not unusual for the process to take more than a year now.
The Ministry of Justice told the BBC it had hired an extra 58 judges to deal with additional claims. But Mr Cotton says the tribunal system is more complicated than it used to be.
"The tribunal system was designed to be user friendly, so to be accessible to general members of the public without legal representation," he says. "It probably has moved quite a long way away from that."
However, the MoJ said it had spent £8m on support measures for litigants in person and has pledged another £3m.
Even though he is representing himself, Paul (not his real name) says he felt relaxed walking into the tribunal room, which looks more like a conference room than a court.
Paul is suing his former employer for racial discrimination and constructive dismissal after he was let go last year.
He didn't want the BBC to report his name or the specifics of his case for fear of harming his future employment prospects.
He filed his claim in December last year and since then he reckons he's spent a month working full-time on the case. He swotted up on the law by reading cases online and watching YouTube videos.
In the hearing, Paul is the first to take the stand. The pressure is on, as his former employer has threatened to try to force him to pay its costs if he loses the case.
In employment tribunals, those bringing claims are rarely asked to pay the other side's costs, unless the judge decides that they were acting maliciously and deliberately making things more expensive for their former bosses.
Paul said the threats over costs were an attempt to intimidate him and he thinks the lawyers used that tactic because he's a litigant in person.
Mark Doherty - who went through an employment tribunal five years ago - thinks that's a problem with the system.
After he filed his claim, lawyers bombarded him with paperwork.
He said "letters came in almost daily" from the law firms "in order to wear you down and make sure that you collapsed and did not take [the case] any further".
"It is bullying tactics on the parts of lawyers that pummel claimants into submission," he said.
Mark describes himself as "long in the tooth" but he fears younger workers may be intimidated by the tactics.
"They wouldn't have done it, they would not have gone all the way through because the big lawyers would have pummelled them into the ground with document after document."
"A lot of youngsters do not have the wherewithal to contend with that," he fears.
How to bring an employment tribunal claim:
- If you think you're about to be let go, document everything.
- You have a right to appeal, although it's rarely successful, according to employment lawyer Daniel Cotton.
- The first step to bringing a claim is to contact Acas, the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service. Its advisers will take details of what happened and contact your former employer to see if a settlement can be reached.
- If that fails, it's time to make a claim to the employment tribunal. This can be done online and should normally say what happened and why you think it was unfair, as well as examples of any behaviour that may strengthen your case.
- Once the court receives your claim form it will decide whether to hear the case (it normally does).
- In most unfair dismissal cases, the court will send you and your old boss a set of instructions on what to do next.
- Normally, the first thing will be to produce a "schedule of loss". This is a document that outlines how much you think you are owed and why.
- Then it's disclosure. This is a list of documents that will be shared between you and your employer - or ex-employer - that show what happened and when.
- All those documents should then be pulled together into a bundle - this will usually be done by your old employer and shared with you.
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“The word montage came to identify specifically the rapid, shock cutting that Eisenstein employed in his films. Its use survives to this day in the specially created ‘montage sequences’ inserted into Hollywood films to suggest, in a blur of double exposures, the rise to fame of an opera singer or, in brief model shots, the destruction of an airplane, a city or a planet” Arthur Knight
When the avant-garde filmmakers collaged multiple images within a single frame, or ‘painted and scratched film, or revolted against the indexical identity of cinema in other ways’ , they were working against “normal” filmmaking procedures and the intended uses of film technology. (Film stock was not be designed to be painted on). Thus they operated on the periphery of commercial cinema not only aesthetically but also technically.
One general effect of the digital revolution is that avant-garde aesthetic strategies became ‘embedded in the commands and interface metaphors of computer software’. In short, the avant-garde became materialised in a computer. The avant-garde strategy of collage re-emerged as a “cut and paste” command, the most basic operation one can perform on digital data.
The idea of painting on film became embedded in paint functions of film editing software. The avant-garde move to combine animation, printed texts and live action footage is repeated in the convergence of animation, title generation, paint, compositing and editing systems into single computer packages.
Finally, another move to combine a number of film images together within one frame (for instance, in Leger’s 1924 ‘Ballet Mechanique’ or in ‘A Man with a Movie Camera’ also become legitimized by technology, since all editing software, including Photoshop, Premiere, and After Effects, assumes that a digital image consists of a number of separate image layers.
All in all, what used to be exceptions for traditional cinema became the normal, intended techniques of digital filmmaking, ‘embedded in technology design itself.’
Painting on film can be seen in one of my favorite films directed by Jorge Grau ‘The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue’ 1974 which was filmed around Derbyshire, Manchester, Lancashire and Spain. In the film grab below which was filmed at Winnats Pass, Peak National Park, Derbyshire, you can clearly see the church has been painted onto the film negative to give an illusion the church is located there.
The church is actually St Michael and All Angels Church, School Lane, Hathersage, Hope Valley, Derbyshire and most of the film is based around Hathersage.
Being a film buff and a large collector of rare and out of print films, I could not write this blog without researching more on Soviet Russian film director and theorist, Sergei Eisenstein (1898 – 1948). Eisenstein is often cited as the revolutionary figure in the use of montage for films. Some of his most popular works include the silent films Strike (1925) and October 1927 (1927). The editing of his films is often connected to the earliest presence of montage elements in cinema. Early filmmakers cited him as the innovator in montage and met with Fritz Lang during the filming of Metropolis (1927) and his influence can be seen in the film.
Other movies which used film montage scenes and the most famous one being Orson Wells (1941) movie ‘Citizen Cane’, which used an impression of passing of time, in the scenes of the breakup of Citizen Kane marriage while sitting at the breakfast table at different stages in time in consecutive shots. While the characters get older, we also see a marked difference in their appearances and lack of interaction.
Viewing the artistic works of artist Remedios Varo, whose most famous work ‘Useless Science’ 1955 depicts a montage scene of science and dreams, I can’t help but think that this painting inspired Lang’s ‘Metropolis.’ The solitary figure sits on a stool wrapped in a black and white checked material turning a crank handle and the towers prove how film, art and photography inspires each other.
Russett, Robert and Starr, Cecile Starr, 1976 ‘Experimental Animation’ New York: Van
Nostrand Reinhold Company pp. 117
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by Rick Allen
Compressing your audio is a very important tool for enhancing the results of your production. Used properly it can make the difference between that "national" sound and the "local announcer" sound. Use it the wrong way and people end up with those spots that seem like they were mixed through a pair of speakers stuffed with dirty dish towels and cotton balls. Yet compressors still remain mysterious black boxes for most of us.
Of the top ten questions I get asked while I'm in the studio -- coming in right above, "Did you really pay for that sweater?" -- is, "What's your compression setting when you produce sweepers?" To the disappointment of a few people, the answer isn't much help. The kind and amount of compression I use depends on what sound I'm going for in the mix. It's an honest answer, but not very satisfying. So here in black and white I'm going to go a little further in explaining my approach to audio compression in radio production. I'll do that by taking a basic look at what compression is, how it works, what it does, and the different ways you can use it.
A compressor is really an electronic volume control that automatically adjusts the volume of the signal coming out of it based on the volume of the signal going in. The compressor "turns down the volume" as the input level increases. Just how fast and how much is generally controlled by a combination of four control settings on the unit. Compressors usually have a control for threshold, compression ratio, attack, and release time.
The threshold is the signal level you need to reach for the compressor to go to work. Below this level the unit just passes the signal right through. Above this level the "compression ratio" goes into effect. Compression ratio is the relationship between input volume and output volume. Settings vary from 2:1 on up to infinity:1. (Anything above 10:1 is generally labeled "limiting," but that's another story.) With a ratio of 2:1 the input signal must increase 2dB to move the output level up just 1dB. At 7:1 the input must jump 7dB for that same 1dB increase. Attack time is the time it takes the compressor to react to changes in incoming signal and alter its volume. Generally, a short attack time can help a voice cut through. Release time is the length of time it takes a compressor to return the output signal to equal the input signal. Too long a time setting reduces the compression effect, but too short a setting makes a compressor "pump" in a distracting manner. (Ever hear those larger than life announcer breaths?) You also might find a meter that gives you an indication of gain reduction in units of dB. How much gain reduction changes a sound is interrelated to the ratio. 10dB of reduction at 2:1 may sound fine while 10dB at 10:1 might sound totally muffled. Understanding how all these controls interact should help you to adjust your settings to find the sound you want.
Many engineers discourage production people from using compression in the production studio. Some are purists and feel that compressors should only be used for the purpose they were developed for -- to control dynamic range. Still more just don't want DJs messing with compressors because they've heard what happens to their signal when someone in the production studio has no clue how to use compression properly. These are the production guys that don't listen to the final effect of compression over the air. Always remember there are more stages of compression in your station's audio chain after the production studio. Watch out for the people who think that if a little compression is good, tons has to be great. Hey, compression is like water. You're uncomfortable without any around at all. On the other hand, you can drown in too much of it.
There are no right or wrong settings. If what's coming out over the air is the sound you want, then your settings are on the money. If you're interested, I'll give you some ideas of where I start with my compression settings before I begin to tweak. For voice, I work with a middle compression ratio, or 5:1. Bigger ratios can bring up your signal noise by squashing the dynamic range. I then set a fast attack and release time. Just make sure you don't get too short on the release and start hearing the voice track suck in and out. Finally, I'll adjust the threshold until I get a meter indication of about 3 to 4dB of compression on the peaks. (Watch your overall output level. As you turn up the threshold, you generally lose output volume.) Threshold is the setting that will control the amount of "compressing" you do to the voice.
Compressors won't win the war all by themselves, but they're a great part of the audio arsenal. They can't change a below average voice into super sweeper guy, but, when understood and mastered, compressors can help make any voice sound sonically stronger. | <urn:uuid:3d2f9910-176d-4810-ae30-43bbce773757> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rapmag.com/a/95/jan95/compression-puttin-the-squeeze-on-your-audio | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.948202 | 1,029 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Siloam Springs, Ark. (March 4, 2004) - For the first time in history, John Brown University competed in the Tenth Annual Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl in Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. 26, 2004. The JBU team placed eighth among 40 other institutions. Senior Anna Brown and juniors Sarah Childers, Allison Martyn, and Leah Miller represented JBU at the competition. JBU was one of many institutions invited to participate in this year’s event, sponsored by: the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology, and the Raj Soin College of Business, Institute for Business Integrity, and Wright State University. The outstanding field of competitors included the United States military academies and prominent universities as, Seton Hall, Valparaiso and Villanova. The Ethics Bowl consists of teams debating the resolution of ethical dilemmas in such diverse fields as environmental protection, privacy rights, respect for human life, genetic testing, property rights, and health care insurance. In each round, teams debate two cases, and three judges determine the winner based on points awarded for clarity and intelligibility, ethical relevance, avoidance of ethical irrelevance, and deliberative thoughtfulness. In the first round, JBU defeated a powerful team from the United States Military Academy. The third round resulted in JBU defeating a fine Valparaiso University team. JBU’s only loss came in a close second round match awarded to the Illinois Institute of Technology. JBU’s 2:1 record left the team tied with the United States Naval Academy for eighth place. Navy advanced to the quarterfinals over JBU by virtue of tiebreaker points. This was JBU’s first invitation to the Ethics Bowl. The team’s performance assures the team of an invitation for next year. Business instructors, Gene King and John D. Copeland accompanied the team and served as advisors. The Soderquist Center for Leadership and Ethics served as co-sponsors of JBU’s ethics team. John Brown University is a top-tier private university, ranked 11th by U.S. News & World Report in the Southern Region. JBU enrolls more than 1,800 students from 42 states and 42 countries. JBU is a member of Arkansas’ Independent Colleges and Universities and the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities. | <urn:uuid:375c2d79-ce36-4a5a-909f-335d1f4e5fd2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.jbu.edu/news/press_releases/?id=1149 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00513-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937662 | 494 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Our Congresswoman, Chellie Pingree (Democrat) in Maine's 1st District, has posted requests for federal funding on her web site.
Here is one of the requests, this one for $5,000,000 for a project called "Advanced Multifunctional Materials for Soldier Support and Protection" at the University of Maine-Orono.
The web site defines the project as: Current troop deployments require low cost, compact, rapidly deployable ballistic and blast protection to mitigate the threat of insurgents and their weapons.
What we are hearing across the nation is that as 45 state's fiscal crisis worsens they are cutting back funding for their state university systems - just like what is now happening in Maine.
As these cutbacks accelerate we find the politicians from both war parties then go to Washington and try to bring money home from the Pentagon and feed those funds into the state university systems to fill the budget gaps. Our public university systems are becoming research and development labs for the military industrial complex and they become more secretive as these dangerous trends continue.
A good friend of mine in Albuquerque, New Mexico reports that the University of New Mexico now has secret areas on the state university campus that are doing Star Wars research and development work. Students at the University of Hawaii a couple years ago occupied the campus administration building after their university signed a deal with the Navy to build a military research center on the campus.
Thus the taxpayer funded institutions begin to betray their original mission of public education for all in an open and democratic environment.
Physics, computer science, engineering, mathematics, and other departments are increasingly becoming dependent on war $$ and ruined as they are captured by the Pentagon agenda. The education community and the society at large become increasingly militarized as a result.
This is not just a coincidence that these trends are occurring. This is all part of the military industrial complex agenda to turn America's role in the global corporate economy to "security export."
If our elected officials representing us in Congress were worth their weight in salt they would instead be working feverishly to stop endless war funding and move those dollars back to our states and local communities for real investment in creating public transportation, open education, health care, building a solar society and more.
Sadly though Democrat and Republican politicians alike are on their bended knees begging the Pentagon for every dollar they can get their hands on and then loudly boasting how they are bringing home the bacon. The bacon though, in the case of military contracts for public educational institutions, comes with strings and helps to contribute to the further militarization of our killer culture. | <urn:uuid:5089b2dd-e383-4bee-8b2c-c1bad249ed8a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://space4peace.blogspot.com/2010/04/militarizing-campus.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280791.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00360-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955457 | 526 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Djibouti (HAN) April 30, 2014 – Story Opinion by Sophia Tesfamariam. This is an expanded version of the story that appeared in the issue of Canadian Business magazine. When an acquaintance at the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry sent me an advance copy of the article, “The Slaves of Eritrea”, written by Matthew McClearn for the Canadian Business Magazine (understand he also sent a copy to the Canadian Embassy in Ethiopia). I believe Matthew McClearn knew what he was writing and should be held to account by “every tax-paying Canadian citizen”.
The article’s intentions are transparent and McClearn is certainly not doing this because he gives a hoot about Eritrea’s youth, rather, he seems to be doing the bidding on behalf of the minority regime in Ethiopia and others who are intent on vilifying the government of Eritrea and its people for ulterior political agendas. It should be recalled that a recent document leaked by from the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry calls for an increase in anti-Eritrea propaganda and activities to strengthen the illegal sanctions against Eritrea. Eritrea’s mining sector has been targeted by the regime in Ethiopia and its handlers who have left no stones unturned to stop its development. McClearn attempts to use unsuspecting “tax paying Canadian citizens” to do its bidding by claiming they are profiting from “slavery in a far off land”.
Slavery is also the subject of an award winning movie, “12 years a slave” and it has rightfully triggered discussions on this historical human tragedy, which has contributed to the irreparable and permanent scarring of generations of Africans and their descendants. A timely movie that needs to be seen by all, as slavery and all its ugliness seems to have been forgotten, and worse the prevailing attitude today seems to be to white wash this event in history, supposedly to ease the conscience of those who perpetrated this injustice and benefited/profited the most from it.
From where I sit, white washing slavery is as egregious as denying the holocaust. Africans and their descendants may not have the resources to demand reparations and African Americans may not have the resources to build the United States National Slavery Museum , but they can certainly set the record straight and not allow the memories of those who were hunted down and sold like animals, bound to ships and transferred to white owned plantations in faraway lands, to be forgotten or hidden from future generations of Africans. Every African, no matter his country of origin, should be incensed at the white washing of slavery by those of European descent, and the mentally enslaved co-opted Africans in their employ.
Insight Mrs Sophia Tesfamariam
To ignore history is to repeat it….
In 2003, officials in California asked that manufacturers, suppliers and contractors stop using the terms “master” and “slave” on computer equipment, saying such terms are “unacceptable” and “offensive” . In the computer industry, “master” and “slave” are terms used to refer to primary and secondary hard disk drives and are terms that are also “used in other industries”. If these officials found it discriminatory, offensive and unacceptable to use such terms on computer and other equipment, inanimate objects with no feelings, with no culture, history, traditions, principles etc. Every Eritrean should reject McClearn and his ilk, who somehow believe it is okay to label a gallant hard working people with rich cultures, traditions, principles and values as slaves…just because they do not conform to western ideals on service and community.
But what has that got to do with Eritrea? Why is it okay to label thousands of Eritrean youth who are rebuilding their war torn nation as “slaves”? Their enormous contributions to their people and beloved nation cannot be compensated in dollars and cents. Nor can the pride and dignity, love and respect garnered from their fellow Eritreans and other Africans, be taken away by such ugly labels. Eritrea may not have the resources to fight such ugliness in the western media day after day, but her citizens everywhere can stand up and reject the offensive and derogatory labels being used to label their hard working compatriots at home.
The latest report on Eritrea by a certain Matthew McClearn of the Canadian Business Magazine is an example of someone who has chosen to use this derogatory and demeaning term to label Eritreans working at a mine run by a Canadian company in Eritrea. His intention was to shame the company and “every tax-paying Canadian citizens”, by pretending to care more about the well-being of the Eritreans who work there then their own people and government. He was not calling on “every tax-paying Canadian citizen” to donate funds to compensate the workers, rather, he is calling on his fellow citizens to put an end to the mining sector, their very livelihood and the life line of their beloved nation. A mine that has endured much hardship and sacrifice to build. Who is Matthew McClearn and what is it that he presumes to know about Eritrea, the people and leadership?
As far as I know, he has never visited the country, never spoken to any one of the many members of the Diaspora Eritrean Canadian Community, but has instead chosen to speak to a few “anonymous” individuals who have provided him with information to fit his pre-conceived narrative on a country and people he knows nothing about. I don’t know if he uses the term to provoke his readers to read his posts, or if he really means to white wash slavery-by labeling hard working persons as slaves.
Slavery is about being hunted down, captured against your will, being shipped, beaten and sold like cattle. It’s about being stripped of your dignity and pride, it’s about separation, distress, degradation, emasculation, pain and suffering. It is the greatest human rights violation against a nation and its people and it is an issue that should not be taken lightly, it should weigh on our conscience and not allow it to be trivialized. It is offensive to label hard working Eritreans as “slaves”. Obviously, it is a term that is being used by some western NGOs and their lackeys for political consumption-faux compassion and sympathy, but Eritreans should not sit back and accept such denigrating language-no matter what their political stance.
Matthew McClearn labels Eritreans who are working to develop their war torn nation for little or no wages as being “slaves”, and calls on “every tax-paying Canadian citizen” to help him in his bid to arrest Eritrea’s development-especially the mining sector which is providing the nation with some income. On the one hand, McClearn sheds crocodile tears for the Eritrean youth who he claims are not compensated for their hard work, only to turn around and call on “every tax paying Canadian citizen” to help him shut down the only mine operating in Eritrea today.
He wants “every tax-paying Canadian citizen” to help him pressure Nevsun, a Canadian company operating Eritrea’s Bisha Mines to stop its work there.
It seems Mathew McClearn of the Canadian Business Magazine hope to stop Nevsum from operating in Eritrea, with the hopes that it will somehow retard Eritrea’s progress and ease the collective conscience of “every tax paying Canadian citizen”. Who are these citizens? Could they possibly include the thousands of Eritrean Canadians who now call Canada their adopted home? Has McClearn and his ilk bothered to consult them and their views on Bisha and other development projects in Eritrea? Why would McClearn jeopardize his own reputation and that of Canadian Business Magazine with such deliberate and malicious misrepresentation of the reality in Eritrea? Using fictitious anonymous informants and hiding the true identity of those responsible for the negative media campaign against Eritrea, the very same known anti-Eritrea groups and individuals, McClearn has produced the ugliest report to date on the young nation and its proud citizens.
McClearn in his report on Eritrea takes swipes at national construction companies in Eritrea, undermining their capacity and minimizing their role in the construction of one of the best mines in Sub-Saharan Africa. From where I sit, Eritrea’s self-reliant attitude and policy bothers him. He cannot fathom that an African nation can produce such quality work and do it by utilizing its own human and material resources. Instead of being proud of their achievements, McClearn and his ilk are determined to have Eritreans bow their heads in shame, for not asking for alms, for not begging, for not relying on western NGOs, for working hard, for using their creativity and ingenuity, for making the sacrifices necessary to rebuild their beloved nation.
Matthew McClearn begins his article, “Slavery in Eritrea”, with a description of Bisha:
“…The 150 kilometers that separate the Bisha mine from the Eritrean capital takes four hours to drive. Whereas Asmara is a bustling city of 650,000 filled with 1930s colonial Italian architecture, Bisha lies amid an expansive desert of rolling, ochre tinged sand and scrubs…”
Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.
Had he done his homework, Matthew McClearn would have known that Bisha, like the villages of Ona and Adi Ibrahim, is one of the villages burnt to the ground by the Ethiopian regime.
The so-called human rights “activists” who are burning the midnight oil to prevent the Bisha mines from being developed may have forgotten the people of Bisha, Adi Ibrahim and Ona, but the government and people of Eritrea, and especially the young men and women working to develop the Bisha mine, have not. In a solemn oath to all those who perished it that place, and in villages and towns across Eritrea, the youth are shouldering their responsibilities with great pride and dignity. These gallant young men and women are not slaves and should never be labeled as such-by anyone, least of all by those responsible for the decades long pain and suffering of the Eritrean people.
Bisha is one of the villages in Eritrea that is developing fast and the mining activities are also part of this new development. In Bisha, new schools, new clinics and new roads have been built in honor of all those who died in the bitter struggle to liberate Eritrea from the clutches of successive brutal colonialists, Ethiopia being the last. Understanding Eritrea’s development strategy requires knowledge of Eritrea’s rich history, and Eritrea’s diverse cultures, norms and social traditions. Non-pecuniary motivations such as love of people and service to country, self-reliance, dignity and self-esteem, values cultivated during the long 30-year bitter struggle for Eritrea’s independence, remain the driving force and guiding principles today, as they did then.
These uniquely Eritrean notions have yet to be captured in western economic models produced by the Bretton Woods Institutions and imposed on Africans. As in all the other projects underway throughout the country, the Bisha Mine is not only going to provide for Bisha and the surrounding villages, it will also contribute to the development of Eritrea’s internal talent and capacity. If McClearn wants to talk about slavery, he is welcome to do so, but not to whitewash it and point his bloody fingers at Eritrea and Eritreans who are working to rebuild their war torn nation with virtually no assistance. Honoring those who gave their lives for Eritrea’s freedom is an honorable profession-NOT slavery.
Feigning concern for “every tax-paying Canadian citizen”, in whose name he presumes to write his audacious and insulting piece on Eritrea, McClearn shows his utter disdain for Africans in general and the people of Eritrea and Ethiopia in particular. His incoherent tirades against the proud people of Eritrea, labeling their hard work and sacrifice as “slavery”, a term used only by those who want to white wash slavery and all that it entails, says more about him then it does about Eritrea or her people. No doubt that the minority regime in Ethiopia is the behind the scenes author of the piece. It is also the regime that has sponsored the so-called activists that are gallivanting the globe trying to strangulate Eritrea’s budding economy.
They are the manufacturers of the evidence and the disseminators of the lies about a nation a people they have chosen to betray for a few pieces of silver. Nothing worse than having racist and condescending self-serving western groups denigrating the people of Eritrea and their courageous stance on nation building, but is made worse by the few mentally enslaved Eritreans, who are repeating the insults against their own brethren.
McClearn in his report on Eritrea mentions the role of the Canadian Embassy in Ethiopia in perpetuating this ugly narrative on Eritrea. He wrote:
“…Canadian officials knew earlier than most about allegations of forced labor at Bisha…In an email to colleagues in January 2012 Ethiopia Consul Christopher Hull wrote that reports about mining firms in Eritrea “being forced to use conscripts and prison labor” match what we are being told here…”
What else did Christopher Hull expect from the Ethiopians who have campaigned to stop the building of the Bisha Mine?
Bisha was also the first place that terrorist groups operating out of Ethiopia targeted in its early days. Mr. Timothy Nutt, a British national, who worked for Nevsun was murdered in cold blood by terrorists trained and financed by Ethiopia. In its 17 April 2003 announcement, Nevsun said the following:
“….Nevsun Resources Ltd. regrets to announce the death of a consulting geologist, Timothy Nutt, who was working on the Company’s Bisha property in Eritrea. The Company expresses its deepest sympathies to Mr. Nutt’s family…The Company has been advised by the Government of Eritrea that an investigation into the tragic death is in process. The Government has acted swiftly to ensure security in the area and the Minister of Mines has emphasized the Government’s support to Nevsun’s continuing work in the country. The Company has been advised that all Government officials have been shocked by this tragic incident…Senior management is in country meeting directly with Government officials to deal with this matter and ongoing business. Nevsun remains committed to its projects in Eritrea and will continue with its planned drilling program as previously announced…”
The Eritrean Islamic Jihad (EIJ), which claimed responsibility for the cold blooded murder of Mr. Timothy Nutt operates under the umbrella of the so-called Eritrean National Alliance (in Ethiopia). Over a decade later, Ethiopia is still trying to undermine the Bisha Mines and Nevsun’s operations there and is now enlisting the help of “every tax-paying Canadian citizen”. The intention then, as it is today is to present Eritrea as economically unviable.
Suffice it to mention the May 2009 Wikileak cable “Ethiopia to the P-5: Time For Eritrea Sanctions”- which clearly shows Ethiopia’s intentions vis a vis the Eritrean mines and what it wanted Canada to do:
“…Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin on May 22 called in the UNSC P-5 Ambassadors to urge them to follow-up on the Inter Governmental Authority on Development’s (IGAD) May 20 call for Security Council sanctions against Eritrea…In a separate meeting with the P-5 ambassadors on May 25, Ethiopian State Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr. Tekeda Alemu said he planned to travel to New York on May 29 to press the UNSC on Eritrea in person…Canada, he said, through its mining concessions, would soon be providing Eritrea with hundreds of millions of dollars, and he commented that “if you think Eritrea is a problem now with no economy, wait until it is flush with cash…”
The illegal sanctions, the vilification campaign against the National Service program, the Warsay YIkaalo program for development etc. etc. are all part and parcel of this evil agenda to strangulate Eritrea’s economy-as if that would advance that of Ethiopia’s. No self-respecting Canadian Embassy official in Ethiopia should allow himself or herself to be used in that manner. It behooves all to use their time and energy investigating Ethiopia’s human rights record, the genocides in Gambela, Ogaden and Oromia regions, the marginalization of the Afar region where over 13 Canadian have signed contracts to mine potash, gold etc. There is no need for “every tax paying Canadian citizen” to lose sleep over Eritrea.
Bisha, like the many development projects in Eritrea is a symbol of Eritrea’s young men and women, who are making their own marks in Eritrea’s proud history of sacrifice and commitment by preserving and enhancing Eritrea’s cherished and long held values of Determination, Hope, Trust, Unity and Magnanimity. The spectacular historical achievements by Eritrea’s youth will be the untold stories of our times. These days, the reports coming from western institutions, and the various media in their employ, seem to center on exaggerated, fabricated, erroneous, unsubstantiated claims from disgruntled runaway diplomats, defeatists, disengaged elitists, mercenary defectors, or from coached “refugees” seeking asylum in the West. Their sole mission (raison d’etre) being to paint a gloomy picture of Eritrea and its people, undermine the people of Eritrea’s pursuit of development.
Matthew McClearn and his Ethiopian sources want to divert the attention of “every tax-paying Canadian citizen” and to prevent them from knowing the extent to which Ethiopia and her handlers have gone to strangulate Eritrea’s budding economy. The 12- yearlong campaign to divert attention away from Ethiopia’s lawlessness and occupation of sovereign Eritrean territories, the trafficking of Eritrea’s youth with the hopes of draining the nation’s capacity, the rapes and tortures of Eritreans in Ethiopians and UNHCR camps, the selling of Eritrean children born in those camps is just a drop in the bucket of the crimes committed by the minority regime and its handlers against the people of Eritrea. Targeting Canadian mining companies to malign and vilify is an elaborate ugly scheme well known to American and Canadian officials, as the WikiLeaks documents have shown. But most importantly, it is known to the people of Eritrea everywhere and they have rejected this evil.
Instead of educating Canadians on Eritrea’s self-reliant nation building efforts, that is making tremendous strides, instead of celebrating Eritrea’s successes and emulating them, as some African states are doing today, McClearn and his ilk insist on insulting Eritreans. He ought to know that Eritrea remains one of a few Countries in sub-Saharan Africa that is on track to meet or exceed 7 out of the 8 UN Millennium Development Goals-Ethiopia (MDGs)-thanks to the sacrifices and hard work of its people. Despite being the highest recipient of Canadian aid and billions from the US, EU and others, Ethiopia remains at the bottom of all human development indices… yet McClearn wants “every tax-paying Canadian citizen” to be concerned about Eritrea-misplaced concerns if you ask me…
While some apologists for the minority regime avail themselves to participate in the nauseating propaganda ploys and gimmicks, it is the people of Ethiopia that are bearing the brunt of such arrogance. The latest report by McClearn does not serve the interests of any Canadian citizen, it is a piece written to accommodate the regime in Ethiopia and its handlers in yet another futile quest to arrest Eritrea’s economic development. The minority regime’s cadres have long targeted Eritrea’s mining sector and have done everything to stop its progress. From sponsoring terrorists who have killed geologists working in the Bisha mines to producing YouTube “documentaries”, the regime in Ethiopia and its handlers have gone to great lengths to undermine the Bisha project and those who work there.
Ignoring independent reports and facts on the mining sector in Eritrea, journalists like McClearn insist on fabricating farfetched sensational narratives on the young nation and its leadership. The psychological warfare against the people of Eritrea continues.. Nevsun, the Canadian company targeted by McClearn and also by the regime in Ethiopia and its mercenaries, released its corporate responsibility report on 10 April 2014. The main highlights of the independent report were:
• Safety record: Excellent – zero lost time injuries in the year
• Community: Well engaged and maximizing local opportunities for employment
• Environment: Land use, biodiversity studies, water & waste management, mine closure planning
• Employees: Human rights assessment, fair treatment, benefits, training & localization
• Government related remittances: $129 million in 2013 and $548 million since Bisha went into production in 2011
“…Nevsun, partnered with the Eritrean National Mining Corporation (ENAMCO), operates the Bisha Mine (Bisha) providing tangible benefits to the people of Eritrea. Bisha is the only producing mine in Eritrea and plays a significant role in the Eritrean economy. Beyond employment, Bisha provides opportunities for training, supply chain enhancements and improved community infrastructure. Financially, Bisha provides significant cash flow to the State of Eritrea by way of income taxes, royalties, employment taxes and ownership dividends….”
It is not my intention to do a line by line rebuttal of McClearn’s racist attack on Eritrea and its people, but suffice to mention a few inconsistencies in his report.
McClearn relies on an anonymous “informant” now living in Canada, for his narrative on Eritrea. Of all the names of Eritreans that he could have used for his anonymous informant, McClearn chooses the name “Awate”. After presenting this informants views, McClearn tells us that this informant NEVER worked at the Bisha Mine. So why should “every tax paying Canadian citizen” take the words of an anonymous informant with an ax to grind?
Not only is this an insult to the intelligence of the Canadian and Eritrean people, it exposes McClearn’s contempt for Eritreans and is an insult to use the name “Awate”, associated with the great Eritrean freedom fighter Hamid Idris Awate, on a runaway mentally enslaved defector who is hiding in Canada and insulting a people and nation he abandoned. McClearn is asking “every tax-paying Canadian citizen” to get their facts on Eritrea, not from the law abiding vibrant Eritrean Canadian Community, but rather from a faceless and nameless fugitive from the law, and a liar at that.
The informant in McClearn’s “cut and paste” article on Eritrea was used to denigrate his own nation and people-what could be more enslaving than that? To hate his nation and people and to believe that being in high school at the age of thirty, and manning a parking toll booth in Canada is the best thing that could happen to him is, emasculation of the worst kind…yet McClearn wants his readers to believe that working hard and sacrificing for your own county is slavery-that hiding in foreign cities, begging for alms and denigrating your own country and people for crumbs is somehow liberating. In my humble opinion that is an insult to the intelligence of “every tax-paying Canadian citizen”.
McClearn tells his targeted audience, “every tax-paying Canadian citizen”, that informants are labeled as “traitor” for running away from Eritrea’s National Service. That, is categorically false. There are hundreds of young men and women who have left their country of origin and settled in Canada and other countries. The only ones that fit the label of “traitor” are those who insist on insulting the people and government of Eritrea in a bid to cover up their own weaknesses and criminal behaviors. Traitors are the liars that congregate at “human rights” offices in the West to peddle their stories for alms. Traitors are those who burn and sabotage Diaspora Eritrean Community Centers, lie about Eritreans in the Diaspora, prevent Eritreans from participating in the rebuilding of their war torn nation and work with the minority regime to undermine Eritrea’s development. So if the shoe fits…
McClearn goes to great lengths to portray the people of Eritrea and their leadership in a negative light. He tells his readers that “refugees may be imprisoned without trial, tortured, or simply shot dead at the border”, only to turn around and tell his readers that his informant is one the thousands that leave Eritrea to go to Ethiopia and Sudan-one of the walking dead? If they are shot at the border, how are the thousands making it to Canada and other western nations?
What would happen to a Canadian that refused to stop at the border and show proper documentation when leaving or entering Canada? What happens to a port runner- someone who doesn’t stop at the border station? McClearn’s case is typical of the racist and condescending journalists that insist on portraying Africans as savage and inhumane, an example of those who insist on “looking at the speck of sawdust in the eyes of others while ignoring the plank in his own eye”.
First of all, refugees are people that take refuge in other countries, so if they are being “imprisoned without trial, tortured and simply shot at the border”, he must be referring to those who are being subjected to inhumane treatment in the refugee camps established by UNHCR and Ethiopia in the border areas, where youth from Eritrea are lured with promises of a better life and “visas” to the west. He must be referring to those who enter the United States and Canada illegally. It is a fact that there are thousands of refugees detained in western nations, including Canada. According to the Fahamu Refugee Program :
“…More and more refugees and asylum seekers are detained around the world, often in conditions below international standards, and denied their basic rights, including access to asylum… Thousands and thousands of refugees and asylum seekers are detained in the following places: removal centres; privately and publicly-run immigration detention facilities; jails; prisons; police stations; airports; hotels; ships; shipping containers; and, closed refugee camps. They are being held upon arrival in a country, pending a final immigration decision, or while awaiting removal from the country….Worldwide, immigration and asylum decisions may take months or years, during which time men, women and children can languish in often overcrowded and unhygienic conditions…”
Let us take a look at what the Global Detention Project says about detention of refugees and asylum seekers in Canada and what the cost to “every tax-paying Canadian citizen” is:
“…Authorities detained all 492 asylum seekers, including 63 women and 49 children, for several months at a cost of several million dollars… Many of Canada’s detention practices compare unfavourably to those of other key destination countries…for example, although there are widely recognized international human rights norms against using criminal facilities for the purposes of immigration detention, Canada remains one of only a handful of major industrialized countries to make widespread—and, in the case of Canada, increasing—use of prisons to confine non-citizens in administrative detention, where immigration detainees tend to be mixed with the regular prison population… ”
McClearn must know that Ethiopia, “a strategic and security ally for Western governments”, remains the biggest recipient of development aid in Africa. It now receives approximately US$3.5 billion in long-term development assistance each year. Donor policies do not appear to have been significantly affected by the deteriorating human rights situation in the country.
McClearn must not know much about slavery, because if he did, he would not lend his name to such a piece, and become himself another apologist for a reckless, lawless minority regime in Ethiopia that is being propped up by “every tax-paying Canadian citizen”. The anti-slavery Walk Free Foundation according to a Reuters 13 October 2013 report, “Ethiopia has the highest number of people in ‘modern slavery’ said the following:
“…It found that 10 countries accounted for 76 percent of the 29.8 million people living in slavery: India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Russia, Thailand, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar and Bangladesh…Modern slavery was defined as human trafficking, forced labour, and practices such as debt bondage, forced marriage, and the sale or exploitation of children…”
A report done by an Ethiopian site reported the following in 2011:
“…studies conducted in Dire Dawa, Shashemene, Awassa, and three other towns of the country indicate that the problem of child trafficking is very serious…According to a 2003 study, about one thousand children were trafficked via Dire Dawa to countries of the Middle East. The majority of those children were girls, most of whom were forced to be prostitutes after leaving the country… Children are trafficked into prostitution, to provide cheap or unpaid labor, and to work as domestic servants or beggars. The ages of these children are usually between 10 and 18, and their trafficking is from the country to urban centers and from cities to the country. Boys are often expected to work in activities such as herding cattle in rural areas and in the weaving industry in Addis Ababa and other major towns. Girls are expected to take responsibilities for domestic chores, childcare, and looking after the sick, and to work as prostitutes…”
McClearn and his handlers want to absolve the minority regime in Ethiopia of its crimes against humanity, its flagrant violation of international law and occupation of sovereign Eritrean territories. But the facts are there for everyone to see. Ethiopia is the single highest recipient of Canadian aid in Sub-Saharan Africa. Ethiopia continues to be a major recipient of Canadian aid. If he were concerned about “every tax-paying Canadian citizen” essentially propping up the regime in Ethiopia, McClearn should have called attention to the gross human rights violations taking place in Ethiopia today, under the watchful eye of the Canadian Embassy in Ethiopia, instead of penning his unsubstantiated hate filled tirades against the State of Eritrea and its hardworking magnanimous population.
If he is sincerely concerned about raising the consciousness of “every tax-paying Canadian citizen”, McClearn ought to be exposing the genocides being committed against the people in the Amhara, Gambela, Ogaden and Oromia regions of Ethiopia today. Instead of wasting his reader’s time with unsubstantiated gossip and hearsay from nameless and faceless runaway “informants”, to undermine the Eritrean mining sector and the work being done by Eritrean youth, he ought to study the effects of the land grab and resettlement and “villagization” programs have on the people of Ethiopia, a country where over 13 Canadian mining companies-SMP/TXS composite members- have signed contracts with the genocidal lawless regime ruling Ethiopia with an iron fist today.
Since its inception, Eritrea’s national service program and role of the youth in Eritrea’s economic development have been deliberately and maliciously maligned, and misrepresented by the mercenary minority regime in Ethiopia, the western NGOs and their miscreant foot soldiers in the Eritrean Quislings League (EQL) who slavishly echo the prepared anti-Eritrea rhetoric, in exchange for pitiful stipends. Building Eritrea’s military capability was never the sole objective of Eritrea’s National Service Program. In 1995, 4 years into Eritrea’s independence and a year after the referendum, it was not military capacity that consumed the minds of Eritreans; rather, it was the daunting task of nation building.
The 1995 Proclamation of National Service lists its main objective as being “the creation of a new generation characterized by love of work and discipline, and to foster national unity and equal participation of the people in the development of Eritrea’s economy”. Surely, McClearn must know that slavery is exploitation of the labor of others for self-economic or political gain-and cannot be labeled slavery when nationals of any country sacrifice life and limb for the betterment of their own lives and that of their fellow countrymen. It is rather unfortunate that western diplomacy has stooped to such low levels, where an entire people are demonized in order to advance certain political and corporate interests.
Luckily, the Canadian government recognizes slavery for what it is.
On 22 June 2006, newly-elected Prime Minister Stephen Harper rose in the House of Commons and apologized for Canada’s treatment of Chinese immigrants between 1885 and 1947. He said:
“…On behalf of all Canadians and the Government of Canada, we offer a full apology to Chinese Canadians for the Head Tax and express our deepest sorrow for the subsequent exclusion of Chinese immigrants…For over six decades, these race-based financial measures, aimed solely at the Chinese, were implemented with deliberation by the Canadian state. This was a grave injustice, and one we are morally obligated to acknowledge…”
Mathew McClearn must know that the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) that he and his countrymen enjoy today was built on the backs of Chinese and European migrants-called “coolies” and “navies” who:
“…received between $1 and $2.50 per day, but had to pay for his own food, clothing, transportation to the job site, mail and medical care. After 2-1/2 months of hard labour, they could net as little as $16. Chinese laborers in British Columbia made only between 75 cents and $1.25 a day, paid in rice mats, and not including expenses, leaving barely anything to send home. They did the most dangerous construction jobs, such as working with explosives to clear tunnels through rock… The families of the Chinese who were killed received no compensation, or even notification of loss of life. Many of the men who survived did not have enough money to return to their families in China, although Chinese labour contractors had promised that as part of their responsibilities… Many spent years in isolated and often poor conditions. Yet the Chinese were hard working and played a key role in building the Western stretch of the railway; even some boys as young as twelve years old served as tea-boys…”
That is what can be considered as slavery…
Mathew McClearn deliberately omits the names of those who were brought to testify against the State of Eritrea at the standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development in 2012. Every “tax-paying Canadian citizen” has the right to know who they are.
One of them is Elsa Chyrum, a self-professed “human rights” activist whose NGO, Human Rights Concern Eritrea (HRCE) is financed by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). This “human rights activist” works closely with the Governments of Djibouti and Ethiopia. She and other “activists” have lured Eritrean youth out of Eritrea. Believing they have a brighter future and will be settled in western nations by these activists and their handlers, the youth who leave Eritrea are now settled in “refugee camps” established along the Eritrea Ethiopia border, in what has now become a lucrative business for the UNHCR and the regime in Ethiopia. Elsa Chyrum and her partners travel frequently to these camps, on behalf of her handlers, to gather information to be used against the State of Eritrea and its people.
The other individual who addressed the Canadian legislators is a runaway defector names Aaron Berhane, a recipient of recipient of a CJFE Journalists in Distress Grant and other financial awards from various Canadian and American NGOs, someone who has also made it his forte to denigrate every Eritrean institution in the country and malign the contributions of the Eritrean Diaspora and the youth of Eritrea. After leaving Eritrea illegally, he smuggled his wife and children and brought them to Canada. Today, he is engaged with Meron Estifanos, Elsa Chyrum and Dan Connell in the trafficking of Eritrea’s youth. He is an active member of EYSC and has conducted seminars and workshops with Dan Connell of Freedom House in Canada and elsewhere. Most notably, he has engaged in the intimidation, harassment and terrorizing of the hard working Eritrean-Canadian Community and defiling their reputation through the local media.
These are the two “witnesses” who McClearn says “cast the Eritrean government in a profoundly negative light”. They did as they were paid to do…nothing more, nothing less. They have no presence in Eritrea and no constituents in the vast Eritrean Diaspora Community. These information peddlers are living off the backs of “tax paying Canadian citizens”. Had McClearn bothered to speak to the many vibrant, productive Eritrean communities made up of hardworking honest and exemplary “tax-paying Canadian citizens”, he would have learned the truth and saved himself and his magazine from the embarrassment and rebuke that will surely follow.
The mental enslavement of Eritrea’s youth who are being smuggled and trafficked across the Saharan desert and the Sinai, across the treacherous waters of the Mediterranean buy individuals and groups professing to be “human rights” activists is what journalists like McClearn need to investigate and call upon the United Nations to do the same. National Service in Eritrea is NOT slavery. It enriches the society, instils rich values and principles, strong work ethics, self-reliance and a great sense of productivity. What McClearn labels as “slavery” is for the majority of the Eritrean youth, work in fulfillment of their solemn promises, not just to the people of Eritrea, but to the thousands who sacrificed their lives for Eritrea’s independence
Seems Matthew McClearn wants of “every tax-paying citizen” to join him and his ilk in the denigration of Eritrea and its citizens. Instead of instilling pride and dignity in the hearts and minds of Eritreans residing in Canada, he is contributing to the xenophobia and racist attitudes such as those he conveys in his hodge podge report, which says nothing about the mining sector in Eritrea, the work done by exemplary Canadian companies such as Nevsun and the people and government of Eritrea. As he stated in the beginning of his article, the rumors about Eritrea, “unproven allegations now receiving widespread publicity-were still just that-rumors and hearsay. Each and “every tax-paying Canadian citizen” deserves better…
“…Though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried…Only by embracing necessity can we preserve a degree of freedom in an obdurate world…To imagine that one’s life would somehow be better, freer, and happier in some more advanced society than the one in which providence has placed one, is to fail at self-reliance…” (From the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson).
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Sinduriam is a medium size village located in Ghatshila Block of Purbi Singhbhum district, Jharkhand with total 77 families residing. The Sinduriam village has population of 344 of which 183 are males while 161 are females as per Population Census 2011.
In Sinduriam village population of children with age 0-6 is 57 which makes up 16.57 % of total population of village. Average Sex Ratio of Sinduriam village is 880 which is lower than Jharkhand state average of 948. Child Sex Ratio for the Sinduriam as per census is 629, lower than Jharkhand average of 948.
Sinduriam village has lower literacy rate compared to Jharkhand. In 2011, literacy rate of Sinduriam village was 45.99 % compared to 66.41 % of Jharkhand. In Sinduriam Male literacy stands at 54.73 % while female literacy rate was 36.69 %.
As per constitution of India and Panchyati Raaj Act, Sinduriam village is administrated by Sarpanch (Head of Village) who is elected representative of village. Our website, don't have information about schools and hospital in Sinduriam village.
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In Sinduriam village, most of the village population is from Schedule Tribe (ST).
Schedule Tribe (ST) constitutes 97.09 % of total population in Sinduriam village.
There is no population of Schedule Caste (SC) in Sinduriam village of Purbi Singhbhum.
In Sinduriam village out of total population, 202 were engaged in work activities. 62.38 % of workers describe their work as Main Work (Employment or Earning more than 6 Months) while 37.62 % were involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months.
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The Szydłowiec Community During the Holocaust
The Establishment of the “Restored Ghetto” in Szydłowiec, and the Final Destruction
In November 1942 the Germans established a “Restored Ghetto” in two different parts of Szydłowiec; both ghetto areas were surrounded by barbed wire. The German authorities called upon Jews who had survived the deportations to settle within the new ghettos, upon the threat of death. Within a short period of time some 5,000 Jews were gathered in the new ghetto. These were Jews who remained from the Szydłowiec community as well as deportees from other towns; a fifth of the new ghetto’s population – some 1,000 Jews – were deportees from Radom. The ghetto’s houses had been heavily damaged in the looting, and most of them had no roofs, windows, or doors. For this reason the ghetto’s residents were housed in the leather tanning factories. Members of the Gestapo, along with other Germans and the Polish policemen, terrorized the ghetto Jews, committing murder on a daily basis for the slightest provocation. Motel Eisenberg wrote: “It is clear that this situation cannot last for very long; the remaining Jews are being concentrated [here] in order to be destroyed.”
The Germans appointed a new Judenrat, headed by Shmuel Weisbrot. Eisenberg described the new period in the ghetto:
“Life in the ghetto has succeeded in stabilizing itself. A new Judenrat has been appointed, as well as a Jewish police force. Jewish doctors administer medical treatment. Commerce is developing. The Jews bustle about the neighboring villages in an attempt to acquire a bare minimum of foodstuff. The Jews have established restaurants where one can find warm, if meager, meals. Polish people enter the ghetto, bringing goods with them, and purchasing clothes, undergarments, watches and jewelry. Polish villagers from the surroundings also arrive, offering to hide Jews for a decent price.”
Yet this respite did not last long. Lack of food and water, together with the crowded living conditions led to the outbreak of a typhus epidemic, in which many of the ghetto’s Jews died. Forced laborers who succeeded in escaping from the Hasag camp found the conditions in the ghetto so bad that they preferred to return to the camp. A few days before the liquidation of the ghetto hundreds of exhausted prisoners from Hasag arrived in the ghetto, and 1,000 young people from the ghetto were sent to the camp as a replacement.
On the 8th of January 1943, the Szydłowiec Ghetto was surrounded, and on the 13th of January the SS men entered the ghetto. Some 80 Jews, were murdered in the ghetto itself and en route to the train station. The SS men shot children and hospital patients. Ukrainians set upon the deportees, robbing them of their last belongings. Some 5,000 of the ghetto Jews were put on deportation trains and sent to their death in Treblinka. The Jewish community of Szydłowiec ceased to exist.
Hiding with a Polish farmer near Szydłowiec, Motel Eisenberg heard an account of the ghetto’s liquidation:
“We sit as though after the funeral of those closest to us. […] Several families, among them the family of Pinchas Steinman, decide to resist the deportation and declared that they would not board the train wagons. They were all shot. Before that, however, they succeeded in tearing up all their money and throwing the pieces into the field.”
Eisenberg spent more than two years in the cellar of the Polish farmer, who hid him in return for payment. He wrote the following lines regarding the liberation:
“On the night of the 14th of January 1945, the Germans left the house, and in the evening our farmer enters the cellar bearing with him the wonderful – almost incredible – news: the Red Army had taken Szydłowiec. We crawl forth from our grave, downtrodden but happy to have survived. […] Before day break, in the dark, we walk down a side road which leads to Szydłowiec. I drag my feet with difficulty, because after many long months I have grown unaccustomed to moving them. We enter the town. It is hard to believe that until not very long ago thousands of Jews used to live here.”
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After the Holocaust 300 Jews gathered in Szydłowiec – most of them were survivors of the forced labor camps, as well as a few who had been hidden by Polish citizens. These Jews abandoned the town in light of the waves of antisemitism which swept Poland during the first months after the war’s end.
Few records, letters or diaries remain from the Jewish community in Szydłowiec. The magnificent past of the Jewish community is reflected in the Jewish cemetery, whose ancient tombstones have survived. This cemetery is today one of the most beautiful Jewish cemeteries in Poland; the Polish government has declared it a historical site, and maintains its upkeep.
The Szydłowiec Photo Album
In the early 1960s Yad Vashem received an original photo album, containing 105 photographs with hand written captions in German. It seems to have been the private album of a German policeman who, using his own camera, documented the residents of Szydłowiec during the Second World War, the refugees who gathered there, the town streets, its synagogues and its Jewish cemetery. The anonymous photographer wandered the town’s streets, apparently accompanied by a member of the Judenrat, who appears in two of the photographs. The photographer did not abstain from documenting the deportation of the Jews, and captured images of the murders which took place in the town’s streets en route to the deportation, as well as the plunder of Jewish possessions by Poles and Germans immediately following the deportation. | <urn:uuid:4ce4837e-4850-4539-802b-17936c3d34c3> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/valley/szydlowiec/community_destruction.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719843.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00292-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975067 | 1,255 | 3.59375 | 4 |
Oxford in Granville County, North Carolina — The American South (South Atlantic)
Horner Military School
Erected 1939 by the Department of Conservation and Development. (Marker Number G-27.)
Location. 36° 18.933′ N, 78° 34.917′ W. Marker is in Oxford, North Carolina, in Granville County. Marker is at the intersection of Williamsboro Street (Business U.S. 158) and Military Street, on the right when traveling east on Williamsboro Street. Click for map. Marker is in this post office area: Oxford NC 27565, United States of America.
Other nearby markers. At least 5 other markers are within one mile of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Oxford Female College (approx. ľ mile away); Katherine Blount Skinner Lassiter (approx. 0.4 miles away); Mary Potter Academy (approx. half a mile away); Oxford Orphanage (approx. 0.7 miles away); Natíl Rochester (approx. one mile away). Click for a list of all markers in Oxford.
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Today I saw an interesting question in the APEX Forum: "Is it possible to create a stacked verticle bar chart that can display a negative value below the bottom line?"
I tried an example with this query in the Chart Series:
select null as link, value as label, rownum*-1+3 as value, rownum*-1+5 value2The bar_order_vw is defined as:
create view bar_order_vw (value) asThe result when you use the standard Flash charts in APEX (based on Anychart 3.3) looks like this:
select sysdate + level as value
from dual connect by level < 10
That is not really a nice chart I would say. It's very hard to see what the values are. Basically you see two values for a date. Value 1 is blue, value 2 is red. But some values are negative.
I already tried to play with the settings of the chart, but it doesn't really help to make it a bit nicer.
Next I wanted to know how this chart would look like with Anychart 5, so I used the Anychart integration kit for APEX. I just changed the source of the swf file to point to the integration kit so the chart would render with Anychart 5. This is what I got:
I think it looks a lot cleaner, don't you?
My guess is that in APEX 4.0 it will look fine without having to change anything as there you already have Anychart 5 integrated. For now you can use the integration kit for Anychart 5 or integrate with a charting engine manually.
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The recent decision of the Donald Trump administration to end waivers to countries that purchase oil from Iran demonstrates its desire to up the ante on President Hassan Rouhani’s Islamic regime in the country.
This decision may make limited tactical sense – increasing economic pressure on Tehran – but it will have strategic implications beyond the Middle East and will hurt friendly countries, namely India.
India as South Asia’s security provider
The US wants India to be its partner in confronting China’s rise across Asia, but the Trump administration does not seem to understand that India’s size and history make it different from other, smaller American allies. Subjecting the India-US relationship to a one-size-fits-all policy demanding conformity from allies will only hurt it more.
India has consistently sought freedom from external pressures. While every country seeks this kind of autonomy, for India it has been a matter of policy. India is different from traditional American allies whether in Europe, Latin America or Asia for whom the United States was the key security provider.
India views itself as a net security provider for its immediate and greater neighbourhood. For that, New Delhi welcomes American economic investment, technological expertise and the sale and manufacture of state-of-the-art defence equipment. But Indians are unlikely to give up their right to maintain different relationships with different countries and fall in line with Washington’s directives.
Loss of Iranian oil
India, like China, is one of the top energy importers in the world today. Energy security is a key part of India’s foreign and strategic policy that is centred around ensuring that India has a basket of energy suppliers. New Delhi has traditionally sought to balance its relations between the Sunni Gulf countries and Iran.
American sanctions on Iranian oil have led India to diversify its oil purchases and import more from the Gulf countries. Over the last few years, India has reduced its oil purchases from Iran. According to Reuters data, there was a 60 per cent fall in India’s oil imports from Iran between February 2018 and February 2019.
In the short run, India, like other countries, is likely to take advantage of the American offer that Gulf countries – namely Saudi Arabia and the UAE – will increase oil production to compensate for the unavailability of Iranian oil on the global market.
This, however, only takes care of the targeted problem emanating from loss of Iranian oil in the market. It does not, however, look at the broader issue of how American allies and partners in the region will be hurt as a consequence of American actions.
Significance of Iran for India
Washington views Iran solely from the lens of Iraq and Israel. For India, however, Iran is strategically important. India has an old historical and civilisational relationship with Iran, but in the current day the relations centre around oil and Afghanistan. Limited purchase of oil from Iran is key to India’s continued access to Iran and hence to Afghanistan and onwards to Central Asia.
Without Iran, India cannot access Afghanistan, the country in whose stability India has invested over US $ 2 billion in assistance – making it the largest bilateral regional donor. Since Pakistan has consistently denied India transit access via land to Afghanistan, the only way that India can continue to provide assistance to Afghanistan is by using the Iranian port of Chabahar.
India’s concerns about its immediate neighbourhood remain paramount in the threat perception of India’s leaders and strategists. Thus, for India, what happens in Afghanistan is more important than what happens in the South China Sea. If Washington wants New Delhi to play a bigger role in the ‘Pacific’ part of ‘Indo Pacific,’ then it needs to understand India’s concerns about its immediate neighbourhood – the ‘Indo’ in the ‘Indo-Pacific.’
Countering the rise of China
Ever since the end of WWII, the American grand strategy rested on creating a diplomatic and security architecture that ensured stability and security. American preeminence ensured a rules-based liberal international order that rested on American economic and military might, combined with a network of partners and allies.
The Asia Pacific, and later Indo Pacific, strategy of successive American administrations has sought to counter the economic and military rise of China. This American strategy rests on renewed engagement with its partners and allies across the region – India, Japan and South East Asia – to construct a configuration that will be able to counter the Chinese march.
Among Asian countries, India has consistently viewed China’s expanding influence with suspicion. With a population of more than one billion, India is also the country with sufficient human resources to match China. India is, thus, central to any security architecture aimed at ensuring that China does not transform its considerable economic clout into threatening military muscle in the Indo Pacific.
If the long-term goal of American policymaking is to counter the rise of China, then Washington needs New Delhi on its side. On the strategic front, the American administration has come to view India as important and sought to convey that message – from the renaming of the American Pacific Command to Indo Pacific Command to the mention of India’s importance in the latest National Security Strategy (NSS).
However, US trade policies also need to be adjusted to enable the rise of India as a strategic competitor to China. Any short-term loss in dollars and cents or other, less significant nominal alliances, would be offset by the immense benefit to the United States of having a major, one-billion strong nation standing by its side to ensure that China and its closed system do not emerge dominant in the Indo-Pacific for years to come.
Dissonance in US foreign policy
Washington cannot penalise India on the economic front – ending India’s GSP privileges because of the trade deficit issue and not allowing any waivers on purchase of Iranian oil – and expect New Delhi to collaborate with the United States on the Indo-Pacific front. This policy also detracts from the belief at the core of the US Indo-Pacific strategy, which is that American national security benefits from a rising India being an American ally and future security provider in Asia.
There also appears to be a dissonance in US policymaking between an economic strategy that is purely inward-oriented and a foreign policy that is only partly strategic. Foreign policy-making, however, needs synchronisation between economic and strategic decisions.
The US may have to accommodate India’s economic concerns to secure its strategic partnerships. Bullying over trade and where India might buy its oil is hardly the way forward in what was once described as ‘the defining partnership of the 21st century’.
The author is a Research Fellow and Director, India Initiative at the Washington-DC based Hudson Institute. Her books include ‘Escaping India: Explaining Pakistan’s Foreign Policy’ (Routledge, 2011) and ‘From Chanakya to Modi: The Evolution of India’s Foreign Policy’ (Harper Collins, 2017). Views are personal. | <urn:uuid:6446f6e1-d568-4bfa-a840-294d4df5451d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theprint.in/opinion/us-needs-india-as-an-ally-against-china-and-cant-afford-to-bully-it-over-iran-oil-trade/226876/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.946919 | 1,434 | 2.078125 | 2 |
International mural artist creates a space for Stanford students to celebrate their Latin American identities
The Spiral Word: El Codex Estánfor, a four-part mural at El Centro Chicano, marks Juana Alicia's return to campus.
Earlier this month, Stanford inaugurated its newest campus mural, The Spiral Word: El Codex Estánfor, at El Centro Chicano, the university’s Chicano/Latino student center. The mural was designed and created by Berkeley-based international muralist Juana Alicia, who was on hand for the ceremony.
The event celebrated the moment when the four-part mural left the artist's hands and was entrusted to the current and future generations of Stanford students, faculty and staff.
Juana Alicia's friend and poet Rafael Jesus González burned sage and blessed the seven directions of the Mayan tradition (the cardinal points, earth, sky and center) and then read his moving poem, Flor y Canto. He also shared poignant words about education and social responsibility with those assembled.
Student Cesar Torres, graphic designer of the mural guide produced for the occasion, offered his reflections on the work and senior Aracely Mondragón read three powerful poems inspired by the mural. The artist discussed her process along with the subtext, symbolism and deeper meanings of her work.
El Centro Director Frances Morales observed that since the installation last spring, the mural has inspired creative expression within the Stanford community, as evidenced by the poems and reflection written and shared by Torres and Mondragón (both from the class of 2012) during the inauguration. In addition, Morales said that some faculty members have begun to think of ways to incorporate a viewing and study of the mural into their classes.
Imagery inspired by literature
The dazzling mural depicts the legacy of Latin American and indigenous literature. The concept for the suite of four murals for El Centro was inspired by the history and literature of multi-ethnic Latin America, from the ancient stories of the Popol Vuh to modern Chicana/o poetry. California Poet Laureate and Stanford alumnus Juan Felipe Herrera named the work.
Juana Alicia was inspired by a wide range of literary sources including José Martí, Sandra Cisneros, Carlos Fuentes and Junot Díaz, "but more than any other author, Eduardo Galeano." She said his books, The Open Veins of Latin America, and the trilogy Memories of Fire, function as a subtext for the set of four paintings, most especially the codex.
"Each of the four painted surfaces [three canvases and one watercolor paper panel] has its own role to play in the story and in the space. This is one of the smallest, most compact and narrative-dense works that I have created. The challenge was to create a series of works that altered an institutional-feeling entryway into a sanctuary for our collective narratives as multi-faceted Latinos and original peoples of these continents. I wanted to create a space for students to find beauty and honor for their identities as Latin Americans at Stanford, and to create a place that both narrated our legacies and celebrated our cultural projects," she wrote.
"I also wanted the mural to create feelings of safety and pride and stimulate historical consciousness with regard to our evolution as a people."
An artist returns to campus
Juana Alicia is a familiar face on campus by now. She first came to work at Stanford in 1984, at the invitation of Jose Antonio Burciaga, and taught a class titled Mural Art: Enfoque Feminil. Students worked with Juana Alicia to research, design and paint the mural Mujeres de Fuego that frames the entrance to the Chicano/Latino theme dorm Casa Zapata. "Daniel Luna, Valentín Aguirre and Maria De La Rosa, now alumni, were some of the outstanding students that I remember still. The theme of the piece was an homage to the 'real women' of our culture as Chicanos," she recalls.
Mujeres de Fuego includes farmworkers, artists and revolutionaries rising from the flames of a burning Black Velvet Vodka billboard picturing a clichéd, busty odalisque, visible on many liquor ads in the barrios of California in the 1980s.
After the Casa Zapata mural project, she returned to campus to teach in the Yo Puedo Program for Latino high school students. In addition to teaching art, she has guest-lectured sporadically over the years in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the invitation of Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, professor of Iberian and Latin American cultures.
In 2006, Stanford approached Juana Alicia about creating a mural for El Centro Chicano.
The Spiral Word is the most recent of many iterations of Juana Alicia's relationship with Stanford’s Latino community and the culmination of more than five years of imagining, proposing, researching, negotiating and painting. The mural is the fulfillment of a vision to give a lasting work of her own original creation to the space that she credits with nurturing promising young artists, intellectuals and activists.
Stanford art Professor Enrique Chagoya praised the artist as a longstanding muralist in San Francisco and a role model for Chicano muralists. “She has murals all over the Mission District and one at the San Francisco International Airport among other places. I am glad she has some work at Stanford,” he said.
“The inauguration ceremony in November was not an end to the mural project, rather, it was an opportunity to hand over the murals to the community. It is a passing from my hands to theirs – a rite of passage,” said Juana Alicia.
The Spiral Word: El Codex Estánfor is on view at El Centro Chicano in the Old Union weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Dangerous by Design: L.A. Metro Lags Behind Nation on Funds to Fix Unsafe Streets
A new report on pedestrian safety contains some bad, but not unexpected news for Angelenos and our neighbors in Southern California. Our streets are amongst the most dangerous ones in the country for pedestrians, yet our governments aren’t taking the issue seriously enough to adequately fund safety improvements.
Los Angeles -Long Beach-Santa Ana Metro Area is among the most dangerous communities in the nation for pedestrians, ranking third in the percentage of crashes involving pedestrians and 27th out of the 52 largest metro areas in total pedestrian safety, a new report shows. Unfortunately, the report also shows that our Metro area shows the least political will to correct the problem, ranking in the bottom 10% when it comes to spending funds to protect the most vulnerable road users. The Greater Los Angeles Metro Region ranked fourth from the bottom when it comes to spending money to fix dangerous roads. You can read the full local press release by LA Walks at their blogsite.
The report, Dangerous by Design: Solving the Epidemic of Preventable Pedestrian Deaths (and Making Great Neighborhoods), ranks America’s major metropolitan areas and states according to a Pedestrian Danger Index that assesses how safe they are for walking. An update of the 2004 Mean Streets report, Dangerous by Design was released by Transportation for America and the Surface Transportation Policy Partnership.
The report also examined how states and localities are spending federal money that could be used to make the most dangerous streets safer, and found that Los Angeles -Long Beach-Santa Ana Metro Area ranks 48th, spending (only) $0.45 per person. Yet, 26.99% of traffic deaths in the metro area are pedestrians, making the metro area the 3rd highest rating location in the nation. This percentage is particularly high since only 2.7% of the population walks to work. In other words, few people commute to work by walking, owing in part to the unsafe nature of our streets, and our governments are not spending nearly enough money to reverse that trend.:
"Los Angeles is where we are in the rankings because we are not investing to protect our citizens from speeding traffic as well as designing and building livable streets in our neighborhoods," said Deborah Murphy, Founder of Los Angeles Walks, "Be it the horrific crash that claimed the lives of two USC students after one was drug for almost 200 yards, or the case of a commuter being slammed by a city-bus in a crosswalk downtown; there are too many crashes every year that point to a dangerous system in need of real investment."
Unfortunately, these types of crashes are all-too frequent. Just last night, a pedestrian was killed by a car while legally crossing the street in a crosswalk in Long Beach.
One small step the City of Los Angeles could make immediately is setting aside a portion of its Measure R Local Return funds for bicycle and pedestrian safety. The City Council Transportation Committee is set to vote on how to spend it’s portion of the county-wide transit tax on November 18.
"As Congress prepares to rewrite the nation’s transportation law, this report is yet another wake-up call showing why it is so urgent to update our policies and spending priorities," said James Corless, director of Transportation for America.
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