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Pelvic pain occurs between the belly button and the hips and groin. It is chronic when it lasts for six months or more.
Female Pelvic Organs
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Many things can cause pelvic pain, such as:
In others, the cause is not known.
Things that may raise the risk of this problem are:
Pain can vary from person to person. A person may have:
The doctor will ask about your symptoms and health history. You will also be asked about the pain. A physical exam may be done.
These tests may be done to look for a cause:
Underlying causes will be treated.
The goal of treatment is to manage pain. Choices are:
Prevention will depend on the cause. Some causes cannot be prevented.
The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
The International Pelvic Pain Society
The Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada
Chronic pelvic pain. The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists website. Available at: https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/practice-bulletin/articles/2020/03/chronic-pelvic-pain. Accessed February 15, 2021.
Chronic pelvic pain. Family Doctor—American Academy of Family Physicians website. Available at:
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Accessed February 15, 2021.
Chronic pelvic pain in women. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at: https://www.dynamed.com/condition/chronic-pelvic-pain-in-women. Accessed February 15, 2021.
Speer LM, Mushkbar S, et al. Chronic Pelvic Pain in Women. Am Fam Physician. 2016 Mar 1;93(5):380-387.
Last reviewed December 2020 by EBSCO Medical Review Board
James P. Cornell, MD
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There is a big message here to those that will listen. The power of the mind can move mountains when it is focused on a common goal. Haiti has just endured everything from looting to anarchy. HOPE is like a virus. All it takes is a tiny bit of hope. But, it spreads quickly and solidifies resolve.
The amount of lives lost is insurmountable. The idea of mass graves in not a pleasant thought to digest. They had to.
Out of the carnage, there is a continuous flow of good news right along with the bad news. The good news is fueling hope. Despair is waning. A monumental stream of cash flow for rebuilding Haiti and assisting its’ survivors is flowing like a river from governments and donations to the organizations that can make the difference.
The on-the-ground forces and aid groups are organizing, regulating the unrest, and assisting the Haitians to put their lives back together. The message of hope has multiplied by the hands-on approach to helping them.
Even from afar, it is easy to see there has been quite a turnaround in attitude over the past days. When the Presidential Palace collapsed, it symbolized to the people that their government had fallen. The chaos that followed immediately plunged Haiti into anarchy. Since then the government has regrouped, and the immediate dangers have been quelled.
Even though Haiti is poor, the hard life has tempered them into very strong willed people. When the combined will of a population can be focused in a specific direction, they can move mountains. In this case it starts with mountains of rubble.
Adding the energy of the military and the aid groups, hope has emerged and become a paramount force that will carry them forward. Hope will prevail, even when there is nothing else.
HOPE + Will Power (Mental Strength) = GAIN
That is the reason humanity has stood the test of time.
Remember, there are plenty of lessons you can observe here. Some of those may even be more important than this one.
The tenacity of your fellow humans is worth notice.
Shannon Panzo, PhD is Executive Instructor of Brain Management. Brain Management teaches you a range of mind enhancement techniques, primarily how to tap into and control your own vast potential locked in your subconscious mind. His students / clients discover the way to learn how to learn naturally and the key to unlocking your unlimited potential. The key is Mental Photography. www.MINDtoMIND.com/blog/ and www.eBRAIN.com.au/
The Brain Accelerator Blog: http://MINDtoMIND.com
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Rear Adm. Kate Gregory, Commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, and Chief of Civil Engineers
This year, the Navy’s Civil Engineer Corps (CEC) observes its 147th anniversary, embracing a legacy of providing facilities engineering expertise to Navy and Marine Corps commanders that began on March 2, 1867. The CEC is a unique organization with no exact counterpart in any other service or any other Navy in the world. Its officers are the Navy’s professional engineers and architects, responsible for executing and managing the planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of the Navy’s shore facilities. CEC officers work primarily in three areas: construction contract management, public works, and with the Seabees.
Today, the Civil Engineer Corps continues to support the Chief of Naval Operations’ tenets of “Warfighting First,” “Operate Forward,” and “Be Ready,” while adapting to changing national security threats, the drawdown from the war in Afghanistan, and fiscal uncertainties. The demand for CEC officers to support the capabilities of joint war fighters and supported commanders through efficient, innovative and responsive facilities and expeditionary expertise has never been more critical.
At every Navy base around the globe, these men and women are on the job, around the clock. From public works to building design, from environmental assessment to alternative energy development, and even to disaster recovery efforts, the Navy’s civil engineers are there.
This same cadre of officers also leads the Seabees, who provide the naval expeditionary forces with a wide array of support. Whether helping to build a combat outpost so Marines can extend their reach in Afghanistan, erecting a pier that extends a kilometer into the surf to support logistics coming over the shore, working to open a damaged port in Haiti, or drilling a fresh water well in Africa, CEC-led Seabees live by their motto “Can Do!” and can be counted on to get the job done.
As we celebrate nearly a century-and-a-half of dedicated service, this is a time to reflect upon the Civil Engineer Corp’s storied past, the critical work it is doing now, and the accomplishments it will achieve in the future. As CEC officer Cmdr. La Tanya Simms summarized it, “We don’t just build facilities and roads. We build partnerships, lasting legacies, solutions, and linkages to improve people’s lives.”
Happy 147th birthday, Civil Engineer Corps!
Rear Adm. Gregory assumed duties as commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Command and chief of civil engineers on Oct. 26, 2012.
Previously, Gregory served as commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Command Pacific and the Pacific Fleet civil engineer. Her other facilities assignments include tours in Yokosuka, Japan; Naples, Italy; San Francisco; Adak, Alaska; and Pearl Harbor. She has also had staff tours in Washington, D.C., serving as the Seabee action officer and Chief of Naval Operations Overseas Bases planning and action officer.
Within the Naval Construction Force (Seabees), she has served with Amphibious Construction Battalion One; Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) One; commanding officer of NMCB 133; commander of the 30th Naval Construction Regiment; and chief of staff for the First Naval Construction Division. Throughout her Seabee tours, she deployed to the Western Pacific, Mediterranean, Iraq and Haiti.
Gregory is a native of St. Louis, and a 1982 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. She holds graduate degrees from the University of Southern California and George Washington University, and has completed the Senior Executive Program at the London School of Business.
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The American Library Association fully supports the right of every parent to control what their child reads and to select alternative reading or instructional materials for their child. We do not believe, however, that a parent’s right to control their child’s reading includes a right to restrict what other children read, or to limit the books that are available to young people in the library.
Our belief is rooted firmly in the First Amendment. Young people have First Amendment rights — not only the right to speak but the right to access and use the resources of the school or public library, free from any censorship that arises from disapproval of a book’s content or views. Our courts of law — including the Supreme Court — have said that a decision by a school or library board to remove a book from its library because the board disapproves of the words, ideas or opinions contained in the book is a violation of a minor’s First Amendment rights.
This principle applies even when it is a parent or group of parents demanding that elected or appointed officials censor books they find shocking or inappropriate because the books conflict with their moral, political or religious beliefs. While the First Amendment promises freedom of belief, and the right to express that belief, it does not guarantee a right to dictate to school boards or library boards what ideas or beliefs may be found in our publicly funded libraries. Publicly funded libraries are community institutions that must serve the interests and information needs of every child, every family and every individual in the community. By necessity, their collections must reflect the diversity of thought and values that exist in every community.
These are not easy issues to navigate, much less resolve, especially when books are viewed as a threat by parents and partisan activists because they challenge the assumptions they hold about their world.
Designating a broad range of books dealing with the lives of those who are gay, queer or transgender, or that tell the stories of persons who are Black, Indigenous or persons of color as inappropriate or worse not only inflicts trauma on vulnerable young persons and their families who are members of those groups, it also threatens our democratic values.
Librarians and library workers will be the first to acknowledge that not every book is right for every reader. But librarians and library workers will also be the first to tell you that censorship only succeeds in fostering the conditions that destroy our precious liberties — our freedom to read and think for ourselves, which belong to young people as well as adults.
Certainly parents should be able to direct their child’s reading, and librarians and library workers are more than willing to assist parents in identifying books for their children that reflect their values. But librarians and library workers are also committed to defending their communities’ right to read and to learn. Rather than teaching lessons in censorship, librarians and library workers strive to affirm the importance of the freedom to read and to demonstrate to young people that in this country they have the right and responsibility to think critically about what they read, rather than allowing others to do their thinking for them.
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An integrated approach to plant breeding, product positioning and agronomic management are key to develop drought-tolerant crops, which will play a major role in sustainably increasing agricultural productivity, William S. Niebur, vice president – DuPont Crop Genetics Research and Development, told attendees at the grower conference, “Maize and Water Synergy.”
“Plant breeding today combines elite genetics with a matrix of technologies to accelerate the rate of yield gain,” said Niebur. “Modern biotechnology provides plant breeders with powerful tools to increase productivity for farmers on a truly global scale, while local research allows us to understand the challenges and opportunities in individual environments.”
The event, hosted by Pioneer Hi-Bred – a DuPont business -– brought together farmers from across France to discuss how product choices and agronomic knowledge are critical to increasing maize productivity while effectively managing and preserving water resources.
“There is a growing challenge to produce more food with fewer resources as population and demand for agricultural products increases,” said Niebur. “We must utilize all the tools and technologies available to us to meet this demand in a way that works within the earth’s means.”
Pioneer began breeding for drought tolerance more than 50 years ago to maximize productivity in water stress conditions; the program continues today with focus on two product development initiatives. The Drought I initiative leverages native drought genes to deliver significant improvements in yield and return on investment for drought-prone areas. The Drought II initiative integrates transgenic and molecular breeding approaches into the most elite and adapted germplasm to protect maize yields during drought conditions in all environments.
The Maize and Water Synergy conference was convened in order to lend Pioneer’s agronomy expertise in maize growing and water use to help French maize farmers maximize their profitability while limiting water use. More than 14 million metric tons of maize is produced by the country each year. Irrigation accounts for approximately one third of total water consumption in France annually. | <urn:uuid:e9fc2372-597b-4102-93d0-f78e4fd3df1d> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.dairyherd.com/dairy-resources/drought-tolerant-crops-developed-through-modern-breeding-are-key-113959154.html?source=related | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718285.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00105-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916021 | 423 | 2.171875 | 2 |
John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men is widely considered one of the greatest of American novels. This new guide gives you an in-depth analysis of this important work, unlocking its confusing aspects, making the book accessible and enjoyable, and helping you uncover all the details that make up the story.
Included in this guide: a biography of author John Steinbeck, a look at the book's context, its literary elements, detailed chapter summaries, analysis, and an examination of critical questions. This is the definitive guide to Of Mice and Men, concise, and easy to read.
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The Assembly plan released today by the Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment (LATFOR) is the culmination of a months-long process to reshape New York's electoral map based on shifts in population that have occurred over the last decade. Our proposal is responsive to the many individuals across the state who offered oral or written testimony to the Task Force.
In particular, good government groups have asked that we make districts as nearly equal in population as practicable. Toward that end we have drawn districts that have less disparity than is required by law and closer to equality than the current lines. The proposed Assembly districts - with one exception, which was drawn to avoid crossing a county line - have a population deviation of less than four percent. This is a plan which moves us more toward a key reform.
As part of the process, we took into consideration and incorporated many elements of proposals submitted in map form by numerous voting rights and good government groups, private citizens and public officials. We are grateful to them all for helping us with this constitutionally mandated task and look forward to further interaction and suggestions as we make our way across the state a second time to receive more input. | <urn:uuid:d9f383e4-2be6-4f0a-ad74-42de663776ae> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://assembly.state.ny.us/Press/20120126/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00273-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971313 | 239 | 1.765625 | 2 |
IFPI: Music Piracy Funding Organized Crime
A European trade group on Thursday linked organized crime syndicates to the US$5 billion underground industry for bootleg music.
The U.K.-based International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), which represents 1,500 record companies in 70 countries, said more than one billion CDs were illegally copied and sold in 2002, funding "an illegal international business worth US$5 billion."
"One in three of all CDs sold worldwide is a fake," the IFPI declared, insisting that much of the proceeds from pirated music are funding organized crime syndicates. In its Commercial Music Piracy 2203 report, the IFPI said the "priority countries" where music theft was rampant included China, Brazil, Mexico, Paraguay, Poland, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand and Ukraine.
In China alone, the bootleg CD market is estimated at $530 million, more than 90 percent of all music sales.
According to the IFPI, the global pirate music market is of greater value than legitimate music sales in every country of the world, except the U.S. and Japan and without government backing to target the organized piracy rings, the industry will continue to decline.
The IFPI report, which offered statistics on unauthorized CD sales, did not measure losses from the online peer-to-peer networks, where illegal file-sharing is rampant.
The IFPI wants international governments to impose tough jail sentences and more stringent copyright laws to combat the organized crime syndicates. "Today's report comes with a three-point call for greater cooperation from governments in the fight against piracy: first, better laws and enforcement rules are needed to protect music; second the massive over-production of discs needs to be regulated by effective Optical Disc Regulations," the group urged.The IFPI, which represents music labels including Sony Music, Warner Music, Universal Music, Bertelsmann and EMI, also called for aggressive prosecution for commercial pirates.
"Music piracy is serious organized crime that can only be tackled when courts deliver serious deterrent penalties," IFPI boss Jay Berman said in a statement.
He said industry anti-piracy teams have stepped up enforcement activities last year, seizing up to 50 million units of pirated discs. The group claimed "spectacular enforcement successes" during enforcement activities in Mexico and in the Philippines, raids that resulted in the shutdown of 71 CD production lines, with a production capacity of 300 million CDs. | <urn:uuid:6a9b72e6-a9a9-40c0-b918-0efb4517becd> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.esecurityplanet.com/trends/article.php/2233501/IFPI-Music-Piracy-Funding-Organized-Crime.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00439-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93888 | 508 | 1.867188 | 2 |
Any child born after June 1st 2002 is eligible to apply for an assessment under the Disability Act 2005 regardless of their age at the time of application.
Children who qualify for an assessment of need under the Act have a right to:
- an assessment of their health and education needs arising from their disability;
- an Assessment Report;
- a statement of the services they will receive;
- make a complaint if they are not happy with any part of the process.
Who can apply for an assessment?
Any parent who feels that their child (born after 1st June 2002) may have a disability can apply for an assessment. An application can also be made by a legal guardian. There is a provision under the Disability Act, 2005, for a personal advocate to be assigned by the Citizens Information Board (for more information call 0761 07 9000 or visit www.citizensinformationboard.ie.
What is an assessment of need?
An assessment of need is an assessment of the full range of your child's needs associated with his or her disability. After this, you will receive an Assessment Report detailing your child's needs and the services required to meet those needs.
Who will carry out the assessment?
Your first point of contact is your local Assessment Officer who is responsible for your child's assessment. Each Local Health Office has an Assessment Officer. They can assist you with your child's application and help and support you through the process. The Assessment Officer is responsible for issuing your child's Assessment Report. The assessment is carried out regardless of the cost or availability of services. All assessments will be carried out in line with the standards endorsed by the Health Information and Quality Authoritywww.hiqa.ie/standards. You will be encouraged to take part in your child's assessment.
Where do I apply?
Applications must be made in writing on a standard form which is available from the Assessment Officer in your Local Health Office.
How long will it take?
Your child's assessment must start within 3 months from when the completed application form is received by the HSE. It must be completed within a further 3 months from the date on which the assessment commenced. In exceptional circumstances, the assessment may take longer than 3 months, but must be completed as soon as possible.
What happens next?
When the assessment is complete, a HSE Case Manager, who may also be referred to as the Liaison Officer, will prepare a Service Statement for you. The Service Statement will say what services and supports will be provided to your child and will be prepared within 1 month of the assessment being completed. You will receive your child's Assessment Report and Service Statement at the same time.
What can I do if I am not satisfied?
The Disability Act 2005 provides for a special complaints and appeals procedure which you can use if you are unhappy with your child's assessment or Service Statement. You may complain on the following grounds:
1. The Assessment Officer decides that your child does not meet the definition of disability according to the Act and you disagree.
2. Your child's assessment was not started or completed within the timeframes specified under the Act. Your child's assessment must be started as soon as possible but no later than three months from the date of receipt of your completed application form. Once started, it must be completed within a further three months from the date of commencement.
3. You believe that your child’s assessment was not carried out in line with the standards for assessment of the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA).www.hiqa.ie/standards.
4. You believe that the content of your child's Service Statement is inaccurate or incorrect.
5. Your child has not received a service that is detailed in his or her Service Statement.
When should I make a complaint?
You can make a complaint at any stage after you have submitted a completed application form for an assessment of need to the Assessment Officer. The regulations associated with the Disability Act require that you complain within 3 months of the date on which you became aware of the cause of the complaint.
What should I do if I want to make a complaint?
In the first instance, if your complaint is about the assessment process, contact the Assessment Officer and if it is about the Service Statement, contact the Case Manager.
If you are still not happy and wish to involve the Disability Complaints Officer, the Assessment Officer or Case Manager will give you a form to fill in, alternatively, you may contact the Complaints Officer directly (Tel: 045-880400). This form also lists the grounds on which you can make a complaint. The form, when completed, needs to be returned to the Complaints Officer. The address is on the form. The Complaints Officer is independent under the Act. This means that the Complaints Officer will look at your complaint objectively and fairly.
What happens next?
The Complaints Officer will write to you to let you know that the reason(s) for your complaint is being examined. The Complaints Officer will contact the Assessment Officer or Case Manager, as appropriate, in order to obtain all of the information pertaining to your child's assessment or Service Statement. The Complaints Officer will also speak to you. The Complaints Officer will then decide if you have a well founded reason for making a complaint. If the Complaints Officer considers that the complaint is not well founded, you will be told why and you will also receive a letter explaining the reasons why.
Resolving the complaint informally.
If your complaint is well founded, the Complaints Officer dealing with your case will decide, very quickly, if there is scope for your complaint to be resolved informally. If this is the case, the Complaints Officer will discuss the proposed resolution with you and the other parties to the complaint and, if agreement is reached, you will receive a letter outlining the agreement.
What if my complaint is well founded and cannot be resolved informally?
If an informal resolution is not possible, the Complaints Officer will initiate a formal investigation of your complaint. During the course of a formal investigation, the Complaints Officer will talk to you in some detail about your concerns. The Complaints Officer will examine the file and where necessary will seek information from other parties. The Complaints Officer may also interview the other parties where necessary.
What happens next?
The Complaints Officer will consider all of the information concerning your complaint and prepare a final report on the matter. This report will be given to you, to the Assessment Officer or Case Manager, and to any other relevant people.
What is in a final report?
The final report will outline the grounds for complaint and detail all the facts provided by you, the Assessment Officer or Case Manager, and any other person who gave information. The report will include the findings of the investigation, outline whether the complaint is being upheld or not and, in the event that the complaint is being upheld, make recommendations. The report may contain one or more of the following findings and recommendations:
1. That your child may have a disability and that your child is reassessed within a specified time period.
2. That the HSE, or those providing services on its behalf, failed to start or complete your child's assessment within the timeframes set out under the Disability Act and a recommendation that the assessment be started and completed within a specified period.
3. That your child's assessment was not done in line with all or some of the standards of the Health Information and Quality Authority and that his or her assessment or part of it should be done again within a specified time period.
4. That the content of your child's Service Statement is inaccurate or incorrect and that it is amended or changed by the Case Manager in a specified time period.
5. That the HSE, or those providing services on its behalf, did not provide, or fully provide, a service specified in your child's Service Statement and that it should be provided in full within a certain period.
What if I am unhappy with the outcome of my complaint?
If you are unhappy with the findings and recommendations of the Complaints Officer, or if the HSE has not acted on the recommendations of the Complaints Officer, you can appeal to the Disability Appeals Officer. An information leaflet and an application form for this appeals process will always be included with the Complaints Officer’s final report.
The Disability Appeals Officer is independent and is appointed by the Minister for Health. The Appeals Officer is not part of the HSE. For more information about making an appeal, contact the Disability Appeals Office on LoCall 1850 211 583 or at www.odao.ie
For information in other formats, please contact the Assessment Officer in your Local Health Office.
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Social Security is the bedrock entitlement program that directly supports over 56 million Americans. That’s over 18 percent of the population.
If you’re receiving Social Security, you know that Social Security benefits are modest. The average Social Security benefit is just $14,800 per year.
In other words, Social Security beneficiaries make just about as much as a full-time minimum wage worker.
With retirement savings low and private pensions hard to come by, that’s not much after a lifetime of work.
Social Security is the main source of income for the majority of American retirees, so it’s important that Social Security
The 2012 Social Security Trustees Report predicts that the Social Security retirement trust fund will run dry in 2035.
If Social Security retirement funds are used to make up shortfalls in the Social Security disability programs, that date moves up to 2033.
That’s hardly tomorrow, but it’s close enough to be worth worrying about.
By 2033 the accumulated trust funds will be used up, but the Social Security program will still have money coming in every year from Social Security taxes.
The Trustees estimate that these ongoing receipts will be enough to pay beneficiaries at 73 percent of full benefits in perpetuity.
So even if we do nothing, Social Security won’t disappear in 2033. It will continue, just at reduced benefit levels.
The tap won’t run dry. It’ll just run a little weak.
Put that way, the challenge of saving Social Security doesn’t look quite so daunting. Yes, we have to do something. But we have to do something that will top up benefit levels twenty years from now, not something to stave a complete collapse tomorrow.
One thing we could do is simply make up the projected 27 percent shortfall in Social Security benefits through general government spending.
At today’s prices, that would cost about $200 billion per year, or about 6 percent of the federal budget. That’s a lot, but not an unmanageable sum of money for the federal government. It could be done.
Another thing we would do is just raise the minimum wage.
Social Security is mainly funded by a flat tax on all wages up to $110,100 per year (going up to $113,700 in 2013). The more people earn, the more tax they pay (up to that level).
There are no deductions and no exemptions. Every additional dollar earned by poor and middle-income people translates directly into higher Social Security tax receipts.
Thus a doubling of the minimum wage from $7.25 to $14.50 an hour would result in a doubling of the Social Security taxes paid by minimum wage earners.
We have at least twenty years to rebuild the Social Security trust fund. If we raise minimum wages now, we can start rebuilding the fund now. Congress should put the minimum wage up a dollar a year every year for the next ten years, starting in 2013.
As with all retirement saving, the earlier you start the easier it is to meet your goals. Social Security taxes paid into the trust funds in 2013 will immediately start earning compound interest. By 2023 the Social Security crisis will be solved.
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The mark consists of an oval, within which is a second oval and the design of a stylized beer glass. On top of the beer glass is depicted a stylized head of beer. A stylized star appears to the right of the stylized head of beer. The wording "THE BEER INNOVATION FROM JAPAN. BEER WITH AN ICY-CRISP HEAD FOR GOOD TIMES." appears around the perimeter of the oval in a stylized font. The wording "KIRIN ICHIBAN" is presented within a stylized banner over the beer glass, below which is the wording "FROZEN BEER", both in a stylized font. Beneath this is a design of a stylized mythical hoofed Chinese chimerical creature known as a "Kirin", which appears as a cross between a deer and a dragon, below which are Japanese characters.
"FROZEN BEER" AND "THE BEER INNOVATION FROM JAPAN"
Design plus words, letters, and/or numbers
Color is not claimed as a feature of the mark.
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Caribbean: Hurricane Debby Information Bulletin No. 2
At 2 a.m. today, the centre of the category one hurricane Debby was located near latitude 19.5 north, longitude 68.1 west or about 385 km south-east of Grand Turk island. Debby has been moving in the west-north-west direction during the past few hours. The maximum sustained winds remain around 120 km/hr, with stronger gusts. No significant change in strength is expected while Debby remains north of Hispaniola.
A hurricane warning is in effect for the south-east and central Bahamas, the Turks and Caico Islands and for the north coast of the Dominican Republic. A hurricane watch is in effect for the north coast of Cuba for the provinces of Guantanamo, Holguin and Las Tunas and will probably be extended westward later today. A hurricane watch is also in effect for the north-western Bahamas. A tropical storm warning and a hurricane watch are in effect for Haiti, north of Port au Prince.
Red Cross/Red Crescent Action
The St. Kitts & Nevis Red Cross Society and the Antigua Red Cross branch have reported no damage. Governments in both countries have discontinued the hurricane warning and these National Societies are no longer on alert. No report has been received so far on the situation in Barbuda from the Antigua and Barbuda Red Cross Headquarters.
The Dominican Red Cross is still on alert in north and north-east branches and the Emergency Operation Centre is meeting on a regular basis.
The Montserrat Red Cross was also put on alert. The Red Cross First Aiders were asked to report to the hurricane shelters but not many people took shelter there. On Monday night there were occasional showers backed by the usual winds. By Tuesday morning, however, heavy rains developed.
The Caribbean Regional Delegation is still closely monitoring the progress of the Hurricane Debby. The National Societies in the region are in regular contact with the Delegation. The Disaster Preparedness Delegates are supporting NS hurricane preparedness. Four Federation Delegates and eight regional Red Cross Societies are on standby for immediate action.
The Weather Channel and BBC Caribbean Services are in permanent contact with the Regional Delegation in order to release safety hurricane preparedness tips to the community.
Major damage can be caused by flash flooding, landslides and high tides. The nature and the course of the hurricane Debby will be better determined within the next 48 hours. If it continues on its current track, it would pose a threat to Turks and Caicos islands and the Bahamas archipelago. In addition, the Dominican Republic and Haiti are anticipating flooding, landslides and coastal damage. In case of Haiti, this rain can alleviate the drought that the country has been experiencing lately. At the moment, no international assistance is requested.
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And He said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground, and should sleep by night and rise by day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he himself does not know how. For the earth yields crops by itself: first the blade, then the head, after that the full grain in the head. But when the grain ripens, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.” ~ Mark 4:26-29 (NKJ)
Lesson Aim: We shouldn’t just sit back and relax and do nothing but in all the work we do for the kingdom, we should remember that it is only God who causes growth.
Mark 4: 3-20
Romans 1: 15-17; 10: 8-17
2 Corinthians 7:8-12
Memory Verse: “But these are the ones sown on good ground, those who hear the word, accept it,and bear fruit: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.” ~ Mark 4:20 (NKJV)
1. Who is the sower?
2. What is the seed?
3. What is the relation of the sower to the seed springing and growing up?
4. What does the statement, “the earth bringth forth fruit of herself,” suggest?
5. What is the “fruit” that is in the view in this parable?
6.What does “harvest” in this parable refer to?
7. What is the relation of the seed to the harvest?
8. What lesson can you learn from this parable?
Make Your Own Seed Starter Pots for use in sprouting seeds to plant into potting soil. This demonstrates how it is God who brings growth through our work.
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An Irish form of black/blood pudding - particularly popular in county Cork, where it"s colloquially called "Packet" - originally, it was made from cow"s or sheep"s rather than the more usual pig"s blood. Still often made on the farm for home consumption, when a cow might be bled from the neck while alive, and an "instant" pudding made. Nowadays pig"s blood is more often used.
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Advance Sheets(redirected from Advance Sheets in the National Reporter System)
Pamphlets containing recently decided opinions of federal courts or state courts of a particular region.
Cases appearing in advance sheets are subsequently published in bound volumes containing several past pamphlets, usually with the same volume and page numbers as appeared in the advance sheets. Sometimes a court will publish an individual opinion soon after it has been rendered by the court. This is called a slip opinion, which later may appear in an advance sheet.
Advance Sheets in the National Reporter System
The National Reporter System, published by the West Group, St. Paul, Minnesota, is the most comprehensive collection of the decisions of the appellate courts of the states and each of the courts of the United States. Eighteen reporters comprise the National Reporter System. Eight units cover federal courts, including the Supreme Court Reporter (cited as S. Ct.); the Federal Reporter, as of 2003 in its third series; the Federal Supplement, as of 2003 in its second series; the Federal Rules Decisions (cited as F.R.D.); the Military Justice Reporter (cited as M.J.); and the Bankruptcy Reporter.
Ten reporters cover the 50 states and the District of Columbia. These reporters, each of which is in its second or third series, include the following: Atlantic Reporter (A., A.2d); North Western Reporter (N.W., N.W.2d); Pacific Reporter (P., P.2d, P.3d); South Eastern Reporter (S.E., S.E.2d); Southern Reporter (So., So.2d); South Western Reporter (S.W., S.W.2d, S.W.3d); California Reporter (Cal. Rptr.); Illinois Decisions (Ill. Dec.); and New York Supplement (N.Y.S., N.Y.S.2d).
Advance sheets in the National Reporter System are published 50 times each year (weekly, except for the last week of September and first week of October) for the regional units reporting state cases. Three units report federal cases 52 times per year. The remaining units are published biweekly, monthly, or semi-monthly, depending on how many cases are issued by the courts covered by the various reporters. | <urn:uuid:a52de362-5529-44f5-90c7-a0cefe552962> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Advance+Sheets+in+the+National+Reporter+System | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721141.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00417-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930069 | 484 | 1.984375 | 2 |
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Strong sunlight and salt-laden wind are hard on your tresses, but there
By Susan Weiner
It’s summertime and the living may be easy. Summer elements, however, are anything but easy on your hair, which is exposed to salt water or chlorine (or both), dry winds and high humidity. The damage these elements can cause often results in locks that are drab, dry or frizzy.
When confronted by such environmental exposures, “lather, rinse and repeat” just isn’t enough to keep your hair in tip-top shape on long hot days. To achieve that magnificent mane, it may be time to step away from your traditional routine and evaluate new approaches to hair care.
Each of us has approximately 100,000 scalp hairs that grow from one-quarter to one-half inch every month from structures called follicles. Each hair shaft has three layers; the cuticle, or outside layer, protects the inner two. When the scales that make up the cuticle lie flat and reflect light, hair is shiny and healthy. When the hair shaft is damaged these scales separate and hair becomes dry, dull and prone to breakage.
Whether hair is straight or curly also influences shine. Sebum, a protective oil produced within the follicles, spreads out and covers straight hair easier than curly or wavy hair. This is why straight hair often appears shinier than a head full of curls.
The longer the hair, the longer it has been exposed to harsh elements such as scorching sun and chlorinated pool water during the summer (as well as cold outdoor air and overheated indoor air during the winter). Over time, these conditions take their toll, zapping your hair’s luster and sheen.
A 5,000-year-old system of holistic healing from India, Ayurveda steers away from chemical-based hair care and emphasizes all-natural treatments that combine wholesome foods, herbs, scalp massage, aromatherapy and yoga. Individual mind-body types, or doshas, determine the specific combination of each individual. Someone with a vata constitution, for example, may have naturally frizzy or coarse hair and struggle with dandruff and split ends. A pitta person may have light-colored, fine hair that may go gray or thin out early, while a kapha individual is likely to have full, abundant hair that is less prone to damage. (To determine your dosha, go to www.whatsyourdosha.com or find a trained practitioner through the National Ayurvedic Medical Association at www.ayurveda-nama.org .)
Ayurvedic practices are ideal for sun-stressed hair. “Typical Ayurvedic treatment will include massage of the scalp with medicated oils, which have extraordinary qualities,” says Suteja Navarro, CAS, PKS, founder of OmSpring in San Francisco, California. “Ayurvedic knowledge teaches that there is a true digestive system that operates through the skin, including the scalp. This is why Ayurveda recommends putting nothing on the skin that we ca... | <urn:uuid:4c2d26d2-51b5-48ad-8435-b4da9502d1b7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://localmarket.energytimes.com/Natural_Hair_Care_Bozeman_MT-p1573481-Bozeman_MT.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00553-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938991 | 683 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Psychological Science’s new study suggests that worker hand sanitization may be increased by using a decoy product. The study suggests that introducing a less convenient option can increase sanitary conditions.
Employees in food factories were studied to determine if they were more inclined to use the hand sanitzers, soap and other cleansers for their hands when a decoy was offered. The decoy was found to guide the person’s behavior.
Previous research seems to correlate with the new findings, as the “decoy effect” is such that the decoy, which is often an inferior product, encourages employees to use preexisting options that are already in place.
Decoys, in this case, were found to improve hand sanitization and employee hands that were studied were also cleaner after the decoy was planted.
The study included 163 participants that worked in three factories in China. The workers were allowed to go about their daily routines for 20 days without any intervention. Researchers observed the participants’ hand hygiene during this time.
Colleagues that were in the experimental group were offered inferior hand-sanitizing options over a 20-day period.
Sanitizer spray bottles, which are designed to be used hourly in the factories, were routinely below optimal levels. Researchers placed a new, more difficult-to-use bottle in one factory right alongside the regular bottle that workers routinely failed to use.
Another factory was given the option to use a wash basin rather than a spray bottle to sanitize their hands. The method, while just as effective, takes longer and is less convenient for the employees.
The third factory followed the same guidelines as the first factory, but a spray bottle in a different color was provided.
Workers’ hands were swabbed daily along with their work tables daily. The procedure is already common in factories, and the results found that two of the factories noticed increased usage of the original hand sanitizer over the 20-day period.
The decoy sanitizer improved cleanliness in the factories.
Pass rates, gathered during the baseline period, found that hand swabs had a pass rate of 70% to 74% for all experimental groups in the three factories. The pass rates rose dramatically with the presence of a decoy, rising to 92% – 98% for the experimental group.
Control groups that were also present but did not contain a decoy noticed no difference in pass rate during the 20-day period.
Work table swab tests were also similarly impacted, with much higher pass rates. Management in one of the factories was so impressed after the test that they decided to implement decoys for all workers.
The research will be used to find better ways to increase hand hygiene in the workplace. Future studies will focus on ways to increase hygiene in areas where poor hygiene practices remain very high.
Data for the project has been provided on the Open Science Framework.
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It sounds like you are still in the very early stages of your evaluation? If that's the case, then before you do anything try creating a new website project using the project manager - Sitefinity.exe. See below if you need info about the Project Manager.
Click the top left button that says "Create a New Project" and follow the setup wizard. Once you have it created then select "Actions" --> "Go to Administration" and you will be taking through the rest of the process of setting up a database and administrator.
If everything is working correctly now that you have pipes turned on, then you should be fine with your new project. If it doesn't, then I would try installing SQL Express 2008 R2 w/ Management Tools
. Then try a new project. You can have more than one sql instance running, just give them different names and make sure to use that name later on when you are setting your DB server in the setup wizard.
Quick FYIs -
- If you don't have the project manager, or not sure where it's located, you can use the attached zip document to download it.
- Here's some more information about using the Project Manager.
- If you are currently using MSSQL 2012, then you will not be able to downgrade an existing mdf file to 2008 later on.
- Always give your projects new names, even if you've deleted an old project. SQL or IIS seem to keep a copy in memory somewhere and this will cause confusion when your changes don't show up.
Do you want to have your say in the Sitefinity development roadmap? Do you want to know when a feature you requested is added or when a bug fixed? Explore the Telerik Public Issue Tracking
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Directed and co-written by Matthew Mahler (the other scribe on the project was Ross Mahler) and starring Timothy J. Cox What Jack Built is a one man show. This could have been called “A Man and His Box” as it really does feel that this silent protagonist is alone in this world except for his “creation.” It could also be classed as a silent film, in as much as Cox’s character Jack, never really says anything.
There are the odd murmurings as he builds his project and a few satisfied sighs of containment when things go right, but not one word of dialogue, narration or any type of voice-over (as in allowing the audience to “hear” Jack’s thoughts) exists. There is a sound track, with aptly fitting music and sound effects.
Jack (Cox) is building something. At first glance, he seems to be a live version of Wallace sans Gromit. An inventor of some sort, he even keeps his outside coat on hanger which he can pull on a slide, and his workshop (Home?) is chock a block with equipment, tools and and cigars.
The music seems to indicate a science fiction feel to the proceedings, as though this were set in the future. Once the builder leaves his lair, the music changes to a different theme as thought the sic-fi element has been left behind and Jack enjoys the outdoors.
As Jack manufactures his “box,” going over his blueprints and excitedly putting everything together it appears that this trap he is building is not a survival thing at all. When he has put the finishing touches on his box, he sets the bait (a tape recording that has been turned on inside the box) and head back to his shop to watch the proceedings. He seems more excited at the outcome, not like a hunter at all.
Lighting another cigar and popping open a tin of drink, Jack sits on a wheel chair and waits.
What Jack Built feels like a homage to both I am Legend (faintly) and The Evil Dead. With a feel of “the last man standing,” or in this case building, and the slower “evil dead” touch, this is a fascinating short film to watch.
Timothy J. Cox plays Jack as a man consumed with one task and while he is focussed on the matter at hand, he still loves a good cigar. Cox keeps the viewer’s interest throughout as they wonder why he is so intent on building this thing and what he hopes to snare.
The end result of this character’s labors return an unexpected result and by the time the film ends, we fear that Jack may have gotten much more than he expected. At under 12 minutes the time flies by and it can be watched repeatedly allowing new things to be discovered in the movie.
Like any great work of fiction, and stand-up comedians, at the end the viewer wants more. Mahler has edited the film tightly and his storyline almost mesmerizes. Mahler also shot his own film, as well as edited it, and this Rodriguez approach works perfectly.
There are great touches in the film. For instance the vice that Jack grabs the partly-smoked cigar from is blackened on top. This vice has been the character’s cigar holder for some time. There are other touches like this in the film and this is obviously down to John Heerlein.
Perhaps the only complaint focusses around the cigars. Whether by accident or on purpose, as Jack smokes through a succession of stogies they change in diameter. The first one is quite fat compared to the later ones he smokes. As the film progresses these cigars get thinner and thinner.
Is this a message? It feels like is should be although the meaning is not clear.
This is a cracking bit of short cinema. The lighting is spot on and the set dressing is perfect. The viewer believes in this verse almost effortlessly. Cox proves that he can single handedly carry a film with ease. His “Jack” is fascinating and the viewer wants to see what he is building, early in the movie, and then wants to know what happens after the end.
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Race day foods
Race day is upon us. With your training plan nicely ticked off, there's one last preparation hurdle before donning the lycra: what to eat on the day.
Get ready – 24 hours to go
The day before a big race is the time to properly hydrate your body in preparation for what lies ahead. It's also time to carbo-load and top up your body's glycogen supply, which is the energy source you'll be predominantly using during the race. As a general rule of thumb, the recommendation is around 7-10g of carbohydrate per kg body weight per day, so for somebody who weighs 60kg, that's 420-600g of carbohydrates to factor into your meal planning.
Example meal plan:
Lunch: a jacket potato and beans with salad
Snacks: bananas, crispbread, a handful of dried fruit, rice cakes with honey or jam
Take a look at our week of marathon meal plans.
Other things to keep in mind the day before any big race:
- You can begin carb0-loading three days before a race
- Include carbs in all your meals – don't just have one big bowl of pasta the night before
- Avoid caffeine and alcohol as they'll only dehydrate your body
- Don't overdo the carbs if you're not used to it – you'll make yourself feel lethargic
- Keep in mind it's not all about pasta – fruit and vegetables count as carbohydrates, too
- Focus on low-GI carbs such as wholefood options, which release energy slowly
Get set – 3-4 hours before
The morning of your race is the time to top up your glycogen stores and hydrate after a night's sleep. While it's trickier with morning races, try to fit in a meal about 3 hours before an event to give your body time to digest. Slow-release (low-GI) carbs are the best nourishment for your body at this time. Try porridge topped with fruit, a bagel or wholegrain toast. It's wise to avoid fatty foods that will lie in your stomach and anything that you're not used to eating to avoid an upset stomach. If you struggle with eating early in the morning or suffer from pre-race nerves, try blitzing a low-fat smoothie or milkshake, or have a sports drink that contains carbohydrates as well as electrolytes.
Go – during the race
If you're racing for longer than 60-90 minutes, you'll need to take on board carbohydrates during the race to prevent your glycogen stores from becoming depleted. Think in 1-hour blocks: start taking on carbs an hour or so into your race, then every hour try to consume 30-60g – that's roughly a gel plus a sports drink (containing carbs) every hour. Stick with the fuels you used in your training: energy gels, bananas or gummy sweets are the usual candidates. As well as sports drinks that will replace electrolytes, drink water little and often, and don't wait until you feel thirsty to drink. By the time thirst kicks in, your body will already be dehydrated, and a dehydration level of only 3% will cause your energy levels to drop. Some people also like to take on caffeine (contained in some gels) during a race to give them an added energy boost, though it's only wise to do this if you've tried it during training – otherwise, you might end up with a gurgling stomach.
And stop – after the race
Whether you collapse in a heap or parade around with your shiny new medal, keep on drinking after you cross the finish line. If isotonic sports drinks are given out, grab one to replace fluid, electrolytes and carbohydrates. Bananas are often given out after big races too, as they give a good supply of carbohydrates and potassium to prevent muscle cramps. If you can stomach food straight after the race, snack on high-GI carbs and protein-rich foods to boost your energy, rebuild glycogen stores and repair damaged muscle tissue. Recovery bars, milkshakes, smoothies made with milk or yogurt, chicken or tuna sandwiches and cereal with milk are good post-race snacking foods.
When you get home, treat your weary muscles with a soak in the bath and a well-deserved meal that's high in muscle-healing protein and carbohydrates.
Our favourite post-race recipes:
Fully loaded Cajun chicken burgers
Mild chilli & bean pasta bake
Quick chilli with creamy chive crushed potatoes
Chicken & chorizo jambalaya
Tuna & lemon pasta
Triple-decker steak sandwich
Moroccan turkey meatballs with citrus couscous
Will you be racing this year? Tell us your top tips for training and how you're getting on below.
This article was reviewed on 28 September 2021 by Tracey Raye.
Katie Hiscock is a fitness writer with diplomas in personal training and sports massage therapy. With an interest in sports nutrition, antenatal exercise and injury prevention, she works as a therapist for Brighton & Hove Albion.
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Reddish brown pigments from Alternaria alternata for textile dyeing and printing
Reddish brown pigment has been extracted from dry mycelium of Alternaria alternata in methanol and then evaluated for dyeing efficacy on cotton fabrics. The pigment producing fungus A. alternata is grown in maize grain broth maintained at pH 6. Shade of Sienna is obtained on cotton. Dyed cotton fabric has recorded a grey scale rating of 2-3 and 4-5 for colour fastness and multi fibre staining respectively. Maximum dye absorption of 63% has been observed on cotton fabrics. The antimicrobial property of dyed fabric is also tested. Potent antimicrobial activity is observed against Staphylococcus epidermis (42 mm) and Streptococcus pyogenes (39 mm).
Alternaria alternata; Fungal pigment; Natural dyeing; Staphylococcus epidermis; Streptococcus pyogenes
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MUNICH, Germany - Here where Joseph Ratzinger once presided as archbishop and later cardinal, people say his elevation to Pope Benedict XVI is a cause for celebration.
But then, the people of Munich think that pretty much everything is a cause for celebration.
They seem to like nothing better than festivals and holidays. Many of these events revolve around a single theme. There are, for example, the Festival of Strong Beer, the May Bock Beer Festival and, of course, the sausage-and-brew extravaganza, Oktoberfest.
Rural Bavaria - the birthplace of the new pope ---- is often portrayed as pious and religiously conservative. But Munich, the region's capital and Germany's third-largest city, is undeniably freewheeling, rakish and culturally tolerant. Small wonder that since the start of the decade, three out of four Germans have told pollsters they would prefer to live in Munich.
Munich's attitude toward Pope Benedict XVI, it seems, is the same as its attitude toward everyone else. "Live and let live is really the typical attitude here," said Stefan Hauf, a spokesman for the Lord Mayor of the city. "There is a certain liberal view. This was never a town of farmers, but always of traders, open to all the world."
University students sunbathe nude in Englischer Garten; autoworkers and high-tech entrepreneurs get groggy together in the city's most famous beer gardens. Munich hosts ultra-hip festivals of modern art, music and jazz, as well as the Christopher Street parade, an R-rated event that draws gays from all over Europe.
The city's 1.3 million residents seem less focused on the politics of the Vatican than on the cross-town rivalry between the soccer clubs Bayern Munich and TSV-1860. Or they're grappling with the cost of housing, and raising children in one of the most expensive cities in Germany.
Hordes of newcomers have moved here over the past five years, attracted by the mountains, the relatively warm climate and a booming economy. Munich is home to prospering manufacturers, including BMW, as well as computer industry startups.
The unemployment rate here is just 7 percent, compared with more than 10 percent in the rest of Germany.
Still, the new pope has created a buzz.
At the Hugendubel Bookstore on Marienplatz, across from the New City Hall, there is a three-foot stack of The DaVinci Code, a thriller in which the hero is chased by a sinister group of conservative Catholics. It sits a few steps away from a rack filled with copies of Values in the Time of Change, a 160-page meditation by former Cardinal Ratzinger.
Both books have become best sellers, though the religious publishing house distributing the pope's book can't print it fast enough to meet demand, said Patrick Scholz, one of the store's managers.
Pope Benedict XVI has instantly become the world's third-most famous Bavarian, at least by Hauf's reckoning, after retired soccer star Franz Beckenbauer, and "Crazy" Ludwig II, Bavaria's madcap 19th-century king who built fairy tale castles.
The city has invited the new pontiff to visit, perhaps as part of a trip he plans to Cologne in August to a massive gathering of Catholic youth.
German Protestants are caught up in the excitement.
"He is a very wise, very intellectual man," said Angela C. Kunder, a Lutheran who is director of a music school. "The other pope was more charismatic and sensual. I think he was closer to people. But the new pope can achieve that as well."
In 2003, an ecumenical meeting in Berlin between German Protestants and Catholics was marred by the Vatican's refusal to allow Catholic priests to offer Holy Communion to Protestants, a decision blamed on then-Cardinal Ratzinger as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Since Protestants didn't believe that the bread and wine in the ceremony was physically transformed into the flesh and blood of Christ, the Vatican said, priests who gave them communion would be committing a sin.
That action disappointed Kunder. But she said that the new pope's willingness to tell people what they don't want to hear is a strength, not a weakness. "He should listen to his inner voice," she said. "The main thing is to confess yourself to Jesus, and let that guide you. It doesn't matter if you are Catholic or Lutheran."
But most of the interest in the new pontiff appears to reflect curiosity and pride rather than enthusiasm. When a German newspaper asked a Bavarian shopkeeper whether he would stock Pope Benedict XVI souvenirs, he snapped: "Who is supposed to buy those?"
According to a poll conducted for the regional Bavarian newspaper Suddentsche Zeitung, 76 percent of the population is pleased by having the first German pope in nearly five centuries. But Pope Benedict himself was viewed positively by only 63 percent of the people surveyed, the paper reported yesterday.
Nearly 90 percent of those polled said they favored changes the new pope staunchly opposes, including equal rights for women in the church and an end to the requirement of priestly celibacy.
"We think it's rather nice that there's a German pope," said Kornelia Seldes, 82, strolling arm-in-arm yesterday with Anja Micorek, 66, through Marienplatz, the city's main square. But neither woman thought much of the pope's opposition to birth control or abortion.
Despite Pope John Paul's charisma, Micorek said, Europeans drifted from the church because of the church's seeming resistance to change. Even the late pope's popularity among young people was something of an illusion, she said. "It was a kind of 'happening,' it was like Woodstock. It was not really religious."
"I was hoping for a more modern person who would come in and institute reforms," she said.
Christoph Speigel and Eva Holbeck, Catholics from Germany's Ruhr Valley, toured the Frauenkirche, or Mother Church, the seat of the archbishop of Munich - a job Joseph Ratzinger held briefly in 1977 before becoming cardinal. But their visit to the Frauenkirche was just another stop on their tour of the city, not a pilgrimage to a papal site.
Fewer than one out of six German Catholics attend Mass weekly, according to a study published this year, and Spiegel recalled that it had been more than a year since he had done so: "The last time I can remember being in church, it was absolutely boring and too far removed from reality."
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Many consumers are quick to skip or block digital ads when browsing through content on the Internet, including in social media. As a result, advertisers must continuously work to come up with creative ways to grab the attention of ad-avoiding consumers in order to deliver their advertising message. One popular method of online advertising that tries to achieve this goal is so-called “native advertising.”
Native advertising is advertising content that resembles the design, style and functionality of the media in which it is integrated. In other words, the ads look and feel like natural content, and are often indistinguishable from the surrounding news, feature articles, editorials, and other regular content. Recognizing that this type of advertising has the potential of deceiving or misleading consumers as to its commercial nature, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) recently released the Enforcement Policy Statement on Deceptively Formatted Advertisements and Native Advertising: A Guide for Businesses to assist businesses in making sure their advertising meet the FTC’s truth-in-advertising standards.
Native advertising actually is not a new idea. The FTC first addressed the issue of advertising appearing in a news format in the 1960s. The trend continued through the years as similar advertising methods emerged, such as infomercials that deceptively mimicked television news programming, “advertorials” disguised as news stories, and paid ads formatted to appear as regular search engine results. In this digital age, native advertising now often takes the form of ads formatted as news articles on a news aggregator site, or in-feed ads on social media platforms, such as Twitter’s promoted Tweets and Facebook’s boosted posts. However, throughout the evolution of this method of advertising, the FTC’s message has remained the same:
advertising and promotional messages that are not identifiable as advertising to consumers are deceptive if they mislead consumers into believing they are independent, impartial, or not from the sponsoring advertiser itself.
If one had to summarize the FTC’s recent guides in one term, it would be “transparency.” The FTC makes clear that the recent proliferation of natively formatted advertising raises questions as to whether these methods mislead consumers about the commercial nature of the content. It is important that consumers know that source of information they are reading or seeing because it could affect whether a consumer chooses to interact with the content or could affect the weight or credibility the consumer associates with the information.
The FTC painstakingly goes through seventeen examples to highlight ways in which consumers could be misled by native advertising. One example is an ad placed in a online magazine that misleads consumers that it is an ordinary magazine article that reflects the independent views of the publisher. Another example is a sponsored video featuring an advertised product that looks like the many other unpaid videos on a website. In the social media realm, the FTC states that it can be misleading to includes buttons for consumers to “share” an article from their personal media streams that resembles the regular articles posted in the same online publication. Indeed, in all of these examples, it is not just what the ad says that can be misleading, but also the format it uses to convey that information.
Does your company use any of these advertising methods? Not to worry, there is a way to dispel the potential deception described in these examples: disclosure. Not only must advertisers disclose the commercial nature of the ad, they must also make sure the disclosure is clear and prominent. Our table below sets forth our “top ten tips” as a summary of the FTC’s recommendations when it comes to disclosures.
Finally, the FTC warns that its Enforcement Policy Statement does not just apply to advertisers:
Everyone who participates directly or indirectly in creating or presenting native ads should make sure that ads don’t mislead consumers about their commercial nature.
Indeed, any other parties who assist in creating advertising content that may be viewed as deceptive are fair game to the FTC, including ad agencies and operators of affiliate advertising networks. Thus, companies and all other participants involved in creating and delivering the advertising message could become a target of an FTC enforcement action if the advertising is deemed to be deceptive.
And now on to our top ten disclosure tips:
- Make the disclosure near the ad’s focal point.
- Make disclosure immediately in front of or above the ad’s headline.
- Make the disclosure on the native ad AND the click- or tap-into page on which the full advertisement appears.
- Disclosures should be large, visible and in contrasting colors.
- Audio disclosures should be in a sufficient volume and cadence for consumers to hear and understand.
- Visual disclosures should be displayed long enough for consumers to notice, read and comprehend.
- Use plain, straightforward language (no technical jargon).
- Use “Advertisement” or “Sponsored Advertising Content,” and NOT “Promoted” or “Presented by.”
- Make sure disclosures are maintained when the ad is republished or shared by others.
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The climate on Cyraria is one of dramatic extremes, from as cold as -51oC/-60oF to highs up to 101oC/214oF. While the lemniscadian orbit is partly to blame, the 87o inclination of the planet’s axis is also a major factor. Earth is only 23o from the vertical, yet this accounts for the seasons as one hemisphere, then the other, leans toward the Sun. This changes its declination (height in the sky), making its rays hotter the higher it gets, as well as the length of the ecliptic (path across the sky), which determines the number of hours of daylight.
Cyraria, however, is tipped on its side and is thus closer to being horizontal than vertical. Thus, there are times when its northern hemisphere is facing either Zeta or Zinni constantly, while the southern is in complete darkness and vice versa. Sigma3/Epsilon is at 45o North Latitude, so is halfway between the planets north pole and equator. This tempers its seasons slightly, versus what it is at the extremes, but still results in dramatic differences.
The length of the seasons differ dramatically as well. This is due to the nature of elliptical orbits. According to Kepler’s 3rd Law of Planetary Motion, a planet will sweep out “equal area in equal time.” The illustration above is not to scale, but you can get the idea that when the planet is between Zeta and Zinni in its Opposition period, the area shown is relatively small compared to that at the opposite ends, such as its Ecli-noctial periods. Thus, the planet actually moves faster in its orbit during the smaller sectors than the larger ones. This has the fortunate effect of shortening Opposition compared to the others, but is still substantially longer than Earth’s seasons.
A lemniscadian orbit is unstable and highly unlikely to occur. If nothing else, when the planet it between the two stars it undergoes tremendous gravitational forces in opposite directions, which could tear it apart. At the least, it will experience groundquakes and various other disturbances during this time.
Temperature extremes between the north and south hemispheres contribute to severe weather, such as pressure vortices (PVs), or tornadoes, as they’re known on Earth. When cold air and hot air mix, they tend to form a funnel as the hot air rises and cold air drops. The temperatures would be even more extreme if it weren’t for the thick atmosphere, which contains a significant amount of dust. During the PV season, more dust is stirred up, which actually helps prevent opposition temperatures from being even higher.
1. Eclinoctial A: GROWING SEASON. Temperature Range: 4 – 24C/40 – 75F (1528 Days) Zeta and Zinni begin in conjunction, then gradually move apart, Zeta closer and much larger in appearance. Zeta predominates, with this the perigee of Cyraria’s orbital sector that surrounds it, thus the farthest away, except when the planet is in the orbital sector around Zinni. It is cooler in Sigma/Epsilon than equatorial regions because of its latitude, with Zeta 45 degrees above the horizon. This period is long and provides for a long and stable growing season.
2. Z-Separation: GROWING SEASON. Temperature 24 – 39C/75 – 103F (765 Days) During this season, Zeta and Zinni begin to separate in the sky, i.e. Zinni gradually becomes visible, then rises and sets. However, it is small due to its distance, i.e. approximately six times as far as the Orbit of Pluto or the size of Earth’s solar system. It will appear as a bright star, such as an extremely bright Venus at maximum elongation, but provides minimal heat. At this time, Zeta’s path is lopsided and circumpolar, extending from horizon to zenith, providing strong light and heat, which warms the planet quickly. Zeta is slightly closer now, and Zinni is getting closer as well, thus increasing in size and influence. This is the prime growing season with sensitive crops harvested before Summer heat sets in.
3. Summer: MOSTLY TOO HOT. Temperature 39 – 52C/ 103 – 126F (765 Days) Zeta no longer ascends to directly overhead, but is 45 degrees above the horizon and circumpolar. Therefore, it never sets, which means the surface never cools. Zinni continues to rise and set, plus it’s growing in size, its influence increasing and likewise contributing to the heatload. Crops grown during this season have to either be hardy against heat or protected.
4. Opposition: TOO HOT. Temperature 52 – 72C/ 126 – 161F (382 Days) Zeta is again tracing a lopsided, circumpolar path, and reaches 90 degrees declination directly overhead before dipping to the horizon, only to rise again. Zinni’s path is likewise lopsided, but goes slightly below the horizon at perigee. It is about the same distance as Zeta, so provides equal heat. Surface heat rises rapidly into the lethal range, spawning pressure vortices (PVs) which stir up additional dust, adding to the planet’s turbidity but actually shielding it slightly. Groundquake season begins, due to opposing gravitational forces from Zeta and Zinni.
5. Down* Opposition: TOO HOT. Temperature 72C – 20C/161 – 68F (396 Days) Cyraria is now directly between Zeta and Zinni, where it crosses over into Zinni’s portion of the lemniscate. Both rise and set, one after the other, so that one is always in the sky, resulting in constant daylight. Sigma/Epsilon is spared the worst of this period due to its high latitude, meaning neither sun is directly overhead, but it is still extremely hot as the season begins. Both are at approximately 45 degrees above the horizon at apogee. However, the transition to cooler weather comes quickly as the planet progresses into the portion of its orbit around Zinni. This is because the northern hemisphere, which includes Sigma/Epsilon, is facing away from both Zeta and Zinni. This sudden temperature drop begins another Pressure Vortex or PV season due to extreme differences in the northern and southern hemispheres. Groundquakes are less frequent. (*Down refers to start of Zinni orbit.)
6. Grey Winter: COLD. Temperature 20 to -42C/68 to -45F (791 Days) Both Zeta and Zinni are disappearing behind the planet and temperatures drop quickly as the cold season begins. Zeta barely peeks above the horizon, providing minimal heat for a few hours; light from its low declination provides short, dimly-lit days. Zinni is relatively close, but constantly below the horizon. Oppsuit functions are switched to protect against the cold instead of heat.
7. Dark Winter: COLD. Temperature -43 to -51C/-45 to -60F (791 Days) Zeta barely reaches 10 degrees above the southwest horizon, so Sigma/Epsilon is in low light when it is above the horizon. Zinni remains below the horizon. The temperature differential between the North and South hemispheres is substantial and results in PV’s along equatorial regions.
8. Old Winter: COLD. Temperature -51 – 4C/-60 – 40F (1582 Days) Zeta begins to rise in the southwest, but only reaches 20 degrees above the horizon. It is still cold, but begins to thaw. Zinni is still invisible, other than minimal dusk.
9. Eclinoctial B: GROWING SEASON. Temperature 4 – 27C/ 40 – 80F (1582 Days) Equal day and night return. Zinni is visible and eclipsing Zeta. Again, the two suns will gradually separate. Another growing season begins, starting with cool weather crops with hot weather crops phasing in.
10. Spring Down: HOT. Temperature 27 – 40C/80 – 104F (791 Days) Zinni’s path is again lopsided circumpolar, ranging from horizon to zenith. Zeta is visible again, but far away and contributing minimal heat. It is slightly cooler than Eclinoctial-B, because PVs along the equator add dust to the atmosphere, deflecting some heat.
11. Ante Opps: HOT. Temperature 40 – 49C/104 – 120F (791 Days) Zinni is 45 degrees above the horizon and circumpolar. Zeta rises in the northwest and is high in the sky at “noon,” heat increasing with its proximity.
12. High Opps: LETHAL HEAT. Temperature 49 – 101C/120 – 214F (396 Days) Zinni is lopsided circumpolar from horizon to zenith. Zeta rises in the northwest and reaches a high declination. At times, both are visible in the sky, but in opposite directions. Temperatures rise rapidly in the Northern hemisphere and cool in the Southern, generating PVs. Groundquakes resume. This is the hottest season of the circuit for Sigma/Epsilon. Peak Opps, the middle third (132 days) of this season, are the hottest of the entire circuit.
13. Up* Opps: EXTREME HEAT TO MILD. Temperature 65 – 15C/150 – 60F (382 Days) Zinni and Zeta chase each other across the sky, one or the other visible at all times. Their declination is 45 degrees with neither directly overhead. This is the same position as Down Opps (5). (*Up refers to leaving the space between Zeta and Zinni to head into orbit around Zeta.)
14. Dead Drop Winter: TOO COLD. Temperature 15 to -34C/60 to -30F (765 Days) Neither Zinni nor Zeta rise, but Zinni provides a hint of dusk a few hours each day. Another cold season begins.
15. Black Winter: TOO COLD. Temperature -34 to -45C/-30 to -50F (765 Days) Zeta is still invisible, but Zinni rises a few degrees above the horizon to lend some light and heat. Zinni is about the same size and distance as Eclinoctial-B, when Cyraria is at perigee and provides some dusky light.
16. Spring Up: TOO COLD. Temperature -45 – 4C/-50 – 40F (1528 Days) Zeta is just below horizon and provides dusk while Zinni is rising and setting halfway up the sky, allowing for some light, but minimal warming, due to being at nearly maximum distance.
TOTAL CIRCUIT: 14,000 days (35 Standard Galactic Years [SGY] of 400 days)
GROWING SEASON: Eclinoctial A (1,528); Z-Sep (765); Summer (765); Down Opps (partial) (132); Eclinoctial B (partial) (1,055); Spring Down (791); Ante Opps (791); Up Opps (partial) (191)
GROWING SEASON TOTAL: 6,018 days (43%) (15 SGYs)
HEAT SEASON: Opposition (382); Down Opps (264); High Opps (396); Up Opps (partial) (191)
HEAT SEASON TOTAL: 1,233 days (9%) (3 SGYs)
COLD SEASON: Grey Winter (791); Dark Winter (791); Old Winter (1,582); Eclinoctial B (partial) (527); Dead Drop Winter (765); Black Winter (765); Spring Up (1,528)
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The Gulf Times
November 07 2019
The Role of the Sunnah towards the Quran:
The Sunnah cannot dispense with the Qur’an: Allah Almighty chose Muhammad, Sallallaahu Aalaihi wa Sallam, as His Prophet and selected him to deliver His final message. The Qur’an was revealed to the Prophet in which Allah commanded him to obey everything that was ordered of him; that is, to convey and explain His message to the people.
Allah Almighty says what means: “…And We revealed to you the message [i.e., the Qur’an] that you may make clear to the people what was sent down to them…” [Qur’an: 16:44]
The declaration mentioned in the verse contains two commands:
1. To propagate the speech of Allah (i.e. the Qur’an). This is to openly communicate the Qur’an to (all) mankind as Allah Almighty has revealed to the Prophet that which means: “O Messenger! Announce that which has been revealed to you from your Lord…” [Qur’an: 5:67]
‘Aa’ishah, Radhiallah ‘Anha, is reported to have said: “Whoever says that Muhammad concealed anything that he was commanded to communicate has forged a great lie against Allah.” Then she read the abovementioned verse. [Al-Bukhari & Muslim]
Another narration is found in the book of Imaam Muslim which states: “If the Messenger of Allah had concealed something that he was commanded to communicate, he would have concealed the saying of the Almighty (which means): “And [remember, O Muhammad], when you said to the one on whom Allah bestowed favour: ‘Keep your wife and fear Allah,’ while you concealed within yourself that which Allah is to disclose. And you feared the people, while Allah has more right that you fear Him.” [Qur’an: 33:37]
2. To clarify words, sentences or verses from the Qur’an that are not easily understood by most people. Some verses may be comprehensive or general in their meaning, and the Sunnah clarifies and defines them through the Prophet’s sayings, actions and confirmations.
The Necessity of the Sunnah to Understand the Qur’an:
Allah says what means: “[As for] the thief, the male and the female, amputate their hands...” [Qur’an: 5:38] In the context of this verse, the thief and the hand are mentioned in a general manner. It is the Sunnah that explains the first of them and places a restriction on it by explaining the meaning of the word ‘thief’ to mean the one who steals something worth at least a quarter of a Deenaar (a unit golden currency) according to the saying of the Prophet: “There is no cutting of the hand unless the thing stolen is worth a quarter of a Deenaar or more.” [Al-Bukhari & Muslim]
The latter (i.e., how the hand is to be amputated) is explained by the actions of the Prophet and his Companions. They would amputate the hand of the thief from the wrist, as is known from a saying of the Prophet.
There are many other verses of the Qur’an that cannot be completely understood except through the Sunnah, such as:
1. Allah says what means: “And when you travel throughout the land, there is no blame upon you for shortening the prayer, [especially] if you fear that those who disbelieve may disrupt [or attack] you. Indeed, the disbelievers are ever to you a clear enemy.” [Qur’an: 4:101] It is obvious from this verse that fear is a pre-requisite for the shortening of prayers. However, some of the Companions asked the Prophet: “Why do we shorten our prayers while we feel safe?” He replied: “It is an allowance from Allah, so accept it.” [Muslim]
2. Allah says what means: “Say: ‘Who has forbidden the adornment of [i.e., from] Allah which He has produced for His servants and the good [lawful] things of provision?...” [Qur’an: 7:32]
But the Sunnah has forbidden some ‘adornments’, and this is evident from the saying of the Prophet : “The wearing of silk and gold has been made unlawful for males and lawful for the females of my nation.’’ [At-Tirmithi]
3. Allah says what means: “Say: ‘I do not find within that which was revealed to me [anything] forbidden to one who would eat it unless it be a dead animal or blood spilled out or the flesh of swine – for indeed, it is impure - or it be [that slaughtered in] disobedience, dedicated to other than Allah…” [Qur’an: 6:145]
But the Sunnah has forbidden many things not mentioned in the above mentioned verse; an example of this lies in the saying of the Prophet: “All predatory animals with tusks and every bird with claws are forbidden for consumption.” There are other narrations that have forbidden the consumption of such animals, such as the one where the Prophet is reported to have said: “Allah and His Messenger have prohibited the consumption of domesticated donkeys, for they are filth.” [Al-Bukhari & Muslim]
There are many other examples that show the necessity of the Sunnah within Islamic Law. There is no other way to understand the Qur’an correctly except with the interpretation of the Sunnah.
The Inadequacy of Philology to Understand the Qur’an:
The Companions of the Prophet were the most knowledgeable of people in the Arabic language, yet, if they were to attempt to understand the verses quoted above by relying on the Arabic language alone, then they would have erred.
It is agreed upon by the majority of Muslim scholars, past and present, that the Qur’an should first and foremost be interpreted by the Qur’an itself, then by the Sunnah, then by the sayings of the Companions, and so on.
It is here that the cause of deviation of scholastic theologians (Ahl Al-Kalaam), both ancient and modern, becomes clear, as well as their opposition to our righteous predecessors in doctrine and law.
In short, what is obligatory upon all Muslims is that they do not separate the Qur’an from the Sunnah; moreover, it is obligatory to follow both of them and to formulate laws using both. This is a safeguard for the people, so that they do not falter and regress, as explained by the Prophet: “I am leaving behind two things - you will never go astray if you hold fast to them: the Qur’an and my Sunnah.” [At-Tirmithi]
(Source: A lecture delivered by Shaykh Al-Albaani)
O people! Fear Allah the Almighty and know that the greatest favour He has ever conferred upon His servants is sending them Prophets as warners and bearers of glad tidings. Allah sent these prophets with scriptures so that He would judge between people in their disputes. The most effective and esteemed message of all of these was that of the Prophet Muhammad, Sallallaahu Aalaihi wa Sallam, whom Allah sent to guide all of mankind – and to seal prophethood.
Allah sent Muhammad, Sallallaahu Aalaihi wa Sallam, after a break in the series of His messengers, when people were in dire need of His guidance. It was through him that Allah guided people after they were astray; united them after their disunity; and sufficed them after they were needy. They thus became brothers and supported the religion of Allah, due to his grace and bounty. It was due to this that nations submitted to this religion and its adherents became a luminous series in the annals of history.
Due to the wholeheartedness of the early Muslims with regard to the comprehensive implementation of Allah’s laws in personal issues, financial transactions, and social and community affairs in accordance with the precepts laid down by this religions guide and leader, Muhammad, Sallallaahu Aalaihi wa Sallam, it naturally followed that they would be victorious in all their undertakings.
However, when the Muslims deviated from the correct path, the order and stability which they enjoyed collapsed, turning the Muslim nation into groups of disputing factions, whose enemies held as insignificant.
This nation will never regain its past power and dignity, nor will it re-live its glorious history, until and unless its people return to their religion and practice it in word as well as in deed, in compliance with the methodology of the Prophet, Sallallaahu Aalaihi wa Sallam, and his companions, may Allah be pleased with them.
As a consequence of the comprehensive implementation of the religion of Islam, no devotional act or religious ceremonies can be initiated into it unless it has a basis in the conduct of the Prophet, Sallallaahu Aalaihi wa Sallam. Mankind have been commanded by Allah to do no more than the following: to worship Allah alone; to offer him sincere devotion; and to be true in faith. Thus, whoever attempts to worship Allah with any act that He has not prescribed will have that act rejected by Him. The Prophet, Sallallaahu Aalaihi wa Sallam, said: “He who performs any deed which is not according to what we are upon (i.e., the Prophet and his companions) then it is rejected.” Such acts are held as innovations in the sight of the lawgiver and every innovation is misguidance.
Among the innovations introduced into this religion is the celebration of the birthday of the Prophet, Sallallaahu Aalaihi wa Sallam, which is celebrated in the month of Rabee’ Al-Awwal. People gather in the mosques or stay within their homes on the twelfth night of that month and send salutations upon the Prophet, Sallallaahu Aalaihi wa Sallam, with innovated phrases as well as reciting laudatory poems and prose which concern him. These poems and prose are excessively commendatory and exceed the limits that were defined by the Prophet, Sallallaahu Aalaihi wa Sallam. Some people even spend their nights cooking certain types of food, to be served on this occasion. Thus, they uselessly spend their time and money in matters that are not prescribed either by Allah or His Messenger Sallallaahu Aalaihi wa Sallam, nor were practiced by the four rightly-guided caliphs after him, nor any other of the Muslims who were from the first three distinct generations, whose merit was attested to by the Prophet, Sallallaahu Aalaihi wa Sallam.
If these innovations were of any benefit, then surely the pious early Muslims would have preceded us in them? If they were meritorious then surely Allah would never have deprived the early Muslims, including the rightly-guided caliphs of them? The fact of the matter is that this practice was first introduced by people who lived during the fourth Hijri century.
Shaykh Al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, may Allah have mercy upon him, said in his book Iqtidaa’ As-Siraat Al-Mustaqeem Mukhaalafatu Ashaabu Al-Jaheem [The Implication of the Straightforward Way Is to Contradict the Companions of the Fire]: “Some people, due to their imitation of what the Christians do on the claimed birth-date of ‘Eesaa (Jesus), peace be upon him, or because of their love of the Prophet, Sallallaahu Aalaihi wa Sallam, or out of their wish to glorify him, celebrate the Prophet’s birthday. This is despite the fact that there is controversy among the scholars regarding the exact date of his birth. The early Muslims did not practice this, although there was good reason to honour and express their love of the Prophet, Sallallaahu Aalaihi wa Sallam, and no preventing factors existed. Thus, if the celebration of the Prophet’s birthday was something meritorious, they would have had a better right to precede us in this, as their love and esteem of the Prophet, Sallallaahu Aalaihi wa Sallam, was far greater than ours. Also, they were far keener to perform good deeds in general than we were.
Loving and esteeming the Prophet, Sallallaahu Aalaihi wa Sallam, was thus represented by the early Muslims in following his methodology, obeying him, applying his Sunnah inwardly and outwardly, propagating his mission and striving in this cause with their hearts, bodies and tongues.
Most of those who instigate religious innovations are heedless when it comes to the application of the well-known principles that were brought by the Prophet, Sallallaahu Aalaihi wa Sallam. They are like those who ornament the Qur’an but do not recite it, or recite it but do not follow its teachings.”
O Muslims! The innovation of celebrating the Prophet’s birthday, which is done on the twelfth night of the month of Rabee’ Al-Awwal, has no historical basis. In fact, historians have differed greatly on the actual birth date of the Prophet, Sallallaahu Aalaihi wa Sallam. Some have said that it was on the second of Rabies’ Al-Awwal , others said the eighth, ninth, tenth, twelfth, seventeenth or twenty-second; thus making up seven different opinions. None of these opinions have any evidence which would make them take priority over others.
Moreover, the innovation of celebrating the birthday of the Prophet, Sallallaahu Aalaihi wa Sallam, has no religious basis. Neither the Prophet, Sallallaahu Aalaihi wa Sallam, nor any of his Companions or the followers did so. In fact, the Prophet, Sallallaahu Aalaihi wa Sallam, said: “You must hold fast to my Sunnah and the Sunnah of the four Rightly-Guided Caliphs – cling to it stubbornly. Beware of innovations, for every innovation is misguidance.” (Abu Daawood, Tirmidhi).
Religious celebrations, festivals and other such occasions which glorify Allah and His Messenger are acts of worship. Only that which Allah has prescribed among these is considered to be from the pure Shari’ah, or Islamic law. None of these events can be taken as a means of devotion to Allah except those that have been sanctioned by Allah and His Messenger, Sallallaahu Aalaihi wa Sallam.
The Shari’ah already contains the sufficient means with which a believer can glorify the Prophet Sallallaahu Aalaihi wa Sallam and show his love to him. So fear Allah, O servants of Allah, and limit yourselves to Allah’s obligations and the Prophet’s Sunnah, to the exclusion of innovations.
Allah the Exalted and Almighty said that which translates as: “And verily this is my Straight Path, so follow it, and follow not (other) paths, for they will separate you away from His Path. This; He has ordained for you that you may become the pious.” (Al An’aam: 153).
The Two Most Authentic Books Of Hadith
Of all the works of Hadith, Saheeh Al-Bukhari and Saheeh Muslim are regarded as the most authentic and authoritative books, after Al-Qur’an. Indeed the very word “Saheeh” means “authentic”.
Saheeh Al-Bukhari was compiled by Imaam (leader) of Hadith, Mohammad Ibn Ismaa’eel Al-Bukhari, born 194H in Bukhara, central Asia. He travelled at an early age seeking knowledge to Hijaaz (Makkah and Madinah), Ancient Syria, Iraq, Egypt, etc. He devoted more than 16 years of his life to the actual compilation of this work. He learnt from more than 1,000 scholars.
It is said that Imaam Al-Bukhari collected over 300,000 Hadiths and he himself memorised 200,000 of which some were unreliable. He wrote many books especially on the bibliography of Hadith narrators and other books on various issues of Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence). However, his book ‘Saheeh Al-Bukhari’, stands out for being the most authentic book of Hadith. It was also the first book to contain only authentic Hadiths, while previous books contained authentic and non-authentic Hadiths, as well as sayings of the companions and others. Imaam Al-Bukhari died in his hometown, Bukhara in the territory of Khurasaan (West Turkistan), in the year 256H.
He grouped the traditions of the Prophet, Sallallaahu Aalaihi wa Sallam, under various headings dealing with specific points of Islamic jurisprudence. In his time, the schools of law had been generally established and his objective was to catalogue the traditions he regarded as authentic in relation to their respective topics of jurisprudence.
Before he recorded each Hadith, he would perform ablution and offer a two-Rak’ah prayer and supplicate to Allah. Many religious scholars of Islam tried to find fault in the great remarkable collection, but without success. It is for this reason, they unanimously agreed that the most authentic book after the Book of Allah is Saheeh Al-Bukhari.
Some facts about Saheeh Al-Bukhari:
1. It contains 7,275 Hadiths, which he chose from the large number of Hadiths that he had collected.
2. The number of complete unrepeated Hadiths is 2,230.
3. All the Hadiths mentioned are authentic.
4. The conditions for accepting a Hadith were very stringent. Such as:
a) The chain of narrators must be linked, i.e. every narrator must have met his predecessor, (the man of whom he heard the Hadith from, up to the Prophet, Sallallaahu Aalaihi wa Sallam.)
b) For it to be enclosed in the Saheeh, the narrators must be of the highest calibre regarding their piety, manners, memory, integrity, etc.
5. The book is not a mere book of narrations; it is essentially a course of study on Hadith, its derivatives, inductions and research.
6. Each one of its 97 chapters is headed by a relevant verse from the Quran that complements the meaning of the Hadiths quoted.
7. Finally, much more could be said about this monumental work, however, it is enough to say that many people have reached fame and achieved the highest qualifications by studying the book, researching it and commenting on it.
Saheeh Muslim is the second most authentic book of Hadith after Saheeh Al-Bukhari, compiled by Imaam Muslim Ibn Al-Hajaaj Al-Nisapuri. Born in 202H and died in 261 H. He travelled widely to gather his collection of Hadith to Iraq Hijaaz, Ancient Syria, and Egypt. He learnt from many scholars, most of which were Al-Bukhari’s teachers. He also learnt from the Imaam Al-Bukhari himself and became his most loyal student. Like Imaam Al-Bukhari, Allah have mercy upon him, he, Allah have mercy upon him, wrote many books on the sciences of Hadith.
He, Allah have mercy upon him, sought not so much to complement the issues at stake in the Fiqh, the Islamic jurisprudence, but rather to produce a collection of sound traditions, an authentic record, on which future studies of Hadith could be based.
Some facts about Saheeh Muslim:
1. The book contains 4,000 non-repeated Hadiths and 12,000 repeated ones.
2. Many narrations are mentioned in Saheeh Al-Bukhari, but with different chain of narrators.
3. In every chapter more than one Hadith with the same meaning but with different chains and text are listed. The first Hadith in each chapter is the strongest, followed by weaker narrations in order to strengthen weaker narrations.
4. Excellent classification.
5. The book is forwarded by a detailed introduction about the basis of the sciences of Hadith.
Saheeh Al-Bukhari is preferred over Saheeh Muslim based on the authenticity of the Hadiths. Imaam Al-Bukhari was stricter in selecting Hadiths (chains) than Imaam Muslim . Besides considering all the conditions of a Saheeh Hadith, Imaam Al-Bukhari stipulated a further condition that a narrator should meet the person from whom he is narrating the Hadith.
Imaam Muslim however, did not stipulate the evidence of meeting the narrator from whom he is narrating, but according to him, it is sufficient to accept the Hadith of a narrator if he lives in the same period and there was the possibility of meeting the narrator from whom he is reporting the Hadith. So, the condition of Imaam Muslim was less strict than the condition of Imaam Al-Bukhari.
While Bukhari’s compilation is considered the more reliable of the two, Muslim’s arrangement of his material has been recognised as superior, and rightly so. While Al-Bukhari made the traditions in his collection testify to his own schedule of various points of law, Muslim left them to speak for themselves.
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A commenter writes:
It’s very troubling that someone can be acquitted on the basis of a self-defense claim without the defense having the burden of proof to claim self-defense. I agree that a 12-person jury would be a good change of the law, but another would be to bring Florida’s self-defense laws in line with most other states’.
Who should bear the burden of proving or disproving self-defense in criminal cases, and by what quantum (preponderance of the evidence, clear and convincing evidence, or beyond a reasonable doubt), is an interesting question. But on this point, Florida law is precisely the same as in nearly all other states: In 49 of the 50 states [UPDATE: I would now say it’s 48½], once the defense introduces any evidence of possible self-defense, the prosecution must disprove self-defense beyond a reasonable doubt.
This wasn’t always the rule. The English common law rule at the time of the Framing was that the defense must prove self-defense by a preponderance of the evidence, and Ohio still follows that rule; the Supreme Court has held (Martin v. Ohio (1987)) that placing this burden on the accused is constitutional. But to my knowledge, only Ohio still takes the view — all the other states do not. [See UPDATE below for one other state, Louisiana, in which some courts in some situations also take this view.]
Of course this doesn’t dispose of what the rule ought to be. One way of thinking about that policy question is that the nearly unanimous rule takes the view, “Better that 10 guilty killers go free than one person who killed in proper self-defense go to prison for a long time (or be executed).” The Ohio rule, which is also the historical Framing-era rule is, “It’s slightly worse for one guilty killer to go free than for one person who killed in proper self-defense to go to prison for a long time (or be executed).” And of course one can consider variations of these rules as one shifts the burden of proof, or sets a quantum of proof at some other place, such as clear and convincing evidence.
But if you’re focusing on what is the view in “most other states” on the burden and quantum of proof in self-defense cases, then you should note that Florida is entirely in line with that view.
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Somalia campaigners step up efforts for more women representation in politics
A two-day forum in Somalia that brought together women, the youth, academics, women’s rights activists and political experts concluded deliberations on Wednesday with a call for 30 per cent women quota in political representation to be guaranteed.
Campaigners for greater representation of women in Somalia’s Parliament have stepped up efforts during this election period, emphasising that the quota of seats for women was vital to the development of a strong, inclusive and stable nation since women constitute the majority of the country’s population. “In the current election period, we are lobbying that women should have seats reserved for them if we are to achieve the 30 per cent quota.
We want to ensure that for every three Parliamentary seats, one is reserved for a woman.
We hope to be able to take this message across all Federal Member States (FMS),” said the Federal Minister of Women and Human Rights Development, Hanifa Mohamed Ibrahim at the official opening of the forum.
Organized with the support of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), the two-day event drew about ninety participants including members of the Committee of Goodwill Women Ambassadors (GWA), representatives of the Somalia Women Development Centre (SWDC) and from the civil society task force created to ensure the 30 per cent women quota is achieved.
AMISOM Political Affairs Officer, Muna Hassan, said it was important for Somalia to have an open dialogue on the topic of representation of women in politics. “For this forum, we wanted women and various stakeholders to converge and talk to each other since elections are already underway.
Our goal is to make sure that women get their constitutionally mandated political representation so that they are part of decision making in this country,” Muna said.
The forum also provided a platform for intergenerational learning and exchange of views, all aimed at urging women to take an active role in the ongoing elections and peace-making initiatives in Somalia.
Civil society activist, Asad Abukar Ali, urged men to contribute in supporting women to achieve the 30 percent quota, because women in Somalia have already proved their capability and capacity to contribute to peace initiatives and nation-building. “So far, we have seen some women getting elected into the Senate, which is a good thing.
We urge the remaining Federal Member States to ensure that as many women as possible get elected into Parliament,” Ali said.
The Chairperson of the Committee of Goodwill Ambassadors, Batuulo Sheikh Ahmed Gabale, urged all people of goodwill to mobilize the necessary support to enable women to fully participate in the ongoing elections. “Every eligible Somalia citizen has a right to participate in politics.
I hope that in the ongoing Elections, women will be enabled to duly exercise their political rights by getting more seats.
To the women participating in this election I say, go for it and nothing should stop you from achieving your political goal”, she said.
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The complex environment in which care is currently provided demands excellence from care practitioners and their contextual realization of the contribution of environmental factors in care quality.
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A list of environmental health dissertation topics:
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Environment stress and management in mental health nursing- review of evidence-based practice in care provisions in the UK. (find more evidence-based practice research topics)
The role of the nurse in assessment of public health concerns in underserved populations in the UK- an investigation.
Use of simulation techniques to evaluate environmental issues in health concerns- review of nursing students in the UK.
A historical context and rationale for the validity of 'Thinking Upstream' in quality nursing care provision in the UK.
Environmental challenges in caring for people with dementia- analysis from the nursing perspective.
The relevance and impact of environmental health on nursing practice in the UK- an exploration.
The use of social media in environmental health nursing- a review.
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Lifestyle obesity and nursing interventions at lower and secondary school levels in the UK- possibilities for change.
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Provision of environmental nursing care to under-privileged children in the UK- review of literature.
What impact does the physical environment have on caring for dementia patients on both the patients and their nurses? An investigation.
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The influence of environmental culture on nursing practice- review of literature.
How can nurses influence smoking cessation intervention programs in University campuses in the UK? An exploration.
Environmental health simulation nursing practices for management of disaster-related emergencies in the UK- review of literature.
Nurses' understanding of the changes in climate and implications for adolescents' health in the UK.
Environmental health nursing- linking academic knowledge to practical implementation in exposure issues in the UK.
Role of environmental health nurse in breast cancer screening in the UK- a review.
An analysis of maternal and child health in refugee communities in the UK and access to basic nursing- literature review.
An investigation of the extensive use of disinfectants on health of lung patients- perspectives form nursing care in the UK.
Influence of environment in provision of nursing care in Critical Care Units in the UK- a review.
Nurse-led programs to educate lifestyle changes- implications for low-income groups in the UK.
How can nurses contribute to noise management programs in environmental health education? Analysis of literature.
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Scores of English proficiency tests are an essential part of university applications to English-speaking countries. All the non-native speakers of the English language have to take these exams in order to complete their applications. Out of all, the popular ones are IELTS and TOEFL. Both of them assess the reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills of the candidates but in different formats. Are you wondering Why should I opt for ILETS over TOEFL or vice-versa? If yes, then here is an insightful blog on IELTS vs TOEFL!
|Conducting Body||British Council and IDP Education Ltd.||Educational Testing Services|
|Medium||Online and Offline||Online and Offline|
|Variants||IELTS Academic and IELTS General Training IELTS Indicator||TOEFL iBT|
|Duration||2 hours 45 minutes||4 hours|
|Breaks||No breaks during the listening, reading and writing sections, but the speaking portion can be taken up to a week before or after the rest of the test||A 10-minute break between listening and speaking sections|
|Sections||Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking*||Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking|
|Test Delivery Format||Paper-based||Computer-based|
|Average Minimum Score Required by Top Universities||6.3||78|
|Exam Frequency||48 times in a year||More than 50 times a year|
|Results Timeline||Results are issued 13 days after the test||Results are issued approximately 10 days after the test|
|Where All are the Scores Accepted||Accepted by more than 9,000 organizations globally||Accepted by more than 10,000 organizations globally|
|Cost||INR 14,700/-||INR 13,780/ (TOEFL iBT)|
This Blog Includes:
- What is IELTS vs TOEFL?
- IELTS vs TOEFL Format
- IELTS vs TOEFL Writing Section
- IELTS vs TOEFL Speaking Section
- TOEFL vs IELTS Reading Section
- TOEFL vs IELTS Listening Section
- IELTS vs TOEFL Score Comparison
- CEFR Score Equivalents
- Major Factors to Consider
- Which universities accept IELTS vs TOEFL?
- Which One to Choose?
- Main Differences between IELTS vs TOEFL
- Prepare for IELTS & TOEFL with Leverage Live
What is IELTS vs TOEFL?
International English Language Testing System (IELTS) is an esteemed language proficiency test that is taken by candidates either willing to attain overseas education or for occupational purposes. It is accepted across 140 countries. IELTS has two variants, IELTS General Training (for working professional/ immigration purposes) and IELTS Academic (for education purposes).
On the contrary, TOEFL is an acronym used for the Test of English Language as a Foreign Language which is a famous language proficiency test frequently opted by students aspiring to study abroad. The exam lays emphasis on testing the abilities of applicants to communicate in classroom-based English and hence is accepted in around 130 countries.
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IELTS vs TOEFL Format
The major difference lies in the format of the questions as TOEFL comprises of MCQs whereas IELTS would ask you to answer the questions in varied forms like fill in the blanks, short answers, etc. Along with this, one prominent distinction is the duration of both the exams. IELTS has to be completed in 2 hours 45 minutes, on the other hand, it will take you 4 hours to complete TOEFL.
IELTS is available in two variants i.e., General Training and Academic, the applicants can choose their version test as per their purpose of visit. TOEFL offers only one type of exam and is mostly opted by the students enrolled in a program abroad. IELTS demands applicants to showcase their creative thinking abilities and comprehension skills, on the contrary, TOEFL would analyze your analytical thinking and how well you can weigh their different options. Thus, this becomes one of the main features of TOEFL vs IELTS.
IELTS Test Format
|Sections||Duration||Number of Tasks/Activities|
|Total||2 hours 45 minutes|
TOEFL Test Format
|Sections||Scoring||Number of Questions||Duration|
|Writing||0-30||2 tasks||50 minutes|
IELTS vs TOEFL Writing Section
While attempting the ILETS paper, you would be asked to solve 2 writing questions. In the first one, you will have to explain the information given in the form of a diagram, table chart, etc. While in the second one, you will have to pen down 200-250 words upon the argument or a given viewpoint. If you take up the TOEFL exam, you will have to draft a five-paragraph essay within 300-350. For the second question, you will have to fetch some notes from a given text and have to frame a response in 150-225 words.
IELTS vs TOEFL Speaking Section
Speaking assessment in TOEFL will be recorded through a microphone and will be sent to the examiners while the IELTS speaking test will be face to face test for all the candidates. The duration of TOEFL would be 20 minutes IELTS would range a maximum of 10-15 minutes. An important distinguishing factor in TOEFL vs IELTS will be the option to attempt a speaking test before the other tests in IELTS whereas there is no such option in TOEFL.
TOEFL vs IELTS Reading Section
The reading test of both the exams will include the texts around the lines of the ones they will encounter in their programs. TOEFL will offer 3-5 reading questions to be completed in 20 minutes. IELTS test will include 3 questions in this section and the applicants would be asked to answer questions in various formats like gap filings, short answers, etc.
TOEFL vs IELTS Listening Section
The Listening skill test of both the exams is very different from each other. In the ILETS test, students can answer the questions while they are listening to the recording. Varied sort of long and short questions will be there. Whereas the TOEFL test will be based on classroom lectures and applicants take note of while listening to the audio. Students have to solve MCQs in a given duration of 40-60 minutes in the TOEFL listening component.
IELTS vs TOEFL Score Comparison
The TOEFL Speaking and writing portions are assessed primarily on how they look, including your vocabulary range, writing style, and grammar. The IELTS is evaluated based on distinct marks for specific criteria like logic, coherence, grammar, and fluency. For example, an essay with a logical flow of ideas but bad grammar may score higher on a TOEFL exam, but an essay with good grammar and vocabulary but a lesser ability to communicate a concept will score higher on IELTS criteria. The IELTS is evaluated on a scale of 1-9, with your total result being the average of your individual scores in all four exams. If your total average is 6.25, it will be rounded up to a final score of 6.5. TOEFL is a single test with a maximum score of 120 points. TOEFL and IELTS total scores can be broadly compared as follows:
|Band score||Skill level|
|Band 9||Expert user|
|Band 8||Very good user|
|Band 7||Good user|
|Band 6||Competent user|
|Band 5||Modest user|
|Band 4||Limited user|
|Band 3||Extremely limited user|
|Band 2||Intermittent user|
|Band 0||Did not attempt the test|
Also read: Study in UK without IELTS
CEFR Score Equivalents
The CEFR scale, which tests European language competency in terms of letters and numbers, will be more recognisable to many European students. In general, a student who wishes to study abroad at the undergraduate level must have completed CEFR B2 level or above in the institution’s teaching language. A CEFR level of B2 corresponds to an IELTS score of 5.5-6.5, although you can’t usually commonly use a CEFR level in place of a requested IELTS or TOEFL score.
Major Factors to Consider
You should consider the following factors before you make a decision between IETLS vs TOEFL:-
- University preference– You should first check what is the acceptable and preferred language test by the universities that you want to apply to.
- Time for preparation– On average, you need 3-6 weeks for IELTS preparation and 2 to 3 months for TOEFL preparation. If your application deadline is only a few months away, IELTS will be suitable.
- Computer-based or written– IELTS is conducted on either paper or computer and TOEFL is conducted only on the computer. If you have good typing speed then you can go for either and if you write better on paper, you can go for TOEFL.
- Exam format– For IELTS, you can break up the sections of the IELTS papers and give them in the time span of weeks. For TOEFL, you need to give the exam in one sitting.
Which universities accept IELTS vs TOEFL?
Over 9000 universities around the globe accept either IELTS or TOEFL or both. If you are applying to universities in UK or Australia, IELTS is more widely accepted. Universities in USA accept TOEFL largely.
Which One to Choose?
To begin, find out which test(s) the institutions you’re interested in will allow. If you don’t have a time constraint, think about which test is ideal for you among IELTS vs TOEFL. TOEFL is lengthier but fully computer-based, so if you’re worried about your penmanship — or your English while speaking with a native speaker — it could be a good choice for you. IELTS is a shorter, maybe more rigorous examination with a greater range of questions and assignments, including direct communication with an examiner. TOEFL costs between $200 and $325 CAD, whereas IELTS is somewhat more expensive, ranging between $260 and $390 CAD. This may be an issue if you’re on a tight budget. Finally, which exam is best for you is a matter of personal opinion. Each exam is approved by hundreds of institutions throughout the world, and there are test dates available throughout the year.
Main Differences between IELTS vs TOEFL
After going through the entire blog, here is a gist of IELTS vs TOEFL differences for aspirants and who are planning to pursue their studies abroad.
- The IELTS exam is less time consuming than the TOEFL.
- The IELTS speaking test is conducted in front of an examiner.
- The TOEFL normally mandates that you utilise solely US English or UK English throughout the exam and not a combination of the two, although the IELTS appears to be a little more lenient.
- The TOEFL is mostly made up of multiple-choice questions, but the IELTS offers a greater variety in how questions are constructed and responses must be delivered.
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IELTS and TOEFL both test basic English proficiency tests. IELTS is considered to be easier than TOEFL by most of the test takers. Many students believe that the IELTS reading section is easier than TOEFL’s reading section.
Both TOEFL and IELTS are accepted by most universities abroad.
Yes, TOEFL is accepted in all the universities in the UK. You can confirm the details with Leverage Edu experts!
Yes TOEFL exam is accepted as the primary English proficiency test by all the top universities. It is accepted by over 8,500 institutions across 130 countries, including the UK, USA, and Australia.
Yes, IELTS results are accepted as proof of English language competency in the United States. Major universities around the United States recognise IELTS as an accurate measure of your ability to understand, read, write, and speak English.
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Prime Minister David Cameron ysterday toured the Hope Technology factory in Barnoldswick, giving co-founder Ian Weatherill an opportunity to quiz the PM on the Get Britain Cycling report.
Though not commiting to the report as such, the PM did say that he had meetings planned to discuss the future of cycling in the UK, including one with Sir Chris Hoy.
Mr Cameron did say: “There is a huge clamour for cycling - it’s a growth industry - and I will be looking with an enthusiastic eye to see what we can do.”
“With more backing of the industry from the Government I can see it (cycling) quadrupling in the county,” he added.
While at Hope's high tech facility, which employs almost 100 people, Weatherill was able to show Mr Cameron what was possible to achieve in UK manufacturing today. The former cotton mill which houses Hope's fifty five CNC (computer numerically controlled) machines, produces thousands of parts daily and is perhaps closer to a Formula 1 facility than the usual vision of a manufacturing plant in the north of England.Article continues below
Hope's finished components are shipped directly from the factory to specialist shops in the UK and to over 40 other countries around the world with 50 per cent of production destined for export.
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Heterosexual men pick up clues about other men's physical qualities from their dance moves just as heterosexual women do, say researchers at Northumbria University.
A study, led by psychologist Dr Nick Neave and researcher Kristofor McCarty, used 3D motion-capture technology and biomechanical analyses to examine the extent to which male dancing provides clues about the dancer's physical strength and fitness to both male and female observers.
The findings, published in the American Journal of Human Biology, suggest that male observers pick up on the strength of their potential rivals for female mates.
Researchers at Northumbria's School of Life Sciences filmed 30 males, aged 19-37, as they danced to a basic drum rhythm. Participants also completed a fitness test and assessments of upper and lower body strength. The dance clips were converted into virtual humanoid characters (avatars) and rated by women and men on perceived dance and physical qualities. The ratings were then correlated with various biomechanical indices.
The results showed that both sexes found significant positive associations between an individual's hand grip strength and their perceived dance quality, these qualities were picked up by the size and vigour of the movements of the upper body and arms.
Although it is traditionally thought that signals given off by men when they dance have been designed – like animal mating displays – to be interpreted as clues of their physical attributes to the opposite sex, it seems that heterosexual men are also making use of these signals, presumably to detect a potential love rival.
Dr Nick Neave believes that this increased sensitivity to male qualities by other heterosexual men may be due to intrasexual rivalry – men sizing up the strength and virility of their competition.
He said: "Rated dance quality was positively associated with actual grip strength and these clues of upper-body strength were most accurately picked up by male observers. This ability to discern upper-body strength is principally because men are looking for cues of 'formidability' in other males.
"Upper-body strength is highly related to fighting ability as it reflects the ability to do damage, especially in intra-sexual conflicts. The ability to gauge strength before potential conflicts is sensible, especially to other males."
Also part of the research team were Northumbria University academics Dr Nick Caplan and Johannes Hönekopp, with Bernard Fink, from the Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, University of Göttingen, Germany.
Explore further: Ideal body size identified
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|A distinctive sight in military exercises, the Vulcan was designed and built as a heavy weapons platform capable of carrying the huge 'Thors Hammer' nuclear missiles faster and where it was not possible to employ a missile cruiser for the same task. Though fast and capable of moving through the atmosphere at reasonable speed, the Vulcan was not the most manuverable of spacecraft and had to perform such strike roles under heavy escort. Later models such as the CAM324 variant carried an underside 'pod' which housed four rotating 'chain guns', each containing eight laserguns. Laserguns had to be used despite their shorter range because laserlances are far too large for a similar mounting. These rotating guns would blast a path through oncoming ships as the enemy ships would not be able to regenerate their defence shields fast enough. Towards the end of the 22nd century most Vulcans were mothballed to make way for more capable multi-role ships, though one unit is still operational based on Proxima 3. The image above shows the CAM323 version.
Manufacturer - Consolidated Aerospace
Classification - Long Range Strike Ship
Main Drive - Consolidated Warp Generator Mk V
CAE16 Nuclear/Hydrogen drive 30 million lbs thrust
Personnel - 6 human crew
Armament - (CAM323) 2 Thor's Hammer thermonuclear missiles, 2 OPA17 particle accelerators, 2 laserguns
(CAM324) 4 'meat grinder' rotating laser-chain guns, 2 OPA17 particle accelerators
Defence - High density Plastisteel 20cm thick
WCRC Type 63B Defence Shield
In-service date - 2140
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Pfizer Inc. announced Tuesday that it has asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to approve emergency use of its booster shot for children ages 5 to 11 years.
The application hinges on a study of 140 children with no evidence of prior COVID-19 infection. Their antibody levels against the original strain of the virus were six times higher a month after a booster dose than a month after a second dose, the company said in a news release. A third dose boosted antibodies against the omicron variant by 36 times in children ages 5 to 11 years, the companies reported earlier this month..
An initial two-dose series of the Pfizer vaccine was authorized for that age group in October. First boosters of the vaccine are authorized for adults and certain immunocompromised youngsters aged 12 years and older. Second boosters are authorized for anyone 50 years and older.
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Crafters can save money by binding their papers together themselves. Decide if you'll need to add or remove any of the papers from the finished product, as this will determine which methods are best for your binding needs. Bind papers with supplies that are readily available and budget-friendly. Use your binding knowledge for any kind of papers, from professional to home office to personal and craft projects.
Binder rings make it easy to bind papers together regardless of how many or how few papers you need bound. Measure the height of the stacked paper and select binder rings one size larger than that size so the pages turn easily. Hole punch the papers and use label stickers on either side of the holes so the papers don't tear. Slip the papers onto the plastic or metal binder rings. Create covers for the papers out of card stock.
Rulers and screws are inexpensive binding tools for papers. Line a ruler with precut holes in it on top of the pages, and mark the location of the holes. Hole punch the pages at that mark. Screw through the top ruler, through the hole punched papers, and through the back ruler and secure with bolts. If you use wooden rulers, add metal washers between the screws, nuts and the wood so the screws don't split the rulers.
Hole punch the pages in two rows, one row about one-half in from the first row. Cut several lengths of ribbon long enough to go through all the pages twice. Thread each ribbon through two holes, one in each row and tie them in a knot. Do this until each hole is threaded with ribbon.
Stack the papers and tap them on a hard surface so they all fall into alignment. Do this on the bottom and on the side. Pinch the papers together with binder clips. Dampen the edge to be bound with a wet cloth. Rub a polyurethane glue, such as Gorilla Glue or EXCEL, onto the dampened edge and set the stack aside to dry. Let it dry thoroughly, which can take 24 to 48 hours, depending on how many pages are being bound together. Create a cover by cutting card stock long enough to wrap all the way around the back, side and front of the paper, and about one-half inch taller than the stack of papers. Rub the glue onto the side of the card stock and press the bound edges of the papers into the glue. Set the book up on its side so the paper is pulled into the glue by gravity, and again let it dry for 24 to 48 hours.
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Would you like to speak on behalf of the Ukrainian youth at the United Nations Headquarters in New York? Do you dream of exploring how the UN works from the inside and try yourself as a diplomat? Are you ready to volunteer and work for youth with the youth-led organizations in Ukraine for the whole year? Then the «Ukrainian Youth Delegate to the UN» program is right for you!
Applications for candidates to participate in the selection of Ukrainian Youth Delegates to the UN are opened!
Submit your application and maybe you will represent the state at the General Assembly in New York in 2021!
Ukrainian Youth Delegate to the UN is:
An annual program to present the position of Ukrainian youth in the world and disseminate the Sustainable Development Goals;
Experience of representing the state at the UN and opportunity to learn from Ukrainian diplomats;
Networking with the world’s most active youth;
Development in the fields of public diplomacy, project management, communications and analytics.
Requirements for applicants:
- Citizenship of Ukraine
- Age 20-27 years old
- High level of English language proficiency
- Experience in tackling youth-related issues
In order to participate in the selection, you must:
- Fill out a short online form: https://forms.gle/eHKxHH6C6Kgtx5oT6
- Take a video * and share it on your Facebook and / or Instagram page
- Prepare a CV for 1 page
* In the video (up to 1 minute) you should tell us in English about how do you improve or contribute to improving life in your community. The thoughts you share in the video will be able to inspire many people to implement new «sustainable» habits to benefit the environment and society.
- Video format: any (from selfie to animation)!
- Duration: up to 1 minute.
- Language: English.
The video should be freely available on one of the social networks Facebook or Instagram (optional — on both).
Deadline: June 6 (23:59, Kyiv time).
The language of filling in the application form, and CV in English.
Only those applicants who fulfill all the conditions are allowed to participate in the competition.
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What is a social enterprise?
Put simply, a social enterprise balances profit with doing the right thing and giving back to people and the planet.
There are various definitions. However, all social enterprises have a mission that solves a social problem. Their purpose, values, vision and mission can extend to all parts of the business: who they employ, giving back to the community, sustainable sourcing of materials and products (social procurement), etc.
What makes a social enterprise different?
“Social enterprises are businesses that trade to intentionally tackle social problems, improve communities, provide people access to employment and training, or help the environment.” – Social Enterprise – Business Victoria.
- It is not a legal structure (i.e. a company, sole trader, partnership)
- You can get certified.
Three key elements:
- Have a defined primary social, cultural or environmental purpose consistent with a public or community benefit, and
- Derive a substantial portion of their income from trade (rather than donations, grants and other funding), and
- Invest efforts and resources into their purpose such that public/community benefit outweighs private benefit.
The Victorian Government defines social enterprise as organisations that:
- are driven by a public or community cause, be it social, environmental, cultural or economic
- derive most of their income from trade, not donations or grants
- use the majority (at least 50%) of their profits to work towards their social mission.
It’s worth being aware of these definitions for your local area. Governments in many parts of the world are supporting social enterprise through training, funding, business networks, and other methods. Tapping into this local support can help you start and grow your social enterprise.
In Victoria, Australia the State Government has created a Social Enterprise Strategy to support businesses. It’s a great place to start looking for opportunities, ideas, training, and connections. There is also now a national strategy.
How does an online business become a social enterprise?
Like any business. A social enterprise must be profitable to be sustainable.
All the good intentions and passion in the world come unstuck when you can’t pay the bills. Get the business fundamentals in place and get advice if you need help with this.
The three steps below align with the three key elements of a social enterprise:
1) Define or update your mission, purpose, and values. This is a great explainer of how these work together for your business and brand.
- Get your business model and fundamentals in place and working.
- Take action. Demonstrate how you are taking steps forward and the difference that is making, aligned with your mission, purpose, and values. Who has benefited? What are the challenges? What’s next? Consider being transparent and accountable by publishing this on your online channels.
Are you starting a business (a ‘startup’)? Watch this short video with tips for social enterprise startups:
“As a social enterprise, you are going to get asked about your mission A LOT. It’s what makes you stand out. Funders will want to be sure about the social change they invest in, and customers will check you’re different from less ethical alternatives. You might even get a few nosy journalists checking you’re not just greenwashing to get business.” – School for social enterprise
Is innovation or an innovative business model essential?
No. Your local Op Shop isn’t an innovative business model but it’s a social enterprise. It’s been around for years. Think about the problems they solve and the good it delivers!
While there are a lot of disruptive and innovative social enterprises, it’s not a requirement of being a social enterprise.
An innovative social enterprise looks specifically at social problems, identifies a solution to address them, and then sets up a business to help solve it.
This can be as simple as finding new uses for discarded items by upcycling them into art or handmade goods. Or, as complex as defining a whole new manufacturing process to create a biodegradable toothbrush to reduce landfill and give back to communities.
Get connected with like-minded businesses and thought leaders
There is a big community of social enterprises, organisations that support them, and thought leaders in this space. This ecosystem exists locally, nationally, and globally. It includes:
- SENVIC – a social enterprise network in Victoria, Australia
- School for Social Enterprise – a global platform to support social entrepreneurs
- Disrupts for Good social enterprise podcast by Causeartist
By nature many social enterprises and their leaders are generous. This includes sharing their knowledge and advice.
Do a local search in your area, connect with podcasts reach out to businesses you want to work with. There are a variety of social enterprise meetups in all parts of the world where you can connect with established and aspiring social enterprise owners and leaders.
Get inspired and awarded
There are many inspiring stories of success and positive social outomes. Awards have been set up to showcase these stories and reward celebrate their efforts. Examples include:
- Frankie ‘Good Stuff Awards’ in Australia
- Schwabb Foundation for social enterprise awards
- Social enterprise awards UK
Grants are also offered in some countries. Do a local search to connect with these opportunities. If you are a little daunted, connect with a professional grant expert to assist with your application.
Does my business need to be certified?
No. But, it definitely adds credibility. It also helps avoid being labeled as ‘greenwashing’.
There are a number of different certifications. Look for local advice and do your research before committing because any certification program takes time, energy, and resources away from other business activities.
Certification programs also have the benefit of helping your business stayed aligned with its vision, mission, purpose and values.
Many certification programs have a simple quiz, or survey to evaluate where you are in your journey to be a social enterprise. This helps you know whether you are ready to be certified or if certification is right for your business.
Here’s an example for Australia: Social Trader certification process.
Starting an online business, what do I need to know?
If you are looking to start an online business that aligns with the definition of social enterprise, all the fundamentals stay the same.
You may want to use the business model canvas from the social enterprise lab, rather than a standard business model canvas. Checking what grants, business accelerators and support are available is also sensible. All startups require help, advice and support.
An online business that does a lot of social good, including balancing profit with giving back to people and the planet can be a social enterprise.
You may decide to pursue identifying as a social enterprise and go down the certification path. Or, you may simply incorporate this into your purpose, mission, vision and values.
- Operating an ethical online business that does good stuff can be very simple.
- As simple as aligning with the three elements included in the social enterprise definition.
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A wise man once said, “One man’s junk is another man’s treasure.” This is most true in information governance with regards to reference materials. Reference materials can cover a wide spectrum from articles and catalogs to copies of records that you are keeping as a point of reference for future decisions on related materials. These are often viewed as non-records and should be deleted when no longer needed for reference purposes or to be kept indefinitely. The problem with viewing them as non-records is because they still need to be managed like records due to the fact they are eligible for discovery, but that is beside the point and goes down a rabbit hole that others have covered so much better then I.*
When it comes to reference materials, if an information governance worker takes off their records manager hat and puts on a knowledge manager hat they can take major strides in bringing peace to content chaos. No one holds onto reference material because they want to bring content chaos into the organization, but it is because they can derive value from that information. In most instances that value is not at an organizational level, but it is usually not just one person who wants access to that information. Instead of asking the question how can we stop people from holding onto this stuff that we are not required to retain, the better question might be, “we have all this information, how can it be leveraged to benefit our workforce as a whole and not just scattered without control.”
Knowledge management, according to the CIP study guide, is “the practice of systematically – and continually capturing, controlling, and disseminating organizational intelligence among its workers.” When knowledge management is done right people do not need to hoard information out of fear of not being able to find it again or gaining access in a timely manner. The goal of knowledge management is to add convenience to finding knowledge so that people do not have to over-retain reference materials and also to educate them on all why all knowledge cannot be retained indefinitely.
Picture this scenario; Suzy Staffer has a copy of a troubleshooting guide for the fax machine. Wally Worker is trying to send a fax and is having trouble sending it and spends half an hour of lost productivity searching online for tips or a troubleshooting guide. Imagine if on your intranet, portal, etc. there was a collaborative workspace or shared bookmarks for other such information that multiple people might all need access to.
Another example which often leads to unnecessarily reinventing the wheel is when a decision is made on a project and someone documents what went into the decision so they can retrace their steps, but does not get around to transferring that information to others. This often leads to the runaround exhibited in the following dialogue:
Octavious Overachiever: I am working on integrating our RIM software with SharePoint and need background information on the SharePoint documentation. I thought you worked on that project and was hoping you could explain the taxonomy and why we did what we did?
Sally Slacker: I only played a minimal part; you might want to touch base with Tony Techie.
This leads to poor Octavious running around the office from person to person because the knowledge of who worked on what and their notes are not centralized. At the time Tony Techie might have assumed that information would have value only to him, but it turns out that it has value to others, so it needs to be in a place where it is easily shareable. Having it in a place where it is easily shareable facilitates control over the documentation and it also ensures people are looking at the right version.
No man is an island and the power of sharing knowledge allows other people to weigh in and collaborate about how work can be improved upon. The beauty of knowledge management is that Tony Techie does not have to be the gatekeeper of this information and Octavious Overachiever does not have to go to Sally Slacker, but if knowledge is centralized then it can be stored in one location that Octavious knows to go to. This allows Octavious to find other related information that Tony might not be aware of which others created.
One of the biggest bonuses to knowledge management is that it allows one to recognize patterns of where there is a knowledge deficiency in your organization and people are constantly searching for more information, whether it is from journals or other co-workers. The patterns that emerge from finding out what information people need to know can tell your organization where to invest in training. It can also empower employees to make valuable contributions to the organization by sharing their tacit knowledge and making the whole of the organization greater than the sum of its parts.
If you’ve used knowledge management to manage reference materials and reduce content chaos I’d love to hear how it has worked in your organization and what you’ve learned from it.
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sufferings to be endured, and of the Divine purpose to be effected by them. In the awful scene which took place in the garden of Gethsemane, there appears also to have been suffering of a peculiar and mysterious kind, something above our feeble conceptions—a mental conflict, an agony of soul, greater than we can suppose the mere anticipation of his bodily sufferings to have called forth. Christian martyrs have trod in the steps of their crucified Lord, and have “resisted unto “ blood,” not only with patience, but with joy and triumph. But Christian martyrs have never borne the burthen of expiating sin. The expiation already made for them was their stay and support. They have never !
; poured out their souls an offering for sinP;" nor is it possible they should have a feeling, or form even a conception of that mental effort which such an offering might require. This, probably—(I say probably, because it is a mystery we can never entirely develope)this, probably, constituted the bitterest ingredient in that cup which our Lord voluntarily drank.
His fortitude, therefore, as well as all his other high and excellent qualities, stands above comparison with any
that the rest of mankind can produce. It is con
p Isa. lui. 12.
nected with that inexhaustible benevolence which embraces the whole human race, and with that intenseness of zeal for the Divine glory which would endure every thing, rather than that sin and death should get the victory.
These were the incitements to that constancy, that submission, that meekness, that willing obedience under every trial, which from his first temptation in the wilderness, to his last hour upon the cross, rendered the pattern he hath set before us “perfect and
entire, wanting nothing?."
9 In treating of this mysterious subject I have wished to avoid, rather than attempt to remove, some of the difficulties which surround it. To speak of our Lord as oppressed by a sense of the actual guilt of the whole world then laid upon him, or by the absolute dereliction of the Divine aid then supposed to be withdrawn from him, appears to me hardly warranted by any direct authority of Scripture, or by any just inferences from it, notwithstanding some opinions of this kind entertained by expositors of unquestionable reputation. To me it appears sufficient to suppose, with reference to our Lord's human nature, that his mental perturbation, his intense solicitude in this unparalleled conflict, was heightened beyond all conception by the magnitude, not merely of the sufferings to be endured, but of the tremendous issue that was dependent upon them. Without calling in preternatural considerations to account for this agony or mental struggle, we may conceive that when our Lord presented to his mind the consequences that must result, either, on the one hand, from his enduring these sufferings in conformity to the Divine will, or, on the other, from his swerving, even in the slightest degree, from a free and any teacher of a false religion uniting in his character such qualities as distinguished the willing submission to them; when the result would in effect be either to accomplish the salvation of mankind, or to frustrate its accomplishment;-more acute perception of the accumulated weight, the aggravated burthen of responsibility laid upon him, than we can possibly imagine, might at the instant have pressed upon him, so as almost to overwhelm every faculty of soul or body. In this supposition there is surely enough to account for what is recorded—enough to shew that, inasmuch as our Lord was “ in all things tempt“ed like as we are,” and partook of all the feelings incidental to our nature, he could not in this instance but be conscious that he was placed in a situation in which no other human being ever was or could be placed, and under circumstances so awfully, so tremendously important in their issue, that no fortitude, no magnanimity, no concentration of human strength and resolution, would enable him to contemplate it without an intensity of feeling surpassing any thing that the rest of mankind had ever undergone.
Let us now close the inquiry which has been pursued in this and the two preceding discourses, on our Lord's character as a teacher and a pattern of innocence and good works, with a few general reflections.
The testimony hence derived to the truth of Christianity is decisive and unanswerable. It bids defiance to any adversary who acknowledges the truth of the history itself. We challenge the unbeliever to bring forward a religion of any kind standing upon the authority of such a Founder as this. History will be searched in vain for a record of
meek and lowly Jesus. Where is the impostor to be found who could assume even the semblance of such qualities ? They who trust to feigned virtues would ill bear such trials as those which our Lord endured, or such scrutiny as his character underwent from opponents the most acute and inquisitive. Yet which of them “ convinced him of sin'?" And what was he to gain, if a deceiver ? Poverty, shame, and death.
Will you say, then, that he feigned this for a good purpose? It is a solecism in terms. There is no goodness in falsehood ; no piety in deceit; no virtue in any thing that maketh a lie. The founder of such a religion would stand convicted out of his own mouth, could one tittle of his doctrine be proved untrue. His pleas of good intention would be instantly annihilated by the maxim of his own Apostle, against “doing evil, that good may “ come'." No;-sooner may light have concord with darkness, than Christ with Belial. Will you
confound his character, then, with those of enthusiasts who“ know not what
they say, or whereof they affirm ?” Will you liken him to men of heated imaginations, wrought up to strong persuasions founded on no evidence of truth? We shall have viewed
r John viii. 46.
s Rom. ii. 8.
our subject to little purpose, if such a notion can be for a moment entertained ; if He who
spake as never man spake,” who “did no
sin, neither was guile found in his mouth,” and “who went about doing good;" —He, on whom the tongue of slander could fix no one stain of imperfection,-should nevertheless be classed among the tribe of visionaries who have left behind them nothing but monuments of their own folly and imbecility.
Consider, again, how all these distinguishing characteristics of our Saviour corresponded with what the Prophets had foretold of him. “ The Spirit of the Lord shall rest
upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, “ the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of 66 the Lord.” “ Then the eyes of the blind “ shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf “shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame “
man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the “ dumb shall sing'.” “ Unto
“ Unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of Righteousness arise “ with healing in his wings".
“ He shall “ feed his flock like a shepherd *.”
“ He had “ done no violence, neither was any deceit in “ his mouth. Yet it pleased the Lord to 1 Isa. xi. 2.
v Isa. xxxv. 5. w Malachi iv, 2.
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Tips for Proper Cast Care
If you've broken a bone and find yourself in a cast, take proper care of it by following these simple tips and you will be well on your way to recovery!
Keep Swelling Down
A common side effect with many injuries is swelling. If your injury begins to swell while in a cast, it can create a great amount of discomfort. While taking the cast off is out of the question, you can elevate the injury above heart level to help reduce swelling and discomfort. Keeping your casted area elevated within the first 24 – 72 hours has proven to be very effective. After 48 – 72 hours you can also apply ice wrapped in a towel to the outside of your cast to keep swelling down.
Keep Skin From Itching
Casts can cause the skin underneath to get irritated and itchy. In order to combat the discomfort, try turning a hair dryer on a cool setting and aim it under the cast. If the itching does not subside, consider taking an antihistamine. Keep in mind that placing anything inside your cast to itch the affected area can cause further discomfort or even an infection.
Keep an Eye on It
While in a cast, performing regular inspections is highly suggested. Be on the lookout for cracks or irregularities that could potentially hinder the cast from healing your injury properly. It is also a good idea to keep an eye on the surrounding area around your cast. Be sure to let you doctor know of any warning signs that may be present.
Keep Cast Clean and Dry
Keep dirt and water away from your cast. When bathing, place your cast in a protective plastic shield to avoid getting it wet. Water could potentially weaken the plaster preventing your injury from healing properly. Take special care of your cast and do not allow any dirt to slip inside. This could cause further discomfort, irritation, or even an infection.
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I’ve always said that wood is best stored vertically. But during the winter you don’t get a lot of choice and trees do fall down. Not all of them even fall down – as the crown of this oak tree demonstrated by splitting up the trunk and toppling over to plant itself upside down. There’s quite a weight in those boughs and it will be a delicate job to saw it up safely.
With the relentless wind and rain that we’ve been having for the last couple of months the number of trees down across the commons is mounting – and probably numbers well over a hundred trees by now. Plenty to keep me and our dedicated band of volunteers busy right through to the spring then.
So here is a little tour of a part of the commons and a look at some of the trees that have come down in the last few weeks.
When the gales come through the wind gusts to very high speeds and tests the trees. Any weakness in the tree and it snaps instantly. The brown wood in this Birch shows that it was starting to rot and the wind caught it. These splits are known as ‘barber’s chairs’ or ‘widow’s seats’ because they can be very dangerous if they happen as you are felling the tree with a saw, as the tree splits it can lever upwards and cause a fatal accident if you are still working by the tree. Still I suppose it saves having to fell it!
Not all of the trees manage to come down. Some of them lift their root plates and lean over to end up caught in other trees – technically known as a windblown hungup. It can take a lot of time to clear a tree caught like this – the weight of the crown hanging in the trees and the weight of the root plate on the butt are both dangerous. It’ll need a winch and/or a tractor but the ground is too wet for the heavy equipment right now – in the meantime it’s not going anywhere in a hurry as it’s firmly held at both ends!
More common are the mature Birch trees that have just come to the end of their lives and had enough. This one is probably around 65 years to 70 years old. A fairly simple job to clear and plenty of firewood for the next season to boot – it’s blocking a couple of paths and is down on the stock fence so it will get priority.
Another mature Birch tree – this one managed to fall right across the Hazel Coppice we’ve recently planted, but very considerately managed to avoid crushing all of the young hazel’s apart from one. We cleared some Birch to make room for the Coppice and that probably left other trees more vulnerable which is why this one fell. Extracting it from around all the Hazel plants will be just that bit more of a pain – dealing with trees pushed over by the wind is often more complicated than felling the trees yourself.
Holly grows to be a large mature tree. This one fell right across the timber extraction track on the edge of the commons and I had to clear some of it just to get through with a load of firewood.But there’s only so much clearing of Holly that you can do at one go – so the rest will have to wait.
As the Holly came down it managed to fell an old Hawthorn tree – now it’s getting a bit like a game of nine pin skittles as the wind knocks one tree into the next.
We have had a few trees down across the roads as well – but clearing those is much more stressful – mainly because of the behaviour of other drivers. Nobody seems to have any patience any longer – it’s not unusual to be sworn at by drivers impatient for me to clear a tree – and ironically it’s not even my job to clear the road. So no time to take photos when working on the road.
Odd thing spotted in the sky recently. A bit like the moon but brighter – don’t see it very often these days, I’d be lying if I said we don’t see the sun at all but at this time of year it’s always very low in the sky and doesn’t hang around for long.
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Tian J, Gong H, Sheng N, Zhou X, Gulari E, Gao X, & Church GM (2004) Accurate Multiplex Gene Synthesis from Programmable DNA Chips.
May-2001 Minigenome/ BioSpice project start.
01-Feb-04 list#1: Oligos used for synthesis of 21 E.coli small subunit ribosomal proteins =minigenome subset; promoter, SD, his-tags added during gene PCR (918 oligos from a 4K-format Xeotron/Atactic oligo array).
25-Mar-04 list#2: Oligos for synthesis of a 125Kbp minigenome & 777kbp M. mobile genome. (95376 oligos from a 191K Nimblegen array format).
Supplementary tables 1 & 2 and images for a 14,593 bp operon of 21 ribosomal genes (accession AY773199) and assembly of one gene (s19) from 95376 oligos (6.7 Mbases).
Industrial-strength spin-off : Gen9-2009 (aka Engeneos-2001, Codon Devices-2005)
Check here for our role in iGEM an international Genetically Engineered Machine competition. Our 2004 iGEM project was an integrase-based "counter" done in collaboration with Jim Collins's group at BU. (Published in Science 2009) Two 2005 iGEM projects were BioWire & BioSketch. The Fall & Spring course MCB 100 has contributing in interesting ways with Harvard iGEM teams e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 , 2009 , 2010 , 2011 .
This began as a Biophysics problem set question in 1992 and in 2001 became a DARPA-funded project.
Forster, AC & Church, GM Nature EMBO MSB Aug-2006 :
Toward synthesis of a minimal cell.
Forster, AC & Church, GM Genome Research 17(1):1-6. Dec-2006 Synthetic biology projects in vitro.
The image below (and on the cover of Genome Research and BBC video) was generated using grid.pl.
A "3D parts-list" figure encoded by an E.coli based minigenome of 150 macromolecules (plus 45 small molecules) is below (derived from 3D structures in the table developed for the above MSB paper). 2.7 kbp of the full 113 kbp minigenome is shown. The colors reflect those of Fig 1 & 2 (blue DNA to red RNA to purple proteins). The layout reflects the 4x4x4 genetic code in figure 3, the 20 aminoacids (aa) in single-letter format. Only one tRNA-synthetase complex is shown per aa even if more than one tRNA exists for that aa. The 'extra' tRNAs are shown bound to modification enzymes or free, hence those enzymes are clustered near their main substrate tRNAs in the code layout. Translation factors end in F: initiation (IF), elongation(EF), and release (RF). Note that many of these proteins resemble tRNA in shape. fM= formyl-Met-tRNA with the Fmt formylase. Some of the molecules are not yet displayed (Qm=RF Gln methylase, TilS, PrfC) and some are rough homology models (e.g. some tRNAs). More than one copy of a molecule is shown when the function of the complex requires it, e.g. GroE = 14 copies of GroEL (60kd) and 7 copies of GroES (10kd).
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Torquil Duthie’s main area of specialization is the literature and cultural history of the Asuka and Nara periods. His research interests include early and classical Japanese poetry, myth, and historical writing, narrative theory and the representation of subjectivity in premodern Japanese literature, the role of literary culture in the representation of the state, and seventeenth and eighteenth century kokugaku (“native learning”) and its relationship to modern and contemporary philology and theory. He teaches classical Japanese and kanbun, and undergraduate classes and graduate seminars on a variety of premodern topics. He is the author of Man’yōshū and the Imperial Imagination in Early Japan (Brill, 2014), of a book of translated selections from the Kokinshū into Spanish, and of research articles in English and Japanese. He is currently working on a book on literary writing, ritual, and historiography in Early Japan, and on a translation into English of selections from the Kokinshū. | <urn:uuid:60aab11d-13eb-4db7-b1bd-5663be44a15a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/person/655 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.946085 | 210 | 1.71875 | 2 |
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JOURNALS AND NEWSLETTERS IN BIOETHICS, ETHICS AND MEDICINE, OR ETHICS AND SCIENCE, Sorted by Type and Date, 1998
Staff of the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature
Notes: In type category, J = journal, N = newsletter; second letter denotes primary emphasis of the periodical: B = bioethics, H = health, L = law, S = science. Two contemporary, productive journals for bioethics were established prior to the emergence of bioethics as a field: Linacre Quarterly (1934) and Arzt und Christ (now Zeitschrift fuer Medizinische Ethik (1955). To be included in this list periodicals must be highly productive for bioethics content and still be in print.
This list was created in 1998 to indicate what journals and newsletters the National Reference Center of Bioethics Literature monitored and subscribed to. This document is placed here as a historical resource and may contain information that is no longer accurate.
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Since 1998 Spire has been manufacturing and providing cooling solutions for computer manufacturers worldwide. Initially they specialized in OEM (original equipment manufacturer) and ODM (original design manufacturer) products, though as of late they have branched off into the enthusiast segment of the computer market. Spire has designed and produced products ranging from cases to power supplies and aftermarket cooling products.
Today we’re going to be looking at the Spire Coolgate 2011 CPU cooler. This cooler is currently priced at just $34.29 or £21.86. The Coolgate 2011 is designed to be lightweight, compact, quiet, and most of all affordable. With four 6mm, U-shaped, copper heat-pipes it’s not designed to be the greatest aftermarket cooler on the market. More so to replace the loud, inefficient cooling solutions that ship with Intel and AMD’s current CPU offerings.
The Coolgate 2011 comes bundled with a sleeve bearing 120mm fan which has a rated speed of 800-1600 RPM and is capable of pumping out 71 CFM at 19 dBA. The included fan has a 4-pin PWM (pulse width modulation) connector. There are no LEDs on the included fan, but it is sleeved nicely so there aren’t any stray wires hanging around once the CPU cooler is installed.
Spire Coolgate 2011 HSF Main Features:
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August 2012. There is a wide range of Spumante wine in Italy especially from Le Marche where the base grape is often Verdicchio but can also be from Montipulciano or Sangiovese or Pinot Noir grapes. I recommend twelve Spumante wines from the region that are of exceptional quality at a reasonable price. the region of Le Marche is gaining recognition for the wine making skills and quality of wines that have existed for centuries but are only now being appraised and appreciated in global markets with exports increasing each year.
The Spumante from Le Marche
(guest writer Max Ford of MarcheRustico and SEO Synovation)Spumante wines can be natural or aerated. Understanding the difference is very important for consumers particularly in regards to price. In a spumante natural carbon dioxide, that brings life to the wine, develops through the second fermentation of the base wine. In practice wine yeast is added causing a second fermentation that allows the wine to have bubbles. The second fermentation can occur in two ways:
• in the bottle (classico method) or
• in large containers (Charmat).
The aerated spumante wine is obtained by adding to carbon dioxide. Aerated spumante wines are rare when it does not stand for the quality of the wine. When you look at a spumante the visual examination is the most in the tasting: the length of the bead of bubbles, the number of bubbles, and their shape are important are smaller and better' the champagne.
Types of Spumante Wine:1. The same Vintage year - said also as Millesimato - grapes of the same variety from a particular vineyard and aged for at least 5 years in bottles or containers.
2. Not the same vintage - said Non Millesimato –same variet of grapes but of different vintages with a shorter aging process.
The Grades Of Spumante Wine:Dry or Sweet Spumante? - In the last stage of fermentation syrup is added which characterises the spumante. The grades are:
• Brut Nature - where the residual sugar is less than three grams per liter. Where you say sugar is zer Brut Sauvage.
• Extra Dry Brut - where the residual sugar is less than six grams per liter. This spumante and very dry and goes a treat as a aperitif with seafood.
• Brut - where the residual sugar is less than twelve grams per litre. It’s a good drink to start a meal.
• Extra Dry - where the residual sugar is less but more than twelve to twenty grams per litre.
• Sec, Dry - where the residual sugar is less than thirty five but more than seventeen grams per litre.
• Demi- Sec - where the residual sugar is less but more than thirty-five to fifty grams per litre.
• Dolce / Sweet - where the residual sugar is more than fifty grams per litre.
Types of Spumante Wine:• Blanc de blanc - that is, literally white of white wine indicates spumante from white grapes.
• Blanc de noir - literally white of blacks that wine from black grapes.
• Rose - wine from wine based pink.
• Cremant - added small amounts of sugar in the manufacturing method of the Classic. It makes the champagne thinner.
Major Spumante Wines Prevalent in the Marches:
1. Stefano Antonucci Brut – Spumante Metodo Classico - SANTA BARBARA – Barbara ANCONA.
2. Donna Giulia Brut – Spumante Metodo Classico - (Vendemmia 2007 Sboccatura 2010) FATTORIA LE TERRAZZE - Numana (ANCONA)
3. Umani Ronchi Extra Brut sans année- Spumante Metodo Classico (Sboccatura settembre 2011) UMANI RONCHI – Osimo ANCONA
4. Fazi Battaglia Brut – Vino Spumante- FAZI BATTAGLIA – Castelplanio ANCONA
5. Madreperla Brut – Spumante Metodo Classico Cuvée - (Sboccatura 2011) MONCARO - Montecarotto ANCONA
6. Vignamato Rosé Brut - Vino Spumante - VIGNAMATO – San Paolo di Jesi ANCONA
7. Conti di Buscareto Rosé Brut 2011 – Vino Spumante Brut Metodo Martinotti CONTI DI BUSCARETO – Ostra ANCONA
8. Vallerosa Bonci Metodo Classico Millesimato Brut 2008- Spumante Metodo Classico (Sboccatura 2011) VALLEROSA BONCI – Cupramontana ANCONA
9. Cuvée Nadir Brut 2010 – Spumante Metodo Charmat- BELISARIO – Matelica (MC)
10. Primo Brut – Spumante Metodo Classico CASALFARNETO – Serra de’ Conti ANCONA
11. Moroder Brut Rosé 2011 – Vino Spumante - MORODER – Ancona
12. Pink Brut Rosé – Vino Spumante -SILVANO STROLOGO - CameranoANCONA
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Taylor Swift, an American nation pop singer-songwriter, has written a number of songs about her private relationships that many listeners, particularly different women, can find relatable. In an interview with Jay Leno on The Tonight Show, Swift states that the music is not even about him anymore. It was extra than simply revenge after she began getting mail from fans that stated her music helped them deal with their on a regular basis life. For some it helped get them via high school bullying, and for others it helped them take care of an abusive relationship. Swift’s music became more than just entertainment when it helped an individual get through a tough state of affairs.
When will stay performance come back within the Seattle area and what may it appear to be?
I referred to as twice to ask questions and obtained a reside individual instantly who provided correct and thorough info. Kevin T. Macnamara, Adjunct Professor, teaches Entertainment Law. from the Indiana University School of Law and a Master of Music (M.M.) in orchestral conducting from Northern Illinois University. Prior to transitioning to the practice of legislation, he was a public faculty trainer, adjunct professor and orchestra conductor for over twelve years.
Dance in movie, television, music movies, and other media forms provides leisure for audiences. It additionally supplies choreographers and dancers extra media choices for presenting dance as an artwork type. Dance for the digicam is time period that covers entertainment, artistic, and multimedia types of presenting dance.… Read More
For example, it may be onerous to attract the line between some early Eighties hard rock and heavy metal. Within the arts, music may be classified as a performing artwork, a fantastic artwork or as an auditory art. Right now I want to say that I assume the entire art and entertainment factor is bogus.
The sensory effects of music impacts our portray process; I distinctly see how music performs out in my art and in the artwork of my students. We want a shift from being shoppers to wanting to be consumed. While I imagine that it is possible to beat this dilemma as a musician, as you become extra of a public determine, it is indisputably challenging to do so constantly. You have to have the ability to ship compelling material that translates throughout widely various audiences and meet the demands of those surrounding you. Gaga talked about her frustration with being seen as a public figure first and artist second, and how her presence turned more essential than her product as her profession developed.
These songs are only a few of the various inspirational, meaningful songs he sang. Music is more than leisure; it’s a means for talented people to spread important messages throughout the world.
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The medieval era (476 to 1400), which happened during the Middle Ages, began with the introduction of monophonic (single melodic line) chanting into Roman Catholic Church companies. The solely European Medieval repertory that has been found in written type from earlier than 800 is the monophonic liturgical plainsong chant of the Roman Catholic Church, the central tradition of which was referred to as Gregorian chant. Alongside these traditions of sacred and church music there existed a vibrant custom of secular music (non-religious songs).
The fashion’s West African pedigree is obvious in its use of blue notes, improvisation, polyrhythms, syncopation, and the swung observe. Renaissance music (c. 1400 to 1600) was extra centered on secular (non-religious) themes, corresponding to courtly love. Around 1450, the printing press was invented, which made printed sheet music much less expensive and simpler to mass-produce (prior to the invention of the printing press, all notated music was hand-copied). The increased availability of sheet music helped to unfold musical types more rapidly and throughout a bigger area. Musicians and singers often worked for the church, courts and towns.
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An attempt was made to blow up the church of the Apostle Paul, located near the railway station Larissa in Athens, Greece. The explosion took place half an hour after midnight on January 1, 2022, reports arxon.gr.
The source of the detonation was an improvised device that ignited 10 gas cylinders installed near the church (according to other sources: cans of gasoline – ed.). Insignificant material damage is reported – as a result of the explosion, the steps of the church were burnt.
The police are investigating to find and arrest the perpetrators.
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Corridor kitchen is also called the gallery kitchen, and is a design wherein the kitchen counters are placed on parallel walls and one of the sides is open. Many people with big houses and apartments do not like this style of kitchen, as they find it to be small and messy. However, if you own a small house or an apartment then corridor style of kitchen is ideal for you as it works well in a small place.
To make your gallery kitchen look good and efficient, you have to store appliances in a way that they are easily accessible, and you have to plan the work zones meticulously so that the kitchen does not become messy. Besides careful planning and the way you store appliances in the corridor kitchen, following are some other factors if you consider can make your corridor kitchen as successful as any other kitchen style.
Create a layout that is high in functionality
Although every kitchen style is based on the Kitchen Work Triangle, but a corridor kitchen has to be in strict accordance with this style so that the narrow corridor like path in the middle does not create a difficulty. The best way to make a corridor kitchen successful in terms of the layout is to spread larger appliances on the opposite sides and provide a larger space for food preparation. Doing this gives the narrow corridor kitchen a good space and it does not look messy.
If you arrange for enough of natural light inside your corridor kitchen, or you use proper artificial lighting in the kitchen, it will make your otherwise small kitchen look as airy and spacious as possible. While laying out the kitchen, try to install a big window over the sink so that enough of natural light comes in during daytime. If there is no space to install a window, then take help of clever lighting pattern that lights up the work area, cabinets, floor and the ceiling. Darkness makes the small space look even smaller.
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»I only knew of the GDR from a children’s song
Studying in a Socialist “Fraternal Country”
Between 1951 and 1989, approximately 70,000 young people from over 125 different countries studied in the GDR, with around half of these coming from socialist countries. Around 7 percent of foreigners living in the GDR came to the country as students (this figure does not include Soviet soldiers, who are an exception). Students, trainees, and apprentices from Vietnam were educated in the GDR from 1966 onwards (Feige 1999).
Representatives of a Heroic Nation
The GDR news agency proudly reported that “over 150 young people from Vietnam, who will commence studying in GDR universities and technical colleges at the start of the academic year, arrived in Berlin on 17 August 1971. A total of 1,100 young representatives of this heroic nation have now enrolled at universities in the Republic.”
The GDR felt a particular connection with Vietnam, as both countries were outsiders in global politics. Images from Vietnam were everywhere, having been disseminated prior to the arrival of the young Vietnamese students to highlight the special relationship between the two countries. An example was the stamp collection “Invincible Vietnam”. Eight stamps with a supplementary cost that went to charity and a circulation of up to 9,000,000 copies per stamp conveyed romanticized imagery of war, post-war reconstruction, and happy people in almost every household.
»We knew that the quality of education in the GDR was good
Like Pham Thi Hoai, Alemayehu Gebissa came to the GDR to study, arriving from the socialist People’s Democratic Republic of Ethiopia to the Wilhelm-Pieck-Universität in Rostock. His country had suffered from devastating famines and was torn apart by civil war. After completing his education and achieving high grades, his college delegated him to the GDR in 1986 to study at the postgraduate level.
With residence in the GDR, Alemayehu Gebissa was able to further the education that he had received in Ethiopia. Special qualifications and better living conditions were also the hope of many of the other migrants who came to the GDR as workers.
Life as a Worker in the GDR
By far the largest group of migrants in the GDR were workers. Their life was governed by labour and production. From 1979 onwards, Vietnam and Mozambique sent the highest number of workers. Their living and working conditions were outlined in detail in bilateral agreements that emphasized mutual interests and cooperation, and contractually guaranteed a qualification in a technologically advanced country.
The document states: “(2) In line with the occupational education and training envisaged by this agreement, the Mozambican workers will be solely employed in the processes of production in roles that enable them to acquire a high degree of knowledge and skills.”
The agreements with Mozambique (1979) and Vietnam (1980) were of major significance to the GDR. These were designed to offset a dramatic labour shortfall in the 1980s and to maintain production levels. Intergovernmental agreements had in fact existed since the 1960s with friendly countries––initially with Poland and Hungary, and later with Algeria and Cuba. However, these countries gradually stepped back from cooperation in the 1980s, sending fewer and fewer workers to the GDR in a period when demand was increasing dramatically. The agreements regarding “temporary employment” (Contracts and Interests) with Mozambique and Vietnam were classified; the workers in question only knew the contents of their work contracts. While they each had their own motives for applying for residence in the GDR, their routes there were different.
The document states: “ Template for the Secretariat of the SED Central Committee
2. According to calculations by the GDR Ministry of Finance, the average contribution of a Mozambican worker to GDR national income in 1986 amounted to 18,483 East German marks net. The employment of a total of 13,000 Mozambican workers from 1988 onwards thus corresponds to an annual contribution of approx. 240 million East German marks to the national income.
3. The employment of additional workers from Mozambique is a means of partially compensating for the decrease in or cessation of the employment of Polish and Cuban workers.”
Solidarity with Moçambique
Since the 1960s, the GDR had supported the Mozambican freedom movement FRELIMO (Frente da Libertação de Moçambique) in its struggle against Portuguese colonial rule. Not until the collapse of the Salazar dictatorship in Portugal and an 11-year war that left around 30,000 dead did Mozambique become independent in 1975. FRELIMO took power and most Portuguese citizens left the country, leaving behind massive economic problems and a glaring skills shortage. In order to quickly rebuild the economy in an independent Mozambique and to combat illiteracy, FRELIMO pressured successful students into vocational training or put them to work as teachers. Orquídea Chongo had her schooling cut short in this way, but with her family’s support, she sought alternative ways to advance her education.
»I thought that this way, I might have a better life
From a “Young Nation State”
After the end of colonial rule there, Mozambique was among the countries that the GDR designated as a “young nation state” and was also targeted by it (Wolf 2000, p.152). In addition to ideological proximity, support for anti-colonial rule in Africa and Asia fulfilled one of the GDR’s concrete political objectives: its recognition by the governments of these newly founded states. The GDR also combined key economic interests with cooperation measures. Mozambique’s independence coincided with a drastic shortage of foreign currency and impending insolvency in the GDR. Mozambique was viewed as one of the “selected and allied African states” with which the GDR was engaged via foreign policy efforts, immediate action programmes, and an export offensive. The goal of the cooperation was to generate foreign trade surpluses and foreign currency (Döring 1999).
The concept of international solidarity formed the ideological basis of migration to the GDR. But beyond this notion lay concrete political and economic interests.
»Cash bribery made it possible for me to go to the GDR
Particularly in countries that were at a difficult stage of reconstruction after long and devastating struggles against colonial rule, the prospect of leaving was often deeply imbued with the hopes and investments of the entire family. To protect her son from conscription, Nguyen Do Thinh’s mother left no stone unturned.
Für Frieden und Völkerfreundschaft!“For peace and friendship among the peoples” Greeting used by the Young Pioneers in the GDR
Political Emigrants––a Form of Asylum
The GDR opened its doors for another group of people: political emigrants. These were the only ones for whom a leaving date was not set when they entered the country. Political refugees could receive asylum in the GDR. Since 1968, a discretionary provision of the constitution allowed for the taking in of people persecuted for political reasons. They could take refuge in the GDR if they were considered politically “desirable” (Poutrus 2003). Taking in threatened or persecuted members of communist “allied parties” from other countries was considered an act of proletarian internationalism.
»I only found out at the airport that we were going to the GDR
The life of Kadriye Karcı, a student in Turkey, was in danger following a 1980 military coup and a subsequent wave of arrests. For her own safety, she was brought to the GDR in 1985 in secret.
With around 2,000 people, Chilean refugees formed the largest group of political emigrants that took refuge in the GDR. They were offered comprehensive state support, including preferential access to newly built apartments, interest-free loans, as well as a bridging allowance upon arrival (Koch 2016). Carlos Medina and his wife were members of the Communist Party of Chile. When a military coup in 1973 resulted in a hunt for opposition party members, Medina and his wife fled to the GDR.
»We wanted to see for ourselves what an existing socialist state looked like
Carlos Medina was also able to perform on stage in the GDR and received an excellent education in theatre. The sympathy in the GDR for Chilean politics under Allende’s government, as well as the outrage at its bloody overthrow, was beneficial to him. For many GDR citizens, these were genuine reasons for solidarity with Chilean emigrants. The government attempted to steer this sentiment in a specific direction at a number of state-organized solidarity events.
Solidarity as Duty
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GOP senators are planning an internal vote this week on a moratorium proposed by DeMint that would ban Republicans from passing earmarks. DeMint’s moratorium, even if it passes, will be a symbolic gesture at best. It would be a nonbinding Senate Republican Conference rule, meaning GOP senators could sidestep the rule to insert earmarks into budget appropriation bills. The Denver Post recently reported…
But Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, along with other Senate leaders from both parties, say that earmarking is a constitutional right and senatorial privilege and show little interest in relinquishing the decades-long practice of inserting pet projects into appropriations bills.
Among the eight incumbent senators who had signed on to the Senate Republican earmark freeze by Wednesday evening, only two of them have requested no such targeted funds since 2008 – DeMint and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma.
The other ban backers have sought varying amounts of earmarks:
- Richard Burr of North Carolina, $32.3 million.
- Jeff Sessions of Alabama, $24.2 million.
- John Cornyn of Texas, $21.9 million.
- Mike Enzi of Wyoming, $21.8 million.
- John Ensign of Nevada, $12.4 million.
- Bob Corker of Tennessee, $10.3 million.
Whatever the outcome of the vote on this nonbinding Senate Republican Conference rule, it will have absolutely no effect on how well I sleep at night. If it passes some Senators like Burr, Cornyn, and Corker can thump their chests for being “true conservatives”. Really? I will look at everything you do, and then I’ll decide how conservative you are.
If one wants to become more informed about earmarks visit the Citizens Against Government Waste website. Here is a pdf file I find very informative. I was surprised to read in the conclusions an admission by the writer of this report of the need to earmark in rare cases. This is what it says about earmarks…
The terms “pork” and “earmarks” are often used interchangeably, but they are different. The term “earmark” generally means any expenditure for a specific purpose that is tucked into a larger bill. Only when the earmark is inappropriately added to the bill is it considered pork.
McConnell is not incorrect in saying earmarking has always been a process for US Senators. In the 18th Century the first Congress rejected an earmark to a bill to loan money to a glass manufacturer after several members challenged the constitutionality of the proposal. In the 19th Century President Cleveland became known as the “king of the veto” for rejecting hundreds of congressional spending bills during his two terms as President. He often wrote: “I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution.” The term “pork-barreling” was coined in the late 19th century to compare the rush toward a pile of tax dollars to the way slaves would crowd around barrels of salted pork at meal times.
Ideally, a member of Congress would have two avenues for getting funding for a favored project: encourage the beneficiary to submit a grant request to the relevant agency; or, go on the record and argue for funding before an authorizing committee. In this way, congressional hearings add transparency and accountability to the budget process. As a result of the authorizing committees not doing their job and the breakdown of enforcement mechanisms, almost all earmarks today are currently funded at the behest of individual
members of the Appropriations Committees.
It was not until Sen Byrd became the Senate Majority Leader in 1977 that earmarks grew in number, size, and scope. Before Byrd Congress would fund general grant programs and let federal and state agencies select individual recipients through a competitive process or formula. The House and Senate Appropriations Committees named specific projects only when they had been vetted and approved by authorizing committees. Members of Congress with local concerns would lobby the president and federal agencies for consideration. The process was aimed at preventing abuse and allocating resources on the basis of merit and need. After Byrd Appropriations Committee members arbitrarily picked winners and losers by earmarking funds for specific recipients. Rank and file members, backed by an army of lobbyists, bypassed authorizing committees and lobbied the appropriators directly for pet projects.
So in summary, this is my contrarian take to the earmark process. I do not object to the earmark process as it was employed in the US Senate before the Robert Byrd era. As US Senators working on behalf of the interests of their home State, a Governor Mary Fallin of Oklahoma, and Governor Nikki Haley of South Carolina should have both the Senators helping them get open hearings and approval by authorizing committees for their needs. The Appropriation Committee members must stop arbitrarily picking winners and losers themselves, and rely on the vetting process for earmarks performed by the authorizing committees for the appropriations bills they vote out of their committee. If the House and Senate need to go to a joint conference because of differences in their bills, then the conferees should not be allowed to add any earmarks to the joint resolution.
In the final analysis there are no perfect non-binding Senate rules that will provide a conservative Utopia. The best check on congressional waste and excess will always be public vigilance. The public showed their vigilance with their votes November 2, 2010 to throw the bums out. All the bums were not thrown out, but a message by the voters was delivered. Some of you may disagree with me about earmarks. I disagree with those who believe an earmark process has always been an evil process. America may not be Utopia, but I have always been a proud American.
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High school students take the Alabama High School Graduation Exam (AHSGE), a standards-based test, to measure how well
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On the language section, students will be quizzed on grammar skills, using correct sentence structure and organizing information
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Posted by Sami Kennedy on April 26, 2016
Early in my medical school experience, a classmate and I discovered we had both been navigating the wild waters of med school with our own separate but similar chronic diseases, silently, without realizing the other was paddling and advocating for change right alongside us. You really never outgrow of the need for mentorship and support; one of the many myths of the pediatric-adult care transition.
We teamed up, connected with another classmate with experience and skill of her own, and founded the Disability Awareness Association to raise awareness and advocate for ourselves, our colleagues, and our future patients with disabilities. We asked ourselves a question: How can we spark discussion in our medical education about life with a disability beyond what our textbooks say?
The response from our student body has been inspiring – and after a few events where students shared stories of their own or loved ones’ experiences of illness, we started to ask a new question: How can we move beyond narrative to help each other imagine experiences beyond our own?
Whereas sympathy involves pity and sorrow for someone else’s “misfortune” (and there is another time and place for it), empathy involves the ability to understand and imagine the feelings of another. Empathy is essential to medical education and to empowering students to create care in real partnership with those who live experiences different from our own. I have had opportunities to build empathy because I was welcomed into the diverse community of patient advocacy in care improvement. My classmates deserve and need the same opportunity, if projects like ICN are to scale and spread in the future.
We dove in head-first, but hesitated when we found data that suggested sympathy, rather than empathy, could result from empathy exercises. Certainly, our goal in hosting an empathy-building workshop would be to instill feelings of respect for our friends, neighbors, colleagues, and future patients in our fellow students. As a person living with IBD, I shudder to think of sharing my experience to an audience response of, “Wow, that sucks!”
With this in mind, my two fearless co-organizers and I felt confident we could find a way to bring empathy exercises into our education in a way that would not only work, but also leave a lasting positive impact.
Thanks to the magic of patients and clinicians connecting as colleagues on social media, I was introduced to Walk A Mile Cards: Empathy Exercises for People Who Care.* Empathy Cards were inspired by the card game, “Cards Against Humanity” and developed/prototyped by the T1D, CF, and Kidney Transplant communities in teams comprised of patients, caregivers, physicians, and QI consultants.
Each Empathy Card describes a situation we are asked to imagine, and then asks us how we would feel and/or respond. For some Empathy Cards, behavioral modifications or small activities, but never sympathy, are asked of us.
To quote from the cards’ guidebook:
The purpose of using the empathy cards is to increase the level of understanding and empathy for those who live with this disease/condition. With a more acute understanding of the situations that arise as a result of this condition and the amount of burden experienced by those who live with the condition, designers and clinicians will make more informed decisions as they identify, prioritize and implement the interventions at the care center and system level.
A couple weeks ago, ten students joined together with open minds and hearts to imagine a new normal. We only had five Empathy Cards and twenty minutes, but in that twenty minutes, we questioned how we will act as doctors in situations that challenge our empathy, challenged our preconceptions, and shared personal experiences related to the Empathy Card prompts. It was a vibrant session, and we all walked away to our anatomy lesson wanting more and having internalized the idea that the lives of our patients are (a) worth imagining, (b) worth asking about, and (c) as valuable and as complex as our own if in different ways. Ideally, we will host future events that incorporate both patient and student/clinician facilitators, but we found in our small trial that co-designed Empathy Cards can successfully promote empathy even when used in a relatively homogenous group.
If you’re interested in helping create a deck, you can submit your own ideas by visiting the FAQ page of the Walk A Mile Cards website at http://walkamilecards.com. You can also purchase decks for a small donation or download a printable deck for free there.
*This post is not sponsored in any way by Walk A Mile Cards. In fact, you can download their cards for free on their website, or, like me, purchase decks. I just really love how an innovation developed by patients and parents together is influencing my and my friends’ medical education in a powerful way!
Special thanks (in no particular order) to Sophia Thurmond, Karen Zeribi, Erin Moore, Breck Gamel, Michael Seid, George Dellal, and others who very kindly introduced me to Walk A Mile and shared their experiences with me. I am continually thankful to have not only the support of the ImproveCareNow community, but also the ability to learn from and share with those who are working to improve care for other diseases in our sister learning health networks. | <urn:uuid:42d73cfa-e58c-478a-b50f-ba1981b17108> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.improvecarenow.org/how_to_walk_a_mile | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00394-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96049 | 1,094 | 2.234375 | 2 |
The World Wide Web as we know it is 10 years old this year. A decade ago a group of University of Illinois students, including Marc Andreessen, released a graphical browser for the Web, so pictures could accompany text. Indeed, the version designed to run on Microsoft Windows, so important to mass uptake, will be 10 next month. Where’s the party?
Pictures made the Web popular. Adoption and diffusion were rapid. They opened what is now a vast terrain for communications from, to, and among businesses and consumers, and today’s digital community is still busy proving and improving how practical and entertaining a GUI can be. The birth of a new marketplace is a major contribution to our consumer republic. We should be hailing heroes.
Perhaps we’re pooped out from irrational exuberance, the burst bubble on Wall Street’s dot-com mania, the economy-wide effects of the telecommunications industry implosion, the ongoing slump in business spending on technology assets, and a spreading and deepening disillusionment with the venality and malfeasance that seem pandemic in the uppermost echelon of American business.
The Web community itself is not helping. If the works assembled for the Cannes Lions awards are exemplary, the current oeuvre is essentially staid. Across the e-marketplace in every category, the glass is half full with best practice and half empty with imitation. It’s an inescapable fate. A two-faced stasis of best practice and imitation is the steady state of conventional thinking in every arena. The Web is no exception. Absent a creative explosion, maybe pictures per se aren’t worth celebrating.
Meanwhile, the prior and more radical invention of hypertext by Tim Berners-Lee — the nuggetizing of human knowledge into machine-readable information and the layering of that information onto a global mesh-like array of interconnected computers — is still a mystery. The “great out there” of cyberspace remains the frontier that needs exploring, and a science of this and other networks is just now emerging.
Of course, society has hands-on knowledge for how to operate its railroad, highway, air traffic, telephone, and electrical power systems (not without occasional glitches), but only recently have mathematicians, economists, sociologists, and others begun to create formal and systematic knowledge of how networks behave, why they behave in the ways they do, and how to manage them. Here’s a quick look at three dimensions that e-marketers should want to know a lot more about.
One dimension of the great out there is collective intelligence. Historically, we’ve overestimated the value of network access to files on computers and underestimated the value of network access to other people. Thanks in part to collaborative filtering and other recommendation systems prevalent on the Web today, we’re all more aware of the Net’s ability to articulate dynamically collective opinions and preferences.
One leading edge in this area is that of the information market, an application in which an auction market is the mechanism for crystallizing its participants’ predictions and preferences. Customer-facing business uses, starting all the way upstream with product research and development, are just now in the experimental stage. Information markets are likely to proliferate because they work, ironically, for one reason: Humans, hooked together in this way to perform certain tasks, generate better answers faster and cheaper than brute machine computation can.
Similarly, humans linked to each other in nonformal ways are also proving fertile ground for cultivating and harvesting collective knowledge. The business discipline known as knowledge management has recently begun to use software to map email traffic among employees. It’s goal is to uncover the unofficial “communities of practice” that exist in every enterprise — to pinpoint which individuals function as experts, which as connectors, and which as gatekeepers and to understand and facilitate the workings of such collaboration webs.
Informal social networks are another leading edge on the Web. Social networking sites such as Friendster, LinkedIn, Ryze, and Spoke are tools for turning your friends’ friends into your own or your coworkers’ business acquaintances into your contacts, too. Unlike anonymous peer-to-peer file-swapping, these social networking sites offer trustworthy and credible personal referrals while masking the exact connection path to protect confidentiality and prevent abuse.
They wrap themselves in the widely known, initially provocative, but ultimately simplistic (and hence inadequate) six-degrees-of-separation concept. Actually, they are anchored in what sociologists call small-world phenomena — the preferential attachments that give rise to clusters, short cuts, and other contours of social networks — indeed, all networks.
Just as people are variously connected to each other, Web sites are not equidistant from each other. The Web is not flat. Degrees of linkage from one site to another vary, and some sites are much better linked than others. Those asymmetries are the source of Google’s success. The popular search engine counts each site’s links and presents the best-linked sites first. A surfer following links on his own would also find those same sites sooner than he would find others, precisely because those sites are the best linked. Google simply automates this process. Its effectiveness proves the Web is actually contoured in ways the science of networks is just beginning to understand.
A third dimension of the great out there to which marketers should attend is the online community. Everyone knows about user communities that gather in chat rooms and discussion forums to pursue shared interests, from hobbies to health problems. We know a lot more about how to improve the single user experience than the group experience, but we’re learning.
Obvious once someone smart points it out, the software design that enables virtual groups also largely defines those groups’ experiences. For example, a forum that enables a discussion to fork and branch encourages tangents and discourages focus. The design of IRC doesn’t allow chat rooms to be reserved, making a persistent conversation almost impossible. An online group gathered to make a decision needs to articulate the principles that govern its decision making, then translate those principles into rules for the group’s software infrastructure.
More interesting from the network perspective, the ability to find groups of Internet users who share a common interest may soon go beyond these publicly visible collectives. Researchers at the University of Chicago, using a proprietary method of graphing information across data distribution systems such as the Internet, have shown that, given a large enough sample, computer users can be grouped according to their common interests based only on their requests for data.
The marketing application is obvious: A scalable and adaptive method for graphing information requests to locate and deliver data could theoretically be used to target in real time the communities of interest those requests represent.
The GUI is yesterday’s news. The way forward is into cyberspace itself. We’re just beginning to explore and understand collective intelligence, network dynamics, and virtual communities. It will be some time before marketers celebrate any accomplishments on the French Riviera, or anywhere else. But with scientists on the hunt and technologists ready to implement, marketers would be smart to close the distance between our current knowledge and this rapidly advancing frontier.
In 2015, Verizon purchased AOL for $4.4 billion. Now, the mega wireless carrier is leveraging its wireless network as part of a new ad offering called BrandBuilder by AOL.
As the ball drops on December 31st, make sure your media strategies are stacked with timely resolutions to make the most of 2017.
Easily spotted on the mobile web: holiday ad next to plane crash story; Muslim dating ad next to KKK story; beauty ad next to domestic violence story; car ad next to emissions scandal story.
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Cure for Stockholm’s Traffic Syndrome
On January 3rd, Stockholm, Sweden became the latest major world city to begin managing and controlling motor vehicle traffic with congestion charging, an automated system that charges motorists a fee to drive into the most gridlocked sections of the city center. The fee varies depending on the time of day and level of traffic congestion.
Yesterday, The Local, an English-language Swedish newspaper reported the following:
"The widescale opposition to Stockholm’s congestion charge appears to have evaporated. According to a new poll carried out by Sifo on behalf of the Green Party, 62% of Stockholm residents are planning to vote to keep the charge in the autumn referendum… Opinion has shifted in favour of the charge since the trial has shown it to have a positive effect on traffic levels."
According to one newspaper poll, 80% of Stockholm residents opposed congestion pricing before its implementation. A March 10 survey showed that 44% were in favor of congestion charging and 47% were against. In September Stockholm voters will go to the polls for a referendum on whether or not to keep the congestion charge.
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Surgical technologist assists physicians in surgical operations, which is why they are also called as operating room technicians. Most of the time, they are on their feet and are required to always ware sterile clothing, or scrubs, while working in the OR. Full time workers often work in shifts, which include nights, weekends and even holidays. Surgical technologist has a positive employment outlook with a 19% growth between 2010 and 2020 throughout the US economy, as projected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). According to Salary.com, surgical technologist in the US receives a median salary of $40,497. Read more about surgical technologist salary and wage.
Surgical Technologist Job Description
The main job of surgical technologist is to provide assistance in the operating room. According to the BLS, their tasks include preparing the ORs for surgery; sterilizing equipment; checking for adequate supplies that will be needed during surgery; preparing patients for surgery, such as washing or sanitizing the incision sites, and placing them on the table; and passing instruments and other supplies to surgeons and nurses during operations; and keeping track of the diagnostic equipment. Surgical technologist is also required to collect specimens from patients for lab analysis, hold retractors, or cut sutures. Some would work with sterilizers and suction machines. Surgical technologist is often tasked to clean the OR, sterilize the equipment used in the surgery, and replace the supplies that were used.
How much does a surgical technologist make ?
Average surgical technologist salary
Average salary of surgical technologist in the US is around $40,710 every year and $13.28 to $24.41 every hour.
Surgical technologist salary in USA
The expected average salary for surgical technologist in the US is $27,886 to $53,405 annually. Their median salary, as PayScale reported, is $40,710 every year. Aside from their basic salary, surgical technologist also receives an overtime pay of $12.36 to $37.07 per hour, a bonus pay of up to $996, and profit sharing of $34.52 to $2,838.
According to the BLS report, the top paid 10 percent earned $59,150 in contrast to the lowest earnings of $28,860 per year. Twenty-year surgical technologists earn at around $36,634 to $58,326, while those who are still starting in their career earn $26,179 to $51,521.
In terms of work settings, surgical technologist is working in specialty hospitals and universities and earn higher salary with a mean income of $47,860 and $47,900, respectively. Surgical technologists who work in outpatient centers and general hospitals earn less at $44,730 and $41,730 per year, respectively.
Surgical technologist salary by state
Based on location, surgical technologist who works in the West and Northeast are paid the highest, while those in the south central region of the country are paid the lowest. Nevada is the highest paying state, at $53,990 per year, along with other high paying states, such as Hawaii, Alaska, California, and Massachusetts.
The bulk of surgical technologists is working for surgical and general medical hospitals, which give them a mean salary of $41,730 per year. However, the highest paying employers are the sector of individual and family services, universities, colleges, and professional schools, and health practitioners’ offices. Rad more about differences in salaries of medical technologists.
Surgical technologist salary in Canada
The mean income for surgical technologist in Canada ranges from C$38,159 to C$60,309 per year. PayScale reported a median salary of C$44,152. A bonus of $1,578 is also provided for those who have already worked for one to four years in the field. The highest paid technicians earn C$27.75 per hour, while the lowest paid technicians are only paid $17.40 per hour. The mean hourly wage is C$22.19.
Surgical technologist salary in Australia
The expected median pay for surgical technologist in Australia is AU$61,060. The average wage per hour is about AU$40 to AU$45, with the highest pay being AU$55 per hour. Fresh graduates are often paid AU$25,000, while those who have been working for three to five years in the field earn over AU$40,000 per year.
Surgical technologist salary in UK
The mean annual salary for a surgical technologist in the UK is £45,000, or an hourly rate of £22.5. The age of surgical technologist affects the salary that they are getting. Workers in their 20s earn £33,750 per year, £44,100 for those in their 30s, and £52,200 for those in their 40s and 50s. The region in which they are working is another factor that changes the salary. Jobs that are based in London pay around £49,050, in Wales £37,800, and in Northern Ireland £40,500 annually. Those in the Southwest, Northwest, Southeast, and East of England are paid £39,150, £39,600, £46,350, and £37,350 per year, respectively.
Surgical technologist salary in South Africa
The average salary per month for surgical technologist in South Africa is R19,357, which is also the average salary for technical professionals in the health and medical jobs, seeing as how it belongs to the technical category of these jobs. The median salary for the professionals in this field is R16,899 per month. The minimum and maximum salary every month is R6,127 and R36,000, respectively. Surgical technologist, along with other technical workers in the health and medical field, earns an average hourly wage of R157, a maximum hourly wage of R489, and a minimum wage of R23.
How to become a surgical technologist
To become a surgical technologist, one has to finish high school or get a GED. A postsecondary education is also required and it can be obtained from any accredited vocational school or community college. These institutions offer programs in surgical technology that runs for several months to two years. After completing the program, an associate’s degree or a certificate is awarded. These programs usually touch on courses such as biology, anatomy, medical terminology, and other related topics. Students can hone their hands-on skills while working in supervised clinical settings. Certification from the National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting gives the candidate a title of “Certified Surgical Technologist.” On the other hand, the certification provided by the National Center for Competency testing comes with a title “Tech in Surgery-Certified.” Another certification with the title “Certified Operating Room Surgical Technician” can be obtained after passing the exam conducted by the National Healthcare Association.
Conclusion about surgical technologist
Based on the BLS Occupation Employment and Wages report, the mean annual salary of surgical technologist is $43,480 and a mean hourly wage of $20.91. The main factors that affect their salary include the location, work setting, and employer type. | <urn:uuid:2492c0d5-b160-4968-8ac9-9765f5e4cf39> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.healthcare-salaries.com/tech/surgical-technologist-salary | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00070-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97171 | 1,515 | 2.359375 | 2 |
what are the limitations of statistics
Statistics is an important tool for understanding the world around us. It can be used to make informed decisions about our health, our businesses, and even global politics. But what are the limitations of statistics? And how can we cope with them?
Statistics are often used in the wrong way
Statistics can be used to make valid and reliable findings, but they can also be used in the wrong way. This is especially true when it comes to making inferences about groups of people or making decisions. There are a few key limitations to keep in mind when using statistics.
First, statistics can only tell us about the population as a whole. They cannot tell us anything specific about individual people or situations. Second, statistics cannot be used to prove a point. They can only tell us whether or not there is a relationship between two things. Finally, statistical analysis is always limited by the availability of data. If the data is incomplete or incorrect, the results may be inaccurate or misleading.
Statistics can’t tell you everything you need to know
Statistics can provide a snapshot of a population at a given point in time, but they can’t always give you the full story. Statistics can’t tell you how many people are affected by a problem, for example, or how widespread the problem is. Statistics also can’t always tell you how likely it is that a particular event will happen.
Statistical significance is a measure of how likely it is that the results of a study are due to chance rather than to real effects. There are three types of statistical significance:
-Type I error rate.
The P-value is a measure of how likely it is that the results of a study are due to chance, assuming that the null hypothesis (the assumption being tested) is true. If the P-value is less than 0.05, then the results could be considered significant.
The Z-score is a measure of how closely the data from a study resemble the expected distribution if the null hypothesis were true. A Z-score of 1 indicates that the data are exactly in line with what would be expected if the null hypothesis were true, while a Z-score of –2 indicates that the data are two standard deviations away from what would be expected if the null hypothesis were true.
The Type I error rate (also known as alpha) is a measure of how likely it is that a researcher will incorrectly reject the null hypothesis when it is actually true. The lower the Type I error rate, the more confident researchers can be in their conclusions
Limitations of statistics
Statistics can provide useful information about a population, but they have several limitations. First, statistics are based on samples and may not be representative of the entire population. Second, statistics can be inaccurate because they are based on assumptions that may not be true. Third, statistics cannot tell you how likely a particular event is to happen or what the consequences of that event might be. Finally, statistics can only describe relationships between variables; they cannot explain why those relationships exist.
Statistics are a powerful tool, and can be incredibly beneficial in understanding the world around us. However, like any tool, they have their limitations. It is important to be aware of these limitations in order to use statistics correctly and avoid drawing incorrect conclusions. Always remember that there is always more than one way to look at a statistic, and that different people will interpret it in different ways. Use statistics wisely, and you’ll be able to make informed decisions that will help you improve your life | <urn:uuid:0a3a9cc0-32f9-4c2c-99e7-c4313094102d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://techybois.com/general/what-are-the-limitations-of-statistics | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.962333 | 740 | 3.75 | 4 |
1I assure you that whoever doesn’t enter into the sheep pen through the gate but climbs over the wall is a thief and an outlaw. 2The one who enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. 3The guard at the gate opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4Whenever he has gathered all of his sheep, he goes before them and they follow him, because they know his voice. 5They won’t follow a stranger but will run away because they don’t know the stranger’s voice." 6Those who heard Jesus use this analogy didn’t understand what he was saying.
I am the gate
7So Jesus spoke again, “I assure you that I am the gate of the sheep. 8All who came before me were thieves and outlaws, but the sheep didn’t listen to them. 9I am the gate. Whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out and find pasture. 10The thief enters only to steal, kill, and destroy. I came so that they could have life—indeed, so that they could live life to the fullest.
I am the good shepherd
11“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12When the hired hand sees the wolf coming, he leaves the sheep and runs away. That’s because he isn’t the shepherd; the sheep aren’t really his. So the wolf attacks the sheep and scatters them. 13He’s only a hired hand and the sheep don’t matter to him.
14“I am the good shepherd. I know my own sheep and they know me, 15just as the Father knows me and I know the Father. I give up my life for the sheep. 16I have other sheep that don’t belong to this sheep pen. I must lead them too. They will listen to my voice and there will be one flock, with one shepherd.
17"This is why the Father loves me: I give up my life so that I can take it up again. 18No one takes it from me, but I give it up because I want to. I have the right to give it up, and I have the right to take it up again. I received this commandment from my Father."
19There was another division among the Jews because of Jesus’ words. 20Many of them said, "He has a demon and has lost his mind. Why listen to him?" 21Others said, "These aren’t the words of someone who has a demon. Can a demon heal the eyes of people who are blind?"
Jesus at the Festival of Dedication
22The time came for the Festival of Dedication#Hanukkah in Jerusalem. It was winter, 23and Jesus was in the temple, walking in the covered porch named for Solomon. 24The Jewish opposition circled around him and asked, "How long will you test our patience? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."
25Jesus answered, "I have told you, but you don’t believe. The works I do in my Father’s name testify about me, 26but you don’t believe because you don’t belong to my sheep. 27My sheep listen to my voice. I know them and they follow me. 28I give them eternal life. They will never die, and no one will snatch them from my hand. 29My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them from my Father’s hand. 30I and the Father are one."
31Again the Jewish opposition picked up stones in order to stone him. 32Jesus responded, "I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of those works do you stone me?"
33The Jewish opposition answered, "We don’t stone you for a good work but for insulting God. You are human, yet you make yourself out to be God."
34Jesus replied, “Isn’t it written in your Law, I have said, you are gods?#Ps 82:6 35Scripture calls those to whom God’s word came gods, and scripture can’t be abolished. 36So how can you say that the one whom the Father has made holy and sent into the world insults God because he said, ‘I am God’s Son’? 37If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me. 38But if I do them, and you don’t believe me, believe the works so that you can know and recognize that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.” 39Again, they wanted to arrest him, but he escaped from them.
Jesus at the Jordan
40Jesus went back across the Jordan to the place where John had baptized at first, and he stayed there. 41Many people came to him. "John didn’t do any miraculous signs," they said, "but everything John said about this man was true." 42Many believed in Jesus there. | <urn:uuid:aa30d770-acf2-4000-ba0f-c7dc7de16434> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.bible.com/bible/37/jhn.10.ceb | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280266.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00500-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973081 | 1,098 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Medical ethics, or, a code of institutes and precepts :
adapted to the professional conduct of physicians and surgeons /
by Thomas Percival ; to which is added an appendix containing a discourse on hospital duties by the Rev. Thomas Percival, also notes and illustrations.
|Main Creator:||Percival, Thomas, 1740-1804.|
|Published / Created:||
Manchester : S. Russell, 1803.
Includes bibliographic references.
Physical description: xvi, 246 p. ; 23 cm.
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Intense cold conditions prevailed in Punjab and Haryana on Saturday with minimum temperature remaining around two notches below normal even as dense fog continued to disrupt normal life in the region with several areas witnessing zero visibility.
A thick blanket of fog disrupted rail, road and air traffic in the plains of Punjab and Haryana as several places, including Amritsar, Pathankot, Bathinda, Sirsa, Karnal, Kurukshetra, Ambala and Halwara remained engulfed in heavy fog reducing visibility to zero metres, officials said in Chandigarh.
While motorists moved at snail's pace with headlights on, several trains bound towards Chandigarh and Amritsar ran hours behind schedule.
The minimum temperature in the region remained around two degrees below normal, the Met office said in Chandigarh.
Amritsar was the coldest place in the plains with a low of 1.8 degrees Celsius, which was two notches below normal.
Besides, Patiala, Ludhiana and Ambala shivered at 5.5 degrees Celsius followed by Bhiwani at five degrees Celsius.
While Rohtak settled at a low of 4.4 degrees Celsius, the minimum temperature at Narnaul was three degrees Celsius, two notches below normal.
Chandigarh recorded a low of 6.8 degrees Celsius, Hisar settled at 6.4 degrees Celsius and Karnal had a low of 6.2 degrees Celsius.
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Which Joe gave his name to ‘sloppy joes’? We look at five interesting sandwiches and their lexical origins.
The better score at a hole of two or more players competing as a team.[as modifier] ‘a best-ball match’
- ‘For non-golfing readers (if there are any), this means that all team members tee off, then the best ball is chosen and all players hit from that spot, and so on.’
- ‘She helped her team win the Crystal Lake Country Club best-ball title.’
- ‘I played the course about a month ago in a best-ball match.’
- ‘His best ball was the outswinger; though sometimes he made the ball go the other way.’
- ‘Second, the tournament is in a scramble format, which means all players will hit their individual ball but play the best ball out of their foursome.’
- ‘Mickelson and Toms put themselves in position to win by shooting a 15-under par 57 on Saturday in the best-ball format and continued their solid play up until Sunday's final hole.’
- ‘It's just like best ball, except opposite: If you or your partner does worse on a hole than both of your opponents, you lose a point.’
- ‘Each team consisted of 12 players and the competition involved best ball, foursomes and singles matches.’
- ‘Each of the three non-imaginary players gets Mrs. M. as a partner in one six-hole best-ball match against the other two, who play as a team, and everybody plays off Mrs. M's handicap, which is zero.’
- ‘Play just two balls this time for nine holes, but instead of playing the best ball, play the worst.’
- ‘It was a best-ball tournament, and I got second place after playing my best ever.’
- ‘I quickly adjusted my game to playing the best ball format that the tournament used.’
- ‘He said he was tired and not keen on the best-ball format.’
- ‘The game is net best ball, first-tee do-over, no junk, no gimmes.’
We take a look at several popular, though confusing, punctuation marks.
From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, discover surprising and intriguing language facts from around the globe.
The definitions of ‘buddy’ and ‘bro’ in the OED have recently been revised. We explore their history and increase in popularity. | <urn:uuid:0bfb5766-7923-436b-b96a-6c67f8a47b65> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/us/best_ball | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00062-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959852 | 566 | 1.867188 | 2 |
Problem 2: List of Books, (K Narayan Kumar / R Shreevatsa, CMI)
This is another problem about Indraneel's library. His library has one long shelf. His books are numbered and he identifies the books by their number. Each book has a distinct number.
He has lost many books, since many of his friends borrow his books and never bother to return them. He does not want to lose any more books and has decided to keep a record of all books that he lends to his friends. To make the task of borrowing a book a little difficult, he has given the following instructions to his friends: when they borrow a book, they must record in a register its position from the left among the books currently on the shelf.
Suppose there are 5 books in the library and they are arranged as follows:
26 1 42 15 3
If someone walks in and borrows the book 42, then he will record 3 in the register because this book is the third from the left on the shelf. Now the shelf looks like this:
26 1 15 3
If the next person borrow the book 3, he writes down 4 in the register since this is currently the fourth book from the left on the shelf, and so on.
Indraneel knows the initial arrangement of the books in his library at the time that he introduced the register system. After a while he examines his register and would like to know which books have been borrowed. Your task is to write a program to help Indraneel solve this problem.
The first line of the input contains a single integer M indicating the number of books in Indraneel's library. The next line contains M distinct positive integers describing the sequence in which the books are arranged on the library shelf. The third line of input contains a single integer N indicating the number of entries in the register. This, in turn, is followed by N lines (lines 4 to N+3), each containing one positive integer. The integer on line 3+i indicates the position from left of the book ith book borrowed. (You may assume that the number on line 3+i is at most M-i+1.)
N lines with one positive integer on each line. The number on line i is the book borrowed by the ith borrower.
You may assume that 1 ≤ M ≤ 1000000 and 1 ≤ N ≤ 4000.
Here is the sample input and output corresponding to the example discussed above.
5 26 1 42 15 3 2 3 4
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You don't hear about knaves much these days: it's an older word for a rascal, a scoundrel, or a rogue. It isn't a compliment.
If you read Shakespeare for long, you'll definitely see the word knave more than once. In Shakespeare, an important person like a king or a prince might call a thief a knave. Knaves always tend to be up to trouble such as stealing and getting drunk. You don't want to trust a knave; knaves lie, deceive, and betray. Today, we might call a knave a scumbag or lowlife. | <urn:uuid:92e2ba41-a393-4c6c-b2fa-2f997edbd40d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/knave | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00375-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944706 | 127 | 2.3125 | 2 |
A step forward for space solar power
by Jeff Foust
|“What we achieved was a first-of-its-kind long-range test of solar-powered wireless power transmission technologies, essentially all of the major system elements that would need to be in a space solar power system,” said Mankins.|
The demonstration came about in a rather unconventional way. John Mankins, chief operating officer of Managed Energy Technologies and a long-time advocate of SSP, said shortly after an October 2007 press conference last year where the National Space Security Office released its report on SSP, he got a call from Impossible Pictures, a British film production company working with the Discovery Channel on a new series. Were there any experiments related to SSP that might make for good TV? By January Mankins’ company had signed a contract to perform one such experiment, the power-beaming demonstration.
“What we achieved was a first-of-its-kind long-range test of solar-powered wireless power transmission technologies, essentially all of the major system elements that would need to be in a space solar power system,” Mankins said.
The test was not the first demonstration of long-range power beaming: in 1975 an experiment at the NASA Deep Space Network station in Goldstone, California, also transmitted power, but over a distance of only about 1.5 kilometers. That test also used about 1,000 times the power of the May experiment, enough to illuminate a set of floodlights, Mankins said. “We were working with a smaller budget, a shorter time, and in the context of the FAA,” which put restrictions on power levels so as not to interfere with aircraft communications. The May test transmitted at only about 20 watts, using a phased-array system developed by a team at Kobe University in Japan and Texas A&M University in the US.
The show’s producers, Mankins said, were a little concerned that the experiment might not be interesting enough. “They were worried at the beginning, and said, ‘This is just electronics, is it really going to be interesting? Maybe we need to script in some problems,’” he recalled. That was hardly a concern. “We had no amounts of trouble and grief and problems.”
And, in an effort to build drama, those problems, most notably difficultly keeping the beam properly aligned, as well as limited fuel for a helicopter flying through the beam to measure its strength, were played up in the show (which actually makes no mention of the 148-kilometer test, instead declaring victory when the helicopter, low on fuel, detects the beam at a distance of nearly 100 kilometers.) Still, that was minor to what could have been done to create artificial drama: in another segment of the show, the ability of a solar cell fitted with a Fresnel lens concentrator to generate more power than one without it in near-space conditions was tested by placing them in a balloon (provided by JP Aerospace) and flying it to an altitude of 30 kilometers, when they could have been tested more effectively—but less photogenically—in a lab.
The nature of this experiment led some to question whether it was a just a stunt: good TV drama, but doing little to push the frontiers of SSP technology. Mankins disagreed. “The reason why it’s not a stunt is that these are the right component technologies and the right kind of system architecture end-to-end,” he said. The system, for example, transmitted at 2.45 GHz, one of the most likely frequencies that an actual SSP system would use since the atmosphere is transparent at that frequency. “It was strictly a matter of budget that kept it from being a higher-powered test.”
John Mankins (left) discusses his SSP experiment while Mark Hopkins of the NSS looks on during the September 12 press conference in Washington. (credit: J. Foust)
Something the Discovery Channel “Project Earth” show (which aired Friday night) did not touch upon is what’s next for SSP. At the press conference, though, Mankins outlined what he thinks should be done over the next several years to make continued progress on SSP. That work should begin with a “quick look” study and some experiments to validate key SSP technologies over the next few years, at a total cost of no more than $100 million.
|The nature of this experiment led some to question whether it was a just a stunt: good TV drama, but doing little to push the frontiers of SSP technology. “The reason why it’s not a stunt is that these are the right component technologies and the right kind of system architecture end-to-end,” Mankins said.|
That would be followed in six to seven years with flight tests of SSP in low Earth orbit for under $1 billion. In about ten years, and for no more than $10 billion, “you can get to a legitimate ‘pilot plant’ in geostationary Earth orbit,” according to Mankins, along with demonstrations of key space transportation technologies needed to make SSP economically viable. “Within 15 years, we believe you can get to actual deployment of operational systems.”
While that’s an ambitious schedule, Mankins dismissed concerns of “analysis paralysis” linked to doing yet another study of the feasibility of SSP, as he proposed. “The storyline is, ‘We don’t need more studies, let’s just do hardware,’” Mankins said. “In fact, no end-to-end studies have been done since 1995–1997. They absolutely need to be done to get at what are the real parameters we have to achieve.”
Such efforts, though, are likely beyond the budgets of the Discovery Channel and other networks (not to mention that doing studies hardly makes for the most scintillating television), requiring funding from other sources, most likely the federal government, which is not currently funding any SSP-related research. A variety of government agencies, Mankins said, could step forward to support this, from the Defense Department to the Energy Department. “The $100 million could come from a variety of places, but the key thing is to have it actually focused on these problems,” he said.
“The United States is by far the world’s greatest space power,” said Mark Hopkins, senior vice president of the NSS, “and yet we’re not spending any money in this country on space solar power.” That’s not the case in Europe and Japan, where there is money being spent, if only on a small scale, on SSP. “The situation is ridiculous.”
One person working to try and make the case for SSP on Capitol Hill is Paul Rancatore. Earlier this year Rancatore ran for Congress from Florida’s 15th district, in the state’s “Space Coast” region and home to many people who work at the Kennedy Space Center. Rancatore made mention of SSP in his campaign, calling it “an economic generator not seen since the Apollo program” and winning the endorsement of Apollo 11 Buzz Aldrin. However, he lost the Democratic primary last month.
Rancatore is now spending time meeting with members of Congress and their staffs, primarily with the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, on the issue of SSP. “Energy is probably the biggest issue facing the country as well as the world,” he said, requiring both short- and long-term solutions. SSP, he said, solves three major issues in the US today: employment, particularly in high-technology areas; energy independence; and foreign policy.
|“The United States is by far the world’s greatest space power,” said Mark Hopkins, senior vice president of the NSS, “and yet we’re not spending any money in this country on space solar power.”|
Right now, Rancatore said he’s working to “educate members about what space-based solar power can do for our country, create that dialogue, and possible create a ‘space-based solar caucus’ within Congress for them to fully understand the ramifications for our country and the world and start get members involved.” In an interview after the press conference, he said he’s met with Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA), who chairs the global warming committee, about this issue. Rancatore said he’s yet to identify a member willing to champion this issue in Congress, but expects to make progress on that front, including establishing the caucus, when a new Congress convenes in January. He added that he’s reached out to the campaigns of John McCain and Barack Obama on this subject as well.
Some of that rhetoric being used to win over members of Congress was trotted out at the press conference as well. “The potential of space solar power is so large that, if it works out, it would transform the American economy to a much greater extent than the auto industry did in the early part of the 20th century,” said Hopkins, who added that SSP could allow the US to stop spending hundreds of billions of dollars a year to import energy, some of it from countries unfriendly to the US.
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My grandmother called her refrigerator "the frigidaire", and tissues "kleenex".
Though both were brand names, she meant them in the lower-case sense. The brand became the generic.
I can't remember when I first saw a package of "risotto" in the supermarket, but I remember groaning. When did carnaroli and arborio rice lose their identities to the generic?
Carnaroli, a relatively new rice hybridized in the 1950s, grows nearly twice as tall as arborio, making it difficult and expensive to harvest; it's also more expensive to buy, which is one reason arborio (the one that's labeled "risotto") is the rice you find in your regular grocery store. You can find carnaroli at any Italian market, or online from Zingermans or Salumeria Italiana.
In the photo above, carnaroli is the rice on the right, fatter than the long-grain white rice (at left), longer than the bomba rice in the middle. Arborio is white like the carnaroli, fat but slightly shorter.
Classified as a superfino because the grains are longer than 6.4 millimeters, carnaroli can absorb a staggering amount of liquid, swelling to three times its size. High in amylopectin (one of two components of starch), carnaroli produces a very creamy risotto, which is one reason chefs prefer it. The other reason is that it's a bit more forgiving; there is a longer time between when carnaroli is just cooked, and when it morphs into something you'd use to mortar a brick wall.
When you're cooking with short-grain rices, note that the proportion of liquid to rice is approximately 4-to-1, compared to the 2-to-1 ratio for cooking long-grain white rice.
Store arborio or carnaroli in a glass jar with a tight-fitting lid, for a year or more in a cool, dark part of your pantry. Rice can handle anything except moisture.
Just don't call it "risotto."
Three mushroom risotto
A little bit of tomato paste and thyme accentuate the woodsy quality of the mushrooms. Note: if you use homemade chicken stock, you'll need to add salt when you add the stock to the rice. Serves 4 for main course, 6-8 for appetizer.
6 cups chicken or beef broth (I use 4 cups of Swanson 99% fat free plus 2 cups of water, but homemade is great, if you have it)
1 cup water
2 oz dried porcini or any wild mushrooms
2-3 Tbsp olive oil
1/3 cup finely minced onion
2 cups arborio or carnaroli rice
1 cup white wine
14 oz fresh mushrooms (at least two types; I use cremini or baby bellas plus white button mushrooms), sliced
1 tsp chopped fresh thyme leaves
1 Tbsp tomato paste
2 Tbsp unsalted butter
1/3 cup Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, grated, or more to taste
Black pepper (at least 1/2 tsp or more), to taste
Bring 6 cups of broth (or broth and water) to boil in a large pot and set aside at a simmer on the stove. In a microwave, boil 1 cup water in a glass measuring cup, then add dried mushrooms, and set aside. Heat oil in a large straight-sided sauté pan. Add onion, and sauté until soft. Stir in the rice, making sure to coat each grain, and let toast for 1-2 minutes.
Remove pan from heat, and stir in the wine (watch out for splatters). Keep stirring for a few seconds. When the liquid is absorbed, begin adding broth, 1 ladleful at a time, letting each bit of liquid be absorbed.
In the meantime, when the dried mushrooms are soft, strain and reserve the liquid. After 3 cups of broth are added, pour in the mushroom soaking water, being careful to leave behind the sediment in the bottom of the measuring cup. After 5 cups of broth are added, stir in the fresh mushrooms, thyme and tomato paste. Continue adding one more cup of broth, reserving 1/4 cup. Stir until mushrooms have given off their liquid and almost all of the liquid in the pan has been absorbed by the rice.
Remove pan from heat. Add butter and cheese, and stir vigorously for 2 minutes. Add in reserved 1/4 cup broth, if needed to finish cooking the rice. Season to taste with lots of black pepper, and salt if needed, and serve immediately.
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Like its predecessor, the Evangelical Movement, it was more a movement of the heart than of the head. Unlike the Clapham Sect, the Oxford men were deeply troubled by the direction of English society. They saw the reforms of the government as attacks upon the sanctity of the Church of England and they determined to resist the intrusions of the world. With the Reform Act of 1832 the balance of power in Parliament shifted away from the aristocracy and the Anglican Church into the hands of "profane politicians". The Oxford men felt that the Church of England needed to affirm that its authority did not rest on authority from the state, it came from God. Bishops of the Church were not empowered by social position but by an apostolic commission. Even if the Church were completely separated from the state, the Church of England could still claim the allegiance of Englishmen because it rested on divine authority.
To spread their views, in 1833 they launched a series of "Tracts for the Times", a move that gave rise to the label "Tractarians". In it they expressed their convictions on a single article of the creed: belief in "one holy, Catholic, and apostolic Church." They called themselves Catholics on the ground that they were in agreement with the early catholic Christianity of the first five centuries and shunned the name Protestant. Tractarian Christianity soon became a "High Church" movement and, step by step, the Oxfords began moving closer to the Roman Catholic Church. While many finally did step over to the Catholic Church, the majority stayed in the Church of England and saw an increasing number of clergy adopt their "High Church" views. Gradually "Oxford" and "Tractarian" gave way to "Anglo-Catholic", which meant Anglicans who valued their unity with the catholic tradition in Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism, but who refused to accept the supremacy of patriarch or pope.
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Vice President Mike Pence could use the 25th amendment to remove Donald Trump from office before he does any more damage to the country and the Republican party.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are declared the winners of the election in the United States stressing that their administration will be about decency, fairness, science, and hope.
Although Donald Trump will try to get the Supreme Court involved, Joe Biden will be the next president of the U.S. as most justices will uphold the law.
During the first presidential debate in 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy explained his view that the struggle between the United States and other liberal democracies against communist Russia and China could only be won through economic prosperity in the West and the example that the US. and its allies would set for the world. For […]
Watching even a few moments of the so-called debate that Donald Trump and Joe Biden held on September 29th or the TV shows each of them aired last week, one can see how dysfunctional the political process has become as well as the outsize role the media has in it. | <urn:uuid:d6e16981-ce8e-4321-9675-047651fce521> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.iese.edu/doing-business/category/elections/page/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.978035 | 217 | 1.9375 | 2 |
While General Motors and others quickly penetrated the US and then Western Europe with their diesels and electrics, the Russians did rail fans a favour by leaving Eastern European economies in poor shape. This resulted in steam trains surviving much later than on the other side of the wall. Express trains were operating at regular speeds of 140 kph in East Germany until 1980, and there was a feast of steam power, providing you could find a way to reach it.
East Germany had an iron clad rule by the Stazi. We discovered you could photograph trains in stations and depots, but not on the main line. In Poland stations were forbidden as were bridges and tunnels, but other places were OK! Every country had their won rules, officials were often looking for bribes to supplement their inadequate wages. Film was ripped out of cameras, and there was much frustration dealing with officialdom. The weather didn’t help either, so we are pretty pleased with the results of many photographers who took the risk.
Let’s face it, most of Poland is like a billiard table. This meant the OK1 or P38 class, the most prolific passenger engine in Europe, survived until quite late. They had many loco designs unique to that part of the world, and plenty of steam action in 1974, when we visited.
Czechoslovakia was living in the past. Tuxedo wearing waiters, and in the cafes you could order beers, ticking off the number on a coaster before paying on the way out. They are truly a proud people. The magnificent 475 1 class passenger engines still hauled crack expresses in some parts, although they were elusive and we had to pay $15US each per day to go there, an amount that was virtually impossible to spend.
We have photos from Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Romania, with some amazing scenery and many old world features, not a forgotten memory.
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Those who will sit around wondering whether Munich is the work of an anti-Israeli or just a self-hating Jew -- which is to say, Steven Spielberg, who has been branded both by Israeli officials and newspaper columnists in recent weeks -- give the movie and its maker far too much credit. The story of how the Israeli government retaliated for the murder of eleven Israeli athletes -- among them an American expatriate and other foreign-born athletes who moved to the promised land -- at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games is less a treatise on the history of Middle East violence than an inert, over-long thriller that has more in common with Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven than Costa-Gavras's Z. It certainly attempts to make a profound statement on the endless cycle of bloodshed begat by terrorism, but it's too turgid and redundant to have any real impact. As a thriller, it barely thrills; as a lecture, it has nothing at all new to say.
The movie, written by playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America) and Eric Roth (Forrest Gump -- be warned), is based on the book Vengeance, by George Jonas -- the same book that provided the basis for the made-for-HBO film Sword of Gideon nineteen years ago, in which Steven Bauer played Avner Kauffman, an Israeli soldier appointed by Prime Minister Golda Meir to the task of killing Arabs responsible (and, in some cases, not) for the Munich massacre. In fact, Munich is very much a remake of the forgotten Sword, which likewise assembled a team of five to avenge the deaths of more Jews on German soil, twenty miles from the site of the concentration camp at Dachau. Whole scenes and sequences and even dialogue from the 1986 movie appear again in Munich, rephrased in the elegant, kinetic cinematography of Janusz Kaminski, a Spielberg collaborator since 1993's Schindler's List.
But most important, Sword, too, wrestled with that most Jewish of themes: guilt. Spielberg and his collaborators are careful not to revel in the revenge wrought by the Israeli government, which created a special branch of its Mossad intelligence agency, called Caesarea, to assassinate the planners and plotters responsible for Munich. They suggest, as have others who have written about this subject (including Aaron Klein in his stark new book Striking Back: The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel's Deadly Response), that not all of the targets chosen for elimination were members of Black September, the group responsible for the Munich killings. Some were PLO sympathizers or financial backers leading quiet lives of respectability throughout Europe, where they hid in plain sight; indeed, many of the Black September agents survive to this day.
At first that doesn't bother the Caesarea agents, especially their leader, Avner Kauffman (played by Hulk Eric Bana). Kauffman, whose father was a military hero, is a bored soldier with a beautiful wife and child on the way; who is he to turn down Meir (Lynn Cohen), who rationalizes assembling a death squad by insisting that "every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values"? Only after they've blown up or gunned down a few folks does Kauffman come to have a crisis of conscience, demanding to see evidence from the secretive superior (Geoffrey Rush) who keeps his proof locked away.
This is not, despite the hullabaloo surrounding Munich's release, Spielberg and his writers' novel invention; in Sword of Gideon, Bauer, like Bana, begs out after finding himself knee-deep in blood, insisting that the longer countries insist on resorting to eye-for-an-eye justice, the more likely they are to go blind. Spielberg, perhaps, has received so much grief because Munich is far more wishy-washy about its intentions than was Gideon: It wants to be a tense, terse blow-'em-up thriller, but also show its remorse for having such a good time. Throughout most of the film, Kauffman merely shrugs off his colleagues' protestations that Jews "are righteous" and that to act as terrorists do is to lose one's soul. But, suddenly, Bana grows pale and gaunt, the sure sign a movie hero's no longer into his job; his transformation is so sudden, we don't quite believe his penitence.
Munich also has the grim pleasure of containing perhaps the most misguided sequence Spielberg's ever filmed, and it comes near the very end. The movie has shied away from revealing too much of what actually happened in Munich; it shows us only brief though grisly scenes from the Olympic Village, and much of what we see and hear comes in snippets from ABC's coverage with Jim McKay and Peter Jennings. (Sword of Gideon, too, was structured similarly.) But at the end, Spielberg puts us on the runway at Fürstenfeldbruck military airfield, where the German police botched a rescue effort and killed only a few terrorists, but not before members of Black September executed all of the Israelis. And he intercuts these grim, grisly flashbacks with scenes of Kauffman violently screwing his wife, soaking her in spit and sweat as he roars a silent, slow-mo orgasm. It's a disquieting moment -- and not a little sickening -- because whatever the filmmaker's intentions, whether it is to show us Kauffman's need to connect with his wife or disconnect from his actions, it plays only as overwrought and foolish. You'd be tempted to laugh, if not for the bile rising in your throat.
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A gift that keeps on giving
Proceeds from sale of property once designated for the development of a Native American congregation will benefit future Native American ministries
December 6, 2011
The recent sale of a historic South Dakota property, originally intended for a Native American Presbyterian congregation, has been designated as an unexpected gift to future generations of Native American Presbyterians.
The property, located in Bennett County, S.D., was deeded to the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) on May 27, 1913, by President Woodrow Wilson in order to encourage the development of a Native American Presbyterian church in the area.
Proceeds from the property’s sale in September will serve to fund the 2012 Native American Presbyterian Consultation, a churchwide initiative that was recommended in the Native American Supplemental Report received by the 219th General Assembly (2010). The consultation is scheduled for January 24-26, 2012, in Phoenix, Ariz.
“This important consultation will focus on future directions for Native American Presbyterian ministries, including urban and off-reservation ministry, youth ministry and leadership development, preparation for ministry and congregational leadership development, and economic development,” said the Rev. Rhashell D. Hunter, director of Racial Ethnic and Women’s Ministries/Presbyterian Women for the General Assembly Mission Council (GAMC). “It is inspiring that Native American ministries of the past will help Native American churches plan for the future.”
According to the 2010 Native American Supplemental Report, “there has been a Presbyterian presence in Native communities and reservations in the United States since the late 1600s.” While the history between the Presbyterian Church and Native American peoples is complex as well as long, the report affirms that Presbyterians have had a long connection to Native American ministry, and Native Americans have long identified as Presbyterians.
“The historical nature of this gift is particularly significant for us as Native Americans,” said the Rev. Martha Sadongei, church specialist for Native American Congregational Support for the GAMC. “Whenever we meet or gather to discuss the future of Native American ministries, the spirits of the respected leaders of our past are often lifted up for guidance to discern what we should do. We must think about those who came before us in making decisions that will affect those who will come after us. It’s not just about us in our present situations.”
The report calls for the 2012 consultation to have an even broader complement of participation than the last such consultation, which was held in 2005. “Given the increasing numbers of non-reservation Indians, the next consultation must include persons from presbyteries and urban areas with strong non-reservation Native populations,” it states. “There are persons who have expressed interest and willingness to engage in Native American ministry even though they do not live in a presbytery that currently engages in Native American ministry. And there are institutions and agencies that have offered to help resource Native congregations. Through such broad participation we can better generate continuing vision for Native American ministry through the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).”
“As we gather in January to honor those who came before us, the consultation will be a critical tool in planning the future of Native American ministries,” Sadongei said.
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This was mentioned a few days ago but would someone please clarify it for
I am installing 3-ph to the shop. It is 200A delta wound, 2
transformers on pole, 3 hot wires 1 neutral from pole, ground rod driven
into the dirt and hooked to the neutral buss bar. Drawing with the meter
box shows the neutral wire coming from the middle of one side of the
triangle that forms the delta. Is this what is called "center tapped"?
I think I want to run 5 wires to each machine. 3 hots, 1 neutral, and
one ground from the machine base all the way back to the neutral buss bar in
the sub panel. Is this right?
I also want to have a 120 outlet and 120 work light on each machine. AT
THE MACHINE, I am going to pick one of the hot legs(NOT the power/stinger
leg) and the neutral. Will connect the ground leg in the light to the base
of the machine. Is this right or do I have to go all the way to the sub
panel with the wires?
Next, I have a 5-hp 220V single phase air compressor. For that I
think I need only 4 wires. 2 hots(NOT the power leg) 1 neutral, and one
ground from chassis all the way back to the neutral buss bar in the sub
panel. Is this correct?
I want this to be safe and legal. Thanks for your time, Chief.
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Two positive charges near each other.
Rotate the charges to see the structure of the field, and zoom out to
see what the field looks like at a large distance.
- Click and drag with the left mouse button to rotate the model.
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Sustainability ideas for business,green business opportunities,innovative environmental business ideas,sustainable small business ideas,green business ideas 2017,green business ideas in US,green business ideas in canada…
Here are 20 green business ideas for environmentally conscious entrepreneurs.
1-Green App Developer
Mobile applications can be incredibly helpful for a variety of functions. So you can also develop mobile apps designed to help people with environmentally friendly functions, like finding recycling centers or learning about the environmental practices of different brands.
2-Sustainable Event Planner
Events offer another opportunity for you to make an environmental impact. You can offer event planning services to environmental organizations or other groups, but ad an eco-friendly twist on things like food and decorations.
3-Second Hand Store Owner
To give new life to a variety of older products, you can open a consignment or second-hand store, which can also keep many of those items out of landfills.
When people get new smartphones, computers or tablets, their devices often just sit unused or get thrown away. But you can start a business as a refurbisher to repurpose those devices and sell them to customers who could use less expensive versions.
5-Ink Refill Business
Ink cartridges for printers can also be expensive and potentially wasteful. So you can start a business refilling them so that customers can get more use out of them instead of continuing to buy new ones.
6-Herbal Remedy Provider
There are lots of herbal remedies out there for different ailments, many of which are made with natural materials. You can produce your own foods and supplements that are made naturally and sustainably.
8-Green House Cleaner
Cleaning supplies aren’t known as being especially eco-friendly. But you can substitute some more natural materials and methods and build a strong niche as a green house cleaner.
9-Air Duct Cleaner
Air ducts can also have a big impact on the air quality and other environmental factors. So offering a service cleaning air ducts in people’s homes or other buildings can be another green business idea.
10-Green Business Consultant
You can also help other businesses go green by consulting with them to help them build more sustainable business practices.
11-Eco-Friendly Soap Maker
Or you can build a handmade business by making soap with natural materials and ingredients.
It’s not the cleanest of businesses, but if you have the space and resources, you can start a composting operation on your property and then sell the service to local gardeners or customers that don’t have the space or desire to compost on their own.
Books use a lot of paper and other resources in the production process. But you can sell used books to reduce that impact and give new life to old products.
14-Organic Food Stand
You might also consider selling more finished food products by starting a food stand that sells organic snacks or meals to passers-by.
If you want to build a more full-scale food operation, you can also start a catering business that specializes in organic and sustainable food options.
17-Specialty Landscape Designer
If you want to work outside and have some knowledge about sustainable landscape design, you can offer your services to customers who want a really efficient landscaping setup for their homes that doesn’t use a lot of water or other resources.
Fashion designers or retailers, you can start a clothing line or retail store that uses sustainable or recycled materials in clothing items.
19-Shipping Crate Offices
For many different types of businesses, you can go green by carefully considering the actual office space that you use. You might even start a green business inside a recycled office, like inside an old shipping container.
The possibilities are endless when it comes to inventions that can potentially help the earth. You can even create something relatively low tech that can help people recycle or do other eco-friendly activities.
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Roth Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) do not enable you to take tax deductions for your contributions, but can enable you to receive tax-free earnings and tax-free withdrawals. To start a Roth IRA, you must meet income limits. Roth IRAs limit the amount of money you can contribute each year, but do not limit the age at which you can make contributions. You can start a Roth IRA by rolling over funds from a 401(k) account or traditional IRA, but may face tax consequences as a result of a conversion.
Starting a Roth IRA
You must meet income limits to qualify for a Roth IRA. As of August 2011, your taxable compensation and modified adjusted gross income (AGI) must be less than $177,000 if you are married and filing jointly with your spouse or you are a widow or widower. You can only have taxable compensation and a modified AGI less than $120,000 if you file as the head of your household or as a single person. If you are married, live with your husband or wife and file separately, you can open a Roth IRA only if your taxable compensation and modified AGI fall below $10,000. Your taxable compensation can include your salary, wages, bonuses, professional fees or tips. Your modified AGI is your taxable compensation, after exclusions and deductions.
You cannot take a tax deduction for contributions you make to a Roth IRA. The amount of money you can contribute to a Roth IRA can depend on your income and age. For example, as of August 2011, if you have taxable compensation and modified AGI less than $167,000, you can contribute only $5,000 annually if you are younger than 50 years of age. The limit increases to $6,000 if you are 50 years old or older. While Roth IRA rules may restrict the amount of funds you can contribute at a certain age, you can continue to make deposits even after you reach retirement age.
If you open a Roth IRA by converting funds from a traditional IRA, you can face tax liability on any income earned from the traditional IRA before converting it to a Roth IRA. Beginning the 2010 tax year, the IRS began allowing investors who roll over funds to Roth IRAs to pay taxes resulting from conversions over a two-year period. This enables you to divide your earnings and minimize your tax liability during a single year. Once you pay taxes on the converted funds, the IRS does not levy any additional taxes on a Roth IRA. If you choose to convert from a 401(k) plan to a Roth IRA, the same tax rules apply.
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Bartiromo will grab a Slim Jim and a Red Bull, and maybe a scratcher lottery ticket from the machine.
scratcher looked moodily at the barman, ordered a glass of beer and turned to Bindle.
The cutting end of the picker is frequently replaced by a scratcher, Figs. 44, 45.
In scratcher's voice was the contempt of superior knowledge.
scratcher's tone implied that Napolini's was literally running with soup and potatoes.
It was all the same to Adam whether "Buck" was yoked to the beam or the scratcher.
"You come down to-morrow mornin' about eleven," said scratcher with the air of one conferring a great favour.
With the aid of three other waiters, scratcher succeeded in restoring peace.
Turning to scratcher, who was passing at the moment, he enquired, "Wot the 'ell am I a-goin' to call 'im?"
It was scratcher, however, who told the puzzled Bindle that the customer had been ordering lunch and not divulging his identity.
c.1400, probably a fusion of Middle English scratten and crachen, both meaning "to scratch," both of uncertain origin. Related: Scratched; scratching.
Billiards sense of "to hit the cue ball into a pocket" is first recorded 1909 (also, originally, itch), though earlier it meant "a lucky shot" (1850). Meaning "to withdraw (a horse) from a race" is 1865, from notion of scratching name off list of competitors; used in a non-sporting sense of "cancel a plan, etc." from 1680s. To scratch the surface "make only slight progress in penetrating or understanding" is from 1882. To scratch (one's) head as a gesture of perplexity is recorded from 1712.
1580s, "slight skin tear produced by a sharp thing," from scratch (v.). Meaning "mark or slight furrow in metal, etc." is from 1660s. American English slang sense of "money" is from 1914, of uncertain signification. Many figurative senses (e.g. up to scratch, originally "ready to meet one's opponent") are from sporting use for "line or mark drawn as a starting place," attested from 1778 (but the earliest use is figurative); meaning "nothing" (as in from scratch) is 1918, generalized from specific 19c. sporting sense of "starting point of a competitor who receives no odds in a handicap match." Sense in billiards is from 1850. Scratch-pad is attested from 1883.
in Old Scratch "the Devil," 1740, from earlier Scrat, from Old Norse skratte "goblin, wizard," a word which was used in late Old English to gloss "hermaphrodite;" probably originally "monster" (cf. Old High German scraz, scrato "satyr, wood demon," German Schratt, Old High German screz "a goblin, imp, dwarf;" borrowed from Germanic into Slavic, e.g. Polish skrzot "a goblin").
A forger (1859+ Underworld)
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Blockchain solutions are helping industries to solve complex problems with the use of its platform and technology. Blockchain technology is a step towards modernisation of an organization’s digital infrastructure which allows them to reorganise their assets in a systematic manner and maintain records. Yet, we are far from leveraging its true potential and putting it to regular use.
Since the advent of blockchain-based bitcoins, there has been an extensive exploration into blockchain’s potential. Today, various blockchain-enabled use-cases have shown capabilities to transform industries such as banking, financial services, manufacturing healthcare, telecommunication, retail and so on.
Understanding Blockchain’s Potential
Blockchain offers a new way to record, process, and store financial transactions and information, and has the potential to fundamentally change the landscape of the accounting profession and reshape the business ecosystem. Industry leaders must understand and work on implications of blockchain to the auditing process and elaborate on opportunities and challenges of blockchains.
Blockchain has wide-ranging implications for data processing, transmission, storage, and security, and has the potential to create a new ecosystem for the handling of accounting information. Although blockchain technology is still in its infancy, the ‘Big Four’ accounting firms and many other financial institutions globally have already noticed blockchain’s potential and actively engaged in its experiments, development, and investments for building proof of concepts. For instance, KPMG has partnered with Microsoft to create use cases that apply blockchain technology to business propositions and processes.
Implications of blockchain for auditors
Performing audits in a blockchain environment would be totally different. It would basically be redundant if all the transactions are visible and tracked immutably. This proposal would mean a profound change in the way the audit industry works. Blockchain can help auditors to reduce or eliminate financial scrutiny and audit and focus on fraud detection and analysis.
For instance, a blockchain could show ledgers with transaction records between parties. But it won’t give you any insight into who the receiving party is, or what is its classification. If it is a credit transaction, blockchain-based system won’t tell you if it is a sundry expense to the company or a purchase of an asset? An auditor can focus on such questions and provide judgemental insights into their audits.
A New Spectrum of Skill sets
As a result of the above, the skill sets in accounting and auditing processes will change dramatically. Capabilities such as technology advisory, functional, and technical consulting and other value-adding activities will expand. In the long term, more and more records will move onto blockchains, and auditors will be able to check transactions in real-time and perform an audit of those transactions. Due to digital transformation and security initiatives, the adoption of blockchain technology by customers (auditees) would make it a must-learn for auditors.
Act as a Conduit
Auditors and advisors need not be technology-adept. They must learn the process-layer and understand how to advise customers on blockchain adoption and understand the impact of blockchain on customer’s business and end-users. They can act as a conduit between the business and blockchain by having informed conversations with both technology leaders and business stakeholders.
Focus on business imperatives
Real-time auditing will release CFOs and their teams from redundant routine tasks to focus on more strategic roles such as new ways to deliver business value. Yet, manual interpretation of transaction patterns will be valuable to generate insights and facilitate business-decisions.
Financial and audit firms globally are collectively exploring blockchain to assess its application on the financial ecosystem and understand how it will affect finance in the future. Blockchain’s widespread adoption could trigger significant changes to the finance and audit industry. ‘Financial services’ leaders must work with auditing leaders and regulators to ensure that the framework of innovation and regulation over blockchain technology is seamless, secure, and long-term. This will change the way we consume money, how it flows, and needless to say, how it is audited. Blockchain in auditing is a promising start and may soon become a disruptive trend. | <urn:uuid:b16cc67e-8a04-4ea6-9ff4-b6553282d661> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cloverinfotech.com/blog/blockchain-is-reshaping-the-auditing-industry/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.933622 | 841 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Fire Cider (or fire vinegar) is an herb and veggie-infused vinegar. The spicy tonic is rich in vitamins and nutrients, and really easy to make!
The weather in western North Carolina can be a tease. We had our first freeze in early October and since then the temperatures have been leaping up into the ’70s and then back down into the ’20s at night. The plants, trees, and birds are so confused, and so are my sinuses! Even people who are quite healthy and active can still get sick as their bodies try to adapt to extreme weather patterns, so it is a good idea to boost your immune system with nourishing tonics.
We use daily doses of echinacea tincture, vitamin D3, multi-vitamins, and lots of water to keep healthy in the fall, but we are also big fans of the “heat cure” as an ally for when you start to feel a bit icky. When I say “heat cure,” I mean that I drink hot beverages with warming herbs that make get you all flushed and warm. Cinnamon, ginger, pepper, garlic…all of these common kitchen herbs are great at boosting body temperature. Wrap up tight in a few warm blankets, rest on a heating pad, and sweat it out!
When your throat is itchy and your nose feels sensitive, take a daily shot of Fire Vinegar. Depending on how you make it, it can end up being really spicy. If you are worried about the heat or the vinegar being harsh on your belly, add some orange juice or other sweet juice to the fire vinegar. The sugars make a big difference!
A basic recipe for Fire Vinegar:
All you need to start is a jar. I started out with a wide-mouth Ball jar, but you can make as little or as big a batch as you prefer. Vinegar will corrode metal jar lids over time, so put a bit of plastic wrap between the jar and the lid.
Apple Cider Vinegar (ACV): Use raw, live apple cider vinegar, the kind that is cloudy and unpasteurized. Not only is it delicious, but the probiotics in the live vinegar are well worth any extra cost.
Peppers: Fresh or dried peppers of any variety you prefer – I use whole, dried cayenne peppers (seeds and all). Leftover pepper pieces and seeds from prepping dinner get tossed in the jar, too.
Garlic: Oh, I could write a long love note to garlic...rhapsodize about the beneficial sulfur compounds, praise the potent antibiotic and antiviral properties, remark on how beneficial for bronchitis and other lung issues it can be. The “stinking rose” also helps with heart health, blood pressure, and cholesterol, and also blesses us with its anti-inflammatory properties. It is worth it to note that vinegar (or lemon juice and other acids) can lower some of the garlic’s best properties, so chop your garlic and let it sit for at least five minutes before adding it to the vinegar. This allows the enzymes in the garlic to convert to beneficial allicin.
Ginger: I have already written about wonderful ginger, an herb that I love dearly. The heat from ginger feels like sunshine peeking through the clouds! It adds a different bite to this vinegar blend, and it eases the tummy, boosts circulation, and opens the sinuses.
Onion: Whenever I chop onions for dinner, I save a spoonful to add to the jar of fire cider. Onions are in the same family as garlic and contain many of the same properties (but not quite as strong). I’ve been taught that onions are antiviral and help boost the immune system.
Turmeric: Fresh turmeric root is an antioxidant and has anti-inflammatory effects. It adds a bright yellow color to your cider, too! To make the turmeric more effective, add black pepper to your cider. They are a dream team.
Those are the basics, friends. From there, add other herbs or veggies that you think will help!
There are a few other ingredients that I’ve seen people use in their vinegar, and I have added some to my jar as I come across them! I’ve also been known to use:
- Reishi mushrooms
- Burdock root
- Shiitake mushrooms
- Astragalus root
- Fresh thyme
- Dried & fresh nettles
- Calendula flowers
- Lemon peel
You’ll note that I did not provide exact quantities. That is because I make mine completely by instinct and personal preference. I have a glass jar in my fridge that holds ACV and all the chunky veggies, herbs, and peppers. I strain fire vinegar from that jar into smaller bottles for serving or sharing. Otherwise, it just lives in the back of the fridge and marinates.
My jar of fire cider is heavy and half full of root and veggie chunks, some of which have dissolved into the liquid over time. I don’t pull anything out…just add more to it.
When I want some (or feel a cold coming on), I pour a tiny bit of fire cider in a shot glass, no more than a third full. I fill up the shot glass the rest of the way with orange juice and drink it down. The burn is strong but fades quickly.
Oh, and a tip for you foodies – Fire vinegar tastes GREAT on cooked greens or as the vinegar in a North Carolina-style BBQ sauce.
More recipes and resources:
Herbal Academy: How to Make Homemade Fire Cider
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By definition, crowdfunding is a way of financing a business enterprise by increasing the financial contributions of large numbers of people. It is achieved mainly through the use of the network through sites that allow entrepreneurs to raise money; however, the notion can also be realized in other ways. You can also get the best P2P Lending and Crowdfunding services via online.
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Recently, crowdfunding is now a trend in the business realm, making it a new or consummate company. After Massolution, a US-based research company, Entrepreneurs have raised tens of thousands of dollars with more than 600 crowdfunding platforms around the world. There's no question that crowdfunding is here to stay, and it means a major new source of funding for innovative startups, non-profit hunting contributions, and artists seeking some recognition for their creative endeavors.
Crowdfunding can also be used to accumulate loans and royalty funds. As an example, the LendingClub website allows members to immediately invest and borrow from each other, eliminating the bank middleman in trading. The concept is to attract both business owners and investors together.
Crowdfunding certainly has a great benefit for a beginning entrepreneur, but it is not without its advantages. For example, it could be a huge waste of time when the effort is not well planned. It could be even worse if you meet your goal but find yourself reevaluating the amount of cash you need. Your ethics are not only at stake here, clients can sue a company if it fails to deliver on its promise. | <urn:uuid:04d9560b-df9c-4f91-a7d7-2b5971ed59a4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.somnusthera.com/about-basics-of-crowdfunding/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.960526 | 311 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Considering that the establishment of Committees on Human Rights or other similar organs at the national , regional or sub-regional level, as means by which to ensure respect for and as wide a promotion as possible of human rights has always been of interest to the various organs of the United Nations since the setting up of the Organisation;
Considering in particular Resolution 33/46 of 14 December, 1978, adopted by the UN General Assembly, and Resolution 24 (XXXV) of 14 March, 1979, adopted by the Human Rights Commission, which approved the guiding principles advocated by the Seminar, held in Geneva on 18 or 19 September, 1978, as regards national or local institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights;
Considering that it is desirable that the mission aimed at promoting human and peoples’ rights sent by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, by virtue of its Charter, under Article 45, would be carried out through the assistance and support of national and regional committees established for that purpose, and composed of eminent personalities, which should also help governments solve their national or local problems relevant to human rights, thus promoting a better awareness of issues related to human rights:1. Invites all the States, parties to the Charter, where no national institutions as yet exist for the promotion and protection of human rights, to take appropriate measures to establish such institutions;
2. Calls on the States parties to the Charter to take due account, when establishing national institutions, of those guiding principles, in planning their structure and functioning, born of the Seminar on national and local institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights, held in Geneva from 18 to 29 September 1978;
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Latest update: October 22nd, 2012
We are in no need of staying in an abusive relationship. There are other voices in the Christian world, and other roundtables – with Catholics, with Evangelicals – that have been productive and mutually satisfying. Moreover, we will maintain our affection for the majority of churchgoers in these very same denominations whose table we are leaving. They, too, are being served poorly by the same people who misuse their mantle of leadership.
Why does it all matter? Because, in the past, Christians and Jews working cooperatively helped change the world. Only a few decades ago, Rev. Martin Luther King and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel walked arm in arm in the Deep South, helping the civil rights struggle to reach new heights. An injured world awaits all the good that could come from the positive power of collective religious conviction. When others are ready for a genuine relationship, we will be there.
About the Author: Rabbi Abraham Cooper is Associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein is director of Interfaith Relations for the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
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Quarrels That Have Shaped the Constitution is a classic collection of essays on groundbreaking decisions passed down from the nation's highest court that have had profound and irrevocable impact on the ultimate laws of the land. From the "Dred Scott" case to "Roe v. Wade," from the court of Chief Justice John Marshall to the justices of the modern era--here are fascinating, surprising, often inspiring stories of personal conflicts and the resolutions that influence the lives we live today. More than simply focusing on the significance of the decisions themselves, these essays introduce a remarkable cast of characters from every social strata--smugglers and slaves, bankers and butchers, rebels, servants, laborers, and tycoons--each of whom now has an indelible place in American history.
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May 04 2012
Variation On A Theme By Rilke
by Denise Levertov
(The Book of Hours, Book I, Poem 1, Stanza 1)
A certain day became a presence to me;
there it was, confronting me — a sky, air, light:
a being. And before it started to descend
from the height of noon, it leaned over
and struck my shoulder as if with
the flat of a sword, granting me
honor and a task. The day’s blow
rang out, metallic — or it was I, a bell awakened,
and what I heard was my whole self
saying and singing what it knew: I can.
— from Breathing the Water, by Denise Levertov
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The Rilke verse referenced is–
The hour is striking so close above me,
so clear and sharp,
that all my senses ring with it.
I feel it now: there’s a power in me
to grasp and give shape to my world.
(translation by Anita Barrows & Joanna Macy)
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A new report from the Treasury Department inspector general says the Internal Revenue Service singled out Tea Party and conservative groups for extra questioning in non-profit applications. The agency even went as far as probing Facebook and Twitter pages, according to a report from Politico.
On Wednesday, the scandal resulted in the resignation of acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller. At a press conference Wednesday night, President Barack Obama called the conduct “inexcusable” and said he would not tolerate such behavior.
According to Politico, which reviewed documents from 11 different conservative groups, the IRS wanted to review an endless amount of information before giving a group tax exempt status. In some cases it asked for copies and summaries of literature the groups were handing out and for printouts of groups' websites and Facebook pages.
“They were asking for a U-Haul truck's worth of information,” Toby Marie Walker of the Waco (Texas) Tea Party told Politico.
Some tea party members who were asked for printouts of their online activity were worried that they would be targeted for comments made on Twitter and Facebook. The IRS also dragged its feet during the 501(c)(4) approval process for some groups, including one in Richmond, Va. which first applied in Dec. 2009 and was approved in July 2012.
The allegations that the IRS was targeting Tea Party groups come at the same time more questions are being raised about the Sept. 11 Benghazi, Libya attack and the Department of Justice trying to spy on Associated Press reporters.
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Peppers don't have that spicy image for nothing. This vegetable is an excellent way to spice up otherwise bland dishes, keeping you interested in your new healthy-eating lifestyle.
Peppers come in a beautiful array of colors and shapes. They add flavor, color, and crunch to many low-calorie dishes.
All peppers are rich in vitamins A, C, and K, but red peppers are simply bursting with them. Antioxidant vitamins A and C help to prevent cell damage, cancer, and diseases related to aging, and they support immune function. They also reduce inflammation like that found in arthritis and asthma. Vitamin K promotes proper blood clotting, strengthens bones, and helps protect cells from oxidative damage.
Beta-cryptoxanthin, another carotenoid in red peppers, is holding promise for helping to prevent lung cancer related to smoking and secondhand smoke.
Besides being rich in phytonutrients, peppers provide a decent amount of fiber.
Hot peppers' fire comes from capsaicin, which acts on pain receptors, not taste buds, in our mouths. Capsaicin predominates in the white membranes of peppers, imparting its "heat" to seeds as well. The capsaicin in hot peppers has been shown to decrease blood cholesterol and triglycerides, boost immunity, and reduce the risk of stomach ulcers. It used to be thought that hot peppers aggravated ulcers. Instead, they may help kill bacteria in the stomach that can lead to ulcers.
Both hot and sweet peppers contain substances that have been shown to increase the body's heat production and oxygen consumption for about 20 minutes after eating. This is great news; it means your body is burning extra calories, which helps weight loss.
Selection and Storage
Sweet peppers have no capsaicin, hence no heat. They do have a pleasant bite, though. Bell peppers are most common. Green peppers are simply red or yellow peppers that haven't ripened. As they mature, they turn various shades until they become completely red. Once ripe, they are more perishable, so they carry a premium price. But many people favor the milder taste that these varieties provide. Cubanelles, Italian frying peppers, are a bit more intense in flavor and are preferred for roasting or sauteeing.
Hot chili peppers, or chilies (the Mexican word for peppers) are popular worldwide. Ripe red ones are usually hotter than green ones. Still, shape is a better indicator of heat than color. Rule of thumb: the smaller, the hotter.
For example, the poblano, or ancho, chile is fatter than most peppers and only mildly hot. Anaheim, or canned "green chilies," are also fairly mild. Jalapeno is a popular moderately hot pepper. Among the hottest are cayenne, serrano, and tiny, fiery habanero.
With all peppers, look for a glossy sheen and no shriveling, cracks, or soft spots. Bell peppers should feel heavy for their size, indicating fully developed walls.
Store sweet peppers in a plastic bag in your refrigerator's crisper drawer. Green ones stay firm for a week; other colors go soft in three or four days. Hot peppers do better refrigerated in a perforated paper bag.
Preparation and Serving Tips
To cool the fire of hot peppers, cut away the inside white membrane and discard the seeds. Wash hands, utensils, and cutting boards with soap and water after handling them and use gloves to prevent the oils from irritating your hands. Avoid touching your eyes while handling peppers.
Bell peppers are delicious raw. They develop a stronger flavor when cooked; overcooked, they are bitter.
What to do if you swallow more than you can handle? Don't drink water; it spreads the fire around your mouth, making the heat more intolerable. Research from the Taste and Smell Clinic in Washington, D.C., has revealed that a dairy protein, casein, literally washes away capsaicin, quenching the inferno; so milk is your best bet. If you don't have any milk on hand, eat a slice of bread.
When that healthy dish needs a little extra color and punch, add interest to your menu with a wide variety of peppers to fit every taste and heat tolerance while helping you lose weight.
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Kundalini Yoga - The Yoga for everyone!
Kundalini Yoga is the ancient mother of all yoga and is also known as 'the Yoga of Awareness'. Kundalini Yoga works deeply on the nervous and glandular systems, and yet compared to other types of yoga the postures are simple and easy to perform. The kriyas (a series of exercises) are highly effective.
It can be practiced by people of any age and physical condition. The beneficial effects are quickly felt. Kundalini Yoga opens the way to better health, mental balance, body awareness and mindfulness.
Energy flow plays a central role: the Kundalini energy is the dormant force at the base of the spine. By activating the energy centres along the spine (Chakras) we better align body and mind.
The regular practice of Kundalini Yoga balances body, mind and soul sustainably. All aspects of yoga are included: posture, movement, concentration, and conscious guided breathing, as well as meditation and chanting mantras. The combination of these elements leads to a resilient body, a clear mind, and a more conscious perception.
Its effectiveness as a method for maintaining health and promoting healing is scientifically proven. In cases of mental stress, mental tension, physical discomfort, and digestive problems, Kundalini Yoga is an efficient relaxation and harmonisation technique.
Originally Kundalini Yoga came from northwestern India. In 1968 Yogi Bhajan brought this millennia long tradition to the West. The mantras in Kundalini Yoga come from the tradition of Sikh Dharma, and like the mantras in Hatha Yoga are rooted in Hinduism.
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The degree of Bachelor of Commerce in Taxation, has gained extensive significance with the recent changes in the economy and the taxation structure. This undergraduate course of School of Commerce at Renaissance University aims to inculcate in the students the basic principles of accounting and economic theories with specialized focus on taxation. In this programme the primary focus is on subjects and topics related to the field of taxation, apart from the basic curriculum of commerce.
The module at Renaissance University is designed to teach and give the students absolute understanding of:
At Renaissance University, we believe in revolution. Hence even the basic course of Taxation is also dealt in the most revolutionary way. Industry speakers, tax experts regularly visiting the campus and interacting with students ensures that the students get to know the practices of the real world, apart from the theories of thick books.
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Recipes with Dry Red Wine
Dry red wines do not have sugar therefore they are not sweet. To use the term 'dry' in a wine, it looks at the amount of sugar it has. Depending on the amount of sugar, the wines can vary in the form of dry, off-dry or sweet.
Wines with less than 10 grams of sugar per liter are called "dry"; wines containing 10-30 grams of sugar per liter are called "off-dry"; Wines with more than 30 grams of sugar per liter are called "sweet wine".
Dry red wine loses all the sugar of yeast from grapes through fermentation. Unlike sweet wine making process, the entire fermentation process is completed while dry red wine is making.
They are ideal for cooking. Dry red wines such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot Noir, Shiraz or Syrah, Merlot and Zinfandel are widely used in cooking. The best dry red wine to use is Pinot Noir in our opinion, however you can also use Merlot or Cabernet Sauvignon.
You can choose different dry red wines according to the food you cook. For beef or lamb, Cabernet Sauvignon and Pinot Noir would be good choices. You can choose Merlot when cooking white meat such as chicken and duck. The sugar-free red wine that goes best with seafood is Pinot Noir. You can use Chianti when preparing vegetable dishes or sauces.
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Spanish Lessons Mansfield Nottinghamshire (NG18): Over the years I have met lots of students who have invested years in mastering a language but who cannot really speak it. Sure, their test scores are generally off the charts, and they have an understanding of grammar points that even lots of native speakers don't fully grasp. Their lack of speaking skills can be attributed, not surprisingly, to the simple fact that they never actually speak out using their target language. Nearly all come up with the excuse that they are lacking opportunities to converse with native speakers. If you want to learn a foreign language such as Spanish, you do not want to become a person who creates excuses.
The primary and the most evident reason that people in Mansfield would choose to learn Spanish is when they are moving to a Spanish country and they need to orient themselves ahead of time. The second reason would be for them to be able to communicate well and easily to friends who speak Spanish.
Spanish lessons in Mansfield can have many degrees of an effect on our learning, depending on how it's all taken in. In a classroom setting for example, you have textbooks and classmates and a teacher. As this form of education must be directed towards a group, and because sessions can only be attended to during tiny portions of a given day at a time, reaching a native speaking level of fluency can take two or three years or more. What's more is that unless you are a crack-down, gung-ho student, grabbing every opportunity to use your studies in everyday life, your learning stops as soon as you leave the class, until the next scheduled session of your Spanish lessons comes up.
When it comes to learning Spanish (or any language for that matter), nothing beats one-on-one instruction from a good teacher. In fact, I've found private instruction to be much more effective than small (6-8 student) classroom instruction for a number of reasons.
The first reason why one-on-one instruction beats classroom instruction is that in a classroom, a class usually progresses at the speed of the slowest student. Sometimes the class might progress a little faster, but then the slowest students get left behind. In either case, each individual person won't be learning at their optimum pace.
With private instruction, you learn as fast or as slow as you need to. If there are certain topics you find hard to learn, you can repeat them or slow down as necessary. It's much more tailored to your learning style than a classroom.
Private Spanish lessons in Mansfield also beat classroom instruction because students in private lessons can't avoid doing work and speaking like you might in a classroom. In a classroom, the shy or nervous students might be able to avoid doing their share of speaking. In a private Spanish lesson in Mansfield, you'll be the only student, so there's no one else to hide behind.
There is also a major scheduling benefit to private lessons over classroom learning. With standard Spanish classes, the class meets on a fixed schedule. If you miss one of the classes, you can't simply reschedule. When you return to the class, you'll be behind by one session. In private instruction, you won't have missed a class because none will occur without you.
Finally, another major benefit of private Spanish lessons in Mansfield is that the class content is customisable to fit your exact needs. This is key especially as you progress beyond beginner status. As an "intermediate" language learner, your version of "intermediate" might vary rather greatly from another person's level. The fixed curriculum of typical classes just can't account for that, but private instruction does.
But what about the cost of private instruction versus classroom instruction? It's true that private instruction will cost more than classroom instruction, but you will probably get more than enough additional value from the private Spanish lessons to make it worth the extra cost. That's my experience, anyways.
If you haven't tried private instruction for learning Spanish or any other language before, give it a shot. You will definitely learn faster, and you can decide after a few lessons whether it's worth the cost.
Children's Spanish Lessons Mansfield
Most kids in Mansfield study Spanish language because their parents enjoy hearing them being knowledgeable in other languages. Courses that we can see online also offer easy Spanish lessons for kids. Here are three fun ways on how to teach your kids.
The first way is to drive motivation to your kids with the use of creative imagination. Try to let them understand the importance of learning the language at an early age. One good example is by telling them that they need to know the language in preparation for a vacation. The picture of a vacation prompted on their minds will make them move and learn faster. Detach the academic approach in their school to the Spanish course that they will take. Do not put so much pressure on their shoulders, let them enjoy while learning.
Second is to provide your kids with a good and relaxed learning environment. Prepare one room or one corner in your house that will free your kids from any distractions. If you can provide a room in your house, then it would be best to have cool wall paint colours and a variety of Spanish language materials arranged according to your kids' needs. It is still advisable to have your home as a starting place for new learning. Your home in Mansfield is still the safest place for your kids.
Third way is to place confidence on your kids as they learn the language. Do not pressure them to excel or to learn the language. Let them discover the language on their own. Let them enjoy their childhood and allow them to excel without pressure. Provide interesting materials like colourful visual aids, audio or video files. Audio materials can help them master the correct pronunciation of words.
As well as one-on-one Spanish lessons in Mansfield, there are a lot of online courses that offer easy Spanish lessons for kids. All you need to do is to search for a course that would fit to your kids' availability, ability, needs and wants. Set an objective in learning the language and help your kids work within that objective.
Spanish lessons can be taken in Mansfield and also in: Skegby, Pleasley, Rainworth, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Tevesal, Warsop Vale, Forest Town, Mansfield Woodhouse, Ravenshead, Shirebrook, Blidworth, Stanton Hill, Clipstone, Berry Hill, as well as in these postcodes NG18 2AP, NG18 1SX, NG18 1RU, NG18 1AE, NG18 1BQ, NG18 1LL, NG18 2AB, NG18 1SU, NG18 1NQ, NG18 1AL. Locally based Mansfield Spanish teachers will most likely have the postcode NG18 and the phone code 01623.
Spanish Audio Lessons
These are a great way to learn Spanish. Over time they have evolved a great deal. Here's how they work.
You listen and you repeat - but it doesn't stop there. A good set of audio lessons will then ask you to create your own sentences based on what you have learned. The narrator (like a teacher) will then tell you the correct answer. This is what is known as "organic learning" and is proven to be the best way to learn any language.
Learning by audio lessons means that you can work entirely at your own pace. Did you miss something? Then simply rewind a little and play it again. Furthermore, the process of listening, speaking and inventing is the best way to learn - it most closely mimics the experience of children with a new language.
Online Spanish Lessons
While one-on-one teaching is perhaps the best method for learning, private Spanish lessons in Mansfield are still largely textbook based, and can be even more expensive than night school classes, upwards of forty pounds per session. Still, if within affordability, these can take more than a year or two in order to attain native speaking level fluency. So then, how is it that so many can reach such linguistic prowess within three to six months, and for the cost of a couple of private lessons? Surely this is much more desirable, is it not?
The technique I speak of here is the same way Spanish lessons are often taken by ambassadors, foreign dignitaries and those who work for the UN. The use of computer software is the key, and I don't speak of certain CD-ROMs which focus merely on single aspects of a language, such as vocabulary or verb conjugation (which in truth, are merely digital textbooks), but complete immersion packages which provide audio speech programs, video courses in cultural idiomatic circumstances and situations, memory driven linguistic games and such.
These allow you to speak fluent, everyday, real life Spanish immediately, and gear your brain to even think in the language instead of always translating in your mind whenever you wish to speak. Eventually, you may even find that you'll begin to dream in Spanish as well. This is an excellent to take Spanish lessons, and most of those who use this technique become entirely fluent within three to six month's time. If you combine this technique with a few one-to-one Spanish lessons in Mansfield you will really progress rapidly.
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The European Commission drafts proposals for new European legislation that it submits to the European Parliament and the European Council; it makes sure that European Union deliberations are correctly enacted, supervises use of EU funds, and ascertains the observance of European treaties and regulations. Having twenty members (assisted by approximately 24,000 officials) - appointed by member governments in collaboration with the designated president and approved by Parliament - the Commission remains in force for a five-year term and acts independently of member-state governments. This book examines the historical development, the current operation and the possible evolution of the European Commission. In its explanation of the decision-making process within the Commission, the relationship among the president and the commissioners, the connections between the political and organisational aspects of Commission activity, the book helps the reader understand the original nature and the challenges that characterise this multicultural administrative system. The text addresses the principal features of the internal reform and European governance introduced by the Prodi Commission, and also describes the initial stages of the Barroso Commission and its relationship with the European Parliament. Finally, the volume considers the innovations associated with the European Constitution and provides interpretive tools in order to better comprehend the institution's future.
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The total cost of cybercrime in New Zealand has fallen to NZ$152 million from NZ$462 million in 2012, even as one million Kiwis became cybercrime victims compared to 900,000 in 2012, according to the recently released <i>Norton Report 2013</i> by Symantec.
“While globally, the cost of cybercrime is up, within New Zealand the cost is down quite significantly,” said Michelle Amery, country manager, Symantec New Zealand. “This is due to cybercriminals shifting tactics, perhaps as Kiwis become more aware of scams.
“Cybercriminals also use tactics where there is a lower cost per head to victims, as they believe scams like these have a higher chance of escaping notice.”
The survey also revealed that 27 per cent of respondents from New Zealand had experienced mobile cybercrime in the past 12 months, compared to 16 per cent in 2012, and around 26 per cent had lost their mobile devices.
“Mobile devices are creating a perfect storm for cybercriminals,” said Amery. “While adoption of mobile devices is high, awareness and willingness to take precautions against threats on these devices is low.”
Mark Shaw, technology strategist information security at Symantec added, “New mobile threats are cropping up each day. One recent example of this is mobile ransomware, where thieves install software on the device that locks the users out of their phone.
“According to the 2013 Internet Security Threat Report, Volume 18, most mobile threats are pretty invasive. Thirty-two per cent of mobile threats steal information from the user, 15 per cent track the user and 13 per cent send unwanted content to the user.”
The report also revealed that nearly two out of five Kiwi respondents (39 per cent) use their personal devices for work-related activities and close to half say their company does not have policies in place around the use of personal devices for work.
In addition, some 15 per cent save both their work and personal documents to the same online file storage account, and nearly one in 10 are sharing work information with friends and family via these sites.
“New Zealand organisations should have comprehensive security software on all devices and update security patches regularly. We’d also recommend that employers encourage employees to use strong passwords for all devices and change them regularly," Shaw told Computerworld NZ.
“In addition, it’s also important to develop security policies to manage mobile devices and ensure these policies are communicated to all employees. Finally, it’s important to communicate to staff to be extra careful with sharing personal information through the Internet, especially if they’re not using secure connection.”
The Norton Report also found that Kiwis risk their personal data and security when using social media sites by connecting to people they do not know and even sharing their social media passwords.
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Through the example of Abruzzo, whose capital L’Aquila was destroyed by an earthquake four years ago, a new OECD report recommends policies that can speed the recovery of regions hit by natural disasters, making them more attractive to residents, tourists and investors.
The workshop identified key challenges in the design and implementation of one-stop shops in Hungary and ways to address them.
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This publication looks at regional innovation in Wallonia, Belgium, by examining the political context, governance issues and the role of innovation in the economy, along with regional innovation strategies to promote growth.
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This Recommendation sets the current thinking of how to effectively implement regulatory policy in countries, based on over a decade of OECD experience. "This Recommendation is the first comprehensive international statement on regulatory policy since the crisis", says Angel Gurría.
In collaboration with the Federal Government of Germany, the OECD organised four workshops at the International Regulatory Reform Conference (IRRC) 2013 in Berlin. The workshops focused on the use of cost-benefit analysis in governmental decision making, as well as on the role of key actors of regulatory governance in the regulatory policy cycle: Parliaments, regulatory agencies and audit offices.
Published in the OECD Journal on Budgeting, these guidelines on transparency in the budget process relate to budget reports, specific disclosures, and control and accountability.
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The report provides evidence-based assessment and policy recommendations in support of Mexico’s water reform. It analyses implementation bottlenecks and identifies good practices in four key areas considered as essential drivers for change in the water sector of Mexico: multi-level and river basin governance; economic efficiency and financial sustainability; and regulatory functions for water supply and sanitation. | <urn:uuid:98130b7c-8af3-4657-9336-4bb0eb156e6a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.oecd.org/gov/latestdocuments/56/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00017-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.905712 | 410 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Indigo is more than just a colour: it is a natural dye that has had a profound effect on the history of textiles globally. The production of indigo dye is a complex and capricious process which results in a beautiful, intense colour that does not lose its hue when washed. A variety of techniques can be used to introduce pattern into the cloth; from simple tie-dye motifs to more complex hand-drawn wax resist designs.
Growing and producing the dye
"Indigo" is a natural dye but it does not come from just one plant - more than 300 plants from different genera can produce the dye when processed properly. The growth of these plants is widespread, and as a result indigo dyeing techniques appear in traditional textiles all over the world. However, it can be a difficult crop to cultivate, susceptible to climate, disease and insects.
Once harvested, the next step it to extract the dye - itself a complicated process. The most intense colour is produced by fermenting the leaves in a solution and agitating the mixture. On a commercial scale, this was done in large tanks, with people wading through the solution and beating it to oxidise the pulp. The final step was to drain off the liquid, dry the pulp, and cut into blocks for transport.
Trade and industry
As dried indigo dye blocks were small, of high value and easy to transport, the import and export of indigo was a hugely profitable industry. Prior to the 16th century, the dye known as woad (isatis tinctoria) was the principle blue dye grown and used in Europe. This dye is the same as indigo but is of a lower concentration and was primarily suited for dyeing wool.
With the Spanish conquest of America opening up global trade routes, there was an increase in demand for the more intensely-hued true indigo dye. Indigo powder was worth more than any other "spice" (as it was classified on shipping lists) and unscrupulous traders would often add sawdust, sand or moisture to increase the volume.
The European woad industry tried in vain to compete with the appetite for true indigo, alleging that it corroded and destroyed the cloth and was poisonous to those who used it. The real danger lay in the production process. In South Carolina, where the American production of indigo was centred, slaves who waded through the noxious dye extraction pits often fell ill and died. The abolition of slavery in the 1860s finished the American industry, and by the end of that century a synthetic indigo dye was developed in Germany – most familiar today as the dye used for blue jeans.
Dyeing with indigo
The most captivating aspect of indigo occurs during the dyeing process. Indigo powder is dissolved in an alkaline solution, in what is known as a vat. Cloth is submerged in the dye bath for a few minutes at a time, and when removed is a dark yellow-green colour. Within a few minutes, the cloth almost magically transforms to blue as it is exposed to the air. Subsequent dippings increase the hue and allow for patterns to be created through a variety of different techniques.
The warm indigo dye bath is perfect for the Batik, or wax resist, method, which involves drawing on to the cloth with hot wax. Once the wax hardens, the cloth is dyed and then the wax chipped away, revealing the pattern in the original colour of the cloth. In the tie-dye technique, known as shibori in Japanese, sections of fabric are gathered and tied or clamped before dyeing. These methods can be used to create a variety of patterns, from bold geometric designs to sinuous lines and starbursts.
The Auckland Museum collection also holds some fine examples of Indonesian ikat fabrics dyed with indigo, in which the threads themselves are tied and bound before dyeing, the final pattern revealing itself in the weaving of the cloth.
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Patriotism is widely regarded as a natural and essential virtue. Other views of the matter are, however, defensible. I do not feel even remotely patriotic, and I’m suspicious of the motives and intellectual capacity of those who do. Here are the principle difficulties that I see with patriotism.
National boundaries are, in every case, the result of historical accident. How is it even possible to align oneself emotionally with the outcome of a historical accident? Two hundred years ago, California was part of Mexico. Two hundred years in the future, it may well be an administrative region of China. I feel some affection for the hills and valleys of California, but how could I sensibly transfer that feeling onto the United States of America?
National boundaries are an abstraction, and exist only for administrative purposes. There is, in fact, no such thing as a border between nations. A border is an abstraction that exists only because we all agree that it exists. You can walk, if you care to, from France to Russia without at any point crossing anything that could be construed as a physical (that is, geological) boundary. National borders exist only because they are guarded by soldiers, and the soldiers are there only because rich and powerful men issue the orders. The motives of the rich and powerful we should always regard with deep suspicion.
The world is a single entity. Thanks to the global reach of our transportation systems, it is the height of foolishness to promote the interests of one group of people at the expense of another group. No man is an island: all are part of the main. Because the interests of one group of people will always, sooner or later, come into collision with the interests of another group, we must learn ways to resolve the conflict that recognize the legitimate needs of all groups. We dare not cling to an archaic sensibility that asserts that the interests of one group (namely, us) are automatically superior to the interests of another group (also known as “them”).
Patriotism is quite often invoked in order to incite violence. If you’re trying to whip large groups of people into a frenzy that will cause them to take up weapons and butcher other people, you will almost invariably do it by appealing to their patriotism. This in itself, even apart from any other issues, would make patriotism morally objectionable.
My place of birth is a historical accident. Come to that, my entire identity is a historical accident: There is no such thing as “me” apart from an astonishing concatenation of accidents. So it doesn’t quite make sense to say that “I” could as easily have been born in Thailand, Denmark, or Costa Rica. It makes as much or more sense to say that “I” was indeed born in all of those places. “I” am not anyone special, and my point of view is not special. I’m sure that those who were born in Denmark may feel some special affection for Denmark, those born in Thailand may feel some special affection for Thailand, and so forth. That fact does not make Thailand superior to Denmark, nor vice-versa. Any feeling of affection that a Dane or Thai may feel for his or her place of birth is based on an accident.
Every nation has good and bad features. The tendency of the patriot is always to inflate the magnitude and importance of the good features of his homeland, while minimizing or entirely denying the bad features. This is intellectually dishonest. I prefer not to be intellectually dishonest.
Noble traditions are meaningless apart from noble actions. It is perhaps understandable that one might feel some affection for the legal framework or cultural traditions of one’s native land, if they are indeed admirable. But all too often, people who feel that they love peace find excuses to wage war. People who feel that they love freedom find excuses to repress those who are different from them. Institutions that nominally exist to serve everyone all too often bestow their benefits on the rich while neglecting the poor. To admire a noble tradition, then, is another form of intellectual dishonesty. Let us admire noble actions, and let the traditions fend for themselves.
The United States of America is disgusting. The nation in which I happen to have been born and have lived my life has a long and wretched history of oppressing, if not butchering outright, anybody who got in the way of the grandiose ambitions of the rich and powerful. Not long after the white men succeeded in decimating the native population of North America, they set their sights abroad and began establishing military outposts in distant places like Hawaii and the Philippines. The quagmire in which our military is now floundering in Iraq and Afghanistan is not an aberration: This is what the United States of America has been doing, over and over, for the past two hundred years. We are bullies in foreign policy, we fail to care for the weak and helpless at home, we use far more of the world’s vanishing natural resources than we have any right to, and with a few shining exceptions, our culture is a dismal farce.
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Anna Neagle Dame Anna Neagle DBE (20 October 1904-3 June 1986), born Florence Marjorie Robertson, was a popular English actress and singer.
She was born in Forest Gate, Essex. She had a long career on the English stage and screen, ranging from a role in the chorus of Charlot's revue in 1925 to Charlie Girl in 1965 and My Fair Lady in 1979.
In British films, she played everything from Queen Victoria to war heroine, Odette Hallowes.
Virtually all of her films were directed and produced by Herbert Wilcox, who became her husband in 1943. They remained together until his death in 1977.
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May 24, 2012 |
BAGHDAD — Hopes for quick progress on Iran's disputed nuclear program faded rapidly Wednesday, as diplomats from six world powers and Iran collided bitterly in daylong talks intended to resolve their long-standing differences over an effort many nations fear is aimed at building a nuclear bomb. In their second high-level meeting in as many months, representatives of the two sides offered packages of proposals designed to open a path to what is expected to be a long and difficult negotiation.
January 16, 2010
This week's indictment of three Glendale men for allegedly smuggling vacuum pumps and other industrial equipment to Iran via the United Arab Emirates is the latest reminder of how easily and frequently U.S. trade sanctions against Tehran have been violated. The charges were reported as the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany prepared to meet in New York today to discuss tougher economic measures for pressing Iran to halt its uranium enrichment program. Often called "the liberal alternative" to war, economic sanctions have long been favored by world powers over military action to achieve their foreign policy goals, and the Obama administration sees sanctions as the logical response to Iran's failure to accept an offer to ship its uranium stockpile to France and Russia for conversion into nuclear fuel there.
January 23, 2011 |
A high-stakes international standoff over Iran's nuclear ambitions came no closer a resolution Saturday as the latest round of talks aimed at curtailing the controversial program ended in failure in Turkey. The two-day meeting in Istanbul between Iran and six world powers was in effect stalled from the very start, with Tehran insisting that it has the right to continue enriching uranium and demanding an end to United Nations sanctions. The United States and its allies believe that Iran is intent on acquiring nuclear weapons.
April 12, 2012 |
ISTANBUL, Turkey - The stakes will be high when diplomats from six world powers meet with Iranian officials here over the weekend to discuss the Islamic Republic's nuclear program: War or peace, the global economic recovery and a U.S. presidential election may ride on the outcome. Expectations are much lower. It will be enough for the diplomats if there is sufficient common ground with Iran to keep talking. As recently as a week ago, there were doubts that the long-delayed talks would even take place.
June 19, 2012 |
MOSCOW - Iran on Monday offered up a blistering critique of a proposal by six world powers to rein in its nuclear program, marking the latest setback in efforts to find a diplomatic solution to the conflict. In Iran's first detailed analysis of the proposal, the nation's chief negotiator, Saeed Jalili, ticked off a list of objections in a five-hour negotiating session at a Moscow hotel and expounded at length about Tehran's grievances with the West, dating back to at least 1968.
July 1, 2012 |
BEIRUT - The United States and other world powers meeting Saturday in Geneva threw their weight behind a United Nations-brokered plan for a transitional government for Syria, but the move appeared to raise more questions than it answered. Chief among them: What about Syrian President Bashar Assad? Russia has rejected the U.S. insistence that Assad go, and the new transitional plan doesn't appear to have resolved their fundamental disagreement. Beyond the new proposal, the "action group" of nations vowed to launch a fresh diplomatic effort aimed at reviving a U.N.-brokered peace deal that is now in tatters.
November 27, 2009 |
In unusually direct language, the outgoing chief of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency on Thursday took Tehran to task for failing to resolve unanswered questions about its nuclear program and lamented a "dead end" in resolving the standoff between the Islamic Republic and world powers. Mohamed ElBaradei, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said world powers had made no progress over the last year in settling concerns about Iran's nuclear program, which the West worries is meant to ultimately produce weapons but Tehran insists is for civilian purposes only.
December 12, 2009 |
The Obama administration signaled its intention Friday to push for new sanctions against Iran, warning that tough new measures are likely now and urging reluctant nations not to circumvent them. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, who is visiting Iraq, said world powers soon would agree on "significant additional sanctions." Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, meanwhile, warned in Washington that Latin American countries, in particular, will face "consequences" if they "flirt" with the Islamic Republic.
February 17, 2014 |
TEHRAN -- Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, expressed deep skepticism Monday about the next round of nuclear negotiations with world powers, even as Tehran's delegation headed to Vienna for the potentially decisive talks. The nuclear session will “lead nowhere,” Khamenei, who has the final say on all matters of state here, declared in remarks carried in official media. The supreme leader nonetheless signaled his support for the initiative, the foreign policy centerpiece of President Hassan Rouhani, who took office last August.
August 5, 2008 |
Iran announced that it has tested a new weapon capable of sinking ships nearly 200 miles away, and reiterated threats to close a strategic waterway at the mouth of the Persian Gulf if attacked. Up to 40% of the world's oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow passage along Iran's southern coast. If Tehran shut down tanker traffic there, oil prices could be expected to skyrocket. The warnings came two days after a deadline expired for Iran to respond to incentives from six world powers, offered in exchange for a promise to curb its uranium enrichment. | <urn:uuid:2034fe54-6de3-4c12-a4d5-3340b8a2baa5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://articles.latimes.com/keyword/world-powers/featured/2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00098-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950074 | 1,155 | 1.90625 | 2 |
The importance of land surveying can never be overly emphasized; it is a necessary step to be taken in every home renovation or project. Having your land properly surveyed helps establish property boundaries, an important thing all homeowners should be aware of.
Not only can mistakes involving encroachments and easements slow down your project’s completion time and cause legal problems, they can also cost thousands in additional construction requirements.
In The News
The New York Post recently published an article highlighting these very problems. Eric and Margaret Friedberg, a couple building a home in the Hamptons, had to halt construction because it was discovered that their house was built too far from the curb, leaving too little room for a backyard and pool.
According to the article, the mistake not only required that the house be torn down and rebuilt from scratch, but it also cost the couple over $100,000 and at least six extra weeks of construction.
“The framing for the first floor was completed, and they had started the framing for the second floor and — oops — they found out about the mistake and had to take it all down,’’ an on-site worker explained.
This error could have easily been avoided had the land been properly surveyed from the start.
Free Ebook: Why hiring a land surveyor to create an accurate record of your property is a critical investment.
Land Surveying and Your Home Projects
While you may not be building a luxury home in the Hamptons, land surveying mishaps can still be costly and time consuming. Whether you are building a new home or adding landscaping to your yard, it is important to plan out exactly where you will be doing construction.
This is especially important in cases like installing fencing or a pool. If your project goes past your own property lines and into your neighbor’s yard, you may face both legal and construction issues. These usually result in having to tear down and completely rebuild your project, which is far costlier than surveying the property and building just once.
The lesson here is simple, if not clichéd: measure twice, cut once. Hire a reputable land surveying company to confirm your property lines before starting any home construction or additions. This first step will help save time, money, neighborly disputes, and legal headaches.
- Neglecting to establish property lines can be expensive, time consuming, and cause legal problems
- A land surveying mishap cost one couple over $100,000 and six weeks of extra construction
- Hire a reputable land surveying company to confirm property lines before beginning any project
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