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Orthopaedics focuses on the diagnosis, prevention, correction, and treatment of the patients with skeletal deformities of the bones, muscles, ligaments, joints, tendons, nerves as well as skin which make up the musculoskeletal system. The physicians who specialize in this field are called orthopedists or orthopaedic surgeons. The musculoskeletal arrangement of your body is a composite arrangement of muscles, bones, joints, ligaments, tendons, and nerves that permit you to work, move, and in addition be dynamic. Earlier, this field was dedicated only to the children who are suffering from spine and limb deformities, but now the orthopaedics care for the patients despite their age, be it newborns with clubfeet, young athletes who require arthroscopic surgery or the older people with arthritis. Orthopedists use physical, medical, rehabilitative methods and surgery. They’re additionally involved in all aspects of health care pertaining to the musculoskeletal system. Treatments: Hand surgery, Shoulder and elbow surgery, Total joint reconstruction (arthroplasty), Paediatric orthopaedics, Foot and ankle surgery, Spine surgery, Musculoskeletal oncology. | <urn:uuid:ab6ed9e3-5d48-497f-80a0-abf0bd8aaa9e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.maphospitals.com/ahmedabad/orthopaedics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.926373 | 257 | 2.71875 | 3 |
If you like digging in the dirt, you might enjoy gardening, too. Growing a garden with your kids will help you learn about plants. You might grow flowers or vegetables in your yard or inside your home in containers. As you work to take care of your plants, you will need to make sure they get water and sun to grow.
To grow a garden, you will need space for planting, seeds or plants, and tools. An adult can help you work in a garden. Adults can also teach you about caring for plants. Always handle tools carefully with an adult’s supervision so you don’t get hurt.
- Gardening With Children and Youth: Dig in the dirt to grow different flowers and vegetables.
- Garden Safety for Kids Part 2: Using Tools and Preventing Injury: Use tools for gardening carefully.
- Gardening for Kids: People of all ages and abilities can have fun gardening.
- Gardening Ideas for Children with Special Needs: Choose a special gardening project to grow plants.
- Children in the Garden: Vegetables often grow quickly, so you can see what you planted.
- Got Dirt? You don’t need a big space for growing.
- Build a Bean Tower: A bean tower will support bean plants as they grow.
- Gardening With Young Children: Dig in! Garden in the spring with an adult to grow plants.
- Child Safety in the Garden: Stay safe in the garden by using tools carefully.
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Grow food for your family with a vegetable garden. Vegetable gardens can be any size, even as small as a container or two. Plant vegetables that you like or want to eat. You can then watch as they grow and develop into food that is ready to eat.
- Let’s Get Growing in Containers: Grow vegetables in containers if you don’t have room in your yard.
- Kids Thrive with Vegetable Gardening: Growing vegetables might make you healthier because you can eat what you grow.
- Benefits of Growing Your Own Fruits and Vegetables: Planting a vegetable garden can give you exercise.
- Gardening Grows Healthy Kids: Start a small vegetable garden to grow vegetables.
- Kids in the Garden: Nutritious and Fun: Start a garden by planning the vegetables you will grow and planting the seeds.
- Growing Healthy Kids With Gardening: Lots of people have fun digging in the dirt.
- Appetite for Change: Teaching Kids About Organics and Gardening: Learn about organic gardening by planting an organic garden.
- Benefits of Gardening for Children: Learn how to take care of the earth by planting a garden.
- Edible Gardens: An edible garden has plants you can eat.
- Gardening With Kids: Planning a garden can be exciting as you choose the plants you want to grow.
- Planting Pizza: A pizza garden has plants you need to make pizza, such as tomatoes, peppers, onions, and basil.
If you like colorful flowers, try growing some in your own garden. Flowers might bloom for one season only, or they could come back every year. Some flowers like the sun, and others like to grow in shady spots. Choose flowers in colors you like, and have fun tending them in your yard. If you need to, consult with a gardening contractor on which ones will thrive best in your climate.
- Keeping Kids Safe in the Flower Garden: Working in the garden can be fun, but stay safe as you use tools.
- My First Garden: Growing a flower garden involves different tasks.
- Garden Themes for Kids: Plan an ABC garden with flowers beginning with different letters of the alphabet.
- Childhood in the Garden: Spending time in a flower garden can teach you about flowers.
- Butterfly Garden Activities Stir Children’s Sense of Wonder: Plant a butterfly garden with colorful flowers.
- Anthurium, Flamingo Flower: Some flowers have unusual names, such as the flamingo flower.
- Kid-Friendly Flower Guide: Learn about different kinds of flowers so you can choose the ones you want to plant.
- How Does Your Garden Grow?: Start with a little garden so you can learn how to grow plants.
- Plants for Kids: Understand how plants grow and then tend them in a garden.
- Exploring Flowers: Learn about flowers by observing how they grow.
- The Sunflower is a Sun Flower: Sunflowers grow quickly into tall, colorful flowers.
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Projects help you learn about gardening. You can even work on gardening projects during the winter. Try different projects, such as growing plants inside your home or growing a garden with a theme. An adult can help you plan a gardening project.
- Victory Garden Project: During World War II, families planted victory gardens for extra food.
- Flora Explorers: Discovering the Structures and Needs of Plants: Learn about the things plants need to grow.
- Make Your Own Herbarium: Make a herbarium out of dried leaves from herb plants.
- Winter Garden Projects Can Be Fun, Too: Try gardening projects over the winter, such as a windowsill garden.
- Forcing Bulbs for Indoor Beauty in Winter: Plant flower bulbs inside during the winter so they will bloom.
- Easy Water-Wise Gardening: Plant a garden full of plants that don’t need lots of water to thrive.
- The Value of Soil: An apple can teach you about the earth and its soil.
- Traveling Seeds: Plants spread to different places by seeds that travel on the wind or on clothing.
- Vegetable Gardening in Containers: Learn how to grow vegetable plants in containers on a porch or deck.
- Watering Container Gardens: Keep your plants growing in containers healthy with lots of water.
- Teaching Your Kids to Garden with Garbage: Learn how to turn garbage into compost to feed your plants.
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“All the charms of Sycorax – toads, beetles, bats – light on you”
The Caliban of Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Aimé Césaire’s Une tempête
Keywords:Postcolonialism, Aimé Césaire, Shakespeare, Pedagogy and interpretation
Aimé Césaire, a Martiniquais poet, writer, and politician, makes the implicit themes of decolonialization in The Tempest explicit within the canon of his 1969 play, Une tempête. The roots, however, of decolonization must have already been present in the original play, The Tempest, for Césaire to make this connection. Using Shakespeare's play as his foundation, Césaire simply amplifies both the colonization and the decolonization of these characters and the island where the play is set. Through his adaptation, Aimé Césaire foregrounds Shakespeare’s The Tempest as a decolonial work. In this paper, I will discuss the colonialism in Shakespeare’s original play, The Tempest, and juxtapose it with the colonialism in Césaire’s adaptation, Une tempête. Using this as a foundation, I will then analyze the implicit and explicit decolonialism in both plays. Through this paper, I wish to discussion how understandings and readings of Shakespeare’s plays to take on new life and new meaning; this results in exploration and conversation, allowing scholars and students to unpack the impacts of the issues his works consider in their own writing and their own lives.
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Greece’s jobless rate hit a new record 27 percent in November, 2012 – some 61.7 percent for those under 25 – as statistics showed the economy shrank by 6 percent in the last quarter of the year, a double dose of bad news for the government.
The Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) said that the country’s unemployment rate was more than double the Eurozone’s average rate of 11.7 percent in November. Some 323,808 Greeks lost their jobs between November 2011 and November 2012, reflecting a jump in the rate of 6.2 percent. Unemployment is now roughly double what it was at the beginning of 2010.
There are more than 1,350,181 unemployed and the ranks rise by 887 a day, all in the private sector as the government still has not moved to reduce the hugely redundant public workforce despite three years of promises to do so.
There as a small drop in the number of inactive people, who reached 3,339,982, slightly higher than the number of employed, which stood at 3,642,102 in November. The rate of unemployed for those 25-34 is now 36.2 percent. The gloomy numbers don’t include those for whom benefits have run out, suggesting there are as many as two million people in Greece without work.
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has vowed to do something to increase employment that some analysts said could surpass an overall rate of 30 percent, but hasn’t done anything yet. If the government begins to implement layoffs in the public sector, the rate could jump rapidly.
Needless hirings over the past 40 years by the New Democracy Conservatives and PASOK Socialist administrations fueled the crisis, and the current coalition government has been reluctant to begin imposing layoffs and firings. Greece’s lenders, the Troika of the European Union-International Monetary Fund-European Central Bank (EU-IMF-ECB) wants the public workforce of nearly 1 million cut by 150,000 in three years.
All that came as Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras had given a “100 percent guarantee” that Greece would start to climb out from under a $460 billion debt after austerity measures cut the deficit from 9.4 to 6.5 percent in one year.
The optimistic Stournaras has been trying to give downcast Greeks a boost with his rosy expectations that their sacrifices have been worth it, although the country still has largely ignored going after tax cheats who owe more than $70 billion.
Combined with more pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed pensions that have taken 46.5 percent out of the income of Greeks and slowed spending, further reducing tax expectations despite big tax hikes, the new numbers were a big setback for the government.
With tax revenues far off expectations in January, with some 775 million euros ($1.03 billion) less coming in than projected despite a 23 percent Value Added Tax (VAT) applied to restaurants, stores, and even food, the government could have nowhere else to turn to reduce costs other than more austerity measures despite Samaras’s vow he wouldn’t. | <urn:uuid:d3dc6166-1e3c-4e28-9ac3-1d8362d43251> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://greece.greekreporter.com/2013/02/14/greek-jobless-rate-new-record-27/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00059-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963432 | 652 | 2.171875 | 2 |
RTP Companies Launch Campaign to Ease Commuter Traffic
Posted February 22, 2000
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK — Research Triangle Park is known worldwide for scientific innovation and cutting edge technology. Now companies that make up the park are working to help ease the Triangle's traffic problems.
Roads leading to the park, like Interstate 40, are a daily commuter nightmare. That is why some of the nation's smartest companies are about to launch a "smart commute" campaign.
"The RTP companies will have a really strong and connected effort. We hope that all employers throughout the region can see what the RTP has done and can look to follow suit as well," says Jim Ritchey of theTriangle Transit Authority.
Companies likeIBM,Nortel, andGlaxohave all agreed to appoint traffic coordinators. The coordinators will supervise car pools, van pools, and telecommuting programs.
Some companies are even ready to offer incentives, like providing bus passes, to employees.
Organizers think mass transit is one solution to the massive gridlock problem.
Bus ridership in the Triangle is low, but every little bit helps. Triangle Transit Authority buses carry an average of 1,200 riders per rush hour. That is the same number of cars that pass by one spot on one lane of I-40 during a peak hour.
"If half the people formed car pools, we wouldn't have these traffic jams. Of course, we don't expect that to occur. We'd like to see 10 percent, 10 percent will make a huge difference," says Ritchey.
RTP companies banding together to get more cars off the road will not solve all the problems, but CEOs in the park say if something is not done to help the traffic problems now, the future is in doubt. | <urn:uuid:cd936273-1452-4468-a40f-8e59db04f0e7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/140665/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00293-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960161 | 377 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Regularly scheduled arts events open doors to community education. Concert audiences appreciate informative printed program notes or a presentation offering information about the particular compositions to be performed. Ask your music dealer for assistance with preparation and printing. How about sponsoring a lecture/demonstration on certain pieces or styles of music prior to, or during, a performance? A parent or faculty rhythm band accompanying your school group on an appropriate piece during a concert provides an engaging experience for all. Why not ask an audience member to “conduct” a piece that the performers know and can execute quite well?
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Ideas to Implement
- Put facts that support music education on marquees and community bulletin boards, such as those at banks or grocery stores.
- Put mailers in monthly credit card statements from a local department store, or insert with monthly utility bills.
- Provide recordings of school performance groups to be played when callers are on hold on the school phone system (obtain all required copyright permissions).
- Provide music-related statements on “table tents” for restaurants.
- Have students write letters inviting community members to school music programs; program information can accompany the students’ invitation.
- Stage a “music open house” in which community members are invited to attend regularly scheduled classes.
Broadcast Your Act
Performing Wonders: Kids and the Arts, A Broadcaster Guide to Teaching Children About the Arts offers ideas to help radio or television stations give arts education visibility.
- Special Report: Arts Education. For a special news report or series, interview school officials and teachers to learn how schools use the arts as a learning tool.
- On with the Show. Follow a student music, dance or drama performance through casting and rehearsals to opening night.
- Profile Student Artists. Stations regularly produce “Student Athlete of the Week” features. Why not give the same kind of visibility to student artists?
To Get the Creative Juices Flowing, Consider the Following:
- A performance where a student or history teacher dresses like the composer of the piece and interjects stories of their inspiration or reasons for writing the piece. Students love to see their teachers participate
in these types of activities, plus it involves your faculty directly (thus allowing them to see the benefits of your program firsthand). And it involves student research—an interdisciplinary approach! Your administrators will see you as a real team leader.
- Another performance for children and parents could be an informal rehearsal of a quartet staged to demonstrate the collaborative process and exchange of ideas in bringing music to life. Building value for music also means sharing the process, not just the product!
- Give a presentation on the nature of sound and demonstrate the ways in which the various instruments create their own unique voice. The activities could includeallowing children and parents to “test” each of the instruments. A connection to science!
- Beginner-of-the-Month Awards. Music teachers identify one beginning music student each month who has demonstrated significant effort, improvement or collegiality. A traveling trophy goes to the student’s school for display. The newspaper runs the student’s photo, providing public recognition and increased community awareness. Initially the trophy could be sponsored by the school music dealer.
To assist in recruiting and to help the visual arts and music teachers work together, hold a poster contest each fall and spring. Over a 2–3 week period, students create posters around the theme “Join Band!” or “Join Orchestra!” or “Join Choir!” Teachers select a poster to be displayed in the school. The school music dealer could provide an ice cream party for that student’s class. Later, display all the posters at a local bank. Local TV stations love covering this event! | <urn:uuid:04f3bfb6-c1b1-4e6e-b869-ac2e6233de2b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nafme.org/my-classroom/music-achievement-council-resources-educators/telling-story-great-ways-get-message/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.924866 | 786 | 2.8125 | 3 |
IJSRP, Volume 5, Issue 6, June 2015 Edition [ISSN 2250-3153]
Linda McConnon, Craig Vear
This article reports on child-focused reflections from research findings of a year-long investigation working with primary school aged children and young people in England exploring mixed reality play. 58 children and young people were engaged in the project and actively participated in 29 focus group interviews over time. Thematic qualitative analysis revealed five broad features of mixed reality play from a child’s perspective: dimensional embodiment, creating worlds, dramatizing and gaming, agentic action and inside and outside spaces. Through the adopted lens of children’s reflective engagement, this article hypothesises that mixed reality presents an environment for digital natives (Prensky, 2001) to play openly and creatively, and puts forth an argument for new technological opportunities and transformations of pedagogic practice. | <urn:uuid:50f267be-be65-44a3-8206-26bea2066aaf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ijsrp.org/research-paper-0615.php?rp=P424175 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.912827 | 186 | 2.59375 | 3 |
For years now, Arabs have been going through consequent uprisings, on which they can’t cast a blind eye since it is on their land or near it, and affects the security and stability of their states and people.
Matter of the fact is that the Middle East has touched on uncharted territory, bringing the former regional system to an irreversible collapse. It is evident that the current costly state is transitional. Yet, it is early to predict the features of the new regional system as they depend on the result of the wars and confrontations in the region.
The ongoing Syria conflict helped with unveiling new revolutionary agendas and paved the way for grand changes in policies and strategies.
If anything, Syria’s civil war revealed the role of regional uprisings in Iran’s foreign policies aiming to turn it into a powerful country in a region the world remains concerned with its resources despite the talk of its waning importance.
Iran’s program was clear when it refused to change anything in the Syrian episode of this series. At the outset of the armed combat in Syria, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei informed an Arab visitor what means: Syria will remain the way it has always been, or it just won’t be for anyone.
Tehran tried to push its program into a wider and a more comprehensive stage by adding the Yemeni episode to what Iran considers its great conquests in the region, especially after it became impossible to create a loophole in Bahrain as part of its agenda to contain Saudi Arabia.
Iran considered the war in Syria a matter of life or death for its program which seeks a safe passage through Iraq and Syria, all the way to stationing on the Mediterranean Sea through Lebanon.
Indeed, the Iranian project instills fears of disrupting historical balances among the main components of the regions, especially after the Iranian winds managed to infiltrate into the national fabric of more than a state.
Tehran found its golden opportunity when the powerful countries didn’t restrict the nuclear agreement with Iran to continuing the regional revolution, which it resumed after the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s regime.
The Syrian tragedy provided the Russian Caesar with an opportunity to reshuffle international balance that was formed following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Vladimir Putin used till the end Barack Obama’s withdrawal tendencies and fear of being involved in the Syrian horror.
Russia intervened militarily in Syria and altered the trajectory of the war. It raised the slogan of “anti-terrorism”, but technically destroyed the dreams of the moderate Syrian opposition.
From Crimea to Ukraine and Syria, Russia sent a message saying that the era of autocracy is over, and so did the time of colored revolutions.
The U.S. seemed distant. Europe was struggling under the burden of immigrants and the increased number of those wanting to leave the European train.
The Iranian and Russian revolutions met on Arab and Syrian soil.
We can’t say that the goals are the same, but at the same time it is too soon to assume that the disagreement on a political solution for Syria and the future of its regime will cause a rift or collision.
Turkey found itself on a demarcation with the Russian and Iranian rebellions in Syria.
Obama’s policy towards the Kurd, and lack of the Atlantic’s motivation, helped in convincing Recep Tayyip Erdogan to turn the page on the past of friction between him and Putin, and go on to a stage of agreements and dancing over the Syrian arena.
The bitterness of the post-Turkish coup times increased the Turkish president’s inclination to go further than normalizing relations with Russia, Iran, and Iraq.
The question raised today is whether Ankara will proceed with its gradual departure from U.S. and Europe, to come closer to Russia and the “new truths” in the region. Or will it wait the options of the new Trump administration in dealing with the Russian and Iranian uprisings?
There is no doubt that hopelessness in an actual U.S. return to the region will make the Turkish changes something similar to a third coup in the region.
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim’s visit to Baghdad two days ago was a reminder of something Dr. Ahmad al-Jalbi said a few years ago. Back then, Jalbi said that the Middle East is heading towards major changes that old accounts are not fit for.
“Put Iran and Iraq. Add to them Syria and Lebanon. Population, oil, gas and a strategic location. If you manage to convince Turkey of joining this group, even if just economically, Russia will understand that it is within its best interest to build stronger relations with such a giant group. It is clear that the U.S. wants a way out,” said Dr. Jalbi.
Arab citizens observe those changes and wonder about the Arab status in the region. There is no doubt that those in charge of the ‘revolutions’ are waiting for Trump to see if Washington would adjust its strategy. Certainly, any U.S. acceptance of the results of the revolutions will double the Arabs’ responsibility in preparing themselves to protect their status, security and stability. | <urn:uuid:2b44f379-94b7-49d8-ab6b-ab3e0abe9b24> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://english.aawsat.com/2017/01/article55365238/arabs-amid-uprisings | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00169-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946839 | 1,070 | 2.421875 | 2 |
There are interesting effects of interconnectedness, such as unexplainable phenomena or so called extraordinary abilities of the mind. When seen from the point of view of the law of interconnectedness, these events appear normal and most natural. When this knowledge is crystallized in a mind, the mind drops its illusory boundaries and experience of oneness is gained in various forms. An evolved mind is the one where no separation is perceived. That mind sees itself as one with everything. This is the part two of two of the talk on the law of interconnectedness. | <urn:uuid:e6590074-a73f-4aa7-bdff-7d39e20d1b6f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pexp.podbean.com/e/laws-of-mind-12-interconnectedness-part-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.964215 | 112 | 1.828125 | 2 |
DR. MARCUS K. MINES was born in Camden in 1869, to Christopher J. Mines Jr. and his wife, the former Mary A. Cavanaugh. The Mines family appear in the 1880 census and the 1887-1891 Camden City Directories at 265 Pine Street. Christopher Mines Jr. supported his family as a tobacconist. He was also active politically and held a number of posts in city government at one time or another. Christopher Mines Jr. served as Camden County Sheriff in 1902 and 1903. Grandfather Christopher Mines Sr. was also active in Camden's civic and political circles.
Marcus Mines was educated in a private school in Camden, and then graduated from the Jefferson College medical school in Philadelphia. Returning to Camden to practice medicine, he married Catherine Cooper around 1896, at the age of 27. Dr. Mines served as the president of the Camden Board of health, was a member of the Camden City and Camden County Medical Societies, and was a member of the board of Camden's municipal hospital.
Dr. Mines did notable work with Dr. Henry H. Davis when Camden was hit by the influenza epidemic of 1918. When the 1920 Census was taken, Dr. Mines and his family resided at 532 West Street, in South Camden. He later purchased a home at 573 Stevens Street.
Dr. Marcus K. Mines died at his home, 573 Stevens Street, on August 26, 1936, after a long illness. He was survived by his wife, Catherine Cooper Mines, and a daughter, Mrs. Emily O'Reilly, of New York City.
Dr. Mines' uncle William W. Mines, was also active in Republican politics in Camden throughout the latter part of the 1800s and early 1900s. William W. Mines was an original member of the Camden Fire Department and for many years was in charge of Camden's Water Department.
December 22, 1897
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Our collective understanding of the framers' view of the appropriate relationship between religion and government has been clouded by the divisive nature of contemporary politics. On one side are those who say history counsels against any governmental acknowledgement of religion. Challenging them are those arguing that the same history endorses governmental assistance and support for a wide range of religious activities.
Fortunately, we are not restricted to such simplistic choices. The framers were capable of sophisticated thinking, and they approached this issue with far more nuance and subtlety than is generally appreciated.
The framers saw religion as both a force for magnificent good and unspeakable evil. John Adams wrote to Thomas Jefferson after both had left the White House, "Twenty times, in the course of my late reading, have I been on the point of breaking out, 'this would be the best of all possible worlds, if there was no religion in it!!!'" But, Adams quickly added, he feared that, "Without religion, this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company -- I mean hell."
Those who founded our nation feared divisiveness, sectarian violence and intolerance, yet they also believed that religion could help unify a diverse nation. The general understanding they developed can be traced to three distinct strands.
The first can be considered a philosophical justification, that government must not invade sanctity of human intellect. For Jefferson, the fight to prevent religious establishments was based on his "eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
The second strand might be called a political rationale. George Washington, as head of the Continental Army, realized that great sensitivity to religious differences was essential to avoid, "the smallest uneasiness & jealousy among the Troops." As president, he wrote: "Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause."
Lastly, many supporters of religious freedom were motivated by religious concerns. A leading exemplar is John Leland, a Baptist minister who was instrumental in James Madison's election to the Virginia Ratifying Convention and one of the most important advocates for amending the Constitution to protect religious freedom. Leland would preach that the biblical admonition "My kingdom is not of this world" meant that "religion, in all its parts, is distinct from civil government." He argued that the "Government should be so fixed, that Pagans, Turks, Jews and Christians, should be equally protected in their rights."
These approaches combined to produce a national consensus. It was widely accepted that American citizens were to have absolute "freedom of conscience." As George Washington wrote during the Revolutionary War, "While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the rights of conscience in others, ever considering that God alone is the judge of the hearts of men, and to him only in this case they are answerable."
Next, the federal government was prohibited from regulating or funding religious activities. In 1811, Madison vetoed a bill granting land to a church which had accidently erected a building on federal property. Madison declared that this grant would violate the Constitution by setting a "precedent for the appropriation of funds of the United States for the use and support of religious societies."
The framing generation also disapproved of governmental speech that favored a particular denomination. John Adams, the only one of the first four presidents to use explicitly Christian language in his speeches, was also the only one who was not reelected. His 1799 thanksgiving proclamation had implored, "through the grace of His Holy Spirit we may be disposed and enabled to yield a more suitable obedience to His righteous requisitions." In a letter written after his retirement, Adams belatedly recognized, "Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion."
Yet, this distinction between religion and government was not understood to cleanse all religious references from political speech. As presidents, Madison, Jefferson and Washington all employed sincere religious language in their inaugurals. Madison, for example, gave his pious supplication to "the guardianship and guidance of that Almighty Being whose power regulates the destiny of nations."
To the framers, phrases like "Almighty being," "Creator," "holy author of our religion," and even "Almighty God," were expansive enough to permit each individual to join in the experience of a conscientious communion with the rest of their nation. As Jefferson wrote, such language demonstrates an intent to include, "the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan, the Hindoo, and infidel of every denomination." One is free to disagree, of course, but the framers' goal was to communicate to all, including the Deistic, agnostic, and atheistic, that they were fully valued members of the political community.
The Framers Top Ten: Essential Writings on Religious Freedom
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Yachtsmen and pilots who venture into the Bahamas and on down the Greater and Lesser Antilles should be aware of the limitations of facilities to come to their assistance, should they have the misfortune to need help.
If you are used to the comforting umbrella of the US Coast Guard being on the other end of your VHF radio, you certainly need to be awakened to their limitations, when you are far away from the US coast. Whilst they give themselves a "responsibility" for this whole region, in practice your primary source of assistance is any local search and rescue (SAR) facility of the country where you are cruising or flying.
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- CTV News
IGUALA, Mexico -- The killer says he "disappeared" a man for the first time at age 20. Nine years later, he says, he has eliminated 30 people -- maybe three in error.
He sometimes feels sorry about the work he does but has no regrets, he says, because he is providing a kind of public service, defending his community from outsiders. Things would be much worse if rivals took over.
"A lot of times your neighbourhood, your town, your city is being invaded by people who you think are going to hurt your family, your society," he says. "Well, then you have to act, because the government isn't going to come help you."
He operates along the Costa Grande of Guerrero, the southwestern state that is home to glitzy Acapulco as well as to rich farmland used to cultivate heroin poppies and marijuana. Large swaths of the state are controlled or contested by violent drug cartels that traffic in opium paste for the U.S. market, and more than 1,000 people have been reported missing in Guerrero since 2007-- far fewer than the actual number believed to have disappeared in the state.
The plight of the missing and their families burst into public awareness last year when 43 rural college students were detained by police and disappeared from the Guerrero city of Iguala, setting off national protests. Then, suddenly, hundreds more families from the area came forward to report their kidnap victims, known now as "the other disappeared." They told stories of children and spouses abducted from home at gunpoint, or who left the house one day and simply vanished.
This is a story from the other side, the tale of a man who kidnaps, tortures and kills for a drug cartel. His story is the mirror image of those recounted by survivors and victims' families, and seems to confirm their worst fears: Many, if not most, of the disappeared likely are never coming home.
"Have you disappeared people?" he is asked.
"Yes," he replies.
In Mexico and other places where kidnapping is common, the word "disappeared" is an active verb and also an adjective to describe the missing. Disappearing someone means kidnapping, torturing, killing and disposing of the body in a place where no one will ever find it.
To date, none of the killer's victims have been found, he says.
For months, the AP approached sources connected with cartel bosses, seeking an interview with someone who executes people on their behalf.
Finally, the bosses put forward this 29-year-old man, with conditions: He, his organization and the town where he met with reporters would not be identified. He would appear on camera wearing a ski mask, and his voice would be distorted. And one of his bosses would be present throughout.
In jeans and a camouflage T-shirt, the hit man looked younger than his 29 years. He wore a baseball cap with a badge bearing the face of Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman and "prisoner 3578" -- Guzman's inmate number before he escaped through a tunnel from Mexico's maximum-security prison in July, cementing his image as a folk hero.
"Of all the bad lot," the killer said, Guzman "seems to be the least bad."
The killer -- who does not work for Guzman -- does not see himself as bad. Unlike others, he says, he has standards: He doesn't kill women or children. He doesn't make his victims dig their own graves. He raises cattle for a living and doesn't consider himself a drug trafficker or a professional killer, although he is paid for disappearing people. While he acknowledges that what he does is illegal, he says he is defending his people against the violence of other cartels.
The killer wears a bag with a strap over his chest in which he carries several walkie-talkies and cellphones, one of which he used to take calls and issue orders: "Muevanse," he said -- move on. "Esperense ahi" -- wait there. Just before the interview begins, he puts the bag aside, and slips on the ski mask. He sits in a plastic armchair.
There are many reasons people are disappeared, the killer says. It may be for belonging to a rival gang, or for giving information to one. If a person is considered a security risk for any reason, he may be disappeared. Some are kidnapped for ransom, though he says he does not do this.
Each kidnapping starts with locating the target. The best place is at a home, early in the morning, "when everyone is asleep." But sometimes they are kidnapped from public areas. If the target is unarmed, two men are enough to carry out a "pickup" or "levanton," as the gang kidnappings are known. If he is armed, it requires more manpower.
The victim is taken to a safe house or far enough out into the woods that no one will hear him during the next step: "getting information out of them by torture."
He rests his forearms on the chair and moves his hands over his knees as he speaks about torture. He describes three methods: beatings; waterboarding, or simulated drownings in which a cloth is tied around the mouth and nose, and water is poured over it; and electric shocks to the testicles, tongue and the soles of the feet.
He has no training in torture. He learned it all by practice, he says. "With time, you come to learn how to hurt people, to get the information you need."
It usually takes just one night. "Of the people who have information you want, 99 per cent will give you that information," he says. Once he gets it, he kills them. "Usually with a gun."
The problem is that people under torture sometimes admit to things that are not true: "They do it in hope that you will stop hurting them. They think it's a way to get out of the situation."
That may have happened to him three times, he says, leading him to kill the wrong men.
The dead are buried in clandestine grave sites, dumped into the ocean, or burned. If the organization wants to send a message to another cartel, a victim's tortured body is dumped in a public area. But the 30 people he has "disappeared" all have been buried, he says.
By the official count, 26,000 Mexicans have been reported missing nationwide since 2007, just over 1,000 of those from Guerrero. But human rights officials and the experience of families from the Iguala area indicate that most people are too afraid to report kidnappings, particularly in areas where police, municipal and state officials are believed to be operating in tandem with the cartels. The official tally has just 24 missing from the Costa Grande area, where the killer says he has been involved in the killings of 30 people.
"The (disappeared) problem is much bigger than people think," the killer says.
The killer has a grade-school education. He wanted to continue studying, but when he was a child there was no middle school in his town. "I would have liked to learn languages ... to travel to other places or other countries. I would have liked that," he said.
Some in his circumstances use drugs, but he says he doesn't. "When people are on drugs, they're not really themselves," he says. "They lose control, their judgment."
He says no one forced him to join his organization. His parents and siblings don't know what he does, but he thinks they can guess, since he is always armed: He usually carries a .38-calibre pistol and an AK-47 assault rifle.
He isn't married and has no children. Although he would like to have a family, he knows his future is uncertain. "I don't really see anything," he said. "I don't think you can make plans for the future, because you don't know what will happen tomorrow."
"It's not a pretty life," he says.
Life in an area torn by drug disputes is rarely pretty. For years, Guzman's Sinaloa cartel controlled drug production, coastal access and trafficking routes in Guerrero. The Beltran Leyva brothers took over, until the Mexican government killed Arturo Beltran Leyva in a shootout in December 2009, and then the state's opium and marijuana business was divided up among half a dozen smaller cartels, including Guerreros Unidos, los Rojos, Los Granados and La Familia, from neighbouring Michoacan state.
Besides running drugs, some Mexican cartels operate extortion rackets and control human trafficking to the United States. Where needed, they buy off politicians and police forces to make sure nothing gets in the way of business. When necessary, they kill those who fail to co-operate.
The violence spikes when cartels are fighting each other for control of territory, or when the military launches operations to strike the cartels. An anti-narcotics military operation prevented the killer's arrival at a pre-arranged location on the first try, but the next day he and his bosses made it to a house on a humid stretch of the Pacific Ocean known as the Costa Grande, an area lush with groves of coconuts and mangos -- other exports for which cartels take a cut.
In recent years, residents of a number of towns and cities have taken up arms to protect themselves against drug cartels. In several cases, authorities have claimed these vigilantes are allied with rival gangs, and pass themselves off as self-defence groups to gain greater legitimacy.
Federal authorities told the AP that several drug gangs in Guerrero, including those that operate on the Costa Grande, act as self-defence groups to generate support from local residents.
"I can't say I'm a vigilante," says the killer, "but I am part of a group that protects people, an autonomous group of people who protect their town, their people."
He recognizes he would be punished if caught by the authorities. "For them, these (killings) are not justifiable under the laws we have, but my conscience -- how can I put this -- this is something that I can justify, because I am defending my family." A rival gang, "would do worse damage."
The killer fears dying, but he fears being captured by a rival gang even more. He knows better than most what will happen to him: "If I died in a shootout, for example, the suffering wouldn't be as bad."
With the same lack of emotion with which he described torture, the killer addresses his many murders.
"Whatever you want to say, you're hurting someone and in the end, you kill them, and that leaves people hurting, the family hurting," he said. "It's the kind of thing that causes stress and remorse, because it's not a good thing."
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To counter the bad publicity, Google has begun a charm campaign to show that it is a friend of European culture. The company announced this week their first new digitization partnership in months. It was a museum in Mons, Belgium (the Mundaneum) and the project was to digitize their historic archival system.
This particular museum is interesting because way back in 1895 it designed a brilliant archival system to that is essentially what we would now call a search engine. The Mundaneum partnership is particularly important to Google because it allows Google to highlight the role various European institutions have played in the development of networks that eventually led to the internet.
Another potential thrust is the Google newspaper archive, which contains some European newspapers. Google is attempting to show that it is a good corporate citizen by making these newspapers more easily accessible to the public. Previous to this week, it was hard to find the main search page for the historic newspaper archive. Google has now made it easier to find and search their historic newspaper archive.
The majority of digitized newspapers in the Google newspaper archive are from the United States and Canada, with a good mixture of newspapers from Europe and other countries. Next to the US National Archives' Chronicling American newspaper collection and the Australian Trove newspaper collection, the Google newspaper archive is one of the largest free historic newspaper sources on the internet. It is definitely the best source for free historic Canadian newspapers.
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By Magnus Jern
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One-off-apps effective as core business apps
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Examples of great mobile app campaigns include: carry on via Mobile apps as part of a short-term campaign – Mobile Commerce Daily – Columns.
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Twitter‘s #devnest event in San Francisco is under way, and aside from the incredible stats revealed about the Twitter ecosystem, Twitter also mentions the types of apps developers should focus on, namely, Analytics, Content, Curation, Publishing, and Enterprise.
Back in March, Twitter’s Ryan Sarver made an announcement discouraging developers from building new Twitter clients. As it turned out, Twitter is just telling developers that the bigger story is building on the other facets of Twitter, rather than just becoming “yet another client”.
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- The Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World, 1450–1850 ed. by Nicholas Canny and Philip Morgan
Atlantic world scholarship, for its practitioners, presents the challenge cogently identified by Carole Shammas in her essay on Atlantic households in this volume, where she wrote that “for many of us, the information we have is largely based on knowledge of one part” (p. 362). Historians are usually intimately familiar with a specific region, kingdom, nation, subject, or methodology. The Atlantic world requires [End Page 194] those historians to analyze something complementary but which they are generally and perhaps necessarily unequally well versed. The more thoughtful and introspective essays in this volume acknowledge such imbalances. Indeed, the works cover a vast temporal and territorial space peopled by a varied array of distinct cultures that came together in some fashion in the period 1450–1850. Shammas and others in this collection recognize correctly the value of comparative studies of different regions that the Atlantic world encourages. The current volume synthesizes the scholarship of the last sixty years with the blunt force of thirty-five topical essays authored by preeminent scholars—many of whom have established their professional reputations defining this very field. The work begins with an introduction by editors Nicholas Canny and Philip Morgan, and concludes with Emma Rothschild’s brilliant and thoughtful essay that demonstrates how profitably we might expand the frame of the Atlantic world beyond the mid nineteenth century. The most important essays in the collection demonstrate well how macrohistorical synthesis can reveal lacunae but also, on their own, make important connections that deepen historical knowledge and understanding.
Divided into four main sections, the book describes the Atlantic world as an integrated and coherent entity with eras that reveal a distinct emergence, consolidation, integration, and disintegration for the regions of Europe, Africa, and the Americas that border upon or were deeply influenced by the Atlantic. The essays cover a variety of subjects. Some are rather traditional studies of European expansion, African migrations, indigenous American identity, and nation- or kingdom-based studies of the Atlantic. Others emphasize transnational themes and question traditional categories of analysis. There are also essays on specific genres including navigation, migration, sensory experiences, and ecological and environmental histories, all of which suggest nontraditional integrative forces of the Atlantic. Innovative essays on law, economics, race, and identity are also included. The section titled “Disintegration” covers the collapse of colonialism and the breaking apart of the Atlantic world as it existed in the defined period. The concluding essay begins with the provocative question “where does it end?” One might also wonder if the apparent end of Atlantic history implies the beginning of a larger and integrated global history, a conclusion that world historians will demur.
The chapters are relatively short, largely devoid of primary source analysis and useful in a way a handbook should be—that is, descriptive of the state of research. Essay authors generally reference their contributions to the field, and all were written by accomplished and [End Page 195] recognized scholars. Each essay ends with a select bibliography, which many readers will appreciate. The editors appear to have collected essays that promise to initiate new inquiry. There are also a number of important and useful maps that detail prevailing winds and currents, major regions, migratory patterns out of Africa, sailing routes, and areas of national influence in the Atlantic. One modest complaint, however, is that illustrations are inconsistently supplied within the essays, even when they might be helpful. Further, authors generally do not refer to the maps at the beginning even when such mention would aid in understanding.
The periodization is not particularly new, but the essays generally provide analysis that makes clear their innovations in approach. The book preserves as a bounding time frame the era of the slave trade and also recalls the old age of empires and the imperial expansion of Europe. To its credit, however, the collection does not reify or describe in new ways old orthodoxies. Slavery and the economies... | <urn:uuid:3c69bf0c-09e5-4cf3-89fa-c8d60cd49464> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://muse.jhu.edu/article/516219 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.938948 | 824 | 2.296875 | 2 |
How to Change the Language Used in PHP-Nuke
Changing languages within PHP-Nuke can occur in two main places - in the content that you are publishing and in the back-end using the Administration back end interface. The following article explains where you can find the options to change the language when working with PHP-Nuke.
Setting the Language within PHP-Nuke
Changing Language in the Administration Interface
- Login to the PHP-Nuke Administration back end.
- Click on the icon labeled PREFERENCES.
- Scroll to the bottom of the page and you will see the options provided within the PREFERENCES section. Here is labeled "Web Site Configuration".
- Here you will see several options where you can change the language. The first option is a drop-down menu where you can select the language. It is labeled Select the Language for Your Site. This option is used to set the default langauge of your default site. Click on the drop-down arrow to select a language.
- Multilingual features allows the website visitor to choose a different language for the site. This allows users to see the option to select a language by flag in the front end. The flags can be seen in the top right hand corner of the screenshot at right.
- The other language option is labeled BACKEND LANGUAGE - at the bottom of the Web Site Configuration section. This option sets the language for the news feed. The default language code is set to EN-US. If you need find other codes, go to Language Codes. This is the best location I can find that lists the languages in the same format.
- Click on SAVE CHANGES at the bottom of the screen in order to save your entries.
Changing the Language in Various Content Options within the PHP-Nuke Administration Interface
- Login to the PHP-Nuke Administration interface.
- When you are adding content to your PHP-Nuke pages, blocks, messages, newsletters, news, and other content types, you will see an option for changing the language. Simply scroll down the interface and you will see an option to choose the language by clicking on a drop-down arrow. The following screenshot demonstrates an example:
The option above is for creating a new BLOCK. You can select other content types that you can publish to your PHP-Nuke front-end and you will see the same Language option.
- When you have finished creating your content, simply click on the SAVE or CREATE button in order to save your selection.
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At A Glance
ClassPad Manager Software
Two forms, one software: Display in fixed size to emulate the ClassPad 330 exactly or resize the window for a feel similar to any Windows application. Whether in resizable or fixed size mode, the software provides you with the same mathematical abilities as the ClassPad 330 with extras, such as sharing data with Excel. Experience drag and drop within or between applications, a complete Computer Algebra System, eActivity, Geometric Graphing, Statistics, Financial, 3-D Graphing and more. Includes software to update ClassPad300/330 handhelds to latest version.
Works with the following models
The ClassPad Manager for ClassPad300/330 is software that provides a new way to learn about mathematics.
- Computer Algebra System
- Laplace Transforms/Fourier Transforms
- Differential Equation Application
- Financial Function
- e-Activity function
Enable Verify Function
- Geometric Graphing
- Spreadsheet Application
Data communication with ClassPad300/330
Resizable window for easy text input and the ability to view long math expressions without scrolling.
eActivity copy and paste into a word processor for editing.
Includes OS update ver.3.0 for handheld
-Single License:FA-CP300A Ver.3.0 PLUS
-School License:FA-CP300B Ver.3.0 PLUS
Fixed size window.
Includes OS update ver.3.0 for handheld.
-Single License:FA-CP300A Ver.3.0
-School License:FA-CP300B Ver.3.0
Minimum Desktop Computer Requirements:
- Minimum required Intel® Pentium® III 500MHz with USB.
- Windows® 98SE/Me or Windows® 2000/XP.
- 100MB available for installation(disk space).
- Recommended for 64MB memory (minimum 34MB), excluding memory required for Operating System.
• Internet Explorer® 4.01 or later.
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This article is the third in a three-part series where I've attempted to collect representative test equipment from the following eras: 1988-2000; 1956-1987; and 1936-1955. This installment covers the earliest time period of 1936-1955, and it includes the first products of many companies, such as HP, Keithley, and Kepco's. Please enjoy and use the comments to record your memories of these pieces of equipment, including learnings, funny stories, and nostalgic remembrances. Let's make this a piece of living history! If you have a suggestion to add, please put it in the comments.
Tektronix 310 Oscilloscope
The 310 Oscilloscope was a small, portable oscilloscope with innovative mechanical packaging to allow easy access to internal components for servicing. Price $595
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Every day our lives are governed by habit. These habits are little routines and small ways of doing things. However, sometimes it can be quite hard to build strong healthy habits to reach your goals much easier and faster. Nowadays, there are many apps developed to help you build habits, increasing your productivity and motivation. To help with the search, we looked and we found one amazing productivity app for this purpose – Grow.
What is Grow?
Grow is an amazing productivity app that is developed for iOS users, designed by a psychologist as a product of PhD research. The habit builder and tracker will increase your motivation, productivity, and persistence, helping you to achieve long-term goals. Very easy to use and quite efficient, with a clean user-friendly interface, this is the only psychometric habit building app that helps you build any solid individual habit, tracking and showing your progress.
Why do we love to Grow?
This is a psychometric habit building app that will define your habits by guiding you through an optimized habit definition process, it will measure them by asking you questions about your habit after each repetition with its psychometric measurement and will give you feedback by showing you stats on how psychologically strong your habit has become. Also, the app can optimize and analyze the stats to show you the week spots in your habit and how to optimize them.
The app works best for habits that are can be done in 3-60 minutes like building study habits, learning languages, writing, making money, working, practicing, fitness – whatever you want to achieve, you can build a habit around that. The statistics within the app will show you how strong your habit has become, how resistant is against the motivation attacks, how complete and clean your habit repetitions are on average, how stable is the environment for performance, how useful and important is your habit to yourself, and also will show you how far you have already progressed as well for your flow and self-efficiency. You can choose between a monthly, 6 months or 12 months subscription.
Download the app for free now from the App Store to build solid individual habits to get the desired results!
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They were sometimes made in gardens (2 Kings 21:26; 23:16; Matt. 27:60). They are found in great numbers in and around Jerusalem and all over the land. They were sometimes whitewashed (Matt. 23:27,29).
The body of Jesus was laid in Joseph's new rock-hewn tomb, in a garden near to Calvary. All evidence is in favor of the opinion that this tomb was somewhere near the Damascus gate, and outside the city, and cannot be identified with the so-called “holy sepulchre.” The mouth of such rocky tombs was usually closed by a large stone (Hebrew: golal), which could only be removed by the united efforts of several men (Matt. 28:2; compare John 11:39). (See GOLGOTHA.) | <urn:uuid:39b8fcc4-15a7-4664-a975-f0ab382b4338> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.christiananswers.net/dictionary/tombs.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00119-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979279 | 186 | 3.03125 | 3 |
More humidity is coming to Vermont thanks to Tropical Storm Fred. Here's what to know.
Thought Vermont was done with humidity for a bit? Think again.
Warm and muggy weather will be back in the North Country starting Tuesday — a byproduct of the landfall of Tropical Storm Fred in the Florida panhandle. The muggy weather will last for at least a few days this week, according to the National Weather Service in Burlington.
The tropical storm will also produce a belt of heavy rain in its wake as it moves up and into the northeast, the National Weather Service said. Vermont will see some rain, but the heaviest showers will occur to the south of the Green Mountain State.
The National Weather Service's forecast for Burlington, as of Tuesday, shows the following:
- Tuesday, Aug. 17: Rain showers are likely. New precipitation is expected to amount to less than 1/10 of an inch. The high temperature is expected to be 77 degrees, and the low, 67 degrees. The humidity was 81% as of 9 a.m.
- Wednesday, Aug. 18: There will be a chance of rain showers throughout the day. New rainfall is expected to amount to between 1/10 and 1/4 of an inch. The high temperature is expected to be 81 degrees, and the low, 67 degrees.
- Thursday, Aug. 19: There is a 30% chance of rain showers. The day will be partly sunny, with an anticipated high temperature of 84 degrees, and a low of 67 degrees. The area is expected to get less than 1/10 of an inch of rain.
More information about the forecast can be found on the National Weather Service's website, weather.gov/btv.
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Representative Doug Lamborn (R–CO), member of the House Armed Services Committee, continues to pursue this vision on Capitol Hill. Lamborn, co-chair of the Missile Defense Caucus, was inspired by Reagan’s leadership to protect the peace through a strong missile defense program, and reminded the nation in a Politico article that there are growing missile and nuclear proliferation risks to national security.
It is past time to act. Reagan argued that a defensive shield like the SDI—a combination of both ground-based and space-based systems—would actually rid the world once and for all of nuclear missiles.
The Obama Administration has upped missile defense while simultaneously cutting funding for the Standard Missile-3 program despite the confrontational rhetoric, missile tests, and nuclear tests from North Korea. It is important to remember that this is a reversal of previous Administrations’ policy. Obama pushed fervently in 2009 for budget cuts to missile defense and reduced the number of Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) interceptors planned by the Bush Administration from 44 to 30. In spite of reinstating 14 interceptors in Alaska now, Obama continues to cut the U.S. missile defense program. North Korean missiles are not the only threat to U.S. national security.
When it takes only 33 minutes for a missile to reach the United States from anywhere in the world, it would be a folly to cut back missile defense. Critics today still decry missile defense as fantasy, impossible to achieve, and never likely to work. While the SDI was pejoratively called “Star Wars” in Reagan’s time, now missile defense is called a leftover from the Cold War and obsolete. This is simply not the case.
Even after the fall of the Soviet Union, the enemies of America remain on the march. North Korea’s missiles can reach American soil. Iran is still pursuing a nuclear program and “could develop and test an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of reaching the United States by 2015.” China is developing a new and more capable generation of ICBMs and submarine-launched missiles.
Opponents have argued since Reagan’s era that strategic defense might encourage a first strike, but there is no greater safeguard to democracy and freedom than a strong defense. As Ronald Reagan famously said, “We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression.” The U.S. has an obligation to maintain that strength against those who would threaten freedom and that of its allies.
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NWDA Looks at Optimizing Production and Product Lines
Meetings & Events
Mount Laurel, N.J.–The Northeast Window & Door Association learned about reducing scrap, as well as potential product lines required to keep up with increasing energy efficiency demands in the residential market at its winter meeting here today. The event, which also featured a tabletop reception, featured updates from a number of other speakers.
|Joseph Machine's Parikh at NWDA meeting.|
Sanjay Parikh of Joseph Machine Co. kicked off the educational presentations by outlining the impact of scrap on a manufacturer's bottom line. Focusing on lineals, he calculated how a manufacturer producing 500 windows a day could save about $1 million a year by bringing its scrap rate down from 30 percent to 5 percent. Based on the feedback his company gets from manufacturer customers, he noted, getting lineal material yields to 90 percent is very possible. The two basic requirements, he noted, is a zero-scrap saw and investment in an optimization system.
There are numerous steps manufacturers can then take to get material yields higher--up to 95 percent and beyond, he continued. Those ranged from the use of multiple optimizing systems, use of tail end pieces in batches for stock parts or the next batch, and usage of different standard length extrusions. Parikh also outlined a number of steps to fail-safe production, eliminating mistakes and waste created through human error.
Systems can be employed to require a saw operator to do quality checks on a regular basis, sensors can be used to make sure the right profiles–including the right color profile–is loaded into the saw. Other options include bar codes used on cut parts that are scanned to set the welder properly and sensors can can be built into welders and/or corner cleaners to make sure parts are loaded properly. Depending on a manufacturer's product mix, it might make sense to create one dedicated automated line or take production of low volume windows out of the automated process and handle them in a separate manual line, he added.
Energy Efficient Upgrades
Pointing to recent estimates that only about 7 percent of windows in the U.S. use low-E, Quanex Building Products' Jim Blamble kicked off his session on energy efficiency upgrades by highlighting the opportunity still out there in the market. In addition to consumer demand, he also highlighted numerous government programs that continue to drive performance criteria higher. He pointed to the recently-proposed Energy Star criteria, which the Environmental Protection Agency is planning to issue for 2014. In addition, he noted that "Most Efficient" Energy Star designation that may become applicable for windows and the Energy Star Homes program.The Department of Energy's High Performance Volume Purchase Program and Home Score programs will also drive demand for higher performance products.
|Blamble reviewed Quanex analysis of the NFRC certified products directory.|
To provide a snapshot of where the industry currently is, Blamble presented Quanex analysis of the National Fenestration Rating Council's certified product directory, which he noted currently lists about 10 million products with a U-value equal to or less than 0.35. Those products, he continued, include about 940,000 double-hungs from 532 manufacturers.
Pointing to the criteria range being discussed by EPA for Energy Star in 2014, Blamble noted that the number of manufacturers drops to 241 for companies making double-hungs with U-values equal to or less than 0.274, which is the high end of EPA's proposals for a Northern climate zone U-value requirement. Only 204 companies currently offer a double hung meet the 0.254 U-value requirement that Energy Star could go to if EPA opts for its more stringent proposal. The NFRC directory also shows 169 companies manufacturing products qualifying for DOE's R-5 program, Blamble pointed out as well.
He continued by showing how changing various frame and spacer options, as well as gas fills and low-E glasses, can enable manufacturers to get to the new more stringent numbers. Blamble urged attendees to try the Quanex Optimizer, an online tool developed by his company, in order to get a better understanding of the performance upgrades available and which options might enable them to cost-effectively reach the U-value requirements they need to reach or want to reach.
More than 80 percent of residential windows sold today are Energy Star qualified, he reported. That's likely to dip down when the new criteria take effect, potentially down to 25 percent, but Blamble predicted it would rebound up again as manufacturers adjust. "Energy Star products are table stakes to be in the market," he said. "No one sees energy prices going down, so that's not likely to change."
Also on the NWDA agenda was NFRC's Ray McGowan, who offered an update on that organization's activities, including the addition of air infiltration numbers to labels. Joe Reed of Architectural Testing offered an update on codes in the Northeast region, noting that nearly all the states have adopted codes based on the 2009 International Codes.
Darryl Huber of B.F. Rich Co. offered a legislative update, reporting on a recent visit by Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware to his company's manufacturing facility. At the meeting, officials from his company re-affirmed NWDA positions about the negative impact of EPA's lead rules on the window replacement industry. Also discussed was the Cut Energy Bills at Home bill now before Congress. That bill would provide tax credits for homeowners that did energy audits of their homes and then did recommended upgrades, he explained.
It's unlikely to move forward this year in the current Congress, Huber stated, and despite his personal reservations, he said it is a bill NWDA should probably study and potentially support. The window industry has raised its profile in Washington in recent years, Huber noted, and he concluded by urging NWDA members to stay involved, particularly in this election year. | <urn:uuid:2d2ba5d3-8cc1-4943-8945-780c45598b14> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://windowanddoor.com/news-item/meetings-events/nwda-looks-optimizing-production-and-product-lines | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00125-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956265 | 1,215 | 1.585938 | 2 |
About 50 percent of all software licenses in Brazil are not original - but piracy is going down in relation to previous years, according to a Business Software Alliance (BSA) study.
The BSA research carried out by IDC suggests that despite the fact the percentage of pirate software in use is still high, it is progressively decreasing: in 2007, about 59 percent of all software in Brazil was not obtained from official sources and in 2011, it was 53 percent.
The market of licensed software generates approximately $2.9bn in Brazil per year, but without piracy it would generate twice as much, according to the BSA research, which highlights that most of the piracy in Brazil occurs inside corporate environments - firms will either use pirate software only or buy some licenses and use mostly fake copies.
However, Brazil is doing better than its Latin American neighbors when the subject is piracy: the study suggests that the unlicensed software rates in Argentina and Venezuela are 69 percent and 88 percent respectively. Other countries where piracy levels are high include China with 74 percent and Indonesia with 84 percent.
According to the BSA, the uptake of more accessible cloud computing tools such as Google Docs should help lower piracy. A separate study by Frost & Sullivan suggests that
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The ‘Aurat March’ here on the 8th of March coincides with the ‘International Women’s Day’ which is observed
as a Civil awareness day for Women and girls and also as Anti-sexism day and Anti-Discrimination Day. Celebrating such ideals should not have been a source of threat and annoyance to anyone of course except to those who have an inborn insecurity about women
having a say over their lives; for unfortunately lives of women have been decided by and dictated by the patriarchy which prevails in most societies for long and these insecure ones feel threatened and imperiled by the freedom that women may succeed in securing
by expressing their resentment and defiance at the male dominated homes, societies and states.
many who feel that this will lead to an end to their absolute rule over women and consequently term the protest and expression of defiance by women as something vulgar and unacceptable. Losing power and authority which is not based of justice always evokes
a brutal response from those threatened so these very fanatical and frenzied elements among them, and they abound, resist women rights desperately and that is what we are witnessing here today.
Regressive societies treat women as chattel and property and it is a fact that regressive societies are sustained by and thrive in regressive states. Aurat March is not only a social action but in essence
naturally a political act; for without fighting for undoing and defeating the regressive states and their organized and systematic patriarchy the regressive societies cannot be undone and real liberation of women will remain an unfulfilled dream forever.
This liberation battle is not only for physical liberation but also for the liberation of soul because eons of domination have not only resulted
in physical subjugation but also subjugation of mind and soul too so unless this battle for physical liberation includes battle for liberation of soul and mind the battle for physical liberation will remain a zero-sum game. There are indeed overwhelming odds
in achieving these ends but unless there is concerted and persistent fight for these multiple goals victory will elude us.
is hard enough even for those sectors of society and regions where education is widespread and women can, though with difficulty, pursue careers and have some independence now imagine the obstacles and odds that Baloch women have to surmount even to secure
education which may then translate into careers and a semblance of apparent freedom and rights to decide about what they can do with their lives.
The Baloch women not only have to deal with a regressive society and a regressive state but also with a brutal, repressive state which denies them and the men of their nation of rights which are thought acceptable for others. The fallout of the brutality
of the state affects the women even more than it does the men. There are mothers who do not know where their sons are, there are sisters who do not know where their brothers are, there are wives who do not know if they are widows or can they hold out hope
of return of their husbands, there are daughters who do not know if they are orphans and will ever have a father’s shoulder to cry on and hold on for support.
This means that the Baloch women have to battle a lot more odds than the others and in this they need to be supported by all those who fight for women rights and liberation from regressive societies and repressive states for unless
the fight that Baloch women fight is also joined by others it will result in alienation and trust deficit between Baloch women and women of other regions; this will be the inevitable result if Baloch women feel others are disowning them and their fight.
Baloch women will however continue their fight for their survival and rights but will rightly feel betrayed and ignored by others in their battle
for emancipation. Progressive women have stood up for Baloch women but where are so many others who have a voice which may have been heard afar have not stood up for them. This is for all to decide if this fight is for all women or is this a fight for specific
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Dog experts from two of the country’s leading animal welfare charities highlighted to members of the London Assembly public safety and dog welfare concerns around part of the current dangerous dogs legislation.
Battersea Dogs & Cats Home and the RSPCA briefed members of the Assembly at City Hall on Thursday (14 September) to highlight the flaws in Breed Specific Legislation, the 26-year-old legislation which prohibits owning four types of dog in the UK.
The RSPCA launched its #EndBSL campaign in August 2016 – to mark the 25th anniversary of Section 1 of the Dangerous Dogs Act – calling for an urgent parliamentary inquiry into Breed Specific Legislation.
Two happy, well-adjusted family dogs. In the UK, one of these dogs would be illegal.
Dr Samantha Gaines – dog welfare expert and lead author of the RSPCA’s ‘A Dog’s Dinner’ report – told London Assembly members that the law was not working, why it is ineffective at protecting public safety and how it seriously compromises dog welfare.
“In the 26 years since BSL was introduced hospital admissions for dog bites have increased and prohibited types of dogs continue to be seized from our streets,” Dr Gaines, pictured, explained.
“Public safety is not protected by targeting certain types of dogs. The welfare of thousands of dogs has been affected by this law and countless dogs have been euthanased because of how they look.”
“The opportunity to brief members of the London Assembly means that they have the evidence they need to see that this law is completely ineffective at safeguarding the public, and are armed with the information as to how it unfairly affects dogs.
“We are hoping that with this knowledge they can influence change which will positively impact on the lives of thousands of family pets.”
Trevor Cooper, dog law expert, representing Battersea Dogs & Cats Home, and also pictured, said “This part of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 isn’t fit for purpose. The intention of Breed Specific Legislation was to weed out potentially dangerous dogs before they have a chance to be dangerous. Yet the impact has been to condemn many innocent dogs for no reason at all other than looking the wrong shape. The legislation was relaxed in 1997 and amended further in 2015 but it remains an unfair law that particularly affects rescues as they are unable to re-home certain types of dog even if they pose no danger to anyone.”
In December, the RSPCA welcomed a motion unanimously agreed by members of the London Assembly to request a formal review into the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991.
The London Assembly agreed a motion calling on the Mayor of London to write to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to request a formal review of the act, brought in 25 years ago. However, the Mayor is yet to support it.
Now, the RSPCA is hoping that the Assembly will again approach the Mayor to support it to improve welfare for London and the UK’s dogs.
The charity – the oldest and largest animal welfare organisation in the country – has taken a stand against the part of the Act which prohibits owning four types of dog – pit bull terrier, Japanese tosa, dogo Argentino and fila Brasileiro.
David Bowles, assistant director of external affairs at the RSPCA, said: “This legislation is outdated and flawed and urgently needs reviewing, repealing and replacing with something which ensures the public can be protected from dangerous dogs while also protecting innocent dogs from being punished simply for looking a certain way.
“Currently, breed specific legislation means that a well-adjusted, well-behaved, much-loved family pet which has never shown any signs of aggression can be torn from his home and everything he knows and could face being put to sleep simply for looking a certain way.
“The RSPCA is calling on the Government to launch a public inquiry into breed specific legislation. Ultimately, we’d like to see this part of the Dangerous Dogs Act repealed and replaced with legislation which deals with dogs on an individual case-by-case basis and does not penalise dogs simply for the way the look.”
Almost 85,000 people have signed the RSPCA’s petition and the campaign has gained the support of organisations and charities both nationally and internationally, as well as being backed by world-renowned actor and pit bull terrier lover Sir Patrick Stewart.
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- Conservative Party
The Conservative Party (CP), which today represents the majority of Afrikaners in Parliament, wishes to see a democratic South Africa where the Afrikaner will not be dominated by others and where his right of self-determination can be fully exercised. We would also like to see a free market system, with economic interdependence among the various states. This vision strongly resembles the European model of politically independent, but economically interdependent states. It is the only way to solve the political power struggle and increase the people's level of welfare. The path through which this solution should emerge is that of peaceful negotiation.
The Conservative Party believes firmly in the universally accepted and widely practiced principle of the self-determination of a nation in its own state. This is democracy in a homogeneous state.
The global trend is firmly in this direction. Before the Second World War there were 70 independent states; today there are 160. One may talk of a proliferation of states or of democracies or of nationalisms. Small states with fewer than 100,000 inhabitants proudly take their places in the UN alongside giants like China and India, with their hundreds of millions of citizens.
Europe, Africa, and the Americas are all partitioned into dozens of independent states. South Africa is a microcosm of such countries, although it lacks final state boundaries and has a high degree of integration. South Africa's nearly 40 million people belong to at least 13 clearly distinct nations, such as Afrikaners, Zulus, Xhosas, Vendas, Sothos, and so forth. Thus it would be totally undemocratic to enforce a one-man-one-vote "democracy" in such a heterogeneous country, for it would mean domination of small nations by large ones and would constitute a tyranny of numbers.
The CP's fundamental philosophy is that every nation is entitled to exercise the right of self-determination in its own state. This is in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations. We accordingly reject [End Page 38] artificial attempts to juxtapose different nations in one so-called undivided state. That inevitably results in domination of smaller nations by the big ones, causing their sacred right of self-determination to become obsolete and their own value systems to be supplanted by those of their dominators.
The National Party and the Democratic Party advocate political power sharing in an undivided South Africa, hoping for some form of checks and balances as protection. We regard the possibility of effective checks and balances in a Third World milieu as a myth. It has worked nowhere.
The ANC's call for "democracy" and a one-man-one-vote system sounds sweet to the ears of the world, but it will mean that 35 million black people will determine the future of the 5 million whites. It means blatant black domination of whites, and the smaller black nations face the same dilemma. To add insult to injury, Mr. Mandela, not satisfied with black political domination alone, wants to nationalize white banks, mines, businesses, and farms. This was the basic mistake made by the USSR. The Soviet bear's artificial hug is now relaxing, and democracies are emerging.
My party rejects violence as a method to accomplish political ends. We believe in peaceful negotiations and are confident that there are still enough moderate, responsible people in South Africa to establish a peaceful future.
We want to be relieved of the burden of governing others. All people should enjoy universal franchise—but in their own states. We advocate a large degree of interdependence between independent states, including economic, agricultural, academic, medical, and various other fields of interdependence.
The bottom line for the CP is the belief that an undivided South Africa would destroy the Afrikaner's right of self-determination; would cause the eventual destruction of our value system; and would lead to Third World standards. It is therefore unacceptable.
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By Patrick J. Buchanan
Rising inequality “is the defining issue of our time,” said President Obama in his Osawatomie speech that echoed the “New Nationalism” address Theodore Roosevelt delivered in that same Kansas town a century ago.
In the last two decades, the average income of the top 1 percent in the U.S. has grown by 250 percent, bemoaned our populist president, while the income of the average American has stagnated.
“This kind of inequality — a level we haven’t seen since the Great Depression — hurts us all,” said Obama.
“Inequality … distorts our democracy. … It gives an outsized voice to the few who can afford high-priced lobbyists … and runs the risk of selling out our democracy to the highest bidder.”
But is the president, a former disciple of radical socialist Saul Alinsky, truly serious about closing the inequality gap?
Or is this just political blather to frame the election year as a contrast between Barack Obama, champion of the middle class, and a Republican Party that supposedly hauls water for the undeserving rich?
Obama’s retort to those who say he is waging class warfare?
Republicans alone prevent him from raising the top U.S. income tax rate from 35 to 39.6 percent, where it stood under Bill Clinton, and advancing America toward true equality.
Republicans reply that the top 1 percent of U.S. taxpayers already carry 40 percent of the income tax load, while half of the nation and a majority of Obama voters pay no income tax at all. Moreover, these free-riders also consume almost all of the $900 billion the nation spends annually on Great Society programs.
Yet, a path has just opened up to test the seriousness of the president, to determine if he is a phony on the inequality issue, or a true egalitarian eager to close the gap.
That opportunity comes from a report last week that income inequality in America is at its greatest in the electoral precinct where Obama won his largest majority: Washington, D.C.
In Washington, the top 5 percent of households have an average income of $473,000, highest of all of the 50 largest cities in America. The average income of the top 20 percent of district households is $259,000. Only San Francisco ranks higher.
Moreover, that $259,000 average household income for the top 20 percent is 29 times the average household income of the bottom 20 percent, which is only $9,100 a year.
The citadel of liberalism that Obama carried 93-7 has a disparity of incomes between rich and poor that calls to mind the Paris of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
Washington is a textbook case of the inequality that Obama says “distorts our democracy,” and it is the ideal place to prove that he is serious.
For Washington is Obamaville. The mayor is a Democrat. The city council is Democratic. There are more lawyers and lobbyists concentrated here than in any city in America.
Here we have the perfect test case — the most liberal city in the republic, with the greatest income inequality, where Obama’s political clout and personal popularity are highest. And there is no obstructionist Republican cabal to block progressive reforms.
If Obama and the Democratic Party will not use their power to close the inequality gap right here in their own playpen, how do they remain credible in Middle America?
How to proceed, if the left is serious about inequality?
Consider. The District of Columbia income tax reaches 8.5 percent after the first $40,000 in income. A 5 percent surtax takes that rate to 8.95 percent for incomes over $350,000.
Yet, half a dozen states have higher and more progressive income tax rates than that.
Obama should call on his allies in the city government to raise the district income tax to the 15 percent level New York had in the 1970s.
Since district income taxes are deductible against federal income taxes, this would translate into an actual top tax bite on the Washington rich of 9.75 percent. Is that too much to ask of true progressives?
The new revenue could be transferred to Washington’s working class and poor through tax credits, doubly reducing the district’s glaring inequality.
Republicans will argue that raising the district tax rate to 15 percent on incomes above $250,000 will precipitate an exodus into Maryland and Virginia, where the top tax rates are not half of that. Conservatives believe as an article of faith that tax rates heavily influence economic behavior.
But Obama, who has kept the U.S. corporate tax rate among the highest in the world and wants U.S. personal tax rates raised closer to European levels, rejects this Republican argument.
Has he the courage of his convictions?
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According to Robert Mash, author of How to Keep Dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex is the antithesis of everything a good pet should be. “Literally awful and almost certainly needing a special insurance policy” to keep, the king of the tyrant dinosaurs would be nothing more than a bloody catastrophe waiting to happen. That hasn’t stopped dinosaur fans from imagining what it might be like to keep a pet tyrannosaur, though, and that childhood fantasy was played out in Doug TenNapel’s 2005 graphic novel Tommysaurus Rex.
TenNapel’s story starts out with a sadly familiar tragedy—a young boy named Ely loses his best friend when his dog is struck and killed by a car. In an attempt to take the boy’s mind off the accident, his parents send him to stay on his grandfather’s farm for the summer. Insult is added to emotional injury when a gang of bullies assaults Ely, but he quickly finds a new friend and protector. Locked away in the recesses of a cave is a Tyrannosaurus rex—a friendly dinosaur that just happens to have the same mannerisms as Ely’s lost dog.
Naturally, the Tyrannosaurus immediately shows off why big, carnivorous dinosaurs would not make good pets. The predator gobbles up a cow, plows through fences, gives a few houses some impromptu remodeling, and leaves king-sized piles of dino scat all over the local park. Fortunately for Ely, though, the mayor and other townsfolk allow the dinosaur to stay, as long as the boy provides some better training for the prehistoric beast. Almost everyone seems mollified, save for one spiky-haired bully who has it out for Ely and his dinosaur.
But the story is not really about what it would be like to keep a Tyrannosaurus as a pet. The dinosaur is one big MacGuffin—an object that keeps the story moving along as the main characters develop. The dinosaur is there to teach Ely about loss, responsibility and, ultimately, sacrifice as his relationship with the town bully changes. There are a few cute moments specific to the dinosaur—legendary stop-motion film artist Ray Harryhausen makes a cameo to sketch the tyrannosaur—but the story is about Ely beginning to gain some emotional maturity more than a fantastical tale of a life with a dinosaur.
Drawn in black-and-white, TenNapel’s art is closer to that of Calvin and Hobbes than dinosaur-focused comics like Paleo or The Age of Reptiles. That doesn’t mean that TenNapel traded accuracy for a more distinctive personal style, though. The story’s Tyrannosaurus isn’t a plodding, Godzilla-like monster, but a lithe and agile creature that fits modern restorations of the famous dinosaur. Of course, a few embellishments were needed to make the carnivorous dinosaur a sympathetic character; for instance, the eyes and brow ridges of the dinosaur move to give the gargantuan pet emotional depth.
Tommysaurus Rex is not a detailed exploration of what it would be like to keep a pet Tyrannosaurus. It is not meant to be, and that’s a good thing. If Ely’s tyrannosaur had acted like the genuine article—one of the largest predators ever to walk the earth—the boy’s relationship with the dinosaur would have probably ended very abruptly. A flash of teeth, a crunch, and the book would have been finished. I am glad TenNapel took a different route! | <urn:uuid:9f665869-992a-4e78-aaf9-d7992b2dfd2e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/pen-and-ink-dinosaurs-tommysaurus-rex-179299888/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00463-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957813 | 742 | 1.890625 | 2 |
Prologue and Chapter One: The Accident
1. What year did Don have his accident?
2. What is the first thing paramedics do upon looking at Don?
(a) Call his wife.
(b) Pull him from the car.
(c) Declare him dead.
(d) Give him an I.V.
3. Who prays for Don's survival while he was in the car?
(a) A Catholic priest.
(b) His wife.
(c) A small child.
(d) A Baptist minister.
4. From what place was Don driving when he was struck?
(a) Baptist Regional Center.
(c) Church of the Woods.
(d) Trinity Pines.
5. From what was Don coming home when he had the accident?
(a) A Baptist convention.
(b) A football game.
(c) A honeymoon.
(d) A week long religious rally.
6. What idea had Don been considering that week?
(a) Having another child.
(b) Starting a new church.
(c) Having his elderly mother move in with them.
(d) Sending his son to private school.
7. What is the weather like the day of Don's accident?
(a) Warm and windy.
(b) Snow and ice had fallen.
(c) Cold and rainy.
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In 2015 Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize for Literature “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time”. Using a wide range of interviews and crossing the boundary between reporting and fiction, she writes in a way that lets human voices speak for themselves. In 2018 she won the Anna Politkovskaya Award from the human rights organisation RAW in WAR, honouring women journalists and human rights defenders working in war and conflict zones. Mariana Katzarova is founder of RAW in WAR (Reach All Women in War) and the Anna Politkovskaya Award. In 2014, she led the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission’s team in Eastern Ukraine for two years at the start of the armed conflict. The duo hold a conversation about a region that has historically suffered from a conflict that is now threatening the whole world. | <urn:uuid:cbc4d9e0-0fc8-4b50-9618-4cb27baa69a4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hayfestival.com/p-19202-svetlana-alexievich-talks-to-mariana-katzarova.aspx?skinid=16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.936426 | 179 | 1.609375 | 2 |
What Climate Policy Means for Coal
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The impact of burning coal worldwide has an enormous impact on climate change. Halting the coal supply chain is not going to be possible. Managing it, however, understanding economic and employment issues, balanced with all of the impacts of climate change, must be a priority for everyone. Read the release provided here. Limiting climate change The post What Climate Policy Means for Coal appeared first on Green Building Elements .
The impact of burning coal worldwide has an enormous impact on climate change. Halting the coal supply chain is not going to be possible. Managing it, however, understanding economic and employment issues, balanced with all of the impacts of climate change, must be a priority for everyone. Read the release provided here.
Limiting climate change to 2°C means shutting down coal power plants – an unpopular proposition for coal power companies. But a new study shows that delaying climate policies could prove even worse for power plant owners.
Coal power plants are a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, and new plants are planned around the world, particularly in India and China. These new power plants are built to run for 30-50 years, paying off only after years of operation. But stringent climate policies could make the cost of emission so high that coal power generation is no longer competitive, leaving new power plants sitting idle and their owners and investors with huge losses—a problem known as stranded capacity.
“If we are serious about meeting climate targets, then the reality is that eventually we will have to start shutting down coal-fired power plants. But the longer we delay climate action, the more stranded capacity we’ll have,” says IIASA researcher Nils Johnson, who led the new study, published today in the journal Technological Forecasting and Social Change. “Delaying action encourages utilities to build more coal-fired power plants in the near-term. Then, when policies are finally introduced, we have to phase out coal even more quickly and more investments go to waste,” he says.
The new study finds that as much as 37% of global investment in coal power plants over the next 40 years could be stranded if action is delayed, with China and India bearing most of these costs. The study explored strategies to reduce stranded capacity in coal power plants, while limiting future climate change to the internationally agreed 2°C target.
It shows that one key is to avoid new coal power plant construction. Potential options include shifting to other kinds of power plants, keeping old coal plants running, and improving energy efficiency. By reducing the amount of energy used, efficiency improvements also reduce the amount of energy that must be generated and, therefore, the need for new power plants.
“The best strategy would be to stop building new coal power plants starting today,” says Johnson. However, the researchers also explored what would happen in a perhaps more realistic case, if governments are not yet willing to limit new plant construction. Johnson and colleagues in IIASA’s Energy Program also examined two additional strategies with this limitation: grandfathering existing plants so that they are exempt from future climate policies, or retrofitting plants with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), a yet unproven technology that would capture greenhouse gas emissions and store them underground.
However, both of these strategies create a major risk that average temperatures will rise above the 2°C goal—a target set by international agreement in order to avoid the most dire consequences of climate change. While the grandfathering strategy would allow power plant operators to keep the old ones running, it would lead to greater emissions and reduced chances of limiting climate change to the 2°C target.
And while CCS could theoretically be used to retrofit coal power plants, the study shows that hundreds of power plants would need retrofitting in a short period of time—a lot of pressure on a technology that as yet remains both technically and politically uncertain. “CCS could buy us time, but what if it doesn’t work? It’s a risky strategy,” says Volker Krey, a co-author on the paper.
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It seems that everywhere we go, there are these ‘sets of people’ – those who like to look down and contemned on others. Always try to make people feel so small, and worse, make them believe they are small and less worthy.
This event of adversity can either result ones to; 1) believe that and quit, or 2) work harder. It is nothing but normal that we mostly just feel like giving up. Especially when it’s related to our progress in career or anything professionally. At certain limit, we feel like it’s far too heavy for us to carry the weight and bring us down.
“One of the best opportunities you can be given in life is to be underestimated.”
It also depends on how we overcome these problems. How we should learn not to take those negative opinions as a life sentence to mediocrity, but rather use this to fuel our motivation to excel.
perseverance Line breaks: per|se¦ver|ance Pronunciation: /pəːsɪˈvɪər(ə)ns/ Meaning: the quality that allows someone to continue trying to do something even though it is difficult
One of a very good way to handle this adversity is by perseverance. It needs one’s dedication, hard work commitment, patience and endurance. It might be difficult at times, but in the end, it’s the realization that challenges along the way are only minor detours on the march to success.
In case we have doubt in our natural instinct of perseverance, try to think back our own experience when we start to be able to walk. The ability didn’t take place on just 1-3 attempts. It took time after time of us getting up on our feet only to fall back down. But that didn’t stop us from getting back up again, and keep trying and trying.
“Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.”
It’s also a good habit we can practice in life. Not to be discouraged and give up when we face any roadblock. Keep believing in ourselves and never give up anything is possible. It’s not much of surprise if others underestimate us, but never underestimate ourselves~ on what we can accomplish!
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note: This is a response to David Fitch’s blog that a friend of mine passed on to me the other day. I could have written so much more— getting into the details, etc. but I had to cut myself off. Will likely come back to this topic of leadership and authority at a later time.
The leadership thing is big. We need it, a group needs it, the church needs it, but how does leadership function in “real time”? Leadership necessarily involves authority, to deny this fact or reject the truth that the church and her leaders have authority is naïve and neglects the Bible itself. Yet, how is this authority to function?
I love the case study Fitch gives of a leader presenting his/her process to the group for input and interaction. This could work well in a small group setting like a Local Community, the Local Community leader forum, or a Session (the group of elders in a Presb church). It’s in groups like these where all the members are equally engaged in seeking the Lord in prayer and the Scriptures and receiving grace from Him through these means. The trouble is when we try and apply dynamics that are intended to function in a small group of equally committed leaders, into a group of people where some may be committed, some may be on the outskirts, some may be suspicious, some may even be malicious (even unintentionally so), or some may be committed and sincerely devoted to the Lord and the community yet lacking any solid theological/scriptural/Christian-life foundation for guiding a voice of wisdom. Wisdom begins with the fear of the Lord, so if one has no fear or knowledge of God and His Redemptive-historical self-revelation in the Scriptures, and thus no notion of the gospel of grace applied to his own heart, how could a Christian community look to this person for guidance and input into the missional direction they ought to take, and submit to them— even if their voice is one of several?
This is not to deny that the Holy Spirit can speak through anyone, even an ass (Numbers 22:28). And, a godly leader will seek to hear God’s wisdom in anyone’s input, even if that input is delivered abrasively or without grace or significant biblical/theological knowledge. Yet, because of a lack of one or more of the following: godliness, maturity, whole-life wisdom flowing from the gospel of grace, or commitment to the community—this person’s input (even as a beloved member of the community), ought not have as much gravitas as the insights of others. This is why Paul is so thoughtful as to the type of people who ought to be set aside for the calling of elder. On one hand Paul writes that the one who aspires to the office of overseer desires a noble task (1 Tim 3:1), thus affirming the desire to influence and speak into church direction, vision, and leadership. Yet, at the same time Paul also cautions against ordaining those who are a “recent convert, lest he be puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil,” (1 Tim 3:6). Spiritual authority to lead is a real thing, its a heavy thing, and for those who lack wisdom and maturity to rely on and apply the gospel of grace received by faith alone to their heart idols and tempermental tendencies, being recognized by others as having spiritual authority is not only a destructive path for the church, but a self-destructive path for that ill-equipped or immature individual, see Paul’s warnings to his young delegate Timothy in 2 Tim 3 and 4: “…they will have the appearance of godliness but deny its power…always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth…the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will acumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions.” While we affirm the reformation (and biblical!) principle of a priesthood of all believers (cf. 1 Peter 2), we also must affirm that not every priest is called to lead.
I’m not so much concerned about the inevitable conflict of leadership (this ought to come with any human relationship, and is a part of God’s toolbox for refining his people by grace), but I am concerned about people being given more authority to speak in to leading Christ’s church than they ought to have. Seeking input from everyone, consensus from everyone, leadership from everyone can actually be a very troubling thing, not just for a church but for any organization. Organizationally— for someone to use influence responsibly and well for the sake of the organization, they need to understand and completely own that organization’s guiding purpose, values, foundational principles, and practices— this goes for Caterpillar, Google, and even the church, just from a practical standpoint. Thus, while all members of a church ought to have a voice into the life and leadership of the church, these voices will have varying degrees of amplification based on the life of godliness, wisdom, and personal knowledge of Christ through prayer and Scripture that the speaker’s life displays— this is what we call maturity. Additionally, personal commitment to the particular community is vital for one to have a voice in helping to shape and guide it.
In the American system of representative democracy, we are meant to have a government of the people, by the people, and for the people— people are not meant to serve government, but government is meant to serve the people and be developed from that same populace. The qualifications to govern well cannot include every human living within the borders of our nation. There are certain people (perhaps a majority of people), who simply do not have the knowledge, skills, wisdom, social thoughtfulness, disposition, etc. that could make them competent to work with others in the detailed governing of our nation. Further, the sheer number of people and the difficulties resulting from this should every one person have a voice into every governing decision that needs to be made on a daily basis, could lead to either chaos or an eventual tyrrany of a vocal few. As a result, we function through the process of representative democracy— where people choose to elect who they deem the most qualified representatives on their behalf. And, these elected officials are not meant to have achieved a higher level of value, significance, and power from a hiarchical sense. Instead, their position affords them the opportunity to serve others at a greater capacity, under social contract with the people who recognized their qualifications and elected them to office in the first place. All of this is laid out in the authoritative document for the United States’ system of governance— the Constitution.
This system is not meant to be a model for the church, instead our system of American government finds it’s bearings through the biblical model of the church, actually finding significant roots in Scottish Presbyterianism. Yet, in the system of church governance or authority, how are congregations supposed to recognize the most qualified among them?— we look to our spiritual authority, the Scriptures for this. Who trains potential leaders and presents them to a congregation for consideration?– we look to our authoritative document for life and doctrine, the Scriptures. How are these leaders to govern and lead Christ’s church?– we look to the Scriptures.
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Modelling of just-in-sequence supply of manufacturing processes
University of Miskolc, Institute of Logistics, 3515 Miskolc-Egyetemváros, Hungary
* Corresponding author: [email protected]
The customer oriented production led to the growth of complexity of manufacturing and connected logistics processes. In many production companies one of the largest asset on balance sheet is inventory. To avoid inventory problems and to be the winners of today’s market situation manufacturing companies try to decrease heavy inventory levels through just-in-time based supply strategies. The aim of this research work is to analyse these supply strategies. The first part of the paper describes the just-in-time based supply and summarises the most important characteristics of them. The second part focuses on the modelling of just-in-sequence based in-plant supply. The models makes it possible to determine different in-plant supply strategies.
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Williams, JA and Xie, Y (1992) The generation of wear surfaces. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 25. A159-A164. ISSN 0022-3727Full text not available from this repository.
Abrasive wear is likely to occur whenever a hard asperity or a trapped hard particle is dragged across a softer surface, and it has been estimated that this form of wear contributes to as many as half of the wear problems that are met in industry. Such damaging hard particles may be external contaminants, products of corrosion or even the debris from previous wear events. During the life of a component, damage caused by individual asperity or particle interactions builds up and, at each stage of its life, the worn surface is the result of many such superimposed wear events. The practical, quantitative prediction of wear rates depends on having both a satisfactory understanding of individual interactions and a suitable procedure for combining these when subsequent contacts are made on a surface whose topography and material properties may have been much changed Irom their initial states. The paper includes some details of an analytical model for the interaction of a representative asperity and the worn surface which can both predict the frictional force and the balance between ploughing, when material is displaced but not lost from the surface, and micromachining or cutting, when actual detachment occurs. Experiments tö !rvvéSuQ8Î8 the validity of the model have been carried out on a novel wear rig which provides very precise control over the position of the asperity and the counterface. This facility, together with that of on-board profilometry, means that it is possible to carry out wear experiments on areas of the surface whose previous deformation history is well known; in this way it is possible to follow the development of a worn surface in a controlled manner as the damage from individual wear events accumulates. Experimental data on the development of such a surface, produced by repeated parallel abrasion, are compared with the predictions of the model. © 1992 IOP Publishing Ltd.
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The Illinois health department said there are 9 probable cases in Illinois, all of which are in the Chicagoland area: 5 in Chicago, 2 in Kane County, 1 in DuPage Co, and 1 in Lake Co.
2 probable cases at UC Medical Center
Two of the nine probable cases are employees at the University of Chicago hospital.
The University of Chicago Medical Center isn't saying much about the two employees but the two are said to be recovering well at home. They haven't been at work for more than a week. During the time they were contagious they had no contact with any patients and only limited contact with hospital staff. That's because they have administrative jobs.
The hospital isn't saying anything about their ages or gender. Any co-workers who have come in contact with them have been identified and the hospital is now working with them.
Earlier this week, the University of Chicago Medical Center started requiring that everyone entering the hospitals was to use liquid hand sanitizer. Security guards were enforcing that policy all week in an effort to prevent the spread of swine flu.
The office in which the two university workers worked has been thoroughly cleaned.
Another Chicago patient is a Loyola student. Michael Hairsine, 20, lives on campus in the Rogers Park neighborhood. His dorm building, Fairfield hall, has been sanitized.
Hairsine told ABC7 he doesn't know where got the virus and just found out it was swine flu on Wednesday.
"Today I got a call telling me the results of my culture and that it's more than likely I have the swine flu. They're just waiting for confirmation of the tests from Atlanta to say for 100 percent certain it's swine flu," said Hairsine.
There is a 12-year-old girl from Rogers Park who has been hospitalized with a probable case of swine flu.
Other local cases involve a 25-year-old man in the Lakeview neighborhood; a 35-year-old woman in Hegewisch; and a 36-year-old woman in the Woodlawn community.
Health experts say that common sense action will slow the spread of the outbreak.
"If people are sick, no matter if it's cinco de mayo, a school, a church, a synagogue or any place of worship or anywhere else, a movie theater they should stay home. That's the key message," said Dr. Terry Mason, Chicago Department of Health.
The patients in the suburbs are a 6-year-old Lake County boy; a 26-year-old DuPage County man; and two students in Kane County, 12 and 18-years old.
3 schools closed due to swine flu concern
There are now three schools in the Chicago area that have been closed because of swine flu: Rotolo Middle School in Batavia, Marmion Academy in Aurora and Kilmer Elementary in Rogers Park.
The schools are closed because the flu appears to be transmitted from person to person, not person to object.
Marmion headmaster John Milroy learned 20 minutes after classes were dismissed on Wednesday afternoon that he had a 20-year-old with a probable case of swine flu. He made the decision to close the school through the weekend.
"It's prevention. One of my primary responsibilities is the health and welfare of the school and community here," said John Milroy, Marmion Academy headmaster.
The Kane County Health Department set up a call center to answer questions about swine flu - many from parents of students at the schools concerned about what to do.
"What we're doing say very conservative approach here. We think it gives the best chance of interrupting any infectious disease transmission," said Paul Kuehnert, Kane County Health Department.
One-thousand five-hundred students attend Rotolo Middle School in Batavia. All of them will be off through the weekend after a 12-year-old girl was diagnosed with a probable case of the swine flu there.
"Close the school is the way to stop the transmission. Stop large school activities," said Supt. Jack Barshinger, District 101, Batavia.
So far one Chicago schook , Kilmer Elementary in Rogers Park, is closed after a student there was diagnosed with a probable case of swine flu. And at CPS headquarters, they've also set up a call center. They're making calls to try to get information on the attendance patterns.
"We're following up with a phone call to every student, parent or guardian to find out why they are sick, why they are out," said Ron Huberman, Chicago School CEO.
The 12-year-old and 18-year-old Kane County students are said to be home recovering.
There are just a few weeks of school left, so the timing is very unfortunate. School officials are canceling all activities as well as classes. The Marmion Academy had a R.O.T.C. drill team was scheduled to go to Florida on Thursday but that trip has been canceled.
Soccer fans take precautions
Some soccer fans took extra precautions on Wednesday night as the Chicago Fire took on Mexico's Club America team.
The stadium was packed at Toyota Park in southwest suburban Bridgeview.
Club America arrived from Mexico on Monday night. All of the players have been given a clean bill of health.
Officials at Toyota Park did provide hand sanitizers for fans on Wednesday night. About a dozen fans were seen wearing face masks.
"I'm just trying to be safe. I don't know about being a big concern, if it was a big concern I wouldn't be here," said Jack Reyes, soccer fan.
"I think it's important to say that we've got to go on we have to make sure that we're cautious in dealing with the epidemic but at the same time we feel comfortable after speaking to our doctors that everything is under control," said Dennis Hamlett, Chicago Fire coach.
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[Twisted-Python] Caching mechanism
hubbard at sdsc.edu
Mon Nov 9 17:47:09 EST 2009
Both of the links from pypi are dead, alas. Do you know if that
project is alive somewhere else?
On Nov 9, 2009, at 2:42 PM, Andy Fundinger wrote:
> Part of the beauty of twisted is that you don't actually need to do
> special to achieve that, just create a global dict or other object
> of your
> choice and access it as needed. More likely what you need to look
> for is a
> cache expiration mechanism, I've linked in lrucache (
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/lrucache/0.2) in one case, but usually I
> write my own constraints as appropriate.
> It's often misunderstood, but in twisted you are writing an actual
> rather than just some methods for servicing requests. The server
> will run
> until stopped and all global or even local variables will remain in
> unless deleted or dereferenced and garbage collected. Rather than
> something special to get a persistent variable you need to do
> special when you want a non-persistent one.
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:28 PM, <vitaly at synapticvision.com> wrote:
>> Caching the results of some particular method calls, so other server
>> side methods can access those results (I'm thinking about example of
>> global variable per entire server, so once imported, such variable
>> content could be access).
>> Quoting exarkun at twistedmatrix.com:
>>> On 05:41 pm, vitaly at synapticvision.com wrote:
>>>> is there any cache mechanism for twisted? Could one point me
>>>> please to
>>>> that docs?
>>> What sort of caching are you interested in? Caching the results of
>>> method calls? A caching HTTP proxy? Caching in the DNS client?
>>> total list of possibilities could run to many pages. :)
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Today many churches celebrate Maundy Thursday, commemorating the Last Supper Jesus shared with His disciples. “Maundy” is a modern adaptation of the Latin “mandatum” meaning “command”. Jesus initiated our practice of Holy Communion during the Passover meal with those closest to Him, teaching them to “do this in remembrance of me” (Luke 22:19-20).
Our scripture today is John 13:1-17.
It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already prompted Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus. Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God; so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him. He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?” Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.” “No,” said Peter, “you shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.” “Then, Lord,” Simon Peter replied, “not just my feet but my hands and my head as well!” Jesus answered, “Those who have had a bath need only to wash their feet; their whole body is clean. And you are clean, though not every one of you.” For he knew who was going to betray him, and that was why he said not every one was clean. When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. “Do you understand what I have done for you?” he asked them. “You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and rightly so, for that is what I am. Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. Very truly I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.”
One of my seminary professors once remarked that if the cross were not the sign of our faith, it should be the towel and basin, representing Christ’s servant love for us and that we are to share that servant spirit in the same way. I also heard that we all want to be servants – right up to the point that someone treats us like a servant! How do you feel about being a servant?
Footwashing was usually performed by the lowest servant in the household. However, Jesus showed in this passage the love and care He felt toward His disciples, and all of God’s children, taking on this task without shame, in the same way He went to the cross for us. Jesus showed that no task is beneath us when it is done out of love for God and each other.
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Apparent weight means the weight of an object when moving vertically.
So, to solve for weight of the person while the elevator is moving upward, apply the formula of Newton's Second Law which is:
Note that the forces acting on the person are its weight (W) and the tension (T) of the cable attached to the elevator. The direction of these two forces are opposite of each other. The upward force is the tension while the weight is the downward force. So,
`T - W = ma`
Since the elevator is moving up which is against the direction of gravity, then, the sign of the given acceleration is negative.
`T - W = 78(-1.8)`
`T - W = -140.4`
Moreover, the tension of the cable attached to the elevator is equal to the weight it is carrying. Note that this is the weight of the person when at rest or not moving.
`78*9.8 - W = -140.4`
`764.4 - W = -140.4`
From here, isolate W.
`W = 764.4+140.4`
Hence the apparent weight of the person when moving up is 904.8 N.
Among choices, the nearest answer is (A)900N.
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Gruffalo to visit Central Link Children's Centre
Children's favourite The Gruffalo will visit St Helens next week when a pop-up library comes to Central Link Children's Centre.
Article date: 18 July 2022
A collaboration between St Helens Early Help and St Helens Library Service, the free event forms part of the Holiday Activities and Food programme (HAF), a Department for Education-funded initiative to support families eligible for free school meals during the summer holidays.
As well as an opportunity for families to meet the Gruffalo, there will be arts and crafts - and a special edition of read and rhyme time delivered by library staff, with lunch provided and an opportunity to join the library service to borrow a wide variety of books.
Councillor Anthony Burns, Cabinet Member for Wellbeing, Culture and Heritage, said:
"The summer holidays are upon us, and we're very much looking forward to lending our support once again to the fantastic HAF programme with a number of events, including a pop-up library featuring the Gruffalo at Central Link, which is a chance for us to take our wonderful library service on tour into our communities to showcase the inspiring work staff are doing to help parents and carers bond with their children.
"Of course, this is just one fine example of the projects St Helens Library Service are leading on over summer, with the Festival of Imagination taking place this week - and the Summer Reading Challenge making a return. There's so much happening in libraries, so I'd encourage families to check out what's on offer over the summer."
Councillor Nova Charlton, St Helens Borough Council's Cabinet Member for Children and Young People, said: "Programmes like HAF are a lifesaver for families in our borough, many of whom are working households that have fallen on hard times, not helped by the rise in cost of living and energy.
"Activities like this one have been designed to cater for the needs and interests of children and young, with each session either including a healthy breakfast, lunch, or evening meal, ensuring no child goes hungry.
"One of our key priorities is to ensure children and young people have a positive start in life and programmes like this play a big part in achieving this. That's why I'd encourage eligible families to register and discover all the fun to be had."
The event will take place between 1:00pm-3:00pm on Monday 25 July. To book a place, visit: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pop-up-library-meet-the-gruffalo-crafts-storytime-including-lunch-tickets-375146361867?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
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New York (PRWEB UK) 23 February 2012
Phillips de Pury & Company is pleased to announce the sale of a unique customized Maybach featured in the video of the Grammy award winning song “Otis” , with JAY Z and Kanye West and directed by Spike Jonze, as Lot I of its New York Contemporary Art Evening auction to benefit Save the Children. The Evening auction will take place on 8th March 2012 at 450 Park Avenue, New York.
“JAY Z and Kanye West are towering figures in contemporary culture. They have greatly contributed to the artificial barriers between art, music, fashion and cinema to come down. Their video for 'Otis' became an instant classic. The Maybach they have transformed for it has the starring role." Simon de Pury, Chairman, Phillips de Pury & Company.
“The rains have arrived in some areas of East Africa, but the crisis is far from over. It will take many months for farmers and families to replenish herds and replant and harvest crops. The funds raised from auctioning off the ‘Otis” car are greatly needed to help sustain families over the next several months. We are grateful to JAY Z and Kanye West for offering up pop culture history to do good for children in Africa.” Carolyn Miles, President and CEO, Save the Children.
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SAVE THE CHILDREN
The Maybach sale proceeds will go to Save the Children, the leading independent organization creating lasting change in the lives of children in need around the world. It has been operating in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia over the last 20 years, where they monitor deteriorating conditions as the drought and food shortages, malnutrition, lack of safe water, and communicable diseases worsen in East Africa. The race to feed more than 12 million people facing severe food shortages in the Horn of Africa has seen humanitarian agencies make several funding appeals. Donor governments have contributed more than $1.46 billion out of the required $2.48 billion. Now celebrities like JAY Z and Kanye West have thrown their considerable influence behind the campaign to feed millions in the region, showing us their shared commitment to benefit those who need it most.
The current hunger crisis in Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia—the worst in over 60 years—has left 13 million people needing assistance. Some 250,000 people still face starvation in Somalia alone. Save the Children has helped 2.5 million children and families in the Horn of Africa through feeding, water trucking, healthcare and education. Funds from the sale of the car, which is estimated to sell at auction for more than $100,000, could feed more than 4,300 children in the Horn of Africa for a month.
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Funding: Then and Now Posted: November 05, 2012
While over the years we have strived towards the same mission, to enable the low-income, elderly, and those living with disabilities to become more self-sufficient, how we provide those services has changed and is continually shifting.
President Lyndon B. Johnson started legislation to fight poverty in 1964 in response to a national poverty rate of nineteen percent. The Economic Opportunity Act, unofficially named The War on Poverty, was passed by Congress , and established the Office of Economic Opportunity to administer the use of local federal funds to low-income communities. This led to the founding of OLHSA, which was then known as The Oakland County Commission on Economic Opportunity.
Funds started as strictly federal, but as the poverty rate held strong and the social issue of poverty fell off the national agenda OLHSA was faced with the need to find different sources to fund our programs. State and local funding has supplemented our core federal funding over the years, and we are constantly seeking both public and private grants.
We are facing harder economic times in the last few years, resulting in public funding sources becoming more unreliable while the demand for services continues to rise. Our solution? Spread our mission and build support from the community. We are working to do this in a few ways:
- Work to earn the privilege of private donations. We aim to treat every donor and volunteer like a stake-holder in our organization, showing them the impact of donations and most importantly, thanking them for their effort and investment. This past year we launched our first direct mail campaign to raise private dollars for our programs, and we continue to ramp up other fundraising initiatives.
- Combine forces. We work to build mutually beneficial relationships with local businesses and organizations in order to make a bigger impact. In 2010 OLHSA partnered with Gleaners Community Food Bank to expand Shared Harvest Food Pantry in Howell, combining costs and resources to serve more residents facing hunger. Additionally, the clients of Shared Harvest are learning about other services available to them through both Gleaners and OLHSA.
- Get people talking. Our goal is to spark conversation about hardships for local families and the way OLHSA is meeting their needs; we share success stories and use the media to convey our passion for helping the community. If anything news worthy happens here at OLHSA, we want people to know!
The change has been gradual but overall notable. Starting with 100 percent federal funds in 1964 and now averaging only 70 percent over the past ten years has taken some adjustments. That leaves 30 percent of our funding to state, local and private dollars. Even with these uncertain economic times, our generous neighbors have helped us average 10 percent privately raised funds over the last eight years. We are working hard every day to nurture these relationships and continue to gain private support.
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And those ideas led to profoundly incorrect notions about the 'nature' of men, and the 'nature' of women.
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Hi, my name is Julia Stonehouse and I write about 'the facts of life'. Surprisingly, in terms of ideas about where babies come from, there has only been gender equality for a little over 100 years. In many parts of the world today people are still living with the earlier patriarchal life-view - there is one parent, and he is male. And billions of us live with the traditions that grew logically and inevitably from that idea.
This website, and my book FATHER'S SEED, MOTHER'S SORROW, look at 35,000 years of human history entirely from one point of view: where did they think babies
come from? And the answers to that question throw a completely new light on history, archaeology, religion, philosophy, sociology, law and, indeed, all aspects of the human story. I hope you find it
interesting. Thanks for visiting!
The logic behind patriarchy evaporated in 1900 AD when scientists finally came to the conclusion that there are two parents (male and female), not just one (the male).
Before 1900 scientists and people in general thought the seed of human life was singular, and came from the testicles of men - who 'planted' it in the soil of women.
Seeds are singular. We plant one of them in the ground and it grows into a single plant which has the seeds of future generations of plants. This is
exactly how people used to think about human reproduction - with the seed going along the male line, from grandfather to father to son.
The discoveries that led to the turning point of 1900 were kept away from public discussion. The scientists were not keen for people to know they had made a
huge and fundamental error, especially as it was an error - an idea - that had provided solid logic for all patriarchal traditions, which they as men enjoyed.
If you ever wondered how men came to have the upper hand in all things, the male-seed idea of reproduction explains a lot:
The facts of life were completely and profoundly wrong for thousands of years, and during that time people came to all kinds of mistaken ideas about the 'nature' of men and the 'nature' of women. To challenge these ideas was blasphemous because if God is the source of 'nature, to challenge it is to challenge God. And also, to suggest reproduction was accomplished by the fusion of two elements (two seeds) smacked of occultism. You could be put to death for arguing against the male-seed reproduction theory.
There have been thousands of reproducion theories, and I would like to see a library covering them all because each one has a profound impact on the culture that holds it. However, this is what I think happened in much of the world, covering Europe, America, the Middle East, The Near East, and The Far East. There have been 4 major theories, going back in time:
4. From 1900 AD to now: there are 2 parents, the man and the woman.
(50% man-50% woman: men try to control female sexuality but women have reproductive rights).
3. From 3000 BC to 1900 AD: there is one seed and it comes from the testicles of the man. The woman is just the earth he plants it in. She is not a parent. He is the sole parent.
(100% man-0% woman: men feel they have the absolute right to control the means of their reproduction ... women).
2. From 10,000 to 3000 BC: there is one seed and it is in the womb of the woman. Men water the seeds with semen. Women are the sole parents because they are the source of the seed.
(0% man-100% woman: men have no say in controlling female sexuality because it is not men's
1. From earliest times to 10,000 BC: women reproduce on their own. Intercourse has nothing to do with reproduction.
(0% man-100% woman: men have no say in controlling female sexuality).
The highlighted point in red above (3) is a matter of historical record, usually hidden under the subject 'the history of embryology'.
We are still living with the traditions that evolved during that time because we don't realise there was A BIG MISTAKE because this part of scientific history was covered-up. The men who enjoyed the supremacy that came with being seen as the sole parents were in no hurry to advertise the fact they'd had the facts of life wrong for 5,000 years. Instead, they stayed silent. That's why it's very unlikely you've heard of the embryologists who liberated women from incubator status. And that, in turn, is why so many people think "people have always known the facts of life".
Nothing could be further from the truth.
The most basic fact of life - there are 2 parents - was extemely difficult to establish. And, until it was, people lived with misconceptions that profoundly affected their ideas of what the 'nature' of a man, or the 'nature' of a women, is.
Today millions of people around the world still do not understand there is reproductive equality, while billions live - to differing degrees - with the legacy
of the single, male-seed, theory of reproduction.
In my book FATHER'S SEED, MOTHER'S SORROW I trace the history of the male-seed idea of reproduction back through time, until the ancient Greeks. Even at this time we can see the interface with an earlier idea - that the seed is in the woman and the man waters it. With this way of thinking the man wasn't thought to be a parent. He helped, sure, but mother was the source of life, not he. And when we examine the iconography of the very earliest times from the point of view of reproduction theory, another idea emerges: women reproduce without men being involved at all.
This might seem a bizarre concept, but it is no more bizarre than the idea that women are not parents - and that was the idea all the characters of history we know by name lived with - including Charles Darwin, King Henry 8th, and Aristotle. Indeed, there are people living today who think men have nothing whatever to do with reproduction (see the next page).
The bird flying at the top of these pages represents the flight of humanity, only possible when a bird can use two wings. Up to recently humanity has been
like a bird flying on one wing - lopsided, inefficient, disastrous. We're all sick and tired of the inequality in the world. Women's lives have been horrific, horrible, or just unfulfilled. When
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Wittig reaction under Phase Transfer conditions was performed in a flow reaction system. Different bases, aldehydes, phosphonium salts, and flow reaction parameters were investigated, in absence of a phase transfert catalyst. An improvement of the reaction outcome (yield and reaction time) was achieved through the immersion of the reactor into an ultrasound bath
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An architect’s guide to Stockholm
We explore Sweden’s capital in the Volvo XC60 with renowned Swedish architect Andreas Helgesson Gonzaga.
Swedish architecture and design is about putting people first, says architect Andreas Helgesson Gonzaga.
“The growth of major developments in Stockholm is immense. And I don’t just mean central Stockholm, but also just outside the absolute centre,” says Andreas Helgesson Gonzaga, architect and lecturer, and our guide for the journey around Sweden’s largest city in the Volvo XC60.
It’s a statement backed up by the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce who, in a 2015 study, predicted that the population of Sweden’s capital will rise 11 per cent by 2020 – quicker than any other city in Europe.
Andreas believes this boom is attributed to a societal change.
“At the moment Stockholm is experiencing a situation akin to the housing boom of the 1960s and 1970s when, as part of the Miljonprogrammet [Million Programme], Sweden built a million homes over a period of 10 years. For innovation, it’s key that the construction business can provide enough diversity and competition throughout the whole design process to secure the delivery of high-quality architecture.”
Above: Gramla Stan (Old Town) in Stockholm. Tove Freij / mediabank.visitstockholm.com
For our journey through modern Stockholm, the XC60 – the dynamic SUV in the Volvo Cars XC range – proves a valuable partner. Over breakfast, I had sent the locations for the day’s photography to the XC60 from my smartphone so that, as soon as we get in the car, the Sensus Navigation is already programmed. Not available in Australia.
As well as providing excellent navigation, the XC60 proves – like any good guide – to be informative, useful and entertaining. With onboard Wikipedia, we learn more about each location we visit.
Driving around Stockholm in the XC60, Andreas explains that ‘high-quality’ in Swedish architecture and design means putting people first. “It’s user-focused,” he says. “In some ways it’s a development from the functionalism that was prevalent from the 1930s to the 1960s. That heritage is still strong. That sense of putting the user at the centre in architectural development is still there [in Sweden].
“We have a very long tradition of planning and urban design, which is a positive thing,” continues Andreas. “We don’t only design individual buildings. Our planning ethos is firmly grounded in social values – both public space and urban coherence is very important. In that sense, it’s not only about constructing buildings but also about constructing society.”
With the head-up display in the XC60, clear turn-by-turn graphics are projected into my sight line, so I never have to take my eyes off the road as I navigate unfamiliar streets. And the car’s 360° Camera means negotiating narrow roads and parking spaces is easy, as it gives me a bird’s-eye view of the car.
On our tour of the city, Andreas points out the way that good Scandinavian design seamlessly blends the old and the new. Parked up outside Stockholm’s Grand Hôtel, surrounded by the splendour of the Royal Palace (main image), National Museum and Gamla Stan (old town), it’s easy to feel like you’ve travelled back a couple of centuries. Yet peeking out from behind the more traditional facades are glass and metal structures that hint at a city that dances to a modern beat.
Above: The distinctive curved steel building of the school of architecture at Stockholm’s KTH. Image: KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
Andreas has created some of them, and now he is helping to shape the next generation. As well as running his own architecture practice, he is a lecturer at the renowned KTH [Royal Institute of Technology] school of architecture in Stockholm. He was the project architect of its impressive new building; a curved structure of glass and deep red corten steel that blends beautifully with the traditional red brick of nearby buildings.
“Despite being hyper-modern, it establishes a dialogue with its surroundings,” says Andreas.
On the drive back to the hotel that evening, Andreas consults the on-board Yelp app to help with lastminute dinner plans, while the weather app helps us prepare for the following day. It’s only natural that, since Stockholm is home to Spotify, the XC60 has that app, too. It allows a world of music to be played through the car’s optional premium sound system, developed with renowned audio brand Bowers & Wilkins.
Andreas says that Sweden’s next generation of architects fill him with great hope for the future. “My students are the generation of ‘sharing’,” he observes. “This affects workflow as well as knowledge. They’re keen to establish collaboration across disciplines, develop sustainable building and create a renaissance in public space.” | <urn:uuid:412af416-7b8e-40a8-94e5-05d448435206> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.volvocars.com/au/about/australia/i-roll-enewsletter/2019/december/an-architects-guide-to-stockholm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.936299 | 1,093 | 2 | 2 |
Across the world, women continue to earn less than men and do the majority of unpaid work. An Oxfam report on Monday finds that gender equality is far from a reality, in rich and poor countries alike. One of the most alarming figures is that, at the current rate of progress, it will be 75 years before women are paid equally to men.
This year, Australia has a unique opportunity, as the host of the G20 in November, to help change this course – to push the G20 to make good on its promises to support inclusive growth and employment that will benefit women as well as men. In particular, Australia has the opportunity to lead on specific measures to address women's full participation in the workforce.
G20 nations are developing individual growth strategies to achieve an agreed 2 per cent increase in global economic growth. The glaringly obvious opportunity would be to focus on strategies to close the gap in women's workforce participation, yet, oddly, this is not widely discussed. It is estimated that if men's and women's employment rates were equal, the US's gross domestic product would increase by 9 per cent, the eurozone's by 13 per cent and Japan's by 16 per cent.
One example of an investment that has driven growth is Quebec's low-cost childcare program, which has resulted in the relative poverty of single-mother families falling by 14 per cent and their after-tax income shooting up by 81 per cent.
While the program costs roughly 0.7 per cent of GDP, it has increased female employment rates with an estimated additional 70,000 mothers in jobs, resulting in a 1.7 per cent increase in GDP. This example demonstrates how investment in closing the participation gap between men and women can drive growth – which benefits everyone.
At present, it would be fair to say that most of the policies of the G20 have tended to be gender-blind. Decisions are being made mostly by men, with little concern for their impact on women. For example, the G20's fiscal consolidation and austerity policies have resulted in cuts to the public sector.
While this may have achieved desired savings, it did not consider the impact that cuts to the public service would have on women, who are the majority of users for public services. The cuts also had ramifications for women's employment, given the public sector has made significant progress towards equal employment of men and women. Regardless of the merit of the public sector cuts, there needs to be a gendered impact analysis of these policies before they are put in place.
If Australia can influence an outcome of the G20 so that it effectively considers the different needs and experiences of men and women, we would be leading one of the most significant and necessary shifts in global economic decision-making in history. While the ball is in our court, Australia needs to ensure the G20 continues to advocate for strong, sustainable and balanced growth that is inclusive and considers the specific needs of women. These include the redistribution of unpaid care work within households and opportunities to share that work more equally, as well as the need for social protection and a regulatory and legal environment that protects women’s rights.
This week in Sydney, influential business leaders from G20 countries are coming together with the aim of influencing the G20 agenda. At their two-day B20 summit, women will be few and far between – with only two speakers, three MCs and no women task force leaders participating. Is it really so hard to understand that for laws, policies and attitudes to reflect and respond to the needs and realities of our societies, women must also be in the inner sanctum?
We are calling for the B20 and the G20 to treat gender equality as a priority. The G20 needs to prioritise policies that reduce the burden of unpaid care work and support initiatives that overcome the systemic barriers to women's workforce participation. Steps must also be taken to ensure that women are represented at the highest levels of decision-making.
At this rate, even our children may not experience a world where women are valued equally to men – but this course is not inevitable.
In 2012, G20 leaders committed to breaking down the barriers that stand in the way of women's full economic and social participation in their countries. Let this be the year when we start doing just that.
Julie McKay is the executive director of the National Committee for UN Women.
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How infamous lady outlaw Belle Starr won the Game of Thrones in the Wild Wild West.
Belle Starr really knew how to get out of a jam.
Born a southern aristocrat, she became a scout for the ruthless Bill Quantrill’s guerillas in the Civil War.
She had an illegitimate child with a roving brigand before “settling down” with another who would later be shot for bounty. When asked to ID the body so her husband’s killer could claim his reward, she told an ice-cold lie that it was the body of a stranger. He was buried in a potter’s grave and his killer never received his bounty.
Meanwhile Belle Starr had gained a position as Queen of the Bandits, “The Petticoat Terror of the Plains.”
Throughout her life she added to her pantheon of outlaw lovers, who only seemed to get younger and more handsome as she aged, and were rumored to include an incestuous relationship with her own son.
Of the many times Belle was arrested for stealing horses and charmed her way out, she once eloped with the deputy. He returned to Dallas after a month confessing he had been worked to the bone with house chores and romance. He later found an embarrassing note affixed to his coat that said, “Returned because found unsatisfactory.”
Belle and was once bailed out by a wealthy rancher who sold cattle paid her $2,500 at her request. It turned out that the fine was only $10. Belle spent an evening with her savior but refused to return her $2,490 profit. Despite advice to sue her, the rancher is rumored to have said, “Hell, let her keep it! I reckon with what she’s had to put up with she’s earned every cent of it.”
She eventually “settled down” again with Sam Starr, son of notorious Cherokee bandit Tom Starr. They were eventually both tried in court for horse stealing. According to a local paper, the fact that Belle was “the leader of a band of horse thieves and wielding a power over them as their queen and guiding spirit” packed the stands.
She was sentenced to nine months, which she passed pleasantly by weaving cane chair-bottoms and making friends with the warden and his wife. She was released early on good behavior, while Sam served his full sentence with hard labor.
It is said that when while scouting she was captured by Major Eno, who detained her so that she would not ride back to Carthage to warn her brother. They eventually let her go after it seemed too much time had passed for her to arrive in time. She rode hard, stopping only to cut new switches for her mount. When Eno’s soldiers arrived to capture Bud, they were greeted by his teenage sister they had just left behind, who politely informed them that Bud had left half and hour ago.
It is said that when Bud’s casket was returned from the Confederate front, she shouted “You damned blue-bellies will pay for this!” and grabbed her brother's revolver from his holster, taking aim at the troops and pulling the trigger. The ammunition had been removed, otherwise she would have avenged her brother’s death on the spot, against his brothers-in-arms.
Did she blame them for leading him into battle? For not protecting him? For sowing seeds of violence and glory in his imagination? I rather think she was prone to such fancies herself, and the troops were just easy targets for her legendary anger.
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trols the supply of yellow cabs; regulates which cabs can operate where; issues drivers’ licenses; and requires car replacement every five years.
“It’s a struggling business but what else are you going to do? People would rather struggle and drive vans than not work.”
e upshot is that despite being classified as independent
contractors, many drivers are effectively in an employ- ment relationship – how they do their job and what they earn is severely constrained by industry regulation and by the terms of contract with garages, brokers and bases. A good illustration is that during the steep escalation of gas prices last year, yellow cab drivers were not able to adjust fares on their own, but had to petition the TLC for a fuel surcharge (which was denied). In what follows, we therefore evaluate the drivers’ working conditions through the lens of core employment and labor laws (see Section III for a fuller treatment of how we define un- regulated work).
Working conditions & violations
Further, drivers do not receive overtime pay because of their independent contractor status. is lack of coverage has a significant impact, given the 70 and 80 hour weeks that drivers need to work to make any money after initial costs – weekly earnings would be as much as 25% higher if time-and-a-half were paid. More generally, drivers face verbal harassment, damage to their cabs, and non-pay- ment of fares. ey are not infrequently victims of rob- bery, physical threats and physical harm from passengers: “I have had more than four guns to my head,” one driver told us. Health and safety problems also result from long hours driving and traffic accidents. And drivers are more likely than other workers to be killed on the job. is is well-known in the industry: “I know it’s risky, but I do it because I have no choice,” another worker reported.
In our assessment, many yellow cab, livery cab, and dol- lar van drivers experience what are effectively unregulated working violations. As shown in Table K, hourly wages for drivers can fall below the minimum wage because of the very high number of hours worked per week, coupled with low net earnings. is may happen on a regular basis or just a few weeks a year, depending on gas prices, the fare rate that drivers are allowed to charge, and fluc- tuations in economic conditions. One driver we inter- viewed in 2004 rented a livery cab from another driver for a second shift; on a bad week, he brought home $200, which translates into significantly less than the minimum wage for six days of full-time work. A van driver told us,
While some taxi drivers are covered through workers’ compensation for injury on the job, health and safety regulations for the industry are weak, meaning that cabs are being driven without, for example, recommended protective equipment to forestall robberies. Exacerbat- ing the generally unsafe environment is the fact that the large majority of drivers have no health insurance.
Finally, drivers report harassment and fines for minor in- fractions by TLC agents and police. ese may result in drivers losing licenses so they cannot drive for as much as a month (meaning a substantial loss of income), as well as significant fines.
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|Subject: Effect of Soymilk Consumption on Serum Estrogen and Androgen Concentrations in Japanese Men Tue Dec 07, 2010 3:20 pm|| |
In this study soya milk drinking seemed to lower estrone (one of the oestrogen family of hormones), but did not appear to affect any other hormones much at all.
Let me make that crystal clear in this study soya milk lowered an oestrogen, but not affect androgenic activity.
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- There was a significant difference between the two groups in terms of changes in serum estrone concentrations, which tended to decrease in the soy-supplemented group and increase in the control group over time. None of the other hormones measured (estradiol, total and free-testosterone, or sex hormone-binding globulin) showed any statistical difference between the two groups in terms of patterns of change. The results of the study indicate that soymilk consumption may modify circulating estrone concentrations in men. | <urn:uuid:ea9786e2-bf81-4089-9345-2266d1c09264> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://veganbodybuilding.userboard.net/t568-effect-of-soymilk-consumption-on-serum-estrogen-and-androgen-concentrations-in-japanese-men | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00125-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.893933 | 244 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Renaming of Turkmen months and days of week, 2002
On August 10, 2002, the government of Turkmenistan adopted a law to rename all the months and most of the days of week. The names were chosen according to Turkmen national symbols, as described in Ruhnama, a book written by Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmenistan's first president for life. According to Arto Halonen's documentary film The Shadow of the Holy Book, Turkish businessman Ahmet Çalık came up with the idea to rename the months, as he was trying to befriend Niyazov in order to expand his business in the country.
After the law was passed the new names were used in all Turkmen state-owned media. Publications in languages other than Turkmen often use the new names too, especially those that were targeted at Russian-speaking citizens of Turkmenistan, with the old name sometimes written in brackets. The old month names were still used in popular speech, however.
Niyazov died in 2006. On April 23, 2008 it was reported that the cabinet of ministers of Turkmenistan discussed restoring the old names of the months and days of week. The old names were finally restored in July 2008.
The original month names were taken from the Russian language. The adopted Turkmen month names were as follows:
|English name||Old Turkmen name||Adopted Turkmen name (2002-2008)||Explanation|
|January||Ýanwar||Türkmenbaşy||Meaning "The Leader of Turkmen", the adopted name of Saparmurat Niyazov, president of Turkmenistan and author of Ruhnama.|
|February||Fewral||Baýdak||Flag - the Turkmenistan flag day is celebrated in February on Niyazov's birthday.|
|March||Mart||Nowruz||The traditional Persian new year, which is celebrated in March.|
|April||Aprel||Gurbansoltan||Gurbansoltan Eje - The name of Niyazov's mother.|
|May||Maý||Magtymguly||Magtymguly Pyragy - Turkmen poet, considered by Niyazov as one of the greatest spiritual teachers of the Turkmen people.|
|June||Iýun||Oguz||Oguz Khan - the founder of the Turkmen nation, according to Ruhnama (see Oghuz).|
|July||Iýul||Gorkut||The hero of "Gorkut-Ata" Turkmen epic.|
|August||Awgust||Alp Arslan||The second leader of the Seljuk Empire, fought a war with the Byzantine Empire and initiated Turkish migration into Asia Minor.|
|September||Sentýabr||Ruhnama||Niyazov's book, defined as a spiritual guide for the Turkmen nation.|
|October||Oktýabr||Garaşsyzlyk||Independence - Turkmenistan's Independence Day is celebrated in October.|
|November||Noýabr||Sanjar||The last ruler of the Seljuk Empire.|
|December||Dekabr||Bitaraplyk||Neutrality - Turkmenistan was proclaimed a neutral country, and the Neutrality Day is celebrated in December.|
The original names of the days of the week come from Persian. The adopted names were as follows:
|English name||Old Turkmen name||Adopted Turkmen name||Explanation|
- Туркменам вернули прежний календарь, Lenta.ru, July 1, 2008 (Russian)
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IHOP offers free pancakes to raise money for children’s medical centers; U.S. health care dollars have come from drastically different places since 1970, according to study; and a Medicare proposal targets “outdated or overly burdensome” regulations. These stories and more top public health news on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013.
Kaiser Health News — Health care spending in America, in two graphs
Spending on health care has, of course, been rising in the U.S. for decades. Health care now accounts for 18 cents of every dollar Americans spend, up from 7 cents in 1970. But where, exactly, is all that money going? And, for that matter, where is the money coming from to pay for all that health care? We found answers to both of these questions in this data set. First, here’s where the money is going. Despite huge changes in medicine and medical technology, the share of health dollars that flows to each major category has changed little in the past 40 years. In other words, spending on each category — drugs, hospitals, doctors, etc. — has increased at about the same rate. What has changed dramatically is where the money comes from.
Los Angeles Times — IHOP gives away free pancakes for charity Tuesday
Early bird today gets the pancakes. A stack of them. For free from IHOP. And it’s all in the name of charity. The restaurant chain is trying to encourage diners taking advantage of the complimentary meal to donate $3 million to the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, which raises funds for 170 nonprofit children’s medical centers. The company, owned by Applebee’s parent DineEquity in Glendale, has been hosting the giveaway for eight years and has raised $10 million. The more than 1,500 IHOP restaurants will offer a complimentary tower of buttermilk pancakes from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. IHOP has dubbed Feb. 5 to be National Pancake Day — a holiday it says is based on a tradition several centuries old of making pancakes to use up all the dairy products forbidden during Lent.
Washington Post — New technology helps doctors link a patient’s location to illness and treatment
Epidemiologist David Van Sickle spent years studying asthma, but like many researchers of the chronic disease, he was frustrated by the obstacles to determining precise triggers of an individual attack. That frustration gave him an idea for a rescue inhaler topped with a GPS sensor. The invention would map the user’s location every time he took a puff and send that information back to his doctor. Such a device, Van Sickle thought, would give doctors data about when and where attacks occurred, helping them figure out possible environmental causes and allowing them to plan treatment accordingly. In 2006, he began work on a prototype, an endeavor that turned out to be harder than he had imagined, chiefly because the sensor attachment had to be as durable as the inhalers themselves.
Reuters — US proposes scrapping some obsolete Medicare regulations
The Obama administration on Monday proposed eliminating certain obsolete Medicare regulations, a move it said would save hospitals and other healthcare providers an estimated $676 million a year, or $3.4 billion over five years. The Department of Health and Human Services described the targeted regulations as unnecessary or excessively burdensome and said their proposed elimination would allow greater efficiency without jeopardizing safety for the Medicare program’s elderly and disabled beneficiaries.”We are committed to cutting the red tape for healthcare facilities, including rural providers,” Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a statement. “By eliminating outdated or overly burdensome requirements, hospitals and health care professionals can focus on treating patients,” she added.
CBC News — Sperm counts lower with more TV time
Men who watch television for 20 hours per week have almost half the sperm count of those who watch very little television or none at all, a new study has found. US researchers recruited 189 young men aged between 18 to 22, questioned them about their exercise, diet and TV habits and asked them to provide a sperm sample. Men in the top quarter of TV-watchers — those who watched for 20 hours or more — had a 44-per cent lower sperm count than those who watched least, meaning they said they watched “none or almost none.” Another big factor was exercise, according to the study, published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. | <urn:uuid:7731628a-0c17-4d1c-9cfe-a4b7e27c7cf4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.publichealthnewswire.org/?p=6421 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280791.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00355-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963369 | 923 | 2.09375 | 2 |
|Name:||Eugene Louis Lami|
|Dates:||1800 - 1890|
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Healing at the Beautiful Gate
1One afternoon Peter and John went to the temple for the three o’clock prayer. # 3:1 Daily sacrifices were made in the temple at sunrise and about three o’clock every afternoon. 2As they came to the entrance called the Beautiful Gate, # 3:2 Or “the gate called Wonderful” in Aramaic. It is difficult to ascertain which of the many gates of the temple this might have been, and there is varying speculation with no certain conclusion. However, this Beautiful Gate points to Jesus Christ, who is the gate or entrance into the sheepfold of God. Furthermore, it hints of Ezekiel’s temple (Ezek. 47), which has a river flowing out from the threshold through the gateway of the temple. This river was first measured to be ankle deep. This man, lame in his ankles, was healed by the spiritual “river” that flowed out the “Beautiful Gate” of Christ. The gateway opened up and the river poured out of Peter and John, bringing healing to the lame. they were captured by the sight of a man crippled from birth being carried and placed at the entrance to the temple. He was often brought there to beg for money from those going in to worship. 3When he noticed Peter and John going into the temple, he begged them for money.
4Peter and John, looking straight into the eyes of the crippled man, said, “Look at us!” 5Expecting a gift, he readily gave them his attention. 6Then Peter said, “I don’t have money, but I’ll give you this—by the power of the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, stand up and walk!”
7-8Peter held out his right hand to the crippled man. As he pulled the man to his feet, suddenly power surged into his crippled feet and ankles. The man jumped up, stood there for a moment stunned, and then began to walk around! As he went into the temple courts with Peter and John, he leapt for joy and shouted praises to God.
9When all the people saw him jumping up and down and heard him glorifying God, 10they realized it was the crippled beggar they had passed by in front of the Beautiful Gate. Astonishment swept over the crowd, for they were amazed over what had happened to him.
Peter Preaches to the Crowd
11Dumbfounded over what they were witnessing, the crowd ran over to Peter and John, who were standing under the covered walkway called Solomon’s Porch. Standing there also was the healed beggar, clinging to Peter and John. # 3:11 What an amazing picture this makes. This scene transpired at Solomon’s Porch. Lessons of wisdom, greater than the wisdom of Solomon, were uncovered by this miracle to those who had hearts of understanding.
12With the crowd surrounding him, Peter said to them all, “People of Israel, # 3:12 The Aramaic could be translated “protectors of Israel.” listen to me! Why are you so amazed by this healing? Why do you stare at us? We didn’t make this crippled man walk by our own power or authority. # 3:12 As translated from the Aramaic. The Greek is “piety.” 13The God of our ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, # 3:13 See Ex. 3:6. has done this. For he has glorified his Servant # 3:13 See Isa. 52:13. Jesus, the one you denied to Pilate’s face when he decided to release him—and you insisted that he be crucified. 14You rejected # 3:14 Or “denied.” It is amazing how complete was the healing of Peter’s life. Just fifty days previously, it was Peter who denied he knew Jesus three times. Now he says to his fellow Jews, “You denied the holy and righteous One!” the one who is holy and righteous, and instead begged for a murderer to be released. 15You killed the Prince of Life! # 3:15 Or “Originator of Life.” But God raised him from the dead, and we stand here as witnesses to that fact. 16Faith in Jesus’ name has healed this man standing before you. It is the faith that comes through believing in Jesus’ name that has made the crippled man walk right in front of your eyes!
17“My fellow Jews, I realize that neither you nor your leaders realize the grave mistake you made. 18But in spite of what you’ve done, God has fulfilled what he foretold through the prophets long ago about the sufferings of his Anointed One. 19And now you must repent and turn back # 3:19 Peter uses the Greek word epistrepho (“turn back to God,” “be converted”). We need to not only repent but to return home to God’s grace and truth. This is a Hebraic thought of returning to the Lord God (the Hebrew word shuv). Every Jew would know what that means: “Come back to God!” Repentance and return is more than a passive changing of one’s mind. to God so that your sins will be removed, # 3:19 The Greek word used here, exaleipho, means “obliterated” or “canceled.” and so that times of refreshing # 3:19 Or “cooling breeze,” which occurs only here in the New Testament. This hints of the time when God walked with Adam in the cooling breeze of the day. The work of the cross begins the restoration of Paradise within the hearts of Christ’s followers. will stream from the Lord’s presence. 20And he will send you Jesus, the Messiah, the appointed one. # 3:20 The Aramaic can be translated “He will send you all that has been already prepared for you through Jesus, the Anointed One.” 21For he must remain in heaven until the restoration of all things # 3:21 Or “until the time for the universal restoration.” has taken place, # 3:21 Or “This one the heavens must receive until the times of universal restoration.” The word restoration in Greek is apokatastasis, which infers the restoration of creation to the state of existence before the fall, but also Davidic covenant being restored. Luke’s choice of the Greek word found only here in the New Testament is noteworthy. It is a medical term that means “restoration of perfect health.” fulfilling everything that God said long ago through his holy prophets. 22For has not Moses told us: # 3:22 See Lev. 23:29; Deut. 18:15, 19.
‘The Lord your God will raise up
a prophet from among you who is like me.
Listen to him and follow everything he tells you.
23Every person who disobeys that prophet
will be cut off and completely destroyed.’
24“In fact, every prophet from the time of Samuel onward has prophesied of these very days! 25And you are heirs of their prophecies # 3:25 Or “sons of the prophets.” and of the covenants God made with your fathers when he promised Abraham, # 3:25 See Gen. 22:18; 26:4. ‘Your descendant # 3:25 Or “seed” (descendants). will bring blessing to all the people on the earth.’
26“Now that God raised up his Son, # 3:26 The Greek word pais can mean either “servant” or “son.” (See Strong’s Concordance, Gr. 3816.) The Aramaic is clearly “son.” Notice how many times in the book of Acts that the followers of Christ preached the resurrection. The power and virtue of the cross can never be diminished; however, it is the resurrection of Christ that became the apostolic center of their preaching in the book of Acts. he has chosen to send him first to you that he might bless you by turning each one of you # 3:26 The Aramaic uses the conditional clause “if you turn and repent from your evils.” from your wickedness.” # 3:26 The Greek is plural, “wickednesses” or “evil ways.” | <urn:uuid:d2582a75-a3db-4fd6-8b95-d2bd604052b5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bible.com/bible/1849/ACT.3.TPT | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.969851 | 1,800 | 2.03125 | 2 |
WASHINGTON (CNS) — The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, in a position statement issued earlier this spring, said some of its drugs are not meant to be used for executions and that it would restrict those drugs’ availability to government agencies that might use them to make compounds for lethal injections.
The action was hailed by Karen Clifton, executive director of the Catholic Mobilizing Network to End the Use of the Death Penalty.
“The medical community’s mission is to save lives; Pfizer’s actions … are consistent with that mission,” Clifton said in a May 16 statement. “As Catholics, we hold human life to be sacred and we are encouraged when we see that value reflected in our wider culture.”
“Pfizer makes its products to enhance and save the lives of the patients we serve. Consistent with these values, Pfizer strongly objects to the use of its products as lethal injections for capital punishment,” said the statement, dated March 28 but made public May 13.
The statement said Pfizer would restrict sales of seven specific drugs “to a select group of wholesalers, distributors and direct purchasers under the condition that they will not resell these products to correctional institutions for use in lethal injections.
“Government purchasing entities must certify that products they purchase or otherwise acquire are used only for medically prescribed patient care and not for any penal purposes,” the statement continued. “Pfizer further requires that these government purchasers certify that the product is for ‘own use’ and will not resell or otherwise provide the restricted products to any other party.”
Concerns over the use of the drugs have come from many quarters.
Pfizer, whose corporate headquarters are in New York, and other drug manufacturers have been concerned that their drugs have been used for executions. Death penalty opponents have been concerned over the use of prescription medications being used for lethal injections. Courts have grown concerned over the constitutionality of drug cocktails being used to enforce the death penalty, and some have ruled they violate constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment. States with prisoners on death row have likewise become concerned over the supply of drugs to use in executions, going so far in some cases to shield the identities of the wholesalers or retailers who supply the necessary drugs.
“Pfizer joins other major pharmaceutical companies, the American Pharmacists Association, and the International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists, in banning their products and member participation in executions,” Clifton said in her statement. “States that insist on carrying out executions are going to increasingly turn to pharmacies that are willing to go against their profession’s ethical standards.”
The Pfizer policy statement said that while its distribution network is intended to get these drugs to the people who need them for medical reasons, it will “consistently monitor the distribution of these seven products, act upon findings that reveal noncompliance, and modify policies when necessary to remain consistent with our stated position against the improper use of our products in lethal injections.”
“Our country is moving away from the death penalty because it is immoral,” Clifton said. “There is no good way to kill someone. It’s time to admit this is a bad policy and end the use of capital punishment.” | <urn:uuid:a020b7c0-7a20-4248-b1c6-e7a9bc5a2123> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://catholicphilly.com/2016/05/news/national-news/pharmaceutical-firm-hailed-for-ban-on-supplying-drugs-for-executions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00172-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955158 | 693 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Guest Column: Keeping nuclear materials secure in an uncertain world
IAEA headquarters in Vienna, IAEA photo.
Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) based in Vienna have been spending a lot of time in Iran – But how do the inspectors know what to look for? They come to Los Alamos National Laboratory to learn how.
Los Alamos started teaching a special course for IAEA inspectors in 1980, and since then, all IAEA inspectors have been trained at the Laboratory. What they learn takes their initial training, which tells them how to take measurements and follow procedures, to the next level. (Full story)
Los Alamos disease-fighting technology
Citrus plants treated with immunity
technology, from Innate Immunity, LLC.
A pathogen-carrying pest known as the glassy-winged sharpshooter has plagued grape vines in California for more than century, but a new technology from Los Alamos National Laboratory could soon turn sharpshooter ammunition into blanks.
A new startup, Los Alamos-based Innate Immunity LLC, is now working with industry leaders on field trials before broadly deploying the technology to protect California’s $30 billion wine industry. (Full story)
Flash Physics: CubeSats could soon self-propel
Rocket motor test firing, LANL image.
CubeSats – small, low-cost satellites – could soon become self-propelled, thanks to a rocket-motor concept developed by researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US. While CubeSats are a cheap and easy way for relatively small research groups to launch satellites and access space, they traditionally do not have any on-board propulsion system – the nanosatellites are usually launched via a larger satellite and simply released into a specific orbit. (Full story)
Also from New Atlas:
Geomagnetic storm could affect connection
A moderate geomagnetic storm is currently sweeping
the Northern Hemisphere, from Laboratory Equipment.
Experts at the Los Alamos National Laboratory are investigating the national-security implications of solar storms in a program called “Impacts of Extreme Space Weather Events on Power Grid Infrastructure: Physics-Based Modeling of Geomagnetically-Induced Currents During Carrington-Class Geomagnetic Storms,” begun last month.
The three-year Los Alamos program will determine what transformers, circuits, stations and conduits could be fried by a flare-up from the sun, according to Mike Henderson, leader of the program. (Full story)
The prize on the horizon
Sara Del Valle at the Expanding Your
Horizons Conference, Daily Post photo.
The first thing that happened [at the Expanding Your Horizons conference in Santa Fe] was a talk by a super-mathematician who works at Los Alamos National Laboratory named Sara Del Valle; the keynote speaker could not have been more inspiring.
When her family moved to the United States, she was only 16 and she had to learn English in two years, if she wanted to go to college, but she did it. Her advice is, “Keep calm and study hard.”
She loved math, but she didn’t know what she wanted to study. A good idea that helped her was, “Find a mentor.” Like who? Like somebody you look up to, like a role model. (Full story)
Also from the Daily Post this week:
Los Alamos honors four new research fellows
Top row: Preston and Hollingsworth.
Bottom row: Wiens and Crooker. LANL image.
Four distinguished Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists are being recognized as Fellows of the Laboratory this fall including Scott Crooker, Jennifer Hollingsworth, Dean Preston and Roger Wiens.
The Fellows organization at Los Alamos was established in 1981 and includes technical staff members who have been appointed by the Laboratory director in recognition of their sustained outstanding contributions and exceptional promise for continued professional achievement.
“Laboratory Fellows are selected for their exceptional contributions to Laboratory science and mission,” Laboratory Director Charlie McMillan said. (Full story)
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BEIJING - China on Friday responded to comments by Japan's prime minister on naval conflict by urging Japan to seek peace and stability in the East China Sea.
"China's stance on the East China Sea is consistent and clear," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said, urging Japan to respect history as well as reality and make joint efforts with China to safeguard peace and stability in this area.
Hong's comments came after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Japan would not tolerate the use of force in changing the order of the sea, which media reports interpreted as an apparent reference to China.
"As a maritime country, China's carrying out of its legitimate and proper maritime activities does not warrant rebuke," Hong told a daily news briefing.
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Disc golfers tee up
Oakland County boasts a handful of courses for the obscure sport
BY ANDREW CRAIG
OU News Bureau
In 1926, a group of children in British Columbia threw tin lids at a tree.
While the act may not seem monumental, experts suggest it was the groundwork for the sport of disc golf today.
The kids named the game Tin Lid Golf, which they played regularly on school grounds in Vancouver. Today, disc golf is played in countries across the world. According to the Professional Disc Golf Association, membership broke 40,000 this year.
Like traditional golf, the disc alternative is played with a similar nine- or 18-hole format. The sport uses Frisbee-like plastic discs instead of golf balls. Competitors aim for metal baskets situated where holes would be in golf. The holes on a disc golf course are generally more varied in construction than a typical hole in golf. Courses that feature a blend of wooded areas and open terrain are regarded as ideal.
With more than a dozen courses in Oakland County, local popularity of the sport continues to grow, advocates say. Courses at Addison Oaks and Oakland University offer the combination of woods and open areas that participants have come to expect, especially in Michigan.
Boyd Brokenshaw, park supervisor at Addison Oaks, sees an increase in the sport’s following.
“Attendance has been growing steadily,” Brokenshaw said. “We see more people come out to play every year.”
Although the activity is trending upward, it hasn’t yet exploded onto the sports scene. Oakland University sophomore Joshua Kelly explained that disc golf still has an underground feel.
“I definitely think its popularity is on the rise,” Kelly said. “But it isn’t huge yet. It’s not a sport that’s highly advertized. I didn’t even hear about it until I started college. If you haven’t played, you probably don’t know much about it. I don’t see it publicized at all.”
The image of disc golf remains somewhat hidden, due partially to the location of courses. Many of Oakland County’s eight courses are tucked away inside wooded areas of county parks. Equipment can be hard to find.
“I looked for a while before I found a place to buy a disc,” Kelly said. “I think that’s a reason disc golf isn’t growing as quickly as it could.”
Disc golf may lack the popularity of its traditional counterpart, but it does create a different kind of experience.
“It’s similar to golf, but it’s also different in a lot of ways,” Kelly said. “You can’t throw a disc 300 yards, so the obstacles become harder to negotiate. There are trees, rivers, lakes, holes — it can get pretty challenging.”
Despite the potential challenges, however, disc golf is an activity to be enjoyed by all ages.
“We see kids, high school and college-age students,” Brokenshaw said. “But we also have older people come out who have been participating for years. It’s not just one group of people, it’s for all ages.”
Matches range from competitive to relaxed, as the players travel courses at their own pace.
“One thing that’s really cool about disc golf is that it doesn’t have to be an intense game,” Kelly said. “You can just go out and have fun. It’s not like golf where I get mad or embarrassed if I take a bad shot.”
According to Brokenshaw, part of the experience is getting a breath of fresh air.
“As it warms up, a lot more people come out,” he said. “It’s fun for people because they can enjoy the outdoors and the beautiful scenery while they play.”
Most discs range from $15 to $25, and many of Oakland County’s parks are free to play.
“If you can throw a Frisbee, you can throw a disc,” Kelly said. “I haven’t met anyone who has tried disc golf and hasn’t had a good time.”Tweet
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Is it me, or are natural disasters becoming more common these days?
Whether from global warming or other factors, what is clear is that disasters happen. And with our businesses increasingly reliant on digital technology, in many ways we’re more exposed than ever to the effects of disasters.
With that in mind, here are seven ways that a business can help prepare itself for effective disaster recovery:
Cloud services. There are many advantages to the cloud, but one of them certainly is the distributed nature of cloud services. An outage in New York, for instance, does not need to cripple business functions that run on the cloud. Every aspect of a business that can be moved to the cloud is an aspect that will have continuity and resiliency in the face of disaster. Think about the difference between an on-premise email server and Google’s (News - Alert) Gmail, for instance. Only one of those two will keep on humming even if an office goes down.
Virtualization. Along with the cloud, it now is possible to package just about any IT function within a virtualized environment. This enables rapid recovery, as virtual appliances and services can be turned on and off and moved around much more efficiently than physical IT resources.
Power backup. If there is one certainty about natural disasters, it is that electricity will often be impaired. While uninterruptible power supplies will not always enable a business to keep functioning as if there was no loss of power, they do allow at least for the opportunity to ensure that all critical hardware is shut down properly, data is preserved, and key business information is extracted from systems before the lights go out.
Mobile computing. Mobile computing is resilient computing. Along with moving to the cloud, having a flexible computing architecture that includes data and hardware mobility will serve a business well in the face of disaster. This means ensuring that employees can perform their jobs from mobile devices, which will often need to be the case if there is a significant disaster.
Telecommuting options. Having a telecommunications program in place serves many benefits, but one of them certainly is preparation for when there is a disaster. If employees are already trained and ready to work from home or out-of-office locations, a disruption due to natural disaster doesn’t have to pose a great threat to productivity; workers just go into telecommute mode en masse.
Managed disaster recovery. Experts have found that having a third party handle disaster management in the face of a crisis is useful. These third-party disaster-management firms both have experience and a measure of objectivity when bedlam strikes. Firms that will particularly suffer during business downtime will want to consider looking into managed disaster-recovery options.
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It helps if a waiter serving a French Canadian tourist knows something about ice hockey. It’s absolutely essential he knows how the meal was prepared and what wine goes with it.
These tidbits are offered within a new, free course that aims to teach the Cape May County New Jersey hospitality industry how to make French Canadian tourists feel welcome.
The county has successfully courted Canadian tourists since 1968 — even opening an office in Montreal in 1970 — but a recent push farther north, to French-speaking areas in Quebec, has created a new challenge. Many people from those regions don’t speak English, even as a second language.
And they are coming to the county in large numbers. The tourism push is working.
County Tourism Director Diane Wieland told The Press of Atlantic City that people from Quebec made 665,900 overnight visits to New Jersey last year. Half of them were from Quebec, and 70 percent of the visits were in Cape May County, she said.
She expects larger numbers this year. It’s been cold in Canada this winter, with one polar vortex after another, and Wieland said vacation inquiries have skyrocketed.
“They’re spending $139 million a year in New Jersey. This is a niche market we need to expand,” Wieland said.
Wieland’s intern, Rachael Cox, a hospitality and tourism management student at Richard Stockton College, came up with the idea of having a course. Atlantic Cape Community College supplied the grant funding and expertise to make it happen.
Campgrounds, hotels, motels, restaurants and other businesses that get French Canadian tourists are welcome to attend. Cox said some basic “conversational French” will be taught, enough to help with directions, menu selections, check-in policies, telling guests where the pool is located and other vacation information.
The course will also delve into French Canadian culture.
“The goal is to have them understand the culture as it relates to hospitality and tourism,” Cox said.
Dining is a good example. Wieland said French Canadians have a European philosophy about dining. It is taken very seriously. They don’t want to be rushed. They want the waiter or waitress to be informed and helpful.
Wieland said the tourists are very value-conscious, and they tip based on the quality of service, starting at 10 percent and with 15 percent the top end. She noted Americans usually tip at 20 percent no matter how bad the service is.
“They don’t eat — they dine. If you rush them, which often happens in the summer, they will tip as they feel is necessary,” Wieland said.
Just knowing this can clear up some confusion. Some locals think Canadians undertip because they are cheap, but it’s probably because the service didn’t meet their standards, she said.
The Canadian tourist is more upscale these days. The first visitors that came from Montreal in the 1970s typically stayed in mainland campgrounds. The exchange rate was not favorable for them back then.
Wieland said the exchange rate is more favorable to Canadians now. The children of those tourists often stay in hotels or rent houses on the barrier islands. Some are not crazy about driving the long distance, and direct airplane service to Atlantic City is being explored. Wieland said visits from Canada were up 18 percent last year and spending was up 15 percent. She said about 25 percent of these visitors who stay in Cape May County also visit Atlantic City.
The Quebec market is being courted though a radio and television ad campaign and visits at trade shows. The county has also produced tourism brochures and other information in French. Wieland noted the first visit to Quebec City in 1994 didn’t go too well because all the brochures were in English.
“Explorez le Jersey Cape!” the literature now proclaims. But once here, after they have been enticed, Wieland notes it is important to make them feel welcome, or “bienvenue,” as the brochure states.
French is being used on the department’s website. One worker in the department, Lindsay Rowland, speaks the language, and Cox is learning it.
The course also might be a good idea for area golf courses, as many Canadian visitors are coming to play the links. These visitors even come in the spring and fall shoulder seasons.
“Golfing is huge, and their golf season is very short,” Wieland said.
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In these stories of notable
women in Scotland, we have frequently made Edinburgh the centre of our
thoughts. Let us look back for a few minutes at some of the stages of its
life and growth; the eleventh-century village of Queen Margaret’s day,
straggling along the ridge which sloped upwards, from east to west and
ended in the towering Castle Rock, perhaps a Roman fortress, even
centuries before Queen Margaret. That rock was, and still is the sentinel
watching over the town which grew and spread beneath it, the village road
becoming a paved street, the cottages of mud and wattle giving place to
picturesque little houses of wooden boarding with gable-ends facing the
street, and added to till some showed four storeys, slightly overhanging
each other. Some of these survived till the nineteenth century at the very
base of the castle. But most of the wooden houses were swept away in the
great burning of Edinburgh in the time of the Regent, Mary of Guise; and
thereafter arose strong stone buildings, with walls often four feet thick,
and pointed turrets to the flanking towers. The entrance gates led into
stone-paved courtyards where the clatter of horse hooves and the ring of
arms were often heard; for these were the dwellings of nobles, often in
feud with each other and with men of England and of France. The rooms
within were large, but little light could penetrate, because the windows
had tiny panes between the heavy wooden frames; these dwellings were for
protection rather than for pleasant hours of leisure. The stairways from
storey to storey were narrow and winding, the landings small and dark; and
even now, in the twentieth century we may look up at these tall gloomy
buildings, which still tower above the narrow ‘wynds’ and ‘closes’, no
longer the habitation of noblemen, but of the poorest of the poor.
What have these great
gloomy dwellings got to do with our light and cheerful subject, ‘Women
Song-writers of Scotland’? Much, indeed, because as the years went on and
the Act of Union (1707) brought greater peace and order to Scotland, the
noble families who still lived in the baronial houses of Edinburgh knew
how to enjoy life in gay and peaceful fashion. It was still a little city
in the mid-eighteenth century, and crowded with folk who were used to
country houses and wide prospects at some seasons of the year. But when
they came to Edinburgh there was dancing and singing in the gathering of
young folks; great ladies in hoops and powdered hair were borne along the
streets in their sedan chairs to these ‘Assemblies’ in order to chaperone
their daughters; and in the lofty rooms behind those tiny windows, there
were often simple parties where only a single piper gave the tune, and
where, between the dances, ladies sang Scottish ballads till some of their
listeners wept. Let us imagine ourselves able to watch and listen to some
of these musical gatherings.
Even as early as in the thirties of
this eighteenth century (about the time when heroic Helen Walker made her
pilgrimage to London), we may look in to a house in ‘Bell’s Close’ where a
tall old lady with a face showing sweetness and strength is watching the
dancing; for she loves nothing better than to help to make other people
happy; has she not been doing just that and nought else all her life? And
now, in her closing years, her heart is still young; it was she who wrote
that haunting line
‘Were na my heart licht, I wad dee.
We know this old friend; it is Lady
Grizel Baillie, who loved to write verses in those days in Holland, no
matter how full the hours were of household work. Two only of her songs
are fully preserved; the one always known by that line with which each of
its ten verses ends, and the last verse of which has the distinction of
being once quoted by the poet Burns when he was sadly reminded of the past
gaiety of his life.
‘Were I but young for thee, as I hae
We should hae been gallopin’ doun in yon green,
And linkin’ it owre the lily-white lea—
And wow, gin I were but young for thee!’
Or listen again to the pictures of
country life, with the wistful refrain which may well have been wrung from
her in those days of waiting for her lover George Baillie.
O the ewe buchtin’s [folding] bonnie,
baith evening and morn,
When our blithe shepherds play on the bog-reed and horn;
While we’re milking, they’re lilting baith pleasant and dear,
But my heart’s like to break when I think on my dear.
O the shepherds take pleasure to blow
on the horn,
To raise up their flocks and sheep soon i’ the morn;
On the bonnie green banks they feed pleasant and free
But, alas, my dear heart, all my sighing’s for thee!
And at one of these same
gatherings in ‘Bell’s Wynd’ we may see another lady famous for one song,
and perhaps even more famous for her genial humorous spirits, in the
society of Edinburgh.
Miss Alison Rutherford was
a gay young woman in the years when Lady Grizel played the part of
chaperone; and she was only nineteen when in 1731 she married Mr. Patrick
Cockburn of Ormiston. So poor was Mr. Patrick that he and his bride had to
live for a time in the house of his elderly father, ‘an old Presbyterian
of the deepest dye’ condemning as ungodly cards, plays, and dancing. So,
notes young Mrs. Cockburn with her unvarying humour, ‘I was married,
properly speaking, to my father-in-law, a man of seventy-five. I lived
with him four years, and knowing nothing could please his son so much as
to make him fond of me I bestowed all my study to gain his approbation. He
disapproved of plays and assemblies; I never went to one.’
And what a giving up was this
for a girl in her early twenties, passionately fond of society and
admirably fitted for it!
However, after the old judge’s death
there was more freedom, but on marvellously small means between the two of
them. Nevertheless Mrs. Alison appeared at the ‘Assemblies’ in Edinburgh,
up dark winding stairs to flats where dancing and music were going on, and
where her handsome face and sprightly form—not quite so splendidly
attired, we may guess, as some of the richer guests—was always welcome.
And after her husband’s
death, in spite of her small income and the 1oss of her only son in his
early life, ‘she never lost her liveliness,’ we are told, ‘her insatiable
love of mischief, mockery and match-making,’ everywhere welcome, both in
town and country, a good companion, a wise friend, ready to jest over her
And when she is too old to
visit any longer her friend Mrs. Scott in George Square, ‘young Walter
Scott comes to hear her old tales.’
Of the origin of her best
known poem we have no exact knowledge: only very varying conjectures. But
that some sad memory is at the root of it we cannot doubt; possibly that
of her first and unfulfilled love-story. It is called like another which
we shall discuss presently ‘The Flowers of the Forest’ : there are four
verses only: we quote here the last two.
‘I’ve seen the morning
With gold the hills adorning,
And loud tempest storming before the midday;
I’ve seen Tweed’s sillar streams,
Glittering in the sunny beams,
Grow drumly and dark as they rowed on their way.
‘O fickle fortune
Why this cruel sporting?
Oh! why still perplex us, poor sons of a day?
Nae mair your smiles can cheer me,
Nae mair your frowns can fear me;
For the Flowers of the Forest are a’ wide away.’
MISS JEAN ELLIOT
AND what about the other
version of the same theme, bringing in that same unforgettable line? Let
us look at it before we discuss its origin.
It has a slightly different
metre, and a wholly different spirit, for whereas Mrs. Cockburn’s seems to
express the sadness of personal regrets, this, by Miss Jean Elliot, is the
sorrowing outcry of an entire people, the people of that Border country
whose young men marched with King James to Flodden Field, but to return no
I’ve heard them lilting at our yowe-milking,
Lasses a-lilting before dawn o’ day:
But now they are moaning on ilka green loaning—
The Flowers of the Forest are a’ wede away.
Dule and wae for the order sent our
lads to the Border,
The English, for ance, by guile wan the day;
The Flowers of the Forest, that foucht aye the foremost,
The prime o’ our land, are cauld in the clay.
We’ll hear nae mair lilting at the
Women and bairns are heartless and wae;
Sighing and moaning on ilka green loaning—
The Flowers of the Forest are a’ wede away.
* * * * * *
And to this day, wherever
the sorrows of Scotland are foremost in the minds of her folk—or where
honour is paid to those who have died—no words can express so fully the
heart-ache of those who stand by, as
The Flowers of the Forest are a’ wede
* * * * * *
Was it the echoes of
country laments, old snatches of song lingering in the memories of those
whose ancestors had mourned for Flodden Field? Echoes caught up by Jean
Elliot as she wandered round the country-side of Minto, where Teviot flows
northward to join the Tweed, and to the south, the softly rounded Cheviot
hills drop with gentle slopes to the plain?
Or, is it true that, riding
home one night with her brother Gilbert in the family coach, in that
lonely ‘Forest,’ he wagered her a pair of gloves or a set of ribbons that
she could not write a ballad on the subject of Flodden Field.
She accepted the challenge,
and when her brother saw the poem, he knew ‘that he had lost his wager and
Scotland had gained a ballad which would never die.’
We do not really know
whether this story is true; but like other ladies of her day, ‘she kept
her secret, and the family gave no sign.’ When her lovely lines were sung
at Edinburgh gatherings, Miss Jean Elliot, with her sensible but not
beautiful face, her slender figure and air of dignity, would listen and
show no feeling. Very different from gay, sociable Mrs. Cockburn, Miss
Elliot had few friends, but she had confided to just one of her
acquaintances that the poem was hers, and, as ‘Miss Elliot never told
lies’, this became gradually well-known—though none would have dared to
tax the authoress with it. Always one of the notable figures in these
Edinburgh gatherings, though not a popular one, Miss Elliot used to sally
forth from her house in Brown Square to join the dances or the music,
riding in a sedan chair long after this mode of conveyance had ceased to
And when old age crept on
her, she went back to the dale of Teviot, to die at Minto House, looking
perhaps, from her window at the great rocky pile of Minto crags, where
once, in her girlhood, during the march of Prince Charlie southwards, her
father had hidden for fear of arrest, while she with fine dignity and self
control entertained the Jacobite officers who had come to interview a
staunch Hanoverian laird.
What a link of remembrance
here with Flora Macdonald, when she baffled the curiosity of a Hanoverian
Captain of Militia who enquired too bluntly about the doings of the
fugitive Prince Charles!
LADY ANNE LINDSAY
the years which followed the tragic happenings of the ‘45, the hopes of
Jacobites were falling very low. They still loyally toasted ‘The King over
the water’, but the wisest men knew best the difficulties, and only less
thinking enthusiasts talked wildly of the Stuart restoration.
There had, however, long
existed a prophecy which connected the House of Balcarres with such a
restoration; and when James, the Earl of the mid-eighteenth century,
married at the ripe age of sixty, a young and blooming Miss Dalrymple, all
Jacobite tongues were wagging as to the chances of an heir who should in
some way help to bring back the exiled line of kings. But the first child
to be born, in 1750, was a daughter, Anne, whose birth, as she herself
records in her charming letter, ‘disconcerted and enraged all partisans of
the Pretender, soothsayers, fortune-tellers and old ladies.’
The parents, however, were
wisely content, and thereafter welcomed each one of the numerous family,
eventually amounting to eight boys and three girls.
It was a queer rambling old
mansion – the home of this bonny family – placed on that edge of the coast
of Fife which looks southward across the Firth of Forth, the Bass Rock
looming upon the horizon, and the fresh salt wind of the North Sea playing
through the woods which surrounded the house. It was a rollicking set of
young folks who laughed and cried by turns in Balcarres, for ‘My Lady’ had
the strictest view of discipline, strict even for the eighteenth century.
There were days when ‘every cupboard held its culprit, some sobbing and
repeating verbs—others eating their bread and water, some preparing to be
whipped, some enjoying an enviable nap after a flogging.’
The old earl, indeed, far
wiser than her ladyship, would remonstrate with her: ‘Odsfish, madam, you
will break the spirits of my young troops: I will not have it so.’ But
there was not much fear of spirit-breaking when little Robert could cry
sturdily: ‘Oh! my Lady, my Lady, whip me and let me go, if you please,’ or
when more daring John, losing a plaything for a repeated fault, declared
to his mother, ‘Woman, I told you I would do the same, and I will do the
same again to-morrow.’
It was Margaret, however,
the third in order, who once set up the standard:, of rebellion by
inciting her five brothers and sisters to leave home and take refuge from
‘this horrious life’ in the house of kindly neighbours, without
children of their own. In due time, a little procession set off from
Balcarres, unobserved at first, Cummerland, the eldest boy, with baby
James on his shoulders, Anne, Margaret, Robert, and Colin; but Robin Gray,
the shepherd, delivered this information at the house; ‘All the young
gentlemen, and all the young ladies, and all the dogs are run away, my
For this crime, whipping
was declared too slight a punishment; a dose of tincture of rhubarb was
considered more likely to sober the unruly.
Yet was life by no means
all so ‘horrious’; there was paddling in the brook in the glen, rides on
fat oxen in the farmyard with a munch of their raw turnips; secret
feastings on fruits and sweetmeats, somehow purloined, probably with the
connivance of ‘Mammy Bell’, the housekeeper. Even Sundays had their joys,
few lessons, and after the mid-day meal eleven heaps of sweetmeats, ‘of
all sorts and shapes, piled up by one of us, to teach us to calculate, the
compiler having the last heap.’
This may seem rather
pitiful to us in our twentieth-century softness, but let us note that all
these children were devoted to each other and as they grew up, to both
parents; all turned out well, the boys mostly soldiers or sailors serving
with courage and distinction, one, Charles, became a bishop, and a
particularly sweet and gentle character. Of the three daughters all
married, but only Elizabeth had children of her own, a large fine family.
The severe countess grew
softer as her children grew up so good (believing, of course, that this
was due to her own stern discipline), and in her old age she went to live
with Robert and his wife, where she died after many peaceful years.
It is with Lady Anne that
we are chiefly concerned. She was a devoted companion to her deaf and
gouty, but kindly old father, helping him with his books and manuscripts
and carrying on, after his death, the family history which he loved to
Two years after his death,
which took place in 1768, Margaret, Anne’s chief love, married an
Englishman and as the elder brothers had gone out into life, the home was
not so jolly as it once had been.
Lady Anne had a little room
of her own at the top of the ‘turn-pike stairs’; its small window faced
the sea, so that the wide view woke her imagination, quickening her desire
to write. ‘Why not some verses’, said she to herself, ‘verses to fit that
lovely air which Sophy Johnstone sings? I hate the words she puts to it;
they are not worthy of the tune.’
It is enough to quote two
verses of this well-known ballad. There are many different versions: the
following are taken from the Oxford Book of Verse.
When the sheep are in the fauld, and
the kye at hame,
And a’ the wand to rest are gane,
The waes o’ my heart fa’ in showers frae my e’e,
While my gudeman lies sound by me.
I gang like a ghaist, and I carena to
I daurna think on Jamie, for that wad be a sin;
But I’ll do my best a gude wife aye to be,
For auld Robin Gray he is kind unto me.
It was to be a tale of
humble life full of sorrows; the third verse baffled her, even after the
rest was done. Then, little Elizabeth, the nine-year-old, stole into the
room. Said Anne, ‘I’ve been writing a ballad, my dear, and I’m oppressing
my heroine with misfortunes. I’ve sent her Jamie to sea, broken her
father’s arm, made her mother fall sick, and given her old Robin Gray as a
lover; but I wish to load her with a fifth sorrow in the four lines, poor
thing! Help me, I pray.’ ‘Steal the cow, sister Annie’, suggested
Elizabeth; and forthwith the cow was stolen, and the song ‘Auld Robin
Thus tells Lady Anne the
charming story of her ballad’s birth. But it was not till years and years
afterwards that the world knew of it: she showed it to her mother only;
members of the family copied it out. Lady Anne herself sang it (to Sophy
Johnstone’s tune) in her beautiful rich voice; it became famous in
her own countryside and in Edinburgh. There was much curiosity, and shrewd
guessing, but the exact truth was not known, or at least not owned to by
the authoress, till two years before her own death. Then, it so happened
that she read a passage in Sir Walter Scott’s ‘The Pirate’ in which he
compared the condition of one of his characters to ‘that of Jeanie Gray,
the village-heroine in Lady Anne Lindsay’s beautiful ballad.’ Then, at
last, did Lady Anne feel that she ought to declare herself, and so, taking
her courage in both hands, she wrote to Sir Walter telling him the whole
story of the birth of the ballad.
She told him also how it
was she had tried to write a continuation of it, though this was not a
A certain old friend, the
Laird of Dalzell, on reading the poem broke out angrily: ‘Oh! the villain!
Oh! the auld rascal! I ken wha stealt the puir lassie’s coo. It was
auld Robin Gray himself.’ And the authoress, thinking this a bright idea,
made it part of another ballad, a continuation of the first. It was
popular at the time, but was not worthy of the original, and has been
described as ‘a grievous blunder.’
It is pleasant to know that
Lady Anne lived a very gay and varied life; when her sister Margaret
became a widow, she went to live with her in London where the two sisters
became intimate with all the literary and brilliant people of that time;
the playwright Sheridan, Horace Walpole, the great Edmund Burke, and many
others; the Prince Regent himself had the good taste to be extremely
attracted by ‘Sister Anne’ as he chose to call her.
In 1791 Lady Anne married
Mr. Andrew Barnard, and went with him to the Cape of Good Hope where he
was Secretary to the Governor of England’s newly acquired colony. She at
once adapted herself to the very different kind of society, that of Dutch
and English colonists; went on visits in the interior of the country to
Dutch farm houses in their quaint homesteads; and climbed Table mountain,
with her husband, in a man’s attire.
After her husband’s death
in 1808 she lived once more with her sister in London, dying there at the
age of seventy-five.
But her beautiful ballad
will never die, as long as there is an English, or Lowland Scots language
to carry it on.
CAROLINA, BARONESS NAIRNE
we travel westwards from the coast of Fife, we come to the strath, or
valley, of the river Earn. We are now near the edge of the Scottish
Highlands, the land of mountains and steep glens; and this is the kind of
country in which lived the Highland clans who remained loyal to the Stuart
Kings and followed Prince Charlie in the ‘45.
The Oliphants of Gask, in
Strathearn, were a Jacobite family, whose members had intermarried with
other families of like loyalty. Lawrence Oliphant, the father of the
Carolina we are now concerned with, had been exiled and living in Paris
till King George III. was reigning in England, and he never spoke of the
King otherwise than as ‘The Elector of Hanover’.
Carolina was born in 1766,
the third of six children, all of whom had their early education from a
governess, one of whose duties was to teach the children ‘to talk
tolerable English’, which reminds us that the use of Scots was universal
even among well-born people in the eighteenth century, and it must have
been indeed a forcible, fluent and expressive tongue.
Carolina grew up handsome
in a remarkable degree; from ‘pretty Miss Car.’ as a little girl, she
became noticeable everywhere for her fine features and dignified
personality. She has given us an amusing picture of the ‘county meetings’
at which she often figured for she had a keen sense of humour, and many of
her poems are light and jovial. We may wonder that in spite of her gay
life, for there were a good many social doings among the Jacobite lairds
of that neighbourhood, she did not marry till she was forty-one: during
the twenty years of her life when many must have admired her, she was
betrothed to a cousin, Captain Nairne, a soldier too poor to marry. She
employed herself in those years in verse making, for her idea was to give
better words to fit the charming airs which she heard sung about the
After her marriage to Major
Nairne they went to live in a suburb of Edinburgh, and there she joined a
society of ladies who were helping a publisher to bring out a collection
of national airs with good words; Lady Nairne was the most gifted and the
most capable of this society, but she did all her work anonymously,
calling herself ‘Mrs. Bogan of Bogan’, and even dressing herself in a
disguising costume when she had to interview the publisher.
We give here three of her
poems representing three very different moods; the gay humour of ‘The
County Meeting’; the street sellers’ charming cry, and, best known of all,
the lovely pathetic lines which, first written to show sympathy with a
bereaved mother, must have been helpful to her own soul when her son and
only child was taken from her as still a young man. It is a well-known and
THE LAND O’ THE LEAL
I’m wearin’ awa’, John,
Like snaw-wreaths in thaw, John;
I’m wearin’ awa’
To the land o’ the leal.
There’s nae sorrow there, John
There’s neither cauld nor care, John,
The day is aye fair
In the land o’ the leal.
Our bonnie bairn’s there, John,
She was baith gude and fair, John;
And oh! we grudged her sair
To the land o’ the leal.
But sorrow’s sel’ wears past, John,
And joy’s a-coming fast, John—
The joy that’s aye to last
In the land o’ the leal.
Wha’ll buy my caller herrin’?
They’re bonnie fish and halesome farin’;
Wha’ll buy my caller herrin’
New drawn frae the Forth?
When ye were sleepin’ on your
Dreamed ye aught o’ our puir fellows,
Darkling as they faced the billows,
A’ to fill the woven willows,
New drawn frae the Forth.
THE COUNTY MEETING
Ye’re welcome, leddies, ane and a’
Ye’re welcome to our County Ha’;
Sae wee! ye look when buskit braw
To grace our County Meeting!
An’ gentlemen ye’re welcome too,
In waistcoats white and tartan too
Gae seek a partner, mak’ yer bold,
Syne dance our County Meeting.
And so, through six more verses with
picture after picture of the human drolleries which gave mirth to those
who danced at the county meetings.
It is pleasant to record that in the
end Lady Nairne went back to her old home to die peacefully under the care
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1. Nebula (plural: nebulae, or in the USA usually nebulas) is Latin for cloud.
If you look through a small telescope, there are objects that look like little cloudy patches in the sky. They were called nebulae, the Latin word for clouds.
2. William and Caroline Herschel made the first big survey of nebulae in the late eighteenth century.
The Herschels were the first to make a serious study of nebulae. William (1738-1822) observed around 2500 nebulae in the northern hemisphere with the help of his sister Caroline (1750-1848). The catalog was completed by William's son John Herschel (1792-1871) who observed the southern hemisphere skies.
3. Modern telescopes can distinguish between true nebulae and star clusters or galaxies.
True nebulae are giant clouds of gas and dust in the spaces between the stars. A good telescope shows that some of the cloudy patches are actually clusters of stars, and others are galaxies millions of light years away.
4. Nebulae are hard to study because they don't shine like stars.
Gas and dust don't give out light, but sometimes they are visible because of the light of nearby stars.
5. The gas in a nebula glows if a bright star energizes it, and dust can reflect a star's light.
Nebulae are made mostly of dust and hydrogen gas. If a nearby bright star shines on the hydrogen gas, it makes the gas glow red. A nebula where this happens is called an "emission nebula". But dust absorbs red light and reflects blue light. If a nebula is lit in this way, it is called a "reflection nebula". Reflection nebulae always look blue. (The Trifid Nebula contains both kinds of nebula - see fact 7.)
6. Some nebulae get no light, but they show up against a light background.
A nebula with no nearby stars is called a dark nebula. These nebulae may look like holes in the sky against a background of stars. They can also be seen if there are bright nebulae in the background, as you can see in the Trifid Nebula.
7. The Trifid Nebula contains emission, reflection and dark nebulas.
Nebulae with names usually get them because of their shapes. The Trifid Nebula looks a bit like a trifid flower. You can see all three types of nebula in this photograph taken by R. Jay Gabany of the Trifid Nebula. The nebula is about 40 light years across, over twenty times the diameter of the Solar System.
8. When stars like the Sun run out of hydrogen fuel their outer layers puff off into what is called a "planetary nebula".
A planetary nebula is often shaped like a ring. In 18th-century telescopes it looked like the round shape of a planet, which is how it got its name. Click here to see planetary nebula NGC 2438 in a photograph taken by Daniel Lopez.
9. Some nebulae are created from the death of giant stars.
When a massive star uses up all its fuel, it explodes as a supernova. The core of the star collapses into either a neutron star or a black hole. The material thrown off in the explosion makes a nebula called a "supernova remnant". Here is the Crab Nebula in a Hubble Space Telescope image. The nebula was the result of a supernova explosion seen in 1054.
10. Some nebulae are star nurseries.
In the right conditions parts of a giant nebula starts to collapse until they are dense enough for stars to form. There are often a number of stars forming in the same nebula. The Orion Nebula is a good example of a stellar nursery.
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The toaster is a simple and user-friendly kitchen appliance. Use it to lightly cook slices of bread so that they are darker, crispier, and tastier. First, you'll need to adjust the knob to choose how dark you want your toast. Then, slide your toast into the toasting slots and depress the lever on the front of the appliance. Wait for the toast to cook, and keep your nose open to make sure that it isn't burning. When the lever pops back up, the toast is done.
Using the Toaster
1Slide one slice of bread into each toaster slot. If you are putting two pieces of bread into the toaster, then use both of the holes at the top. You can toast many things other than bread – but stick to toasting bread slices until you are more comfortable using the appliance..
2Set the toasting level. Use the adjustment knob on the front of the appliance to choose how dark you want the toast to be. On most toasters, the dial runs from 1-5: 1 being the lightest, and 5 being the darkest. For your first time, try setting the dial somewhere in the middle: 2 or 3.
3Lower the lever to start the toasting cycle. Wait for the food to toast. Keep your nose peeled to smell for burning! The toasting process should not take longer than a minute or two, depending on how dark you want the toast.
4Remove the food. When the lever pops back up, it means that the toasting cycle is done. The toaster may "ding." Take the toast out using your fingers or a set of wooden tongs. Then, put your favorite spread onto your toast before consuming!
- Whatever you do, do not stick anything metallic into the toaster slots. The toaster heats the toast using powerful electrical currents, and a metal item will conduct the electricity up into your hand. Be safe!
Choosing a Toasting Level
1Err on the light side. If you aren't familiar with the toaster, set the dial to a lower number rather than a higher number. You can always put the slice back in for a bit more heat – but you cannot un-burn a piece of toast!
2Adjust the toast level to the toast eater. If you are making toast for someone else, ask them whether they prefer their toast darker or lighter. If they prefer their toast lighter, then set the dial to the low end: 1 or 2. If they prefer their toast dark, then set it to the high end: 3 to 5.
3Be careful not to burn the toast! If you set the dial to the highest setting, then you are playing with fire. Thick slices may press directly up against the electric heat filaments, which can apply dangerous heat to the food item.
Troubleshooting a Toaster
1Make sure that the toaster is plugged in. Most toasters require access to an electric wall outlet. If the toaster is plugged in, but isn't working, then there may be a deeper electrical failure.
2Practice toaster safety. Do not, under any circumstances, put a metal implement into the toaster while it is plugged in. Likewise, do not reach your hand into the toasting slots while the appliance is hot. The toaster works by firing metal filaments up to high heat using dangerous electrical currents. If you use your hand, you may burn yourself. If you put a fork into the slots, then you run the risk of electrocuting yourself.
- If the toast gets stuck in the slots: try depressing the lever for a moment, then popping it up manually—quickly, with force—to fling the toast out the top of the toaster.
- Unplug the toaster before you try to remove food that is stuck. Then, use wooden tongs to remove the item. Wooden tongs will not conduct electricity!
3Clean a toaster when it's not plugged in. Try turning it upside-down to shake out the crumbs that have fallen deep into the slots. Most toasters feature a flat, removable tray that slides in and out of the bottom of the appliance. This tray catches crumbs and burnt bits. Remove the tray and dump out the contents to clear space for more crumbs.
Can toasters be washed in soap and water?wikiHow Contributor
What do you with the toast after you take it out of the toaster?wikiHow ContributorPut toppings on it, like butter, jelly, or cinnamon and sugar!
Should I let the toaster to cool down before toasting something in it again?wikiHow ContributorIt depends how much you're toasting. It would be a good idea to let the toaster sit for about 2 minutes before using it again.
Can meat be cooked within this appliance?wikiHow ContributorNo, because most toasters don't generate enough heat to cook the meat though. The design of a toaster also makes cooking meat inconvenient.
- The toast may be a little hot when it comes out of the toaster. Consider using a towel or an oven mitt to carry the toast to your plate.
- Practice toaster safety. Try not to set off any smoke alarms.
- Don't just eat your toast plain! Add some jam, honey, butter, nut butter, cream cheese – whatever suits your fancy.
- Be very careful when plugging in the toaster.
- Never use any metal item to remove items from the toaster. Remember to unplug the toaster if food gets stuck inside before using wooden tongs to remove the item.
- Never insert metal objects or body parts into a toaster that's plugged in. You could get zapped by electricity or burnt severely.
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Historical Review of Draft Results
Results by Age of Player when Drafted
Please reserve comment for a future post wherein I will request commentary on the review as a whole.
At issue here is the ability to isolate 'age' as a factor in evaluating the ability of an organization to draft players. To do that it is important to: 1) modify the player-grade scores such that a single 'Hall of Fame' player does not skew the results of a single age category entirely, and 2) modify the calculation to recognize that projecting the capability of an 18 year old player is harder than projecting the capability of a 22 year old player.
There is no issue with the fact that trying to gauge the long-term ability of an 18 year old kid is a difficult task. A 30 year old man, however, should be more of a known quantity and a player like that should only be drafted if the team has a reasonable assurance that the player in question can fill the role required. After all, anyone over the age of 24 that gets drafted by an NHL team is already playing pro-level hockey.
I will not go into detail on the math. Suffice to say that first the player-grade scores were flattened out and then, as a second step, a modifier was put in that added to the global score for each category of players younger than 23 and subtracted from the global score for each category of players older than 23. The modifier increases the further away from 23 you go. The grades are organized and summarized below:
Please note the percentile score in the second column on the left side of the main chart. It is derived from the sum of all players who have a player-grade D or higher AND all prospects that are ranked (star / solid / borderline).
Four things we can draw from this part of the study: a) drafting 18 year old kids is a crapshoot no matter the team, b) the team has had some success drafting 19 year olds, c) that success does not carry forward to the 20 year old category and d) the scouts seem to have an aversion to drafting overagers.
While the sample set is small, and the overall scoring value is a negative (-75), the team's results when drafting 19 year olds are pretty good. That percentile score of 34% is not a mirage. The future play of Enstrom and Little should serve to increase the scoring in this category and if any of Bourret, Lewis or Machacek turn out it only gets better.
Of interest is the lack of overage draftees. Given the team's drive to be competitive quickly** I would have expected to see far more players, age 22 or older, drafted with late round picks. Like the Lehtonen draft pick, this piece of information stands out as an indicator of a mistake having been made in the build of the team via the draft.
** Editor's premise: Heatley and Kovalchuk developed into impact players very, very quickly. The moment that happened the slow build should have been off the table as a viable team building strategy. The team did not draft a single overage player (and only four 20 year olds) after 2002 - that points to a disconnect between the team's draft build strategy and real time requirements.
Atlanta Thrashers 2008 HRDR - Introduction
Atlanta Thrashers 2008 HRDR - Draft Results Summation
Atlanta Thrashers 2008 HRDR - Yrs 1999 to 2003
Atlanta Thrashers 2008 HRDR - Yrs 2004 to 2008
Atlanta Thrashers 2008 HRDR - Draft Results By Year
Atlanta Thrashers 2008 HRDR - Draft Results By Round
Atlanta Thrashers 2008 HRDR - Draft Results By Pick
Atlanta Thrashers 2008 HRDR - Draft Results By Age
Atlanta Thrashers 2008 HRDR - Draft Results By Position
Atlanta Thrashers 2008 HRDR - Draft Results By League
Atlanta Thrashers 2008 HRDR - Draft Results By Country of Birth
Atlanta Thrashers 2008 HRDR - Player Grading System
Atlanta Thrashers 2008 HRDR - Graded Players Summary
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Diabetes mellitus (DM) represents several ailments in which elevated blood glucose levels over time can damage the nerves, eyes, kidneys and blood vessels. Diabetes is such a disease and this is why it's essential for appropriate diabetic testing and treatment.
Diabetes can also reduce the body's ability to resist disease. Foot problems generally develop in people with diabetes and can quickly become severe. To get more information about the diabetic wound care treatment visit https://hyperheal.com/wound-care/.
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With damage to the nervous system, a person with diabetes may not be able to feel their feet correctly. Regular sweat secretion and oil production that lubricates the skin of the foot is impaired.
These variables together can result in abnormal strain on the bone and joints of the foot during walking and may lead to the breakdown of the skin of the foot, leading to sores and ulcers.
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Richard Crooks as Pinkerton
Richard Crooks Collection
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Films in The Respect For All Project
The Respect For All Project offers a series of award-winning films aimed at K-12 educators, youth service providers, students, and families to promote understanding of diversity and anti-bias education. All the films have accompanying curriculum guides. The films are available close captioned in English and with Spanish subtitles. Our dynamic professional development and community workshops are centered around these films.
Does it make a difference to have K-8 teachers that addressed LGBT issues in the classroom? This documentary about a documentary finds some of the students in theoriginal It’s Elementary
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Darkness Visible is an immersive cinematic and performance event exploring darkness, perception and poetic narrative.
After spending a week alone in his studio living and drawing in complete darkness, artist Sam Winston was so fascinated and inspired that he began to wonder what would happen if he introduced other creative practitioners to a similar experience. What disappears when the conventional visual field is no longer available and what arises in its place? What breaks down and what is exposed? What happens in the ‘return’ to full sensory engagement and what imprints from blackout remain?
The event features Winston’s investigations and insights in collaboration with the photographer Andy Sewell, composer Jamie Perera and film-maker Anna Price and culminates in live readings by poets Emily Berry, Kayo Chingonyi and George Szirtes. It will draw us temporarily into total obscurity and offer some reflections and interpretations on the potent but frequently overlooked world beyond vision. (The evening incorporates periods of complete blackout and silence.)
The immersive exhibition of the same name continues at the Southbank Centre until 25 March (free booking here]
Sam Winston’s practice is concerned with language not only as a carrier of messages, but also as a visual form in and of itself. Initially known for his typography and artist’s books he now employs a variety of different approaches including drawing, performance and poetry. Operating at the intersections of where visual art and literature meet his projects can result in limited edition art books, (found in institutes such Tate Britain, the British Library, MoMA NYC) or participatory projects involving large-scale drawing and typographic collages. These have been exhibited and taken place at institutes such as The Victoria and Albert Museum, The Southbank Centre, and Camden arts Centre. His first mass market book won the Bologna Ragazzi Award for fiction, debuted at no.5 on the New York Times bestseller list and has been translated into 20 languages. All Winstons projects look to playfully explore new ways of reading.
George Szirtes was born in Hungary and emigrated to England with his parents—survivors of concentration and labor camps—after the 1956 Budapest uprising. Szirtes studied painting at Harrow School of Art and Leeds College of Art and Design. At Leeds he studied with Martin Bell, who encouraged Szirtes as he began to develop his poetic themes: an engaging mix of British individualism and European fluency in myth, fairy tale, and legend. Szirtes’s attention to shape and sound, cultivated through his background in visual art and his bilingual upbringing, quickly led to his successful embrace of formal verse. His first book, The Slant Door (1979), won the Faber Memorial Prize. Bridge Passages (1991) was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Prize. Reel (2004) won the T.S. Eliot Prize, and his New and Collected Poems was published by Bloodaxe in 2008. He is the author of Exercise of Power (2001), a critical study of the artist Ana Maria Pacheco. He co-edited, with Penelope Lively, New Writing 10 (2001). Szirtes has written extensively for radio and is the author of more than a dozen plays, musicals, opera libretti, and oratorios.
Emily Berry’s first book of poems, Dear Boy, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Hawthornden Prize. She was a contributor to The Breakfast Bible (a compendium of breakfasts) and editor of Best British Poetry 2015 (Salt Publishing). A selection of her work appears in Penguin Modern Poets 1: If I’m Scared We Can’t Win (Penguin, 2016). Her second poetry collection, Stranger, Baby, is shortlisted for the Forward Prize. She edits The Poetry Review.
Kayo Chingonyi is a fellow of the Complete Works programme for diversity and quality in British Poetry and his first full-length collection, Kumukanda, was published in June 2017 by Chatto & Windus. He was awarded the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize and was Associate Poet at the Institute of Contemporary Arts from Autumn 2015 to Spring 2016. He has co-edited issue 62 of Magma Poetry and the Autumn 2016 edition of The Poetry Review. He is now poetry editor for The White Review. Kayo is also an emcee, producer, and DJ and regularly collaborates with musicians and composers both as a poet and a lyricist. ‘His language is wonderfully searching, his imagery a series of small doors opening onto a whole house echoing with harmonic play and set with delicate rhythmic trip wires.’ – Jane Draycott (Judge’s Commentary – Geoffrey Dearmer Prize 2012)
‘By day four, I was having a vacation from normality’ Sam Winston
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“Let us think back to the sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11.” Using his triumphal announcement that Osama bin Laden had been killed, President Obama tried once again to call the nation to a sense of common purpose. The next night, with the jubilant shouts of the crowd outside the White House still echoing through its halls, the president rallied the bipartisan congressional leadership: “We were reminded again that there is a pride in what this nation stands for and what we can achieve that runs far deeper than party, far deeper than politics.”
That shared pride has been missing from our politics for years – the sense of family born out of horror almost forgotten. In a mastery of understatement, the president observed: “That unity that we felt on 9/11 has frayed a little bit over the years,” adding, “I have no illusions about the difficulties and the debates that we’ll have to be engaged in, in the weeks and months to come.” But still he urged his congressional guests to seize this moment to work together as Washington tackles the deficit and debt, education and immigration.
We’ve written a great deal about how partisanship is pulling the country apart, and the events of this week have again underlined that point. The dramatic mission to get bin Laden met with almost universal approval. In a Gallup Poll taken the next day, fully 93 percent of the public agreed it was the right thing to do and 94 percent deemed the action “important.” When did we last see numbers like that? On almost every critical issue now facing the nation voters are sharply divided.
That hasn’t always been true, and another event this week – one of pomp and pageantry rather than daring and danger – reminded us of that. A ceremony unveiling the statue of our 38th president, Gerald R. Ford, brought the congressional leadership plus many old-timers to the Capitol Rotunda, where they reminisced about the way things used to be.
The speakers commented on the fact that Ford, though his party’s leader in the House of Representatives, was seldom a staunch partisan. They quoted him saying that he had “adversaries, not enemies.” That’s something we can personally attest to – Ford was House minority leader when Cokie’s dad, Hale Boggs, was majority leader, and the two were the best of friends.
That doesn’t mean they always agreed on issues, of course not. They engaged in vigorous debate, but then they could sit down for a drink and a laugh. And they knew in the end the House would come to a compromise they could live with. “I believe in friendly compromise,” Ford told his colleagues. “Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.”
But once Gerald Ford became the accidental president following Richard Nixon’s resignation in disgrace, one key question defied compromise: how to handle Nixon’s crimes. Ignoring public opinion, Ford chose to pardon the former president in the hopes of putting the “national nightmare” of the Watergate scandal to rest.
That decision probably cost him the presidency, but Ford spared the country what might have been years of Nixon trials and appeals roiling up partisans when big issues – war, the economy – needed serious attention. Years later, in awarding the Profiles in Courage prize, Sen. Ted Kennedy admitted that he had opposed the pardon but “now we see that President Ford was right. His courage and dedication to our country made it possible for us to begin the process of healing.”
Ford wanted to stop arguing and start governing. He believed failure to compromise was not only counterproductive but as a veteran of World War II, he also thought it was dangerous: “I come by my political pragmatism the hard way,” he once wrote. “My generation paid a very heavy price in resistance to extremists and dictators.”
Since Sept. 11, another generation has paid a high price in that resistance. Now the extremist who was the very face of the terrorism America’s young men and women have been fighting for almost 10 years is gone. His demise has brought us back together, remembering that he attacked us all. The bravery of the military sharpshooters who went in to destroy bin Laden and the brains of the intelligence professionals who located him made us all proud.
“It is my fervent hope that we can harness some of that unity and some of that pride to confront the many challenges that we still face,” Obama beseeched his congressional guests. It’s ours as well.
Steve and Cokie’s new book, “Our Haggadah” (HarperCollins), was published this spring. Steve and Cokie Roberts can be contacted by email at [email protected].
Copyright 2011, Steven and Cokie Roberts
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At last...an on-line, interactive program to study the change in state and county boundaries over time. That is what the NewBerry Library's "Atlas of Historical County Boundaries" provides.
This is a feature-rich website that demands a lot of exploration to get the most out of it, but is intuitive enought that you can start making it work for you immediately.
Now you can trace how county lines changed over time (you select your state of interest and timeframe of interest), which of course, influenced in what courthouse your ancestor's records might be archived.
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You’re probably familiar with the expression “Ugly American,” a pejorative and stereotypical term for US expatriates who alienate the locals with their loud and disrespectful behaviour. It comes from the 1958 book The Ugly American, a cautionary tale that tells the story of corrupt and ethnocentric American bureaucrats in Southeast Asia.
One of the characters in the book characterizes Ugly Americans like this:
“A mysterious change seems to come over Americans when they go to a foreign land. They isolate themselves socially. They live pretentiously. They’re loud and ostentatious.”
Ugliness: it’s not just for Americans anymore
This being the age of globalization, it seems unfair to single out Americans as the champions of boorish behaviour abroad. In the spirit of inclusiveness, I’d like to propose we retire the expression Ugly American and replace it with Ugly Expat. Cultural disrespect is an equal opportunity sport, after all — one the entire world is eager to play.
Not all Ugly Expats are arrogant and ignorant (although that’s the most dangerous combination); some give off the ugly vibe because they’re paralyzed by fear and unsure of how to behave. Some merely lack the ability to translate their good intentions into culturally-appropriate actions.
You, too, can be an Ugly Expat!
Some expats come by their ugliness naturally. For those who have to work at it, here’s a handy 12-step programme. I’ve tested out a couple of these myself (all in the name of research, of course!) and can pretty much guarantee their effectiveness. If you start at #1 and repeat as needed, you’ll be an Ugly Expat in no time.
1. Don’t waste your valuable time researching your destination or its people before you move — a country’s history or dominant cultural values are no concern of yours. And for heaven’s sake, don’t throw away your money on any of that cross-cultural training mumbo jumbo — everyone knows what a scam that is.
3. Isolate yourself. Shut yourself up in your compound/condo and refuse all contact with local people. If there’s an exclusive expatriate club nearby, rejoice: you’re saved! Choose your new friends with care, weeding out any prospects who have Gone Native. (Being too chummy with the locals is a dead giveaway.) Successful candidates will have already aced the 12 steps and will embrace you as a kindred spirit.
4. Show off your wealth, especially if you live in a developing nation. Your baubles and fancy toys will breed admiration and respect among the impoverished masses, who will revere you as a role model.
5. Under no circumstances should you eat local food. They eat that unsanitary crap because they don’t know any better; you do. (You can’t be too careful — who knows what you might pick up?) If you’re offered anything unrecognizable, be sure to show your disdain by peppering your refusal with terms such as “dysentery” and “intestinal worms.” Gagging noises are optional.
6. Let everyone know how backward the country is, and how much better things are back home. I can’t stress this enough — never let an opportunity to compare the two countries pass you by. It’s your duty to teach the local populace a thing or two, and opening their eyes to their own inferiority will endear you to them. (Bonus points if you can insult cultural and religious icons or other objects of reverence.)
7. Speak your own language exclusively, especially if it happens to be English. (If the locals haven’t bowed to global pressure and learned it already, that’s their problem.) In a pinch, speaking very s-l-o-w-l-y and very LOUDLY should help them understand you. Trust me, they’ll love being talked to as though they were 5 years old. If they still don’t understand, throw your hands up in disgust and walk away, muttering under your breath. There’s some body language that won’t get lost in translation!
8. Don’t try to understand — much less accommodate — local customs. If it’s not The Way Things Are Back Home, it’s irrelevant. (Let them know they’re not fooling you with that siesta thing, for example. Everyone knows daytime napping is nothing but sheer laziness. The steaming midday temperature is just an excuse.)
9. Treat your household staff like the servants they are. They don’t need a day off, and you and I both know that hot water would only spoil them. Since it’s for their own good, I’m sure they’ll thank you later.
10. Social networking was invented for people stuck in godforsaken places like this. Spend all day on Facebook, Twitter, and email, lying about how much fun you’re having. Then log onto Farmville and spend some quality time doing whatever it is people on Farmville do.
11. Drink. A lot. It makes life so much fun, both for you and those around you.
12. Take your frustrations out on your husband. It’s all his fault, anyway. If it weren’t for his precious career, you’d be back home among people who matter, instead of wasting the best years of your life in this hellhole.
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Article from The Classical Difference
The Progressive Era (approximately 1890–1920) ushered in some of the most profound changes in American history. For schools, it meant a change in focus from classical to progressive, from mind to matter, from the individual to the society, from God to man. The Lincoln School, founded in 1917, is a window into the progressive movement.
Columbia Teachers College in New York established the Lincoln School as a laboratory school for experimentation with progressive education methods and curricula.1 “The school was a potent institutionalization of new ideas in education.”2 Joining in the effort was John Dewey, often called the father of our modern educational system.
The PBS “Schoolhouse Pioneers” series calls Dewey the most significant educational thinker of his era and, many would argue, of the twentieth century. An atheist, he believed firmly that “the educational process has no end beyond itself.” As a professor of philosophy at both Columbia University and Columbia University’s Teachers College, Dewey worked with other educators to help the Lincoln School bring progressivism into the mainstream of American education3 and to introduce the scientific method to the study of learning.
Dewey helped found the First Humanist Society of New York in 1929. Its president, Charles Potter, reportedly said, “What can theistic Sunday School, meeting for an hour once a week, do to stem the tide of a five day program of humanistic teaching?” Dewey himself said, “I believe that the school is primarily a social institution … the fundamental method of social progress and reform.”
At the same time the Lincoln School was founded, the Smith-Hughes Act of 1917 by President Woodrow Wilson made federal money available for the promotion of vocational education, opening the door to federal educational funding and oversight.
As public education continues to decline in both measured and perceived success, many are seeking ways to change our educational trajectory. Most American private, public, and Christian schools today use Dewey’s system as the foundation for everything from classroom methods to curriculum.
Classical education is different. It endorses a return to the classical model of education, a prevailing educational form for much of the previous 2000 years in Western civilization, and in America up until the Progressive Era. | <urn:uuid:32e73eef-bffa-4c7e-9b9a-a26284c652d3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://armadeiacademy.com/this-year-in-history-1917/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.952551 | 494 | 3.578125 | 4 |
Russia to sell new tourist rides to space in 2013
By Alissa de Carbonnel
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will start selling multimillion-dollar tourist tickets to the International Space Station again in 2013 after a four-year hiatus, the U.S.-based firm that organizes the paid trips said on Thursday.
Virginia-based Space Adventures has had no seats to sell for the zero-gravity voyage since flying billionaire Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte to space in October 2009.
But from 2013, it will offer three 10-day trips per year to the orbital station aboard Russian Soyuz spacecraft under a deal with the Russian space agency Roskosmos and Soyuz manufacturer Energia, company spokesman Sergey Kostenko told Reuters.
Russia has again found room for paying private customers aboard the cramped three-seat Soyuz due to plans to increase annual production of the single-use craft -- carried into orbit by Russian rockets -- from four to five in 2013.
While Laliberte never revealed how much he paid, Kostenko said the trip to orbit could be expected to cost future clients "significantly more" than the $35 million shelled out by his predecessor, U.S. software mogul Charles Simonyi, in 2007.
He added that Space Adventures already had a list of interested potential travelers, despite the hefty price tag.
Since Laliberte's return, Roskosmos had reserved Soyuz seats for astronauts only, as it took on full responsibility for ferrying U.S. astronauts amid NASA's plans to retire its 30-year-old space shuttle program later this year.
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How Faith Works #6 – Pleases God
I serve on our Metro District Licensing and Ordaining/Consecrating Committee to interview candidates for accreditation and ordination in the Christian & Missionary Alliance.
One question commonly asked: “How were people saved in Old Testament times?” A good answer, the right answer is, “By faith.”
When asked for a supporting Scripture, they do well to refer to Abraham in Genesis 15:6, “Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness” (which is also quoted and explained in Romans 4).
A common misconception about the Old Testament way of salvation is that Jews were saved by keeping the Law. But that isn’t true. Abraham, along with all true followers of God, were justified by faith.
God didn’t change how he saved people in the New Testament. It’s always been by faith.
For people in Old Testament times, by faith they looked ahead in time to the Messiah. “This is what the ancients were commended for” (Hebrews 11:2).
For us today – with a more complete understanding of God revealing himself in Christ – by faith we look back in time to Jesus and his redeeming death on the cross.
Not only were the ancients justified by faith. They also lived by faith. Hebrews 11 presents multiple examples of men and women who received God’s approval because of their faith.
Our “faith from first to last” pleases God. “Just as it is written: ‘The righteous will live by faith’” (Romans 1:17). People with faith please God very much.
A small group of Bruce Wilkinson’s “Dream for Africa” volunteers arrived in Swaziland to plant gardens. On the final day of their visit, they came upon the tiny home of an old African woman who had taken on the responsibility of caring for 56 orphans.
A number of little gardens had been dug up all around her home, but oddly, no plants were growing in any of them.
The volunteers learned that earlier that day, the woman had told the children to dig lots of gardens.
When the children asked her why – since they had neither seeds nor money – she responded, “Last night I asked God to send someone to plant gardens for us. We must be ready for them when they come.”
Wilkinson’s volunteers had come with hundreds of ready-to-plant seedlings. God sent them to the very place where one of his servants had asked in faith for God to provide. They were ready when the answer came.
God always responds to faith.
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Monday, June 17, 2013
Like cicadas, a plague of drones is said to be on the way
“The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is developing regulations to open the country’s skies to drones by 2015. The agency estimates that 30,000 drones will be hovering above towns within seven years. The vast majority of U.S. drones will probably be used for agriculture, according to the AUVSI [Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International] report.”
by Larry Geller
Welcome to the brave new world of surveillance.
That buzz on your phone? Maybe the kid next door tapping your line. NSA spying doesn’t make a sound.
Maybe that flock of drones above you has come to observe your neighbor sunbathing on her roof. Drone bait.
As more drones take to the skies, they are expected to help the economy soar and with them will come engineering jobs. The global market for drones will grow to US $11.4 billion in 2022 from $6.6 billion this year, according to Teal Group Corp. of Fairfax, Va., which analyzes the industry. Several aerospace and defense companies, major employers of engineers, stand to gain from broad deployment of UAVs for commercial use.
But drones are not without controversy. Privacy advocates and those worried about government intrusion have often looked at drones with weary eyes. According to an article in The Guardian, concerns in Europe are growing that the drones could “have profound consequences for civil liberties."
[The Institute (IEEE), Friendly Drones, 6/13/2013]
The IEEE article is a good, short, kid-glove introduction to the coming plague of private, commercial and local government droning. But keep in mind that this is the organization that just turned its mail system over to Google, thereby potentially compromising its members’ message security.
Here are some more links to Guardian articles on drones.
State Surveillance Drone Has Never Left The Ground (Hawaii Reporter, 4/10/2012)
An information request related to drones was filed with the HPD, but the requester did not, apparently, take advantage of Hawaii’s UIPA laws requiring a timely response, and the website indicates no responsive documents were received over a considerable interval of time.
Be the first on your block to control the world: DIY Drones
I was just kidding. These folks are not:
Here’s a fundraising page for DIY Weaponized Drones, and they’re close achieving their target.
For $1000 or more support, they’ll give you one of their drones fully assembled.
Our goal is to have a working prototype of the Panopticopter ready for testing by the end of summer. Can you help us get there?
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Effect of Gypsum Application on the Behavior of Some Rice Varieties under Salt Affected Soil Conditions
Keywords:Rice, gypsum, water productivity, soil salinity
Rice cultivation in the salt-affected soil in northern Delta regions is an important issue to confront soil deterioration. Therefore, adopting rice varieties of lower water demand and maintaining optimum productivity is becoming one of the national issues coincident with the current circumstances and expected water shortage. For this purpose, the behavior of some rice genotypes during the two summer seasons of 2018 and 2019 under gypsum amended salt-affected soil conditions and their relations is of interest. However, gypsum application positively enhanced rice varieties' growth parameters, photosynthetic pigments, relative water content, leaves potassium content, yield, yield attributes and crop water productivity (WP), meanwhile leaves sodium content, proline content, and Na+/K+ ratio influenced negatively. In addition, relative reduction in the soil layer's salt content and sodium adsorption ratio (SAR), whose recorded values seemed to be affected predominantly by the crop duration period. On the other hand, Egyptian hybrid one (EHR1) rated the highest grain yield, followed by Giza 178 with the corresponding values of 4.66 and 4.26 t fed.-1, respectively. Despite that, Sakha 107 followed by Giza 177 rated the highest water productivity varieties with the corresponding values of 0.86 and 0.80 kg m-3, respectively.
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The year 2021 was decisive for electric vehicle sales in Australia, with 6718 EVs and PHEVs sold. In 2019, just 0.6% of all new cars sold in Australia were in this segment. There is little doubt that electric vehicles and EV Parts in Australia are here to stay, and by 2030, they will outnumber gas-powered cars. If you’re thinking about installing EV charging stations in your company, you should be aware of these five considerations. When selecting an EV charger, your company’s demands and budget may be accommodated if you consider these aspects.
EV drivers and those considering making a move from gasoline-powered cars are concerned about range anxiety. Another issue is the scarcity of EV charging facilities and the uncertainty as to whether or not they will work with their automobiles. With electric vehicle chargers, reliability is essential. Charging stations that can support a wide range of electric cars are what you are looking for. If you want your charging stations to meet drivers’ expectations, look for models with universal connections. You don’t have to disregard any of your consumers to cater to everyone. You should also look at the charging device’s track record. Are industry and consumer expectations met?
Having one charging station for four electric cars on the road is the ideal number of EVs. There is now a significant disparity between charging stations and drivers. They can’t keep up with the demand for every electric car on the road. An estimated 1.3 million electric vehicle (EV) owners will be stranded without access to public charging facilities by 2025. Cities and regions have varying amounts of charging stations. Installing stations can only begin if a gap has been determined. If any staff drive electric vehicles, this is also a consideration.
You have to think about power and visibility while putting in EV charging stations. For EV drivers, the charging station must be visible. You don’t just drive into a petrol station to get a parking place. It’s essential for EV drivers to know that they may charge their car while at your establishment. Another important consideration is the availability of sufficient power. There must be a power supply for charging electric vehicles (EVs). Longer cables can be run, but they are more expensive and increase liability issues.
Charging stations for electric vehicles may be as simple as using a single network or as complex as several networks and software. You don’t need a new computer or other hardware to change the program. Before putting in charging stations, think about how much money you’ll save. With one program, you may be unable to fulfil the charging requirements of consumers and workers. Charge prices may be kept low, and the market competitive with more flexibility. Innovations are prevalent in competitive marketplaces, which is good for you and your customers.
Public EV chargers pose a safety hazard because they are outside and exposed to the weather. As a result of customer use, machines are put through their paces. In some instances, putting a charging station beneath a cover may assist, but it won’t suffice if the charging station isn’t built to last. Steel and aluminium structure is shock-resistant and robust. Also, EV Parts in Australia are waterproof and durable enough to last a lifetime. Ensure that you’re receiving the best value for your money by installing charging stations. It’ll pay off in the long term, so don’t hesitate. | <urn:uuid:30cd7c14-c73b-4bc4-b682-7546f7133886> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.techdailytimes.com/factors-to-consider-when-adding-ev-chargers-to-your-vehicle/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.95783 | 706 | 2.078125 | 2 |
In association with AntiquityNOW, Girl Be Heard will be presenting Generations on Wednesday, October 22 at 6:30 pm at the East 4th Street Theatre, 83 East 4th Street, New York, NY as part of their workshop series for the 2014-15 theater season. Generations is being performed during the Estrogenius Festival 2014.
Generations is an ensemble performance devised by Girl Be Heard Company Members in collaboration with women and girls, ages 17 to 61. This is the first show in Girl Be Heard’s history that has brought together women of all ages to research, discuss and write about women across history. This inter-generational laboratory reveals stories of resiliency, both personal and historic. Continue reading
On Tuesday we told you about Girl Be Heard’s newest project, 9mm America. This theatrical production is written and performed by 10 young women who live in neighborhoods where they face gun violence daily. It is a powerful show that takes the viewer through the history of gun violence in America starting with the genocide of Native Americans. It asks the disturbing question, “When will it stop?” Continue reading
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Tagged activism, ancient history, AntiquityNOW, Girl Be Heard, gun violence, theater
AntiquityNOW Month partner Girl Be Heard is fighting back against gun violence. 9mm America is a show written and performed by young girls living in neighborhoods where gun violence is a constant threat. One girl explains that her neighborhood is known as “4CD” or “the Four Corners of Death” because so many people have died there due to gun violence. Continue reading | <urn:uuid:d3346206-c1d7-4c72-8758-cc10bc83ca97> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://antiquitynow.org/tag/theater/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.957102 | 346 | 2.46875 | 2 |
According to Reuters, financial leaders of the world’s seven biggest economies will say on Tuesday that they oppose the launch of Facebook’s Libra stablecoin until it is properly regulated, a draft G7 statement showed.
The draft, prepared for a meeting of finance ministers and central bankers of the United States, Canada, Japan, Germany, France, Italy and Britain, said digital payments could improve access to financial services, cut inefficiencies and costs.
But such payment services had to be appropriately supervised and regulated so that they would not undermine financial stability, consumer protection, privacy, taxation or cybersecurity, the draft statement, seen by Reuters, said.
Without proper supervision, such stablecoins could be used for money laundering, terrorist and proliferation financing, could compromise market integrity, governance, and undermine legal certainty, it said.
“The G7 continues to maintain that no global stablecoin project should begin operation until it adequately addresses relevant legal, regulatory, and oversight requirements through appropriate design and by adhering to applicable standards,” the draft said.
Stablecoins are tied to a traditional currency or basket of assets, and used for payments or storing value. The G20’s Financial Stability Board (FSB) set out 10 recommendations in April for a common, international approach to regulating stablecoins, prompted by social media giant Facebook proposing its Libra stablecoin.
The G7 draft notes that a number of G7 authorities are exploring the opportunities and risks associated with central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).
The European Central Bank said this month that it should prepare to issue a digital euro to complement banknotes and its head Christine Lagarde said on Monday the bank was “very seriously” looking at the creation of a digital euro.
The Bank of England has also launched consultations on a digital pound sterling, but the Bank of Japan and the Federal Reserve have so far taken a back seat.
The G7 draft also expresses concern about the rising threat of ransomware attacks, which are on the rise as the COVID-19 pandemic shifted economic activity on-line.
“These attacks, which often involve payments in crypto-assets, jeopardize essential functions along with our collective security and prosperity. We affirm our resolve to combat this threat collectively as well as individually,” the draft said.
In a related development, Reuters also reported that central banks set out to regulate cross-border stablecoins like Facebook’s planned Libra with a common approach on Tuesday, saying more rules may later be needed to ensure stability.
The prospect of a currency-backed stablecoin being used by billions of people on Facebook has galvanised central banks into putting together rules and into considering how they could launch their own digital currency.
Existing national rules do not fully cover stablecoins the Financial Stability Board (FSB) said in a statement, adding that regulators should ensure that global stablecoins are fully accountable, keep data safely, have effective safeguards against cyber attacks and money laundering.
“A widely adopted stablecoin with a potential reach and use across multiple jurisdictions could become systemically important,” the FSB said in a report to G20 finance ministers.
Regulators for bank capital and anti-money laundering will report by December 2021 on whether rule changes are needed. A review of how stablecoins are being regulated will be completed by July 2023, the FSB added.
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There’s a must-read piece in the New York Times by Ginia Bellafante about language, poverty and academic achievement. The article is ostensibly about the controversy over admissions to New York City’s specialized high schools, including Stuyvesant High and Bronx Science. But Bellafante wisely traces the problem back to its origins and the systemic advantage of growing up in a hyper-verbal upscale Manhattan home.
“It is difficult to overstate the advantages arrogated to a child whose parent proceeds in a near constant mode of annotation. Reflexively, the affluent, ambitious parent is always talking, pointing out, explaining: Mommy is looking for her laptop; let’s put on your rain boots; that’s a pigeon, a sand dune, skyscraper, a pomegranate. The child, in essence, exists in continuous receipt of dictation.”
Low-income homes? Not so much. Bellafante describes a conversation with the founder of the Ascend Learning Charter School network, which serves largely low-income black children in Brooklyn. “I asked him what he considered the greatest challenge on the first day of kindergarten each year,” Bellafante writes. “He answered, without a second’s hesitation: ‘Word deficit.’” She cites the now-familiar (hopefully) Hart and Risley study that demonstrated profound deficits in the number of words heard by children growing up in poverty in the first years of life. She also cites E.D. Hirsch’s observation that “there is strong evidence that increasing the general knowledge and vocabulary of a child before age six is the single highest correlate with later success” [my emphasis].
In short, demographics is not destiny. But vocabulary just might be.
Note that Hirsch cited “general knowledge AND vocabulary.” Before we convert early childhood education into extended vocabulary enhancement exercises with word lists to be memorized, it’s essential to understand how big vocabularies are created. We don’t learn words through memorization, but by repeated exposure to unfamiliar words in context, and general knowledge is context. My Core Knowledge colleague Alice Wiggins uses the example of the unfamiliar word “excrescence.” You probably don’t know what it means, so here it is in a sentence:
“To calculate fuel efficiency, the aerospace engineers needed an accurate estimation of excrescence drag caused by the shape of plane’s cabin.”
Not helping? Here’s another:
“Excrescences on the valves of the heart have been known to cause a stroke.”
After two exposures, you might have a vague understanding of the word. Another sentence enables you to check your understanding, or refine your definition.
“The wart, a small excrescence on his skin, had made Jeremy self-conscious for years.”
By now, you probably have a pretty solid understanding of what an excrescence is. One more sentence should verify it.
“At the far end of the meadow was what, at first glance, I thought a huge domed building, and then saw was an excrescence from the cliff itself.
I never gave you the definition, or asked you to look it up. But you figured the word excrescence means an abnormal projection or outgrowth.
This is an accelerated example of how we acquire new words: by intuitively guessing new meanings as we understand the overall gist of what we are hearing or reading. But critically, think of all the words and knowledge you already had that enabled you to learn the new word. You know about engineers and strokes and warts. You didn’t have to stop and wonder what “fuel efficiency” and “aerospace” and “self-conscious” mean. You’re already rich in knowledge and vocabulary and you just got a little richer. A child without that background knowledge hearing the same sentences would not learn the knew word and would fall a little further behind his more verbal peers. Thank or blame the insidious “Matthew Effect.” Bellafante’s excellent piece makes the same point implicitly with its description of the three-year-old child who understands what an upholsterer does and that the piece of furniture in his apartment is called an “ottoman.”
“All of this would seem to argue for a system in which we spent ever more of our energies and money on early, preschool education rather than less,” concludes Bellafante.
Yes, but let’s be VERY clear: What is needed to close the verbal gap is not just preschool. Not even “high quality” preschool. What is needed is high-quality preschool that drenches low-income learners in the language-rich, knowledge-rich environment that their more fortunate peers live in every hour of every day from the moment they come home from the delivery room. | <urn:uuid:73dbf3fe-5aa3-4e56-ae08-9e94836083bb> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://blog.coreknowledge.org/tag/matthew-effect/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719646.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00128-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947663 | 1,041 | 2.703125 | 3 |
The possibilities for failure in long-range shooting are as immense as they are mind-numbing. Pitch, yaw, air density, heat, cold, the curve of the earth, and the planet's rotation on its axis all conspire make shots at half-a-mile miss, on average, by about 30 feet.
Sandia Labs looks like they've changed all that with their new self-guided round, which sheds enough convention that it resembles a small missile more than a traditional bullet (via Katie Drummond at Danger Room).
Four-inches long, laser-guided, while sporting fins and a forward center of gravity, Sandia's bullet has an optical sensor in the nose that guides it to the target, while an eight-bit processor running a proprietary algorithm steers the round as it flies. Sandia expects the new technology to be developed quickly and inexpensively.
Because of the bullet's diminutive size compared to, say, a full-scale missile, the same flight corrections can be performed dozens of times per second in its Mach 2.1 flight. Sandia's engineers expect to raise that speed to military requirements using customized gunpowder.
The following video shows the bullet leaving the barrel of a rifle. The round pitches (wobbles up and down) a lot after firing, but calms the farther it flies—an effect called "going to sleep" by experts. This phenomenon allows the round to achieve greater accuracy the farther it flies; a result that surprised everyone involved. | <urn:uuid:41b86869-ca9a-4463-b281-03c46debd654> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.businessinsider.com/bi-self-guided-bullet-2012-1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00036-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946389 | 307 | 2.8125 | 3 |
CRUT4, GISS and NCDC are not yet available through December but will check as they become available to end 2013. The BoM might have some support there.
- GHCN CAMS finds that 2005 was a hotter year than 2013.
- RSS satellites finds that 2005, 1998 and 1980 were hotter years than 2013.
- UAH satellites finds that 2009 was a hotter year.
Note my December 2013 post highlighting the warming drift 2005-2006 in UAH compared to RSS. In the chart it is plain that UAH is badly out of step at 2006.
I also posted –
- Similar to Australia in 2005-06 – large grid box in southern Africa shows huge warming departure in UAH lower troposphere satellite temperature anomalies compared to RSS – and –
- Difference between UAH and RSS satellite lower troposphere T anomalies has a distinct step change 2004-2005 over the USA 48 States – not as marked as Australia | <urn:uuid:900ee66a-f254-4efc-932e-d7bbfdc42ace> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.warwickhughes.com/blog/?p=2613 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719677.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00560-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952625 | 191 | 2.125 | 2 |
A Map of Amtrak Ridership
Amtrak, with 21,300 miles of rail, covers most of the nation. Amtrak covers most of the country, last year moving 31 million passengers to more than 500 destinations in 46 states. Its long routes, however, such as from New York City to the West Coast can’t compete with airlines either in terms of time or cost and are money losers. In fiscal 2014, the government-owned company suffered an operating loss of $227 million on $3.2 billion in revenues. By contrast, its busy Northeast corridor, where 11.4 million passengers traveled along the 456-mile route in 2014, posted an operating profit. | <urn:uuid:ab98cbdf-b6c3-43ce-acc7-a476d89aaf2b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nicolasrapp.com/studio/portfolio/map-amtrak-ridership/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00679.warc.gz | en | 0.951042 | 137 | 1.789063 | 2 |
And I promise you this, O Romans, relying neither on my own prudence, nor on human counsels, but on many and manifest intimations of the will of the immortal gods; under whose guidance I first entertained this hope and this opinion; who are now defending their temples and the houses of the city, not afar off, as they were used to, from a foreign and distant enemy, but here on the spot, by their own divinity and present help. And you, O Romans, ought to pray to and implore them to defend from the nefarious wickedness of abandoned citizens, now that all the forces of all enemies are defeated by land and sea, this city which they have ordained to be the most beautiful and flourishing of all cities.
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The WOSSAC Archive is based at Cranfield University, UK. The archive itself comprises many parts. We have the soil reports section, the soil maps and albums section, a soil books section, an aerial photography section, the soil thin section collection, and a satellite imagery section.
We are constantly seeking the ways and means to improve and develop the WOSSAC facilities. As the former Silsoe College was merged into the University's Cranfield campus, the collection was migrated from the former Silsoe campus to the new Cranfield campus. As part of this, the facilities provided were greatly improved.
Most significantly, following a substantive commitment from Cranfield University, a building programme was recently completed to develop a custom-built facility on-campus, the 'agri-informatics building' B121. This, for the first time, draws together all the principle components of the archive, which until now have necessarily been distributed for space reasons. This has entailed a significant investment and indeed commitment to the archive by the university. The building work, which commenced in 2019, took some 2 years for completion and culminated in a grand opening ceremony in June 2021 with Defra Minister George Eustice MP.
The WOSSAC Archive holds extensive materials for countries and territories worldwide - some countries of which are represented with a better depth of coverage and representation than others. Statistics are provided, providing the list of these countries and territories and the number of holdings for each. The map below portrays the global coverage of the WOSSAC holdings - georeferenced holdings being denoted by a dot on the map. To see the items represented in more detail on a map, you can also try our map search tool.
The WOSSAC archive contains a broad spectrum of soils and natural resource materials from around the world. These include items which are of historic importance; documents which still remain the only systematic survey records from many areas; and valuable laboratory data which provides time-referenced benchmarks. Below are some examples of these documents which provide an insight into the diversity of materials held within WOSSAC. The index numbers relate to the WOSSAC item coding system, and the thumbnail sketch indicates why these documents are conserved.
This collection of typed and hand-written soil reports for the Anglesey area is dated from between 1912 and 1935 and includes eighty-eight map sheets in total collected within a binder. The sheets are generally in good condition, can be clearly read, and show little sign of damage.
The map sheets contain information on the environment around the soil sampling site, including: soil reference number, locality, geological data, collectors' identity (initials mainly), and dates of collection. Also presented are the data from the laboratory analysis of the soil samples for different soil horizons which includes both mechanical and chemical analysis results in considerable detail.
Contributors to the sheets are: Hughes, D.O., Prof. G.W. Robinson, Hugh. H. Hughes, and F. Strokdale.
The archive includes two historically important texts prepared before independence and the county became Sri Lanka.
Joachim A.W.R. (1945) Progress in the study of soils of Ceylon: Agriculture and Forestry. Reprinted from the Journal of Ceylon Association of Science, Part III, October 1945.
A small booklet of 13 typed sheets contains a summary of surveys of Ceylon conducted prior to 1945. The paper covers the topics of soil classification and the suitability of areas for development with a discussion on crops suited to each soil type. Included is a summary overview soil map of the island and a table of the soil groups and series with associated observations on environment, geology, vegetation, and chemical analyses.
Thorp, J. (1935), Geographic distribution of the important soils of China. Bulletin of the Geological Society of China. Vol. 14, No. 2. 160pp.
A rare booklet published in an academic journal in 1935, contains 160 typed sheets of soil type descriptions; an illustrated provisional soil map of China; and seven plates of black and white photos (sample sites and landscapes of interest with descriptions). This is a ‘classic’ publication as it affected the development of USDA classifications of subtropical soils.
Agricultural Research Council (1950), Soil survey of Great Britain. Soil Survey Research Board, Report No. 1. 27pp. HMSO, London.
This booklet begins with a brief history of early British soil survey initiatives, by G.W. Robinson. There is also a brief review of the classification systems used by the Soil Survey of England and Wales, during the period 1946-1948; and the Soil Survey for Scotland, in the same period. A list of the survey staff working in 1948 is included. This first report of the Soil Survey Research Board sub-divides Britain into Regions and provides descriptions of the soil series encountered within each with a brief history into previous studies in the area. The volume is generally in good condition, but with damage to binding and a torn back cover.
Hodge, C.A.H. and Bloomfield, C.J., (1979), A survey of acidity in Wood Walton, Conington and Holme Fen, 1978-79. Unpublished.
This collection of 23 loose sheets typed and held in a folder, is an example of a detailed survey undertaken for a specific purpose. The survey was completed in May 1979 by a surveyor from the Soil Survey of England and Wales (C. Hodge). The purpose of the survey is described as a requirement provides an appropriate agricultural grading for the Wood Walton area. A research scientist (C. Bloomfield), based at the Rothamsted Experimental Station, contributes to this with work and includes a table of pH, sulphates and oxidisable sulphide found at depths of up to 2.5 meters. Maps included show auger bore locations; hand-drawn maps of pH values and classes for the area at different soil depths; and a small-scale map of the fields surveyed and their cropping areas.
Bridges, E.M., (c.1963), A Soil Map of Great Britain.
A 1:2,000,000 map of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, cut into tiles (perhaps for ease of storage), with legend. Accompanying the map is a small booklet describing the map, and this appears to be an early draft with hand written notes in the margin.
The map itself is not in perfect condition, having been coloured by hand, some place names are illegible and some rough corrections have been made to boundaries. A fascinating insight into the early assessment of UK soils.
Map and notes for soil profiles in Silsoe area, Bedfordshire.
Two sets of hand-written notes. The first set of notes, dated 6 August 1945, are titled ‘Bedfordshire Profiles’ by an unknown author and comprise descriptions of four survey sites in the Wrest Park area.
The second set of notes, dated 28-29 November 1946, are titled ‘Soil profiles in woodland near Woburn’, written by W.G.D. Walters, and comprises of woodland soil descriptions for two map sheets in Bedfordshire (24-SE and 24-NW).
The map, dated 16 July 1945 is of the Wrest Park estate in Bedfordshire showing labelled locations of 137 reported borings around the grounds, a legend to the labels and locations of soil profiles.
Ibrahim, F. N. (1984) Ecological Imbalances in the Republic of the Sudan, with Reference to Desertification in Darfur.
This provides a snapshot of ecological conditions in this remote western region at a time when rainfall decline was making a marked impact. The report is accompanied by four coloured maps at a scale of 1:1M, with numerous photographs. The report is part 215-page of a series published in Bayreuth, Germany. The value of this document is the data provided for an ecologically fragile region already under stress, due to a decreasing rainfall regime.
These documents represent rare examples of early natural resource assessments for the new Southern Sudan nation and are valued documents within the archive.
WOSSAC holdings are kept within the dedicated Cranfield University Agri Informatics Archive facility, which has a controlled temperature and humidity environment, making it highly suitable for the long-term storage of the tens of thousands of paper, film and magnetic-based catalogue items.
The collections comprise significant shelving given to the soil reports and monographs, filed on a country by continent basis. Alongside these reports are shelved our soil books section - containing all the standard texts on soil as well as many rare and unusual books. The books are not currently catalogued; however, this process is soon to be underway as the Cranfield library adopt these references.
The soil maps section is held in a series of map cabinets and map chests, again filed by country in continent. There are a very great many maps and we are still in the process of cataloguing these.
The WOSSAC collection also incorporates some 10,000 magnetic tapes, with contents now transferred to comtemporary media, holding space-borne remote sensing imagery captured since the very first satellite observations for planetary observation were imaged. These tapes come from the former National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), of which Silsoe College, Cranfield was a part. These tapes sit alongside further tapes from the HTSPE collection making the overall collection extremely significant.
Alongside, and associated with WOSSAC, Cranfield University's National Soil Resources Institute, operate a professionally managed soil archive and store. This facility is where the soil samples associated with the production of the National Soil Map of England and Wales are held, along with many thousands of other soil samples associated with the Institute's activities.
Our archive itself is equipped with a range of the latest document capture and scanning technologies to help us capture the materials in electronic form for web-based dissemination. Thanks to the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) for supporting the archive, via grant ‘NE/L012774/1’, ‘Ecosystem Services Databank and Visualisation for Terrestrial Informatics’, we are able to draw upon a BookEye book and document scanner, and a microfilm/microfiche scanner. Cranfield also has large format scanners which allow us to capture maps in digital format as well as film scanners for 35mm photographs.
Significant archives of soil survey reports and other legacy land evaluation documentation exist within the collections of other organizations in Europe and the USA. Specifically, there are collections held in Italy, the Netherlands, France and at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). A key aim of WOSSAC is to develop linkages with these other world databases to create a web of inter-connected land related information specifically soil surveys. To achieve this aim funding is being sought from the major funding agencies to support the ongoing development of WOSSAC and to establish its links with other such major databases.
Other sources of legacy data presently available are listed on this page and this inventory will be updated periodically. Each collection reflects the history and context of the institution which holds the collection. For example, the WOSSAC collection benefits from a strong collection of consultancy reports which are often difficult to obtain as they formed a part of the 'grey literature'. In addition, the WOSSAC collection has a working relationship with a documentary source of reports prepared by the Booker Tate consultancy which has a long history in the plantation industry notably in sugar growing. Maps and documents from such consultancy work would be project orientated and reflect specific purpose of the mapping such as irrigation development or a plantation cropping. By contrast, the FAO collection of maps now released and made available digitally concentrates on global or national mapping projects. Collections held by the French institutions will be especially strong in documentation held in the French language and reflect French territories overseas.
FAO Land and Water Division (NRL) has made an effort to make Soil Legacy data and information available for their users. FAO has uploaded 1,228 soil and land legacy maps (mainly soil maps and also land use, geological and land cover maps). Full downloads are available on-line.
ISRIC holds a core a collection of soil and land related documents held in hard copy and catalogued in a similar way to the WOSSAC. This can be accessed at www.isric.org/content/library. There are several points to make on this resource. Like WOSSAC some of the docs/maps are digitised and it is possible to access the collections held by other libraries such as FAO directly from the ISRIC screen.
France has a rich legacy of overseas soil and natural environment inventory and survey, with many maps and surveys originating from the former colonial era, and the transition in these countries to independence. As with the Commonwealth, these maps and surveys represent a fascinating and often unique record of the environment which can be used for baseline surveys and a variety of contemporary studies.
Booker Tate is a leader in the provision of development, management and technical services to the world of sugar, ethanol, bio-energy and other agribusinesses. The present global technical consultancy grew from the merger of the former companies Booker Agriculture International and Tate and Lyle Agribusiness. Booker Tate has a long history of conducting high quality soil surveys and land resource evaluations, particularly with respect to sugar cane, and its technical staff produced the seminal and invaluable Booker Tropical Soils Manual (Landon et al., 1991). Booker Tate has agreed to enter into a collaboration with WOSSAC, whereby details of non-confidential soil and land resources items presently held in the Booker Tate archive are now listed in the WOSSAC catalogue. The items will continue to be held in the Booker Tate library at Thame, and access to them will be by arrangement with Booker Tate: please contact [email protected], Masters Court, Church Road, Thame, Oxfordshire, OX9 3FA.
An illustration of the value of legacy data has been projects implemented for the UNEP and EU to capture systematically the collections from WOSSAC for the Sudan and Tanzania respectively. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) work in Sudan was supporting the UNEP Sudan Integrated Environment Project for general monitoring and particularly assessment of environmental impacts arising from conflict in the south and west of the country. These materials are now placed online and will contribute to an environmental information system being built to support and develop future environmental and agricultural policies.
In addition Cranfield staff have been involved also in a number of significant EU-sponsored research projects which aim to develop best practices for management and utilization of soil and soil-thematic data, e.g. 'e-SOTER', and 'AEGOS' and the Irish Soil Information System. WOSSAC staff have also been instrumental in creation of the England and Wales Land Information System (LandIS). These projects all draw upon the WOSSAC collection’s holdings.
The WOSSAC programme of work to date has included the following:
Work now underway focusses upon identifying the best means to promote the widest use of and access to the WOSSAC archive. A number of promising technical opportunities present to ensure the collection is revealed to the widest audience. One such example is the prototype placement of WOSSAC materials within the phenomenal 'Google Earth' project (see the News section), and investigations as to using OGC-compliant web-based services such as WMS/WFS to reveal the actual data contents of the archive. There are tens of thousands of maps from all over the world and thousands again of the reports associated with the soil surveys conducted. The process therefore of digitising and scanning the collection remains a major and significant task that will require significant funding. Securing such funding must therefore represent an important next step for the WOSSAC project to enable this next important phase in the ongoing development of the archive. See here for details as to how to support the WOSSAC project.
Another important focus looking forward will be the task of aligning the WOSSAC collection to other major significant and important collections of soil and soil-related surveys worldwide, such as those of EUDASM, ISRIC, IRD, FAO and USDA.
Summary for the 25,036 current catalogued WOSSAC Archive Holdings, from 353 territories worldwide.
The earliest catalogued items is from 1857, the latest from 2016.
Note, only those items recorded in the archive catalogue are presented here, our collection also contains a significant amount of material still undergoing cataloguing; the process of entering further items into the database is an ongoing task. These statistics are generated dynamically from the WOSSAC databases.
Statistics are presented by: Date | Country | Scale
An interactive chart of the dates of the 25,036 catalogued items
See the catalogue item count for each of the 353 territories represented in the archive
Note, the country or territory name shown is that which was used at the time of the original survey.
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Note, country names may have changed since the survey - select options to view historic and current names. Both names are recorded for each item in the catalogue if you click through to the details page for each item following a search.
See the scales of all catalogued maps
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